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THE INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF OUR PEOPLE PARAMOUNT TO ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS OF STATE POLICY.
RALEIGH, N. 0., JUNE 23, 1891.
Vol. 6.
No. 18
PBOGEESSIV
FARMER.
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CIRCULATION.
The actual circulation of Volume V,
which closed with the issue of Febru
ary 17th, 1891, was as follows:
February 18, 1590, 12,840
August
Sept.
4k
it
it
October
hi
Not. .
19,1890, 16,6S0
w i con
25,
12.240
26,
16,680
16,800
16,800
17,040
16,800
17,280
17,040
17,280
17,280
17,280
17,280
17,760
17,760
17,760
18,2:50
18,240
18,240
18.240
March
4,
11, "
18,
1, "
8, "
15, "
00
"e!
13, "
20, "
07
"3, "
10, "
17, "
24, "
1, "
12,X
10,560
10,550
10,800
10,800
10,800
10,800
10,800
11,040
11,040
11,160
11,160
11,400
11,20
11,280
11,400
11,400
11,400
11,520
11,640
12,360
13,800
16,320
16,660
2,
,9'
16,
23,
30,
7,
H,
21,
28,
4.
11,
18,
April
May
June
Decemb'r 2,
16,
23.
July
January
6. 1391, 15.240
8, "
13, " 18,240
20. " 18,240
15
5. "
22, "
5, "
12, "
27, " 18,240
February 3, " 18,240
10, " 18,240
17, " 18,240
AUgUSt,
First 6 months, 307,080
Second 6 months, 458,160
Making a total circulation for the
year of 765,240; averaging for 52 suc
cessive issues, per issue, 14,716, and
showing a net increase for the year of
5,400, or more than 113 per week.
The above statement is taken from
the records kept in the office of The
Progressive Farmer, and U correct to
the best of my knowledge and belief.
J. W. Denmark,
Business Manogerl
I am Book-keeper for Edwards &
Bf oughton, Printers and Binders. Ral
eigh, N. C. The press-work on The
Progressive Farmer has been done
for the past three years by Edwards &
Broughton, and I have kept account of
the same. I have compared the above
statement with the account I have
kept, and find it tallies throughout,
and is correct. T. J, Basiiford.
Personally appeared before me, W.
T. Womble, Notary Public, J. W. Den
mark, Business Manager of The Pro
gressive Farmer, als) T. J. Bashford,
Book-keeper for Edwards & Broughton,
and m ike oath that the statements
contained above are correct to the best
of their knowledge and belief.
In witness where )f , I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed my notarial
seal of office this day, February 2Gth,
1891. W. T. Womble,
Notarial Seal Notary Public.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Six young ministers were turned out
of the Reformed Presbyterian church
recently at Pittsburg, because they in
sisted upon their right to vote in elec
tions as American citizens.
Premier di Rudini has lately been
talking in the Italian Parliament about
dying with "arms in his hands." We
supposed this great man would discard
idle bluster and take to talking com
mon sense after awhile. But he seems
disinclined to undertake such serious
employment.
With great satisfaction we have
learned that the students of our State
University have passed a set of ringing
resolutions against the senseless and
wicked practice of hazing. This action,
we think, is certain to influence the
students in other institutions. Let this
manly example be followed.
It may startle some milk and cider
philanthropists upon the platforms of
to-day to tell them that the English
working man of the fourteenth century
was better paid, better fed, better
clothed, and better housed than his
descendant of to-day. But that such
is the fact is very clearly shown in
Prof. Rogers book, Six Centures of
Work and Wages.
That Miss Garner who married Sir
William Gordon Cumming in the face
of the whole body of English and
American snubs is a plucky piece of
Amrican womanhood. We only pity
her for tying herself to a swell English
gambler. But we admire her woman
ish pluck and devotion in the matter.
She is worthy of a better husband
than she got.
The ex-Treasurer of Philadelphia,
John Bardsley, has been confined in a
cell, as a common felon for stealing
the money of the Quaker City and
using it in his private business. His
punishment is just. But it would seem
that there are some other men in Phila
delphia who ought to be punished for
carelessness if for no graver crime.
