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X THE PROGRESSIVE FABMER : NOVEMBER 17. 1881. THE FRO&RESSIYE FARMER. L. L. POLK. Editor and Proprietor. J. L. RAMSEY, - Associate Editor. J.W. DENMARK, - Business Manaq'r. Raleigh, N. C. SUBSCRIPTION single Subscriber, One Year $ 1.25 Six Months 75 ifive Subscribers, One Year 5.(M Ten " One Year 10.00 One copy one year free, to the one sending Club f Ten. Cah Invariably in Advance. Money at our risk, if sent by registered letter r money order. Flcate don't tend xtam p. Advertising Rates quoted on application. To Correspondents : Write all communications, designed for publi cation, on one side of the paper only. We want intelligent correspondents in every jounty in the State. We want fact of value, re sults accomplished of value, experiences of value, plainly and briefly told. One solid, demonstrated act, is worth a thousand theories. All checks, drafts or money orders inteuded 'or this paper should be made payable to The Progressive Farmer. Address all correspondence intended fr.r this paper to The Progressive Farmer, Raleigh, x.c. RALEIGH, N. C, NOV. 17, 1891. Thi iaper entered a teamd-cla matter at the Post Office in Italeiah, N. C. 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 communication published ? If so, give us your real name and your postoffice. In writing to anybody, always be jure to give the name of your postoffice, and sign your own name plainly. Our friends in writing to any of our advertisers will favor us by men tioning the fact that they saw the advertisement in The Progressive Farmer. EW The date on your label tells you when your time is out. N. R. P. A. THE LAST CALL. Three iceelcs ago we announced in this space that all subscribers in arrears after the 10th of November would be dropped from our list, and that all who tcould pay up by the first of November all back dues, and a dollar for another twelve months ivoul I get the paper to Jan uary 1st, 1S0S. Since. making this announcement and proposition, ice have received letters from several Secretaries, asking us to please give them two weeks more, and prom ising to see their brethren and secure their renewals if we would. As there have come so many of these requests and so urgent, we have decided to run the proposition to December 1st, 1S91, after tvhich time the paper will only go to paid up subscribers. We are anxious to do all ire can for ther brother hood, but we cannot run the paper ivithout pay. - EDITORIAL NOTES. Mr. Donald McLeod, formerly of Raleigh, now of the Suffolk, Va., Her ald, spent a part of last week in the city. As the farmers pay 80 per cent, of the taxes, it looks like they might go into politics and be "calamity howlers " if they want to. Hon. W. A. B. Branch, the able Representative of the First Congres sional District in the next Congress, was in the city last week and paid this offie a visit Branson's Almanac for 1892 is just out. It tells all about the Zo diac, the changes of the moon, the eclipses and contains a good deal of in teresting matter besides. There is a few so called members of the Alliance in North Carolina who bitterly oppose the Alliance platform. But for every one of these there is sev eral hundred who are as true as steel. One Sub-Alliance in Alabama has disbanded because the "Alliance de mands are wrong." Sixteen hundred have not disbanded because they are right. That is terrible. Johnny get your gun! A rich tin mine has been discov ered in California, and the discoverer is a Democrat. This will give McKin ley a new start, and we may look for wonderful developments along the tin path, says an exchange. This issue of The Progressive Farmer contains more resolutions by County Alliances, and they have not all been published yet. Now if these County Alliances mean anything they will "vote as they pray." Now it is said that the Democrats and Republicans of Louisiana have joined hands to help the Louisiana Lottery concern. Why ? Because the honest farmers of the State are trying to down the great corrupt thing. Money, is not property, it is a creature of law. Yet we pay $1,400, 000,000 annually in interest. We pay $625 000,000 every year as a tariff tax. rvu 'difference between the two sums is seven hundred and seventy-five mill ions j Attars. Jefferson saia mone should be furnished at cost. Yet we aie fighting over the tariff every day and paying the above sum in interest. Let the campaign slogan hereafter be "free money vs. high interest." The monopoly press say that the Sub-Treasury is killing the Alliance. If good sweet milk and bread will kill a healthy 15-year-old boy, then the Sub-Treasury will be the end of the Alliance. And it ought to die. Mr. Orville Griffin, of Sandy Hill, N. Y., has been at the Exposition for some time. He will visit various sections of the State and write up the lumber and agricultural interests with the view of directing Northern capital this way. Bro. Robert M. Burns, of Pitts boro, a full blooded Allianceman, paid this office a pleasant visit last week, and reports the Alliance in Chatham in good trim and standing square on the Ocala platform, and more deter mined than ever. The Brooklyn Eagle says the "people are tired of politics." We don't blame them