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! ! IE PEOGEESSi Y-JF fEMEE, AUGUST; 1C1890. ii i J t'. ii ii j! t i L. L. POLK, - - Editor x t. ra KfSTCY. - Associate Edit jp W F. DALY. - Business Makaoeb. Raleigh, N. C. SUBSCRIPTION: Singie Subscriber, One Year.... $ 1.25 Six Months. .5 ma onriuni One Year 5.00 Ten One Year 10.00 One copy one year free, to tne one sending two or Ten. . . CashInvariably n Advance. Money at our risk. If sent by regiterwl letter or money uruer. Advertising Rates quoted on appllc&uoii. To Correspondent : Write all communications, deslgnci fr,r publlca lot. on one eiae 01 me paper vmj. We want intelligent correspondents in every sultejaccomplished of value, experiences of value. piainiy ana nneny wm. uuc ewui foci, is worm a iboubhuu iucui. Aldres s all commnnications to The Progressive FARacra, RaJeish. V C. R VLEIGH, N. C, AUG. 19, 1890. This paper entered a second-clas tnarut at thu Post Office in Raleioh. AT. The Progressive Farmer is the O ttcial Organ 01 tne w. rarraers Association and N. C. State Farmers A liance. D ) you want your paper changed to another officer tttate tne one at wnicn you have been getting it. Do you want your communication pub lished? If so, give us your real name and your postoffice. Our friends in writing to any of on." advertisers, will favor us by mention ing 'he fact that they saw the advertise meut in The Progressive Farmer The date on your label tells you wnen your time is out. A SMALL FAVOR ASKED. Will the judges, members of the State Senate and membe;s of the Lower House who have refused to ac cept free passes from the ditferent railroad corporations in the State be so kind as to drop us a postal card to that effect? We would appreciate tiis little act of kindness very much. In response to the above the follow ing members of the Legislature and Senate have gone on record as having refused railroad passes: R. W. Scott, Alamance county; B. A. Wellons, Johnston county; J. D. Parker, Perquimans county; E. C. Beddingfield, Wake county; M. J. Ham, Wayne county ; John Norwood, Orange county ; N. Gibbon, Mecklen burg county; J. L. Anderson, Hert ford county; D. Alexander, Tyrrell county; A. Robinson, Duplin county. MAKING WAR ON THE FARM X ERS. IT seems that the Charlotte Chronicle and the farmers of Mecklenburg county are not getting alon well. It says they accuse it of " making war on wthem." We have great confidence in the farmers of that county and while we have nothing to do with any local differences that may arise between the Chronicle and anybody, yet we do pro pose to make a few remarks aiout the following extravagaut paragraph found in an editorial in the Chronicle of .the 10th inst. : " The Chronicle does not believe that one-third, nay, one-twentieth, of the farmers of Mecklenburg county, or of the State of North Carolina, endorse that National Alliance declaration. If they do not, there should be no objec tion to this paper's opposing it, bur. if any do endorse it, then, in all frank ness, The Chronicle says to such: "Go your way, you are not of the Demo crat party, and 2 he Chronicle opposes your taking any pirt in the councils of the party;" and in that, this paper will have the hearty support of the Democratic members of the Mecklen bury County Alliance." Here is the National declaration re ferred to: " And it is further agreed, in order to carry out these objects, that we will support for office only such men as can be depended upon to enact these principles into statute law, unin fluenced by party caucus." Now let us see what authority the Chonicle has for the above statement; see if the above might not be termed an attack on the farmers, not only of Mecklenburg county, but upon the farmers of the entire State. Farmers selected to represeni the farmers oi. twenty-three States met in St. Louis las't December. They formulated the above declaration. The farmers of the twenty-three States have rati fied the declaration and the Alliance is going ahead rapidly. More than 1,500 Sub-Alliances in this State have endorsed the declaration, and yet the Chronicle would have it thought that not "one twentieth of the farmers of Mecklenburg county or of the State of North Carolina endorse the declara tion." It would have us believe that the members of this "oath-bound or ganization " as it terms it, had been guilty of perjury. If they did not endorse it they would not have been trying so hard to rally their forces to nominate men who will try to carry out the demands of the St. Louis Conven tion. It is encouraging to know that we have so many men and women, too, who have been and are still striving manfully to nominate men who are willing to work in the interest of these demands. But strange to say we have a few