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H YfTT i 1 JL H II 11 A PROGRESSIVE PARMER. TUB IXDl'STKUL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF OUR 1'EOrLE I'ARAMOUNT TO ALL OTIIEK CONSIDERATIONS OF STATE l'OLICY. RALEIGH, N. C, SEPTEMBER 1, 1891. Vol. 6. No. 28 THE NATIONAL FARMERS' i-'.I-ANCE AND INDUSTRIAL i. UNION. President L. L. Polk, North Carv lina. Address, 3-44 D. Si., N. W, Washington, D. C. x Vice President B. II. Clover, Cam bridge, Kansas. Secretary-Treasurer J. II. Turner, Georgia. Address, 239 North Capitol St., N. W., Washington, D. C. Lecturer J. II. Willetts, Kansas. EXECUTIVE BOARD. C. W. Mac une, Washington, D. C. Alonso Wardall, Huron, Soutli 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 izations with L. L. Polk Ex-ojicio Chairman. SOUTH CAROLINA FARMERS' STATE ALLI ANCE, President Marion Butler, Clinton, N. C. Vice-President T. B. Long, Ashe vi'le, N. C. Secretary-Treasurer W. S. Barnes, Raleigh, . C. Lecturer J. S. Bell, Brasstown, N.C. Steward C. C. Wright, Glass, N. C. Chaplain Rev. E. Pope. Chalk Level, N. C. Door-Keeper W. II. Tomlinson, Fayetteville, N. C. Assistant Door-Keeper II. E. King, Peanut, N. C. Sergeant-at-Arm - J. S. Holt, Chalk Level; N. C. State Busing A cent- W. II. Worth, Riileigh. N. C. Trustee Business Agency Fund W. A. Graham. Machpelah, N. C. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE NORTH Carolina farmers state alliance. S. B. Alexander, Charlotte. N. C, Chairman: J. M. Mewbornc, Xinston, N. C. ; J. S. Johnston, Puffin, N. C. ST ATX A T.I IANCE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE. Elias Carr, A. Ienzer, N. M. Cul breth, M. G. Gregory. Wm. C. Conn ell. STATE ALLIANC,: LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE. R. J. Powell, Raleigh, N. C. ; N. C. English, Trinity College: J. J. Young, Polenta: II. A. Forney. Newton, N. C. North Carolina Reform Press Association. Officer x J. L. Ramsey, President: Marion Pu1lr, Yiee-lYesident : W. S. Barnes, Secretary, PATERS. Pr.irrtive farmer. Suite Organ, Hnleitfh, X. C. C-iiiua-iiiii, Clinton, .. '. Rural Iio:nr. Wilson, X. ( '. 'uu-L.'. -.!!:. Salisbury, N. C. Funiirr-' Advocate, Tarboro, X. C. Moiiht,;::) lionie.kmrnal, Asheville, X". ('. AUia.';c St-ntiin-1, ioldsboro, X. C. CVutry Lift-, Trinity ( "ollec X. ( '. MtTciirv, Hickory, X. '. Rattler! Whitaker-, X. C. Each of the above named papers are requested to keep the list standing on the Jirst page, and add others, provided they are did' elected. Any paper fail ing to advocate the Ocala platform will Oe dropped from the list promptly. Our leo)tle can now see what papers are published in their interest. TO MOREHEAD AND RETURN. "Come auay ! Come away ! O (dine where the silvery waves break."' k,AU aboard! With scarcely time to get aboard, a delightful and quiet village retires in the distance. A few breaths and we dart into the Capital City, Raleigh. A three hours' stop and a pleasant drive reveals the fact that Raleigh is not faltering in the march of progress now sweeping the country. Her wall3 do not tower so high as many another city, but she is digging deep for foundations and en terprises are springing up and already in progress destined to pile story upon story until from their lofty heights may be seen a beautiful and broad ex panse of fertile country rallying to her support. The out bound train is delayed but no impatience is manifested by the gathering crowd. New acquaintances formed, old renewed, opportunity afforded for grasping the hands of friends known by reputation, but not before seen. Mingling freely with the people is the eloquent and zealous L. L. Polk, declaring to all he is 41 well inside and out and bomb-proof.'" Have you ever met J. D. Allen? If you have not, meet him and vou will never forget his hearty grasp of friend ship. It is severe and prolonged, but his genial countenance betokens that it is gen nine. A pleasant and prominent feature of the crowd is that men have brought their wives and daughters to share in the ant icipated pleasures of the city by the sound. A more hale, hearty and robust people were never before seen going to tl 10 seashore to recuperate. One- more "All aboard!"' and all aboard it is. Such a crowd ! Such a medley of d-ntists and farmers men, women and children! Half way to Golds. M.ro before all are comfortably seated and then minus the