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THE INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF OUR PEOPLE PARAMOUNT TO ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS OF STATE POLICY.
Vol 6.
RALEIGH, N. C, JANUARY 12, 1892.
No. 46
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PEO GEESSIYE
FAEMEjR.
1
THE NATIONAL FARMERS' ALLI
ANCE AND INDUSTRIAL
UNION.
t- resident L. L. Polk, North Caro
una. Addreee, Atlantic Building, F
St.. N. W., Washington, D. C.
Vice President H. I. Loucks, Huron,
South Dakota.
Secretary-Treasurer J. II. Turner,
vJ-eorgia. xVddress, 239 North Capitol
t., N. W., Washington, D. C.
Lecturer J. H. Willetts, Kansas.
EXECUTIVE BOARD.
J. W. Maeune. Washington, D. C.
lonzo Wardali, Huron, South Da
kota. 1. F. Tillman, Palmetto, Tennessee.
JUDICIARY.
A. A. Cole, Michigan,
R. W. Beck, Alabama.
M. D. Davie, Iventucky.
NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE.
L. L. Polk, 'hairman.
C. W. Macune, Washington, D. C.
Matin Page, Brandon. Va.
L. P. Featherstone, Forest City, Ar
kansas. V. F. Gwinn, White, Tennessee.
v.i:XII CAROLINA FARMERS STATE ALLI
ANCE. President Marion Butler, Clinton,
N. C.
Vice-President T. B. Long. Ashe-
vide, N. C.
Secretary-Treasurer W. S. Barnes,
Italeisrh. X. C.
Lecturer J. 3. Bell, Bras-town, N.C.
Steward C. C. Wright, Glass. N. C.
Chaplain Iter. E. Pope, Chalk
Level, N. C.
Door-Keeper W. H. Tomlinson,
-"ayetteville, N. C.
Assistant Door-Keeper II. E. Kmg,
eanut. N. C.
Sergeaiit-at-Arms .1. S. Holt, Mialk
fveh N. C.
State Busine Agnt - Vv .11. Worth,
ilaleigh. X. C.
Trustee Business Agency Fund - .
a. Graliam, Maehpelah. N. C.
XF. run VI (X0UM1TTEE OF THE NORTH
'.-MIOLIITA FARMERS' STATE ALLIANCE.
i). Alexander, Charlotte, N. C,
rhairman; J. M. Mewborne, Kinston,
N" C. : J. S. Johnston, Ruflin, N. C.
TATH ALLIANCE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE.
Ellas Carr, A. Ix-azer, N. M. Cul-fe-reth,
M. G. Gregory, Win. C. Connell.
TATE ALLI ANCE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE.
U. J. Powell, Raleigh, N. C. ; N. C.
Ungiish, Trinity College: J. J. Young,
IV'ienta; II. A. Forney, Newton, N. C.
North Carolina Reform Press Association.
-Otlrr r. L,. lictrfsey, Irexident ;
Marion Bailer, Vice President ; II'. &.
.Values. Secretary,
PAPERS.
rociesive Frmr, Stat 00 an, HaMli, N. C.
0ucasian, Vli'.1,on' U'
Rural Heme, , il"ii, N. J,.
Watchman, fc.aii-.hury, N. .
farmers' Advocate, larhoro, N. .
Mountain Home Journal, Asheyille, . I .
Alliance Sentinel, GuMro, N. t;.
Country Lite, Trinity ;.leK. . '
Mercnrv, Hickory, . e .
Rattle-- Wliitakrt-. N. C.
Agricultural Rpe, ,li,1,1.dsb".)1r1 Jv
Columbus Weekly News, Y luteville, .. e .
Each of the above-named papers are
requested to keep the list standing on
the Jirst page and add others, provided
they are duly elected. Any paper fail
iv.Q to advocate the Ocala platform will
fje dropped from the list promptly. Our
leop!e can now see trhat pApers are
whb'xhed in their interest.
DOES
MONEY NEED A RE
DEEMER ?
Demand and Supply Fixes the Value of
Money What Should Money
be Based on?
Mr. Editor: Does mouy need a
redeemer? If so why so? Why redeem
one kind of money in another kind
if each kind can be made to perform
all the functions of money?
