The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-08-07
No. %
CREAM OF THE PRESS.

Hard Hits, Bold Sayings and Patriotic
Paragraphs from Reform Papers
They are Worth the Price of
One Paper q Whole Year.
Five cent cotton and thirty cent
wheat are Al arguments in favor of a
change in our government policy
Southern Mercury.
A $40, 600, 900 deficiency in the first
years administration of King Grover
is not very favorable for his gold stand
ard policy.-SOUtherr1 Mercury.
We don't believe there are fifty anar-
chists in the United States; if so, they
are the creation of the Congress of
trusts Tuscaloosa, Ala Journal.
Just think of It'll The 1895 corn crop,
which will not be planted for ten months
yet, is now being sold for 373 to 38 cts.
per bushel.-Tbe Tecunaseh Republic.
OF course there will be some pre-
tended opposition to the wishes of those
who hold the bag, but this is simply to
increase the swag. National Watch
man.
The indications are that Coxey will
see to it that the grass is kept green
on the grave of the Demo Reps in the
Eighteenth Ohio this fall.-ObiO POpG,
list.
John Sherman has about gone Demo
cratic and David B. Hill has almost
gone Republican, but Grover Cleve-
land still covers the whole nest
ThOrntOn's Monitor.
Discomfort and misery have taken
the place of happiness and prosperity.
Stop it. Give back to the people their
money and you will have no use for
soldiers.-SenGtOr SteIUGTt.
Unity of purpose, harmony in de-
liberation and concentration of action
on the part of citizens generally will give
a prestige and power to the people that
cannot be disregarded.- Grange AdVo
cate.
Public ownership of electric light and
gas plants, and waterWorks always re-
duces the price of those public utilities.
So would the public ownership of rail
roads and telegraph ines,-GeOrgtG
Patriot.
If the fellow %bo is willing to be a
Populist when the party gstg little
bigger" has his eye on the indicator,
and is as keen as he is cowardly, Eu
will see that it's about time to fall in.
Ohio PopWIiSt,
Will the Democratic party live for
ever9 That depends on Grover. If
Grover can manage to dodge death,
the party will be immortal. But if
Grover fails, Grover is the party
Carthage Free Press.
Cleveland ordered the Chicago mob
to disperse. He got mad when he saw
those strikers and anarchists destroy
ing so much property. They were
about to make a record equal to his
own. He got jealous. CaEIiope.
A Senate that can be influenced by
a sugar trust is not an ideal body from
which to expect any patriotic legisla-
ton In the interest of the common peo-
pie, who are burdened with the exac-
tions of especial privileges. y Brock
tom Diamond.
The two million men now idle most
all the time, and the two million more
idle one-half the time would find con-
slant and profitable work at good
wages, if the government would issue
legal tender money so as to bring the
money volume up to $50 per capita
Missouri World.
Thousands haven't a dollar, yet they
vote the bankers ticket. There are
thousands of tenants, yet they vote
the landlords ticket. Thousands there
are too poor to ride, yet they vote the
railroad ticket. The clothmaker is in
rags, yet he votes the manufacturers
ticket. Why9-Er.