The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-04-12
REFORM BOOKS.
The Progressive Farmer List of Reform
Books.


For the benefit of our readers we
have made special arrangements with
publishers of the list of books given
below, and will take orders at publish
ers mailing price, which is given. We
have examined all the books mentioned
in this list and un~hesitatingly COM
mend them to our brethren and the
public generally. We will place new
books in this list as they appear and
we have time todecide upon their mer-
its and we will guard against unwor-
thy books.
THE COMING CLIMAX IN THE DEsTI-
MES OF AMERICA, by Lester @. Hub
bard, 480 pages of new facts and gen
eralization in American politics. Radi-
cal yet constructive. An abundant
supply of new ammunition for the
great reform movement. The text
book for the presidential campaign of
1892. Price, so cents
1t is an exceedingly able and valu-
able book, and should be in the hand
of ever voter in the United States. It
breaches a mighty sermon. -IgnGtiuS
DOnnelIy. a..
THE RICE MILLS OF PORT MYSTERY,
by B. f. Houston. A romance of the
twentieth century, e~mbodying the
most telling argument against q pro-
tective tariff that has appeared inmany
a day. Price, paper cover, so cents.
1t is a strong showing for free trade,
and any one desiring to get posted and
crammed with good argument should
read it.-DetrOit Ne1cs.
Jason EDWARDS. AN AVERAGE MAN,
by Hamlin Garland, a powerful pen
picture of the life of the average me
chanic in the great cities and the
farmer of the great West. The story
is Accordingly interesting and the most
powerful plea for a wider share of jus
tice for the average man we have seen.
213 pages. Price paper cover, so cents,
cost paid.
THE PHILOSOPHY OF PRICE, and it's
Relation to Domestic Currency, 0y N.
A. Cumming. Every officer in every
Sub-Alliance should read this book;
not only read it, but study it. 1t is
one of the fullest books of solid facts
that has yet been written on our re
form movement Price, paper cover,
IS cents.
Address allOrders TO THE PROGRESS
I'VE FARMER, Raleigh. N. @.
The FARMER'sSIDE-"Where we are,
how we got here, and the WAY out"
By Hon. w. A. PETER, U. S. Senator
from Kansas. In this book the con
dition of the farmer IL all parts of the
country is compared with railroading.
manufacturing. banking, Cost of liv-
ing, prices of crops, taxes. mortgages,
interest, etc r carefully examined
and tables show at a glance the com
~parative condition of each, covering
the way in and how to get out of this
condition. One of the fullest, clearest
presentations Of the aims and views
of the Farmers Alliance yet published,
including many matters of vital con
sequence. A compendium of facts, fig
ures and suggestions which every
farmer should have in hand and study.
Cloth bound, 81. 90.
MAIN Travelled ROADS-Six Missis-
sippi Valley Stories. By Hamlin Ger
land, author of Jason Edwards, etc.
These stories give the most vivid
pictures of Western life among the
farmers ever written. MIR. Gerland
has been justly termed the IbSen of
America. Price. paper, 50cents cloth,
81. 90
A book that awakens the human, the
divine, in you, in these days of LGlSSez
faire literature, is worth reading. Mr..
G~erland's books will do this, and in
saying this l have sailed what cannot
be said of one book in the tens of thou
sands that weigh down the book-stalls.
1t is a book to read and think about.
1t is a book that will live.-NeW Eng
land Magazine,