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THE PtOTOSIVE : FABMEB. - THE INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF OUR PEOPLE PARAMOUNT TO ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS OF STATE POLICY. RALEIGH, N. Ct, JANUARY 29, 1895. No. 50 oL9. NATIONAL FARMERS' ALLI ANCE AND INDUSTRIAL UNION. Y&ideuu---" ' president J. L- Gilbert, Cali- ' tary-Treasurer Col. D. P. Dun Columbia, S. G. 1 EXECUTIVE BOARD. r L. Loucks, Huron, p. u. ; Mann r A Br?:JL: tt n t. . secretary, xittiiAoumg, icuuojn- . x 1I ...itn. Jrvr CITT I I JUDICIARY. I A. Southworth, Denver, Colo. I W. Beck, Alabama. . D. Davie, Kentucky. , rra Carolina Farmers' stats alli ance. resident J. M. Mewborne, Kinston, ace-President A. C. Shuford, New N C kretary-Treasurer W. 8. Barnes, feign, N. C. cVrer Cyrus Thompson, Rich tewwdJ. T. B. Hoover, Elm City, C. "hanlain Dr. T. T. Speight, Lewis- N. u. lls oor keeper Geo. T. Lane, Greens- A4itknt Door keeper-Jaa. E. Lyon, ioTrTti O imam, n. v. . Sergeant-at Arms J. rv. nauuwjt, i eensboro, JN. of Itate Business Agent w.xx. worm, 'rustee Business Agency Fund W. Graham, Machpelah, JN. lyrmrTVTC COMMITTEE OF THE NORTH www - 1R0LINA FARMERS' STATE ALLIANCE. darion Butler, Goldsboro, N. C. ; J. if it had Dot come from the Treasury the question of restoring the free coin Long, Eoka, N. C. ; A. F. Hileman, Department, would have been deemed age of silver comes up,, against giv- t Qcord, N. C. .TS ALLIANCE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE. fnn ttradv. Gatesvilie. N. C; Dr. J. Harrell. Whiteville, N. C; John aham, Ridgeway, N. C. rth Carolina Reform Press Association, jj'Lvr J L Ramsey President: .ken Butler, Vice-President ; W. & rr, secretary, PAPERS. rreeslve Farmer. State Organ, Raleigh, N. C. onrr Hickory, N. C. lt ' Whitakers, N. C. Home Reaver Dam, N. C. i Poptilist, Lnmberton, N. C. ) People's Paper. Charlotte, N. C. i Vestibule, Concord, N. C. Plnw.Rnr WadeSDOTO. . C. low Blade. Peanut, N. C. 'ac.h of the above-named papers are wjApA to keen the list standina on first page and add others, provided ?t?M&Wj&X$li iropped from the list promptly. Uur mle can now see what papers are jt Hished in their interest. EDITORIAL SUGGESTIONS. ime plays an important part m tne iwth of all plants, and is, therefore, aluable fertilizer. 0ffa Via moftdnwR. , There is J SJ CL. clb& buu -wv - I ntv nf fnnd hav land in our State if perly attended to Lr.A aRbes " - i wuo U.U3U uu " ' I -ugh good fertilizers for clay soil, re proved of no benefit to deepblack lirie eoil. Jo branch of farming or stock rais- will pay so well as the poultry Lnrh rf indnstrv. A 8tart in the nnesa does not require much cssh, d it can be conducted in connection 'h other farm work. f possible, have all hogs intended home use slaughtered this month. ke care that the natural heat is out the meat before salting, and ic may sa be reasonably expected to take buiu uou Keep gwu. 3s?in the practice of keeping strict a accurate accounts witn eacn crop, i with the live stock, uniy in mis iy i3 it possible to know what pays d what loses money, and thus enable b leaks to be stopped and the paying Qtures to be extended, KeeD elewe un with the work of get out the manure from the yards 4 pens when the weather will permit , .. . i mt l its being hauled on the iana. iau ill save much time at the planting aaon. Top dress wheat and winter ta when manure is abundant. f "I shall never." savs Bill Nye. "epeak &tlv of the ridee rooter againf he is ject to none of the diseases peculiar " I corpulence. He breathes good air, tathe pokeberry in mid summer until a ceilings and wainscotings are as red i a Chinese demonstration j then he its the wild cucumber which falls tm the cucumber tree after the squir ;1 has had all he wantsand the result that by November he ia ready to ike a courrof corn in the ear, or sawhere, ai A winds up at the glorious aletide, whei the holly berries are red the mistletta and persimmon are ripe, still jalender and giri m ' tit as tender and juicy as a AN APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE Against the Currency Scheme Now Be fore Congress, by the American Bimetallic League. Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer. WASHINGTON, D. G, The bill now before Congress to radi cally change our currency system by greenback and coin note circulation, wfth the view of turning over to the banks the entire control of the paper bUliCUL Ul liUO UU1ICU kJUlKCD. If biiU I most radical and dangerous measure ever seriously presented in this coun - i try at any rate, since the covert act they cannot be blended together with demonetizing silver in 1873. So sweep out doing mischief. For fifty years ing and radical a change in the mone tary system of any country cannot be carried out without profoundly dis turbing all industrial conditions, un- settling prices, and creating confusion in every line of business. Besides, the proposition lo tax the people to take up and ultimately cancel our entire legal tender paper currency, and leave it to banking associations, organized for private gain, at their will and as their interests alone man