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fi ARMBR: MARCH 81892. THE PROGRESSIVE E J S . 5 .1 v ----- f i ' ill ECONOMY MONEY SHOULD BE PLENTIFUL. The Money Power Sapping the Morals of the Nation A Guardian Should be Appointed Our Best Business Men Bank rupted. The Man Who Wanted the Sub Treas ury, but Don't Want itNoiv. EOONOMT. Mr. Editor: When economy dwin dles into parsimony, it is detrimental. It is the dollar put into circulation that does society good. The dollar hoarded is, for the timo being, a? useless as if it was in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. To economize when we are able to consume, is to decrease consumption ; to decrease consumption means de crease 1 productioc, and decreased pro duction means unimployed labor or re duced prices all around. Our consump tion should be within our means, leav ing a surplus to invest in production To eqpnomizo so as to have capital to increase production is a virtue and will hasten the day of industrial indepen- dence. MONEY SHOULD BE PLENTIFUL. Money should bo plentiful so it would pav better to invest than to loan. Every dollar lo med draws the money out of the channels of trade to the extent of the interest accruing and adds to the cost of production. This is an unnecessary burden laid upon the wealth-producers. As long as the in terest on money is greater than the profit accruing from production of wealth, there will be a tendency to 1 we money. As money is always loaned on good security and runs no risks, while every industry takes risks, the preponderance is in favor of the money foaner, even though the interest on money did not exceed the profit on in vested capita?. With the preponder ance of certainty in favor of the money power, there is an increased tendency to divert money from the channels of trade to be loaned on first-class real estate. The tendency of such a system is to congest money into head centers. This congesting of money into head centers loads to gambling and specula tion in stocks and the farmer's pro duce. When money is plentiful in the channels of trade, all industries are producers aad there is less gambling in stocks and the farmer's produce. Money holders seek employment for their money. When it pays well to produce, it goes into the channels of tnde. When it does it is used to specu late on. Speculation and gambling are , the most rampant when money is con- gested at head centers. Tnis statement v is contrary to the prevailing idea of a ( plutocratic press, but nevertheless it is true. True political economy looks to T.np rpmAv riff nr r no iwirioti ti-rkm tha IJpack of industry. Our financial system I Dittoes an unnecessarv burden nnon the industrial class. It must give way to one ti-Siat does not. Tilt- '"fONEY POWER IS S A.PPINO THK 1 MORALS OP THE NATION. ine jmoney power 13- sapping the morale of the nation. Their financial systein impoverishes the people. They taKe advantage or the poverty created by this system and buy their votes to ! perpetuate this system that impover- - -1 il j Z.i t 11 r lilies Lii-ui, auu tnrougn mis noatmg and purchasable vote, control aU financial legislation. They are not only the foa of our industries, but they threaten our civilization with death. They are traveling the same road and using the same measures to accomplish tneir designs that destroyed every great nation of the earth. This re public cannot long survive and foster conditions that impoverish and degrade its voters. They have made millions of tramps and criminals. They have broadened the gap between the rich and the poor and have created a large clas3 of floating voters and can at any time buy hundreds of thousands of this class and transfer them from one of the old political parties to the other, and each year sees this class growing larger. It was the money power that first introduced this corruption into politics. The money power as now constituted is a standing menace to our republican institutions, and doe3 more than all others to retard industrial revolution. The speculating and gambling off of money, congested into head centers, keeps hundreds of mil lions of dollars out of the channels of trade, and the system robs our indua tries of one thousand millions of dol lars each year and retards production and consumption one-half. Nothing short of a union of the best elements of all parties can overcome this corrupt system and the floating vote they con trol. A GUARDIAN SHOULD BE APPOINTED. If a private individual permitted his agents to manages hi affairs as we per mit our representatives to manage ours, his friends would bring him before the court, try him for lunacy and he would be adjudged non compis mentis, and a guardian appointed to manage his business. Suppose the principal of a mercantile