The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-08-02
NUTS TO CRACK
Around Your Fireside-Cream OF TIT
Reform Press.

Of their pitchforks to knock the pollCl-
cal persimmon this year.-1eT0S
Truth.
Brazos CTexas) Farmer: Go to work.
Do something. The battle Is on. why
stand We here idle?" The true soldier
will not loiter.
Montrose OCol.) Union: The Bland
Bill is dead. Dead as Julius Caesar!
Stabbed to death in the house of its
pretended friends!
Cleburne CTexas) Tribune: All men
are alike when it comes to death and
dollars. They are against the former
and for the latter.
Omaha (Neb) TOcSin: Just how
some people harmonic the two sys-
TENS of selfishness and charity, is a
mystery to many.
Little Rock (Ark.) Farmer: The
only difference between the two old
gangs is in the names of the candidates.
This is literally true.
Patterson On. j Labor Standard I;
Neither fanaticism nor folly should be
permitted to rule this country. Too
much of both prevails already.
The farmers can never hope to secure
relief except through organization and
concert of action. Get together and
pull together. -GrGnge Advocate.
It is claimed that in New York city
10, 900 of the two million inhabitants
own nearly the whole of the city, and
only 13, 900 own any real estate
Kansas Advocate.
1t is enough to cause the bones of
Jefferson and Jackson to turn in their
graves to hear modern Democracy
v~o%1or nh0vJH ToFforonDio~ nnI TnnH
sonian principles. -NelU Forum.
Capt. Jacob P. Carnahan, the Peo-
pies nominee for Governor in Arkan-
sas, was in the field hoeing corn when
he was waited upon by the committee
that notified him of his nomina ton
NeU Forum.
1t was inspiring to see those two
scar-worn heroes, those gray-haired
veterans, Weaver and Field, as they
bowed their compliments to cheering
thousands on July 4th at Omaha
Nashville TOiler.
The millionaire sets his own limit to
the amount he pays in taxes, and the
| government accepts his decision. The
poor man must meet the exact demand
or his little all is seize1 and made to
answer.-ALLiance MenifeStO.
The partisan sheets insist that party
must be preserved no matter what be-
comes of principle. We would like to
have one intelligent reason for surren-
dering a principle that you believe is
righ5 for the sake of party,-Teras
Sentinel.
Now that the grandest convention
that ever assembled on this continent
(the Peoples party) has wove a perfect
web of principles, putting their Weaver
in it. we say emphatically there is no
use for you to Field around for better
men or party to cast your ballots for
next November if you would be free
men.-NdshUiUe TOiler.
Senator John Sherman had this to
say ins1S69, when the people loved and
trusted him az a true patriot: THE
contraction of the currency means to
every one, except a capitalist out of
debt or a salaried officer, a period of
loss, lassitude of trade, fall of wages,
disaster and ruin" What has become
of the John Sherman of those better
days?-Tbe Press.
"You may talk about your creditors
to whom this road is indebted" said
Judge Walter q. Gresham, when GER
tain attorneys appealed to him in be-
half of preferred creditors for claims
against the Wabash Road when in the
hands of a receiver, but the working
men, the great tin pail brigade that has
made the road and that is doing its
work to day, must be provided for
first, and before any other creditors
are paid."-Ne1U Forum.
In Coffey county, there have been
115 mortgages foreclosed converting
{, 1853 acres of land and 81 town lots
from the hands of the common people
into the hands of the mortgage com
panies. The amount Of mortgage in
~debtedness on these lands was los, 155,-
"a; the amount it sold for under the
hammer, As, 497. 80, leaving judgments
hanging Over the people to the amount
of SO, 657. 95. This an eastern county
of Kansas! What do you think of it,
farmers?-KGn80S Advocate.
Passing up and down to and fro
throughout the mighty farm-mort-
gagged West you can read on many a
gate post something about like this:
"This farm for sale" The house is
implanted, the barn is about to fall
do Hn, the gate is fiat on the ground
and the farmers family is only half
clothed. He has worked hard-econO-
mixed and gone without many things
in order to pay out of debt; but the
prices of produce kept so low that he
could not gain enough over expense
to pay taxes and interest, so a forced
sale comes on.-La6Or'S Tribune, Car
thGge, Mo.
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