The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-08
No. 13
CREAM OF THE PRESS.
Hard Hits, Bold Sayings and Patriotic
Paragraphs from Reform Papers
They are Worth the Price of
One Pa0ar q VEyhofa Va.r


Paragraphs from Reform Papers
They are Worth the Price Of
One Paper = Whole Year.
Of course it's overproduction, else
why would so many people be starv-
inga-B~Iletim Of Reform
The Democrats now ought to do
something to restore confidence" in
their campaign promises. Carthage
Free Press.
1t costs $3.50, 900 year for each Sena-
tor, and $50, 900 each for Representa-
tives in Congress The salary is a small
item of expense. = Washington Re.
public.
Attorney General Olney is still draw
ing $4,000 as a railroad and trust at
torney, while sworn to execute the
laws for suppression of trusts and the
regulation of great corporations, Ma
tiOnGL Waterman.
Forty thousand families were elected
from New York tenement houses last
year because they could not pay their
rent. They probably did not know
that money was drug in New York.
Washington Republic.
Governor Tillman says there is but
one hope for the country, and that is
for the South to unite with the Popu-
lists of the West. This is just what we
have been preaching for years. Why
didn't the Governor say so sooner9-
LiUS1g Issues.
Last year this government paid for
washing 112, 800 towels for the Repre-
sentatives in Congress. The Senators
had two thirds as many washed. They
are not such an awfully clean lot either
the Congressman, we mean, not the
towels. - Washington Repetblic
The New York Recorder very truth
fully remarks: The people of the United
States are adding to their number at
the rate of about two millions every
year. Business grows with population.
The circulation-the money of coun-
try-ought to grow equally with its
population and it's business.
An editorial printed in the London
Economist in 1873 said: England be
ing the chief creditor nation of the
world, it is to her interest to keep the
volume of money as small as possible
in countries from which debts are due,
in order to get more of their products
in payment of interest due to her citi.
zens."
Thirty yearsl Why thirty years ago
we could have ''bagged" all the mil.
lionaires in the country with an old
horse pistol-and now there are 1900
millionaires! And three million tramps
and ''nary one" thirty years agol
Thirty years ago the people were home
owners; now, they are tenants or
tramps.-ThOs, G. Gardner.
It takes 179 members to constitute a
quorum in the House of Representa-
tives, and there are 219 Democrats
forty more than a quorum, and yet
with the ten Populists to help them
they failed to make quorum during
the whole of last week. Absolutely no
business was transacted at cost to the
tax payers of $12O, 900 for the week
Virginia San.
The President is quoted as saying,
''My God; Oates, the banks have got
the country by the leg. They can drain
the country in forty eight hours" The
description of the situation is not over
drawn. "By the throat" would be
more graphic than ''by the leg." An.
drew Jackson dealt with condition"
of this kind sixty years ago, but he
had different theory" as to the rem
edy requisite for the disease. But then
he was Jeffersonian Democrat. A
John Sherman Democrat knuckles to
the enemy.-BrOcktOn, Massachusetts,
Diamond.