The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-06-17
NUTS TO CRACK AT THE FARM
ER'S FIRESIDE.
Press Opinions from Many Sources.

Issue fifty dollars percapita, redu: :e
the tariff and destroy all monopolies
and the country will regain it's pros
perity.- Warrenton Gazette.
There are 100000 more people in
the United States now than there was
one year ago, yet we have $8,OOO,O 900
less money in circulation.-E!r'
Twenty-six years ago Andrew Car
negie had less than $lOO To-day,
thanks to a benefcent tariff, he is
worth $56,OOO,OOO.- itchisOm Globe.
The many candidates now running
over the country are asking the Union
what they can do for it. We say
they can do heap they can get out
of our sunshine.-INrner'S EmGncI-
patOr.
Birds of feather flock together.
Who were at that meeting in Red6eld
and what was it for ? "The farmers
friend" will be known this year by
the company he keeps.-Dahota Ru
ralGst
We raised in 1880, 498, 900, 900
bushels of wheat, last year we raised
100000 more, yet the wheat crop of
1880 brought the farmer $3.50, O,O0O,
900 more than did the crop of last
year.-En.
The Farmers Alliance and Knights
of Labor have combined in Ohio and
Indiana, and propose to take a i;tle
hand in politics. This means trouble
for some of the "theorists. y Va
nlangtOn iSGr.
Farmers of Kentucky, get out
of the old ruts. Think together talk
together ;pray together and, if you
can't do better, "cuss" together
whatever you do, move together
Ky Labor Journal.
Jay Gould's daily income is esti-
mated at STAG, Cornelius Wander
bits at Sis, l49, J. D. Rockefeller's
at $l8,715, w. w. Astor's at $23, 593.
With such beggarly wages as this
they ought to strike for eight hours
day Wilmington Star.
To make one millionaire, 10000
industrious producers must be robbed
of the product of their labor and live
in want and misery. Are millonaires
of such great Importance to the well
fare of the people that they must be
maintained at such cost.-Ec0nOn1lS
The jute bagging trust was cloud
with a silver lining. Necessity is
still the mother of invention. An
Augusta lawyer is likely to solve the
troublesome bagging question. The
cotton-stalk itself promises to render
the cotton trade independent of jute,
tariff or no tariff Charlotte Chronicle.
The republican party may now see
that large number of farmers and
other working men of the west and
the southwest will no longer submit
to the gold basis, hard times. The
change from Clevelands, gold basis,
to Harrisons, gold basis, is making
hard times no better, very fast.-Re-
porter.
A Letter from Secretary Turner at
Washington says the petitions on the
Sub Treasury bill are rolling in like
western snow storm. That's right
bank congress in with them till their
only escape is to pass it. Let every
Alliance and Nationalist club that has
not already done so farward at once
their petitions. Dakota RuraEiSt.
Why do we organizer Because
our enemies are organized. WHY are
we secret? Because our enemies are
secret. The campaign liar is out
We have heard of him at several
places. When a man says he went
into the Union purposely to get an
Office, what will you say at the polls
next NoveU Uber?-Iwmer's Enaanc5
patOr.
The zoe. tariff on wheat is a de,
IightfuI "protection to the farmer.
Manitoba wheat comes into Mime,
apolis, is manufactured into -four, and
exported. Then the manufacturer
gets 18c. a bushel back into their
Golfers. That is, Manitoba competi,
tion lowers the value Of Minnesota
wheat and the rebate elevates the
profit on the manufactured article.
It is a peculiar "tarif. The Great
West.
Poor's Manuel, for 1888, states that
the cost in money of all the railroads
in operation did ont exceed the amount
of the indebtedness, to-wit: $3,787-
41O, 728-and that the capital stock
of So, 7O8, ,O6O,582 was water, or in
excess of cost at $4,000 per mile,
which is too high. The Railway
Age" puts the cost of construction in
1889 at $4,000 per mile. Mr. Blaine's
article in the North American ReUiea0
in reply to Mr.. Gladstone, takes an
other billion dollars from the cost Ito
+bo oLboldarg\ of &bo r0ods Ho