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THE FROGREESP7EJ "FARI333R' DECEMBER 4. 4 THE PROGRESSIVE FARM MRS. L. L. POLK, - Proprietor. J. L. RAMSEY, - Editor. J.W. DENMARK, 1 Business Manag'e. Raleigh, N. C. SUBSCRIPTION Jingle Subscriber. One Year.. $ L25 Six Months.... -78 Hve Subscribers, One Year .. . , , 5.00 n " On ft Te&r 10.W One eery one year free, to the one sending Club ,f Ten. Ca?A Invariably in Advance. Money at our risk. If sent by registered letter or money order. . FleaM don't tend stamp. Advertising Ratea quoted on application. To Corretvondenti: Write all cosamunications, designed for publ ication, on one side 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, la worth a thousand theorl . The editor , is not responsible for the views of correspondents RALEIGH. N. O., DEC. 4, 1894. This paper enured at teeona-cUi matter at ttu Pott oHce in Raleiah N. C. The Progressive Farmer Is the Official Organ of the N. C. Farmers' State Alliance Do you wani your paper enaugea u another office 1 State the one at which 70U have been getting it. In writing to anybody , always b fure to give the name of your postotTlce, and sign your own name plainly. 2gr" Our friends in writing to any of jur advertisers will favor us by men ;ioning the fact that they saw the advertisement in Tn Progressive Farmer. The date on your label tells you when your time is out. " I am standing now just behind the curtain, and in full glow of the coming sunset. Behind me are the shadows on the track, before me lies the dark valley and the river. When I mingle with its dark waters I want to cast one linger ing look upon a country whose govern ment is of the people, for the people, and by the people. L. L. Polk, July ith. 1890. N. R. P. A. EDITORIAL NOTES Remember the shoe factory. It must be built. Renew, renew, renew, and send us some new subscribers- The fight for reform is just beginning in earnest. Those fellows who are always de claring: ' I am a Democrat" can now revise the statement : 4I am a disgusted Democrat." As an investment' stcck in the shoe factory will be a good one, but the greatest advantages will be cheap shoes of a good quality. Are you patronizing the State Alli ance Business Agency? If not you ought to. It is better equipped to serve you than ever before. Read Judge Clark's admirable article on the first page. It is a clear and able presentation of certain reforms, State and National, and needs no intro ductipn at our hands. Have you taken stock in the Alliance shoe factory? If you have not renew your subscription and send a dollar or two for stock'in the factory. Get your neighbors interested. Prompt and thorough work by the Alliance brethren throughout the State will put the Alliance shoe factory and tannery in shape, and it must be done in the next 30 days. Don't delay. The Turkish Government has or dered the seizure of all American papers going into that country and prohibits the entry of any American paper in the future forever. It will be hard on our subscribers over there. A tragedian played Richard III in a Kentucky town recently and after the show was over a farmer called on him and said: "If the gentleman who wanted a horee so bad is still the in same mind I would like to make a dicker with him." Our Democratic friends attribute their defeat to stay at-home voters. Of course those graveyard fellows who have been voting the ticket couldn't be aroused this year. After a Democrat is dead several years he begins to think lor himself. The Progressive Faemer will con- i tain a full and reliable report of the proceedings of the Legislature, and dis cuss the measures to come before it. If you want to keep posted you had bet ter renew your subscription if your label is not dated ahead. The Ocala, Fla., Banner says: 4 'The financial policy of the government must be changed or we -will become a nation of paupers." True brother, but where were you in the recent election? Didn't you vote her straight fjr the policy to remain unchanged? Our Democratic friends are still trying to explain. Too late, you have a ehown that your party is not only incompetent but utterly dishonest. Five cent cotton, 20 and 30 cent wheat, closed factories, busines failures, scarcity of the circulating medium, ' uu in evidence, and explanations ill not explain. A STATE REFORMA TORY. Recently one of our eveniug contem poraries stated that a ten year-old boy had just been brought to the Peniteu tiary, from a neighboring county, to nerve out a four years' sentence, for larce y. It matters not who the boy is. He may have descended from rogueish parents; he may be as black as the ace of spades. Perhaps the judge who pronounced the sentence 1id his duty. But it is plain to all that bovs should not be placed in the Peni tentiary. Far better give them a good whipping and turn them loose, especial ly if the chastisement can be inflicted by parents. The law makes no distinctions. A boy may develop a mania for stealing things and become a notorious sneak thief at a tender age, or he may yield to temptation and commit one theft and be caught. In the former cse the courts will sTiow but little meroy ; in the latter the punishment may be light. But in either caee, if the boy goes to the Penitentiary, he will come in con tact with old and hardened criminals. His sentence may be one, two or sev eral years. His pride, if he had any, is completely crushed. He is