The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-07-07
SILVER REMONR TIzATI0N WILL
CURE,
Correspondence of the Progress stve Farmer.
PART II.

BLOOMINGTON, IND.
In a recent meeting betWeed Senator
Quay, of Pennsylvania, and Mckinley,
the goldbugs choice as a candidate for
the Republican nomination for Presi.
dent, they discussed at some length
the peculiar position of Democracy
and gloated over the victory they an.
ticipated. The trend Of the entire con
~versation (aotice the word entire) was
In the direction Of the unlfication of
the Republican party. Simply the
glory of the party, nothing more. The
party must prosper if the nation goes
to ruin; if our people, the great mass
who are known as the common people,
are reduced to the most abj9ct poverty.
They discussed the grand old party,
which has long ceased to be worthy Of
such a name, and which is in the hands
Of the corrupt and u~nprincipled poll
ticians of the country, who are bleed
ing the nation of its very life blood and
robbing our people of the very susten-
ance of life.
These men (McKjnley and Q1ay)
agreed that protection was the n
dominant issue. Does our people want
any further proof as to what will be
the outcome Of another four years Of
goldbug rules
These few words, Protection is the
one dominant issue" tell the tale. There
will be four years OF tariff ,tinkering.
Does it not remind one Of the small boy
who drives his fathers nails into the
chopping block or the wood shed door 2
Where is there any good in wasting
time in an issue that is dead?
One party will tinker with the tariff
and then the other party will tinker,
and send word over the nation that we
will now prosper as we never have,
This tinkering business has been going
on for years and we have the result,
the practical result.
Will it take much longer to convince
the people that the tariff question is a
humbug of the very raukest kind and
is being brought before us simply to
blind us to the real and dominant issue7
Positively the issue at hand, and the
one that should be looked after at once,
if we would be prosperous, is the none
tary question. What man can say.
who has u country's welfare at heart
aud who has not more party pr, Idice
than brains!
Ever since the demonstration of
silver our products have been falling
in price and gold appreciating in value.
Labor goes begging and manufacturing
is at a standstilI. Products have fallen
in price, not because there is not as
much consumed, for there is more con
sumed than ever before; not because
there is an overproduction, for our
fast increasing population requires
more of our products than ever before
and hundreds of thousands are going
hungry and in rags to day. Why 2
From the simple fact that the mean
Wherewith to buy are deprived them.
Employment they cannot get, hence
the lack of means
The mau with the know it all air,
that slaps you on the shoulder and
says in a confidential voice that the
cause of the impoverishment of the
country is lack # confidence, " thinks
he has hit the nail sqlarely on the
head, and that his argument is un8n
sWerable. Poor delujed mortal! He
was born at the wrong time in the his
tory of the world, in fact his argument
is just about 80 OF 80 years behind the
times. Such an argument might have
been tolerated in the South before the
close of the war, when the paper cur,
rency Of the Confederate S yates was
depreciating in value. But as the
country is at peace, such argument is
without one grain Of common sense.
Some of the trade journals, in their
monthly comments, try to explain the
III of the stagnation by such re
marks as these: Excessive heat, y
"Cool weather" prolonged spell OF
wet weather." prospects of future
crops" etc, etc,
This government is in just the posi-
tion of a lab0riDg man who has to work
hard all day and get half enough tc
eat. 1t can readily be seen how this
man will become reduced in strength
his energy fail; in fact the final out
come is death.
So the nation is trying to transact the
great volume of business on half the
money necessary to give people pros
perity, and the nation is losing strength
and energy. If something is not done