North Carolina Newspapers

.. SANFORD, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12,1890 iUIW UiaUN UN iHe FAMEKS’S AL DANCE. ‘ ,r His Speech at Weldotr.^’ Orecnt'ifie Itvfinctor. Mr. Dixon said: North Caroli na is one of the greatest States of the Union.. 'J’he'sohs of the soil are the best people the sun ever shined upon. My father is a far mer. He preaches' because he is . called and farms for a living. This is the wayhe usedfco-do:' He don’t live by farming now. He has . | to sell a part of his land every year and by this means he manages, to ; stay. The farmer gets about $180 ■ per year and the laborer gets about $300. - The average value of land ih North Carolina Is $6 per acre - The depressed state of' affairs pro duced the Farmers’s Alliance. .The whole country is suffering- New Hugland and the great West join hands and hearts with the South in - , bidding the Alliance a triumphant . - success. I wish to speak to yon to day on its moral import,. The speak er ably and feelingly discussed the following propositions: f T. One cause of the hard times V: is false political economy. The . farmer has to sell in the lowest .. market and buy in. the highest. His crop made ih ten mouths must be sold in two and often in l^ss tKan r 'SOdrys. The Alliance aims to cor ,c-y recUthis false'econoniyv f nas seriously operated against the sons, of the soil. See the farmers - leaving the ? jural districts and locating in the !r ”, towns and cities. They feel fliat they can live cheaper and enjoy ben efits iii cities denied them in towns. 5Xhere is erne family in New York City worth more than the whole . State of North Carolina. It is wrong for one class of people to- be so " high !y favored fo th<- injury of f*h other.' George Washington was ^ fromthe farm ; the men who fought, and died for our independence were from tlie farm; the ipeu who left their homes and went . into the last war wf»p from the farm. These are the men struggling under the . bottom. There are 18 million of ■ tillers of the .poll, 8-million farmers. One half of the manufacturers in in the United States to-day were ■ born on foreign soil. One eighth of the tillers of the soil were born on f oreign soil. Don’t these men need adlueting?'Shall they degenerate or shall they become the power of the 11 world.- " " - '; ■- , _ lain aoonr r.nese men going in polhics. There is more fuss . made about, this than anything else. The . Farmers’s Alliance will stand ten million wars in politics. 8. The moral import of the Alli ance is to educate* the people. There are two divisions of people; the classes and the asses. The ignorant ~ must he elevated. Those who have % been in darkness so long must come ■Out. The Alliance is the masses leading the world to a Sigher and better plain. Send a boy tp college -and he learns to despise the farm. This is not education. There are now 8 • millions being educated to ' become presidents. . .These will be educated tools. What is wanted is the education of the masses. Many . are educated and' have not sense to , make their salt. Labor must be ele vated. The farmers and mechanic’s ' calling is just as divine as mine. The fanfier feeds-tlw-hungry and clothes. • the naked. In' their grand work women are permitted to assist. I ; thank God thaf woman in the Farm ers’ Alliance is recognised as a hu man being! . 4. The Alliance is a co-operative institution in*contradistinction to competition. This banding for good and noble' purposes commends ^ itself to all thinking people. The South was killed for the want of Co* •operation. When the first gun was e’; fired at. Fort Sumter the tie was . taken. There is ppwerin heat, a pile of sticks, rain drops. These without association are powerless. ' i 5. The Atliauce teaches to bear one another burdens. This is good religion. •" vi ■ 6. It is a great brotherhood. The Alliance don't know that there is a Mastrn and Dixon’s line. The great trouble between "the North and South i« they don't know each oth^ er. I never saw a Republican until 1 was fifteen years old. I wondered what kind of a man he was. I heard Dr. Armetage say that his work was done and when death came could thank God that he had always voted the Republican ticket. My father said that he could thunk God that he had always voted the Democrat ic ticket! These are good men but don’t understand each other. - 7. The Alliance js a benevolent institute. - The benevolence is foun ded Upon Jesus Christ. We all want money hut—a warm grasp of the hand is better. When Napo leon was banished to St. Helena his friends followed him and refused to leave him, one of his, soldiers re mained nineteen year guarding his grave, and was taken away by force. This is worth more than money! Such benevolence is worthy the ad-r miration of the whole, world. 