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GCRESSIVB FARMER : AUGUST 30, FIRMER. MRS. L. L. POLK, - Proprietor. J. L. RAMSEY, - Editor. f.W. DENMARK, - Business Manag'r. Rfclelgh, N. C. SUBSCRIPTION xiasle Sab.-criber. Oue Year. I i-23 T .six MontL-s 75 rive Subscribers, One Year 5.tt r.in One Year 10.W1 One copy o.'.e yt free, to th oue send ins Cluo if Ten Ccs.f- frit'ariaMy vi .4dva?w. Money at onr risk. If eent by registered Iei?er or money order. Please don't eeml ti mv. Advertising Rates quoted on application. To Corresvojidci.ts: Write ail communications, designed for pub lication, on one fide of the paper only. We want Intelligent correspondents In every county in the State. We want facts of . value, results accomplished of value, experiences of value, plainly and briefly told. One solid, demonstrated fact, is worth a thousand theories. All checks, drafts or money orders intended for this paper should be made payable to Ihe Pkogressive Farmer. . Address all correspondence In tended for this paper to Tks Phogkkss'.v mimer, Kaieigh, RALEIGH. N. C, AUG. 30, 1692 ThU pave entered a. McnnS-fUv matter at ?V i'o.'t Office in EoleUjh, 2i. C. The Progressive Farmer is the Official Organ of the N. C. Farmers' State Alliance Do you want your paper changed to another oiUce ? State the one at which rou have been getting ir Do you want your communication published i lr ?o, give u your real name and you? postc In writing anyhiKty, always be iure to give the name of your postotflce. and sign y;uir own name plainly. $f Our friend? in writing to anv of cur advertisers will favor us by men tioning the fact that they saw the advertiser?;;-' w- Tm: PKoeniKSf-ivE $W The -.vv.-e vti your label tell? you when your time is out "NT "P A EDITORIAL NOTES. A millionaire is simply a shrewd fellow who gets rich by the sweat cf somebody else's brow. Cabarrus Countj Fair will be held at Concord, Sept. 7th to Oth. There will be a series of raee, et i. Query: If the "unterrified De mocracy " is so badly frightened, how much could the "terrified Democracy" be scared. The People's Advocate is another new and powerful reform paper just started at Buffalo, N. Y. It has the proper ring. Leading men in Denver are off er ing to bet that Weaver will carry Col orado by 5,000 majority, but they can't ...get any bets. The Windsor Ledger heais of a man in that vicinity who is making wooden men. We suppose they are voters for Harrison and Cleveland. They have quit talking about the Alliance so much and now say "the People's party i3 losing ground." Yes, the mortgages are being foreclosed. The "Cleveland Tigers" is what the Statesville Democrats call them selves. If Col. Joe Caldwell hadn't left Statesville he would have called them "Santera" instead of Tigers. Some of the old fossil newspapers are still asking "what do you expect to gain by joining the People's party?" We want to know what anybody ex pects to gain by remaining in the old ones. Governor Ilolt said in his speech at Burlington recently that he "raised more corn and v, heat than all the Peo ple's party leaders put together. We expect our Governor is responsible for all this "overproduction" wre hear about. The number of old and new pa pers that are coming out for the reform movement and the People's party is wonderful. The Progressive Age, of Minneapolis, begins the 19th year of its existence by nailing the people's banner to its masthead. V The Detroit Evening News, the St. Louis Chronicle, the Cincinnati Post and the Cleveland Press, com bined circulation 100,000 copies, have joined the People's party within three weeks. These are all daily papers, says the WeeJrfy Republic. The Henderson Gold Leaf, whose editor must be " something of a liar him self," says the editor of this paper tells the people that they must not hear or read but one side and that the side he chooses to give them. Can the " boss" of the Gold Leaf show that we have ever done that? Senator Ransom spoke at Salis bury last Monday. The Herald says he was greeted by fully 500 Democrats when he entered the court house. The Salisbury correspondent of the Char lotte Observer, who, we believe, is one of the editors of the Herald, says over 1,000 heard the speech. The correspon dent of the News and Observer tele graphed that nearly 2,000 people heard -.ho speech. Oh for the truth ! THE Some of the papers of the State have been very solicitous about the welfare of the Alliance Now they are advising people to leave the organiza tion, which they have no more right t: do than they have to advise the people to leave the church. People