The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-04-15
NUTS TO CRACK AT THE FARM.
ER'S FIRESIDE.

Why not give the plow holder
money as cheap from the U. s. treas.
ury as the bondholder Is the bond
holder more valuable member of So
ciety than the plow- holder ?
Some fool has offered bill in Con
gress to put duty on eggs. We sup.
pose the next move will be to put a
high tariff on asses, to give the House
greater Observation-Disclosures Ion1a-
hda0k.
There is something wrong when
the farmer west of the Mississippi sells
his beeves for two cents pound and
the laborer of the Ohio Valley pays
from II to l8 cents a pound for his
steak Gospel Liberty.
The Democratic and Republican
parties made laws that closed our
workshops and cause tramps; then
passes other laws to punish the tramps.
1t is pushing out new army of tramps
now.-Iurner's Enaancipator.
The federation between the Farm
ers' Alliance and the Knights of Labor
is the grandest union ever forme i,
and commands three million votes 1t
is the heel of the people on the head
OF the viper.-Ind~strtal West
Col. Polk says tie Alliance is not a
political organization but it will go its
full length to secure such legislation
as in its opinion will save the agricul-
tural interest from everlasting ruin.
The question now is one OF self-pres-
ervation. The Alliance is right. The
Lord helps those who help themselves.
Roanoke NeaUS.
The amount paid in pensions by the
United States last year exceeded the
aggregate dividends of all the rail
roads in the country. This year it
will be largely in excess, and with
continuation of the present policy it is
only question of time when the pen
sioners will consume all the earnings
of everybody else.-Phd1. Record.
The Union Stock Yards monopoly
at C'sDagO has managed to have its
assessment reduced all the way from
$l,O5O,O 900 to $4,000. Just at the
time when the farmers of Illinois are
loudly complaining of this reduction
along comes an English syndicate and
offers $4,000, ,OOO-some say $780,
OOO,OOO-for that poor little $1,000
worth of corporation property.-Post
Dispatch.
Reform never comes from our
leaders. It comes from the people.
Give the people justice and you will
not see tramps looking around for
work to DO. Neither will you hear
the voice of discomfort any more,
which now reaches from ocean to
ocean. But on the other hand you
will see prosperity in this fair land of
ours Then will we see the time
spoken of in the Bible, in which every
man shall sit under his own fig tree,
and one shall not plant and another
eat the fruit hereof.-Patrick Henry.
On the same night that Mrs. Martin,
of New York city, gave a ball which
cost her fifty thousand dollars, an
other woman, refined and educated
married woman Of thirty, with a sick
and helpless husband, committed sui
eide because she had tramped the
streets through the storm and without
food until utterly exhausted, in search
of honest work. The letter she left
to her sick husband was very pathetic
and told how she could only find
subsistence by combining wifely duties
with domestic service for widowers or
bachelors. A change in the body po-
litic is imperatively demanded.-Pleos.
anton Herald.
The farmers of Illinois, whose corn
crop cost them last ear 100000
more than they can e. t. for it, accord
ing to the estimates of The State Board
of Agriculture, are complaining that
the richer the corporations become the
more their assessment for taxation is
reduced; that the Pullman Palace Car
Co., which was assessed at So, 100, 900
in 1874, paid taxes on only $285, 600
in 1888, and that the railroad assess
ment which was $l33, 100000 in
1873, when there were only $500
miles Of track, is now reduced to
S68, 100000 when there are 10000
miles of track. There certainly seems
to be good ground of complaint IN
these facts.-Post Dispatch.
We have two parties in this coun-
try, and what are they? They have
been going down, down, until they
have almost reached the lowest depths.
What a commentary upon the politics
of great Republic! They represent
two colossal organic appetites thirsting
for spoils. The two parties are like
wild beasts trying to devour each
other. The American citizens are in