The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-08-12
NTIrs TO CRACK AT THE FARM
ER'S FIRESIDE.
Press Opinions from Many Sources.

Press Opinions from Many Sources.
There are 100000 more people In
the United States now than there was
one year ago, yet we have 5000, 900
less money in circulation.-ErchGnge
Congress has now been in session
about eight months, and if they have
done a single thing to benefit the
people, we wish said benefit would
begin to show up.-Eye Opener
Not that farmers are e~xtravagant;
but that the general extravaganza OF
other classes and the outrageous ex
travagances of legislation effect the
farmers to their great injury.--MGry'
land Farmer. ~
The Sub-Treasury plan is glowing
in favor every day. The people know
it would be right, but a corrupt court
may say it is unconstitutional. The
people are higher than the court and
thew are soon TO have their inings.-
Sentinel. s
Six weeks of drouth, eight months
of Congress, cyclones on our trail, a
mortgage on the farm, tariff on our
clothes and a pension bill to raise for
every soldier, we ought to be glad
that air is yet free to breathe, and wa,
ter to drink.-Eye- Opener.
The Tribune of Chicago puts it this
wav. The Mckinley bill will save
the people $40, 900, 600 on sugar and
tobacco, and Will increase the annual
cost of the other domestic articles con
sumed S237,25O,O 900. Such is the
tariff reform of the Fifty,ir r Con,
gress.
Thousands of men have joined
labor organizations, expecting to reap
great and lasting benefits from them
Immediately and failing to do so, after
the first disappointment they dropped
out as suddenly as they came in, never
realizing that the wrongs of centuries
cannot be wiped out in a day-Be0~
Appeal
There is but little hope of useful
political action through any of the
Labor organizations. These are
schools of political economy in which
men are lifted out of the rut of party
degradation and taught their duties
and responsibilities as citizens, The
graduates must step up into a higher
room to perform the tasks imposed on
them by duty.-& LOUIS Monitor.
Men who have been permitted to
become members of the Farmers Al.
lance, and now go about throwing
cold water upon it are like "gnarled
oaks in the forest of industry" and
should be weeded out Immediately.
Such men, while they cannot injure
the order materially, are no good to
themselves and of but little honor to
any class of people who might be de,
ceived into permitting them to mingle
among them, Drive out the drones.
Fort Valley Enterprise.
What is the remedy for hard times -?
We answer cheap money to pay off
his mortgage, raise his supplies and
equip his farm for higher production.
A land which withstood the destruc
tive shock Of the greatest war Of mod
ern times for four years, and the
merciless extortions of the usurer for
twenty-five years, aud still survives,
deserves cheap money to rebuild its
homes and farms, and a just political
economy of the nation will grant it.
Atlanta Southe n Fdrmer.
Congressman Oates seems to be a
consistent douoter as regards the
legality of measures which benefit the
farmer. He declares the Sub Treas
ury plan unconstituti onal, and goes so
far in his opposition to their interest
as to vote against creating a Depart
ment of Agriculture, whose chief
should be a Cabinet officer The vote
upon that Measure stood 236 in the
affirmative, and l3 in the negative,
one of which was Mr.. Oates. In his
judgment it is contrary to good law
to do very much for the farmer
Economist.