The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-04-03
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Hard Hits, Bold Sayings and Patriotic
Paragraphs from Reform Papers
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One Paper n Whole Year.
The Wilson tariff bill puts jackasses
on the free list. Congress IL no slow
to provide for itself. -Kimgs County
NeUs
There seems 20 be an Over-prOductiOn
of broken Democratic pledges, That
is the only kind of owe production that
is causing hard times Sooner, Ne0
kirk. Ok.
Money is the issue Never forget
that. When the money question is
settled, right then some other question
will be the issue, but not until it is
Farmers Tribune.
Three hundred million dollars has
been lost by the farmers by the fall in
the price of wheat, corn. oats and pota-
toes during the past twelve months -
Sandy Hall, ~ Y, Herald.
What a world of misery, crime, and
death would have been averted had old
John Sherman been sent { the peli
Tertiary thirty years ago instead of to
Congressl-S San Jose, Cal. Tribune.
Once more we venture the remark
that the United States Senate is a dis
grace to the country, and that the
Populist members are about the only
saving feature in it.-TOpekG AdUO-
cate.
Our Congress has dwindled into a
party Of Office hunters with a few hon
orable exceptions, and Breckenridge is
a specimen of a large number of our
sta esmen, old rakes and rOues.-The
Midland Journal.
Office is the only incentive a man
can have for being a Democrat or Re-
publican, unless he allows himself to
remain uniformed as to the true rela
tionship Of the two old parties to the
people. Colorado State Guard.
The Western and Atlantic Railroad
in Georgia, the only n owned by the
State, has been paying a handsome
profit for twenty five years, and now
pay one-third the expenses for the
State Government Exchange.
The St. Louis Globe Democrat says
the silver dollar is now worth only
forty five GEMS. This opinion comes
from the CD editorial rooms, while
in the counting room silver dollars are
worth one hundred cents The Reds-
Oner
Make the position of the national or
~ganization of your party the test a. to
whether IG is entitled to your support
ornot. The great questions are national
Your Congressman's voting right
should not hold you in a party that in
its national organ cation is wrong.
The wise farmer will keep cool in the
field of politics.. He should have no
axes for the politicians to grind, neither
should he wheedled into turning the
grtndstore for others, and above all.
see hat he keeps his own nose
off the stone. -PennSylUdniu Farmer.
An anomaly: Stanford dies so rich
that his widow has an allowance of
$40. 600 per month. Stanf rd's railroad
company, consisting of himself and
three partners, owes the nation $40.
900, 600, and claim that they cannot be
forced to pay.-SGn Francisco Press.
The biggest, the most persistent.
and remorseless thieves are not in the
convict camp, but in mansions. where
they fare sumptuousIy every day If
all the thieves were put into the chain
gang tomorrow it would make gaps
in the business world too fearful to
contemplate. 1t would wipe out Wall
street; it would a~nnihilate the grain
the meat rings, and the whiskey
it would destroy half of the
manufactures, and shut up two thirds
the brokerage ofices."-Dr. IT, H.
Atlanta. Ga