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. V TE PROGRESSIVE 2 POLKf! - .. - - Editor. BUOWDEJl. IiU8INE88 Makager. Raleigh, N. C. ! SUBSCRIPTION:- CtrLCie Subscriber. One Year. 1.25 .75 5.00 ) v" ' ' six Months. JTlwe Subscribers. One Year .. . One Year nnft miv one vfear free, to the ofle Ben4tng CmD Ga4 invanaoiy m :.. f, .Upneyatoorri8fe.it seat by cegtetciu: tteror KOiiey oreer. Advertifliar Rates quoitd on app icatlon. To QiirteVO"iiU: , , . vVrite all couununlcatJona, designed for public ' tKwL on one side of the paper only. . N . i 1 ; We want intelligent correspondents in. every eswaty in tb.e State. We want fact of yame, re- taita accomplished of vala, eipuriencea of valne. flalnly and briefly told. One solid, demonstrated 6ct, ia worth a thousand theories, i Address all commurdcations to . : . -t . Ths Fboorkssiye Farmek, Raleigh; N. C. ' BALEIGHN. G, DEC. 24, 1889. . Thif peeper mured as &corid-cla matter ut.tu 116t " Ofuxinflaieigh,. C. ' ' The Progressive Farmer U the 'Official Organ of the N. C. Farmers Association and N. C. State Farmers Alliance, syid the Virginia State Farra 'era' Alliance. " . Do you want your paper .changed t to . another office?' State the one at .which ybu have been getting it. : ' Do you want your communication pub lished? If so,' give us your real name and your postofnc3.' ' "-ISsT" 0ur friends in writing to" any of Clir advertisers,, will favor ua by mention '!ng the fact that they saw the advertise f: Stent in The Progressive Farmer. ' ; "The date on your label tells' you 'when your time is out J. L. IJamsey is our authorized I agent, to receive suosenpuons ana advertisements for The Progressive -Farmer. A WORD TO MY FRIENDS. HAVING been elected President of the National Farmers' Alli ance and Industrial Union at the recent meeting of our order in St. Louis, I have tendered, to our State Executive Committee, ray resignation as Secretary of our State Alliance. At that meeting the practical con solidation of twenty-three States and Territories was effected, which gives us over two millions of members. It was deemed wise that such a large . , body (and which, most probably, will goon be doubled in number) and cov ering an area, reaching from New Jersey to the Pacific coast, should ' have permanent headquarters, accord. ' ingly, the Supreme Council required its President, its Secretary and the Chairman of its Executive Board to have its national office and their resi ' dence in the city of Washington. I go to Washington at an early day, to enter on the duties of my office. I shall retain my membership in Oak Ridge Alliance, No. 24, and my rela tion as editor of The Progressive Farmer and my citizenship as a North Carolinian. ' -. : In the future as in the past, the peoples' cause shall be my cause. In the future as in the past, The " Progressive Farmer shall be true to the best interests of the whole people, fearlessly assailing the wrong and boldly defending the right. And with ..the growing strength of our great - organization, it will be my earnest purpose to give my patro'ns a better : and more valuable paper than it has ever been. May Heaven's richest blessings rest L. L. D.H. i on our cause, our btate and our com- . nun country. L. L. Polk. CORRECTION. TN the call for the Alliance Conven 1 tion at Oxford, N. C, published in the last issue of this paper, an error was made as to day of meeting. The meeting will take place on Thursday, the 9th of January, instead of Tues- day, as erroneously stated in our last. Please note the correction.- THE TIME AND PLACE TO MAKE DEMANDS. v 0 0 important and so sacred did our O forefathers regard the right of petition that they incorporated it in our Bill of Rights. This was on the assumption that in our republican form oi government, wnere "an powr is vested in and derived from the peo u pie," their voice would be heeded and ; respected, when presented in the form 1 of petition, but Congress has placed itself so far away from the people that tneir voice is not neard. Ana even the legislature of North Carolina has i so far forgotten its obligation to- the -;. people as to utterly ignore their peti ' tions and to treat them with conteuijr. ;; This defiance of the public will wa; 1 conspicuously exhibited by the Senate ' ' branch of our last" legislature in the important matter of a railroad com mission, when that body contemptu ously ignored and trampled under its , feet the petitions of over 60,000 of the voters and taxpayers of the State. , Will it be done again ? Yes, if the people are so blind and cowardly as " to send such men again to wnsrepre . - sent them. With the average politi cian, resolutions and demands are not worth