comfort. -there is n0 difficulty in distinguish ing the m n of the two professions, even from the var. Xho countenance ot every farmer is depicted in the sun burned skin on the back of his neck. At Goldsboro the shifting of the tram shifts the crowd and some change ears two or three timos. Some shift ing is necessary and an eye-opener is useful, as cinders are no respectors of ersons or places. Thence "onward, still onward "and v'e arrive at the old historic town of Newbern, whose name the public has but recently learned to spell correctly. Many old veterans are in the crowd and veteran like are discussing the battle scenes of this section and some ire even looking out for the charred 'hunks of the bridge they helped to Jim. At Newbern the children think they catch a glimpse of old ocean, but are informed that the ocean is thirty five miles away. Slowly we cross the river, and to those accustomed to hills, mountains and gorges, the scone is enchanting. Fortunately the curtains of night fall over the remainder of the scene or our party might have protested against entering a town so far remote from any part of God's country. At Morehead, and a stampede for hotels ensues which does not let up until every available means of accom modation is occupied. All eat fish for supper, and it is need less to say that the bill of fare con tinued to be the same fish, more fish, most fish. The order of the day. business, fish ing and sailing, at night, dancing. Perhaps the ball room was never put to so good a use as when President Polk addressed a large audience of farmers and dentists on the political and. financial topics of the day. Unani mous endorsement of the Ocala de mands was signified by a rising vote. Two conventions are in session. The N. C. Farmers' Alliance and the N. C. Dental Association. The members of each are distinguished by suggestive b?dge?. The delegates to the Alliance wear the true blue, the officers pure white; while the dentists wear a red badge suggestive of the blood they draw. The crowd is immense and well be haved, except, says Madam Rumor, one poor doctor made himself and the night hideou with what ought not to be found in a dry town, A farmer was heard to say that in his community the moral influence of the FHrmers' Alliance has been most wholesome. Ten years ago it was im possible to get a crowd together but there were from ten to twenty five drunken men present. This summer at all of the grand Alliance rallies, he hns attended, he has not known of a single intoxicated man. The remain ing doctors, however, are not blamed for the error of their falling brother. A due pride attacks to the fact that he was not a member of the Farmers' Alliance. Impressions of the farmers, received by the writer, completely dissipated all prejudice and gave way to admira tion and enthusiasm. Reports say that on the eve of his election, Hon. Z. B. Vance puts aside his sash, yellow slippers and broad cloth, dons a moth eaten suit and coarse shoes (kept for the occasion,) visits the dear people, gains the friend ship and votes of his constituents. With the farmers, not so. They have self-respect wherever they go. They, their wives and their children wear good neat clothes, have good manners ftnd talk intelligently. The farmer's cuse is truly a glorious one. Even the women are filled with enthu siasm. One woman declares that she will go home before she will board at a hotel where the proprietor is prejudiced against the Alliance. Everything connected with the Alli ance has, as far as an outsider is able to judge, passed harmoniously. HOMEWARD BOUND. Tangled, topsy-turvy, the jostling crowd rush for the cars. Canes, um brellas and valise covers stand out like quills on a porcupine and fortunate you are to escape them. A long train and packed, but room enough. Who is the voluble gentleman at our rear? The man who talks so fast that his tongue runs a way with his thoughts ? He is a legislator from county. The tall man coming down the aisle, just elected to an important position in the Alliance is another legislator. This good-natured, fat man and his short, affable companion, are the legis lators to buy and sell votes. Says an honest, sturdy, intelligent farmer, in discussing party issues: "I was formerly a rigid Democrat ; now I am a tine Allianceman. I work for the Alliance and I vote for the Alliance