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ISffl I Ill I I THE INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF OUR PEOPLE PARAMOUNT TO ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS OF STATE POLICY. RALEIGH, N. C. SEPTEMBER 23, 1890. Vol. 5 No. 33 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, Cam bridge. Knnsas. Notary J. H. Turner, Georgia. Ad dress, 511 9th St, N. W., Washington, o. 67 Treasurer W. H. Hickman, Puxico, Missouri. Lecturer Ben Terrell, Texas. EXECUTIVE BOARD. 0 W. Macune, Washington, D. C. AJonzo Wardall, Huron, South Dakota. J. F. Tillman, Palmetto, Tennessee. JUDICIARY. R C. Patty, Macon, Mississippi. Isaac McCracken, Ozone, Arkansas. Evan Jones, Dublin, Texas. ;HTH CAROLINA FARMER8' STATE ALLIANCE. President Elias Carr, Old Sparta, V.C. Vice-President A. H. Hayes, Bird own, N. C. . Secretary E. C. Beddingfield, Raleigh, " Treasurer J. D. Allen, Falls, N. C. Lecturer Thos. B. Long, Asheville, S. C. Assistant Lecturer R. B. Hunter, Hunters villa, N. C. Chaplain S. J. Teach, Warsaw, N C. Door Keeper W. H. Tomlinson, Fay tteville, 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, Saleigh, N. C. Trustee Business Agency Fund W. A. iraham, Machpelah, N. C. XEOUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE NORTH CARO LINA FARMERS' STATE ALLIANCE. S. B. Alexander, Charlotie, N. 0M 'Jhair iian; J. M. Mewborne, Kinston N. 0.; J. S. Johnston. Ruffin. N. C. LETTER FROM SAMPSON. How the Politicians Treat Us When We go into Politics. Mr. Editor: Why it is that no Alliance man will write from Sampson I am unable to determine. We have members who are strong in the faith, there aj e many whom the writer knows who seem fully converted, enrolled and " baptized " in Allianceism. And there are so many good farmers here who might write articles interesting to the brotherhood. All seem to be interested in the political outlook. We have been fooled, cheated and deceived by scheming politicians till we are deter mined that they shall not longer pull the "wool" over our eyes. Very many are educating themselves in the great, grand and elevating principles of the best order under the sun, ex cept the Christian religion, and a good and true Alliance man is a Christian. Outsiders say wa take, an active part in politics, and if all will be true to the order, we aim to elect men who will legislate to the farmers' interests. We are tired of the class legislation we are now compelled to submit to at the nation's capitol. We are entitled to more than 1 3 members because sta tistics show that we outnumber any other profession. We are not mere "hewers of wood and dra'wera of wa ter," and while we labor in our pro profession like honorable men and wo meD, and think ourselves as good as Queen Victoria, the Czar of Russia, Ben. Harrison or any other gentle man, we intend to elect men allied with us to do our bidding. We have tristed too long to political charlatans, neglecting to keep ourselves posted in the current doings of traitors to our interests. If we can't get the Sub Treasury bill or a substitute, we aim to have its equivalent; our opponents had as well accord it to m We are daily increasing in members in 28 States, and the time cannot be far distant when we can elect men who will boldly, assert and maintain our rights. We were born free men, and God willing, we aim to die emanci pated from the clutches of the money autocrats. England tried to enslave usi an 1 in an eight years' war we manifested to the world that we would call no man master or be subjects of any nationality but our own. tt -fT re 800,000 farmers in the United fetates and about one half of hem are Alliance members, and only 13 members in Congress to represent n ??. e' S0litar-V " member to 01 5, 15 1 honest yeomanry. When an crvlT T utalki Politi" the cry is heard, - the Alliance is going into politics." We are only trying to secure our rights inside the'old 'pities but it seems that the old monopoly nnged streaked and striped " bosses help U i?, let US if thevcan nejp it. The Alliance has nothing in the world to do with politics; every man can vote as he wills it whether he is a Democrat or a Republican, and it behooves the farmer every where to vote for one of his profes sion or one of his allies, having been so continually duped by professed friends', it is high time to make a change. Every other profession goes into politics ad libitum, but the poor clodhopper must not because the rank old surfeited " devil bent " bosses say not. The millionaire Congressmen are already shaking in their jackets because the hayseed gentry are enlist ing against them and they have been weighed in the balances and have been found wanting. Cast off the shackles, Alliance men, be ye no longer slaves and call no man master. You may as well try to dam up the waters of the Mississippi with pine straws as to try to fetter our step3 to freedom and independence. For Goq's Sike and your own educate in the workings