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THE INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF OUR TEOPLE PARAMOUNT TO ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS OF STATE POLICY.
RALEIGH, N. C, AUGUST 4, 1891.
Vol. 6.
No. 24
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I JllUUXUL!JUk3I V Hi
THE NATIONAL FARMERS' AL-.
ANCE AND INDUSTRIAL
UNION.
President L. L. Polk, North Caro
lina. Address. 314 1. St., IN. W.,
Washington, D. C.
Vice President B. H- Clover, Cam
bridge, Kansas.
Secretarv-Treasurer-J. II. Turner,
Georgia. Address, 230 North Capitol
St N W., Washington, D. C.
Lecturer J. II. Willetts, Kansas.
EXECUTIVE BOARD.
C V. Mncune. Washington, I). C.
Alonzo Wardali, Huron, South Da
kota. J. F. Tillman, Palmetto, Tennessee.
JUDICIARY.
II. C. Demming, Chairman.
Isaac McCracken, Ozone. Ark.
A. E. Cole, Fowlerville, Mich.
NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
The Presidents of all the State organ
isations with L. Li. Polk E.v-ojjicio
Chairman.
N -RTH CAROLINA FARMERS STATE ALLI
ANCE. President Elias Carr. Old Sparta,
N. C.
Vice-President A. II. Hayes, Bird
town, N. P.
Secretary W. S. Barnes, Raleigh,
N C
A Treasurer J. D. Allen. Falls, N. C.
Lecturer Thos. B. Long, Asheville,
N. C.
Assistant Lecturer R. B. Hunter,
Hunters ville, N. C.
Chaplain S. J. Teach. Warsaw,
N. C.
Door-Keeper W. H. .Tomlinscn,
Fayetteville. N. C.
Assistant Door-Ketper H. E. King.
Peanut. N. C.
Serg.-nnt-at-Arms J. S. Holt, Chalk
Level. N. C.
State Buiinvs Asrent- - W. II. Worth,
Raleigh. N. C.
Trustee Business Agtncy Fund -Yv .
A. Graham. Maehpelah. N. C.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE NORTH
CAROLINA FARMERS' STATE ALLIANCE.
S. B. Alexander, Charlotte, N. C,
hairmau: a.
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Mewlorne. Kinston.
N. C. : J- S. Johnston. Rutlin, N. C.
STATE ALLIANCE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE.
R. J. Powell, Raleigh. N. C. ; N. C.
English, Trinity College: J. J. Young,
Polenta; II. A.'Forney, Newton, N. C.
A MOUNT AN TOUR.
Bro. Wright Tells of His Reception in the
"Land of the Sky" The Status
of the Order in That Section.
Straav, N. C.
Mr. Editor -. I have just returned
from a long lecturing tour in the coun
ties of Alleghany, Ashe, Watauga and
part of Wilkes. Thinking that a few
lines concerning the Avork in this part
of the State Avould perhaps interest
your many readers, I will give you a j
brief sketch of my labors in the above
mentioned territory. I tilled an ap- j
pointment at Trap Hill, Wilkes conn- j
ty, June Oth, and a; the close of the j
public adddress I organized
a good
Alliance of some splendid material
with Dr. Tyre York as president. I
spent the night at the home of that
hospitable gentleman, Bro. J. S, Kilby,
avIio by the Avay, is a Avhole souled
Allianceman. Next day I crossed the
Blue Ridge and entered the "Land of
the Sky.'' I spoke at Sparta that
night and next day at Whitehead,
Avhere I found an enthusiastic brother
in the person of the Rev. Mr. Cheek.
Next day I A-isited the Alliance at
Turkev Knob, and Avas Avell entertained
at the home of Bro Parsons. On the
day following I addressed a large and
enthusiastic audience at King's Creek,
there Avere according to the best esti
mate 500 or COO people present. The
day after Avas Sunday Avhich I spent
at Bro. J. D. Steergill, accompanying
him and his estimable family to Sunday-school,
Avhere they had me to make
an address on Sunday-schools. Bro.
