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THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER : JULY 23, 1895. m PBDQBESSIYE FARMER. j W. DKNMARK. - Business M o b. R. W. SOSSAMAN.-Ass'tBus. Mgr. Raleigh, N. C. SUBSCRIPTION me subscribe, gf iBS One copy one yer free, to the one sending Club Money at our risk. If sent by registered letter armoney order. FUau don't tend itWP Advertlalng Rates quoted on application. To Correevondente: Write all communications, designed for pub lication, on one Bide of the paper only. We want intelligent correspondents in every oounty in the State. We want facts of value, results accomplished of value, experiences of valueT plainly and briefly told. One solid, demonstrated facU is worth a thousand theories. The editor is not responsible for the views of correspondents. RALEIGH, N. P., JULY 23. 1895T This vaxw entered at eeeond-clan matter at the Poet Ogle 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 one at which you have been getting it. 57" Our friends in writing to any of our advertisers will favor us by men- ij 4-va fnnf fViot. triAV raw the UUUUlg lAAJ A.UUV advertisement in Thb Progressive Farmer. The date on your label tells you when your time is 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 uShose govern ment is of the people, for the people, and by the people, L. L. Polk, July tfh, 1890. N. R. P. A. Senator Vance was a life-long advo cate of free coinage. Will the Charlotte Observer tell whether or not it regarded him as a man of the 4 'first order of ability?'1 The Salisbury Watchman thinks that this country needs an international disagreement with England on the sil ver question instead of an international agreement. The North Carolina Farmer has leen revived by Messrs. Wade T. Hampton and Wiley A. Jones, of this Z A fTlt.A A Z n. V n - rnn on4 CUV. ALIO UXBb iBOUO UtftO otcoiou uu contains a great deal of good agricul tural matter. Four Democrats, one colored, were arrested in Asheville Friday, charged with buying votes in the late municipal election. They were bound over to r-Aiirf: in hrmrla nf $100 AAfh Tt is Raid that other arrests will follow. Secretary Coke claims that the State revenue act was not properly ratified. State Treasurer Worth claims that the collection of taxes shall be done in ac cordance with the act, and Attorney General 03borne sustains him in this decision, the State bank champion to the contrary notwithstanding. The Charlotte Observer admits, in a two or three men 4,of the first order of ability" besides Senator Morgan who are advocating the free coinage of sil ver. Now will the Observer name a few "men of the first order of ability" who are advocating a gold standard? CONTEMPT OF COURT. The editor of the News and Observer and his directors have laid themselves liable for contempt of court or criminal libel. Enraged because they have lost thrown prudence to the wind. Public sentiment does not sustain them even that part of it they have debauched arid corrupted with ma iicious partisan villification and abuse. xney Know mat mere is aounaans reason and authority to sustain the court, that many, if not most, of the many, if not most, of the States in -yet they are: willing to lead ignorant and corrupt men to believe that the court really ' violated their oaths and sought byheir opinion to shield a felon. They have forgotten that men who for the eake of mere partiean ad vantage impugn the motives of others are now weighed,;, for what they are -worth in North, Carolina. The impudenca of these scurrilous and unprovoked' attacks on our Su preme Court' hka never been equalled in this section , within our recollection.. The management of the News and Vbserver had vapored much about an archy from time to time. What makes anarchy faster than an attempt to un dermine the ancient respect cf the peo . pie for their courts? There is a marked gang of Pharisees in North Carolina who are determined to rule this State - or make anarchy and pandemonium too. This gang has masqueraded be hind the name of 4 'Democratic party" for a long time. Joe Daniels and the corporate influences which control his paper have reasons which they dare not confess for wishing to control the Su preme Court. They are doubtless anx ious, too, for a court that will work with them in making or upholding a dishonest election law. The editor of the News and Observer is not foolish enough to suppose himself even a one horse lawyer. Therefore he is not really mad with the Supreme Court for disa greeing with him" on a question of law, especially one about