when we take into account the kind the old parties have been feeding the people on. The won der is that the people have not tired on such diet long long ago. Your Uncle Jerry Rusk, Secre tary of Agriculture, has sent out his report for this year. He assures us that he has done much to benefit agri culture and that the farmers are much better off than they were two years age. Oh ! Jerry, you are a dandy. A St. Joe, Mo., young lady said that another young lady was bow legged. The result is a suit for slander. The Laborers' Tribune thinks there is about as mu ;h ground for a quarrel in this affair as there is between the Re publican and Democratic parties. More people attended the Exposi tion last week than have any previous week There have been but few acci dents, and the visitors nearly all ex press themselves as well pleased. There is only two more weeks and no doubt many will seize the opportunity to visit the Exp sition during that time. Chauncey Depew says we pay England $120,000,000 annually in in terest. This is more than our mines produce. Why not make the next political campaign free money or low interest instead of "low tariff." Bet ter still, why not chip a good -sized slice off both the monsters? The Twin-City Daily is out again with the old chestnut about the mem bers of the Alliance in North Carolina being solid for Cleveland for President. We are not authorized to say who the farmers of North Carolina want for President, but we risk the opinion that the Daily don't know what it is talk ing about. The Business Agent is a new pa per just started by the State Alliance Business Agency. It will be devoted to the publication of matter directly concerning the agency. It will adhere to the Ocala platform in all its edito rial utterances, of course. Bro. S. Otho Wilson is editor of the paper. Success to it. John Sherman, of Ohio, has re fused to engage in a joint discussion of the " financial legislation of the past twenty-five years," with Mr. Seitz, who was the candidate for Governor on the People's party ticket in the recent election. Sherman says he is too old for such things. Perhaps he is "too old " to go back to the U. S. Sen ate, or too mean. A young lady who has justly won the reputation of being the most proficient stenographer in the State, remarked recently that she always used The Progressive Farmer in her practice "because the editorials and original articles are written better and are more interesting than are to be found in any other paper in North Carolina." That is solid endorsement. A gentleman delivering a speech held up a greenback dollar to the audi ence, and asked: "what is this? A dollar. A good dollar, good for the farmer, the merchant, mechanic,' the sailor, everybody. What makes it a good dollar Because every dollar's worth of property in the United States is behind it, and the life's blood of every true and loyal American citizen is behind it. And that makes it a good dollar. The gentleman made this speech at Skowhegan, Maine, in 1861 and his name is James G. Blaine. It was at a time when the money kings had not bought and paid for him, says the Western Watchman. ANOTHER ONE NAILED. Some days ago a dispatch was sent out to the daily papers saying that a bad fight had occurred at an Alliance meeting m Union county, Ark., in which two men were killed and several fatally wounded. It now turns out that there was no fight; no disturb ance of any kind. So another one is nailed. Re id the first article on the second page, headed "The Last Call," and send in your renewal. CORRUPT POLITICS. For some years there has been an independent element in politics in Ne braska. In the recent election one of the candidates for Supreme Court Judge was A. M. Post. He was the Republican candidate. All the force and resources of the two old parties were thrown to him and he was elected. This A. M. Post was charged with a heinous crime twenty years age. He was suspended by the Ma sonic lodge to which he belonged and left the locality where he resided to escape punishment. The same day he was elected a man was being tried in the courts of Nebraska for the same crime. Here are two pictures. One is a ma jority of the people of Nebraska striv ing to elect an outcast to the highest judicial office in the State, and they were successful. On the same day tin? courts of the State was trying, and did sentence to the penitentiary for yeai s, a man for the same crime the Supreme Court Judge they elected was guilty of. This state of affairs is terrible to con template. Send one man to the peni tentiary for a crime; elect the other to be Judge of the Supreme Co irt and he guilty of the same crime. One was as guilty as the other. One elected to one of the highest offices in the State ; the other goes to the penitentiary for life. What was the cause of it all? Poli tics, politics. Partisanship got the better of the people The Independent can iidate was a pure upright man. But he didn't suit the bosses. They were prejudiced against him because he was an independent. No doubt he would have done justice between man and man. But they didn't want that sort of a judge. They elected a crimi nal for Supreme Court Judge. They sent the other criminal to the peniten