Steergill is one of the most zealous
Alliancemen I had the pleasure of
meeting while on rnv trio: oh! that we
had more like him to help on the grand i
cause. On Monday I spoke at New j
Hope and there met Bro. Long, the j
delegate from Alleghany county to the j
J x
btate Alliance at Asheville last year, !
Avno iooic me to jus ins home where I
enjoyed myself with his amiable family
for some time. At Laurel Springs I
addressed a large and attentiA-e audi
ence in the academy, after the exem
plification of the secret Avork I Avent
horn.- with Bro. Dougl.ton, the father
or tii , Speaker of the late House of
Representatives, and found in him a :
loyal Alliance man. The next day I ' witu tuy request that it adopt the
visited the territory of Ashe and ad- j S Mks- S- K- Buow. See'y.
dressed, a good Audience at Chestnut i , Iiortford County Alliance, in session
Hill, meeting with several true aiul f U1.le l0th' adoPted the foregoing reso
tried Alliancemen. At Silos Creek I j )ufclo,9 aiul ordered they be sent to
met Bro. Win held Jones who took me j TlIE Faij:,ier for publication,
home Avith him where I spent a pleas ! Gko. A. Broavn, Sec'y
ant night. ! County Alliance.
At Windfall I addressed a well j Mrs. JelTersoitvls" selected
beloved and enthusiastic assembly of j Richmond, Va., as permanent rest
earnest and devoted people, those who ing place for the remains of her
know their rights and knowing dare j husband.
maintain them. At Jefferson I spoke
to a large audience in the court house.
Sunday night I spent with that sterling
Allianceman Brs. G. H. Phillips who
accompanied me to my next appoint
ment. Mt. Pleasant, where I found
some earnest workers for the cause
and had the pleasure of meeting Bro.
T. J. Houck wdio had been making a
tour of his county, visiting the differ
ent Sub-Alliances., The next appoint
ment I filled was at Deep Gap in
Watauga county, where loving hands
had tastefully arranged beautiful
boquets of flowers on the speakers
stand and in the rear of it lovely
flowers equalled only by the hands
that had arranged them. When Ave
can enlist the ladies in our cause as
Ave are doing all over this land Ave need
not fear the result. I spent the night
Avith Bro. Luther, and it is needless to
say 1 enjoyed the occasion, l was
taken next day to Elk Knob by Bro.
Moretz. On the next day I held forth
in the town of Boone, the county sent
of Watauga county. It being court
Aveek. a special term, I spoke at recess
to a good sized audience. I spent the
night Avith Bro. W. W. Pressnell and
old oequaintance. where I Avas well
entertained. Bro. Pressnell has a
model family he brings them into the
Alliance fold as soon as they get old
enough. He accompanied me next
day to North Fork where I found some
good Alliancemen. Next day I ad
dressed a large and attentive audience
at Phillips school house. I then turned
my face homeward stopping Avith Bro.
J. C. Land, one of our most Avide aAvake
and enterprising citizens anda true
blue Allianceman. So ends my lecturing
in the "Land of the Sky." I am glad
to be able to state that the Order is
looking up over there. EveryAvhere I
Avent I found earnest men and Avomen
advocating the cause. The motto of
j the Fanners' Alliance and Industrial
I Union of that section is "Onward and
Upward."' May the good Avork go on
I until all shall be brought into the fold
i and there shall not be one tiller of the
soil left to advocate the cause of the
: putocrat. C. C. Wright,
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t. Lec. 8th Cong. Dist.
FROM CLEMENT.
Mr. Editor: On taking up The
Pro iftrssivE Farmer of July 11th
almost the lirst thing that greeted my
eye was ''Here Ave are, L. L. Polk,
J. L. Ramsey." I could not refrain
from bowing mvself and saving good
morning Bro. Ramsey, happy to meet
you, and I wish now to congratulate
the proprietor and the many readers
Gf The Progressive Farmer on having
secured the services of Brother Ramsey
as associate editor of the paper. With
such men as Polk and Ramsey in the
lead the Alliance of North Carolina is
safe, and Avill ever be found marching
in the front rank of the great reform
movement, notwithstanding the com
bined forces of the enemy are being
marshaled against the Alliance as
never before, our leaders are watching
them, and if the rank and file Avill
follow Avhere they lead all Avill be Avell.
