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P ROGRESSl Ylj&Mmi, JANUARY VtSo L. L. POLK, - - - -Editor-D. H. bROWDER, Business Mamaoib. Raleigh, N. C. SUBSCRIPTION: "r iiii ha.ri1vtiii OnA YpftT S 1.25 Six MonUus five SobscribciB, One Year . i ftrta Venr 1U. 75 00 .00 One copy one year free, to the one sending Club ci Ten. CashInvaridblv in Advanc. t a i-fir Jf nt bv resistertHi letter r faouey order. AdTertifiim? Rates quoted on application. To CorrespOTHieh U : Write all communications, designed for publica tXOii, on one siae oi uie paper ouiy. We want intelligent correspondent in every eonntyinthe State. We want fact of value, re mta accomplished of value, experiences of valne. siaimy ana urieny iom. uue euuu, ucuwuiuaw" gtf, is wortn a tnousana ineones. . - Addres all communications to Thi Pbogrissiyb Fakmeb, Raleigh. N. C RALEIGH, N. C., JAN. 7, 1890 TMs pujjtr entered as aeon d-ckm matter at the Post Oglci in Raleigh N. C.J The Progressive Farmer is the Cncial Organ of the N. C. Farmers association and N. C. State Farmers Alliance, and the Virginia State Farm- mil CLIAVVt A 111 "1 A ' 'Do you want your paper changed to another office? State the one at which you have been getting it. Do you want your communication pub lished If so, give us your real name end your postoffi.es. 8 I3T" Our friends in writing to any of Our advertisers, will favor us by mention ing the fact that they saw the advertise ment in The Progressive Farmer. BT" The date on your label tells you When your time is out. , J. L. Ramsey is our authorized agent, to receive subscriptions and advertisements for The Progressive Farmer. THE PRINCIPLES OF THE FARM- ERS' ALLIANCE. WE give- in part, the address of "Old Fogy" before the Alliance just organized at the Agricultural College, as it brings prominently be fore our brethren the principles and policy, adopted at St. Louis. " We demand that the government shall erect warehouses at any point where a business of half a million dollars, yearly, is done. That the government shall take the products of the soil that are not perishable in their nature and store them, and issue to the farmer bills of exchange to the valu of 80 per cent. o the products o warehoused. "That the producer shall have the right to keep his good 3 in the ware house for a year, or to sell at any time during the year. . " " That the certificate issued shall be legal tenders for public and private debts. ."That the coinage of gold and silver shall not be limited. "That the government shall own and control the railroads and tele graph lines of our country." These are the cardinal principles of our order. Supposing that we would ultimate ly need 2,000 warehouses and that the cost of these warehouses would be $25,000,000, or double if you will, the very liberal estimate and make it 50 millions of dollars, yet, if the gov ernment were to charge half the rates now charged for insuring and ware housing, the receipts would, in five, yeras'.time, pay for the warehouses so constructed. But suppose it did not. . Has not the government built in all the cities of any size postoffices, at a cost of hundreds of millions ? Has not the government for com merce and contractors passed appro priation bills, the amount of which makes our demands look insignificant by comparison ? One of the arguments has been that where the government erected public buildings it gave employment to hundreds of mechanics and scat tered money where the improvements were made. ; .You may be ready to say this is a new or novel plan. On the contrary, Joseph, the great Secretary of State for King Potiphar, carried on the warehouse system centuries ago, the German and French governments have both practiced the plan, and at times when it seemed as if the State would go down in wreck and ruin, and they were saved by its adoption. Every manufacturer of whisky can hold his goods for a market that suits him hold for three years and the government owns, practically, 75 per cent, for taxes. If the cost of collecting revenue in ternal is less than five per cent., we can sifely assume that it would not be over 2 per cent, by our method. Our national banks .are conducted on the same plan. They deposit evi dence3 of debt and get 90 per cent, in certificates which we call national bank notes. "We, on the other hand, propose to deposit evidences of wealth, such products as the world cannot do without and we only ask 80 per cent, of their value. Private warehouses or those owned by corporations oersue the samA lino Wheat is deposited in elevators, sold on certificates of erade and Trrm rftr