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THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER: AUGUST 9. I8S2 THE PB0GBESSI7E FARMER. "MRS. L. L. POLK, - Proprietor. J. L. RAMSEY, - Editor. j.W. DENMARK, - Business Manag'r. Raleigh, N. C. SUBSCRIPTION jtnle Subscriber. One Year. l-J-5 3lt!T Six Months ? ve Subscribers. One Year.... xoS! " One l ear .v- One copy on yer free, to the rie bending Liub .f Ten. .fh f,,r-f3?,v in Jmuff. Money at our risk. If pent by registered letter or money order. l'kwe Am't fend Advertising Hates Quoted on application. Write all communications, designed for pub lication, on one side of the paper only. We want intelligent correspondents In e erj county in the State. We want acw of value, results Accomplished of "inrsoHd elue nlainly and briefly told. One soni, dSonsfratSr fact, is worth a thousand theories All checks, drafts or money orders intended for this paper should be made payable to 1 he Progressive Farmeb. aa Address all correspondence Intended for thia paper to Tbs Pkogressivb Farmer, Raielgh, N, C. RALEIGH, N. C, AUG. 0, 1892. Tfcf p-ipe entered m tecond-clasa matter at the Pott Ofiee in Raleigh, N. C. Do you want your paper changed to another office : State the one at which you have been petting it. Do you want your communication published i If so, giye u? your real name and y our postoflice. In writing to anybody, always be sure to give the name of your postoffico, and sign your own name plainly. IT" Oar friend in writing to any of our advertisers will favor us by men tioning the fact that they saw the advertisement in The Progressive Farmer. ST" The date on your label tells you when your timo ia out. N. R. P. A. EDITORIAL NOTES. " 1 1 The date for the pic nic at Bar ber's Grove, near Auburn, Wake county, has been changed to Aug. 18. It is amusing to hear some peo ple in certain circles talking about how they are going to whip the boys in before the election. The People's party Congressional Convention for the Four.h district will be held in Metropolitan Hall, Raleigh, on the 15th; State Convention same place on the 16th. The Neivs and Observer has learned through a special corres pondent that Harry Skinner has crossed the river and burned the bridges behind him, and that E. A. Moye has done the same thing. Be sure to read in another column of thi3 issue the account from the Southern Alliance Farmer of the das tardly assault upon Col. W. L Peek and C. C. Post, two People's party speakers, by a crowd of roughs at Quitman, Ga. At the Congressional Convention of the g. o. d. p., held in Raleigh on the 3d instant, there was more signs of whiskey in one short afternoon than there was in the Convention at Omaha with its more than 1400 delegates and several thousands visitors. A private letter from McDowell county states that the Alliance cause is gaining strength and new members at every meeting, but that which astonishes the g. o. p. leaders most is the way tho people are leaving their ranks and swarming to the People's party, We are requested to say that the Moore County People's Party Club will hold their next meeting at Lemon Springs Station, August 20th. F. D. Koonce, nominee for Congress in the Third district, and other speakers are expected. A big day for the People's party is anticipated. We suppose there was never a larger proportion of the Democratic party of Wake seen together before as was in Raleigh Saturday, July 30th at their County Convention. It is said that every true blue from some town ships were present. Still we have seen as large conventions before. How is it? The election for State officials in Alabama came off August list The Democratic party split into two fac tions, and had two tickets in the race. The People's party had no ticket in the field. Wnat you see in the papers about the tremendous majority of the Democratic over the People's party, and its everlasting destruction, is all nonsense. Democrats are very fond of mak ing sneering and sarcastic flings at the People's party when they learn that a man who has been a Republican is with us, still they crow like game cocks when T. M. Argo joins the Democratic Club, and they send Moses A Bledsoe to the Congressional Con vention as delegate. Strange things are being wrought by the influence of the People's party. A majority of the witnesses testi fled before the House investigating committee that they have not seen any members drunk since the meeting of this Congress. If 4 "to prove too much is to prove nothing;" is true, then Tom Watson is not guilty of slander. Since it is a fact that there is a bar-room in the Capitol building convenient to the lips of over three hundred politicians. The people will not believe that there is not more or less drunkeness among the mem bers. It would be unnatural, with such a glaring temptation so con venient to them. The North Carolinian