of the Alliance. The Progressive Farmer is the best edu cator and organizer in the order for this S:ate. Put on the beautiful gar ments of peace and good will to all, but with a determination to maintain your rights on all occasions and under all existing circumstances,, and let your motto be, God and our rights, and let's do our whole duty though the heavens fall. W. J. Craddock. Hobton, N. C. LE r US CONQUER OUR PREJU DICES. Macon, N. C. Mr. Editor: Daniel Webster said: " We could conquer seas, nations, the ferocious beasts of the South, tt cetera, but we could not conquer our preju dices." But too true. Local preju dices rule everywhere in politics, society, business and religion. Now the Farmers' Alliance, proving as a reformation party, should try to con trovert that truism Already we notice a disposition on the part of our opponents to create a prejudice to certain men, perhaps be cause they voted, in time past, for a party or a man they conceived to be inimical to their interests. Be this so. Are we not to allow men who have, perhaps, committed a mistake, to reform ? Are we to refuse to listen to Sam. Jones because he once frequented the gambler's saloon and the devil's gas house ? I thought we were to lay political affiliations down at the lodge door and become a kind of check-valve to both the now reign ing parties. My friends, if we allow such spurious emanations to distort our brain, our cause is lost. It is just this that keeps back issues eighteenth century men (this is one hundred years adva ced) in power, makes the trity saying that North Carolina s a good State to immigrate from. Too true. Why ? Because we have been educated in the school house of pro vincialism, which teaches trom the four text books Envy, Prejudice, Jealousy and Hatred. As I have written as a member of the Alliance, I will state that 1 am not, because in its clause of qualifica tion for membership I am forbidden. 1 recognize its utility, however, and bid it God speed. Respectfully, B. I. Egerton, Jr. ALLIANCE SPIRIT AT WAKE FOREST COLLEGE. Mr. Editor: The hearts of the young men at Wake Forest College seem to be imbued with a sense of patriotism and a spirit of the Alli ance. When, a short time ago, it was learned that a combination had been formed by the merchants of the place, to raise the price of kerosene, oil and certain other ai tides, neces sary to the students, a meeting wa3 promptly called for and took place this evening. A large number were in attendance, and ringing resolutions were adopted condemning the local trust. Many young men made speeches against the unjust xioiflbina tion showing a spirit of patriotism not always exhibited by an assembly of light hearted college boys. A com mittee was appointed who conferred with the merchants and succeeded in securing a great reduction upon the abnormal price, and indeed below the regular price of oil Other commit tees were appointed upon other mat ters, and the boys feel confident ot success on these lines. Long may the students continue to upset the pi ins of those who wish to obtain, by unfair and unjust means, the hard earnings of poor boys who are struggling for education. A Spectator NUTS TO CRACK AT THE FARM ER'S FIRESIDE. Press Opinions from Many Sources. Put none on guard except plowhold ers. Selman, Ha., Alliance. No, it is no t Sherman who is ' march ing through Georgia" this time; it is the Farmers' Alliance. Chicago Sen tinel. " See that my grace's kept green," is going to be a popular song among politicians after next week. Arkansas Economist. Tramp ! Tramp ! ! Tramp ! ! ! The earth is fairly shaking with the mighty revolt in politics that is taking place. Luray Union. As defined by Webster, "Politics is the science of government the preservation of a nation's safety, peace and prosperity, and the protection of its citizens in their rights.11 Is it any wonder that sugar is dear when three of the officers of the sugar trust draw salaries of $100,000 each, six others $50,000 each and seven $25,000 each 11 arm and Ranch. A Georgia editor says that a man who would cheat a country editor out of a year's subscription would give a nickle with a hole in it to the foreign missionary fund, and sigh because the" hole was not bigger than the nickle. In 1859 there were but two million aires in the United States, now there are thousands of them. How did they get so wealthy and who did the wealth come from ? Ask any honest farmer and he will soon tell you. The extract from Mr. Newland's ad dress, shows that the silver men will continue the agitation until the next step, free coinage is taken. The pres ent law will bring the price of bullion to par. When this is accomplished, the gold bugs will be entirely without argument. In. ianapo'is Leader. Farmers' Alliance papers are start ing up in nearly every county in the State. Patronage has been withdrawn from nearly all the old ring organs, and papers that are not favorable to the People's movement are