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V '3 1 THi )USTRIAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF OUR PEOPLE PARAMOUNT TO ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS OF STATE POLIO1', Vol. 5. RALEIGH, N. C JULY !, 1890. No. 2 1 THE NATIONAL FARMERS' AL LIANCE AND INDUSTRIAL UNION. President L. L. Polk, North Carolina. Address, 511 9th St., N. V, Washington, D. 0. Vice-President B. H. Clover, Cam bridge, Kansas. Secretary J. H. Turner, G-eorgia. Ad lress, 511 9th St., N. W., Washington, D. C. Treasurer W. H. Hickman, Puxico, Missouri. Lecturer Ben Terrell, Texas. EXECUTIVE BOARD. C. W. Macune, Washington. D. C. llonzo Wardall, Huron, South Dakota. J. F. Tillman, Palmetto, Tennessee. JUDICIARY. R. C. Patty, Macon, Mississippi. Isaac McCracken, Ozone, Arkansas. Evan Jones, Dublin, Texas. N iHlS CAROLINA FARMERS STATE ALLIANCE. President Elias Can, Old Sparta, f C. ice-President A. H. Hayes, Bird- own, N. C. eretary E. C. Beddingfield, Raleigh, N. C. Treasurer J. D. Allen, Falls, N. C. Lecturer Thos. B. Long, Asheville, S. C. Assistant Lecturer R. B. Hunter, Char ctte, N. C. Chaplain J. J. Scott, Alfordsville, NT C. Door Keeper W. H. Tomlmson, Fay--teville, N. C. Assistant Door Keeper H. E. King, Peanut, N. C. 3ergeant-at-Arms J. S. Holt, Chalk :,eveL N. C. State Business Agent W. H. Worth, P.aieigh, N. C. Trustee Business Agency Fund W. A. 'Graham, Machpelah, N. C. iriOUTIVE COMMITTEE 07 THE NORTH CARO LINA FARMERS' STATE ALLIANCE. S. B. Alexander, Chariot e, N. C., Jhair au; J. M. Mewborne, Kinston N. 0.; J. S. Johnston, Ruffin, N. C. BE TRUE TO YOUR COUNTRY. Bingham School, N. C. Mr. Editor: As 1 do not trouble you often, I hopa you will find space for a word or two from 849. 1 think we are up with the times, and see a great need of a reform in our govern ment affairs. We need laws to lessen the taxes and give us a better circu lating medium. Give us the Sub Treasury bill or something batter. L-3t any kind of currency be good in payment of any debt or interest. Pay off the national debt as soon as possi ble, and stop the moneyed kiDgs from reaping such a fortune off the people. BriDg the salaries down on all the officers and if that won't do give some one else the places. Politician 3 are watching to see what course the Alliance is going to pursue. Let them watch and every body else, for it is high time that we do more than watch, but if we ever expect to get the needed relief we must be up and doing. We stand in great need of a great reform in our government affairs. How are we to bring it about is the question to solve which should be a very easy one if looked at from a proper standpoint. Is not the government Tun at the ex pense of the people and the laboring more especially ? Who knows more the needs of tha agricultural classes than those who pursue it? Who will work more for their interest than those upon whom this burden lies? There are plenty of goo i men who will not accept free passes from the rail roads and who can not be bought at any price. When the legislature and Congress is filled by such me a then we may expect some relief, but as long as money kings and tyrints ruie the people will mourn. Let agricul ture prosper and everything else will if properly atte'nded to, but not so on the other hand. Bankers and money kings make it going and coming. Short crops make no difference with them. Why should the people labor so hard with all the advantages that has been attained by science and economy in the past 25 years, and still be no better off than they were then ? We pay more taxes than we did then and wha; does it. amount to towards bene fiting the laboring classes ? There is the internal revenue system of which I shall say ut little. Some brother has been speakiDg about the intemperance of our land. I brlieve in free whis key or no whiskey at all. Let every man make and sell that wants to and give it in a3 he does other property, and let the law handle any one who would not give in the full amount. Back in days of old when taxes were less than they are now, and most everything free, we hid fewer paupers, fewer tramps and fewer millionaires. As moneyed kings and tyrants reign and rule, poverty, crime, and every thing that is a burden upon the people increase. Woe unto them that decree un righteous decrees and that grievous 'ess which they have prescribed. To turn aside the needy from judgment and to take away the rights from the poor of aiy people, that widow- may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless, what will th y do in the day of visitation and in desolation which shall come afar ? To whom will they flee for help, and where will they leave their glory and riches. Bo true to your country and honest with your God and fellowmen, and one day we shall reap if we fdint not Yours fraternally, J. A. fe. STAND TO YOUR COLORS. Mr. Editor: It is time for the Alliance to speak out and let the world know that it is a