house -would allow his clerks to issue his credit, form a cor poration outside of the firm, loan the credit of the firm to this corporation at one per cent., then borrow it back at a per cent, twice as large as the firm could make off of it mortgage the firm for the amount of the credit loaned, make tho principle and interest payable in any other kind of money on which this corporation has a corner. Would not any court adjudge the prin cipal non, compis mentis and appoint a guardian to manage his business? Paralell. Our representatives cut up our credit made it necessary created j corporation outside of the channels of trade, loaned the credit of the peo- 4 pie to this corporation for ono per cent, and we have borrowed it back at all the way from six to forty per cent., mortgaging our property principle and interest payable in another kind of " money, on which this corporation has a corner, and the interest on this credit money, amounting to twice as much ?is .we can make off of it. Redor, don't you think tins nation should have a guardian appointed ? I s it any wonder the politicians refuse to do the will of the people who have per petuated such a financial system for npnrhr thirtv VfiftrST DUUU i uutt.LH.--ia system will ruin private individuals also the nation. PANICS RUIN OUR BEST BUSINESS MEN As it is the ships under full sail that are the easiest wrecked when the storm comes upon then so the best business men, who invest their all, are the ones who are financially shipwrecked wnen the storm comes upon them. As the ship sailing under close reafed sails are the best prepared for etjrm, so the men who imest cautiously and keep monej' in reserve are the beat prepared j r 1 a TU.. ?.- to resist nnancuu storms. iuc mi class employ men, push business and make this country what it is. The sec ond class are cautious and never push forward anv creat enterprise. It is a fact that our best and most enterpris ing business men are ruined during our financial storms. Kind reader, is it not a libel on our boasted intelligence when we continue a financial system that rums on uesi business men? All this can be obviated by substituting a financial system where every transaction is cash and every dollar deposited is guaranteed THH MAN WHO WANTED THE SUB TRKAS URY ONCE, BUT DOES NOT WANT IT NOW. I see the monopoly press of both nnrtips are rm blishinfr the old chestnut how a farmer in Alabama in 1807 made a lit.tlft fortune on the farmer and now hna 9 ssn lnrmed to his neighbors. He assures every farmer they can do the cnm and never borrow a dollar. He does not want any Sub Treasury now, thouerh he did once. We saw the same article going the round of the plutocrat Eress during the campaign 01 tne ureen ack party in 1876. only then the sue cessful farmer with money loaned did not want full legu tender greenbacks, though he did once. If such articles as these have any effect on the farmers, then they are fit subjects for slaves, and no wonder that Jay Gould says he can hire one half of the farmers to shoot down tno otner half. The class- that does not know that we cannot transact business with out money and does not know before that money can be got into circulation some one must mortgage tneir property under our present financial system, is about as ie:norant . as the benighted heathen. By the way, the man who reads nothing but the average Republi can and Democratic papers will remain in Egyptian darkness as to financial truths. The farmer who can lay up money to day must rob his back and his belly. 1 have seer a tew that have su cceeded but they were poorly clothed and ate that which others would net havt-. They belong to a class of skin dints and are a disgrace to a Hottentot civilization. The plutocratic press are quoting an anecdote gotten off by Gen. Sheridan in a Western campaign. There was one of tho ?e cranks, an old gentleman who believed that the government could put its stamp on a piece of paper, say inff this is a full legal tender for all debts, and it would be a dollar. He asked General Sheridan if thiswas not a fact and the General retorted by ask ing him if the government was to stamp him on the back, saying this is Daniel Webster, 11 thai would mate him Daniel Webster? This brought down the house. It showed the oe nighted ignorance of the audience and the low demagoguery of the General. Gold is not money until it receives the stamp of the government and is not a legal tender for anything until it re ceives the stamp. The paper is not a plegal tender for anything until it re ceives the government stamp and then it is a legal tender for all debts, public and private. The government has the constitu tional right to coin money and can choose the material out of which it will com money. The government cannot