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'. n 1 A 1 I OB.. TFO INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF OUR PEOPLE PARAMOUNT TO ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS OF STATE POLICY. Vol. 7. RALEIGH, N. 0., MAT 17, 1892. No. 14 PROGRESS!! IMIER. 1 NATIONAL FARMERS' ALLI- ANCE ANU inwuo i UNION. Prflrident L. L. Polk, North Caro Atlantic Building. F v Y., v asnmgiuu, u. j. yicePresident-H. L. Loucks, Huron, r-th Dakota. iUrr iry Treasurer J. H. Turner, loriix Address, 239 North Capitol iT v Vv., Washington, D. C. IXKJtUrCr J. XI. vvmeiws, xvcmrvvs. EXECUTIVE BOARD. ' V. Maeune, Washington, D. C. Vlonz'o Wardall, Huron, South Da- V'$- Tillman, Palmetto, Tennessee. JUDICIARY. i a . Colo. Michigan, r' V. Beck, Alabama. M. D. Davie, Kentucky. NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE. f, l Polk, hHirman. Y. Maeune, Washington, D. C. Mann rage, Brandon, Va. L P Featherstone, Forest City, Ar ansas- .. . .. , W. F. Gwinn, wnite, Tennessee. nffT'd CAROLINA FARMERS' STATE ALLI ANCE. i'rendent Marion Butler, Clinton, Vice-President T. B. Long, Ashe- iile. N. C. . n -ere.arv-Treasurer W . S. isarnes, iaieigh. NT. C. Lecturer J. S. Bell, Brasstown, JN.U. mward C. C. WTright, Glass, N. C. Chaplain Rev. E. Pope, Chalk Do Yr-Keeper w. li. iomiinson, 'avettevilie. N. C. Assistant Door-Keeper ri. Jving, 'caiiut, N. C. , Sergeant-at-Arms J. o. tloit, naiii ,ovel. N. C. . State Business Agent - W . H. V orth, .afcigh. N. C. , . Tnist- e Business Agency .buna w. Graham, Machpelah, N. C. ECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE NORTH " !.K .'LI A FARMERS' STATE ALLIANCE. Alexander. Charlotte, N. C. airman; J. M. Mewborne, Kinston, C. ; J. S. Johnston, Kufiin, iN. J. TA.TE ALLIANCE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE. Vh-.i P-irr A. Leazer. N. M. Cul- ;reth, M. G. Gregory, Wm. C. Connell. ATE ALLIANCE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE. Ti. J TYwell. Raleich. N. C. ; N. C. knglish, Trinity College: J. J. Young, 'Polenta; II. A. Forney, Newton, N. C. 'lorth Carolina Reform Press Association. I '- J. I. Hamsey, President; Harzon Butler, Vice-President ; W. S. Barnes, Secretary, 1 PAPERS. rogrer-sive Farmer, State Organ, Raleigh, N. C. iucasian. Clinton, . ( . 10 Workingan's Helper, Pinnacle, N. G. f'atchiimn, Salisbury, N. C. sinners' A 1 vocate. . Tar)pro. . . C. aaiitaiii Hi. rue Journal, Asheyille, N. .Ulance Sentinel, Goldhboro, .. C. ountrv Lile, Trinity t'ollefje, N. C;. Cerc-ary, Hickory, N. C. 'littler' Whiiakers, N. C. LgTkultuml Bee, . Goldaboro. N. C. Oo'un-l.us Weekly Ncwb, YVbiteville, N. r. Alliance Echo, Moncure, N. C. Each of the above-named papers are 'requested to keep the list standing on the first page and add others, provided tkeii a re d ril y elected. Any paper fa il ! Ingto advocate, the Ocala platform will I be dro .nrd from the list promptly. Our i people can now see what papers are II vub!y.h :l in their interest. THJ2 SITUATION IN SOUTH CARO LINA. Darlington, S. C. Mr. Editor: It is refreshing to read the manly and patriotic sentiments of Ttttt PpnfjFci'sivis Farmer, and Darticu- larly such an able and nobis review of the situation as that contained in me Open Letter" of L L. Polk ot Marcn 29th. It is a favorite device of tyranny to denounce as demagogues and office feekers all who dare to raise a voice in behalf of an oppressed people ana ifinv Kpncntivfi men are driven out of he field and the usefulness of others ibridged by such tactics, butm a great risis IiJta thisi linon which SO much depends, we should make a great effort to Rtppl mi rsp.ives acrainst such taunts and remember that they are simply Che desperate tactics ot our enemies. As I am not a member of the Alli ance (being a lawyer and therefore in- 1 '11 1.1 1 . 1 . V V. .-r eugioie; aunougn m enure ympmj with them, and as I have never been an office holder or office-seeker, and have given life long evidence of my contempt for the mere "ward politi cian " T tninlr T nan afTnril t.rt tjlkfi a f I deep interest in the political situation v without subiu crating mvself to the .harge of being a "demagogue." But ?Jbe the consequences what they may I i shall never surrender my independence and freedom of speech for "'fgar favor 1 Us the hope of rewara." 