The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-05-17
NUTS TO CRACK
Around Your Fireside--Cream of the
Reform Press.

million or more. who never break a
lock and who never steal less than SoO,-
OOO.-Bishop Huntington.
There is no reform o. important
than the e;ght-hour wOrkday. 1t pes
not mean simply a reduction OF the
hours of labor; it means also an IN
crease of wages and the employment
of the idle-CteUeLdnd Citizen.
A good party record that don't reach
down to date don't fill the bill. IhaI
party which can boast Of nothing u
its record thirty years ago, has nothing
to commend itself to the voters of to-
day.-BrGdfOrd QU.) Watch IOueT.
In one of our exchanges we notice
that a writer in giving his many rea-
sons why he is an Alllanceman, says
for one he is opposed to men buy
ing UP wind and calling it cotton,
wheat, pork or tobacco. Pioneer EG-
pOnent.
Nothing is more cheering than to
see the hearty manne in which the
the Southern Alliances are endorsing
the action of Congressman Watson, Of
Georgia, who refused to go into the
caucus -Ottd1CGy (kGn }
Journal.
Ignorance is not always bliss. Jones
one side of the road and Smith on
the other quarrel continually owe
tariff high or tariff low, while each
pays more usury, every year, than
they both do tariff in ten.-DeS MOjneS
In) Tribune.
We are taxed to death. In 1850 it
took oneand One-half bushels Of wheat,
or twenty-One pounds of cotton per
capita to pay our taxes. Now it takes
eight and one half bushels of wheat or
one hundred pounds of cotton per cap
ta.-PiOneeT Exponent.
A patriotism that shows itself only
in a clamorous devotion to the abstract
idea contained in a flag and does not
reach out in a noblesympathy towards
oppressed and struggling fellow beings
is a spurious article mad of the basest
of metal. Winfield (Kan) Free Press.
Botkin says that if he were to resign
his enemies would reek their ven
geance upon someone else. The Con
cOrdia Empire therefore urge BOtkin
to stick, as there is no one the people
would rather see offered up as a sac
fee than Botkin.-GOOdLand (KGn.) Re
public.
A correspondent asks us the origin
of the phrase He isn't in it" 1t was
first used by an editor who died and
went to heaven and looked around for
the man who took his paper for three
years and then left 1T in the postoffice
marked refused. "1GaUdtin Ms
SOuridn.
We rise a second time to remark
that Calvin S. Brice, the great IailrOad
grabber, at the head of the National
De mOcratic Executive Committee is
not likely to arouse much enthusiasm
for the party among the plain, every
day, farmer Democrats. -Cuth6ert
(GG.) Enterprise.
The Sub Treasury plan, as proposed
by the Alliance, is the only solution of
this vexed problem. 1t would make
real wealth the basis of a circulating
medium. It would reduce interest to
minimum; prices would become more
fixed, and the money shark would be
gone, -SedaLiH Truth.
The press of the country appear
unanimously in favor of putting a
quietus on the authority assumed by
the famous PinkertOn thugs, and the
introduction of a bill to that effect is
commended. The PinkertOns,
like other dogs, have had their day
WdtertO1Un IS. d. Messenger.
The capitalistic press is waging a
vigorous campaign against Petfers
whiskerS, Simpsons socks, and Mrs.
Leases mouth. We W Dnder how much
of such stuff will be required to turn
back the tide of monopoly and secure
to the worker the full share of his
earnings.-RenSSGLeGT (Ind.) Pilot.
When you meet a man who is trying
to achieve something for the benefit of
himself and his fellOw-men, something
that would make humanity better and
the labOring classes more prosperous,
YOU have met a true Christian. He
may borough OF appearance and speech,
but his heart is all right.-Bry0nt IS.
d. Herald.
According to the old parties so long as
one man out of every ten has a dollar,
business is solid, on a good, firm basis.
How would it do to put every house
out of ten on a stone foundation leav-
ing the nine without foundations Do
YOU think the nine would stand very
long? What!-Terre HUute, Ind. Stan
ddrd Farmer.
Ministers of the gospel frequently
speak Of the father of lies" and some
people probably do not know who is
referred to. For the information of
such, we will say that it depends en-
tirelv upon location. If it was in
it would be "old nick" but in
Arkansas it is a Democratic editor -
ConwGy (Ark) Wheel.
We used to think everybody was
rich, contented and happy IN this glori-
GUS country of ours, but the statistics of
1891 show that 1881 persons suicided
the year, and "despondency"
is given as the principal cause. Pos
sib13 they worried about how to
manage or invest their capital.-Zanes-
vtHe CO., Labor Journal.
How many grain dealers, each draw
ing a profit, and how many banks.