The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-07-08
NUTS TO CRACK AT THE FARM
ER'S FIRESIDE.
Press Opinions from Many Sources.


not between protection and free trade
but between plutocracy and poverty"
England is not only investing three
dollars in the United States to one in
Canada, Australia or India, but would
be glad to make it fve.-& LOUIS
Republican.
1t is one o. the easiest things in the
world to get into debt, but debt is one
of the hardest masters to serve and
one of the most difficult to escape
Wilmington Messenger.
Vote and work for the right man in
office subscribe, and induce others to
subscribe for the right papers and
injustice to the farmers will find no
foOthold in Observation-Disclosures Farmer
Congress is too busy legislating for
the classes to do anything for the
masses That is why nothing is heard
of the peoples one cent postage prom
ised in the Chicago platform.-N. Y.
World.
The Alliance and all fraternal organ
izations were never more prosperous
than to-day. The order is embracing
all states and crsasing in thorough
ness and effectiveness -BatesVi3le lArk)
Union, Journal.
The party caucus, which meets
always in secret, is used too often as
an excuse for the betrayal Of the
peoples rights. Down with caucus
rule. See what the caucus did in the
silver matter.-MGSSourG World.
The Farmers Alliance will make
it's little splurge and sink into obscur-
ity, says the New York Sum- All the
same, while the little splurge lasts it
will make things mighty interesting
for some people.-Kansas Farmer.
Pigs raised on clover are becoming
very profitable, for people are begin
ming to appreciate the difference be-
tween the meat of pigs raised on
diet of corn, and those which are fed
with clover and grass Western
Farmer.
The freight rates between points in
the State are almost proh1bitory The
Free Press is strongly in favor of
State railway commission so that such
determinations can be be remedied,
in large measure at least, if not en-
tirely.-K1nStOn Free Press.
Away with the foolish idea that
farmers in their unions should not
meddle with politics. 1t is the rotten
partisan political slop of which farm
ers should steer clear, for such does
in deed and in truth polute all who
get mixed up in them.-Laborers'
Tribune.
AS an evidence that the American
manufacturers can't get along with
out more protection, the American
plow which costs the American farmer
SIS, is sold in South America for SO.
Nine dollars is the tribute the Ameri,
can farmer pays the manufacturer on
that plow.- Wilmington Star.
The Vermont Republican Sta'e
Convention, the other day, passed
resolutions deploring " "the present
dependent and depressed condition of
the agricultural interests" They
took no steps, however, to relieve the
unfortunate class referred to; nor, in
deed, was anything of the kind pro-
posed.
The Wilmington Star says: GA
New York importer figures it up that
under the Mckinley tariff $8,OOO,OOO
worth of crockery will cost the Ameri-
can people $21 100000. Well, what
of this Should the American peo
pie object to paying little $13, 3,OOO,-
900 to boom our "infant crockery
shops
A floating item says ga Leaven-
worth, Kansas, man proposes to wager
any sum between $4,000 and $50,
900 that within thirty days he can
walk from Leavenworth to Junction
City and never take his foot off mort
gagged ground except when crossing a
public road or railroad. Isn't this
the effect of high tariff and monopoly?
Practice and theory must go to
gether. Theory without practice to
test it, to verify it, to correct it, is idle
speculation but practice without
theory to animate it is mere mechan
ism. In every art and business theory
is the soul and practice the body.
The soul, without the body in which
to dwell, is indeed, only ghost; but
the body, without soul, is only a
corpse.-NeaO York Ledger.
The Solid South, of Conyers, Ca,
speaking of the work of the Farmers
Alliance says: The Farmers Ali
ance has mighty work before it, and
if this work is not accomplished, if
this task is not performed, then the
Alliance will have fallen very short of
the purpose of its organization. The