The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-06-10
NUTS TO CRACK AT THE FARM
ER'S FIRESIDE.

Inc w 0SC0fn farmers seated 1af-
rison, but they can't seat their own
pantaloons.-Kansas Jefersoniam
A Western paper says the best pay.
ing thing that the farmer can engage
in is raising winter apples. If he has
good luck in raising apples he may
follow it up by raising mortgages
Wilmington Star.
When the present Congress met we
promised our readers to inform them
when Congress did something besides
talk politics and appropriate money.
We are waiting an opportunity to
redeem our promise. -Erchonge.
First Sweet Girl-Just think The
Gar of Russia has throne that cost
more than $4,000. Second Sweet
Girl-Really? Why, that is not half
as much as papa paid for his seat in
the Senate. Haute Erpress.
The Vassar girls are level headed
Out of seventy. nine asked ffty-one
are for tariff reform, twenty one for
free trade, and only seven timid
enough to acknowledge that they
wanted protection Wilmington Sta.
Ingalls, says the publication of poll
tics is ian iridescent dream" The
Kansas farmers seem to be indulging
in little of this iridescent dreaming
and propose to try their hand on
scalping Ingalls, to see how it pans
out Wilmington Star.
What the people want is our Sena-
tors elected by the people direct as
members of the House now are. If
that we're done, there would be a
mighty rattling of dry bones in the
Senate, which is noted more for it's
courtesy" than its brains.
When a farmer cannot sell bushel
of corn in Kansas for eight cents and
a saloon keeper can sell thumb full
of whiskey in Washington or New
York for fifteen cents, we can't see
any objection to keeping both the old
parties in Brick Pomeroy.
Uncle Jerry Rusk is in favor of
eight hours a day for the farmers.
When Uncle Jerry gets in full charge
of the weather department and learns
the ropes, maybe he will so regulate
the seasons that the farmer might wag
along eight hours day Whining
ton Star.
When the upper crust of this coun-
try goes across the ocean every year
to spend S9O,OOO,OOO in seeing and
feeling of various things in the old
country, we really cannot see why
money should be scarce and the rate
of interest high in this country
" Brick" Pomeroy IN Advance Thought.
When a hundred pounds of fatted
and dressed hogs sell in Chicago for
only $685., and one of Pinker on s
shot gun murderers dressed as a de-
tective, gets $4.85 per day and his
board for shooting starving miners in
Pennsylvania, we don't see why pros
perity is not general in this country.
Brick Ponaeroy.
The Kans Is Farmer, the leading az
ricultural paper of Kansas, respect
fully declines to support Senator In
gals for re election 1t thinks the
farmers of that State will be as well
or better represented by some man
who don't part his hair in the middle
or purloin the sermons of dead men.
- Wilmington STAR
An Illinois farmer carelessly left
his valise, containing S13, 200, in his
| hn y 10 hn ~
get dinner While he was out the
valise with the $I3, 600 also went out
escorted by a thief Illinois farmers
should not leave their valises with
$4,000 laying around lose that way.
= Wilmington Star.
The present banking system is a
curse to you, farmers and lsborers
1t suits some classes because it gives
them the powe' to control your crops
and labor They desire you to re-
main slaves to them. That's why
they oppose the Sub. Treasury plan
and favor the present banking system.
Do you understand ?-Rual Home
"The Nebraska farmer gets for
raising corn S4 per ton, the railroad
Emagnate for taking it to Pennsylvania
/ So per ton; the miner pays for it Sl4
per ton. Who got the Ion share e?
Who is the robber? The Pennsyl-
vania miners get for coal at the mines
A So per ton, the railroad magnates get
for bringing it to Nebraska 81 per
ton; the people here pay for it $40
per ton. Here, again who is the rob
Iper ~ Omaha World Heraid
When the gang that calls itself the
Government of the United States
loans S6O,OOO,OO of money raked in
from over-taxed farmers and business
men, to the national bankers without
usury or interest, and the bankers
loan it out through confidential agents
to struggling farmers in the West, at