punished, but not reformed. His surroundings are such that prison dunday-schools and religious lectures are generally in effective. To remedy this we need a State re formatory-or reform school call it anything you please. A number of other States have already taken this step. We believe it a wise one, and hope that the next Legislature will not adjourn without having done some thing to begin the work. We hope every minister, teacher and philan thropist in the State will come to our aid promptly. Our columns are open for any suggestions. Oar idea of such an institution is that the boys have thorough religious and moral training and useful occupation, such as the me chanic arts and farm work. In this way the institution can be made almost self sustaining when once established. In the meantime give them at leat a common school education. Lt this matter be fairly discussed during the next few weeks. Yes, the rich of the land will con tinue to make the laws and reap the benefits until contemptible poor men quit helping them to do it. AN IMPORTANT CONSTITUTION AL AMENDMENT. We have a law in this State forbid ding the use of railroad passes by State officials, including, of course, members of the Legislature. The reform Legis lature of 1891 passed the law. It may be necessary to follow the example of New York in this matter and make it a part of the Constitution. This pre caution would not be necessary but for the danger that all future Lgislatures may not be composed of reformers and they might repeal the law. A recent amendment to the Constitu tion of the State of New York is official and reads as follows: Article 13, Section 5. No public officer, or person elected or appointed to a public office, under the laws of this State, shall directly or indirectly ask, demands accept, receive or consent to receive for his own use or benefit, or for the use or benefit of another, any free pass, free transportation, franking privilege or discrimination in passen ger, telegraph or telephone rates, from any person or corporation, or make use of the same himself or in conjunction with another. A person who violates any provision -of this section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall forfeit hia office at the suit of the Attorney-General. Any corporation, or officer or agent thereof, who shall offer or promise to a public officer, or person elected or appointed to a public office, any such free pass, free trans portation, franking privilege or dis crimination, shall also be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and liable to punish ment except as herein provided. No person, or officer or agent of a corpora tian giving any such free pass, free transportation, franking privilege or discrimination hereby prohibited, shall be privileged from testifying in rela tion thereto, and he shall not be liable to civil or criminal prosecution there for if he shall testify to the giving of the same. HOW MONOPOLIES CAN BE SUP PRESSED. We have in this country a large number of people who can be induced to oppose liberal and progressive move ments, and who are ever ready to ac cept the slightest hint from monopolists and old fogies, if anything appears to have a centralizing tendency. Such people are monopolists at heart, and only need the opportunity to bleed their fellow citizens. Perhaps some of them are honest in their views. When you can get people to believe that the way to get more money in circulation is to quit making any, nothing need excite surprise. Strange as it may seem, city people, poor and rich, are the most ardent mo nopolists to be found. Their educa tional advantages and business train ing is generally superior to that acquired by farmers, and this ought to NEED OF open their eyes. But farmers are by no means all level headed. We know cotton farmers in the South who boast that the cotton mills are making 20 and 30 per cent, annually while they them selves are raising cotton at about an equal loss annually. We know grain farmers who boast of the prosperity of the Chicago millionaires and swear that his neignbora are calamity-howlers and anarchists because they protest against such ruinously low prices. We know city people who would have fits if somebody should remark that the water, electric lights, or something, was costing the people two or three times as much as it ought. They argue that private enterprise ought to have a show. That is true, but more than half of the large enterprises in this country are gradually, in some instances, rap idly in others, but surely in all, reduc ing the people to serfdom. Monopolies must be suppressed or limited. They clamor against legislative interference. Probably the neatest way to bring them to terms is to give them to under stand that all of the people are not fools We notice that Staunton, Va.,.owns her own electric light plant. The lights cost $28 each annually. The average cost in twenty -sjven other cities. lighted by monopoly plants, is $94 66 per light. Danville, Va., only spends $30.35 for each light. Lynchburg and Richmond will probably put in anti monopoly plants. Ten large and small cities owning their own lighting appar atus, spend on an average of but $49.64 for each light. We learn from these facts that cities can own their own plants and light them for about one half charged byv the monopoly. The people are entitled to good lights, mail and transportation