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THE INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF OUR PEOPLE PARAMOUNT TO ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS OF STATE POLICY. CD 7 t S Vol. 5. RALEIGH, N. C, JULY 15, 1890. No. 23 I THE NATIONAL FARMERS' AL LIANCE AND INDUSTRIAL UNION. President L. L. Polk, North Carolina. Address, 511 Oth St., N. V., Washington, D.C. Vice-President B. H. Clover, Cain bridge, Kansas. Secretary J. H. Turner, Georgia. Ad dress, 511 9th St., N. W., Washington, D. C. Treasurer W. H. Hickman, Puxico, ilissouri. Lecturer Ben Terrell, Texas. EXECUTIVE BOARD. C. W. Macune, Washington, D. C. Alonzo Wardall, Huron, South Dakota. J. F. Tillman, Palmetto, Tennessee. JUDICIARY. R. C. Patty, Macon, Mississippi. Isaac McCracken, Ozone, Arkansas. Evan Jones, Dublin, Texas. S , TH CAROLINA FARMERS' STATE ALLIANCE. President Elias Can, Old Sparta, '-J.C. Vice-President A. H. Hayes, Bird :own, N. C. Secretary E. C. Beddingfield, Raleigh, N C " Treasurer J. D. Allen, Falls, N. C. Lecturer Thos. B. Long, Asheville, tf. C. Assistant Lecturer R. B. Hunter, Char lotte, N. C. Chaplain J. J. Scott, Alfordsville, S C Door Keeper W. H. Tomlinson, Fay- -tteville, N. C. Assistant Door Keeper H. E. King, t'e&nut, N. C. Sergeant-at-Arms J. S. Holt, Chalk Level, N. C. i State Business Agent W. H. Worth, Raleigh, N. C. Trustee Business Agency Fund W. A. Graham, Machpelah, N. C. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE NORTH CARO LINA FARMERS' STATE ALLIANCE. S. B. Alexander, Chariot -.e, N. C, Ohair r.an; J. M. Mewborne, Kinston N. 0.; J. S. Johnston, Ruffin, N. C. TO ALLIANCE MEN.; Bread-Winner Writes Again and Gives Some Strong Words. Serve." Souths ru Alhaccc Farmer. It the prosperity and happiness of the country are best subserved by division and wrangling over low tariff and protection, by fostering party rancor and hatred, then cultivate di vision and stir up hatred and strife, both sectional and local; but if the prosperity and happiness of a country are the outgrowth of unity aad co operation, let us unite and co-operate in every needed reform. If the best interests of the country are promoted by servile adhesion to party and blindly following the lead of the buglemen, then let no Alliance dare to utter a thought, except that which has been formulated by his party organ, whether subsidized or not. If you think that the success of any political party is the only means, or even the surest means of saving our boasted land of liberty from want, ignorance, crime and slavery, then in the name of reason "stick to your party." But I warn you that party devotees and leaders seek prestige and power to gratify selfishness, and not for the purpose of feeding the sick or hungry, or clothing the naked or edu cating the ignorant. "To the victor belong the spoils" has become an adage among partisans. I grant you that party supremacy confers the ability, but not in accord with princi ples of justice, to reward venal liber ality, cloak villainy and live luxuri ously on wealth produced by the sweat and toil of the poor. Alliance men, will you allow your selves to be driven from the support of the grand, ennobling purposes of our organization ? Will you permit the ridiculous and senseless criticisms, the rancor and intolerance of the par tisan press which panders to the inter est of mammon and monopolistic power, to divert, distract and divide you? so as to destroy your influence for good, to trammel and cripple your endeavors of self culture and emanci pation from the slavery of a monopc listij monied tyranny. For 25 years we have submitted, withont murmur ing, to the guidance and diction of the press, never stopping to inquire into the motives that controlled it. We divided and blindly followed the bugle men of each party, believing that hon est toil would be rewarded with pros perity. But year after year hope was displaced by disappointment till pov erty and want lurked no longer, like skeletons in the closet, but walked forth as our daily guests and compan ions. We naturally began to inquire into the causes of this visitation. Here at the South the press told us that "pro tection and high tariff " had sent these visitations. The Republican press told them that low tariff and want of protection had ser, .hese visitors j This is about as near truth as the paradox in McCulloh eport of De cember 4, 18G5, "as "ices are re duced the demand forrnoney falls off; so that paradoxical as it may seem, a diminution of the currency may in fact increase the supply of it." But further inquiry has taught us that a party pres3 is governed in its political views by its party leaders. We also find that the leaders are seek ing affiliation with the money kings, and the money kings are governed by self interest: so the national banking system is a a legitimate outgrowth of the controlling influences. Following the lead of the party organs has brought us to financial de moralizition, poverty and want, and instead of