man, whether he be Democrat or Re publican, I did not support a Demo cratic friend in the last election, be cause he would not support the Alliance. I tell you I am for the Alliance first, last and always.'1 The right ring, and who does not give three cheers and a tiger for every such man as he? On the same car is another import ant looking legislator. Other legisla tors more or less officially connected with the Order, are on board. It is evident that the Farmers' Alliance has "gone into" the legislature." Will the legislature take care of the Alliance, or is the Alliance expected to take care of the legislature? Alliance songs are sung by enthusi asts at the different stations, and Dr. Parker's book is very well advertised. Once more we reach Raleigh, where adieus are given to old-new friends and the last change of cars is made. Wake. The " business end" of the Alliance movement appears to grow and flourish. Lately I,. F. McDonald, John Atkinson, W. C. Godfrey, I. K. Brown, R. C. McKee and Thomas W. Fritts, of North Chattanooga, applied for a charter for the "Farmers' Transporta tion and Warehouse Company." The company Avill run steamers for freight and passengers on the Tennesseo river and operate warehouses in connection therewith. FINANCIAL REFORM. Mu. Editor : We believe in the intelligence and honesty of purpose of the average American. We believe there is sufficient intelli gence in him to grapple with and value the living issues now asking for recog nition. He Avill solre them in the interest of humanity. For solving them the nation will be lifted to a higher plane materially, intellectually, socially, morally and spiritually. In solving them he will remove the inequalities that nowrhang like a night mare on the bosom of the people. He Avill lift the heavy burdens of the present from the back of labor. When all seems dark and forboding he will let in the light of day. When places are rough and unseemly he will make them smooth. He will remove the thorns and this ties of the past civilization and replace them with flowers and trees filled with delicious fruit. He will eliminate all that is worked poisonous and deleter ious. The machinery is forged that will accomplish results. Tli ere will soon be no more clanking of chains, for this machinery of the people will break the manacles and release the masses from industrial slavery. The era of the municipal brotherhood of man is about to dawn. Mankind is organizing as they never did before. Protection and self preser vation is the cry. United we stand is the motto. We will co-operate ; we will stand and vote as a unit. The age of excessive individualism is past. The age of co-operation is here. The old must give way to the new. We have outgrown the material conditions of the past. The swaddling bands of small concerns, slow coaches and the spinning wheels Avon't answer and respond to the age of steam, railroads, telegraphs and mammoth machinery. The material change is a revolution. In cA ery other department there must be radical changf s to correspond with these changes. Man realizes as he never did before his dependence on hi fellow man. In no preceding age were there eAer so much thought, deA'otion to principle and humanitv. Never before lias he realized so Acidly that what is the interest of one is the interest of all. That a crushing blow to one is a crushing blow to all. The last sixty years has witnessed a mater ial change excelling the last two years. As great has been the material ad-anee-ment of the last sixty years the next hftv years will far excel it. Great as will be our material adaneemeiit dur ing the next half century the social, moral, intellectual and spiritual adA-ancement excel it. It is here Ave Avill make our groat stride. UmVersal material prosperity is the only true foundation to build upon. It is coming. It is upon us. The nation is laboring and Avill goon giA-e birth to the coming giant. The golden era is ahead of us and not behind us. We neA-er Avere so near the golden age. We had to be disciplined two thousand years before Ave Avould embark for the golden shore. The noble ship is launched, sails are set, steam is up. We are making for the open channel and soon she will be in deep water. Ahead of the noble ship are obstacles, but they can be removed by united effort. All that is necessary is patient co-operation and to