1 have been I hot a little amazed that non Alliance- r L i 1 1. i flKU. m xms siaw unu eisewuertj uavo piade war on the Alliance, not seeming !o recognize that the fight of the Alh -mriP is fnr th e'enerai benefit: that f they are making war upon no legiti- I mate ousmetss uuiih m a legiumaie i . lit ,1. ! iay, not upon tne lawyer ana aoctor, )t on the pettifogger and quack, not I c the honorable merchant or banker, J l)t on all who abuse their positions to ,i i.-i.-i.: l i a j. . a.Ke unconsiiiuLiuuai ttuvtuiuige, not I even is this war made on capitalists ) out only on such as have wrongfully amassed fortunes at the expense of the NriAnn ann now noiu lueir ttccuuiuiaieu capital a-? a menace to their liberties, i Tonkin c at it from a Durelv material standpoint, it seems to me that any in ilhVpnt nnn-Allianceman would rec- ( ognize that until the farmer produced -ha dollar there is nothing for us law- I J A. . 3 AML r 4-ci tr tend for, tb Jin no other way for the dollar to i.:,h us, our prosperity is wrapped u O l that of the farmer, and while we not claim the privilege of belonging to the Order, we can, stand ing on the outside, bid them God speed. But the fight is for more than material prosperity, it is for liberty. Wall street has her millions of under strappers and boot licks in every town and hamlet in the land. Employees, renters and the dependent poor gener ally are threatened with starvation if they fail to comply with their de niandfr. The question now comes up, how many white slaves have we m tne land? But let us bo merciful in our judgment to the many who are so com pietely in the toils, by reason of un avoidable misfortune, that they cannot h ip themselves. The fight will bo desperate and calls for grit tAid backbone. Our plan of battle is manifest. The two old parties are practically dead; they are both "houses divided against themselves." Northeastern Democrats will naturally fall into the Republican party, which mu?t reform itself on a new basis Northwestern, Western and Southern Republicans and Democra. s are al ready reformed on the new basis of the People's party and await anxiously the word to announce it. Tne sentiment is so overwhelmingly in favor of it that it is difficult to restrain a prenia ture exposure of it. True some few old fogies will still "cling by a name to a dynasty fallen forever ' and continue for a season to worship the fetish of the National Democra' io party. But time will teach even these that the National Democratic party has been dead for a quarter of a century for all useful pur poses, and that Tammany has all that time been masquerading as such, rid ing the South and West like a poor, patient ass, and selling them out to Wall street on every available occasion for ready cash or its equivalent Tammany is a gaudy old harlot who will consort with auy manner of fleh for the money, and yet we are still ex pected to worship at her shrine. Our people, I believe, realize that the fight is now on and that it must be a Water loo to one or the other side. If the parvenue element is to be our bosses, headed by the 500 Jewish Princes of W all street then we had as well have a respectable monarchy and a legalized and decent aristocracy at once. It seems to me that the People's party has already taken such firm root that it is too late for the National Democratic party to redeem itself ven should it now adopt the Ocala dem m is as its platform, for the simple - reason that the people have no faith in its good intentions. Such an agreement would be only a wordy contract with no bona fide intention of execution, whereas in the People's party we inti mate unity of interest and identity of needs would furnish a sufficient guar antee of good faith and permanency. In fact the machination of politicians are powerless and futile to keep asun der that which nature and nature's God have joined together. It does not require a very profound statesman to see that such a combination between the Northwest, West and South is in evitable. It is dictated by a principle that is higher than any organization Should the Alliance die to-morrow it would go on. Should the old parties make any manner of concessions it would go on to its consummation. The People's party is now the only true, real democracy. The old Democratic party, so-called, has long ago lost all features of democracy and become a real oligarchy, ruled by bosses and "leaders" who made no secret of as suming absolute control and dictation of the party policy and utterly ignor ing all ideas and opinions