coin Daniel Webster. The Alliance must put missionaries in the field to educate these financial heathens and teach them we have a constitution that gives to the people, through their delegates, tho power to coin money out of any material, and hat the Supreme Court has so decided. There is but one remedy for this, and that is for every Alliance to push the circulation of the reform papers. The plutocrat papers are being sown broad cast and they are full of, misleading articles. Give the people the truth. If the Alliance would free their class rom slavery they must.press forward the education of the people. There is hundreds of millions in it. The writer offers ono hundred dollars as a premium to the party who will send the largest number of subscribers to Thb Progres sive Farmer during the year of 1892 James murdock. RESOLU HONS hY HARLEM ALLI ANCE, NO. 455. NASH CO, N. C. Mr. Editor: Your committee ap pointed at last meeting to draft reso lutions expressive of our sympathy with the demands of the Alliance and indorsement of its leaders, beg leave to submit the following: whereas, e have witnessed tor some time a centralization, that legis lation has been of such a character as to make rich rir.hpr and fhn nnnr poorer, until the burdens upon the farmers and laborers have become in tolerable. It is now evident that some action on their part is necessary. And whereas, we recognize in the principles of the Alliance and Industrial Union, if carried out, to be the remedy so much needed by us; and whereas, these principles and our leaders have been unjustly assailed by tho partisan press, and desiring to give public ex pression of our sympathy with the one and our indorsement of the other; therefore be it Resolved, in Harlem Alliance, Not 455, that we declare our unchangeable attachment to the platform of the Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union, and will do all in our power to carry them out. 2. That believing our leading men to bo honest and faithful, and actuated by patriotic motives, w a give them our cardial support so long as they prove themselves worthy 01 confidence. 3. Whereas, our Representative in Congress, Hon. B. H. Butn did pledge himself in the last campaign to support the Sub-Treasury bill and any other bill that the Alliance demanded ; and whereas these bills will soon come be fore Congress, Resolved, That our ballots were given in good faith to lion, is ii. Uunn, and that he be requested JiO do all in his power to pass said bill and to do all he can in every way to better the condi tion of the farmers. 4. That a cop' of these resolutions be sent to Hon. B. H. Bunn inVash ing'ton, D. C. 5. That a copy be sent Th Proqres sive Farmer for publication, request ing every Sub Alliance in the Fourth uongressionai iisu-iot 10 pass similar resolutions. G. M Duke, K. P. Leonarp, Committer. T. G Bunting, Sec'y. HON. TOM WATSON ENDORSEp. Wiiittier, N. C. Mr. fEprroR: At our last regular meeting w nituer finance unanimously endorsed the rion Thomas rJ. Watson. of the Tenth Georgia District, for his manly course in standing up for the rights of his constituents, and heartily congratulate the Tenth District in hav ing so noble a representative. And we say God bless tho man who de fends the right of the laboring men make the living for everybody. Yours truly, M. Za.cha.ry. WANTED A CANAL. Mr. Editor: The following resolu tion was ottered by J. J. W oodley, and passed by Evening Star on the 20th of February, 1892: Resolved. By the Evening Star Alii ance, No. 1895, that our Representative in ttie sza uougress, lion. w. A. 15. Branch, be requested to obtain, if pos sible, a survey by the United States Government to determine the feasa bility and advisability of a shin canal, beginning at the mouth of boupper- nong River, thence up the Scuppernong Kiver to the head, then to Lake Scup pernong, thence across the lake and marsh beyond naid lake to Lake Pungo, thence across Pungo Lake to the State Canal, leading from Pungo Lake to Pungo River, thon down the State Ca nal and Pungo River to deep water, and tho said canal to be a part of a projected chain of canals for inland navigation from New York City to Charleston, S. C. It was ordered that a copy of this resolution be sent to Tub Progressive Farmer for publication. D. B. Ambrose, Pres. C. J Spikr, Sec'y- MACON COUNTY ALLIANCE. Franklin, N. C, Whereas, Many of -the "partisan journals of our own and of every State in which there is an Alliance body are waging and unjust and bitter war against cur order, on the plea that it is a political scbeme, having for its end the overthrow and destruction of the old parties, led by a set of graceless ' deal beats, actuated by a desire for place and political power ; and whereas, these false charges are made in the face of the principles set forth to the world in our constitution and by laws, and the official declarations of our Na tional President and others; notably in disregard of the late action of the Con ference of State Presidents, reaffirming ho true Alliance doctrine no uniting with any political party. Therefore be it Resolved, By Macon County Alii ance, that we can have but one feeling for lournals that can so sacrifice truta and decency for political ends immeas urable contempt and disgust, showing, as they do, the earmarks of a money power they dare not oppose. 