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THE INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF OUB PEOPLE PARAMOUNT TO ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS OP STATE POLICY. JoL 5 RALEIGH, N. C., FEBRUARY 17, 1891 No. 50 TB NATIONAL FARMERS' AL LIANCE AND INDUSTRIAL UNION. P evident L. L. Polk, North Carolina. Address, 344 D. St, N. W., Washington, 0 C Vice-President B. H. Clover, Cam bridge, Kansas. Secretary-Treasurer J. H. Turner, Georgia. Addr, 239 North Capitol St, if W., Washington. D. 3. Lecturer J. H. Willetts, Kansas. KXIODTIVS BOARD. 0. W. Macune, Washington, D. C. Aonzo Wardall, Huron, South Dakota. J ?. Tillman, Palmetto, Tennessee. JUDICIARY. S. C. Patty, Macon, Mississippi. Isaac McCraoken, Ozone, Arkansas. E. Cole, Fowlerville, Michigan. NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. The Preside ts of all the State organi eations with L. L. Polk Ex-offido Chair nan. HOBTH CAROLINA TABMERS STATE ALLIASOB President Eiias Carr, Old Sparta, ?T.C. V.: e-Predent A. H. Hayes, Bird- cowu, N. C. Se:retary E. C. Beddingfield, Raleigh, " Treasurer J. D. Allen, Falls, N. C. Lecturer Thos. B. Long, Asheville, H. 0. " insistent Lecturer R. B. Hunter, auntersviUe, N. C. Chaplain S. J. Veach, Warsaw, N. C. Door Keeper W. H. Tomlinson, Fay atterllle, N. C. Assistant Door Keeper H. E. King, Peanut, N. C. &3rgeant-at-Arin8 J. S. Hclt, Chalk Lev?l, N. C. Stare Business Agent W. H. Worth, Ssleigb, N. C. Trustee Business Agency Fund W. A. ftrahaTu, Machpelah, N. C. HEGTTTiTE COMMITTEE OF THE NORTH CARO LINA FARMERS' STATE ALLIANCE. S B. Alexander, Charlotte, N. C. Chair las; J. M. Mewborne, Kinston N. 0.; J. 8. Johnston. Ruffin. N. C. 8TATE ALLIANCE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE. R. J. Powell, Raleigh, N. C; N. O. English, Trinity College ; J. J. Young, Poienta; H. A. Forney, Newton, N. 0. EDITORIAL NOTES. TTe are Borry to learn through a private letter that Mr. W. F. Daly, former business manager of this paper, is still in feeble health. We most ear nestly wish he may soon recover his lost health. Ox the 4th instant Mr. J. Lee Kirk pa'.risk, of Lexington, Ky., was mar ried to Miss Ida D. Flippin, of Big Creek, Stokes county, N. C. The best wishes of The Pbogbessive Fabmeb attend the happy couple. Bt a strange mistake an editorial item in our last issue was made up in the form as a part of the editorial article on the Railroad Commission. Read the last paragraph under that title as a separate item, and our mean ing will be clear. Oar foreman is the embodiment of pains taking care. But 'tis said, Homer sometimes nods. "Poor Tom's" communication can- not be published because he did not sign his right name to it. We want the real names of all our correspond ents not for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. All com munications, without exception, which Me not accompanied by the real names of the writers, go into the waste basket. We assure Mann's Chapel Alliance that the time for the meeting of the legislature is fixed by law. The Gov ernor can convene the legislature only extraordinary session to meet some pecia,l emergency in public business. I He has no power to prevent the legis- Ulre from moati'nr. g-a y W. To accomplish the end Mann's Fel Alliance seeks will require a Wangs in the law. -it Mr. Julius A. Bonit2; founder, pro ;wr ana edltr of the Wilmingt on 3er is dead. Mr. Bonitz was Jn December 22d, 1841, and died February 7th, 1891. Th ) the pleasure of knowing Mr. Bon i cut we have never heard anvona y ytaing about him that was not "a of Pr&iso of his noble enlightened wgy and manly qualities. We re W bis loss to the cause of jouraaiism Q State, and we mourn the ab sence of his controlling and ennobling spirit from the Messenger. We tender to the stricken ones of our brothers household assurances of our profound-. est sympathy. We commend them to Him whose tender notice regards the sparrow when it falls. Souk people in the Illinois legis a ture must be "awfully sot in their ways." For weeks the Senatorial deadlock has been on, and balloting has gone on from day to day with the eame result, v'z : no result at all. This is, in our opinion, meanness, pure