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THE PROGRESSIVE PARIH3R: JUNE 18, 1895 2 M PROGRESSIVE FABjjR J. W. DENMARK. - BraitfESS M a n. B. W. SOSSAMAN.-Ass'tBus. MQE. Raleigh, M. C SUBSCRIPTION Subscriber. & me subscribers, onaYear ;;;;;;;;;; tSSo One copy cue yew free, to the one sending Club ' Ten CaIncariaUv in Afoantu Money tor risk, 11 nt$ registered letter ar money order. Pltau don't tend itampj. Advertising Rates quoted on application. To CorrttvontenU: Write all communications, designed for pub lication, on one side of the paper only. We want Intelligent correspondents In every county in the State. We want fact of value, results accomplished of valne, experiences of value, plainly and briefly told. One solid, ?j demonstrated act. Is worth a thousand theories. i.The editor is not responsible for the riews of correspondents. RALEIQK, N. a, JUNE 18, 1895! This papr enter fid at $eeond-clan mailer at the Pott 0$ce in Raleigh, N. C The Progressive Farmer Is the Official Organ of the N. C Farmers' State Alliance Do you want your paper changed to another office ! State the oneat which you have been getting it. 7" Our friends in writing to any of our advertisers will favor us by men tioning the fact that they saw the advertisement in Tna Peogbessivtc Fabhxb. 7-The date on your label tells you when your time ia out. 44 1 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 4th, 1890. N. K. F. A. EDITORIAL NOTES. It is gratifying to be able to state that the fruit crop will hardly be killed for some weeks yet. Necessity knows no law; neither does the United States Supreme court when there is boodle around. Sending a bill to a man who has been dead and buried several months is rather running the thing. in the ground. . "You can't have too much of a good thing," is as old as the hills. But just try having two or three wives and see what a mistake it is. The effort now being made to run thi3 country on the European plan doesn't suit people who want three square meals per day. The goldbug may be likened unto the thief that cometh in the night, or in the day time, or any other thief, that comes at time, for that matter. The next step in order now is for the people of the United States to abolish the Supremo Court. A new deal is needed The present crowd have sold out to Wall street. . As there is a difference of opinion -among the people as to what Senator Pritchard believes on the silver ques tion. we offer nun the use or our columns to set the public mind at rest. By an oversight the article ' 'Whither are we Drifting," printed in our last issue, was credited to Mr. Q. E. Kestler. Mr. Bernhardt, of Cabarrus county, was the author. Mr. Kestler sent the article in, however. A Montgomery daily which is evi dently the paid organ of the goldbugs, refers to a Birmingham daily aa "the unpaid organ of the silver baron?." Tne Birmingham paper ought to be proud of the distinction. Hurrah ! now we have it. The Rich mond Star heads a Cuban news item ""Trousered Brutes." Just what we wanted. For a few weeks now we will vary the programme a little and refer to Cleveland and his Cabinet as "trous ered brutes." Beware I The gold bugs have issued one of their lying books in exact imita tion of "Coins' Financial School," un der the same name. Don't buy books from any bookstore or paper offering them for sale usles3 you know who you -are dealing with. Cleveland, Sherman & Co , evidently want the people to believe that they can work miracles. Tne story of the loaves and fishes was all right, but the "Business of this country can't be done with le33 than one-tenth of the actual amount of money required. While all the taxes collected in the State of Maine in 1893 from all insur ance companies amounted to only $31, 231 15, the license tax collected on dogs in that State the same year was $40, 163.85. There was paid out of the State treasury "for damage by dogs to do mestic animals" $4,286.65, leaving the JU lr0la dS $35,876.20, or, $4, from thau th0 tal tax received JftESK Sanies. Would ciass legislation!" ENORMITY OF THE BOND STEAL. A hundred million dollars indebted ness added to our already large debt ! But that isn't much for a large nation like ours, you say. You'll see. Six teen million dollars profit in the steal, shared in by a baker's dozen I That isn't much. We have hundreds of men in the United States each reputed to be worth more than $16,000,000. But at last, the whole thing is enor mous. A bridge already bearing a thousand tons may be broken