The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-09
OUR EXCHANGES.

might follow his example with advan-
tage to themselves and the public
Exponent.
If the Christian religion from its
pulpits is afraid to attack the wrongs
of society, then it is a failure. How
can the Millennium come unless the
churches will work for it. Millionaires
and the MiIleniuml-The Wheel.
Thirty million of people out of the
sixty-three million in this once free
republic are homeless, and nine million
homes of the remaining 33 million peo-
pie are mortgaged. This looks as if
the country was not in the hands of
the people, but a few monied men and
corporations are at this time almost
the owners of it.-EGpOnent.
The National Democrat is just at
present printing whole columns in de-
Tense of John Sherman and the de-
monetization of silver in 1878. 1t
undertakes to prove that this Infamous
act was right; that gold has not in
creased in value; that the people do
not and never did want free coinage;
that the Sub Treasury bill is undemo-
cratic, and therefore unconstitutional;
and finally that the people are just
dying to vote for Cleveland again.
These in brief are the main points
upon which this paper has finally set
tied down upon. It was a long time
in coming to such an open declaration,
but, after catching the drift, it now
outherods Herod in the advocacy of
such measures.-N0tGOnGL Economist.
Millions of American citizens, in
their organized capacity as farmers,
are earnestly and anxiously awaiting
legislation that will relieve them from
the depressing conditions that surround
them. In all the twenty-four years of
its existence the National Grange has
ever been conservative, yet progress
sive, in its demads for legislation. The
farmers of the country who hold allie
glance to either the Grange, Alliance
or F. M. B. A. have not and do not ask
special or class legislation for them
selves alone, but they claim that the
interests of agriculture are the in
terests of all other honest industries,
that upon a prosperous AMI successful
agriculture depends the prosperity and
progress of our whole country.-Kan
SGS Farmer.
The Philadelphia Record, n of the
hard money papers of the East, a few
days ago, in order to belittle the
farmers demands for more money.
came out with an editorial saying that
if they wanted cheap money they
could go down to the Argentine Re
public, and with $50 in gold they could
get $50 of the money of that republic.
The very next day there was two
banks in that city closed their doors
with liabilities for nearly So, 900, 900.
What is the matter with a fellow
taxing his $50 and buy the accounts
of that bank from its creditors. 1t
is all right for those banks to initiate
their credit to four times the assets;
but when the government which has
millions of property issues $500, 600, 900
in paper money it is initiation. 1t
makes a great deal of difference whose
OK is gored with those fellows Nd
tiOmGI Citizens Alliance.
Whether the Peoples party shall
become one of the leading parties of
the country or not, depends really
much more upon the course that shall
be taken by the Republican and Demo
cratic parties towards the Alliance and
the other Industrial organizations than
it does on the efforts that may be made
by the leaders of the new party. Should
both of these parties either ignore,
evade or oppose the demands of the
industrial organizations, then the Peo-
pies party will at once assume giant
proportions. At present it is flourish
ing under the stimulus of the adverse
stand against the Alliance demands
taken by so many leading politicians
and newspapers of both parties. In
u judgment an attempt by the lead
ers of the Republican and Democratic
parties to ignore the Alliance demands
would certainly result in the destruc-
ton of one of them, as the opponents
of Alliance ideas could not afford to
divide their forces. -PeninSWIG Farmer.
J. S. Clarkson, the newly elected
President of the National Republican
League, says that 1.-The next Republi-
can candidate for President must be a
man who can maintain the solidity of
the party in the great agricultural re-
gion west of the Mississippi. The cam