members who so far forget their duty to themselves and their, own wives and children as to give reason for papers to slander their neighbors and who give their aid and influence to the enemy's forces by following after strange Gods ana allo wing themselves to be led away by partizanism by voting for and endors ing men that they know will not aid us in our reforms. However tne peo ole are learning fast. The number of that class of individuals is getting less and less. It may be proper to sav right here that the State Alliance at Asheville unanimously endorsed the State and National demanas. lne Chronicle says " all Alliance men who endorse these demands, or rather that one section of the demands, are not of the Democratic party, go your way. The Chronicle and little coterie of followers h the Democratic party. It reads 75,000 voters out of the party. If we Alliance men of that faith should heed the Chronicle the vacant spot in that party would look as barren as an iseburg. But the Chronicle is not running this country by a jugiuJ. K A WORD ABOUT SHOES. WEEK before last the Winston Sentinel started a very damaging report about the associate editor of this paper. We did not wish to ex plain the matter and thought it best not to say anything. But the States- ville Jbandmark of last weeK calls upon us to deny the truth of the publication. It says : " No red -headed Iredell man who is in the peace of God and the State can afford to wear "yaller dude shoes." He further says that it is a reflection upon Iredell county. Tue Sentinel perhaps had an idea that the "socialistic hayseeders" of the State would "sit down" upon The Progrs- five Farmer when it was made known that it wa3 wearing "yaller dude shoes." The truth must be told. Wer have been wearing " yaller shoes." Numerous charges have been prefered against members of the Alliance but none of. them would hold water. But at last the Winston Sentinel has struck a clue, and strange to say it has told the truth. We will wager a dozen potato slips (to be delivered next spring) that the Sentinel is the first political paper in the State that has succeeded in telling the truth about the Alliance since it was introduced into this State. And in order that the editor of that paper may have proper credit for this act, we are going to give him a title which we hope will never fade away. Yes, Sir George Washington Mt. v ernon W. Long has covered himself all over with glory. He has told the truth. The "oldest inhabitants can t remember when this has occurred before among political editors. But we will not try to do the subject justice. Perhaps Bro. Blount, of the Wilson Mirror, may be induced to turn loose a flood of choice English adjectives suitable for the occasion. As an excuse we will say that dudes have quit wearing "yaller shoes." Consequently they are very cheap. Now they do not cost more than one- third as much as a good leather shoe. We Alliance people are too poor to pay i nickle for a "shine." The tan shoe needs no blacking. Alliance people have worked so hard to build towns, cities and railroads enrich the few that none of us feel like stooping down to "black" our own shoes. Two or three weeks ago it was reported here in Raleigh that Senator Vance was wearing one of these double-bar relied, black "dude bellybands." If the writer had not been guilty of this "yaller shoe charge he would have told on Senator Vance sooner. If this had been known before the con ventions met, no doubt it would have caused his defeat. But bad as we feel, it is gratifying to know that one political editor has made a true charge against the Alliance. It may not oc cur again in a thousand years. MEETING OF THE STATE ALLI- ANCE. THE State Alliance has again met and the delegates have re turned to their homes. The meeting at Asheville was by far the largest meeting yet held in the State. Har mony prevailed throughout. In an other place will be found an outline of such of the proceedings as will be made public. It will be seen that all the old officers have been re-elected except that of Chaplain. Bro. Veach, of Warsaw, will fill that position un til the next election of officers: We have many good men in our order, but it would be hard to get a better set of officers than we now have in the State Alliance. Some of them have filled the same place ever since the first State meeting, and their private and official bearing has been such as to win not only the full confidence of our members, but the respect and con. fidence of everybody. Three cheers for the North Carolina Alliance ! Bro. H. L. McKeithan, President of White Lake Alliance, No. 983, Bladen county, writes that they are trying to keep up with every move of the Alliance; that he hopes that every Alliance in