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( THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER : MARCH 15, 1892. THE PROGRESSIVE EARLIER L. L. POLK. Editor ajjd Proprietor. J. L. RA.MSEY, - Associate Editor. f.W. DENSIARK:, - Business Manaq'r. Raleigh, N. C. SUBSCRIPTION Single Subscriber. Oae Year Hr5 ? " Six Mouths ?1ve Subscribers. Oae Year Tea One 1 ear uuw One copy one year free, to the one sending Club Cah Invariably in Advance. Money at our rhk, if sent by registered letter or money order. Please don't send gtamp. Advertising Rate quoted on application. To C rtvi O'lrfets: Write all communications, designed for pub lication, on one side of the pper only. wr- We want intelligent correspondents to every county in the State. We want fac ot 'ui result accomplished of value experiences of value, plainly nd briefly told- ODsona, demonstratedowt, is worth a thousand thme j PTSSWSS? intended for this paper to iDer to THB rftoo he&si v k tAw-un, JN, IV RALEIGH, N. C, MARCH 15, 1891. This vaper entered as econd-eUw matter at the Pott Orflce in RaUVjh, 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 f State the one at wh ich 70U have been getting it. Do you want vour communication published? If so, give us your real name and your postoflice. In writing to anybody, always bo sure to give the name of your postoffico, nd sign vour own name plainly. fcgT" Our friends in writing to any of jur advertisers will favor us by men tioning the fact that they saw the Advertisement in The Progressive Farmer gf?The date on your label tells you when vour time is out. N. R. P. A. EDITORIAL NOTES. Give us reform or give us death. We suggest that Congress table the Retiring sea business and do some thing for their country. , Bro Elias Carr, was in the city last week. He is not well yet, but we are glad to state that his health is much better. The Kinston Free Press is ten years old. It is one of the best week lies in the State, though it has some queer ideas about politics. Ddrhani' citizenhave bought out the Keely Institute at Greensboro and will move it to Durham for the benefit of their invalids who desire reform. Those who are howling against the "government ownership of the railroads" never say a word against the "ownership of the government by the railroads." Bro. Leazar, of Iredell, was in theft; ity last week. He is not in favor of government ownership of the rail roads; neither is he willing for the railroads to own the government. Bro. E. C. Beddingfield is about )f the Ciiarlotto Chronicle because he Jelped to get up a platform and then pctually had the audacity to endorse it Congress is now making the eiin ring on the tariff business. We don't know whether they .will succeed m increasing it or not. That has sually been jLhe result of tariff tinker- g m the pait. The Kffnston Free Press remarks. with a good deal of truth, that some of nose who tfvant office have "cot the Alliance redl bad." That is true, and 30013 who want office also Lliance real bad. r Jharlotte Chronicle simply believe that Hon. S. B. pleased with the St. er is i nr. rvi The Chronicle will J a good many endorse the 4 before the year is out. IThe Charlotte Chronicle is spread -Vwa around to the effect that Mr. yderly and the other Knights of ibor withdrew from the St; Tiiis Conference disgusted. We have, seen mor heard nothing to cot firm the state- .ment. At no time within the past ten ;years have tho Democratic and Repub lican parties been so far apart as are now the two factions of the Democratic party in Congros3. The fight over free silver has become very bitter, but we predict that Wall street will so manage as to keep on top. It is said that a farmer sent your t Uncle Jerry Rusk a letter like this, recently: "Your blamed cucumbers ;robbed me of my wife, so instead of j sending me cucumber seed this spring send me another wife. I hear there I are a number of likely women in your I department." S Let every reader of Tiie Pro gressive Farmer bestir himself now .'o get aUvlns neighbors to read the hapoy Everybody ought to take it. Of t wnt the Al decline to From April 1st to Nov. 15 for only 50 cts. This takes you through the campaign of '92, which will be one of the most exciting ever before known in this country. Send in the names of all your neighbors at once with the cash 50 cts. each. We regret to- hear of the illness of Dr. C. T. Bailey, editor of the Bib lical Recorder. He was stricken with paralysis on the 6th inst., at the Third Baptist Church in this city, just as he had finished hn sermon and was about to pronounce the benediction. He is improving slowly now. Read our book list