PRO GRESBT?
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THE -INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF OUR PEOPLE PARAMOUNT TO ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS OF STATE POLICY.
RALEIGH, N. O., DECEMBER 6, 1892.
No. 43
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fAL FARMERS' ALLI
'AS Wit rn INDUSTRIAL
A UNION.
-w-II. L. Loucks, Huron,
! SSl&t--ri- Butler, Clin-
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?:,o-Treasurer-L. K. Taylor,
SJE5t-B Terrell, Seguin,Texas.
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Pennsylvania
. a Cole, Michigan,
rt Alabama.
.D.' Davie, Kentucky.
,i-rvff LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE.
a L Loucks, Chairman.
P W. Macune, Washington, D. O.
UT-nnHnn. Va.
P. Featherstone, Forest City, Ar-
W. I1 Or win II, " v-v,..
,j8TH CAROLINA FARMERS' STATE ALLI-
ASU
President Marion Butler, Clinton,
Vice-President T. B. Long, Ashe-
'Sretory-Treasurer W. S. Barnes,
urerC. W. Thompson, Rich-
lands. N. C. - j-
OhaDlaiu Rev. Jno. Ammons, Madi-
wnCo., N. C. ttii;,-.,-
Door-Keeper a -v. uemj, .ijc.y,
N. C. t-T T7I TTi
Assistant Door-Keeper . r. Juug,
v n
3ereant- at-Arms J. S. Holt, Chalk
Ttatesiaees Agent W. H. Worth,
taleigh, N. C.
Trustee Business Agency Fund Vv .
Graham, Machpelah, N. C.
IIEX7IVE COMMITTEE OF THE NORTH
CAROLINA FARMERS' STATE ALLIANCE.
3 B. Alexander, Charlotte, N. C,
Jhairman; J. M. Mewborne, Kins ton,
S. C; J. S. Johnston, Ruffin, N. C.
TATE ALLIANCE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE.
EJias 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.
itaglish, Trinity College: J. J. Young,
Polenta: II . A. Forney, Newton, N. C.
Korth Carolina Reform Press Association.
Ojjlcera ,7. L. Ramsey, President;
Marion Butler, Vice-President ; W. S.
Barnes, Secretary,
PAPERS.
.-regressive Farmer. State Organ, Raleigh, N. C
Cnea?ian. Clinton, N. t
The Workinginan's Helper, Pinnacle, N . C
Wfctchmnii, Salisbury, N. C.
Tinners' Advocate, Tarboro, N. C.
Country Life, Trinity College. N. C.
Mercury, Hickory, N. C.
Rattler. Whitakers, N. C.
-CTicultural Bee, Goldsboro. N. C.
Alliance Echo. Monctire, N. C.
Special Informer. Raleinh, N. C.
Carolina Dispatch, Hertford, N. C.
Each, of the above-named papers are
requested to keep the list standing on
the first jxige and add others, provided
ihey are duly elected. Any paper fail
ing to advocate the Ocala platform will
be dropped from the list promptly. Our
people ran now see vltat papers are
published in their interest.
EVILS THAT THREATEN THE
LIFE CF OUR REPUBLIC.
A Terrible Arraignment from the Lips of
s the Eloquent Divine, T. De
Witt T -Image.
Frnra a spiinon delivered in Brooklyn, Nov. 6,
we puUi-h the following:
The first evil that threatens the an
nihilation of our American institutions
is the fact that political bribery, which
once was considered a crime, has by
many come tbe 'Onddered a tolerable
virtue. There is a legitimate use of
money in elections, in the printing of
political tracts, and in the hiring of
public halls, and in the obtaining of
campaign oratory ; but is there any ho
munculu, who supposes that this vast
amount of money now being raisf d by
tte political parties i3 going in a legiti
mate direction! The vist majority of
t will go to buy votes. Hundred an 1
thousands of men will have set before
th em so muc h money for a Republican
ro e and so much money for a Demo
cratic vote, and the superior financial
wdaoemeni will decide tho .action
carrvT0 kU which Part
morf, f dTUbtful States da af ter to-
SKJ wk11 teli you the party
mmoT lthH mo8t moner- Thi3
rnent, hilelBpeak, the peddlers
eouT Kld from Wal1 6treet
from Third street, gold from State
6 o! ' &nd Kold from the Brewers' As
ociation, are in all the political head-
out I ' lhedouful States, dealing
t .he infamous inducement.
