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1 1 THE INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF OUR PEOPLE PARAMOUNT TO ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS OF STATE POLICY.1 RALEIGH, N. C APBIL 9, 1895. No. 9 PIOGBISSI? J AMI Ml JL JJLJLJ NATIONAL FARMERS' ALLI- UNION. .dcnt-J. iTwilletts, Topeka, ' ilce-Preside-H C. Suavely, Lcb-wWasurer-Col. D. P. Dun- ColUIQDia, d. v. EXECUTIVE BOARD. (f L. Loucks, Huron, S.D.; Mann . Brandon, Virginia; L Eu Dean, ive Falls, New York; H. C. Dem rcrctary, Harrisburg, Pennsyl- ja; Marion Butler, Raleigh, N. C. JUDICIARY. A.. South worth, Denver, Colo. W. Beck, Alabama. Sp.' Davie, Kentucky. rfl CAROLINA FARMKHS' STATE ALLI ANCE. -legident J. M. Mewborne, Kinston, ' President A. C. Shuford, New- ;tary-Treasurer W. 8. Barnes, i - eih, N. C. , Ucturer Cyrus Thompson, Ricn- IrdJ. T. B. Hoover, Elm City, "Cbaplain-Dr. T. T. Speight, Lewia- "?wr keeper-Qeo. T. Lane, Qreena- 3 distant Door keeper Jaa. E. Lyon, n 'ham, N. C. , ;-rgeant-at-Arms-J. R. Hancock, Ynsboro, N. C. ttt tt ttt K'te Business Agent W. H. Worth, Hieigh,N. C . A T tt,hW Trustee cusmwa , 9 A a. Graham, Machpelan, N. tif-CUTT COMMITTEE OF TUB NORTH J'vEOLIKA FARMERS' STATE ALLIANCE. - 'Arion Butler, Goldsboro, N. C. ; J. ,l,ong, Eoka, N. O.; A. F. Hileman, Coicord, N. C. Tf rr ALLIANCZ JUDICIARY OOMMTTTKS. Jno. Brady, Gatesville, N. C.; Dr. J. Y Harrell, Whiteville, N. C; John Grcham, Ridgeway, N. C. 'it-ih Carolina Reform Prcii Association. Offers J. L. Ramsey, President; I'z-ion Butler, Vice-President ; W. S. icsnes, Secretary, PAPERS. ' rxraasive Farmer, State Organ, Raleigh, N. C. jatfaa, Raleigh, N. C. t-arr. Hickory, N. C. iiSf' Whitakers.N.C. -,- Home. Bearer Dam. N. C. Populist, Lumberton, N. C. . 1 Peor le's Paper, Charlotte. N . C. . ,; Vestibule, . Concord, N. C. Plow-Boy. Wadesboro, N. C. : - aw Blade, Peanut, N. C. Koch of the above-named papers are minted to keep the list standing on Ut first page ana add others, provided tin" are duly elected. Any paper fail mj to adixxate the Ocala platform will k topped from the list promptly. Our ji&iile can now see what papers are tihed in their interest. EDITORIAL SUGGESTIONS. 1'. ia sa.d that wood ashes, when brcight in direct contact with potatoes, iu cause scab. ridge culture of the sweet potato ia cct recommended by the Southern Ex periment Stations. (onfine the pruning of gooseberries rrlrcipally to thinning out main s iches and cutting out weak and ex isted parts. Iire bred fowls pay on the farm, if j " are well taken care of. If the - rla are neglected, might as well or er have the mongrel, h settirg out fruit or other tree?, -er mix manure with the soil. Cover root3 with the same soil dug out of - hole and spread the manure on top ' 'hat. -be poultry business will not admit ':' arelessnees or extravagance. It re i - res a good many eggs and pounds poultry to pay for fancy poultry be great secret of success in any is to keep abreast of the times, and ready to change your way of do business whenever a better way is Jenttd d know how ia important, to know f ia a stage in advance, and the man o Knows why is a scientific farmer, matter where or how he got his Pledge. . ehorned cattle sell better than ted cattle for all purposes. They preferred by feeders, shippers ighterers cr exporters. They look kr, feed better, ship better, sell bet- V.--. "ia kill better. be intelligent farmer now attains ' bighest results by care and kind & of his animals. Beating and 8a treatment have proven una vail -3 mi also unprofitable as they in 6 the stock and take money from Pocket. kere eeems to be a studied effort to nt the yield of the f armer'a crops heater than they are. The wheat P of last and the quantity of wheat fed ock has been underestimated, all interest of the grain gamblers. CREAM OF THE PRESS. Hard Hits, Bold Sayings and Patriotic Paragraphs from Reform Papers They are Worth the Price of One Paper a Whole Year. The most elemental and firmly estab lished truth in monetary science is that volume controls price. Industrial Neivs. Better go back to swapping coon skins than to mortgage the next gen eration to European usurers. Colum bus, O., Sun. If Grover Cleveland hasn't made a 'stiff" of the Democratic party, then the snakes are still in Ireland. South ern Mercury. If gold is the basis - the