The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-11-24
NUTS TO CRACK
Around Your Fireside--Cream of the
Reform Press.

TOiler.
Financial legislation has always been
dictated by fnanciers, in their own in
terest. Consequently, financial legis-
has never been in the interest of
the masses.
The farmers should look after the
interests of their organizations. Upon
them depends the success or the failure
of the great reforms for which they
are labOring.-Stdnd0rd Farmer.
The passage of the Mills bill, which
was the very acme of Democratic wis
dom would have saved us only about
SIC, 900. 600 a year. Why strain at q
gnat and swallow acamel?-LnduStridt
Educator.
The Topeka Capital, the leading
apologist in Kansas for p~lutOcracy, re-
Gently had in one issue 35 columns Of
sales of land for taxes and an editorial
proclaiming the splendid condition of
trade in the city.
The final marriage of the two old
parties in Kansas was celebrated last
Tuesday, and the guests are now re-
ioicing to see the outcome of the
honeymoon. Goodbye, Lily Jane
La6OrerS' Tribune.
The peoples party will continue to
p~uncture the p~lutocratic money power
with their ballots until the monsters
will be forced to make a concession
that will permit labor to receive it's
ustreward.- Washington Republican.
The farmers average net income,
with which he must support his family
and pay his taxes and interest, is
1878. This estimate is based on figures
given by the statistician of the agricul-
tural department -InduStriG Edu-
Gator.
A higher range of legitimate prices
is the salvation of the masses. Too
much labor and products in the dollar
now. Takes too much sweat to pay a
dollar of interest, a dollar of taxes a
dollar Of railroad charges. Industrial
Educator.
The assertion that the Democrats and
Republicans would join hands in Kan
a to beat the Alliance has come true,
but it seems that in five or six counties
the baby" was big enough to clean
out both the old parties.-WeStern
Waterman.
In Ohio the mortgage Indebtedness
has increased $50 per family during
the last year. The census shows that
the money kings got all the increase of
wealth in that State during the time
and $14, 600, 600 besides produced in
former years.
The banks borrow money from the
the government at l per cent. The
farmer will go one cent better and be
glad of the opportunity. But hold on,
says the old party politician, that
would be unconstitutional. Don't you
see?-PeOple'S Journal.
The rapidly increasing number of
business failures, from our largest
banking houses, down to the smallest
merchants, point unerringly to a finan
cial crash, which is soon to be followed
by a political revolution unprecedented
in history. Hold your ear close to the
ground and you will hear the rumbling
of the coming storm.
The most recent evidence Of pros
perity that has presented itself is a re-
port from BradStreet hat the failures
of last week numbered $50. as against
2O2 for 1S9O-190 for 1SS9-2D8 for 1888.
If anything should make a person feel
safe in his business, this continued in
in business disasters is not
among them. -NatiOnUL Economist.
Mckinley desires peace ut least. He
is about as near battled out as a man
can be over his wonderful tariff fight,
and is disguised with the farce. 1t is
very clear that Mckinley would have
been defeated had not the money
power poured money enough into that
State to buy the vote of that class who
vote for beer or money.-LUbOrer'S
Tribune.
There is a certain set of fellows who
subscribe for first n paper and then
another, never paying anything. They
will say: Set my name down, and
| will pay you in a short time" and
after getting the paper from three to
six months, refuse to take it out of the
pOStOffiCe. Such men are no better
than any other thieves. -LdbOrer's
Tribune.
Alliancemen III Ohio made theirfght
again John Sherman'5 reelection to
the Senate. Democratic and Republi-
can manipulators instructed their
friends to see to it that Sherman was
not defeated. So when it comes to in
c~reasing the volume Of money, Demo
cratic and Republican czars unite to
defeat the people. Great is the power
of Wall street.
Jay Gould says he "can buy the
vote of a farmer member of h elegisla-
ture for the price Of a bull calf" Again
he says, Il can hire One-half thef9rm-
ers of the United States to shoot the
other half to death" Farmers and
others always will be cheap in the esti-
nation of such plutocrats until they
have the manhood to unite in an indie
pendent political party for s~elf-protec-
ton.
The greatest need we can now think
of is an active, efficient and aggressive
working force. 10 overcome the OBJ
stacles that we are bound to encounter
in our onward march to vic 5ory will