by ad ding a few hundred pounds weight. Briefly, Cleveland, Carlisle & Co., sold $100,000,000 worth of United States bonds. There was no excuse for it. Ex-Secretary Whitney and the Drexel, Morgan syndicate negotiated the sale! This was no task. Any ten- year old boy could have secured pur chasers, so eager were the bidders. The bonds would have brought market value, but the scheme was fixed so as to shut out the public. The bonds sold for 1.04J are now worth 1 201 were worth thatat the time of the sale. The syndicate made 16 cents clear on each dollar's worth of bonds. In round numbers the profit was $16,000,000, divided up -among the select few. No outsider can tell how much of this Cleveland received a good sum no doubt. Suppose this profit of $16,000,000 was to be paid in wheat. At 50 cents per bushel (the average price for a year) it would require 32,000,000 bushels of wheat. This would furnish bread for 4,000,000 people, or one sixteenth of the population of the United States, for an entire year. If a wagon train should be formed to haul this wheat and 32 bushels were placed on each wagon, it . would require 1,000,000 wagons, 2,000,000 horses, and 1,000,000 men to drive the teams. Let the wag ons follow each other fifty feet apart and the train would be more than 9,000 miles long and would more than reach across the diameter of the globe. Now you get a faint idea of the profit that gang of thieves made, to say nothing of the great in terest bearing debt they placed upon us. A legislative clerk failed to ratify the act creating additional members of of the Board of Agriculture until a day after the members were elected. The consequence is that the new members step aside. The old board elected Mr. S. P. Patterson, of Caldwell county. Commissioner of Agriculture, and T, K. Bruner, Secretary. CROP OUTLOOK GLOOMY. There is no use in trying to disguise the fact that the general crop outlook is anything but flittering. Wheat ia ripening about on time, but all culti vated crops are away behind. Cotton and corn are both email, but have im proved very much during the past few days. The vegetables are not up to the standard in quality and prices are away down. Irish potatoes are the only possible exception. This crop ia said to be fair. While corn and cotton are small, there is a chance for both yet if the season docs not continue too unfavor able. Warm sunshine and good rains suplemented with rapid cultivation will work wonders with each crop. In fact rapid cultivation, if properly done ia more than half the battle. Your land may be rich and fertilizer abund ant, but neither will take the place of cultivation given any crop quickly and at the right time.- Delays in cultiva tion are exceedingly dangerous. The State Alliance Business Agent has made arrangements to handle f rui-, vegetables and other produce in Bos ton, New York, .Pittsburg, Baltimore, Richmond and Newark. Members of the Alliance can ship to "T. Ivey, S. B. A.," at either of the above cities. You should inform Bro. Ivey when a ship ment is made, addressing him at Ral eigh. This is a new departure and should prove a success. Write to the Business Agent for full particulars. BANQUO'S GHOST. The silver question will not down. It is like Bacq-io's ghost. President Cleve land sat on it and that ia enough to ex tinguish almost anything, but the ghost was up as soon as he was off, say 8 the Farmers' Voice. J ohn Sherman dealt it one of his deft blows, but the ghost is around as usual. Congress exterminated it, but it did not remain exterminated. Wall S txeet and Great Britian downed it and danced on it, but it is still frisky, and as it stalks about in the day time it is frightening the political parties and the politicians almost to death. Tom Reed his been throwing kisses at it, but the ghost is satisfied with nothing but a bear like hug. McKinley does not know exactly what to do with it. He has been reported as saying that he wanted nothing to do with it, where upon one of his friends rushed into print to say that the governor had never made faces at the ghost. Even j some of the prominent English states men have expressed a wmiB"o8 w follow the ghost whithersoever it would lead. The people who murdered the silver dollar are uneasy. They hear strange noises in the silence of the night. It is the footsteps of the ghost. They acted on the principle that the dead tell no tales. But the ghost talks incessantly. It ia saying unpleasant things. It is all the time talking about the price of