I am trying to secure subscribers to
Tin: Progressive Farmer and hope
to be able to send you a list soon.
With best Avishes for the success of the
Alliance and its organ, The Progres
sive Farmer,
Fraternally,
S. R. Page, Sec'y No. 831.
Menola Farmers' Alliance No. 01)4,
June 1S801.
Whereas, The demands and prin
ciples o our organizations arc such as
place us above the aims and purposes
of time-serving politicians; and av here
as, we Avould show great Aveakness and
stupidity ourselves by promoting to
positions of trust and importance the
mere partisan politician and not the
capable patriot; herefore be it
Iieol ced, That it is the sense and
solid judgment of this Alliance, and
Ave trust the Hertford County Alliance
Avill adopt the same as its "solid con
viction, viz: That Ave believe no true
Allianceman can consistently vote for
any man for office or any Legislature,
State or National ticket, who is not
thoroughly and publicly committed to
the demands of the Ocala Council.
Ju -solved further, That this matter
bo referred to the next countv meetin
THE REFORM MOVEMENT
As Seen by a Young Man Just Out of
College.
Mr. Editor: Men are reading and
thinking for themselves. Since com
ing home from college I have had the
great pleasure and advantage of read
ing your bold and outspoken paper,
and, though quite a young man, after
having my whole nature aroused and
excited by reading the bravely-expressed
opinions of the farmers of
North Carolina, I cannot refrain from
asking a small space in The Progres
sive Farmer in which to pour out my
self in advocacy of the grand "farm
ers1 movement. " The oppression
of
the laboring class, caused by these hell
born monopolists and trusts and syn
dicates, Wall street, money kings and
all that hideous gang who hold the
reins of government in their hands, is
something to cause an ill-taxed and
suifering people to cry out for justice
and the right. Tiio producing class
have not been tamed into submission
by an administration of equal rights to
all and special privileges to none as
they should have been, but baited and
aggravated into savageness and stub
bornness. They have a right to be as
stubborn as a bull. The ox that has
been making the mighty dollar jingle
in the pockets of the tyrannical few
has assumed the speed of electricity
and the poAver of steam and Avith the
horns of justice and right, railroad
kings, trusts and fill that crowd of tax
eaters had better throw down the
blood-red flag and hoist the snow-white
banner. These politicians (?) that vul
gar herd of men avIio, far from being
qualitied to be the directors of the
great movcniwits of a great people, are
not fit to turn a wheel in the machine,
may ask, why all tliis hue and cry
about nothing! They are badly gone
into darkness and have strayed far oil
from justice, if such be their paer .
"The little cavils of party are not
heard where freedom and happiness
are felt." When liberty ami freedom
j and happiness are enjoyed, Avhen Ju. -
tiee is enthroned to Avieid her sceptre
over city and country, over North and
i South, over East and West, hill and
dale, broh'c r and bnnn. rich and poor,
over this entire God blest land of ours
then and not till then will all this jai
gan of influence and party and oppres
sion be swept into the recesses of deep
oblivion. Our political bosses Avould
do Avell to "get their houses in order."
Their house yet stands, it stands as a
mockery of its former grandeur ; but
let me say that" it stands in the midst
of the ruins that have been made by
dishonesty, fraud and non-discharging
of the duties of office. We are upon
the very brink of some great mutations
in political and economical circles.
But there is one thing that Avill stand
the mutations of time. Justice existed
before the fabric of this old earth Avas
avovcii together. It has come down
centuries Avielding indisputable sway ;
it Avill outlive time itself. God has
given it to us for a lamp unto our feet
and Avith the breath of the Divine ever
fanning it into a living flame, it lives in
the breast of every true man. When
this old Avorld shall be burned to ashes
then Avill this queen, Justice, meet us
at the great white throne to stand as
our advocate or as our accursor. But
I am Avandering somewhat. xVnother
question that forces itself upon us is
the extravagance of our government.