the paper on whichthey are written. The guarded whisper of one . - ' -----c j- .:. railroad magnate is more potent ' and powerful to jthe ear of the marketable legislator than the united voice of all the Voters of his 'county or district. tq are tired of 'demandV' on paper. nra r-i iu 1111. American and unmanly. The time make demands is in and place to primary meet- inrs.j nominating conventions and at the ballot box. "Let the people select, nominate and elect only such men as thev will not need to make demands j . upon, to secure. . attention rights and interests. to their ALLIANCEMEN, GO TO OXFORD, IT is generally understood among the tobacco growers, of the State, that th'e cigarette manufacturers' have 1 combined' and have arranged for con: trolling the price oi tne particular class qX tobacco used by them in the manufacture of their cigarettes. It is charged that they have parcelled out those markets among themselves, f in which the particular and desired quality. of tobacco is sold, and will not send their buyers or agents to any market to compete with each other. This' and other grievances, will be looked rafter in the meeting of the tobacco growing counties which is to be .held in the town of Oxford on Thursday the 9th of January. .Let .every county in the tobacco belt, take immediate., action to be well represented in that meeting and let every true Alliance man throughout the State and the county,stand by our brethren in their effort to maintain their just rights. " The tobacco men stood loyally by the .cotton men in their fight withi .the, infamous jute trust,. ow let the, cotton , men' stand manfully and faithfully by our- good brethren in the tobacco belt. The cause of our State is the cause of all the States. The cause of one man is the cause of all the men in our order, and let our enemies and the world so understand it. Let there be a rous ing meeting at Oxford on the 9th. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ST. X LOUIS CONVENTION. WE cheerfully give space to the publication of the official pro ceedings of the National Farmers Al- lance aDd Industrial Union. We regret that the copy was received too ate to give it entire, it win ue in teresting reading to all and valuable especially, to the members of our or der. Preserve, carefully, the copies ntaining this record. Read and study the constitution and the laws enacted in pursuance thereof and which will app9r in our next issuer We beg to direct attention, in ad vance, to the report on the monetary system, which was adopted. We re gard it as the most important action taken by any body oE men in this country, since the adoption of the Federal Constitution. Read it, study it, investigate it. The constitution and laws will be ready for distribution at the earliest practicable moment. STAFF CORRESPONDENCE. Gastonia, N. C, Dec. 12, '89. Two months ago the live farmers of Cabarrus county were about done seeding what. In Mecklenburg and Gaston a good many are sowing now many of them plowing it up, like burying the seed never to rise again. Who will harvest the most grain ? Gaston is a fine little county.' All of the crops raised in western North Carolina do well here. Gaston has more cotton factories than any county in the State. In most counties in our State the county seat is the -leading town in commercial importance, but not so with Dallas. It is a pretty village, but looks like it had been left, and in fact it was. When the Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line was built Dal las was left just 4 miles from the rail road, Gastonia, the largest town in the county, is but 4 miles from the county seat and is a. trading point of some importance. A large cotton mill and two door and sa3h f actories are the leading industries. There are cotton factories at Mountain Island, Mt. Holly, McAdensvilk, Kings Moun- tain, uaitners, Wilsons and two or three other points in the county. A new factory is in course' of erection on the south fork of the Catawba. At each of these factories some lively vil lages have been built so the people have markets very conveniently situ ated. Gaston has the advantage of a good railroad outlet. The Corolina Central crosses the northern port of the county, the Richmond & Danville through the central from east to west and the Chester & Lenoir narrow gauge from north to South. The narrow gauge road is a " daisy." It starts at Cuesler, S. C, and never stops until it gets to Lenoir. Trains run on this road at the rate of 25 and jy miles per nour. A year or so ago an engineer of a construction train tried GO miles an hour with a load of cross-ties and it was but a little while until he dammed up a creek with cars, cross ties and dead negroes. The company built a new trestle and in structed their men to make haste more slowly. Gaston has, a good many good Alii wance men. lhey have a busmess agent and cotton-buyer and are run ning a store at Gastonia. Manv of the farmers have lost their hogs with cholera this fall., .