8. It means progress iu politics. The sub-treasury bill tickles me in my boots. It will smash all the traditions of the country. I expect to liv,e to see the day when every railroad and telegraph line Will be under the government. A man who don’t carry his religion into polics has none. . , r V : For House of Representatives. 1890. state, jr Dem. Rep. Dem. Rep. Alabama, 8 Arkansas, _ 5 California, '2 Colorado, Connecticut, 1 Deleware, 1 8.... 0 5 ~0 4 1 3 5 0 1 00 10 mu 10 i Geog>a, •Idaho, Illinois,/ Indiana, ‘ Iowa, Kansas, -<~ Kentucky, / 9 Louisiana, 7; ' 0 •Maine, — Maryland, 4 Massachusetts, 2 Michigan,/ / 2 Minnesota, — ?■ 10 Missouri, {Montana,. — Nebraska, — Nevada, . — New. H’mph’re,— New Jersey, 3 New York, 15 North C’rqjina, 0 North D’kota, Ohio, 5 ‘Oregon,.. — Pennsylvania. 7 Ithode Island, — South C’rolina, 7 [•South D’kota, — rennessee, 7 rexas, 11 Vermont, — Virginia, >• 8 rWashingtion, — West Virginia, 4 Wisconsin, 2 ‘Wyoming, I —^.10 o 13 12 8 3- 11 2 10 ,_.5 ...0 7 0 .el 10 1 6 00 2 l,; 4 .2. 10 5 . 0 4. .6 0 7 5 7 4 3 r 4 1 8 1 2 4 7 00 I 0 1 1 0 13 1 2 0 2 6® 2 19 20 14 •8 : 8 lj. 1 16 1 21 2 -2 W l — l 14: 7 *— 1 ■ !0 : j¥ 10 —6 1 2 0 9 1 11 00 .00 / 2 10 0 00 1 -4 0 6 3 1 L’otals, 161 169 235 96 A Tale of Tragedy. UatesvilfcLandmaek. What changes time brings! Fwenty years ago Josiah Turner, )f Orange, had the State at his feet. )ne night lost week he had an an louncemcnt tor speak at. Durham; ae was an inddependent candidate tor the Senate in Durham and Or uige. He paid $2 to have the hall lighted and the money was refun ded because, nobody, went to .hear Ilia;. This a tale of tragedy in one let. Josiah Turner is in memory, l The receipts of cotton at Wilming ton during the month of October amounted to 55,235 bales, against 37,877 for the same month lost year. Receipts for the crop year— from September 1st to November 1st —are 08,003 bales, against 53,414 for the first two months- of i880-r in increase of 45,589 bales. LEAK ON LOVE. "i \ ” I He Draws a Pretty Picture and La bels in Perfect Love. At'latUa Crnstitution, 'A Kind reader,,did you ever go oui into a garden and sit beneath a tree laden with blossoms, and on one of the boughs there would be a bird singing and swinging, and thinking perhaps, about four little, speckled eggs warmed by the breast of its mate. Sinjring and swinging, and the music in happy waves rippling out of its tiny throat, and the flow ers blossoming, the air filled with perfume, and the great white clouds floating in the sky? Have yon, 1 say, and if so, amid these scenes, think back over the misspent, days and gone, and— . ; “Uow strange that the. hands, that might lead us To heaven, refuse us their hold. That the dear lips that whisper 'God ■speed us, Are the lips that are first to grow cold.” !■■■■ ■ 1 ;i* . , Bat as the bird has ceased its song, the clouds floated westward, and the sun bending low,'a rose lipped daughter by your side Whis pers; - _ . __’ ) \ ‘Yes, love, I’ll lead you to'the dawning. Just there is the heavenly light. - And how little the glorious morning Knows the sorrowful shadows of ■ night.” T vA W- . ;y'^ ™''r Oh i love, you are all this world . I had rather live in a hut built of love* with a vine growing over the door, and'the grapes growing purple in the kisses of the autumn sun. I had'rather be poor peasant, with my love by my side, spilling us the day dies out of the sky, than to live in a palace without love. Holy writ tells us that God is love hence all true love must come from aud have its source oi.hinf, •* The little helpless babe first learns to love its mother, because her shel tering arms afford-protection—and her lpving breast the nutriment of life. As it grows it soon learns to love its father, its sisters and broth ers and^ then its playmates, and when youth is attained it soon learns to love someboy else’s sister or brother, and then: . * , “Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one.” *1 " They are united in the holy bonds of