The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-11-07
CREAM OF THE PRESS.
Hard Hits, Bold Sayings and Patriotic
Paragraphs from Reform Papers
They are Worth the Price Of

They are Worth the Price of
One Paper a Whole Year.
Whenever Grover Cleveland takes
snuff, 113 Republican Congressman
sneeze. Farmer and Miner.
A strike at the ballot-box would be
much more effective than a strike at
the business offce.-Tacoma Sun.
Several idiots in the United States
Congress have mistaken the voice OF
Wall street for public opinion.-Penn-
sylU0niG Farmer.
Our Congressman are getting down
to facts-they are calling each other
liars, bride takers and thieves
Pioneer Exponent.
Men vote for hard times and then
complain because they get what they
voted for. Read more and quit voting
for hard times. -LiUing Issues.
Wheat 40 cents, wool - cents and
cotton 7 cents with the Mckinley bill
still in force. This shows that the
tariff has nothing to do with prices
LGbOrS' Tribune.
Bankers predict better times, to stave
off the rising tide of distrust. Mrs.
Darlington tried to sweep back the
rising tide of the Atlantic ocean.-SGn
Francisco Press.
It is the free and unlimited coinage
of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, or I'M
conditional surrender to the money
power of Europe. Which side are you
on?-DaEOta RuraIist,
A man who believes the credit of
this government is good enough to
float a bond, but not a greenback, is
either a banker or a fool american
NonconformiSt. Or both,
If the fellows who think we are right
would act with us they could have the
satisfaction of seeing right prevail
much sooner than by talking n way
and voting the other. - Missouri World.
Mr.. Cleveland is doing just what the
Alliance said he would; hence, we
would rather believe and trust the
Alliance than Mr.. Cleveland or anyone
else who believes as he does.-HickOTy
Mercury.
Bill Nye claims his silver voice has
been so demonetized that he can hardly
speak above a whisper and now he is
in search of an experienced tonsorial
artist to repair his tonsils. Pioneer
Exponent.
1t looks as if MI. Cleveland is not
only our President, but that he is
further Congress and Senate, with the
possibility of resolving himself into the
Supreme Court also.-CharLestOUn,
". Va, Advocate, Dem.
Old party papers talk about ''restor-
ing u money to a sound basis" by
further contracting it. They might
just as well talk about putting flesh on
a half-starved hog by reducing his
feed.-PeOple'S Tribune.
Il am not among those who fear the
people. They, and not the rich are our
dependence for continued freedom.
And to preserve their independence we
must not let our rulers load us with
perpetual debt. jefferson.
Whew! What a sensation Senator
Stewart created the other day when he
proposed a committee to find out how
many Senators were interested in ma
tional banks. 1t was like throwing a
bomb into that body.-Peoples' Tri-
bune.
If you want a money that will circu,
late in Europe, why call an extra ses
sion Of Congress, because Old John
Bull gobbled up a few million. If that's
the kind of money you want, what on
earth are you crying about? See.-
Farmer and Miner.
1t is said that active and industrious
career is beneficial to health, and it is
inferred that in this respect the so cent
wheat grower and the 7 cent. per pound
cotton planter are in excellent physical
condition. At the present prices thew
certainly have been working for their
health, and that alone.-Missouri
World.
Instead of so much talk about bro
tecting u credit abroad. let us have
a little more attention to u credit at
home. A financial policy that derives
a majority of the American people of
the ability to meet their obligations
and reduces millions of hones5 toilers
to starvation, is not a credit to anv-
body, and is not well calculated to in
spire confidence either at homo or