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ITTFTR PlOlrllSSIYE FA WTO- Largest Circula tion ofany Paper in the South At Untie States. plant Your Ad- rertisenient in Rich Soil. THE INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF OUR PEOPLE PARAMOUNT TO ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS OF STATE POLICY. RALEIGH, N. C, SEPTEMBER 3, 1895. No. 30 3 J Vol. 10. ANCE AND INDUSTRIAL UNION. president J. F. Willetts, Topeka, ice-President- II C. knavery, Leb reuuy-Treasurcr--Col. D. P. Dun An. Columbia, S. C. EXECUTIVE BOARD. 3 L. Loucks, Huron, S. D. ; Mann Pase Brandon, Virginia; I. E. Dean. Eicnf oye Falls, New York; H. C. Dem sing. Secretary. Harrisburg, Pennsyl rama; Marion Butler, Raleigb, N. C. JUDICIARY. P.. A. Southworth, Denver, Colo. R. W. Beck, Alabama. M. D. Davie, Kentucky. fUKTH CAROLINA FARMERS' STATE ALLI ANCE. President Dr. Cyru Thompson, Richlands. V. Vice-f resident Jno. Graham,R!dge vrav N C. S-retery-Treasurer-W. S. Barnes, Lturer-J. T. B. Hoover, Kim City, S. C ard-Dr. V. N. Seawe 1, V:lla t0Chapiain-Rev. P. H. Massey, Dur kaorNkeeper Geo. T. Lane, Greens wro, N. C. , r Assistant Door keeper Jaa. E. Lyon, rn?atCArm8-A D. K. Wallace, R'ltb'orJton, N. C. rftate Business Agent- T. Ivey, Hal- eirh, C. , Trustee Business Agency Fund W. i Graham, Machpelah, N. C. tlEOTTIVK COMMITTEE OF THE KORTH pROLINA FARMERS' STATE ALLIANCE. I Y Hileman, oncord, N. C ; N. ) C.Wliehf Triuity, N. C. ; James M. ilefffcorne, ividb vu, . v. j .ATI ALLIANCE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE. John Graham. Gatesville, N. C. ; Dr. J. Harrell, Whiteville, N. C; T. J. Caudle, Acton, N. C. .artb Carolina Reform Press Association. jVcera-J. L. liamsey, President; anon Butler, Vice-President ; W. b. Harney Secretary, PAPERS. .'regressive Farmer. State Organ, Regh. N. C. Hickory, J . J. Whitakers, N. C. Beaver Dam. N. C. Lumberton, N. C. Uttler, (hr Home. The Populist, The People's Paper, Charlotte, M. u. The Vestibule, Concord. N. C. Tht Plow-Boy. Wadesboi o, N. C. Hm. isbury, N. C. isr iiDR aicumcu. 6acti of the above-named papers are jested to heev the list standing on he first page and add others, provided ey are duly elected. Any paper fail fip to advocate the Ocala platform will t dropped from the list promptly. Our 4jple can now see what papers are ublished in their interest. iGPvICULTUEE. Dj not cut millet too late in its ;rowth. As soon as the heads bf gin to orm is the proper time. It shculd lever be allowed to stat-d until the eed3 are nearly matured, but cut it rhea it is more succulent. An enterprising and observant farmer ays that the largest crop of barley he ver grew was from a field where a irf crop cf turnips had frczen in and o'.ted in the grcund. It grew to his 'i;uiJc,K, and brought him 60 bushels f clowned barley an acre. ' .v- of the important qualifications iry fur a farmer to make the rra pay is to be satisfied with his call :u unl make the best of his surround -e. farmer who is always grumb f--z In came his neighbor is getting boiler than he, is not the farmer ii viii make the farm pay. A : oxcess of moisture packs the soil ui excludes the air, and if a drcuth - :be crops suiter more than upon vhere there is a good drainrige. ' lively, thy air in the soil and in i 1 r- t -tor.-. of moisture from beneath maiu rnical actio' and it does not ) much iu a dry peason. res of the fanner himself are 1 .:f Zj.: e rnparei with the muliituducus of lictle tVanus which c jttitute he daily duti;-i of hid wife. It is al a-jat c uel to bring upon hr-r in the vrJeat beason of the year the harvest -,;.-.rnn TVlAT Allll t(" hf-r vwr.i-L- r.. i -jmfort. Tiif-re are better ways of I i. . ;fiing. ry much laud wculi te productive u irdlos of fertilizing, if th?. proper :.i tint of mjis'ure could be kept m - s?il. Poor crops are u!.-lly got V.- when there are periods of Hood or r . r;;h during the growii g Sanson. 