can afford to quit reading such sheets. Democrats say that if the party is defeated the People's party will be responsible. This is untrue. The Democrats have charge of the party. If they can't hold their voters together they will be responsible for their own defeat. You are under no obligations to save a thing that the leaders don't take care of. And " Weaver fought against the South." Well, didn't Hancock fight against the S uth, too, and didn't they all split their shirts to elect him Presi dent? How about Cleveland? He "fought against the South" by proxy, or rather by means of a substitute, and still he wag elected President and they are trying to elect him again. Next. The High Point Enterprise says: "Dr. Exum stands on a miserable plat form, but his character is alright. Why try to injure a man because he differs with you politically Fight with the platform; if it is not worth fighting with it is not worth voting for. Dr. Exum is a consistent member of the Baptist church, and the people of his neighborhood say he is a Christian man." The Newton Enterprise says: "We learn that a Third party man of Mountain Creek township has come back into the Democratic fold, and the consideration for his turning was a good fox hound. He is the best sold dog we ever heard of." We suppose the managers of the People's party do not object to Democrat spending their dogs that way, and don't care much for the loss of such fellows. That is another strong argument in favor of more money, for it is bad whm a great party bus to sell its dogs to buy votes. If one could believe half tjie things that are so id of Jerry Simpson by the press reporters, he would have to admit that Jerry is the most wonder fully "diversified" man in the world. Of late they have been painting him as a bicycle dude who has lost all his sympathy for the laboring men. Now they have him transformed into a blood-thirst-, rip roaring anarchist, who carries an arsenal, makes incen diary speeches, and dances a jig on the speaker's desk when he hears of an assassination. Next thing we know they'll be making a modern Claude Duval out of our Jerry, says the To peka Advocate. HARD TIMES. To our subscribers who are due us we make this last earnest appeal. You know that it takes cash to run a news paper the size of The Progressive Farmer. We have to pay for the pa per, the editorial wTork, the type set ting, the press work, the postage and taxes. This takes cash. Now hear in a little further. We are bound to have cash or we are bound to stop your pa per. We do not like to appear dis courteous in our language and trust you will not think us so when we say that after September 27th, 1892, every name on our list not paid up to date will be dropped. You look around you and say "it is hard times," jnd so it is. No one will realize this sooner or more sensibly than he who tries to run a newspaper with $5,000 arrearages on his subscription list and $5,000 of debts hanging over him on that account. We hope you will renew at once. IN THE LAST DITCH. Desperate efforts are being made to blacken the records of the nominees of the People's party. It is strange that some of them were such good men and nothing was said about them while they held positions in the Democratic party. We are glad to see that the new party proposes to make a campaign on principles instead of falsehoods. No attempt is being made to traduce the gentlemen who are nominated by the Democrats. Some of them are good men. They are as- good individually and collectively as the nominees of the People's party. The nominees of the People's party are as good as they none of either crowd are perfect. Pos sibly some of the Democratic nominees favor reform as much as others, but they are silenced and hampered by the modern leaders of a party that has lost all the vantage ground it ever had by cowardice, the last Congress being the capping stone. Party lines are drawn "so they have to vote for Cleve land and his associate rogues who are daily robbing the common people and who would not improve on the work of the Harrison gang if they had every office from constable up. Hence they are no; of the people nor with the people. COINAGE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES A SUMMARY. The articles of confederation adopted between the States March 1st, 1781, gave Congress the exclusive right of regulating the alloy and value of coins " struck by their authority' etc. An Act of August 8th, 1786, and ordinance of October lGth, same year, established the dollar as the unit of value, to con tain 375. Gl grains of pure silver. Hav