which real lawyers differ. He now says that Cleveland, Ransom, Carlisle, Hoke Smith & Co. disagree with him about the free coin age of silver. But is he mad with them? Does he abuse them and impugn their motives though he knows there are many ten thousands even in their own party who regard them as hypocrites and traitors? Not a bit of it ; he never loses an opportunity to praise them. 4 'But they belong to the party," he will doubtless say. Yes, and there's the rub he has made up his mind to praise the members of hi3 party, right or wrong, and to abuse men of a different party, right or wrong. Cleveland and Wall street and 4 'the smell of sulphur" are all sweet if they are only in the party. If he can only keep the aggre gation together he thinks the offices are safe. But he is mistaken. The Democratic party will never succeed either in the State or Nation till it purges itself of the gang of Pharisees who are running it for the money that is in it. The honest men once in it have already left it, or else they re main mere lobby members to see if there is really any possibility of over throwing the reign of terror inside of it. As soon as they learn that its silver policy is but a decoy duck to lead them back into the camp of Wall street, they will desert it oy thousands. And the pie-fed editor of the Lett's and Ob server talks about "fusion judges" when he has fused with Cleveland and Wall street and Hoke Smith and bal lot box stuffers and election thieves, the Chicago platform and the Kentucky convention, all under one name the Democratic party ? No fusion can turn his stomach. GOOD ILLUSTRATION. An amusing incident occurred on the train when Carlisle and his party were returning from their "sound money" powwow at Memphis. Among the delegates were Banker Broder, of Russellville, Ky., and Hon. Ben Per kins, of Elkton, in the same state, says the Non Conformist. The latter is an ardent free silver man and as they sat in the sleeper was discussing with Banker Brcder the all prevailing question. The porter of the sleeping car came along and Broder handed Perkins a silver dollar with the request that he give him two halves for it, as he wished to tip the porter. Mr. Perkins looked at the silver dollar a moment, then handed it to the por ter, saying: Keep it, for according to Mr. Broder's own statement it is only worth fifty cents." The porter, smiled an ivory smile and slipped the "depre ciated currency" into his pocket. And to this hour the Russellville banker doesn't know where he is at on the value of a silver dollar. READERS COMPARED. Mr. O. M. Sanders, of Walkersville, N. C, writes the Lumberton Populist as follows: 4 'The Democratic papers are making quite a stir about what The Progres sive Farmer said in regard to counter feiting silver. I think The Progres sive Farmekr is wrong about it. As a rule we should be subject to the powers that be, and I do not think this is a case that would justify us in mak ing an exception. But the man who votes and works for a gold standard, the man who votes and works to con tract the currency of the country, thereby crowding more and more of the product of man's labor into a dollar and increasing the debtor's indebted ness by decreasing his ability to pay, is far, far more guilty in the sight of High Heaven of making a dishonest dollar than the man who puts grains of silver in a piece and circu lates it for a dollar. But the Charlotte Observer says, and the Monroe papers "roll it under their tongues as a sweet morsel, 4 We would not be surprised at The Progressive Farmer advising its readers to go into the wholesale rob bing business.' Some of us have been reading The Progressive Farmer sev eral years. Isn't it strange that the most of us are not cut throats and rob bers, reading such vile literature so long? Again, isn't it strange that Hol land, the defaulting bank cashier of Charlotte, the officials of the New Han over bank, and members of other bank officers in North Carolina who have stolen the. people's money in the last few years,-have invariably been men who have been fed on such pure litera ture as the Observer, the Enquirer and such like. . s- i I "BELONGING TO THE PARTY." When a man se- I belong to the Democratic part or I belong to the Republican party, he often means more than people suppose. He really does belong to his party, and speaks with great accuracy when he says so. He will do what he is told to do. He wears a collar. He carries a label. He has put on his prison uniform. He is counted by the regular professional poli tician like one of his