The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-07-07
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short years but not the number of
tramps that began to make trouble and
bring about such local and State legis-
lation that he began to feel that he had
not wen the right to use the public
road, as a home, andnOw we a~nXiOusly
wait to see what our present silver
legislation will accOmplish.-HOme
Advocate.
The Farmers Alliance at its Ocala
meeting, knew what it was about when
it announced financial reform as the
slogan of the future. President Lin
coin, at the close of the war, when
asked what would be the leading issue
afterward, replied, The financial
question will be the most importantone
for a generation to come" 1t requires
neither a prophet nor the son of a
prophet to see that the masses are
going to make a strong and determined
fight to throw off the financial shackles
forced upon them by the privileged
classes-the Wall street money kings
and the mOnOpOlists. Now that sec
tionalism IS dead and the force bill a
thing of the past, this looms up as the
supreme issue. The South and West
will make common cause in the com
ing struggle. They will stand together
for tariff reform, free silver coinage
and money for the p~eople-money that
will not be entirely subject to the
Juggling contraction tricks of Wall
street .-AtIdnt0 Constitution.
Too little attention is paid nowadays
to the superior advantages to be gained
from correct reading aloud. In the
schools this highly necessary branch of
education is too often considered so
simple as not to require any attention,
and the practice of reading aloud in
home circle has gradually given way
to what are considered more elegant
r~ecreations, but the truth is that it is
an accomplishment far more indis-
pensable than almost any other, for it
is a known method of averting con
sumption, or entertaining ones friends,
and of showing the true quality of the
mind. 1t is one Of those exercises
which combine mental and muscular
effort, and hence has a double advan-
tage. To read aloud well one should
not only understand the subject. but
should hear his own voice, and feel
within him that every syllable is dis
tinctly enunciated. Every public
speaker ought to know whether he is
distinctly heard by the farthest auditor
in the room; if he does not, it is because
he does not understand the proper use
of the voice. Reading aloud helps to
develop the lungs just as singing does.
The effect is to induce the drawing OF
long breaths oftener and deeper than
it does in reading without en~unciating.
These deep limitations never fail to
develop the capacity Of the lungs in
direct proportion to their practice
JeanesS Miller Magazine.
Was Abraham Lincoln a true or q
false prophet when he said: Il see in
the mean future a crisis arising which
unnerves me and causes me to trembIe
for the safety Of my country. AS a
result of the war, corporations have
been enthroned, and an era Of corrup-
ton in high places will follow, and the
money power Of the country will en-
deavOr to prolOng its reign by working
upon the prejudices of the people until
all the wealth is aggregated in a few
hands and the republic is destroyed. |
feel at this time more anxiety for the
safety of my country than ever before,
even in the midst of the a God
grant that my fears may prove ground
less" It was the power of Wall street
which President Lincoln feared. But
how much more powerful are the
money manipulatOrs Of New York to-
day than they were in the great war
presidents time. Lincoln beheId a
Stewart taking advantage of the war
and making his millions out of it. He
saw other lesser ones turning the
nations misfortune and peril to their
private gain, taking advantage Of the
nations need and purchasing govern
ment bonds almost at their own figures.
If Lincoln could speak to-day, would
he not be able to pronounce with the
assurance of a prophet whose predic-
tions have in a measure come true, and
with almost a certainty that the
remainder of the prophecy will be full
flled?-AErOn, o., Farm NearS.
The Alliance is now having growth
on the Pacific slope that nearly equals
it's wonderful strides made on this
State. Several splendid Daners from