and simple. Certainly there are good men in Illinois upon whom a majority can unite and brer .' ode-dkcl'. n an end to thr tr acted farce. I - laid Senator Blair will make a speech in the Senate explaining why he was not re elected. We venture to suggest to the New Hampshire Senator that he failed of reelection because he did not get votes enough. If he will adopt our explanation he will save some time an article that he has been in the habit of using rather recklessly and avoid a diminu tion of the stock of public patience. We print in this issue a letter from P. G. W. Walker, taking exceptions to our position upon the bill before the General Assembly, providing that in toxicants shall not be sold within two miles of any church or school house in North Carolina. We print the let ter cheerfully, because we are willing to have all matters discussed -fully. But we adhere to our position in re lation to the bill referred to with the amendments we suggested. We are certain our correspondent is mistaken in his interpretation, of Alliance prin ciples, if he thinks those principles fa vor tie liquor trade in any form. We are certain we are an Alliance man on the liquor question. Our correspon dent threatens to cease taking Thk Pbogbessive Fabmeb, if we do not change our opini n in regard to the bill he opposes. This seems to be very childish to. us. Does our friend think our opinion can be purchased by a one-dollar subscription to The Pbogbessive Fabmeb? Does our correspondent in ten! to read nothing he does not agree with? If so, it seems to us he will read very lit tle in this world. We assue our friend that his threat to discontinue the paper hai no terrors for us, terri ble as it may seem to him. If he quits The Fabmeb, we think he will lose a great deal more than we will. Senatob Dawes is said to have told the Sioax Indians now in Washing, ion, in a speech he made to them, that the government could not prevent bad weather and the failure of the crops. Hasn't the government got control over G?neral Greely ? and can it not make him let the weather alone ? We should like to know. We make no doubt at all that the assurance from the philanthropic Massachusetts Sena tor that the government is not re sponsible for bad weather will take the place at once of government blank ets, and that his insistence that Uncle Sam had nothing to do with the fail ure of the crops had the effect to make every Sioux Indian present feel just like a man feels who has just dined upon porter-house steak and mush rooms. If any Sioux Indian evr dares to complain of cold and hunger again after this original and powerful assurance of the angelic innocence of the government of all responsibility for bad weather and poor crops, run out a Hotchkiss gun, and shoot him to death at once. We wonder if the Sioux Indians came to Washington to get the government to regulate the weather and give them good crops. We knew the Sioux Indians were savages; and we have understood that they are sometimes rather troublesome lavages. But we never heard it re- J ported that they were plain idiots. ALLIANCE CORRESPONDENCE. Jan. 31, 1891. Abraham Lincoln said you could fool all of the people part of the time, a part of the people all of the time, but you could not fool all the people all the time. A. H. Gbegoby, Sassafras Fork Alliance, No. 591. Resolved, That we endorse most heartily the visit and address of Bro. S. O. Wilson to us to-day, and hereby return our thanks to the Executive Committee for sending him to us, and further The Pbogbessive Fabmeb is hereby requested to publish the fore goib- G 1. Benson, Sec'y. Hertford Co. Fr Alliance. Union Ridge, N. C , Feb. 2, 1891. Mb. Fditob : Union Ridge Sub Alliance, No. 1170, numbers 106, ani still they come, we are here and that to stay. Rev. J. W. Holt will lacture for us at 11 a. m., on Feb. 14 th. We have a good school which is taught in our hall by Rev. T. W. Stroud, of Chapel Hill, N. C, and Miss Lilly Stroud, of Elon, N. C. We feelpr jud of our school, our order and our paper. I send you a list of thirteen names, wish I could sen i one hundred. Wish ing all success I am Fraternally yours, R. W. Fitch, Sec'y. Winton, N. C, Jan. 30, '91. Mb. Editob: