The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-10-19

brave great leader" on IL, proved an
Astolfo to us and only brought pOliti-
cal chaos. /
We have surely had enough of this
kind of experience that has brought
our party near t destruction.
Cnattel slavery had but one chain,
one lock and one key opened both; it
was freedom. But yet the negro is not
free.
Since that, evarice, cunning in selfish
work, has locked the letters of bond
age upon the Industrial elements Of our
liberty and the black man with the
white workers and producers every
where, are bound with a chain locked
upon each fundamental principle which
constitutes our superstructure Of free
government.
The peoples constitutional liberty to
issue and have the use Of money, the
legal exchange medium representing !
the surplus products Of labor has been
grasped by the avaricious money
loaner and traffcer, and the chain of
restraint is locked upon the producer.
No matter how much industry pro
duces, it must cringingly, add even
starvingly, bow the knee before the
golden money god, for ever money to
move the crops" at a (cursed) per cent.
for it's use.
That chain mUst be broken.
Avarice has indirectly but heavily
claimed the yoke of taxation for the
support Of government and the build
ing up of m~onopoIies in municipalities,
counties, States and Nation, most
severely upon the neck of toiling in
dustry. The Z crushed blood OF the in
dustrial workers. even that split upon
the ground, cries up for delIverance
aud in the name of charitable justice
pleads that the burden may be made
to rest most heavily upon the accumu
lated wealth noW in land estates and
other ~monopolies that industrial hands
have already produced.
The chain must be broken.
The business accumen If wealth
through stocks and bonds, has con
trived to grasp the entire system of
public trafi and from it's vantage
ground of Vested Franchise commands,
from producers at one end and from
consumers at the other end Of the lines,
profits and usury on a colossal sum Of
wealth, of which not even the one
tenth part was I'VE produced by the
sweat of the faces of it's owners. The
industrial people are uniting their
hands in purpose, hat their govern.
ment shall eventually own and operate
the entire public carrier system, at
cost, to the end that government fran
chises for public Uses shall not enrich
any class of citizens.
This chain must be broken.
The combined wealth that has riveted
these maDacles upon the wrists Of in
dustry is powerful, arrogant and bold.
1t has not hesitated to invade the
sacred precincts of the ballot, nor TO
tread legislative halls with the sinister
purpose of swaying the judgment of
toe sovereign peoples servants, and
even buying their legislative action for
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q iity gone that a large part of the
legislative acts no longer represents
the will, even of the majority. Tnus
wealth, through the peoples represen
tatives, has bound our Democracy with
the chains of olrgarchy. Oar reform
demands a return to more direct legis
lAtion by the people through the refer
endum.
This chain also must be broken.
1t is not merelya change In the pub
lie policy" OF the old principles such as
we have heard about from the old par
ties for the last twenty-fve years, but
avarice must be blotted from funda
mental principles in our government
ard charitable love substantially en-
grated in its place or the Republic is
lost.
President making, Senator making
and all other Cff3e making is light as
chef before the wind when compared |
with perfected principles that must
lead the people as the Ark Of the Gov
enant' did.
The industrial organizations, by rep
resentatives assembled at Omaha, in
1892, said:
I'VE declare, therefore. 1st. That
the union of the labor forces of the
United States this day contaminated
shall be perpetual; may it's spirit enter
into all hearts for the salvation of the
republic and the uplifting Of man
Kind"
The American seems to call for a