1. : is a vast amount of plant food in '- soils, and a store cf moisture - s it available. At much as to the moisture of the ; ' i vte the secret of the thick, dense, turf of an oldsheep pasture in 'Viand is due to the fact that if it is t eaten off closely it is mowed in -se to prevent the growing of the jwer stalks. The new growth will e rapid, and there will be no stubble - the way cf the sheep. HERRI'S HOT SHOT. HE LEAVES THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND GIVES HIS REA SONS WHY- -TRUE TO HIS PROMISE. "I Tcld the People in the Campaign of 1892, That if the Democratic Party Did Not Keep its Promises, I Would L eave the Party" Hon. W. R. Henry Will Now Fight in the Populist Ranks Others withdrew from the D mo cratic party long since because they thought it would prove corrupt and false to the people. I have remained with the organization, and to the ex tent of my ability have helped to fight its batth s, until I KNOW THAT IT IS FALSE until it has shown itself false until there is no loDger room for doubo or hope. So confilent was I of the integrity and fidelity of the Democratic party and ite intention toe nvertthe pledge s of the Chicago platform into law; that I, together with other Democratic speakers, told the people in the cam paign of 1892, that if the Democratic party did not keep its promises, I would leave the party. The Democratic record i3 made up; and it is a record of incompetency or corruption, and largely of both. I now 'sever my connecti x with the organization called the Demo cratic party, and think it proper that I shculd s:ate at some length the rea sons that impel mo to this course. It is not without regret that I part politi cally with many of those who still cling to the so called Democratic party, for I know that the rank and file and many of the leaders of the party are men of the noblest type and patriots i f the loftiest impulses but they have been unable to break" "the machine" and to convert party pledgos into law, so much needed by a suffering people. In takirjg this course I am fully awaro that part of the Democratic press, especially some miserable penny a-liners of the towns and cities and scribblers with cross-roads environ ment, will endeavor to lift themselves temporarily from obscurity by assail ing me with cowardly insinuation, v ill ideation and misrepn sentation of motives. So far as integrity and character are concerned, I stand cn a pinnacle built of the Democratic ecdorsement of three great commonwealths, far above the falsehoods and unscrupu lous partisan endeavor of euch con U mptible creatures. So far as political work is concerned, I will simply say, I have sweated enough for the D.-mo cratic party to drown seme of my calummato! s I feel that it is unneces sary for me to assure those who know me that I wouM in no event leave the Democratic party if it had kept its promises to the people, or if I saw any pn sof ct of its doing so This I wrote to promi nent leaderB of the party a-i far back as fourteen months ago. On the 18h day ojf June, 1801, I wrote one cf the most prominent Democrats in this Siate these words: "When I find that the Democratic party id false to the people, then, and not until then, w ill there be occasion for supposing that I will leave the paity. Should I, in tho futuie, see causo to change my party affiliation, neither the hope nor proffer of office can in fid n 26 me one way or another. I believe in the Democratic principles that were formulated and made glori ous by Taomas J. If jrson, and that have been DESPISED AND BETRAYED by Gro ver Cleveland." The t Sort will ba made to obscure tho facts and charges of my addres?, by an unjust aud cowardly attack upon ray motives, The voters of this State are not concerned about my personal grievances, nor have my personal wrongs aught to do with my political couraH. The people de&ire information. Tney demaul truth and not falsehood ana vituperc.t'on. Tiuy will wih te Democrats and the Democratic preee to AXs"WER THS FACTS of my paper. I defy them to do eo. I have askf d many of the most promi nent Democrats in this State to give mo eatisfactory answers to the follow ing questions. I have teli them of my present views on public matters, and begged them to justify, if possible, the deeds and omUsionsof Cleveland and his COTERIE of conspirators. They have one and all declared they could not do so. I am satisfied that it cannot be done. The following, among ! others, are the questions I have asked prominent Democrats, which have left them in every case, with all the symp toms of political paralysis: SOME QUESTIONS. First. After criminal delay, result ing in the passage of an inadquate and undemccratic tariff law, why did not a Democratic Congress, as pledged by the platform and promised by the rep resentatives of the party, still further reduce the tariff during the short ses sion of Congre sa? 2nd. Why did not a Democratic Con gress pat s a free coinage bill as prom ised by the platform of 1892? 