Will any one dispute the fact that a
full legal tender United States note will
performs all the function of gold as an
exchange in our domestic commerce?
What funoiion will a gold do'lar pe r
form? Pay taxes, duties make ex
changes and pay import duty. A full
legal tender Unite I States note will
perform every one of these. Who will
dispute this? We offer one hundred
dollars for proof to the contrary. Can
we get a response from the goldite?
Dear reader, we will wait until dooms
day and receive no reply. There is not
an intelligent goldite in the United
States but knows a full legal tender
paper dollar will perform every func
tion of a gold dollar. "But paper
money will not pay balance of trade? '
Neither will a gold dollar. Bullion
(gold) will pay balance of trade. Gold
bullion will not perform any of the
functions of money. It must be mined
and mad 3 money by the hat ot tiie
government. Tne government corns a
gold dollar, pays it to government
officials. He expends it for country
produce at the store, the retailer buys
provisions of the farmers, the fanner
pays it to the retailer for goods, the
retailer p iys it to the wholesale man
and the wholesale pavs it to tne mi
nor ter and the importer pays it to tne
government on import duty. Hasn t
the government redeemed im nu t
it performed tneiuucuoa it 'w
to perform? . .
The irovernment issues a iuu legai
tender United States note, pays it to
an official, he buys provisions of the
retail store, the retailer ouys prouuoe
of the farmer, the farmer pays his
ceots at the retail score, me retauei
Pays it to the wholesale man, the whole
ale man pays it to the iaiporter, the
importer pays it to tne goveruuiom uxi
port duties and the government has
redeemed it. The full legal tender
Pper dollar has performed every tunc-
id dollar.
sic value."
As an exchanger of taIu it poe
no more intrinsic value than a full
legal tender paper dollar. A full legal
tender paper dollar will buy as much
.and pay as much debt as a gold dollar.
The gold dollar only has intrinsic ralue
when converted into bullion and used
in the arts. "Gold dollar can be used
in the arts and the papr dollar can
not.' This proves the paper dollar is
the best. What do we make money
for? To assist in making our exchange.
The dollar that is always in reach when
wanted is the best as a medium of ex
change. Tne pap.u- dollar v ill never
desert you. The gold dollar is liable
to be used in the arts and exported as
bullion. The idea of redeeming one
kind of money in another had its
origin in seltisnnss. It was originated-
by rubbers to rob the toiiing millions
and is supported aiad upheld to day by
the ame robber class.
This robber scheme has destroved
ev e.y nation of any note. It has stood
in Uie way of every civilization, and
to day they completely block the
wheels of progress. There was a time
in the history of civilization when gold
and silver would perform all ex
changes. As civilization advanced the
vvants increased and gold and silver no
longer could furnish enough of the
m- aiuai of exeiiange. i'nis called tor
something else to supplement trie
pivcioiw metals. It was then th'
cupidity of man conceived the idea of
issuing his promises to pay ( iebt) and
redeeming in gold and silver These
promises to pay cost the bankers less
than one fourth ot one p-T cent. They
issued three of their promises'to pay to
one ot coin stored in their strong box.
The banker owned twenty thousand
dollars in coin and issued sixty thou
sand dollars of his promises to pay
(debts) and loaned them to the people.
By this problem producers drew in
terest ni forty thousand dollars more
than he owned. The interest was high
and accumulation soon absorbed or
demonstrated the wealth of the nation
into a few hands.
' But we want money based on some
iliing.'' Wh.it da you want monev
for? To pay debts, taxes and mate
exehangvs. Money that will perform
ail the functions will circulate unques
tioned. Money baed on the wants ot
the people. It is the wants of the
people that calls into existence money.
They want it to exchange the products
! their labor. As their wants increase
they will need more of it to meet in
created demands. These wants will
continue as lon as our civiliz ition
exists. This nn'iie' will be go d as
long as th' wealth of the nation exists.
Money is the nature of law called into
exi-t-hee because of cur wants, and is
baed on our wants and u t enfold
and .-ilver. This being a t'a a, there is
no necessity for a re;ietner. There
never was any necessity lor a redeemer
and never would have been had i- not
been for the selfishness of man Tr;e
system is perpetuated to day to create
the dem nd for gold on whi m the
goldites have a corners) they may
.-jqueeze more of the necessaries and
luxuries of life into their goldddiars
and all their evidences ot indebtedness
held against the people. In twenty
rive years they have doubled the pur
chasing power of their gold.