study the situation. The dark clouds that seem to hover over the horizon Avill all dissoL-e on our approach. Others equally dark Avill be found to haA-e a silvery lining. Many of the dark tem pestuous clouds in the distance as j on approach Avill proAC messengers of deliA-erance hastening us on the golden shore. Be temperate, be Avise, co-operate and you Avill soon be on the broad ocean with fair sailing before you. Let me say to you be of good cheer for the day of deliverance dnvws nigh. Yes, our gallant ship is righting her self and Ave are making for the deeper channel under full head of steam Avith sails set. As one who has studied this question, Avhose CAer breath and feelings has been for the unfortunate, distressed and oppressed, let me assure you the old ship of state is making for deep Avater and no power on earth can stop her. Then keep cool, be temperate, co operate, study conditions, align your selves Avith them, and ere many years haAe passed you Avill have made the transition and landed our ship upon the golden shore of universal pros perity. We have no words of bitter ness. We belieA-e in the universal brotherhood of mankind. We have no words of condemnation for those unfortunately organized and who live on the selfish or animal plain. This is their misfortune. They live in a past age. They are morally incompetent. They are the stray sheep. They must be brought into the fold. They cannot saA-e themselves. We must sa-e them in spite of them selves. We feel a deep solicitude for them. We would give them better environment Avhen their stunted moral and spiritual can turn. We recognize in them the product of our selfish competition system. They are the unfortunates left by the survival of the fittest. They are the children of those not equipped for the Avar of life. Our mis sion is to make conditions such that they Avill not stray and bring them into the fold where they can enjoy the good things of this earth and prepare them to enjoy the many mansions in heaven not made by hand. That this will be done Ave lirmly belieA-e. In the past wo have looked with dark forbodings upon the future. It seemed as if the old ship of stite Avas making direct for the rocks and a great cata clasm Avas imperiling our civilization and threatening our liberty Avith death. The dark clouds have lifted and in the rifts I see the sunshine and rainbow of promise of a glorious future. The next half of a century will be a glorious era to live in. It Avill bring forth the grandest moral heroes the world has ever seen. It will be worth one thousand preceding years to liAre it. EA-ent after e-ent in rapid succession will be ushered in, remov ing impediments to this nation's oiiAvard march. Already a sufficient number of object lessons have been presented to point definitely the course Ave should sail and some of the means Ave should employ. We are encompassed about by innumerable witnesses that show that a power greater than man is at the helm and that poAver is Avorking through man to break the shackels and let his children go free. For the last two thousand years we have been in a preparatory state. We are now prepared to enter into the new dispen sation where all shall know God inanimated in human flesh from th? least to the greatest. The golden age prophesied of in olden times and sung by poets is about to be realized. Their prophesy was no idle dream. They looked doAvn through the windoAv of time and perceived the grand consummation. Do not be fooled with the tariff. It is a fraud of the darkest dye. Unlimited coinage of silver is all right, but it won't giAre any perceptible relief. Nothing short of a revolution in finance all along the line will ansAver. Don't compromise or abate one jot or tittle of your demands. Compel the parties to gve you what you ask for or crush them with your ballots. There can be no compromise. As well attempt to reconcile hell and heaven, God and the devil. James Murdock. LETTER FROM BLADEN. Kelly's, Bladen Co., N. C. Mr. Editor: As it has been a long time since I lm-e seen anything from this section in your valuable paper, I have concluded to Avrite you a short article for publication. The crop is very good; cotton not quite an average; potatoes looking Avell, the hay crop veiy tine. I believe our township pro duces as much or more corn than any township in this section of the