wheat, the paralysis of in dustries, the shrinkage of values and a 200 cent dollar. It does not talk of a theory but of a condition. It is always pointing to its own grave on which there is not a fljwer blooming but about which is piled the wrecked hopes of the people and a gloom that no light can penetrate. John Sherman, the old hero of many a battle with his con science, wishes that the ghost would go home and stay there. But the ghest walks and walks and talks and talks and while the assassins of the dollar of the daddies cry peace, peace, there is no peace and never will be until the grave gives up its dead and the mur dered dollar of the people comes forth clothed with life and invested with a value of 100 cents. Auditor R M. Furman has returned to the city after spending several weeks at Greensboro, now quite a noted health resort. He brought in his wake Lord Chief Justice Campbell, of the Arring ton legislative committee. These two gentlemen are quite good friends and have had some high old times together in the past. We hear that Auditor Furman allowed Mr. Campbell to col lect pay for eight days while the com mittee only allowed him pay for two days. Perhaps this will explain why the last legislature cost so much money. DEMOCRATIC COMMENCEMENT. The leaders of the Democratic party having failed to attract any attention oj inspire any confidence by their in stantaneous somersault into the Popu lietic camp, determined to hold a com mencement, this being the season for school commencements. The place selected was Cleveland Institute. The exercises were held in Sound Money Hall, the date, June 20th and 2lst. Chairman Pou acted the part of president of the institution to perfec tion. Mr. O. J. Carroll was chief marshal, assisted by T. J. Allison, Dr. O. W. Blacknall, J. A. Thomas and F. A. Williams. Their duties were small, so was the audience. Though this ended the third session of Cleveland's Financial school, there was no graduates, and all the pupils took part. The Baccallaureate Sermon was by Rev. Dr. T. H. Pritchard, D. D.. LL. D., of Charlotte. They had no band, but the exercises were inter spersed with vocal music. First came an oration, "The British are Our Best Friends," by Col. Paul B. Means; Song, 4 I Wont Play in Your Back yard," by Mr. E. C. Smith; Oration, "We Have Played the Fool," by Dis trict Attorney Aycock; Song, "Bicyclo pedias That I Have Sold," by Joseph P. Caldwell; Oration, "Tammany the Birthplace of Freedom," J B. Sherrill; Song, "Sign the Plege To-day," Capt. Octavious Coke; Oration, "Democracy as She Was, Ia and Ought to Be," B R. Lacey; Song, "You Ought to be a Goldbug," C. B. Watson; Oration, "Beauties of the Gold Standard," Theo. F. Kluttz; Song, "Down Upon the Farm," Col. John R jbinson; Oration, "Our National Dry Rot," Dr. T. B Kingsbury; Song, "Hear Them Tele phone Balls Ringing," Gov. Elias Carr; Oration. "Can't We Fool the People Again?" by W. C. Dowd; Song, "Let's Join the Populists," Col. John R. Web ster; Oration, "The American Book Company Essential to Education," John C. Scarborough ; Song, "Once I Was as Pure as the Beautiful Saow," James P. Cook; Oration, "Stroud As a. Statesman," Cha?. A. Cook; S:ng, "Thoughts That I Sometimes- Think," Maj. W. M. Robbins; Oration, "What is Life Without an Office?" by Josephus Daniels; Song, "Ransom as a Prevari cator," W. R. Henry; Oration, "Foot Ball the Vanguard of Civilzation," by President Geo. T. Winston; Song, "The Old North State," by Prof. Chas. D. Mclver; Oration, ' Buck Kitchen as a Dream Disturber," A Lsazar ; Song, "I Want to be arr Angel," Kope Elias; Oration, "Democracy is Immortal," John P. Kerr; Song, "See That My Grave is Kept Green," John S. Hen derson; Oration, "When I'm Governor Every Day Will be Sunday," Col. Julian S. Carr; Song, "If I Had Only Kuowd," H. C. Connor. The exercises were brought to a close by the ren dition of that famous two-act farce, "Riding Two Horeea Going in Oppo site Directions," participated in by the entire school. In the language of the up to-date newspaper reporter, "Cleve land Institute clcssd her 1895 S2ssion in a gorgeous blaze of glory. Her classic halls no longer resound with the hum of merry voices nor echo with the clatter of busy feet and ringing girlish laughter, but she gits thar all the same. BANKER ST. JOHN. Mr. William P. St. John, president of the Mercantile National bank, N. Y., may not be the only silver banker in that city, but he is the only one who has the courage to say so, and he says so on every