Peuiand and supply fix?s the value
of money. Money is governed by the
law of demand and supply, the same
as every other article entering into
commerce. If we need fifty dollars
pa capita to carry on our internal
commerce it makes no difference
whether this is all gold or all full legal
tender paper money. Tne value of
each as a medium ot exchange is
governed by the law of demand e.nd
supply. The demand calling for firty
dollars p"r capiti fixes the value of
each as an exchanger of the nrcess ari-s
and luxurie-iof life and not them iterial
out of which they arc mad Toe
paper is the best of the two n"al is by
far the safest. Paper will not srray
from home while gold ii !l irs will
often flee the country. Paper will
maintain a uniform volume. Other
tilings being equil, prices will be uni
form. G Ad will leave the country
and bring about a contraction of money
and reduces values. Gobi go-s and
come, contracts and inflates and is a
disturber of values and imperils every
industry. Paper is more consistent,
performs every function of gold, stays
at home, maintains a uniform volume
and prices and is free from all the
elements of panic resulting from con
traction, and it cannot be manipulated
by legislation like gold. Tne panics of
1837, IS 17, 1857, and at different periods
of our hi-tory was precipitated by the
export of gold and silver to pay balance
of trade. Thso panics inflicted losses
of billions of dollars upon oar best
business men increased crime and
poverty retarded our civilization.
These panics were brought byr legisla
tion in the interest of this money devil.
An exchange of value composed ex
clusively of full legal tender money
would be free from this disturbance as
it would not be subject to export and
import.
It is impossible to have a uniform
volume of money based on or redeem
able in coin, or when any portion of
our money is composed of coin. A
nation needs so much money to carry
on their internal commerce. The
money not subject to export is the best
and perfectly safe and free from panics
if issued and controlled exclusively by
the government. Specie had its day
and should have passed out of use
when a nation had emerged from
birbarism. The system is a relict of
the sober past. A specie system will
not answer to the age of steam, elec
tiou performed by the gold
"But a gold dollar hu intrinsic
tricity, railroads and mammoth ma
chinery and a high civilization. It
answered to the ag of the slow coach
and a low civilization. Railroad and
telegraph have brought the people into
(dose communion is quickening every
faculty of the mind and as the mind is
developed, the wants increase in the
same ratio. To supply these wants we
must hare a full volume of money
that is stable in volume aud will give
uniform values subject to change of
demand supply. The precious metals
as a medium of exchange is a& unstable
and as uncertain as the winds The
domestic money of the future will be
full legal tender United Srates notes
issued in sufficient quantity to do the
business of this country on a cash
basis. Had we had this system we
would not have had any pan cs caused
by the export of specie. Our specie
would have been in gold and culver
bricks. The taking of this bullion out
of the country would not have brought
a panic; ne'tner would it have effected
prices brought ruin and distress. In
fact this system would have acted likf
the seven hundred and fifty million
dollars issued by France a'ler the Ger
man war, vice stimulated prixtuction
of wealth. The surplus we would have
sold to other nations and then have
had a steady influx of gold and silver.
Having no use for this, hut m the arts
we would have exchanged this bullion
for the products of other countries.
Fn e l from panics our business men
would invent their all; production
would g'-eatly increase and consump
tion also. Our wealth would greatly
expand. Our people would have the
necessaries and luxuries of life. The
demanl in the arts for the precious
metals would soon double and treble
and consume the products of our
mines. It would not effect the value
of bullion unless some great stores of
the preei ms metal are discovered.
Other things being equal, the volume
of .money determines priees. This
being a fact, this nation will never be
satisfied until we have a stable volume
of money and as specie is subject to
export and import. There can be no
stable volume of money with specie
entering into our domestic money.
This bjmg true, there is nothing cer
tain than m the near future the money
transacting the business of the coun
try will be conmosv-d exclusively of
full legal tender United States notes.