ing no mint, however, this dollar was not coined. The Constitution of the United States adopted Sept. 17th, 1787, provided " that Congress shall have power to coin money and fix the value thereof," etc. An Act of April 2i, 1792, fixes the dollar as the unit of value, estab lishes a mint, and provides for the coin age of gold eagles, half eagles, quarter eagles; silver dollars, half dollars, quarter dollars, dimes and half dimes; copper cents and half cents. This Act fixes the weight of the gold eagle ($ 10) at 217i grains of pure or 270 grains of standard gold. This would make one dollar equal to 21 J grains of pure or 27 grains of standard gold. The silver dollars were "each to be cf the value of a Spanish milled dollar, as the same is now current, and to contain 371 i grains of pure or 41G grains of stan dard silver," and that the cent should contain 11 pennyweights of copper. The same Act provides that " The pro portional value of gold to silver in all coins which shall, by lawr, be current as money within the United States, shall be as 15 to 1 according to weight of pure silver; that is to say, every 15 pounds weight of pure silver shall be of equal value in all payments with one pound weight of pure gold," etc. Act of January 18, 1837, declares that the standard for both gold and silver coins in the United States should be of ten parts, nine parts should" be pure and one part alloy. The alloy of silver should be copper, and the alloy of gold should be silver and copper, with not more than half the alloy silver. This Act also fixes the weight of the gold dollar at 25 -15 grains, and the weight of the silver dollar at 112.V grains. By this Act all gold and silver coins were made full legal tender, but you will see the standard weight of each was reduced; the gold dollar from 27 to 25 4 5 grains, and the silver dollar from 11 G to 41 2 i grains, both nine tenths pure. Act of March 3d, 18-19, provides for minting double eagles ($20 gold pieces) and gold dollars, and declares them r il l 1 a Jl .' ? i iuii ijgai tenuer. Act of March 3d, 1851, provides for the coinage of a 3 cent piece, to be J silver and 1 copper, and to weigh 12 jj grains. Legal tender for any sum under 30 cents. Act of February 21 t, 1S53: "The weight of the half dohar shall be 192 grains, and the quarter dollar, dime and half dime shall be respectively one half, one-fifth, and one-tenth of the weight of the half dollar, and be legal tender for all sums not exceeding $5. This i 384 grains to the dollar, 38 grains lighter than the standard solid dollar. This Act provides for coining "a $3 gold piece, full legal tender, and the 3 cent piece no v authorized shall be of the weight of three fifteenths of the half dollar of thi3 Act, and of SAmc standard of fineness." Act of February 21st, 1857, changes weight of the cent to 72 grains, to be 83 per cent, copper, 12 per cent, nickel and discontinue coinage of the half cent. Act April 221, 1861, changes weight of the one-cent, piece to 48 grains, and makes it ?3 per cent, copper and 5 per cent, tin and zinc, and authorizes the coinage of a 2 cent, piece of same composition and twice the weight. Legal tender to 10 and 20 cents, re spectively. March 3d, 1865, authorizes a 3 cent piece composed of copper and nickel, not to exceed 25 percent, nickel, weight to be J0 grains. Legal tender to GO cents; 1 and 2 cent pieces legal tender reduced to 4 cents. Act of May lGth, 1866, authorizes a 5 cent piece of copper and nickel, not to exceed 25 per cent, nickel, standard weight to be 77.16 grains, legal tender to $1.00. j Next comes the celebrated Act of February 12th, 1S73, which provides "that the gold coins of the United States shall be a one dollar piece, which, j at the standard weight of 25 8 10 grains shall be the unit of value; 2 50 piece; $3.00 piece, and $5 00 piece, same of standard gold, and full legal tender." "That the silver coins of the United S States shall be a trade dollar, a half dollar, a quarter dollar, a dime ; and the weight of the trade dollar shall be 420 grains troy ; and the weight of the half dollar shall be 12$ grammes, the quarter dollar and. the dime shall be respectively one half and one fifth of the weight of said half dollar ; and said coins shall be a legal tender at their nominal value for any amount not exceeding five dollars in any one j payment." The standard was fixed for both gold and silver at nine-tenths of their weight pure and one tenth alloy, the alloy of gold to be silver and copper, not more than half silver ; the alloy of silver to be copper. The minor coins, 5 cent, 3 cent