-J- :v Gaston is a manufacturing county in another 'way.- IC-hak about- 55 whisky distilleries, licensed" and un- licensed. ,. . . 1 Many farmers rare doing ' 'their winter plowing, now.- That is a good sign. The time should . soon pass -when our farmers 'will wait until .the; sap rises in the spring,so they can get hickory, bark to mend their harness,: before they go to plowing for f the next crop. Jefferson Davis spent . the (flast his life in literary , work. He wrote an article on Andersonville. for the North American Rew'ew, exonerat ing the Confederate government from the charge of wanton cruelty ' toward the Federal prisoners. On the publi cation of his reply to . Lord Wolseley in the North American, Review( which Mr. Davis- charged; was mutilated by the American editor in the interest of the English government), Mr. Davis re:. fused to permit the American to pub. lish his article on Anderson ville un less the editor should agree to publish it unmutilated. The editor refused to give that pledge. Mr. Davis there upon -withdrew his article and trans f erred it to Bel ford's Magazine, It will appearin the-1 January number. - In the,same issue Bel fold's will puhltsh'a brief autobiography of Mr. Da vis, written a short time ago. . K few weeks before . his death, Mr. Divis completed for the Belford Company "A Short History of the onfederate States." It will be issued at an early date. ALLIANCE NOTES. Always give the name and number of your Alliance, your postoffice and your county, plainly, when you write o the President, Secretary, Trustee, Business Agent or Chairman of Executive Com mittee of the State Alliance. : A Farmers' Alliance was organ ized at the Agricultural and Mechani cal College last Wednesday night. Prof. Hollada, president of the col lege, was elected president of the Alli ance. The body was addressed by Mr. D. H. Rittenhouse, ("Old Fogy") on the new plans and principles .an nounced by the Alliance at its great meeting in St Louis. Bro. L. H. Wilson, Secretary of Eden Alliance, No. 1,744, Forsyth county, informs us of the death of Bro. A. J. Snider, which occurred on the 11th day of December, 1889, in the 70th year of his age. In his death the Alliance has lost one of its best and most useful members ' and the neighborhood one of its best, and most charitable citszens, who was t v ever ready to help those in distress. A brother writing from Golds- boro under date of Dec. 16th, 1889, says: "Expressive of their gratifica- tion, Salem Alliance, JNo. 513, of which I am a member, send you a list of ten subscribers accompanied with the cash. The premium copy we ask you to send to Bro. J. T. Smith, who got badly crippled by a runaway team some time ago, and has not been able to do any work since. Bro. W. A. Darden lectures here on the 28 th inst., and we expect to have a large crowd of farmers to ?hear him. A Memorial Committee of .Raft Swamp Alliance, No. 44, informs us of the death of Bro. John A. Powell, at his home near Lumber Bridge, N. C, on November 5th, 1889, of typhoid fever, in the 37th year of his age. He leaves a wife. and four children, two sons and two daughters, to mourn the loss of an affectionate husband and father, t Besides a good and energetic member of Raft Swamp Farmers' Alliance, he had been a consistent member ' of Saddle Tree , Baptist Church for the term of eighteen years prior to his death. Bro. J. R. Roberson. writing under date of Nov. 25th, says: i(We had a find time,. at Oak Grove,J: Pitt county, ; last 'Saturday. Bro. E. A. Moye, of Greenville, who is Superior Court Clerk and County Secretary of Pitt Alliance, delivered a fine address at 11 o'clock, after Elder H. Winfield had preached ah able sermon and later, therei was spread on a table about forty yards long a .sumptuous ii' i mi i Alliance amner. i ne qay was as lovely as could be. Fully 400 persons partook thereof, and a great deal was gathered up to carry home. Not jar or discord of any kind occurred during the whole proceeding." '. f Bro. R. S. BarnettSecretarv of 9kW Hopewell Farmers' Alliance, No. 331, Mecklenburg county, writes as fol lows : " At a regular meeting of Hope well Alliance, 331, the following pa per, introduced by Bro. E. C. David son, was unanimously adopted and ordered to be forwarded tor The Progressive Farmer, for publication, viz: This Alliance is in complete harmony with Wake County Alliance in extending her congratulations to President L. L. Folk, for the distin guished honor conferred on him at the late St. Louis convention, in elect ing him President of National Farm ers' and Laborers' Union. Every true JNortn uarounian ought to appro ciate this preferment, to whieh the re cipient is so 'justly entitled: weknow that all Alhancemen will.