aiding us to obtain some measure of relief from the hardships of the situation, they are criticising unfavorably the motives by which we are controlled, and ridiculing our efforts and plans as "hayseed social ism." This is the measure of gratitude that we get at the hand of the hench men, who can no longer amiso us with a " tin ice told tale." We would refresh their memories in regard to the old adage, that "there is a point beyond which silent forbearance ceases to be a virtue." Let it be remem bered that "Those who are not for us are against;" that those who absorb our earnings without just returns are our enemies; that those who assist our enemies are not our friends. Let it be remembered that those who attempt to stir up strife or to excite discord in our ranks are not for U3 but against us, even though they assemble at our altars. Let it be remembered that, he who would magnify the difference of opin ions on molehills or non-essentials into mountains of discord, "hath no charity in all things," and has adopted the tactics of the enemy. Let it be remembered that partisan newspapers whether they have re ceived patronage and favors at the hands of the bankers or not, who pro fess to have great sympathy and love for our order and at the same time ridicule ani denounce our plans of re lief, must either be hypocrits or think that we are fools Again, let us beware of men who join our order for the purpose of rid ing into place an i power lest we find ourselves in the situation of the darkey who knocked at the gate of the new Jerusalen. Without opening the gate, St. Peter inquired whether he was mounted or on foot, he replied that he was on foot, he was told to pass on, he could not enter. Sorrowfully he turned his steps eastward, but meet ing a white neighbor who asked why he failed to get in, he answered, be cause he was on foot. The neighbor then told him that he had a plan by which they could both emer, that was that the darkey shouli let him get on his back and ride him in. The plan was accepted and the darkey returned with the neighbor mounted on his back. They reached the gate and knocked, and the question whether mounted or on foot was again asked, the reply wa3 mounted. Then alight, hitch your steed and walk in, was the reply you see the moral. Let it be remembered, that both the Democrats and Republicans stand ready to obey the behests of the money kings, and that the national banks conspire to absorb the products of labor and that the currency coming through the national banks, is so burdened with taxation to support the intervening idlers, that it requires one hundred and forty cents worth of the products of labor to buy one dol lar of the currency. Let it be remembered that the Sub- Treasury bill is constitutional, practi cal and wise legislation, but will prob ably fail to pass and become a law, because it will not pay tribute of our earnings to the money hoarders. A Bread Winner. Baker County. Cerro Gordo, N. C, June 20, 1890. Mr Editor: Mr. W. W. Brown, of Patmus township, Columbus coun ty, aged 84 years, is the husband of the third wife, and has twenty-one children and seventy grandchildren and fifty-seven greatgrandchildren, a total of one hundred and forty eight, and is likely to live to see his great-great giandchildren. Who can beat that on children for the offspring of one man ? am responsible for the above, for I have it from his lips. Yours respectfully, L. R. Williamson, Cor. Sec. Having begun fruit growing, stick to it. It is not a business to be picked up one day And dropped the next. NEW INDUSTRIES. Enterprises of Various Kinds to be Put in Operation and Things Likely to be D ne at an Early Day Rip Van Winkle Cannot Stay in the . Old Xotth State. Manufacturers' Record. Winston W. W. Gladstone contem plates erecting an ice factory. Salisbury Boyden & Qainn con template establishing an ice factoiy. Madison It is stated that a rock quarry is being developed near Madi son. Henderson J. B. O wen, lately re ferred to, is erecting a tobacco prizery, 40x90 feet. Goldsboro- -John Pate, of Randle man, will erect the canning factory mentioned in last issue. Morgantoa A Charlotte party is, it is stated, organizing a stock com pany to construct waterworks. Durham A $250,000 plug tobacco factory will, it is reported, be erected. S. F. Thompson can give information. Leatherman W. J. Jenkins, lately mentioned (under Franklin) as erect ing a flour mill is also building a corn mill. Greensboro C. P. Frazier and W. J Ridge are endeavoring to organize a stock company to eiect a furniture factory. Scotland Neck J. B. Dunn will add new machinery to his saw mill, and will, it is stated, also put in shingle machinery. Charlotte Local capitalists have purchased, it io reported, 4 If acres of land near Charlotte from D. E. Rigler at $250 per acre. Charlotte A Northern syndicate is reported as purchasing, through D. H. H lton, the reduction works located about four mile3 from Charlotte. Charlotte T. T. McCord, of Paw Creek, N. C, and