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V . 1 1 THE PKOGrKESSIVE FARMER, NOVEMBER 4, 1890. L L i'OLK, - Editor J L. RAMSEY, - Associate Editor. W. F. DALY, - Business Managkk. Raleigh, N. C. SUBSCRIPTION: ing . .subscriber. One Year $ 1-25 Six Months rive subscribers, One Year -W Ten 44 One Year 10.00 One copy one ytar free, to the one sending Club of Tec Cash InvaHaUy in Advance. Mony ai our rtea. If sent by real-ten! letter or money order. Pleise don't send stamps. Adv-nislHi? Katee quoted on app!tnon. To Correspondent Write aJ coniinnnications, deit;n.-: Tor publics Ion, on one side of the paper oniy. We want intelligent correspond in evtr coun ylnthe SUte. We want of valae, rt- mlts Jtccompliahed of value, experiences, of valne, plainly and briefly told. One soliJ. rcon&trat fact, is worth a tkoasand theories. A .lres'9 all commnnlcationp to Tns PnoanaivK Fakmeh. Kca, H. C rTT.KlGH, N. C, NOV I 1890. f This :aif entered as second-ck rMJ.t- at the Fo Office in RaleiuL -V- ' ; rhe Progressive Farmer is the O ftcial Organ of the N. C. Farmers' State A. itance. D you want your paper changed u inothv-r office? State the one at which yu'i have been getting it. D ) you want your communication pub-is-ied? If so, give us your ra name &rd your postoffioe. Our friends in writing to any oi ..ur advertisers, will favor us by mention ing the fact that they saw the advertise ment in Tef. Progressive Farmer. T" The date on your label tells you w .en your time is out. A SMALL FAVOR ASKED. Will the judges, members of the State Senate and members of the Lower House who have ret used to ac cept ire passes from the different railroad corporations in th State be s Sind 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; Jno. S. Surratt, Davidson county; J. A. Williams, Davidson county. THE WELDON FAIR Rev. Thos. Dixon Speaks. npHE attendance at the Weldon I Fair on Thursday last was quite large. The exhibits of stock, machin ery and agricultural products was hardly as good as usual, but the steam flying jennies, painted lemon ade, side shows and fakirs and their goods, and last but not least Prof. Warde and his balloon, made things lively, nevertheless However, the presence of Rev. Thos. Dixon on Tnursday was the chief attraction. We will publish a complete stenographic report of his speech next week and will only refer to it briefly here. His subject was, " The Moral Import of the Farmers' Alliance." Mr. Dixon can handle any subject as few other man can, but this speech was remarkably good. Mr. Dixon repeated the statement that the farmers of the New England States are in a worse condition than those of the South. He gave a graphic description of the deserted farms and told how many farms in fine condition had recently been sold for less than the original cost of the buildings on the farms. He argu d that if the farmers were prosperous other classes would share in the pros perity; that the education of today is almost entirely classical and in conse quence our young men are disposed to look down upon agriculture as a business. The speaker then argued that the Alliance was the result of di vine inspiration ; that it is a great social and moral revolution and would ele vate mankind beyond a doubt. Ho said that the farmers and other work ing people are the ones to purify poli tics and that he believed they woul d do it. Mr. Dixon is rejoiced to s-;e the prospect of the Alliance wiping out Slason's and Dixon's line. He thinks this one of its great missions. He is satisfied that the people of the North and South do not understand each other and thinks the Alliance can and will bring about a complete recon ciliation. Mr. Dixon thinks that the good that the Alliance has already done will never die and that the organization will accomplish all it has yei undertaken and that it will never go down while time lasts. He believes that all transportation lines will be under government control in a few years, and that the Sub Treasury bih will become a law, though it may take years to bring it about. The declaration of principles by the Alii ance have been ridiculed in many in stances. Mr. D xon said he tnought tney were the 41 (Jhnstian religion in a concentrated form: that if an anp-el had been sent down from Heaven for the express purpose of writing these principles it would not have beet' done any better." His address was a most magnificent effort. His anecdotes and illustrations were excellent. At times he was h ; Miorous and pathetic, and his elo quence was sublime. Truly he is an other Patrick Henry, though their stvle is somewhat different. Long live Dixon 1 A MISTAKE. LAST week between four add five hundred of our subscribers failed do get Thk Progressive Farmer We regret this very much. Usually all errors in a newspaper t office are saddled upon the "devil" in the priming office. But in this instance the pressman made the mistake. When the paper came from the mill the pressman reported it one bundle short. A bundle contains 480 papers. Our business manager borrowed a bundle nie pressman afterwards decided that the papr was not shor:. and did not use the extra bundle, hence we were short 480 papers. We will try and not let this occur again EXTERMINATE THE LOWER CLASSES. 