The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-07-17
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Hard Hits, Bold Sayings and Patriotic
Paragraphs from Reform Papers
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You can never get what you want
by voting for what you don't want
Luray, Va, Union.
Pennsylvania is a great State with
two exceedingly small United States
Senators. Chicago Tribune.
When the people are sufficiently
humbugged they will probably give
old common sense a show.-SOutbern
Mercury,
Making wool free will not supply
enough to pull over the eyes of the con
stituents of certain congressman
Washington Ne1Cs.
An honest dollar is one that will
buy what you want to eat, drink or
wear, no matter what material it is
composed of.-W Western POUmGn.
Our national legislators are making
merchandise of their power, at the ex
pense of the people, and the peace and
prosperity of the country American
Enterprise.
The Cleveland Ickelheimer system of
finances makes a regular Ferris wheel
out of the dollar. 1t will soon be as
big as four bushels of wheat. South
ern Mercury,
The Washington Post says that the
daily routine of the Senate consists in
a perfunctory prayer by the chaplain
and sitting down on Senator Hill
Richmond Star.
No government should exist, as a
government, that is conducted to eat
isfy the greed of the wealthy and
ignore the condition of the poor
| Grange Advocate.
Congress will respect the rights of
the workers, just as soon, and just in
the same proportion as the workers re-
spect themselves by placing their
friends in Congress, and not before
LiUing Issues.
Henry Waterson said before the
Chicago Convention, Nominate Mr..
Cleveland and we march through a
slaughter house into an open grave "
Waterson, if not a prophet, must be
the son of one.-Tbe CalIiOpe.
If the system of robbing, the despoil-
iation of producer and consumer, by
the respective trusts is continued it
may become necessary for the govern
ment to own the sugar and coal indus
tries, as we'll as the telegraphs and the
railroads. Industrial NeUS.
Germany has tried railroads on three
plans-namely, private ownership and
conduct of road and outfit government
ownership of track, and government
ownership and conduct of the whole.
The last was found to work the best,
and there are now none but govern
ment roads in Germany.-BostOn
IndeG.
Gold is going abroad at the rate of
more than $25, 600, 900 a month, and
other forms of national currency are
being steadily contracted. So long as
this state of affairs exists prices Will
continue to decline, and not all the
confidence" in heaven, earth and hell
can bring prosperity. Jasper, ~. Y,
Weekly.
The time was when the ills of "Baby
Ruth" received attention from the pub.
lie and press, but now the public has
too many ills of their own, and from
the same source, to pay any attention
to BABY Ruth" In fact they wish
they had never heard of Baby Ruth"
or her papa either. oklahoma 60. IT,
Times Journal.
Is it not q shame that in a land prac
tically flowing with milk and honey"
such a headline as Driven to Suicide
by Hard Times" should daily appear in
the papers throughout the country E
The United States is fast becoming a
country in which the motto every
man for himself, and the devil take
the hindmost," is peculiarly appro-
pirate. Richmond Star.
WHEN OLNEY IS ACTIVE.