The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-09-19
WISE WORDS.

Words of Wisdom from Patriotic Papers
that are Standing by the People
Read them Every Week.
Can you really satisfy yourself that
the tariff has nothing to do with the
hard times?- Western Advocate.
Is it the fear of tariff legislation that
is causing the railroads to reduce their
working forces?- Western Advocate.
"For my part, I had rather be a
mourner at the defeat of Right than be
king of the carnival of victorious
Might. Tom Watson.
The fire eating partisans in town are
softening down. The "wave of pros
perity" has struck them and it is hav-
ing a telling effect.-Owr Home.
We read every day of the laughter
excited by the humorists in the Senate
and House. But the people are not
laughing.-Atlanta Constitution.
Cleveland's force bill on silver has
ran cotton down from 9 cents to 5 cents
| since November last, and still he is
warning on silver. Pioneer Exponent.
The anti silver men, the tools of the
national banks and money sharks, did
a noble(0 deed when they defeated the
will of the people, by killing the free
coinage amendment.-PeopIe's AdUo
cote.
In other words, Cleveland ordered
Congress to meet and carry out the
secret pledges made to Wall street, in
the last campaign. He then went off
on a fishing vacation.-PeopZe's Party
Paper.
Jerry Simpson says a political revo-
luton is at hand. Jerry is correct, but
a little premature. Bread riots next
winter in all large cities may be the
prelude to the tidal wave of 1894
Rocky Mountain NeoCS.
In spite of the fact that silver has
been practically demonetized for nearly
a decade, it was recently at apremium
of II to q per cent. over gold, How
strangely varying r facts sometimes
from theories. -Soutbern Mercury.
Comptroller Eckles says that there
is no panic, but that banks and business
houses are remarkably solid. This
constant telling a hungry man that he
is not hungry, don't feed him even a
little bit. -Fdrmers' Voice.
We thought the victory in 1892 was
a general revolt against Republican
methods, and yet we have the astonish-
ing revelation that it takes a RepUbli-
can minority in Congress to constitute
a Democratic majority. i harle8toWn,
". Va, Advocate, Dem.
I charge that Grover Cleveland,
John Sherman and all the hard money
crowd are repudiationists and are do
ing their utmost to bring on enforced
reputation Of debts in this country.
Without free silver and more paper
money, the debts of the world can never
be paid.-R. @. Scott, IN IoaUa Tribune.
There isn't a living person in the
United States that is handling money
at all, that is not both receiving and
paying out the present silver dollar at
100 cents-the same as gold and green
backs Then why this talk of a SO
cent dollar9 1t is to deceive the peo-
pie, and nothing lse.-BulLetin Of Re
form.
Just think of It'll Two thousand six
hundred bushels of wheat or so bales Of
cotton, to pay that extra salary which
your Congressman voted to give him
self. That is more than two O. three
men can make on a farm. Besides
this they were getting S., 900 a year,
which is equivalent to 10, ZOO bushels of
wheat or 200 bales of cotton.-TopekG
Advocate.
West of Omaha, Neb., and north Of
Dallas, Texas, There are only two gold
bug daily papers in the United States;
the Portland Oregonian and the Salt
Lake Herald. All the others are fight
ing Cleveland. Fourteen months ago
the Rocky Mountain NeWs was the
only daily in that vast region that was
opposing both Cleveland and Harrison.
Pioneer Exponent.
That SIS, 600, 900 corruption fund is
getting in it's work in splendid shape.
For some reason Senator Voorhees,, a
lifelong advocate of free silver and