The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-04-25
No. II
THE REFORM PRESS.
Sharp, Pithy Clippings from Papers that
do Not Worship Mammon

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silver question.
The time is fast approaching when
the great South and West will no longer
submit to Wall street rule.
Tribune
The most effective plan to build up
the reform movement is for every man
to persist in converting his neighbors.
-Io1ca Tribune.
To maintain our temper and further
advance with reason and prudence is
to see the full fruition OF cur hopes
De8 M6jnes Tribune.
Congress is now little else than an
agency through which gold bugs rob
the people of hundreds of millions an
nually.-So4tbtr1a r1a Mercury.
The farmers have only to stand to-
gether to wipe out monopolies. Have
faith, brother, and the world will be
yours. Burlington Courier.
Keep it distinctly in mind tha5 all
these financial panics are made to order
and are not an accident nor the result
of business depression. - Pueblo
Crisis
Six days shalt thou labor, says the
good book, yet the Missouri legislature
works five days in the week and draws
seven days salary at S. per day-The
Peoples Advocate.
It's said that the Governor of Florida
has appointed himself United States
Senator on the grounds that there was
no other man in the State competent
to fill the Office poor old Florida)
Children now in their cradles are
growing up to lives of toll to pay in
terest On deb.s fastened on the people
by statesmen" to whom honor is un-
ceasiugly sung by partisan slaves
EHebnnge.
The assessor is again abroad in the
land, and industry and honest thrift
must pay penalty while idle specula-
tion escapes the tax because i produces
or creates nothing g.-Independept, Kir
aUGB, Kansas
In California the railroads refused
to pay their taxes, and then settled at
sixty cents on the dollar. Had the
farmers refused to pay theirs, big
penalty would have been added
Western Advocate.
The world is bankrupt! There is not
enough wealth to pay off it's indebted
ness-National, State and private. A
few literally own the earth, and the
many are but the slaves of the earth.
Chicago E5cpresS.
Why don't the nabobs issue proc
lamation that every person who does
not fall down and worship the one
hundred million gold reserve in the
United States Treasury shall be cast in
fiery furnace2-KdnsGs AgitGtOT.
The system that fosters and sustains
monopolies and millionaires will con-
tinue to exist as long as the average
man secretly hopes that turn in the
wheel of fortune will make a monopo-
list and millionaire of him National
Spectator.
The gold scare is over. 1t subsidized
as soon as the Wall street conspirators
found they could not force new issue.
And now there is no use in hoardingup
gold in the treasury when the business
of the country needs every cent of it.
Farmers Advocate, Yates Center.
Lost, Strayed or Stolen. A splendid
and respectable (old, yet balove0 tariff
reform issue. Said issue was sound
and hearty and supposed to be in the
house of it's friends until 10 o'clock
midnight Nov. 8, 1892, since which
time it has not been heard OFFS. j.
st. Clair.
When the time comes for a general
demand on the part of farmers for
something, up goes the price, and when
the farmer kicks and votes independ-
emily, his oppressors and the poll
ticians exclaim in one mighty chorus:
'What ails the fellow anyhow, is he
crazy?"- Farmers Voice.
We all sorely complain of the short
ness of time, and yet have much more
than we know what to do with. Our
lives are either spent in doing nothing
at all, or in doing to the purpose, or in
doing nothing that we ought to do.
We are always complaining that our
days are few and acting as if there
would be no end of them. Grange
Advocate.
If a government contracted a debt
with a certain amount of money in cir
culation and then contracted the
money volume before the debt was
paid, it is the most heinous crime
government could commit against the