The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-03-10

""0 p0Ople HiISL pay D they must re-
ceiVe. Should that plan succetd d. tho
next step would be to declare that gold
Il 0epr' GATED by the opening of new
mines ana TO insist on more grains OF
gold being put into the dollar, There
IS no limit to the exacti0ns Of avarice
save the refusal to submit to them.
Tno8e who think that even that Iimita-
ton IL Impossible might learn a lesson
from Mexico.
The Catholic Church, by three cen,
turtles and a half C q policy as dehbar.
ate and as carefully planned 20 that Of
the mpE'oUOjlas and the money power
IN the UG!ted States 10 day. came to
0'n aG50,u'elY "a 5hIrd Of all the
property IN Mexico ana controlled the
balance. The masses we're kept IN
Ignorance. and the leaders aud iutelli-
= nee Of th5 country were in5imj3ated
OF bought. BuJ there comes nu END TO
~lon things. In 1859 the property of
me church Wasc.niacated. The church
parry called IL the EoElsh, thu Span
Ian, and the Er5AoB, and the latter
gave them an emperor. Bat the French
we're ~dIIven.OUt, the emperor was shot,
and to-day throughout the vaaU terri
tory Of the Mexican republic, renrly
four times as large as France or Ger
tA-A q --S Nf"+-A'tD-y CNAs ~ E-fNc ASL
CQn Il 1905 0t s0fl % 2 dollar Of any
p7op-r5y. The very church bIildince,
hoaTy, some 4 tuem. with nearly four
centuries o. Use, belong 10 the govern
meu5, and services can be held in theu
only by parms3ssJ- Of the authorities
elected by the people. Not a priest can
walk tue streets IA his Official rO0es.
1l-XicO remains K Doan Catholic IN her
religion, bnU when tie alternative was
pes nted Whetncv the church should
own country or lhG country should
O~n the CuuJca, Mexico, III spite Of
centuries OF venoratIon for religious
authority end the intl leuca Of cOnsOlj-
dated wealth and the ignorance ard
| poverty of hoG Masses, was able to vim
dictate the rights Of the people.
What this prlestly monopoly was to-
Mexico the money power i3 to the
! Uatcod States. TIe multi ~miiliOGaires,
The ~bQndhOluers, the trusts and mOnOp-
| Oiles already W 0ver n third Of the
! property Of our country and are reach.
! ing out for the rest. MANY leaders
they nominate aud elect to office, others
they IntImidate or corrupt. Bat our
! people, white patient, are not ignorant,
ard # the course Of the mOnOpOlips and
combinations continues unchecked
they will wake up s0me morning to
fad, as tbs Catholic Church cid liz
! Mexico, that the sovereign people own
| the country aid all that is / n II. The
| Catholics in Mexico veuerated the
! church fully as much SIS we ever did
the right of individual ownership Of
any species Of property but the vel
fare OF the people 10 the higheat law
and when that becomes imp6riEed, as
It was IN Mexico, by the money power
Ia the shape Of the church, as it is in
the United States by the same deadly
enemy in the guls9 of multi mIIliOnaires
/ and mOnOpOiies, the manhood, the
| brains, and the honesty OF the people
| will assert themselves, and we will not
| go down under the same enemy that
destroyed R5mo and so many other
nations in the past. TIE world is older
ana wiser.
The gold dollar in the United States
may well be called g mythical dollar.
| Not one man IN a hundred ever sees
one. Il Is not Used TO buy corn or
wheat or cotton or fl )Ur or railroad
; tickets or dry goods. 1t isonlY for the
| sacred use Of the idle RIGA when they
wish 10 measure By a high standard,
doubted IN U1iue, the principal and IN
teTest IF bonds which. on their face, by
! the contract, are payable IN cOtW-i e.,
! either 3 Ii Or silver,
! IN drawing tnesa Lessons from the
| past experience and the present pros
! Ueri5y OF NIX co, there ere those who
! will say that M4XtGO Ia Inferior to the
| U4j;rd States III education, IN civiliZ3-
ti0D, and in many other respects. To
| some extent this - trlp-and 80 much
! a2e worse f0r the Collectors. Fer il
! Mexico. in sDlGa % all THESE Giaad0an~
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