occasion, and often. Re cently he said : "Reopen our mints to silver without svint, as I verily believe the great ma jority of the people of the United States demand, and the enhancement thereby of our relations as creditors of Europe, because of our improved relations with silver-using nationst will leave our selves content and Europe assured of our ability to pay our debts of every nature and according to the terms. The laboring element, along with ev ery other producing class in all com munities, is vitally interested in the achievement of such a monetary sys tern for the United States as will tend to diS3minate the wealth which they create; dissemination of wealth, not aggregation of wealth, being their safer reliance to yield them their fair share." - m GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP. The following from the Beaufort Her aid speaks for itself. If the manage ment of a road is right the road will always be a success: "The 'old mullet' pulled out of More head City Monday morning at 8 :08 a. m,, and pulled into Goldsboro at its usual arriving time. This makes the run one hour shorter, and instead of spending five or six hours on the route you now gooverbahind one of the new engines at the rate of forty two miles per hour including stops. The train returning on Monday left Goldsboro 28 minutes late and lost 5 minutes in New Berne, but it came into Morehead City on time. The new schedule and these improvements are due to the ex cellent management of Mr. W. S Chad wick. Before he took the road we are told that the bed, stock, cars, etc., were in a fearful condition, and that the train rarely made connection on the other end of the line. But to day two large and handsome engines that can attain a speed of sixty miles per hour are to be seen, and the cars are as good as any in the State and as far as the roadbed is concerned it is only necessary to eay that the train now makes forty-two miles per hour over it. Mr. Chadwick deserves praiss for bringing out the road as he has, and a better president could not be gotten. The Atlantic and North Caro lina is one of the few roads that have not gone into receiver's hands and is the only one we know of that has come out during the hard times. We hope the present management will continue and the road prosper as it is now. The cars are all being fitted with the air brake whistle which is a great im provement over the old bell. Besides this the road has paid two dividends of 2 per cent. each. And now what is the matter with the Atlantic and North Carolina and why is it not as good as any local road in the State ? When the editor of the News and Ob server left Washington to come back and edit that paper, he was a pro nounced goldbug. After dwelling in thia geaial silver climate several months he leans toward silver just a little. The lesson to be learned here is that poli ticians ought to dwell amongst their own people. We believe that if he dwells among us long enough he will be an out and out free silver man; that is, if the stockholders of the paper don't issue orders to the contrary. Some thought while he was booming Hoke Smith so much for President that may be Mr. Smith owned some stock in the paper. Men have to pay for many of the good things of this life, even com pliments. FRANCHISES IN THE GREAT CITIES The franchises of great American cities are squandered. Instead of farm ing them out at reasonable, remuner ative rates, or having the cities to run their own railroads, light their houses and streets and so on, they are bar gained off to companies at ridiculously small charges. Dr. Albert Shaw, who edits the American edition of Review of Reviews, has written a book on British municipal government. He states that "it is almost the universal testimony in Great Britain that mu nicipal gas enterprises are a brilliant succes?. They have steadily reduced the selling price and largely increased the consumption." He says the price in the towns varies from 50 to 75 cents per thousand feet. All of the great European cities Barlin, Paris and others pay towards the municipal expenditures from 18 to 20 per cent, derived from their grant or by running railroads, etc., themselves. From an article in the Century we gather a few instructive points bearing directly on our subject. New York pays $800,000 for public lighting alone and yet gets 'substantially nothing for the fran chises it has granted.' The only Ameri can to wes of importance that own their own gas works are five, three of which are in