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'i E PROGEESSIV 1 H THE INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OP OUR PEOPLE PARAMOUNT TO ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS OF STATE POLICY. RALEiq-H, N. O., AUGUST' 2, 1892. No.- 25 EAEMER. TIONAL FARMERS' ALLI- IJJtt AW """w - " UNION. ti T. T.-mrlra TTnrnn South Dakota. Address, Washington, D. C. m T TT iSa Address, 239 North Capitol f?r V, Washington, D. C. " 1' T TT Willfttta. Kansas Lecturei EXECUTIVE BOARD. ,i W Macune. Washington, D. C. Alouzo Wardall, Huron, South Da- ,?aF. Tillman, Palmetto, Tennessee. JUDICIARY. . rvlo Michigan. p' W Beck, Alabama. SL D. Davie, Kentucky. NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE. H L Loucks, Chairman. q 't Macune, Washington, D. C. if arm Page, Brandon Va. L. P. Featherstone, Forest City, Ar- sfinsas. . F. Gwinn, White, Tennessee. ,ST3 CAROLINA FARMERS' STATE ALLI ANCE. president Marion Butler, Clinton, ' C Vice-President T. B. Long, Ashe- ville, N. C. m n Secretary-Treasurer W. S. Barnes, Raleigh, N. C. Lecturer J. S. Bell, Brasstown, N.C. Steward C. C. Wright, Glass, N. C. Chaplain Rev. E. Pope, Chalk ivel, N. C. Dmr-Keeper W. H. Tomhnson, 'ayetteville, N. C. Assistant Door-Keeper H. E. King, ''eanut, N. C. 3ergeant-at-Arms J. S. Holt, Chalk nevel, N. C. State Business Agent W. H. Worth, .-taleigh, N. C. 3 Trustee Business Agency Fund W. t. Graham, Machpelah, N. C. (TECUTTVE COMMITTEE OF THE NORTH CAROLINA FARMERS' STATE ALLIANCE. S. B. Alexander, Charlotte, N. C, jhairman; J. M. Mewborne, Kinston, C. ; J. S. Johnston, Ruffin, N. C. TATE ALLIANCE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE. Elias Carr, A. Leazer, N. M. Cul Dreth, M. G. Gregory, Wm. C. Connell. TATE ALLIANCE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE. R. J. Powell, Raleigh, N. C. ; N. C. Unglish, Trinity College: J. J. Young, Polenta H. A. Forney, Newton, N. C. North Carolina Reform Press Association. Officers J. L. Ramsey, President; ' Varion Butler, Vice-President ; W. S. Barnes, Secretary t PAPERS. Progressive Farmer, Caucasian, The Workingman's Helper, Watchman. Raleigh, N. C. Clinton, N. C. Pinnacle, N, C. Salisbury. N. C. Farmers' Advocate, Country Life, Mercury, Rattler, Agricultural Eee, Alliance Echo. Special Informer, Tarboro, N. C. Trinity College, N. C. Hickory, N. C. Whitakers, N. C. Goldsboro, N. C. Moncure, N. C. Raleigh, N. C. Each of the above-named papers are requested to keep the list standing on the first page and add others, provided they are duly elected. Any paper fail ing to advocate the Ocala platform will be dropped from the list promptly. Our people can now see what papers are piiolished in their interest. RESOLUTIONS FROM MISSISSIPPI Salem, Yalobusha Co., Miss. After calling the Yalobusha County Alliance to order, the President, Dr. N. M. Woods, communicated the sad in telligence that President L. L. Polk, of the National Farmers' Alliance, was dead, whereupon a committee on re so lutions reported the following, which was unanimously adopted : Whereas, It has been officially com municated to this Alliance that brother L. L. Polk is dead, which sad event occurred in Washington City on the 11th of June. Resolved, That this County Alliance hag heard, with feelings of deepest re gret, of his untimely demise. We recognize that "death seeks a shining mark. 2. That in his death our Order has lost its idolized leader; peerless, bril liant, chivalric Polk. We have lost a loyal brother, whose virtues we will try and emulate. May God be to the widow and orphans that which He has promised. 3. .That a copy of these resolutions be furnished The Progressive Farmer, Xational Economist, Chickasaw Mes senger and Alliance Journal for publi cation. J. J. Ratenbery, J. Mell Smith, W. M. Hughes, H. N. King, G. W. Christian, Committee. L. B Hutchinson, Secy. RESOLUTION. In view of the fact that the two lead ing political parties of the country have met and failed to lay down a sound financial plank in their plat forms, ignoring the fact that financial relief is the crowning issue before the peonle. we. Panacea Sub Alliance, No 884. do hereby reaffirm our candid ODinion that both the Ocala and St Louis demands are the only wise, con sistent and patriotic refuge left to our financially afflicted people: that we will faithfully support them, and and hereby urge our brethren of every Sub-Alliance in our State to do like wise. Fraternally, sfNO. D. Thorne, Secy. y c u i 1891. October 6 .70 January 61.45 " 13 .68 13 1.43 " 20 .66 20- 1.41 44 27 .64 44 271.39 November 3 .62 February 31 37 " 10 .60 10-1.35 " 17 .58 17 1.33 " 24 .56 " 24 1.31 December 1 .54 March 31.29' " 8 .52 10 1.27 4t 15 .50 44 171.25 44 22 .49 24 1.24! " 29- .47 311.22! A?fn -i-fgi 1892. i l.lOl ....... ,. rr - 21- 116 44 28 1.14 I.January 5 .45 May 51.12 44 12 .43 121.10, 44 19- .41 19 l.OSj ' 44 26 .39 26 1.06 February 2 .37 June 21 04 44 9 .35 91 02 44 16 .33 161.00 44 23 .31 23 .99 March 1 .29 30 .97 44 8 .27 