The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-16
OUR EXCHANGES.

N~-OAS W.
parties. No great man ever belonged
to a party. Parties belong to great
men, who use them as instruments for
the accomplishments of great ends.
The nan who belongs to a party ceases
to belong to the nation and humanity,
to truth, freedom and justice. "A. r.
H, an the Nation.
The Chillians are engaged in a
terrible civil war. Last week the
regular government with two torpedo
boats blew up two of the best war
ships of their class that floats. It has
proved that the fast Torpedo boats
are more than a match for the most
powerful battle ships. 1t will be we'll
for Italy to keep her monster battle
ships at hOme.-The Wheel.
Let the work of organization and re-
form go on in the land. We are
approaching a crisis in u country's
history which is to marry decay and
desolation, or, on the other hand, a
brighter dawn Of a happier day for the
~husbandman, his family, his calling,
and the whole country. One thing
is quite certain, we cannot expect nor
does past experience warrant the con-
clusion, that those in position and
place will ever come to CUR rescue.
We must work out our own saliva
tons. z. Hopson.
AS you cultivate the soil, cultivate
also your intellects. While studying
how to raise large crops study also how
to secure a just price for same. While
at work in the garden or hay field
think over and try and solve
the cause of your present depressed
condition. Talk the matter over with
your eighbors, and when fall arrives
be ready to act. If you do not already
belong to some one of the various farm
ers' organization, then join one at the
earliest opportunity, and thus place
yourself in a position to be heard
Farmers Cause, Maine.
There has never been a time in the
history of the Alliance when its mem
bers should exercise more prudence
and circumspection than at present.
The enemies of the order will try to
make capital of every important utter
ance and every act that is capable of
being utilized to the disadvantage or
detriment of the order. The skies are
frightening. The dawning light of a
brighter day is casting its rays athwart
the sky of the future, reckoning on
ward and upward. Be circumspect,
be careful, go slow and be ready to
strike for home and Katie and the
babies. Herald.
When you hear of a newspaper de-
Tending vested rights" you may
know it is monopoly all over. In the
Declaration Of independence the ri 5hts
of a citizen is set forth in this way:
Life, first; Liberty, second; and plenty
to eat and wear is third. In this docu-
ment the life of one man would be con-
sidered of more value than a city.
Then Liberty, is weighed as the next
in Importance, while vested rights is
not found in it's pages. But the great
vested rights advocates would have
the people believe that this world was
made for capitalists to rule over the
producers as the slave-owner did his
slaves. Before God we believe the
best days for greedy corporations and
vested rights advocates in this coun-
try is nearing an end.-TOU0 Public
Opinion.
An Iowa farmer writes as follows:
The line is already drawn in Wall
street that is separating the people of
this nation. Now let us blot out that
line at the ballot-box. Equal rights
to all and special privileges to none"
must be motto. But they say that
the Alliance wants class legislation. I
say it is false, let him who will utter it.
All that we desire is equal legislation.
If the banker is to get his money at 1
per cent. without any security, we
want the same rights, and are willing
to give good, nOn-perishable security
and higher interest. There comes in
the howl of "paternal government"
What in the name of heaven is a gov
eminent if it is not p~aternal? Every
winter do not those we send to Wash
ington legislate for the people, Or try
to and fall? The government must
look after the people as well as parents
after their children. 1t is the same
principle, only on a large scale.
The Senate Committee to whom was
referred the Stanford bill providing for
government loans to farmers at two
per cent. on real estate security, re-
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