The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-11-17

tree money VS. nigh interest.
The monopoly press say that the
Sub-Treasury is killing the Alliance.
If good sweet milk and bread will kill
a healthy 15-year-old boy, then the
Sub-Treasury will be the end of the
Alliance. And it ought to die.
Mr.. Orville Griffin, of Sandy
Hill, N. Y, has been at the Exposition
for some time. He will visit various
sections of the State and write up the
lumber and agricultural interests with
the view of directing Northern capital
this way.
Bro. Robert NJ. Burns, of Pitts
boro, a full blooded Allianceman, paid
this office a pleasant visit last week,
and reports the Alliance in Chatham
in good trim and standing square on
the Ocala platform, and more deter
mined than ever.
The Brooklyn Eagle says the
people are tired of politics." We
don't blame them when we take into
account the kind the old parties have
been feeding the people on. The won
der is that the people have not tired on
such diet long long ago.
Your Uncle Jerry Rusk, Secre-
tary of Agriculture, has sent out his
report for this year. He assures us
that he has done much to benefit agri-
culture and that the farmers are much
better off than they were two years
age. Oh! Jerry, you are a dandy.
A St. Joe, Mo, young lady said
that another young lady was bow
legged. The result is a suit for SANDER.
The LabOrers' Tribune thinks there is
about as much ground for a quarrel in
this affair as there is between the Re
publican and Democratic parties.
More people attended the EXPOSE
ton last week than have any previous
week There have been but few acct
dents, and the visitors nearly all ex-
press themselves as we'll pleased. There
is only two more weeks and no doubt
many will seize the opportunity to
visit the Exp )sition during that time.
Chauncey Depew says we pay
England $3.50, 600, 900 annually in in
terest. This is more than our mines
produce. Why not make the next
political campaign free money or low
interest instead of low tariff" Bet
ter still, why not chip a good-sized
slice off both the monsters?
The Ttrin-C City Daily is out again
with the old chestnut about the mem
bers of the Alliance in North Carolina
being solid for Cleveland for President.
We are not authorized to say who the
farmers of North Carolina want for
President, but we risk the opinion that
the Daily don't know what it is talk
ing about.
The Business Agent is a new pa
per just started by the State Alliance
Business Agency. 1t will be devoted
to the publication of matter directly
concerning the agency. 1t will adhere
to the Ocala platform in all its edito-
rial u~tterances, of course. Bro. S.
Ohio Wilson is editor Of the paper.
Success to it.
~ John Sherman, of Ohio, has re
fused to engage in a joint discussion of
the financial legislation of the past
twenty-five years." with Mr.. Seitz,
who was the candidate for Governor
on the Peoples party ticket in the
recent election. Sherman says he is
too old for such things. Perhaps he is
''too old" to go back to the U. S. Sen
ate, or too mean.
~ A young lady who has justly
won the reputation of being the most
proficient stenographer in the State,
remarked recently that she always
used THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER in her
practice because the editorials and
original articles are written better and
are more interesting than are to be
found in any other paper in North
Carolina" That is solid endorsement.
* A gentleman delivering a speech
held up a greenback dollar to the audi
ence, and asked: what is this? A
dollar. A good dollar, good for the
farmer, the merchant, mechanic, the
sailor, everybody. What makes it a
good dollar1 Because every dollars
worth of property in the United States
is behind it, and the life's blood of
every true and loyal American citizen
is behind it. And that makes it a good
The gentleman made this
speech at Skowhegan, Maine, in 1861
and his name is James G.. Blaine. 1t