The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-08-09
Among Our Exchanges.


ventor. "-Progressive Farmer.
Among Our Exchanges.
AN exchange truthtully remarks
that when man gets so poor he has
to do his own thinking, he is then q
Populist.
PROVING Democracy o traitor to its
promises does not prove the Republic
can party friendly to that which is
nailed to the cross Deadwood indie
pendent.
put their trade mark on their ballots
the public will discriminate more in
favor of their labor in the purchase of
goods. Exchange.
Tom JEFFERSON said that the men
whose interest was entirely agriculture
al were the only class to place in Office
to restore the nation. It is true to-
day.-Living Issues.
A PARTY is in q bad condition when
it gets so harmonious that it will not
kick traitor out of its ranks. The
two old parties have been in this con-
dition for some time. Norman,
"How AM I going to winter?" is the
question now agitating a number of
the people. Keep voting a goldbug
ticket and you'll be all right in the
spring-in the boneyard. - Leader,
Groton, S. d.
EDISON has succeeded in freezing so
intangible al article as q soap bubble
by electricity. Some wag in Kansas
suggests that he try to make some
thing tangible of the Kansas Republi
can platform. Graphic, Kinsley, Kan.
DEMOCRACY is an organized fraud.
It is demoralized humbug. No in
telligent people in the United States
have any faith or any respect for it.
It il the monumental failure of mod
ern history. Independent, Parsons,
Kan.
A PARTY that cannot run this Gov
eminent in times Of profound peace
without borrowing money confesses its
incompetency. and ought to have the
| decency to go out of business without
| wanting to be kicked it.-Topeka Adj
| vocate.
PEOPLE lose confidence in the banks
but they never lose confidence in cash.
Since it costs so much to maintain
public confidence in private credit,
why not substitute cash and abandon
this confidence game" altogether? p
Living Issues.
LABOR DAY is to be made a legal
holiday, both houses have passed a
bill to that effect. Congress is good
at making holidays. BY its legisla
ton every day is made a hungry holt
day for about 5000. 900 of our people.
Progressive Farmer.
If it is treason to insult the eagle
on our flag, why is it not just as bad to
insult the eagles on the dollars of our
dads? Both are emblems OF authority
and the last q token of the highest pre-
rogative the Government possesses?-
Eldorado NO. Waterman.
THOMAS JEFFERSON, who, at his Sec
ond inauguration as President of the
United States, nearly ninety years
ago, said: The liberties OF the people
are more in danger from the aggres-
sions of the courts than from mobs or
riots. Waco (Texas) Southwest.
THERE is no doubt about Cleveland's
guilt in doing Shylock's dirty work,
but to make him scapegoa: to bear
the thirty years OF sin. that have been
committed by the Republican party, is
piling it into the fat old reprobate O
little too thick. Missouri State
Union.
II is said by some that the LORD
gave Cleveland to the Democrats t
keep them from being proud. Their
in their great liberality they pass hin
along to the country at large, thu:
all of the American pride is we'll nigh
smothered out.-Bruceville Texas
Herald.
In some matters cats are far superior
to men. They get their eyes ope-
when they are nine days old, but ",
J know Of some men who have been vot
ing for thirty years and more, who arr
still as blind to the true issues of TIL
day as are the cats in their first hour
on earth.--Ex.
CLEVELAND is anxious about hi:
health. He is greatly increasing il
weight of body and fears that he viii
die of apoplexv. Let him again b,
, nominated for the Presidency, AM
| after tue $OUeS 0Io COuutcu ne VIII
! have no occasion to ask to appear an,
smaller.-Bruceville Texas Herald
If every man had home what woul.
landlords do for q living? Then d,
) you think these men want system
} that would enable every man to have
home he could neither mortgage O.
) sell? Not bit of it. The tenant
} are in q majority to-day but they vot
the landlords ,icket.-Ex.
FIND us the man who opposes tn
income tax. Why. there can't be
Government without tax AID tina
to be paid by somebody's income
3 Now, the only question is whether +
| collect it from the man who has tn
| money. and has lots of it, or from tn
! poor fellow that has to work fourteen
) hours a day to keep body aud soul to
' Cether. Somebody's income psys il