Ihere used to be bribery, but it held
Us head m shame. It was under the
SiTT atu many yeara aS a
co7rn Tm7 the Wis
hed f u1"6 and maQy othr pub-
f thfi rnth!State- Governor
the State at that time received $50,-
aLL u Senate reived $175,000
ong them in bonds. Sixty member
ff L Loucks Chairman; L. Leon
utoviti PflfrA Virerima: I.
Hid-fiiri . in oil - - ry ' cj .
ew x ui , - v o'
the other house received from $5,000
"'$10,000 each. The Lieutenant Gov
ernor received $10,000. The clerks of
the House received from $5,000 to
$10,000 each. The bank comptroller
received $10,000. Two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars were divided
among the lobbyists. You see, the
railroad company was very generous
But all that was hidden, and only
through the severest scrutiny on the
part of the legislative committee was
this iniquity displayed. Now, political
bribery defies you, dares you, is arro
gant, and will probably decide the
election next Tuesday.
Unless this diabolism ceases in thi3
country, Betholdi's statue on Bedlow's
island, with uplifted torch to light
other nations into the harbors, had
better be changed, and the torch
dropped as symbol of universal incen
diarism. Unless this purchase and sale of
suffrage ehall cease the American Gov
ernment will expire, and you might as
well be getting ready this moment; for
another dead nation, and let my text
inscribe upon it these words: "Alas!
alas I for Babylon, that great city, that
mighty city, for in one hour is thy
judgment come." My friends, if you
have not noticed that political bribery
is one of the ghastly crimes of this day,
you have not kept your eyes open.
Another evil threatening the destruc
tion of American institutions is the
solidifying of the sections against each
other. A solid North. A solid South.
If this goes on we shall, after awhile,
have a solid East against a solid West ;
we shall have solid mid lie States
aga-nst solid Northern States, we shall
have a solid New York against a solid
Pennsylvania, and a solid Ohio against
Kentucky. It is 27 years since the
war closed, and yet at every presiden
tial election the old antagonism is
aroused. When Garfield died, and all
the States gathered around his casket
in sympathy and in tears,- and as
hearty telegrams of condolence came
from New Orleans and from Charles
ton as from Boston and Chicago, I
said to myself: "I think sectionalism
is dead." But alas 1 no. The difficulty
will never be ended until each State of
the nation is split up into two or three
great political par .if s. This country
cannot exist unless it exists as one
body, the national capital the heart,
sending out through all the artries of
communication warmth and life to
the very extremities. This nation
cannot exist unless it exists as one
family, and you might as well have
solid brothers against solid sisters, and
a solid bread tray against a solid cradle,
and a solid nursery against a solid
dining room; and you might as well
have solid ears against solid eyes, and
solid head against foot. What is the
interest of Georgia is the interest of
Massachusetts; what is the interest of
New York is the interest of South
Carolina. Does the Ohio river change
its politics when it gets below Louis
ville? It is not possible for these sec
tional antagonisms to continue- for a
great many years without permanent
compound fracture.
Another evil threatening the destruc
tion of our American institutions is the
low state of public moral3.
What killed Babylon of my text?
What killed Phoenecia? What killed
Rome? Their own depravity; and the
fraud and the drunkenness and the
lechery which have destroyed other
nations will destroy ours unless a mer
ciful God prevents. To show you the
low state of public moral3, I have to
call your attention to the fact that
many men nominated for offices in
different States at different times are
entirely unfit for the positions for
which they have been nominated.