in another column and if you wish to become well posted, and keep so purchase, read, and study the books in the list and those we shall add as we find them to suit us. We shall name no book in the list that we have not first examined with care and found worthy. The Democrat, a new paper just started in Washington, says Hon. S. B. Alexander, Representative in Con gress from the Sixtn district, is " mak ing a fine record," that he is "one of the workers in the Agricultural Com mittee, and is earnestly active in ad vancing the welfare of his people." A friend subscribed for The Pro gressive Farmer for six months last week, and said he would take it a year, but the people were so poor in his neighborhood. Why, brother, they are the only sort of people that take The Progressive Farmer. We are all poor in this tax-ridden country. Wo notice that the Democratic papers are managing to keep up a dis cussion of "the pension clause in the Sc. Louis platform," when they all know that it is not in that platform. Suppose they turn their attention to what is really the platform and give the country their views. They are afraid to tackle it The silver mea are having a live ly time in Washington. New England members of the House are fighting free silver with a vim. They say it will "cause business men to lose confi dence." The farmers have already lost confidence. The question is: Can a few boodle business men boss the country, or shall the great masses? Our neighbor, the Evening Vis itor, remarks shat 'there is a perfect lull of news at the capitol these days. Outside of a few appointments, such as notaries public, etc., there is very little doing at the Executive Depart ment." That is a considerable relief to us. We are sure now that any man of ordinary ability can be Governor. Farmers, thf reare three banks. Two of them will not loan you money for less than eight to twelve per cent., and the other will loan it to you at two per cent. Which one will you take? The Chicago and Minneapolis plat forms will hold out for the eight to twelve per cent. The Omaha platform will claim only two per cent. Which will the oppressed and outraged people take! About two years ago Senator Vance said that any man oughc to re sign rather than accept instructions that he could not endorse. F enator Vance swallowed the Ocala platform before he was re elected to tho U. S. Senate. Up to this time we have not heard of his making any efforts to bring about the reforms, neither havG we heard that he has resigned. Time is passing rapidly. Bro. J. M. Luther, Secretary of Olive's Chapel Alliance, No. 251, Wake county, called Monday. They have 32 members and 30 of them are paid up to date with their dues, and all solid for reform and expect to stand together in the fight, now many can make a better showing? Bro. Luther and Bro. Booth, a member of the same Alliance, say that if everybody else should de sert the St. Louis platform they will still be found holding one end of it Capt. Alexander and all the Alli ance members of Congress were elected on the St. Louis platform adopted in 18S9, and which declared for govern ment ownership of railroads. Capt. Alexander is, therefore, entirely con sistent and manly in declaring, as he did in this paper last week, that he is still in favor of this just principle. It has been boastfully said that it was his attitude on this question that defeated his nomination for Governor, but the people will stand by him. WILL YOU HELP US OUT? We have calculated that if we could get 25 subscribers from each Sub Alli ance in North Carolina we could just cover cost at 70 cents each. And for the good of the cause we have proposed to any Sub Alliance sending us 25 or more subscribers for the next twelve months to put them at 70 cents each. Now let every member work up his neighbors and hand their names in to the secretary at once. The Progressive FarrAer trom April 1st to Nov. 15th tor 50 cents. Make np your C1 lbs. ARE THEY TRYING TO DECEIVE THE PEOPLE. Let the people be not deceived. The free and unlimited coinage of silver is right. It is one of the demands of the Alliance. Silver was demonetized through stealthy fraud. It was a great and henious wrong. It is one of the prominent demands of the Democratic party, as it has declared time and again in its platforms, and for years through its press and public speakers. But bo it understood now and for all time that the Reformers do not regard it as a panacea for all our financial ills. We know that as a measure for in creasing the volume of currency, it is totally inadequate. According to Mr. Bland, it would increase it only about $22,000,000, or 30 