the State will stand to gether in the fight for right and jus tice. He wants to see our legislative halls filled with farmers and other laboring people. THE FERTILIZER TAX UNCON STITUTIONAL. Judge Bond and Judge Seymour Say It Is. LAST Friday Judge Seymour sent in his decision in the case of the State vs. The American Fertil'zer Company, and his decision in-concurred in by Judge Bond. The American Fertilizer Company, of Norfolk, re fused to pay the $5,000 tax last spring and entered suit in order to test the constitutionality of the fertilizer law. The State may or may not appeal to the Supreme Court. The revenue to the State Treasury from this tax has been about $38,000 annually. We cannot, at this time, foresee the result of this decision, if sustained. No doubt the farmers really pay this tax indirectly, and would not be hurt any more by a direct tax to that amount. But the buyers of the fer tilizer have been footing the bill. If it must be raised by a direct tax, it will come out of the pockets of every person in the State. But there is noth ing unfair in that. This tax has driven a number of worthless brands of fertil izers from the State, but a good sys tern of inspection will do the same. It is quite likely that most of the fertil izers consumed in the State will be made within our borders hereafter anyhow, and perhaps but few com panies will want to do business in the State we mean outside companies There lias been but little complaint on the part of the people of the State on account of the fertilizer tax. They have come to regard it as one of our institutions, so to speak. If the law is abolished it will leave the A. and M. College in a bad shape. Anything that will hurt that institution must be avoided if possible. But where there is a will there is a way. We can and will devise some plan to save the A. and M. College, if the worst comes. The Alliance farmers, farmers outside of the organization and all true friends of education will rally around one flag if the A. and M. College gets in danger. THE CHRONICLE AND THE ALLI- y' ANCE. rPHE Charlotte Chronicle is serious JL lv disturbed bv the workings of the Alliance in Mecklenburg county, and, in fact, in the entire State. Nearly every day it has more or less to say about the Alliance being dragged into politics. Last Sunday it said: 1 Ever since the last legislature. when evidence was not wanting of Al liance officers using their position to affect State politics, the Chronicle -has sincerely opposed the Alliance's being dragged into politics; opposed it for the sake of the Alliance and its con Btitutional purpose, opposed it because it is undemocratic for any secret society to take part, as such, in politics." Now the members of the Alliance have for more than three years been openly saying that they were begin ning to see the absolute necessity of their taking a more active Dart in the politics of this country. Every Alii ance paper, every speaker and every writer has said this time and again. None of this has bean secret. It has been proclaimed to the entire world. Who has any raDre right to go into politics than the farmers ? For years the political papers of this State have urgel trie farmers to come out to the primaries and the county conventions; they have done everything possible to get them out and now when they are out and talking and working manfully to save the country, these same pa pers cry "get back, vou will ruin yourselves and the party, too." If trie iarmers are in a majority and run the convention, that is all right. You political brethren have howled until we actually can't stay at home any longer. You are the cause of all the trouble. You say the majority should a.' ways rule. We are trying our best to rule and you won't let us. If we name every candidate in the State, you are the cause of it. We can t help being in a maioritv. Perhans you would have us kill a few thousand ..a nayseeders so we would be in a minority. Less than two months ago Col. Jones, of Charlotte, said that the Alliance represented a minority of the voters in the Sixth district. Now, Mr. Chronicle, why don't vou get the majority together and run fhe ma chine ? Whit do you mean by all this racket aboutthe Alliance con trolling things ? Why let a few farm ers with hayseed in their hair trouble you ? Again the Chronicle says: "Now, then, when the Alliance is not in 'politics, the Chronicle sustains its efforts in behalf of the farmer ; but when it .enters politics this paper op poses the movement, because it is un Democratic Jfor any class to control, through secret organization, the party's action, and because it sees in such ac tion the wrecking of the Alliance, and the foil of the worthy and noble pur poses of the Alliance." The