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1 1 1 THE INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF OUR PEOPLE PARAMOUNT TO ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS OF STATE POLICY. VOL 7. RALEIGH, N. C., APRIL 19, 1892. No. :o 11 PRO GEESSIV FAEMER. THE NATIONAL FARMERS ALLI ANCE AND INDUSTRIAL UNION. tJreiidentr-L. L. Polk, North Caro; ma Address, Atlantic Building, St.. N. W., Vashington, D. C. VicePresideut-H. L. Loucks, Huron, South Dakota. Secretary-Treasurer-J. H. Turner iooreia. Address, 239 North Capitol M N W., Washington, D. C. Lecturer J. II. Willetts, Kansas. EXECUTIVE BOARD. W Macune, Washington, D. C. iio.u.o Wardall, Huron, South Da kota. . , J. F. Tillman, Palmetto, Tennessee. JUDICIARY. A. - Cole, Mich'gan, R. W. Beck, Alabama. M. D. Davie, Kentucky. SATiONAI, LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE. L L Polk, 'hairman. 0. W. Macune, Washington, D. C. Mann Page, Brandon. Va. L. P. Featherstone, Forest City, Ar ts ansas. m W. F. Gwinn, White, Tennessee. TH CAROIJNA FARMERS' STATE ALLI ANCE. President Marion Butler, Clinton, -N Q Vice-President T. B. Long, Ashe iHe, N. C. ,rr Secretary-Treasurer Vv . b. iarae3, laleigh, N. C. Lecturer J. S. Bell, Brasstown, N C. Steward C. C. Wright, Glass N. C. Chaplain Rev. E. Pope, Chalk L-evel, N. C. m Door-Keeper W. fi. Tomlmson, - avetteville, N. C. . Assistant Door-Keeper -II. E. King, ',jjanut. N. C. Sergeant-at-Arma J. S. Holt, Chaltc vel, X. C. State Business Agent --W . II. Worth, valeigh, N. C. Trusts Business Agency Fund W . v. Graham. Machpelah. N. C. fXKCUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE NORTH CAROLINA FARMERS STATE ALLIANCE. B Alexander, Charlotte, N. C, .In airman; J. M. Mewborne, Kinston, NT. C. ; J. S. Johnston, Ruffin, N. C. -'TATE ALLIANCE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE. Elias Carr, A. Leazer, N. M. Cul oreth, M. G. Gregory Wm- C- Connell. - TATE ALLIANCE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE. R. J. Powell, Raleigh, N. C.: N. C. English, Trinitv College: J. J. loung, Polenta; II. A.'Forney, Newton, N. C. fJorth Carolina Reform Press Association. Officers J. L. Ramsey, President; Marion Butler, Vice-President ; W. S. Rames, Secretary, PAPERS. -rc -rive Farmer, State Organ, Raleigh. N. C. OauVsian, tT , linton, Tlie Wor kinsman's Helper, Pinnacle, . C. Watchman, Salisbury, N. C. Farmers' Advocate. i arboro, . C . Mountain Home Journal. Asheyille, N. C. Alliance Sentinel, . Goldsboro, .. C. Country Lire, Trinity C o lege. .. C. Mercury, -H-iC Lry' v n Rattler bitakers, N. C. Agricultural Bee, (roldsboro. N. C. Colambus Weekly News, W hiteville, . C. &j,ch of the above-named papers are requested to keep the list standing on the first page and add others, provided theu 'i-e duty elected. Any paper fail ing r 'vacate the Ocala platform will be dr c-d from the list promptly. Our peopL. can now see wliat papers are ouhlinhrd in thdr interest. CALAMITY HOWLERS. WOODWORTH, N. C. Mr. Editor: What is a calamity howler? It is a name of reproach plu tocrats, political bosses and the parti zan press give to all , who differ with them in opinion about the condi tion of the masses at the present time. That times are hard all admit, that panics come, prostrate business and take the life out of all our industries, is a mat'er of history : that tramps and millionaires are on tho increase, and that business failures are multiplying alarmingly none will deny, but if any one insinuates or attributes the causes of these evils to the mismanagement of the government by the politicians in the interest of the plutocrats, thereby destroying the liberties of the people, and making it a government of auto crats instead of a government of by and for the people, he is a calamity howler of the first water. To sum up the whole mavter, all who believe in the Ocala platform which is true Jeffersonian Democracy and will not support any man or party for office who is opposed to it, is the com plete definition of calamity howler in the opinion of those wise in their own conceit. According to these calamity producers, the recent St. Louis conven tion was i he very essence of calamity howling, except perhaps the two who vote! against pome resolutions (the platform was adopted, I believe, unan imously) adopted by that remarkable body of men, the men who feed and clothe the world, who have always saved the nation in her greatest hour of danger, whether on the battle held or at the ballot box, whi:e those who ridicule them were out of the rea ;h of shot and shell making fortunes which they are now using for the opp-ession of their defenders. I defy any m m or paper to point to as large a convention of delegates representing every State in the Union except Delaware and Rhode Island the smallest States in the Republic where such harmony and unanimii y prevailed. In reading an account of the recent Berlin riots, the writer said the police in quelling the riots met one man with three loaves clasped in his arms. They were about to arrest him when he fell on his knees and begged them to let him carry the bread to his children, as they had had jaothing to eat for two days, and in $ty they let him go. He was one of the calamity howlers. The writer concludes with the follow ing, which would bo very good advice to our rulers and law makers of to day : "If the Emperor was not so self confi dent one of his chaplains might do him a service by calling his attention to a page in sacred history which recounts how a young king in a similar crisis loss five sixths of his kingdom by treat ing roughly some of his subjects who petitioned him fo'a lightening of their burdens, ' I Kings. 