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THE INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF OUR PEOPLE PARAMOUNT TO ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS OF STATE POLICY. Vol. 5. RALEIGH, N. C., AUGUST 12, 1890. No. 27 THE NATIONAL FARMERS' AL LIANCE AND INDUSTRIAL UNION. President L. L. Polk, North Carolina. Address, 511 9th St., N. W., Washington, D. C. Vice-President B. H. Clover, Cara oridge, Kansas. Secretary J. H. Turner, Georgia. Ad dress, 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. Alonzo Wardall, Huron, South Dakota. J. F. Tillman, Palmetto, Tennessee. JUDICIARY. R. C. Patty, Macon, Mississippi. Isaac Mcdracken, Ozone, Arkansas. Evan Jones, Dublin, Texas. 5 )ETH CAROLINA FARMERS STATE ALLIANCE President Elias Carr, Old Sparta, tf.C. Vice-President A. H. Hayes, Bird- :own, N. C. . Secretary E. C. Beddingfield, Raleigh, C " Treasurer J. D. Allen, Falls, N. C. Lecturer Thos. B. Long, Asheville, S. C. Assistant Lecturer R. B. Hunter, Char lotte, N. C. Chaplain J. J. Scott, Alfordsville, Door Keeper W. H. Tomlinson, Fay- -cteville, N. C. Assistant Door Keeper H. E. King, Peanut, N. C. Sergeant-at-Arms J. S. Holt, Chalk Level, N. C. State Business Agent W. H. Worth, Raleigh, N. C. Trustee Business Agency Fund W. A. Graham, Machpelah, N. C. i .ECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE NORTH CARO LINA farmers' state alliance. 3. B. Alexander, Charlotte, N. C, J.iair nan; J. M. Mewborne, Kinston N. :.; J. S. Johnston, Ruffin, N. C. THE CALDWELL COUNTY ALLI ANCE. A Brother Asks Some Questions. Mr. Editor: In your issue of July 29th you give the demands of the Caldwell County Alliance. It appears that said Alliance has set up a list of demands of its own and proposes to act independently of the State and National Alliance. I would like to ask our brothers of Caldwell county some questions for information. Your, leading demand is to abolish" the tariff. If you succeed, how will you support the national government? Will you levy taxes on land and per sonal property and fill our country with tax collectors from one end to the other ? If not, and you only propose to reduce the tariff, how will you re duce it, (give the figures) ? The Mills bill only reduced it about five and one-half per cent., and as the average farmer only buys about one hundred and fifty dollars per year of things affected by the tariff, this would be a saving of eighs dollars and twenty-five cents, whereas with the Sub-Treasury the farmer would have saved the dif ference in the price of his cotton be twean last fall and this spring, which would have been nine dollars on each hale of cotton. So you see we could save more on each bale of cotton than on all average purchases. (The tariff has no effect on flour, meal and meat.) I think th9 same saving would be made by the tobacco and other farm ers. Please explain in figures how your demands are better than the State and National demands. I; takes the consent of the President, Senate and House of Representatives to enact a law. The President is in for two years yet, and the Senate is conceded by Democrats to be Republican until 1S98 (and how much longer the Lord only knows). So give us so we can understand it when you can get con trol of Congress to put your demand through. If not before 1898 I will be dead and you will be broke, and the whole couutry will have the jim jams. Another demand you set up is State banks. Why do you favor cor porations before the people? Why do you give to banking corporations money at cost or only with a nominal tax to loan to the people at a high rate of interest, instead of letting the people have it from the government h i? Tal C0St ? The Sub-Treasury Dili is he reverse of your demand-it ha notlnng to do with corporations, out lets the people have the money at a nominal cost. How will you get control of the national government to WBV? demands enacted into T?r J Plea,seanswer this in detail.) pother, of Caldwell, I ask these qaes ions and j ask them from th ,erS.tand yur action d from this distance it reminds me of what the old darkey said of the little bull that attempted to butt a railroad engine off the track: "Boss, I ad mire his gameness, but blast his judg ment." From.my standpoint in the Alliance, unity of action is our only hope. If we divide we fall an easy prey to combined capital. Brother?, the Alliance desires to know your reasons as does your brother. United Action. LETTER FROM CABARRUS. Flows, N. C Mb. Editor: As you have never heard anything from our Alliance, we send you a few lines for publica tion. 