State, and if we had anything like as many acres cleared as some other sections of the State has we would no doubt gather more corn than any township in the State, from the very fact that our lands are very productive, yield ing from 30 to 75 bushels to the acre, and here is thousands of acres of un cleared land for sale, and capitalists could make a good hiA-estment by buy ing up a lot of it and ditching it and then by putting it on the market in small lots. We belieA-e he could double his money. I notice farmers, as a gen eral thing, are more, energetic and hopeful than usual. They haA-e been getting their supplies cheaper since the organization of the Farmers' Alli ance than they did before, and besides that they are learning to economize in several Avays. First, by not going in debt and as to giving mortgages, that business has nearly played out in this section. We haA-e also learned br ex perience in using good plows, good har roAvs, good sweeps and good culti vators, that we can make corn Avith but very little ploAving. Fraternally, A. J. Bordeaux. EX-CONGRESSMAN KELLEY CON VERTED. Hon. Harrison Kelley, one of the old time Republican leaders of Kansas, avIio Avas succeeded in Congress at the last election by the Hon. J. G. Otis, has dealt a seA-ere bloAV to the Republican remnant by renouncing his former alle gianco and declaring his intention to support the People's party in the future. In closing his letter to the Topeka Capi tal announcing this determination, he says : For years past I haA-e not been aAvare of abuses growing up in the Re publican organization as Avell as in the Democratic party. I haA-e done my utmost to help correct these abuses Avithin the party lines. I haA-e done my best so encourage the organization of the Farmers' Alliance for the last two years, advising them to operate within the old party lines as the best method of securing redress. They thought other Avise and cut loose from the old parties. I iioav see their vision was clearer than mine, their Avisdom greater. I have advocated in the halls of Congress and elsewhere, eA-ery thing embodied in the platform of the "People's party except the Sub Treasury and land' loan schemes; these I do not endorse, but belieA-e the f ov ernment should increase by the free coinage of silver and issue of paper cur rency the volume of money in the coun try to double what it is now, gradually in the next three years. Favoring these measures and belie--ing their enactment into law Avould re sult in great benefit to the American people, and both the old parties having rejected them, the logical thing for me to do is to support the party that favors them, the People's party, which I do. Yours truly, Harrison Kelley. The corporations are so independent that they do a cash business, but the individuals are compelled to do credit business because there is not enough moncv to go round. Monitor. OUR PROGRESS. Weekly Record of Manufacturing and Other Enterprises Started Rip Van Winkle no Longer in tlie Old North State. .Manufacturers' Re-cord.! Ayr A canning factory has been started, it is reported. Albemarle The organization of a land improA-ement company is talked of. Smithfield W.! Band has recently put planing-mili machinery in his lum ber milL Dillsboro The Carolina Clay Com pany will, ft is reported, enlarge its china-clay works. Dillsboro Glover & Co. have, it is reported, purchased and Avill develop kaolin lands near Dillsboro. Smithfield J. II. Pou has recently improved and laid off into building lots a tract of land adjacent to Smithfield. Mills' Spring Wilson & Son, of Rutherfordton, have, according to leport, started a canning factory at Mills' Spring. Winston T. II. B. Hase, represe senting a northern manufacturer desir ous of removing his plant south, has been investigating Winston's advant ages. The plant makes carriages, Avagons, agricultural implements, etc. Conover The Conover Wheel and Lumber Manufacturing Company has recently been incorporated Avith J. Hunsucker as president, and J. L. Yount, secretary, and is iioav erecting sash, door, blind and wheel factory. The capital stock is $20,000. Monroe J. C. Winder, of Raleigh, general manager of the Seabord Air Line system, has recently stated that the company's machine shops at Raleigh will be removed to Monroe, but nothing definite has been settled upon regarding the