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THE INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF OUE PEOPLE PARAMOUNT TO ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS OF STATE POLICY.
RALEIGH, N. C, APRIL 16, 1895.
70l. 10.
No. 10
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.rT at WARMERS ALLI-
THB CE AND INDUSTRIAL
UNION.
President-J. iTWilletta, ToPeka,
K Vice-President-H. C. Suavely, Leb-eTr-Col.D.
P. Dun
can, Columbia, S. C.
EXECUTIVE BOARD.
H L Loucks, Huron, S. D. ; Mann
H' Jmdon Virginia; I. E. Dean,
&a4eoye Fans?Newlork'; H. C. Dem-
SWetary. Harriaburg, Pennsyl-
JUDICIARY.
p A Southworth, Denver, Colo.
o'v7 Beck, Alabama.
Si. D. Davie, Kentucky.
,OBTa CAROLINA FARMERS1 STATE ALLI
ANCE. President J. M. Mewborne, Kinston,
N V?ee-Pre8ident-A. C. Shuford, New
t0Srk-Treasurer-W. S. Barnes,
cluVeNr-Cyrua Thompson, Rich
T. B. Hoover, Elm City,
NChaplain-Dr. T. T. Speight, Lewis
Dofr keeper-Geo. T. Lane, Greens-
hOTO, N. C. t in t-,-.
Assistant Door keeper-Jaa. E. Lyon,
Durham, N. C. TTanoock.
Sergeant -at Arms J. K- iiancocK,
Greensboro, N. C. . txt-v.
State Business Agent W. ti. worm,
llr-leigh, N. C. , --r-
Trustee Business Agency Fund-W.
a.. Graham, Machpelan, N. C
EXECUTIVE OOMMITTKE OF THE NORTH
CAROLINA FARMERS' STATE ALLIANCE.
Marion Butler, Goldsboro, N. C. ; J.
j. Long, Eoka, N. C; A. F. Hileman,
Concord, N. C.
3TATE ALLIANCE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE.
Jno. Brady, Gatesville, N. C.; Dr. J.
F. Harrell. Whiteville, N. C.; John
iortb Carolina Reform Press Association.
r r. TfnLmjv- Prestaent:
barton Butler, Vice-President; W. S.
iUzme, Secretary,
PAPERS.
2KS2!S2e Farmer stAt 0rsan' SSSf fc : 8:
StrcT Hickory, N. C.
& Whitakers, N. C.
oS Home. BaveLD' v o
u Pomili'-t Lmberton, N. C.
The People's Paper. Charlotte. N. C.
The Vestibule, Sw' S r
The Pio w- Boy. W6feb? fe n
0slow Blade, Peanut. . C.
Each of the above-named papers are
requested to keep the list standing on
ihe first page ana aaa oinero, jjruuw.vA
ihey are duly elected. Any paper faxl
ng to advocate the Ocala platform will
dropped from the list promptly. Our
oeovle can nqw see what papers are
iblished in their interest.
EDITORIAL SUGGESTIONS.
Solitary confinement in a dark stable
has a tendency to make a horse vicious.
It effects the brain, as it does the brainl
of a human being in such confinement.
If you have a stony or gravelly point
in the pasture that produces nothing,
stimulate it with a dressing of horse
manure in which there is plenty of
grass seed.
The time to kill weeds in the potato
field is when they first start. Weeds
that have been permitted to grow large
have done the crop about all the harm
they can do.
One very common mistake made by
owners of clay farms is trampiDg them
when wet, and cases are not rare where
there has been almost a failure of a
crop from this cause alone.
When hogs are fed upon alfalfa, they
can be finished up nicely on Egyptian
corn, and in some sections where
alfalfa grows, this corngrows better
than any other fat-producing grain.
Young animals should be fed consid
erable bulk in order to develop the
etomach. Heifer calves especially
should be fed considerable bulky food.