Tnis country must come to this. We
must cut loose from all that ties us to
the money devil of Europe. We must
not be tied to the decay ing monarchical
governments of Europe that are des
tined in the near future to pass through
the throes of levoluti .i thit ill im
pov-rish the people and end in the
etahlishni' nz of republics. As long as
we are ti'd to specie we will be mad"
to suffer with the king aristocracy and
priest ridden countries of Europe. We
are happily situated. The nation
near st sef-sustaining is the most hide
peed ait. As a nation we can produce
a greater variety and will have to
import lc-s thau any other nation to
supply our wains. What we hive we
will not h we to buy. Everything we
e in produce in sufficient qu antity to
do us we will reserve to American
labor, whether it be on the farm or in
the factory ..Wre will have free trade
at home. We will not permit any
class to practice extortion Every in
du-try shall have the privilegeof fixing
reasonable prices on the products of
their labor. Corporation will be made
the servai.ds of the people. Bsing the
nearest self sustaining, we will h ive to
buy less of other nations to supply our
wants. This will dump the precious
metals of the world into our lap for
us to exchange for what we want.
Having no use for the precious metals
as a medium of exchange, and being
nearer self sustaining than any other
nation, and a steady influx of precious
metals,, we will be able to command the
situation. All countries using gold and
silver of exchange must bid for our
surplus gold and silver to coin into a
circulating medium. The country
giving us the most; of their products of
labor will get it. Asa nation we will
bear the same rel ition to others that
the money power bears to our indus
tries, We can compel them to pay
tribute to us. We can squeez 1 more of
the necessaries aud luxuries of life into
gold and silver bullion. We will not
need the gold and silver flowing into
the country. They must have it as
long as they- use th-j precious metals as
a medium of exchange
The impoverishment resulting from
this specie system of Europe will create
discontent among the masse?, as the
same system has created discontent
among the f armers and industrial class.
It will lead to organization, disunion
of economical question as is going on
in this country ho t among the wealth
producers. This will bring about a revolution,
overthrowing the monarchies and
titled aristocracy, and the establish
ment of a financial system free from
specie. It is a fact, a nation learns
faster great economical truths under
oppression that when prosperous. It
was oppression that led to the French
revolution and ended in the establish
ment of the republic. It was oppres
sicn that precipitated our revolution
and ended m a republic. It is oppres
sion that is forcing the farmers aud
laborers to combine, and ic will end in
their industrial freedom European
nations must learn as we have learned.
They must suffer ere they will break
the chains that holds them in slavery.
Tais nation must have a financial sys
tem that will made us independent of
all other nations. We must not com
pete with monarchial and aristocracy
rid European countries. We must not
compete with low civilizations to get
gold to resume specie payment. We
must not pass through another resump
tion act to get gold to resume. We
must not compel our farmers to com
pete with ignorant and pnx)rly fed and
pni i peasantry of Russia to get gold to
resume specie payment. A country
with a high civilization cannot compete
with a low civilization Neither cm
well paid labor compete with cheap
libor. As long as we have a specie
basis we will be compelled to compete
with Russia and other countries for
English gold. It takes one hundred
and thirty live millions in gold each
year to pay English money lord4. To
get this gold hack, we must compete
with pauper labor of other countries
Exclude specie as money make all
our domestic exchanges in full legal
tender U S. notes. Stimulate produe
duction as in France, ) ay our foreign
debts and free ourselves from English
domination.
This great reform can only be brought
by a realignment. The industrial class
must be united to succeed. Divided,
y a are doomed to suffer in the near
future. The leaders of the two old
political parties are controlled by the
soulless money devil. They are array
in c; one industrial class against another.
Their study is how to keep the in hi
tri d c!as3 divided, so as to perpetuate
to . sway of the money kings. Neither
party makes any proposition that
kx ss to the removal ot existing op
predion The present robber credit
sy-em will continue as long as the
two old pirtiesof hate face each other.
One party cries ''protection," when
th'-re is no protection The other cries
"robbery " when there is no robbery.
Neither party can bn trusted to settle
any question, not even the t trill ques
tion. it is impossible to concentrate
the industrial class into either one of
tha political parties. This bitterness
And hte has made this impossible.
Wat use have the people for the two
oklma 'hines! Tne 'people make par
ti and they can unmake them and
establish another in their place. One
that has a brain and heart that throbs
with their own.
