The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-07-25
WISE WORDS:
Words of Wisdom from Patriotic Papers
that are Standing by the People
Read them Every Week.

VIC "anG 10 QlStlncGIY UNDERSTOOD
that the Democrats are having a
chance. Peoples Tribune.
Come join me in paying my taxes"
IS the present South Carolina style of
asking a man to take little ''pisen"
into his system. -HoEtOn Tribune.
There has never been time since
1873 when SO many banks were closing
theirdoors Funny isn'tit, with money
so plenty q Washington Republican.
Some Democrats will say it will take
thirty years to get things all right.
Dog my cats! Amt they sensible9 I
guess it will at the present progress
The Populist.
Vote to repeal the silver law, or you
cannot have the patronage of your
district, is President Cleveland's ulti-
matum to Democratic congressman
National Watchmara
A correspondent of an eastern metro
politan journal has at last discovered
the cause of the, present financial
trouble. It is an overprodudtion Of
money y,-TOpekU Advocate.
Four commercial failures and six
broken banks with all the woe and
heartburnings that follow, mark the
effects in Minneapolis of demonetiza-
ton of silver.-The Representative.
What an idea that money can be
made of only a certain thing, and can
not be made of other certain things.
Suppose the former should play out,
then what7- TIdings, EnaporjG, Kan
That eliminating atrocity" that
has been costing the people thirteen
our blood while Grover cuts fish bait
and panders to Wall street Peoples
Tribune.
eve are in an era of unparalleled
prosperity" with over four hundred
failures per week and an able bodied
financial panic on the hurricane deck
of the old ship of state.-IuI0re, Cal. ,,
Citizen.
The Chicago Business Register says:
.'What the country needs is another
SHudrew jackson at the head of affairs
not ships shooters and fishermen as 1t
had last year and as it has this year. "
Well have one in '96.
It is easier for an Alliance hater to
crawl through the eye of a needle than
to see any good in little, ''one horse,
calamity bowling editor" who has
blacked the said Alliance hater's eyes
with the sledgehammer of facts. -
EdgeJieId, s. c., Farmer.
The bankers have capital stock Of
about $8OO,OOO,OOO but they draw an
annual income of s per cent. on about
50, 100, 100000. They receive $1O4, OOO,-
900 annually as interest on capital they
do not own, but still, it's the "best
banking system in the world. THE
PopWEist.
Don't lock up your cash." is the
substance of the composite opinion Of
the country's press, and it's good ad
vice. Keep your money in circulation /;
if you can't find anything better to do
with it, pay your newspaper subscrip-
tion. Then it will be certain not to
get locked up.-The Holton Tribune
The idle rumor has gone out that
Secretary Carlisle is contemplating the
issue of some $50, 900, 900 in greenbacks.
Nothing of the kind was ever thought
of, but to the contrary the plates for
the printing of an extra issue of inter
est bearing bonds have been completed
under Mr.. Carlisle's direction and are
ready for immediate use. National
Wdtcl1m11l.
It's little late to r. mark the fact,
but it is strange that after manipu-
lating the finances of the government
for two years Charles Foster of Ohio
should fail and that under the bene1-
cient effect of his pet tariff theory
VIM. Mckinley should be driven to
ruin. Can it be that our law makers
understand as little about finance as
they seem to think the people do?-
Times Statesman.
The President cries out confidence"
is all the country needs, and every
banker and politician all over the
country echoes back, confidence. "
But the farmer is tired of confidence.
He has been living on confidence for
ten years or longer and he is growing
poor on the fare. What the farmer
wants is more n oney. Away with
your confidence It has been too
much of confidence" game all along.
-LiUing Issues.