n eell thousands of bushels and not de - ! ' ' ' I liver, one bushel in bulk. The gov ernment now, issues certiucates on gold and silver, so that there is noth ing new in the plan, but it is striking ly new for the farmer, the" mechanic and laborer, to ask for anything for their benefit? . Ynn rnav he readv to ask what ben efits are expected to flow from the adoption of this plan ? It would increase the price of a.l products, for the farmer need not sell his products until they would bring him a inapgin of -profits instead of a clear loss as is now the case. It would increase the volume of currency, and make it possible if such an amount were needed to, make the total reach one billfon of dollars. Take our cotton crops we could get 350,000,000 dollars, and yet not have sold one pound of cotton if ' the puce was not such as would yield us a profit. Wf could raise cotton from 9 1-2 to 12 1 J cents per pound, an in crease of over one hundred millions in values in one year. : It would raise wheat from 75 cents to $1 per bushel, and wheat raising would once more be profitable. It would transfer the profits from the speculator to the laborer, from Wall street to the farm. In short we propose to have a Sub Treasurv in each countv and for the producer to receive from the govern- A 1 Ml !l A- AV t H I mem Dins oi exenange man - snaa ue leffal tenders for all the Deonle. By adding to the volume of, currency we wouia decrease tne rates qi inter est and increase the values of the farmer. Space will not permit of more ex tended extracts. THIS IS FOR YOU. ON the 10th of February, The Pbo gressive Farmer will have been in existence four years. Of the strug gle it had in the beginning, of its undertakings on behalf of the people and its successes, of its loyalty and fidelity, of its hard, earnest and con stant labors for the elevation and ad vancement of the agricultural inter ests, it is not for us to speak. Its readers know it all. While we feel that it has done a good work, yet it has not been all that we desired. We have been cramped for want of means and have been so thoroughly ab sorbed in official work that we could not give the paper the attention we felt it should have. But we intend to exert every effort to make it a bet ter paper than it has ever been. We are proud of the support it has re ceived. But we know that there are thousands of farmers and Alliance members in the State who should read the paper and who do not get it. There can be no objection to the price. We want to increase our cir culation. We want helo to do it. Will our friends interest themselves and aid us? Let our new volume, on the 1 0th of next month, open with a greatly enlarged list, and every one of them paid up. Jf any one oives us for the paper, let the money come for. ward by the loth of February. Any one sending us ten dollars with ten subscribers will get a copy free. The Progressive Farmer and the National Economist one year for $1.75. Jbor two cash subscribers to The Progressive Farmer we will send the Economist Almanac. X DOES FARMING PAY? "TES, it pays handsomely. It pays X the railroads it pays the manu facturers it pays the speculator it pays the 'political tricksters, it pays the professional men, it pays the mer chants, it pays the money barons, it pays the banks, it pays trusts, com bines and other forms of legalized robberies; it pays almost everybody except the farmer. O yes, farming pays ! , 1890. IN the beginning of this New Year, let us remember the errors, the disappointments and misfortunes of the past year, only to profit by them. As members of society, let us bo more charitable and cheerful ; as kinc red and friends, more affectionate and genial: as citizens, more patriotic and manful; as Alhancemen and women, more faithful and fraternal : a,s farmers. more thoughtful and provident, and as christians, mere perseverincr and devoted to good works. Ihe Progressive Farmer sends greeting to its thousands of readers, and wishes each and all of them a happy and prosperous New Year. - r - RUIN AT BOTH ENDS. A RMOUR & CO. and the railroads jljl. combine to control the beef market of the country. Armour & jQ. torm a combine and force the Ivans 3 farmer to sell them his beef for less than it costs to produce it. They then telegraph their asrent at Asheville, N. C'.t to offer beef so low tnat the farmers of Buncombe county can not sell their beef to the butchers and thus take entire possession of the Asheville . market and establish a mo nopoly in beef. Who is profited by this arrangement? Armour & Co. and the railroads and possibly some of the