What can you do with such elements
as Cleveland Hill and hundreds of
others in the Democratic party? When
do they sympathize for your woes?
What proposition have they ever made
looking to your relief? Are they not
the champion of the money devil? This
is equally true of the Republican lead
ers.' Not one of them is in sympathy
with the producing class. Politically
they are dishonest and treacherous to
the wealth producers. Deliberately,
for office, they conspire to sell the
people to the money kings of Europe.
T.lli labor movement did not come
too soon and it cannot chrystalize its
financial principles into law too soon,
it can only succeed by uniting the in
dustrial class. You never can succeed
by making war on the manufacturers.
Concentrate your forces and crush
the money devil. The writer is op
p xsad to the whole specie system, lie
arrived at this conclusion after candid
and impartial inves tigation. I he
writer's interest lie3 principally in gold
mines. The reader, knowing thi3 to be
the fact, cannot charge him with
prejudice against precious metals as
material out of which to make a
medium of exchange. Every position
taken will stand the crucial test. We
challenge the world's criticism. We
have no favors to ask of anyone. In
the in eresfc of truth and hum inity we
will criticize and assail hoary-headed
wrongs.
The farmers are being robbed, the
la-borers ar being robbed by this hoary
head sinner the money- devil, and the
leaders of both parties and thir organs
have sold themselves for office and
their emoluments.
Would you be free men? Then sek
your brother laborers an 1 council with
them. Extend the circulation of your
reform papers. Get The Progressive
Farmer into the hands of all your
neighbors. Mike this a specialty-. The
enemy is powerful and aggressive.
You must be equally aggressive. You
have the truth on your s'do. AH the,
leading politicians concede this. They
ouly fight you because they fear the
money devil more than they- do you.
If they believed you meant business,
they would be found to morrow cham
pioning your claims. They- have fooled
and cajoled you before in the interest
of the m oney devil, and they expect to
do it again. Wdl they ? We will see.
JaTmes Murdock
A MODEL ALLIANCE.
Banks, N. C.
Mk. Editor: Hollands Alliance, No.
1,661, has been in successful operation
about three years. We have about
forty members, male and female, a
number of whom were the first to join
the Order in the central part of the
State, and tried, true and never fail.
We have other good working members ;
in fact we all stand squarely upon the
Ocala platform, as was democstrated
bur. a short time ago. A meeting was
called to discuss the Sub-Treasury
plank of said platform, which was
ably responded to by several appointed
on both sides and exhaustively dis
cussed, after which the following reso
lution was unanimously passed by us
in full meeting.
Re-rolvcd, That we, the members of
Hollands Alliance, No. 1,664, do heartity
eudorse the proceedings of the Ocala
convention, togetaer with all the de
mands of the Alliance, and especially
the Sub Treasury plan, or "something
betrer."
So you sse, Mr. Editor, we have the
unanimity and the backbone, and will
go with the rank -and file to victory or
to death. Fraternally,
Q. L. B. P3urr, Sfee'y.
"THAT TERRIBLE TARIFF."
Mr. Editor: I have been a constant
reader of your paper for two or more
years, and have taken a deep interest
in the many frank and earnest utter
ances of the farmers, which gives com
plete evidence of their sincerity and
honesty in the search for the truth con
cerning matters pertaining not only- to
their own individual interests but to
the general welfare of the whole
country.
In your issue of December 1st is an
article headed " That Terrible Tariff "
which should inspire new hope and
courage in the breasts of all farmers,
seeing that its author exhibits so much
earnestness in an honest search for the
truth. The writer's logic is sound and
infused with a commendable enthusi
asm, but yet he is not quite willing to
allow the full force of his own apt and
well selected illustrations.
For example, lie shows conclusively,
by the facts, that as soon as Bes-emer
t 'cl got the advantage of a high pro
tective tariff it fe!i rapidly in price and
v- ry soon entered his " third class," all
articles in which are produced m suffi
ei.ait quantities to supply our own
markets, and the competition in which,
by reason of such high protective tariff,
forces down prices. Why should .Mr.
