The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-06-24
NUTS TO CRACK AT THE FARM
ER'S FIRESIDE.
Press Opinions from Many Sources.

Takes ten million dollars off Of 20
bacco and heaps it on to the garments
which the poor wear. Every Con
gresham from Minnesota voted for
that bill.-The Great West.
Farmers are too busy now to talk
politics, but they are dong a deal of
thinking. They will be we'll posted
as to candidates who will represent
their interest before November
CZe5urne Tribune.
Let no man let up on his Alliance
work or enthusiasm on account of the
warfare between the great Alliance
and the politician. It had to come
and it has come. Bat brave men will
not finch.-IHe Great West
The meanest and the foulest and
the most dangerous qualification
Congressman or legislator can have is
" experience" Down with every man
who has experience and knows
how to be snaked along by the caucus
lariat THE Great West
Last fall, when the farmers were
bringing in their wheat, there was an
8 and 10c. difference between No.
hard and No l northern-at the
country elevators To day the differ
ence is Ic. You see the wheat is all
in the hands of the wheat sharks now!
The Great West
The Kingman bank sold $4,000
bushels of corn at % cents few days
ago. How the farmers do get to the
top | Lord ! the farmers get 10 to
l3 cents for the corn the fellows
who farm the farmers get 33 to %
cents Come to Kansas for cheap
homes.-Nomconformaist
Iowa is booming along the whole
line. There is feeling throughout
the State that might well be termed
peaceable rebellion. Never before has
the feeling of independence been so
strong and real-and the actual SER
vitude to eastern politicians and aris-
tocrats made so pparent.-7he Great
West.
A farmer whose property was swept
by a recent tornado says that every
thing was blown off the farm except
the mortgage He was in hard luck
indeed Wichita Republic. The farm,
ers' organizations have, however, in
course of prep aration a new-fangled
tornado, which will do that even.-
Home Rule.
A Levanworth man proposes to
wager any sum between $4,000 and
$4,000 that within thirty days he
can walk from Levanworth to Junction
City, and never take his feet off mort,
gagged ground, except when crossing
a public road or railway. Here is a
text for some protectionist to preach
sermon from.-Star
Antagonizing the Farmers Alliance
is a good deal like trying to buck a
lightning express off the track-it
displays more pluck than discretion.
The Alliance is in motion with the
chances greatly in favor of increased
momentum. Those who are not
anxious to be p1lverized by it had
better hasten to get out Of the way
The La6Orer.
If the Kansas farmer wants to know
what is hurting him let him haul one
hundred bushels Of protected corn to
the nearest protected market and try
to trade it for a Sunday suit of cloth
ing. He might then, if he will, put
his reasoning apparatus in working
order, discover practically whose hands
is under the biggest end of the protec,
ton cornucopia-Kansa8 City Times.
A tariff booming organ thinks it is
a pretty good joke on the English
syndicates which have gcbbled up the
American breweries that about the
time thep get ready to run them Uncle
Sam whacks 80 cents bushel tax on
barley. Considering that the beer
buyers will pay this 80 cents tax it is
not so apparent where the joke on the
English syndicates comes in Wll-
naingtom Star.
The farmers around Warren, Ind,
place of 1000 inhabitants, have
compelled newspaper twelve years
old to suspend-formerly prosper
Gus journal. Gen tlemen de Pitch
fork, don't let the Indianians get the
start of you. You have friends among
the country editors. Let them know
that you know it-but manure the
graveyards with those other political
salesmen.-IBe Great West.
A large part of the corn crop has
passed out of the hands of the farmer
and now that it is safely corralled the
spectators allow the price to go up,
to help work it off onto the consumers
at good figures. Well think of it /!
But watch the congressional monkev