'pHOSE who have read that won JL derful book, Cesar's Column,' dl he struck with the reniirkabl similarity of some of the author's predictions t ) the article in this ii-sue 44 Go to War," which is a letter writ ten by a New York capitalist to a friend in Dayton, Ohio. The author of that book carried his realers for ward a hundred years, but from tbe letter of this capitalist we can see that the hundred years have expired. 44 While the labor organizations are fighting among themselves ne rich have nothing to fear." Whenever that plays out, they "will stir up a war with England and kill ff the laboring people of both countries' A more diabolical scheme was never concocted by human fiends, and the saddest part is that it is true. All the capitalists in the Union may not be in the scheme, but beyond a doubt they have a plan on foot to crush the different organizations, though tbe land may be covered with blood. But will they get our people to fight ? We shall see. X THE DIFFERENCE. A GREAT many people are begin ning to think that there is but little difference between the average politician in both parties. We cannoi do without the parties; but the prob lem must be solved somehow. Per hap3 the best and .only way is to equalize the representation. Give the farmers their share of the State and National legislators and some of the trouble will be over. The Ptnnsyl vania Farmer, one of the aolest jour nals in America, has the following to say along this line: " We would like to have any one show us the difference between a Democratic or a Republican bond holder; or between Republican or Democra ic president of a railroad; or -etween the national banker who is a Republican, and the one who is a Democrat. Taey may all be very tine men as individuals, but as national legislators they stand in the same line, and labor for the interest of their cor poration, regardless of how such leg islation may effect the welfare of the laboring man. Money, railroads, tele graphs, land 8, national banks, public debts, coal mines, oil wells, gold and silver mines, are all run in the inter ests of a class, when they ought to oe run in the interest of the people. No one complains of the United States Postal system, because it serves all, rich and poor, alike. We believe that is the only true system of man aging things which are of in terest to the whole people. Let the people during the heat of the cam paign stop tJ consider these things and then vote for the men whose in terests are identical with those of the people." . . THOSE CITY EDITORS. npHE editor of the Chicago Express JL is a "city editor, but he seems to be more practical and more candid than some of the fellows that know just what the trouble is. In a recent issue that paper had the following: about the errors of those city chaps: Y "Last winter corn, while in the i i . i m - nanas ot tae tarmers, was a druer in the market at the lowest prices ever known. It is now, while in the hands of speculators, in brisk demand and selling at good Sgures. A city editor thinks hs has surveyed the whole sub ject when he says: How much bet ter off some of them would have been had they held a part of their stock till a few months later !' What innocence! The French princess said in the good nes3 of her guileless soul, when thou sands of the subjecis of the realm were dying of starvation, 4 poor fool ish people; why, I would sooner live on brown bread and cheese than die in that way !' How does this simple ton of a city editor suppose farmers could " hold their stocks,' when the chattel mortgage fiend was standing over them to foreclose for debts con tracted by borrowing money at three per cent, per month with which to buy supplies and pay taxes. The wisdom of city editors in matters of -i farming is a revelation to gods and men. They used to say ten years, ago that the farmers had been 4 extrava gant and lived too fast.' They now say it is a want of thrift and fore sight.' The whole trouble lies in the fact that they have kept oui of politics too long and have voted to send law yers and bankers to