cents per capita It is not therefore, in this light, that we demand it, but we demand it, as a means of robbing gold of its power to oppress. We value it as a stepping stone to higher things. We want free coinage of silver, but we want much more than that, we want a sufficient volume of full legal tender money to meet the requirements of the legiti mate business of the country, issued by tho government to the people at a low rate of interest. Wo want this and this agitation must never cease until we get it, for that is the only remedy for existing evils. With all true reformers this is the great and the greatest of all issues before the American people. Be not deceived by the furor that is made over free silver, for we will be told that we should be content with it. The careful and ofiservant man could not have failed to notice one significant fact in connection with the discussion of this subject. It is the careful and studied evasion of the currency ques tion by prominent old party leaders in their writings and speeches, and by the prominent old party papers. They talk flippantly and vehemently of free sil ver, but nothing is said about abolish ing National Banks, nothing about is suing more and cheaper money to the people at a low rate of interest not a word. Let Alliancemen and all friends of reform keep this steadily and con stantly in mind as the great question and hold all men and all parties to it, inflexibly. A COMPLETE BACK DOWN. Week before last we asked the Land- mark some questions about old man Tom Jefferson. The Landmark can't give a satisfactory answer, but gets out of it by saying that the "Professional Farmer" called the Landmark a lidtt some time ago. Wittf tears in its eyes and sobs that sound like a foghorn, the Landmark refuses to come to time. The Landmark is mistaken about the "liar" business. We did call the Montgomery Advertiser a liar when it published as a fact that " Col. Polk carried a pocketfull of free passes." The Landmark copied the item and naturally supposed that it was a "liar" also; and, though wo insisted at the time that it wasn't, it still insists that it i?. So we can't do anything in such a case as this. THREATENED REVOLUTION. -rr f 1 i - . . it any person naa said ten years ago that caoitalists would mnrkto hl.-wl. shed in order to carry through their enterprises, that person would have been called a crank of the deepest dye. But that is true to day. Wo have an organized gang of cut throats called Pinker ton detecdves. They are kept up by capitalists. They number 35,000 or more than the standing army. Their business is to keep laborers in check, suppress strikes, shoot down men and women who attempt to assert their rights. The Louisiana Lottery crowd of toughs is the latest outrage. This crowd have more than a thousand men in New Orleans who are drilling every night and are thoroughly armed with Winchesters. They will take part in the April election in Louisiana, and there i3 no telling what may be done. Fellow citizens, do you want reform or are you willing for the country to be controlled by cut throats and legalized robbers? GRADUALLY DYING OUT. "Yes, the Alliance is dying." Now and then a member dies, but his place is soon filled. "The Alliance is losing ground," but the holders of the mort gages are gaining ground every time they foreclose. Tho Order in North Carolina has been in a comatose state for some months owing to the financial condi tion of the farmers and other causes. But it must not be understood that the small paid up number of members or the non-attending members are dead. One day last week Bro. Powell, a prominent and zealous member of Mid dle Creek Alliance, Wake county, while in this office, remarked that bia Alliance was on a boom. We asked for further particulars. He said that a good many had been careless about paying up their dues or attending the meetings, but at the last meeting 50 male members were present and all of them enthusiastic. He thinks at least 75 will attend the next meeting. We also learn that Winslow and Macedonia Alliances have been reorganized lately both in Wake county. From letters from all parts of the State and by personal inquiry we learn that the good work is going on all along the line. It is emphatically true that no Alli ance has gone under that h id reading members in it. Those who wish to succeed must read and urge their neighbors to do the same. No matter what happens this will be true of any Sub Alliance. DOES THISAPPLY TO YOU? For thirty pieces of silver Juda3 be trayed his Master, then repented and hanged himself. Arnold betrayed his country for money and power, and with what