The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-06-28

never intended that you should.
Don't be hoodwinked by any
party that has tariff for revenue
only" in it's platform. That is too in
definite, and any party that goes in on
that plea will manage to need all of the
tariff now in force for revenue"
~ The Indebtedness of the world
has doubled in the last eighteen years,
and one half the metallic money has
been destroyed. If this is not doubling
the Indebtedness of the world by law
we do not know what it is. The debt
has naturally doubled once and has
been doubled again by law.
The prospect for the f farmers and
the laboring people in the cities to turn
out and do the marching, torch bearing
and hurrahing for the old parties does
not look very fattering just now. How
would it do for the old parties to mus
ter the tramps7 They make 'em and
should give 'em employment.
If anybody thinks The PROGRESS
sTvE FARMER is going to advise ALI
ance or non-AlIiance people to stay in
any party or go into any party, as a
rule, they will make a mistake. We
simply propose to turn on all the light
we a on all parties, good and bad
light, and you can do the rest"
Hon. J. H. Mcdowell, President
of the Tennessee State Alliance, has
bid farewell to the Democratic party.
He gives his reasons in a long card pub
Iished in the Nashville TOiIer. He says
he has tried for years to get reforms
through the party, but has utterly
failed. He is for" the Peoples party.
The silver plank of the Demo
cratic platform, while processing to be
for a change, is an ingenius dodge and
an endorsement of the present silver
laws. Read it and see if that is not
true. There is no hint of any free coin
age in it, though twenty-nine State
Democratic platforms have declared
for free coinage.
~ Think of the government donet-
ing to the railroads territory equal to
nine States the size of Ohio and yet
the people don't own a crOsStie. We
pay for the roads every six years and
we never own them. They continue
to rob us to pay interest and dividends
on watered stock, says the Southern
Alliance Farmer.
Now the fun is on. We want to
see the leading Democratic papers that
have been clamoring for more money,
tariff reform and free silver defend the
Chicago platform and it's nominees. In
fact we want to see anybody who will
attempt to defend the concern. They
will be added to our museum if they
will just come to this Office.
The hands ome catalogue of Wake
Forest College is just out. 1t contains
many important facts about that
great ins titution, and shows that it is
prospecting to the satisfaction of all its
friends. Thirty six young men gradu-
ated at the recent commencement
probably the largest number that has
gone out from any college in the State.
~ The people have been studying
their lesson in government affairs for
four years and no amount of spread
eagle oratory can drive them from
their honest conclusions. This has
been demonstrated on every stump in
Georgia. The wealth-producers are
not looking out for fine oratory or
fancy words, but facts and figures,
says the Southern Alliance Farmer.
* Did you ever hear the story of
the monkey and the two cats? By the
time the monkey got the cheese divided
there was non left for the cats. That
reminds us of the tariff. There will be
nothing left for the people in the two
parties by the time they get through
with the tariff tussle if they continue
as they have been going on for the last
twenty years, says the Pioneer Er-
pOneTt.
~ There is a continual hubbub
about appropriatirg money to increase
navy. In the meantime it is in
creasing faster than is needed. 1t is
only a few weeks since the cruiser
Raleigh was launched at Norfolk. The
warship Texas will be launched at Ports
mouth, Va, today. They are drop
ping in the water at every navy yard.
Why this clamor for more money for
the navy2
~ Bro. w. S. McAllister, Secretary
of Mecklenburg County Alliance, tells
the Charlotte NeaCS that at least SO, 900