the people might have. So arrogant have they become that we common herd are commanded to keep our mouths shut Mr. Cleveland or Mr. Hill or some other boss of the party has given us our. cue and informed us what subjects we can talk about; for instance we are commanded to keep silent about silver coinage because Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Hill ' both think that the t irifT only ought to be discussed, and so on to the end of the chapter. There never was a party, probably, with so Jittle true democracy in it, a party in which the people were so completely ignored and led by a few bosses who exact an abso lute and blind obedience. Are we of the South willing for the sake of a name an empty name, and old tradi tions and associations, to remain in this perpetual mental bondage. If so we desire to be the slaves of the vu'gar parvenue. R. K. Charles. BRO. SHUFORD IN ROWAN. Faith, N. C. Mr. Editor: Our Alliance, No. 1 ,381, is in a prosperous condition. Mr. A. C. Shuford, District Lecturer of the 7th district, and Mr. F. B. Brown, our County Lecturer, addressed a large crowd of attentive listeners at Frick's School house last night. It was a pub lie meeting and the speakers were cheered from time to time throughout their remarks. They did much good here for the cause of right and reform, and to-day the people are more enlight ened than ever before. They are now speaking to great crowds who gather to hear them. Success to them and may they come again soon. Respectfully, J. T. Wyatt. The Progressive Farmer from now until Nov. 15th for 50 cents. Make np your Clubs THE PUBLIC VOICE. How may the Alliance and the f riends of reform best secure the recog nition and enforcement of our prin ciplesf J (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.) - stick to principle. Owens, N. C. In answer to your question in the public voice, would say that we don't need the third party. We have had too much party. What we want is for the people tojstick to the Alliance and its principles and that is party enough, A. J. Winecoff, select men that you can trust. I would say to the people to select men to fill all offices who they know they can trust ; men who are known for a high standard of moral and Chris tian character. If a man drinks liquor and swears, let that man stay at home to make cotton at five cents a pound and chew and smoke tobacco of his own raising. A man whose brain is beclouded with strong drink is unfit to make laws to govern a respectable peo pie Mrs. Jasper Shearn Red Oak, Nash Co., N C. I will give my opinion as to how to get reform. It seems to be the opinion of many that to load our boat with the St Lou i3 platform and hoist our sails and steer clear of party lashes and party lines and keep in the middle of the road. It was by independent ac tion that our old fathers gained the yictory of freedom, and so it will be in our cause and there is uo other way under the sun. You ask these old men outside of the Alliance who have not cast more than one or two votes since the war. They quit voting because they saw that bota parlies nrere cor rupt and rotten to the core. Turn your back on party bosses and keep in the middle of the road. J. I. Everett. THE POLICY. Something to do Until We Get the Sub Treasury. Mr. Editor: If I were to dictate the line of policy to be pursued by the farmers, I would materially alter a part of the tactics they now have in practice. If an army attacks a city and can't take it by direct assault, it then lays seige and cuts off supplies. It can t always be done in a day, week or year it is a slow process and some times takes many years but it is the surest plan when assaults would be sure to be attended with great lose. The recent vote on the silver bill by Congress ought to demonstrate to the most credulous that to wrest the coun try from the hand of the money power through the medium of the two old parties is an impossibility at present, unless some great unforeseen and un looked for change takes place in one or both of them. Whether either one will fortKtke its idol and turn away from Wall street and serve the people, is a question that time alone can an swer. Before any great ood can be accomplished, through a political agency, the towns will have to suffer in common with the country, and will have to feel the power of Shy lock and suffer a the hand of the despoiler be fore there will be a great political