wedlock’. The family * tree is planted', and grows like the majes tic oak, around. which the tender vine clings in loving embrace. Men are oaks, women are vines, children are flowers. And among the holiest altars in all the wide world, is the fireside around - which gather father, mother and the sweet babes. • I like to see the little ones at the table and hear each one telling of th^ wonderful things he has seen. I like to. haer the clatter of knives and forks and spoons mingling with their happy voices. Behonest and fair with little children,, be just, be tender, and they will- make you rich in love aud joy. ■, Think of the little children who turn pale when they hear their fath er’s footsteps; the little children who run away wuen they- only hear their names called by the lips of a mother; little children—the chil dren of poverty—the children of crime, the children of brutality,' wherever they may be, sailing out on the wild, mad sea of life, my heart goes out .to them, one and' all. : ' • When your child commits a wrong, take it in jour arm$ let the child know that you really and tru ly and sineerely love it. Yet there are some people, when a child com mits a fault, drive it from the door and say, never do darken this home again. Think of that! And then these same people will get down' upon their knees and- ask God to take care of the child they have driven from home. If 1 were a father t would never ask God to take care of my children, unless I was doing my level hest in that di rection. * • t , -r ’ ' » v But I -will tell you what I would ■ ■ V c- J.t say to'my children: “Go Where you will; commit, what crime you may; you can never commit any crime that will shut my door,-my arms or my , heart to you, . As loog as I live you shall hav.e one sincere friend.” .. M ; ; * I like, to think of love iu that way; I like to think that love is eternal; and to love in that way and then go down the hill of life together*; hus band and wife, and as you go" down* hear the laughter of grandchildren, perhaps, while the birds of joy and love sing once more in the leafless branches of the tree of age. • ^ r And at last, becoming worn . and weary, you lay down by the ‘way side and using your burden for a pillow, fall into;' that dreamleiss sleep that kisses down the eyelids till—surrounded by kind and faith ful friends, by thosa you have loved —you will pass away as serenely as the autumn dies. And I hope this may be jjhelot of you in the couivtry, in houses cover ed with vines and clothed with flow ers, looking from the open window upon fields of cotton and corn, over which will run the sunshine and the shadow, surrounded by those whose lives you have filled with joy, will pass away peacefully and calm ly, while on your forehead falls the golden dawning- of the grander day. ’37 77';' ;7 7- ; --— C fi t nr rvnwnv T.y? i tr IT WAS’ THE ALLIANCE.' That’s What “Old Fogy” Says About the Democratic Sweep. Washingtqk, D, C., Nov. 0.—At the national headquarters of the Farmers’ Alliance in this city, a great victory for the farmers is claimed in the result of Tuesday’s election. In an interview, D. II. Rittenhouse, alias Old Fogy, retary of the organization, says that the farmer&’dorganization desired to rebuke -the party-that defeated free Coinage of silver, and framed a tar iff law that imposes greater burdens on the poor man than on the rich. Mr. Rittenhouse says thafin.tbe States where the farmers’ league is strong, it has aided in showing this Congress that the demafid of the farmers for free coinage was hot an idle one. Notably in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, in the east, and Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Wisconsin, and Colorado in the west. “This sounds well,” he said, “butdoes not~prove that the Alli ance an”d kindred organizations will support Democrats in 1892. If the Democrats fail to give a greater vol ume of currency they will receive the same kind of punishment in 1892. We are determined to be felt, and if this House ignores our petitions; We will send a House of our own. Native Grown vs. Imported Hay. Gerald McCarthy, jV, i C. Experiment Station. The farmers of the Carolines im port annually from the Northern and Western States several thousand tons of hay, for which they pay many thousands of dollars. ’ The larger part of this money goes into the pockets of middle men and transportion