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 together as one man to stand by and fight for our interests. Now this work is being done by a regular business plan, and through this plan, known to all Alliance men, have come our demands, and among these demands is the Sub-Treasury plan. Now it matters not what the one-horse and two horse papers may say about what has been published in our organs concerning Senator Vance and the Sub-Treasury bill, the Alli ance is going to stand by the Sub Treasury bill at every primary election and at every ballot-box throughout this country. We call upon the labor ing people everywhere to stand by our Sub-Treasury bill at each prmary election and at every ballot box. 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 theai. Let every maa work for the principles of our order and we are bound to suc ceed. If our public servants in Con gress and everywhere else do not take up our cause and help us, let it be known on the house tops that they can never be elected ss our, servants again. Every public servant at Washington and els; where does o not help us in this fight to rescue our-f selves from the money power to opA press us, and shortly take from us ourX voted against, and in their placeg puy servants who will do our service giack iy ana willingly, men oi patriotism who can grasp the needs of the whole people and cannot be bought by the money class to pass laws especially for their interest to the destruction of the working class. At our last meeting the following resolutions were unanimously adopted : Whereas, The National Economist and The Progressive Farmer, our official organs, have so boldly and fearlessly advocated our cause and principles; therefore be it Resolvei by this body, that we hear tily endorse every thing they have said concerning the Sab-Treasury bill. Resolved, That a copy of these leso lutions be sent to The Progressive Farmer for publication. L. S. Flow, Pres't. R. W. Bigger, Act'g Sec'y. MEETING OF BURKE ALLIANCE. COUNTY Mr. Editor: Allow me a short space in your paper for the proceed, ings of our county meeting, which was held at Table Rock, July 4th. The meeting was called to order by Col. Calvin Hocok, President. The roll of delegates from the Sub-Alli-aEces was called and all answered to their names. The first business trans acted was the election of officers which resulted in the election of Col. Hocok, President; D. H. Peeler. Vice Presi dent; S. M. Asbury, Secretary; S. C. Kir by, Treasurer; Rev. 1. A. Rector, Chaplain; W. E. Abernathy, Lec turer; P. W. Patton, Business Agent; R. A. Cobb and P. W. Ralton Trade Committee, and Calvin Hccok dele gate to the State Alliance. The meeting was the largest ever held in the county. With perfect harmony prevailing, the usual routine of business was transacted. With this additional, the question was sprung as to what course Alliance men should take in the coming cam paign, and it was the unanimous ver dict of all present that this organiza tion was not a political party, there fore should make no nominations but that it was the duty of every Allian ance man to attend the primaries of his old party and use his enfluence to have good men nominated for the dif ferent offices. -" Fraternally, R. A. Cobb. EXTENDS THE BRANCH. OLIVE We Gladly Grasp it and Return Fra ternal Greeting Hanover, Tll, July, 1890. Mr. Editor: Since your visit to Morrison and your speech there 1 have been thinking over what you said there. This sectional bitterness and strife must stop, and the men, both North and South, w'ho are making political capital by keeping up the remembrance of the cruel pass must be relegated to the rear. Now, Bro. Polk, what I have to say in this letter I want to address my self to our brothers in the South, and allow me to say I served three years jn the Union army. When the boys in gray laid down their arms, we of the North turned our faces homeward, flushed with victory. You of the South turned to your desolate and de s;royed homes. You believed you were right; we believed you were wrong. The god of war had decided in our favor, but none can inpugn your honesty, or gainsay your bravery. But the war is passed and its men ories should be buried with the heroes upon both sides. We have no North or South, but one common country, one common flag, and in this fight between the producers and the man who steals his reward from him, we have a common 'cause, but put them down for the sake of our children, and in the name of Almighty God, for the good of humanity, wipe out that imaginary line that politicians have tried to divide us with. When you read the ravings of some of our papers, do not take that as the feelings of trie great common people of the North, but it is simply the ravings of some politician who was too cowardly to go down and fight you, and therefore have no idea of your bravery, or else they are so blinded by party that they cannot be honest. Remember we have scoun drels in -the North, and I suppose you have them in the South, who would not hesitate to plunge this nation