The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-04-22
NUTS TO CRACK AT THE FARM
ER'S FIRESIDE.

That party is wise this fall that al
lows the farmers to name their ticket.
Politicians have run it long enough.
-PaolG Times.
Protect the farmers from the high
protection and from all trusts and
combines which rob him of his profits.
-Paola Times.
The planting time is drawing nigh
when the Kansas farmer can turn the
sod and plant the seed for another
crop Of 'F fuel next winter Whining
ton Star.
We believe the politicians should
come over to the people now. The
people have followed long enough.
They will now lead awhile. Fall in,
old ringster. Times.
Things have come to a pretty pass
when a mortgaged farm will not sell
for the price of the loan upon it.
Still the mortgage was given upon it
at l3 valuation.-Honoe Rule.
If we must have the democratic and
republican parties we want it straight
Jacksonian democracy and Lincoln
Repu olicanism. No man however
fastidious would growl at that.-HOnae
RuZe.
Ingalls, is sometimes called "the
Kansas wasp" While there may be
points of resemblance, they are dis
similar in some respects. Ingalls, parts
his hair in the middle, the wasp never
does.- Wilmington STAR
In 1864 we had about S47 per
capita, in 1888 about $6,lO. In 1864
we had 495 failures and in 1888 we
had l3,348. Thanks to the deadly
work of the contraction policy of the
two old parties.-Honee Rule.
An aggressive, organized army can
be successfully resisted only by a
counter organization. You are en-
listed against the organized forces of
Greed. Will you permit "DEsERTER"
to be written opposite your name p
NeaO Farmer.
It looks like it would rain all
around. Now comes the Virginia
legislature and passes a concurrent
resolution memorializing Congress to
Immediately provide for an issue of
legal tender greenbacks, to be loaned
to the people on real estate security at
two per cent. per annum.-PaolG
Times.
Puck talks to the laboring man in
this way: You are in the soup, just
where your friends, the politicians,
left you when they were done with
you last November. You are in the
soup, and there you will stay for the
next four years, unless in the mean
time you learn wisdom of exercising
common sense.
"What fools we mortals be-" After
allowing about 95 per cent. of the
wealth of the people to be tilched by
less than per cent. of the population
and three fifths of all the wealth to be
owned by less than 10000 persons we
wake up to the fact that we have be-
come industrial slaves" and must
agitate and organize to recover our
rights.-Honoe Rule.
What's got into our Iordly lords I?
Senator Stanford maks the proposition
to loan the people money directly from
the treasury vaults and President
Alton of the @. & A. R. r. proposes
that the government shall own the
Railroads. We now look for an alien
or native land speculator to propose
that the ownership of lands in large
bodies shall cease.-Honae Ruze.
The Industrial Age of Duluth, MINI.
comes to us burdened with 80 notices
or just half its pages ofmortgage fore
closures. It is 8 pages 40 column.
Its editorials are gems of high order
and its general makeup is up with
the times. But what a work of de-
struction must be taking place in that
| locally in view of the notices. How
log can we thus continue ?-Honae
Rule
The Farmes' Alliance of Kansas in
convention at Topeka on the 25th ult.,
resolved to oppose the election of the
niger lover, John J. Ingalls,, of high
tariff renown. They are just 100, 900
strong and this bit of news causes the
royal gentleman to be nauseate at the
stomach. Poor old down-trodden
Kansas would be better off had Ingalls,
never been born.-BzOOntieLd (Mo.)
| V5ndlcGt0r.
Many a Kansas farmer is glad to
sell his crop for enough to pay the in
terest on his mortgage and enough to
carry him over another year, but the
profits of the Pittsburg plate glass
company for 1880 were nearly ST.
100000. Regular dividends to the
amount of % per cent. were paid dur
ing the year, and January % special
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