companies The Western producer -sells for. from $6 to $8 the ton of hay for which the Southern consumers pays from $20 to $25. Yet there are few neigborhoods in these States where good hay cannot be produced For, our light dry uplands we have lu cerne, mammouth clover, ‘crimson clover, tall oat grass, tall fescue, German millet, Kaffir corn and the sorghums. For lowlands and allu vial bottoms we have orchard grass, meadow foxtail, English and Italr tan rye, red-top,,fowl meadow, and in the cooler districts timothy and alsike clover. The North Carolina Experiment Station will publish soou a bulletin on the best forage plants^. This will be illustrated and will give the re sults of the triala of these grasses at the North Carolina and -other Ex periment Strutions as well as by practical farmers. ; , . , hl- - * TTT" , Til s/ ■ .EDUCATIONAL ^INSTITUTE. Publio'; Speaking. ' Prof. E. A. Alderman will, dur ing the week beginning Nov. 17th, 1890, hold an Institute in Carthage, . N. C.' , v‘ :-, This Institute is not for teachers only, but for the people ns well. Its efficiency, therefore, will depend largely upon whether or not the ■people aitenS. i»t as pos sible attend the daily, exercises, Friday of that week will be devot ed to special exercises that will be of interest and profit to all who will attend. Addresses. will, on that day* be made by Prof. E. A. Aider man and others, which will do much good to the eauso of education if the people will-go and hear them. In Virginia there is spent for pub lic education on each child, white and black, an average of about tim and one-half times as much money as isspent in North Carolina, and .the average length of ■ annual session in Virginia is about twice that of ours. Not only so, but we are behind almost all the other Southern States. Except in a few of the cities, onr public schools do not satisfy either their friends or their .opponents. We levy only 12J cents on $100 of property (one and a quarter mills.) The fad is, that withso small a levy it is impossible to have an , efficient and creditable system of schools. Count and see how little it amounts to on the assessed valuation of your property.. _ ... " The great bulk of our people are farmers and laborers in other avoca tions, who are solely dependent upon fbe public schools for, the education of their children. Even of the white children, perhaps as many as 11 out of 12 in this State have no other schools. _ Perhaps you object to dividing with the negroes. As a rule, the tax o£-12ceuta-OiL___£100 of property raises more money to "each child, white and black, in the. counties where there are many u-'groes than in those counties where there are few ot nohe. It is the label of a county'that makes its wealt.i. If we did not - have the negroes we would have some other poor people whose children whould have’ to be educated in the public shoots. But, whatever may be said about educating the negroes, we cannot afford not to .improve our education al facilities, whether we consider our financial condition and progress or the perpetuation of our civil and religions liberties. The matter is within the power of the people, and when they come duly to consider this great question, and see it as it is, they will willingly tax themselves more, and give more attention to the education of their children. '" .' If you say we are too poor, then I reply that the way to get richer is to educate our own people intel lectually and industrially, so that they may be able successfully to ap ’p'y labor to the development of our mnny resources. The liistory of tlie world points out. this way, and we cannot fail if wc walk in it With good schools iii the country districts there will be less incentive for the country people to crowd into the eities and towns to educate their children, much.of the discontent and restlessness will disappear, and bet ter success will attend their labors. S. M. Finger, Sup’t, and Sec’y State Board of Education. . : The Snobs and Their Leader. 