The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-07-24
No. "a
CREAM OF THE PRESS.
Hard Hits, Bold Sayings and Patriotic
Paragraphs from Reform Papers
They are Worth the Price of

E1sro hits, Bold Sayings and Patriotic
Paragraphs from Reform Papers
They are Worth the Price of
One Paper a Whole Year.
Thieves in Office and honest men in
jail seems to be the policy of the two
Old parties at Washington. La6ors'
Tribune
A crank" is always in the minority.
When his ideas are accepted by the
majority he isn't any longer a crank.
Chicago Eapress
Mr.. Carlisle contracted the currency
last month over $14, ,OOO,O That is
the way Cleveland is restoring pros
perity Southern Mercury.
The trouble with the church is it is
trying to stop the spigot with charity
soup, while it permits the justice bung-
hole to remain Open.-L0bOrs' Tribune.
The gold reserve, or the bond hold
ers' nest egg, is down again to less than
seventy million dollars. The next thing
will be another bond issue. Arkansas
Farmer.
Thirty eight Democratic and Rspub-
hcan papers have suspended in Kansas
alone. Five new reform papers have
been born in Georgia within eight
weeks. Farmers Outlook.
The income tax bill exempts the
Presidents $50, 900 salary from the tax.
This saves Grover 1920 a year. Enough
to pay the expense Of another Qhic)
down the river for week. Chicago
SearchIigbt
The Democrats in Congress are get
ting a great deal of revenue out of their
recent attempt to reform the tariff,
which proves that they are in favor of
tariff for revenue only plan.-PeO-
pies Advocate.
The Pullmans cut down the wages Of
their men to starvation prices, and at
the came time gave sixty thousand
dollars to a church in New York, and
declare a company dividend of a mil
lion. -SOWther4a Mercury.
A tax of 40 per cent on sugar which
means an increase of two or three
cents pound. That is the Senate idea.
But some of these same Senators object
to the income tax. It's all right to tax
the poor, but fearfully wrong to touch
the rich.-Te'anessee Current.
If every man who works will only
take time to consider for a moment he
will find that for every dollar spent in
the Alliance the community has re-
ceived ten in benefits. Try this plan
and then decide if it is not best to keep
up the Order.-Liviag Issues.
1t takes a great financier to compre-
hend why the people collectively should
loan money to the national banks with
out interest and individually borrow it
back at ten per cent. interest Com,
mon ordinary people don't see any
good sense in it.-ChicGgo Erpress.
This government will never be
government Of the people and for the
people, until we have the referendum,
that is until the people can vote upon
every act of legislation before it goes
into effect. Then the people would
have their government in their own
hands.-Fdrn1ers Voice.
Ia Great Britain there is a disposi-
tion to get rid of the House of Lords,
an old, moss back, stiff necked, aristo-
cratic body that represents nothing,
not even itself. 1t would be a. good
thing if we could get rid of our lazy,
fat, millionaire House of Lords, the
United States Senate. It is about the
most useless thing the world ever saw.
If we can't do that let us enforce the
plan of electing the Senators by popu-
lar vote.-FGrmgers' Voice.