The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-01-23
CREAM OF THR z
Hard Hits, Bold Sayings and Patriotic
Paragraphs from Reform Papers
They are Worth the Price Of
o. pnnnr a Whole Year.

The present Democratic administra-
ton has put about half of the popula-
ton of the country into bankruptcy
Southern Mercury.
John Sherman is bound to accomp-
lish the will of his master-the money
power-if he has to use the Democratic
party to do it.-TndustriGI SIedge
Hammer.
With the beginning of new year is
the time to make good resolutions and
the best one that could be made now is
to swear off wearing a party collar
LGbOrs' Tribune.
A tramp is sent to the rock pile for
having no visible means of support,
and quite frequently another man with
no visible Q of support is sent to
Oongress.-NeU Charter.
Talk about the Boston tea party"
says Ignatious Donnelly, land the
stamp tax! Why, we are a degenerate
race of fools-tramping after old party
banners into the poor houses"
With the harmony of feeling and
the parity now existing between the
two old parties, some distinguished
Democrats ought to rise up and move
to make the thing unanimous .-ArbOr
State.
It is said that not one man in dozen
knows what he is living for. Just
double that number about election
time and you will find they don't know
what they are voting for.-American
Enterprise.
The gold bugs have half a billion
dollars on deposit in New York banks
which they are afraid to invest except
in government bonds, hence Oarlisle's
anxiety to issue two hundred millions
for them.-LobOrs' Tribune.
Representations of bushels Of wheat
in the Chica b elevators. In the came
city ara44O0,OOO men vic ba
earned enough in
a single bushN1
Der Of me~
A Thanksgiving pfay
Gratis: 20, Godl we thank thee for
the bountiful wealth which the work
ingmen have produced for US; but we
thank thee more especially because the
people are foolsr'-Patterson Labor
Standard.
One OF our farmer friends drove in
last Saturday TO buy a few dollars. He
was compelled to give over two bushels
of wheat for a dishonesty silver dol.
lar. But we can't figure out what an
honest(0 dollar would have cost him.
-Kansas Graphic.
There are several classes of patent
medicines which purport to cure deaf
ness. It would be a good idea to pre-
scribe them for them for the members
Of our national Congress who seem IN
able to hear the cries of the people for
relief. Farmers Advocate.
The tax payers of this country will
no doubt greatly rejoice at the thought
that they are maintaining a high priced
Congress to spend time and money in
~quarreling over a little kingdom out in
the Pacific Ooean that does not amount
to a continental anyway.-Farmers'
Voice.
We have but little sympathy for the
farmer or laborer who is continually
growing about hard times and lack of
money and who continues to vote these
conditions on themselves and thereby
enslave their posterity by their want
of sober consideration and s~elf-reliant
action.-1he POpuIiSt.
According to General Fitzhugh Lee,
President Cleveland gave $1,000 in
cash to the Virginia machine with
which to elect the goldbug ticket in
that State. If Grover contributes in
this ratio to all the States a hole will
be knocked in his salary which can
only be repaired by an extra appropri
alton in the urgency deficiency BILL
NOncOnfOrmGSt.
We have little sympathy for a large
class of people who are now pinched
by the hard times. They we're warned
of the disastrous consequences of con
tracing the currency, long ago, yet
they scofed at the warning and voted
for men and parties that favored the
destruction Of silver a money, and
other contraction schemes of the gold
bugs. They n now crying, tariff,
tariff, tariff" Heaven pity them, we
can't.-Jasper, N. Y, Weekly.