They have no more qualification for
them than a wolf has qualification to
be professor of pastoral theology in a
flock of sheep, or a blind mcle has
qualification to lecture a class of eagles
on o Jtics, or than a vulture has quali
fication to chaperone a dove. The
mere pronunciation of some of their
names makes a demand for carbolic
acid and fumigation! Yet Christian
men will follow right on under these
political standards.
I have to tell you what you know
already that American politics have
sunken to such a low depth that there
is nothing beneath. What we see in
some directions we see in nearly all
directions. The peculation and the
knavery hurled to the surface by the
explosion of banks and business firm
are only specimens of great Cotopaxis
and Strombolis of wickedness that boil
and roar and surge beneath; tut have
not yet regurgitated to the surface"
When the heaven-descended Demo
cratic party enacted the Tweed ras
cality it seemed to eclipse everything;
but after awhile the heaven descended
Republican party outwitted Pandemo
nium with the Star Route infamy.
My friends, we have in this country
people who say the marriage institu
tion amounts to nothing. They scoff
at it. We have people walking in
polite parlors in our day who are not
good enough to be scavengers in Sodom I
I went over to San Franc tsco ten or
fifteen years ago that beautiful city,
that queen of the Pacific. May the
blessings of God come down upon her
great churches and her noble men and
women ! When I got into the city of
San Francisco the mayor of the city
and the president of the board of
health called on me and insisted that
I go and see (he Chinese quarter, no
doubt so that on my return to the At
lantic coast I might tell what dreadful
people the Chinese, are. But on the
last night of my stay in San Francisco,
before thousands of people in their
great opera house, I said: "Would
you like me to tell you just what I
think, plainly and honestly?" They
said : " Yes, yes, y es !" I said : "Do
you think you can stand it all? They
said: "Yes, yes, yes!" "Then," I
said, my opinion is that the curse of
San Francisco is not your Chinese
quarter, but your millionaire liber
tines." And two of them sat right before
me Felix and Drusilla. And so it is
in all the cities. I never swear but
when I see a man go unwhipt of jus
tice, laughing over his shame and call
ing his damnable deeds galantry and
piccadillo, I am tempted to hurl red
hot anathemas and to conclude that if,
according to some people's theology,
there is no hell, there ought to be.
There is enough out and out licen
tiousness in American cities to day to
bring down upon them the wrath of
that G 3d who, on the 24th of August,
79, buried Herculaneum and-Pompeii
so deep in ashe that the 1813 subse
quent years have not been able to com
plete the exhumation. There are in
some of the American cities to day
whole blocks of houses whicn the au
thorities know to be infamous, and yet
by purchase they are silenced, by
hush money, so that such places are as
much under the defense of government
as public libraries and asylums of
mercy. These ulcers on the body
politic bleed and gan grene away the
life of the nation, the pu )lic authority
in many of the cities looks the other
way. You cannot cure such wounds
as these with a sdken bondage. You
will have to cure them by putting deep
in the lancet of moral surgery, and
burning them out with the caustic of
holy wrath and with most decisive
amputation cutting off the scabrous
and putrefying abominations. As the
Romans were after the Celts and as
the Normans were after the Britons,
so there are evds after this nation
which will attend its obsequies unless
we first attend theirs.
Superstition tells of a marine reptile,
the cephaloptera, which enfolded and
crushed a ship of war; but it is no
superstition when I tell you that the
history of many of the dead nations
proclaim to us the fact that our ship of
state is in danger of being crushed by
the cephaloptera of national depravity.
Where is the Hercules to slay this
hydra? Is it not time to speak by pen,
by tongue, by ballot-box, by the rolling
of the prison door, by the hangman's
halter, by earnest prayer, by Sinaitic
detonation?
A son of King Crcesus is said to have
been dumb and to have never uttered
a word until he saw his father being
put to death. Then he broke the
shackles of silence and cried out:
"Kill not my father, Cr casus !" W hen
I see the cheatery and the wantonness
and the manifold crime of this country
attempting to commit patricide yea,
matricide upon our institutions, it
seems to me that lips that heretofore
have been dumb ought to break the
silence with canorous tones of fiery
protest.