tiary for life. Moral: If you want to commit crimes you can do so and the parties will honor you. provided you stand well with them. WHAT DEFEATED CAMPBELL? There has been much speculation as to what defeated Campbell in Ohio. He did it himself, some say. Perhaps he did. Others think that the Eastern money men opposed him because he was an advocate of free coinage. An other reason assigned was that he was a possible candidate for the Presidency. The Eastern bankers do not want a Western man for that office. To a man up a tree it looks like Campbell is a better man than monop oly MKinley, but in a general way the country would not have gained much by the election of either. One was the tool of the whisk ey men, the other of the manufacturers. But how about this presidency business. Are the people of the South and West going to let New York name the candidate for President next year? Unless they arouse themselves and act sensible it will be done. If it is we will be just where we have been for the past twenty-five years in the soup. " POLK HANGED IN EFFIGY." The above words stand over a special telegram from Emporia, Kan., to the New York World, which says. 4 ' The Republicans to night celebrated their victory over the Farmers' Alii ance. An effigy of Polk was dragged through the street by a rope tied around the neck, and then hanged to a telegraph pole. It was afterwards burned." Now then ! Narrow-minded partisans and sectionolists will read these lines above with a tittilating and gurgling kind of exhilaration. The thoughtless class of citizens of Emporia who in vented this feature of the celebration will be gloriously commended by a similar class in the South. When it comes to efforts to insult the Alliance, all the hereditary animosities of North ern and Southern sectionalists, (the former so called Republicans and the latter so-called Democrats) melt away and they sing a jubilee together. Every man capable of knowing any thing and capable of guaging the gen eral situation will know that this was not an attempt to insult Col. Polk per sonally, to reflect on any word or action with which he can be truthfully credited; but every such man will know bitter sectional prejudice insti gated it in Emporia, and efforts of this kind on the part of the Western peo ple are the only ones i)y which they can t licit the commendation of the Southern enemies of the Alliance. All election dispatches from Kansas reported that the Democrats and Re publicans fused there to defeat the Al liance. The dispatch above does not mention Democrats, but, since it is known that they were in the combine to beat the Alliance, it may be safely assumed that they helped to celebrate the victory. By the way, what will a Southern Democrat think when he finds his Western conferee joining the Republi cans sq lare out? And what will the Western Republican think is going to happen when he hears a sectional Southern Democrat commending him for anything? What is Col. Polk's crime? Why he is the friend of the people and manfully stands by them, against corrupt par tisans, and he is also in favor of peace and fraternity between the sections. Villified and slandered by the partisans at home and burned in effigy m Kan sas by their abettors, friends and co workers. But it only endears Col. Polk to his true friends the more. He is not damaged by such conduct. But there are men in the South largely re sponsible for it. BE A MAN. One of the greatest brawbacks to the Alliance is a lack of courage. Not so much of physical courage as moral courage. Have courage to do right. Be a man. If you are not satisfied that the Alliance is a good thing, that the Ocala platform is right, withdraw from the organization at once. If you are satisfied that it is right, defend it, stand by your leaders and your reform papers. Be a man, be a woman. Work for its success, talk for it, en ;ourage the weak, secure recruits. A dead Al lianceman and a dead member of the church are to be despised. If you will not stand by your religion and your honest convictions as a citizen, you are a blot on civilization. Be a man. Don't let the politician with two hundred pounds of stomach and two ounces of brains warp and bias your mind. Don't let the editor who is the paid tool of monopoly and plutocracy, frighten you when he de clares that you are on the wrong track. If you agree with such people and speak through their trumpet, you are simply one of them. If your reform ideas do not correspond with theirs in every particular, that ought to be emphatic evidence that you are right. When a bad man opposes you, smile and say, "now I know I am right; I'll stick."" The professional politician or the partisan editor may not be a bad man. He may have some good stuff about him, but his teaching has been bad ; he has been in bad company; he has taught fa'se doctrines so long that he can see nothing wrong in it. A man can believe a bad thing is right so long that he becomes thoroughly convinced that it is right. Hence the world is worse off for such men having lived in it. Don't measure the situation by what any man may say. Think it out for yourself. If your financial condi tion is all that it ought to be, if you are getting good prices for your labor