into another war if bv so doing thev f - could accomplish their hellish ends Bro. Polk has been among us, he has touched the hand and he has touched the hearts of the great common people of the North and West, and thou sands are the good speeches that have followed him from the North and I think he can testify as to the feeling pef the people here. Is ow let me suggest that we go to the national meeting next fall, and form a soldiers' Alliance, composed of the blue and the gray. Let us there clasp hands; let us dig a grate across the Mason and Dixon line. In that grave let us put the bloody shirt with all its bitter remembrances; let us bury that shirt and its bitterness deep from human eyes and damned be the man that ever resurrects it to divide the people of this government. Let the cry be for friternity for yourselves as well as our dear brother. In the language of Washington, let us guard with a jealous eye and in dignantly frown upon any attempt to alienate one part of this Union from another. And if political blather skites and wealthy scoundrels persist in trying to array us against each other, let us retire then from busi ness. The men who set themselves up as common freemen and faced the olazing batteries, belching out their messengers of death, upon either side have enough of it. Now if the cowardly curs, both North and South, who got under the bed, lurked on the river or conveniently got into the hos pital or run a suttlera' camp or stayed at home and robbed our wives and children, want to take a hand at it, let them do it, the country will be better off if they can succeed in kill ing each other. But you and I have had enough of it. Let us now turn our attention to driving the rascals out and building up and improving our common country. We are brothers of one household; we may disagree and even fight, but that is no reason we should always be divided. And when any man or set of men tells you that the soldier of the North or the people of the North have any such feelings towards the soldier or people of the South as you see in our papers, tell them that down in the black caverns of their dirty hearts they are liars. I am pretty well acquainted with the sentiment of the working people of the North. Now, brethren, let me say in con clusion, let us drive out the politician; let us refuse to vote for any man who attempts to make a campaign on the bitterness of the past or calls up the memories that we wish to bury. Let us tell him if he knows no better than to try to bring discord into our family ILLINOIS he is unfit to be a representative of a free people. In the words of Lincoln: "With malice towards none, with charity for all, let us do the right as God giveth us to see the right." Fraternally, C. W. Stevenson, Lecturer Illinois F. A. and L U. RESOLUTIONS. Lincolnton, N. C, July 15, '90. At an impromptu meeting of the members of the Alliance of Lincoln county, who were present and heard the able and clear presentation of the " Relations of the People to Public Schools," by Maj. S. M. Finger, State Superintendent, and Mr. A. E. Alder man, State Institute Conductor. Mr. Henry Warlick was called to the chair, and Mr. Leroy Long was requested to act as secretary. Expressing the unanimous sentiment of the meeting the following resolu tions were passed : Rzsolved, That the State Alliance, soon to meet at Asheville, N. C, be requested to memorialize the legisla ture to double the tax for public schools. Resolved, To urge upon the mem bers of the legislature to make an ap propriation for a training school for females, which we regard as a neces sity for the proper advancement and improvement of our schools. Leroy Long, Sec'y. TILLERS IN THE TOILSTHE WHEAT RING IN THE NORTHWEST WILL SQUEEZE THEM. Alarming to Farmers Elevators Not to Store This Year's Crop and Farmers Must Sell. Chicago, July 21. A special dis patch fiiom Jamestown, N. D., says: It will.y-e a startling piece of news to the wheat growers of North Dakota to find out on the eve of hirvest thai no elevator in the State will store grain this year. This radical change in the handling of the crop has been kept as secret as possible. It was de termined upon, it is said, soon after the law was passed this year which -r.akes all public elevators and ware houses py an annual license of $2 50 per 1,000 bushels capacity. Nine tenths of the crop of the State has been heretofore bought by the ele vator companies upon the Duluth and Minneapolis quotations. A farmer could store his grain in these ele vators for fifteen days for nothing and keep it in store as long as he de sired to pay a small fee therefor. Now the elevators will refuse this on the ground that they are not pub lie elevators, and the farmer who is mortgaged to the ears will this year be compelled to sell his crop at what ever price the