Chronicle would have us believe that the members of the Alliance should be isolated; that they must not take any part in the political fight except vote. They must do that. But they must wait until the nominations are cut and dried and then break loose like a drove of wild horses and rush to the polls and vote. The Chronicle is greatly disturbed because some of the farmers met in the Alliance store at Charlotte and refused to teU what they did. More than 110 years ago the farmers and other citizens of Mecklenburg county declared their independence. They still think they have a right to meet together and di3CUES anything they wish. No doubt it was Alliance men who met in that store, but they met as free citizens. It was not an Alliance meeting proper, however. It was simply a private consultation The farmers of Mecklenburg county . had, to a large extent, stood aloof, and the politicians had been holding these private consultations and had run the machine. This is the solution. If the Alliance had not been in existence, and matters going on the old way, the air would have been full of appeals to the "farmers to turn out to the conventions ;" for them to take a hand. It would have been " help us or we perish !" t THE SUB TREASURY BILL. THE Sub Treasury bill may be crude, it may be impracticable, it may be unconstitutional. But the advocates of the bill are not wedded to it. With one voice they say give us the Sub-Treasury or something nearly like it something that is con stitutional. We doubt if any bill has ever passed either branch of our Na tional Congress in its original shape. Indeed the authors of the bill would often fail to recognize the language of some bills. We are willing for the Sub-Treasury bill to be made entirely constitutional, practicable and reason able. Has this been done ? Senator Vance says he only made slight changes. We think he could have made an entirely new bill. He had permission to do so. It is said that the committees in each house ridiculed the bill. We have been told by Sena tor Vance and other authorities that we ought to organize, and as a body demand legislation. We have done so. Has the American Senate and House done anything for us ? Have not nearly all of our representatives stood in the way of everything we have asked for out of the usual order? Is it not plain that the surroundings of most of these representatives has been such that they allow partizan and sectional prejudice to govern their actions ? Is it not plain that the U. S. Senate and Congress, seeing that this organization is becoming so powerful, and knowing that if it con tinues it will completely revolutionize this country, politically and otherwise, seeing this and knowing their danger in that event, we can only conclude that this combination of plutocrats and millionaires have set themselves up to butt the Alliance bull off the bridge. This stuff about every county not getting a warehouse is all bosh. Every man cannot live near a church, every man cannot have a railroad to pass through his farm. If the warehouses do what is intended keep up prices according to supply and demand, thus taking us out of the hands of specula tors; by enabling us to get good prices, plenty of cheap money and other ad vantage?, then we need not care any thing about the number of warehouses nor the distance from us. We hope no Alliance man will listen to such nonsense. EDITORIAL NOTES. A subscriber and most excellent citizen at Fayetteville writes as fol lows: " You are on the right road for the emancipation of the white slaves. Faulter not, God will be with us. We made a mistake about locat ing the colored Farmers' Alliance last week. Rev. R. M. Humphrey is Na tional Superintendent, Houston, Texas. Mr. J. J. Rogers, box 3'i, .Norfolk, Va., will cheerfully give ay informa tion in regard to the organization, es pecially in North Carolina and Vir ginia. Trinity College is the only in- stitution in this State that has a regu larly organized school of political and Social Science with courses extending through two years. For the next session it offers 36 courses in political science and twenty-five in history, in cluding industrial history. It is a first class college in every respect. A prominent and highly es teemed minister in the western part of the State writes as follows: " I re gard The Progressive Farmer as the best journal published in North Caro lina. It is ably and fearlessly edited, and its general appearance, together with its promptness m ommg to its readers, prove that it3 management is admirable." The above are fair speci mens of letters received every day from some of the best men in the Siat- J. The Alliance men in Vance county have decided to have a grand picnic and rally at Union