The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-07-05
rHR PROGRESS or A PURPOSE.

perhaps agree with us that it il spicy,
interesting and seasonable-seasonable
not only because OF its likenessto these
scorching July days, but becauseit re
veals, sharply, the growth Of q senti-
ment and the progress Of a purpose.
Never an issue Of this paper has
failed 20 warn It's readersof the designs
of the powerful few upon the liberties
OF the many. We have rung q bell Of
warning, from time to time, ca we have
zoted the progress they have made.
Wealth has increased, because men
have labored; but the wealth pro
duced has accumulated into fewer and
fewer hands from the operation of de
structive laws, until progress and
and poverty go hand in hand.
In the face Of every reformer, the
apostles of slavery deCry discomfort
and cry peace when there is no peace"
They denounce every reformer who
dares TO struggle for common rights,
just conditions and Christian civiIiGa
ton.
The monopolists Of every character
are gathering more and more surely
into their hands all the cords Of the
net which they have thrown around
the people. Having monopoliEsd the
Nations's currency, they rob the pro.
Queer under a yellow standard having
consolidated the highwaysof transpor
tation, they levy the tribute of pirates
uptn all production; and, controlling
the avenues OF public information, they
determine what shall, and what shall
not, reach the public ear. They are in
politics always, and, therefore, control,
for their ends, political parties and the
representatives of the people. The
sources Of common informRtion-the
newsPapers-they have systematically
brought under their control; and 80
thoroughly havethey done their work
that you might give an eye for every
daily In North Carolina which they do
not own, without serious injury to
your sight.
Not content with their control Of the
press, they have gone forward to con-
troll our institutions OF learning. Men
who have made their millions under
b operation Of banetul laws Of Especial
privilege have systematically under
taken to endow colleges and .univerai
ties throughout the land. Stanford
pours his wealth into the lapof a uni
versity in California Rockefeller pious
ly gives his millions 20 the great Bap
fist University in Chicago; Duke, in
North Carolina, endoWs Trinity with
princely gifts by the hundred thou
sand. The churches rejoice over such
spendid munlh ence. They accept the
gifts to their struggling colleges with
wonder at the msnitude Of the bene-
factions. They rise in conferences,
conventions and associations, and sing
the Long Metre Doxology. The sanity,
eager and thonghtlees, praise God that
the unrighteous Mammon comes to the
helpo the Church and its institutions
in q time of struggle.
But these gifts are not always disin.
teFested. Colleges ana universities,
established for the purpose Of teach
ing the truth in its freedom, fall by the
very fact Of these donations, under
the virtual control Of the donors; and
they are not permitted to teach any
system Of economies that declares the
positive popular injustice Of the Iegis
lation whereby the donor has gathered
his millions.
When Prof. Bsmis taught the truth,
which condemned the methods of
Rockefeller's gains, he was forcsd from
his chair in the faculty of the Uni
verSity Of Chicago. When Prof. Ross,
In the Leland Stanford University, fol
lowing the dictates Of q cody con-
science, taught the truth as he saw II.
he shared the fate Of Bemis. The lii q
fate befel Prof. Adams at Cornell and
Prof. Ely at Johns Hopkins. When
E BENZ amin Andrews, President of
Brown university, declared for hi
metalism, as against a single gold
standard, believing that q single gold
standard was destructive of the rights
OF the masses, and, therefore, unrepub
lican and unChristian, he was driven
from the Presidency Of that University
and the purpose Of plutocracy be-
came evident to contFol public senti.
ment by an autocratic control OF insti
buttons Of learning.
These things happened outside OF
North Carolina. Here, so far as We
know, no college professor or presi
dent has been called down on account
of his economic or political views.
But the ssmespirit that has been doing
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