The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-05-19
CREAM OF THE PRESS
Hard Hits, Bold Sayings and Pstr;o,,.
Paragraphs From Reform PaDers

product OF his labor. -ChicagO Fynrooo
Toe banks say the government
shou d go out of the banking business
50 they could go into the government
business .-Labors Tribune.
II you want to lift that MORTGAGE m
your home, you'll first have to IN
yourself out of the bogmlre Of partisan
pr, ldice. -Ihe Advance Guard.
Talking about parity-are they not
having monkey and parrot times when
the silver men meet the gold maniate
! old party conven5ions?-Brockton D a.
mond.
Not q single noted writer on fuarciaI
! economy ever taught the absu:d non.
sense that intrinsic value was neceg.
sary for money. The intrinsic value
idiot however Is in demand as an Old
party editor and has more fool follow.
ers than would be suppc sed.- Cle6urne
Herald.
las I speek go will I vote, " sej3 Sex.
ator Taller il the Senate on April -
II every man who is talking for the re-.
monet zation Of silver and the abolition
of the national banking system will
vote as he speaks, the gold gamblers
will be squeiched this year.-Silver
Knight.
If any one not of the favored few
who flourish through a system Of le.
gal,z d robbery is in doubt as to what
political policy or party would best
sub serve their own interest, it is a cafe
proposition to oppose the one Endorsed
by the money mongers and wealth ab.
sorbers generally.-Tulare News.
Congress is eppropriating millions Of
money for the Navy and for coast de-
tense, and yet nc provision is made to
place the money in the hands of the
government t meet these enormous
expenditures The appropriation for
the Navy is $3l, O00, 600 and for coast
defense Eli, 384. Geo, the largest epprO-
priation ever made for that purpose
Southern Mercury.
One of the best signs Of the ultimate
success Of Populism is the urgent &c,
mlnd by the leaders that people read,
study, effect. Rapublicaniem and De,
mocracy ask nothing but votes. P0Pu-
tism sa: vote intelligently, study
questions of public policy, keep track
IF the actions Of fcers you elect and
above all insist that they carry cut
your wishes. Ia a nut shell, be men,
not mice. -Preston Courier.
Twenty nickIas area dollar got 10y
contain about Is cents worth Of metal
at the market valuation. The law says
that twenty nickles shall be equal III
debt paying power to a dollar, and
hence they have the power. A careful
study of the money Question will show
that this claim for sound money" is a
demand Of tie money gamblers and
that there is no consistency or honesty
IL it. Il is d assigned to bunco the p-o.
le.-S)uthern Mercury.
The gold crank tells us that it will
not do to admit silver to free coinage,
because it will give us too much money.
Too much for whom? Answer: Too
much for those having more than they
need certainly not too much for the
other fellow; noG too much for the
farmer; not too much for the labOrer;
not too much for the mechanic; not
too much for the manufacturers or
merchant; not too much for the sales
man.-R5cord, Nit. Vernon, Wash.
The Eastern goldbugs have concocted
a scheme whereby they hope to pre-
vent a bolt of the silver men in the Old
party national conventions. This
scheme is to introduce and pass a res
olution requiring every delegate to
support the nominee and platform of
the convention. If such a resolution
ia introduced the silver men shoutd
bolt right there Gid then, because the
object of such a resolution ia plain to
understapd.-SIlver State, WiEnemLc
ca, New.
There is just as much sense in letting
o fox build your chicken coop as there
is in permit ing the bankers to furnish
the money for the people. The little
episode of the golden calf ought to be
evidence enough to convince any one
that God can't be worshiped on a gold
basis. B IL Saw.
r 1ilroad corporations in the United
States own 211, coo, 600 acres of Iaud,
enough to make six States. A large