consumers in Asheville. Who is hurt by it ? The farmer in Kansas and the farmer in Buncombe, who are forced to raise beef for less than cost in order that capitalists and rail roads may make money on it. THE PEOPLE. WILL NOT BE DE- CEIVED. IT is amusing to note with what profound interest and concern cer tain truckling papers are endeavoring to throw dust in the eyes of the peo ple in regard to the action of the St. Louis Convention. But the people will not be deceived. Some of these papers display, either wilful deception or inexcusable ignorance in their at tempt to mislead the public. For ex ample, the Farm, Field and Stockman, whose strong partisan bias gives color to all its discussions of questions of a national character, very adroitly man ipulates and contorts the proceedings of that body with che evident intent: to do injustice. It takes the action of the Knights of Labor, the . North western Alliance, the National Farm ers' Alliance, and President Harri son's message and jumbles them all together, and gives this muddle out to its readers as the action of the National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial-. Union. It has fallen into line with other1, partisan, political pa pers and persists in the false state ment that the Alliance and Knights of Labor consolidated. We notify the people that there are papers which are mere tools in the hands of our enemies. They are the mouth-pieces of monopolists and rail roads They will assail us in every conceivable way. They will not hesi tate to misrepresent us. They will claim to be the champions of the peo ples' rights, and some of the people will be deceived by them. . They will stand out and crack the whip of their political bosses over the heads of the people and strive to frighten and in timidate them. They will be in the service and at the bidding of monopo listic and corporate power. They will practice the same deceitful game that they have so successfully played for a quarter of a century, and which has impoverished the confiding, trustful farmer and well nigh ruined the whole country. But they had as well submit in good grape. The farmers of the land will stand loyally by the action of the St. Louis meeting, and will thereby save the counj;ry from the grasp of corrupt plutocracy and impending ruin. The people will not longer be deceived. ' We intend to shell the bushes and drive these bush whackers into the open field, if possi ble, and force them to - show their colors. Let the people be constantly on guard, for the enemy is marshaling his forces. x . THE AMERICAN FARMER AND SECTIONALISM. THE same causes which have par alyzed the energies of the farmers of Kansas " have impoverished the farmers of Carolina, of Illinois and of New Hampshire. The same evils which confront the farmers . from Maryland to Mexico, are at the doors of the farmers from Maine to Califor nia. The American farmer, in what ever State he may live, is weighed down by the same burthen. They must make common cause and come together in a common effort for re lief. They must obliterate all sec tional lines and divisions, which really and only exist in the prejudices of de signing demagogues, and declare by their mighty and united voice, that henceforth the farmers- of this great country will stand together in defence of their rights and their liberties as bequeathed to them by the patriot fathers of the republic! HE WAS PUZZLED. FARMER Adkins: " I don't under stand it. In 1870 I owed a man $180 and brought one bale of cotton to town weighing 500 pounds and sold it and took up the note. I was owing another man this year the same amount and brought two bales to town and sold it to-day and it took the last cent to pay it. , I couldn't for the life of me understand .how it is that it takes just 1,000 pounds of cotton to-day to pay the same amount that it took only 500 pounds to pay m 1870. It required twice as many hard licks to make these two bales they cost me twice as much . as the one bale and yet they buy me no more money. Somehow or other it looks to me that just one-half my labor has gone for nothing and some body has got it without paying for it." " Say, Allen, can you tell me ho w it is that I have, to do twice as much work now for that $180 as I had to do in 1870?" . Allen : " Well, Adkins, money is like any other commodity ; in one . re spect, the sparcer it is the higher it is. Money was plentiful years ago and was cheaper, now it is scarce and. it takes more of your labor to buy it. You say you are puzzled to know who got the half of your labor in making those two bales of cotton. Those who manage and control the money got it The National Banking system and Wall street manipulators and specula tors have conspired to make money scarce and thereby raise the price of the dollar. You see they hold the dollar and the higher value they can put on it the more of , the products of your labor your cotton for example they can get for it. Our national debt is in the hands of these same money lords, and has undergone ex actly the same process that your $180 did. In 1866 the nublic debt could have been paid with l,o92,ooo,ooo pounds of cotton; to-day it would re quirt? 