revo lution, and Shylock dethroned and his kingdom taken from him and given back to the people. Let the farmers commence the attack, not only at the ballot-box, but on their farms also. While you are doing all in your power in a political way to overthrow the oppressor, also do all in your power to cut off supplies from trusts, pools, syn dicates and combines. I know enough about farming to know that a farmer is not obliged to raise tobacco or cotton to buy his meat with. He can raisa the meat with a great deal lees trouble and expense than he can the tobacco and cotton. I don't know anything about cotton, and I live in a tobacco country. But since the days of tobacco trusts and meat syndicates I believe I could do better raising meat to buy tobacco with than I could raising to bacco to buy meat, if I had any use for the tobacco. I do honestly believe that tobacco is the tmost ungrateful stuff that ever grew in the world. We do the most of our plowing on our tobacco land, and nearly all the manure we can rake and scrape we put on our tooacco land. We impoverish ourselves to buy guano to go under our tobacco, and then when the stuff comes and i carried to mar ket, the buyers say the reason it sells so low is because it is a "sorry crop and it ain't no account." Hereafter let the farmer try his hand on a corn patch and a lot of pigs, something that would have some gratitude about it and be some account. Suppose we petitition the Agricul tural Department not to send us any more tobacco seed, but to send us some pigs; or how would it do to get our Congressman, A. H. A. Williams to introduce a bill to establish a pig breed ing station somewhere in North Caro lina. Do you reckon that Mr. Vance would again arrogate to himself the power of the Supreme Court and say it is unconstitutional, pig legislation and hogemalism, or would the meat syndicates and railroad corporations say there is already an over-production of pigs? It may be that there is an over production of pigs, but it don't look like there was one in North Caro lina, when the farmers of Rockingham county alone pay the meat syndicates the money thy get for about half a million pounds of their-" sorry crop " of tobacco Say that the farmers were toraise at home the half million pounds of meat they buy from the syndicates, ht us see what amount of supplies Rockingham county would cut off from the tobacco trusts, the meat syndicate-", the railroad corporations and the guano factories. In the first place they would take away from the tobacco tru t from this one county alone a half milli n pounds of its yearly supplies. It takes a? ay from the railroads the freight on that tobacco, wherever it goes. It will take, at a low estimate, that hundred thousand pounds of guano to go under that tobacco, one hunj red and fifty tons at an average cost i $2 per ton, making a total cost of $3,750, besides freight. The freight it would take from the railroads on the guauo would be about. $360. On the half million pounds of meat it would be about $C50 a $1,000 outside of the freight you are paying on the tobac ;o, you a e payiag to railroad corporations to transport directly and indirectly your meat, when if you had a few pigs in a pmall enclosure, you could take a basket, of corn and a basket of slops and say "pigie. piggie, piggie," and your meat would come itself, and you would nave all those expenses enumer ated above. If the finances and other affairs of the country were in a heal thy condition, it would perhaps be better for Virginia and Norta Carolina to raiso the to bacco The Southern States, the cot ton, bugar, rice and molasses, the West, the wheat and bacon. And every State on a mutual exchange of products. Bm tho laws of the country have suffered the railroad corporations, the trust and syndicates to trump all tho?e tri :ks, and there is nothing left for each section to do but to raise their own supplies and act independent of each other until the laws can be amended until the laws are amended, the people will have to abandon to some extent the cultivation of tobacco and cotton, otherwise misery and distress wiil grow and multiply all over the land. , The aid of the Sta-e to protect the peoplti from the ravages of Shyloeks will liave to be invoke !, I verily be lieve. In thi way, say that a person contnvjtcd a debt for $1,000 when the purchJising power of a dollar wras about one fourth as great as it is now. Is it right that the law should force him U p iy more than one fourth the debt, f'lth interest on the same, which wyul f.i'i out of t he i 250 w?th interest ? 