I want to put all of the matter before
you, so that every honest man and wo
man will know just how matters stand,
and what they are to do if they vote,
and what they ought to do if they
pray. This nation is not going to
perish. Alexander when he heard of
the wealth of the Indies, divided Mace
donia among his soldiers. Some one
asked him what he had kept for him
self, and he replied : "I am keeping
hope." And that jewel I keep bright
and shining -in my soul, whatever else
I shall surrender. Hope thou in God.
He will set back these oceanic tiles of
moral devastation. Do you know
what is the prize for which contention
is made to day? It is the prize of this
continent. Never since, according to
John Milton, when " Satan was hurled
headlong flaming from the etheral skies
in hideous ruin and combustion down,"
have the powers of darkness been so
determined to win this continent as
they are now. What a jewel it its a
jewel carved in relief, the cameo of
this planet ! On one side of us the At
lantic ocean, dividing us from the worn
out governments of Europe. On the
other side the Pacific ocean, dividing
us from the superstirions of Asia. On
the north of us the Arctic sea, which is
the gymnasium in which the explorers
and navigators develop their courage.
A continent 10,500 miles long, 17,000,
ODO square miles, and all of it but about
one seventh capable of rich cultiva
tion. One hundred millions of popu
lation on this continent of North and
South America one hundred millions,
and room for many hundred millions
more. All flora and all fauna, all
grains and all fruits. The Apalachian
range the backbone and the rivers the
ganglia carrying life through and out
to the extremities. Isthmus of Darien
the narrow waist of a giant continent,
all to be under one government, and
all free and all Christian, and the scene
of Chriit's personal reign on earth if,
according to the expectation of many
good people, he shall at last set up
His throne in this world. Who shall
have this hemisphere? Christ or Satan?
Who shall have the shore of her inland
seas, the silver of her Nevadas, the
gold of her Oolorados, the telescopes
of her observatories, the brain of her
universities, the wheat of her prairies,
the rice of her Savannahs, the two
great ocean beaches the one reaching
from Baffin's bay to Terre del Fuego,
and the other from Behring straits to
Cape Horn and all the moral, and
temporal, and spiritual and everlasting
interests of a population vast beyond
all computation save by Him with
whom a thousand years are as one
day ? Who shall have the hemisphere ?
You and I will decide that or help to
decide it, by conscientious vote, by
ei.rieet prayer, by maintenance of
Christian institutions, by support of
great philanthropies, by putting body,
mind and soul on the right side of all
moral, religious and natural move
ments.
Ah ! it will not be long before it will
not make any difference to you or to
me what becomes tf thi3 continent, so
far as earthly comfort is concerned.
All we will want of it will be seven
feet by three, and that will take in the
largest, and there will be room to spare.
That is all of this country we will need
very soon, the youngest of us. But we
have an anxiety about the welfare and
the happiness of the generations that
are coming on, and it will be a grand
thing if, when the archangel's trumpet
sounds we find that our sepulcher, like
the one Joseph of Arimathea provided
for Christ, is in the midst of a garden.
By that time this country will be all
paradise, or Dry Tortugas. Eternal
God, to Thee we commit the destiny of
this people.
FORAGE vs. STARVATION.
Our Station being engaged in prepar
ing, among other things, heroarium
specimens of the sundry varieties of
the Southern cow pea for the Chicago
show, got to day a specimen of the va
riety called the "Unknown" pea, which
is largely grown in many parts of the
South. Without any intention to per
petuate a pun, I may say that the
specimen brought to-day is "largely
grown " Though I did not measure it
accurately, I feel warranted in saying
that the growth is over ten (10) feet
long. Whh a mass of vines like this
standing, or spreading, is it any won
der that the cow-pea is valued as for
age plant; and when we find that the
nitrogen fixing tubercles are plentiful
upon its roots, can we wonder that
great results in soil improvement come
from sowing these peas: And all this
great growth is made in two or three
months, on soil where clover would not
make such a mass of growth in three
years, until the cowpea has brought
it into good heart. Northern writers,
who kno w nothing of the conditions of
Southern agriculture, and who do not
realize the rapidity by which an ap
parently exhausted soil can be brought
up by an intelligent use of this plant,
are disposed to criticise the efforts we
make to spread the use of the Southern
pea, in the improvement of Southern
lands. Not long ago, an editor of a
Grange paper, printed in Pennsyl
vania, came down " like a thousand of
bricks" on the Prof essor of the N. C.
