The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-09-22
A HEEL TALK.

To the Farmers and Their Sons ana
Dauqhter8-GREETING
The good old Scotch town of Fay
etteville is a part of the good old
Scotch county of Cumberland, which
is a part of the State of North Caro-
lima. often called the Tar Heel State.
Some of you may not know the nature
of tar; to all such l will say that tar
sticks to everything it comes IN con-
tact with. Whatever sticks, when 1t
is right for it to stick, is a good thing
in its place, so we will not object to
having tar, or to being called the Tai
Heel State. To the point.
During re construction days, the Yam
KEGS who were sent here to re C )%nstruci,
went at their work, having for their
foundation political fraud and 0rrup
ton. On this rotten foundation they
worked and did what they were sent
here to do. When their work was fin
ished, they left, but they did not take
with them the rotten part Of their
work, but left it as a legacy to their
political friends, the Republicans. So
the Republican party, to do their work,
occupied the same rooten political
foundation. They stood upon and
worked on this foundation until II got
so very rotten that it was a sterch In
the nostrils of all good and bad Demo
Gratis. So the Republican party went
down through their rotten foundation,
and the Democrats jumped upon them.
and buried them in the rotten m ass,
making the stink even worse than 1t
was before. Instead Of making a new
political foundationf for G3d and the hu
man family, they stood upon the rot
ten, sinking grass of the Republican
party, until all that was once good and
true Democracy, became tainted by
the contact. The once grand old party
fell into Republican ways, and the
people of Cumberland county have
never had one single honest election.
Rotten Democracy, coupled with the
Devils religion and churches Che
D3vil's churches, | mean saloons) have
&OAO0 GAA5 POOPAF3 XIV !" SHO 6SSN
old town of Fayetteville has two types
of political voters and workers, n
for strong drink and the single gold
standard, the other for fusion and re-
form to some extent.
Some of the gold and liquorities Of
Fayetteville are telling our hard
working, honest farmers of Bcyan's
disgrace, by going through the coun-
try making speeches, and that only
Weaver was eve guilty of such q
- thing, losing sight of this sad fact,
than in the White House of this great
nation is now living q de0auched
national thief, with his finely draped
a~ttache5-cO workers In national steal
ing Still a man working for honest
reform to save this nation from ruin
can be called d~isgraced, thus to turn
honest man from an honest work of
reform. Oar farmers, I think, are too
wide awake to regard such talk. They
have been wearing rags too long, while
our cloth factories are full Of cloth and
our working people too poor to clothe
themselves, their wives and children.
Now, where are we at2 Yes, where
are we at9 We stand at the fork of
two great national public roads. The
right-hand road leads tt reform
national reform-the sweeping away
of all political thieves from office, the
sweeping away of the great liquor
curse, the reinstating of silver at Is to
1, having both gold and silver for the
American people, regardless of any
other national finances. Tee United
States Is eble to take this step and
maintain it, bidding Wall Street and
England defiance. The left hand road
leads to the single gold standard and
the perpetuatiOn Of the lqIor traffic
and financial ruin and slavery, for the
American people Yes, slavery for
white and black and ruin for all ex
cept u goldbug masters. Soall we
have for masters men who ignore the
teachings of Gods Word, whose greed
for gold is so great that the sufferings
OF the poor are not cared for, so
long as they can me made to work for
more gold for their masters7 Have
we come to care 80 little for our free.
dom, SO little for the wellbeing of our
wives and u our children, that we
cannt vote to save our country for our
children's good2 If all of our farm
ers and working men could see the sit
alton as a r sndolph farmer, who 1 met
few days since, and vote accordingly
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