subject. Mt. Airy C. B. Jordan, of Bennetts--ille, S. C recently organized a $00, 000 stock company to purchase and improve the White Sulphur Springs property near Mt. Airy, and consoli dated same with the Gmnite City Land and Improvement Company, mentioned last Aveek. Highlands F. A. Mull, of Danbury, Conm, II. P. Wyman and T. Caims, of PineA-ille, Ky., ha-e purchased the "Ea-cr" tract of about 40,000 acres of mineral land at Highlands. The tract contains iron. gold, kaolin, corundum and mica, and it is to be leased for development. New London (P. O. Bilesville) Sash, door and blind factory, etc. P. B. Fet zer is president, and C. WT. Swink, of Charlotte, secretary and treasurer, of the Stanly Manufacturing Company, recently reported as incorporated to manufacture sash, doors and blinds; capital stock, 20,000. Henderson A. C. Zollicoffer and others haA-e purchased and Avill operate the Henderson Electric & Gaslight Company's electric light plant as reported last Aveek. They will operate as the .Henderson Light & Power Com pany, having organized same Avith Mr. " Zollicoffer as president ; J. D, Cooper, vice-president, and J. R. Young secretary. OBJECTIONS TO THE SUB-TREASURY. Mooresville, Aug. 8, 1601. M.r. Editor: I did not reply to C. A. B., of Currituck, in your issue of July 11th, as I understood the letter of President Polk to prohibit the discus sion of the Sub-Treasury- Bill in Ameri can papers. But, as you say in your issue of July 28th that your columns are open for such discussion, I w-ill state in as feAv words as I can, Avhy I am not in favor of it, to answer his charge of being a hypocrite, and I shall not use any malicious epithets, either, They are not argument, and Avill con-A-ince no one. My objections to the Sub-Treasury Bill are : 1st. It is in direct conflict Avith one of the of the first and most essential principles on which the Alliance AAas founded ; that is, opposition to trusts and syndicates and speculation in the necessaries of life and the products of labor. For this bill proposes the most gigantic trust Avhich has eA-er been con ceived; in fact the cotton trust so formed Avould be the largest possible to conceiA-e in the Avorld. 2d. It is "class legislation" and in direct conflict Avith another Alliance: ' ' Equal rights to all and special priA-i-leges to none," for it Avould giA-e the farmer " special priA-ileges" Avhich the mason, the carpenter, the miner or the mechanic could not share. This objection, as Avell as the prin ciple Avith which it conflicts, has its exceptions, for our goA-ernment has, from its beginning, giA-en "special priA-ileges," ot land and other assistance to such as would "till the soil," and I haA-e yet to hear the first Avord of dis approVal of its doing so. 3d, Its principle is the same as the speculating or gambling in futures, Avhich nearly all honest men condemn : and that, too, at an enormously high rate to the producer Avho takes adA-an tage of it. For instance, suppose a planter to haA-e $100 worth of cotton to dispose of; he puts it in the Ava rehouse and gets 80 for it : at the same time he could get his 1U0 for it from the dealer, and take the $20 difference and go to the exchange and buy an option for tAvice or three times as much cot ton to be deliA'ored in May or June fol loAving as Avhat he has sold; so that if cotton Avent up in price he Avould make twice or three times as much as he would by warehousing his cotton, and would haA-e no interest, taxe: msur- anee or warehousing to j av: and, if cotton Avent down, he would lose no more than he would by warehousing his cotton. . .y:- In this connection, I notice a clipping m your last issue, from the Faulkner County Wheel saying if the Sub Treasury had been in operation Lust fall, the price of cotton would not have fallen two or three cents. I can see no foundation for such an inSerence. If holding back the cotton would raise the price, there was enough held over to have at least "sustained the mar ket;" certainly many times as much as was ever held over before, and I doubt if there Avould haA-e been much more, if the Avarehouse had been accessible; for it is not every man who Avould take $S0 from the Avarehouse and pav eA-en 2 per cent, interest on it, AvhVn he could get sl00 ready money from the dealers. The fall in the price of cotton was owing to the very large crop raised, the panic