Chapel, near Kittrell, about the middle of Septem ber. They want to get some good speakers. The associate editor is grateful for an invitation to go and make a speech. But must answer this and other requests in the same way. We can t make a speech, either good or bad, and will not undertake to de ceive the brethren. But we are al ways ready to do anything else in the interest of the order. MEETING OF STATE ALLIANCE. A Large Delegation and Harmonious to y the End A Part of the Work Done. Reported for The Progressive Farmer. AfiHiVILLE. N. C. Aug. 12. This body assembled at the opera house in this city to day at 11 o'clock. Delegates from 93 counties were . present,. . Officers, delegates and visiting i - f -n-m rnn iiihiiiuhih ai esiiiiiaiou tb uvdi ouu. The morning session was taken up in organizing. At 2:30 p. m. the order assembled at the hall and was met by the Knights of Labor of this place, and forming a procession by fours, marched to the Alliance warehouse in the following order: The Asheville Cornet Band, the Alliance, and the Knights of Labor. Arriving at the warehouse, the citizens' committee welcomed the con vention in grand style. .LAVS, iuuo. j-r. v wuuuwu . vv m most excellent aaaress oc welcome in ... ... m 1 . behalf ot AsQeviiie. le said tnat we have the youngest and yet the richest country on the Globe. 1 he farm er has somehow gotten behind in the division of the wealth, and that, he supposed, they were here to mves- tigate and try to hnd out the best method of removing these causes, Gen. K. t. Vance delivered an ad- dress of welcome in behalf of the Alii- ance or western iNortri uarolina. Ihere were responses in very appropriate language by Hon. G. llf (1 1 IT I T7 A r T7 vv . oanueiun anu rj. vioye, xL.sq , w ueuaii vl iuo oiaw -miauue. W. A. Graham and Col. L. L. Polk tion was interspersed with music. The Occasion Was One long tO be re- membered by the members of this btate Alliance, and one that would be creaitaoie to any city nonoring tne as sembling of any delegation. At 4:15 carriages were placed, at the disposal of the Alliance by the citizens, and the delegation was shown the beauty of this truly most beautiful section The meeting promises to be the most useful and harmonious ever held by the State Alliance. Col. L. L. Polk, National President, spoke to the Alliance with open doors to night. After the speech, the following reso- lutions were adopted. Resolved, That the North Carolina State Alliance has listened with pro found interest and pleasure to the as surances of our Bro. L. L. Polk, Presi dent of our National order, that our brethren ot the great .Northwest are ready and anxious to join us in restor- ing peace and unitjr and fraternity be- tween the two sections. Resolved, That we heartily express our warm appreciation of the noble " and patriotic efforts of. our beloved President on behalf of a re united country and thank him for his manly espousal of so great and important a work. Resolved, That we extend to the brotherhood of the Northern - and Western States the right hand of fel lowship and pledge them our earnest and honest purpose to do all in our power to allay and suppress sectional ism and give to our posterity the bless ings of free government, founded on the basis of unity and fraternity. Resolved, That the Secretary of this State Alliance is hereby instructed to forward an official copy of these reso- lutions to Bro. B. H. Clover, Presi- dent of the Kansas State Alliance, with the request that they be published in ah the Reform papers of the North- west, and also a copy to Bro. Polk for publication in The Progressive Far- MER. L. A. Durham. SECOND DAY. August j 13. The State Alliance assembled at 9 o'clock this morning. The regular order of business was pursued. The President delivered his annual address, and the other officers sub mitted their several reports, except the Lecturer, who, by a special order, de livered his to-night at 8:30. Numer ous resolutions were introduced and referred to proper committees. A resolution was passed unanimously, this afternoon, endorsing The Pro gressive Farmer, the organ of the State Alliance. Fraternal greetings were sent the following State Alliances, by wire to Missouri, Tennessee and West Vir ginia, now in session, and by mail to the Alliances of Texas, Arkansas, Virginia and Georgia, which bodies convene next week. The message was: " North Carolina State Alliance sends greetings, standing by the na tional and her State demands." The following resolution was adopted unanimously: Resolved, by the North Carolina Farmers' State Alliance, that we ear nestly urge all members of our order to stand by the national demands made by the National Farmers' Alli ance and Industrial Union. THIRD DAY. August 14. The Alliance met promptly at the usual hour. Resolutions from the various com mittees were placed on the calendar, and discussed at length. The committee on Constitution By Laws reported, and recommended a considerable change in the s-au Constitution. - . ' At 2:30 p. m. the special ort the election of officers, was taken un' when the old officers were re el nth except that Bro. S. J. Veach, of Dupi - - w wcu wuui,y, wa apiain. The following bretnren were selected as delegates to represent t. hi a an;.. 