The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-11-18
NUTS TO CRACK AT THE FARM
ER'S FIRESIDE.
Press Opinions from Many Sources.

VI SSSSAAOOeAOA0 OOSAAS GhO wy 0AO
works down, publication begins down
and works up.
Ask your legislators to give an
account of their stewardship: what
has legislation done for agriculture ?
Farm, Field and Sockman.
"The issue this year is not whether
a man shall be permitted to drink,
out whether he shall have a home
to go to, drunk or sober. - Ben
CIOVer.
Money bags you can't buy the honor
of Minnesota this year. Manhood is
emancipGted. You can't buy the
farmer with stolen corn.-Duluth,
Manm., Age.
The peoples papers, probably in
haste and inadvertence, still cali it the
"silver bill" The term is a bad mis-
nomer. 1t is an anti,silver DILL, and
should be so called all the time. Give
it the right name and add to it's obloquy
as rapidly as possible. OsUego States
men.
When men arrogate to themselves
a sEblimated type of political virtue
and honor; and hold up superior
standards for the measurement of
others; the question rises unbidden-
have these men never violated any of
the ordinary standards of pu bic or
private obligation p Cotton Plant
Kansas City Star: "The cold snap
has come and the clothing business is
looking up The workman will be
gratifed to learn that $40 worsted
woolen suit will cost him Sl3. This,
the McKinleyites will tell him, is not
the result of the tariff bill, but merely
because there is a "failure in the
crops"
1t would take 4,571, 400 pounds of
pork, at 3 J cents per pound, or l5,2 ,238
head of fat hogs averaging 800 pounds,
to pay the interest on the mortgage
debt of Jewell county, estimating the
debt at the very low figure OF $4,000,
900 and putting the interest at 8 per
cent. How long can you stand it p
Western Advocate.
In the Fifty second Congress the
Alliance will have fourteen full
bloods in the House, with a small
sprinkling of half breeds. We expect
to secure from the Northwest twenty
four " full bloods" In the Fifty first
Congress we have none, no not one to
raise his voice for the farmer-all
owned by the banks.
We are not fighting the battles of
the shittless and indolent farmer We
know that such there are, but in a
country where three fourths of that
class are getting poorer, there must
be .omething wrong somewhere, or
else God Almighty made huge blum
der when he created the agricultural
class.-AUtance Motor.
AS you ride along the farm note
the places where the fence needs repair
ing and at your first opportunity repair
it. A board off here, a rail off there,
broken one yonder, may cause you
much more trouble than you ever
anticipated. Much of this can be
avoided by careful attention to your
duties. - Breeders Guide.
II this Union was worth million
valuable lives and six thousand mil
lions of dollars in 1861; how much
mere is is worth the lesser sacrifice of
time to vote to save it again to the
great common people this fall as
against the conscienceless vampire
corporations who are sucking it's life
blood ?-KdnSas Conanaoner.
If God in the beginning had given
Adam salary of $25, 1000 year and
had continued his life and salary until
the present time, and Adam haG
boarded every cent of his salary, he
would yet be $4,000, 900 poorer than
William II: Vanderbilt. S25, ,OOOx
6,OO5 is $3.50, 100000; Vanderbilt's
wealth, 100000, ,OOO.-E!rchangs
Ingalls, has a big job on hand. He
will undertake the herculean task of
making the farmers OF Kansas believe
that they can better do without homes
and morals than be represented 10y
any other man than Ingalls,. This
gives him no time to meet Judge
PETER in debate, or explain the dyna
mite outrage Western Advocate.
In 1865 there were 500 business
failures in this country. In 1889
there were IA, 900 business failures.
And yet we are told that times are
better now than ever before, and that
the people wear better clothes and
have moro to eat now than at any
time in the history of the country.
Sounds like lie, don't it t7-AgttatOT.
A man il no better than other men
simply because he 10 farmer, but be
ing q farmer, he more thoroughly
understands the needs Of that great