The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-05-05

fighting it with all their power and
ability. The people are honest,
patriotic and true, but lack education.
Their eyes are not all opened yet, and
until then there is a great work to be
performed. Let us be, equal to the
occasion and work while the chance
remains Exchange.
The magic elbow-touch of working
men and farmers all over this broad
land should be the great incentive of
all. Personal, party or local differ
ences must be banished, and the
greatest good to the greatest num-
Der should be our motto. Those who
would breed discussions among you or
attempt to divert your strength into
side issues should be sent to the ear
and placed under guard as aiders and
abettors of the enemy. Follow the
example of capital, federate -that is,
pull together; close up your ranks;
drum up recruits.
The partisan press is just now pub
fishing interviews with what they term
prominent New England farmers, in
which they declare that they will have
nothing whatever to do with the Ali
ance. Ten to n these prominent
farmers so interviewed could not, for
the life of them, tell which end of a
| pillow the team should be hitched to-, if
put to the test. The practical farmers,
in their interviews, will talk and act
differently, Thescheme will not work
They also report the Alliance a failure
in the West, and at present badly dis
rupted.-NeUadH (No.) Industrial Re
UieU.
For a quarter of a century the few
have been taking from the many and
the government has been winking at
the robbery. What we want is to
have this process stopped. 1t is a poor
time to say "hands off" when old
Shylock has the people on their backs.
After permitting the money leaders to
| get the people by the throat, it is no
time to say that the government shall
not Interfere. There is indeed no
power in government to "make all
rich and prosperous" but there is
power in government to prevent the
few from being the only "rich and
prosperous" ones-and this power the
| government should exercise else there
is no need of a government at ALL
| ChJoOOO So1ti0oI
If the wOrkingmen and farmers of
this land were to devote a little time
to pOlitics-say One Of two evenings of
each week-they would find that in a
very short time they would be better
off. They produce all the wealth of
this country, and that they are not all
in easy circumstances goes to show
that ONE one is living off the products
of their labors without giving an
equivalent in return. This has been
done through evil legislation and
through a lack of good, wholesome
and much needed legislation. The
business men, farmers and working
men-the great middle class-have be-
lieved that the science of money, and
other live and important questions,
were too deep for the farmers and
laborers.-WOrkmGn and Farmer.
Meridian (Miss.) Standard says:
"Much is being and has been said of
the ~Sub-Treasury scheme. It is a bill
proposed for the relief of the agricul-
tural classes. The very fact of it's
proposal and the radical changes it
suggests in government policy, fur
nishes the highest evidence of the suf-
ferings of the class it is intended to
relieve. The necessity of relief to the
overburdened masses of the people
engaged in tilling the soil is too patent
to require elaborate argument. When
you see crops pledged on cruel terms
in advance to obtain supplies to make
them; farms m~ortgaged to secure debts
contracted, at usurious and ruinous
rates of interest, in tilling them; house
hold goods sold for a song, under the
cry of the a~uctioneer when foreclosure
oftrust deeds are ordered happy homes
destroyed and walls of dis tress heard
on every side from myriads digging
ground in the sweat of agony to secure
scant rations of daily bread, while
capital in untold millions is piling up
in the vaults of the few under the
inequalities-the injustice and wrong
of a robber tariff, and the expressions
and tyranny of so-called popular gov
eminent in other directions, surely it
is time for men of every class and