advantage to him? He was hated by his countrymen and shunned and despised by those whom he served. Is it possible that for ambition the desire for power the desire for fame that a brother who has taken our most solemn obligation and now holds the respect and love of the Order, should be willing to " sell oiti" the Al liance of this State to our enemies, to forever receive the condemnation and curses of his brethren? "Cromwell, I charge thee fling away ambition. By that sin fell the angels ; how can man, then, the image of his maker, hope to win by it?" "Ohow wretched is that poor man that hags on princes' favors!" "And when he falls he falls like Lucifer, never to hope again." "surrender 'or SPLIT." This is what the money power of -Wall street and New England Fay- to the people of the South and Northwest on the silver question. Why will the people of these great agricultural sec tions hesitate to divorce themselves from this oppressive, autocratic power? Will they lie supinely in the octopus arms of this great power and allow it to suck out their last drop of life-blood, or will they join with their natural al lies and friends of the great Mississippi Valley and the West and take possess ion of the government and administer it in the interest of the people ? This the great question of me nour. mow I will they answer it ? Democratic lead ers and Democratic papers, thisi3 your grand opportunity. What is your an swer ? KtR. PEfeLE'3 ARTICLtv. The articles from the brilliant pen of Mr, W. J. Peele that have appeared in this paper from time to time, have been read with much interest and profit by our friends. Mr Peele is a young lawyer who thinks on a'n independent line. He does not borrow opinions, neither is he afraid to express his own. The article in this issue under head of "Where the Responsibility Ought to Rest," was written for our last paper but was held over for this week, and the "P. S." added to it was written for this issue. This article is on the ! lino of one that was reused by the Atlanta C()H,si7M;'oJ. flrtTTlA WArtta fl(W 1 f " . -0. There is nothing the partisan press hate so much as a free discussion, and whenever they attempt to suppress an article, people should read it twice. His article this week contains much food for thought and is very sugges tive. Read it, study it. PASS ITAROUND. A few days ago tho papers began to publish under big head lines that "Capt B. M. Collins, a prominent member of the Alliance in Warren county, has withdrawn from the Order on account of the action of the St. Louis Confer ence." This was a sweet morsel for the average newspaper tongue, but in the Chronicle of Saturday we find a resolution from Warrenton Sub-Alliance stating that Capt. Collins had been suspended eighteen months for non payment of dues. As newspapers claim to publish both sides of every thing, we insist that they pass the statement around and give Capt. Col lins a little more free advertising. It is noticed that the Stale Chronicle used much smaller type in head lines over the Warrenton resolutions. This is not a fair way to treat an advertiser. A QUEER WAY. The Pueblo, Colorado, Workman and Farmer says that over $200,000 of State money is deposited in the banks of that city. The banks pay the State 3 per cent, for the money and loan it out to the people at 12 per cent. In other words, the banks pay the State $6,000 for the money and get $24,000 for it. That is a pretty way for a State to treat her people. But Colorado is not the only State that does it The United States lends to national bankers at 1 per cent. The Progressive Farmer irom Annl icf fn 4rru for 50 cents. GREAT Herculean efforts are being put forth by Southern Democrato to secure the nomination of D. B Hill, of New York for the Presidency, because they say : "The success of the ticket depends on carrying the great pivotal State of New York." Southern Democracy espe cially, is solemnly pledged to free sil ver. Is there a Democrat in the South who believes that New York can be carried for any man who favors free silver ? That State will repudiate Hill or any other man who agrees with Southern Democrats on this question. But the shrewd Hill is working to com mit the South to him, and when the con vention meets it will straddle the free silver question, and we predict that many men in the South will stultify their record and manhood by voting for him. EXPECTED AT STATESVILLE. President Polk is expected to be at Statesville Saturday, the 19th. Presi dent Butler and Col. Harry Skinner will be there certain, and a great day it will be. Believers and unbelievers ought to gather there in great numbers, and