The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-07-14

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ministration of justice to all people
alike? Will it shorten the hours of toll?
Will it correct all or any of the ills that
have grown out of the past political
administration of this cOuntry?-
Oregon Alliance Herald.
AS far as currency is concerned, it
requires but very little for the business
Of the world. In civilized communities,
especially in populous cities, andamong
the marts of trade, the bulk of the pay
ments are made by transfers of credit.
In the city the payments of each day
| go back into the hands Of the banks for
re issue, but in the country the receiver
keeps the money, for a while at least,
in his pocket, and hence a larger sup
ply is a matter of prime necessity.
The one great fault of our present
monetary system is the absence of all
provision for this emergency. The
currency is not elastic in any sense.
The existing quantity may be trans
ferred from one section to another, but
there is nc way Of increasing the bulk
when it is needed, nor of allowing the
volume to shrink by a natural process
when it is abundant. When a large
amount is gathered up at the financial
centres for use in the outer districts,
there is always a pressure and a dis
turbance seriously affecting the mar
ket, and this periodical excitement
cannot in any way be relieved without
changing the character of the cur
rency.-Darid ". Stone, IN the JuIy
Forum.
AS an educator the Alliance is the
| pier of all. Men who never read before
are reading. Men who never thought
before are thinking. Men who never
acted before are acting. Men who
never spoke before are speaking. And,
to sun it all up as a whole, the people
are coming out of their shell Of ignO-
rance and are putting on the garb of a
liberal education. There was never
such a demand for information upon
questions of national Importance.
Every farmer almost is seeking to be
his own leader and his Own educator.
The Alliance has done what all other
reform movements heretofore and even
the preachers have failed to do. 1t
has brought the masses together upon
a common level and united them. 1t
has forever ceased the waving of the
bloody shirt and the various references
to the carpet baggers. 1t has almost
made the people one in their demands.
1t has dispersed all partisan strife
among the masses, according to every
man the right to cast his vote as he
chooses, and by so doing not making
enemies of his opponents. 1t has in
PRODUCED the plan Of being a politician
364 days in the year and a partisan
one day. What could domore? Who
could ask morc?-.Soutdern AgricuI-
turi5t.
When it ome to an article in a
monopoly paper like the Chicago
Tribune headed Decay of Agricul
ture in Ohio" it looks as if we are in
a changeful time. The Tribune says:
"A dispatch from Cleveland gives
many reasons for the belief that there
is no great profit in farming in the
State of Ohio. The population of the
agricultural districts is less than ten
years ago, the gains having been made
in the towns and cities. Mortgage in
debtedness is increasing at the rate of
IS, 500, 900 per annum, and the loss in
farm values since 1880 is estimated at
81, eco, O0O, 600, or an average of seven
dollars per acre for the whole State.
AS the result, the farmers are dissatis-
fed, and many of them in sore financial
straits, and many a Farmers Alliance
has in the last six months more than
doubled it's membership in Ohio"
No wonder that there were 317 Ohio
delegates to the Peoples Party at Gin
~cinnati. We have got used to hearing
such reports from New York and Ohio.
Everybody must see that a change is
called for. mo profit in farming"
population less than ten years ago."
"$200, 00O, 900 loss on farm values in
eleven years." Meanwhile in the cities
of those States the increase in wealth
has been enormous. The city front
foot" goes booming up, the rural acre
goes numbering down.
Does it need that II be very bright
to see that this is all wrong?
Is this the feast to which the West
ern Reserve-that bright flower of
American civillzation-considered it.
self invited fifty years ago?-ChicagO
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