I unhesitatingly say that Bro. Wilson's speech was the be3t and strongest he has delivered to us. Its teaching was such as to inform and confirm the membership in the aims a ad good results already obtained by the Alliance. It awakened more confidence and enthusiasm in the or der in this county than we have had for some time. And as soon as we can get ten times as much money as we have, and that is what the Ocala Constitution advocates and demands, the circulation of $50, where now only $5 can be seen, we shall be safe. Go on in your good work and has ten on the necessary legislation. Fraternally, F. S. Blaib, Co. Lee. Oax Fobest, N. C, Jan. 24, '91. Mb. Editob : If you have room in your paper please publish the follow ng: At a meeting of Center Point Alii an;e, No. 813, of Iredell county, N. C. The following reLolutions was adopted : Resolved, That we favor the aboli tton of the office of County Treasury of Iredell county, and the duties there of made encumbent upon the Sheriff. Resolved, That we favor a speedy and economic reduction of the fees and salaries of all county officers, if it has to be done only by adopting a fixed salary system. Resolved, That we favor the plan of paying our Solicitor a fixed salary and urge our representatives to use their best efforts to secure this legislation at once. Resolved, Further, that a copy of these resolutions be sent to our Rep resentatives, at the city of Raleigh, and to The Pbogbessive Fabmeb fcr publication. J. A. Gunn, Pres. J. J. Atkins, Sec'y. Faith, N. C, Jin. 30, 1891. Mb. Editob: I desire to make known through the columns of your paper, the great and noble work that is now being done by the citizens of our county. In the fall of 189 we concluded to have a fair at Mil Bridge, N. C. We did so. Colonel Polk came and made us a good speech which did a great deal of good in this section. Next year the Piedmont Alliance Fair and Industrial Union Association was organized in Rowan county. Grounds for the fair was purchased and en closed, a large hall and other buildings were put up, and on the 18t 19th and 20th of Nov. last we held our irst fair, which was a great success. Ar range men ts were made with the Rich mond and Dsn villa Railroad Co. to carry passengers on their cars to and from the grounds, arrangements are now being made to havd one of the the larggest and best fairs ever held in this part of the country. Your cor respondent is getting up one of the lar gest collections of all kinds of mineral specimens and antiques known as the Alliance Department of Minerals, which will be place! in the fair free of cost to those doaating them : They will be properly labled, r . c . v Mid cared lor. upon t , to pay pootage, I will send full partic uUrs of our coming fair to be held this fall at Salisbury, N.C., Rowan county. Respectfully, John T. Wyatt, Lock Box, 140. Coinjock, N. C, Feb. 3, i891. Mb. Editob: We are alive yet and want ether Sub-Alliances to know what we are doing. Our lodge stood still for so ne time at first, but we now have some men that have every char acteristic of live men, and we meaa to come up in the' front, we hold our nee tings every Situreay and number sixty five, nearly all in good standing, we add from two to three to our lodge every meeting since we have got to w rk. Look out B: os. we are comiag. We have your most excellent paper read in our lodge and find that it does great good. We contemplate build ing a warehouse with a hall above this cr - spring, then we will b j felt. Our aim is to thottle pariison feel iags and kill mnopolis of course a little more time do it, the stout hearted are succumbiag very fast. We are glad to believe that our State will soon be to the front in her public schools through the auspice3 of Alliancemen. Fraternally, H. 3. Simmons, Sec'y. Resolutions relative to changing our jury system, passed by the Richmond county Farmers' Alliance, Jan. 9th, 1891. Retolved 1, That the County AHi ance of Richmond county, do hereby request our State Allitnce to send down to tae Sub- Alliances of the State for discussion, the question of chang ing the jury system of the State, from the unanimous to the majority system, and publish the result as