July 7 .95 44 15 .25 14 .93 44 23 .24 21 .91 44 30 .22 44 28 .89 April 5 .20 August 4 .87 44 12 .18 11 .85 44 19 .16 18 .83 44 26 .14 25 .81 May 3 .12 September 1 .79 44 10 .10 8 .77 44 17 .08 15 .75 44 24 .06 44 22 .74 44 31 .04 29 .72 June 7 .02 TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS Dear Friends: The death of Col. Polk makes it necessary that the affairs of his estate be settled. We can no longer look to him for any income to help in dull seasons to pay the bills of The Progressive Farmer, but on the other hand we must settle up some large accounts we owe, and settle them at once, too, or have trouble and extra expense. Not only are there ac counts against The Progressive Far mer that must be met, but there are also other bills, and quite large ones. too, which we have to meet. Now it our subscribers will be as faithful to us as we have been and expect to con tinue to be to them, we will be able in a very short time to get all these mat ters settled and go right on battling for the people. We did not think we would make any urgent call upon our subscribers to pay up back dues and renew untu later in tr.e iau, dui tms necessity U now laid upon us, and we feel confident the good brethren will not lay this paper down and neglect and forget our present needs. We have prepared a table above wnicn shows the date of ea jh issue of the pa per since Jan. 1, 1891, and up to June 11. 1892. the date of Col. Polk s death. Your label may not contain one of the se dates, but it may contain a date falling in this period embraced in the table. If so, you owe us sometmng. and to find the amount look on the table for the date on your label, or the date preceding the date on your label, and opposite this date will be the fig ures showing the exact amount you were due The Progressive Farmer when Col. Polk died. These little amounts due us, if all paid in at once, will help us straighten out all our press ing obligations that promise us trouble if not settled at once. Brother and friend, this statement of the case is before you, and though it may be hard for you to raise a dol lar or two dollars, or even a smaller amount now, will it not be much easier for you to do it than for us to lose $4,000.00 or $5,000.00 on account of your failure? If you find the amount you owe is less than $1.00, send $1.00 before August 20th, 1892, and we will enter you up a year and an extra month. If it is more than $1.00 and less than $2.00 you owe, send $2 00 and we will enter you up two years and two months extra. Send us not only your own renewal, but get up a club and send along with it. You can do much good in your community by circulating this paper. In writing us always give the amount sent, and the name of the postoffice to which your paper is going, and your own name plainly written. Let us hear from you at once, please. Yours, J. W. Denmark, Business Manager. Fifteen thousand corporations were formed last year with a nominal cap ital of six thousand million dollars. Winfield, Kansas, Free Press. ADVERTISERS, READ THIS. Raleigh, N. C, July 18. 1892. Mr. J. W. Denmark, Business Manager Progressive Farmer: Dear Sir: We recently run for a short time an advertisement in The Progressive Farmer, and we run at the same time the same advertisement in four other leading papers in the Stato and we write to say that we re ceived ten replies from the one in your paper to every one received from all the other papers combined. Yours truly, Edwards & Broughton. The old politicians keep harping upon that worn, out sting, 4 4 You cannot legislate money into a man's pocket. Thomas Jefferson said: "You can lpiftlatA nrns-nArir.v nr adversity UDOn yourselves and your posterity." Great West. ws-w ,r-r , ' ,JJ5 JWiUJi'J MAY, 1891. POLITICAL PLATFORMS. A Series of Interesting Documents. Milestones in the Development oj Politi cal Parties Since the Organiza Hon of the Government. 1860. democratic, (breckenridge) platform, charleton and baltimore. Resolved, That the platform adopted by the Democratic party at Cincinnati be affirmed, with the following ex planatory resolutions: 1. That the government of a terri tory, organized by an act of Congress, is provisional and temporary; and, during its existence, all citizens of the United States have an equal right to settle, with their pronert?. in the ter ritory. without their rights, either of person or property, being destroyed or impaired by congressional or territorial legislation. 2. That it Js the duty of the Federal Government, in all its departments, to protect, arhen necessary, the rights of persons and property in the territories, and wherever else its constitutional authority extends. 3. That when the settlers in a terri tory having an adequate population form a State Constitution in pursuance of law, the right of s rvereignty com mences, and, being consumated by ad mission into the union, they stand on an equal footing with the people of other States, and the State thus organ ized ought to be admitted into the Fed eral Union, whether its Constitution prohibits or recognizes the institution of slavery. 