The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-30
OUR EXCHANGES.

adding to it's membership at a rate
that speaks for itself and in no un-
certain tone.-AUiance Farmer.
Let the farmer think of what he
saves this year by reason of untaxed
sugar, and then imagine what he would
have saved if he had untaXed wOollens,
untaxed iron and steel, farming nipple
ment, glass, and so On, and after he
has reflected on it he will conclude
that he could get along if he were not
compelled to labor half his time to
protect somebody.-MObie Register.
Representative McCreary, of Ken
lucky is strongly in favor of the cleo
ton of President and Vice-President
and United States Senators by direct
vote of the people, and so are about
seven out Of every ten men whose
opinions are asked. ~ Several loads
of peaches we're carried out of town
this week because they could not be
sold. Those that were sold brought
% cents per bucketful.-JacksOn
Tee, Sentinel.
The Nebraska NeW Era says: The
5000, 900 mortgages mea a mort
gage to every seventh man woman
or child. This gnawing cancer cannot
be staid; it continues it's baleful work
steadily but surely; every day tightens
the grip of the money aristocracy upon
the throat of the American farmer.
Sooner or later a large portion of
these mortgages will be %foreclosed and
millions of those who bear the burdens
of government will be homeless .-One
more long stride toward serfdom.
The subsidized press cannot and they
dare not attempt to explain away the
cause of this burden of debt and the
hardship and misery inevitable.
"The Alliance is now on trial before
the bar of public judgement, and
every individual member is respOn-
sible for the faithful discharge of the
particular task assigned him. The re-
sponsibility is a common one, and
rests upon all alike. The great work
that is going on may not come before
your view every day, and your Sub
Alliance may not be all that you
would have it be, but stand to your
colors. Results may not be reached
as fast as you had expected, but stick
to your crowd. Your leaders may not
be as brilliant nor az aggressive as
you would wish them, but abide your
time and continue to struggle. Revo-
buttons never go backwards; if you
hold up you are left. Nothing human
was ever perfect, and never will be,
but stick to your order and be stead
fast to the end. It may require per
sonal sacrifice of opinion, but that is
but a daily occurrence in life. 1t may
demand inconvenience, but stick to-
gether. Don't give up the ship.-Ec-
change.
AS an educator the Alliance is the
pier of all. Men who never read before
are reading. Men who never thought
before are thinking. Men who never
acted before are acting. Men who
never spoke before r speaking and
to sum it all up as a whole, the people
are coming out Of their shell of igno-
rance and are putting on the garb of
a liberal education. There was never
such a demand for information upon
questions ofnationa Importance. Every
farmer almost is seeking to be his own
leader and his w educator. The
Alliance has done what all other re-
form movements heretofore and even
the preachers have failed to do. 1t
has brought the masses together upon
a common level and united them. 1t
has forever ceased the waving of the
bloody shirt and the various references
to the carpet-baggers. It has almost
made the people one in their demands.
It has dispersed all partisan strife
among the masses according to every
man the right to cast his vote as he
chooses, and by SO doing not making
enemies of his opponents. 1t has in
troduced the plan of being a politician
1854 days in the year and a partisan
one day. What could do more? Who
could ask more?-SOuthern Agr1cul-
tuTlSt.
The opposers of the Sub-Treasury
bill-servants of the money power
with collars on their necks-never
pretend to offer an argument against
it. Once in a while one of them
squeaks, "class legislation" Now,
my dear tool of monopoly, let's figure
on this legislation. The national bank