dictate to supply piace witn promises to pay, ougnt ar0U8Q jne most anxious concern of the whole people. The greenback cur- rency cost the people nothing, is legal- A , ., . . . cenaer, or ine same vaiue m every part the country, and good anywhere in world. To ftRk the neonle to tax themselves for that is what it amounts to to take up this currency, in order that banks may fill its place with their notes, is a proposition, which, insane, if not indeed diabolical. This proposition, too, comes to the country as a bolt from a clear sky. No politi cal platform ever contained such a proposition; nothing purporting such a chaDge was given out before the late election. The people have had no op- portunity to express themselves re- spectmg it. It comes as all conspira- cies do as did the act demonetizing silver like a ttief in the night. There are more than ten thousand banking institutions that under this act may issue notes to circulate as money. By what principle will they be J governed in the issue of this currency ? By none in the world but their own tntATata Mato it nrnfitablo to them Qnd th wiU put.out any amount of currescy, regardless of conseo.uer.ces, immediately or remote, in turn, let became their interest to contract uft pnrrpnnr. and thev will contract it regardlees of the effect on the busi ness world. That is the only kind of "elasticity" there ism this form of cur- rercy. Banks will issue it as long as there is profit to them in doing so and no lonerer. xne experience oi lue wonu has been that, under such a system, - l. there will at nrst oe expansion eepan- sion here, there, everywhere, all over ... . .. . i the country, regaraiess oi tne export oi gold, except, perhaps, m the seaboard . - A, i I UlUIUei, 1.111, WHU WUMUUOU WOO VI f,'JiV I the limit of tension is reached, when a collapse will coma, followed by long- continued contraction, general busi neaa stagnation, and the ruin of u , debtors. This has been the history of such a currency, not only in this country, but in every other county that has tried it, one time or another. The creation and proper regulation of paper money is inseparable from the power to coin money; otherwise paper money may be issued in such quantity as to displace coin altogether, &a different periods of our own history abundantly prove, and as stated by Wester in 1838. Neither power can be safely entrus- to private interests. The Secre- tary of the Treasury, Mr. A. J. Dallas, as long ago as 1816, said: "The author- ity which is alone competent to estab lish the national coin is alone compe I. . . . , i . ieni 10 create a nauonai Buosiuute. Alexander Hamilton early expressed the same opinion. The principle of regulating money supply for the whole people aa the in terests ot a lew may dictate, regard less 01 the vaswy greater puDiic mier- . ... i , A. " ests, is essentially bad, and had been uroven bv experience, over and over again to be utterly unsafe and ruinous. No principles in monetary ecience are better settled than that neither se curity of final payment of bank notes, nor convertibility alone, can be relied upon to so regulate the quantity of a Paper currency as to secure stability of value, which is the nrsc requisite in a .... . ...... i currency of any kind. No questions which concern the pub lie welfare were ever subjected to a more thorough and intelligent mvesti- gation than thesa very questions, both in this country and in England, from 1810 to 1860; and the policy of entrust ing the creation and regulation of a paper currency to banks, or in any way to the control of private interests, has been pronounced against, and abandoned,, by every enlightened na tion on the earth. It would be a dis- grace for this country now to return to it. No other enlightend country would even entertain, for a moment, such a propositiou. 1 IIM UUH111KHM UL LmillVllI MLJ J of providing a people with money are functions so separate and distinct that - this has been the almost undisputed verdict of the enlightened world, and has been-concurred in by all the foie most writers on the subject, as shown in various Parliamentary Reports and elsewhere; and especially is this true as to multiplicity of banks. The world has never devised any plan of automatic regulation of money- supply, except through the production of the precious metals; and, from the very nature of money and its relation to prices, automatic aajusimem ui paper money to the wants of business is impossible. The bill now before Congress, should ... , ... . is Decome a law, win prevent, ior wus generation, at least, a return to the onlv tried and armroved method of automatic regulation of money; that is, through the preduction and coinage of gold and silver. A loud clamor is raised, whenever ing a profit to the miner. While it can be easily shown that under free coinage there can be no difference be tween the value of bullion and the coin made from it, and that coneo quently there can be no direct profit to the miner, or profit of any kind not shared m by thageneral public through the mnuenc3 on prices and business of an ample supply of primary money, both the measure