James Axum, of Hot Springs, Ark., will develop the Saddler gold mine as lately reported. Williamston The stock company lately reported as being formed to erect a furniture factory has been or ganized with J. C. Williams, manager. Charlotte The Richmonl & Dan ville Railroad Co. (office, Richmond, Va.) is moving one of the cotton com presses at West Point to Charlotte, as lately reported. Charlotte The Charlotte Electric Light Co., referred to in last issue, is enlarging its building by adding an other story and will put in a new en gine and a 30 arc light dynamo. Charlotte A$150,000 stock com pany has been organized to purchase and improve land, also operate an elec trie railway, as stated in this issue. E. R. Dodge can give information. Salisbury The Connelly Springs Co. has been organized with W. Smithdeal, president, and W. C. Blackmer, Secretary, to improve the Connelly Springs property lately re ferred to. Wilmington The Real Estate In vestment Co., has been organized with Hon. C. M. Stedman, president; T.W. Strange, vice-president, and W. H. Sprunt, secretary. The capital stock is $100,000. Carter's Mill Thomas A. Edison has optioned 1,000 acres of mineral land from J. A. Ritter and others anp will, it is reported, organize a stock company of English capitalists to de velop gold mines on same. Charlotte J. R. Gee and others, of Monongahela, Pa., have purchased granite quarries near Mooresville, Iredell county,, and will, it is reported, develop and erect marble works in Charlotte to cost $50,000. Greesboro F. L. Whitcomb and L. C. Wolkins, of Boston, Mass., W. R. Burgess and others have incor porated the Luther C. Wolkins Cor poration. It is authorized to develop mineral lands, erect electric light plants, construct waterworks, etc. The capital stock is $1,000,000. Rocky Mount The Wilmington & Weldon Railroad Co. (office Wil mington) writes that it will not re move its Wilmington shops to Rocky Mount, and the report referred to in last issue from the fact that the Nor folk & Carolina Railroad Co. (office, Norfolk, Va.) will build shops, but has not yet decided on location. Henderson The parties lately re ported as optioning the Shocco Springs property, have purchased same and organized a stock company with D.V. Cooper, president; J. A. Harrel, vice- president, and J R. Young, secretary. The company intends improving the property and placing the mineral water on the market. Capital stock is to be not less than $20,000 nor more than $100,000. WE ARE TIRED. Jacobs Fohk Alliance, No. 87, Cabarrus Co., N. C, June 18, '90. Mr. Editor: I thought I would write you a few lines in regard to our Alliance, &c. WTe organized with thirteen members and we now have thirty seven, and others have applied to join at our next meeting. We are probably moving along as harmonious ly as any Sub Alliance in the State. We have an Alliance mill grinding for tbe fourteenth bushel, and a store selling at 10 percent. As lor politics, our people are heart ily tired of all the humbugery hereto fore practiced on ihem by political candidates; tired of big promises that are never redeemed; tired of the cry of red legged grasshoppers md golden winged buttei flies; and all honest men are tired with the bribery and corrup tion that is carried on to obtain votes. It, should be an unpardonable insult to a man to be offered money to buy his or other men's votes with. After the political battle has been fought, and the smoke has cleared off the field, the farmer finds his condition worse than ever. Numbers of small farmers all over this country are yearly leaving their farms and moving to towns where their children have to work in factories, and are thus de prived of the benefits of any educa tion, and will ultimately degenerate into illiterate pauperism. This I know from personal observation. Numbers of farmers work hard, but their farms are heavily mortgaged, and sooner or later they, too, will have to meet the same fate. Now the Alliance gives the farmers hope for better things. Out Sub Alliance has voted unanimous y for the McClammy bill, 10,553. The children of the farmer should be educate':! just as veil as other classes, and his home should be as pleasant, and his rights a3 well recognized. We want no more men hunting for office; no more money spent buying votes; no more big, lying promises, and no more plundering; but we do want fair dealing and fair play and good will to all men. Our Alliance takes The Progres sive Farmer, and I do think all mem bers should read it. I will do all I can for it P. M. Mull, Pres't. THE POWER OF CAPITAL. The origin of the Farmers' Alliance, and of all kindred orders, may be written down in the word monopoly The only good thai monopoly ever done is that, when it may no longer be borne, it arouses the people and forces them to assert their lights. Just as famine creates hunger, and drouth thirst, and war stimulesa love for peace, so the rule of monopoly teaches the people by sore experience to cherish and hold fast to their