The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-03-31
AN OPEN LETTER TO GROVER
CLEVELAND.

correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.
| Grocer CteUeLGnd-StT:
Thinking you might like to hear of
the prosperous condition of the Old
N )rth State, l take this opportunity to
give you some idea how this great wave
never realized) mas effected US, the labor
ing classes of our State. l hope some
remark I drop may be the means of
bringing you to repentance.
You began your notorious career by
expressing the poor for the purpose of
making the poor poorer and the rich
richer. You have climbed the ladder
one step at a time in quick succession,
until you have reached the middle and
we'll to do classes and put everything
in chaotic confusion. Poverty and
crime walk arm in arm, not only in the
O.d North State, but over the whole
nation. Y~u have robbed the farmers
of more land in the last three years
than enough to make a republic as
large as both France and Spain. We
men and children go half fed, half
clothed, exposed t oaIl kindso of weather;
their haggerd looks tells the pain and
%privation they suffer; they work hard
from sunrise until sunset, and the re
Enumeration they get is not enough to
supply sufficient food for themselves
aud families, let alone clothing to make
their bodies comfortable, and an educa-
ton Ia out of the question.
Are these the Conditions you have
worked for2 If so, you have most
faithfully performed the desires Of
yourself and your masters.
Y u have sold our nation to the Brit
ian Jews for gold Oar Savior would
share the same fate at your hands were
He here in person to ave a suffering
people from the hands of their task
mas ,ers; all the difference between you
and your Judas onspir 10 and the be
trAyer OF Christ is you require gold and
he Oudas) took liver.
Do you in your sober moments Cor
do you never have any think of the
chaos and confusion you have caused2
Does conscience, the white winged
angel, aver disturb your meditatiops or
rob you Of sleep7 Have you entirely
strangled her with your wickedness so
you never feel any pangs of conscience
about the evil deeds you are commit
ting9
Do you think the people do not know
the u of the desperate condition of
the crimes and financial failures9 If
so you are mistaken; they know you
t. be the prime cause of the desperate
conditions that assail the nation; they
know it is in your power to avert them,
if by calling an extraordinary session
of Congress lasting three months you
could and did distress the people as you
have, you could have bettered the con-
1ition had your recommendations been
patriotic instead of traitorous.
Yes, it's you. yOu, Grover Cleveland,
that is the prime cause of the disaster
and disRrace that stalks abroad in our
fair land, and your administration will
go down In history as one OF the most
disastrous and d~lsgraceful that has
ever been recorded.
History is fast repeating itself. Do
you want your name to go down in
history in connection with Nero and
the ancient rulers who wrecked their
nations by their pre- f'gacy and barbar
| ism as the most netarious of them all7
The crimes of Cortez Pazarro and
Nero, the ancient goldOugs, pale to
nothingness compared with those you
and your Judas conspirators have per