facilities, and they should get them at the lowest rates possible. Monopolies will hardly give these; and, therefore, the people must help themselves. We want short, truthful accounts of election frauds perpetrated in the State. It seems that there were a great many crooked transactions. Tell our readers what was done in your township, county, town, &c. We want all this to enable our legislators to make a good election law one that has no loopholes. THE SECRET OF UCSCESS. One of the District Alliance organ izers writes as follows: 'It is no trouble to get men into the Alliance who read The Progressive Farmer." To all who are earnestly seeking to forward the Alliance and secure the enactment ofour platform into la wv we commend the above quotation.' Where Alliances have gone down it is no trouble to reorganize provided the former members have been .reading your State1 organ in the meantime. It is not so difficult to get new members among our subscribers, either. The man who reads The Progressive Farmer keeps up with Alliance pro gress throughout the State and Nation. He gets all the news every week, reads the discussions of our platform and keeps in touch with the brethren everywhere. There are about a dozen organizers in the State now, and we hope all cf them will keep this in mind. Let every earnest officer of the Sub, County and State Alliances second the efforts of these organizers, not only in building up the waste places and mending tHe broken ones, but in pushing the circulation of your State organ. Many will tell you that they wish to read the paper but have no money. Most of them can raise enough to pay for their State paper if they will try a little harder. Insist on their taking it at least three or fix months as a starter. Keep the matter before them at every meeting any where you see them. Continued efforts will bring success and the reform cause will be strengthened accordingly. THE CO-OFERATIVE MAJORITY. The State Board of Canvassers, com posed of the Governor, Attorney Gen eral, Senator Cook, of Warren, and Senator Adams, of Moore, met in Rep resentative Hall on last Thursday. As it was the "day set apart for Thanks giving the Board immediately ad journed. On Saturday much of tho day was consumed in hearing the con tested case from Nash county, in which Solicitor Bernard and Mr. Woodard are concerned. The Board of Canvass ers, however, only have ministerial powers, and the contest must be settled! in the courts. The work of the Board will not be complete for Eometime yet. Ho wever, we are able to give the vote of for Chief Justice and three Congressional districts. Chief Justice W. T. Fair cloth received 148, 434 votes ; Shepherd 127, 593, making the Co operative ma jority on the State Judicial ticket 20.841. Three Congresssonal districts are complete. In the 1st Skinner got 16.510; Branch 13,546; third, Shaw 10. 699; Thompson, 9 705; Spears 6.966; ninth, Pearson 16,869, Crawford, 16,-734. SPECIAL STUDIES. It is a good plan for farmers' clubs, Alliances and other similar organiza tions to take up the study of some special subjf ct and discuss it for a part of the time at each meeting. By so do ing a large amount of information will be acquired in a short time, and the discussions fastens it in the memory so firm that it stays there. We know of one club that took up agricultural chemistry last winter, and, although chemistry is thought to be a very dry studv. there was such an interest w v . aroused that most of the time at sev eral meetings was devoted to this sub ject, and in the end tne mem bers knew more about how crops grow and the value of fertilizers than they ever thought possible with the small effort that was made. Most of the members of that club have no difficulty in determining the value of a fjyrtiliz 3r upon being given its analysis, and a good many of them have a pretty good idea of what their soil needs in the way of, fertilizers, and the study given to the subject last winter has been dollars in their pockets ever since. They know from the price of various feeds which is the cheapest, and are able to feed in telligently and furnish their stock with a balanced ration. History, geography or any other matter of interest, may be taken up to advantage, for where there is competition and friendly riv airy, there is interest, and it is not hard to study on a given question or branch of knowledge. . . THE ALLIANCE WORK. No political party can progress be cause it is bound down by its creed, or platform. For this reason we find old parties totally inadequate to the times. The Alliance is not a political organiza tion, but it discusses all political ques tions. We see to day the farmer demolish ing the astute politician and driving from the field of argument the wily lawyer. What is it that has given the farmer such power ? It is the education received through the Alliance. The old time leaders are unable to meet the well posted Allianceman on the platform or in the press. The Alli ance has for once put the farmer far ahead of the other avocations in the science of economic government. The Alliance ia a progressive order It investigates all subjects and arrives at the truth. It presents the truths for the condemnation of the world and is only bound by them until investiga tion takes another step forward. The Alliance has brought to light true Democracy, which has slumbered for a quarter of a century. It has shown