The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-07
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hard Hits, Bold Sayings and Patriotic
Paragraphs from Reform Papers,
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u Hlts' Bold Sayings and Patriot
Paragraphs from Reform Papers
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One Paper a Whole Year.
Agriculture is the first natural en-
ployment of man. 1t should be tn
best paying of all occupations. PED
pies Tribune.
When the poor men vote the ricl
mans ticket they vote to give the ricE
man the profits of their toll and they
themselves stay poor.-The CGHEOpe.
The financial outrages of 1898 have
robbed the people of the United States
Of ten times more wealth than the ag
gregate of all other robberies. -AtUOOo
Patriot.
Party lines are fast breaking. 1t is
only a matter of time when you must
stand for gold and the oppressors OF
silver and paper and the masses.
Council GrOUe Courier.
If the government farmed out the
e issuing of postage stamps to corpora,
stions, our efficient postal system would
fare as badly as have u finances
,@Hdrtord Qnd.) Arena.
Senator PETERS Whiskers are rather
long, to be sure, but they are not hall
so long as the moss on the back OF
some men who are still voting the gold
bug ticket.-Ld6Or Advocate.
Perhaps when Mr.. Cleveland opens
his financial campaign next month he
may be induced to answer the question
as to the kind of money he desires to
see adopted.-RichmOnd Star.
Capitalists are not afraid of guns ia
the hands of people too ignorant to
vote themselves into power. But
capitalists are afraid of ideas in the
heads of the people. -Penin8uIG Far
mer.
There can be no valid objection to
the denomination of Cleveland. There
is no man in the United States that so
many thousand people would be glad
to vote against Mountain
NelCS.
Eli Perkins has crushed Coins Finan-
cial School, or thinks he has, in a
ewspa interview. Eli is such a
monumental liar that he can crush
even the truth when he let's loose
Farmers Voice.
The fact is patent that the majority
of the people in the Southern and
Western states, and a very large num-
Der of them in the East, demand the
free coinage of Gilver.-NetU Orleans
State (Dem)
A good private fnancier isnot neces-
sarily a desirable public one. His
spectacles are too easily dimmed by
visions of No. 1 (himselO to take the
humanitarian's view Of things as they
.are.-MiSSOuri World.
Mr.. Cleveland has succeeded most
admirably in Wrecking the Democratic
party and his Sound money" fight
will leave it iii such shape that there
won't be enough of it left to get up a
decent funeral.-PeOple's Advocate.
We have a letter from a c~orrespon-
dent who condemns free silver because
it will make the silver mine owners
rich. Well, we have no disposition to
starve ourselves to death in order to
keep the mine owners poor.-FGrmers'
Voice.
There is a good deal more noise being
made about that shot that was fired at
an American ship by a Spanish gun
boat than there is about the raid which
the English syndicate made on the
United States treasury, in which they
+'scooped" us for $40, 900, 600. Labor
Advocate.
One Of our exchanges is cruel
enough to refer to the fact that Mr..
Cleveland hunts ducks at $50, 900 a
year, while those who voted him into
the presidency are glad of a chance to
dig stumps at from so to IS cts. a day.
PROGRESSIVE Farmer, Mt. Vernon,
Ill.,.