The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-06-13
THE REFORM PRESS.
Sharp, Pithy Clippings from Papers that
do Not Worship Mammon.

do Not Worship Mammon.
No one cares who becomes rich, so
nobody is robbed. It's the robbery the
people are kicking at, not the riches
| Southern Mercury.
This land can never be called the
home of the free, until the labOrer is
permitted to retain in his own posses
sion the wealth which he produces.
The Peoples party carried % out OF
SO towns and cities in Kansas at the
recent municipal elections. Yet the
old party papers tell their readers the
Republicans gained.-The Peoples
Banner.
The power that holds both the old
parties in it's coat tail pockets is Supposed
to free coinage, favors farther contrac-
| ton of the currency, and will maintain
the protective tariff, M Rep
reSent0tiUe.
Wall street bankers threatened a
panic if $50, 600, 900 in new bonds were
not issued for their special benefit.
Well, they have had their little panic
all to themselves and it is hoped they
feel better. -Farmer and Miner.
The State Business Agency is doing
a good business, Notwithstanding the
attempt to destroy it. All Alliancemen
| should p~atronize it and doubtless will
when they learn what an enormous
saving they a effect by so doing
Our Home.
Twenty one banks failed in one day
| week before the last, and hundreds Of
business houses are going under, but
there is no panic" of course not.
What are you Calamity howlers"
yawping about? Can't you see there's
no panic?-KanSaS C0mmOner.
Bradstreet reports 281 failures last
week as against 175 for the correspond
ing week of last year. If the present
rate of failures is continued the aggre-
gate will show more financial disasters
this year than any other in the history
of the nation. Waterman.
lent it strange that none of our big
dailies, top-heavy with brains, and
heart sick with anxiety for the dear
people," ever discovered the justice,
the p~racticability and the need of an
income tax, till the Alliance forced
them to do it2-EdgefeJd, s. c.,
Farmer.
German ~financiers are astonished at
the falling prices in America. They
should turn their attention to their
own affairs. Germany rejects bimetal
ism and as a result 50 per cent. Of her
lands r mortgaged. In Berlin alone
100, 900 people are starving or half fed.
kansas COn1moner.
One of our wise financiers regrets
that people should become alarmed at
the business and financial outlook, and
says that when people become alarmed
they feel poor whether they are or not.
Yes, and when they become poor they
feel alarmed, and that is the basis of a
good deal Of deal of fear these days.
Farmers Voice,
So long as the failures are confined
to business men with limited means
the "fnanciers" are absolutely indifer-
ent to the present system Of robbery,
but thank fortune the big fellows are
feeling it's effects in the last few years,
and the people are glad to see the big
fish being caught in ShyIock's net
Kansas CommOaer.
Western producers, 1 have said, and
I repeat it, ought to be among the most
prosperous and contented people in the
world, but they are neither prosperous
nor contented. They are not destitute,
but the measure of their prosperity is
far below what it ought to be. They
are not desperate, they are not incen-
diary, but they are sure there is some
thing radically wrong somewhere, the
i'll effects of which they are the IN
merited victims. They are dissatisfied
and the FESTIVE spirit of protest is de.
velopiDg into the most aggressive spirit
of combat.-W. J. Stone, Governor of
Missouri, before the New York Board
of Trade.