Can Ave, as American citizens, look on
as disinterested spectators and see our
money Avrung from the hands of those
avIio make it and need it worst ? As
long as Rome, the proud mistress of the
Avorld, respected her women, Avor
shipped her goddess of honesty, sacri
ficed to the goddess of Justice, paid
due attention to economy both political
and social, and kept her temples of law
sacred, her history Avas a record of
progress and advancement. But as
soon as she became extra agant and
began to oppress the poor laboring
peasants by a too heavy tax to support
her greedy, fashionable laAv-makers,
her time-honored institutions crumbled
and fell. Such has been the history of
nations; such Avill bo the history of
America unless men of undaunted
courage backed by a people of noble
and braAe intents put their shoaluers
to the Avheels of the reform cart av hose
shafts are kept from running into the
ground by the eternal principles of jus
tice, truth and right, and push her into
the city Avhere success waits to croAvn
them. Can Ave afford to allow Ameri
can labor to be the most heavily-taxed
in the Avorld? This Avay of defraying
the funeral expenses of one man uho
has been to the Senate and Avho owns
millions don't tickle the fancy of a
poor farmer.
Where is the good that accrues from
this extravagant building of public
houses? Would our people not reap a
greater and more lasting good from
school buildings erected by the gOA-ern-ment
add mar ned by competent teach
ers? We talk about being the greatest
nation under the blue vault of heaven,
Avhen our lower- and middle classes
know nothing comparatively of Avhat
the world has done and is doing. This
middle class, the bone and sinew, the
mud-sills of society, should be educated
and taught the elements which consti
tute a free and independent people.
Financial reform and education of the
masses should be the slogan of the
laboring class. As intelligence increases
among the laboring class, the Avealth
of our land measures higher. The
mental power of any laborer is of
peculiar importance to his pro
ductive capacity. Mental training
elevates the moral man. The physical,
mental and moral qualities of the
laborer are Avhat make him produc
tive. Like the plebeian of Rome tri
umphed OAer the patrician, no will
the laborer of our country fight the
battle and win the victory over the
money tyrant.
May the infant, reform, born of a
noble and bi'ave race, grow and gain
strength till, like the angel of death, it
shall sweep down on the dens of
fraud and Avith the brush of its wings
fan trusts, bribers and such like out of
, existence ! Fed with the richest brain
of our day, may he grow to the power
of a giant and then with his iron fists
knock our oppressors into places from
whence their growls can neAer more
be heard, and where their iioav mighty
arms will be folded in humble submis
sion. Ums Multorux.
,
LETTER FROM BRO. WIMBERLY.
At the request of my friends I con
sent to let the public know how I feel
on public matters. I served four vears
as a soldier under R. E. Lee, and I j
have served four yeirs with L. L. Polk j
in the Alliance. I was in the County
Alliance when L. L. Polk Avas received
as a member, and I have been proud of j
that day's work. It was the grandest
days Avord I ever helped to do. He has
u -ae more to bring about peac love
and union and bury the bloody-shirt
and wipe out the Mason and Dixon line
than all the representatives that have
been sent to the White House since the
Avar. "Blessed are the peace makers,
for they shall be called the children of
God." He is holding the grandest
position that can be held by man the
leader of the oppressed of the nation.
But our enemies haAe never stopped
to think that Ave put L. L. Polk there.
Out of the great political upheaval
which is beginning to agitate the
country it is expected Avill come those
measures which are suited to the peo
ple's needs and those which Avill ad
vance the interests of the wealth
producers of the nation. The two old
parties have fought so long over
worthless measures that iioav when
they see that the people are beginning
to think and willing to accept only
those which are for their safety, they
are doing all in their power to belittle
the great questions of the day in order
to pull through another election. The
people will not be deceived. The ex
perience of the past tAventy years tells
them that their former leaders are not
their friends. They haATe not realized
a single thing which Avas pictured to
them from the stump. These leaders
have not only lied to the people, but
they have belieA'ed and still believe
that the people have not enough sense
to know when they are deceived.
Fraternally,
Mark Wimberly.
REMEDY FOR CABBAGE WORMS.
Raleigh, N. C, July 22, '01.
The Agricultural Department Ento
mologist publishes the following remedy
for cabbage worms:
''Two quarts of coal tar and put into
an open vessel, which is set in the bot
torn of a barrel, and the barrel is filled
with Avater. In forty-eight hours the
water is impregnated with the tar,
although the tar is not dissolved in it.