sheep. They know him. He can always be counted to vote the "straight ticket." They can make him think it is a disgrace not to vote it straight. They can make him believe it is dishonorable to split his ticket. He has forgotten his coun try and his State. He only remembers 4 'his party." The party is not "his;" he is the party's. But when you hear a professional politician talking about "his" party, he ia talking good grammar. The party is his. He owns its assets and capital stock. He gets (owns) all its offices. He does not trade off his party except for one which will give him a fatter office. VAIN THINGS FORSAFETY. Politicians Before. Election and After Election. On July 1st, 1892, the United States Senate passed Senate Bill No. 51 (intro duced by Senator Stewart.of Nevada), providing, 4 'That the owner of silver bullion may deposit the same at any mint of the United States, to be coined for his benefit, and it shall be the duty of the proper officer upon the terms and conditions which are provided by law for the deposit and coinage of gold to coin such silve. bullion into standard dollars, and such coins shall be a legal tender for all debts and dues, public and private." This action was taken as the country stood face to face before a great presi dential election. The election was hardly over a week, before the cry for a special session of Congress was raised in certain quar ters. At first it was claimed that an extra session was necessary to repeal the McKinley tariff law. Daily the cry grew louder. As soon as the idea of a special session became well fixed in the public mind, the tariff question drop ped suddenly out of sight, and the great New York dailies joined in & shout of 4 'Repeal the Sherman law! Repeal the Sherman law !'' Then tb.3 little cuckoo organs over the country began to scream in their little treble. "Repeal the Sherman law!" There was no harm in the Sherman law. On the contrary, it was good as far as it went, as it was adding to the volume of currency about $50,000,000 annually. It was a miserable makeshift for a free silver law such as the Senste had pass ed just before the election, but it was far better than nothing. That was the reason that it was repudiated by its unnatural father, Shermsn himself, by Cleveland and Carlisle and the New York dailies and the little cuckoo or gans, like some in North Carolina which we might name. But the people were net in the least alarmed. Despite their suspicion of Cleveland, and despite the fact that there were very many new members of the House of Representatives, they knew that the Senate was safe. And they well knew that without the consent of the Senate, the President and the House combined would be powerless to inflict upon them any greater burdens than thosa under which they were then struggling by reason of a volume of currency altogether too small to en able them to sell their products at a living profit, or to dispose of such property as they desired to sell at a reasonable price. The Senate, said the people, has stood up for our rights, and we have nothing to fear. But alas ! they did not stop to think that the Yankee Shy locks would never have allowed Cleveland to deal until the cards had been well stacked. These men knew the hearts of certain Southern Senators (shameful to flay) far better than the Southern people who had honored and trusted them. The Congress was convened in extra ordinary session to accomplish an ex traordinary piece of villainy, on the 7th of August, 1893. On the 28th of October, 1893, a vote was taken on an amendment offered by Senator Allen of Nebraska, as follows: 4 "That hereafter standard silver dol lars shall be coined at the several mints of the United States into silver dollars half dollars, quarter dollars and dimes at the present ratio of 16 grains of standard silver to 1 grain of standard gold, under the same conditions as to mintage and other charges that are now or may hereafter be in f orCe with reference to the coinage of gold All money coined under the provisions of this act shall be a full jegal J for all debts, public and private! This amendment was. reifv-t u months before the election had DaiS tte Stewart MU which wwK in meaning. cuucai Thfl Rpnato came to a anal vote on the unconditional repeal' of the Sher man law oh Monday, October 30, 1893. Here are the names, of the nine men who voted on July 1, 193, just before the presidential electioi, for the Stew art bill, and who vote4 on October 30, 1893, one year after the election, for cutting off the supply of $50,000,000 of silver certificates