is the name of a new paper laid upon our desk last week. It is published by Josephus Daniels, at Raleigh, N. C, and furnised to subscribers at $2.00 per year. Josephus gets out a beauti ful paper, but he is still trying to straddle everything, claiming to stand squarely for all the reforms the Alli ance demands, still he champions the cause which has o jposed them bitterly from the first. Start right, brother Josephus, and you will succeed, but do not endeavor to run with the hare and bark with the hound. Be either one thing or tho other; let your eye be single upon a definite principle, and success will more likely crown your efforts, and you will be honored for your sincerity and honesty of purpose, even though the world should not ap prove your course. Thousands of men who have hitherto voted with tho Democrats "because," as they have said, "of the two evils we will take the less," have now a third chance and will try it. Thousands more who have been affili ating and voting with the Republicans not because they approved of all that party has been guilty of but bee mse they believed it the less of two evils, have now a third chance and will exer cise it with the People's party, while there are yet thousands who have not affiliated with either of the old parties for years will now help swell the ranks of the People's party. We meet on common ground, acknowledge to one another our past folly, bury the past and take up our march in the middle of the road, with the best platform ever given to tho American people, and honest candidates who areFtand ing squarely upon it with b:th feet. GOOD NEWS FROM COLORADO. tpt cial to The Progressive Farmer. Grand Junction, Col., Aug. 2. General Weaver's tour through Col orado may best be termed A triumph ant procession. Everywhere he speaks the people throng to hear him defend the cause of industry agtfinst the en croachment of Federal monopoly, and everywhere it is manifest that a gigan tic political upheaval has taken place among the rank and file of the people. Wherever tho train stops at the small stations and mining towns along the railroad the people assemble, regardless of past political association, to catch a glimpse of this distinguished champion. Yesterday five thousand people met him at the depot in Aspen and escorted him to the hotel. In the afternoon he addressed an audience in the open air of fully ten thousand persons, and another fully as large at night. Mrs. Lease also spoke at both meetings, and by her marvelous eloquence led the people to the highest point of enthusiasm. The mines were for most part closed down in honor of the occasion. Attheclo?e of the evening meeting a Weaver and Field Club was organized with more than two thousand members The Silver League of Colorrdo in State Convention has endorsed the Omaha platform'and the mines by a two-third vote, and it is safe to say that the Peo ple's party will poll in November three out of every four votes cast in the State. Colorado, the keystone in the group of States west of the Missouri, joins her sister States in the great struggle for industrial emancipation. The People's party will now push its banner eastward beyond the Missis sippi and look southward for protection to it3 right plank. V. O. Strickler, Member P. P. Nat. Ex. Com. PROF. COLLIER COBB It affords us great pleasure to note that Prof. Collier Cobb, son of Rev. N. B. Cobb, and perhaps known better as tho author of Cobb's Map of North Carolina, ha3 been elected Professor of Geology and Mineralogy in the State University at Chapel Hill. In Prof. Cobo we have a splendid example of what a young man with energy, pluck and perseverance can accomplish. He, depending upon his own natural re sources; left the State a few years igo determined to make himself a pro ficient student in geology and miner alogy. He "worked his way through Harvard University, and did it with so much credit to himself that for three years he has been retained there and in the Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology as Instructor in geology and mineralogy. Wa welcome yoa back among us, Collier, and we congratulate you that the chaplet you have so worthily won has been placed upon your brow by your own native State. FREE AND UNLIMITED COINAGE. A correspondent asks us to give our readers a simple explanation of what is meant by the plank in the Omaha platform which reads: "We demand free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the pres ent legal ratio of 16 to 1." In 1783 the Act of Congress was passed which fixed the ratio of silver to gold at .16 to 1, and authorized the freo and unlimited coinage of both metals. That is, that all the gold and silver bullion which might be carried to any United States mint by any per son should be converted into United States coins and returned to the person presenting it without any charge for