How it can be possible for a city official
to steal and convert to his own use
hundreds of thousands of dollars with-
I out being detected does not appear.
ciy the way, Bardsley was mixed up
with the Keystone Bank in his thiev
ing transactions. Would it not be
safer to require the fiscal officers of the
country to keep public money in the
strong boxes of their own offices, than
to allow them to deposit it in banks?
A newspaper man in Pennsylvania
has been put into trouble for lying.
There must be some horrible mistake
about this whole matter. It cannot be
true that any newspaper man has ever
told a lie. If we were a betting man,
we would bet every dollar due us from
delinquent subscribers, that this news
paper man is being persecuted for tell
ing too much truth on somebody.
Eleven hundred and fifty metal
workers in Chicago have gone upon
strike. They oughtto send and get
Mr. McKinley to come to Chicago and
put his double-back-action tariff plan
for bringing in an industrial millenium
into operation for their benefit. Those
Chicago , metal workers must be as
blind as two-day-old pointer puppies
if they cannot see that they are strik
ing against the golden age of industrial
righteousness. Cannot those metal
workers see that every one of their
children born under the new tariff has
a silver spoon protruding from each
corner of its mouth? Fie, fie upon the
blindness of the Chicago metal workers.
The storm of indignant criticism
with which the gambling transactions
of the Prince of Wales have been
greeted shows that the spirit which
used to crouch before, and fawn upon,
royal sinners has wellnigh died out in
England. The people seem to see
plainly that a Prince who travels
about the country with his breeches
pockets full of gambler's chips and
counters is not the man to rule over a
free and enlightened Christian people.
We think it was scandulous in the
Lord Chief Justice to retire from the
court room and dine with the Prince
of Wales, when his Lordship knew
that the Prince was in court as the
special champion of the Wilsons.
A word of caution to the State Alli
ances, whvh are to meet in annual
session in the near future : During the
next Alliance year we will doubtless
be confronted wTith stupendous prob
lems. Men of our order, and especially
our officials, will be tested in every
way. We know that efforts will be
made to buy and bribe them that
their patriotism, their devotion and
constancy to principle, their moral
manhood, will be tested as never before.
It is all important that men be chosen
to lead during the next year who are
sound and solid to the core, who can
withstand all manner of temptation,
who wrill prove pure metal in the fur
nace, and who are absolutely un
purchasable. Take no man for a leader
who has the office-itch. The State Presi
dents for the next year and the dele
gates to the Supreme Council are the
most important positions to the Alli
ance people that are to be filled for a
year (if not years) to come. The
brotherhood should keep their eyes
wide open and see that none is selected
to these positions but the "tried and
true."
Buffalo Litiiia Springs, Va.,
June 15, 1891.
Mr. Editor: Enclosed you will
find three dollars, for subscrip
tion as per list enclosed. I am very
much oblige for your leniency to me.
Think I have got ten dollars' worth
of Alliance education out of The Pro
gressive Farmer, and given away ten
more. Every Alliance in every State
ought to send at least ten dollars for
The Progressive Farmer out of its
treasury and distribute them to those
members who do not read. I find in
our Alliance those who read Alliance
papers are those who attend our meet
ings regularly and are always ready to
join hands in whatever the Alliance
attempts to do. Our Alliance numbers
somewhere near one hundred ; some are
Alliancemen to the core, and some
hardly through the peeling. As a body
we are a unit ; we see the star rising
and are in fine spirits. May you con
tiuue to shine, and Sandy Fork Alli
ance, No. 99, will continue to walk in
the light, and in November, 1S92, the
Alliance platform will be unveiled at
Washington and planted upon the
highest monument that has ever been
seen in the United States, and the
laborers will shout Glory! Glory!
Yours truly,
J. H. Chandler.
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Have you asked anybody to sub
scribe for The Progressive Farmer.
If not why not? And will you not now?