4. That the Democratic party is in favor of the acqu;sition of tne Island of Cuba, on such terms as shall be honor able to ourselves and just to Spain, at the earliest practicable moment. 5. That the enactments of State legis latures to defeat the faithful execution of the Fugitive Slave Law are hostile m character, subversive of the Consti tution, and revolutionary in their effect. 6. That the Democracy of the United State recognize it as the imperative duty of this government to protect the naturalized citizen, in all his rights, whether at home or in foreign lands, to the same extent as its native born citi zens. Whereas, One of the greatest neces sities of the age, in a political, commer cial, postal and military point of view, is a speedy communication between the Pacific and Atlantic coasts; there fore be it Resolved, That the Democratic party hereby pledges itself to use every means in its power to secure the passage of some bill, to the extent of the constitu tional authority of Congress, for the construction of a Pacific railroad from the Mississippi river to the ocean at the earliest practicable moment. 1864. DEMOCRATIC, CHICAGO, AUGUST 29TH. Resolved, That in the future as in the past, we will adhere with unswerv ing fidelity to the Union under the Con stitution, as the only solid foundation of our strength, security, and happi ness as a people, and as a frame-work of government equally conducive to the welfare and prosperity of all the States, both Northern and Southern. 2. That this convention does ex plicitly declare, as the sense of the American people, that after four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war, during which, under under the pretense of a military neces sity of a war power higher than the Constitution, the Constitution itself has been disregarded in every part, and public liberty and private right alike trodden d )wn, and the material pros perity of the country essentially im lmpaired, justice, humanity, liberty, and the public welfare -demand that immediate efforts be made for a cessa tion of hostilities, with a view to an ultimate convention of all the States, or other peaceable means, to the end that, at the earliest practicable m )men -., peace may b 3 restored on the basis of the Federal Union of all the States. 3. That the direct intt rference of the military authority of the United States in the recent elc ctions held in Kentucky, Maryland, Mispouri, and Delaware, was a shameful violation of the Constitu tion ; and the repetition of such acts in the approaching election will be held as revolutionary, and resisted with all the means and power under our con trol. 4. That the aim and object of the Democratic party is to preserve the Federal Union and the rights of the States unimpaired; and they hereby declare that they consider the admin istrative usurpation of extraordinary an' dangerous powers not granted by thpvrnstit.ution. the subversion of the civil by military law by States not in insurrection, the arbitrary military arrest, imprisonment, trial, and sen tence of American citizens in States where civil law exists in full forc the suppression of freedom of speech a. d of the press, the denial of the right of asylum, the open and avowed disregard of State rights, the employment of un usual test-oaths, and the interference with and denial of the right of the peo ple to bear arms in their defense, as calculated to prevent a restoration of the Union and a perpetuation of a gov ernment deriving it just powers from the consent of the governed. 5. That the shameful disregard of the administration to its duty in respect to our fellow-citizens who now are, and long have been, prisoners of war, in a suffering condition, derive 3 the severest reprobation, on the score alike of pub lie policy and common humanity. 6. That the sympathy of the Demo cratic party is heartily and earnestly extended to the soldiers of our army and the sailors of our navy, who are and have been in the field and on the sea under the flag of their country; and in the event of our attaining power, they will receive all the care and pro tection, regard and kindness, that the brave soldiers of the Republic have so nobly earned. TO BE CONTINUED MUST NOT THINK FOR YOUR SELF. Rocky Mount, N C. Mr. Editor: The farmer who darea to think for himself upon great econ omic questions affecting hia rights of property and personal liberty is charge able to partisan opinion for something more than a mere breach of privilege, and is roundly, severely and unjustly denounced because he dares to say to others, 44IthinkI hear and act." To speak from that consensus of opinion, which in matter of public concern is a rule arbitrary conduct, the farmer who does act for himself and think for him self forgets all claim to respectability by his party. Success alone 4 4 can even things up." The great error of his life is