12:13-10. For the information of calamity pro ducers Iwill quote what some of the most prominent calamity howlers in the past thought on these subjects. Thomas Jefferson says : I sincerely be lit've that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. President Jackson Old Hickory) said in one ot his messages: It being estab lished by unquestionable proof that the Bank of the United States was con verted into a permanent electioneering engine, it appeared to me that the duty which the Executive Department of the government ought to pursue was not doubtful. As by the terms of the bank charter no officer but the Secretary of the Treasury could remove the deposits, it seemed to me that this authority ouht to be at once exerted to deprive that great corporation of the support and countenance of the government to such a use of its funds and such exer tion of its power. In this point of the case the question is distincth presented, whether the people of the United St ites are to govern through representatives chosen by their unbiased suffrages, or whether the power and money of a great corporation are to be secretly ex erted to influence their judgment arid control their decision. It muet now be determined whether the bank is to have its candidates f jr ollice in the country from the highest to the lowest, or whether candidates on both sides shall be brought forw trd as heretofore and supported by the usual means Thomas H. Benton said : The govern ment itself ceases to be independent, it ceases to be safe when the national cur rency is at the will of a company. Btjn jimin Franklin says: On the whole no method has hitherto been found to establish a medium of trade t qual in all its advantages to bills of credit made a general legal teLder. I will also make a few quotations from a speech of John C. Calhoun on his amendment to the bill authorizing the issue of treasury notes in the Senate October 3d, 1837. Arguing against national b mks, he sain : Can it be d Aibtfd wh.it must be the effects of a system the operations of which have been shown to be so unequal in free in stitutions. Again be says: With this law so well established, place the money power in the hands of a single individual or a combination of individ mis, and they, by expanding or con tracting the currency, may raise or sink prices at pleasure, and by pur chasing at the points of greatest de pression and selling at the point of greatest elevation may command the whole property and industry of the community andcontrol its fiscal opera tion. Further on he says: The conse quence is to discourage industry and to convert the community into stock job bers and speculators How truly are his predictions justified at the present time. Let us now hear what Henry Clay says on contraction: Have the gentlemen reflected upon the conse quence of their system of repetition? I h ive already stated that the countrx is borne down by a weight of debt. If the currency be greatly diminished, as beyond all example it has been, how is th is debt to be extinguished ? Property, the resource on which the debtor relied for his payment, will decline in value, and it may happen that a man who honestly contracted debt on the faith of property which had a value at the time fully adequate to warrant the debt, will find himself strippe i of all his property and his debt remain unex tinguishable. Again he goes on to say : But if the effect of this hrd money pol icy upon the debtor does be injurious, it is still more disastrous, if possible, on the laboring classes. Enterprise will be checked or stopped, emploj-ment will become difficult, and the poorer classes will be subject to the greatest privations and distress. William Pitt, the friend of America, said: If the United States adopts our banking and judiciary systems their liberties will be destroyed. Adam Smith, the father of political eccnomj said high prices and plenty is prosperity. I might mention Mills, Lincoln, Chase and a long line of iHustrious names all of whom were ca lamity howlers on the above subjects, but those mentioned above are enough to show that we are in the best com pany. In conclusion, I would say to the ca lamity producers as John O. Calhoun said to an opponent in debate: You usi ridicule because you have no argument to offer. This is a critical moment with the Alliance. Let every man stand to his gun and obey the com-" mand eyes front, forward march. ' He that dallies i3 a dastard, and he that doubts is damned." T. A. Eppes. Bro. E. A. Moser, of Flint Hill Al liance, Forsyth county, writes to. say that the Order is not yet dead in that section, but is kicking quite lively. The Progressive Farmer from now until Nov. 15th for 50 cents. Make up your Clubs. THE PUBLIC VOICE. How may the Alliance and the friends of reform best secure the recog nition and enforcement of our prin ciplesf (A given space in this column will be devoted weekly to answers to the above question, from the friends of reform. In order that the largest number may have a hearing, we must ask that you do not write more than twenty lines. Sign your name to your answer. Now let us have your sincere and honest views.) a briff answr. 