When concentrated food alone is fed,
the etomach is contracted
There should be a remedy somewhere ;
much of our seed wheat is wasted when
s-w one and one fourth bushels to
the acre and get in return but 10 or 20.
Experiments show that a grain of
wheat produces forty fold. Every
Pound should bring 40.
What is the sense of putting the
profitless field again to the plow ? We
fields every day which could be
turned into meadows or pastures with
8eat prom's?, which now returns
nothing but loss. Give them to the
Btck; to rest and recuperation.
Aniainoig farmer last year made a
Jt of the value of wheat by feeding
swine and with the following result:
Pt-15, 18 pigs weighed 1975 lbs Sept.
J these same pigs weighed 2500 lbs.,
?viag received nothing but 1650 lbs.
cashed wheat. Taking the market
Pnce for hogs as 5c, it would make the
Je received for the wheat $26 25 or
0ver 953. per bushel.
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IF CHRIST CAME TO CONGRESS.
The Hon. M W. Howard, Congressman
From Alabama, Defends Himself Agaist
the Attacks of the Plutocratic Press
and Points Out the Great Source of
Unjust and Corrupt Legislation.
Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.
New York, April 9, 1895.
When a man enters Congress he must
choose one of two things. If he wishes
to be courted and feted by Washing
ton society, if he desires "the praise of
the plutocratic press, if he is looking
after fat places for his relations and
friend, if his heart longs for the smiles
of aristocracy and the fawning of syco
phants, he has only to be the willing
tool of plutocracy and all these things
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are witnin nis easy grasp, xj. iuuh
he chooses, his future pathway is
strewn with flowers, and for him there
is the purple and fine linen of Dives.
Oa the other hand, if he champions
the cause of the people, and stands up
for the Nation's toilers and antagonizes
shy locks who are enslaving the honest
yeomanry of the country, he will be
called a crank, an agitator and an
Anarchist.
Ha will be scorned by society, ma
ligned, abused and ridiculed by the
plutocratic press and treated discour
teously and snubbed by those in power,
and given to understand that he has no
influence with the administration.
This condition confronts every man
who is chc san to represent the people,
and he must become an ally of the
aristocracy of wealth, and desert the
people, or stand up for the rights of
the people and bo hated by the money
power. Surrounded by lobbyists and
corruptionists, with unlimited money
to purchase votes, with avenue after
avenue to luxury and ease continually
open to the mental vision, surrounded
by vice and profligacy, is it to bo won
dered at that so many of our public
men fall victims to the temptation,
and forget the poor toilers who labor
in the mines aud factories, the vine
yards and the fields, and who are look
ing to their leaders in such intense,
tearful suspense? Here lies the great
danger. This is the very root of the
evil, the source of all our ills
So long as the trusts and monopolies
hold such unlimited power, just so long
will our legislation become more cor
rupt and vicious. The greedy, unscru
pulous, grasping trusts have entered
the halls of Congress and they have
polluted the men whom the people have
trusted, and instead of a government
by the people, it is a government by a
money oligarchy. The capital city of
cur nation is reeking with rottenness ;
corruption and bribery stalk hand in
hand with luxury and licentiousness.
Tfasmjm who sells hfs vote loses his
honor andSedmeiithe prey of vicious
habits. Once started orTth-idownward
road there is no stopping:, an
Q fc - Of
comes the easy tool of the money
power. Thus it-has come to pass that
the Congress of the United States is
ever ready to foster the robber trusts
while the people are starving. We
talk of reform along certain lines, we
hold monster meetings and petition
Congress for the passage of certain
laws in the interest of the people, and
we wait and fondly hope for good
wholesome legislation, when the very
men who are to pass the laws have
sold themselves to the money changers.
We must break the hold which the
money power has upon this nation ere
we can hope for reform. We must
scourge the shy locks from the capital
even as Christ scourged the money
changers from the temple, and we
must turn out the unfaithful servants,
and with them the corruptionists, the
lobbyists, the rogues and prostitutes
who make of the great capitol building
at Washington a veritable den of
thieves. If we would have the stream
pure we must purify the head waters,
so if we would have just laws pas sad in
the interest of the men and women who
have produced the wealth of this na
tion, we must work a reformation
among those who give us the laws.