coining The weight of gold dollars to be 23.8 gains, and the weight of silver dollars to be sixteen times as heavy as the gold dollars, which is 412 grains. This law continued in force from 1783 to 1873. In 1873 the holders of U. S. bonds had succeeded in having laws enactad by Congress making the interest and tho principal of these bonds payable in legal tender coin, that is either gold or silver. Both wero then legal tender. The bondholders had by this time hoarded up or cornered most of the gold, and they made underhand war on silver, and by some slight-of-hand performance, manipulated, it is said, by John Sherman, who was then and is now Senator from Ohio, silver was demonetized. This made the word "coin " in tho bonds mean gold. Thus the parties holding the bonds and the gold could dictate terms of surrender to the U. S. Treasurer. He must have gold with which to pay interest on the bonds, and he must get that gold from the very men to whom he was to pay it, and at whatever price they might name. Hence, gold immediately went up, as the demand for it as a legal ten der coin was increased to the amount of the demonetized silver which was thrown out of circulation, and hence diminished ia market value as bullion. This shows why the gold bugs cry aloud against the restoring of silver to its proper place as a money metal. They say with an air of contempt, as com pared with gold, a silver dollar of 1S73 is not worth but GO cents. Gold is being minted into coin yet in unlimited quan tities. Laws have been pissed since 1873 authorizing the U. S. Treasurer to purchase not les3 than two million dol lars' worth of silver per month, nor more than four million dollars, and mint it, or issue treasury notes for it. But Lo has exercised his prerogative and stopped with 2,000,000 per month, the lowest limit, in order to accommo date the gold bugs. It is very evident that if silver should be restored to its proper position as a money metal that it would be but a short while before the market value of it would be in the same ratio as when it was demonetized in 1873. The advo cates of gold admit now, sinco they see free coinage coming, that they will not object if you will just put as much silver in a dollar as a gold dollar will purchase, and they say that a silver dollar, present standard, contains only 66 cents worth of silver. What would follow a law of that kind? 1st. Those who have silver in hand the farmer, the mechanic, the produc ers of wealth who have received it for their labor and their products would be called upon to lose 34 cents out of every dollar of tho silver in circulation a little more than one-third. A repe tition of the "trade-dollar" steal some of us still remember. 2d. The mints would go to work coining them up, putting 1.51 cents of the present dollar into one new dol lar. Then the gold bugs might buy up all the silver bullion, put the price up and the mints would be bound to take all according to the gold standard at the time it was presented in a dollar and we would have a change in the weight of a silver dollar every time the price of silver fluctuated either up or down. This the gold-bugs could man ipulate at their own sweet will with the average Congress and United States Treasurer. Then let us remember that when sil ver was demonetized and as the de mand for it for coining was stopped, the price of it declined as compared with gold, wh eh had by law to take its place. The amount of gold bullion was not increased by the law, - but the demand for it was almost doubled by it, hence its value on the market was increased to that extent. So then the difference between the market value of the two metals is due not so much on account of a full in the price of sil ver as it is to a rise in the price of gold. While gold is the money of the bond holders and is worshipped by them and they are clamoring now to make it the standard of value for everything. We find the silver the money of the people and for the people and rules the price. Silver stays along with the products of American industry ; silver goes among the people and helps them while gold hides away. Gold has gone as much ahead of everything else in market value as it has of silver. You can purchase as much or more of any product of the people to-day with the silver that makes the legal tender dol lar we demand as you could the day its legal tender quality wa3 taken from it in 1873, except the product of the gold mines, whicKhasby law been increased in market value more than 50 per cent, abovo every other product of Ameri can soil. WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THE PEOPLE. Some of the partisan press of North Carolina are "howling" because the freemen of this State refuse to go out to hear the politician tell the same old tale about his opponents' meanness, the tariff, the bloody shirt, etc., and are saying that