in the money market caused by the embarrassment of the second largest financial house in the Avorld, and the lass of the South American market, by the unsettled state of Brazil, the bankruptcy ot the Argentine Con federacy, and the insurrection in Chili, and no amount of Avarehousing would haA-e raised the price Avhen there Avas not a demand for the goods, nor idle money in speculators' hands to buy up the stock. I think a more correct state ment of the results than thevt given by the Wheel Avould be, that a few plant ers Avho sold their cotton at the gin , Avould haA-e lost 20 per cent, on it, and those wrho lost 30 per cent, would only have lost 20, and the government would ha-e lost 10 per cent, on all ware housed, besides the cost of Avarehous ing, interest and insurance. 4th. It is class legislation in that counties Avhich do not raise .,(X)0 worth of any one staple Avould get no benefit (?) from it. And last, (for this time) but not least, it Avould produce an army of fat office-holders. Avhom some one has got to pay liberally, for producing nothing. And is it not pos sible, not to say prolxdile, that some of the strenuous advocates of the bill avIio cry ' ' Sub Treasury or no A 1 hance, " are looking forward toward some of these same fat offices? But C. A. B. is Avofully Avide of the mark Avhen he compares any one Avho has changed their mind on the benefits of the Sub-Treasury Bill since the Ocala Convention, to the Israelites in Egypt. If he had lost from $50 to $500 by hold ing his co 'ton o-cr, as many haA-e, he would not be so anxious for a Avare house as he might haA-e been before. If he cannot see the point, I will send him an old pair of specs Avitli one eye gone. Yes, C. A. B. is correct Avhen he says I don't seem to know that " T.-ith a sufficient volurno of currency, .v.c, CA-ery pound of cotton Avould be used." I didn't know it, and I Avould thank him to inform me and many more anxious readers, Avhat Avould be a "sufficient amount of currency, placed Avithin the reach of rich and poor and alike," (wouldn't I grab a handful) in the United States, to raise the price of cotton in Liverpool two pence per pound? For of course he knows that over three fourths of the cotton raised in the United States is exported, and the price here is governed by the price in LiA-erpool. Or does he think the Avhole crop AA-ould be used in the United States? If so, Avhat amount, ecc, as before, Avould induce all the people in the United States to use OA-er four times as much cotton as they do now : Also, aviII the Sub-Treasury Bill place cur rency which he has not earned Avithin reach of the poor man? If so, I might be induced to change my opinion of it. But I haA-e Avritten so much, I Avill reply to his criticism of the bind loan, &c, next AA-eek. B. J. N. A FEW QUESTIONS. Rand's Mills. N. C. Mr. Editor : I wish to ask a few questions through your paper, Avhich I hope some of the enemies of our Order Avill be kind enough to ans wer frankly. First. Why are the old party lead ers so much opposed to the demands of the Farmers' Alliance and Indus trial Union? Second. What clause of the Consti tution does the Sub-Treasury come in conflict Avith? Third. What clause of the Constitu tion provides for lending money to banks? Fourth. What clause of the Consti tution provides for the forming of trusts, combines and all otlKr abom inable corporations, and lending them money to oppress the people? Fifth. What clause of the Constitu tion provides for the government to lend money to any person, corporation or combine ? Yet it does it. Will some of the enemies of the Sub Treasury please answer these ques tions? Then you can see more clear Avhat is and what is not in accord Avith the Constitution. Sixth. They say it is impractical. How do they knoAV? it has not been tried, and do they know Iioav it Avould Avork : only it Avould antagonize the money kings and rob their money of its power to oppress. So far it is impractical to them, and that brings down their Avrath against it and all its friends. Brother Alliancemen, you may be sure Avhen these old party leaders be gin to IioavI over something the Alli ance has done, or is trying to do, that Ave haA-e struck in the right place and should not stop to listen at them, but stick still closer to our demands. R. J. P. ( i
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