feeling its effects. The farmers say they do not know why they should feed their enemies. Sjiirit of Ivansas- The National Congress of farmers in session at Council Bluffs passed a series of resolutions enunciating what they want. None of their requests are very exacting and certainly all seem just. Still it is likely that as in the past the monopolisms further east will continue to give them the earth, provided the monopolists hold the mortgage on it. JPhil. limes, Ind. The Sublimity of impudence is reached when lawyers denounce the Alliance movement as being .in the interests of class legislation. Lawyers constitute one-tenth of one per cent, of our population, and yet they fill nine tenths of the legislative, three fourths of the executive, and all the judicial offices of the country. Class legislation indeed! Mead County Time. IVford, S. Dakota. The "non partisan " Farmers' Alli ance is busily engaged in shuffling the political cards in half a dozen or more States at present and confi dently asserts that it will have two score representatives in the next con gress. It even threatens to get to gether and put a presidential condidate in the field in 1892. This is to be a government of, by and for the farmers. Let them sail in; they pay for the right. Houston Post. Under the warehouse system pro posed by the Farmers' Alliance the farmers would now have their corn and realize good prices for V, but un der the mortgage system they were compelled to part with it for 1 2 to 16 cents a bushel. It was taken in by speculators, one of whom in this city has realized a profit of $60,000. This is really the farmers' monev and the fact that a man got it who dots cot raise an ear of corn, is a burning shame to our system. Iowa Tribune The Chicago Express says it has it on good authority that the "spon taneous upris'ng of the laboring men is the chief topic of conversation " in Washington.. That paper, if it had been thoroughly posted, might have added tha; it is all the talk wherever you go, whether in town or country. Sooner or later this same Alliance movement will swallow up all other movements, political or what not, and their ears will not have to be pinned back nor the r heads greased to en able it to do it, either- Labor Journal. M6re than , 370,000 applications for lpensions under the Disability Pension bill enacted by the; present Congress hare ''.already ; been received at the pension affice. - -These figures show the extent - t which. Congress has voted away the hard earned money of the people by the hundreds of millions and how it has saddled the country with a debt that half a century will not wipe out. Look at it, ye impov enshed farmers, and realize how ytu j and your children after you are to be i made the hewers of wood and the drawers of water for more than half a century to come to pay for a war wh'ch his already cost thousands of millions of dollars within the past less than thirty years, and now to cost thousands of millions more. Will the clamors of the pretorians never cease until you relegate them to their homes and keep them there? Co'man's Rural World. Farmers are shaking up the politics of the country amazingly. Farmer Tillman's campaign in South Carolina is creating a tremendous seasatLon, while the Minnesota Farmers' Alliance has nominated an entire State ticket Under the new system adopted in Minnesota, Massachusetts and other States, whereby the State furnishes the , official ballot, it is possible for such independent movements to stand an excellent chance to succeed. The fact is, parry lines are hanging very loosely tbr ughout tbe country, and the people seem to be waking up to look after their own interests rather than to sacrifice everything for the welfare of any political party pure and simple. The Minnesota movement is the firsi in which the farmers have nominated a complete State ticket, but Kansas farmers and working men pro pose to do the same. All this indi cates a growing political activity among farmers which can but result in better government. Farm and Home. " OLD FOGY'S " TARIFF, PROTEC TION, AND RECIPROCITY PLAN. A tariff that would protect the labe.:sr, the farmer, the manufacturer and our country, would be eminently just. A tariff that benefits either at the expense of the other, is pre emi. nently unjust. The manufacturer has already secure i a tariff on everything he can manufacture profitably. The farmer has a tariff on a few articles, mainly on rice, peanuts and oranges, articles that are raised profitably only in limited areas, or for which ttie de maLd is very small The laborer has no tariff for his benefit. Labor sta. tistics sho v that wages are as high in the unprotected as in the protected in dustries. Pro.ection for the farmer is our rallying cry. How ? By increasing the volume of our currency, until the per capita of circulating medium shall equal the average-rate of the tariff tax. If 47 per cent, is the proper rate of Jariff, then let