the people are narrow minded and prejudiced and have been influenced by the reform papers so that they will not read all sides of the politi cal situation. In North Carolina there are nearly two hundred papers; about nine-tenths of thes) are partisan sheets, and the editors have for the past three years filled them with abuse and ridicule of the Alliance and its officers. Many of these papers have never failed to mis represent the organization and its leaders, whenever an opportunity pre sented itself, and they have never re fused to place conspicuously before the people those who had proved them selves traitors to the Order. Can these gentlemen expect the people to sub scribe to and read their papers where such a course is pursued? We have hearl of only a few instances where papers were boycotted by members of the Order, and those papers were con demned for the bitter and vindictive abuse of the Allianco and its officers. Now, it is plain on the other hand, that the reform papers of the State, to a great extent, have been boycotted by some tradesmen and professional men of tho cities and towns. They have re fused to give these papers adv. rtising patronage ; they have gone farther and have refused even to subscribe or read reform papers or hear reform speakers. These are facts. Is it not inconsistent for the " pot to call the kettle black?" Is it not unbecoming to say what these papers know to be untrue, that the country is arrayed against the towns and that the reform papers of the State have done it? Would it not be more becoming in these editors to state facts and tell the people of the towns to read reform papers, and try to learn some thing about the causes of the depres sion in money matters in the low price of farm products and of labor? Now why do not the country people go to hear the leaders of the great po litical parties? Is it because of preju dices? No. Then what is the cause? The people have learned from these partisan sheets that the subjects for discussion is the "tariff" the "bloody shirt" the "force bill," etc. things with exceptions of force bill, that these same party leaders have been discuss ing for the last twenty years. The people are educated ahead of the poli tician upon the situation at this time. They have been reading and thinking upon the causes and the effects of the present financial depression upon their products and labor they have been reading of the acts of Congress and the methods which they have used to spend the people's money and to help the bondholder, manufacturers, and other money syndicates to enslave the peo pie. Why have not the partisan press had the manhood to speak for the peo pie against the encroachments of these American and foreign syndicates, "land sharks'" Ah! why have they not done it? The people have learned that syndi cates and trusts -own, or control by their patronage, a majority of tlnse papers, and that the editors are tools to do the bidding, to assist in enslaving their countrymen. Throw off your masks, and show the people that you are not henchmen for some political boss or moneyed syndicate to tell the truth sometimes about tho people and their complaint, refuse to publish the damnable trash sent out by your cor respondents who are usually the manu facturers of the stuff sent you for pub lication to suit the perverted tastes of your readers. Have your political speakers meet the exigencies of . the times. Let the people learn that the issues involved, finance, land and trans portation, will be discussed, and they, the people, will go to hear them. You politicians have been fooling the people lo these many years, but lately they have learned the tricks and refuse to go snipe -hunting with them any more. You may call the people fools. You and your political friends, stop abusing the farmer and his heresays as you call them. The people are in earnest but you have not found it out yet. They believe they know what they want, but you say they are fools and will not listen to reason, because they refuse to hear their cuse ridi culed, themselves and their neighbors villified and slandere'd. The financial vagaries, as you call them, of the de luded fellotcs will not down at your bidding, nor that of ycur political leaders, nor that of your masters money, nor that of the advice of those who have heretofore posed as leaders. Tho people are exerting their own thinking powers, and neither "bull dozing," the "party lash," abuse, mis representation or anything else but facts (which you cannot or will not give) can convince the people that they are wrong. In the language of one of your politicians against the People's party leaders I will say this to the poli tician who dares to continue his same cheap talk cm the campaign: "I say they ought to have the contempt of every honest man and patriot in America," and the people, the honest yeomanry of