2t*W York Car*. Stnteovill*: T*atutmnrk ■ *~7 “Society as I Have Found It,” Mr. Ward McAllister, has-added to gayety of the city and evgn drawn murtints of astonishment from the rather small portion of. the popula tion outside of the “charmed circle” which has had the hardihood to read the book. The .gayety, of course, is excited because of the ridi outous.figure which a grown white man cuts who threats seriouslv the business of getting up picnics and tea parties and deciding whether a game duck or a table duci should be served as ari entree. The nston islyment is excited because “sbcie tp* as Ward depicts it is sjiartiejess _ i-'- .i We knew tha ly ungrammatical. “society” was not learned but wi certainly thought ii knew the rudi ments. Perhaps th,e next genera tion will be better,-‘“society" ii father yet new. . - There are two reasons just non why “society” is a little indifferenl to grammar. Its attention ’ is oc cupied, iirstj^wittrhow, to' make , t sandwich and,‘tCC85t^*With''iiow tc get out of a carriage. Anybody jtho is acquainted with the' dude mind knows that being occupies with two questions so weighty il cannot, indeed would scorn to, cope with grammar. Whether a sand wich should be triangular or square, and whether a person should get out of a carriage feet first or head first are of course of vastly more importance to “us” than making a verb agree with its nomative in number and person or using a sin gle negative to express negation. For the benefit of those who care to know just what the verdict of “so ciety” will be on the above questions I would say tha' I have “inside in formation'’ that the fashionable sandwich must be triangular al ways and thin;- never square or thick.;and that in getting out' pf a carriage the " fashionable person must put his or her foot out of the door first, never thrusting the head out in advance of the rest of the an atomy. These questions may be considered, then, as good as settled. Let “society” now turn to grammar and wrestle with verb agreements and the proper use of negatives. The AnlLllAi/Snlnit Ponlon * wv riini-nlul»|,,,vj VJfUiUU McKinley, Aldrich, and Tom Reed, like Jack Falstaff, base led their ragamuffins where they art peppered. Never since the close of the war were the Republican pros pects fairer than when this trie took the lead at the opening of th( Fifty-first’ Congress. Never sinci that time has any party sustainec such a crashing and overwhelming defeat. That this defeat is dm mainly to the Mckinley bill there i: not a shadow of doubt. Soma por tion of the disaster may be ascribe* no doubt, to the overbearing an* tyrannical behavior of Reed ai Speaker, and to his thanking Got that ‘-'the House .is no longer a de libertive body.” But the real caust of the cyclone which ha3 emptier seventy Republican seats m Con gress is the wicked and unprinci pled measure which these people dt vised to pay the. Campaign debts of Quay and Wanamaker. The cash that was subscribed to elect Harris on was-charged up to the American people in a gross, uncounted sum. It was to he collected by duties on .tin plate, worsted cloth, carpet wool, pearl buttons, and a thousand other thing that enter info the food and raiment of the people, Snell r hill coun-ld-never have been carried except as a cash transaction, ar much for so much. The result i; now beTore us. The Republican party is almost annihilated. It has lost all of New .England except Maine and Vermont. It- has lost New York, Indiana, Wisconsin, am Nebraska, and probably Michigan Iowa, Illinoise, and Mptana. It hai given the Democrats a grater ma jority than they ever bad in anj Congress since the tinio of Androv Jacl; son. v This result lias come abou spontaneously, in the, face of ini beciiity if not indifference on tin pcttb.UJ. me niii/iuu anc L/011V mittce. It is the result of the work ing popular forces which had theii status in Grover Cleveland’s message on the tariff. That famous document gave the Democrats f fighting, issue. They did. not like it in the begining, hut they took it, and they carried the country with il on the popular vote although thej lost the Presidency then. The Republicans raised- an enormous sum of money. • 4rhey bought theii “blocks of five" and elected' Har rison. They then sought to pay the money McKinley wise, and they have now been smashed ' so utterly that recovery before 1892 is-impos sible, The chayn of cause and ef fect is complete. - We say that they cannot >revover themselves, because the McKinley bill is- a veritable shirt of Ness us. It will bum and sting as long as it lasts. The public have ' very little conception of it even yet. Its worst effects have not yet been felt, be cause the publi« are still buying goods in most eases at the old prices. Wait till existing