The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-05-31

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onnosition nor encouragement, ana
should lead a nation or a people out OF
the dark shadows of distress into the
bright sunshine of prosperity.
When a State Democratic Con
vention meets and puts a free silver
plank in it's platform and then %instructs
it's delegates to vote for anti silver
Cleveland, are they fools or knaves9
Or do they think the people fools or
knaves, which9
The Augusta, Ca, Chronicle
thinks the advice "to raise less cotton
and more hell" bad from the fact that
it will be difficult to get advances on
the new crop. We can't see why the
politicians would refuse to trade for
their own handiwork.
The greatest calamity bowler"
has just began to howl. He is the
United States Census. He declars that
there are nine million mortgages in ex-
istence at this time; that thirty-one
thousand people own more than half
of all the wealth in this country.
~ A correspondent writing from
Minnesota, says that State has over
fourteen hundred Alliances, many
Citizens Alliances and numerous PeO-
pies party clubs. He thinks the North
Star State" will be sure to cast her cleo
AOy,OI T~0+O fnv. tho DnND1a11 0nolIInfno
If all the gold and silver in the
world should be destroyed in an in
stan5, the people would lose nothing
except the metals, easily dispensed
with. They would have about all the
wealth of the world remaining and be
much better off because the people
would then learn what money really
is-a creation of law.
~ The New York World evidently
favors the graduated income tax. 1t
asks: What possible hardship can
there be in taxing large incomes? Can
anybody better afford to pay than the
man whose income is greater than all
his need?' 1t really looks like the AL
lance demands will have plenty of ad-
vocates after awhile.
~ Conundrum: If with one hun
dred and forty eight majority, aided
by eleven Republicans and nine Peo-
pies party the Democratic House can't
pass the silver bill, how long will it
take the party to become strong
enough to pass it over the vote of
Grover Cleveland? Will some pluto
cratic editor "fgger" it out and give
the answer to the public?
~ New England tanners have cur
tailed production because there is too
much leather; the coal combine cur
much coal; the iron trade finds itself
in a like predicament and everywhere
the various trusts are singing the same
song. The Pre- 5ident should appoint a
day of fasting and prayer to beseech
the Lord to let up on His blessings for
a while, says the New York Herald.
* Bob. Furman, who was nomi-
mated for State Auditor by the Demo,
cratic Convention, advises Col. Polk
and Bro. Butler, in his paper, to go to
Paris and study farming. We allow
no one to excel US in the generous work
Of giving good advice and we there
fore suggest t) Bro. bob" that he go
North and study the art of rowing.
He may have occasion to take a little
trip up "Salt river" sometime, and
this Accomplishment would come in
handy, you know.
~ 1t is the wage earners, the wealth
producers, the honest and oppressed
taxpayers against combined corporate
and money power. 1t is the great
South and the great West and North
west against the combined forces of
plutocratic Republicans and Demo
CRATES of the Wall street gang. 1t is
liberty against slavery. 1t is right
against wrong. 1t is independent
manhood against slavish subserviency.
The ominous rumblings of a political
earthquake are rolling along the South
Atlantic seaboard and it's reverbra-
tions are heard along the western
border of Texas. Southern manhood
AID Southern patriotism, to the front!
DE- nATTENTT