16,93o,ooo,ooo pounds to pay it, although the debt is $l,o9o,ooo,oo.j less now than it was in 1867. Now when these corrupt men and their hirelings tell you that the low prices of your products are due to overpro duction, it is false. With our rj resent 'financial system you can have no con- trol whatever of the price of your cot ton or anything else you produce, and farming in these United States is practically one vast system of ten antry. My advice to you, Mr. Ad kins, is to take . Alliance papers and read and study more about your busi ness." OUR THANKS. FOR the many kind expressions and congratulations, conveyed to us through letters, telegrams and resolu tions, from our own and many other States, we are profoundly grateful, and regret that the great pressure of duties has prevented U3 from respond ing to them. We hope to find time in the near future to express our warm appreciation, by letter, to our good friends. OUR SUCCESSOR. THE new Secretary, to be appointed by our State Executive Commit tee, will be announced in our next issue. We bespeak for him, whoever he may be, the same forbearance and the same zealous and loyal support from thebrotherhood, that it has been our good fortune to enjoy. That he will be worthy and well qualified, no one can doubt who know the men whose appointee he will be. His, will be no easy task. Encourage him, trust him and stand by him. We know not who he will be, but he will need your aid and your generous, fraternal'support. The Progressive Farmer can greatly aid him in his labors, and it will most cheerfully render any service it may be able LET THE PEOPLE UN ER STAND THE SITUAT ON. IN 1860 the total wealth of the United States was $16,000,000, 000, of which labor owned $7,000, 000,000 and capital, $9,000,000,000. In 1870, total wealth, $30,000,000,000, labor owned $11,000,000,000 and capital $19,000,000,000. In 1880, total wealth, $43,000,000,000, labor owned $9,000,000,000 and capital $34,000,000,000. It will be seen that in 1860 labor owned 43 per cent, of the wealth of the country, in 1870 it owned 36 per cent, and in 1880 it owned 20 per cent. The census of 1390 will show that capital owns nearly the entire wealth of the, coun try. How is this alarming state of affairs to be remedied ? By the peo ple rising in their majesty and hurl ing from power those who have de ceived and betrayed them with false promises. V ANOTHER BIG FIGHT. npHE farmers of the tobacco belt JL will meet in Oxford on Thurs day, the 9th inst. They meet to take action in regard to the Tobacco Trust, composed of four cigarette manufac turing companies. Unless we are greatly misinformed, this Trust is founded on methods that would do credit to highway robbers, and we want to see the farmers throughout this land combine and utterly demol ish it. Let them hoist their flag and grant no quarter and ask none. Against all these thieving trusts, which are designed to rob our honest farmers, lot the war-cry be, "war to to the knife and the knife to the hilt I " And we call upon the true ana noble men of old Granville to take that flag and lead the charge. Men of Pied mont North Carolina ! go to Oxford and show your manhood and your hatred of oppressors and robbers. We are ashamed to hear the name of a North Carolina firm connected with this disgraceful and iniquitous pro ceeding. HENRY W. GRADY. AMERICA'S most brilliant orator is dead. Allan la mourns him as its favorite son; Georgia, as one of its truest and most devoted citizens; the South, as its most powerful and eloquent advocate, and the whole country, as one whose broad patriotism was bounded only by the horizon of his native land. May his dying mes sage to his countrymen, the greatest effort of his brilliant life, embalm his name in imperishable remembrance ! ;" "J 11 ,:, i . -Bro. W. H. .Smith, Secretary, of Cedar Run Alliance, No. 1,487, writes encouragingly and says all the members are thorough Alliance men and wiirhold Out to the end. They are weak numerically and financially but