privileges. Horace Greely, foreseeing in 1873 the increasing power of capital, and i's irreed for domination, said: "It C 7 ' is astonishing, yea startling, the ex tent co which his faith prevails in the money circles in New York that we ought to have a monarchy." A plutocracy, with money holding sway over the destinies ot the nation; BEWARE OF SURRENDERING RIGHTS. Even in 1861 Abraham Lincoln rec ognized .the impending peril to the laboring classes. In his message to Congress he said: " I bid the laboring people beware of surrendering a power which they already posses?, and which, when ren dered, will be used to close the door of advancement to such as they, and fix disabilities and burdens upon them, until all of liberty shall be lost." lhis peril increased with the grow ing power of capital, until a moneyed tyrany ruled the country; bonds and bullion in Wall street, a tariff con ceived in iniquity for protecting the rich by defrauding the poor, and or ganized capitalists in trusts, pools and combines controlling all products, agricultural and natural, and regulat ing prices to suit their thirst for dividends. It was a condition of affairs that led So the formation of the Farmers' Alliance. Coleman's Rural World. Franklin said a hundred years ago that five hours' workaday was enough to supply each member of a civilized nation with the comforts possessed by the few only, if everybody took his share.of the work of production. NUT'i TO CRACK AT THE FARM ER'S FIRESIDE. Press Opinions from Many Sources' Id aho and Wyoming have been ad mitted to the Union. This makes 'our more Senators for free coinage. Morn than two thirds. The people can make the lower House the same this t'all wkhou '.rouble. Thissilvei ques tion will not down until free coinage is attained. Indianapolis Leader. The Kansas City Star has an art:c!e in it this week entitled "The Party Press a SHve." It is impossible to disguise the fact any longer, and the people may as wrll wake up now as any other time to the fact that the old parly press is re&.dy to defend a most every measure prop sed by the bosses. Laborers Union The necessity for organization and combined effort on the part of the wealth producers, regardless and de pendant of party, is apparent to every one, except a few office hungry tools of monopoly. We say to every one who loves his country and his kind, "Keep in the middle :f the road" and don't turn aside upon the solicita tion of anyone. The Xewspaper Make your politics fit your Alli ance principles. This every true Alli ance man will do but beware of him who is always trying make his Alliance principles fit his politics. This simply cannot be done, yet there are a few men who belong to the order that are making themselves redtculous in a futile effort to do so. It can't be did. T'.e Xewsjjaptr. As a simple business proposition, is it strictly legitimate for a man who i3 drawing a salary from the govern ment, for which he is supposed to render an equivalent service, to 'con sume the time that belongs to the government in electioneering for office ? Respectfully referred to the Sixth CoDgress;onal district for con sideration. lopeka, Kan., Advocate. Three measures in whi.h the farm ers are deeply interested have been introduced in the present Congress the Sub-Treasury bill, the free coinage bill and the bill providing for govern ment loans upon real estate security. Tae Sub-Treasury bill and the free coinage bill are already shelved, and the ether bill will be when it comes before Congress. Of course farmers sl ould continue to vote for the old parties. lopeka Advocate The silver question has brought the whole money question before the peo ple in spite of all efforts to prevent. The longer the question remains un setded the more the people will know about it, and the more will they be convinced that our present system is robbery pure and simple. We have nothing to lose by delay now. The present discussion is opening the way for government loans rapilly. On with the fight ! Lndianapolis Leader. The Joliet (111 ) Press arid People says the Joliet rolling mills subscribed $25 000 to Mr. Quay's campaign fund last year. The company afterwards made 12 per cent, reduction in the wages of its employees, by which, says the Press and People, "they will recoup $15,000 of that sum." So the fellows who are getting " practically the sole benefit of the tariff laws," to quote Mr. Foster, are making the workmen pay their campaign con tributions. It is reported from Washington that Corporal Tanner has made $100,000 out of his pension-claim agency during the past year. Of this $40,000 came in the form of $10 retaining fees from 4,000 veterans, and if either oi the pending pension bills becomes a law the Corporal expects that he will be aole to retire in 1892. There are several other pension claim agents in Washington who are coining the honor and reputation of the veterans of the Union army into magnificent fortunes for themselves. Americi. We are fearful that the course of