The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-23
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Mckinley is invited to explain
Farmers Alliance Herald, CdrdingtOn,
Ohio.
Twenty-four pounds of granulated
sugar a be bought for one dollar.
Last year this time it was $1.44. The
tariff is off of sugar.-FaTmers' Ali
nce Herald, Cardington, Ohio.
The tariff tin plate factories upon
being investigated, prove to be run by
Welsh workmen, working Welsh tin.
High tariff always leads to high prices,
and the Importation of foreign labor
Farmers Alliance Herald, CurdingtOn,
Ohio.
The capitalists are protected, while
the laborer has competition in the
shape of the arrivals of five thousand
Italians every week, who come in
free, work for nothing and live on
carrion.-Farmers' Alliance Herald,
Cardington, Ohio.
The Agents of plutOcracy have the
unblushing effrontery to demand a
raid on the public treasury to help
them out at Chicago, but when the
farmers ask for the Sub Treasury bill
they cry Unconstitutional pattern
alism.-SOuth Dakota RuroEist.
During the war, printers worked for
40c. per thousand. Then prices were
higher. Now, with much lower prices,
they get 43c. per thousand. What did
it, The Union did it. Farmers, the
Alliance can do as much for you.-
Farmers Alliance Herald, Cardington,
Ohio.
President Polk of the Alliance, is a
patriot, out and out. We may differ
from him some times, but we always
respect his opinions. In what he says
about the tariff issue, every Alliance
man and Democrat in the South will
support him.-Tbe Charleston, s. c.,
World.
The only argument advanced against
the plank of the platform far a gradu-
ated income tax is, that rich men will
escape payment by fraud and perjury,
and that our honest poor men will have
to pay. There would be no new expert
ence in this for that is the wayit works
now. But what a delectable "charac-
ter" these ~plutocratc perjurers are
writing up for themselve s.-South
Dakota RuTGIist.
1t should be und erstood that the
present era differs, III many respects,
from any that has Done before. For
in it intelligence among all classes, and
upon all subjects, ia more prolific and
broadcast than in a by former period.
Hence. there's amore intelligent com
prehension of causes and conditions,
and a more permanent motive, appre-
citation and basis of action, which no
mere temporary amelioration of eco
nomic conditions can reach OF subdue.
The Government of the United States
does not belong to the politicians, or
to the offceholders, or to the bankers,
in any other sense or in any greater
degree than it belongs to the humblest
citizen. This is a government of the
majority, and the majority consists of
the plain, poor and humble workers of
the land. 1t was instituted primarily
for their benefit, it is maintained by
their labor, and without them it could
not ist.-FarmerS' Voice,
To keep the people divided is the aim
of the capitalists, monopolists and
their tools, and for this purpose many
of their hired henchmen are gaining
admission into the Alliance. No greater
enemy to the reform move have we
than these double-dealing traitors,
whose sole aim in life is to betray
others confidence for a few pieces of
silver. These dogs in the manager are
within the bounds of every county in
the State, and in order to move along
harmoniously we must keep our guns
well trained upon such vampires
Alliance Bulletin, Harper, Kansas.
Isit a conspiracy? If not, why should
none of the old party papers comment
on the report of the census bureau re-
garding the mortgage indebtedness?
What power is it that opens and closes
the columns of these journals at will9
Why is it, or what is it, that dictates
to both Democratic and Republican
papers alike upon all matters touching
inance2 There mustbesome directing
agent, or this concert of action could
not exist. Had this report shown a
different condition of affairs, no doubt
this same power would have filled their
columns to overlooking. Such a force
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