at other appointments as well. " IN THE HOMESCFTHE PEOPLE." It is stated that the people of this na tion about twenty -five years ago, as a general rule, owned their own homes. By the recent (1890) census we find that thirty one thousand people own one half of the wealth of this country. Now, we would ask how much of the wealth will be found in the hands of the masses of the people twenty years hence, supposing the existing systems are not changtd? Will some. expert arithmetician please tell us? asks the Missouri World. ' WILL BRO HERBERT ADVOCATE IT? The Kinston Free Press asks : "What is Colonel Polk? Does he ad vocate the Democratic platform of 1890, or is he of "the true Democracy " because he is an Alhanceman? We wonder if brother Ramsey will answer the above fairly and squarely." We are not authorized to speak for Col. Polk, but will venture the state ment that he endorsed all that was in it that had a tendency to benefit the farmers. The Progressive Farmer advocated all that was good in it. The trouble is, the Free Prees and other party organs have failed to ad vocate the platform or suggest any im provements. They seem willing to go on all through life without any plat form except "anti negro supremacy." PROUD OF HIM. No man, not even Cleveland, could have withstood tho ' firey darts " of the combined partisan press of the na tion, as Col Polk has, and come out unhurt as a citizen, soldier, legislator, leader and a Christian. He h is been tried and found to be a pure man, and as a North Carolinian we are proud of him, and hope someday to see him fill ing the highest office in the gift of the American people. He is even to day closer to it than any man in the State of New York. Hickory Mercury. OUR WORKERS, We are under Obligations to the fol lowing hrftthrpn for rrlnha Rfnt in sinrp o last reDOrt: W. N. Haskins, W C. Cansler, David Robertson, I. L. Sheets H. L. Loucks, Peter Isley, Mrs. S. R. 'Brown, W. S. Morgan, J. W. Bullock, C. B. Beckham, 15 14 new 124 " 5-3 4-4 4 3-3 33 31 3-1 NEW YORK, THE "PIVOTAL." We only name in this list those send I ing language of a national party pla ins three or more names, but thetnanv form 1 Is it possible that a DeonkHJe brethren and friends who have sent in theirrenewals have our thanksalso. vve want to mate tnis list a whole col- umn loner everv week. What two. mn doing to help us, reader? ' - J W. WHERE THE RESPONSIBILITY ought to . r mum-m uonvennon nas oeen called for Mav aolu. loyz. reamer pariv nprhana rni j. A r. i - 1 olnniill U ,1 -c .i . , xiiuso mteresuea in nnanoiai rpfnrm ouuuiu woui niei-ustuves il iney wisn co-operate with or control this body, 1. They" should demand financial reform q t.h moi.; u white men m North Carolina will an prove and no more. The people are not educated on finance yet, and all that is needed may not vet be'had 3. They should demand that. th. oxr name the eleven electors who are to voice this reform in tho President and Vine United States. The financial reformers cannot afford any compromise of their nnnninlAf, TU i i puviujca. . i hi: iiMiiitiH a wirn rnom J .-r . -r : : with them, they Otrtpr pntiTOtiti,m -tt1-,,Vh -mill j. i the majority, or take such other steps to secure their reform a3 may be best w vva w ww iiivii rv lie 1 nil t-r- iii.i 3. Theelectors should be uninstructed as to anv particular man nr mon evident. If tho nntiVa . il should be left untrammelled v.; 1 efrnrt fcn find naa PH;Ani j tt- I --ivoivAouu emu. v xue- I rresiuwii wno agree with the people of .iivsaou voiuuim ua ine tariir and tho! money question, and who are in svm- Datav with the. SrmfV. on,l ua :nt.n. oi fcoutnern agriculture. In thA - m "v"u iiacui. rata i u 1 of reason and common sense and the interest of an outraged4 people, these electors should be allowed to reserve their votes until they can be placed where they can do the most good. For God's sake, for the people V sake, don't let New York influence 'ie us up be. forehand and bind us helplessly and hooelessly to a candidate named by Wall street or Tammany Hall ! Every body knows that the Constitution in. tended that the electors should vote untrammelled and uninstructed as to men. Let us go back to the pure gov ernment of our fathers. The prostitu. tion of the" electoral system has already cost us a bloody civil war, and the partial destruction of local self govern ment. Why do we allow ourselves to be wagered as a tail to the corruption of New York politics? Is it because a few of our politicians have made bar gains with D. B. Hill or some other candidate for the spoils of Federal patronage? It is an insult to the honesty of our people to say that