3rd. Why did a Democratic Presi dent veto the Bland seignorage bill, which would have put in ciiculation about $52,000,000 in silver? 4;h. Why did the Democratic Con gress fail to repeal the 10 per cent, tax on State banks to which the party was pledged? 5:h. Why did Democratic Chief Jus tice Fuller, of the Federal Supreme Court, and Democratic Associate Jus tice Field vote against the income tax law, when either of their votes would have saved it? How do you j; s ify tie spectacle of the Democratic Chief Justice writiDg the opinion that nullified the income tax law, while Republican Asscciate Justice Harlan voted in it favor and declared that he feared that the nullification of said law would prove the 4 first step to wards the subnergecce of the liberties of the people in a sordid despotism of wealth, that the decision of . the court in this great case is fraught with im measurable danger to the future of the country, and approaches the propor tion8 of a national calamity ;" and while Republican Associate Justice Brown voted for the law and said: "This decision may well xcite the gravest apprehension. It strikes at the very foundation of national authority in that it denies to the General Gov ernment a power which is or may at some time, in a great emergency such as that of war, become vital to the existence and preservation of the Union " S tid another great authority: "This decision is another victory cf greed over need. Great and rich cor porator s by hiring the ablest lawyers in the land, have secured the exemp tion of wealth from paying its just share towards the support of the gov ernment that protects it. The people will not ACCEPT THIS LAW AS JUSTICE." "No decision can make wrong right It is not rifiht that the entire cost of the Federal Government shall rest upon the masses. It is not right that wealth shall pay no more than poverty to waida the support of the National Ad ministration Democratic principles are violated in the most flagrant man ner, when a man worth $10 000,000 pays no more in gros than the man who is worth $100,000. or when the man with an income of $1,000 is called upon for substantially the seme amount as the man with an income of $100,000." Mr. Taomas G. Shearman, in the No vember, Forum, ISS'O, says that "the average annual income of the richest one hundred Americans, cannot te less than $1,200,000 and probably exceeds $1,500,000 per annum. If one hundred working men could earn each $1.000 'a year, they would have to WOPK 1 2000 OR 1,500 YEARS to earn as much as the annual income of one of these one hundred richest Americans. And if a working man, could earn $1,000 a year, he would have to work until he was 547 years old and never take a day tff before he could earn as much as some Americans are worth." If this bo so, and it has never been denied, how about the Western farmer with wheat at 60 cents and the South ern planter wuh 5 cent cotton. Tne Wealth of Cico ua was estimated at $8,000,000, but there are 70 American estates that AVERAGE $35 000,000 EACH, and there are 1 400 millionaires in the two cities cf New York and Brooklyn whose fortunes range from one to two hundred million dollars. Last winter in New York at the Metropolitan Opera H:us3 was seen one of the moet magnificent eights ever presented on this comment. Tne fash ionable women of those two cities un der the blaza of electric lights, glisten- ed and scintillated with the sparse and flash of $20,000,000 worth of dia monds. And $2,500,000,000 were pos sessed by the men who owned the grand tier of boxes. Last winter fifty capitalists bad a supper in New York city that cost $15, 000. In the centre of the banquet table, was a crystal lake thirty feet in diameter, on which swam euperb swan, fenced in with filagree work. Miniature valleys and mountains bor dered the lake, while around the table were golden plates and golden knives and forks, with luxuries from all quarters