With an earnest desire to reveal to
the American people this mcst shock
ing state of affairs and to show them
the source of the great danger which
menances us. I wrote my book "If
Christ Came to Congress." The pic
tures there drawn are no doubt vivid
and startling, but this is because they
are true taken, from real life. The
plutocratic press all over the country
is heaping abuse and vituperation on
me for drawing aside the veil so that
the voters of this country might look
upon this shocking scene of corruption,
shame and debauchery, and I have
been threatened with ostracism by
Washington society and expulsion
from Congress because of the revela
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tions and exposures I have made, but
in spite of all this, I propesa to.wield
my pen and raise my voice in behalf
of the honest toilers who have elected
me to Congress, and to 4,cry aloud and
spare not,; until every man in the land j
shall be acquainted with trUe situation
and stirred to action.
Let me conclude with a picture of
the closing scenes of the session of
Congress which expired March 4th. It
was the holy Sabbath day, and the
church bells were ringiDg merrily over
the city. In the capitol, champagne
flowed like water. - Committee rooms
became temporary brothels. Women
of ill repute swarmed the "corridors
and sang songs in the public restau
rants with inebriated -Congressmen.
"I have seventy -five dozen glasses
out," 8 aid Tom Murray, the disgusted
caterer of the House restaurant, ' That
tells the story of the committee rooms
. -i -r ,
matter tnan any words l couiauccer."
In front of the main door is a perfect
cloud of gentlemen interested in legis
lation. Some of the faces are familiar
and have been seen here for the last
twenty years. Some are compara-'
tively new. Thousands and hundreds
of thousands of dollars are to be won
or lost within the next few hour?.
Around at the other door are more
lobbyists and among them are some
women. Backed up aginst the marble
pillars everywhere are members but
ton holed and on the defensive. Some
of these women are notorious. The
very fact that they are brought to
bear upon any item of legislation is
enough to stamp it with condemna
tion.
There were poker games in the com
mittee rooms, and the side boards were
stocked with the best liquid refresh
ments which could be bought with the
contingent fund. Tnere were the Houss
and Senate bars, where every one from
the most respected citizen to the lowest
strumpet could obtain a drink.
An aged Senator passed into a private
room with a hilarious member of the
demi-monde on each arm.
A Congressman was carried away
by friends fighting drunk. A wcmin.
with her daintily booted foot elevated
on a committee table and a glass of
champagne elevated in her hand, was
singing a merry song, while a dozen
members and their friends sat around
smoking and enjoying the society of
the real lady. But this is enough. I
will cease. All of this beneath the
jeweled dome, between the marble
walls of the temple of liberty, amid
the royal surroundings of art expressed
in brocze and marble and the exquisite
touch of the painter's brush.
God pity the people when such scenes
as these are possible. 44 When the
wicked rule, the people mourn."
Sons of Sires who bled for liberty,
- brQJ? ar pt,, for even now, if you will only
listen
hear the clank of
slavery's chains whichare beiirgfoYgeth
for you and your posterity.
Toilers cf America, this is a goodly
land. We are vastly euperior incum
ber to the hosts of Shy locks, so let us
go up and pc S3ess it.
Ere it is too late let us vote for free-&ow-
ML W. Howard -
The farmers of Spokane Co., Wash ,
are not satisfied to talk economy and
reform in the laws they live under, but
united in a demand on the legislature
for at least 10 changes which will re
lieve them of useless officeholders and
reduce expenses connected with others.
TARHEEL EDITORIAL TALK.
It is said that the late Mr. Worth, of
Paris, died in a fit. He spent most of
his life and achieved his distinction in
giving women fits. Wilmington Star.
It is said that a small white boy ran
away .from his home at the Cabarrus
Mills barefooted with his father's shoes
on. We could not learn his name.
Concord Standard.