and 1-cent pieces, were also provided for. The 5 and 3 cent pieces to be of f copper nickel, the 1 cent piece 95 per cent, copper and 5 per cent, tin and zinc. This bill provides that "ATo coins, either of gold, silver or minor coinage, shall hereafter be issued from the mint other than those of the denominations, standards and iveights set forth in this title:' Other Acts inconsistent with this Act were by this Act repealed. This Act leaves out the $20 and $10 gold pieces and the standard silver dollar of 412 rV grains. Ac of March 5th, 1S75, adds the 20 cent piece to the 1873 list of coins to weigh five grammes and be legal tender to $5. Act of July 13th, 1876, declares "that the trade dollar shall not hereafter be a legal tender," etc. Act of February 23th, lt7S provides, "that there shall be coined at the sev eral mints of the United States, silver dollars of the weight of 412 grains troy of standard silver, as provided in the Act of January lth, 1S37, etc., whi -h coins, together with all silver dollars heretofore coined by tho United States of like weight and fineness, shall be a legal tender at their nominal value for all debts and dues, public and private, except when otherwise ex pressly stipulated in the contract. And the Secretary of the Treasury is author ized an! directed to purchase, from time to time, at the market price there of, not less than-$2,000,000 worth per month nor more than $4,000,000 per month, and cause the same to be coined monthly, as fast as purchased, into such dollars. PERSONAL POLITICS Strenuous efforts are being made by- certain bitter so called Democratic par tisan papers in North Carolina to side track the main issues of the present campaign by lying upon, slandering, villifying and abusing the candidates of the reform party. The length to which they go, and the depth to which their gutter snipes dive into the filth for mud, and the manner in which they throw it is proof positive to the mind3 of sober, serious-thinking, law abiding citizens that they have no arguments with which to meet the re formers, and furthermore they prove to the people that any man or party of such degraded and degrading idea3 and methods; so little regard for truth and decency, are totally unfit to man age the affairs of government, either of the County, State or Nation. It is really sad to see how utterly void of even self-respect some of the high toned (?) aristocratic, arrogant and superscillious sheets are getting to be ; but "Whom the gods -would destroy, they first make mad," we are told. It may be this accounts for it. Will it pay them Wo shall see It ought to have the effect of solidifying the re form column and fixing them more firmly in their convictions, and we be lieve it will. THAR NOW ! The New York Sun, which is such a loud xjrocl.umer of force bill rot and the importance of electing Cleveland, attempts to put high protectionists in a good humor by declaring that the Chicago plaiform does not represent his tariff views and that Cleveland re pudiated it in his speech of acceptance at New York On the other hand the Louisville Courier Journal, another base deceiver, goes for the Sun redhot, says Cleveland is the "embodiment of tariff reform," but adds that a "ma jority cf the Democratic party doe not agree writh him in his views on finance and the civil service." Now you have got it straight. Lead ing Cleveland organs North declare that he does net favor tariff reform; that he is in favor of pensioning ex Union soldiers to theJyil limit, while the organs in the Soutn hold him up as a great tariff reformer, and praise him for turning down pension teggars. Gentlemen, it is a plain case. Cleve land U no more worthy to be President than Benedict Arnold. Arnold be trayed his country. Cleveland did it once and will do it again. The very fact that he was beat( n by a party as rotten as parties ever get, led by Har rison, a man as rotten as his party, and who has done nothing of sufficient importance to mention in the papers ex cept try to get up a row with England and Chili, is conclusive evidence that a number of people knew he was un worthy ef support. There is a candidate before the pub lic who is worthy of confidence, and the people of this country will never get through kicking themselves if they fail to elect a man to the Presi dency who has some honesty about him. Not only should they elect a President, but they should fill the hall3 of Congress with men who aie not and will not become the tools of plutocracy. THE NEGRO IN THE WOOD PILE AGAIN. Well, what about it? Why just this. Only this and nothing