2. That as freemen we can vote as we choose; as patriotic Alliancemen it is our duty to vote for men in sympathy with our demands, and as between parties, with tbe one most in accord with our principles. 3. That we fully endorse each and all demands as set forth at the Ocala meet ing of our National body. 4. Tnat we cannot too highly com mend the wise and temperate course $f President Polk amid the storm of abuse and misrepresentation to whioh he has been subject at the hands of a subsidized press; and we take this op portunity to assure him of our great esteem and confidence. 5. That a copy of these resolutions be furnished The Progressive Farmer for publication. 6. That our .Representatives and sen ators in Congress from North Carolina be hereby requested to .use their best efforts to secure the repeal of the law imposing a tax of ten per cent, on State bonds. Fraternally, J. L. Sloan, Sec'y; SWAIN COUNTY SOLID. Swain, N. C; Mr. Editor-. At a called meeting, of the Swain County Farmers' Alliance, held Feb. ISth, 1892, the following reso lution wa unanimously adopted: Whereas, we failed to send delegates to the district meeting at Asneviue; and whereas, it is necessary for tpe delegate elected by said meeting to at tend the meeting ot the rariou lauor nrfl'AnizfttioDS to be held at St. Louis on the 22d inst. in order to know hdw to act in said meeting should have An expression from each county in til is congressional district, xnereiore ujih Resolved, by the Swam County Farmers' Alliance, that we ask said Ania,n-min tr -tonrl lw the Oc&la demanus rpcArdloRs of nartv affiliations. vd. That a codv of this resolution p sent said delegate, and to Thb PeP- gessive Farmer wiin request w pup lish. John F. uibson, sec y. A REPLY TO MR. MURDOCK. Mr. Jas Culverwell, of Jewell County, Kansas, In the "Jewell County Monitor." Mr. Editor: In The Progressive Farmer, of Raleigh, N. C , a paper nubliahed bv Col. L. L. Polk, Presi dent of the Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union is an article written by James Murdcck, in which is the following: 44 Will any one dispute the fact that a full legal tender united States note will perform all the func tions of gold as an exchange in our domestic commerce? What iunccion will a gold dollar perform? Pay taxes, duties, make exchanges and pay import duty. A full legal tender United States note will perform every one of .those, Who will dispute this? We otfer $100 for proof to tbe contrary. Can we get a response from the gol.lites? Dear reader we will wait until doomsday and receive no reply. There is not an intelligent goldite in the United States but knows a full legal tender paper dollar will perf rm every function of a gold doll ir. 4 But paper money ill 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 be made money by the fiat of the government. The government coins a gold dollar; pays it to a government; official. He ex pends it for country produce at the store; the retailer buys provisions of the farmer; the farmer pays it to the retailer for goods; the retailer pays it to the wholesale man, and the whole sale man pays it to the importer, and the importer pays it to the g jvernment on import duty. Hasn't the govern ment redeemed it? Hasn't it performed the function it was created to perform? Tho government issues a full legal tender Unite 1 State9 note, pays it to an official, he buys provisions of the retail store, tho retailer buys produce of the farmers the farmer pays his debts at the retail store, the retailer pays it to the wholesale man, the, wholesale man pays it to the importer, and the imp rter pays it to the govern ment that has redeemed it. ihe full legal tender paper dollar "has per-1 formed every function performed by the gold dollar." Right here ; Mr. Editor is the point, tho pith and substance of the money question and take th average reformer, the People s Party man, and he cannot or will not see it, and to endeavor to get the truth through his craniun is like trying to make an impression upon a stone wall. An old Indian is reported once to have said that he could talk a hole through a stone wall if he only talked long enough. I think he old Indian would have had a similar 