of the globe. Hamburg grape at ten dollars ner Dound. and first Florida strawberries, fourteen in a cup, at four dollar per cup. Outside the bar q iet hall, a woman shivered on the pavement with a STARVING BABE AT HER BREAST, and beyond her were the millions of unemployed and the suffering men, women and little children of this land. The People's party alone declares, in its platform, that those who live in such kingly magnificence, ought and should pay to the governmen ; an in come tax in order to lessen the tax bur dens of the people. The Democratic party being in power, and fearing the growing sentiment of the voters of the land, passed an income tax law which, while far short of what it should have been to equalize taxation, was nullified by Democratid judges. How can this be defended? Gen. Why ha3 this administration failed to prosecute the trusts which are sappiDg the hfe blocd of the Republic, and which the Democratic party was pledged to annihilate? 7th. A New York Democratic diily declared not long since, that "when Democratic speakers were telling the people in 1892, that the pension system was costing the people, after thirty yeais of peace, as much per annum as it re quired to support every standing army in Europe promising that the Democratic party would reduce it to a just and honorable basis there were 700,000 pensioners. Now, more than two years after the Democratic party came into power, there are more than a million on the rolls." What has this Democratic adminis tration done to mitigate and to correct the infamous pension robbery so bit terly and so justly denounced by the representatives of the party ? 8a Why are forty per cent of the Rt publican officeholders still in office, to the exclusion of those who have worked all their lives for the Demo party and the ascendancy of its prin ciples? b. Why are fifteen Republican con 8uls in office two years and a half after the inauguration of a Democratic Pres ident ? c Is it true that Republican Sena tors have used their ir fluence with a Democratic President to retain said consuls? d. Has the negro postmaster at Fy etteville been turned out ? e. Why did the Democratic Senate confirm the appointment of the four negro United Spates consuls appointed by Grover Cleveland ? Didn't Ransom vote for their cou Actuation? Has he denied it ? Waa he afraid the President would refuse to let him control the patronage of this State unless he sup ported his appointments and policy? A negro, Charles J. Taylor, was ap pointed Recorder of the District of Columbia, AGAINST THE BITTER PROTEST of its citizens, at a salary of $18,000 per annum, and col firmed by a Democratic Sanate, while hundreds and thousands of the best Democratic workers of this and other States were insulted and ignored, and hundreds of others, glad to obtain insignific nt pc sltions in the departments at Washington and in the Revenue service of tho Government were parsed by. Tho Washington Post, at- adminis tration paper stated that this same negro Recorder had PERSECUTED WHITE WOMiN holding subordinate positions under him by demanding that they submit themselves to hia will on penalty of dis miasal from office, and demanded to know why hi3 resignation was not re quired by a Democratic administration? Have these things been done? Have these changes been made by the Demo cratic administration ; and if not, why not, if it is expected to make political capital of the Fred Douglas resolution episode ! What has Mr. Cievelard left the Democrats to say on the color line? Anglo Sdxon supremacy is a. mighty political slogan, but wiil not tho many j negroes remaiomg m the Democratic service of the Government, under a Democratic administration, the ap pointment and confirmation of negro consuls, the retention of the negro postmaster at Fay etteville and the ap pointment and retention in the service of the negro Taylor at Washington prove a fatal handicap to the color line argument and relegate the leaders to the principal isaue now before the people, to-wit, gold, or gold and silver? 9 lb. Has Ransom resigned hia mem bership of the National Democratic I commute since be betrayed his people by voting with John Sherman against the further coinage of silver? 