the Journal of Agriculture, as may be understood from a communication preceded by editorial comment, printed elsewhere, is not calculated to pro mote the best interests of the farmer's movement. Dissensions in one order ar harmful to all, and we trust our Missouri friends and brothers will not only act wisely but justly. Too much i at stake to permit local differences, or personal interests or preferences to get in the way of success. Mt. Ver non 111., Progressive Farmer. The liar .3 are not all in Kansas. The San Louis Valley Graphic, of Monte Vista, Col., says the people's party of Kansas adopted "admiration for original packages" as one of the planks of its platform. In Kansas, when the party papers lie about the Alliance or the people's party, it is possible to discover a motive for it, but hen a Colorado paper lies about a Kansas matter of this kind, it only affords evidence of most deplorable natural depravity. The people's party of Kansas is not in favor of ' supreme court saloons.'' Toptka Advocate.' If ever there was a proposition spit upon an i kicked out with ridicule, that is just the treatment which the Farmers' Alliance Sub Treasury bill has received at the hands of both the old parties in Congress. At the same time that ridicu'e is heaped upon the proposition of the farmers that gov ernment shall issue money upon the non-perishable products of their farms,v a bill is railroaded through to issue hund eds of millions of money upon the products of our mines. Eye Opener. It is not the coffee, sugar, barb wire, oil or jute, upon which a trust is formed ; neither s it the administra tion whether oue party or another ; fut, it is vicious legislation and nefarious laws which aie to day blast ing the hopes of the nation. The money trust contro's the medium. T ie laws are framed in the interests of capital, and capital sees to it that the law makers are in with their plans. The tariff policy of our govtrnmentis not tor revenue alone, but to labor's expense. J. 11. Kimhrough. in Kansas Patron. Let a man who says there is no good in the Alliance take a look at the situation in Kansas. There they na ;e 2,100 rarmer3 Alliances with 90.000 members. They tell Senator Iugalls: " You have done nothing in the interest of the people in all the eighteen years you have been in the Senare. We don't want you auy longer." Tnese men are determined to leave every Congressman at home who has not worked for their interests. They have been voting for the old parties, now they will vo'.e for them selves. O'.tumwa World. How long will starvation prices for farm produces continue ? is a question asked ty men who are anxioubly wait ing the dawn of a brighter morning, of more prosperous days for the farm ing ci isses men who live on farms that do no', yield a comfortable living. And it is not because of a poor system of farming either, for more grain is produced and better stock raised than ever before. Why are the prices of the farmers' surplus so low ? We are told oy the grain dealer and the stock merchant and the money king that overproduction is the cause of all this distress. But when we go into the cititis and learn the retail prices of Deer, pork, flour and other articles of provision from the farm, and witne3 the multitudes of people literally cry ing for bread, we are driven to the conclusion that there is certainly not much of food products in the country, but that there is not money enough to buy what there is. L. C. Adams, in Progressive tarmer, (Aft Wrnoyt. Ills.) STRAWBERRIES AT N. C. AGRI CUL TURAL EXPERI MENT STA TION. Every spring the grower of small fruit is overrun with xirculars and pictures describing wonderful straw berries, which the disseminates promise will supersede all others now grown. Nine-tenths of these new berries are either old sorts re named or if new possess no feature entitling them to prominence over older sorts. But to ascertain these facts the grower is involved in much expense, irritation and loss of time. The Experiment Stations are intended to do this for him and then tell him the exact truth so far as his section is concerned. This we are endeavoring to do at the North Carolina Agricultural Experi ment Station at Raleigh. We are en deavbring to te3t all, old and new, under like conditions of Eoil and cli mate, and not only this but we are growing from seed thousands of strawberry plants in the hope of pro ducing a variety better suited to our Stite than those now grown. We want the active co-operation of every fruit grower in the State, and want them to q-iestion us on every matter of interest in their culture. Every careful grower learns facts of interest and all have their special difficulties. W. F. Massey, Horticulturist. Everywhere, while wealth increases, poverty keep3 pace with it. Wealth increases with population, poverty in creases with wealth. Political liberty without industrial freedom is the husk without the kernel ; a body, not a liv ing man.
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