The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-23

Gna6 are passed affecting their inter.
ests, and to make doubly sure, select
the judges who interpret the laws.
Here is chain of interests, which, de-
ciphered through all the meanderings
and fully understood, would appeal the
big conspirator Of the Internal regions
himself. The-angels are weeping Ove
it, for the distress because OF it has
broken a multitude of hearts and dlled
the prisons. graveyards and asylums.
The number of thieves, suicides and
the demented for five years is without
precedent.
Those who understand these things,
and have aided in them, and been ben
e8Ciaries thereby, deserve the fate Of
Babylon, wretChes that they r to
have witnessed unmoved for five years
the sOrrows and affections of the peo
pie. owing TO the depression in bust
ness They whose habits and employ.
ment have been of such ease or eleva-
tion as to keep them from learning
these things should be despised for
their opportunities, and for burying
their talents. Nevertheless, the pros
perity bowler instructs that the world
is mostly satisfied, and abuses and in
suits and ridicules the calamity bowler
because he refuses to be satisfied him
self or allow his neighbor to be eatit
fed.
He who would satisfy his neighbor,
that less than enough is sufficient for
his happiness, has the heart Of a dog.
ALI the promise of liberty that remains
to US now consists in our ability to
change the money. Put the laws back
as they were before prices bsgan to
fall. It is no new experiment, it hes
bsen tried. 1t was tried through Wash
ington's time, JeffeIson's aud Lincoln's,
and they were all satisfied with it. If
the laws can be changed the fermer's
profit on the cotton crop will go into
cotton mills, and this section will soon
manufacture the bulk of the crop. It
ought not to go away from home when
we have idle labor here to manufacture
it.
The belief that some people have that
we are producing too much cotton is a
mistake. If the world was clothed as
it was before the decline in prices with
the increase in population, it would re-
quire twelve to fifteen millions of bales
Of American cotton per annum. To
increase and extend the 9 Of cotton
goods. as it may be done, semicivilized
and uncivilized countries, demand for
it will become enormous and tax every
resource of the American cotton sec.
ton to supply it. Under laws which
would give the cotton crop Of cotton
States equal privileges with money,
there is no such power IN earth for the
purpose Of wealth and q superior civil
cation as this crop would afford.
A legitimate price to the farmer for
his cotton would make ell contiguous
farming territory, including the West,
a better market for grain and meat
than any open to it now, and the true
and natural rules Of commerce would
work between tie West and cotton
producing section. The full employ
ment of its idle la5or-the women and
chjldren-inma manufacturing cotton, fur
njsh the West with cotton goods cheap.
er than any tariff arrangement could
give. In fast it is the only road for
this country to fIoe trade.
The retail meI chants and the pro
vincial banks, end even the smaller
manufacturers would all do better bus
mess 1t there vas an increase Of circu-
lating money, and they know it. But
they know also that they must have
credit with the big banks and mer-
chants and manufacturers and specu
lators. This big combination slowly
grinds out the little grist of money that
they allow the world to have, and the
small operators must cay that it is all
right and make no complaint or their
credit is gone. Thus they are woven
into this chain of interests-interests
which have forced this country on to
the very verge of a reign Of terrors,
The craftsmanship of this section
which has allowed the producer of cot
ton to drift into his present condition
will appear very bad in history in con
trast with the craftsmanship that can
lift him out of it and give this fruit Of
labor the magic power it possesses.
The railroads as they are managed
are in the way of a change of the
money laws. The fight you are making
is a proper one, and you deserve the
lasting gratitude Of the people for it.
Very truly,
Mann q