North Carolina Newspapers

vi THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER : SEPTEMBER 15, 1 r I 5 I. i .V ( i i i :1 " t ,: 1 i i t1 i. ' - III. . II ll.l- II .1 Mil ..M.I ii. . -I I. I - .III " '" I THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER. L. L. ruLK. Editor and Proprietor. J. L. HAMSEY, - Associate Editor. J.W. DENMARK, Business Manau'u. Raleigh, N. C. -SUBSCRIPTION- Slrwn-- ibsoriler. One Year J 1.25 Six Months T." ;five Su!;;-cri't.-r-, One Year 5.00 r,M " One Year 10.00 Oiit i-iv mie t ;..r five, to the one seiiilint; t'lul) it Ten. ' '.' ni'uria'lj; iu idranct. Money at onv rNk. if sent by registered litter r money order, t'u is, don't xcttd piainx. Alv'-iis'in uoteu cm application. 2t Conexpourtt nts: Wri-' il' .- urrmnications. designed for t'Mi cario.i. on one side of the paper only. We want intelligent eeireondents in ever county in the Stan-. We vnt of value, re sults accomplished of value, experiences of vaiue. nHinly and briellytold. One solid, demonstrated tmt. i- worth a thousand theories. All cheeks, drafts or money orders intended for t!iis paper should be made payable to Tut; PXCKiKKSSlVK FaKMKK. Address all correspondence intended 0-r this nar.cr to The Puo'UiKssivk Faumeh, Kait ih. N.C. RALEIGH. N. 0.. S FT. 15. 1S:H :'Tt:i i l s r :i' -fvl l trrtiHtl-rutsx ntntU'i .j," tit l,'t (trhre in ttilrivh. X. '. The Progressive Farmer is the Official Organ of the N. C. Farmers' State Alliance Do you want your paper changed to another office ? "State the one at which you have been getting it. Do you want your conmiimication published ? If so, give us your real name and yoxw postoilice. In writing to anybody, always be sure to give the name of your post office, and sign your own name plainly. IrSf" Our friends in writing to any of our advertisers will favor us by men tioning the fact that they saw the advertisement m The Progressive f-fsfThe dale on vour label tells you when vour rime is out. THAT CIRCULAR. Tin; nkws and obskiiveh, v.- ,( .'('.(. -Ahntu True and Faithful Adocat -s t ne Sub-Treasury hill. Advocate.- I'dhv.iTt'd roii aire of silver and the issin- ot sVHUW.UiO more impr monev. ' Advocates di-'tribntimx imi,(Hni.UKt o'" the monev now in the Treasury to the Stater, on tie- ha is of their agricultural produc ts to relieve arioi'JTurai depres-ion A'lo. ate.- repealin.4 the national liuiu a- anil all -'u:; tate bank- to issv.e not s. Auvoiate the repeal of ti e iniei u.l r-- -r.i-system and a tar itr for revenue only. Favors the Farmer- Alliance: seek- to ;:' li'oK i1- (jl)jeet-, and advocate- the protection of the freemen of North Carolina ULCii'.-T impo sition iron; any quarter. Ano"fites that t he w hite m-n oi Nort h ( 'aro lina -ball all stand together and woik for tin prosperity of all c!sses and condition of men. Vi- ;.rint. a larure eii;ht-iae paper. 1'iice In clu-.s at 81. S. A. AillK. Kd. .Y ;ml o.'wi rvi r. Kaleih, N. ('. EDITORIAL NOTES. I'i- tdent Butler was in the city Frida on business. Senator W. A. Peffer, of Kansas, will speak at Raleigh, October Oth. He and President Butler will both speak at vrarrent-m on the 10th of October. Hear them. . So called Alliancemen are fre quently quoted by Raleigh newspaper correspondents. They are only mem bers iti name and such cattle are to be foun i t various sections of the United States. ne of our State exchanges utters a warning. It savs: '"Look out for the hypocrit and liar, for he is abroad in the land." Brother it is your own shadow that you are alarmed at. Owing to the fact that Alliance speakers will be at the Concord Fair on the l'3th, Bro. Leazar has withdrawn his appointment at Pine Forest on that date. He will 11 1 1 all the other Cabarrus appointments. The Denver, Col., Weekly Times contains a list of several hundred tracts of land advertised for taxes. "We suppose the great ( 0 era of pros perity that the bankers report has not yet reached that Scale. The Xew York Sun and other papers are publishing what purports to be the Secret Work of the Alliance. In doing so they exhibit littleness. But no dvjbt their Alliance leaders will qui-tly smi!