The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-04-21

the European States back to the use OF
both goIdRnd silver as money metals?'
This is she question boiled down to It's
elements. Now this must, of necessity
be the fnal outcome. If the United
States an6 Europe win in the contest,
labor, the products of labor and all
kinds Of commodies, including lands
and every kind of personal property
proper, will not be worth, and will not
bring in the markets of the world, but
one half as much as they brought or
would bring if both metals were in
use as money 1T the ratio fixed by
the nations Of the earth for more than
one thousand years. Thus we see that
tha ultimate destruction OF silver as a
money metal, will be the absolute de.
s5vuc-ion Of n half Of all tL2 prop
erty e the world, or rather one-naIt It's
value. Tae immediate destruction Of
all tie cities, towns, HOUSES, horses,
mules and railroads by f-8 and lseaee
would not equal the loss Of the word
in value b. the destruction OF silver
as . money ruetal.
i Is horrifying; it Is distressing; il
Is appalling to contemplate! Now
where Goes oil this Deprecated value
gJ2 Where is it transferred, 5ecauae
wo know nothing Is absolutely annini-
lated? From whom is It taken, and
10 whom IS 1t given without c2m2ensa
ton, and without return except IL sad
ness, IN want, in poverty, III rags, in
nakeduess and in hunger.
1t is transferred from the debtor to
the creditor. II Is transferred from the
tax payer to the tax eater. II is trans
ferred from the laborers and toilers to
the drones, to the suckers, to the bleed
ers and leeches of society.
Now what Is the duty Of every man
is a contest that involves 80 much2
He ought to buckle on the shield ana
armor of defence, forgetting self, for
tune and party and thinking only of
family country and God, and so into
the battle on straight lines, turning
neither to the right nor to the left, but
marching straight ahead, determined
to win or die.
Ny good friends, am serious; I am
am IN earnest. Can l not impart to
you some of my fear and zeal for Our
common ~destiny9 Will you not awake
from your lethergy, your siumber,
your hypnotism2
Let your hair grow long and put on
the courage OF a giant; seiz9 the pill
lars of the temple and shake it down.
1t is better by far that we all die il
one common ruin than to live out a
miserable existence and byqueath to
Coming generations an existence mere
degrading, humiiiating and miserable
than ours.
We are nov almost boun1 hand and
foot. We are but one degree above
slaves. Another d sc2d9 viii complete
the b. Cleveland, Sherman & Co.
will oe our masters. The enemy is at
our doors, in our households, in our
territory. We hear tho heavy tread OF
his Iegj0u3. We ear the rumol:Dg cf
his artillery Yes, fellow citiz rs, it i,
time We were upa3d doing. Isis time
to colsHl5. IGI5 yjma TO orEanlzn. IL
is tms 20 prepare for battle, AID the
sentinel upon tie wa:cl tovsr of noerty
must cry alou5 ever and anon, "DJvn
win all goidouSs and grants, from
TO ~ ship constable to the President of
me United S.ates!' This organized
sang OF thieves and plundecers must
not be rec 'gniz d or encouraged any
where or under any circumstances
To vote for ore undef any condition is
to give aid and comfort to the enemies
of mankind at large. They will not
help or aid our cause and we must not
aid them directly or other wise.
W. H. KTTCHIN.