the people have 47 "dollars of currency per capita. Protection for the laborer. How ? By prohibiting any corporation from employing any person not a citizen of the United State?, allow no person to become a citizen who has not resided continuously in the United States for five years. We would thus protect our laborers from the pauper labor of Earope. Protection for posterity by no; al lowing any one, not a citizen, from acquiring public land?, and allow no one to own more than 160 acres of the public domain. Reciprocity for all by compelling the importer of goods or products, not given ,in exchange for our goods or products, without tax, to pay into the Treasury of the United States in the current gold coin of the country where the goods are manufactured or produced the amount of the tar ff tax on the goods imported. The gold coin or bul im equal in value, received as tariff tax, to be deposited in the United States Treasury and certifi ca',es issued to the value of the de posit. In a single decade we could draw all the coin of Europe into our coffers, or our laborers would be given employment in manufacturing goods, now imported, to supply our ovn demand. - President Polk is the great leader in the move to kill sectonalism, and leave in the place of that glittering monster that has been the potent means of keeping the honest producers of the North and South so equally divided that professional politicians could wield the balance of power, and thereby run the Government in the interest of the exploiting class, a fra ternal feeling between all honest pro ducers of every section, race or color ' iUi. .n.n..-. tVint TXT ill Vl Q a V t 1 IT cooperate to maintain "equal rights and chances for all, and special privil j eges to none." My God bless him ia ' his noble work. National Economist. NEW INDUSTRIES. Enterprises of Various Kinds to be Put in Operation and Things Likely to be Dne at an Early Day Rip Van Winkle Cannot Stay in the Old Xor th State. tManufatcureiB1 Record. New Berne C. J. Se::eelky is re ported as erecting a planing mill. Marion The city will probably issue $10,000 of bonds for street improve ments. New Berne- Moore & Brady's oyster camiing factory is reported as being enlarged. East Duiham W. J. Wyatt is re ported as having established a sor ghum mill. Winston H. L. Riggins and Frank Gorrell will, it is stated, -rtct a to bacco factory. Scotland Neck The Farmers' Alli ance contemplates the erection of a canning factory. Durham R. T. Howser & Bro. will, it is stated, erect the carriage factory lately mentioned. Durham B, L. Duke has, it is stated, purchased a tract of land near Durham for $22,000. New Berne- A. Greenabaum, of Sea ford, Del., will, it is stated, es:ablish an oyster canning factory. Asheville The Carolina Wood working Co. has been organized with a capital stock of $12,000. Durham The American Tobacco Co. is erecting and addition to its to bacco factory 123x157 feet. Henderson Louis Ginter, of Rich mond, Va., has awarded contract for the election of a five story factory 50x125 feet. Raleigh A manufacturing town will, it is staged, be built near Raleigh. The Secretary Board o Trade can give information. Raleigh E. L. Harris, of Wilton, h-s, it is stated, made a proposition to organize a stock compan7 to estaolish a smoking tobacco factory. Greensboro The Greensboro Fur niture Co., recently mentioned, has been organized by S. S. Brown, C. W. Carr, W. I- Ridge and others with a capital stock of $10,000. Scotland Neck-The Panacea Springs Co., of Oxford, N. C, has purchased the Panacea springs, mentioned in last issue, and will start bottling works to place the water on the market. Winston- The North Winston Land & Improvement Co., reported in last issue as organized, has been incorpor ated with R. J. Reynolds president, and J L. Patterson, secretary. Oxford A Richmond (Va ) ,syndi. cate is reported as negotiating for tue erection of a $200,000 tobacco factory in Oxford. The Oxford Land, im provement & Manufacturing Co. can give information. Asheville The Asheville Natural Gas & Mining Co. has been organized with W. O. Wolfe, president; H. C Hunt, vice president, and J. B. Bj tix, secretary, to sink gas wells, rat capital stock is $25,000. Asheville The People's Light, Heat & Power Co. lately reported, has, it is stated, let contract to G. B. Shaw, Eau Claire, Wis., and L. N. Cox, of Washington, D. C , for the erection of a $40,000 electric light plant. Gibsonville The Eureka Mill Co , lately mentioned as organized, has been incorporated by J. A. Davidson, J..L. Whitsett, M. L. Fogleman and others for the purpose of erecting a flour and corn mill, lumber mill, etc. AN ALLIANCE GIRL AT THE BAT. Mr. Editor: So many are writing, and of course you are overrun with resolutions and assurances of good will and appreciation of your zealous efforts in behalf of the farmers, still I feel like I must intrude again, and as I am quite independent of li dis favor, I do not care