-' when they read the stum On t' the all ray. says the pluto crats' We will pay for advertising the Alliance. We appreciate their generosity. Advertising pays Al ready we can feel the effects of the thorough advertising they are giving the Alliance Bro. M. A. Smith, of Auburn, came in Friday and reported that one of his cows gave birth to three calves last Tuesday. This is a rare occurrence. The cow and calves are all doing well. They will be shown at the Raleigh Ex position next month. The New York Herald is richer than most of the North Carolina editors. Last week it bought a fine fox terrier for a poor blind man whose dog had died. The man, Garret Roach, says he is making line progress train ing the terrier and tninks it will make a good guide. His dog had recently died. A correspondent sends a club of subscribers and asks the following question: "Has an election actually occurred in Kentucky with the result as stated in the last issue of The Pro gressive Farmer? i have heard nothing from it in the political papers and from the opponents of the Alli ance.1' Our friend should ask the political papers why they fail to pub lish news when news is news. As yet we have not heard how much the plutocrats pay for the ad vertising they are giving the Alliance and some of the leading officers. Just now the New York Morning Advertiser is doing the lying and the other papers are catching up the refrain. The Concord Standard uses the cuts of prominent men as photos of the editors who will visit the Fair there soon. A cut of John Jacob Astor has the name of this scribe underneath. These editors will dispose of Dr. Cook at the proper time and see that lie is properly buried. A GREAT MISTAKE. We see from the National Alliance. organ of the colored Farmers Alliance of the United States, that R. M. Hum phries. General Superintendent, has perfected arrangements for a general strike of the colored cotton pic kers throughout the South, to go into etfect on the 12th of this month, which was last Saturday. He advises them to go about it peacefully and stand firm until their demand is granted. They want $1 per hundred for all cotton they pick. We think this a great mistake on the part of our colored friends at this time. With cotton selling at 7 and S cents there is absolutely no profit in it. So even 50 cents per hundred is a big price, fully equal to the price of fhe cotton. An additional 5t. cents per hundred means $1.50 added to the cost of raising the cotton after it is ginned. If lint cotton was selling at 10 cents our farmers would just be where they now are after adding the ex'ra 1 50 to the cost of raising and picking. Th" white farmers of the South are the b -st friends the colored people have. Some of them have not treated them as they should, but generally speaking the negroes have prospered where the whiles prospered. The negro farmer and the white fa:m-r are both on the sam1 platform to day. They aresidfering from the same cause and the m veineiit now on foot is r i. r, e.ilci dat d to ?! y the evils. It is the duty of our white Alliance people to see that our colored farmers have tin equal eh.mce in life. Bur in taking this step the colored Alliance men attempt to better their condition at the expense of their white brethren. Reforms should not be m the interest of one portion of our farmers at ihe ex pense of another. If both white and colored farmers can better their condi tion at the same time, then the countr will be better for all classes. But lor either color to benefit themselves at :hc expense of the other, it is simply a family throat cutting business. If ur white and colored farmers can, by a united eilort, remedy our linauei il s,y. -tern, get better prices for the produces we raise, raise the price of farm labor, then all will have an eiual chance to succeed. But as we s e this c ;ltoii pickers" strike, it i.-, a direct blow at. farm owners which will cost a great deal and amount to nothing in the end. Oae thing is certain. Our farm rs cannot afford to pay 1 per hundred for cotton picking. Another thing is certains: Unless both white and black work together to secure general and equal relief, nothing good will come out of it. We think that after proper consideration the colored Alliancemen will see that they are taking an im proper and suicidal step in demanding a tiling impossible, and that the will reconsider the plan for a general strike. We profess to know as much about the situation and about cotton as Superintendent Humphries, and we do not hesitate to advise our farmers to leave their cotton in the fields rather than pay more than 50 cents per hun dred to have it picked. The specu lators are mainly responsible for the low price of cotton and so is our finan cial system. Strdce at the root of the disease rather than at the top,' for this movement is simply a blow at the top. CUR THANKS. We are under obligations for clubs sent in since last issue by F. S. Blair, A. C. Green, J. C. Brown, A. J. Dalby. J. S. Mitchell, J. H. Gilliam, Daniel Lane, J. E. Person, A. R. Hill bum, J. L. Wilson, D. McCain. Jtis. Dry den. SACE SECURED. Business Agent Worth and Secretary Barnes went out to the Exposition Grounds one day