are strong in the faith and have contributed to the business agency fund to -the extent of their ability. Tiie . writer regrets that their presi dent cannot attend the meetings at present. A wound received in the late war necessitated the amputation of his leg a few days ago, but he is improving and it is hoped he will soon be able to resume the duties of his office. The brother calls loudly for a speaker. His appeal is "Send us a lecturer." ' " " - EDITORIAL NOTES. Bro. C. T. Richardson, of Earps boro, N. C, calling in to renew his subscription, says that he always raises his own molasses and likes the crop better erery year. He says it is an excellent substitute for Drown sugar, in preserving, &c. There is an earnest interest among the members of. our order in the subject of insurance. We are enabled to say that a system of in surance, for the use of the whole order, will be presented in the near future, which is pronounced by those competent to judge, to be most admirably- adapted to the wants and wishes of our people. It is claimed that an error oc curs in the proceedings of the St. Louis meeting as published elsewhere in this paper and as it appears in other prints. That a substitute was adopted in lieu of Sec. 20 of the Statutory Laws. That matter is be ing investigated by the proper author ity and will be corrected, if an error has been committed. The employees of our office worked hard and faithfully during the year just past, and were entitled to the usual respite, which is almost universally accorded, hence we issued no paper last week. We roll up our sleeves and start into the year's work before us with a determination to give our kind friends a better paper during 1890 than ever before. Our readers would do well to file this issue of The Progressive Farmer and preserve it carefully as it contains the Constitution and statu tory laws adopted at St. Louis and other very important acts of that body. Let every member of the order study the Constitution and laws carefully. Read and re read the re port on the monetary system which was adopted. The last issue and this one contain the full proceedings of the St. Louis meeting. The State Grange of Kansas, which met recently in the city of To peka, appointed a committee to confer with the Farmers' Alliance of that State to arrange, if possible, for har monious and united action of the two bodies. It was also ordered that the demands of the St. Louis Convention should be submitted to the subordinate Granges of Kansas for ratification or rejection. And thus the great reform movement is going forward with in creasing force and power. The National Grange and a number of farmers' organizations have called for the Superintendent of the U. S. census to collect and report in the next census the amount of in debtedness, mortgages, etc., which hang on the farms of the country. It will be seen by reference to another column that Bro. C. W. Macunc, the able and vigilant Chairman of our Executive Board, waited on Mr. Porter in person, and obtained from that official the promise to include these important items in his next re port. A good days work for our Executive Board. The semi-annual Word and Secret Work of the National Farm ers' Alliance and Industrial Union will be sent out at an early day. The new Constitution and Rituals will also be ready for State Secretaries in a short time. The Ritual will contain a form of prayer for use in opening and closing the meetings and also a form of burial service. The Consti tution and statutory laws will be pub lished in connection with an order of business, and a simple form of parlia mentary law for the use of the order. These publications will appear in neat and durable style and will be sold to the brotherhood at cost through the State Secretaries. ALLIANCE NOTES. Always give the name and number of your Alliance, your postoffice and your county, plainly, when you write to the President, Secretary, Trustee, Business Agent or Chairman of Executive Com mittee of the State Alliance. We are sorry to hear of the serious illness of Bro. Albert Wicker, of Camon Falls Alliance, No. 130. Bro. W. M. Taylor is President of Graham County Alliance, and Bro. L. M. Medlin, of -Welch, N. C, is Secretary. Bro. J. W. Heston, writing from Clarkton, N. C, informs us that Bro. Mears, of that place, died on the 3rd of December. Bro. J. F. Brinson writes from Pamlico county to say that his Alli ance endorses the insurance feature of the Alliance. Bro. J. M. Miller writes from Troutman's Alliance, Stanly county, that they are moving along slowly, but are "getting there, Eli." Surry County Alliance was or ganized Dec. 4th, 1889, with A. L. Bunker as President and J. C. Cooper, of Dobcn, N. C, as Secretary. Jenkins X Roads Alliance, No. 416, Union county, recently passed resolutions concerning the loss, by fire, sustained by Bro. J. S. Little in the burning of his chair factory. His loss is about $l,ooo, and they ask that each Alliance in the State send him 5o npnto 1. 