The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-07-29
NUTS TO CRACK AT THE FARM
ER'S PRESIDE.
Press Opinions from Many Sources.

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We need more farmers in both
branches of Congress, and in all the
State Legislatures, and the way for
them to get there is for the farmers of
the country to assert the r power in
the caucuses and conventions Of the
parties to which they belong and with
which they act-R~rGl World.
Judge Stewart says that "unless
Alliance men are voted like sheep"
he is all right If Alliance men will
stand such thrusts as that at them
AID their order, they will be sheep.
The Judge takes a strange manner Of
repaying the men who have supported
him for four years to their sorrow
Southern Alliance Farmer.
Germany has $40 per capita, France
$45, England $50 per capita. The
United States, according to Senator
Plumb, has less than $40 per capita
In actual circulation. Do not people
in a sparsely settled country need
more money than those in thickly
settled one? In 1864 America had
$58 per capita; then we had no tramps
and everybody was happy.-Nea0ton
Herald.
There is no time for Alliance men
to be sitting on the fence. This is a
fight between the people and the politi-
cal manipulators and money sharks
of our country. And it behooves
every man to get down to solid work
and help make this fight for freedom.
Come, let every man buckle on the
Alliance armor and help make a
square fight Q~icks6urg, Va, Indus.
trial Union.
Judge Stewart loves the farmers of
the Fifth congressional district so we'll
that he has spent four years in Con
gress working for everybody else but
them. Now, since the farmers have
arisen in their might and made a few
demands, he loves them so we'll that
he tells them they do not know
what they want, and if they support
a man who fsvors their measures they
are undemocratic and vote like sheep.
Southern Alliance Farmer.
The government fosters the whis-
key industries of the counir by
furnishing warehouses for the surplus
whiskey until there is market. Why
can't the governmer' do the same
thing for the q" wheat industry" by
furnishing warehouses for the surplu,
wheat until there is market for it
1t is what the farmers are asking for.
and surely the wheat industry is of as
much Importance as the whiskey in
dustry.- Clsnaar Advocate.
Dicks Philosophy.-A bushel of
corn makes four gallons of whiskey.
1t sells for Sic at retail. The govern
ment gets $3.50, the farmer 40 cents,
the railroad ST., the manufacturer $4,
the vender ST, and the drinker all
that is left-deliriUm tremens. The
Congressman that protects the liquor
trafc is a great benefactor to the
farmer to the extent of 40 cents per
bushel for his corn and his share of
the tremens. II. A,rse, IN Char
lOtte Nee0s.
Who are the Democrats of Georgia?
The farmers. The people are the
Democrats. Who has stood by the
State and the whole country, if not
the people? Dark days have been
known, and dark days may come
again, but the people have always
stoon firm. When independents
have come up and tried to disrupt the
party, from whence did they come
From the ranks of the politicians.
The farmers stood by the party
Southern Alliance Farmer.
We wonder if Mr.. Clements and
Mr.. Barnes will call the Alliance men
in their districts sheep. If they are
sheep they have been sheared by
Clements, Barnes and Stewart long
enough. The sheep have determined
to turn shearer for once. Won't
Stewart, Barnes and Clements look
nice posing as injured lambs. They
should have thought of this when
that caucus of congressional innocents
met in Washington and determined to
fight the farmers to the bitter end
, Southern Alliance Farmer.
Heretofore, in all parts of the
world, the farmer has Eeen no mat ;h
for his adversary. He has never held
| his own against the soldier or the
: priest, against the politician or the
statesman. In ancient times he was
the slave, in the middle ages the serf.
in the nineteenth century he is the
slave, the serf, the peasant or the pro,
prietor, according to location. Ameri.
: can farmers as class, are face to face
} with crisis. They have subdued a
} continent and furnished the raw ma
terials for our factories, bread for
} operatives and manhood for our civil
} zation. They have sustained the ma.
tons credit with their hard earned