The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-09-18
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Hard Hits, Bold Sayings and Patriotic
Paragraphs from Reform Papers
They are Worth the Price Of
One Paper Q Whole Year.
Next Monday is Labor's Day, but
every day in the year is Capitals day.
Baltimore Herald.
The sweetest music is that we never
hear; the prettiest women are those we
never see; the best things in the world
are those we never get.-DetrOit Free
Press.
How long have the two old parties
made a sham battle on the TARIFF Ever
since you were a little boy, have they
not7 Is it any better now than at frst9
Arkansas PopWlist.
Yes, this is o free country, but the
present administration is not American
enough to know it; and it puts patriotic
men into prison cells for reminding it
of that fact.-OhiO PopWIist.
The last heard from Carl Brown he
was marching his army towards Wall
street. The bankers down in that den
of thieves will tell Carl to keep off the
cobbIe stones.-SOuthern Mercury.
The undivided surplus accumulation
of capital held by the Pullman Com
pany amounts to $25, OOO, 900. This fact
was brought out in evidence given by
officers of the corporation last Monday.
Chicago Ecpress.
Farmers should select good repre-
sentative men of their own class as
leaders and stand by them through
thick and thin. This, says a contem-
porary, is the way to win recognition
from other classes. -GainsUiUe Signal.
The death(O of the Populist party is
exempliied by that gathering that DC
Cured in Williams Grove, Pa, on
Wednesday, when 10, 200 persons were
present to hear the candidate for Gov.
ernor on the Populist ticket make a
speech.-Lynch6urg Advance.
Some of our reformers think serious
ly that there is no further use for the
Alliance. How far off are all such9 If
you wish to secure just laws, you must
keep the farmers organized. All other
classes are organized, and the farmer
is forced to it.-Living Issues.
No elaborate scheme for government
control of railroads is necessary. The
government needs only to retain con-
troll of the properties already in the
hands of the courts. That will do for
a starter and the rest will be managed
when the time comes .-DWLutb Daily
Commonwealth.
To the young man who casts his first
ballot this fall we would say: Don't
fasten the brass collar of inherited po-
litical belief around your neck. Study
the question of to day and act upon
your own conviction as to what course
to follow. Vote intelligently and for
your own Observation-Disclosures World.
Marquis PulIman's attempt to pose
as a philanthropist will hardly win.
There never has been a more iron
hearted employer than George M. Pull
man, and his entire record is a contin-
ual disregard of the rights of employees.
His city of Pullman is merely a gigan-
tic speculation, and the fact cannot be
covered up by any plausible statements
before the Labor Commission Rocky
Mountain NeUs.
Speaking of the Democratic Populist
fusion on Weaver in the Ninth Iowa
District, the Atlanta Journal says:
1.-THE election of a Republican would
be as much a Democratic victory as
the election of Weaver" The Journal
is owned by Secretary of the Interior
Hoke Smith, and doubtless expresses
President Cleveland's ideas. John Sher-
is a model Democrat in Cleve-
lands yes.-ChicagO Times.
believe the day has come and now is
when the ministers of our country
from every pulpit ought to sound the
alarm and preach and talk on the line
of political purity, on right and duty,
on contentment and industry, faith
and f~rugality, and the preacher who
satisfies his conscience on any lower
plane than this, however much he may
do for the church, is doing very little
to rectify the evils among his fellow
men and to run the devil out of this
land.-ReU. Sam Jones.
THE MUZzLED PRESS.