Murdock advocate a tanlf 41 for reve
nue only" on articles in his "second
class" when he has proved so conclu
sively that a high protictive tariff, as
in the case of Bessemer' steel, will
transfer them to his 'third class"
where, competition at homo will rapid
ly bring down the price, and thus force
the foreign manufacturer to pay the
tariff tax? Why phould he want a
tariff "for revenue only-" when he
know-, in that cav e, there will be no
home competition to bring down
prices and the foreigner will not only
keep up his extortion but force ottr
people to pay the tariff tax?
Mr. Murdock realizes fully the great
ness of our country, and its almost
limitless resources, and arguesrightly,
in regard to wool and other products,
that we should hold to a line of policy
that will make us self sustaining and
independent of the rest of the world,
in order to keep the balance of trade in
our favor. This policy he emphasizes
very forcibly by- the statement of the
fact that, white Bessemer steel was
under a tariff "for revenue only," the
price to American cent-timers was $150
per ton, but as soon fas a high protec
tive tariff was imposed, home competi
tion forced the price rapidly down
until now it is quoted as low as $2S per
ton', and Mr. Murdock says less than
the tariff :ai itself.
Mr. Murdock still further emphasizes
his belief in a high protective tariff by
srat-ing that the competition among our
own manufacturers of calicoes, domes
tics, etc.. has forced down the price of
these articles even to 1 ss than the tariff
tax upon them. And thus our friend
and brother plants himself fairly and
squarely in the impregnable fortress of
industrial independence, and yet to my
surprise still has a longing for the flesa
pots of Egypt a tariff "for revenue
only."
But it was the bold challenge made
in that able arrd instructive article that
attracted my especial attention.
After stating that the Canadian
farmer who brought his wheat over
the line was compelled to pay the
tariff tix of 20 cents per tmshel. Mr.
Murdock says: "The tariff on these
articles are not a tax, neither does the
American farmer realize one cent from
it. Here the tariff neither protects or
helps any one (One hundrrd dollars
to any Democrat or Republican who
will refute this.")
I accept the challenge. And here is
the refutation An examination of the
statistics of anports from Canada to
the United States will show that, in
years pa-t, they were large and impor
tant, not of whest only but of corn,
oats, hay, butter, cheese, eggs and
many other farm and garden products,
besides horses, cattle, hogs and sheep
Mfiny years ago the import trade of
Canada was considered eo important
that Congress arranged a treaty of
reciprocity with that country which
remained in force nearly, if not quite,
up to the late war. Since them Can
adian imports have grown so much as
to compete, injuriously, all along a line
of several thouvmd miles, with Ameri
can farm products. But this injurious
competition has now almost ceased on
account of the tariff tax, which has
been increase el, on wheat from 20 to 25
cemts per bushel ; on barley from to
30 cents; corn, from 10 to 15 cents; corn
meal, from 10 to 29 cents; oats, from
10 to 15 cents; flour, from 3 per cent,
to 15 ad valorem; butter, from 4 to 6
cents per pound ; cheese, from 4 to 6
cents; hay, from $2 to $4 per ton; pota
tees, from 15 to 25 cents per bushel;
horses, from 20 per cent, ad valorem to
$30 per head ; cattle, from 20 per cent,
to $10 per head; hogs from same to
1.50 per head, and a large number of
other minor articles in like proportion,
while eggs, which were formerly on
the free list, are now subject to a tariff
tax of 5 cents per dozen
Such is the tariff tax upon Canadian
products, which practically and abso
lutely secures and holds the American
market for the American farmer; and
it "protects" and "helps" him and he
realizes not "one cent from it." but
thousands upon thousands of dollars
annually. How? Upon the simple and
univeraally acknowledged principle of
demand and supply. The tariff euta
off, almost entirely, the Canadian im
ports, and to this extent lessens the
supply upon the American market,
thereby increasing the demand for
American farm products tet itm asd
thus securing to the American farmer
higher prices.
Air. Murdock truly says that Canada
"has a better market where she pays
no tariff," but that market is distant
and costs considerable freight charges
to reach it, end the American farmer is
not willing to pay this freight on the
Canadian surplus. He can reach the
same foreign market on an exact equal
ity with the Canadian farmer, but he
only wants to pay the 'freight on his
own surplus, and he is thus benefited
by- the tariff tax, because it forces the
Canadian farmer to pay his own
freights to foreign marke'ts, and pre
vents him from unloading his surplus
upon our market, in which ease we
would be forced to pay the freight upon
the Canadian surplus to a ft. -reign
market.
