The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-09-15
CREAM OF H RRs

Hard Hits, Bold Sayings and Pstr,o.,.
Paragraphs From Reform Papers,
If Billy doesn't accept Tommy 90
running mate, and that p. d. q : let j.
be Norton and Watson, and let ia cot
down to business. -Morgan's Buzz.
Saw.
Every four years the dear WORKING
man is a subject Of particular interest
His periodical sympathizers are with
us again, unfolding their loving winps
like hawks in a poultry yard.-Ameri.
can Enterprise.
The money power has long succeeded
in keeping the masses from STUDYING
the money question; but every dog has
his day. The bankers have had theirs
Now the people propose to have an
inning .-Ao vance Guard.
All banks intending to fail will please
postpone their performance until after
election. Three failures in one day is
like a continuous appearance of Ban.
quo's ghost, and is too much for the
gold men.-Brockton Diamond.
If We can't win in a straight fight on
principle why not disband9 If we can.
why make compromising alliances If
we are right we must win sooner or
later; if we are wrong the sooner we
disband the better. We can't win votes
by compromising with wrong.-Buzz
Saw.
Glasgow after next January will
levy no taxes, meeting all expenses
from street railway lines, Lighting and
water plants, that are municipal prop
erty. From this it would appear that
for a city to own such things is fully
as advantageous as for such things to
own the city, San Francisco Exam
liner.
1t is a sad case when a farmer talks
for a single gold standard. Il seems
very strange that a farmer cannot IN.
derstand it is not to his advantage TO
raise wheat at a loss of over S. per acre,
When a farmer tells US times are better
by having less money and more taxes.
we think his head is affected 0y the
at.-Luray Union.
No one talks about the bIoated gold
miners. No n is crying out that they
are robbing the country. No one is
asking how gold is to get into circula-
ton. No n says that gold can't be
gotten without work, and yet gold is
coined free at the minis of the United
States. Why does that not bring all
the horrors that are predicted with free
silver3-Luray Union.
Unborn babies in India are scme
times used as security for debt. When
a father is obliged to borrow money to
defray the expenses of his daugbtHE's
wedding, be will pledge her fird
son as collateral. Those mdiank6re
heathens, and of course don't know
any better. But we civilized, Chris
tianiz ID, free Americans do things diff
ferently. We do things on a gold basis.
We borrow gold and pledge all the IN
born babies of both sexes, for genera
tions to come, as collateral. Heap big
statesmen, we! Much smart!-West.
ern Home Journal.
II the great Republican party wishes
to have an unshackled man in the
Presidents chair, if it does not wish to
have its candidate owned by two mil
lionaires, it should raise a fund to pay
off that Mckinley note held by
Hanna and II. K Kohlsaat. It DIV
Mr.. McKinley's fault that he is
man, but it would not be a very
able thing for the people of the
States to have two millionaires p
the screws to their President.
only chance that Hanna and Kohl
have for getting their money is tt
duce the people to elect McK,nIe
Helena Independent.