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THE PKGQRESSIVE FARMER : SEPTEMBER 20 A 892 '9! " .. THE FBOgRESSiyE FARHER JIBS. L. L. POLK, - Proprietor, j. L. RAMSEY, - Editor. . W. DENMARK, - Business Manager. Raleigh, N. C. -SUBSCRIPTION Slnfle Subscriber. eYe... ......... L Subscribers, Sr."r": 1$ One copy one year free, to the one sending Club lf TeU' Xak-InvariattV in Advance. Money at our risk. If sent by registered letter or money order. Please don setjasmps. Advertising Rates quoted on application. To Correspondents: Write all communications, designed for pub lication, on one side of the paper only. We want InteUlgent correspondents in every county in the State. We want facts of value, results accomplished of value, experiences i of vllue, plainly and briefly told. One solid, demonstratedact, is worth a thousand theories. All checks, drafts or money orders intended for this paper should be made payable to The Progressive Farmer. Address all correspondence intended for this reaper to The Progressive Farmer, Raleigh, RALEIGH, N. d, SEPT. 20, 1892 'TTito paper entered at ieeond-clax matter at the Poet Office in Raleigh N. C. The Progressive Farmer is the Official Organ of the N. C. FarmersState Alliance Do you want your paper changed to another office 1 State the one at which you have been getting it. Do you want your communication published t If so, give us your real name and your postoffice. In writing to anybody, always be sure to give the name of your postoffice, and sign your own name plainly. 27" Our friends in writing to any of our advertisers will favor us by men tioning the fact that they saw the advertisement in The Progressive Farmer. The date on your label tells you when your time is out. " N. R. P. A. EDITORIAL NOTES. Everybody should hear General Weaver on tne zytn ana sum. Every paper in Nevada except -two, are supporting Weaver and Field.. Field at Asheville on the 29th, Salisbury 30th. Let him have a big ;rowd The Democratic Governor of Oregon is an enthusiastic supporter of Gen. Weaver. Congressman Tom Watson gave s fellow a thrashing on a train in Georgia the other day. Twenty-eight beeves were killed to feed the crowd at a People's party barbecue in Tennessee recently. Why don't the politicians tear the St. Louis platform to pieces? They threatened to do it sometime ago. Weaver will be at Raleigh on the 29th, at Rocky Mount on the 30th. Give him a big crowd at each place. Gen. Stevenson has had respect ful hearing from members of all parties. Let Weaver and Field have the same. Wait for Weaver on the 29 th and 30th and hear one of the greatest speeches ever made on North Carolina soil. The Texas State Alliance has for mulated a plan to help the brethren in several drouth stricken counties in that tate. Gen. Stevenson has had an ova tion at all points in the State. Let Weaver and Field have a still bigger one where they speak. . The Progressive Farmer returns thanks to Judge Womack and many -other speakers who are so industri ously advertising The Progressive .jFarmer. We have received the premium list of the Roanoke and Tar River Fair to be held at Weldon on the 1st, 2d, - 3d and 4th of November. An interest ing time is expected. The "immense" horseback club from Swift Creek township was made up of from four townships and amounted to about thirty. There was only 169 in the entire parade on horse tback. Bring your horses when you come to hear Weaver. If you haven't as many saddles as horses bring the Worses and ride bareback. There should b& the longest procession ever seen at Baleigh or Rocky Mount in honor of the brave Western Statesman. Gen. Stevenson confines his re marks to the tariff and force bill mostly, with a little thrown in about -fbft 41 dark davs of reconstruction." It does look like a candidate for such a hiffh office ought to louch the real issue of the day finance, land and transportation. . A graduated income tax should be reimnosed, so that tne accumulated "wealth of the few shall bear its share t the government burdens. At pres ent SO per cent, of the wealth pays only 20 per cent, of the taxes, wmie M per cent, of the weaitn - (tnat's you; pays SO per ceaS of the taxes. Chicago K 1 1 has men worth fifteen to twenty mil lions, and yet not one of them is as sessed at over $100,000 1 Turn the ani mal around awhile, says the Southern Farm. Wait for the force bill. It is worse than the "tariff for revenue only." Both are too much for com mon people. The moneycrats can afford to monkey with such things, but the people want more money, bet ter prices for their products and equal rights. Vote for that. The handsome premium list of the Piedmont Alliance and Industrial Union Fair Association to be held at Salisbury on the 4th, 5th, 6 th and 7th of October, has been received. The exhibits will be better than ever before, and premiums liberal. There will be balloon ascensions, races and a baby show. The estimated value of the prop erty of the United States is said to be $60,000,000,000, the indebtedness about $40,000,000,000. The interest on this at 8 per cent', is $3,200,000,000. Labor creates about $1,500,000,000 to pay it with. So we lack about $1,500,000,000 of paying the interest on our debts each year, "Whither are we drifting," and where will you or your family land, reader, if we continue to go in the same direction, says the Southern Farm. . Do you owe this paper anything? If