The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-08-14
CREAM OF THE PRESS.
Hard Hits, Bold Sayings and Patriotic
Paragraphs from Reform Papers
They are Worth the Price of

Inc spirit OF the Omaha platform if
enacted into law is, practically, chris
tianity applied to government.-Indus.
trial Ne1Us.
; Wheat is being fed to hogs instead
of men in Indiana. Will the tariff help
this troubles We rather think not
National Watchnaan.
The goldbugs make the laws; the
straddlebugs make the platforms; the
humbugs make the speeches, and the
doodlebugs endorse them Western
Watchnlnn.
We don't blame the women for want
ing to vote. The men have made such
a miserable failure of it that it is a
wonder the horses do not want to vote.
Ohio Populist.
The Republican party ought to have
sense enough to see that their policy
won't do, whether it is in their own
hands or in that-of the Democratic
party.-Ohi0 Populist.
Wheat sinking in price and guam
tity, and quality improving. But
where is the dollars to come from to
pay debts contracted with bimetallic
base9-LG6Or's Tribune.
P. P. P.-Populism, purity and pro
gression. R. r. R.-Republicanism,
rascality and retrogression. D. D. D.
Democracy, demagogism and desc
lation. Peoples ReUieVU
= Cleveland and Olney went on a
Sympathetic strike" in favor of Pull
man. Their weapon was the United
States troops, and the victim was
organized labor. -BrOcktOn Diamond.
Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin Repub
can conventions have all adopted q
silver plank in their platform, and
they are all alike in the one particular,
that none of them have any meaning.
-BrOcktOn Diamond.
Congress is paying out millions to
assist the railroads to run trains. Why
not pay half Of it in building roads and
constructing public works9 The other
half would not be needed.-LGbor
Journal, Spokane, Wash.
Remember that strikes aud boycotts
are manifestations of the industrial
distress which is caused by a monopo
ization of currency. Who shall con-
troll the currency-the banks or the
people9 That is the issue. BrOckton
Diamond.
Men talk about being free, but how
can they be free when they insist that
they will vote for a party right or
wrong7 They are not free, but you
can put them down as towards fit only
to be slaves. Freedoml The word is
a stencil in their nostriIs. American
Enterprise.
What has become of the old Demo
cratic doctrine of State rights when a
Democratic President invades a State
with troops and shoots down men,
against the protest of the Governor of
the State, who insists that he is abun-
dantly able to keep the peace.-Fay-
etteUiLLe Solid South.
Said Wendell Phillips, twenty years
and more ago: The war extende
the nominal area of freedom so as to
include the black man, but it did not
make him free, nor will he or his white
brothers ever be free until both he and
they can retain in their pockets the
wealth which they create"
Pullman can't buy postage stamp
any cheaper than you can, but he can
ride across the country for nothing,
and YOU can't. You own as much of
the mail system as he does; that's why
YOU are on level with him in the
postage stamp business. Why not
own the railroads and even the things
I'D there. -BrOcktO11 Diamond.
Some of the papers endorse Mr..
Cleveland and denounce Governor Alt
geld, but wenotice that they denounce
Governor Altgeld, but fail to answer
his arguments. Governor Altgeld can
not be answered. His position is i'm
pregnable. No President has power
to march troops into State unless the
State through its officials has called
upon him to do so or unless the State
is in revolt, in which case the Presl
dent must first make proclamation
TtUentie th Century.
Some of the experiment stations
have for several years conducted
experimerts in the use of commercial