The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-08-13
CREAM OF THE PRESS.
Hard Hits, Bold Sayings and Patriotic
Paragraphs from Reform Papers.

Hard Hits, Bold Sayings and Patriotic
Paragraphs from Reform Papers.
Will some of the goldbug orators just
face their audience and see how many
gold dollars they can find in them
Cleburne Herald.
It gold is the only sound currency
and the workingman's best money,
why does he handle so little of it?-
Bulletin of Reform.
What is the good of a government
that cannot or will not protect its PEG
pie against the insatiate greed offoreign
or domestic money kings.-Tennessee
Current.
The best made currency plans of
bankers and goldbugs have to be stuffed
with government fiat before they can
cast a shadow. Too thin, otherwise
The Calliope.
Interest, rent and profit, the three
great devices to rob and enslave the
masses Until the people are wise
enough to kill all three of these it is no
use talking about prosperity. Rural
Banner.
The reports of the money paid to
legislative agents and counsel by cor
porations in Massachusetts, which are
supported by the people, should be an
object lesson to the voters who pay the
bilIs.-B-ockton Diamond.
The daily press has been bowling it.
self hoarse over better times, and last
week announced that George M. Pull
man had advanced wages 10 per cent.
Now George M. says it's a lie. George
isn't always truthful, but we believe
him this m .-Saturday Critic.
If many of our statesmen, bankers,
ministers and ''good people" in general
we're clothed in rags, suffering from
hunger, and kept at the ''sweat box"
10 hours a day, they would soon be-
come the most bloodthirsty anarchists
that ever roamed the earth.-Luella
B, Kraybill.
1t there vas money enough in circu-.
lation to do business on a cash basis,
what would the money changers do for
a living9 Respectfully referred to the
ragged, half starved old clod hoppers
who r splitting their outlets yelling
for "honest money"-dear dollars.
Leader, Tecumseh, Okla.
The courts announce a verdict mulct-
ing John D. Rockefeller to the tune Of
nearly a million dollars. The next day
oil is advanced a quarter Of AGENT. and
John D. proceeds to pay the bill. 1t
all comes out of John-just like the
tariff comes out of the importer. Please
sing another national anthem while we
wait. -Coxey's Sound Money.
zone of the reasons" says Tom Wat
son, "Why fewer merchants busted
this year was that fewer of them were
left over from last year. The year 1895
killed less because 1898 and 1894 had
left less to kill" By the same token
fewer mortgages r being f~oreclosed
this year than last, and il this gold
basis prosperity O continues ten years
longer foreclosure will have entirely
ceased-Shylock will have acquired
possession of all the farms and homes.
How the bankers are squirming
about silver. They are alarmed at the
prospect. That twenty five million
dollars annually stolen from depositors
would weigh seven hundred and fifty
tons if it was all in silver. Just think
of it. If all taken at once 'twould re-
quire IL, 900 cashiers to carry it, and in
a clcsa column single file would make
a procession eleven miles long. Every
man loaded down with over a hundred
and twenty pounds of silver. S1me of
them would like as any way get caught,
too, carrying such a load as that
Chicago Express.