The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-04-29
NUTS TO CRACK AT THE FARM
ER'S FIRESIDE.

A Senator who will wait seventeen
years to inquire what his constituents
want, had better be laid on the shelf.
-E'mp0rla Republican.
Shoot your petitions into the ballot
box, and then you will place them
where they will do the most good
La6ette County Statesman.
Ingalls, has at last found the rem.
edy, and we may now look for rise
in the price of corn, wheat oats, cat
tie and hogs all over the West. He
has introduced a bill to establish a
free public bathing beach on the Po-
tomac river.-Labor'S Tribune, mo }
Iowa demands free twine, and has
asked her delegation in Congress to
say so. The only difficulty in comply
ing with such a modest demand by a
State so important is that the whole
tariff system is so twined together
that if anv one twine-end should be
pulled out down would come the en-
tire fabric.
The Missouri antitrust law has
been declared unconstitutional"
This is no more than might have been
expected. All laws enacted for the
benefit of the people, and in any way
conflicting with the interests OF mo-
nopolies will likely meet similar fate
until the people by their ballots de-
clare Doodle legislatures and courts un-
| constitutional
The Republican press commenting
on Vance's warehouse bill. to benefit
the farmers treat it as wild and i'm,
partial scheme. Somehow any sug-
gestion that would help the farmer is
wild and impractIcable. When the
agricultural interests ask for the direct
loan of funds on real estate they cry
out in holy horror, "Oh, the govern
ment must not go into the banking
business;," yet to loan bankers mil
lions at l per cent for twenty years
and others millions without any inter
est at all, is all right You see it
makes a difference whose OK is gored.
Under all forms of government the
ultimate power lies with the masses.
1t is not kings nor aristocracies, nor
land owners nor capt. ists that any
where really enslave the people. 1t is
their own ignorance. Most clear is
this where government rest on uni
versaI suffrage. The workingmen Of
the United States may mold to their
will legislatures, courts and constitu-
| CtTsI
favor and political parties bid against
one another for their vote. But whas
avails this ? The little finger of ag
gregated capital must be thicker than
the loins of the working masses so
long as they do not know how to use
their power.-E1.
The Alliance in this part of the
State has passed from the expert
mental stage to fixed reality. It is
not theory here any longer but
condition invincible and certain. No
other movement ever made such rapid
progress as has been made by the AL
lance in the country. Six weeks ago
there were only four Alliances in the
the county with mem oership of
perhaps I2O. Now there are thirty
six lodges with perhaps 1900 Over
four hundred were taken in during
the last week. l think the number
will reach $500 which will [ think
work a much needed reform in the
public and private affairs of the coun-
ty. l think your paper will have a
great circulation in this county
Kansas Advocate.
The United States is considered a
wealthy nation because it has vast
sums of idle money stored away in it's
subterranean vaults. The human
mind was never deluded by greater
fallacy. That a government can be
wealthy while the masses of its people
are poor, is an absolute absurdity.
True national wealth and prosperity
was never known except where every
industry fourished, where labor re-
ceived it's just reward, and where the
masses of the people we're prosperous
and happy. Where all this idle money
so invested as to infuse life and activ-
ity into every American industry, and
were the United States treasury with
out dollar in its vaults, the nation
would exhibit far more of the evi-
dences of wealth than at the present
time.-AdvOcate.
In New York, the indications are
that the farmers will revolutionize
the whole tendency of legislation as a
result of next falls election. Long
before then the Farmers League will
have 100, 900 members pledged to pro-
mote the farmers interests in the
c2ucuses and at the polls. The same
movement and federation is spreading
rapidly throughout the Middle, South
ern and Western States. In Kansas,
not only have the Alliance, Grange,