company chooses to al low him. In most cases this will leave him penniless for the winter. Tne law was supposed to be a reason able one and was in the nature of a tax not so easy to evade as the old tax law has proved, but the companies, in order to evade it, will resort to this sweeping change, which will bring misery on most of the wheat growers of this State a class of men having from fifty, to five hundred acres in grain, which represents all they have in the world and which now promises the first actual return for their labor in three years. By the plan of forc ing private buyers out of the small stations and agreeing upon a price the principal elevators of the State will have, as in the past, absolute control of the enormous crop now heading out. This crop will be so large that the railroad commissioners have stated that all the railroads combined cannot furnish cars to move it one-tenth as fast as required. If the elevators de cline to store it the confusion and dismay that will result will be some thing unparallelled. Of course the demand for cars will be immensely increased. Farmers having had no notice of the elevator's action, will not have time to build bins or ware houses. Taey have, as a rule, no granaries now and cannot get money to buy lumber for new ones to store their own grain in. . Many of them bought seed wheat of the elevator syndicate, organized by Gov. Miller, this spring. This wheat wasxharged for at $1 a bushel and a lien taken on the crop, which pre vents the farmer from doing anything with it except to turn it over to the company as soon as thrashed. The plan of the combine will result in an agricultural panic for this section of the State. 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 Sfate. Manufatcuierg' Record. Marion The erection of an electric light plant is talked of. Nashville The Stone Mountain Granite Co. is reported as opening a stone quarry. Grah am The Sidney Cotton Mills are adding looms to its mills, as re ported in last issue Fayetteville The Enterprise Land and Improvement. Co., mentioned last week, will erect a dry-kiln. Thomasville J A. Kennedy is putting new machinery imo his two flour mills, as reported recently. Creston N. J. Lillard has pur chased the wagon factory of Worth & Lillard an I is enlarging same. Glenburnie It is stated that the Curtis Creek Mining & Manufacturing Co. wi 1 establish a knitting mill. Marion Mr. Roberts, of Savanah, Ga , will, it is reported, establish a wood-working factory in Marion. L?nior - It is stated that an English company has erected a stamp mill, and is developing a gold mine near Lenoir. Winston The company mentioned last week will erect an ice factory. Address D. H. King for information. Monbo The Long Island Cotton Mills Co. is enlarging its mills by the addition of improved cotton machin ery. Greensboro Hackney Bros of Wil son, wil probably move their buggy factory to Greensboro and increase capacity of same. Marion It is stated that a com pany has purchased the saw mill of M. M. Teague, will improve same and put in new machinery. Turnersburg Stimpson & Steele are rebuilding the cotton mill de1 stroyed by fire, and formerly belong ing to W. Turner & Co. Connelly's Springs. The Connelly Springs Co., lately reported (under Salisbury), has been incorporated with a cipital stock of $50,000. Tarboro It is stated that Balti more (Md.) and other capitalist have purchased 200 acres of land from W. S. Battle and will improve same. Greensboro The Greensboro Fe male College will put in an electric light plant. J. A. Odell, secretary and treasurer, can give informaton. Wilmington The $40,000 manu facturing plant recently mentioned has, it is stated, been erected, and will manufacture oil and other products from pine wood. Wadesboro The Wadesboro Cot ton Mills has been organized with W. J. McLendon, as president, and W. W. L. Steele, secretary, to erect the cotton mill recently mentioned. Durham The Educator Publishing Co. has been organized with J. F. Crowell as president ; T. J. J arvis, vice president, and W. A. Blair, sec retary, to publish the Southern Educa tor. Greensboro Wm. M. Houston, chairman sewerage committee, will receive proposals until August G for furnishing about 214 miles of sewer pipe from 10 to 20 inches in diameter, with fittings for same. Goldsbor d I. F. Dortsch, B. M Privett and J. C. Eason have organ ized the Goldsboro Electric L:ght & Power Co., and purchased the electric light of the Goldsboro Electric Light Co. The capital stock is $25,000. Marion The Augusta Marion Im provement Co., with a capital stosk-of $60,000, been incorporated with C.'E. Walker, president, and James Fleming, secretary. It has purchased 80 acres of land in Marion for $60,000 and will improve same. Marion The Idler Gold Mining Co. has been organized by Boston (Mass.) capitalists