C. F. King representing the St. Louis
Repui lic, and J L Ramsey, editor of
The Progressive Farmer, are in the
city today, and during our absence
from the office they left evidences of
their having called and renewed their
acquaintance. If they did not know
us very well before, it is an evident
fact that they 4found us out" this
time. Durham Sun
A Congressman is expected to do
everything for a constituent, from act
ing as his escort to the top of Washing
ton Monument to getting him the fat
appointment of Minister to Dahomey,
but all records are broken in the case
of Representative Curtis, of Kansas,
who has been asked by a woman in his
district to look up a recreant lover
whom she believe to be in the neigh
borhood o the Capitol. Buffalo New?.
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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.
With coal miners averaeiner 27 cents
a day, the Hocking Vallev needs to
put a letter S before its name. N. Y.
voice.
Carlisle is reported as having the
grippe. Rothchild also has a erio on
Carlisle and the treasurv. Pp.anla
Forum
Money good enough to pay a man for
holding the plow handle is good, honest
and sound enough to pay any other
debt on earth with. Beloit Call.
If it was a matter of rustlincr for
himself and earning his bread by the
sweat of his brow, where would a mod
ern millionaire be 4 'at" 1Star and
Kansan.
Both the Democratic and Rapublican
parties claim that Congress has no
right to give the people free coinage of
silver without England's consent.
Industrial News.
We are getting down to a pretty
point when we must pay a delegation
of 9 men $100,000 to go to Europe to
ask other nations if we can coin silver.
Farmers'' Outlook.
Whenever a man learns that the
commercial value of the material that
hss the money stamp is not the value
of the money itself which value is law
mad1, the money question is solved to
him! People s Advocate.
A few years ago a good darkey was
worth f 2,000 in this land of freedom. A
foreign princelet, if sound and of good
pedigree brings about $2,000,000.
yirena, Hartford City, Ind.
International bi-metailism means
recoining our present silver money
into larger dollars in other words,
making fewer of them. Another, con
traction scheme, pure and simple.
Missouri World.
It looks as if Europe were combining
against America, and it is not much
to be wondered at. Our" government
appears to be run somewhat more in
the interests of Europe than in the in
terests of the American people.
Farmers' Voice
The friends of reform throughout
the state should not neglect the im
portance of organizing Alliances every
where. The Alliance is the most im
portant factor in the reform movement.
Let the Alliance work be pushed in
cessantly. Southern Mercury.
Cleaveland's secret deal with the
enemies of the nation was a more
treasonable act than was ever perpe
trated by Benedict Arnold or any
other spy in the employ of our enemies.
If patriots were at the head of the
army such a traitor would be tried by
court martial and shot. Chicago Ex
press. Sheep muSHlS?Jnty to eat the
year round. That should neve
gotten ; and it means that the utmost
care must be exercised to furnish feed
both in winter and summer. Care must
be exerc!S2d especially in summer
droughts.
ADVANCED THOUGHT, OR
THOUGHT ADVANCED ;
WHICH?
Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.
Ever since the legislature adjourned
I have been studying about it. I see
the color liners say it was the most dia
bolical set that ever made laws for this
generation before. That twenty years
of peace and plenty will now be followed
by a period of darkness and witchcraft.
The defenders say we have done what
you have done before us and nothing
more. So there it goes.
Three horses, all abreast, were pull
ing in the team, old Black, old Bay and
old or young Grey. When old Black
would pull old Bay would fly back, and
when old Grey lightened his traces the
other two old jades would fly back.
And I verily believe that some times
one did not know which horse he was,
anyhow.
They showed the kindness of their
hearts in taking care of the State's un
fortunate s most sumptuously. Do they
not deserve praise for that?
They, under the cons' ant attendance
and instruction of the President of the
University, being paid over $200 a
month while in this service, appro
priated $20,000 for higher education
out of the public school fund. Was
not that something to make a fellow's
bosom swell with State pride?
