The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-11-13
No. 40
CREAM OF THE PRESS.

Hard Hits, Bold Sayings and Patriotic
Paragraphs from Reform Papers
They are Worth the Price of
One Paper a Whole Year.
The old parties have nothing TO offer
the people but stones while they are
crying for bread. Midland journal.
Mortgaging our prosperity to foreign
syndicates is called obtaining foreign
capital to develop our resources.-
SIedge Hammer.
If the devil has his way the people
will still allow themselves to be side
tracked by discussion of the tariff
Labor AdUOcate.
Can a Congressman do anything
under the sun that will prevent GER
tain people btindly voting for hint
Farmers Voice, Chicago.
Count cut methods may win for
time, but they will bring damnation
to the party that employs them in the
end. Nashville Farmers Voice.
The Individual who tells you to let
politics alone wants you to curry his
horse and wants your wife 10 scrub
his foors.- Commonwealth, CIsntOn,
Mo.
Let all opponents of the money
power stand ehoulder to shoulder; the
time has arrived to close in en- the
English dictators of our financial sys
tenn at the Missouri World.
Every thing is being leveled do gn to
the Cleveland gold standard basis.
When we strike the bottom and the
settling ceases then the tariff blinded
Democrats willequeal, too. Gainesville
Signal
-Four years more Of Grover" used to
be the cry Now there are some per
sons who would be satit fed with few
minutes of Grover, provided they
were devoted to letter writing Rich
n1Ond Star.
Willie Astor's daily iucome is $23,
277. The daily income of the Iaborer
is something like 81, and often less
than that. And yet some people won
der why it is that the Peoples party
is growing so rapidly,-The TIdimgs
Wherever the cities own their pub
lie franchises such as water works, gas
works and electric light plants the
rates are much lower than where
owned by private companies. This is
government ownership for advocating
which the Populists are called cranks.
Labor Advocate
The national committee has sent
word to Texas by order from Wall
street, calling the gold standard advo-
catas eff the stump. The bosses, see
that goldocracy is not popular in
Texas. The people are again to be fed
free silver, and after the election gold
standard will be crammed down their
throats. s.-Southern Mercury.
To the woman correspondent who
asks, "Where can find the old song
in which the chorus runs" Well
have to mortgage the farm, the farm,
the dear old farm" We suggest that
the old song is ever new, and is now
sung on sixty six per cent. of all the
farms in the country, and if the Demo
cratic or Republican parties continue
in power, you'll be sure to have it
come on your own farm BrocktO1a,
Mo IS Diamond.
The frank and sincere man is more
admirable figure in politics, even
though he cling to unscientific and
dangerous theories Of government,
than the political trickster and quib-
bier. And instances could be multi
piled to show that no politician ever
held long the confidence and support
of the American people by trying to
conceal his conviction, by lodging
Issues, or by trying TO be all things to
all men, In politics, as in other affairs
of the world, courage wins Chicago
Times
WAYNE COUNTY TAKES STOCK.