last week and scooped in sp :ce for the Alliance Headquarters and for the Reform Press. Several of the animals that have been attacking the Alliance and its officers quite vigorously will be captured and exhibited there in cages. They wdl be worth coming miles to see. xVll the reform papers will be on file'and a man on hand to answer ques tions, take renewals or new subscribers. Dun't forget all this when you start to the biggest Exposition to be held in the South this year. GOOD TIDINGS FROM KANSAS. President Polk at Holton The Brethren Rejoiced to Know that the South Is with Them Willets and Simpson at Home. I5y Telegraph to The Prog hussive Fakmeh. Holton, Kansas, Sept. 11. Col. Polk is with us and all doubts about the South are at rest. . But three days in our midst, and thousands, tens of thousands, yes acres of loyal Alli ancemen and women have had joy brought into their hearts by the decla ration of their grand leader that the South is with us, heart and soul, in the grandest movement of centuries, with us on the Oca la platform, that wili lead to success in 1802. Willetts and Simpson came to us fresh from Presi dent Polk's country, with the glad tidings, and tell us also of t'ae loving way they were taken . into the arms, and hearts of the Southern people; that cheer after cheer came from thou sands of throats when President Polk is announced to address our people, and every eye beams with a welcome for him : every heart inspired by the blessed news he speaks. Yes, then can we say, at last, united the North and South, united by the chord that nature h;ts touched that maketh them one. Frank McGratii, Prest. Kansas S. F. A, and I. U. A CORRECTION. In our leading editorial of last week there is some verbal confusion just at a most vital point. It shouM read: With minor offices, such as do not in themselves involve any principle, the people need not concern themselves; they will have enough to do to watch the -others. Officers which include mainly or only such duties as clerk, sherilf, constable, register of deeds, have always been sought for the money that is in them, and tin-n. as the peo ple's interest in them is largely pro tected by official bonds and their duties are plain and neglects easily detected. need not be nhtde 'lie snbjtef of' mncJi concern.'" By way of further explanation we will a'so add that it is the method of the old party bosses to drag as many personal and pecuniary interests into their campaigns as possible. They be lieve or pretend to believe that the fol lowers for "the loaves and the tislies" ready strengthen their cause. Every new otii -e which can furnish a new sordid, motive for partisanship is hailed by them with heartfelt delight. They can ue this office and the salary thwo to attached to buy the active support of men who will use all their influence to keep down issues, the agitation of wl.i -h will destroy bossism. THE COTTON CROP. Some four weeks ago we expressed ihe opinion that the speculators were more responsible for the low price of cotton than the size of the crop and ! gave figures to sustain the statement. A few days ago a statement of the crop in s'ght showed a little over 50(1,000 bed. s in excess of the crop in sight at this time last vear, which ought not reduce the price more than 5 or 75 cents per hundred. Beyond a doubt the cotton men of the world are doing ail they can against the Sub Treasury scheme. The low price of cotton has been a powerful weapon, but right now we see through the thin covering. Wit Inn the p st two weeks cotton has advanced three-quarters of a cent, with another big crop just coming on the market. That never v. as heard of before and plainly shows that the values on cotton for the last ten months were ficticious. We have a large crop of all kinds of grain this year. If we had the Sub-Treasury we could hold? a portion of the grain and realize some profit on it, which would make up for low prices in the past, but as it is our grain and cotton raisers tre at the mercy of the millionaires and will be fleeced again. Moral: Yote for your home and family. BRIGHT WORDS. The following exceedingly bright article is from the Charlotte Xetcs: "The sockless Jerry Simpson has turned up in Chicago, where, the dis patches say, he has a suite of rooms in the Grand Hotel. The poor farmers about here are paying for all this style. This is another style of lying that has just been adopted. The fashions change so often it is a great wonder that they are able to keep up, but then they are experts. This is simply a canard sent out for the purpose of shaking the confidence of the people in an Alliance lecturer. We do not refer to it for the sole stirpes e of making a denial, 'but to show our readers the latest style in the art of slandering hi nocent people. Bro. Simpson is a plain, economical man. He has no use for a suite of rooms anywhere while lectur ing. The truth is, he is travelling nearly all the time when not speaking to a crowd and there is no occasion for him to put on style at a hotel. But these dispatches are sent out by men who have a flexible conscience, and ' men with the same kind publish them in their papers. 