The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-09-08
NUTS TO CRACK
Around Your Fireside--Cream of the
Reform Press.

Nothing al stand before the knOwl-
edge obtained in the Alliance schools
of education. It will be knowledge
and not buncOmbe that will decide the
next campaign.-AHiance Leader.
Doctrines and principles, as preached
by agitators, are laughed at by capital
lists; there is but one thing to make
them tremble-the thought that One
day the wOrkmen Of the world will be
united .-LGbOr AdrOcdte.
1T will never do to allow the gov
eminent to run the railroads, say the
advocates of humanity. Well, then,
the railroads will run the government
the people,. Which horn of the dllem-
ma do you prefer?-NdtiORQl 4drO-
cate, MiIt"duhee, Wis.
Hon. J. FOunt TiIlman, Secretary of
the Executive Board, has completed
arrangements by which Indianapolis,
Ind, has been agreed upon as the place
of meeting of the next Supreme COuu-.
ell. Full details will be made public
next eek.-EcOROmiSt.
The man who will sell his vote or
in any a be influenced by money to
betray his feIlOwmen in these trying
times, is no better than Judas IScariOt
and deserves no better fate. Watch
the bOOdlemen, and make Of them out
casts on the face of the earth.-NOn-
COntOrmiSt.
The man is a fool or knave, take
your choice, who thinks that millions
of people will be content to live in en-
forced idleness, or accept only a pit
lance when they work. and let a few
people lead lives that shame the splen-
dor of kings. COntOrmiSt, Win
field, Kansas.
Laboring people do not want some
thing for nothing; they do not want
what belongs to others; they do not
want what they do not earn; but they
do want a new deal that will prevent
so much of the results of labor from
going into the pockets Of a ew.-Cld}k
County Clipper.
And now the anti-Alliance press are
remarking: The farmers are swal-
lowing the Ocala platform, Sub Treas
ury and all. Some other people will
have to do some swallowing before
lOng-after the Alliancemen have
swallowed. -CHU3e&tOH Farmers I'd
rOcute.
The Alliance proposes to start a
financial express train with the Sub
Treasury cOw-Catcher and a free silver
air brake. The train Will be run on
schedule time, and will stop at all sta
tiOnS. The engineer will be instructed
not to slack speed for so small a thing
as q dOnkey.-ChWies tOn Farmers
AdrOcute.
The value Of wheat has Huctuated
less during the past 800 years. as sta
tistics show, than has the value of
either gold or silver, Perhaps the
Western farmers are not wholly insane
after all in asserting that wheat is lust
as stable a base for the currency as is
gold. and farmOre valuable National
Citizens Alliance.
Last winter the partisan press of
Kansas was p~rOphesying untold hard
ships for the farmers of the State be
cause of the withdrawal of eastern
capital. At the present time they are
bOasting of the rapidity with which
farmers are paying the mortgages.
Anything with them to create a senti-
ment against farmer organizations
Pennsylvania Farmer.
The Alliance Of Ohio will beyond
doubt defeat John Sherman, the arch
financial fiend of the 18th century.
His political winding sheet is now be
ing made to order. and we are per
suaded that it will fit the corpse. No
worse enemy of the farmer lives in this
republic, and his political retirement
is an end to be lab0red for.-CHurIcs-
ton Farmers AdUOc0tc.
The money power holds it to be per-
fectly constitutional for the govern
ment to loan money to corporations,
indOrse the bonds OF corporations and
pay interest on them. all for the pur-
pose Of sw ling the Golfers of wealth.
But to loan the farmer money on his
land, or wheat, or corn, or cotton.
would be death and destruction to the
Constitution .-O8tregO Statesman.
The system Of U. S. bonds is the
deadly upas tree sending its roots for
s~ustenance deep down into our Ameri-
can soil, and spreading far and wide
its poisonous, blighting, death-dealing
branches into every avenue and indus
trial vocation in our Republic. It is
the very taprOOt of all the evils that
Cypress and Cnchain the weaIth-prO-
duclng classes tO-day.-BeImOnt, n.
Y, Alliance Leader.
A letter received by one Of the fore
most Alliancemen of California from a
friend in Texas states that the effort Of
L. S. Hall to sow discussions among
the brethren in that State was a signal
failure, Among the 200, 900 members
Of the Alliance in Texas, not fifty
manifested a willingness to follow the
disOrganizing renegade. Stand firm
and true, brothers of the Southwest!
Close up the ranks, and forward to
victory !-L0cifc Union.
The Alliance tobacco warehouse at
Lynchburg, Va, up to August first,
has "proved a valuable help to the