thing upon which all things rest, why will bonds buy it? Pieasa tell us, Mr. Goldbug. Tennessee Voice. The devil takes care of his own. Cleveland was not on board of that steamer that went to the bottom of the sea. Augusta, Ga , Wool Hat. When the red flag of the auctioneer becomes too numerous, the red fl-ig of the anarchist puts in an appearance. Santa Cruz, Cal., New Charter. The past week has been rather dull ; there have been no new national p r ties formed and no new issue of bonds in Washington. Brockton Diamond. The main question now if, will the bankers rule this country by ccntroll the currency, or shall the government protect the people by issuing all money itself Quincy Labor News. Of the 12,696.152 families in the United States 6,624,260 own no homes and of; the 6,065,892 home owners 3,350, 250 are mortgaged for all their property will bring by sheriff sale. Industrial News. Do not neglect the Alliance meetings. These are the very best for discussing the issues that so much concern the welfare of the farmer. They are the very best educational institu tions. Clabume Herald. The amount of land granted by the United States to railroad corporations amounts to more than the area of the original thirteen States. Don't you think it about time to consider the land question ? Farmers' Outlook. The interests of the tax payers, the legitimate business classes and the pro ductive laborers are identica'. When labor is well paid the business classes prosper and taxation becomes corre spondingly less burdensome. The Drumbeat. People who deposit their money in the banks are furnishing the capital, without security, for a gang of specu lators. The result is that the specula tors steal about fifty million a year from a confiding public and still the dance goes merrily on. Chicago Ex press. An Ohio man celebrated the adjourn ment of the late Congress by distribut ing 100 tons of coal among the poor. His ideas in connection with that de lectable body seemed to run to fire. Eminently proper. If the whole con cern does not get a free warming ortho doxy is all wrong. Farmers' Voice. Senator Chandler said in the Senate: "If there are four billions of gold and four billions of silver in existence, and one half the quantity is abandoned as a money metal and measure of value, the other half appreciates in value and destruction comes to the value of all other property." He added "to such a fate the people are now exposed." True as preaching. Senator. But the Chicago Tribune wallops Mr. Chandler unmerci fully for saying it. Farmers' Voice. A pneumatic riding saddle has been invented. It works upon the same prin ciple as the tire of that name. The rider's movement on the cushion of air does away with the friction on the horse's back, relieves the animal very materially, and adds to the comfort of horseback riding. LAW AND ORDER. lit Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer. By virtue of a superstitious though generally accepted tradition, we are called upon to have "respect for the law;" (as if in itself law were some superhuman creation with rightful powers to defy intelligence or even to transform morality.) And we are wearied with "frightening" utterances, repeated until they have become cant, about "the dignity of the law," "the majesty of the law, the irrevocability of the law," and of the "permanent estab lishment of the law." Granted that we should "obey the law" while we permit it to remain a law; yet if it ia not a respectable law, and by its exercise violates reason and morals, why should we be asked to respect the lawf It has, in its abusive power, been vile to the extent of filthiness, and cruel as the unconscious mercilessness of a raven ing beast. Human laws have made it a crime for a loving husband to refuse to give up his wife, or a father to con sign his daughter to the demands of lecherous favorites of the law. "The dignity of the law!' It has employed eavesdroppers, sent out its emmisaries disguised and contemptibly pried into the silly or the sacred secrets of those who have submitted them selves or have been assigned to its powers of persecution. "The majesty of the law! ' Consider the imposing grandeur of a law of hu man government which has made it a crime to teach the alphabet to a human being, whom, because of his intellectual weakness "the law" has made a