The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-09-29
NUTS TO CRACK
around Your Fireside-Cream of the
Reform Press.

Around Your F~ireside-Cream of the
Reform Press.
L. S. Hall acknowledges that the
Alliance in Missouri lost One-fOurth of
its members during his administration
as president.-SOutberT1 Mercury.
In order to give the feature of feXl-
biIitv to the currency, the Alliance
offers it's cotton as being fully as good
a basis as United States bonds. THE
/ SignGL.
Did John Sherman's bank have the
. free use of $43, 600, 900, 600 of the peO-
Dle's money, at a time when its own
capital stock was less than a quarter
of a million?
The Alliance offers it's land as being
inst as GOOD a basis for this necessary
increase of the currency is the gold
and silver bullion of the m~illiOnaireS.-
~ The Signal.
Has not our enactments invited from
all the mOnied Oenters of the world
their most VOratiOus vampires to come
here and fattcn from the life blood of
the American people?
The devilmay miss a meeting of land
lords in England once in a while, but
his satanic majesty is never absent
from a meeting of partisan political
bosses in the United States. Southern
NeTcUry.
The latest lie from plutocratic head
quarters is that there is an oath bound
organization within the Alliance, that
has for its purpose the assassination Of
theleaders Of the opposition -SOutherR
MercHry,
In nine of the Kansas judicial dis
tricts the Democrats and Republicans
have fused to beat the Alliance. After
election they will probably separate
and resume the fight on the tariff
Plain Talk.
Good crops here and a famine in
Europe will not alter the deVilish syS-
tenn Cf distribution under which some
of our citizens have starved while
others paid so, 900 for a St. Bernard
dOg.-UIiHOiS Alliance.
The people are rapidly learning that
our congressman are nothing but old
sitting hens keeping p~lutOcratic eggs
warm. We are therefore preparing
to supplant them with reform pullets,
to lay and hatch out pure democratic
administration Mercury.
When the average congressman
learns that is the duty Of congress to
protect the people against the spOlia-
tiOnS Of the uSur6r as well as the
ravages of armed invasion, they will
learn their duty to their constituency,
not befOre.-SOutheTR Mercury.
Now Just watch them. From one
end Of the country to the other the
monopoly papers say that good crops
are going to kill the reform movement.
But if it don't and bad times prevail on
account Of l5w prices, they will lay it
to "OverprOductiOn. '-NUtiOnat Ad-
Uunce.
When YOU come to simmer the thing
right down all the difference there is
between borrowing money of the gov
eminent or borrowing of a bank IS the
difference of s per cent. in the rate of
interest; and that is what makes the
government loan preferable tOthe bank
Ioan.-Pluin Talk.
In 1872. silver being demOnetized in
France, England and Holland, a capt.
tai of $500, 600 was raised, and Ernest
Seyd of London was sent to this
try with this fund aG agent Of the
foreign bOndhOlders and capitalists to
effect the same object, denomination
of silver which was accomplished.
The Alliance has control of the next
legislature of kentucky by a majority
of two in the Senate and thirteen in
the house. The politicians are very
much surprised that this new factor
in politics has demonstrated so much
strength. Some of the congressman
that State are very ~apprehensive about
their future safety.-AUtaRce Herald.
Nearly $50, 900, 900 of government
money is always deposited with certain
bankers without interest charge. The
bankers loan this money, and may be
said, in the language of the street, to
have a soft snap" Meantime the
proposition to use less than $50, 600, 900
to build warehouses in which to store
the basis of all wealth, is met with
terrific oppositiOn.-Gre0t West.
The Kansas City Times says that the
editor Of the AdcOcute seems to be the
only man left who supports the Sub
Treasury, the land loan and the gov
eminent ownership of railways; but
the county conventions, as they as
semble, continue to unanimously en-
dOrse these measures, and we do not
feel very lonesome yet. The Times
admits the evils of which the people
complain, will it kindly point out a
better remedy than the n proposed?
-AdrocUte.