The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-04-07

ceived by the government for a long
time to come, should alone be sufficient
to prevent the Republican party ever
being returne l to power by the people
of this country, and we believe that it
will be.-The Nationalist.
1t is seriously intimated that a ten
dollar bill is one of the the best things
known to brighten a pair of eye glas-
ses. Possibly that is true, but it is
seriously believed at this anvil of hard
facts that an old and dirty-looking one
dollar bill will make our glasses shin
ingly and brilliantly glisten.-DGiIy
Standard.
Grover Cleveland has written a letter
to the Indiana Tariff Reform League
saying that he approves the objects of
the organization and thinks the greater
part of our troubles are duet excessive
taxation. Grover is correct to some
extent, but the Alliance is not narrow
enough in it's views to attribute. every
thing to the high tariff. Those who
expect to run the campaign on the old
line may expect to get in the SOUP
N. c.. Waterman.
Col. Polk, at Creston, Iowa, last week
said there are too many lawyers sent
to Congress. That the only way to
succeed is to send farmers there. The
Alliance, he said, intended to go into
politics, but not into partyism. Some
Hby-stander asked him how about North
Carolina, and Senator Vance's remark
that on a cloudy day he could not tell
the difference between an Allianceman
and a Democrat. Col Polk lodged by
suggesting that the farmers would
have a new party in the next presi-
Dental campaign.-Nortb State.
The speech made by Ben Terrell here
last Saturday was the best speech on
living issues that we have listened to
in a long time. No one, no matter of
what profession or political belief could
object to the doctrines he advocates
for their principles are the principles
of eternal justice. His speech was
common-sense in every way, and he
dealt with facts, not sentiment, and
principles, not men. AS long as such
men as Ben Terrell shape public opinion
we need not fear any serious harm
being done, and for this reason we
wish we had a thousand Terrells The
Times.
We don't believe that there is a State
in the South, nor in the North, either,
where there is mOr progressive spirit
of improvement abroad than there is
in many of our North Carolina towns,
nor any in which there has been the
same marked Improvement within the
past five Or six years years. With the
public and private buildings, street i'm
provements, street railways, electric
light systems, reservoirs, sewerage sys-
TENS, &c, many of our towns and cities
will compare favOrably with towns and
cities of equal population in any of the
States. Old North Carolina is on the
move and she is getting there. -MOrn-
ing Star.
A correspondent in Illinois writes:
Cleveland has killed himself in this
State on the silver question. Silver is
our chief industry, and the free coinage
of the same ear new life in Illinois,
and I think the only show for the
Democrats to carry out their present
policy of reform, both on the tariff and
silver question, is to run a Western
man for President in 1892, irrespective
of New York and the New England
States" All this we steadfastly be-
lieve, and since the farmers men in
Illinois legislature helped the Demo
Gratis elect Palmer to the Senate, we
think him our strongest candidate for
the Presidency, and we now nominate
Palmer and Polk as u ticket.-PreSs
and CdrOIiniGn.
The New Orleans affair, and the way
many Of the Italian residents of this
country have acted about it, will force
upon our people the necessity of some
restriction upon the immigration to
this country. 1t is all very nice to say
that this country is an asylum for the
oppressed of every country. But when
you look the matter squarely in the
face, in many instances you will find
that Europe is dumping thousands of
it's criminal classes upon our shores,
and that we are being made the dump
ing-grounds for the garbage of Europe.
That such is the case is a matter of
serious consideration. Indiscriminate
foreign immigration, if allowed to con-
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