this country think so too, and therefore treat them so and in the language of another of a different mold from this politician wo will ex claim to the people, Strike (vote) for your altars and your fires; Strike .vote; for the grt.en graves of your sirt s, God and your native land. CONDEMNED BY HIS OWN WORDS We get in exchange nearly every Democratic weekly paper published in North Carolina. When we have read one, leaving out the purely local and personal news, we hive read all. We find them principally made up of gatherings from, the dailies. As an example of the consistency we find in the average Democratic weekly paper, we ask our readers to notice carefully what one says, and they will see what they all say. We copy extracts from the Kinston Free Press of August 4th: "The Third party leaders in North Carolina make all sorts of false charges against the Democratic party. They exaggerate small imperfections, of the molehill order, into mountains; and some of their charges are based on nothing, but are simply lies. They know that the Democratic party is the best party ; but they want office, can't get it through the Democratic party, and hence abuse the Democratic party. Some of the Third party leaders have told big lies on the Democratic party so many times that they have actually got to believing them to be true them selves." Serious charges, these. They knock the spots out of the whole reform move ment. Now don't they, though. They answer all tho arguments put forth by the People's party, and completely de molish the Omaha platform, according to the Free Press. O my ! How can we stand it? "Lied until we actually believe them true," you say. Now see another example from the same column of this same paper: " Honesty his become rarer, consist ency has become less prevalent under the teachings of The Progressive Farmer and other Third party advo cates, who try out " stop thief " while they have their hands in the pockets of the dear people." The idea that any man should be so simple as to utter such glaring false hoods in an attempt to prove another man a liar is too absurd. " Honesty rarer?" "Consistency less?" "Under the teachings of The Progressive Farmer and other Third party advo cates who cry out "stop thief" while they have their hands in the pockets of the dear people." These charges quoted above the writer knows are "but simple lies." If he has not "told them so many times that he has actually got to believing them to be true," to use his own words. Let's see, for instance, we see that the subscrip tion price of the Kinston Free Press the very paper that is doing th's her culean work in the demolition of tho People's party is $1.50 per year. The subscription price of The Progressive Farmer is only $1.00 per year. Count each pocket 50 cents and you will see that if we have have our hands in two of "the pockets of the "dear people," the Free Press has his in three, or if we have ours in two inches, his are in three. We try to give an equivalent in value for every dollar we get out of " the pockets of the dear people," and we will leave it to "tho dear people" who take both papers to say if we do not give them at least twice a3 much for $1.00 as they get of the Free Press for $1.50. Then where is the sense in this? Does it answer any argument of the People's party ? Or is this the best you have in the shop and the "dear peo ple " must take it and believe it because you eay it and you are a Democrat f The same paper copies from the Wil son Advance into this same editorial page a garbled extract from a letter in The Progressive Farmer of July 26th Garbled EjtracU with Comments. What a spectacle! The leader of North Carolina Republicans writing to The Pro gressive Farmer, ad vising the people of the Statewhat to do? Democrat-, do you see? To Third party men Le says: You run your Congressional and State ticket. We will vote for and help e!ect it. In return we expect you to see that our vote for presidential elect ors is counted and we will carry the State for Harrison and Held. You may have the State ticket if you will give us the presidential electors." Was there ever before in the his tory of the State such a bold, light-banded piece of political trad ing? Will the Democ racy of the Stat eit still and see this out rageous thing done ? We do not believe it. The Oriainal an a Futt- re.sf ion to lirpubll.