as a farmer, don't complain. But if you ars not, then kick and howl until you get what you ought to have. THE NATIONAL MEETING. The National meeting of the Alliance will be held at Indianapolis this week, beginning to-day. This will be by far the largest and most important meet ing yet held. Bros. Worth, of Raleigh ; Dr. Dalby, of Granville, left last week for the meeting. Capt. S. B. Alexander did not go owing to the sickness of his son Bros. Elias Carr, of Edgecombe ; W. R. Lindsay, of Rockingham, and W. L. Williams, of Cumberland, are the other delegates. Bros. J. J. Laughing house, J. II. Dunn, James Bond and N. C. English are alternates. Bro. English went instead of Capt. Alex ander. We trust that our delegates will represent North Carolina with credit to themselves and to the State. We want to say a word to our friends right here. Last year at Ocala a great horde of newspaper correspondents were gathered to 4 ' write up the meet- ing. Some of them were untruthful and sent all sorts of news out about the meeting. This will, no doubt, be done at Indianapolis. So we advise our friends to wait until the official proceedings are published before they make up their minds about what was done at the meeting. These correspon dents could not report the meeting cor rectly if they tried, for they cannot get inside, and they would not if they could. Wait until the facts are known. GROVER CLEVELAND. The last number of Capt. JohnR. Webster's paper contains a long edi torial showing why we don't need Grover Cleveland for President next year. Among other reasons he gives the following facts about Rockingham county : "In 1881 Cleveland carried this (Rockingham) county by 876 majoritv, four years afterwards he carried it by only 176 a loss in one county of 700 votes. Nominate him again and he will lose it bv a vote not less that, zan Watch the prediction !" No doubt the result would.be the same all over the country. Cleveland may have cords of backbone, but Wall street backbone is not in demand by the farmers of this country. The next President must have a backbone made of cornstalk syrup and hayseed. Allianceman, if you receive a sample copy of this paper, it is to remind you that you should send us one dollar and get it one year. ZEKE BILKINS. vui t;';;i:i' Tmi X m He Has Been Sick Betsy on the War path She Finally Becomes Reconciled. "Hello, Mr. Devil." D "All right, Mr. Bilkins, what can I do for you?" B " Oh! nothin', I'm better now." D " Have ou been sick?" B "Sick! Why, man sick is no name for it. I've had the rumatism an' toothache and a boil on the back of my neck. If you call that sick I'm done with you. I've bin erbout dead." D " Very sorry, Mr. Bilkins." B " Thank you. Hitch me on to the editor." R "All right, Mr. Bilkins. Your will shall be done." B 44 Well, I want ter know some thin' that will protect a married man when his wife gets on the warpath." R "Has Mrs. Bilkins been trying to intimidate you?" B "I don't know what you call intimerdation; but if raisin' old Nick is what you call intimerdation, . then that is what you are strikin' at." R "Tell me how it was." B " Well, you see a boil started to break out on neck, I took the tooth ache and the rheumatiz. I reckin' I was sorter crabbid an' Betsy she got riled and said things she oughtn' er sed. She sed my blood got bad since I had bin votin' for everybody except her and the children. She sed ev ery fool partisan ought to get all doubled up with the reumatiz. I wasn't in a good humor nohow an' I sassed her back and one word brought on another. I told her that the wimin' ought to do all the plowin' and horse swappin' and drink all the licker an' do the votin'. told her that they would turn the United States upside down in less than three weeks. Betsy said that she wasn't goin' to live with a crank any longer. She said a crank was a man you couldn't turn, because he was all crank and there was nothin' to turn, an' that a man who wouldn't turn in politics when he coul i save the coun try by . doing so, was a crank of the finest blood," R. "You and Mrs. Bilkins ought to compromise and live peaceably." B. " We have decided to do that When we got in a good humor we sorter kissed and made up an' I prom ised not to vote fer any man who is opposed to the Ocala platform. Betsy thinks that is the best thing in Amer ica except religion. So we are pacified and everything is smilin' now." R. "You acted wisely." B. "Has that address come to light yet?" R. " No, it has not been seen." B. "What was the trouble, any how? Why didn't they wait till next year an' issue the address to the peo ple? I can't see for my life why the campaign should be fought this year. Looks to me like they are gettin' the cart before the horse, or words to that effect." R "It will require a Solomon to explain that question." B. "You reckin the price of cotton will get enny better?" R. "It may go up a little, but there will be no marked change in the affairs of this country until the Sub Treasury or something of the kind goes into effect. The Bible savs that the Devil is to be loose for a thousand years at some period. He is out now roaming around and has got into the monopo lists, the politicians and the crop spec ulators. Every little