more: There were negroes in the People's party State Convention. Certainly there were. No one who was there denies it. No one whose heart is set on the re forms we are demanding regretted to see it, especially wThen it was under stood who they were, where they were from and how came them there. Where were they from? They were from counties that have been hopeless ly Republican, counties in which their race is in overwhelming majorities. They have been regularly represented on their county and legislative tickets for years, and whoever ruas for any office in their counties gets left without their votes. One of these negro dele gates was one of Cleveland's foreign ministers. Now, what else? Why this: These negroes, as their eyes have been opened, see that they are, and have been for years, a bugaboo in politics; that whenever the plutocrats of either or both of the old parties wished to elect their henchmen, through whom they could get in power to rob and de fraud the public, they have always used the negro in one way or another. The negroes have learned this and are tired of it. They held their primaries, discussed the Omaha platform and prin ciples and decided to cast their lots with the People's party th is yea r. They sent their delegiite3 and their delegates were seated. Their sin in the eye of so called Democrats is that they 1-ft the Republican party. The sin of the People's party is that they welcomed them. II it is true that they have votes enough and know how to use them so as to send a member of their color to the legislature from their county and will do that in spite of the Democrats, would not the Democratic party rather have them send a Demo cratic negro than a Republican negro? Yes. Well then, if the People's party can get them to send a People's party negro, where have they sinned? Do not make too much ado about this, Democrats. You know you are claim ing that you will vote a third of the negroes in the State this year. THEY GO WITH THE PEOPLE. The papers in the West and North are going over to the People's party so fast that no record can be kept of them. They are big papers, too, not little mortgaged fellows like manj of them in the South, that can't express their real sentiments. Below is a list of papers in 55 counties in Colorado that have changed since ihe Omaha Convention. "D." after the name of the paper means that they were Demo cratic ; " R. " Republican : Salida Sentinel, D. ; Breckenridge Journal, D. ; Greeley Tribune, R. ; Col orado City Daily Chieftain, R. ; Rocky Mountain Daily Neics, Denver, D. ; Durango Daily Herald, D. ; Durango Muldoon, D. ; Red Cliff Times, R. ; Pit kin Miner, D. ; Cripple Creek Daily Miner, D. ; Pueblo Anzeiger, D. ; Rocky Ford Enterprise, R. ; Aspen Daily Times, R. ; Pueblo Ore and Metal Re view, R. ; Villa Grove Headlight, R. ; Cortez Journal R. ; Alma Bulletin, D ; Mosca Herald, R. ; San Juan Silverite, D. ; Central City Observer, D. ; Trinidad Citizen, D. ; Buena Vista Democrat, D. ; Buena Vista Record, D. ; Boulder Cam era, D ; Boulder Tribune, D. ; Boulder News, R. ; Boulder Herald, R. ; Long mont Times, D. ; Longmont Ledger, R ; Longmont Iyrogress, D. ; Copper Rock Champion, D. ; Ryons Rustler, D. ; Gunnison News, D. ; White Pine Cone, R ; Tin Cup Times, D. ; Pitkin Crystal ICurrent, D. ; Aspen Wttkly Times, R. ; Aspen Evening Chronicle, R ; Aspen D lily Trader, D ; Aspen Rocky Mountain Sun, R. DON'T. Farmers, don't go into politics. Let the big bug3 run politics. They are fully able to manage that a ad keep you in debt. Just hitch your mule, horse, steer or any other four-legged beast you can get and plow on. You don't know anything, you are insensible to pain or injustice. Whyr go into politics. Some of those sweet scented fellows say ycu should not vote unless you own at least $50,000 worth of property. Just wait until you raise enough C cent cot ton, 5 cent pork o 40 cent corn to get $50,000 in some bank. Then you can take a back seat and vote every ether year, at least. No, don't go into politics. WEAVER IN CONGRESS. About June 1, 18S0. Hon. James B. Weaver then in Congress from Iowa offered the following resolution. "Resolved, That it is the sense of' thi3 House that all currency, whether metalic or paper, necessary for the use and convenience of the people, should be issued, and its volume controlled by the government, and not by or through the bank corporations of the country ; and when so issued should be a full legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private. "2. That, in the judgement of this House, that portion of the interest bearing