1 dou u seo how the lender would be worsted when the $250 he gets back will buy as much corn, wheat, cotton, tobacco, land or anything else as the $1,000 would when he loaned it. I be lieve the teachings of the Bible will bear me out in this assertion, for a man cannot be any part of a Christian and force his unfortunate neighbor to pay him four bushels of wheat for one. Fraternallv, W. H. Schoolfield. MARTIN COUNTY AGAIN. Bro. McCaskey Thinks a Drummer Did the Work. Darden's7 N. C. Mr. Editor: Your paper issued on the 3d of May contains an editorial headed " Watch for Liars," also a short item copied from the News and Ob server, saying, " Hurrah for the Mar tin County Alliance, the Martin County Alliance repudiates the St Louis plat form and instructed the delegate to the Butler Conference to vote against the Third party," signed L I thought when I read the above article that the L. was significant of some savory mor sel that goes by another name when prepared, and I was not mistaken. At the county convention on the 7th I learned that a Mr. Lamb, who is en gaged in the drumming business, I be lieve for this county, wrote the article for the News and Observer. I approac h. ed the geatleman and demanded to know upon what and whose authority he had written such an article. He said upon the authority of J. B. Coffield, the Lecturer of Martin County Alli ance. I asked Mr. Coffield if he told Mr. Lamb that the Martin County Alliance repudiated the St. Louis plat form, and he answered in the presence of Bro. T. L. Green, that he told him no such a thing. Now, Mr. Editor, I can furnish evi dence from a hundrei men that the Martin County Alliance did endorse the St. Louis platform, and by so doing the delegate to the Butler Conference was instructed not to back down or com promise said demands. I will give you the task of locating the liar, for there is certainly one loose, if it is myself, and I think I can prove otherwise. In the com ty con ven rim at Wil liamston on the 7th your s iribe was unceremoniouly read out of the Demo cratic party, because I had written an article criticizing the National Demo cratic and Republican parties. The article was printed in The Progressive Farmer, and nothing that Alliancemen or reform Democrats could say or do would induce the Chairman, J. B. Coffield, to listen or put before the con vention the motion that I be allowed to speak in defense of the charge brought agAinst me for criticising the National Democratic party. Fraternally, T. E. McCaskey, Sec'y- The Progressive Farmer from now until Nov. 15th for 50 cents. Makeup your Clubs. THE DEFEAT OF SILVER COINAGE. Does It Advance or Retard Financial Re form ? Blue Wing, N. C. Mr. Editor: We claim "equal rights for all and special privileges to none.". Let us apply silver to thh t esi. Is not sil ver a product oi labor? Is not gold a product of labor ? Are not wheat, corn, otton and tobacco jut as much the products of labor as either of the so called "precious metals?" Shall the labor in the mines have " special privi leges" conferred by law whi h are de nied to laborers on the farm? Shall the owners of metal products have "special privileges" conferred upon them which are denied to the owners of farm products? Alliancemen have come to believe, and assert, and de mand that their products, which feed and clothe the world, have equal rights with all other products, not excepting the so called "precious metal" prod ucts. And this is the bottom and sub stance of the universally endorsed Sub Treasury scheme Beginning at an early period of his tory, the two products of silver and gold became the monarchs of all the o her products. A ' 4 special privilege" was given, or allowed these two metal products to measure the value of all the other products. From the re motest periods of civilization we find also some "special privilege " men, calling themselves kings or rulers of all the other people. They claimed along a parallel line with the " special privi lege" metals superior, and even " divine rights" to rule others. Might and custom have perpetuated these "special privilege" men and families, even to this day, but our forefathers, who came to the American wilderness, determined to side track these "special