ADDRESS OF WELCOME TO THE
HERTFORD CO. ALLIANCE,
BY S.. R. BROWN.
Brother President, Delegates and
Friends: It gives me much pleasure
to extend to you the cordial greeting
of Menola Alliance, and to open to you
as long as you see fit to remain with
us, not only the hospitality of our
homes, as guests and friends, but to '
assure you of a genuine heart welcome
as co-workers with us in encouraging
the toiling masses against all monopo
lies which "teed to enslave a free peo
ple and subvert and finally overthrow
the great principles purchased by the
fathers of American liberty."
As I look over this body of represen
tative men and women, from all over
the county and remember the cause
for which we have assembled the
cause which is to stem the tide of in
creasing wrong ; the cause which binds
us together with the sympathies that
make all men, of all kindreds, free and
equal in the sight of one common
Father. Fully believing, as I do, that
we have the guidance of Him of whom
we have asked strength and direction
m our work, I trust that we have
awakened to know that "they who
would be free themselves must strike
the blow." That we fully realize the
importance of doing to-day's duties and
fighting to-day's battles, leaving future
results to Him who never errs. And
as the wind sweeps over the golden
grain, which is awaiting the harvest,
and moves its countless stalks in unison,
so may we stand ready to move in
unison with everything which tends to
uplift the laboring masses.
We recognize in you, our County
President, a leader whose love is around
every Alliance , home in the county.
We commend you for your discretion
and steadfast faith and for your un
failing efforts to inspire us with more
zeal and to encourage us to do more
efficient work than we have hitherto
done. We believe that with vour
guidance we can steer our bark safely
across the rocky shoals and finally
enter the harbor, bringing with us a
goodly number of stalwart laborers, of
whom old Hertfort may be justly proud.
We gladly welcome you as our leader
this year in our County Alliance work.
To you, our District Lecturer, we ex
tend a hearty welcome. We deem it
an especial favor to have you with us
at this time, and although you have
often met with us in the capacity of
County Lecturer, we feel highly hon
ored by having one of our Hertford
County Alliance brothers fill the hon
orable position of District Lecturer.
May you be favored in performing the
arduous task before you, and may you
return with the assurance of having
strengthened the cause so dear to our
hearts. I believe that I do nothing
more than utter the sentiment of Hert
ford County Alliance when I say, may
Heaven's richest blessings attend you.
To the Delegates of this Alliance we
also extend a welcome and recognize
in you co-laborers in a work which has
for its aim the utter extermination of
all combines, rings, trusts and monopo
lies, (none of which, we are proud to
say, exists in or around Menola,) while
we further aim to bring the home into
the highest state of perfection. To
build up every good work, to educate
not only our little ones, but to educate
all for pure, peaceful lives, free from
financial embarrassments, strong to
do and to dare and to make the best of
our God-given talents.
Words would fail me to express to
you, my Alliance sisters, my apprecia
tion of woman's opportunity of being
co-workers with the brethren in the
movement which is stirring this great
nation. Oh. what womanly women
we ought to be, for we find, on every
hand, new fields of usefulness opening
up before us. Our brothers have found
none more sympathetic than we, who
were made helpmeets for man, to aid
them in their work for God and
humanity. They are giving us grand
opportunities to show them, as Frances
E. Willard says that, " Drudgery,
fashion and gossip are no longer the
bounds of woman's sphere. She realizes
that she is neither a worm to crawl at
man's feet nor a butterfly to soar above
his head, but a companion, a helpmeet
to constantly watch at his side."
I presume none of our brethren ap
preciate this more than our honored
County President, who, I learn, lias
recently taken to himself one of Union's
fair daughters as a helpmeet. I trust
that the President and Vice-President
of Menola Alliance, together with other
of her single brethren, may profit by
his worthy example and go and do
likewise. '
Some one not an Allianceman has
said, " This very Alliance movement is
worth more to the people than all other
schools in the land. It is a school the
highest school of right, truth and
charity." If this be true, let us con
tinue the work with renewed energy,
pledging anew allegiance to our prin
ciples and grow strong in justice, truth
and right. Welcome, thrice welcome,
to Menola Alliance !
