The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-08-28
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Hard Hits, Bold Sayings and Patriotic
Paragraphs from Reform Papers
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Stand by your friends-the reform
press.-ToUa Tribune.
The Democratic candidates will sing
in November, I'm nobody's darling,
nobody votes for me."-LWmbertOn
POpWlist.
The sugar, trust doesn't mind being
abused so long as it's profits are not In
terfered with. Ditto all the rest of the
trusts.-PeninsWlG Farmer.
Grover is a great fellow to want to
restore confidence, and he'll do it if he
has to call out the United States troops
to accomplish it.-OhiO POpWEist.
"Whom. the gods would destroy they
first make mad" There r some very
mad Democratic Congressman in
Washington .-BrOcktOn Diamond.
Government officials who are asking
for an increase of salaries should know
that their salaries are increasing all
the time; they buy more now than ever
before -BrOcktOn Diamond.
The United States Senate might fit
tingly be called a board of trade on
which Senators gamble and insure the
success of their financial deals by
special legislative acts. -People's Ad-
UOcGte.
Somebody in the last ten years has
increased the wealth of the United
States several billions of dollars. The
tillers of the soil have gradually grown
poorer. Where did the increase go9-
Arkansas PopuZist.
A news item says they have discov-
cred a bust of Herod. If the bust of a
United States sugar Senator should
aver get lost in jerusalem, the finder
will declare he has discovered a bust OF
CLASSIFICATION Diamond
Can some old party yelper who pirates
about money that's good in ''Yurrup"
and don't buy his wife two dresses a
year, please tell us why postage stamps
are never below pare and they have no
metal base.-ChicGgO EGprtsS.
Would it not be a glorious day for
the country if only Gar Grover would
retire from this country and begin i'm
mediate development of his Nova
Scotia coal mines which are exercising
his INSCRIPTIONS brain just now more
than the interests of this country9-
Peoples Advocate.
Wheat is selling IL cents lower than
a year ago when we had the Sherman
purchase law. Say, fellows, have you
tumbled to the square lying of the
plutes to get silver out of the way7 If
so, how many more lies can they stuff
down you, before you will take a
tumble to yo~urself9-MiSsissippi POpu-
last.
Whenever a man gets up in a meet
ing of workingmen and advocates the
use of bayonets in r~edressing labor's
wrongs, you may set it down that the
sight of a gun would throw him into
spasms. Men who are not brave enough
to vote for their interests are too in.
formally cowardly to fight Labor
Signal.
The Initiative and Referendum com
bined with the Imperial mandate will
place the ~law-making power in the
hands of the people. That done and
all just reforms r possible. Let every
reformer work for these principles.
Without them reform, though accomp-
lished, will be of short duration. -
HOO8ier Blade.
The productive power of human
labor applied to natural resources, has
never yet been tested. The earth by
the application of human labor will
produce the greatest abundance for all.
Poverty is the result of the greed of
the few who monopolize the natural
opportunities by which the many
might by their labor secure an abund-
n e.-AissOuri World.
1t is now said that Carnegie sent $780,
600, 900 in cash to London for safe keep
ing last fall during the panic. Intact.
a gentleman who ought to know told
us recently that he could give the
names of American millionaires who
held deposits in the Bank of England
for more than $500, 600, 900. He declares
they are preparing for the revolution
they plainly see coming.-National
Waterman.
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