Congress to swindle their eyes out." SILVER AND PRICES. SOME of us are not inclined to .ook upon the Silver bill, recently passed, with much favor. However, one of our exchanges, the Cherokee coitt, takes a favorable view of it and we give the article below for what it is worth : " The recent marked advance in the market value of silver consequent upon legislation in this country, has had a decidedly beneficial effect upon the prices of those American farm products that are in demand in for eign countries. This result may not have been foreseen by the champions of the measure; but now that it has followed it is easy to perceive that it is the logical consequence of the act. Those countries which are competi tors of the United States in supplying Europe with grain and c jtton are silver countries that is, silver is the cur rency and the measure of values. Now that the metal is quoted 30 per cent, higher in London it costs just so m ich more to get enough of it to buy a bu&hel of wheat or a bale of cotton in India or Egypt. This causes a corresponding use in the price oi American farm products. This is a big thing for the agriculturists of the c 'Untry. Apparently the farmers of the South and West knew what they wanted when they demanded tbe silver legislation. No doubt the sue cess of tfco half-way measure finally adopted by a timid Congress wiil make many converts to the party of free coinage for silver. Some people have to be taught quite obvious truths by even. and they who consider themselves leaders are not always viser than the masses." A DAY FOR THANKSGIVING. AT the last session of our State Alliance, at Asheville, in Aug ust, a resolution was introduced and adop:ed setting apart the first day ol January, 1891, as a day for general thanksgiving to "Him that doeth al. things well." The following is a copy of the resolution: Whereas, We acknowledge Gcd as Supreme Ruler of al things, without which ackno wledgment no one can be come a member of our Ordef.-nd whereas, by the history of the past wa learn that those nations that ackn wi edged Him as their leader and called on him out of devout hearts never failed of success; and waereas, we be lieve it is the desire of all good Alii ance men to bring about a peaceable adjustment of their many infringed rights; therefore, Resolved, That we, the Farmers' State Alliance of North Carolina, in session assembled at our annual meet ing, in Asheville, August the 12th. 1890, do earnestly request that on the first day of the year one thousand eight hundred and- ninety one, every Sub Alliance in North Carolina do meet at their respective places ot meeting, or at their nearest church, as they may think best, for the pur pose of worshipping and offering peti tions to the God whom weackowledge as our leader aad who is able to give us the desire of our hearts. EDITORIAL NOTES. An Alliance candidate has been nominated in the Nashville, Tenn., Congressional district. On we go 1 The Salisbury Watchman, one of the oldest newspapers in the State, has recently entered a new volume. a,, The Concord Daily Standard has entered a new volume. 1 is a lively little daily and deserves great success. In his great speech at Weldon, Rev. Thos. Dixon said that when a boy at home on his father's farm he resolved that there were three things he would not do after he became a man, viz: " Mind a gap, pile -brush or nurse a baby." He said he had sue ceeded in the first two cases, but in the latter he had modified the vow somewhat. , The tickets for the " People's candidates," in Kansas, will be adorned with a neat picture of a farmhouse with good barns and a front yard set off with flowers. This is the first illustrated ballot ever gotten up, so far as we know. The idea is to im press the voters with the importance of voting for home instead of for men and dead issues.. The publisher, Mr. James H. Euniss, of Raleigh, has sent us a copy of Turner's N. C. Almanac for the year 1891. This is one of the oldest publications in the South, this being the fifty fourth year of the publica tion. It is a recognized standard almanac of the State, and is of great value to the oeople of the State. Tne edition for 1891 is better than ever, beauti ully printed and has much needed information for the lawyer, merchant, farmer, and in fact everybody. IN OHIO. President Polk Meets With a Hearty Reception His Speech and How it was Re ceived. Special Cor. of Thb P. ouaei-pitb Farmm "Columbus, O., Oct. 26, '90. Col. L. L. Polk, President of the Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union, was with us some thirty hours in this city the latter part of last week, and on Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock he spoke to the farmers .f Franklin county in our new and ele gant Board of Trade Auditorium. I need not add for it i3 fureTfluDU8 to do so that he made a grand speech full of facie, logic, pathos and sound, substantial reasoning and to tfce de light and satisfaction of the farmers present. He was greeted with ap plause more than a score of times and listened to with riveted attention from first to last. Oar Mayor introduced him in a happy and cordial manner as the representative of millions ot farm ers, who are getting together to compare Eotes and discover just what the matter is. This, the Mayor said, "was a very sensible and indeed a patriotic mo ive, and he remarked that some times we city people get ahead of you financially and the great cor porfcti"n3 seques'rate and absorb the bard earnings of the agriculturists through various modern methods and devices not readily seen or understood oy the average of mankind, though cunning and devious, the disastrous results follow as surely as if taken by marauders." I;e Mayor then introduced Col Polk, whose noble sentiments for fra ternity and brotherhood between the North and South, especially among the farmers, created ihe warmest re sponse from the audience. For many years I have argued for and advocated non-partisan politics. I have much regretted the sectional ani mosities that have occurred on the eve of each election, promoted by pro fessional politicians, who had no other interest but a selfish one to obtain office or aid others to do so. Thus we have drifted along under party domination, the caucus decree and sectional reverberations from the ros trurr, fighting the war over ani over for twenty years. The subject has become thread oare. People have fin ally, through great peril, become aroused to the situation and the farmer, in particular, is getting :onto" the schemes and realizes what a fool he has been. The mortgage and some other things have at last got him into a tLinking and positive mood. He has struck the " last ditch " and the "regular ticket," the " boss " and thr "boodler" can't make as much im pression on him as of " yore." He has found out a ohing or two. The farmer has made the discovery, though a . the eleventh hour, half past, that all is not gold that glitters, and that 'Heaven smiles on those who help themselves." Twenty five years it ha taken to reach this sublime reality amoDg the r'armers of .he United Stales, and I thank heaven the port is in sight. e It is a great pleasure for me to state, (and this our sentiments is the chief object of this lettei) that all over Ohio there is a responsive feeling growing to shake hands with the good people of the South and to make them feel that we have a common interest, a common heritage and a common destiny. Brother Polk has given the fra ternal feeling a grand momentum in this cUy and State. Such Farmers' Alliance! as we organize in central Ouio beats anything credited to the " Jews" and I want to say to our farmer friends and brethren in the South that w are with you and for you and propose to coutinue on the Farmers' Alliance platfoi n. We are on the right trck at la 6 and I thank God for it. Stand tog r-.er, work to gether and vote togr-t r. There is no power on this cof n-nt that can successfully oppose i t - united efforts and demands of '.he American farmers. Take the farmer out of our social and economic affairs and this country would V be "worth a shuck." When he is c unted out the country is gone. The man who can't see this has never read h.srory. When the well to do, independent, educated, industrious farmer becomes a renter, a tenant and a serf, then we may look for the vandals. John W. Hall. FARMERS' ALLIANCE. Resolutions Adopted at the Meeting in This City Last Saturday Afternoon. The following resolutions were unan imously adopted by the National Farmers' Lilian e meeting, addressed by Hon. L. L. Polk, the National President, at the B ard of Trade Auditorium ia this city last Saturday, for a copy oi waich tbe Dispatch is indebted to National Deputy J. M. Richardson: Resolved, by the Farmers' Alliance of Franklin county, Ohio, That we congratulate our worthy President of the National Farmers' Alliance of the Uoited States for his very able and patriotic address just delivered, and the cheerful news he brings us from the great West and sunny South, and the matchless energy and momentum of the movement through out the country. He came to our capital city from Kansas, Missouri, Illinois and Indiana to advise our people how the work is progressing, and to encourage the farmers of Ohio in the noble cause in which we are engaged for the