Mr. Editor : Our Alliance people do
not agree with you on the salary ques
tion. We do not believe any man can,
or ever did, earn even $10,000 per year,
unless he did it by some great discov
ery or invention by which mankind
has been benefited.
The men you speak of as getting
$50,000 to $75,000 per year, and saving
so much to their companies, save it by
refusing to pay the widows and orphans
of their policy holders on flimsy pre
tenses, and get compromises, or beat
them entirely.
tlow can a man earn $10,000 per year
when the hard-working farm laborer
cannot get $150 a year? At this rate
it would take the labor of 67 men to
pay the salary of one man at $10,000.
president Harrison gets $50, 000 salary
and $110,000 in allowances to keep up
appearances in the White House. This
is aping the royalty of Europe, and is
entirely out of place in our Republic.
The President of the Swiss Republic
gels $1,000 per year, and is always
competent for the position.
Thirty years ago our President re
ceived $25, 000, and Congressmen $3,000.
Now they receive twice as much. This
enormous salary business is one of the
git at evils of our times.
We have over 3,300 National banks,
wlJich at the moderate average of
salaries of $15,000 per year, makes
$49,500,000. The salaries of the insur
ance companies will amount to $10,
000,000 or $15,000,000 more. The rail
road, express and telegraph companies,
all of which could be dispensed with
under government ownership as they
should be, will amount to at "least $200,
000, GOO. There are six men in the sugar
trifct thit get $100,000 each. The
scSLdard oil trust and officials of other
trusts all get enormous salaries that
they do not nor cannot earn.
Twenty years ago a New Yorker
said to me: "I desire to marry, but
cannot because it takes $20,000 per
year to support a wife in my circle."
He was making, he said, $15,000 per
year, and claimed it was not wrong to
keep a mistress.
All salaries, all expenses of every
character, comes out of the men who
till the land and work in mine and
factory. The only source of produc
tion is in labor, and when labor cannot
pay the debt, it is funded into bonds
and mortgages, and labor pays interest
on them. At the close of our war the
people were out of debt, and no mort
gages. Labor has not produced enough
to pay the debts contracted at the
prices paid for it, and to-day the debts
of the people amount to over $10,000,
000,000 and of thievish corporations
over $14,000,000,000, an amount that
our labor never can pay save by taking
the transportation property at what
they can be built for.
It is useless to hide the truth. The
only way to pay the enormous interest
on this vast indebtedness is from the
surplus products of the farm, mine and
shdp, and after the support of the in
dividual and family is provided for,
there is not enough left to pay even
the interest, hence indebtedness in
creases every year, and the constant
contraction of the currency causes the
steady fall of labor and its products.
Our Cleveland talks about "public
extravagance; yet he gave $10,000 to
the Democratic campaign fund and
now receives $35,000 per year from the
Erie Railroad, and has $50,000 invested
in the New York Beer Trust. It was
Blaine who said that ' 4 trusts are largely
private affairs."
Men, by their masterly action, may
save their country in times of battle
and peril and confer benefits that can
not be measured in money. So with
the inventor and discoverer, but when
it comes to salaries, private or public,
no man has ever earned, nor can he
earn $10,000 per year, while -a farm
laborer cannot make over $150. There
is entirely too much difference in what
is called brains and brawn. ;
High salaries are one of the causes
of the poverty of the people. They
are paid out of the products of their
labor.
The Third Party suits the Alliance
here to a man. We don't want Hill,
nor Cleveland, nor Gray, nor Pattison,
nor Campbell, nor Morrison, nor any
body else, of that kind. We want a
full-blooded, all-wool and a yard wide
Allianceman. We have thrown turf
long enough. We have stones "now,
and we intend to do all we can to stone
the thieves out of our orchards.
The Order is on a boom here, both
white and colored, and they are in for
the war. Not only for next election,
but for all the elections after that.
The certain way to get our demands is
to put none but Alliancemen on guard.
