The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-02-13
CREAM OF hi PRESS.

Hard Hits, Bold Sayings ana Fatr1OIAC
Paragraphs from Reform Papers
Thev are Worth the Price OF
One Paper a Whole Year.
The DOOR working men out of work
and eating soup this winter will get
lust what they voted for.-Nat1o"ot
VIetU.
On being informed that Grover Cleve
land is not the United States, it is said
that Queen Lii has decided not to sue
this country for breach of PROMISE
Farmers Tribune.
The farmers of the country should
learn a lesson from their friends in
other associations and unite for self
education and self protection Nd
tiIOndI Farm and FGTeSIde.
Again we ask why don't tie present
administration resign9 1t has shown
to the country sufficiently plain that
it is incapable of conducting the affairs
of this government. National Watch
man..
Grover Cleveland, John Sherman,
Gar Reed, and the balance of you,
stand up now and receive the thanks
of p~lutocracy. You have worked the
bond matter to a success.-OttGtCG
Journal.
1873 and 1898: In the first, silver
was secretly demonetized. In the lat
ter year the same thing was done
openly by joint action of the Demo
cratic and Republican parties. San
Francisco Press.
The first week in January registered
652 failures, the first time in history
the 500 mark has been passed. The
Cleveland administration has just got
it's hands in. 1t will do better from
this on.-SOWhern Mercury.
When the people begin to buy, the
factories will begin to open up. They
will begin to buy when money gets
plenty-not before. Free coinage and
a government issue of legal tender
greenbacks will do it Farmers Tri-
bune.
The Democratic party has got it's
chance. Now just look at it! With
eighty majority in the House and yet
can't get a quorum together without
running their members down with
hounds.-IndianGpOIis, Ind, NoncOn-
fOrmiSt.
We guess you know by this time that
the Sherman law had nothing to do
with business depression, and we
further presume that you will find out
that the tariff has not anything to do
with it either. - Charleston, w. Va
Advocate.
The most effective method of express
ing your disapproval of obnoxious sys-
TENS is to vote against the party re-
sponsible for their inception or perpet-
uation. It is much more effective than
prayers, petitions or resolutions.-Mj8
SOuri World.
Congress costs the nation So, COO q
day, not a quorum present one-haIf the
time, and every pledge made to the
people unredeemed. Shame on Ameri
cans who allow such a condition of
affairs to exist. -Farmers' Weekly,
Jasper, N. Y.
Mr.. Cleveland, Carlisle, Gresham &
Co., have done in ten months, what
the Republican party failed to do in
years, viz: killed the Democratic
If it had been prepared, it
wouldn't have been such a pity
Hickory Mercury.
Patches on the gabel end of a pair of
pants have been named a Democratic
badge by a Joplin lady, but the name
is more appropriate as a twin badge
of the old parties, for there is generally
two patches caused alike by old party
rule.-LabOrS' Tribune.
The two old parties are SO near alike
in objects and aims that they combine,
without any difficulty, against the
Populists. In fact, the difference in
name is about the only distinction be-
tween modern Democracy and Repub-
Iicanism. Southern Mercury.
One of the signs of the gold bug fad
is to see a man sitting upon a dry
goods box, his toes sticking out of his
shoes, holes in his pants and a big wart
on his nose, swearing that the United
States wants money that is good in
s. d., Leader.
MEAT FROM A DIGESTION EXPE-
RIMENT.