1 . . SendcontriWirosT?'. Zoar, Union county Ll"K PBr' W- W- Gibbs. ot Din! rolk countv nr.nt. if. "'"M!. field, of Buke "or" to wnte to him the .b We are triad Holman, of Iredell, R. p HuV" B' Mecklenbua . if.' iUnter. of den ln The Progressive " pARDyar office last week. AEE Bro. K W P.i... of Scuppernong Alliance; Washington conntv , 1,&61? Alliance now has 64 meSep?1 ?? several applications on file. lth Bro. J. W aiij... from Friendship Alliance, says that with sn ' . 45, them ladies, they LvT's 6 7 the business agency fund. a TBri J'- Harris writing frorn Seaboard. Kort.hmr fe IroQ ports crops almost a total faUure? his section. He fears that many 2 tne poor people will suffer. Bro. Geo. S. WMtQ t , Chowan county, sends three subscriK ers to The Progressive Farmitr3 says that his Alliance now fin mala ari ok t i. "UIlioer$ - ACLUttio members Bro. A. G. Person has moved from Fremont. Nr. j . ovea t v m ' T , ' u WiU make Lulmg, Texas, his home in the f uturp Ui A KOaRRscTv Farmer go with him to his new home Bro. S. C. Lassiter, Secretary 0f Walnut Ridge Alliance, No. l 30s Randolph county, writes that his 'lli' ance now number 45 excellent mem bers and that his county is on a hie boom. ig Bro. J. F. P. Harton, Secretary 0f Smith's Creek Alliance, No. 35, War ren county, writes that crops are very short in that county, cotton not mak ing more than a bale to ten or twelve acres. Bro. J. F. Crowder, of Wade ville, N. C, in renewing his subscrip. tion to The Progressive Farmer, re marks that he thinks the members soould read their State organ and keep posted. Bro. P. D. Bridgers, of Lovejoy Alliance, No. 981, Cleveland county, writes that his lodge now numbers 43 members, and that they have con tributed liberally to the business agency fund. Bro. R. P. Holmes, Secretary of Harmony Hill Alliance, No. l,oG7, j-iwvw whu.;, xtliVilJUO US lUat HIS f Alliance is moving along slowly, but f they have contributed $3o to tlia . h business agency fund. Bro. W. R. McKee, Secretary of River Bend Alliance, Orange county, sends us resolutions in regard to pat ronizing the Alliance tobacco ware houses. That is sensible. Si ck to your warehouse, brethren. Bro. W. W. Wash, Comfond. ing Secretary of Hurdle's M..U Alli ance, No. 79G, Person couri'y, writes that his Alliance has 7o members, and that they would like to have some brother to deliver them a lecture. Bro. E. L. Crowder, Correspond, ing Secretary of Dyson Creek Alli ance, No. 212, writes that h;s Alii ance has been organized 2 years, has 74 members on roll and has not been visited by death since its organization. Bro. Alfred Gates, writing from Asbury, Warren county, says that the cry of "hard times'' is heard in New Jersey just as often as it is here in the South, and attributes the cause to high taxation. Bro. W.M. Pearson, writing from Apex, Wake county, says that c ?rn is not more than a half a crop and cot ton one-third in his section; that he killed a Jersey pig ten months old recently which weighed 307 pounds. Bro. W. E. McCoy, Secretary of South Mills Alliance, No. 1,213, writes that his Alliance now numbers about 66 members. They have con tributed $15 to the business agency fund and expect to give at least $1 each. Bro. P. G. W. Walker, of ToSs Creek Alliance, No. 1,670, Rocking ham county, writes to say that his people are well satisfied that the Alli ance -has come to stay, and that the State Business Agent is the right mm for the place. Bro. W. H. Neal, Secretary oi River Bend Alliance, No. 35, Pittsyl vania county, Ta., writes that they fully endorse the proceedings of uc Border Alliance in endorsing the fer tilizers offered by the North Carolina Business Agent. Bro. B. J. Archibald, writing from Gold Rock, Nash county, rec ommends that all Alhancemen read the Bible and The Progress?'1 Farmer, and to be sure and "practice what they preach." He especially ad vises them to read the 4 th chapter o 2d Corinthians. Bro. J. S. L. Ward, Secretary of Bethel Alliance, No. 7o3, Pitt county informs us that Bro. W. A. James. President of his Alliance, is soon w move to Asheville. At their la-i meeting they passed resolution, warmly commending Bro. James to ! the people of that city.