Virginia. They are Phila delphia, Richmond, Wheeling, Dan ville and Fredericksburg. "In 1893, the gas companies in New York made dividends amounting to nearly $4,000,000 on some $46,000,000 of supposed capital stock. The Century says that in ten years gas consumers in New York have not only contributed such dividend (10 per cent.) but a fur ther amount sufficient, int fact, to nearly duplicate the present system of gas supply.' "The net earnings of the street rail roads in New York for 1893 were more than $5,000,000. They paid in taxea and franchises less than $400,000. The gas, electricity and railroad companies in the city made in 1893 in net earnings over $14,000,000. They paid only a small sum for the franchises. The dock department shows similar results high profits to those with franchises and small pay to the city. The Brooklyn Bridge in 1894 received in gros3 earnings $1,326,598,55. These figures are at least suggestive." Wil mington Messenger. (The Messenger never loses an oppor tunity to jump on the Alliance for wanting the cities and the national government to run the means of trans portation, etc , but here it is endorsing every principle of the very thing it de cries at other timee, Editor.) A FEW "SOUND MONEY" MEN. The Bank of Commerce at Broken Bow, Neb., has gone under. About $11,200 of county funds went under with the bank. Depositors loose a good deal. The United States Cordage Company, with headquarters at Trenton, N. J., went into the hands of a receiver last week. The First National Bank of Pella, 111 , closed its doors last Monday. About 50,000 "sound dollars" are "out of sight." M. J. O Brien, who embezzled $76,000 in funds belonging to the Catholic Knights in America, and set himself up as a "sound money" man on Wall street, New York, was tried at Chatta nooga, Tenn., last week. The Fresholding Building and Loan Association, Pittsburg, Pa , claiming a capital of 30,000,000, is in the soup. Investors will sweat for the los3 of their "sound dollars." It is charged that F. T. Wall of the Cordage Trust, "sound money," has squandered $400,000 belonging to the Company. The Fifth National Bank at Sin Antonia, Tex , has gone to the wall owing a great many "sound" dollars. Edward A. Griffin, cashier of that "sound money" institution, the Park Bank, at Albany, N. Y., is short just about $18,000 sound dollars. Tne bank will be the sufferer. E. W. Agnew, President of the First National Bank, Orlando, Fla., is under arrest for rascality. The liabilities of his bank are over $300,000, while th9 assets are only $200,000 "sound" dol lars. James R. Holland, ex Cashier of the Merchants and Farmers' National Bank at Charlotte, N. C , was tried in the Federal Court in that city last week. He gets seven years in Albany penitentiary. The amount of funds stolen foots up $95,000 "sound" dollars. Ashby Slocumb, Chief Clerk, and son of the railroad agent of the A. C. L , at Goldsboro, N. C , i3 a defaulter to the tune of $2,200 "sound" dollars. He has departed. Albert 8. Moore, book-keeper and confidential clerk to the great "sound money" firm of Inman, Swann & Co., New York, forged checks to the amount of $150,000 and worked them off on various New York banks last week. G. E. Metcalfe, railroad agent at Palatka, Fla., forged checks for various amounts, all "sound money." He was arrested at Lexington, Ky., last Wed nesday. Brown & Bruners' bank at Metropo lis, III., the oldest bank in the town, suspended Wednesday. The liabilities are about $80,000 "sound" dollars. Banker Smith, of Atlanta, Ga., played a neavy" game or poser tne other day and disappeared. He probably carried off some "sound" dollars that will be good in "Yurrup." A bank president and a cashier were tried at Jeff ersbnville, Ind.f last week for appropriating money probably good in "Yurrup." THROW OUT THE LIFE LINE. Some of the Democratic newsDaners are bewailing the fact that their party leaders are making overtures to tho LPopulists with a view to getting in on tne ground floor of that party. Well. forbid them not. While the lamD holds out tdburn the vilest sinner may return that is, if he repents. Of course the Democrats will expect to take back seats for a while until they prove that they are not taking this step for the purpose of getting office. A NEW DODGE. Gold Buggery at the Coller Correspondence of the Progressive Fa The most specious sounding . mise between the silver and thn men that has yet been invented is v i n 80I4 the proposition to coin up all the mined in the