The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-05
NUTS TO CRACK
Around Your Fireside-Cream of the
Reform Press.

The boss of hades and the usurers of
earth are consolidated against organ
lied abor-SOuthern AercWTy.
History furnishes abundant proof of
the fact that every government that
has failed, by law, to foster and protect
agriculture, has gone dOwn.-SOuthern
Mercury,
Office holding, where there are any
emOluments, Is as much confined to
classes in this country, as IN England
or Russia, but there is a change com
ing DER the dreams of the people
Southern Mercury.
The government has warehouses in
which is stored silver and gold bullion.
Imported and exported goods, whiskey
and bankers bonds, and yet it is "un
constitutional" to store the products of
the soil. -NaShUiUe IOsler.
st. Louis (Mo.) Journal Of AgrjcuI-
tUre:: BradStreet puts the failures of
the last nine months at s $50. an in
crease over the corresponding time last
yearOf ,23l and Observation-Disclosures
liabilities of SIG. 209, $50. These are
only business failures.
Texas Farm Gnd Ronch: Can it be
truly called a government by the peO-
pie when any law they may see fit to
enact, may be declared null and void
if it conflicts with the precOnceived
opinions of learned judges who died
more than 100 years ago?
National VieC Washington, D. O.:
The national banks must go, because
government money is more stable'and
convenient, and because by this system
money is farmed out for private gain,
and as a means of distribution is unre-
liable, unstable and unsafe.
Did you ever think about how ad-
Unstable the Constitution of the United
States is? 1t can expand for the
national banker, the railroad magnate
for the exposition boomer, and then it
can contract to shut out the farmer
just as easy.-NaShUiUe TOiLer.
The interest the people are taking in
economic questions will, at least, pre-
vent John Sherman and Wall street
from getting any more bills through
Congress, like the decentralization and
the funding bill, At least, such bills
will not go through on the sly.-SOuth-
eTn Mercury.
Which is the better plan, to allow
the volume of money in circulation to
be dictated by the demands of business
and the needs of the masses, or to have
it dictated by combinations which
never let it increase to an extent that
would make money lending their bust
ness) Observation-Disclosures TOjIer.
Intelligence has always ruled in this
country, whether right or wrong; and
while the farmers in the past have
furnished the most votes, they still
have them, and have attained that in
telligence through organization that is
demanding popular rights, and they
are going TO have them.-SOuthern
Mercury.
st. Louis (MO) Journal Of AgricuI-
ture: The ffty-second Congress which
convened last Monday, should increase
the volume of money, reduce taxation,
prohibit grain gambling, and should
pass a dozen other good bills in the in
.terest of the people. The truth is, that
party leaders, with an eye only to party
success, care very little what the people
need. e
Montgomery (Ala.) Alliance Herald:
Canibals eat their victims. The mod
ern and cultured canibal is not so
reckless as to put his victim out of his
misery, by d~ecapitating him. He pre-
fers for charity's sake, to employ him
at some productive industry, and by
! the aid of law appropriate the fruits of