The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-06-12
CREAM OF THE PRESS.
Hard Hits, Bold Sayings and Patriotic
Paragraphs from Reform Papers,
They are Worth the Price of
One Paper a Whole Wear

One Paper . Whole Year.
The gold basis" route-wheat from
81 bushel to so cents - Chicago Sen
ti9aeI.
He that can't think is fool, he that
will not think is knave, and he who
fears to think is q slave. Pilot, CiscoI,
TeHaS.
The Standard Oil Company has more
influence than the whole Democratic
party and the sugar trust more power
than Congress. LabOr's Tribune
The plutocrats are making their
bed. The thorns they are laying down
for the poor and oppressed will pierce
their own flesh. Advocate, Buffalo,
" Y.
The Alliance is the very fountain Of
the present reform movement and
when you let the order go down it will
be bad day for reform. Living
Issues.
John Sherman, it is said, has doubled
the force of detectives about his home
and person. A needless precautioD;
the devil takes care of his own. -afs3-
land Journal.
During the year 1898 there wereo over
80, 900 mortgage foreclosures and more
than 16, 600 commercial failures in this
country. Grand old prosperity, this
is. Midland Journal
A correspondent writes to ask US If
the Democrats will pass the Wilson
bill. No, dear friend They won't
pass the Wilson bill. They won't pass
anything. They can't even pass the
time of day, -EcchGnge
Hereafter when Breckinridge is
caught prowling around young ladies'
seminaries, with the fell purpose of de-
livering his typewriter address on
Social Purity" it will be no mistake
TO turn the dogs loose. - Exchange
Many figures have been given dur
ing the past year showing the expense
of getting silver out of the mines. 1t
has now dawned upon the country that
it ie much easier to get silver out Of
the mine, than out of the vaults of
Washington = Ve1etWrG, Cal, Peoples
Ad0OcGte.
AS rule, men never think of God,
Christ or Heaven, or the future till
they get deathly sick. And as rule
men will not study their political in
terests till financial death stares them
in the face. The fellow that refuses to
wake up now is too dull to run at.large.
-IOtUG Farmer.
Our present paternal government
that is engaged in buttering the bread
of special few at the expense of the
many, must give way to a fraterna1
government that will guarantee to
every individual the full measure of
benefits derived from his toll. Kings
County, CAL, Nea0S.
Industrious producers are poor be-
cause they have been robbed of the
wealth they create But this is not
all. The robber makes the laws and
under these laws, poverty is a crime. !"
Men are being arrested and imprisoned
every day simply because they are
poor. Missouri World.
Why not have an international agree
ment on the tariff question: It seems
as though we cannot settle it to suit
ourselves, or our European friends
either, for that matter. There is equally
as much sense in settling the tariff this
way as the money question; how would
it suit our Republican friendsi-Hbe
Pilot, Noble, III.
''If the world really wants bimetal-
ism it can get it without deferring
longer to England. The United States
alone can bring England to time il it
will but act with courage and prompt
ness. With France, Germany, Bel
gium and Russia united with this
nation, John Bulls capitulation would
be immediate. 20 Chicago Times.
That is aristocratic grass In capitol
square at Washington, held sacred for
the patent leather shoes encasing silk
stockings and feet of tariff barons, cor
poration lobbyists, bankers and other
genteel thieves engaged in robbing the
producing classes of this country. The
| fellows with coWhide boots must keep
off the grass. "-Mississippt PopWItst.
The prosperity that was promised
when the Sherman bill was repealed is
lost or gone fishing. We read every
day in the daily papers that the gold
is going to Europe, but when the silver
bill was up for discussion the departure
of gold was laid to the odious Sherman
cOwardly makeshift, so-called, and
that the longer it remained law the