- Hopewell Alliance -will not yield the palm of appreciation to any one of her sister- Aiiiances. inline state. Toe only re gret is. that time was too limited" to permit old Mecklenburg going down to clasp hands and unite hearts with old Wake in; her'appropriate manifes tations; to North Carolina's distin guished son. .Well, the , mantle has fallen upon the .shoulders, of . one among the many of the fittest, and will be gracefully and efficiently, worn. The farmers are - in deep' tribulation and their only hope is in the National Farmers' and .Laborers' Union, of which Hon. L. L Polk is the honored and worthy President. . 4 T Bro. T. F, Guy, Secretary, of Sweet Home Alliance, No., 1,769, of Iredell county, writes: I have been, re aa ing Alliance notes from all over the State, btit have never seen a scratch from" our corner yet. I suppose they are all waiting for some1 one to brake the ice. and as t am the one, I hope that l maj ; get oyer saleiy. i?f;yur Alliance is very - small yet, but means what she does, and is doing all she can to, press forward -this grand and noble work. We have sixteen members. mostly all good men, some preachers andnp ladies, but, I think we will have. some, ladks .before very much onger. V e again need a ' stirring up" from some good brother like Dr. D. Reid Parker.- We 'would be elad if he would come around again. We need Some good. lecturer to visit this part of the county, often. We are taking three copies of The Progres- sive Farmer, and they are helping us out wonderfully. - Hurrah for the Alliance and the editor of the organ LETTER FROM A FARMERS r DAUGHTER, r t 1 Amboy, N. C. , Dec. 11, 1889.. Mr. Editor : : If you will allow me space enough in your valued paper, 1 thought I would write, to let you know that we are still in existance. Since I have been reading The Pro gressive Farmer I have read many pleasant and encouraging letters from different alliances throughout this grand old State, but not one word have I seen from our Alliance or even our county. . Do not think sir, that we are not doing anything simply because we do not bother you every mail wiih some article or an- nother. We are all poor, hard work ing farmers, yet we are as true to our order as true can be. We have about 70 male members and 23 females making in all about 93 members, the most of whom are of the pure Alliance grit, while there are a few others who are careless, good-for-nothing members. But we will not bother them any. longer than it will take to get rid of them. I think the best thing we could do with brandy sellers would be, to get rid of them as soon as possible. Some of them do not have any more respect for themselves, nor any one eke, than to 'go to our regular meet n gs smelling like a brandy barrel, and their noses looking like a red pep per pod. iWe have arduously been fighting trusts and monopolists ever since the organization of our alliance, and having truth and honor as our watch word, we trust that in due time God will give ui the victory. I don't think the members of our alliance are reading The Progressive Far mer as much as they should. I think it is just as hard for a man to be a good Allianceman and not read as it is to live without eating. Brethren of the Alliance, it is time we were waking up to a sense of our duty if we love our country and State.' We must have an education or we will perish. I believe the Farmers Alii-' ance to be one of the noblest insti tutions ever gotten up by. man, the church of God being its only su perior. May God bless the' Alliance and The Proressive Farmer: Fraternally Yours, Sarah M. Parrish. . FROM BERTIE COUNTY. Spring Vale Alliance, No. 1323. Mr. Editor : I am a poor news- paper correspondent, this being my first attempt but 1 would iiJse to let the brethren know what we are doing down here in the Indian woods. t Our Alliance has only been in ex istance about eleven or twelve months. We organized with eleven charter members, we now" number twenty two. We have not grown much in number. We have expelled some and others have been dismissed. But our members are solid Alliance men to what they know about its working. We have others knocking at the door to be initiated. But the trouble there is only one of bur mem bers that takes the organ. They want to subscribe for. the Progressive Farmer but excuse themselves by