The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-01-21

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home and foreign commodities, so as
not to prohibit importation, but to en-
courage and increase Importation, and,
at the same time, not destroy home in
dustries. And yet the revised German
bill is almost as bad as the Mckinley
bill, which the Democratic party de-
nounced as Infamous and all other Re
publican tariff measures since the war,
and I say justly denounced as infa
nous.
You say the party hoped, under the
| German revision, for increased impor
tation and increased consumption and,
of course, increased revenues.
If we have no foundation to base a
a hope upon, hope is a delusion, a
phantom. No sane man could then o.
can now point out any ground of hope of
increased prices OF increased consump-
ton.
During the last National campaign
and up 30 this hour all values, except
gold values, have been shrinking and
growing beautifully less, and all but
blind men and idiots have and can see
it. And the experience and history of
the world shows that as the value of
commodities fall in price, money goes
up in price. and is harder to get, and
consumption decreases.
Now, Bro. Grady, you speak of the
extravaganza of the Republicans in
bounties, subsidies, public buildings,
pensions, increase of Offices and sal
aries, and taxes on State bank issues
and many others.
Please, in your next letter to the
Sampson Democrat, tell the people if
you and your party were not placed in
power to right these wrongs, and tell
them if you did not promise and pledge
the people, if elected, you would right
them, and then be a little more ex-
plicit in telling them why you did not
keep your promises. Tell US why you
left all these "cold facts of history" I'm
touchedi
And you justify Mr.. Cleveland for
selling bonds to the amount of 1852
500, 600, by Republican measures and
rascality, the very things he vas cleo
ted to undo.
Did it ever occur to you that neither
the Constitution of the United States
nor the laws of Congress has ever yet
made any distinction between gold
coins and silver coins, and that a silver
dollar is as much q dollar as a gold dol
lar, and is a legal tender in the pay
ment of all debts specified in coin as
much so as a gold dollar in the mean
ing of both the constitution and the
laws of Congress9
Did it ever occur to you that Mr..
Carlisle could have stopped the run on
the treasury at any moment since he
has had charge by simply treating
gold and silver alike, and paying out
both on all obligations rendered for re-
demption?
Do you not know that ali this run
on the treasury for gold is a scheme of
the bankers and bondholders to de
stroy silver and paper money SO that
they can control the world9
Do you not know that Cleveland and
Carlisle are both in that boat with the
r publican party-Cieveland as mas
ter and dictator on the Democratic
side, and Carlisle as clerk to docket
the edicts of his and his party's
masterl
Do you not know that the bankers
could stop the run on the treasury for
gold in twenty four hours if they so de-
siredf
Doyou not know the bankers brought
on the panic in 1898, and used Cleve-
land and CarliL4e as tools and the
Democratic Con ,ress to execute the
edicts and mandates of the bankers,
bondholders and money changers of
this country and England3
Do you not know that in 1898, dur
ing the panic, and at the very hour
Mr.. Cleveland called Congress together
to repeal the Sherman law, the national
banks could have put in circulation
more than three hundred million dol
lars more than they then had in circu.
IationR
Doyouk know thatto day while you are
apologizing to the people of this State
for Cleveland, Carlisle & %. g treason
to the Democratic platform, principles,
traditions and promises, and while
they are asking for more special priv
leges for the banks, these same bank
ers could issue, if they so desired, more