The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-15
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Hard Hits, Bold Sayings and Patriotic
Paragraphs from Reform Papers
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Wheat going down, cotton going
down. All products of labor going
down and gold going abroad Nation
al Waterman.
Watch and pray and act or vote
while you pray, so that you may pre-
vent Shylock's damnable preytng.-
Peoples Advocate.
The six cent cotton raisers should be
getting ready to rally to the support of
the old party. The t%orty-cent wheat
contingent should fall in also. -SOWth-
ern Mercury.
The Prussian government has oper
ated in railroads so successfully that a
surplus Of 81, 0ee, 900 has accumulated
and it is now proposed to reduce fares
still lower. -BrOokt0n Diamond.
The SOC railroad presidents of this
country receive $22, 600, 900 a year in
salaries which would nearly all be
saved to the people under government
ownership.-LGbOrS Tribune.
Tt occurs to us that one whose only
argument against the reform move
ment is his own bad way Of spelling
the word (''refawn'O has little upon
which to base his opposition Car
haQe Free Press.
One of the proverbs of Solomon is
that money is a good servant, but a
a bad master" yet the people have
allowed it to become the master in
this country in the hands of a favored
feW.-Labors' Tribune.
Six billion of New York wealth has
spoken and the income tax idol is
broken. When one thousand men
affirm, sixty-fve million people bow
their heads in humble submission
Kings County, Cal, NeWs.
The little boy chasing a bird to throw
salt on it's tail that he may catch it,
should be laughed at by big
boobies who try to capture prosperity
by voting the Republican or Democratic
ticket. -TbOrnton's Monitor, st. Louis,
No.
The farmers should not forget that
all wealth comes out of the ground,
and that the earth pays all debt. The
bond debt with which Mr., Carlisle
is now trying to set up visionary gold
redemption must be paid by the farm
ers.-SOuthern Mercury.
Republican papers are complaining
because a lsrge number of Congress
men left their seats lately and went to
witness the opening baseball game.
The people would be just as well off if
they would play ball or fish all the
time. Their noise and votes is a dis
grace to the country Council GrOUe
Courier.
Congress has made appropriations
up to date this year amounting to $7O,-
060, Ooe, being SIS, 900, 900 more than
were appropriated last year. Thus are
our ~plutocratie law makers paving the
way for another issue of interest bear
ing bonds. How long, o Lord, will the
people continue to elect such legisla-
tors9-Jasper, N. Y, Weekly.
Col. Watterson, editor of the Louis
vile Courier Journal, a short time ago
said: st have reached the sublime
height of Democratic philosophy when
1 don't care what happens, so it don't
hit me-. 1 a agree with my friend
Kelly, however, that if Cleveland's
second term had come first he would
never have had the second. "-Kansas
COmmeneF.
How is thisi If we find a dollar, and
pay it to you, for what we owe you,
and you pay your debt with it to an
other, and he to a fourth, and that
fourth ewes US, and pays us with the
same dollar, who has been harmedl If
we then drop it in the river, we are all
even, and have done business. Does
it make any difference to you whether
it was gold, silver or paperG Who will
complaiRG-TriBune, Saginaw.
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