saving thev are not able, but they say they are going to subscribe when they can dispose of their crops ana set tie their debts. . Our crops in this place are almost a complete failure tms year, not more than halt a crop ot cotton and a very short crop of corn. We are determined not to use any new jute bagging. We could not get cotton bagging in time for our cotton but our county Business Agent mm-m . found a substitute which will do just the same. We are tied to the AiU ance by brotherly love and faith in our leaders to carry us safe to the object we have in vew 1 have read the Farmer with fear arid trembling, when ,1 see , through its columns so many members , falling back from their obligations. - Brethren how can we expect to accomplish - any thing except we pull together how can we expect others to help us when we can't be persuaded to help ourselves, but if we will all pull together it will only be a question of time that we will come out more than conqueorer through him "that does all things well. T hope eveiy member of the Alliance will subscribe for the Prog ressive. Farmer, and for one dollar you can get ten dollars worth pf in formation during twelve months. I have only been reading it for a short time but I would . iiot be without it for double the amount it costs.. I. will close1 -and -if you think proper you can publish these remarks if not cast them' aside. Fraternally, ' E. C. Pithuan. THE- SILVER QUESTION. . OLD FOGY. In the News Observer ot December 17 an article with the caption given above challenge! ray attention. Were you hot so pressed for space I would ask you to re-produce it. It is able and exhaustive, and as, the monetary issue is the supreme ques tion of .the hour I am indeed proud to see that Bro. Ashe takes the ad vanced views he does. In conclu sion Bro. Ashe adds, '-I seem 3 to us that the policy of unlimited cour age (of silver) will solve many great questions right many wrongs and be of great value to, the people of this country." We thank, the Roderick for the word. How much abler and just is the article in question than the position taken' by Cleveland in .his message to Congress, Dec. 6, 1886, "I have seen no reason to change the views ex. pressed in my last annual message, and I again urge the suspension of compulsory coinage of silver." CAPT. DARDEN IN THE EAST. Shallotte, N. C, Dec. 11th, 1889. Mr. Editor : I would like for the Brethren to know what the people of Brunswick county thinks of the Far. mors' Alliance. Before Capt. Dar den made his tour through here, there were many who though well of it, for we are Alliance people through and through. The Captain made four public speaches in Bruns wick, three of which I heard, they were all well attended, and spoken of in most nattering terms. But when he spoke in the court house in South- port it capped the climax, for there were the doctors, lawyers, merchants, pilots, mechanics, and in fact all class- es except the ladies; and I do think Bro. Darden ought to return to Southport and speak for them, for they will surely turn out next time. I have conversed with some of all classes and they all agree that Capt. Darden is the right man in the right place. He has made manv friends to the Alliance and for himself. Everybody wants to be an Alliance man. He was also very successful in collecting money for the State Agency. Yours Fraternally, Ueo. .Leonard. WHY NOT ELECT TERS? POSTMAS- OLD FOGY. We are heartily in favor of -elec ting postmasters by the people. Should not the people that patro nize a postoffice, say who shall serve them ? We certainly have the same right to say; who will be our post masters as to say who shall repre sent us in Congress or who shall be the Chief Executive of our country. We are opposed to having the Postmaster General, or any Congress man having the power" to say. who shall serve the people either here or elsewhere. COLUMBUS NEWS. Mr. Editor: At the last meeting of Pleasent Hill Alliance, No. 73, it was resolved that we recommend the use of better cotton covering, one pound to the yard, small or half size bales with small cotton rope or wire for ties. Resolved, That in ous judgment the next U. S. census should show the proportion of property free from debt or mortgage and the homes and - 7 farms occupied by their real owners, and what per centage of corporal stock or property is watered or ex aggerated so that the producer can estimate the burthen of tax or inter est carried annually by" the fruit of their toil. Resolved, That our County Alliance be requested to adopt a simple specific badge attached to their clothing near the left shoulder of all delegates or members during all regular meetings and beg the