1 While on this subject we want to ; ask some questions. If it is of suffi-1 cient importance to telegraph and pub-! lish all over the country that an Alii- j ance Congressman has actually occu- pied two rooms in a hotel, (which . would not be startling even if true,) then is it not time to tell some things about non-Alliancemen ? For instance : I how is it that Congressmen go to Washington poor, live in houses pay - j ing more than their salary rent every j year, live in fine style and get rich at J the same time? How is it that a m ui j can stay in Congress six years, live in high style, pay more than his salary for rent and clear a hundred thousand J dollars? Whv is it that a few honest Congressman and Senators come home iis poor as they went, while others get vastly rich? Somebody should give that some attention. But if an Alii ance Congressman spends the night at a first class hotel and gets his hair cut there is a great row made about it. Yes, "the poor farmers are paying for this style." They are also paying news papers to lie on them, too. FARMERS JOINED THE PROCES SION. All 1 hinking men who belong to labor organizations will note with satisfac tion the reports that in some States the farmers in great numbers joined the processions yesterday, says ihe New York Herald of the 7th. It must have been through oversight rather than intention that the farmers were not persuaded to join in the earlier associations formed to secure legislation in favor of men who work with their hands a well as their heads. If the so-called labor vote expects to bo a powerful influence in politics it must become numerically stronger, and its recruits must come mainly from the farms, 'ihe politicians whom th. workingmen disti list and the busi mss combinations which they tight are quite a obnoxious to the farmers 'as to any other class. For some reason more legislators and Congressmen are selected from the farmiug population than from the mills mid railroad yards. Tie workingmen must have ihe farmers with them if they hope ever to form a parly which shall be strong enough to stand alone, instead of be ing sometimes the aiiy of one of die older parties, sometimes of the other, only to be fooled by both. From this we must conclude that the Herald has at last gotten its eyes open to the true state of alfairs. It is strange indeed that the laborers in factories and mill-have not joined hands with the farmers before this time. List Monday v.-as "Labor Day. ' and was generally observed by working people in many States, and, as the Herald says, the woikingmen were joined by farmers in many places. This is good news. Their interests are almost iden tically the same and if there is a thorough mixing of sentiment and a united effort made, no earthly power can stay the progress of this move ment. It is impossible to run a ajer on a strictly c(tsJi ttasis. It is also impos sible to run one icithout cash. Have yon paid your subscrijflioii If not, why )iot do so now! We iiecdihe nnntey to pay accounts we owe. A SHORT CROP. To show how inconsistent' and un wise ihe demand of the colored Alli ance to have$l per hundred for picking c tt on, we publish the following extract from a letter published in the National Alliance, organ of the colored Alliance, written by a negro farmer in Alabama: ''I am a farmer, and have been for many years,' said Mr. J. E. McDonald, ' and 1 think I know what I mean when I state my belief that not more than two thirds, or perhaps one half, a crop of cotton will he raised this year. The early drouth took away much of the moisture which should have made a top root, and since the last drouth has leit the ground so hot that rain wiil scald the plant to death. I have heard from Harris, Fort Bend, Walter, Bni zoria. Wharton. Montgomery and Matagorda counties, and it is all the same. I know plenty of men who will be thankful for a third of what they counted on, and if there is any money in cotton this year it will not be for the farmer.'1 Now that is a fair statement. The crop is going to be short and but little prospect for high prices, though they may be better thtin now. He admits that there will be no