The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-08-09
CONDEMNED BY HIS OWN WORDS

God and your native land.
CONDEMNED BY HIS OWN WORDS
We get in exchange nearly every
Democratic weekly paper published in
North Carolina. When we have read
one, leaving out the purely local and
personal news, we have read all. We
find them principally made up of
gatherings from the daiIies. AS an
example of the consistency we find in
the average Democratic weekly paper,
we ask our readers to notice carefully
what one says, and they will see what
they all say. We copy extracts from
the Kinston Free Press of August 4th:
1.-The Third party leaders in North
Carolina make all sorts Of false charges
against the Democratic party. They
exaggerate small i~mperfections, of the
mole hill order, into mountains; and
some of their charges are based on
nothing, but r simply lies. They
know that the Democratic party is the
best party but they want office, can't
get it through the Democratic party,
and hence abuse the Democratic party.
Some of the Third party leaders have
told big lies on the Democratic party
50 many times that they have actually
got to believing them to be true them
selves"
Serious charges, these. They knock
the spots outof the whole reform move
ment. Now don't they, though. They
answer all the arguments put forth by
the Peoples party, and completely de-
molish the Omaha platform, according
to the Free Press. o my! How can
we stand it? LIED until we actually
believe them true" you say. Now see
another exam pie from the same column
Of this same paper:
Honesty has become rarer, consist
ency has become less prevalent under
the teachings of THE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER and other Third party advO-
Gates, who cry out stop thief while
they have their hands in the pockets
of the dear people,"
The idea that any man should be so
simple as to utter such glaring false
hoods in an attempt to prove another
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rarer?" Consistency less9" Under
the teachings of THE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER and other Third party advo-
Gates who cry out "stop thief" while
they have their hands in the pockets
of the dear people," These charges
quoted above the writer knows are
but simple lies" If he has not told
them so many times that he has
actually got to believing them to be
true" to use his own words. Let's see,
for instance, we see that the subscrip-
ton price of the Kinston Free Press
the very paper that is doing this her
culean work in the demolition of the
Peoples party-is 81, so per year. The
subscription price of THE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER is only $1.OO per year. Count
each pocket so cents and you will see
that if we have have our hands in two
of the pockets of the dear people,"
the Free Press has his in three, or if
we have ours in two inches, his are in
three.
we try TO give an equivalent IN value
for every dollar we get out of the
pockets of the dear people," and we
will leave it to 1.-The dear people, who
take both papers to say if we do not
give them at least twice as much for
$1.OO as they get of the Free Press for
81. SO. Then where is the sense in this?
Does it answer any argument of the
Peoples party? Or is this the best you
have in the shop and the "dear peo-
pie" must take it and believe it because
you say it and yOu are o. Democrat?
The same paper copies from the Viii
son Advance into this same editorial
page a garbled extract from a letter in
The PROGRESSIVE FARMER of July Goth:
Garbled Extracts Nth The Original as O sag
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