The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-10-07
NUTS TO CRACK AT THE FAp,,
Frs FIRESIDE.
Press Opinions from Many Source.

The professional politician
alarmed. His occupation is passins
from his grip like a d~issoIving foo
Alliance Times.
The aristOcracy would make -.
laborers believe that their privilepa we
work depended upon the w~iIIinS9no.o9
of the rich to consume the product
Sturdy Oak.
The farmers want something bette,
than agricultural reports. Thew ovo
mighty thin reading to say the mos t
of them. No, thanks, we don't cors
for any literature of this sort.-4T
amce Times.
Does farming pay? 1t don't pay as
well as railroading or banking and
never will until the farmer ge,s
square deal with those monied fellows
Give the farmer an equal chance and
farming as a business will be what i
ought to be.-AHIonce Times.
The Congressman who has endesv.
ored to make himself solid with tho
farmer in the past, by the free garden
seed racket, might as well understand
first as last, the scheme won't work
any longer, and besides, the seeds are
of no account aDyway.-AHJqnce
Times.
If a candidate on the peoples ticket
has not been a Republican and there.
by connected with some devilment: if
nothing can be found against his per.
sonal character, not even failed in
business, why he of course is a we'll.
developed "demagogue.7-Non Con.
formaist.
The majority of farmers have, per,
force, realized that by mixing brains
with their methods and demands.
they may do more to determine the
proftableness Of their labor and CAPT
tai than the most enhancing eloquence
of the prettiest politician.-Lwag
UnGOm.
The Alliance Herald, Montgomery,
Ala ~interrogates: "Why should a
farmer pay Is per cent. interest on
money to a mar who gets it Of a bank
and the bank gets it of the govern,
ment without interest ? Why not the
government let the farmer have it
without interest, like it does the ma.
tional bank?
So long as this country is u on
ancient republican forms, no matter
how corrupt and Infamous they may
be, the plutocrats think the honest
and virtuous millions of the land Will
not and dare not kick. But in order
to carry out this deep laid scheme, the
farmers vote must by an equal dl,
vision be made practically 0 existent.
-ErchGnge.
If working men of this country ever
better their condition, and | believe
they will, it will be by their own united
and vigorous efforts. From the pro.
fessional politician they can receive no
substantial assistance. These mel are
ever ready to foist themselves upon
workingmen and to make capital out
of movements for labor.-B Z,
Underwood IN Truth.
TTne Alliance is called a secret pc
litical party. We will tell you the
difference between it and the old par,
ties in regard to secrets. In the old
parties the leaders have the secret
meetings and put up the jobs on the
people; in the Alliance the people have
the secrets and put up the jobs on the
politicians. In one the wire-worker8
have the party secrets, in the other
the party secrets are in the hands OF
the people. Which system is the
safest for the people 2 Which one do
you like best THE Alliance.
Do you know; or don't you, that
the English money power now WINS
one-half of all the wealth of all the
n~ationa of the earth to-day, and the
interest on that wealth doubles it
every fifteen years? And that money
power controls and fixes the price OF
everything that labor sells or must
buy q? And that at the present rate
unless conditions are changed, By legs,
I~atlon, this money power will, in tit.
teen years, reduce every farmer in the
United States to a tenant, and OWL all
the wealth of the earth ?-1Orch Of
Liberty.
One hundred and thirteen million
dollars worth of Al per cent. govern.
ment bonds become due September
lst, 1891. 1t is asserted that the
money power is now scheming to de-
/ plete the revenue and squander the
surplus so that the government will
not be able to pay these bonds and
thus force another refunding swindle
upon the people and compel them to
pay interest to the untaxed money
lords for another quarter of a century.
The Farmers Alliance wants to keep
it's eye peeled for this little scheme