The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-23

lare than to make it small, and he pro
poses to fight the campaign on that
statement. We don't believe it, the
Democrats don't believe it, and we
can't quite see how any man of sense
can believe it. But if the people dc
believe it, why, that is their business,
and we shall ~cheerfully E~acquiesce in
their decision.-N Y. Times.
The Governor has beenharshly criti
cised by the anti-Sub- Treasury news
papers for not speaking out on this
question. The local press hoped, first
by Importantly and secondly by bull
doing, to cause him togive~ expression
to his ideas on this visionary Sub
Treasury plan" The Governor went to
New York on official business last
week and was there interviewed. He
stated that the Democratic party could
and should be forced to give recog-
milton to free coinage and the Sub
Treasury plan. He also intimated
disaster for the party in the South if it
rejected these demands. Now he has
spoken. How do you like the tone?-
The TOiler.'
The difference between the Sub
Treasury bill desired by the farmers
and the bonded warehouse privileges
already extended to whiskey-dealers
by the Federal Government, is not a
very great me-. The farmers want
warehouses for their corn while it is
still fit to support life. The whiskey-
dealers get warehouses where they can
store the corn for three years, after
it has been converted in murderous
whiskey. The farmers want Treasury
notes issued on their products; the
whiskey-dealer get warehouse certif-
Gates from Uncle Sam which answer
about the same purpose. If the Sub
Treasury scheme is ridiculous, what
is the bonded warehouse schemeH
The Voice, N. Y.
Drag" it is said in the old adage,
"is a good dog, but Holdfast is a
better" The Republicans of Ohio,
with the evident consciousness of open
ing the campaign of 1892, started out
yesterday with Drag and left Hold
hast" to follow as he chooses. They
took Major Mckinley for their candi-
date and McKinleyism for their plat
form, and with ill-concealed indiffer-
ence left Senator Sherman to his
fate. x x X The Ohio leaders be-
lieved that they were opening the
campaign of next year. Every speaker
in the convention recognized this. The
choice of Mckinley for candidate for
was a proclamation of it,
since his reputation is purely national
and is based entirely on his Influence
in shaping tariff legislation.-N Y.
Times.
The Alliance is a school in which old
men can learn. Many men who can
read, or write their names,
have become interested in some of the
Alliance teachings and are now better
posted on them than many who hold
diplomas from colleges. You will find
many of these members who through
meetings in the Alliance have given
attention to the workings of parlia-
mentary law are now well posted in it
and are not afraid to cross swords in
debate with men who ten years ago
greatly their superiors in the
matter of education. In political mat
tiers the farmers have advanced greatly
and they IRE beginning to realize the
great weight of responsibility that at
to the use of the ballot.-LOuisi-
Vidette.
Dispatches from the interior of China
report fresh outrages on the European
and American element of the popula-
ton. The Christian Missions have
been attacked with special violence.
In some places the missionaries have
been compelled to flee for their lives.
Instead of depressing, the Chinese
authorities appear to rather encourage
the anti-foerign feeling. The French and
American Ministers have called upon
the Imperial Cabinet to give protection
to European and American residents
predicting that failure to comply with
this request will involve hostile action
on the part of their respective Govern
ments. The French squadron threaten
to lombard Nankin unless the suf-
ferers by the recent riots are promptly
indemnified.-The Voice, N. Y.
In. Mississippi the battle is on in
earnest. AS will be seen by an item in
another column from one of Senator
Georges friends, the old party hacks