People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1895 — Let Us Alone [ARTICLE]

Let Us Alone

“Let us alone." said Jefferson Davis, after he had drawn eleven States out of the Union, and established a separate government, “All we ask of you people of the North is to let us alone! - ’ But the people did not let him alone. Whigs, republicans. democrats, crushed their prejudices, broke party lines asunder, leveled every obstruction, filled every ditch that.- separated them, and rushed forward to bring back the fugitives. N This was patriotism, iove of country promptly to save the Union, and the actors in it are hailed as veteran heroes. “Let us alone.” say the gold owners, the fund holders, the coupon clippers, the salary grabbers. after they have cornered the gold, got it into their control, and had it declared the only money, thereby destroying prices, paralyzing industry, "killing enterprise and ruining business. “All we ask of you common people, you farmers and workingmen, is to let us alone.” And the people not only let them alone, but take them upon their shoulders and carry them still higher, higher, every 3’ear and give them more complete concontrol; If the former action of the ! people was patriotism, what should their later course be called? The plans of the South for separate government were not half so destructive of hu i inanity's best interests as arej he plans of the money power j 'or laying tribute upon popular udustry and enterprise. —Pro 'ressive Farmer. i