you do send at once. We have waited long enough. WHAT 'THE PEOPLE SEE. The business man sees 'danger of a financial crisis staring him in the face. He sees money getting scarcer every year, prices goings down and failure staring him in the face. The farmer sees United States 4 per cent bonds, which would be utterly worthless but for the sturdy blows of his strong arm, due in 1907, which were bought at 54 cents on the dollar, selling at $1.25 to the dollar, when he knows that a mortgage on not one farm in a thousand for tha same time at one third its value, at the rate of 7 per cent, interest, could be sold at its face value. He is alarmed when he sees under our financial policy the ma jor part of the wealth of 63,000,000 people pass into the hands of 31,000 men. He sees centralized capital allied to corporate power, invading our tem ples of justice, subsidizing the press, controling conventions, corrupting the ballot-box, dictating the platforms of parties, overriding individual rights and directing legislation, State and National. You both see all this and yet some of you shut your eyes and are willing to continue to vote the same old. way and hasten the utter ruin of the coun try. Educate, agitate. THE BEST WAY. There is different opinions about the best way to secure reform. No doubt many are honest on both sides. The Farmers' Advocate, Charles town, W. Virginia, is one of the papers that thinks the proper way is to secure it through the old parties. It predicts dire calamities if that course is not pursued. We think the editor of the Advocate is honest and sincere, but is as apt to be mistaken as anybody else. He says "we must keep the Alliance out of partisan politics." That is true. So we must also keep the church out of politics. But if anybody who is a member of the Alliance thinks he sees a better chance in a new party, he can vote that way without dragging the Order in with him. The Advocate says: "The plan whereby the Alliance can V. ; I i i - r iwuievH tuu muaii guuu m politics is ior the farmers to go in and capture the wnoie macninery, nominate their own men, and then go home and go to 'frork co elect tnem." Now it seems to us that our brother is advising them to pursue a course as objectionable, if not more so, than to vote with a new Dart v. Thev must "go in and capture the whole machin ery, nominate their own men," etc. We confess that this is a nice bit of hair splitting, and we can't split it. If the Advocate can it must have a keen edge. As we understand it, men who are members of the Alliance, Knights of Labor, Grange, Farmers' Mutual Bene fit Association and other organizations, have organized a party. " Many promi nent men in it are not members of any of the organizations, but feeling that a new party was necessary, went at it with a vim. Naturally they incor porated a good many Alliance and Knights of Labor theories in it. The managers of the other parties didn't, hence it is natural that reformers should go that way for political relief. We believe they think that is best. But we are not quarrelling with the Advocate nor anybody else. If you think it is less political to "go in and capture" anybody's "machine," all right. If some others don't think best to "capture the machine," they should be allowed the privilege of doing otherwise. THE PRICE OF COTTON, The Southern Farm, Atlanta, has persistently advocated a reduction of the. cotton acreage as a means to in crease the price. Now that the acre age has been reduced,, it confesses that it has been met by speculation and manipulation. Yet in the same column it contends that the price of all crops is regulated by supply and demand. This is inconsistent and misleading. If supply and demand regulated the price of cptton, it would never have fallen so low, and it ought to be selling for not less than ten cents to-day. The acreage has been reduced and this year's crop is short all over the South, owing to bad seasons. In the same issue the Southern Farm prints an article headed, " How cotton is marketed." This evidently was furnished by some cotton speculator. It says the speculators are divided into "hostile camps," bulls and bears. The article argues that these speculators "kee the market steady;" that the price would go down to five cents were it not for these speculators. Now everybody knows that these bulls and bears are no more use to the farmers than the fifth wheel on a wagon. We think that article was published by Latham, Alexander & Co., New York cotton merchants and bankers. They sent the same thing to The Progressive Farmer several weeks ago. We exposed the fallacies in it at the time. Anybody with sense knows that instead of helping the cot ton producer, the 36 thousands of "bulls and bears " make fortunes out of their labor, without returning a cent. The anti-option bills, which the 148 Demo cratic majority failed to pass, was a direct blow at these " bulls and bears." The Southern Farm is published in the centre of the cotton belt. Instead of advocating the passage of anti option hills, it simply tells the farmers that they work too much make too much, and if it wasn't for the "bulls and bears " they would be bankrupt at once. This is what has nearly ruined the country. So called influential agricul tural papers, rather than tell the truth, join the moneycrats and explain away their villainy by telling that they bene fit the farmers