proposed by the Secretary of the Treasury and the Baltimore plan give forever a profit to issuers of paper, as often as it is loaned out. Both plans virtually make banks paper mints, with the right to coin money out of paper, and to have all thev can make out of it. without cost of production and without limit as to amount. . it is aumittea tnat lour uitns oi tne gold of the world is now gathered into a few great treasurv boards, and con trolled by a few hundred men at most. With this control over gold, give to Danfcs entire contrai over the paper currency, on a gold basis, as is now proposed, and what safety is there for iuo wuriu h muuouica ujt iur me wunu business? aua pwpw ua eumaveu so eaauy or so certainly in any other way? No: - t i i j ii j :t..A t i . poverty u BM ,uu0 & mass of the people are the necessary wu.jv - v - vv - - w . We therefore earnestly recommend that before it is too late to resist this new attempt to subjugate them abso lutely to the money power, the people everywhere hold meetings, and, by resolutions and petitions, protest to their Representatives and Senators against the passage of the proposed bill, or of any measure that puts in the hands of banking associations the absolute control of the money of the people. A. J. Warner, Pres. Don't neglect the first opportunity of numg tne ice nouse; u.you ao, you may noc get anotner inis year. iracK ifc away carefully, and with plenty of straw or litter, so that it will not waste. Especially is this important where dairying is carried on. Good butter cannot be made m summer in the South without ice or a very well shaded cool spring house. MARSHAL NEY. Col, J. E Strother is hereby informed that the Czar of Buesia has at length been buried and that St. Petersburg was the place not North Carolina. We will further inform Colone Strother that if he goes to fooling around the late Czar and taking the liberties which he has taken with the late Marshal Nev. he will get hurt It isn't every dead man who would sub mit, tamely, to as much controversy and disinterment as Marshal Ney has had to take from Colonel Strother. Had it not been for the fact that . . . Marshal JNey was killed in France be fore he died in North Carolina we do not believe that he would have taken as much curiosity and investigation as Col. Strother has heaped upon him. Tom Watson. SAM JONES ON DISPENSARIES. What He Thinks About Them He Has Been Studying the System in South Carolina He Pronounces the Plan as Better Than the Open Saloon. The good people of Georgia, Tennes see and other States are now demand ing of their legislatures such laws as, in their judgement, will conduce to the restriction or extermination of the whiskey traffic within the borders of these States. The legislature of Geor gia has under discussion now a bill to turn the liquor traffic over to dispen saries, and seems to be hanging fire a ittle. It has always astonished me that when legislation against this, the worst enemy of God and man, is proposed, how some men will stand up in a re spectable audience and ask for time to deliberate and time to ponder and time to discuss a question that any man with sense enough to go in out of a shower of rain could settle by walking the streets of Atlanta, Ga., or Nash ville, Tenn., from 7 o'clock in the morn ing till 10 o'clock at night and watch the ingress and egress of saloons and determine in a moment's time that the open saloon is the open gateway to hell. I have no patience with the "wise statesmen" and 'conservative poli ticians" who want to mature their thought and act in the best interest of humanity whenever temperance legis tion is suggested by their compeers. I have just returned .from a hurried trip through South Carolina. I spent one day and a night in Sumter. In company with one of the pastors in the city I visited a dispensary. I went through it. I saw it. The dispensary of Sumter is a nice store room in the centre of the city, with all the bottles and demijohns labelqji and sealed sitting upon the shelves. At the front door of the dis pensary there is a place cut off with pickets, something like an insurance or real estate office, about ten feet square. This is the only part of the building the public can enter. L'quor is sold by the dispensary keeper, from half-pint bottles to four gallons and three quarts to any individual. It opens at seven in the morning and closes at six in the evening. There is no loafing or drinking, or treating within the dis pensary. As bad as this may be, it is a thou sand per cent, better than the open saloon with its hangers on, with its young men going to destruction and then old bums making it their rendez vous. I am no advocate of the dispen sary. I have fought whiskey in all its forms for fifteen years. I fight under a black fiag. I show no quarters to, nor ask any quarters of, the whiskey traffic. It has left its scar on me. It has invaded the precincts of the homes of my loved ones and made some of them wear the stripes. I am conscious of the power of the whiskey traffic. I know how parties and politicians tremble when the whis key traffic shakes its fist, I know its power