We do not proscribe those who are not
members, but they must be supporters
of the Alliance demands without any
ifs.
Nineteen out of twenty of us have
been so-called Democrats, but we have
no hope from a party that has so large
a majority of its leaders opposing us.
We are confident that the Republican
party is virtually dead, and that next
election will bury it beyond resurrec
tion. That the contest is between the
People's Party and the so-called Demo
cratic party, with Democracy left out,
in fact we regard the People's Party
as a real Democratic party, and one
through which God will help the
people. Yours fraternally,
R. B. Carl Lee.
England, Ark.
Oscaloosa, Iowa, June 14, '91.
Mr. Editor : Seven thousand miners
are out in this State for the eight hour
work-day. It is reported here that two
operators-have gone to your State and
Virginia for colored men to work in
the mines here. If the colored men of
the South could see through the miser
able homes of the colored miners here,
not one of them would come to such
slave-pens as we have here.
A Miner.
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION.
In order to execute the portion of the
seventh declaration of principles of the
North Carolina Farmers' Alliance in
relation to widows and orphans, the
undersigned, S. D. Burgin, Wm. H.
Hoover, L. D. Haynes, J. W. A. Paine,
N, S. Bass, M. Seagle, David Cherry,
W. A. Graham and G. W. Blanton, o
Lincoln county, North Carolina, and
their isoejtes pml successors, do
hereby associate themselves together
for the purpose of conducting a Life
Assurance business under the name
and style of The Lincoln County Farm
ers' Alliance Mutual Benefit Life As
surance Association, with principal
place of business at Lincolnton, North
Carolina.
It shall have existence for twenty
five years and own property not to ex
ceed five thousand dollars.
3. The business of this association
shall be confined to its members. No
one except members of a Sub-Alliance
in Lincoln county, in good standing,
shall be a member of this Association.
Any member of the Association who
shall cease to be a member of a Sub
Alliance in Lincoln county shall there
by sever his connection with the Asso
ciation and forfeit all rights and ben
efits of membership.
4. This Association shall have power
to adopt rules and regulations for its
government and the conduct of its busi
ness and may change the same at any
regular meeting by a vote of two
thirds of its members.
5. It shall have power to provide for
the election of such officers as it deems
necessary to transact its business, pre
scribe their duty, length of term and
compensation.
6. Tne property of the Association
shall not be liable for the debts of the
members, nor shall the property of the
members be liable for the debts of the
Association, except dues, as may be
provided in the regulations adopted
for its government. '
7. The monies paid to the represen
tatives of deceased members shall not
be liable for the debts of the deceased
member nor for the debts of the persons
receiving said monies, contracted be
fore its reception.
Notice shall be given at a meeting
of the County Alliance at least three
months before the annual meeting of
any proposed changes in the articles of
association or regulations.
regulations.
The Lincoln County Farmers' Alli
ance Mutual Benefit Life Assurance
Association adopts the following rules
and regulations:
Signed this tenth day of April, 1891.
1. Any member of a Sub-Alliance in
Loncoln county, in good standing, may
become a member by subscribing to
the articles of association and paying
an initiation fee of twenty-five cents.
2. The Association shall cause a paper
setting forth the objects of tho Associ
ation to be furnished to the Secretary
of each Sub-Alliance in Lincoln county,
and all the members who subscribe
thereto shall be considered as members
of the Association on the payment of
an initiation fee of twenty -five cents.
3. The members of the Association
in each Sub-Alliance shall annually,
at the meeting of their Alliance m
June, when delegates are elected to the
July meeting of the County Alliance,
eieci Dy a majority vote one of their
members as Director of the Associa
tion, who shall hold office twelve
months or until their successors are
elected and qualified. The first election
to be in June, 1891.
4. Directors in meetings of the Asso
ciation shall be entitled to cast as many
votes as there are members of the As
sociation in his Alliance.
