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

treasury plan In operation the
"chumps' who had to sell this corn for
Is cents per bushel less than the cost
of production might have made the
greater part of the profit themselves
But this Kansas Hutch" could not
then live 20 easy a life as under the
present plan.-Kansas City Tribune.
The old parties, especially in the
West, claim to be divided on the CUES
ton of free coinage of silver, and vet
the dems are hurrahing for Cleveland.
an anti-silver man, and the reps are
hurrahing for Harrison, another anti
silver man.. Great is the difference
Observation-Disclosures and democracy.
The banker was correct when he said.
that they the banks) would select the
candidates for both parties and then
'let the id fool people fight over
which n of men they will elect"
Missouri Union.
The Democratic papers Of Texas are
"cussing" the Alliance, and the Re
publican papers of Kansas are doing
their best to harm it in every way pos
sible. 1t seems strange what good
friends Texas Democrats and Kansas
Republicans have become since the
Alliance boom. The question now is
was the heretofore bitter enmity be-
tween Republicans and Democrats real
or only apparent in order to deceive
honest workers in their ranks? There
was something wrong either then or
nOw.-PG. Farmer.
Four million organized farmers, and
two million not organized who will act
in concert with them, combined with
two million organized labOrers, demand
relief from the distress that brOOds
over them and hangs about their hearts
like a pail of death. They demand re-
lief. They intend to have it. What
can the other five million do about it4
All Of them, except about fifty thou
sand, are equally to be benefited, and
many Of them now opposed to it will
have the scales to fall from their eyes
within another year.-AU9Gnce HerGld.-
Eastern capitalists at a recent con~
ference passed resolutions requiring
the loans on western lands to be paid
in gold hereafter, interest and prin-
ciple. Trying to run a bluff on the
Alliance cranks. The money power
has buried the reformers several
times within the last decade
and they have risen a often,
till now we have the Oest equipped
army on the face of the earth, and it
will require the combined force Of both
old parties to give anything like a
decent interment in '92.-The Peoples
Advocate.
Of the 491, 600 Immigrants from
Europe last year, $4,000 came from
Italy; 20, 900 from Poland; Australia,
Hungary, and Bohemia aggregated
rs, 900; from Germany came SO, O0O7
and from the Scandinavian countries,
over $1,000; Russia swelled to nearly
40, OOO-the largest immigration ever
known from that empire to the United
States. From England, Wales, Scot
land, and Ireland, the numbers were,
below the figures of past years, and
the English were in excess Of the Irish
In these increasing figures of non
English-speaking immigrants thought
full American citizens, native and nat
uralized, will find much on which to
ponder.
We all know that whenever the.
bankers at the great money centers
are face to face with a great financial
stringency they always appeal to the
secretary of the treasury for relief and
get it. But whoever heard of the
treasury coming to the relief of any
other class? When the farmers propose
that some plan shall be provided by,
which the government should afford
equal relief to all classes, the cry of
p~aternalism is raised. Well, suppose.
that would amount to paternalisms
What of it? The government has been
a father to the bankers for, 10! these
many years. Why not take the rest
of the people into the family?-COIo>
RADIO Argus.
The late Congress did not peg out
without here and there a CLEAN of
humor. While the House was trying
to decide whether to add one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars to a bill that
did not need it, Mr.. Herbert told a story.
Some years ago." he, said, there,
was a bill before the California legislaA
ture in relation to an increase in
| salaries and the question Was inrnlrnd.