The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-08-18
NUTS TO CRACK
Around Your Fireside--Cream of the
Reform Press.

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Weekly NOnjtOr: When you hear a
man say, 4 know the Alliance will
win if they will all stick together " ask
him If he will stick.
Home AdrOcdte: The railroads of
Iowa are assessed at Is per cent. of
their valuation while the farmers are
assessed at SO per cent.
Boston Herald: There is a man in
jail in California for stealing locomo-
tives. If he had only stolen the whole
railroad he might have been president
of it.
Raymond Gazette: The Sub-Treas-
ury contingent is backing down hill"
but still fighting Give them no quar-
ter, boys. We must fight the devil
with fire.
According to an estimate in the New
York Times, ninety-twO per cent. of
all u agricultural products are con
summed at home; only eight per cent. of
them are exported.
Pueblo Chieftuim: The calamity
editors are forgetting to inform their
Farmers Alliance hearers that bind
ing Irvine costs three cents per pound
less this year than it did last.
National Economist: If the people
stand firm and united, the enemy can
only retreat as a pack of wolves vanish
before the horny handed tiller of the
soil, Is he advances on the wilds of a
new and unsettled country.
Missouri World: Ten years ago,
when Gen. Weaver stated in Congress
that the banks with the privileges
given them by the government could
afford to take bonds at two per cent,
he was laughed at. Now the banks
are going to take them at that rate
Kansas City Midland Mechanic: The
people are getting tired of working for
capitalists and mOnOpOlistS, hence
they are opposed to granting franchises
to mOnOpOlieS. Let the government
do the work now done by mOnOpolies,
and the people would share in the
profits.
NeU Nation: The labor Organiza-
tions of the Argentine Republic are
agitatingag against the railroad monopoly
in that country, which is largely vested
in English syndicates. The Immediate
of the dissatisfaction is the in
crease in freight rates and the decrease
in wages.
Southern Nercury: Four hundred
and thirty-fOur farmers advertised in
LOnoke county, Arkansas, at delin-
quent tax sale, for taxes due for the
year 1890. Still, ]plutocrats brag about
the prosperity Of people. No o
der the people are kicking. The same
state of affairs will come to Texas. and
that, soon, if reforms don't stop the
system.
The Philadelphia Farmer: There
is something more than a mere secret
organization back of the farmers
movement. 1t is a breathing. think
ing, something called the -Ommon
people. They are marshalling their
forces for the coming conflict. Those
who believe in America a a LAND of
the free should lose no time in help
ing to fill the ranks.
From all sections of the West the re
ports are that the crops are largerthan
they have been for years. Everything
points to a reign of plenty and the be
ginning Of prosperous times. But
never until gambling in wheat and
corn is stopped Will the farmer have
any assurance of good prices for what
he raises.-E,rchGnge.
Virginia Alliance: The farmers of
the United States received $4S, 600, 900
less for raising IS 0O. 600 acres of corn
in 1886 than they did for raising 68,-
600, 600 acres in 1SS3, though the former
exceeded the latter 116, 600, 600 bushels.
In 1884 there was sOwn LOCO, 600 acres
more oats than 1888, and ~, 900, 900
more bushels raised, but to the farmers
500, 00O, 600 less was realized. An in
crease in aereage every year, but a
decrease in the amount realized on the
bushel.
The Alliance Dispatch: A limited
volume of currency increases the pur-
chasing power of money, and ms
guently brings low prices. Foreign
capitalists are taking advantage of
these conditions in u country, and
buying largely in stocks, etc. And
now, in place of having simply to null
tiply the millions of American capital
lists, the suffering and toiling people
must begin to pile up millions for the
foreign capitalist. What do you think
of this, we toilers from dawn till dark
for a bare living?
The Farmers and LUbOrerS' Friend:
When the Wall street bankers were in
close circumstances on account of
loans on real estate in the West, the
government opened the vaults of the
United States Treasury and supplied
them. When eXpOSitiOnS are talked of,
our legislators vote large apprOpria-
tiOns to them. When railroads are
to be built, our legislators loan them
the credit of the nation, besides giving
them large tracts of land; but when
the people, who are in distress on &C
count of the failure in crops or lower
prices for their products, ask for a
loan, then a howl is made that it is I'M
constitutional.
Alliance VindicatOr: The Farmers
Alliance is neither dead, dying nor
divided. 1t is a unit upon the Ocala
demands, for the poor miserable few
who set themselves up against the
whole order, who are Conspicuous in