30b in get ting the truth about the money ques tion through or into these men. The writer once had a neighbor who would get verv warm and enthusiastic in re lating about the high prices he and his brother had in the Hush times follow ing the legal tender act of 1862. Why, he would say, we coma get two or three dollars a bushel for wheat, about a dollar a bushel for corn and potatoes, oats 70 to 80 cents, hogs fourteen to fifteen dollars a hundred, everything we raised, he said, seemed to turn to gold. Hold, my friend I said upon one occasion, you are not quite c rreot. liecollect m those days we had no gold, gold was nowhere to be seen in circula tion. I grant, as you say, everything you raised or produced would turn to money, but not to gold. Is not our friend in The Progressive Famerr laboring under the same hallucination? He eays, 44 neither will a gold dollar," that is pay balance of trade. Let us see. trade with a roreigner to whom 1 owe a dollar in balance, I offer him a gold dollar, he takes it, I have another trade with him, 1 ogam owe him a dollar, I take another gold dollar, but before I olfer it to him 1 lay it upon an anvil and with a hammer knock the stamp or fiat of the government, which makes it a dollar out or it, he takes it all the same, however, there is the same value in the pieces of gold I offer him in both 'cases to offset the value the world value of tho product which he raded me for it. Consequently the lat or money feature cuts no figure in he c ase of the gold dollar. How is it with the f ull legal tender United States note? I again make a trade with my friend, the foreigner, and again owe him a dollar in balance. 1 olfer him such a note or dollar, he looks at me. perhaps it may be with a comical ex frepsion and says, 44 are you joking? traded you value in return, I am going home, your note may be a dollar with you, but it is not where 1 live. consequently it is useless to me. I want value, or its no trade," Our friend in The Progressive Farmer says: 44 A full legal tender United States note will perform every one of these," that is all the functions of a gold dollar, and among which he enumerates 44 and pav import dutv " For the sake of the argument, and for the present, I grant it, but we will see aoout the facts in the case later on. VVe see, however, by the illustrations I have given, that if it (the paper dol lar) will pay import duties, it will not buy the goods which the gold dollar will do. Quite an important distinc tion you see, Mr. Editor. How could we pay import duties unless we first got the goods? And yet our friend further on in his article argues that the 4,paper dollar" is better than the gold dollar. Granted, as far as 44 exchange in our domestic commerce" is con cerned. What I eay is this, we have never had a legal paper dollar in these United States under our present con stitution. I grant we have had so called 44 full legal tender United States note," but I dispute their legality and emphatically so. We hear a great deal m these days about the exception clause and why it was put -upon the greenback or the original legaTtender paper dollar Not long eincS a Presi dent of an Alliance asked of the writer the question. Did I not think it a good thing m the Alliance being the bSS of allaymg, m bo larse a degree of trm T PJ betwelnhe peo ple of the North and the people of the Soutb, engendered by the war? Now, Mr. Editor I always think it policy to 44 give the devil his due," if perchance we may get some good out of the old ft How, and I answered him yes, thought it very good, but I said while you are doing this you are doing some thing else, and something which may be far woree in its consequences. While you are allay ing one prejud ice you are exciting another, this one, not of sec tions, but of classes; you charge the capitalistic creditor class 01 our coun try witn conspiracy, some of you even go so far as to say that this class con spire d to overthrow negro slavery in order to fasten a more odiou3 form of slavery upon the great mass of the peo pie viz : Capital control of labor, by controlling money; thus exciting a war ci classes. VV hue I am not pleading the case of the capitalist in these pars, I am endeavoring to get at the truth of the matter; at the facts m the case. Let us see. Thirty years ago the political entity known as the people North and the people South, threw reason away, clutched each others throats, as it were, and for four years fought each other like tigers. They expended value, wasted wealth and piled an enormous debt upon themselves and their children. The government in the struggle must have wealth, value to sustain itself and to preserve its integrity and existence. As one means to supply the sinews of war, the greenback was called