The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-03-24

SalQ over anu over again d GUOuS6uu
times, and you are writing it c0oly and
! deliberately. If we were in the mids'
: of q heated Presidential campaign it
would be less inexcus able. Then you
! could blam9 it on the Republican party
and call on the lear people TO vote for
Cleveland and be happy. But such Is
not the case. Cleveland has yet nearly
! on year TO serve, having been / n the
Presidential chair dispensing relief to
| the people a little over seven years al
together. And still Col Webster isn't
! happy. He even proves by S 'cretary
john G Carlisle chat the single stand
ard is a heinious crime-that is-it was
before John G got into the Cabinet.
Again Col. Webster says:
The evils of the gold standard can
not be CLOSED over. They are real anG
are felt ii. over our land. Two cruel
instances of the depreciation Of prop
erty recently came under III Observ
alton. The tobacco factory of our
friend, Mr.. II. H Reynolds, of Win
ston, was forced on the market. The
lot cost 50 600; building, SO, 600; ma
chinery, $13 OOO-a total of $25 600.
The whole brought only IS 600 One
Of the prettiesG residences in Liberty,
near Winston, which cost 81 $50 and
the lot $3.50. was sold at puOllc cutlery
for $500 O ,e Of the best farms in
Rockingham county, which the owner
would not have taken SIC, 600 for a few
years ago., can be bought for half that
amount now. 1t is advertised through
our columns. There are 40 vacant
stores IN Danviile, Is of them on Main
street.
las it is in Winston and Danville, so
it is in Reidsville and everywhere else,
with an occ IsIonal very rare exception,
where the law of ciuse and effrc5 has
been Get aside by some very unusual
circumstance. The off ;ial records
show a depreciation of over $500, 600,
900 in values in the South and West
during the fiscal year OF "a 95. Farm
lands have absolutely no value at all.
Auditor FuIm ms report shows q
decrease in NorCn Carolina property
from 1891 to 1895 as follows: Lands,
81 22U 92O; town lots, SIG 1888 all other
personal properly, 81 1870 228 "a total
OF 81, 587. AL. And that does not tell
it all. THINK of it: The soil from which
we are fed aud clothed is depreciating
in value Notwithstanding TIE worlds
population Is rapidly Increasing and
the facilities for getting to market are
the best the world has ever seen. We
think 1t a safe assertion to make that
there Is no indus ~ not prot. cted by
legislation or controlled Oy a trust that
is not on the decline. Aud where il
will stop at no one can tell
Now please don't Colonel. You will
remember that we reformers were
traitors when we talked that way and
cut loose from the old parties because
they wouldn't agree to remedy the
trouble. But, Colonel you should call
& halt. You have stood by your old
party all the while, you are still with
it notwithstanding you seem to be
fully aware OF ics ~Tottene8s, its treaeh
cry. Don't tell the people what is hurt
ing th;m am how bad they need help
50 long as you are helping to hurS
them. It is bad policy, 1t looks like
you are sprinkllng salt on their raw
wounds. Don'5 do it Colonel. Tell
them times. are hard because the farm
ers raise too much, or that IL is due to
the fact hal our currency and. silver
coin is not god IN "Yurrip." Just
anything to O~e talkiag. Don't go back
on year Own work, Colonel.