and that the farmer is simply a fool for working every year instead of playing one year and work ing a little the next. LAUREL HILL ALLIANCE. We publish in this issue a recent ac tion of Laurel Hill Alliance, Richmond county. The first thing charged ii that " the attempt to convert the Alli ance into a political party, at Greens boro was largely successful." The man who wrote that evidently does not be long to the Alliance. At least he was not at the Greensboro meeting, for all who were there know that partisan politics was not discussed in the meet ing. The St. Louis Conference plat form was adopted. This was done not by a unanimous vote, but the opposi tion was too small to amount to much. The Omaha Convention adopted the St. Louis platform, with only a slight addition. The Omaha Convention came very near converting itself into an Al liance meeting by its action in adopt ing the Alliance platform. Now let us see if partisan politics made such a wide swath in the Greens boro meeting. It is true that several of the State officers and members of committees are People's party men and Republicans. But it is also true that they are very well divided among all parties. At least five of the State officers are Demo crats. Take the State Executive Committee, who are among the most important. Capt. S. ' B. Alexander, Democratic Congressman in the Sixth District, is Chairman of the Executive Committee. Mr. J. S. Johnston, Demo crat, is a member. Only one is a Peo ple's party man Mr. Mewborne. So the Executive Committee is two-thirds Democratic. Next we find the Judiciary Commit tee, which is half Democratic. On it are Elias Carr, Democratic nominee for Governor, and A. Leazar, Esq, Cleveland elector in the Seventh Dis trict, and probably one other Demo crat. Does that look like Democrats were ignored? On the State Legisla tive Committee we find ' Bros. R. J. Powell and J. J. Young, Democrats, and N. C. English, Prohibitionist. Col. EL A. Forney is the only People's party man on it. Does that look like the Greensboro meeting was a People's party machine? Brethren, you have been misinformed. The facts are against you. In addition to other po sitions Capt. Alexander was elected as one of the delegates to the next na tional meeting. We repeat, the facts are against the . declaration of Laurel Hill Alliance. As to the charge that the State Sec retary "makes his office the rendezvous for politicians and allows them access to the addresses of officers of the Alli ance, there is nothing to sustain the charge. The members of Laurel Hill simply have been misinformed. Further, no officer of the State Alli ance receives any pay for expenses or for services from the State Alliance during campaigns for making political speeches. The Laurel Hill Alliance have allowed somebody to work on their prejudices and they have inno cently, perhaps, made charges and published' them that cannot be proven. They are welcome to investigate as much as they please, and they should do this before they jump at conclu sions hereafter. The Laurel Hill brethren should remember that it is just as likely that they are mistaken as it is for other people to be. MORE, HIGHWAY ROBBERY. The coal combine has made another advance in the price. The first ad vance was 50 cents per ton ; the last 25 cents more, which makes a clear rob bery of 75 cents per ton. Since that the Erie and Lackawanna roads have advanced the freight 25 cents more on the ton one dollar altogether. This means that nearly 25 per cent, clear profit has been added to an already profitable business. The people must submit or do without coal. The rail roads and coal companies are hand in hand. These railroad companies con trol 90 per cent, of the coal mines. It is no wonder that millions of people in the North and West are clamoring for government ownership of railroads. Unless this robbery is stopped tens of thousands will favor ownership that have opposed it here tofore. SEPTEMBER CROP REPORT. Your Uncle Jerry Rusk has just issued his crop report for September. He says the average condition of corn is lower than for ten years with three exceptions. This year's wheat crop is one point below the average for the past ten years. It was better in the South than elsewhere. With two ex ceptions the oat crop is lower than for 17 years. With only three exceptions the condition of potatoes never was so low in this month. The average for tobacco i very low in Virginia and Kentucky. The condition of cotton has declined five points since the first of August. The average to the acre will be lower than any year since 1883 If that be true, with the reduced acre age, there will be a short" crop, but there is but little danger of a rise in prices so long as the present c smbina tions exist unmolested. WHAT GRANDPA'S HAT SAYS. In his letter of acceptance President Harrison tries to defend the McKinley bill and the high protective fallacies of a portion of his party by stating that "our exports in 1891-92 exceed those of 1890 by $172,000,000." Investigations disclose the fact that the exports of 1890 exceed those of 1888 by $161,864, 177. Now, that was before the McKin ley bill was passed. Wonder if grandpa's hao can explain that? That goes to show that the McKinley bill was not instrumental in the increase. It simply gives the robbers a chance to rob at home, and has but little to do with exports. Fellow-citizens, Republican