The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-12-16
OUR EXCHANGES.

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that the entire railway system of the
country West of the Mississippi river, il
now controlled by the Gould's, Wander
bits and Rockefellers. It is just this sort
of monopoly that increases the member
ship of the Farmers Alliance and other
kindred organizations Falcon.
The St. Paul Globe says: l. Mr.. Blaine
is the strongest man left on the storm
swept.decks of the Republican ship, God
help it. No one can close his eyes to the
fact that Blaine OF to day is attached to a
Blaine record Of twenty years standing.
The leopard can no more change his spoti
than can a thoroughly t1ttooed man his
stains.
The President remarks with a voluot-
uous feeling of pride that we shall be dead
i; love with the Mckinley oil when we
become more intimate with it. It is go
ing to lower prices, raise wages, chuck
the mellenium under the chin and per-
suade 1t to become a regular table boarder
in our Republic. In the meantime the
cost of living is bulging upward and the
null owners of Fall river propose to re-
duce the wages Of their workmen. Nc
Kinley must be a regular stem-winding
WoC04o0LS SUI VI osLAau.-A oTH
Herald.
No such school for the educa ion of the
masses ever existed in any country as our
lab r organizations compose. By means
of the discussion, coolly, disp~aSsionately
and earnestly f the great political aud
economic problems, actuated AID up le-
mented by the reform press, the people
are making grand strides toward that
practical knowledge, independence and
patriotism which will cause to be sounded
the death-knell of tyranny, bossism and
monopoly. Oppression and intelligence
never did and never will dwell together
in harmony, and the more rapidly the iu-
d"ustrial masses AGO lire this practical edu
E~cation, the sooner will they be able to get
from the domination Of the money power.
- Weekly Union.
Thot eminent authority on finance, the
AmeriGn Banker, d. clares that { the world
cannot show a better currency than the
silver and gold certificates" And yet,
there are men and bankers WAC would
limit the circulation of this currency to
the Smallest possible amount. But we do
not believe they can have their way. They
certainly ought not to bave 1t. The time
has come when better opinions attract the
public mind. People are Mt Influenced
as they once were by such false cOnclu-
siOns. A wider view and an enlarged in
telligence on financial matters, has be-
come ~impregnated in the general mind
and this vii, appreciate such opinions as
the Banker expresses. Aud so the de-
mand for the certificates will be sure and
widespread. Let it cpme. This is what
we want. - National ReVieaO.
Or. Parker, Of London has expressed
himself on the modern sermon. Blessed
with rare gifts of mind and speech, emf
nent for piety and power in the pulpit, as
he is, his words of criticism are worthy
of attent:on: l. There are sermons that
might be published under the title of
The Gospel Made Diff :ult.'" 2 There
IS the portmanteau sermon, into wnich
the giddy young preacher stuffs every
thing he can lay hands upon. All pretty
cou pIets, all current proverbs, all glitter
ing apothegms, all the crumbs that fall
from the rich mans table '-the scrap
book sermon, the rag bag ser non, the
p 1ipit album-the Berlin-wool-and fancy
rep Jsitory Sermon" 3 Sermons that
do not draw though into conduct are al
ways worthless. Judge the good results
of a sermon by the service which it ne
cessitates and Sustains." 4. Il believe
that with strikes, elections, and competing
methods of government, as Such, the pulpit
has absolutely nothing to do. What 1t
has to do, and to do at ali risks, is to
create al atmosphere which can OF be
breathed by injustice, and which is fatal
to all tricksters, tyran.s, gamblers, and
gamblers and bad men, whether capitalists
or labOrers, whether classes or ma Sses. In
my judgment, that is the true function of
the pulpit"
& Perhaps the most important service in
which the " Farmers Alliance and Indus
rial Unioo," now in convention at OcaIa,
Fla, Is engagedin is that of breaking down
the lines of s~ectiOnalism, and the effect OF
that service is likely to be permanent,
Whatever may come of other purposes of
the organization. The solemn protest Of
the o ala O. invention against the passage
of the Force bill has been received in a
strange spirit by the Republican politicians
at Washington who are determined not to
give up the effort to put the control of
elections in the South in the hands of
partisans of the National Administration.
1t has led them to declare that the ALI
ance is an " attachment to the Democratic
party" and hat the action of its conven-
ton was brought ABOUT by democratic
wire-pullers." But there was no dissent
in the convention from the resolution
adopted on Wednesday, and the Novem.
Der elections showed that in the West, at
least, the Alliance is rather more of a de-
tachment from the Republican party than
an attachment to the Democratic party.
The protest against the Force bill was
quite in keeping with previous declara-
tons of the Alliance, for it has from the
beginning made opposition to the spirit of
~sectionalism one Of it's leading principles,
and it could hardly do otherwise. 1t has
sought to make the movement in which
it is engaged national and to keep it free
from partisan politics, tn ugh it is now
tending in the direction of political action