The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-09
NUTS TO CRACK
Around Your Fireside-Cream of the
Reform Press.

Around Your FlreSlde-Cream OF the
Reform Press.
Party blindness has entailed more
misery on country than lntemper-
ance ard pestilence combined Indus
trial Free Press.
There should be but one policy Of the
Alliance. If the demands are right,
which they are, then along this line is
the correct policy for all Alliancemen.
Alliance Signal.
The reforms demanded by organized
labor did not originate among the
scholars or statesmen, but among those
engaged in the daily battle for life
Industrial Free Press.
Seventeen million labOring people in
the nation, produce annually SIS, O0O,-
600. 900 of the wealth, of which they
receive less than s.. 900. 600, 600 The
balance goes to o producers. -SOUth-
ern Mercury.
Whenyouseeaman galloping around
and snOrting and swearing that he can
revOlutionize the State, watch him
closely. He is on the market and will
sell out on the first bid.-HickOry
County Advocate.
Political ringsters have been digging
a grave for the Alliance for the last
three years. The hole is not big enough
for a single plank of our platform, yet
the clOds are rolling back on the ring
sters and it looks as though they have
"dug their own grave. "oTHe IOiieT.
The very fellow who yells, keep
the Alliance out of politics" is usually
the man who knows that If the ALI
ance goes into politics it will turn him
out and thereby GUST him from a fat
job. 1t is like the wolf asking to keep
the shepherd away from the sheep
Alliance indicator.
The statement is made by a Boston
broker that half the banks of Boston
have cashed notes made out by clerks
and Endorsed by officials. Then half
the banks of Boston have broken the
law. 1t will not require many more
failures like the Maverick to sweep
away the entire nationalsystem,-NelC
Nation.
Failures, ~defalcations, suicides and
trust combinations multiply. We are
the richest nation in the world and yet
we are not happy. That we ere wan.
dering along the brink of a deep gulf
perity shines upon the few. The prin-
ciple upon which business is prose
cuted is immoral, unchristian and I'M
just, and it cannot endure .-Ne1C
Nation.
The professional politician may as
we'll understand, without further Que5-
tioning, that the Farmers Alliance and
other reform organizations are sure of
their position and do not intend to be
driven from it. They will continue to
stand square upon all their demands,
and defend them to the last. The re
cent meeting at LBS Angeles leaves no
room for doubt upon this question
Pacific Union Alliance.
Many people say give us a proper
basis for money. Well what is the
basis or backing of n national bank
note? \ United States bond. Then
what guarantee Is behind q United
states bond! The governments obj
| CATION to pay. Ii is the governments
note. Does uhat make 1t gOOGl Ger
tainty. Then why not lssue the gov
ernment's notes in small denOmina-
tiOns called treasury DOtesl If the
governments obligation is sufficient
backing for the great national banking
institutions, why Is 1t not n sufficient
backing for "a few millions Of ~cirCulat-
ing medium. Weekly T0iier-
1t is all very we'll to sneer at the
farmers movemeutand yell calamity
howler5." Old Noah was a calamity
bowler. Jonah was a calamity bowler.
Cnrist's chosen apostles were calamity
hOwlers. The signers Of the Declara-
ton of Independtn were calamity
| howlers. There were calamity howl
ers just before the war began-plenty
of them. Yes, and there are calamity
howlers now, and there will be calam-
ity hOwers just as long as there is dan
ger ahead, and here will be danger
ahead just as long as there is a great
wrong to he righted Now then, yell
again!-SOuthern Alliance Farmer.
Suppose every farmer in the country
| could draw interest On what he owes,
as well as on what he has, and a por-
ton of what his neighbor owes. The
farm mortgage would cease to have
such ~terrOrs, and on them they could
build a prosperous business. Only
think how nice it would be to draw in
terest Oh them, instead of having to
hustle to raise the interest on them.
This is the way the business is done for
the national banks. But then, thew
understand finance" you see. and
the farmers should not bother them
selves about such matters Let the
| politicians and the "financiers" fix
| things, and all will be well-fOr them.
-IWIGre, C0l,, Citizen.
| CHANGE OF FARMING--BUTTFR