that he has not been thinking before ; then he would not have shared the fatuity of blind guides. He has con fided too much and too long in such false leaders and the consequence of his faith and trust is that he is to day up to his arm-pits in the Serbonian bog. It is an evidence of sound political science that he who is governed least is governed best, and this is true whether the sources and limitations of such government be in a single federal head, or in other irrepressible distribu tive jurisdiction. Power, when arbi trarily exercised, is as oppressive when vested in a corporation aggregate as in Congress. In the distribution of pub lic wealth, we have been wronged be cause this has not been distributed upon that most equitable principle Federal representation. The farmer claims he has devised a method of relief founded on broad, liberal and comDrehensive ideas of jus tice, but he is really seeking a single reform, and the scope of that reform is MAY, 1892. as broad and vital as if is were the whole text and letter of our organic law. In a representative and figurative sense he is a lord proprietor of the great national domain, and it is right not to petition, but to demand. He has done both, and in whatever charac ter he appeared the relief asked has been denied. He asked only that the benefits accruing from an honest ad ministration of public affairs be equit able and equally distributed, and that burdens imposed by the government be placed alike upon every man. This done, and we shall hear no more of the problems of experimental government, Sub Treasury, government ownership of railroads, etc. Will this be done? To answer yes, would contradict the experience of a hundred years. There is universal distress, the want of money and . credit has partIyzed the nerve centres of the whole country, and the statesman jvho is wise enough and just enough to pilot the old craft through the boisterous seas of political chaos will deserve better of his countrymen than all the philosophers the world ever saw. Such an act of relief and concilia tion will place the reformer in the front rank of modern statesmen. Revo lutions never go backward, however weak their start or compromising their alliances, they go on and on to perfect development. To one who will take the pains to look critically into our theory of gov ernment, he will discern what has all along purposely been hidden from our view that the people are the ultimate sources of all power, that we must seek protection from our individual re sources and not under the aegis of the State. The old line politicians for half a century through their platforms, have proclaimed that great wrongs have crept into the administration of government, and yet these wrongs are permitted to go on unabated. What are the people to do? Wait and expect better things? While they wait what will become of their hungry children and unfortunate creditors? But one avenue of escape from this political and material ruin presents it self, and that is by committing our selves into the hands of our friends only. Our plans, our demands, one and all. We know that the most vital obstruction in seeking relief is that the administrative party is too far from the people. It is out of sympathy and touch with the teemmg, toiling masses. When we say the government should own the railroads, we are promptly and at once charged with the detestible crime of confiscation. Such an act as tths they tell us would be extra hazardous, if not altogether revolutionary. We don't want to take from any man by sheer force a single dollar, nor do we wish to be robbed and gulled by them. The emergency cannot arise in our day or time when the government, by reason of constitu tional sanction, will exercise the right of confiscation, but there is a principle vital and distinctly inherent m every sovereign that should be invoked in aid of the people, and this would be neither an act of confiscation nor abso lution. This principle is engrafted in the Inter-State Commerce law, and will allow the government to manage and control an inter otate ranroaa lines. But why may not the govern ment become the owner by purchase? If it can purchase from the contractor a steamship, if it may ouy tne sinews of war from a private armory, wxiy may it not buy the franchise and prop erty rights of a railroad company ? 