stocks are worked off, and then see how the' faces of the poor will be ground. That ill starred measure has been devised as all other protective tariffs in our history have been,'to bear with es pecial severely upon the .laboring classes, -T*.. •> 1 "■ . ; Temporary Reverse, •I rhlttnfeTphttf Vrmmm (not Rrp.)' ■ ' As wngCgenerally anticipated by . ; those who keep themselves iftform ! ed asto the political'situation in the . different States, the Democrats have: carried tb'e next House of Represent atives. Great is the cheer of triumph which goes up from the throat of the Democracy in every portion of thft hind. True, they cannot hope to ac-.. * ‘®tfmplish much"'with~ a" Republican"' * Seuate and President, but they, at. v least, can return for awhile to thb T congenial occupation of blocking the wheels of legislation and Sus pending for a time the steady move ment in the line of progress and re form which always characterizes Republican' administration when unhampered by Democratic ascen dency in either branch of Congress or in the Executive’ Mansion. - - The situation will recall to men ' of good memories that succeeding the election of 1882. Then as now,, the Democrats developed a sudden accession of strength in almost eve ry Northern State.. -Republican majorities were greatly diminished, , ’ or entirely__ wiped out, while the-' Democrats • triumehed in every i: doubtful State. Pennsylvania then, as now, elected a Democratic Gov ernor. 'New York chose Grover Cleveland to succeed Alonzo B, Cor nell by the unprecedented plurality of 192,000. Massachusetts, for the . second time in a generation, elected .-■/ a x/emocrauc uovernor, ana. a fte pnblican majority of 11 in the House of Representatives was converted' into a Democratic majority of 82. Those reactions against the party in power midway between Presiden tial elections are not uncommon. In fact, as the table which • we ptib ; lish elsewhere shows, and as Mr. 1 Blaine stated in his Academy of*' . Music speech last Saturday, they are the rule and not the exception.'; In J [ practice the control of the House of i Representatives, in the year preced- ' ing a Presidential election^ usually J operates to the disadvantage of the» majority party. The redfcrd made.. " by the Democrats of the.Forty- ' eigth Congress, .with their Morrisou _ ' bill agitation and failure toaccbtn- ' plish any work 'of value, aided the ‘ Republicans greatly in 1884, and the record of the same party in the Fiftieth Congress gave ; the Repub^i| "Ti’ln^o wiinlAnvr in 1 QCQ V ^ .T The Republicans of- the Fifty first Congress have made a noble record i:> their first session, the val ue of which it is too soon forithSft They will fact from more country , to appreciate, not be dettfired by this completing t.hgir work any than the Republican, majority in the Eorty-seventh Congress were stampeded by the Democvatic reac- * tion of 1882. The best-' work* of that Congress, viz, the tariff bill of 1883 and the civil service reform act w&re enacted in- the short session after the election, in the full confi dence that the .final judgement.; of the country would be'an approv-8 is ing one. The present,. Republican ’ House of Representatives will, we are confident, be moved by a similar spirit; Leaving1 its good work of"v the last session-—the reform of the rules, the tariff and act, the sil ver act, the pension legislation, and oth er completed measures, to approve . themselves to the people in their practical-working.- the Republican majority of the House aud Senate will proceed to complete the work, already in progress ijnd which prop erly falls to this'Congress to .per form'. . r We look forward then to lio halt ing because a single election prove’y adverse. The ejection bill, an ap portionment bill, the measures for. i relieving tho Supreme Court, in aid ' of A^Tnerican shipping, and the bank ruptcy bill-most of which are al- ' Ycady ripe for passage—should all he ' made laws before March 4th, next. If this is done the country can en -d«re with equanimity the enforced hiatus in useful legislation which a Democratic majority in the House of Representatives will render nec- i essrtry in the two years ' years next. sueceding, while the good work ' done by the Ffty-ifrst Congress will. h avb time io prove Its excellence ‘ " and beneficial character and make its influence felt in the national elec- fi tion of 180& .