privilege" people, especially King George, and declarged for ' equal rights to all." But to make good this bold declaration flying in the face of the whole world there ensued a struggle soj long, so desperate and so bloody that no thought could given to any other subject. Since that time, as well as previously, the world hh.s been occupied with political and religious revolutions. But now comes the dawn of a new civilization the twentieth century civilization which is about to be ushered in by a fin mcial revolution fraught with less danger and greater benefits to the human family than all the political revolutions of tho past combined Io now devolves upon the sons of the sires of 7G; the descendants of the brave and patriotic rnp;:- of tho first revolution; to take up the work where they left off, and placing our feet upon the neck of both king gold and king silver, proclaim again the " sic semper tyrannis" of our fathers who placed their feet upon the neck of King George, of England. If we are true to the instincts and traditions of a noble ancestry, we will, not only de throne, but trample in the dust the metal monarchs which have so long asserted and maintained a superiority over souls d ivine encased in God-created flesh. Mind and muscle must re-assert and re establish its superiority over the " special privilege" metal products. " Whom the God3 destroy they first make mad," and whether the demone tization of silver was an injury or bene fit; or whether the defeat of free coin age of silver is an injury or benefit, it matters not, if it but opens the way for the dethronement of gold the other "special privilege" metal product and secures a more "speedy establish ment of a circulating medium " of the people, for the people and by the peo ple." Why should not both gold and silver take their places, on an equality, alongside of all the other products, and if they be more handy to settle inter national balances, let them be weighed out to the foreigner for what they ar ) worth market value like cjrn and wheat, or cotton and tobacco? Indeed both are now used in that way for that purpose. If we mean "equal rights for all and special privileges to none," then it follows, logically, that we must have "equal rights" for all products and special privileges to no products. Why then should the free coinage people contend that tho government should issue a 100 cent certificate on a deposit of 70 cents worth of silver, while we only ask the government to issue a 56 cent certificate on 70 cents worth of farm products ; or 80 cents on a 100 cents worth of farm products and 50 cents on every 100 cents woi th of land? Why should the silver people ask so much more for the silver producers than for the bread-producers? Why not let the silver yoke stay off? Why not go to work and get off the gold yoke also? The people have worn the double yoke of metallic money bond age for centuries. Off with the yoke! The success of free coinage would only have delayed our deliverance, and helped to strengthen the "special privilege" metal bases of money, and thus retarded our progress towards the true basis land from whi ;h all values emanate, and therefore the only safe and true basis of money. Does it not therefore appear that free coinage of silver is really antagonistic to the Sub-Treasury scheme, and is it not fortunate that it failed? Will not the failure of free coinage advance the cause of financial reform? Are our Cong, essmen, who were elected largely by Alliance votes, doing their duty in this all important matter? Free coin age having failed, why should the at tempsjbe made to lug away a part of Uncle Sam's silver, which is properly held as security for the silver certifi cate? Why not try to get a like de p:it for corn or wheat, cotton or to bacco, or land titles, so their constitu ents can draw certificates on such, in like manner as the silver producer draws on his product? Why not? Are we to be sidetracked after such an universal endorsement of the Sub Treasury scheme ? Let us find out, if we can, who the reaZleaders of financial reform are, and send them to the front Rufus Amis. THE CAUSE. The Atlanta Constitution must have had an eye on North Carolina when writing this : "Today, wherever there is a ten dencv among the farmers to go into the Third party we may be sure the tendency has developed out of the folly of some of the small politicians or the senseless policy