They tried to turn all the rascals out,
and if the team had not been so balky
they would have put good honest fodder
pullers in their places. What objec
tion can you raise to that?
But the shabbiest thing they did, and
the one which fills the color liners with
barrels of wrath, is the fact that they
would not stop work and stamp the
streets of Raleigh with high heeled
boots and cotton socks in honor of Bob
Lee and George Washington, and upon
that they went on and worked one-half
hour longer than they were wont to do,
in honor of Fred Douglas.
Now this Frederick Douglas was a
runaway nigger, and they say a mix
thenationist. Mixthenation is something
bad, I expect. I have never seen one
who was in favor of it, but I am told
that Grover Cleveland pulls that way.
All men are ready to make a scapegoat
of old Grover and pinch him black and
blue, and so be deserves it. But he
has made his jack and laughs them to
scorn. - When first old Grover and Uncle
Fred met there was an affecting scene.
I cannot cell it now without my eye
balls swimming in tears. 'Twas at the
dinner table.
"Good morning, Mr. Douglas," says
Grover. The Africa and the America
meets this auspicious day. Now is my
cup filled to the brim, thou son of free
dom. 4Mr. Cleveland, I am glad to meet
you. Glad to know a man in whose
bosom glows those kindly sentiments
so cnaractenstic-or Jonn jrown and
Charles Sumner. Your mixthenation in
New York I shall never. forget."
Grover says: 4 "Mr. Douglas, full six
thousand years have rolled by and we
have met before. Now come let's dry
our tears and drench our sorrows in a
bowl of the pure juice of the vine."
''Before we do. that, Mr. President,
here'smy lady, Caucasian brown; what
joys and sorrows we feel let her share.
She remembers your magnanimity well
in recognizing my' race in the division
of public office."
''Very well, Mrs. Cleveland and Mrs.
Douglas will discuss domestic matters
while we discuss affairs of state."
So old Grover and Uncle Fred, after
shaking hands five times across the
table and sharing such joys as made
tears well up in their eyes, which they
wiped away with the tabl9 cloth when
their bandannas had slipped to the
floor, grew more familiar as the wine
grew more familiar and entered into a
political compact such as Senator
Bruce, of Mississippi, was unable to
form with a Republican President
around the same table. Three cheers
for Grover 1
Come, now, if it be a fact that it is a
disgrace to work like a 4 'nigger" in
honor of a nigger, it is equally as dis
graceful not to play like a white man
in honor of a white man, and that too,
when hired at $4 a day. I don't know
how to take it;, anyway. But they say
it was disgraceful some waj, and I
guess they know.
A few days ago a letter addressed to
44Rev. Harry Hinton" came to hand
with two tracts stating the reasons why
-i?Ood man -should not vote nor hold
T7i.- PtoA'fi law is iernored
jd lroii rtJcisun. jjer
and the will of the peopietMuPreme
law of the land acd the willoTfe6 Pe-
ple may be in rebellion against GoTN
Second. The government is guilty of
Sabbath desecration, and every voter
being particep criminis with the gov
ern men t becomes a Sabbath breaker
and a rebel against Christ, the kiDg of
nations.
Third. The government legalizes the
liquor traffic
Fourth. The government is guilty of
emasculating the oath in favor of in
fidels.
To the great party leaders, we say
address 4 'the Committee on Testimony
Bearing," 81 Boyle street, Alleghany,
Pa., and this committee will furnish
you the argument why it is sinful for
any good man to vote or hold office.
The government is given over to satan,
it is a league with hell and is covenant
with the devil, and who is going to dis
pute it ? So we recommend to the News
and Observer, the Wilmington Mes
senger, the Charlotte Observer and the
Union Republican to post themselves,
and if they find the facts will warrant
it, being they are all good men and
preach the truth, that they sound aloud
and let their slogan be : Come out of
her, my people, that you be not par
taker of her sins.
We specially urge this upon those
good men who see naught but evil in
the actior s of the last legislature, and
let the wicked People's party go riot.
Harry Hinton.