compact, harmonious body of working people, bound to gether as one man to stand by and fight for their interests. Now this work is being done by a regular busi ness plan, and through this plan, known to all Alliance men, h svecome our demands, and among these de mands is the Sub Treasury plan. Now it matters not what Mr. Carlisle, Mr. Mills or the Congressional Committee, to whom this bill was referred, or anybody else may say, the Alliance is going to stand by the Sub-Treasury bill at every primary election and at every ballot box throughout this country. There is nothing under the sun that can check these men in this fight for their salvation except the business plan under which they are fighting as long as their banner stands unfurled to the breeze they will stand by her. I call upon the laboring people everywhere to stand by your flag at each primary election and at every ballot box, and not let it trail in the dust atthe close of this fight. Our Council at Washington City will direct our efforts, and let every man march promptly to orders. We must fight this fight under the very best of guards and we believe we have got them, so we will stand by them. . Let every man work to the prin ciples of our order, and we are bound to success. If our public servants in Congress and everywhere else do not take up our :ause and help us, let it be known on the housetops that they can never be elected as our servants again. There is but one ex cuse which you can take for their neglect to help fight for our demands, and that is, that our national com mittee at Washington withdrew the demand. Every public servant at Washington and elsewhere who doe? not help us in this fight to rescue ourselves from the money pwer to oppress us, and shortly take from us our homes, must be worked against and voted against, and in their places put servants who will do our service gladly and wil lingly, men of patriotism who can grasp the needs of the whole people and cannot be bought by the money c'ass, to pass laws especially for their interests, to the destruction of the working class. Let it be by our Congressmen in regard to our national demands as it was in regard to our State demands in our last legislature. Some of our legislative servants came home with nicely gotten u p excuses for not work ing for a railroad commission, but their excuses availed nothing. The people knew what they needed. They had been educated to know what the needs were that would relieve them of some of their burdens, and those men who voted against this commis sion and the people's needs will stay at home this winter- The Congress men who are in Congress now need never come before the people with nicely gotten up excusses for voting against our national demands, to De elected again. The working people know what they are doing. They have been educated on both sides of the question about what is done and what i3 not done and by the cause of this education these demands have come. These demands are backed by the balance of power in this country and no man can go to Congress who oppose them. Let every laboring man in this country stand together. WTill you do it ? H. P. Freeman. North Carolina has a splendid cli mate and the fast should be widely known. It is interesting to note that the mean temperature of the State, 59.5 degrees, is exactly the average temperature of the whole Northern hemisphere, showing that we occupy climatically an intermediate position between North and South. r, F. von Hermann, Meteorologist',, Experiment Station. NUTS TO CRACK AT THE FARM ER'S FIRESIDE. Press Opinions from Many Sources. Congress will play out in time to ask us to help play the fool ia he fall by returning the members. Indin apolis Globe. The man who works for the adop tion of the commission amendment re garding railways is engaged in no po litical scramble but one of business. Southern i'ercury. The Sub-Treasury plan proposes to raise the farmers and laboring men to as high a plain in favor of the govern ment as the oankers and wbi.-kev dis tillers are Industrial Union. All the powers of the mind, the pen, and the printing press must be used by the toiling masses o protect them from the money sharks of this country. Luray, Va., Union. , Every Sub-Alliance in the county should take stock in the "State Ex change." It will be the only true fountain from which the Alliance order can be fed. Industiial Union. The emancipation of 5,000,000 of niggers, by the enslavement of 40,000, 000 of farmers and labo;ers, reflects little credit on the Republican party. They should be ashamed to boast of it, and use the name of Lincolu in the same breath. The rumor is afloat that some one has swindled the Texas Alliance out of over a million dollars. The little puny lies that have been told on the Alliance are real sickening. It is real refreshing to have a fat, healthy lie now and then. Winona Farmer. A farmer can make better laws for chronic politicians than they can