The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-09-16
NUTS TO CRACK AT THE FARM
ER'S FIRESIDE.
Press Opinions from Many Sources.

RoOCery is roOOery, whether 1t is
done by law or by common foot-pad.
-ZndustrGal RevSew.
Free trade is simply natural trade.
All laws for restrictive or preventive
of trade are in contravention of natural
laws Industrial Review.
Learn the record of your Congress
man on the silver bill and face him
with it when he comes home to shake
hands with you.--ZoaOa Tribune.
The farmers of the country make
all wealth, but by system of class
legislation they are enabled to retain
scarcely enough to keep body and soul
together. Rule
Candidates for Congress this fall in
the West who oppose free coinage
will get left and don't you forget it."
The tariff question will cut no figure.
It will be free coinage in free fight.
-NeOS Reporter, Three Rlvers, Mich.
We recently discovered why GER
tain proportion of the people of the
country can be idle and yet accumu-
late all the wealth of the country in
their hands. 1t is simply because a
fool class allows them to do it.-Home
Rule.
The farmers of the West are very
apt to act upon their own impressions
and to run things pretty much as they
Vo1oooo SO For os &boiu ro%os on1 IN Ar
ence go. They are free men yet, sub
ject to the bid and nod of nobody
Colnaan's Rural World.
The vote on the free coinage bill in
the House shows what happy faculty
the Democrats and Republicans mis-
representatives in Congress have of
breaking ranks and helping each other
out when the Wall street bosses crack
the whip Chicago Sentinel
The volume of business depends as
much upon prices as upon the quan
tity of commodities produced. AS
prices go down the volume of business
in country diminishes. Wages go
down, labor is thrown out of employ
ment and consumption of products
restricted Workman, Dayton, 0.
There is just this much of the mule
about farmers. When once they have
set their heads that a certain way is
right, they can't be driven from it,
they can't be scofed out of it; they
can't be bull-dozed or rldiculed out of
it. 1t is strange how slow some papers
and politicians are to realize this
Cotton Plant
It is now conceded that there will
be from 35 to 40 Alliance members
elected to the next Congress, and this
prospect is confounding the calcula-
tions of the machine politicians already
And the election returns next fall
may show more Alliance members
elected than political prophets will
now Peninsula Farmer
The farmers want to know why
they have been Disseminated against,
and while they create seven eights of
the wealth and pay directly and indi-
rectly seven eights of taxes, that they
can't borrow ST. from the government
while the national bankers can borrow
| $3.50, 10000 to loan to the people at
to 20 per cent Vindica'or, Bloom.
field, Mo.
The monopolists and money chang
ers will keep their hands in the farm.
ers' pocket just as long as the farmers
and laboring men permit them to keep
their paid attorneys in the legislative
halls You may talk about your de-
mands and pledges, but it is votes that
count, and it is healthy for the gov
ernment that you don't forget it
Union Banner.
Farmers are putting IN a much
larger acreage of politics this season
than usual. The Farmers Alliance in
Kansas are paying great attention to
studying up the best mode of cultiva-
ton and are very careful in the selec-
tion of seed. AS a general thing they
refuse to use any seed of the crops
formerly raised by the old parties be-
cause they have universally found it
mixed with noxious weeds which
make the crop Improbable World,
OttumaOa, Iou0a.
Puck: "Yep," said the openfaced
old Kansau, wishing to impress bis
Eastern host "some mighty queer
things happen out thar whar l live.
Got up one morn1n' an found the
blamdest goin' on ever you seed. It
was rainin' blood an flesh an dust an
stones an ashes, an halin' an thun
derin' an ightnin' all at once. Felt
cold an hot both at the same time.
The frogs was just more'n hollerin'
an the punkins peered to be sweain'
blue swet Wifa, she was frustrated.
But told her to just rest easy, as |