After supper read "Bilkins" to the
children and explain to them the great
political issues 4 "Betsy and Bilkins"
wrangle over.
LAW AND ORDER.
IV.
Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.
''The .inviolability of the lawT
Human law, which has sent men to
the dungeons of solitary imprisonment
for the crime of speaking truths, for
defending virtue, for their devotion to
the cause of justice, for presuming to
obey the dictates of reason and con
science, rather than the mandates of
tyranny. We are called upon to ad
vocate and promote.
4 The permanent establishmei. t of the
law,11 which has, does now, and will
again, outrage humanity in many ways
so long as human law-makers remain
human, or less than divine. Why
should we advocate permanency tor
human laws? What are they but
constitutions, decrees, judgments,
usages of the factt Is there to be no
progress? Did the dead past better ap
preciate oitr needs, anticipate our .
wishes with greater certainty than ther
living presents The laws of human
government even when they are made
by the unanimous choice of a free and
intelligent people, do not transcend the
enlightenment of their time; they are
but the choice of the people of yester
day or the men of a more remote past.
Aye we expected to respect a human
law because of its antiquity ? Because
it is an old and long-tolerated law?
Are we expected to admit that because
it was the choice of the people of the
last century, of the day before yester
day , it should be the governing law of
to-day, of the day after to morrow, of
the next century ? Heaven forbid it !.
Change is the order of progress.
Change 44la.w and order" whenever
error is discovered in the existing law
and order. Change and change and
change until perfect justice reigns, and
there be no lawbut the law of univer
sal love. Change peacefully for the
better, if we can ; change forcibly for
the better, if we must.
Human laws, if they are deserving
of respect, have their authority from
the governed. Law is a servant of the
people; the people are not servants of
the law. Compliance with tfigtffljg pf ;
government which he& been made by
the people, is the first duty of citizen
ship. Obedience to such law should
be enforced. No such duty can be
rightfully demanded cs to laws directly
or indirectly made by and for the ser
vice of a small portion of the people
governed. .
an. oTILLMAN doubleday.
WHAT IS AN EARTHQUAKE.
Recent earthquakes have attracted
the attention of M. Meunier, thiw ell
known geologist, who has made ex
periments as to the cause of earth
quakes in general, and actually ex
perienced one at Nice. H9 declares that
in spite of Humboldt's and other fine
descriptions nothing short of an ap
prenticeship in earthquakes will enable
a man to encounter one without
emotion. At first vague rumblings
are heard, then distinct noises under
the ground, which culminate in a series
of irregular and indefinite shocks. At
Nice only three shocks, running were
felt, but in Atlanta, in Greece, lately,
jnaany as 365 shocks occurnd ono
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nomena, but associated, aerip"5
shocks are felt over vast areap.
shocks wreck house, bridges and
engineering works and produce fissures
in the soil or circular pits which ebon
fill with water. At Seville, in 18S
a crack opened so sudenly as to split a
large tree from the root to the
branches, leaving one half growing on
each brink.
When the shock occuxs beside the
sea a flood wave overwhelms the land
strewing fish and vessels on the shore
as at Lisbon in 1755.
The moral effect of the shock is even
worse than the physical, for a panic
often occurs and a disposition to doubt
everything, as well as bodily sickness
and lof s of equilibrium. The motion
of the soil is compounded f a horizon
tal and vertical impulse, which at
Charleston, in 1886, threw a train off
the line, and at Rio Bamba, in 1797,
ejected the remains of the dead from
their graves near the city to a height
of several hundred feet.
Not long ago, says a writer, we
wn.tr!hfid a driver as he managed a ner
vous, high strung, trotting-bred colt,
which for the first time found itself in
n. hnsv street with steam cars puffins
electricity snapping and hissing, teams
-umbliDg and everything in confusion.
Evidently the two were firm friends,
for while fear was manifest in every '
movement" the kind word of the man
in the carriage carried assurance and
ir spired courage. It was as good an
illustration of confidence as is often.
seen.