The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-12-05
CREAM OF THE PRESS
Hard Hits, Bold Sayings and Patriotic
Paragraphs from Reform Papers
They are Worth the Price OF
- VTT6o1a War

The Farmers Alliance is a school
where even philosophers may get WIS
dom.-FarmerS' Voice.
The good times are coming-when
the peop @ take off their party collars
and vote for them. Missouri World.
Which standard are you going to
rally under, gold or silveri Choose
ye this day whom you will y
IOWa Tribune.
The City Marshal of Atlanta is ad-
vertising about six hundred houses and
lots for sale on first Tuesday in Deem
per .-PeopIe's Party Paper.
If the Sherman bill had so much to
do with the hard times what in the
thunder is the matter with times
nowq-CharzestOn, W. Va, Advocate.
We notice that the New York Re
corder puts Gordon down from Ala
bama. We do not object after his vote
on the silver question. It's pretty
tough on Alabama, though.-LiUing
Issues.
Farm, Field and FFreside, Chicago,
is taking a vote on the silver question.
The vote so far, shows that IS to SO of
every hundred farmers are in favor Of
the free coinage of the American
product of silver.
Please remember that all those who
petitioned for the repeal Of the Sher-
man law petitioned for lower prices
for wheat-and we have it, thanks to
Grover Cleveland and the Republican
party.-DGkOtG RurGIist.
Our ancestors fought the British
over a paltry tax on paper and tea.
The sum involved did not amount to
a row of pins compared to the wrongs
wrongs we suffer from Eastern bank-
ers. Peoples Party Paper.
Several hundred votes gain to the
Peoples party in Shawnee county, but
the battle ground of last winters legis-
lative trouble does not look much like
a vindication to the fellows who busted
in the State House door with a sledge
hammer.
An increase of circulation through
banks would be of little use. Banks
don't run any industrial enterprises,
their money is only put in circulation
on loans and when the notes are paid
more money goes back than went out.
UniOnist.
If the banks, after getting money
from Uncle Sam for 1 per cent, and
money from depositors for nothing,
cannot stand the pressure of the hard
how can the people stand it,
who have to borrow from the banks9
-Medicine Lodge (Kan.) IndeI.
Organize a reading circle in every
Alliance; select certain members each
meeting to take the lead in discussions,
reading extracts and arranging a pro
gramme. A little attention given to
the work will develop a great interest
in the meetings.-Southerp Mercury.
The farmers money is giving ali the
jf9 that our Industries show. With
the price of products below the cost of
production, the farmers money is still
into the merchant and manu-
.acturer, and is the source of the life of
what trade there is.-Fdrmer8' Voice. |
Spain wants an international com
mission to formulate common measures
the anarchists. An interna-
ional commission to formulate meas
lres that will render anarchists useless,
md therefore harmless, has not yet
'een proposed.-BrOektOn, Massachu
etts, Diamond.
In 1889 Jno. G.. Carlisle said in
congress that to destroy silver
y legislation or other wise as
he most gigantic crime of this
any other oge." With Mr.. Gar
active aid this "most gigan-
ic crime" was consumated last week.
We may expect that he and Cleveland
I'LL go on another hilarious drunk to
CELEBRATE the success of their infamous
Onspiracy.-DakOtG RWrdList.
We spent an hour at the Chicago
GARD of trade and watched the crowd
capitalistic lunatics make bedlam of
ne wheat and provision pits. A wake !
t aDonnybrook fair, 1 imagine, would :
Q a quiet and orderly affair compared t
18th what we saw, but there seemed
} be method in their madness and at |
end of the hour farmers through !
ut the West were getting cent a {
ushel less for wheat.-A6erdeen Stor.