of some of the so called Democratic editors." Again it says: "There was never any thing heard of the Third party in Georgia until cer tain Democratic and pretended leaders undertook to set in motion the ma chinery of proscription and intolerance. We should think they have gone far enough to discover that their system of dragooning is not as popular now aa it has been. And yet some of them have not gone far enough. There are would be leaders in Georgia to-day who would be glad to drive the farmers out of the party. They would like to see it as small as the Republican party, for they see in that contingency an opening for them to play the part of Buck and his little coterie." LETTER FROM PAMLICO CO. Grantsboro, N. C Mr. Editor: I have just read my companion, The Progressive Farmer, and am so enthused from reading its valuable contents I must proceed to write a line I have read so much about the diabolical meanness of the pledged gentlemen whom we have sup ported and s nt to Congress to work for our interest, I feel that though I am a young man, and am not so well in formed as some of our Alliance breth ren, that it is no more than my duty to write and inform the brethren as to our standing, and also to caution them to be on the alert. We, Prospect Alli ance, No 1,076, are solid on the St.. Louis platform. Let all be so. Let us watch these fellows whom we have sent to Congress, for they and others wf.l come again, wi:h more power than before ; they will come full of their blinding eloquence; they will come again with their faces wreathed with smiles, a hearty 'hand shake and 1 how are your babies?" but regard them not. Maybe these words will bo spoken again: "Gentlemen, there is no justice in your paying 10 cents for the jack knife and $100 for the ordi nary plow trace, when they should be bought for 5 and 50 cents, respectively. And my fellow-citizens, if you will support me in this campaign such shall be attended to." Of course it is attended to, but how? is the question. Senator Vance, when your term ex pires, you can slowly out steadily make your way home. But how are you going to face your constituents? Are you a conscientious man? If you are, you will pass them with your head dropped. Yes. vou will feel full of guilt. You will know that not only men in their might are frowning upon you, but God is displeased with. you. No, sir, we will never recognize you again. For we can no longer trust a lying tongue and a deceptive heart. Brethren, leave off selfishness, cling not to the rotten old parties, for they are what have brought and forced upon our necks this financial yoke of oppres sion which is so heavy it will soon, iZ not removed, choke us to death. Come into this powerful army, young men; nothing will help you in education any more than reading the reform papers. Come, all ye laborers, let us play a hand in the primaries. They want us to vote with them, but they want us out of the primaries. Look what we have dona -for this great and invincible republic ! and yet we are nothing. You are men, my fellow farmers; do you know i does not that heart of yours throb, replete with patriotism. You love liberty and you must have it ; be not influenced by office seekers. Keep your courage, for you will need it before long. They think that they, will never let us have the Sub Treasury bill passed, nor will never give us free silver, nor anything which will materially benefit us. But brethren, if we act as a unit throughout this country (and there is nothing that will check us,) we must have reform or we perish. God ha promised to help us if we help our selves. And to get it, we must trust no more the sweet-mouthed rascals. Be not fickle, but stand in your own shoes, and at last you will reap your reward. Respectfully, Geo. A. Caton. THE CHANGE. But of late a change has come. Speakers are interrupted by hayeeeders who question an assertion or correct the figures in a statistical table with an assurance that is very embarrassing to the speaker. The froth and fume of a speaker no longer charms the audi ence to the hip 1 hip! hurrah! pars of the performance and tho eulogy of a prominent statesman is choked off by a query as to what he has done for the people. Alabama Mirror. The Progressive Farmer from now until Nov. 15th fOr 50 CentS. Make up your Club,. i yers, aocturs uiiu uaeii;iiiiiW3 w wu- 1 P li; i.'
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