slave. A law which commits a poor woman to prison for selling apples in the street, but gives over the highways to strong and wealthy corporations for their profitable use in the sale of transporta tion and the sale of merchandise at every stopping station in the highway. E. Stillman Doubleday. In order to foster the butter trade, the Canadian Government has offered to buy the winter butter made by its citizens for shipment to England, pay ing for it 20 cents a pound. The oppo sition papers say. this sudden develop ment of paternalism is intended to secure the farmers' vote. MY NEIGHBOR. (R. PENSTOCK) She is a good old soul, though I very often get worried with her. She vis its me every Saturday, and, as well as I rembember, here is her conversion of last Saturday morning : "I jest cum over, M's Jones, ter bor ry er leetle cupful uv yo'r risin' ter put in my bre'd. Mine haint up yit en hits high time I wuz git tin' my Sund'y bakin' dun." As my yeast hftd risen I filled her pint tin cup for her while she contin ued: "An', M's Jones, while I'm hyer I'll bother y'u fur er mess uv salid fur dinner. No longer 'an yistidy my John low'd he haint ete no gardin' truck en so long he'd mighty nigh fur got jes' how it tasted. He allurs wuz pow'ful sot on havin' greens an' sich things fer hiz dinner." I told her to go to the garden and help herself to all the salad she wanted, but before going she said : 'It du 'pear like I pester y'u er pow'ful sight, M's Jones, but my John 'lowed this mo'nin' thet hiz sister M'riah wuz feelin' mighty po'ly en wuz cumin' ter spen' Sund'y to our house, so I 'low'd ter myself I'd ax y'u fur ther loan uv er spoonful er two uv sugar ter sweet'n er cup uv coffy fur 'r in ther morn'in' fur bre'kfust. Now, don't tr'uble 'bout hit of y'u hain't got nun ter spare." I gave her the sugar, and as she picked up her bonnet from off the floor and smarted home, she remarked: "Y'u mus' cum' over sumtime en see us M's Jones, en when y'u go ter make sift soap, ur hev er quiltin', er cumpany cums, en I kin be uv eny help ter y'u, jes' sen' one uv ther chil lun over ter let me know, en I'll kiver up ther fire en cum over en du whut leetle I kin fur y'u." I prize highly this old woman as a near neighbor, because she belong to an interesting class of Southern people who are rapidly disappearing before the onward march of education. THE KURNELJIS AWFUL MAD. The legislation of the Radicals was a stupendous blunder all through. If any good was done in any particular, in any direction, must have been with out design. The entire performance from the ringing of the bell and the rolling up of the curtain to the last scene of legislative pantomime and make believe, when the curtain fell, was composed of harlequin tricks, political juggling, acrobatic acts, hyp notic deviltry, somnambulistic art, and systematic raids upon the pockets of the people. No such specimens of charlatanry, legerdemain, sawdust tumbling, personal and political de bauchery have ever before been wit nessed in any legislative arena by any. company of tricksters and clowns. A company of sober idiots could have done better for they would have done nothing. There was just enough of stupidity and rascality in that Radical body to play the devil generally," and to make them forever a most foul stench in the nostrils of all honest peo pie. Wilmington Messenger. TEMPERANCE-PROHIBITION. Correspondence of the Progressive farmer. No Christian no one who loves his fellow man, can possibly be. indifferent to fail to manifest a deep interest in the subject of temperance laws look ing to its enforcement. The speculative mind looks to cause and effect. Why will men drink in toxicating liquors? What will prohibit remedy the evil? Man is a social being; he yearns for recognition, is deeply sensible to slight to sympathy. The competitive system, with its con comitant regulations, which is giving this country its thousands of million aires, and its millions of paupers, has done is doing more to foster the liquor trade than all other factors combined. Prohibition does not, will not pro hibit. The only remedial remedy is to elevate man socially a practical Chris tianity is the one thing needful. Let our Christian ministry our Bro. Tut tle and others, who are justly so vitally concerned on this subject, allign them selves in the ranks of