wVich would have been annually thrown into the chan nels of business by "urtue of the con tinuance of the Shennan act. If these nine men had votedaf ter the election as they had done before the electioh, the Sherman law Wuld be in force to day. Let their mines be written in the book of remeribrance of our out raged people, and taught their children along with the nimes of Aaron Burr and Benedict Ariold: Ransom of North Carolina. Gordon of Georgia. Mills of Texas; Hunton of Vrginia. Voorhees of Indiana. Turpie of Indiana. Faulkner of West Virginia. Hill of NeW York. Squire of Washington. It is reported that Senator Turpie is now trying to get up a meeting in Washington city in August to inaugu rate a moviment 4 'inside the party" for the free coinage of silver. He sees an other presidential election in sight. The Arabs have a proverb which runs lika this: If a man deceives you orce, shame on him ; if he deceives you tPice, shame on you. ONE WAY OUT. Tirere is absolutely but one way out of tie present conditions, and that is to reverse the financial policy of the last 30 rears. During all this time there hat been a constant contraction of the currency and consequent fall in prices, urtil to day more than 90 per cent, of tie business of the country is done on a credit. It seems almost uselegs to picture the ruinous effects of a con tracted currency. The story can be told by every farmer and laborer throughout the land, and it is every where the same, says the Salisbury Watchman. Only a few of the crditor classes have been benefitted by the contraction policy, and even they are standing on an uncertain foundation, for they can not expect to be permanently safe while the producing classes are being driven from their homes and made tenants and serfs. A system that works financial ruin to the producers must inevitably bring ruin to every other class sooner or later. Everybody is now asking when times will get better. To those who are acquainted with the cause of hard times the answer is plain. There never can be better times until there is an in crease in the volume of money to cor respond with the growth ef population and business.Thisis absolutely the only way out, and all talk about some other way is nothing but idle and ridiculous. To remedy the evil the cause must be removed by an expansion of the vol ume of money. Enhanced prices will bring better times, but with falling prices times will continue to go from bad to worse. This Republic cannot endure very long under the present financial sys tem. We as a nation are practically bankrupt now, and it will take only a few more years of falling prices to cause the crash to come. There should be a speedy change. PATRIOTIC UTTERANCE. That excellent reform paper, The Progressive Farmer, of Raleigh, N. C, the property of Mrs. L. L. Polk, reached our table last week. At the head of its editorial columns are the memorable and prophetic words of her grand and noble husband, Hon. L. L. Polk, uttered July 4, 1890; "I am standing now just behind the curtain, and in full glow of the com ing sunset. Behind me are the shadows on the tracks, before me lies the dark valley and the river. When I mingle with its dark waters I want to cast one lingering look upon a country whose government is of the people, for the people and by the people." Missouri Commoner. CRAZY AS A MARC.H HARE. In an editorial in the Danville Star appears these two propositions almost in the same sentence: That the free coinage of silver will enhance the value of silver bullion 100 per cent, (the sil ver mine owners of the West receiving the benefit of the appreciation) and that the tobacco farmers of Virginia will receive only one half the value of their tobacco crop, because they will be pajd for it in a depreciated money. This is logic sure enough ! We have seen these two arguments used by the goldbugs before, but never in the same' breath. And yet they are about aa logical as any of the goldbug arguments we have seen put forth. Wilmington Dispatch. STATE PRESS ASSOCIATION. The Association met at Greensboro on the 17 th. The city entertained the members at the Benbow House, one of the best hotels in the South. Much busi ness was discussed and transacted. A handsome banquet, ride around the city, and excursion to the Guilford Battle Ground, were a part of the pleas ant features. The Brockman Concert Company, composed of Greensboro talent, gave a beautiful musical con cert on Wednesday night; The annual election of officers re sulted as follows: President, C, L. Stevens, Southport