to lobby. I know its power to buy. Whenever and wherever any State in the Union shall have anun purchasable and unbulldozable legis lature, then we shall have laws for the protection of home and we will get such legislation as will retire the whis key traffic, or exterminate it. I know it is a source of revenue to the States, cities, towns, but it is a most solemn fact that whiskey has never paid its way anywhere. It takes more to police it, to control it (so called) to punish its offences and its criminals than it ever paid in revenues to any State or to any community. I know that the closing of the saloon dispensary does not shut off the whis key traffic It is an infernal species of lawlessness and the crowd who traffic in liquor will sell liquor until they are m hell a frying, but we must acknowl edge the fact that wherever blind tigers live they are a reflection upon every sworn officer and a disgrace to the prosecuting attorneys, grand jurors and judges whose duty it is to arraign and punish them. Wherever you find blind tigers you will find that perjury camps all around them, and J verily believe that any man who will buy and drink blind tiger liquor will swear to a lie in any court as black as perdition itself. We may talk of election laws and fair elections and all that sort of a thing-, but nine-tenths of the debauchery of the ballot boxes can be traced to liquor. Augusta, Georgia, with its numerous saloons, can pile up any majority she wishes, and whenever there ia such fraud in politics you will find a demi john at the bottom ; sometimes it is a demijohn that can walk and is com monly called a politician. There is no fact clearer to my mind than that nine tenths of the corruption in politics and social life, against which moralists proclaim and which news papers denounce day after day, can be traced to the liquor traffic as its prime cause. Why men can't see this, and why they don't know this is a mystery I can't solve. I have lived in a dry town for more than ten years. There is no such thing in Carter&ville, nor has there been for years, such a thing as a local blind tiger. Occasionally a low down negro or lower down white man will peddle it around the outskirts of the town out Of a jug, but nine tenths of them are caught and punished, as the records of our courts will show. A local blind tiger that you can scent or see is as un known and unheard of in Cartersville, Ga., as an ice factoiy in Greenland. We have adjusted ourselves to all the conditions of a dry town. A few old bums still get their jugs by express. but, poor fellows, tiey will soon be -dead and gone. We are not raising a young crop to perpetuate the jug trade, I trust, after our old bums are dead. Gentlemen of the jury do your duty ; don't listen to the whines and cries and hypocrisy of the gang who will cry : 'What will we do if we cut off the revenue?" 4If we don't have saloons we will have blind tigers." "More whiskey is sold in dry towns than wet towns." 'Every where it hatf ever been tried it has proven a failure." Do your duty before God, and the good people of the State will stay by you, and the mothers and wives of the country will call you blessed. Yours truly, Sam P. Jones. A Yorkshire farmer, having a horse to sell at a fair, sold it to an army con tractor. Meeting him at the same fair the following year, the army buyer walked up to the farmer and said in dignantly: "The horse I bought of vou was a thorough fraud. It was no use for the army." The dealer was no wise abashed, but replied:, 44 Well, try 'im for t' navy!" HOW THE PRICE OF COTTON CAN BE INCREASED. Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer. Charlotte, N. C. The most vital of all questions now affecting the South is how to increase the price of cotton. Cotton congresses have met, and others are being called to solve the question. So far only one idea has pervaded these deliberative assemblies, viz. : cut down the acreage, make less. This is simply childish, when three fourths of the people have not two suits of clothes apiece. People in rags, and say the remedy is raise less cotton. But this is only on a par with the United States Congress, when it destroyed silver as a money metal in order to give the people more money. If this is not lunacy, the people are idiots. When people are hungry do you say raise less bread stuff? The basis of your reasoning is the same. Would it not be more in accord with the eternal fitness of things to reduce the abnormal purchasing power of the dollar! Instead of raising less cotton and less wheat, let the Government stop culling in the treasury notes, ard issue more of them. Money is the representative of wealth. Consider what relation now exists between the amount of wealth and the amount of money? Sixty billions of wealth and less than two billions to represent it ! No wonder that cotton sells for less than its cost of production. It is not the superabundance of cotton, but the shortage of the circulating medium. That is playing the devil with our people. These congresses of cotton growers should go a step further and say how to increase the price of real estate. Land