or do make for farmer?. The preserva tion of farms and farmers' homes, and the courage and prosperity of farmers is a sure way to make a country great and all her industries prosperous. Union Bee. An exchange remarks that Senator Ingalls is interested in the financial question. Certainly he is. As presi dent of a bank at Atchison, director of a bank at Hayes City and director of the Southern Kansas Mortgage Company, he couldn't well be other wise. Empc ria Rejntblica n . If the farmers of Miami county will exert themselves a little between now and the end of the fall campaign they may make amends for some of their inexcusable inactivity in the past. There are some things to be discussed in county and State affairs, a well as national, which are important. Paolo , Kan., Times. The Fiity-first Congress has now been in session for nearly six months, and yet no relief has come for a debt ridden and poverty cursed people. How these recreant public servants can have the temerity to show their faces among their constituents the coming fall is more than we can om prehend. Iowa Tribune. What claim has any politician upon the farmers ? None, none whatever. What has any politician ever done to benefit the farmer? Nothing, noth ng whatever. What has the politician done to injure the farmer? He has made all laws to benefit the rich few at the expense of the poor toiling many. Alliance Farmer. The farmers are studying and talk ing political reform to such an extent they have come to the conclusion that a farmer is capable of making laws for farmers, and under the present order of things, farmers may occupy the majority of the seats of the new legislature to be elected next fall. Dex er Kansas, Iree Press. If the farmers of Texas permit the enemy to defeat the railway commis sion amendment and the candidate for governor advocating that measure, they should never agiin complain of extortionate freight rates, but bear the heavy burden that will keep them serfs the balance of their lives with out murmering. Will they do it ? South rn Mercury. Farmers, you should not complain too mu3h about the unwholesome laws now enforced upon you. Remember you have been instrumental in the election of all your lawmakers. It lies in your power to have such laws enacted as will p'eise you. Will you exercise that power? Or will you continue to allow a moneyed aristoc racy to press you to the wall? South ern Mercury. The farmer's lot is hard indeed to bear. The politicians have saddled the farmer with trusts, national banks and mortgages, and now .the republi can bosses in Polk county tell him, his misfortunes are caused by his idleness and failure to keep abreast with the times. If the farmers should go to the State legislature, or to Congress, and then sell out to the cattle combine, or to some railroa i corporation, then, the presumption is that the farmers would be considered abreast of the times. Union Bee. The farmer does not want the earth, bu: he does want a 1 ving sho upon it In orde to have it, the boards of trade must go down, railroad monopo lists be tiught that there are other people in this country as powerful as they are, the government so adjust the tariff that all are equally protected and also pass the loan bill. With such help as this the farmer would get on his feet, once more and hard times be a" thing of the past. A great many of the farmers aboui here have been u settling up" with the holders of their mortgages. Vhey d ed their property for tie face of their debt, and receive a contract from the mortgage holder to redeed to them within a given time on payment of the original debt, with cost and interest added provided the property his not been sold before the expiration of the time named in the contract. We know of eleven farmers in one township which have been deeded in this way. Ottaway Journal. LETTER FROM SURRY. Mr Editor: Our people here have just organized an Alliance with a good working membership. There are six others near by. This section of North Carolina has never been popularly known throughout our State and its p ssibilitif s are not appreciated by our citizens here. We are situate 1 amid the finest to bacco beh in the country, many of our farmers raising tobacco that will net them $500 on one acre of ground. The farmers here as elsewhere are not wealthy or becoming richer and one of th? great reason3 is because some one else feeds, clot.hep, and thinks for our farmers who are not their friends. We were much instructed and united into a band of brotherhood by S. A. Houser last week, and a star ol. hope now looms up in the distan.e for our emancipation and guidance. We have great hope in the Farmers' Alli ance, and the devotion and wisdom of its membership is the financial sal vation of our great people of North Carolina. We need instruction, we need education, and from you, sir, much good has been done and much is yet to be done on this line. The Alliance men, especially in our