whether yoa like the intrusion or uot. 1 have been reading The Progres sive Farmer with increased interest of late, and admired the last two month's editorials very much. We see and have been coavinced that brother Ramsey only requires an occasion to display his gift as a very brilliant writer. Truly . we have an editor. Wonder where he came from, any way. I am beginning to believe, from the gentle, coaxing way, some of the newspaper men are trying to lead the Alliance by the nose, that they are regarding the "associate's" pen with' something like awe. We farmers are considering whether to put on " airs " or not. Really we feel good. We have good crops better outlooks than ever before, and hopes of prosperity in ihe future. With our noble leader, CA. Polk, who has been ever and always our most valiant friend and thereby prov ing himself one of the grandest of men, we feel tnat we can trust him to guide our ship aright, for she is slow ly but surely co uiug. Ys, our ship is coming in, though many fearful breakers and craggy reefs await her coming along the shore to wreck her ere she lands, yet we have a captain nd a pilot and we are patient; we can trust them. Some person sent me their compli ment, noi long ago, Baying they were just as strong an Alliance boy as I wa3 an Allianc3 girl. Brother, that is very incouraging. I oniy hope you are, for I am one that believes in working and not in talking. It is that bro'.her of the banner Alliance who sometimes gr:-; s these columns with a gem from i is facile pen. I am not sure, but I think our farmers in this section will have some money left to rattle in their pockets oa Sundays when the harvest is ended. There are indications in that direction, any way. And in conclusion permit me to add: Djn't forget to renew your subscri jtiotis to The Progkessive Farmer wiun you get some cotton off. Eiitors can make the sparks fly from their pen when the dollars walk in. You know how it is. It makes us all feel good when a solid silver dollar shows its appreciation of our labjr. Yours in good faith, Evangeline Usher, Cor. No. 242. A LONG AND BITTER FIGHT. writer in the Farmers' Home Journal, over the initials ,C. M. W.," makes th following suggestion about the cairip.itrn in this Sta'.e. Says he: " We ate in the midst of one of the hot .est CiQi paiges ever seen in Texas. The issue is a ra lroad commission, and the interest ex :ends to New York. Ic is simply this: Shall the railroads rule Texa9, or Texas control the rail rjads ? So far thirteen fifteenths of t e delegates to the State convention are Tor the commission candidate for Govornor, and it is thought he will gr, nearly ail the rest of the delegites. Tae railroad companies and their at torneys, and most of the capitalists, are on one side and the great mass of the people on the other. Every inch of the ground is being fought for. It is evident the paple will elect the governor and the lower branc i of the legislature, but a desperate tight will be made for the Senate. Mono don't cut much figure in elections here. But as half of the Senate was elected two years ago, the people may not get ex actly what they want; but the fight wi 1 o on until they do get it. The Republicans are in such a hopeless minority they re taking r.o active in terest in the fighr.. The primaries will all be held in July, and thea he con ies t, so far as candidates are con cerned, will be over. But the com mission amendment to the S'.ate Con. stitution will not be voted on till No vernier. So we will have a long fig lit and an intensely bitter one." TriE ALLIANCE AND RUTHER FORD COLLEGE. Mr. Editor: I see an article ia your valuable paper from Connelly's Springs suggesting that each Sub Alliance in the State appropriate a small amount to aid in the rebuilding of , Rutherford College. I heartily en dorse the suggestion and hop3 it will be carried out. We think it safe to say that there is an avenge of fifteen Sub Alliances in eac.i county in the State, and fifteen times ninety six equals fourteen hundred and forty, and the small amount of two dollars from each Sub Alliance would give the handsome sum of twenty eight hundred and eighty dollars, which would enable Dr. Abernathy to erect a very comfortable buildingfor the use of his school. Morgan ton Sub Alliance will lead the way (in addition to individual subscription) and we hope ever Sub Alliance in the county will follow the example, and then let every Sub Alliance in the State do likewise, and ith this small contribu tion from each Sub Alliance, the ag gregate would gladden the heart of this Christian philanthropist, and also be p-rf trmin an act that will immor talize our grand order and hand its rec id down to posterity pregnant with deeds of kindness for the allevi ation of the unfortunate. A Reader. Remember what you said about the Constitution and laws of the Order.
The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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