betterment of their own condition, and not only their own welfare, but to enlarge the sphere of justice and humanity among all classes of industrial workers in this broad iand. And we hereby delegate him to carry our greetings to brother farmers in other States and assure them that the tillers of the soil in the "Buckeyt State are coming to the support of " Uncle Sam " a hundred thousand strong. ALLIANCE STOCK YARDS. There is nothing small about the ideas of the Farmers' Alliance of the Southwest. They have united to knock unjust and oppressive trusts so high that they will only come down in the form of spray. The latest news from that part of the country which has shown the most active organiza tion so far is the telegraphic communi cation from Kansas City that the breeders and stockmen of the South west are about to unite and form a co operative stock yards at that city, under the auspices of the Farmers' Alliance. Fifty acres of land adjoin ing the present yards is the site of the new yards. Just how accurate the news is at the present writing we are unable to tell, but we know no reason why it should not be true, and be one of the most beneficial enter prises which the Alliance has yet en gaged in. Look at the immense fortunes which have been made in a few years in the live stock commission business, every cnt of which might have been saved to the farmer by such n organization as the one proposed. It would not only actually save money in this way, but it would have a strong effect in making a steady market for beef all over the world, because there would be no chance for speculation and attempts to corner the market or otherwise to influence prices for purely selfish reasons With executive power to manage it and that ought not to be lacking we see no reason why the " Independent" stock yards t Kansas City should not prove a boon to both producer and consumer, to the farmer, and to the country at large. Farm, Field and Stockman. WHY FARMERS GET FOOLED City people, as a rule, speak of their " country cousins," the farmers, in a patronizing kind of a way, and by their bearing and manner, if not by apt words, they convey the impression that they do not consider our farmers "smart," as a class. To judge by their airs, one might conclude of them as Job did on his friends, " Verily, ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you." Not alone city people seem to arrogate to themselves superior qualifications and qualities, but even the people of the lit tie towns who depend directly on our yeomanry for their support and their living by our custom trade, even these people, too, sport their cosmo politan ways, and assume to stand a notch above the Granger. We write this not to convey the urbanite; a good dose of "let him alone for thirty days " is all the medi cine needed to restore consciousness in his case; but we desire to show our brothers the probable reason of the superior mental acuteness of his city cousin. Now let us see if the reasoning and the coEclusions are proper deductions from the premises. There is a certain amount of vitality vouchsafed to each individual. Other things being equal, we of the country should far outstrip in lasting and staying qualities those of the city because we eat wholesome food and breathe air God's air while city denizens teed on bruised beef, watered milk, stale vegetables and fetid air from stock yards and rotten 6ewers and streets. So it comes to pass that a perpetual draft is being made all the time on us of the country for new recruits for town and city. Now, why is it that your country lad becomes the sharp est, shrewdest, and keenest operator when he lives in town ? Manifestly because he has Uid up a stock, a bank of constitution, to draw upon, and it is long years before city dissolution does its work on him. But why are not his brothers at home in the country able to cope with him in trade, legislation, speculation or science ? Ah, why ? Because that same vitality and energy are spent at the plow. Your city man uses his forces by brain work; your Granger spends them in physical labor. The human system is a bank. Let a man draw on that bank by dissipa tion and the man is good for nothing to himself or to society. He becomes a positive curse. His " wild oats " ive a harvest of hell on earth and a promise of indefinite misery, when God specially takes his case in hand. Spend the same energv in specula tion, in law, on the gospel, in mer chandising, trading, manufacturing, or even as a politician, and you shall produce a shrewd, sharp, logical, powerful ani purchance dangerous man, according as he becomes a Beecier, .a Talmage, a Lincoln, a