1. Be a man, 2. Talk for our princi ples. 3. Vote for our principles. 4 Live for our principles. E. L. Wasiiefield. A GOOD WAY. Siiootinc Creek, N. C. Place the cries of an oppressed peo ple above the whines of a "mdlionHir,, vote (in the fear of God") for home and country. N. N. Rogers. vote UGHT. Hedrick Alexander Co., N. C. My answer to your question how to enforce our principles and get relief is for the laboring classes to stick toge her and vote together for principles and not for men and part es, vote for what is right and for what is to the interest of the country and the masses of the people, and all will be right, for right wrongs no man. E B. Alexander. A PARTY OF THE PLAIN PEOPLE. Goldsboro, N, C. There are but two vital and truly sensative interest upon which the pros perity of the country rest, that is la bor and capital, which of these two in terests do you represent ? in answer ing this be true to yourselves and the interest of our common country, let your ballot answer. Nevt r so long as the labor interest is divided into two parties, both promising their relief, and each party controlled by the capi talist, can the labor interest hope tor anj- real representative legislation. Let there be only two parties, one rep resenting labor, the other capital, le every man do his dutv and support the party that voices his interest. Labor will then come to the front, as her par ty will outnumber the capitalist. The Peoples' party promises to be one of the plain people, a real representative of labor element, and is b-ung formula ted upon 'The Alliances Demands'' on its platform, will be jus what the pl;im people who compose it make it, a part of the people, by and for the demands the only real means at our command to give the ends we seek to attain It is the only legitmate one available to secure our demands. Abbott L. Swinson. HOW TO SECURE IT. Hilliardston, N. C, Nash Co. My opinion is, the first steps have been taken to secure recognition, 1st in declaring our union and independence, 2nd, in declaring the union of the la bor forces of the United States ac "om plished permanent and perpetual. I am of the opinion we must take a party name to secure a full recognition, and that name shoulr be lartre and broad; something like National Reform Party which embraces all, supports all and ought to control all. We have a platform of principles formulated by men as good, as wise and as great as any in this government. In regird to the best way (and that is as good as any) to enforce our prin ciple, is to stand square and upright upon our platform, support and de fend it, if need be even unto death. Two men are before you as candidates, asking you to elevate them to a posi tion in the government where they will be required to do some important work for you. Ask them a plain question. Do you sincerely and earnestly endorse the platform of principles as set forth by the National Jongress, which met in St. Louis on the 22nd of Feb. last ? One says to you, no, I wont give any aid in supporting those principles; I belong to a different school of politi cians. The same question was asked the other man, he says I endorse every principle and measure, in that platform without any exception, and will labor with all the skill and ability I have to have them enforced and enacted into laws Now, my fellow laborers, you see very clearly the right way to vote to have our principles recognized and en forced. Yours truly, E. B. Lyon. ANOTHER "ADDRESS." Ed. Chambers Smith : Since the calling together of the committee, I have concluded to drop you a few lines. The first thing to which I wish to call your attention is that it is a difficult matter to so arrange and pack all of your conventions as to have only pluto crats sent up. The people are scattered all about over the country in every valley and on every hill, and it is diffi cult now to slip the dodge on them. I have been studying how you could fool them, but for my life I can't make it out. The only possible way in this life is to make out you are friends; if you show your teeth yourgame is lost, and to be sure. Come around smiling and shaking hands and make out you are one of them and that the devil, with large iron claws, is after them and that you and your friends will defend them and take care of them if they'll submit. All you want them to do is to leave the whole matter to your hands and go about their business. You must creep up on the people, like. If you make a stick crack, their eyes are open and their ears are up. They are beginning to inquire what are you calling your