money in co'ton to the raisers. This shows plainly that it is impossible for our farmers to pay any better prices for picking cotton. They should positively refuse to do it and pick all theyT can and hire no one unless they are willing to pick at prices that can be afforded. How are you off for cash! We are- needing some bad. Please return kind- nessjor accommodation. We sent you the paper when you wanted it. Now ' Those who have seen the Groupe Pic ice need the money. Don t wait till fare of our Leaders are enthusiastic next week or next month, but send us over it. Subscribe now and get one by some money to-day. return mail, f ree MR. BILKINS s l V 'ill ' i rAM tl'l! - , mmf ml, . ill lii Interviews Jerry Rusk, the Rainmaker. " Hello.' Mr. Devil." D. "Hello? who is that?" 11 " My name is Mr. Bilkins." D. "All right; what can we do for you?" B. "I want to talk to Jerry Rusk, the rainmaker. Tell the edkor to come to the machine. ' R. "All right, Uncle Zeke, what is the rouble" B. "I want to know if it would be wrong to talk some with Capt. Rusk, at Washinton." R. "No, not in the hist." B. "Mr. Rusk, hello! Rusk. "Who is that?" B."My name is Bilkins, I'm from North Carolina." R. " Ah ! yes. Fine State that, great agri ultural country. When I get my rain making process in shape I'll make things hum down South." B. "Say, Captin Rusk, that rain business is what I want to talk about. How do you do itr R. "Well, you see, Mr. Bilkins, you farmers are not highly educated and it would be impossible to explain this matter to vou." B. "Say, Cap. ain't you n farmer? ' R. "Yes, certainly. I've been U. S. Commissioner of Agriculture for three years." B. "1 thought so. Now 1 want tor know why it is that you are so much smarter than the rest of us. If you can monkey around with a machine to make rain, why you ought ter tell a feller about it." R. -"You see, Mr. Rusk, I don't give agriculture much attention. I'm in politics. The fact is 1 am promi nently mentioned in connection with the Presidency." B. "So I've heard. The editor of our paper said last week that a bee was hunimin" in your bonnet with a noise like a saw mill." R. "Who is the editor of your paper?" B. "Why, don't you know nothin' about The Prouressiyk Farmer:" R. "Oh yes. Well, I don't approve of these Alliance pa pel's, I think they are too political.'' B. "Say, Cap. Didn't you say you were in politics yourself?" R. " Yes, but I am working for the advancement of agriculture. I have a right to go into politics." B. "Well, I reckin the rest of us hev a right to go inter politics, then." Us fellers what work in the held are ' workin' in the interest of agricuii-ure' a blamed sight more than these Com missioners of Agriculture. I don't be lieve they are very agricultural nohow. All of them are wantin' office so bad they kin taste it. Me an' Betsy have about decided that for our part we could do without any Commissioner of Agriculture in ours." R. "What are your objections to them, Mr. Bilkins?" B. "Well you see most of them don't do anything to help along the Alliance. M e an' Bets are hot h stronsr Alliancemen, an' we want to see our agricultural men friendly to us. Betsy thinks it mity strange that Commis sioners of Agriculture would do eny thing against us Alliance people." R "We are not against your organization, Mr. Bilkins, as long as it stays out of politics, but you should not go into politics. That course will ruin the country." B "Hello, central!" ! C All right, Mr. Bilkins " B. "Say, I talked the whole jaw off Mister Rusk, the rainmaker. He ad mits that he don't know eny thing about makin' it rain, but heknowsall erbout politics." C "Well, we suppose that he is ! cultivating a political hot-bed, for he has done nothing to help the farmers except yell 'big crops' and great pros perity.' Now and then he tells the farmers that they are working too much, and that they are suffering from overprod uction. " B "Has the Nens and Observer published them letters yet?" K.J. jNO. B. "Well, tell them I am havin' mity hard work to keep Betsy from , stoppin' our paper. She says thev had oughter publish them " 1 TRYING TO MAKE THINGS LOnv I i UGLY. UK r UGLY. Perhaps no paper in tne State iu. been more industrious or used 1;v .7 cunning to try to injure the Alli,uu. than the Lenoir Topic. But lii; m,)Sj of the same crowd it leaves the ance platform standing solid and sai into the officers and lecturers t.Verv chance it gets. We will stop here to say that this is a sure w;vr aid the Alliance, for if its phtf.,r:n Vin,i ,1. -K-.tr.irw.it-; Te n of. lltlHovmlinul tl, is nothing to do but push on to s i v But it is amusing-to watch thew. fej. lows who are regular gasbags of y.)VVv stuff that is not put down on any rnr,ps or mentioned in any of the dirtiJn. aries. Now Alliancemen, li.