The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-04-01
NUTS TO CRACK AT THE FARM
ERS' FIRESIDE.

III dHepOL GoG1Ou aIS 4uoutiCGlj YET I6Lu-
ers favor the former and groan over
the iniquities of the latter. Kansas
Je6ersonian.
Ingalls, talks about the "mutterings
of discomfort heard in the South" If
he will lay his ear to the ground some
still day he will also be able to detect
a low rumbling in several localities in
Kansas.-KansaS City Star.
The word bond as applied to evi
dences of American Indebtedness, is
a most appropriate one. Bonds are
the shackles which bind American
citizens in system of slavery to the
money lords.-SoUthern Alliance, At,
Janta, Ga.
Sugar is worth three cents per
pound in England. But for our
"glorious system Of protection " we
could get our sugar at about the same
figures es-Signal.
"The best Alliance any man can join
is an alliance with hard days work. "
Strong City Rep.
The farmers are being constantly
treated to such choice morsels as the
above by the old party press. No
thing disturbs their peace so much as
the fact that the farmers are becom-
ing educated and beginning to think
for themselves, and struggling to
throw off the cha.ls with which mo-
nopoly and their plant tools, the leg
islators, and serVile partisan press
has shackled them.-Laberty (KS.) Re-
VieD.
Railroad officials, bankers, insurance
companies, liquor dealers and other
corporations go boldly into politics
and labor and lobby for their men and
measures. They always mean busi,
ness. But farmers should not meddle
with politics. Oh, no. Hands off !
Kansas Farmer.
The government has taken the pre-
caution to issue $8,OOO,00O to buy
bonds at a premium Of 27 per cent. in
order to tide the bankers over a tight,
and thus prevent another "Black Fri
day." How would it do for the
"Great Father at Washington " to
order an extra issue of a few millions
for the purpose of tiding those West,
ern farmers over the Black Fridays"
that are occurring among that class of
citizens almost daily p Cl'naon Springs
(Mo) Advocate.
Hon. Tncian Baker, OF L6aVen-
worth, an old railroad attorney, pre-
sents figures to show that the railroads
Of Kansas cost to build them $780,
600, 900; that the people of Kansas
have donated to t1em $3.50, 900, 600,
or twenty million more than they cost,
and the roads earn interest on $780,
100000 At only five per cent. this
shows that we pay each year thirty
three and half millions too much to
the railroads. Divide this S33, ,5OO,-
600 by 100000 the mum Der of families
in Kansas, and see how much it costs
each one more than public ownership
would.
If our Congressman would do less
monkey work on getting appropria-
tons made for public buildings and
turn their attention to some issue that
will benefit the farmers and laborers,
they will be " killing time" - great
deal better advantage than he etotore.
-Azmena Advocate.
When another general election has
come and gone it will be found that
the consolidation of the Knights of
Labor and Farmers Alliance will
have done more to dispel party preju-
dices and sectional animosity than
anything that has occurred since the
Colorado Workman.
1t was over in Windsor township.
recently, a coterie of statesmen were
discussing the resubmission question
as Ben Glover, our National Vice
President, was passing, when they
called him up to express an opinion.
1t was brief. Said he: "The ques-
ton uppermost right now is not
whether man shall have a right to
drink or not, but, whether he shall
have a home to 60, drunk or sober. "
A nation which legalizes methods
that compel the majority of its citizens
to pay tribute to the few is lowering
dangerously near to despotism.-
Craftsman.
The Kansas City Times states that
E. N. Keep, of the Garden City In
print says: Mortgages are becoming
scarcer in Western Kansas every
day" True The loan companies
are foreclosipg g. Western Farmer.
There are in the State of Illinois
over ], 900, 900 acres of land owned by
aliens. Under recent law OF that
State they must become citizens by
the lst of July, when the law goes
into effect, to retain possession OF 1t.