Evidently the American farmer is
greatly benefited by this tariff tax on
Canadian imports of wheat as well as
other articles mentioned, find Mr. Mur
doek's own logic irresistibly enforces
Mich a conclu-i- n, even without, as I
think, the candid reader will admit the
complete refutation above given.
My object, however, was not to en
gage my- friend and brother in a con
troversy up' n the tariff, but. to t-ecure
the hundred dollars, which I think has
b- en fairJv won, and to eomniene him
for his able efforts to divert the atten
tion of our brother farmers frem the
comparatively unimportant tar ff i s ic
to the all absorbing and foremot ques
tioned A nienean politics, te wit: Finan
cial ref .rm, on which, in numerous
issues of Tub: Progresmve Farmer, he
has so ably and brilliantly o cupied th
field. Kurrs Amis.
LETTER FROM A FAR MER'S WIFE
CVKRITUVK C. H., N. C.
Mr. Editor: I reael your paper
every week, and see letters from many
counties but very few fiom Currituck
and none from Crawford Alliance. I
do no: think they write to your paper.
I do not belong to it myself; they do
not admit ladies in Crawford Lodge;
they think themselves above them ; it
is the only Lodge in the county that
eloes not.
The State and district lecturers spoke
at Crawford Lodge on the 15th ult.,
and would you believe it, they hsd to
walk from the station, a distance of
seven miles. I think it a di grace to
Currituck.
I think highly of the Alliance myself ;
I think it is the right thing at the right
time; they- may carry their point
on the eve of election. Some people
say that, it was commenced too soon.
I rtirpcse they wanted them to wait
until after election, so the money bugs
could get a president to suit them
t e) . ves. I thh k they have power enough
over the laboring classes now.
The poor down trodden farmer has
been under foot long enough. I think
it is time for him to have some privi
lege. They hve to werk harder and
economize more than any other branch
of industry, it seems to me, and yet
t he money kings ay that is why- they
do not get along any better, if they
hael to try it awhile they would find
out. Some talk of over production.
If they were to travel among the work
ing clashes througheait the land, they
would find plenty of half starved, half
clad people, who, if they had the
money, would be endy too glad to buy
the produce, unel use it, instead of
sending so much to foreign countries.
I believe the farmer that owns the
land has W work harder now, and gets
less money, than the renter, feor he has
to keep his land fenced, ditched, pay
the taxes, and hirelings. Heow can a
firmer pay living wages for hands,
when he gets such a poor hying for
himself? He cannot get enough hands
to carry- on farming at euch wages as
he can affen'd to pay. It is hard werk,
hard living to get along. It i no
wonder so many are leaving their
farms and going to the cities, they can
do better at any other calling.
A Farmer's Wife.
NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that the great
conference of producers to be held Feb
ruary 22, 1892, will meet in the city of
St. Louis, instead of Washington, D.
C., as previously announced.
Bkn Terrell,
Chairman of Committee.
In connection with the above the fol
lowing extracts from a letter written
by II. E. Taubeneck, member of the
committee, to Mr. Terrell, are of in
terest. The city authorities and the mercan
tile club have takem the responsibilities
in their own hande. First they offered
us the exposition building, with six or
eight large rooms for committees, free
of charge. Next thsy appointed a
committee of thre e to seeu e reduced
hotel rates. Mr Morgan, of Arkansas,
was added to this committee. They
will make a list of all the hotels in St.
Louis, with the rates opposite each
hotel. This list will be published in a
few weeks, then our friends can go to
whatever place they like. In regard
to raiiread rates, we will seeure one
fare for the round trip. It whs kit in
the har.ds of the St. Loui tramo com
missioner. Also all editors of reform
papers will receive transptti tation for
advertisement. St. Louis is the oaly
place outside of Louifeviile which is
able to take carecf a large colored dele
gation in the way of hotel accommoda
tions. It has been suggested that the
executive committee of each organiza
tion select one hotel for their head
quarters, and that the committee be in
St. Louis two days before the 22nd of
February, to take charge of their own
delegate.
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