10th. Will not exSinator Rmeom continue to BOSS THE "DEMOCRATIC Maptttvit" . in North Carolina? If you think not please state the basis of your opinion. 11th. Was not Ransom's vote against silver bought with patronage by Grover Cleveland, who is hand in glove with capitalists in Wall street? 12 th. In coercing Congress by with holding patronage, by issuing his infa mous letter to Governor Stone, threatr ening in substance his 200,000 office holders with loss o? position if they failed to support his administration, and to disseminate gold standard argu menta against the money of the Con stitution, and by sending his cabinet junketing over the country at the EXPENSE OF THE TAXPAYERS, to attack their views and to jeopardize their welfare, has not Grover Cleve land shown himself a t y rant and has not centralization, heretofore de nounced by the Democratic party, reached its zenith under this so called Democratic administration? 13th. Does not Senator Mcrgan de clare that the repeal of the Sherman law caused the issue of $160,000,000 of bonds which were sold at 1 04 when they were worth 1.20, involving a loss to the tax payers of the country of more than $9,000,000? 14h. Has not this bond deal of Cleve land's been denounced as infamous throughout the country f Was it not infamous? Was it not done in the INTEREST OF BONDHOLDERS,. capitalists, and gold monometallism? How can it be defended? 15 oh. This is the richest and most po erful country on the glob 1 Why did Mr. Cleveland give the Morgan Rothschild syndicate, in that bond transaction, an option on any further bond issue of this government until October, 1895? Has the credit of the republic sunk so low under a Demo cratic administration that it must, in order to sell its bonds, pay a bonus by way of granting an option to New York and London bankers? If not, is it not clear that there is some corrupt, con coaled motive behind that option? 16th. What hope is there that the Democratic party will ba purged cf Cleyelandism, Sherman and Ransom ism? If you entertain such hope, please state the foundation for the same. 17ch. What hope. is there in the D mocratic parsy for free, unlimited and independent coinage of si.ver? Piease gie me the grounds of such hope if you entertain it 18 :h. Has not the Democratic party inState after State, declared 'for the gold standard, and has not a large part of the party and its pnss in North Carolina rebelled against the silver resolutions recently adopted by the Democratic State Executive Commit tee? 19 ;h. Why has not the Democratic party of North Carolina, if it is true to the people, and not dominated by a goldbug machine in State convention assembled protested against,denounced and repudiated tho treachery and methods of tjleveland and Ransom, and demanded the ex Senator's resigna tion from the national committee? 20th. Wiil not Mr. Ransom continue h's grip on the "machine" in North Carolina ? And if tho legislature should b3 Democratic in 1896, would it not re turn Ransom to the United States Senate? 21st. What scandal has been uncov ered in a Republican administration, not barring Credit Mobeher, Delano Babcock, Scar Route, Whiskey Rings, &c.,.that rq lalied or at least surpassed that of the sugar scandal of the late Democratic Congress? 22d. Grant concentrated the United States Army at Washington to give the Presidency to Mr. Hayes and the Re publican party. But has not Cleve land given his army of officeholders "orders" to help him deliver the prcs penty 01 tne people ana tne destiny or the republic into the band ? of American and British goldbugs? 23rd. Are men's party status fixed by what they say, or by what they do? If a man claiming to be a Democrat sings the goldbug song of John Sher man.votes for what Sherman has voted, and stands where the Republican party has stood again at th3 free coinage of silver, what is he but a Republican? If he is not a Republican, what is the badge of Republicanism ? I agree with a great Democratic journal of North Carolina, which on June 15th, 1895, used these worda in an editorial : "Whenever a Democrat declares that ho is for a single gold sndard, he is simply declaring that he he s seven d his connection with the Democratic party. Goldbug doctrine ts Republi canism, true and simple. The Republi can party is its parent and has oven watched over and cherished it during its growth to full maturity." Says the Atlanta Constitution : "Tnose who believe in Republican doctrine CANNOT BE DEMOCRATS, and those who believe in Democratic doctrines cannot be Republicans. Those wno accept and endorse the Republican act of demonetiz ition with all its con sequences can no more ba called Demo crats than an Arab can bo called a Christian. " "But the people now have before them ih singular spectacle of men high in effi ?e burying their heads deep in ihe bosom of Republicanism and leaving their hind legs kicking and flaurishing about in the Democratic camp.