The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-02-15

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The Major Is In A Coalition To Howl
Calamity--He Repeats A Good Story
AS An MISUNDERSTANDING Get Right
If His Party Would.
B.-"Hellol Mr.. Editor"
R.-"Hellol Maj)r. Hope you are
enjoying life"
B.-"I'm jist sorter tolerable. Iain't
so bad off AL mite be an I'm not az
well off by a joyful. In TACK this gold
bug, gold standard business IL sorter
gittin' in it's wurk on me. 1t may suit
an offs holder or a banker purity well
who has a fixed income, but I'll be
blamed il it suits a teller whut haz ter
dig hiz livin' out ov the ground. l
lister be a howlin' goldbug' but I've
sorter changed my tune. 1t IL gittin'
ter be a serious IKE. reckon a guide
many ov them feIlers whut ulster think
It wuz goin' ter be a soft snap are
gittin' ready ter change their tune. I
heard a guide joke the other day about
q darby. He wuz kinder lamentin' biz
condishun. He sed: ST tell you Whut
de truble il wild de niggah an why be
don't prosper like de white man. He
don't know how ter transfer. De white
man knows awl erbout trans
ferin'. Now I gives a mortgage to der
white man fer money an stuff ter
make q crop wild. He transfers dat
mortgage ter de merchant an gifts
money on it. Den de merchant he
transfers it ter de Wholesale merchant
an gifts money on it. He transfers dat
same mortgage ter de bank an gifts
money on it, an den dat bank goes an
transfers it ter another bank an gifts
money on it, an de Lord only knows
how much more it IL transferred, an
when de crop il made nobody but dis
niggah haz ter pay dat mortgage. We
niggahs never will git rite till we larns
ter transfer" That, Mr.. Editor, il the
truble with us farmers. The other fel
lers are dom most ov the transform
an we hev ter meet the expenses. We
raise things ter sell, an we hev ter
buy. The money trust, the gold stand
ard, makes things sluggish an curtails
demand. The other trusts buy Jul
stuff under trust arrangements an then
we have ter buy everything frum the
trusts at their own prices. We have
ter pay the mortgage. This CAN'T go
on much longer. We farmers are the
mudsill. When we get so WI can't
make both ends meet it IL only a ques
tion of time when the fellers who think
they are plutocrats just bekase they
hev bin maxim a few dollars, an who
hev bin sailin' Ground up in the air will
cum down kerfop. An then you will
hear a great cutlery against the gold
standard an the trusts frum another
source entirely. I know a guide many
fellers Whut were goldbugs year or
two ago who are now nifty sorry they
ever went that way. Me an Betsy hes
erbout got reconsidered on this CUES
tion. l reckon she stays rite awI the
time an I stay rite erbout half the
time, more or less. But I should not
be blamed fer that, fer my party il fer
gold part ov the time an fer silver an
gold both part ov the time. When its
in power iE il fer gold, out ov power it
favors everything. I tole Betsy sun
time ergo that I'd git rite if my party
Would. She sed she didn't wanter
hear any ov my tomfoolery erbout
gittin' rite, that I didn't know enough
ter pull turnips up by the top, 80 I
hushed up. She left the impression on
my mind that I would dig a hole an
tunnel under a turnip an push it out
ov the ground with my head instead
o. pullin' it up by the top az most folks
do. You can't reason with SIGH vim
min az Betsy"