-i.-r, t) what Statesman Scott g ts olf tin i p,-i0n set down and smile : "Nobody will wonder that O.l. pu;;. missed connection and could not t t, Charlotte in time to speak at lentn that .he was too sick to speak ;t 1U" ham and that grabbing Jerry Simpson by the nape of the neck, he kippf, Salisbury altogether and Hew av to Iowa with the sockless state.-;a:m.' would make anybody sick to entcrt:ii:i the idea of being placed in the same boat and on an equality with such a sorry specimen as Jerry Simpson sh Ws up to be." Now ain't that dreadful ? No douLt every true Allianceman in Caldwell county trembled when he read that terrible indictment. It is awful. Gov. -m--m- . -n , . 11 ill 1 llolt ought to can out tne military. A r, special session of Congress ought to be f called to see if there couldn't be some I arrangements made to increase the ? regular standing army double what it now is. Oh ! it is dreadful. Now for the facts. Col, Polk was on I a train on the Seaboard Air Line. A I hundred feet of a high embankment V was washed away. Is there any one I except old man Scott, who would ex pect the train to cross that big gap in the road? However Col. Polk d;dg t there in time to spak at night. Tie was unwell at Durham, and ',: -Simpson and Willetts having aliea iy made long and excellent speecht j.e was not expected to speak lo?g. il did not "fly to Iowa with sockk'.-.-Simpson. Bros. Simpson and WhleUs went to one State, Col. Polk to anoi.U'r. And last but not least. Jerrv Sanson did not say anything that could be , ,. -I . . e ni? 1 1 io.-lj to iiicaij uci.u equina ai Charlotte or any other place. One or two reporters did construe some of hi words to niean that, but these re porters have not told the truth in four years and are not expected to. Thou sands of reputable citizens and editor have heard Simpson speak, many- oc. them not members of the Alliance, and none of them heard an-thing of the sort. In this paper there is a state ment from one of th'i b' st citizens of the city of Charlotte, a man of un doubted integrity and a man who never lias anything to do with the Alli ance. He says Simpson used no such language. Now why do we refer to this at all? Simply to show the littleness of some people and to expose the silly, hypo critical charges made against Alliance men. Friends you are beginning to see what great guardians you have been depending on to keep things right. Nine-tenths of them are not capable of superintending the sotiing of a hen. HOW IS THIS? We have supposed for a long time that the lioliesoniau. of Lumbeiten. was quite friendly to the Alliance. But from recent editorials we must conclude that it is something else. Some days ago Hon. Jerry Simpson, of Kansas, made four speeches in this State by invitation. The Alliancemen who heard his speeches were un.-ini mous in their approval Read this extract from the loheso)tiau editorial and see if there is any evidence of friendship: "This Jerry is no fit man to instruct Alliancemen and Democrats of North Carolina what is best for them to do. He is no Democrat or North Carolina Allianceman he is radically dilferent from both he is a Jay-Hawking Kan sas Republican Allianceman and as such no friend to Southern principles and ideas. This way Alliance orators have of running into other States than their own and dictating to the people what they should do has not turned out well for the Alliance. It utterly failed in Georgia and Mississippi and has nearly wrecked the order in Texas." WHY IS IT? The Farmers' Advocate, Tarboro. makes the following point in reference to thej Railroad Commission : "Since the passing of the Railroad Commission bill, not one word have we seen in its favor. . I- it because a farmer legislature passed it? This bill has not only proved a good thing to our State, even for the short lime it has been in vogue, but its future use fulness can hardly be ascertained. Every dog should certainly h;--.ve lii dues.' And who is benefited? Why everybody, of course." We must conclude that it was be cause the bill was passed by a "fanner legislature." The six per cent, interest bill will be passed by the next legisla ture. There will be no praise then, either, but it is not because our Staty editors are money-lenders None or them own raiiroaos. either, . ut tr'.v act as if they were hurt in the f ran sac actions along this line h.' thoftf terrible editors. They ar- die.-idlia-Indeed they are. If you say a v-era against millionaires they go wild )' none of them are millionaires-. lx il is it? r. i