up the wicked rule of pluocracy in a manner that has opened the eyes of the whole nation. Now an order that has done so much for the education of the people should command the energy of every true patriot in the land to sustain it and publish its influence. An academy that has done such work to bring truth and justice to light should be maintained. There is an idea abroad that the Al liance has accomplished its purpose, when through its teachings a new po litical organization has been formed which accepts the Alliance demands'as its platform, but a greater mistake was never made. Investigation must go on and the Alliance is the only order that is doing anything. Get everybody to investigat ing through the Alliance. Every joy is accompanied by sorrow. Success is blended with failure. Editor H A. Latham, of the Washington, N. C, Gazette, who has been reading clerk in the House during three ses sions of the legislature, will not be here any more. Never again will he sport that same white duck suit on the streets of Raleigh. If his crowd get the legislature again, it will be so far in the futuro that a new suit will be a necessity. That suit has a history but we will not take the time to tell it now nothing detrimental, mind you, but a history. MILLIONS LOST. The South is a sufferer to the tune of millions from the low price of cotton The cotton grower is in the same fix that the Northern farmer is in. Prices are ruinously low for the products of the soil, and this ruin has been caused by unwise, not to say positively v.N lainous, legislation, says the Farmers' Voice The attempt by the last Congress to increase the value of the dollar, by lim iting the circulating medium, has had the natural effect of paralyzing our in dustries and striking a fatal blow at production. No other result than dis aster to the farm and plantation can be expected while our financial legislation is in favor of the banker and the cred itor and against the people and the debtor. That fact is as plain as the sun at noonday, and yet a political cam paign has just closed in which the plat form and partisan press were ablaze with declarations upon the tariff ques tion, while the money question was lg nored as if it were of no consequence whatever. While the South is groan ing under the loss of $100,000,000 on her cotton and the North is suffering cor respondingly because of the wicked assault of Congress upon our circulat ing medium, the bank-ridden, capital- enslaved, stupid or 'ornery" politician is mouthing over the tariff. When the Congress of the United States shall give decent and honest recognition of silver as money, the farmer will get some thing for his products, and when he can get money he will impart vigor, to our sleeping commerce ; and never while the world lasts will prosperity come to the masses, to the degree to which they are entitled, as long as we suffer the goldbugs of the nation and of Europe to force down our throats their thievish monetary policy. OUR FOOT-BALL DEPARTMENT. Five wounded foot ballists were car ried off the field during a game at Washington, D C, Thursday. War is a terrible thing. But the percentage of killed and wounded, in proportion to numbers, is not as great as go down in foot ball. When the light of a higher civiliza tion is spread abroad in the land, parents will not send their sons to col leges where foot ball is allowed. Superintendent Byrnes, of the New York police force, detailed 250 police men to attend the game of foot-ball be tween Yale and Princeton at that city Friday "to prevent brutality." We are no w at that interestin g period in the history of the world when the average daily newspaper will devote from two to three columns to an ac count of a football game and three inches to the proceedings of a State Baptist Association, Presbyterian Synod. or Methodist Conference. The North Carolina University foot ball team went to Richmond lastThurs day and kicked with the University of Virginia team, which defeated the Chapel Hill team by a score of 34 to 0. Hurrah for 'higher education" in Virginia! The University of North Carolina needs a new professor of foot ball. On last Thursday a wagon contain ing the Southbridge, Mass., football team was crossing a railroad track near that city, and it was struck by a locomotive. Two of the team were in stantly killed, five badly wounded and several slightly injured. The railroad company ought to increase the salary of the engineer. Some engineers would have stopped, if possible. BENOIT WILL CONTEST. A. Benoit, Populist, has mailed Con5 gressman Chas. J. Boatner a formal notice that he will contest Mr. Boat ner's right to a seat in the 54th Con gress as the representative of the 5th Louisiana congressional district. In this letter Benoit claims that gross frauds have been perpetrated in some of the parishes, and that many per sons who voted for Boatner and many who did not vote, but would have voted for himself, were deterred through intimidation and fear of os tracism. He claims that he received a majority of the legal votes in the re cent election, and that 2,000 more white votes were cast for him than for his opponent. The official vote in the district has not yet been an nounced, but Boatner claims he is elected by 10,000 majority. We sup pose he goes on the rule that it is just as easy to say river as creek. Elec tions in the South are certainly made a mere matter of