Station, whose " specialties, " he said,
were crimson clover, cow peas and soja
beans, all plants, which, he said, have
been tested and found useless to farm
ers as substitutes for the common
clover. The "farmers," in the ideas
of this narrow gentlemen being, I sup
pose, the Dutchmen in the valley
where his paper is printed. He seemed
to think it impossible that a man could
write on agricultural topics for a big
ger circle of readers than are shut in
between his two rows of mountains, or
that a man in North Carolina, who is
working might and main to help North
Carolina farmers, would care a "con
tinental " whether a practice on a crop
which he urged as best for North Caro
lina farmers suited the Pennsylvania
Dutchman or not, inasmuch as he has
never recommended it for them.
The aforesaid Pennsylvania editor
probably never saw either of the three
crops growing, much lees made a test
of them, and yet he accuses the North
Carolina Professor of shooting off
" half -learned information," though
the aforesaid Professor was probably
farming and studying these things be
fore the fledgling editor in the Cumber
land Valley was born.
Now, I have serious doubts as to the
value of the annual crimson clover
north of Maryland and Delaware, and
I doubt if soja beans and field peas will
be as valuable there as here ; but that
our Southern peas will be of value a
long way further north than now used,
I have not the slightest doubt. In fact,
the finest field of cow -peas I ever saw,
North or South, grew in a limestone
valley, almost in sight of the Pennsyl
vania line, and not a great many mil? s
south of where this editor prints his
little paper.
But I am not writing to advertise his
little sheet ; but to draw a comparison
between such a splendid growth of for
age aa would be represented by a field
of these gigantic "Unknown" peas,
and a field in broomsedge hay. The
on9, while furnishing winter food for
half a dozen cows for a month, has
been adding fertility to the soil; the
other, while possibly keeping one cow
from absolute starvation for the same
length of time, is still a vile weed and
a blot upon the landscape, making the
soil no better, except by shading and
preventing washing. And yet gentle
men, with stobk to feed, propose to try
to get the food out of broomsedge
where peas, clover and corn can be
grown.
Is it not enough to make one pull his
gray hairs in despair, to find that, after
spending a good part of his life in
earnest efforts to aid the cause of agri
cultural advancement, men seriously
propose to step backwards and give up
the effort to grow anything better than
the weed, which nature merely used
as a last resort to hide her nakedness,
when man had robbed her of every
thing else? And a State Agricultural
Society offers premiums for a crop, the
gettiag of which means a deferring of
the improvement of the soil, the pro
motion of which i3 thought to be the
leading object of such Societies.
I am happy to say that the broom
sedge craze seems confined to Virginia.
N3 North Carolina farmer has yet
spoken in favor of it.
W. F. Massey.
TOMATO DISEASES.
Tomato plants have been troubled
with fungi this season, and consumers
are complaining of the high price and
poor quality of tho fruit. In some lo
calities the young plants were destroyed
or much weakened by the bacterial dis
eases known as the Southern tomato
blight. This has been followed by the
old leaf enemy, Cladosporium fulvum,
which produces a light brown, almost
olive, mould upon the under side of
the foliage. Plants with much of this
fungus usually bear inferior fruit, and
frequently the same enemy appears
upon the fruit while it is green and less
than half grown ; the blossom end turns
brown and decay sets in.
Tho newest enemy, and one of no
saiall importance, is an anthracnose,
Colletotriclium Lycopersici, which was
first observed by Prof. Chester, at the
Delaware Experiment Station, last sea
son, and described by him in the Tor
rey Bulletin for la t December. This
fungU3 produces sunken spots in the
fruit, which become soft and dark. It
quickly destroys the tomato, and for
this reason and by its peculiar appear
ance it is usually recognized as differ
ent from any other known tomato rot.
