The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-09

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for a telegram the same; your debts
are the same; they do not d~epreciate
like your wheat and cotton, and I could
name many, many more things in this
same, line. And still they tell you
your bushel of wheat will go as far
as it ever did. Traitors! Every one of
them ought to be made to lie down and
eat the dust of the earth.
Nothing short of remonet z stion of
silver will cure this evil, with gold. A
billion dollars coined from silver will
not help matters n iota unless silver
Is put on the same basis that it was be-
fore 1878
All bills presented to Congress as a
substitute, proclaiming a cure for the
p esent hard times, by those untriendly
to the remonetiz alton of silver, should
be looked upon with disfavor. They
are a delusion and are intended as a
soothing lotion.
You may read in the newspapers
about the Republican and Democratic
parties proclaiming for silver in some
Of the western States, this is simply a
sly ruso to fool the people. They do
not intend to carry out the platform.
They see if something is not done they
will lose these States and in order to
get the Western States they play the
hypocrite. The plan is so thin it can
be readily seen through, and yet there
are hundreds of bimetalists who are
going to be led astray by this seeming
concession.
Party prejudice is running our coun-
try. Poor laborers are yelling them
selves hoarse for the very parties that
are grinding them down. The old
parties are doing nothing to help the
financial situation. They are letting
the mill grind and it is crushing the
very life out of our nation. 1t is tax
ing the bread from the poor mans ia.
BILE. His children are deprived of an
education for they have to work to
keep from starving and virtue is be
ing driven from the threshold. But
still the poor man will yell and vote
for his oppressors.
The situation is alarming. Every
man who has had his eyes opened
should read, talk, speak and vote.
Convert your neighbors. Help them
to see how they have been cropping
blindly. How they have helped to
weld their own letters. Post yourself
on the financial question and throw
hot shot into the enemy's ranks.
Before I close l would like to state
that one of the monometalist's argu
ments is, that if silver was remonet z ID
the owners of silver mines and bullion
of the west would be greatly enriched.
Of course silver bullion would be worth
nearly twice as much as it is now but
your wheat. corn, cotton and labor
would also be worth as much again as
it now brings.
The monom 9talists argument, re-
minds me of the man who had a disa-
greeable mother in law, and he decided
to starVe her out, so he brought DO
food home and as a result he not only
starved his mother in law out, but also
his entire family.
Is it not many times better to enrich
the owners of mines and at the same
time double the price of your products
and your labor and greatly enhance
the value of property throughout the
country, than it is to discriminate in
favor of gold and thus make richer
those who are already rich. bankers,
aristocrats and the Nobility of England
and at the same time lessen values max.
ing times harder, money more scarce
and the common people who inhabit
our land poorer?
CHARLES B. MAsTEN.