imme diate section, need to educate our boys and girls to make farmers and farmers' wives, and to do this requires more than simply compelling a boy to stay in the corn field or a girl in the kitchen It is ne essiry for them to know more science, more arithmetic, more grammar, more geography, more language and literature than w? have learned, or else they must do as we do, depend on other brains to for mulate their plans for them and be not much better than a day laborer. Brethren, sacrifice a few hills of corn or tobacco, but for heaven's sake give your boys and girls an equal chance in life with other educated men and women when they are grown. I feel the new inspiration and see large and grand fields for our financial, mental, moral and social improve ment as farmers. Brethren, wjrk for all these and humanity will bless you. A New Brother. RESOLUTIONS BY LOVE'S CREEK. At a meeting of Love's Creek Alli ance, No. 504, Chatham county, the following resolutions were adopted: Resolved, That we tender our thanks to Senator Z B. Vance and Representative Pickler for their intro duction of bills to establish sub treas ury warehouses for the deposit of farm products, and that we earnestly request our Representative 3 from North Carolina to vote for the same or sjme other scheme by which the burdens under which the farming ani laboring classes groan may be re moved. Resolved, That we favor an in creased issue of silver coin and that the same currency that is paid the laborer shall also be received b the bond holder and United States gov ernment in payment of all dues. Resolvtd, That we will not support any man for Congress, in this district, who is not in sympathy with the above resolutions. Resoled, That a copy of these reso lutions oe sent to Senator Vance and to Representatives Pickler and B. H. Bunn, and to The Progressive Farmer with a request to publish the same. O. A Hanner, Act'g Sec'y. J. L. Hackney, Pres't. T NEW INDUSTRIES. Enterprise of Various Kinds to be Put in Operation and Tilings L-keTy to be D ne at an Early Day Rip Van Winlde Cannot Stay in th? Old Xo'tJi State. Manufacturers' Record. Rockingham J. A. Wr ghi & Bro. may establish a machine shop. King's Mountain The erection of another cotton mill is talked of. Henderson J. B. Owen is erecting, it is stated, a tobacco prize factory. Cary The North Carolina Plow Co. is reported as ealaring its plant. Linolnton A land and improve ment company will probably be organ ized. Asheville The P. A. Demens Wood Work Co. has increased capital stock to $75,000. Wilmington A stock company has been organized, it is reported, to erect a shirt factory in Wilmington. Oxford It is probable that a whet stone quarry will be developed. J. A. Williams can give information. Matthews It is state! that work will shortly be resumed at the Ray gold mine under the superintend prey of W. Lewis Durham A company will probably be organized to manufacture a patent haling press. . W. A. Guthrie c n give information. Southern Pines J. M. Jewell & . M. Scroflord, of Chicago, 111, will erect the chewing gum factory men tioned in last issue. Wilson The Wilson Cotton Mills will put in m incandescent electric light plant and equip its building with automatic sprinklers. Monroe Hart, Green & Co., re cently mentioned as putting new ma chinery in their saw mill, intend ad ding more at an early day. Kinston The necessary stock has been subscribed for the erection of the knitting factory lately 'alluded to. J. F. Taylor can give particulars. Weldon L. B. Gilbert, A. S. Mc Creath, T. L. Emry and others will it is stated, organize a stock company to construct a second canal near Wel don. Salem A. G. Hugh & Co., pro prietors of the Siletn Hosiery Mill, lately referred to, are endeavor nr to organize a stock company to enlarge same. Asheville Richmond Pearson con template? building an iron bridge across the French Broad river. J. A. Williams, Jr., has the matttr in charge. Winston H. C. Linthicum, of Hen derson, has prepared plans, it is stated, for the erection of a tobacco factory for Edmunds & Gilmer to be six stories, 404x150 feet. Durham B L. Duke, S. F. Tom linson, J. S. Carr and others are organizing a $100,000 stock company to erect the cotton factory, previously mentioned, on the co-operative plan. Flat Rock The Mount Airy Gran ite Co., of Mt. Airy, has, it is sta ed, purchased 256 acre3 of granite lands at Flat Rock, will increase capital stock $16,000 and develop the prop erty. Monroe The city lately mentioned as contemplating the issuance of bonds for improvements, is consider ing a proposition to issue same to the extent of $20,000. The mayor can give information. Charlotte The Richmond & Dan ville Railroad Co. (office, R chmond, Va.) will, it is stated move its West Point cotton compress to Charlotte, and probably lease same to McFadden & Co , of Philadelphia Pa. Asheville C. E. Graham, O. D. Blanton, T. C. Starnes and others have, it is reported, purchased