the reformers, champion the rights to many longer social privileges opportunities. It is a fact patent to every observant person that poverty want, is the pat ron of strong drink. In confirmation of this I recall a bit of history the year '89 will long be memorable in the annals of Eastern Carolina as one of flood, crop failure. Xmas Eve of '89 found our people purse poor, and yet it was generally remarked upon that those who trafficed in liquors never re ceived so large a patronage. I am temperate as to strong drink have been well nigh a tetoteler, as to practice, all my life; have practiced temperance both by precept and prac tice. Qn one occasion I was talking with one of my farm laborerp, a young colored man ; in reply to my enquiry as to the good that he derived from drink, he stated 'that give him one short and he felt himself the equal of any man ;" it elevated. Christianity implies the brotherhood of man. Sin steeped man in barbarism. Christianity by degrees, slowly, it is true, iselevatingrenobling, civilizing him. Its ministry needs the wisdom of the serpent (the wily one) ; in its exercise the harmlessnees of the dove is to be used. How is this wisdom to be obtained ! It can be etudied at the f oot of Gamaliel. Shall not those who minister unto us study at the feet of the historian? What is the record of history on the subject of drink? Is it not that degra dation, want, invites lo drunkenness and all that it implies? What was the French nation prior to its revolution of blood ? What is it to day ? 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey. Where wealth accumulates, and men decay " No truth of greater import. On whom will the responsibilities so heav ily rest if the conditions that now ob tain in this country be not changed? To whom is the call to labor in further ance of this change so Macedonian as to the Christian ministry ? My brother, if you would foster temperance, enact a prohibition that will prohibit; raise your voice, lend your aid to the better ment of man's financial condition, not simply the few, but the many; the sin of the age is greed, avarice, over reach ing. Will you not, as did the Master, whem you profess to serve, inveigh against it? A merciful Providence has blessed us caused our fields to produce abund ant harvest, and yet hard times Is the cry ; poverty and want stalks abroad ; the distribution of accumulated pro ductiongain, is an unholy one. Over production ia a misnomer, improve the distribution and there will be no frag ments ; neither will there be drunken ness either in feasting or in strong drink. God makes no mistakes; the mistakes of life are man's, the devil's works. M. J. Battle. m i NATURAL TALENT FOR THE PROFESSION. "I'm sorry to hear of your latest troubles, Brother Jones," remarked an attorney to a minister whose son had just been convicted of highway robbe ry . "O, yes, it is rather unfortunate very unfortunate." "You can't make a minister of your son now, and your fondest hope ia crushed," added the attorney, sympa thetically. "No, but I'm not discouraged. While his conduct convinces me he will never make a minister, he has shown talent in other directions, so I'ti not entirely discouraged. As soon es he ge'sout of San Quentin I'll see if I can't make' a lawyer of him." ScL AN OPEN LETTER From W. R. Henry to ex-United States Senator M. W. Ransom, Now Minister to Mexico. BitrTtrP: "I do believe these applauses are For new honors that are heaped on Ctesar." Cassius: "Why, man, he ooth bertride the car row world Like a t olos6US, and we petty men Walk, under his huge lege, and peep about To find ourselves dishonorable graves. Age, thou art eham'd, Rome thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods. When wert there by an age since the great flood, But it was fam'd with more than one man?. Now it is Rome and room enough When there is in it but one only man.' Henderson, N. C, Feb. 28, 1895. Senator M. W. Ransom, Washington, D C: Dear Sir : I have a letter this morn ing from a distinguished tNorth Caro linian now in Washington, to whom I wrote a few days ago, requesting him to sse you and to learn positively what you proposed to do with my applica tion for Federal office. His reply is before me. He say s : "To be perfectly candid with you, I do not think there is any chance for your appointment. Senator Ransom