into being ; the plea for its issuance being the necessities, the exigencies of war, but necessity never made legal that which was illegal in fact, but I will waive this point for the present The greenback was made full legal tender. Of course that applied only to its own jurisdiction. The importer buying goods in foreign countries could not pay for them in greenbacks. The foreigner must have value for value. The government being engaged in a life and death struggle with itself, the foreigner had some cause to discount its credit and he was not obliged to take its notes. A deadlock ensued. Something muss be done. The ex ception clause was put upon tho green back. The government could then control the world value of a part of the products of its citizens, which without it, it could not. In the mean time my neighbor before spoke n of got his high prices in domestic money or legal tender for his products, which in any event or at all times would com mand a world value The debtor farmer or producer took his inflated money or legal tender notes, paid his obligations, his debts, in incurring which he received gold or its equiv alent, and in doingso exploited,' robbed the capitalistic creditor class, thus vio latmg the obligation of contracts, which the Constitution expressly prohibits Congre.s from allowing to be done. While I grant the power is in our gov ernment to put its fiat, or omnipotence though it be as far as it goes, on gold and silver, I deny it in the case of paper or upon any other material. Against these apostles of hat paper money, these prophet? of evil, upon any arena in wnich the honest people of the country could be fair judges, I will pit the fiat of the Higher Law, the empire 01 uooa, ine uoa tuxoaj or an nations and show wherein its edict hath proclaimed those things to be good which they are proclaiming to be evil, viz : The exemption claus&oa the greenback, the credit strengthening act; and even in the demonetization of silver, which they exhtust the vocabu lary of abuse upon and denounce as the giant crime of the century. Kusticus. RELIEF PLAN ENDORSED Lemon Springs, N. C. Mr. Editor: At a regular meeting ui ucmuii opuu Liiiaiu;t5 ixu. oj, 1110 t t c,: i l : v on at following resolutions were unanimously adopted : Reiolved, 1. That we strongly en dorse the relief plan, as laid down in The Progressive armer, if the State. as a wnoie, win go in the insurance Rlan and tax each member say, ten, ften or twenty cents per annum. 2. That we endorse the plan because we believe it would be tho best and cheapest insurance that a farmer could carry on his property, and we would be glad to hear from other Alliances on the subject through our organ. 3. That a copy of these resolutions be sent to The Progressive Farmer for publication. (Jr. W. Smith, Sec'y. GREAT BLESSINGS. tion. Mr. Editor : What a blessed privi lege to have such a medium through which to communicate with the breth ren, not Only in the South, but in the North, East and West ! This communi cation is for the purpose of getting as far as possible the idea or the voting population (not the office-seekers,) as the writer is one of the former class and has no political aspiration higher than to cast an intelligent ballot ; there fore, as I have been reading that I might get as well posted, as possible, and. desiring to reason with the breth ren, in the first place, I have thought as a Democrat, that we as Alliancemen ought to be able to get what we asked ior through the Democratic party, ana when we as Democrats knock at the doors of Congress and present our de mands look at the ridicule, vituperation and slander they put upon them, and on the other hand our Republican brethren knocks at the doors of Con gress, they too, meet with tho very same treatment that we do. I ask in the strongest terms what are we to d . Look calmly at the situation: the United States, with GS,000,000 people and only four men competent or occu pying the position of President, viz: Harrison, Blaine, Cleveland or Hill to the intelligent voters it is plain as the noon-day's sun why they alone are to represent us, they are the acknowledged tools of the monev nower and entirelv against the interest of the toiling mil lions. Of course my individual vote don't amount to much, but if they are I home in your neighborhood. the nnlv mpn r Vio ir.f "e . Bcaii nation ' little ticket will be a blank. ior that the patriotism in thf TTn,t. X k 18 not all crushed out, if ft w -w JkJ nknuf r11 .