the Alexander Garrett farm of 83 acres in Victoria for $100,000, and will organize the Oakland Land Co. to de velop same. Durham The Durham Farmers' Alliance Tobacco Manufacturing Co., recently mentioned as organized to establish a tobacco factory, has beeu organized by P. H. Massey, J. W. Pope, W. T. Meadows and others. The capital stock is $10,000. Weldon The Great Falls Water! Power Co. has been organized with W. B. Had lis on, of Petersburg, Va., president, and T. L. Eoory, vice president, to secure the establishment of manufactories, etc., a; Great Falls, a new town recently laid off near Weldon. Ashevi.le A. H Fuller, of Brock tn, Mass., is president; S. B. Eator, I o : N"ew York city, vice president, and W. J. Jenks, of New York ci'y, sec retary, 0? the Western Noitl Caro lina Mining Co., recently report d as incorporated to deal in ani develop mineral lands. Asbevil'e The , f Asheville LraB. Constructi n & improvement Co. has been organized w it h G. S. Powell, prsih iit, and W. W. Barnar ?, secre tary. It has purchased, it is stated. 1,000 acres of lan 1, will make exten sive improvements, constructing two lakes, building an iron bridge and lay eff the property in lo's. The capital stock U $300,000. yL RAILROAD TAXATION. Mk. Editor: Believing ihat your correspondent, Cbas. M. Stder vood, would not do the Legislative 'nvesti ga'ing Commute any injustice, in his recent commut.icaUon, we take u that he was not i; formed as to hat the facts wern l the time he pei ne i the article if your last issue. ; - Z3 The lawyers to whom he refers had" been previously retained in a suit pending in the Supreme Court of Wake county before the tax commit tee ever met, and before it was raised. The wurk of that committee resulted in the payment of the full -i mount claimed bv the State as tax on the shares of stock in the P. & G. Rail, road. And this amount was paid into the State Treasury "clear of stumps and runnei s," and the attorneys were paid by the R & G. Railroad the amount they were to receive accord ing to the contract made with them before the committee came into exis tence, and as we understood the con tract as to fees made by the State authorities was contingent upon suc cess, so that while the interest of the state was fully protected, not one dol lar of lawyer fees was the State called upm to pay. The tax committed at its April meet ing found that it was impossible for tht; Attorney General to give the time neci-t &sary to a full investigation of the important questions arising and attend to the other duties of his office, the Supreme Court being in session at that time, before which his duties constantly called him, it became im peratively necessary that the commit tee call in legal assistance, to hegiu at tlie adjourned session, June 7ih, and the compensation such assistance was t receive, according to the term of the agreement made with him, was to be referred 10, and fixed by, the in coming General Assemb'y of 1891, to whom the investigating. com mitte will make its report. When the work of the committee is finally concluied it will be seen that this step was a good investment by the State, and the latter vill be no loser by the movement; we sh 11 see. That committee only ask a patient hearing before the results of their work shall oe prepared, in order that it may be seen whether it has accomplished any good pnrpose or not, or been extrava gant in their expenditures '-Only this and nothing more." X. RESOLUTIONS BY CASWELL COUNTY. Whereas, This Alliance knowing that the cigarette trust is detrimental to the interests of the farmers of the yellow tobacco belt; therefore be it R' solved, That this County Alli ance extends to Webster s Weekly its warmest thanks for the bold and de termined stand that, it has taken for justice and for the farmers' rights as against that "giant octopus " known as the "cigarette trust" of which the firm of W. Duke & Co. is a prominent member. Resolved, That we earnestly r quest that if the other papers of the yellow tobacco belt and State cannot see their way to helping us, that rhey at least reproduce Mr. Webster's bold attack, so that as many people as pos sible can see an i admire it and aid so far as they can to save the farmers from that ruin whiph is so imminent. Resohed, That we again heartily thank J. R. Webster, of Webster's Weekly, hoping that he will keep up the good fight till the battle, under God we trust, shall be won. Resolved. That the Secretary be directed to send a copy of these reso lutions with a request to publish to Webster's Weekly Progressive Far mer and C is well News. F. A. Pierson, Se'v. Bulletin 70 of the Agricultural Ex per.raent Station contains description of' the weeds on the farm and how to get rid of them, with eleven full page lustrations. Japan clover and its value for worn out soils is also fully described Apply at the Station at Raleigh for it. Sent free.
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