The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-07-18
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misleading its readers by refusing to
allow them to read ''but one side"
We know this is unfair, for NJ paper
in the country has more intelligent
readers than ours. We know many
of them personally, and they say that
they read Alliance, Democratic and
Republican papers. True a few may
read only one paper. However, some
people are always complaining: In
order that all our readers may ''see
both Sides we have made arrangements
with the Bugletown Prosperity HOoCLer
and will transfer all of it's editorials to
our columns every week. In this way
our readers get twopapers for the price
of one. The Prosperity HOoUler is rec
ognized by leading Democrats as being
one of the ablest Democratic papers in
the South. We will reproduce lifts com
ments upon the leading political issues
of the day, also it's brilliant arguments
sho wing up the rascality of the Repub.
lican party, and giving logical reasons
why every man should vote the straight
Democratic ticket regardless of conse-
quences. The Prosperity HooULeT will
prove every week that members Of the
Alliance are wild and visionary. 1t
will prove that no man who voted the
Populist ticket can expect a peaceful
hereafter and that Populists should
not be allowed to join the church. 1t
will produce facts and figures to show
| plainly that farming does pay and that
| America is the richest country under
the blue sky. Best of all, it will ex-
pose the rascality of the Alliance lead
ers, tell you why honest men ought to
cut loose from them. Our exchanges
are notified that this matter is copy
righted. If copied due credit must be
given. For this issue we clip the fol
lowing arguments:
Marion Butler, the alleged Presi-
dent of the State Alliance, made one
of his wretched political harangues in
Bugletown last Saturday. Butler has
the face of a Guiteau, a voice like a
hyena and the cunning Of a fox. He
made no converts for his desperate
heory here. Poor, deluded thirdites
said the crowd numbered six or seven
hundred, but several Of our prominent
citizens counted them and are willing
to swear that it numbered but nine
white men (six of them Democrats and
three negroes. The negroes became
disguised and left before Butler had
been speaking ten minutes.
The Sherman law should be repealed
at once. Big crops and good prices
have caused an immense amount of
money to get into circulation and any
old citizen will tell you that this always
brings a panic. Americans are a great
people, but they can't stand prosperity.
For that reason we have always advo-
Gated a reduction in the tariff.
J. T. B. Hoover, representing the
business agency fraud, is advertised to
speak at Benson's Mill, near Bugletown,
on the 28th, at 10 o'clock. We hope
our respectable citizens will let this fel-
low alone. We understand that he
says politics and religion are INSOFAR
able-if you have a good article.
The last issue of that vile sheet,
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER, has been
received. No one in this Office ever
reads it except to see what the crank
who edits it has to say against thepres-
ent state of affairs. We notice it has
the same stale calamity shrieking this
week. The anarchist who writes the
sorry stuff that fills it's columns say
this week that there has been 1000
failures reported in a little over six
months, with liabilities aggregating
nearly 5000, 600, 900. The fool uses this
to show that there is hard times in the
country, when the main reason is that
farmers don't work more than three
months in the year and they spend
money as fast as they can the other
nine months. Farmers should work,
make more corn, wheat, meat, tobacco
and cotton, and then spend less. Times
are all right. The people are to blame.
Everybody admits that times are
hard and money scarce. Everybody
has a remedy, but many of them are
impracticable and unconstitutional.
The Prosperity HoocIer has always held
that hard times are caused by bigcrops.
The country is full of cotton, corn,
wheat, meat, horses, cattle and sheep.
This surplus can't be disposed of owing
to a want of confidence. If the farm