The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-10-23
CREAM OF THE PRESS

They are Worth the Price of
One Paper a Whole Year.
Population has increased the past 20
years faster than the increase OF o
supplies or ton.-COttOn Plant.
It ia rumored that Growers attack
of malaria" is liable to terminate In
delirium tremens.-TWIare, CAL, CEtt-
zen.
Farmers are now getting $15 less per
bale for cotton than they did in 1892.
This is Democratic reforml-People's
Paper.
Ransom, Jarvis, Henderson & 90.
saw the new tariff has brought down
goods. Wonder if that is what has
brought down cottonG-Hickory Mer-
curry.
How many honest advocates of free
coinage will the old parties catch with
their silver baited hook this fall9 They
haven't had even so much as a nibble
yek-The Progress.
When English capitalists and manu-
facturers wine and dine an American
statesman the people should not be slow
to inquire the cause of this friendship.
Grange Advocate.
Won't the people be blessed and
happy when diamonds are on the free
list. Give the Democrats another
chance and we'll all wear diamonds.
Never mind your stomaches, but go for
diamonds. -Americdn Enterprise.
If the windows in your pants are not
big enough, you are hereby assured
that under the rule of Grover they will
be next winter. No working man
should wear breeches without windows.
He might ''be took" for a millionaire,
American Enterprise.
Just think of it, friends, if only the
farmers and laboring men of this
country would go to the polls this fall
and vote for their own interests, they
could put an end to periodic panics for
all time to come, and usher in the wei
come dawn of a universal and lasting
prosperity Ohio PopuIist.
A girl by the nam of Clara Lowell,
of Chicago, deliberately walked into
the lake with the intention of drown
ing herself a few days ago. She chose
death to a career of prostitution or
starvation. Such cases are common
in these sound(0 money and gold
standard times. Southern Mercury
One of our Chicago Congressional
nominees thumped his opponents nose
and barked his shins because he said
he was dishonest. Served him right,
The idea of calling a politician dishon
est before he gets into Congress is
monstrous. When he gets in the fellow
will likely prove the charge himself
Farmers Voice.
It will take more labor and more of
the Fproducts of labor to pay the new
tariff than it did to pay the Mckinley
tariff. This because of the demoneti
cation of silver by the Democratic Con
gress and President last fall. Here is
a fact that Democrats ought to put in
their pipes and smoke. Missouri
World.
Democracy is a noble word, but the
people are no longer led by sounding
terms. If the Democracy of Thomas
Jefferson dominated the Democratic
party of today there would be no PEG
pies party nor any place for it. UC-
happily, that Democratic party of lofty
ideals and glorious record has drifted
away from its true moorings. It has
left a place which must be flled-the
place of the party of the people, the
party which stands for equal rights to
all and special privileges to none, the
party which will fight the ~concentra
ton of wealth and will oppose the
power of p~lutocracy in the law making
bodies of the people. The place thus
left vacant the Peoples party will essay
to fill. It was well for the glorious old
Democracy if it would discard it's false
and mercenary leaders and return to
the honorable position which it is still
within it's power to regain. Chicago
Times.
Young clover should not be pastured
in the fall unless itgets forward enough
to blossom. If it does the pasturing is
better than allowing the clover to seed