that sold for ten to thirty dollars per acre ten years ago, now goes begging cannot be sold at all. Will they be consistent and advise the re ducing of the number of acres if so, tell us how? But there is one item that would be well to reduce the number of apes enormous apes that stand bray ing at the wrong end of the row. They advise impossibilities and impractibil ities, in calling on farmers to plant one third less acreage. It is reason able to suppose farming lands cannot find a market, especially so when our population is rapidly increasing. There ia something rotten in Denmark, and all sensible men not wearing a golden collar believe the lack of a greater volume of money the cause of the trouble. J. B. Axexandee. SAVE OUR YOUNG MEN From Perjury, Fraud, and Political Corrup tion Give Us an Election Law Too Honest in its Make up to Allow a Politi cal Thief Any Chance. Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer. Permit a veteran reformer to give a few facts on the line of reform, for the enlightenment of our voting popula tion, our law-makers and our church members in the pulpit and in power; and, also, for our young men and our boys growing up to manhood. Let us save them. Prior to the late war, we had no ballot-box stuffing, or robbing; no perjury by counting one man in and another out. As the votes were cast, so were they counted. If we ever had a preacher before the war who ignored the teachings of God's Word encfugh to enable him to stand in the pulpit or in company and say that "the end justified the means," I never heard of such an one. If there was ever a church member of any denomination who was guilty of any kind of dirty work to carry an election, I never heard of such an one. True, we did not have as many preachers and church members then as now; ncr was there so much religion then as now, but there was more of the gen uine religion of the Son of God among preachers and church members than there is now, as I see it and am forced to believe. Now for the mud sill of our political corruption : During reconstruction after the late war, the Republican officials, in many places, had every thing their own way. If the voters did not cast their votes to meet their wishes they were counted to meet the demands of our corrupt political tyrants. They knew no law but the law to do what they wished to do or to have done. Here was the in troduction of political corruption and it was continued in practice by the Republican leaders while they were in power. As the Democrats gained in power, so as to control the elections, rather than permit the Republicans again to power, they adopted the same corrupt methods of the Republicans. For years and years these corrupt methods were practiced to keep down negro rule, as the democratic rings declared. Now let us see where we were at. In 1892, when it was Greek against Greek, white man against white man, with the political machine in the hands of these same old politi cal rings, did the machine grinders leave off their corrupt methods and give their white brothers an honest showing? Did they? No such religion as that ; no show whatever of equal rights under our laws, but, on the con trary, the registrars, prior to the elec tion, were ordered by their head State boss to die franchise every man whom ' they could, who would not vote the Democratic ticket. Yes, this must bo done by perjury, and it was done. The election frauds of 1888, 1890 and 1892 were bad enough to disgrace a half civilized people, much more dis graceful were they to a high toned, Christian people. Now, we come to 1894. How was it with this Christian people then? I am unable to tell it all, for I was only in the "devil's political pen" a short time, so I only know a part, and I thank God for being so ignorant that I do not know it all. For onco in my life I can say, in truth, that ignoranco is bliss. It is painful enough to look at a man and believe that he ia an un principled wretch, but to know that it is so, beyond truthful contradiction, ta far more painful than any child of God should wish to experience. I have long since heard it said than "an honest man is the noblest work of God." Whether this be strictly true or not, I will not say, but to look upon an honest man would be and should bo the looker on a greater pleasure thzn, words can express. Permit me to ex press the belief that a political thief is the meanest and most hellish thief that can be made by hia majesty the devil. Such a' thief is one of distraction and ruin, not only to nations, but to men, women and children. He does not even show mercy and love for the in nocent, helpless and sweet, tender babes upon the mother's breast; ha only strives for a hellish victory, re gardless of the great wrong he ia doing. A chicken thief ia an angel when com pared to a political thief in a position to do a great injury to a people. In my next 1 will enow that I am right in this opinion. W. Deewby Sanrov P. S. I feel that our legislature will do all that can be done to protect our young men from being debauched C3 they become voters.
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