The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-08-08

free coinage of silver would be adoptoa
and greenbacks enough issued to b p'u
the money volume up to $50 per canitS
bank and business failures would oaa"
as if by magic.-MIssourj World
Confidence be gollyswashed. vbo.
the people want is money. mora%
money. That's what they want oS3
it's what I want, and silver is inst -
good money as any other. That's tbo
whole story.-Senator Jones of Nv
UUdU.
When corporations beginto cut don.
expenses, they never touch the saIarioa
of the men who get thousands annraI
ly, 1t is always the men who do ~.
work. But what's the use in bavin"
slaves if you can't make them keen we 9
in style?-LiUing Issues.
The leaders of the two old nact;,.
want the farmers to live on ~con6dnnoo
in them, while they denounce each
other and live off Of the farmers hard
earnings. Well, we have been trvinn
it for 80 years aud the grub grows
tougher every day.-ArkQnSa8 POM
list.
The f%nanciers who have become in,
fected with the State bank disease
might go farther. Why not evorv
man have a hand-press of his own and
print makebelieve money to his hearts
content? AS a legal tender it wouId
be as good as the State bank money
Arkansas POpuIiSt.
The fellow who tries to make noIiti,
cal capital out Of the tariff question
these days is chewing a pretty drv
quid. A trust can knock the bottom
out of a tariff platform a good deal
quicker than it can be put in. and it
makes nc difference whether it is high
or low.-PennsyIUania Farmer.
Five banks in Kansas City and tbree
in Denver closed their doors this week
1t is supposed that the owners talked
about the per capita, whitfield, owned
a piano and buggy, kept pictures on
their walls, and left their MACHINERY
out in the wet. They should raise more
corn and less he'll. -Indu8triaI Free
Press.
It is said that a Chicago physician
was called to attend a man last week
who had a severe attack of diarrhpa,
The doctor shook his head, looked wise
and told his patient that it was caused
by the Sherman law" but if he could
stand it till the obnoxious measure was
repealed he would be all right.-Chi.
cago Sentinel.
The board bill of the Duke of Yer.
aqua at Chicago was 50, 500 for one
week. Secretary Carlisle paid the bill
out of the United States treasury. Thus
the farmers and laborers of this coun.
try foot the bill. At the present mar.
ket price it requires 5000 bushels Of
wheat to pay n weeks board. This
is democratic economy.-Er.
A member of the late million dollar
Legislature from Mecklenburg was
asked how he voted on the bill to re,
peal the Alliance charter. He said he
did not know how he did vote, whether
for or against it. Amt he a sweet one.
How would you Alliance gals like to
kiss him? Would he not be a good boy
to send after the doctor if the ID was
sick9-The Revolution.
If Tom Watson did not everlasting,
~ salivate old ring streaked -speckIed
and spotted Macune, then there is moth.
ing in dipping ones pen in a mixture
of calomel and blue mass. 600 thou
scurvy villain, thou impudel
thou exposed hypocrite, thou .y.
humbug, thou Infamous booc.-- an
some of the gentle expression
TeHas Weekly Advocate.
Has anybody ever heard Of postage
stamps depreciating in value or bccom,
ing ~worthless2 They have nothing be-
hind them but the faith of the govern,
ment. They are issued in quantities
sufficient to meet the demands Of the
country, yet they never have been be-
low par in any place where the United
States flag floats. Will some gold stan
dard advocate tell us why2-S0utherR
Mercury.
ALLIANCE GRAND RALLY