debt of the United States which shall become redeom-vT5 year 1831, or prior thereto e in amount, $7R9 nnn nnn ,u. VT' teir i amount $782,000,000, should'C i '""" j yjuKi cue power of tv, ernment to call in said obli-U S pay them at any time, bufthoS, paid as rapidly as possible nhf 1 k ing to con tract. To enable the a(?Cfjri ment to meet these obli-ati mints of the United Stated si'J Us; operated to their full capart -ld coinage of standard silver dolh ln tns such other coinage as th ,a"i interests may require " uav-r These resolutions were tabled su: to be called up at any time for d? l"-"i?oivu Ul Lilt liOUSO A every week for thirteen vb v Weaver arose in his place anT" i ' for their consideration, only to fused recognition by tho speak-' choked off by the chairnnn committee claiming priority utidr-r't rules of the House. The' old "r' leaders were so determined that ev? possible obstacle was thrown in way of their consideration by t members of the House. And the p.'.'! organs, the tools of the ban;?, w.)rJ;, vigorously night and day manuf-v-t 1 1 i - . . "v mgpuDiic sentiment against th e ra tions and their author. Thov o bwiif.u. mi. v eiua as a i -1 and denounced him as an addle. brained lunatic endeavoring to rum th? credit of the nation. In tb 1. 1. went so far that they aroused t. people on the subject and tlioy manded action. At last on thoVr'n day of April 18S0, the resolution ww taken up for discussion. The discus sion disclosed the fact that the sor.tl ment of the people of the nation v.v fast chrystalizing in favor of the reso lutions. The moneycrats saw tho h evitable, and to detract the attention -f the people from this subject oi uAr,: "troops at the polls" to "proto voters in a free ballot" was hatch-i up. The leader ? of both ti e ;;.. publican and Democratic parties became so thoroughly eonviaixd that the eyes of the people w.-v opening to the frauds in nn: cial legislation that they allo.ved id measure that had a tendency to allay sectional bitterness between the North and South to be discussed, but did ail in their power to rekindle every smoul dering cinder int a fl une so as to make the hatred more intense and thu3 draw the mind of the people from the discussion of this the main living issue of the time. Every national campaign year from that time until the present this same class of "Wau street money devils have indcavcreJ to renew sectional bitterness to hide the issues that they might continue their plunder of the people. The peo ple have at last learned their garl and will play into their hands no longer. The people are with Weaver in this struggle, they endorse those resolutions and see that billions of the peoples money would have been saved to them had they been adopted into law at the time and no abuse, slander or villification of Weaver will stop the people now. Tho3. Jefferson said to Mr. Kereheval "I am not among those who fear the people. They and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom. And to preserve this independence vc mast not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt." He said to Mr. John Taylor: "I sincerely believe that banking establishments are pore dangerous than standing armie V' THE NEGRO IS CHANGING. The more intelligent the negro bo comes the more Democratic he growfc The negro lovers in the North have held up on sending their mpney ana maiden ladies down here to educate te negro since they found out that an 1 cation makes a Democrat of him. Tey now let the Southern pec pie spend their own money on the negro's education and the Southern people are spending lots of it. Birmingham Age-Herall Ah ! there. 4 ' Southern peop le spend ing lots of money to make tho negro Democratic? Don't you think there danger of getting "negro supremacy in the Democratic party if this thirg goes on? LET HER COME. The Louisville Courier Jonrr--thinks free trade is on the way does not pretend to know in what w'-. ' Whether it will come, as ur. w- come after anot A- AAA j V ' , ',ff other panic like tnai ; . determine, and it reo r. The important ir ( 3. no one e.ar is mat; it is coming, ana tnu w- '"' power of the robber barons fan do n more than postpone it for a I'-1' " Jl .... . -11- n-rr hTTlHl and the cw"4"-; more than postpone wane." Let it come, and come quickly Wilmington Messenger. NOTICE. Gen. Jas. B. Weaver will ?P'v'k 111 JNorth Carolina as follows: Raleigh, September Rocky Mount. September 3D Gen. Jas. G. Field will speak at Asheville, September Salisbury, " S. Otiio Wilson, Chm'n P. P. State Ex. Com 2) 30
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