committee to gether so often for? What are you scared .about? Who is saying anything? What is the matter anyway? Sucn inquiries they of cen make and there is no one to answer and give consolation. You ought to call your committee to gether and put forth an address, thusly : "To all men of age and distinction, twenty one years old and of a white character, we come greeting. We have several distinct propositions to make. We -vvant your votes. What will get them? That is the momentous ques tion. But still more distinct we want you, body and soul. We want submis sion. We want you to let politics alone and then we'll let you alone. I f you don't do it we'll see if we can't out general you and w hip you into submis sion. An empire divided against itself capnot stain t. . We are bound to be masters or we'll kick up a row. If you'll submit there'll be peace; if n t we'll tear the piilars from the temple We had rather reign in hell than serve in heaven. In order that peace, love and friendship may abound, we want you to come' to our conventions as if you were somebody sure enough, but be certain not to meddle with the rul ings and demands from our captains. They sit on Wall street and Pennsyl vania avenue and are wise. You hoe corn and dig potatoes and are foolish. This little uprising of the clod knockers must be put down. The workmen and the laborers are nice characters to die Tate the policy of a nation, indeed. They must be put dowm. This is a gov eminent of line gentry of the aristoc racy and it is time you should know it Just because we condescend to invite you clod knockers and mechanics to our conventions you have become big and want to have your own way. Now let me tell you, submit and be at peice; meddle not with politics and let there be no strife. Chairman of Committee That is the way to chatter. Not worth while to come with your mouth fullot" meal and beg th:s 'ragged and dirty set from the field and shop to let politics alone Throw down the gaunt let, pe:ce or war. Give them to under stand iiiey are invading hallowed ground. No man can invade the fields of plutocracy without first knowing his loyalty thereto. H ive that under stood. Mr. Chairman, I believe you will conquer the rabble after awhile Make them believe they have a heap of sense, are handsome and grand and then come along with one of you--schemes. First thing they know they'll be tied hand and foot and can't move, like the spider ties the fly. If you do not think you can work the wires on them, send for Billy Bolden; you'll learn a h sson from him. He's been all around in their secret meetings and kno vs all the maneuvres. Billy Bolden. SPEAKING AT TAYLORSVILLE. Bro. Hoover Thriils the Good People of Alexander with his Eloquence. Taylorsville, N. C. Mr. Editor: Monday, April 4, was a day which will be long and fdeasant ly remembered by the good, quiet peo ple of Alexander county and Taylors ville Alliance. The writer was there, but will undertake only a brief outline of the proceedings At 11 o'clock the bell rang and Hon. William E. White, a highly respected brother and ex Sen ator, ascended the stand in the court house and called the vast assembly to order by prayer by Rev. J. T. Stover, and after a few pointed remarks intro duced Rev. J. T. B. Hoover. Brother Hoover is not a large man, but hi3 face shows what he is. He had not proceeded far before it was known that no mis take had been made by placing him on the list as Assistant Lecturer. His subject was, causes which led to the impending revolution, and the manner in which he treated it was well re ceived. He handled it in a masterly manner, reflecting credit on himself and the occasion as well. He traced back each evil complained of to its origin contraction of money and the big elephant (tariff), etc., and showed the ruinous effects of each on the pro ducers. Thit the revolution impend ing was the result of investigation on the part of the farmers who had risen up in their might to free themselves of these evils. His remarks on relation of the Alliance to politics were short but were well listened to. To those who know him, and they extend over the entire eastern part of this State, comment is useless. The people know him to be tried and true, and of his oratory as well. He poured forth his eloquence for upwards of an hour while that throng of humanity drew nearer and unconsciously caught up the spirit of patriotism which was pul sating and throbbing within him till all, yea every eye saw alike the alarm ing conditions of our country. In con elusion he said: Grit, push, goahead itiveness wa3 needing. Push and power were at their command; let them rise up in their power and do their duty to themselves, their country and to their God. The people in this section are reach ing out and catching glimpses of better days. The Farmers' Alliance has opened the windows of their souls and they are beginning to breath the pure, fresh air of financial freedom. Resolutions were unanimously adopt e i to stand by the St. Louis platform. John L. Lefler. LETTER FROM MARTIN COUNTY. Both the Old Machines Ventilated Both Have Been Against The People. Darden's, N. C. Mr. Editor : I desire to State to the brethren of the Order that Beulah Al liance, No 1057 did on Saturday the 12th, ratify the St. Louis Platform, there being but one present who voted against it. We then as individual citi zens, through an address, called on the community at la -ge, irrespective o past party amliation or color to meet us on the 27th for the purpose of ratify ing said platform. The result was a tremendous crowd, white and colored, and not a single vote cast against its adoption There are some few soreheads around the com munity calling therm-elves the Simon pure Democrats that are thunderstruck at what they call rank heresy against the party. The party that they say has not been in power for thirty years, and so of course cannot be in any way re sponsible for the ruinous state of af fairs of which we complain. It is a fact that the Democratic party have not had full control of both Houses and the Executive Department at the same time, in thirty years, nor does the money po er intend either ever shall have again, but let us see if the Demo crrtic party is not to blame as well as the other old rotten machine that stands today with an unblushing grim ace on its face without conviction, without courage, without a soul, with a miserable record and the character of political prostitutes offering them selves for sale to the highest bidder. One of the demands of the people is for more money and has been for many years Weil then, has the Democratic party given what power it has had to give us mure money? No. in 1806 when Hugh McOolloughs contraction bill came before the House, on this occa sion the Democrats held the ballance of power, 55 Republicans voting for and 53 voting against plainly shows, but lo and behold, every Democrat in the House, but one voted for it, that is to say, 28 out of 2'? voted to make money scarce and the price of products low. In 1SGS two years later, there came up a bill to suspend contraction: did the Democrats vote for a supen sion ? No. thy did not Have they ever said a single word in favor of more money or against contraction since 18GS in their national platform, except on the silver question ? and pray tell the people if it v as t Demo cratic votes that defeattnl the Senate free coinage Silver Bill a short time ago in the House, and even now, with a tremendous Democratic majority, Mr. Bland is made to tremble over the bill be so ably champions. Did not Mr. Cleveland, our first Democratic President, in thirty years oppose the free coinage of silver in two of his messages? Was it not that distin guished gentleman himself who showed so much friendship to National banks as to make them a loan of $61,000,0 0 and without intert st too? Where did he get this money to loan ? He got it out of the United States Treasury. Was it his to do as he wished ? No, it was the peoples, but it was collected as tax es and Mr. Cleveland wante 1 to get it back into the hands of the people he said, and of course he took the best way he could to get it back to them by letting his pets, and I have heard his partners, lake it and loan it to the peo pie at a rate of interest ranging from 8 to 12 per cent. The people would like to know how come so much money in the Treasury not needed. The old sore heads say, "oh, it was the surplus ac cumulated by an economical adminis tration. Perhaps some surplus is bet ter than no surplus if the robbery sys tem is to remain in force, but why was Mr Cleveland opposed to getting rid of some of that surplus or tax surplus anyway in the shape of internal reve nue tax ? It seems that even Mr. Mills, another Democrat, did not want to reduce the surplus much, when his famous bill only advocated a 7 per cent reduction, and mercy, another famous Democrat, Samuel Randall, did not even favor that slight reduction. In the days of old Democracy, the pi itform of that party had a plank which said, "we hold National banks to be unconstitutional," but when the question came up to charter the Na tional banks a few years ago, the bill passed through the House with but 125 affirmative votes, of which 103 were Republicans; the Democrats had it in their powrer to defeat it when they had 136 votes altogether, but how did they vote, 56 out of 136 voted against re chartering the National banks, 22 voted in favor of it and 58 dodged. In a word it is clearly evident that the present so-called Democracy (I don't mean the rank and file of the voters) deserves as much contumely heaped upon it as the other old machine, and as for my part, I dont intend to play shut mouth any longer. I am not so awfully afraid of negro i-upremacy, the poor old negro is like myself, tl.iy are never allowed to rule anything but the hoe, axe and plow. Some few of the so called Dmi ocrats sarcasticaly and sneeringly teli us reformers down here that the kinky heads are with us, allu iing to the ne gro. I hope thev are and will continue to be with us, for if the law of contrac tion forces me to get 6 cents for my cotton, it forces the negro to take the same for his. Now, right here breth ren, I am going to give you a pointer. It is time the white man and the black man was coming