-ans from, J. J Mutt. "In all Democratic districts I would vote for ihe Third party candidate for Congress on this platform, with the general under standing that the Third party people through out the State would guarantee a fair elec tion in the presidential box. Of COIirsfi thov will vote for their own presidential candidate, and they are able to count his vote at every box in North Carolina, They are fctrong enough in numbers to do it. and they have got the sense and courage to do it. If it were done, the result might be the election of Harrison electors." What wilful and malicious attempts to deceive "the dnr , rviolraa if r A 4-1 V P6." fY ill I IVO XV UUU LUeV nl tllci ; VQM Notice, now, these lines - Ml," llstributp were bv a ReDublican t,n t..i,. suggestion. It was senttoTHP a gressive Farmer as a comrr, J xr, nuh.K xxri trim it. mil er1irJf.; . and ion no aDoloffv to mntro tnnr, . li3hing it, We couldn't see could hurt us or our onn e5 can we see where the Free P,-, , gained any credit to itself in APltV. senting us to " the dear tW order to draw their attention from itd own wilful and muliJo representations. Gen. Weaver in on the same page of this seme for his share of the lies to upon him. Gen. Weaver w. a?? publican up to about 1871, ta ) the latest garbled extract quoted him to prove that tho South shS shudder with fear and bluh J shame at the very suggestion of Vots iw"n Uic iiiaco jug is now Workifl he began the agitation of the ereenW " 1 4-Vl" TTAHC7 1 y" rt J .. movement and was sent to Con by his district as a Greenbacker. next election the Democrats fused v the Greenbackers, if we are properly informed, and he was again elected inen ine democrats claimed 1 was still for reform and seein; pect of ever getting it in either of the old parties he joined the People's party at its beginning. Democrats have ti lowed mm as tneir standard bearer Since the utterance of every word they now quote from him in proof that twenty year3 ago he was a bitter sec tionalist. He stands now for the sam reforms he advocated eighteen years ago, when he, among the very few, discovered that the war was over, and buried his bitter sectionalism. He is a patriotic, high-toned Christian gen tleman statesman and scholar, the peer of any other candidate. Still the Fm Press rants upon him as follows: " He has been a Republican, a Green backer, a Democrat, a Third party man. It appears that he has beeii guided, not by conviction, but that he has changed his views to suit the trend of the times, and the times have been fickle indeed. If he has been guided b conviction, he is vacillatins and weak minded. We prefer to give him credit for having some sense. Then he is a demagogue. "He is a narrow minded man; his patriotism is confined within sectional lines. He is a dirty mouthed politician of the lowest type. "We dislike to have to say these things. We do not believe in abuse, and we never indulge in blackguardism. We are simply outlining this candi date's character. It sounds like abuse, but it is not, we never stoop that low. His whole career, his votes, his speeches, his vile denunciations of the South are such that we cannot understand how any North Carolinian, who has any respect for himself, can vote for him. "Has the heart of the patriot grown cold? Have the old memories been obliterated? Are we to witness the sad spectacle of Southern white men going to the polls and casting their ballots for a man who lied about them, who slandered, villified, even cursed and damned the man who fought for their homes, their honor and their liberty?" Now we will ask in conclusion what genuine reformer who has pledged himself solemnly to vote for no man, nor party who does not support and promise to advocate our principles as laid down in the St. Louis and the Omaha platform. How can you be longer influenced by such vile stuff a3 the above except to forever forsake the party guilty of such, and throw your vote and your influence with those who are fighting not to keep alive the bitter sectional hatred of the past, but are fighting for principles, for a united country, for a government of the peo ple, for the people and by the people; to freo ourselves and our OilspnOo3 from plutocracy's galling chains, for equal rights to all and special privileges to none. PREPARE FOR A DROUTH. There is a good prospect for a pro longed drouth throughout the South. In fact crops are now suffering con siderably since the hot, dry weather began. Everything has been full of sap, and even a short drouth will be serious. . It is not necessary to remind the good farmers of he importance of late milfifTofirt r.,,v, rtocfta T.nte corn, VI t UUU11 J. 11 cotton and tobacco can be benefited greatly by frequent plowing or harrow ing:. Drovidad tho nla vs do not go close enough to the stalks to break the mam roots. Cultivation increases moisture and diminishes the damage quite ma terially. PAMLICO CO. PEOPLE'S PARTY CONVENTION. Grantsboro, N. C, Aug. L 192. IX StSt-Kt ttavi C 4- V r-v ir -,t1a's nan nf ui mppt at tno court house in the town of Bayboro, Saturdav, August 13th, VM, au AV o'clock a m. for the purpose of organ izinc and pWtino-rtAWntrfitothebtaie Congressional and Senatorial conven tions. Come and join in this greau form movement. J. B. Sawyer, Chm'n Ex. Com. People's pariy. l,;:.t
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