The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-04-21
THE ISSUES THIS YEAR.
-respondence of the Progressive Farmer.
SCOTLAND NECK, N. O..

the financial question. Is o~verreaches
all other Issues, however much the old
parties may attempt to side tract it,
and push the tariff question to the
front. We have lived under q protec
tive tariff more or less ell lives
and principIy more. Both the old par
ties have had their say on that ques,
ton. The Republican party has been
in power nearly all the time since the
war and bas lad its own sweet will as
TO the tariff up 70 the year 1894, The
Democrats came into possession of
the government the 4 Of March,
1898, ami in 1895 revised and rsmod
eled the r Publican tariff TO suit their
notions. B..a have had a pull at the
tariff and The people have condemned
both. And beth the Rapu0ll2an and
Democrat g.r.f piuckeI and roO0~0
the peo-Is. This question has been
KEEP as a E1Ct-5au between the two
parties since tbs war TO hO0dwink anu
kidn4p the .c-c3. the people will not
be deceived og this sham or false issue
any mora. Eley have learned tlag
the old parts are one ana the same On
this question, bu5 it took twenty five
long years 70 learn this truth, and then
only by actual experiment. Thank
God hat they have learned that they
are one and tho same on the money
question in q mucl shorter time. And
all the while the old parties we're BAN
booz,ing tn geoDle on the tariff ques
ton, they were building up q financial
kingdom on this continent which l
fear-if not torn dOwn-will even,u
ally destroy forever the liberties of the
American people. And there a be
no doub5 but that the finances and the
present financial system will be the
issue this year between the ~cOntendiDg
forces. And every man, oma and
child in all the land, regardless Of for
mer party affiliations, who loves his
or her country, who loves his or her
kindred and 6lOod, who crave the
prosperity Of his country more than he
does the success Of his party, and who
0CSALC6 u CA1 ~ CLANA4(ApAAAOA VI
doWD.trodden humanity from the iron
grasp of the combined money power
of this country and Europe, ought to
muster with the anti national banks,
free silver cohorts il the coming cam
paign. There Is 10 other hope or re
demption for the country. If we are
all honest, there Can be no ~~etreat, or
turning to the Eight or left. The watch
word must be, Forward. March,
The sign and counter-sign end pass
word must BE Silver O4e fact is
clear, and u une can or will deny Il,
and that is, there is not primary or re-
demptiOn money enough in the world
to transact The business Of the world
We will g further than that il u
assertion. We assert that there is DOT
money enough IN the world t. DO the
business OF inc world added to ali the
credit IL irs1.z aad checks which pass
as money between IN and man, State
and STATE, na5i0n ana na-iJn. A con
elusive and igr5fIoablo proof Of THIS
assertion, j. the PROOF thai sacond.c y
or credit money is re5or,95 to ~ al
governments. either directly or indi
rectly, by Issuing government notes or
by comforting upon the banks the funC
ton Or power Of Issuing credit money.
And al mo ey n all gold standard
countries is credit money, except gold
money. Ard all money in all double
standard countries is credi5 money ex
c8pt gold and silver money. II there
were primary money enough in the
world to answer the demands Of com
merce, there would be no necessity or
demand for credit or paper money.
As proof OF this assertion, primary
money, aided by checks and drafts,
would fulfill ali the functions of money
without calling IN to their aid the more
than ten billion Of credit or paper mon,
ey now in existence. We have been US
ing, and the world both civilized and
unciviliz9d have been using, two
metals, gold and silver, as money
metals, time III of mind, until about
1873, at which tine Ghe United Stats
and all Of Europe strusk down silver
as a money metal Rnd made it q com
modify Ike wheat end corn, and the
only reason gold has not doubled in its
purchasing power UP to this time, is
because Mexico, most of the South
American States. the Argentine ReDub
lie, and the static S .ate5 still continue
the use Of silver a. q money metal. AS
soon as these SAFES are driven g. the
single geld standard Of v.a.u-s by