reported back by the Sub Alliances. Resolved 2, That the honorable leg islature of North Carolina, is hereby overtured by the County Alliance of Rishmond, to change the law govern, ing jury findings, from the unanimous to the majority system, except per haps in capital cases. Resolved 3, That the Secretary be instructed to forward 4 copy of the first resolution to the Secretary of the Sta;e Alliance: also of the second a copy each to our Senator and Repre sentative in the legislature to be by them presented to their rsepective bodies for consideration. Motion carried That the Secretary have the above published in The Pbo gbsssite Fabmeb. B. F. M. Gbegob, Sac'y., Mb Editob: Our County Alliance at its January session appointed a com mittee on legislatios whose duty it is to present to the General' Assembly at its present session, certain measures, that the Alliance of Brum wi3k feel a very great concera about, foremost among which is the question of our county government. And, Mr. Edi tor, our people are desperately in ear nest in their demands for a change in the present system of county govern ment. We think we have submitted to a great deal, to great impositions in or der to have things go along quietly, but we have gotten mighty tired of toating this great big load of imposi tion! and wrongs heaped upon us by taxation and increasing taxation, debt and increasing indebtedness, boss rule and the bosses' contempt for our de mands for justice. No sir, we don't want any more of this kind of thing, and Bethel Alliance, by resolutions adopted and forwarded to the com mittee, ha3 expressed her demands on this question, and her position is not to be compromised. We ask this, "the farmers' legisla ture to give to the people the right to elect their county officers, the demand is just, it is right, taere is nothing wrong about it, and our interest de iui V it and we expect this legisla ture to comply with, this, an Alliance d j jnand. John Wescott, Sec'y. Wilkesbobo, N. C.,Jan. 21, 1891. Mb. Editob: I have never seen any thing from Mulberry Alliance, No. 4141, 8 3 I thought I would write a line or so if no intrusion on your good paper, we have sixty members in our Alliance, all of the pure stuff, we are all in for the Sub Treasury bill or something better, don't believe in all the clauses of the Land Loan bill, think instead of commission o! ap praisers by the U. S., it would te bet ter to issuo Treasurer notes of the U. S. and divide them up between the States pro rata, depositing with the Trea3urf r of each State, and they di viding it betwesn the counties, pro rata to the lands appraised by our own ap praisers, and money loaned to half the value of the present appraisement, en tered upon the tax list by the reg'ster of deeds, the amount loaned, at what time loaned, and charge 1 up in the same manner. at one percent, per an num, and let the Sheriff collect, pay to State Treasu'er, the State Treasurer to U. S. Treasurer, do away with na tional banks, make the Treasurer of each 3tate a depositor, and States make branch depositors of each county without any tax, save the interest on loans, make each State Treasurer lia ble to U. S. for all moneys deposited. J. M. Mitchell. Wilkesbobo, N. 0. Jan. 22, '91. Mb. Editob: I notice in the Gov ernor's Message to the legislature that the Governor recommends an assess ' ment board; first, the county Commis sioners, second the State to appoint ona, s sty one member from each Con gressional District. I am an old Dem ocrat and believe in State rights, county rights, school district rights and individual rights. Now, if his Excellency had dwelt with a little more emphasis upon a plan to reach the taxaction on salaries and incomes, corporations and trust3, we surfs would have thought as much of him, and not be trying to prepare a place for some of the legal lore pets, if such a board was established it would be a Fowl board indeed. The county Commissioners could not possibly assess the lands at a true cash value in their county, much less the men who never saw them, and why should the Governor or legisla. ture distrust discreet men of the diff erent township. I know it is a diffi cult matter with them, but why