Djuglass, or a Jay Gould, a Vander- Wlt. or TArrrift.nr a -2nlK i tV r lAA VttU cruise or a Fernando Wood Tammanyie Now put forth the same enV-e again in another direction. Spend I at the plow, in the harvest field the farm, you shall have a worthy, honest man, God's own noh'I man, but a mental dullard, a man -h sleeps well, too well, eats well u much, digests well, so does an 0 But he is a man ready to be man p' lated by the first scheming devil of Wilson that comes along and sts confidence, and then, oh I then," see tbi result. His dulled mental ener instinctively pale before the superior brilliancy of his own city brother, and he accepts the verdict, "John (himself) was intended by God for the fa m ' while "Brother Ben. was cut out for the army, or a lounger, or a politi cian." And so Brother John dofei on Brother Ben, thinks him a "great man," and sounds his pra ses at a'l times, and Ben's children come to look at aud think on Uncle John'g children as inferiors. Now, Brother Farmers, this condition of affairi "makes us mad," mad all over. (, is a false condition. It is an untruth and we are here to try and help sto the tide. F What, then, is the trouble ? Answer: "Too much work mikes Jack a dull boy." Dull boys are apt to beget dull boys. Stop working yourselves to death. Work less so at to lay a wake at nights a little and think. Think how to beat Ben in thi race; think of your favorable circum stances and conditions. You bin 6,000,000 votes at your elbow; e mean to send you to Congress and to the legislature. You must think more and work, labor with yourhandi less; think more, read more, study more, talk more, argue more, debate more, quarrel (on paper and in con ventions) more, have less lawsuiti, help kill off the lawyers; starve them to death by doing your own thinking and talking; starve them out b a good long everlasting "stay at home" policy for them. Make their profes sion unpopular and unprofitable. More beans for brains, and less for brewer and belly. It must be so. AMONG THE ALLIANCES. What the Organization is Doing Throughout the Country. Tha annual session of the Florida State Alliance met in Monticello, Oct. 21. An Alliance school will be estab lished at Dublin, Texas, in the near future. Alliance men in Floyd county, Ga , expects to erect three Alliance store tnis iau. A charter has been granted to the Petersburg AllianceExchange, to de business at Petersburg, Va. The Washington Gazette learns that an Alliance store will be started in Washington county at an early dale. The Farmers' League is systemati cally stumping the State of Ma?sa chusetts in the campaign which is now on. A firm at Searcy, Ark., offers to pay 50 cents premium on each bale of cotton wrapped in cotton bagging and bought by them. The Farmers' Exchange of Ocone, in Orange county, Fla., is to start off with $5,000 capital. D. O. Maguire is president and George P. Brannon, secretary. The Farmers' Alliance, of Mont gomery county, Ky., are making an effort to form a company to build a $50,000 tobacco warehouse and estafc lish weekly sales. The Michigan State Alliance Ex change will be organized at an early day. The State Executive Board will hold a meeting in a few days and se lect a business agent. The New York State Alliance has adopted the Sub Treasury plan, and declares that the force bill shall never be saddled upon the S uth if the farmers of that State can prevent it. Tnis item appears in the 41 Eastan illee Notes" of the Carnesville, Ga., Enter prise: The Liberty Hill Alliance has just completed a substantial hall near near the Baptist church at that place. A few days ago at Garfield, Dakota, four carloads of sacks were unloaded for the Farmers' Alliance. At conservative estimate, the farmer have saved fully $1,504 on this trans action. President W. E. H. Searcy, of the Farmers' Banking Company, of Grif fin, Ga., is appealing to the Alliance men of the State tcTtake $40,000 worth of stock in the bank, it already having $63,000 capital. The Richland, Ga., correspondent of the Cordelean writes that the Alliances are wielding a powerful influence toward the advincement of the town. They have a warehouse of their own and store house rented, and wiil buU a store near ttieir warehouse at an early date. A correspondent of the Oc Enterprise, ol Watkinsville, G- lD iennBiintr the delav in erett'njr cotton bagging, offers this plan as a renie dy; Tne only way out for the farmers Alliance is to manufacture our o cotton bagging. Do not depend o such as can be monopolized and us waiting until October or Noveiu ganization not to be trifled w ior oaggiag. . 7 -t. ith.
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