The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-10-17
CREAM OF THE PRESS.
Hard Hits, Bold Sayings and Patriotic
Paragraphs from Reform Papers
They are Worth the Price of
One Paner a Whole Wear

Ghe face of the mortgage does not de
cline with wheat, cotton and wages
Pioneer Exponent.
Why not dub Grover the Buffalo
Bull7" Mr.. Cody's permission can be
secured. d.-PjOneer Exponent.
If there had not been Republican
in Congress, free silver would have
been killed by sixteen majority.-LiU,
ing Issues.
The Democratic administration has
at least succeeded in establishing a
cheap market at home-for farm pro
ducts Thon1aSUtlZe Ne,cs.
Coinage of the constitution means 16
to 1. Anything else is a compr omise
with the English money power and is
a surrender.-LiUing Issues.
The Gainesville Eogze asks, "Where
is the Democratic party at3" Why,
that is easy. It is in Grover Cleveland,
and he's at home catnippin' Esther
Georgia Alliance PLO1U Bog.
Shall we have currency based on
national honor and national resources,
or shall we allow English money sharks
to say what kind of currency we shall
have9-The LatmbertOp PopuIist.
Each week the mercantile agencies
assure us that times will be better the
next week, and each week they grow
worse. The storm is coming and you
can't lie it away. Western Advocate
The late millionaire, F. L. Ames, has
been characterized by a Baptist divine
as "a somnambulist walking through
the streets of Boston with eyes blind to
the thousands who were suffering
want. Richmond Star.
1t is estimated that forty five per
cent. of the population of the United
States are farmers. Are forty five per
cent of the students in the academies,
colleges, and universities, farmers
sons7-,SOutber1a Mercury.
ga just reading of the Constitution
is this: Congress shall have power
t. ..oin money, emit bills of credit, and
make anything besides gold and silver
coin legal tender in payment of
debts. '"-DunieL Webster.
Wall street bankers do not repress or
attempt to conceal their anger or re.
sentiment at the failure Of their deep
laid schemes. They will soon be called
upon to bear deeper efflictions in their
line. -Brocbt01, Moss, Diamond.
The Farmers Weekly Of Jasper, N.
Y, says: ''The action of Congress on
the silver question has made many
tho lsands of Populists" This shows
the common people of New York in
sympathy with the people of the West
1t is said that just one third of the
Democratic voters in q township in
Iredell county are applicants for store
keepers gaugers' places. Well, well,
Democracy has big stock of patriots
on hand yet, waiting for ''relief. -
Our Home.
Sherman Democrats say that pub
lie debt is public blessing, and the
more the Indebtedness, the greater the
blessing. The people say to be out of
debt is a blessing and insures the indie
pendence of a nation. Who is right?-
Hull Co, (Tec) Reform.
The Sherman law is merely being
used as the tariff was used last year,
as blind to cover the barter and sale
of American commerce and industrial
prosperity to the British gold kings,
Oh, how some people love to be hum
bugged. d.-PiOneer Exponent.
The bu8hel of wheat which must be
sold at so cents will make as much
bread as if it commanded one dollar.
It won't make as much impression on
the mortgage, on the tax collectors &C
count or other fixed charges, however,
by exactly one-half. Missouri World.
The sooner the mass of western peo-
pie realize the real situation the better.
The money power must be smashed
and utterly crushed before it will con
cade anything except ruin and poverty
to the West and South. No more talk
ofcompromise.-Rochy of Mountain Ne1C8.
Some of the gold crank editors of the
Chicago dailies will be unhappy if they
find that the streets of heaven are not
literally paved with gold. They will
demand intrinsic value in the pave
ment anyhow. Come to think of it,
though, not many of them will ever see
how the streets are paved. ed.-Farmer8'
Voice.
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