The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-22
CREAM OF THE E


They are Worth the Price of
One Paper a Whole Year.
The tariff and free trade muddle set,
tied either way will not give the desired
financial relief National VitW.
Are the religious and agricultural
papers going to remain quiet always,
and not denounce corruption and de-
p~ression9- Gainesville Farmers Out
look.
Believe about one-half of what you
read in the subsidized papers, and only
half believe about half of that, and
you'll have it about half right.-OhiO
Populist.
Cleveland is now buying the passage
of the tariff bill. His pie counter is
nearly run out, but the nor hungry
are satisfied with crumbs. National
Waterman.
Book fearning will do much, but
never can it displace the knowledge
gained by the agriculturist, who comes
in actual contact with his work.-PO-
mona Herald.
Mr.. Bland has not come to the part
ing way" yet, and he is too near sighted
to see that he is only a tool to divide
the people, or else he is in the ring
L06Ors Tribune.
There must be something radically
wrong with the superstructure when
the sympathy of whole communities
and States are with the commonweal-
ers even in the violation of law.
The Populists alone are united on a
plan for relief. The other parties are
scattered like a flock of sheep after a
storm. They do nothing but run around
and bIeat. Friend Herald, lola, Kan.
The money question cannot be rele,
gated to the ear by a sham fight over
the tariff, The people are reading and
thinking, and this fall they will express
themselves at the ballot box -MiSsOuri
World.
Whatever conditions exist are the
result of the system and the system is
the outcome of the laws. To change
the system, change the laws. A vote
for principle always counts. -BrocktOn
Diamond.
1 will give 800 for any money, no
matter how small its value, that was
not made money by the fat of some
law. The law, not the substance on
which it is printed, makes money!.
a. Wayland.
Senator Mills says in his tariff speech
thai the people should not be coming
to Washington but should turn back
and appeal to the ballot box. That
ballot box appeal will bemade this fall,
Mr.. Senator. and don't you forget it.
Southern Mercury.
Of the three hundred and fifty mem,
bers Of Congress, two hundred and
twenty five. are lawyers, and in most
cases they are the paid attorneys of
wealthy corporations. Whathavef farm
ers and laboring people to expect from
spcha gang as this7-ChicGgo ErpresS.
The Boston Herald sees in populism
''a disposition orevolutionize the form
of government established in this re.
public" Oh, no. That has always
been done by legislation of both of the
parties. The disposition" now is to
restore the form of government estab.
lished in this republic. -Brockton
Diamond,
A few years ago our representatives
IN Washington were recklessly voting
appropriations to dissipate an enor-
nous revenue; now they are made
dizzy-headed trying to devise schemes
for raising a revenue to d~issipate enor-
nous expenditures. And in the mean.
time taxes have not been reduced a
mill. -FarmerS' Voice.
It is stated on the best authority that
the protected industries have between
six and seven millions of dollars in
Washington to control the action of
the Senate on the tariff bill. They
claim that only two Democratic votes
are needed to defeat the Wilson bill
and that they a be obtained. We
shall have to wait and watch to find
out who they are.-COttOn Plant.
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