-' 24th. For many years ono of the principal arguments against the Re publican party was its rigorous execu tion of the "infernal revenuo system." For years one of the principal argu ments of Democrats against the as cendancy of the Rapublican party was the "infernal revenue system." Sena tor Vance ridiculed at d denounced revenue officers ar. "rt d legged grass hoppers " The Democratic party o this State was pledged to the abolish ment of the system, or at leest to a emitigation of its hardships. I have not heard of anything being done t) abolish the system, andasto whether there has been any decrease in seizures, illegal arxeets, &c, and prosecutions on shadowy and insuffi cient evidei.ee, the people are to be heard from, especially the hundreds of our citizens dragged before the Federal courts during the past two years and more. Have the people of North Carolina become less law-abiding than in the past How is it that revenue offices have doubled and trebled in value since the incoming of a Democratic administra tion. Is it true as I have seen it8ugges ted by the highest authority, that Den ocratic officials have stretched the law forgotten the promisea of the party and prosecuted the people in a mad ecran ble for fees. It seems that the Demo cratic "red legged grapsioppers" are quite active, and that many of them. have been metamorphosed into gold bugs. G SO VER CLEVELAND I regard Grover Cleveland as the most dangerous man to Amorican in institutions yet evolved by American political conditions. A traitor to his people, a violator of the Constitution a coward in the execution of the Mon roe Doctrine, a bungler, if not worse, in the Hawaiian matter, a pigmy statesman born of chance, whose stub bornness, tyranny, treachery and cor ruption are called by his friends and sycophants, broad-mindedueis, purity and patrioti&m. This Benedict Arnold No 2, w ould betray to Britain not one army post, but he would surrender North America to the grinding grasp of Eagl sh gold. This autocrat, this American czar, who with one foot spurned the Democratic platform of 1692 and kicked the Demccratie Con gress into adopting the most of his policies, while he placed the otherupon the necks cf the American people, sets his opinions and methods againsc those of Jefferson ar. d Jackson and the fathers of the Republic. CLEVELAND AND CENTi?AUZ ATION. Touching the tyranny and autocratic and centralizing methods of Grover Cleveland, the following extracts will prove interesting. This is from a Democratic paper that warmly sup ported Mr. Cleveland : "What is this Administration talk? Djes it moan that the people's servant, their hired man, Mr. Cleveland, is now assuming to have more power than even the Constitution c inferred cn really great men like Washington and Jt fferson and Jackson and Lincoln ? Does this man f rem Bulf do cherish sme sort of an idea tbat he ia tne peo ple and tht the battle dJ 1803, ar,d tho fiercer struggle 0 1 892, was all over tho nf Precideni ? Ha he some sort of a notion that the control of tho HcrusO and ta Sonuttj am not in the people's mmdrj A man elected by tht siose votes that elected our S&ate legislatures and Con gressmen ; calling around him a cabinet of other hired men, setting himself and these subservient tools up as an Ad ministration ! To do what? To dictate to our other servants t Tnia, then, :s the Administration that we are hearing about? It is' the influ ence that is 8educing our Congressmen from the honest purpose they were elected to carry out, and with promises CONTINUED ON FOURTH PAGE J.
The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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