The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-05-20
NUTS TO CRACK AT THE FARM.
ER'S FIRESIDE.


issues" that is, those aside from what
the people want.-Eye Opener.
The farmerwho has not read the
sub,treasury bill, or scheme, ought
to go off behind tree and kick him
self until his nose bleeds.-Southerm
Alliance Farmer.
"Dick," said the western editor to
the Office boy, "shovel some more
corn into the stove, while | write an
article on how protection protects
the farmer. y World Of Liberty.
The injustice of contraction of the
currency is more plainly felt in the
following fact than in anyother: That
owners of money gain bysit, while
owners of every other kind of prop.
erty lose.-Enchomge.
Young men, pitch your tents among
the living, Fall in line with the men
who carry the laurels of victory over
avarice. This will be as honorable as
any achievement of our forefathers on
the field of battle.-Eye Op:mer.
The "liberty-loving people of this
country" will submit to most any
thing so long as they "revel in the
luxury" of throwing their old rimless
hats in the air and shouting for "my
grand old party. p Colorado Work-
man.
Have we not been voting with the
old parties for the last 25 years to
bring about the needed reforms /?
Then why talk about monkeying with
them longer Why think about
forcing them to do our bidding p
Eye Opener.
C.L. Smith says that farming pays
as we'll as it ever did, in two,column
article. Smith puts himself on 8
document as possessed of $3.50 worth
of " farm !" Evidently it doesn't pay
Smith. Reply to such swash ? Hush!
The Great West.
A contracted currency IN the hands
of preferred class is more danger.
Gus to the liberties of the people than
wars, reoellions, foods or flames. Op-
preston of the masses by a moneyed
class is death to republican govern
ment.- -Southern 4Uiamce Farmer.
Two mill stones that grind the peo-
pie to powder Upper stone, the
financial avs of Congress; lower
stone, the mortgage laws of the States,
with judges and sheriffs to put shy
locks victims on the rack. Knock
out either stone and the other will
cease grinding its human grist.-LoaOa
Tribune
While all the people are interested
in the use o. money, that portion of
it which is used for lending on inter
est belongs to only few who control
the money markets of the country,
and are always interested in making
money scarce and dear, so that the
demand will be greater and interest
higher.-E3rcbGnge.
There seems to be no abatement in
the number Of foreclosures of mort
cages throughout the country. All
portions of the country is affected,
and where to place the quarantine is
what is troubling the people to day.
We find in one of our exchanges
from the extreme North, thirty-three
publications of foreclosures. Surely
this is interesting reading Industrial
Revaew.
We blame no man for holding gov
ernment bonds, we simply condemn
the law that gives him the privilege
to force his neighbor to pay him in
terest on dead capital. It is not upon
him that we war; it is upon the law
which unjustly permits him to live
upon the earnings of others, and not
even pay one cent Of tribute to the
government that protects him.-B. s.
Heath.
The farmers and laborers of this
country are like the lion in the cage.
They do not know their strength, or
they would burst the bars of monop-
oily and proclaim freedom to the world.
But many of them are despondent
and unconcerned, while ten men in
Chicago meet and set the price of a
crop of corn twelve months before
the seed is planted. Let us learn our
strength and exercise a reasonable
portion of our just rights.-IFibume,
Cle5wrme, TerGs.
tits mistake to suppose that the
rich man maintains his servants,
tradesmen, tenants and laborers. The
truth of it is, they maintain him. It
is their industry that supplies his table,
furnishes his wardrobe, builds his
houses, adorns his equipage and pro-
vides his amusements. It is not the
estate, but the labor employed upon
it, that pays the rent. All that he
does is to distribute what others pro-
duce which is the least part of the
business.-Paley.