are they not us capable as any cue else ? Could a Fowl board do better, besides the poor farmers are bearing all the burden, now we are taxed to death until every body that can quit farm ing is doing so. Why don't the Gov ernor recommend equalization of tax ation ? Not a farmer scarcely in our whole country who makes $2500 worth of produce but he has to pay all the same, 1st, for farm, 2 ad, for mule and horse to plow with, 3rd, for corn, fodder, oats, grass or broom sige they eat; 4th, for tools to work with; 5th, wearing apparel, gun to mind the crows off the farm together with the bible find prayer book for family use. This is all right for the support of an honest gov ernment, but let us have that pet sala ries and income corporations and trusts bear their part, and the fanners will be She last ones to complain. Let salaries ad fees be reduced, No. of officers be reduced, lets have no more hunting places for pets, bat go to work. One half of the land in the State is doubled taxel to-day in the shape of mortgages. "Fanners, look sharp, take care, the blind eat many a fly- Clod Hoppeb. Michael, N. C, Jan. 24, '91. Ma. Editob: At a meeting held by the Shiloh Academy Alliance, No. 1,834, January 24, 1891, the following resolutions were adopted : Whebeas, O wing to the insufficiency of the school fund to run our public .b" '? more than about three months in a yearj $he children of the country are growing ' upm ignorance; and whereas, we think it tfee-u of the State to see that her sons and daughter.., do not grow up in ignorance; and whereas, the Alliance is an educational organization; therefore Resolved, That we, the members of Shiloh Academy Alliance, demand of our Legislature, now in session, that it enact such laws that shall increase our public school fund sufficient to run the schools not less than five months in each year. Resolved, That it enact such laws that shall provide for building better school houses than are in most of our country districts. Resolved, That every child "between ths ages of six and sixteen be required i? attend scnool not less than four months in each year, unless sick or otherwise disabled. Resolved, That one com nitteemen instead of three be appointed, and that he shall receive pay for his service. Resolved, That a copy of these reso iutions be sent to The Pbogsessive Farmeb for pub! cation, and a copy be sent Hon. Z. V. Walser, the Sen ator for this county. D. C. Cbatzr, Pres. H. Helm3tetleb, Sec'y. Lexington, N. C, Jan. 23, 1891. Mb Editob : I say hurrah for Sen ator Stanford. He seems to be the friend of the needy laborer. He has solved the problem of how to benefit the suffering on the spot, with "spot cash." Without an army of veil paid offi cers to help eat up our profits, and m a pulate politics, to say nothing of the enormous expense of building ware houses. Brethren, his plan is business on bed rock principal. No ware, no waste. No chance for fretting, funing or grumbling. Yes, some one will say, ho v will the poor man get help if he does not own land ? 1 ask, how will the poor man get help that has no produce to put in the warehouse ? I answer, both by assistance of their good brothers, on just as easy as the other. Don't bother about thU point, no law can be made that will just ex. actly suit every case, but all laws can be made to opperate by co-operation. If any reader of The Pbogbessive Fabmeb has failed io read Senator Stanford's bill and argument, be sure to look i; up, and carefully study it in every feature, and if you do not find it about as near perfect as we could ask, then you may sail me anything you plea$ifh impunity. Permit meW say, I love this bill became sixteen years ago I broke from my party and advocated thii plan, also that I wrote a com muni i&. tion to the Psogbessivz Fakmzb last May, advising this idea, (It went in the wast basket) Perhaps these form er ideas may bia3 my judgment Yet I have the satisfaction of knowing one man is of my opinion. I for myself, will let Vance and the warehouse b 11 go, and do all in my power to push Senator Staford's bill to its final passage. A M Huntxb, Sec'y Smith Alliance, No. 518. I N
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