The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-04-17
No. 10
CREAM OF THE PRESS.


Hard Hits, Bold Sayings and Patriotic
Paragraphs from Reform Papers
They are Worth the Price Of
One Paper = Whole Year.
When a man becomes so poor he has
to do his own thinking, he is q Populist.
Hickory Mercury.
If the Constitution of the United
States is ''the supreme law Of the land" +"
why does the Sc sretary of the Treasury
consult Wall street instead of the Con-
stitution9-CGrthage Free-Pres8.
The business boom that was conf
IDENTIFY predicted would follow the re-
peal of the Sherman act must have got
lost somewhere. Can anyone locate it's
whereabouts?-GrG Advocate.
Kind reader, did it ever occur to you
that the present deplorable condition
of affairs was brought on by the blind
worship of party without stopping to
THINK Charlotte Peoples Paper
The census reports of 1890 show that
there are on record in the United States
nine million mortgages, with an aver
age Indebtedness of $50 each, equal to
about $4,000, 600, ,OOO.-San Diego VI
dette.
Wedon't hear much talk of late about
parity coinage" We suppose the
parrots talked themselves hoarse and
had to rest a while. You'll hear from
them again before the campaign closes.
Our Home.
A party that refuses to give the peo-
pie just money system cannot be ex-
pected to promulgate a just tariff law.
The r, cord of the Democratic party
has been made on the money question.
Missouri World.
The Treasury Of the United States
seems to be neither more nor less than
a brokers' Office. The treasurer merely
swaps and inter swaps the various
coins and paper issues for the convent
ence and at the behest of the money
mongers. s.-OakLG1ld Citizen.
The people will rule this country
whenever a majority become hungry.
1t has remained for the politicians of
the nineteenth century to disprove the
theory of physiologists and demon
strate that the brains of a man are IN
his stomach Western LGbOrer.
The dollar is becoming so honest"
that there are men in this city, renters
and heads of families, who, with saw
buck and saw, are saving cords of
wood to get one of these cartWheels.
However, when they go to 'Yurrup,"
they will have ''honest" m 3ney to pay
their way. There's nothing like it'll
Missouri World.
Despite it's superior cunning, plutoc
racy will now and then show its teeth.
The Washington Post, mouthpiece Of
the moneyed interests, tells us that
David Trubee, one of the -wealthiest
citizens of Bridgeport, Conn, remarked
at the Riggs House the other day that
he believed United States Senators
should be elected for term of twenty
five years. Weeping willowsl just
suppose we had to endure for quarter
of century such an aff1iction as the
present lot of political fossils in the
Senate Richmond StGr.
If we could put each one of the filli
clustering Congressmen on a 160 acre
farm in the South with 50, 900 mort
gage upon it, and make them hustle
about two years to pay the interest and
taxes and live or starve from the pro
ceeds of the land, as many farmers
have to do, then send them back to
Washington and give them to under
stand that if there was any more mon
keying they would get another dose Of
the same medicine, we believe the
remedy would work like charm, and
that the laboring people would get re-
lief in short order.-G Granville County
Reforn1er.
The idea of preventing anybody from
expressing his views in regard to poll
%io, O,s roIiOiOT1 IN fhic 1o11T,frzy "a pa.