The water is then sprinkled abundant
ly on the cabbages, and the odor pene
trates every portion of the head, kill
ing or driving away the worms. As
the water evaporates no stain or odor
remains on the cabbage. The same
quantity of coal tar can be made to im
pregnate several barrels of water.'1
This is Avell worth trying and I hope
you Avill print it for the benefit of
North Carolina farmers.
Yours respectfulhr,
W. F."Massey,
Horticulturist N. C. Station.
OUR PROGRESS.
Weekly Record of Manufacturing and
Other Enterprises Started Rip Van
Winkle no Longer in the Old
North State.
Manufacturers' Record.
Salem W. B. Ellis is repoi ted as to
erect a leaf an I plug tobacco factory.
Kinston A. McL. Cameron has re
built his saw mill, recently reported as
burned.
Winston The Lucille Tobacco
Works is reported as to erect a neAv
tobacco factory,
Plyler The Plyler Milling Company
Avill probably erect flour mill, as re
ported recently.
Buckhorn Stone quarries are re
ported as being developed on the
property of T. II. Booth.
Winston The Superior Bed Spring
Company of New York, is reported as
to erect in North a bed spring factory.
Charlotte The Charlotte Sash, Door
& Blind Manufacturing Company has
amended its charter, increasing capital
stock.
New Berne A. M. Baker will manu
facture mattresses in connection with
his furniture factorv, as stated in our
last issue.
Chimney Rock A Northern party
is reported as having purchased the
C. W. Logan tract; of S00 acres of land
near Chimney Rock for. $35, 000.
Graham The Graham Cotton Mills,
lately reported as organized for the
purpose of starting a cotton mill, etc. ,
has been incorporated with a capital
stock of $."50,000.
Tarboro E. V. Murphy has, with
W. E. Fountain, T. II. Gatiin, George
Howard, jr., and others, succeeded in
organizing the stock company lately
mentioned to erect a peanut cleaning
mill.
Asheboro The stock company re
cently reported as organized Avith J.
M. Worth as president to erect a roller
process flour mill, Is known as the
Asheboro Roller Mill Co., and has
mill about completed.
Scotland Neck The organization of
the land improvement and manufac
turing company recently mentioned is
now under consideration. A. Mc
Dowell can given information if any
thing definite transpires.
Durham B. N. Duke, W. W. Fuller,
T. J. Walker, J. B. Warren and others
have incorporated the Carteret Lodge
to erect cotton gins, mills, deal in real
estate, ecc, in Carteret county. The
authorized capital stock is 100,000.
High Point The Piedmont Broom
Works and the High Point Canning
Company, both mentioned in our last
issue, have consolidated as the High
Point Broom cSc Canning Company;
W. A. Blair is president, .and E. E
Beeson, secretary.
NeAv Berne The NeAv Berne Im
proved Cotton Company, reported last
Issue as incorporated, etc., has organ
ized with Thomas Daniels, president ;
II. E. Wynne, vice-president, and
W. P. Burrus, secretary. Site for the
ginnery has been secured and work
of erection Avill soon commence.
Raleigh The Capital City Land
Company has been organized with
A. S. Nichols, of Michigan City, Ind.,
president; J. A. Porter, of Asheville,
vice president, and J. M. Broughton,
secretary. This company has pur
chased and will improve the Briggs &
Womble property in North Raleigh.
The capital stock is 130,000.
LETTER FROM MECKLENBURG.
Mr. Editor: Enclosed you wTill find
four subscriptions for your valuable
paper. The Progressive Farmer is
the paper for the people, and we are
beginning to find it out. Wherever it
is read we find strong and enthusiastic
Alliancemen ; so go on Avith your good
Avork and educate the masses. We
have a paper in our county which
claims to be an Alliance paper, Avhich
gives us a great deal of advice, but the
burden of its advice is to do nothing
which will cripple the grand old Demo
cratic party. Wo have been a close
reader of this so called Alliance organ
of Mecklenburg County Alliance and
we find it silent, so far as the editorial
is concerned, on the most important
demands of the Alliance the Sub
Treasury, etc. ; but Ave find tnis good
Alliance paper copying and placing in
prominence every article opposing our
demands, especially if they come from
prominent Alliancemen, such as U. S.