together, and by their united suffrage clean out this horde of Republicans and Democrats whose only ambition is success; for success means spoils. If we had taken hold of the negro right after the war and taught him that civil rights was a myth that custom grinned at, that the Republican party snickered at to get vote?, in all probability it would not have taken him to the present time to find out that he did not want to sleep in the same bed with the white man, but what he really did want was more meat and bread, and after that a e'ear conscience for being a good moral citi zen. A few perhaps, when they read this article will sa, "that fellow is a Re publican." Oh no, my dear reader, I used to be a Vance shouting Democrat, but I am not first and last a Vance man any longer, but am a Polk man, not always, for Polk may get off the St Louis platform, but as long as he stands there, until he is Presidtnt I love Democracy, but I dont love the so called Democracy, it has follow ed along at the tail end of the Republi can party for twenty five years blub bering and crying till its eyes and nose were red, because it did not possess the potency and manhood to enable it to get ahead of the procession. It hss not had a well defined policy for twenty-five years, it has been all things to all men, if pressed and for the nake of office it would respond to every creed in the Republican party. For the sake of spoils it kept at its head as chair man, the agent of the Rothchilds, Au gust Belmont, for the sake of spoils, (they say consistency.) it supported Horace Greely in 1872. who was the dady of the infamous Republican par ty and a stickler for the protective tar iff system. For the sake of spoils it elects such men as Payne, of the Stan dard Oil fame and coal baron Brice to the United States Senate. For money both of the old machines will yet go to the devil. They stand ready to serve their plut jcratic masters, Tilden had money hence hurrah for Tilden, Brice has money, hurrah for Brice ; Sherman, Sanford and a gocd many others have all the money, hurrah for them all. We poor devils have fol lowed their orders with hat in hand afraid of negro supremacy. Well, ac cording to Burns. "The best laid plans of mice and men Will oft gang ag.ee.'' T. E. McCAfcKKY, Sec't. LETTER FROM SOUTH CAROLINA. The Pjogressive Farmer Appreciates the Kind Words. Mr. Editor: Your persistant efforts to keep the peoples enlighten d on all questions affecting the public com mends The Progressive Farmer as an independent, patriotic sneet. Its dis-cu-bioii of the financial question is frank and free fr an the taint of preju dice. All that ad cajrfandum stuff about the great purchasing power of money is but a delusion and snare. We had an illustration of this the other day, when a man who owed fifty dol lars had hi3 property, consisting" of a tine young ox. a heifer 1 Jersey with calf, and a young fat horse 5 years old, sold to satisfy said debt. The purchas ing power of money was so great that the ox sold for $2, the cow and calf for $5.50, and the horse for 25, in all $32.50, leaviitg balance due on claims $17.50, whereas, had our financial sys tem been right the man, who is very industrious, would not have been in deot, and had he the co v would have paid the debt. I am amused to see the efforts of the great purchasing power of money as il lustrated in this and other instances on tho old mossy back Alliancemen who, by neglecting to educate their children and to respond to other calls, as mem bers of society, have a little money hid away. They think they see the "pint'' and are learning the Alliance, and ex pect under this great purchasing power of money to buy our best lands at one dollar per acre. There are two sides to any question, luckily, and the other paities in this fi nmcial drama are waking up, and when this war of plunder is inaugu rated under the prostitution of the forms of law, another fraternal strife will be engendered e dipcing in vindic tiveness and ruin that of the last war. The times are really alarming, and no good citizen can contemplate the dire extremity of our country without a withering sense of fear and consterna tion. Let the outcome be what it may The Progressive Farmer is entitled to hearty commendation for its manly, gallant discharge of duty. Veritas. INFORMATION WANTED ABOUT TURNING UNDER GREEN RYE. Petra Mills, N. C. Mr. Editor: Will you please allow me, through your paper, to ask my Al liance fritnds down east to give me all the information they can on turning under green rye for tobacco? How long ought it to be turned under be fore planting time, and is there any danger in having too much green r y e turned under? Brother farmers, give me the desired information by return mail, so I can be benefited by 3 our ex perience. I am ignorant on this fub ject. Our Alliance is in good trim. We have 51 members, all for the Ocala platform and no part of it left out, not even that unconsistent Sub Treasury. We want that or something better. F. G. Bowman. The Progressive Farmer from now until Nov. 15th for 50 cents. Make up your Clubs. i J
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