-v- T 2 1 J i with debts grievious to be borne 1 see m th3 proceedings of (v. i.1 .11 1 . - .r - - i .vM uu ; , t duoed a Tranliitinn tn invnct;,H interest we hayseeders had to what little money we can get J I ask if it is carrie 1 out to tal JIN the face of the note shows, theJS sharp enough to dodge usury J J way of business, etc. A prongs farmer in this neighborhood (wp note is good anywhere for would give it for) told me last that he tried to borrow $500 and king sent him word that he. theti would have to give $10 for the ui it, and if he would give him theffl a bonus and his note for $300, at 8 3 cent., he would let him have it. Is brother did not borrow, though ) sure you there are lots who are djS even worse than that: there arenO of poor hard-working men in this tion who have everything in the they possess invested in land, C mortgages that absorb everything the world that they can spare ev year to pay interest and bonus. $ they are just barely holding on robbrt their children of education and th wives of anv promotion whatever 'the poor man goes up and surrend ! the last bale of cotton and his I- promises to carry his mortgage anot' Sear, ho hardly has time to get he? efore here comes a letter from r king containing notice of sale ; al$-) letter telling him if he can man some way to raise so and so nl more, he will carry him; if not, hew' close him out. 1 Brethren, this is no pen picture v a thorough investigation will show that the countr is in a terrible x dition, and I ask you frankly as Amt can citizens, to look at some of i misleading that is going on ; why, ty have got their tools at work at eve? cross roads in some or other, eitr holding office under the AdminisV tion or under a promise of so i.e not nation, or appoint aient in case their3 get out. I For fear of trespassing on vour vi able space, I will stop by saying 6 bless The Progressive 'FAEiir1 National Economist and all other if form papers. Calamity Howler THE ANTI-TRUST LAW. Correspondent Thinks the Farm Have Some Rights Left and Thej Should Act. Skipwitii, Yi Mr. Editor: In the Richmond il patch of the 19th inst. I notice m statements reported to have been ma m opposition to tbe Anti-Trust K then before the legislative commit of the Virginia Legislature, by sec gentleman that ought to be known j niu icii liici a, uiiu ua yuur pay is read by more tobacco farmers tti perhaps any other, I know of no bet;( way to reach them tkan -thrc? ) paper. ' j Mr. Gregory, of the firm of Davis j Gregory, doin a warehouse busk in Richmond, is reported as speaki against the measure, and stated tha:I the American Tobacco Company f' driven out of the State, the price off bacco would be reduced one half, j Now, we understand that to be ( admission On the part of Mr. Gregcrj that the American Tobacco Compa: has the power to reduce the price f farmers' tobacco one half whener they so desire. Mr. Gregory evictee: had the right to oppose the measuir an individual, but has he the mcr, right to oppose a measure that hast its object desolving this giant monopc: that has such unlimited power overt prices of our tobacco? Can he -dot and treat his patrons right? j While Mr. Gregory may have k right to raise his voice in behalf of American Tobacco Company, which k admitted had the power to reduce M price of our tobacco one half, we fay ers have a few rights left us yet, one of these is to sell our tobacco and with whom we please. ' J And now, brother farmers, is iti, a duty that we owe to our country ourselves, and to our families, that? will let all men who think and act ! Mr. Gregory (and I presume that 4 voices the sentiment of his firm) 4 renely alone, and give our pa rona ' to those who are in sympfltjvy witht., tobacco farmers, and not the Ameiio Tobacco Company. O There is an Alliance warehouse; nearly every market for the eale of a tobacco, and at very much less charge, , I am sure they are run by men will not raise their voice against - measure to take from thi3 toDae iru&b lueur power io maKG tneir fj prices for our tobacco. Ji j i. 4 1 r , . i f jnow. oretnren of the Farmers ance. I move that w raII mir tobacti with thoso who are for and nnt a trail I igaff f us, and let ail those who want to in behalf of the American Tot Company do so. and wnrfc for same. T V AtxEm A CHANGE NEEDED. Ciiapel Hill. N.Cl Mr. Editor : Pinev Mount Fannr. Alliance No. 615 appointed a commit of two to say through The PnOG'i?. sive k armer that men need not coa before us for political favors vnthctf our established platform. Partv i?cij and tariff no longer fill a the biU J s relation is the. rock on which mar.yai vessel has been destroyed nd we. as I a people, have been in party assoctf ! tion long enough to say it is ruinof We have made a riarht nhnnf and uuw fcwaiung ior an opportum;J p 'a' . o . : e ouy yv juu uevLer man we can wnrc Respectfully, J. T. Weaver. J. W. PENprtrt I Commits. Dorft stop, brotlier, until The h ) r k
The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
March 8, 1892, edition 1
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