says he has done everything in his power for you, and that he will con tinue to do his best for you, but sees no chance to get you an appointment. To be perfectly candid with you, I will say that I do not think there is any chance for your appointment. Your services to the party entitle you to a place and I will aid you in any way I caD." In a letter to you on March 1st I said 'I desire to be just. PieaBe answer this question: Why have I been selected for sacrifice? The most ordinary jus tice .gives me the right to ask, and I demand to know the reason for my non appointment.' To this letter you did not reply. On March 7th I s?nt you a copy of the letter I now publish, fearing you might be called away be fore I could secure publication, and knowing that if I sent you a copy I could publish my letter at convenience. You say you see no chance for my appointment. Two years ago I placed in your hands, at your suggestion, my papers of endorsement for the Consul-General ship at Rio de Janerio or some other place. This morning they came back to me. They are now before me. It is necessary to an appreciation of what I am to say that I call your attention to the magnitude of my endorsement. The printed index to my papers will show that I was endorsed in the most unqualified terms by the State Demo cratic Executive Committee, the.N. C. members of Congress, the President of the Stat 3 Democratic Clubs, by both branches of the legislature, by all the State officers, by the President and ex President of the Univei sity, by the Electors at Large, the District Electors, the 8peaker and ex-Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Judges of the Supreme Court, Judges of the Superior Courts, the members of the Railroad . Commission, Presidents of Trunk Line railroads in N. C, by let ters from most of the editors of the State, by editorials in all of the prin cipal papers of N. C, by three hundred letters from prominent Democrats of the State, by petitions from most of the counties, by petitions from the To bacco Boards of Trade of North Caro Una and Virginia, by petitions from Petersburg, Richmond, Lynchburg and Danville; by letters from Senators Walthall and George, of Mississippi; by a letter from Senator Vance, and by a letter from ex Gov. Jarvis, after wards Senator. It is proper that I should set forth the substance of a few of my endorsements, which indicate the character of the whole: Hon. Elias Carr, Governor of North Carolina, wrote on Nov. 23rd, 1894: "Mr. Henry is a lawyer of ability, and after fourteen years' practice at the bar has added to his justly earned reputation as a lawyer, that of being a powerful campaign orator. He has re peatedly canvassed the State in the in terest of the Democratic party. In 1882, '84, '88, '92 and 94 he made each year a canvass of the State in the in terest of Democracy and wherever and whenever the party needed him he cheerfully gave his services to the best interests of his party. Thus far he has had no recognition, when other men have been appointed whose labors for the party could not qual Mr. Henry's. If party service and ability and zeal are to be considered when Federal pat- ronage is co oe oesLowea, tnen i.ieei that be is justly entitled to seme posi tion under the National Government commensurate with hia ability and labors. Hon. Charles M. Stedman wrote on Dec. 14th, 1894: "I take the liberty to add my name to the list of those who think Mr. Henry is worthy of a much higher place than the one named (Genoa ) I have known him well for years. He ia eminent as a lawyer and "orator, ia a gentleman of the highest moral character and de serves, by virtue of hia merit and of his political services, a high reward. It is strange to me that men like Mr. Henry (and he is the most conspicuous example I can recall to mind) should be passed over. No name has been suggested from the State of North Caro lina more worthy of recognition than -that of Mr. Henry." The.Hon. A C. Avery Associate Jus tice of the Supreme Court of North lina, wrote on Dec. 17, 1894: "The leading men of the Democratic party throughout the State of North . Carolina stand ready to bear testimony to the value of Mr. Walter R. Henry's services as a canvasser in every cam paign for 14 years past, and to join in recommending his appointment to some place that would prove a fit