Leader; Vice-Presidents, W. F. Marshall, Gastonia Ga zette, W. W. McDiarmid, Lumberton Robesonian, W. K. Jacobson, Wash ington Progress; Secretary, John B. Sherrill, Concord Times; Orator, W. F. Dowd, Charlotte News; Poet, Hal. W. Ayer, Caucasian; Historian, J. D. Kernodle, Alamance Gleaner; Execu tive Committee : H. A. London, E. E. Hilliard, Thad R. Manning, J. A. Thomas, J. L. Ramsey. Delegates to National Editorial As sociation: Joseph P. Caldwell, W. C. Erwin, John P. Carr, J. W. Bailey; Alternates: W. W. McDiarmid, Jo sephus Daniels, J. N. Robinson, D. J. Whichard. Nearly all of the editors left Greens boro for Morehead City on Friday morning, where they were the guests of the Atlantic Hotel for two days. - $S ARE WHAT WE WANT. Richard Razor, who runs the kicking department of the People's Paper at Charlotte, lights his pipe and gets off the following remarks in the last issue of his paper: "The wicked fleeth when no man pursueth, but the wicked newspaper pursueth its delinquent subscribers. 4 'Anything will be taken on subscrip tions to this paper that we can eat, drink, wear or throw at the cats that get on our back porch at night. "Owing to the small subscriptions coming in we have given notice at home that they could only use nine grains of coffee to the gallon yot water after July 1st. 4 'You can't down us within the next thirty days, unless the farmers post their blackberry orchards, and they will have to post them with a wire fence horse high, pig tight and bull strong to keep us out." P. S. The Progressive fIrmer is too far from the briar patches to live on berries, so we will take the $s. PROSTRATED WITH PROS PERITY The tidal wave of prosperity talked about in the goldbug sheets still lingers in the distance. We are about to con clude that they are mistaken that the wave of prosperity is a wave of continued hard times. Father Mahoney, a Catholic priest whose work is among the masses in Brooklyn, N. Y., is quoted as saying: 4 'Never before in all my long experi ence as a parish priest has the city of Brooklyn been in such a woeful condi tion as it is now. Hundreds of fami lies are starving. It is like an awful famine in a land of plenty, and unless relief comes soon the results wili be appalling to contemplate. I have seen strong men, steady and industrious, actually begging for bread to feed their starving children. There is no work for them, nor are there any indications that the situation will improve. I have invariably held that actual want and poverty are caused by the people them selves; this time it is different. Good honest families are feeling it. The lit tle they have been able to save has dis appeared. In many homes this morn ing there is not as much as a loaf of bread. Woe to the men who have brought this about. Prospects of good crops were never fairer. Now, how ever, we are face to face with actual starvation. Men who have the money bags tied up will not loosen the strings. What has caused this condition? The tricks of the bloodhounds who call themselves men. In order to crush the unfortunate toiler they closed up the factories and mills ; industries have been crushed that prices may be forced up. No one feels it but the workman. He is made t feel it, so that next year he will be glad to take whatever wages the bloodhound is willing to offer." BRYAN ANNIHILATES CLARKE. Judging from current newspaper re ports of the Bryan Clarke silver debate in Mobile on last Monday night, the brilliant orator faom Nebraska, gave Mr. Clarke such a drubbing as he and those-present who heard it, will not soon forget. Mr. Clarke, although at home, surrounded by his lifelong friends and supporters, was no match f or; the silver eiant from p'bfg river." -When we take into con- vxickuvu me iact tnat Mr. Clarke had no tenable ground upon whiQi to base a defense of his cause, and the ad ditional and more important fact that in a mental point of view, he, as com pared with Mr. Bryan, had absolutely no chance of success, like all infef minds, when in the presence I greater, being unable to sustain! cause, he loses his head and fallJ abusing his audience and his opponj Mr. Clarke characterized those cheered Mr. Bryan as 4 'cowards, A lists and republicans," saying he defeated them last year, and would it again. Was conduct like this ch a'cteriatic of the man who feels that is championing a just cause? W not tnis conduct sucn as to warra, the conclusion that he was utterly u able mentally to cope with Mr. Brya . To our minds, the weakness of m Clarke, as exhibited to his Mobile a dience upon this great occasion, wl end