sport and jollity. The People party must restore to the ballot at least some degree of its sacrednes3, importance and solemnity. A DIABOLICAL FRAUD It has recently come to light through Mr. Gordon, Clark, of Washington, D. C, who is in close touch with friends living in England, and who has lived there himself, that certain Lon don bank id g houses in that old metrop olis, are engaged in stamping Ameri can and Mexicans silver dollar coins, and sending them abroad ; the Mexican dollars go chiefly to Asia, while the American, or U. S. dollars go to the Indies, and from there the U. S. coins are sent to the U. S. in place of gold in settlement of any balance of trade in favor of Americans which they no doubt take special care to see largely exists). As they can purchase the silver at about 63 cents per ounce, and by this nefarious sys tem of counterfeiting, turn every 371 grains of the 480 in the ounce which cost 63i cents into 100 cents, by which trick they make clear 658 on each 1.000 ounces which cost them $635. Using 371 grains pure silver to coin allay included) a dollar or 100 cents. Thus the foreigner grows rich on using a metal which our government (o called) refuses to allow to its own citi zens. Too bad. Too bad. National Watchman. CREAM OF THE PRESs Hard Hits, Bold Sayings and p Paragraphs from ReLm 1 Patrioc They are Worth the P One Paper a Whou of Hold an election at honn an' raise more hogs and 1P? Votet kansas Farmer. The intelligent farmer Viv necessity of voting r,Kht ' 8ee the plowing and planting riXt 7" 68 Farmer nlAtkmSas "What did itr isaquerr. Democrats Dr. Alexand?, gtta lotte, says, is d,4 , good answer.-Peoe s Pape; N ery Salaries and all other PSr0 be reduced to the tow commensurate with the pubiic ! and absolute necessities. -CottonVl No slave driver could dp mnro k less and devoid of human ZV' bearing debt on f utUre generauon3 ! Chicago Express. 8 Tom Jefferson said: "Treasury n t secured by pledges of the huh !?J vu feuvcimuenc, with or with out interest, will make better current than gold or silver." rrency Any information as to the herP abouta of the Democratic p Arty will Z thankfully received. At last accounts it was m the wilderness woWh.ppinea golden calf. Southern Mercury. Will some Democrat or Republican be kind enough to find any law that has been placed on the Federal statutea in the last thirty years in the interest of the peoplel-PeopZe'a Advocate. Everyone must do what he can to alleviate the misery he eees around him and the surest way to change the conditions so that such misery shall be impossible. Saturday Critic. The commission which Mr. Carroll D. Wright and his associates suggest to be established, but only as a tempo rary makeshift. The problem of the relations of railroads and their em ployees to the public can be solved only by the public ownership of the roads and to that complexion it will inevit ably coma at last. Chicago Times. The Democratic party will always have a good following of good people in this State ; but if it is to elicit the sympathy and inspire the corjfiien of the great body of the whi'e people, it must manifest more regard for the people and less solicitude for the wel fare of a large number of Derennial. parasitical office hunters: and it must clearlts skirts forever of every niges- tion of corporation influence. Biblical Recorder. To build a mile of railroad takes 2,- 500 ties, at 40 cents, $1,009; 105 tons of rails at $30, $3,159; grading and laying $2,500; spikes, plates, etc , $1,000 a total of about $6,650. The companies get in State, county, municipal and in dividual donations about $10,000 a mile. They then bond the road bed for $15,000 and then tell the people they have to charge as they do to pay for the "capital" they have invested -get a fair return for their great investment, you know ! The people have been too wise to take their own donations and build their own railroads, and operate them for their own interest! That would be paternalism, you know. Coming Nation. PERSONAL AND PERTINENT. Mr. E P. Hauser, of Lenoir county, is a candidate for reading clerk in the House. Dr. J. J. Mott, of Statesville i in the city. He is one of the best pleased men in the State. Mr. J. R. Underwood, a prominent Rocky Mount lawyer, was a welcome visitor in our sactum last week. Sheriff Cozart, of Granville county, was one of our welcome callers last week. He didn't have a warrant for us. Dr. J. E Person, of Wayne county, was in the city last week. The doctor is one of the pillars of the reform move ment. Chairman Holton is here. He has done much hard work and looks tired, but you can see victory in bis coun tenance. Chairman Butler was here last week. TTo htio Anna rxrn-rh- pnnilfh for tWO OT three men in the past few months, and is quite unwell. Messrs. D. H. Gill and Z T. Garrett, two of Vance county's able and success ful workers, were visitors at our turn during the week. Mr. Malvern E Palmer, a prominent young attorney, of Warrenton, auu hard working People's party man, was visitor at this office last wees. HIV t v. Snpnp.A of Moncure, editor of the Chatham News, was one of our visiting friends during the week, in reform movement has no truer or er worker than Bro. Spence. ruT.0aQan Stroud spent three day in the city Trfl welcome caller ai una "" - . ,-. o to Washington and do a . power to enact our piauorm .
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