The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-10-30
CREAM OF THE PRESS.
Hard Hits, Bold Sayings and Patriotic
Paragraphs from Reform Papers
They are Worth the Price of
One Paper a Whole Year.

4aSy are worth the Ff1ce OF
One Paper a Whole Year.
There is new machine, a recent in
vention, for counting money We
don't know a single producer Of wealth
that needs one Industrial U'sion
If Christ came to Chicago" he would
find the worst lot of scoundrels to be
found in the world, excepting New
York.-ArkGusGs Farmer.
It is likely that five cent cotton was
too much for the Democratic party in
Georgia. People are not hogs and
know when they have enough LiUing
Issues
The goldbugs make the laws, the
straddlebugs make the platforms, the
humbugs make the speeches, and the
boOdlebugs endorse the whole thing
Sun, Tacoma, Wash
Democracy as now organized has
traded off the old Jeffersonian chart,
lost the old Democratic rudder, and the
good old party is now sloshing around
at random.-Farn1ers' Voice.
Wonder if the Wilson bill took the
tariff off cotton, if SO, we guess this is
the reason that cotton is so much
cheaper than it was before the Demo
cratic tariff bill was passed. d.-Arkansas
POpWli8t.
The Chicago Herald observes that
horses are very cheap" This is un-
doubtedly true. Men are very cheap
also, and as a matter of fact every
thing else is cheap except money and
taxes. Topeka Advocate
America is not the land of the free
while every child that is born issubject
to the payment of a bonded debt, nor
while seven out of every ten only has
a place on earth by paying rent to a
landlord. Chicago EGpress.
Don't forget that through the instru-
mentality of the would be Senator
Jarvis the State of North Carolina lost
about $780, 600 taxes by the Whining
ton and Weldon compromise bill that
passed the last egislature.-OaGT Home.
The 3,787 national banks Of Febru-
ary %, 1894, owed individuals subject
to check 81. $50, j 800, 444 and had only
$433, $50, ,261 in cash. In other words,
they could not pay their depositors by
81, 152, 72O, 1873. Greatest system on
earth. LiUirag Issues
''Things is gettin' mighty mixed,
Mandy" said Farmer Corntossel;
mighty mixed, " 'whut's the matter9'
THE politicians air all tryin' ter tell
the farmers about farmin' an the farm
ers air tryin' ter tell the politicians
about politics. - Washington Star.
They (the Democrats claim that
they give us free bagging, whenin fact
it was Populist PETER that threatened
to block legislation unless free bagging
was given the Southern farmers. The
Democrats say that they did it, and
ought to be ashamed of it, but they are.
not.
The Farmers National Congress, at
Parkersburg, W. ", voted against free
silver. OF course. That is the kind of
farmers most of these fellows are The
majority of them could not tell cucum-
Der from an ak handle They are the
Morton breed of farmers. -FGrn1ers'
Voice.
The people go hungry while the
farmer has a surplus, that wastes or
sells at ruinously low prices. The peo-
pie go ragged, while the merchants
complain of being unable to sell cloth
ing. And still the ignorant refuse to
learn, and cry overproduction. n.-PittS-
field, II Advocate.
What does it cost to produce an
American man, a man fit to be your
fello ow-man, and become our brother
and our partner9 One who can help
us administer the estate of liberty left
by our forefathers9 The mission of
the Alliance is to help you in this work,
fellow farmers. Cotton Plant.
Two things the Democrats have got
out of Georgia are-Hoke Smith and
Populist gain of 81, 600 votes in one
year. A minister passed his hat round
to serve as contribution box, and re-
ceiving nothing, thanked God that he
got his hat back from that congrega-
tion. Wonder if Grover thanks God
for his Hoke7-B BrOcktOa Diamond.
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