The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-23

| evils which he, in part truthfully por-
treys?" He usw himself: "Eiu-
cate the rising generation to a proper
recognition of their duties and respon-
| sibilities as American citizens" X x x
and the generation of twenty five
years from now will r~epudiate the acts
of their fathers and all danger of Pop
ulism and of free silver cr8 IS and Of
similar decisions will have gone by for
ever"
To us who are real Populists this
| sounds like old priest craft and inpo-
rialism highly wrought up with the
leaven of the political Pharisees.
There never w6s a time when politl-
cal economy was laugh so correctly
and go = apjdly as it is now, but il js
not being done by the schools and col
leges.
It was only yesterday, so to speak,
when they taught that sound money
had intrinsic value as well as face
value, but no educated" man believes
it now, for there is no such thing So
intrinsic value"
Having been driven from this s~pn
istry, some professors and profoundly
educated" bankers and usurers ere yet
teaching that sound, honest" money
must have a commercial value equal
20 IT'S foc9 value and that this CONNER
cial value should only be established
and acknowledged in enc material suO-
stance, namely: gold.
Tnis learned old imperial relic holds
on tenaciousiy, but down ii must
come!
Another doomed relic of imperialism
is that the old 5lae &C cursed usury, in
terest on money, js & necessary az junct
to a right economic money System.
The PoYullsts, OF pure Jeff9rsonian
Democrats are teaching that u5ury-iu
terest on money, in this age Of scien
tlhc and commercial progress and hu-
man liberty, Is not g necessary con
comitant to a monetary system that
shall be suitable Tor the commercial
business of the present age of human
progress.
The schools, colleges, books, lawyers
and GhCu3h I blush t say it, q large
part OF the clergy are yet teaching the
old error, while any man that knows
enough to read his Bible and ctm3 in
when it rains can read that all usury
was positively forbidden and that the
borrower is servant 20 the leGder, sand
he can and does se3 as he locks around
him that ali industry is becoming sub
servient to usurers through this Old
time Forbidden agency.
The people are struggling for inau-
ciai liberty.
We don't want English capital in
vested ove here unless they come over
to live on it and operate 1t.
We teach freedom, not slavery lib
erty, not s~ervitudo; individual human
rignts-includiDg the right to coin and
use the money that God shows Us we
have-and lot servile submission to
monetary principles that were fOreseen
and forbidden thousands OF years
ago.
We want freedom from environ
ments that we may lot endure.
There are other principles that are
advocated by the pure Jetfereonian
Democracy and LiLcJln RepublIcaDIsm
Of the Peoples party that are as i'm
portant as those on money, which
cause imperialism, not only to mi
tru st ana trtmble, buC that will crUm-
be and eift lJs expressions back to tn
dark eyes, where it belongs, while tie
people will move on "e8rning their
bread in the sweat OF their brow" with
new light as 1t shines in Gods old
school CT nature and common sense.
Those Of rs VITO only know what =
poured into u ezra with q professions
spoon, INST using our intellect enoug3,
TO investigate lis Al! ication by cause
and IF Gu III the great stream Of pro
g 'essive humanity as il fl ,@s unCeF
the eve Ct the twentieth Century. VIII
"a twenty i've years." wake up t. .
find ourselves ltf5 on the old barren
rocks Of supersJiri0us trrJr.
O C, upon g tim- 1t WIS very 8p2ar
ent TIA old things we're passiog away,
Out Cne Pharisees were so blinded by ;
superaUitjon, p rofound education nd !
puE, Sc ishne 5 that 50ey could not see
it. just SO it IS III toe preseng epoch.
SAMUEL ARCHER.