The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-02-04

your honor. Thy prophecy mea In
humanity to man. Must we surrender
| the few privileges we now enjoy and
! be forced to engage in a struggle for
existence with a human being whose
girdle about his loins is his wearing ap-
parel; whose conscience is a weapon OF
death, and whose APPETITE shames the
beasts of the forest?
Must intelligence and progress sur
render to the gross ignorance Of a for
eign rabble7 Must the browning civ
~ilization of free America be thrown
into the slough of dependency and
folly 2" When that day comes free
American labor will be seen upon the
''auction block" and scenes like those
enacted in ''gold-standard" England
will be of NJ occurrence. A
recent issue of BELLS London Monthly
Messenger" shows the condition, at
present, of the agricultural labor of
England under "a gold standard" I
quote from the copy now:
1.-The annual birejngs at Howden
we're largely attended on Tuesday.
Wages for farm hands ranged from
zoe to 259 for first class, while second
class hands we're hired at 1916 At Pen
rith, on Tuesday, there was a large
number of farm servants at the halt
yearly hirelngs, HIreings were slow
and at reduced wages. There was, on
Tuesday, at Gainsboro, a very poor at
tendance of both masters and SERVANTS.
X Young lads inst going out
to work, 40& to 45G; of female servants,
cooks, received from 168 TO ZOE; house,
maids, from 149 TO 169; kitchen maids,
willing to milk, 1O8 to 14&."
Brother farmers, have you marked
the words we'll in the above quotation,
master and servants" applied to
anglo Saxons," to a free American
~cit,zans2 1t is revolving, yet such is
the condition of labor in gold stan
dard" England.
At such a prospect in America, hon
est tollers shudder and protest. These,
my brethren, are some of the things
that the dominant political party lead
ers are 60 quiet about" l would to
God our young men, into whose hands
are speedily coming the deatines OF this
country, would study these economic
questions and ponder them we'll, and
remember that the citizens Of France
having appealed in vain for peaceful
redress, rOs up in mighty wrath and
swept such tyranny off the face Of the
earth in the blood red fires of revolu-
ton.
My brethren, it is time for you and
all true patriots to awake from your
dream of fancied security and make,
before it is too late, n more effort,
regardless of political party affiliations,
to rescue the precious gift of freedom
from the merciless clutch Of corporate
monopolistic gold standard" ere the
dampness of death settles upon the
youthful brow of American liberty.
Delay no longer, brethren, the people
are moving. Be encouraged. From
every quarter ONE the glad tidings
that our brethren are "in the saddle. "
Sub Alliauc g are being revived, and
all those who dropped away, believing
that events would eliminate as de-
sired without further effort, are swear
ing anew their fealty. Let there be no
faint heartedness. We have crossed
the river and burned the bridges be-
hind us. We have declared war against
class legislation and the 'gold stan
dard," and by the Eternal" We 1UiU
conquor, and the benefi cent results &C.
complished by our Order will stamp
their impress upon the nations of the
earth for ages to come. We have dem
onstrated that this is a government of,
by and for the people, and 1.-The voice
the people is the voice of God"
NJ. L. WOOD,
Asst. Lec't 2nd Alliance Diet.