Hall, of Missouri, and Gov. Tilman, of
South Carolina. I just want to say
this, that when a paper is started and
supported by Alliancemen, they have a
right to expect their paper to labor for
their interest.
I claim that the Sub-Treasury bill is
of more importance to the farmers and
the laboring masses than any measure
that has been before the people for
years. It will keep the Wall street
speculators, in a great measure, from
manipulating and controling our pro
duce, as by it the governmen1: Avill
come in and protect the weak against
the strong. As it iioav is the govern
ment protects the strong against the
weak. Brethren, let us stand by our
colors; let us make a strong pull alto
gether and not be divided or misled
by a partisan press. Let us support
such papers as come out strong and
fearlessly and advocate our principles
and demands, and the victory Avill be
ours in 1S02.
Our Alliance, No. 283, k.id r-. gxd
meeting last Saturday.
Our cotton prospect is gloomy full
two Aveeks behind upland corn good
lowland drowned out wheat poor,
oats moderately good. God bless the
reform press all oatci our land. More
anon.
Voce.
LETTER FROM CUMBERLAND.
Mr. Editor: I am unable to keep
silent longer, and at the same time feel
that I have discharged my duty. I
see with pleasure that you got back in
the yellow shoes with both feet in
them. I have made another disco A-ery,
viz : the same red head is on the same
old shoulders. Young, not old, I
mean pardon me. Well, I feel, com
fortable iioav, for I feel sure that no
uncertain sound will be given out.
We are in for the Alliance and all
Alliance demands down this way, out
of town. We have some of the best
ft Hows, who have been sining against
light and knowledge. St. Paul, you
know felt that he was doing right in
his acts of sin against God, so when
his eyes were opened and ho saw what
a great sinner he had been, he then
worked like a wise and good man, for
God's cause. Well, I tell you we have
some good stock now, but they are not
what they use to be. They are recon
structed, enlightened and made wiser,
with strong back bones and no feeble
knees. They v.-ill henceforth do no
Avrong act, but will nobly defend our
cause in a Avay to bring God's
biess-
ings upon us
We do not fear the
result of 1S02. Thank God for the
prospect of a general sloughing off of
worse than dead flesh from the body
politic. Henry Clay is no more and
let us have no more Mason and Dixon's
lines, but let us have one country aud
one God. Let us all be brothers to
love and pull together for the general
good and we wull be a happy and
prosperous people. Give us free silver
and no longer any gold bugs.
Fraternally yours.
W. Drewery Smith.
A VOICE FROM SOUTH CAROLINA.
Beech Island, Aiken Co., S. C.
Hon. L. L. Poll;, President National
Farmers' Alliance :
Dear Sir : The first plank of your
Platform ought to have been Free
Trade and Direct Taxation of Property
and Incomes. Go to the root of the
matter at once. Any kind of a Tariff
is an abomination. Government is
chiefly concerned in the protection of
property. More than nine-tenths of
all the legislation of the country re
lates to property. More than nine
tenths of the time of all the courts is
consumed in enforcing the rights of
property. Hence property ought to
support the Government. A rjoor
laborer Avith a weight of five or six
children, may pay more for the sup
port of the general Government than
Jay Gould. Is that right ? Why
make the great burden of the Govern
ment fall on the poor people? If the
rich had to bear their proper share of
the burden, expenditures would soon
be reduced by one-half. Pension
swindles and corrupt jobs would soDn
cease. Hence justice, common sense,
and political wisdom, or true states
manship demand the abolition of the
Tariff, the odoption of Free Trade, and
a Direct Tax to support the Govern
ment. You are in a position to bring
about this happy state of affairs. God
will hold you responsible for your
grand opportunities. May He put it
into your heart and mind to become a
greater blessing to your country than
Washington, Jefferson, or any other
man, by inducing the great Farmers'
Alliance to adopt these glorious prin
ciples. Respectfully,
W. T. McKellar,
School Teacher and Surveyor.