politician in North Carolina has daily interviews with the Old Boy " and that is why they op pose the Sub-Treasury and other good things proposed. B. " I reckin you are right. Betsy says that is the trouble an' I hear other people talkin' that way, too. If we have to fight the Devil and the politi cians both at the same time, we have got a big job on our hands and we had better pull " off our coats an' go at it right now. Good bye." NORTH CAROLINA AHEAD. With all our faults and failings and with a State that has many advantages and some disadvantages, we now and then make a showing that any State ougnt to be proud of. Last week a type setting contest was neld in Atlanta at the Piedmont Expo sition. Printers from several States entered the contest. Mr. R. B. Elam, r of Charlottee, won the first nri line vjoruon joo press. Again it has been demonstrated tl North Carolina can and has ) some of the most expert men in m different professions. They U1.e tered all over the world, lmi,., is nothing that transpires that 1,-S VQ have a North Carolinian in jt nearly always to the credit of State. FARMERS' INSTITUTE Dr. D. W. C. Benbow, of ;,.f boro, writes lis that a "FariiwiV jn stitute" will be held in (it , !lSiJOro Dec. 2d and 3d, in Benbow Hall. This meeting is both for pi. ... nv profit. Dr. Reid Parker an 1 oti. speakers will be on hand, and ii-.n of vital interest will be diseu-sc . eminent agriculturists. A la - lJ V ''row, is expected and Dr. Benbow -,vs thev will be welcomed and everything to make the Ins itute pleasant an profitable. We return thanks fur ap invitation. - PRICE OF COTTON. We do not want to advise our friend? wrong, and hence have refrain .i from giving them much advice on the fjU(s. tion of disposing of the cotton crop-, and a small one it is. But our opinion is that c - tt3n will go up. It is quoted higher for the spring months than it is now sel!in, Everybody knows that cotton can't be raised at 7 and 8 cents. It will prove disastrous. But the remedy is in the hands of the people. The Sub-Treasurv is the most feasible plan for the f irmer to adopt, and if you can get private storage and advances on your cotton do it by all means until the plan can be made a law. SALE OF HIGH-BRED HORSES. The most interesting and successful sale of standard-bred horses that ever took place in this State occurred when Capt. B. P. Williamson, of thi city, held his second annual sale on V( clues day, the 11th inst. The following mares and colts were sold at the prices named: Rubine, by Franklin Chief, $315; John Baxter, by Franklin Chief, $280; Uncas, by Seneca Chief, mi: Gaity Grey, by Highland Grey, 2S0; Amy Carey, by Robert Medium. $100; Pearl Lambert, by Ben Franklin, $355: Belle Lucas, by Maryland Volunteer. $350; Belle Bagley, by Franklin Chief. $450; Minnie Wilkes, by Over-street Wilkes, $5S0. The total nine head sold for $3,510, making the average nearly $100 each. This, we think, goes to show the great value of raising high-class and well bred stock. They are always in demand, as the spirited bidding at this sale would indicate, and are every bit as cheap to raise as the commonest and most worthless "scrub." Capt. Williamson deserves the thanks of the State for being tt e pioneer in an enter prise which, if properly encouraged by our people, will result in untold finan cial good to them. A CESSPOOL OF CORRUPTION. . Rev. Sam P. Jones lectured in Ral eigh last Thursday night on how to 4 ' Get There. " Mr. " Jones is one of the most brilliant men in America. Many do not agree with his methods, hut he "gets there" himself every time. However, we did not start out to dis cuss the man, but to quote some of his life-like pictures of men and thinge. and no one will deny the fa;t that his opinions and observations are worth something. He said : "I might talk to you about how to 'get there ' politically. If I wanted to ruin a man for this world and the next, I would run him for office and have him elected. Politics is the worst cess pool of corruption this side of ovdi tion. A good man may go into office, but who ever heard of a good man coming out? There are old fools here now who howl about Democracy who wouldn't know Democracy if th-y met it coming down the road. The Alli ance has my sjTmpathy. They are good noble fellows, but they are like the Prohibitionists, they will never 'get there.' Every time the R-idieals ance and Prohibitionists act the fool. tried to pray for a politician once, ana I couldn't pray as high as I could sp A statesman is a dead politician."' Again speaking about the same mat ters he said: "The only difference between the Republican and De cratis platforms is the tariff andat is too small to mention." Again he said: "The Republican stand with a keg of whiskey on on shoulder and the negro on the other. while the Democrats sit astride the oax rel." He said he "could tell a Demo crat from a Republican because a Democrat always has a red nose. All of the above may not be ver palatable to the average partisan, tu very few will undertake to deny the truth of it. - Don't forget that if your label shores th.nl. imn rto 7.oJVir7 mi subscrij10 account Dec. 1st, your paper will surd! stop.
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