protec tion is robbery; Democratic "tariff for revenue only," is robbery. The only solution is to wipe out the tariff altogether and forever. THE OUTLOOK. With the low prices prevailing for everything the farmer ha to sell and the high prices he has to pay for what he buys, it is no longer a question as to what will pay, but can we live? Many of our Southern farmers, when more reasonable prices prevailed, be gan to raise cotton or tobacco and have neglected other crops. Those . who raised their own supplies have never been so hard pressed. But it has got so no system of farming pays. Until there is a readjustment of matters so farmers can secure better prices, which can only be done through national leg islation, no matter what party does it, the most sensible solution is for every person to raise everything they can to eat and wear. No crop will pay as a money crop. The farmers in the grain growing and stock-raising sections are in the same boat with the cotton and tobacco raiser. They have the graint the cattle and the horses, but they will bring no price. Some farmers are better off than others; some sections may be in better shape, but it is true that all are going to the wall at a rate never heard of before. Interest, taxes, debts are growing and you are getting poorer. The introduction of cholera into this country will only tend to complicate matters. If it spreads much, all the worse. So prepare to economize, buy nothing you can do without, read reform literature and vote the reform ticket, regardless of the result. Vote your sentiments in whichever party you think best. Be guided by your own welfare. Do not vote a certain way to save any man or party. WEAVER AND FIELD. Mr. Adlai Stevenson and Mr. Ewing, hnth nf Illinois, are now in the State. They have bean listened toby members of all parties in large crowds at various Doints They can make no complaint of their treatment. They are both men of ability. On the 29th and 30th two more dis tinguished gentlemen will visit our State. They come on the same business to discuss the issues and make as many friends as possible. Mr. Field will speak at Asheville on the 29 th and Salisbury on the 30th, Gen. Weaver at kaleigh on the 29 th, Rocky Mount on the 3Cth. We hope the people of all parties will give them all the courtesy strangers are entitled to. There will be no display of flags at either place, nor will there be much tooting of horns. However, everybody who possibly can should go to hear them and welcome them. If possible, their friends should be prepared to ride in a horse-back procession a each place. According to actual count, 168 mounted men rode with Mr. Stevenson in Raleigh. There were about 800 in the procession altogether. We think the friends of Gen. Weaver and Field can show up in greater number than that. Steps should be taken at once in every neighborhood within reach of either of the appointments to raise a large number to do honor to these dis tinguished visitors, who have put aside everything and gone into the reform movement to fight until the victory is won. Let's give them a grand recep tion, in numbers and everything else. SOME GOOD FIGURES. Speakers and others doing reform work should not overlook the facts re lating to the decline in agriculture. In 1870 the average size of American farms was 153 acres. In 18b 0, 133 acres. In 1890, 107 acres. The reduc tion in size, with the increase of popula tion, improvements, etc., ought to have increased the value per acre, but it has decreased. In 1870 the average value was $56 per acre. In 1890 only $28. That, of course, includes the nigh priced farms of the North. In 1870 the average price for wheat per acre was $12.76. In 1890, $8.63, or 33 per cent. less. In 1870 corn per acre brought $17.75. In 1890, $7.63, $10.12 less. In 1870 the average price of oats per acre was $16 05. In 1890 only $6 26. Sheep, hogs, cattle and horses have depreci ated in the same proportion, while neither your notes nor interest, your tax nor the salary of your officials have decreased a particle, in many cases increased. So it is plain that it takes double the amount of the prod ucts of your farm to pay your obliga tions now that it did in 1870. Are you going to vote for yourself or the pluto crats hereafter? THE CHOLERA. After playing havoc in Russia, Ger many, France and elsewhere, the Asiatic cholera has broken through quarantine lines and began work in New York. Several deaths have oc curred in that city and Brooklyn. There are a number of new cases. There is no chance to escape its fear ful ravages. A cordon of steamers are lying out beyond New York. Nearly every one has cholera cases aboard. Until it got a foothold in New York the health authorities hoped to keep it on the water, but now all hope is gone. Thousands of people are leav ing New York for the South and West every day. It will be remarkable if some of them do not carry it to other sections. Several cities have quaran tined against New York. No doubt it would be well for all to do so. It would be better to confine the disease in one city than to combat it in hun dreds of others. At this time many Southern mer chants are visiting New York on busi ness. This should stop. Some of them will be sure to cor tract the disease if they continue to go. An ounce of pre vention is always worth a pound of cure. If the disease can be kept in New. York thousands of