7 r "Ce mewug oi me national Alii I ance. which will he hftld nt i u ura Fia on the 6th of December next: -uas arr - Alexander, E. Moye, Geo. Williamson, R. B. Van and M. L. Wood. The next annual meeting of the A I 111 1 11 m m . l' liance will be held at Morehead Citv. FOURTH DAY. August 1."). The house was called to order bv President Carr. It was decided to exhaust thecal- cuuai auu. aujuuiu aii I U UlUUK, ) rr. I 1 rne following resolutions adopted i - - Whereas, The subject of free anH liberal education alike for males and females is a matter of paramount im portance to the material and institn. tional life of a State, and one that especially claims the immediate at. ten tion of the industrial classes, the Farmers' Alliance of North Oarnim. in session assembled therefore I "MH Hesolvel, That we favor and recom- mend the increase of our present pub iic school tax by at least 25 per cent, I t- mi Kesolve, A. mat we tavor and recommena mat ammo araronni .mn and provisions be made by tne State i of females Resolved That wo demand nf ih V next legislature a railroad commission f law with full power to the commis sioners to regulate passenger and freight rates on a fair jus'-, and reason- able basis. Resolved, That the heartfelt thanks of this body be tendered to the Bun- I combe County Alliance for the use of the beautiful new opera house. Thanks, thanks and again thanks to i our warm neartea oretnren or tsun combe and adjoining counties. The officers were installed by Dr. D. Reid Parker. The State Alliance of North Caro- lina then adjourned to meet at More head City, next August. WHO BOLTED? N the South Carolina convention. J- last week, they had 320 delegates. I lwo nunurea ana sixty one delegates t wer to Tilman and fifty nine against , him- The 59 anti-Tilman delegates vi left the hall and proceeded to form a I re party ot their own, so to speak, lhese s ad i.i. . i , delegates were trom Charleston and other towns. Now who has left the Democratic party ? The papers of this State and South Carolina have been claiming that the farmers were leaving the party. A majority such a large one must be the party. Now who bolted ? Was it the farmers '.' SENATOR VANCE. He Writes Another Letter to a Citizen of Goldsboro. United States Senate, Washington, D. C , Aug. 7. Mt. Esq., Goldsboro, N. C. My Dear Sir: Your favor of "Jd inst. has been received. I take pleas- ure in answering it, but am compelled for want of time to be very brief, The bill as Polk and Macune handed it to me contained a provision that the supervisors of warehouse?, who were to be agents of the Treasury Department, should be elected by the qualified voters of each county where in the warehouse was to be situated. I did change that and provide that they should be appointed by the Sec retary of the Treasury. Please get a copy of the constitution and look at the sesond clause of section 2, article 2, and you will see why there is no greater danger to the good cause of the farmers than that it should be en trusted to the management of leaders who could not frame a bill without directly violating in this way the plain'language of the constitution so plain, in fact, that a school boy cannot misunderstand it. I made no other changes in the bill except to change the word Sub-Treasury and substitute "bonded agricultural warehouses," for the reason that there is an old po litical prejudice against that name Sub-Treasury. Those who charge me with thus changing the provision of the bill in order to make it unpopular are guilty of falsehood and absurdity I was and am friendly to the purpose of the bill, and to everything that tie farmers wish that can be grants them within the fundamental law o. my country. If their cause is wise J directed it will triumph as sure as there is justice upon earth. It is a pity that it should be handicapped l the very start by a measure so unco- stitutional and impracticable. W God give them wisdom to do rigk1 and succeed. I thank you for your kind expres sions for me personally. Very truly yours, Z. B. Vance. Concentrate your labor, concentrate your manure, and you may concen trate your crops without lessening the quantity. is SJ I0' a Yi tl fir ! 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