The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-26
NUTS TO CRACK
Around Your Fireside-Cream of the
Reform Press.

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| and the east, the question cOnfrOnts
our people-shall we own the railroads
or are the railroads to own uS?-BOStOn
NeW Nation.
The abolition of the national bank
| ing system and the substitution of an
improved system of finances has be-
come an absolute necessity -GrOUet0n
(TeG) VigiLGnt.
The Farmers Alliance has never re-
coded from any proposition. 1t is not
built that way. 1t never has been nor
never will be a political party.
ollie CTer.) Signal.
Our exchanges and correspondence
indicate great activity in reform circles
throughout the entire country. This
old world seems to be waking up at
Iast.-FGTmers' Tribune.
So called municipal governments cost
the people more than the Federal
government does; and, to sum it up,
it is only to furnish a lot of buns and
frauds, a ob.-SOuthern Mercury.
The great unterrified Democratic
party now has a chance to show it's
hand. The farmers are watching to see
how long it's platform and the pledges
of its leaders remain in force, dallas
(Ter) Farm and Form.
The men or party who can and will
effectually put through Congress a bill
to break the backbone Of the money
power, will merit tn; everlasting gra5i-
tude of the people of this country
st. Louis Journal Of Agriculture.
The d. O. D. organs have been 50 busy
looking after the senatorial succession
for two weeks that they quit lying
about the Alliance and Peoples party.
The appointment having been made
business will be resumed.-AUiGnce
Tribune.
The Alliance has not come to destroy
the primitive p inciples of the govern
ment, but to correct abuses, purify the
government, and re establish Justice;
and this, too, without becoming a par
tisan organization, OF political party
Southern Mercury.
John Mclean owns the Cincinnati
INQUIRER and the Commercial, one
Democratic and the other Republican;
80 John, the mouth piece OF the London
syndicate talks to both wings of the
machine, with his double barreled
organ, Isn't it cute?-HeGdttght.
At the present price of corn it would
take three solid trains of cars, holding
400 bushels each, reaching across the
State from Colorado TO the Missouri
river, to pay the interest on our farm
mortgages for one year Oh, how
prosperous we are Western AdCO
cate.
There is only one hope for relief for
the laboring classes of this country,
and that il through legislation. The
plutOcrats are CDndemniug the reform
press; but then the reform press a
stani it as the people are with it
Terre Hrute (fnd.D Standard Farmer.
The greatest political revolution and
public upheaval ever known TO thus
nation viii be witnessed during the
year 1892 What its results will be
this dcpUnent sayeth not, but ne DO
say the very existence Of our govern
mant and the freedom of our people
from degraded servltude depends upon
the patriotic action IF tho honest
masses ut the ballot box. Reader. you
are one Of the people and must bear
your part If the responsibilities
TOiI"r.
We rejoice 30 announce hat Posi-
master General Wanamakar has recon
mended the ownership and control o.
the telegraph, telephone and express
service Of the United States, and con
tidentIy looks forward to the time when
we will have a 1 cent postage, 5 cent
telephone and 10 cent messages The
new doctrine is spreading like wild fire,
and it Will continue to spread until
monopolistic greed is swept from the
face OF the earth, Wanamaker has
certainly been reading the NerU Nation
Alliance Echo, Kansas City.
The fact that 20, 600, 900 of people are
starving in Russia, where women sell
the hair from their heads for small
sums to devOur food, where famished
children devOur rags and earth. where
whole villages are reduced to solitude,
Is, indeed. a terrible incident in this
wonderful year, but to Us the fact that
in this CT y, $50, 600 people go to bed
every night guests of charity, not
knowing where a morning meal is to
come from, with nothing whatever to
do, hope even being dead, is a much
| gravcr factor in the problem of our
to-day.-Ne1U York Recorder.
When it becomes thoroughly under
stood, it will be seen that the doctrine
of the Alliance is for all the people,
and no deception or trickery about it.
1t is a doctrine that must be pressed to
the front, to the end that the old ideas,
purposes and policy of partyism may
be Overthr0wn ~peaceably at the ballot
box. B0ssism has done it's work. and
it is now time for the people to come
to the rescue, and secure good govern
ment for all, Let the Farmers Ali
ance and Industrial Union wake up
and put on the whole arm0r in behalf
of the whole people.-T The Peoples Aid.
We note with pleasure the advance
of the good work going on in Oregon.
Less than a year ago the Sub Alliance
organized in Eastern Oregon, since then
a wonderful change has taken place,
the labOring element of the State are
! not rash in tboir conclusions b71t boI,o