lives can be saved. The physicians could probably stamp it out in a few months if con fined to one city, but if it gets scattered there is no chance to stop it in less than a year or two. In that time tens of thousands would fall victims. A GREAT MISTAKE. We regret to know that quite a num ber of good members of the Alliance have been misled by Democratic and Republican politicians. They have been told that the meeting of the State Alliance at Greensboro was a "Third party meeting." There is absolutely no truth in this. There were staunch and enthusiastic Dem:crats and Re publicans there as delegates. Some of them are among the new list of officers and members of committees, as can be seen by reference id the first page of this paper. The St. ouis Con- ierenue yiavxiju. uwpieu 4 i precisely the National Alliance platform of 1883. The action of the Omaha Conv when it adoDted thn with only slight additions has rW5 to do with the Alliance meetih 8 the Democratic party had ad0DLIf the result would have been same. There is no patent he the Alliance platform. Indeed Q member of the Alliance that we have been trying to get g08 party tof adopt our platform all? time. Now that the People's pari! has done so, there are Alliances who are mad because it did so. 6Q Brethren, do not allow politicians tn mislead you. When they misrepi sent the Alliance it is not done in y0 interest, but the object is to weak the Order. If the Democratic part had adopted the platform at ChicaJ opponents of the party would have charged that the Alliance was a Dem0 cratic machine and endeavored to a all members holding different political opinions to pull out of the Order. What encouragement is it to a party to adopt our platform if we go to kicking it ngiib away t BEST WAY TO SETTLE IT. An exchange says: ; "President Ingalls of the Chesapeake and Ohio and Big Four railroads inhia annual report to the stockholders of the former company, advocates the co operative plan of profit sharing win, employes as the best method of meet ing the growing difficulties of the labor problem. A better way yet is to make all the members of society the common owners of the railroads. Profit shar ing is only a half-way measure. Noth ing less than communal interest can ever solve the labor problem." xuoouuvoiuoj yjL Limy nut dq cor rect. If it is true that profit sharing would be advantageous, then govern ment ownership would be still better. Government employes never strike. It is only those employed by corporations that strike for fair wages. GENERAL NOTES. Columbus county People's party put out a full ticket on the 2d of September. A full county ticket has been nom inated in Montgomery county. They say they mean business. A correspondent writes that three attempts have been made to form Cleveland clubs in Orange county and three failures are recorded. Mr. R. P. Gore, of New Hanover. county was nominated for the Senate by the People's party from New Han over and Brunswick counties. Powerful efforts are being made to defeat Jerry Simpson in the Seventh Congressional district in Kansas. We are still betting on Jerry, however. A merchant at Tarboro writes us th it he wants to see a copy of this paper, and adds that he is for reform and wants to see the people succeed. A correspondent at Bayboro wants to know whether or not the People's party is entitled to judges of the elec tion. He says the party is on a boom there. Cumberland county People's party met on the 10th at Fayetteville and nominated a full county ticket. Bertie People's party met at Windsor recently and nominated a full county ticket Everything was pleasant and every township represented. A correspondent writes that Senator Ransom and a crowd of negro excur sionists were at Wilkesboro on the 5th The Senator made a war and kuklui speech". While a club-footed colt wa being sold on the street his crowd d 200 dwindled down to about 75. Richlands, Onslow county, has 153 white voters (heretofore Democratic). 32 was the number of votes cast in tlx Democratic primaries for couEtf officers. 103 of these 159 last Satardtf voted in the primary of the People party for their county ticket. Boi sides pressed the primary work a2 procured every vote possible. FIRMNESS. Mr. Editor: I hope all the Peptfj party men throughout the Unrg States will ever keep at work -vn r the ridicule and abuse of our prj pples. We can do a good work ; andj unborn generations will come up a5! bless and almost glorify the anccsjj for the noble work performed m year A. D. 1892. n Sir, it shall be the last acfc, as W as the fimt. of my life, to base upon principles and not upon panJJS Party faith has brought ' us tjK state of enslavement, which, " to continue, will surely lead to a wr and a national ruin. , . u i3 The young generations wblf,jjs follow on in our tracks, will aM., for enslaving them instead of them. ; jjj vSir eveiT good patriotic (ftfU the United Stats w Juld come .out place their lights nnon thebwL principles so others could good works, we would martJ into the National Capitol J&5 4th, 1893, who has pledged lfffVj work for thf IaW? Dle 01 .v land. I hope I may see and tear voices Of others that are stands o principles tnat all the cj our iana snquld hold to. . .,fl 0 Sir. the wind mrr ohfffc and tno v turn, but I, myself stand on tbe r of firmness. Yours fraternally- J. C. HASKtf i v V
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