The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-04-24
CREAM OF THE PRESS.

Eaard Hits, Bold Sayings and Patriotic
Paragraphs from Reform Papers
They are Worth the Price of
One Paper a Whole Year.
Me and old Cleveland are giving the
Democrats some hard knocks during
this cool Weather.-TOnl Watson.
just what the Republican party is
united on, except the pursuit of Office,
is hard to find out.-HoIton Tribune.
Congress thinks it better to tax the
poor mans sugar rather than the rich
mans income.-Colorado State Guard.
The safest place to put the life of this
nation is in the hands of the farmer.
For thirty years it has been in the
hands the elawyer.-Sa Miguel Courier
The greatest monopoly that aff1icts
us today is the money monopoly.
Don't you believe itG Put your hands
In your pocket and be convinced =
American Enterprise.
1t is an awful sight behold some poor
devil without decent suit of clothes
whooping for money good in ''Yurup." :"
There are just such characters all over
the country, however. LiUing Issues
Some men in this world had rather
be a rich mans poodle dog than an
American citizen. Such men have too
little sense to vote, and ought not tobe
allowed to run atlarge. LjUipg Issues
Well, you had Republican panic in
1873 and Democratic panic in 1894,
and a combination panic between the
two, Which do you like best, and
where is the differenceQ-Co Coming No
ton.
Don't kick on the low price of horses
and mules when you aided the money
power to demonetize silver, thereby
running the cotton States, one of the
best markets for those animals. Mis-
souri, World.
The Mckinley robber tariff robs the
people yearly Of about $500, 900, 900.
The present Congress proposes to re
duce it to about $3.50, OOO, 900 and issue
$500, 900, 900 of bonds. Great reform
ers!-GainesviIle Signal
Your Sub Alliance meetings are the
foundation stones of governmental re-
form. Be sure you attend them and
at the same time take your State organ.
Those two things arms you against all
opposition. Cotton Plant.
81 suggest an issue of bonds" says
Cleveland. or course you do. That's
what you were put there for. Your
friend Harrison would have worked
the same racket if he had been elected,
and for the same reason. BrOcktO1a
Diamond.
Coxey's army now numbers 400, the
same as Ward McAllister's. And, by
the way, it would add greatly to the
interest of the occasion if Ward and
his faithful followers would set out on
foot for Washington.-N Y. Morning
Advertiser.
Oh, it is so trying to me to go into
our great, splendid Capitol, and see the
Congressman just idling away their
time in such heartless Indifference to
the awful need of the country; they
might give relief in twenty four hours,
if they were not slaves to party and to
old superstitions as to the necessary
rigmarole through which legislation
always has gone.-Mrs. Annie L..
Diggs.
There is on over supply of wheat in
the land, and people are hungry; shoe
factories are closed down or running
on half time in the east, and thousands
are plodding around without soles to
their shoes; wollen mills are waiting
for 'trade" to pick up, while the ma
jority of us wear rags; carpenters can't
find work, and the bulk of the race
live in shaks-and some in hay stacks.
If the whole business wasn't so sad, it
would be funny, wouldn't it. Omaha
Commonwealth
LITTER FROM HICKORY.
HICKORY, N. c., April 12, 1894.