44 But," says the objector, 44 that would be confiscation, and would con travene the theory of a representative government. Did you ever know a government to fall into pieces because of centralized power ? Or is po wer and oppression always synonimous terms? The perpetual menace to government is from consolidated wealth in corpora tion, whereby there become the active dissolving agents of unity and power in government. The canker worm enters the core of the body politic of these corporations and the work of dis memberment has already begun. The true blighting effect is the pauperism of the people. But it will bankrupt the nation. Untenable, The wildest schemist put the value of railroads at about $7,000,000,000 The Fifty-first Congress threw away one-seven of this amount without any benefitto the peo pie. Statisticians say the net earnings of the railroads in 1885 were $600,000, 000. The government pays annually for transportation of mail $100,000,000, not including star routes. The government ought to reclaim about 40,000,000 acres of land granted to railroads that can be sold at not less than $8 per acre. The Democratic theory of tariff re duction will put $800,000,000 not needed as revenue. A graduated income tax will yield $150,000,000 in excess of the harbor and river appropriation, annu ally $25,000,000 . Add to this amount ex- ended by railroads annually in control ing legislation, Presidents and super numerary employees $100,000,000, The total of this amount would in five years buy every railroad, and yet the people have escaped an additional cent of taxation. Now is there need of change in this respect? The postal service should draw to it whatever is needed for the safe and prompt delivery of the . mails. It should stand between the railroads and the people as the final arbiter. If it is unjust to the people that these corporations should be al lowed to add the actual cost of rail roads, to wit: 3,085,000,000, a fictitious value of $6,521,987,309, when the un lawful interest upon this unlawful amount must be paid by the people in increased freight charges 391,319,238. These corporations are a law unto themselves, notwithstanding the efil cient interposition of the Railroad Com mission and the conflict is always with the people There is an absolute denial of justice by them until they are whipped into line by the courts. A. B. versus Railroad Co. is as familiar legal learning as Jno. Doe vs Richard Roe in the old action of ejectment: If they, by the grossest negligence, run over and kill your stock, they go to the very verge of the law to find success ful escape. If they wish a right of way over your land their compass is set to every wind that blows and legis lation is so manipulated by them in all case s as to effectually control your rights and leave their own charter, but abused privileges free and untram meled. T. T. Thorne, Jr. RESOLUTIONS. Whereas, The ruthless and unspar ing hand of death has wrapped in his sable mantle one of the brightest and most auspicious stars in the constella tion of our Order, Hon. L. L. Polk, whose very name sounds in our ears as the summary of every manly virtue. Jxesoivea, mat as we deeply mourn his departure, that every fibre of our nature vibrate in unison with that spirit of fraternity that characterized his life, and that the great principles he promulgated be stamped mdellibly on the tablets of our memory and urge us to greater activity in the great re form movement. 2. That we, the members of lodge No. 13, extend our heartfelt sym pathy to the grief stricken wife and children of the deceased, and may his noble deeds lie in their memory like the coral islands, green and sunny amidst the melancholy waste of ocean. 3. That a copy of these resolutions be sent to President Polk's paper, the National Economist, Jackson Indus trial News and Sunfield Sun, and that we drape our charter in mourning for thirty days. W. E. Allen, David Roger, Martin Norton, Committee. WHAT A DELEGATE SAYS. McFarlan, N. C. Mr. Editor: Having been elected a delegate to Omaha, Neb., to the largest national convention eyer held in the United States, and on returning home I feel it a duty as well as a pleasure, to speak a few words' to my people in this tne Sixth Congressional district, and also to all friends of reform throughout the State. First, I will say to my brother delegates from this State that I arrived home from Omaha all well Friday evening, July 8th. Hope you all ar rived home safe with three cheers for Weaver and Field. On the next day, Saturday, July 9 th, after I arrived home, we had a meeting here in our little town and formed a People's party Club with seventy two members to begin with. Our club will meet again July 30th, and I ieel sure that we will double, our number by the next meeting. We elected J. S. Jones President, and W. A. Hancock Vice President, and W. R. Johnson Secre tary of our Club. , We have asked our friends through out this county (Anson) to organize at once, which I believe will be thoroughly organized inside of three weeks. My advice to all friends of reform in every county in the State is to orgarfize at once, and then you will know who are with you in your work. Our people here are well pleased with our choice at Omaha; now they say they must have a full county and State ticket in the field. Let the good work go on and count on good old Anson county as being solid for the People's party. Will let you hear from us again. With best wishes for the People's party, and three cheers for Weaver and Field, lam, Yours truly, ' W. H. Odom. i i 'J "i
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