The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-12-15

and try to get full value for your labor
Or else quit farming.
~. The Wilmington Star is not so
particular about working for reform.
One of its leading editorials last week
was above 'persimons." Well, it can
attend to the tariff and persimons and
the rest of us will go on trying to save
the country.
~ The Iowa Tribune and several
smaller papers have combined. The
total circulation is II. $40 copies. 1t
has an able corps of editors and will
make things hum for the Alliance in
that State. Gen. J. B Weaver is one
Of the editors.
~ Eight Congressman voted for
Watson, Of Georgia, for Speaker. Our
North Carolina Congressman were not
recorded that way. We don't know
how any of them voted. but will try to
find outandreport. They will be looked
after during the session.
* President Harrison is out with an
inHiction in the shape of a meaningless
address in which he tells of great pros
perity and wonderful progress. We
wonder how many more bits of ere
markablel literature" will appear before
some hing substantial is done?
~ 1t is reported that Hall, Meal
lister & Co.. the anti Sub-Treasuryites,
have indefinitely postponed their con-
vention at Memphis. We thought that
would be the outcome of their little
blowout. They had better hire some
body to kick them across the country
now.
- According to some of the papers
a few Sub, Alliances in Georgia have
disbanded. Nearly two thousand have
not disbanded. But still a few will
fall from grace. If you would give
some people a pass to Heaven they
would light their pipe with it before
they got two hundred feet from the
earth.
* The Kinston Free Press wants to
know what right a non partisan paper
like The PROGRESS VI FARMER has to
lecture the committee who sent out the
Democratic address. We have the
right of a citizen, Of a taxpayer and a
vo,er. We have the same right to
condemn OF approve that a member of
any order or religious sect has.
y. Themuch abused 'PeOple'sparty"
in Kansas seems to be a lively corpse,
Notwithstanding the Western Union
and Associated Press dispatches. The
official returns are 113 900 votes this
year where only $1,000 were cast last
year. The fusion between the other
parties defeated their candidates in a
good many counties,
~ The Person County Courier has
the following to say: "Men in high
places are declared the protectors of
the few, the enemies of the many.
Justice is declared q dream of fools,
and injustice a fact. The bright days
of the past are longed for, the gloom of
the present is depicted and dark nights
are depicted for the future. Men are
unsatisfied. A spirit of unrest and
distrust pervades the land. Prophets
of evil are listened to with interest, and
revolution is predicted. Strong minds
are anxious, anda seaof pas5ionheaves
the masses"
X We have just received one of the
best books yet published concerning
public affairs in the United States.
The title is, THE Coming Climax in
the Destinies of America" by LesterC.
Hubbard, published by Chas. H. Kerr
& Co, Chicago. 1t starts out with
THE Lesson of the Great Rebellion"
and carries us forward to the present
time. Its agraphicst story of the wrongs
that the middle classes are suffering
from. It shows that the ballot is the
only ~peaceable way to settle the diff
culties and that unless this method is
strictly adhered to, nothing short of a
bloody revolution willsave the country.
The price Of the book is so cents.
The only two clothing firms in
Salisbury, Messrs. Fl, & L. Wright and
M. S. Brown, have both made assign
ments in the past ten days. They were
all energetic business men, but
financial policy did the work. All
over North Carolina failures r occur.
ring with alarming rapidity. Just go
ahead with your voting for dead issues
and for parties with no issues at all,
and the job will be completed. There
is not a thousand business houses in