his public career in his congrt eional district. The democratic leadfl in thfi RoulVi Vav rn Trior? rnlifira ri a high hand for the last twenty year! and in View of this fact, they canni- with any vdegree of patience, bear meet opposition and contradiction, the hands of .more able and bravi men. Tuscaloosa Journal. (Of course Congressman Clari naturally didn't expect Bryan tojp him off the face of the "earth, J did it in his cool, calm, Danl Vi style. The immense audit i ce cnu,... for minutes at a time and Clarke lec I his goldbug temper. Finally the crov escorted Bryan from the Opera Hou?4 to his hotel and cheered all the wat then stood around the hotel cheerio for some time. Such a demonstratici was never seen in the South on &xd similar occasion, and it is safe to sa that Mobile and Alabama silver column. Editor.) are in iu IS THE REVENUE ACT THE LAW. The close observer oi tne wiry in triguing of the partisan ring leader around Raleigh, have been more thai a little amused at the attempts thny have been made hereabouts by certaif of the baser sort to turn everything m party account. When Gentleman Elias Carr brought suit against Honorable, The Secretary of State, t! prevent the publication of the assign ment act, and then when Gentleman Elias Carr, as Governor Elias Carr authorized Secretary of State Coke tq employ counsel, two Raleigh lawyers to defend the said Secretary of Statf, Carr, we thought susely the absurdity had reached the climax. We were loth! to imagine a more silly partisan moy tsni tne crowning roiiy or an smy, rooi isn, aD8ura acts nas appeared, it i the attempt of the Secretary of State to throw the whold State into confu sion and chaos, by mailing to the county officials throughout the State and certifying to the judges and solici tors as rollows : NORTH CAROLINA, Secretary of State. Raleigh, 11 July, 1895 ERRATUsi.--k Attention is called to the fact that in the printed volume of the Public L,aw? of 1895, there is printed Chapter 116, being an V W4UW vuvi KJ A Act to Raisd Rflvfiniift. thft words "Ratifipd tha i9fK dav of March, A. D., 1895." Theso wojds do not appear at the en& hied in this office. Oct. Coke, Sec. State." jnow, when Zeke and Betsy went' fV. 10th of May, looking for the moonshine? northeast corner of the building. Evidently, taking the evidence of thai Secretary of State as given May 23rd, j 1895. in connection with the abovo rir4 f 1 n H 1 4L- A. Z? i . A .11 t;uiai. latter ur ueruiiuaie, retsy anal Zeke must have been 4 'hotter" thef nearer they came to that corner. Understand now, tho law requires- tne secretary or state to furnish the' laws i.ur i uuiicauon to ine orate Jrr inter f And hn l-i Or, m other words, that they are truLn tiAi cauui uupitjtj ul iae originals. LLQ furnished the laws, as required by pre-i vious plainly stated laws, and on May! 23, 1895, made affidavit as follows: State Op North Carolina, ) 4 'Office op Secretary op State. "Raleigh, N. Cm Mey 23, 1895. ) 'I. Octavious Ookf fWrAfnrv nf Qf o f a - , www... j WA tl U14 hereby certify that the foregoing (man- acts and resolutions nn fiio in i m ,. AA.w AAA VAAAO I omce." Octavius Coke. Read the two certificates. He swears according to law on May 23d, when he delivered the laws, that they were then true copies. If he was correct may 23d, was he correct July 11th?. If cor rect Julv 11th. was he norrr. Man- 93f - It is plain that he is trt ing to prove that? he erred May 23rd, when he delivT ered the laws to the printer, and certi flMl TO IoqItt Vnnr 4-V. A." he set aside an act which has passed, been ratified and published and also legally certified to as correct, by simply issuing a circular over his signature declaring that the ratification clause is not on the original bill now He does not say it was not there Ma 23rd, but 4,these words do not appear at the end of the original, " etc. Which one of these certificates will the courts sustain? evidently the first, the legal one. else at any time erasures might be made in the office of the Secretary of State of not only the ratifying clause, the Speakers signature or any other change made to suit the intArcat. rsf such parties as might gain access to the originais, ana aa Buch laws thrown into utter confusion, or modified, be cause it could be shown that the man uscript did not appear as the printed copy m the laws. Rest easy, dear reader. Capt. Coke cannot nullify any law in that way. 32? Revenu and Machinery Acts of 1885 are the law, and taxes will be as setsed and collected accordingly. ' 1
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