The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-15
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Paragraphs From Reform Paper
Money is a legal creation.
Account books r made of pane,
Money should be printed on pan.,
Money gets it's value, not from wh.,
it is printed on, but from what it raS
resents.
The advance agent of Prosno,;.
seems to have been transformed inv
''rear guard of the revolution. "-
vance Guard. Az
In regard to the bimetallic comr,..
sion, Adlai will find that. Willie W.,
colt can show him some great sight. ::
Paris. -Ocala Banner.
Notes, mortgages, bonds, etc., o..
printed on paper, but their value is nv
in the paper they are printed On. b0.
in what it represenA@Medical Worla
The a-z-z1slom 81 Tne 5sTIffg boo
the people of this country more tSa" $
the government has received from ~
the tariff laws ever enacted.-Advon~
Guard. 0S
The money crop is Inadequate -
meet the demands of trade. Conoro.,
alone has the power to increase tbo
crop OF money. Why don't it do it,
Lumberton PopuIist.
What reason have the people to boro
for better times under the gold stand,
ard9 The reason that times have grovn
worse and worse under that standard
for the last twenty five years.
What does an extortionate goldb,o
mean when he calls his neighbor An
anarchists He means that his neiob,
Dor is very unreasonable in protesting
against being robbed. Silver Knight.
Watchman.
Have official salaries been reduced in
the last twenty-five years2 Not at all,
On the contrary, they have been
doubled by doubling the purchasing
power of money. - Silver Knight.
Waterman.
The principles of the Peoples partv
are coming rapidly to che front.
Finance, Land and Transportation will
be the battle cry of the people in Y8
while old party politicians will wrangle
over the tariff. -CIeburne Herald.
Not long since We reported that
mule had suicided in West Virginia,
The ssother day a chicken committed
self murder in Illinois. Mules and
chickens are becoming ashamed of the
American oter.-Advance Guard.
If only things we're called by their
right names, nearly all wrong would
fail. If every time the word ''sound
money" were used, ''scarce money"
were submitted, the gold STANDARD
would be overthrow. Nearly all bad
pills n sugar coated. Cleveland
Press.
A dear dollar attacks the credit Of
the producers and renders them un.
able to either buy dollars or borrow
dollars. We need cheaper money
money of the same value that it was
thirty years ago, and then farmers
could pay their debts. -Lumberton
Populist.
Did our forefathers ask England
what kind of money they should have
when they dug up up the earth and
fortified Bunker Hill What would
the shades of these patriots think Of US
if they could see us now bowling and
fawning before the goldbugs of Eng.
and9-Orthonomic Era.
ALI this talk about an international
monetary agreement is as much a farce
as would be a proposition for an inter,
national tariff law. The silver ques.
ton is n of American production and
industry. Prosperity in one half the
country depends largely on the com.
mercial price of the product of our
Mines - Chicago Express.
Did you ever see a government bonds
NOT That's strange. A government
bond is certainly a well known article.
IL is what you and every other working
pays millions of dollars on
every year. Yet you never sew onel
Very few people hold them-those
who make them good have no idea Of
their appearance.-Coming Nation.
The gold standard keeps between
three and four million men in idleDess'
and many more on partial employ,
ment, scant wages, and on the vaTgeol
want; q Government fiat paper money