United States. Thi not only apparently friendly to eiiv but is a sugar coating of aPpaJ protection to the silver industry w. may ovcu uvw w up owners themselves. To step at such half way station will be ultimately fatal to silver as the Bland and Sh man acts which made silver a com modity by having only so much of bought and coined a month. The coio ing of American silver will still leav a difference between the actual valUe of the gold and silver dollar of 15 or 20 cents, and confusion of the standards of value will be continued until one or the other is driven out of circulation. What we want is to Ci culate both metals. It will take all J can get of both and much more ably to do the business of (he country "The dumping of foreign silver" inj our country win do tne greatest ing that can possibly befall it. 3- want as much of it as we can get and silver coined free and unlimited just aa gold is. Then the value of the two metals at a ratio of sixteen to one will be so nearly equal as to be more readily adjusted so that neither one will dn7e the other out of circulation. If free coinage of both silver and geld and the issue of certificates upon Buch money for the convenience of the p pie does not give us enough money e will have some greenbacks issued also. Oar standard of value is now like a seventy-two Inch yard stick. It meas ures off twice as much of any given commodity as it ought; it must be re duced back to thirty-six inches. The only way to do this is to increase the amount of money in circulation until the speculators cannot make money of any kind a commodity. As soon as you have a small fixed circulation whether of gold or silver or both, the speculators can corner the money mar ket and vary the standard of values one half in twenty -four hours. They make money tight ia the fall when the farmer has to sell his pro duce and they turn it loose at other times when they are unloading their speculations, and they call this a re vival of business. The men who favor a gold standard, because as they eay it is invariable, are fatally ignorant or perversely blind. The most variaWf standard on earth is the gold. Ite true scientific way to make a variable standard is to limit the circulation to one metal. The speculators can then hoard that metal and double its pur chasing power any time they desire it. No heathen in his blindness ho bows down to wood and stone is any worse deceived than the man who falls down and worships the invari ableness of gold as money. Mr. Car lisle knows better and Mr. Cleveland knows better. They cannot pasa by each other without smiling at the ignorance or cupidity of those they deceive. They are like the priests who used to get into the belly of the idols and give cut the oracles. They under stand the joke. The man who regards Mr. Cleveland or Mr. Carlisle as hon est is simply amusing if h3 believes what he says. Honest men do not speak in doubtful phrases and keep people deceived as to what they really want until it is actually accomplished. These men are the arch traitors of the Union, and after the game is finished, they will be regarded by the majority of people in forty four states as worse traitors than Benedict Arnold. I understand that Dr. Kilgo, presi dent of Trinity college at Dur ham, says the free silver idea is non sense. Told his guests and pu pi's so at his commencement. I wish Mr. Edi tor you would open ycur columns t3 him to show why it is nonsense. Who has so impcs3d on his credulity? And I notice too that hia sentiments were applauded by somebody else besides Paul Means at the Chapel Hill banquet Somebody may have been sowing goM buggery up there too. And I shall raise no objection to the preaching of any lie at any educational tution if the truth has an f q :al eho inT. 4 T,t thorn rn-nm frxrorhPP " 13 the language of the Scripture since tbey are both here. But it behooves the friends of civil liberty to keep a eharp watch on all the institutions of learn ing to see that the serpeat gets no un fair advantage there. If five or hundred young men are turned loo6 upon the people of our State each jcJ with their minds tainted by the lies the gold monopoly they will do infinite mischief because many of them bae learned to talk well whether they preach lies or the truth. I found young gentleman the other day wit a tape worm theory in his mind rea; to devour anv fact vou could put ia his memory. Here is his tape wore- 4 'Gold makes an invariable standi
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