The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-11-17
NUTS TO CRACK
Around Your Fireside--Cream of the
Reform Press.

| Farmers Alliance is the so-called agri-
cultural press.-The UniOniSt.
With a famine in Europe the price
of Americas wheat is low. Can't hold
our wheat. Oh, for the Sub Treasury
plan.-The Monitor.
A vote for Alliance principles isAa
vote for a system of things that will
enable the man who now purchases
soup bones to buy the best tender-lOin
steak, and other comforts of life in the
ratio.-THe Signal.
The old parties are getting together
in some localities, "tO resist" they
saw. 1.-The socialistic tendencies of the
| Alliance" but in reality for the offices
| and for the continuation of the power
of the 81, 900 to skin the peOple,-Mls-
| souri, World.
The man who pays his part of the
pastors salary and his subscription to
| his county paper should have a feather
bed to lie on, and aservant to
| flies and mosquitoes off him and tune
his harp when he goes to the next
world.-TerreU Register.
When the farmers are so organized
| that they hold their produces untllthey
are ordered by the consumer, they Will
simply on terms of equality, with mer-
chants and manufacturers that supply
the farmer, with what he needs inthelr
line.-KentucEy Farmer.
We believe that brains and manhood
are entitled to a higher consideration
than the dollar, and that brains and
manhood and NOT the dollar, should
rule this country. To day the rule of
the dollar is absolute. Shall it's rule be
cOntinued?-NOntezWmG Record.
According to the Chicago Globe, a
labor paper. there are now 80, 600 work
ingmen in that city who were attracted
| there to work on the Worlds Fair
buildings and who are walking the
| streets in hunger and idleness seeking
employment. Good times now. You
know.
Thedesign of government is tosecure
to the Individual all the liberty cOn
sistent with justice and public order,
and to destroy all other kinds of lib
erty. No man is to be allowed to exer-
else liberty to kill, to rob or destroy.
This would be the destruction of all
personal Gberty.-Ec.
The great mistake made by Congress
in 1866 was in not providing for the
permanent circulation of the money
then in existence. and for increasing
the same as population increased. Had
this been done the people of this nation
would now be little short Of the mil
lenium.-NiSSOurj World.
1t is edifying, indeed, to read the
editorials on agricultural prosperity IN
a paper displaying from five to ten
columns of advertisements of sheriff
sales of mOrtgaged farms, But then.
you see that our debts represent our
investments, and Our mortgages are
evidences of our prOsperity."-Ec.
Congressman and Others assert that
the Alliance Sub-Treasury plan is OBJ
nOXiOus class legislation. Yet not one
of them can point out any class of our
people that will be injured by it, and
show why or how they would be in
iured. Blank assertions unsupported
by facts are out of date in this year of
grace, 1S91.-SOutherR Mercury.
Will some of the advocates of the
doctrine that intrinsic value is essen
tial in the material of which money
shall be composed, be kind enough to
inform us upon what property the in
trinsic value of gold and silver de-
ponds? Please be specific and clear in
the explanation. This is a question
we desire to see ventilated. Who will
give us the answer?-AdUOcGte.
1t cost the people one hundred thou
sand to bury a U. S. Senator, and ten
thousand to bury a Congressman.
This seems rather high, but it is prob
ably cheap when we cOnSiler the
amount of ignorance putaway so quick
and in such small place. When Doodle
Congressman die, it should be consid-
cred an act of kindness shown toward
his constituents THE Monitor.
Senator Plumb says there cannot be
three sides to a question. That is true.
On the finance, land and ~transpOrta-
ton questions there are but two sides.
The people are arraying themselves on
one side. while Republican and Demo
cratic tools of the money power are
trying to rally the partisan blinded to
the support of p~lutocracy. Where do
you stand in this contest, brOther1
Alliance Tribune.
To the masses of the American ppo-
pie the ~unbOInded wealth of this cOun-
try, its treasures of art, it's means of
production, transportation, cOmmuni-
cation and exchange, securing a COM
Portable, secure existence, are as mac
cessible as if they existed on another
planet, and yet they could easily OBJ
tain them if they were aware Of their
condition and only would go to the
ballot box to vote for themselves in
stead Of their oppressors.-JournaE
Of knights Of Labor.