such a man as D. B Hill can add weight to our electoral ticket. It is an insult to the intelligence of our people to say that Grover Cleveland, with his views r finance can add weight to our electoral ticket. In these times an electoral ticket uninstructed as to men, elected upon a platform embracing the two reforms now demanded by the people of Nor th Carolina, will be tie strongest that can possibly be placed in the field will sweep the State by forty thou sand majority and will insure the per manence of a "white man's govern ment." W. J. Peele. P. S. Of course no friend of reform will vote to send delegates to the Chicago Convention. P.S FINANCIAL REFORMAT THE CHICAGO CONVENTION. Hardly anybody is stupid enough to believe that the political mob which is to meet at Chicago can, by any possi bility, reflect North Carolina's views and interests on the money question. (1) Everybody knows that the free and unlimited coinage of silver, which our people demand, will be laughed to scorn in that mob. The most that can be by any possibility expected is a meaningless non-committal clause re vised and misty fied from Hill's myste rious and non committal speech. This is the platform the politicians say they can "win on." Once in thirty years by their time serving platforms of glitter ing generalities they have won spoils for themselves, but such victor. es do not relieve the debt burdened people of North Carolina. A mere change of office holders i3 no victory for the peo ple at large. (2) There is no hope of the Chicago Convention adopting a plank looking to the financial relief of Worth Carolina by increasing the paper circulation. No candidate for President has dared to intimate that the country needs more money. It is wildly idle to de ceive ourselves with the hope that this demand for relief, though reechoed through the South and West, will re ceive even a moment's consideration. They will not even think enough of it to cloak it in a few hypocritical promises of relief. (3; Theywjl! not and can not reflect nxc ccuuimcuu emu. luteresus ui inuiui Carolina on the tariff after ten year? of the fiercest partisan agitation and party economic education. So what can be the benefit of confer ring wuth those fellows any longer! We are hopelessly apart from them on every question of vital interest. Thtre is but one single solitary bond that holds North Carolina to the Chicago mob, and that is the common desire of our politicians and time servers for the spoils of office. They will never respect us and ought not to respect us until we have the manhood to demand all that our people want, and until we elect our Presiden tial electors upon a platform whic; will express those demands. We have I compromised our interests long enough I in order to flatter the vainglorious aspi- rations of a few prospective spoil dis I tributoi'S North Carolina saved thid I country untold misery once by reject ing the Constitution of the Unitea States until there could be inserted therein ten amendments iruaranteilcg local self government and othejr-i"l guards of liberty! Now she has opportunity to save it again if she will reject a miserable party constitution which forces our people to compromise their dearest rights and interests, pud to express the grievances of an cut- raged people in the ambiguous and ly "V1S wnai WG j?elie,ve and suffering SWg? YaS iXelS our outrages in language so vague and ( I tame that tho world hpli . m m V (11V J ing? 1, tor one, have stood this business as lon& a3 1 canwithout protests cave maoe up mv mind what rmirc inrena to pursue. I shall cast mv vote 1 XT 1-1 I . . v . Ml ireei convention which u-w5 m uuiuuku. i Rn?ui vnrn vh I l-Tf T irt- - l A. . - . x vau eitutors wnicn i rn I TPfiPnt. nrfVi rl.- j f . ' I vai jauu axiu ner inter f88- ?he strength of democfay U m local self -government in Hi; v. I iner Dlatfurms arinrtlirx tv, .-JT 1 needs of the several S:ates in btat( 8 representatives an(i jecors ri ? Presenting and reflecting the ii;er- ? senuments ot its people tothe the extent in mntinn- o -r platforms as separate interests -Wtoe separate States may need to In ve M distinct views formulated . ' ir isorth Carolina, by her rxvAuc.ti and example, can d Ifli, thic timo flr, U x . o i - - '"" uiau 1,111 1 1 vv inn rw. , .. .r a. t -r-r v1C(,uuu VL VlCtOrv. h.fr this TT gentatives has elected a Democrat a Southern man and a silver man as W V - 1 iiiiTv.fi r-i.w- r compel it to elect a still hof m- &i 1111 my sucestir.n wa vni .... .r L man in the l.. i v'i n "" vcvwrai UOiief - ' - , i Th n P, t ' I M wgi wmyb i r ! f a . . . 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