with W. P. Jones, secretary, to develop gold land near Marion. Will put in quartz mining machinery and build chlorination works. The capital stock is $1,000, 000. Monroe The stock company men tioned in last issue has been incorpoa ted as the Monroe land & improvement Co. with L. A. Burke, of Aberdeen, Dakota, as president ; O. W. Carr, of Greensboro, vice-president ; J. M. Fairley, of Monroe, treasurer ; J. W. Townsend, of Monroe, secretary, and F. C. Beard, of Syracuse, N. Y. general manager. Greensboro The stock company mentioned in last issue ' as organized by Leon Dodson, Jr., of Pn.ladelphia, Pa., and others, has been incorporated as the North Greensboro Rolling Mills & Improvement Co. by J. Cox, Jr , and D S. Crtsswell, of Pniladeiphia, Pa ; J. E. Boyd and others. It is stated that it will build rolling mills on the Kirkpatrick property. RESOLUTIONS. The following resolutions were passed unanimously at the conclusion of Col. Polk's speech at Greensboro: Whereas we have listened with much interest to the eloquent speech of our worthy president, L. L Polk; and whereas we consider the senti ments expressed wise, patriotic hd timely: Therefore, Resolved, Thak. we heanily and sin cerely indorse diem as the sentiments of this meeting, and take this method of publishing th-m to the brethren and the world. Resolved, That we congratulate our brethren of the North and West in their efforts to eradicate sectionalism as manifested to our honorable presi dent and reported faithfully and touch ingly to u, and that we will join hearts and hands with them in this undertaking, and ask the blessing of God upon our endeavor. Resolved, That a copy of these reso lutions be sent Brothers Ben Clover and Alonzo Wardall, with request that they be published in all our organs in the West and Northwest. THE GREAT CRISIS. It is a great uprising of the people, such as only great occasions bring forth. No greater crisis ever occur red in any country than that to day confronting the American people. Shall all pretence of equality and justice before the law cease, and the masses become mere helpless slaves to a corrupt and insolent plutocracy ? is the question now before the people. Too long very much too long have the people already neglected their duty to see that this remains a government of the people, by the people, for the people. Blinded by party prejudice and venerable political superstitions, they have trusted the government entirely to professional politicians, and find too late that these politicians were but the hirelings of corp jrations and millionaire plutocrats, and have sold the people into servi tude. Will the people, can the people retrieve their past mistakes, and re cover their lost heritage of liberty and equality before the law? Is Senator Ingalls right in saying that politics is a battle for spoils, in which morality has no place, and that the reform of politics is an irridescent dream ? If he is, the days of the republic are ended, the reign of plutocracy con firmed, and a repetition of the down fall of the ancient republics already in pro ess here. Have the American people the manhood and intelligence, ihe physical and moral stamina, to assert their right to life, liberty and the pursuit oj' happiness; to check furiher infringements on their rights, and restore tin government to the people to whom it belongs ? We are by no means sanguine that this question should or can be an swered in the affirmative, but yet there is much to give reason to hope that it might be so answered. The corruption in high places has flowed back through the people until the once grand moral stamina of the American people has become weak, and political corruption the rule rather than the exception. Yet there are to day many men and women of heroic mould, earnest patriotism and enlightened philanthropy, there is an active ferment of politic il and eco nomic thought and a steadily increas ing intelligence concerning the rights of man. On the other hand is the power of wealth, fashion, rested in terests, party machinery, skillfully or ganized corporations, political and re ligious superstitions and prejudices, and apathy and igaorance of many voters. It is a great crisis, a tremendous conflict, and on the result depends the future of the race. Shall manhoo I or gold win ? Shall we shame our Revolutionary sires by failure to defend the liberty they won for U3, or honor them by showing the stern virtue and manhood they dis played in a similar but less vital crisis. The Jeffersonian. If a farmer has a good gras3 farm, let him make a specialty of hay; if he hw3 a taste for raising corn and roots, let him make them a specialty; if a love for raising horses or cows or making butter, let him put his brain and muscle into these.
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