The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-25
THE PRESS AND THE SUB
TREASURY BILL.

MOST of the papers throughout
WI the country have had something
to say about the Sub Treasury plan.
We notice that the Statesville Land
mark says that there is nothing wrong
about the bill or plan except that it
els impracticable." Our friend evil
IDENTIFY has not read The PROGRESSIVE
FARMER very closely or he would not
have rendered this decision. We re,
spectfully invite his attention and
others, too, for that matter,
to an article in this issue
by cold Fogy" reproduced
from the Washington Post. That
does not cover all the ground, but it
contains food for thought, and to
some extent-as far as it goes-proves
that it is practicable. At any rate
nobody has proved anything to the
contrary.
The New York Herald of a recent
date contained a long editorial and
! n Yves 1ho measure "Miller
, ,ance." The Herald pretenGs taat II
had hardly heard of the AlEAnce be
fore, and intimates that a good deal
of the avowed strength of the Alliance
is mythical, and plainly says that the
bill introduced in the Senate by Sen
ator Vance is absurd, to say the least
of it.
But the Herald gets down to bust,
ness in the closing paragraph which is
as follows:
awe do not suppose the present Con-
gress will pay much attention to these
vagaries. But the American people
are sufficiently intelligent to draw
logical conclusions, and with corn at
ten cents a bushel and wheat below
seventy cents the increasing numbers
of the debtor class will not long be
content to stop short in the career on
which Congress and the Supreme
Court have launched the country. You
cannot go on preaching and enacting
State socialism forever in any country,
and least of all in the United States,
without making an inconvenient null
titude of converts, who will reduce
the doctrine to practice in their own
way"
The Herald may be right about the
present Congress not paying much at
t~ention to the "Vagaries," but in the
sweet after while when the farmers
refuse to recognize the ~"vagarles" OF
the present Congress pro vided they
refuse to afford the asked for relief is
when the Herald aud some other PEG
pie will hear something drop.
!, The farmers have been taxed fo1
years to build government building;
|, for postal business and other things in
, every city in the United States, at q
| cost of from $4,000 to $500, OOC
: each and have not complained about
, the "vagaries of each Congress- but
it is plain that it makes all difference
in the world whose OK is gored.
But all this is fun for US. w
l ebay seeders," as some of the enemy
are pleased to call. US, are going tx
9 have some fun one of these DAYS, anc
some of those who are "taking thei
laugh before they proceed to rub tn,
bulls nose in the dirt may concIud,
r that they did wisely.
While the Alliance confined it's ope
r~ations to the South, the Herald WA
calm and serene. But it is getting
g uncomfortably and "inconvenientlyE
n near and SO the Herald begins to Kick
The fact that the States of New Joi
sey, New York and Michigan ar
n organizing is probably the sole caus
of all the trouble. Give hundre,
organizers wanted to organize tn
n State of Michigan /" That don
sound very soothing to those pluto
If Gratis. Really we " h~ay-seeders seer
d too much in earnest in this thing. "
s. ought to quarrel amongst %ourselve
and disorganize, if we wish such pei
pie as the Herald to applaud.