significant use of a lock or flak of cotton or two inch piece of nice cotton cloth of our own State manufacture, and the same be recom mended to the consideration of our State Executive Committee for uni form useag; and these proceedings be sent to The Progressive Farmer. . J. T. Harrell, Cbr. and Lecturer. FARMERS INSURANCE. Pair Grove Alliance, No. 1307 Randolph, County, N Q ' Mr. Editor : Our allianQ " thirty or more. We ha've so energetic members in our aud m fact, all are losing forw "e! to a br ihter.future. We fee M va In ah I q ltirv.n e .1 w w.umua Ui Ule rROGiiESaiv r akmer some suggestions iu regard to a plan of insurant i... r u tuted and conducted by str ctlva!" hance principles. Now, brethren l also wish to offer a few suecres 'io?B regarding an insurance pkn, which i! no Trvl I r tiro . 3 Suggestion 1 That vor and endorse a good plan of in surance for alliance people, that it may be for their benefit and J ter.tirm r iU' Suggestion 2 That formulate its own rules and tions regarding an insurance plan fnr "ciicuu oi wiaows ana orphans who may be in indigent circuinstan'. ces. Suggestion 3 That members pav so much tvr . compensate the insurance fund, O a.: a mi ouggesuon 4 -mat each alliance have power to elect a committee of its best members, to investigate the condition of any member who may h left. uw.noo! cuu icpuxi to meir alliance and let it call on the county x vuoui kji ivi tiio icquirea neln Brethren think on thPR fl.in.To j auu let us hear .from you through the jrituuKKasivi farmer. . Liong live Col. Polk and success to the Pro gressive Farmer. F. G., A. 1307. GUILFORD NOTES. The Alliance throughout the County have taken new lite and greater zeal is shown in trying to make the meetings profitable and in teresting. The. Center Grove Alliance No 1604, had a jollification meeting on November 28th, and quite a eood crowd listened to a fine address by lt. k. item raruer in the school room of Hillsdale High School. The day before was so very unfavorable and the morning so threatening, the crowd was not near so large as would have been and our good women were disappointed in not being allowed to feed a larger crowd. On December 7th, Allamance Al- liance held a pic-nic and were ad- dressed by Rev. C. Miller and John W, Wilborn, Assistant Lecturer for the county. The day was fine, the crowd large enough, the dinner ex cellent and Bro. Miller's speach very good and we trust that much was done for the cause. There are sev- eral more pic-nic's on foot and we hope every community may be stir red to its utmost and our member ship increased. Our county Alliance is active and progressive. W are moving for better things in our county. We must have an exchange in our section of the state. Our county is where it ought to be. Let every brother work for this end. We have moved up for better times and living among the farmers; let every man remember his vows and pay those vows to the order. PrayJ ing God's blessing upon the Order and its officers we are Yours in bonds Assistant Lecturer. SWEET POTATOES. The several rules for digging and plans for banking, hilling and hous ing sweet potatoes are based upon a few simple principles which seem to be generally adopted, viz.: That the potatoes should be dug about the time a killing frost 13 expecteJ, or immediately thereafter; that they should be handled so as to prevent bruising and cutting; that they stiouiu be put up in such manner as to keep of uniform and rather low tempera ture (above freezing) ; that they should be kent drv. The plan of pouring dry sand among the potatoes in the hill or house, so as to fill all me in terstices, is excellent. We have kept potatoes sound, sweet and dry until potatoes "come again oy p incf in harrp.ls an A fillinrr with dry sand. The sand tends to prevent sudden changes - of temperaiui probably prevents (mechanically) the spread of the fungus spores iu.uu6- out the bulk. The simplest way to hill the po toes (largely practiced at the soutnj i3 to dig when the ground is 1 possible, about the time of first frost Drive a post in the ground auu off about four feet high; cover tne ground thickly with -dry pine straw, place the potatoes carefully- PLinJ them as high as they will !w. aQ about twenty-five bushels to the nw, cover the potatoes with pine straw or dry corn stalks, regularly laid, n less than six inches deep; cover oye all with dirt dug from around tne outer edge of 'the hill, at the fcrst rather shallow, but adding more ain. as cold weather approaches, until earth is a foot thick at every point. Southern Cultivator, No man can rtffJnfl!S?. than by exhibiting his own self -respect I
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