Several times my attention has been
called to the ravages ol- this parasite
by growers who observed that it was a
new enemy.
The same fungus is to be found upon
the foliage when it causes brown, irreg
ular spo3. At this time, when the
fruit is well advanced and frosts are
expected daily, there is little or nothing
to be done, except to see that the vines
are finally gathered and burned. There
is no question about the contagiousness
of the anthracnose. The spores are
numerous, and should be destroyed at
the close of the season, if not before.
Byron D. Halsted, in Garden and
Forest. m
THE SECRET BALLOT LAW.
Columbia, S. C.
Mr. Editor: I am satisfied there is
a move among the oliga chists in this
State to have a secret ballot law passed
that would disfranchise a great many.
Look out for the same move in North
Carolina. A secret ballot with pro
visions to protect the illiterate in their
present rights is what we should have.
Its practical effect would be to cause
many of the most worthless, who now
vote only under some bad influence, to
lose interest in voting, but this would
be a benefit to all and at the same time
not destroy the right of any honest and
worthy man who cannot read and
write. Some men who cannot read
andL write are good citizens and well
qualified to vote.
I find the rank and file of the Alli
ance element in this State, so far as I
have come in contact with them, all
right. They cannot be side tracked
much longer. Geo. E. Boggs.
AN APPEAL'.
To the brethren of the N. C. Farm
ers' Alliance: Brother J. P Hawkins
had the misfortune to lose his barn
by fire on the 14th of November, with
all his hay, fodder, shucks and fifty
bushels of corn, the loss amounting to
one hundred and fifty dolfars. Mr.
Hawkins is a memberof Wilson Alli
ance and is a worthy member, and has
an invalid wife and mother-in law to
maintain. We, the members of Wil
son Alliance, No. 1,415, will raise half
the amount, and we ask the brethren
to raise the other $75 by contributions.
Please send all money to W. C. Sofley,
Secretary of Wilson Alliance, Martin
dale P. O., Mecklenburg Co., N. C.
THE CONTEST OVER.
The Alliance in Buncombe County.
Jupiter, N. C.
Mr. Editor: The great political
contest of 1892 has been fought, and
has no w become a part of our coun
try's history. All the bitterness and
unpleasantness of this great battle will
doubtless be forgotten and only tha
more pleasant memories will be re
membered. This, I think, is right and
proper. We are Americans; we are all
North Carolinians, besides we are all
brethren. We all love to learn by ex
perience, and this is a great school to
learn in, even if we have to pay dear
for our learning sometimes. The cam
paign we have just gone through will
not ba forgotten soon. True Alliance
principles will live as long as old
mother Time lasts, and the more our
laboring classes read and think for
themselves, the better they will be
able to understand the true principles
of our government The Alliance has
done more to teach the farmers of this
Southland of ours the needs of just
and wholesome laws than all the poli
ticians combined. .The v truth is our
people are getting their eyes opened
and begin to see their way, and in the
next four years they will learn as
never before.
The Alliance in Buncombe county is
rather at a low ebb at this time, but I
believe ere spring rolls round we will
be in better working order than any
time since the Alliance was organized
in the county. All we need in North
Buncombe is some good speakers to
visit our Sub-Alliances to stir up our
brethren on the great importance of
the Alliance. ;We need a good Alli
ance paper inAsheville, a paper not
afraid to advocate our cause, aad I do
hope some good brother will see the
great field to work in Western North
Carolina and come to Asheville and
publish a good Alliance newspaper for
our brethren in this part of the State,
and now is the time to start an enter
prise of this kind, for our farmers will
have the money to pay for a paper
this winter and next spring. I am
well pleased with your paper, and I
hope every Allianceman in this section
of the country will become subscribers
to it. . I. A, Harris.
An easy way to pay for your Pro
gressive Farmer for next year. Pay
up to date and send in four new one
year subscribers before January 1st,
1892. That will do it.
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