5. The Directors shall keep a list of
the members of the Association in his
Alliance, stating age of each, and in
case there be no wife or child then the
assign to whom money is to be paid
in case of death, such assign to be a
member cf the Alliance, and shall
furnish 'the Secretary -Treasurer of the
Association a copy of the same and in
form him of all changes by additions
or diminutions.
6. The Directors shall meet annually
on the first day of the July meeting of
the County Alliance ; the first meeting
to be in July, 1891. They shall elect
from their number a President, Vice
President and Secretary-Treasurer;
a so an Executive Committee of three.
Said officers shall be entitled to vote
on all questions as Directors and not
as officers, except the President in case
of a tie, who shall be entitled to cast
the deciding vote in addition to his
vote already cast as Director.
7. The Secretary-Treasurer shall keep
a record of the proceedings of the Asso
ciation, also a list of the members of
the Association arranged by the Alli
ance, stating opposite eacn name the
age of the member and time and cause
of ceasing to be a member ; also a list
of the deceased members in the order
of occurrence of their death and the
amount of money paid their represen
tatives, date of such payment, and the
Alliance to which deceased belonged.
These lists to be kept in books furnished
by the Association. He shall report to
each meeting the condition of the Asso
ciation. The Executive Committee
shall examine the books and verify the
accounts of the Secretary-Treasurer,
and report to each meeting of the Asso
ciation. 8. The dues of the Association shall
be fifty cents for each member under
thirty years of age ; seventy-five cents
for each member over thirty and under
fifty years, and one dollar for each
member over fifty years of age, as pro
vided in these regulations, on notice of
the death of a member of the Associa
tion. 9. Upon the death of a member of the
Association, the Director of the Alli
ance of which the deceased was a mem
ber shall notify the Secretary-Treasurer
of the Association, stating the date of
death, and the Secretary-Treasurer
shall notify the Director of each Alli
ance of the death and call upon them
to collect dues and forward to him.
10. Upon reception of the notice the
Director shall collect the dues from
members of the Association belonging
to his Alliance and forward to the Secretary-Treasurer
at the ndxt meeting
of the County Alliance.
11. Dues shall not be collected oftener
than once in any one quarter, and
when there are more than one death in
a quarter, the Secretary-Treasurer shall ,
call for one payment of dues each
quarter until dues for all deceased
members shall be paid in order of the
occurrence of their deaths.
12. Upon the reception of the dues
the Secretary-Treasurer shall pay to
the widow of the deceased for her bene
fit and that of the minor children of
the deceased the amount received less
five per cent, which he shall retain as
compensation for his services. If there
be no widow the money shall bo paid
to the guardian of the minor children.
If there be no widow or children then
payment shall be made to person men
tioned as assignee or their heirs. No
greater amount than three hundred
dollars shall be paid to the representa
tives of any member of the Associa
tion. 13. If the amount of dues received
under any one call be more than three
hundred dollars, the Secretary-Treasurer
shaH pay such excess into tho
treasury of the Association and shall
apply it to the next call for dues, mak
ing such deduction in his call for dues
as said amount liquidates.
14. If dues are not paid by members
when called for before the next meet
ing of the County Alliance, the Direc
tor shall forward with the dues paid
the names of all members who have
failed to pay, and he and the Secretary
Treasurer shall erase the names of
such persons from the rolls of the mem
bers of the Association. A person so
dropped shall not be again enrolled as
a member except upon the payment of
all dues which shall have been col
lected since their names were erased,
including the one for non-payment of
which their names were erased.
15. The Secretary-Treasurer shall
give bond to the Executivo Committee
in such sum as they deem sufficient for
the faithful performance of his duties
and accounting for money of the Asso
ciation. Everybody is cordially invited to
come and bring your basket to a picnic
at Oakwood, near Wm. Ballentine's,
Middle creek township, most especially
the Farmers' Alliance. Thcro will bo
speeches by Dr. J. M. Templeton and
Mr. Jno. Millard, on Friday, the 10th
of July.
Ask your neighbor to send us $1,00
and get the groupe picture and Tim
1'iiogrf.ssivk Farmer one vcar.