recognition and reward for what he has done. Mr. Henry is an eloquent and powerful public speaker, a gentleman of i leas ing manners of extensive attainments and of high character. I feel confident that he would represent the govern ment creditably in any position to which he may be assigned." The Hon. Walter Clark, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, wrote on March 23, 1892 : "You have just made one of the most brilliant and effective campaigns I have ever known. Your magnetic qualities as an orator, and your high character as a man entitle you to recognition at the hands of the incoming administra tion." Dr. J. H. Tucker, President N. C State Medical Society, said in 1892 : "Mr. Henry is a gentleman of high? and epotlf ss character, a lawyer of recognized ability, and a speaker and orator of power and brilliancy. He has been a life-long Democrat and for ten years past has given hia time and talents freely to the party." Mr. Melville Dorsey, a prominent Dsmocratic leader, said: "W. R Henry is in the prime of life, -is a student, a scholar, and an orator. He is a member of the Supreme Court Bar of the United States, and a Demo crat of the broadest kind. In the last campaign he was one of the most pow erful speakers we had on the stump in North Carolina." Dr. W. T. Cheatham, ex President N. C. State Medical Society, said in. 1892: "Mr. Henry is a gentleman of cul ture and distinguished ability, a learned lawyer, and as a teacher and defender of Democratic principles is the peer of any man in the State." . "Mr. Henrys?peecqnJ!,riday was n powerful and effective 6ne,YuUof zeal, thoroughly pc seed and thrilJinglv elo quent ; he is one of the most brilliant canvassers of the State. Henry Blount in Wilson Mirror." "For earnestness, power, elcquence and logic, the speech Of Mr., W. R. Henry at Halifax was simply grand, . and p"aces him by the side of North Carolina's greatest orators." Dr. Geo. E. Matthews, in Henderson Gold Leaf "After Henry's first speech in Scot land Neck there was a universal and enthusiastic demand for his return. Arrangement was made for the 29th of Ovitober. On that day he arose before an audience of six thousand, and said : 'This is the proudest day of my life. He had reason for feeling so, for it was the grandest demonstration made in the State, except the one in honor of" Stevenson at Winston. For three hturs Henry spoke with an eloquence' that rivals that of any man who has ever graced the hustings in North Carolina. It was a great speech and met every demand of the magnificent? demonstration." Hon. E. E Hilliard,. in the Democrat. Of my speech in Winston in 1892 the Sentinel said : "Henry '8 speech was a g( m of logic? in a golden setting of conviction. Be spoke three hours in the Opera House to a very large crowd. He ia an im mense man physically and mentally. , There is probably not a more logical and eloquent speaker on the Democratic -stump in this campaign. Prominent citizens crowded around Mr. Henry to ' offer their congratulations." Hon. S. A. Ashe, editor News anS f- Observer, said editorially in March,. 1893: "Walter R. Henry is seeking the po sition of Consul General at Rio. Mr. Henry deserves well at the hands bt the Democratic party in North Caro lina and of the new administration. He is a man of unusual ability, of crea powers, of high character, and an inde fatigable worker. Among the many? who did such valiant service duriner the last campaign, Mr. Henry took ranfc with the first.11 The following will indicate the senti ment of the leaders of the Democratic party of North Carolina, in regard to my continued non appointment: Hon. Jas. H. Pou, Chairman of the - State Democratic Executive Commit tee, wrote on March 4 th, 1S95 : "During 1894 I noticed his courss- closelv He made an extensive cao- v&B3 of the State I had reports from--every place and I can say unqualifiedly that his canvass was one of great power and effect. The appointment of no - man would give more pleasure to ths Democrats jof North Carolina tha.-. would the appomtmentof Mr. Hero y, The universal sentiment of the Detio crata of the State (as far as I can hei r) is that he deserves a good apDoiutrneut at the hands of the party, and burpriec -ia expressed at hia not having received CONTINUED ON FOURTH PACE J
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