The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-06-06

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best thoughts and views inprofession0l
work. Rates at hotels, 81 per day.
Railroad fare, one and a half cents a
mile each way.
~ There is more truth than poetry
in the remark of the New York EUGn-
geIist when it says: perhaps we shall
be driven to cremate u dead from
financial inability to bury them" But
we will bet a dozen apples that the
editor of the Evangelist voted to in
crease the poverty Of the people instead
of decrease it.
~ All the people are not as easily
deceived no Y as all the people were q
few years ago. But certain people are
trying Just as hard to fool them. The
old chestnut that ''it is lack of conf
dence" that's causing so many failures,
has been resurrected again and is be.
ing industriously circulated. 1t will
not go with sensible people, however.
~ The Liuing Issue says: Or NJ.
Widney, the far seeing, patriotic presi-
dent of the University bank, of Los
Angeles, Cal, the other day addressed
the American Bankers Association in
an exhaustive and mastery speech, in
which he said: Gentlemen, the present
financial system is capital for us as
bankers, but our children may not all
be bankers"
~ Brethren get all your Alliance
members to read their State organ,
especially those now joining and those
who are coming back to the fold. Bring
this matter before them at every meet
ms or wherever you see them. If they
complain that money is SO scarce they
can't subscribe FOR a year, get them for
three or six months-any way to get
them to read the truth.
The St, Paul Globe, an old, in
Auential newspaper, has been put in
the hands Of a receiver" is the way &
recent press dispatch reads. This ''Oli,
influential newspaper howled prosper
ity to the last, however, and after
helping TO sink nine tenths Of its read
ers so low that they couldn't afford to
read it, tie paper went under. There
is a lesson Tor editors III this.
The Charlotte Observer says: 1t
is as safe to toss up q penny for JUST e
as - depend On the jury system for
it." Well, we want the present jury
system "Jr something better" VIII
the Observer state what il proposes az
a substitute? Perhaps it wants the
registrars and election judges of the
State to run the business. They are
famous for dealing cut justice. In
other words if you don't vote for a
good e. man they will count your vote
that way anyhow.
~ The Wilmington Star recently
interviewed Col. J. ": Atkinson, Presi
dent of the Wilmington Savings and
Trust Company, who said in reply to
the question: "Wbat is the cause OF
the financial troubles now 50 general
ct is a condition and not a theory,
which now disturbs us. The fact, we
painfully recognize; the cause I cannot
confidently assign-prObably no one
can. Yet I confess I have "a theory.
l believe these hard times to be the
result Of an unholy alliance between
certain politicians and Wall street
brokers'"
- The Southern Farmer, after tell,
ing g. thousand stories about why
farming doesn't pay" at last comes
forward with the blood curdling and
marrow freezing statement that "what
the farmer needs is rich land" OF
course if all the farms were highly i'm.
proved there would be no "overproduc.
ton. Our opinion is that all the farm
ers need is to act sensible, vote sensible
and stop allowing themselves to be
robbed at every point Of the compass.
That is what we have been trying to
tell them all the time, and always &C.
company the assertion with facts to
prCveit.
~ We once printed a picture OF the
editor of the Wilmington Messenger in
this paper. We also proposed to pub
Iish his war record. Since that his
love for us has beenof the cold, clammy
kind that sometimes the novels tell us
about. Here is a list Of a few Of the
names he called the raformers Of the
State in n editorial recently; "Po-
liticaI adventures, revolutionists, igno-
ramuses, gang Of incapablos, political
deperadoes." Col. DR.. Kingsbury talks
mighty big, perhaps he IS going into
his bomb proof again, The w. & w.
Railroad certainly didn't suggest the