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THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER : SEPTEMBER 17, 1895.
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THE PROGRESSIVE FARIIER
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J T. RAMPITTV
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I ' "I am standivejow just behind the
j curtaiTiifin fuu glow of the coming
I urjg Behind me are the shadows on
"ihe track, before me lies the dark valley
and the river. When I mingle with its
dark waters I want to cast one linger
j ing look upon a country whose govern-
I ment is of the people, for the people,
and by the people L. L. Polk, JV
ithy 1S90.
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EDITORIAL NOTES
Friends, you can do nothing without
reform p ipers. Push their circulation.
Work as though your housa wa3 afire.
Senator Mills, of Texas, has re
nounced silver and joins the goldbugs.
Good ! L?t all the traitors take a stand
at once.
County Treasurer M. G. Clay, of
Ironton, Ohio, is short in his accounts
$18,000. We presume that it is "sound"
dollars.
Some say that there is no rest for the
wicked. Yet the editor of this paper
and the editor of the Charlotte Oo
server are each "taking a rest." Q leer,
isn't it?
Recently wo stated that the "Coming
Nation" had suspended. We thought
our information was correct. We are
informed that it ha3 not suspended,
and that; the rumor probably grew out
of the fact that the former editor re
tired. We cheerfully make the correc
tion.
Capt. S A. Ashe, former editor of
the News and Observer, his written
and published a book of ICO page.?, en
titled, "Familiar Chats on Free Coin
age." The book is a valuable addition
to the silver literature, and very read
able. The price is 25 cents. We hope
the Captain will not hesitate to vote
as he writes iu the beautiful hereafter.
Gold is still going to Europe. "Two
million dollars in gold was shipped to
Europe to-day," is almost a daily dis
patch from New York or Washington.
Let ii go. Take every dollar you can
fiud. Then strip the gold off the top
of th.3 nsw library building in Wash
ington and take that too. Tho quicker
it all goes the better for us. Gold, as
it L now managed, is a curse to this
country. Away with it!
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JUDGE LATHAM ON SILVR.
Judee Latham, of Richmond, Va.,
recently sent his views on the demone
tization of silver and its effects, to the
New York Herald for publication. We
make the following extract:
"Under the monometallic system
the few have been enrichtd at the ex
penss of the many. The farming and
laDOriDK eiemeoia uuvo cuutrreu moat.
. . . . i i
Generally wnere mere nas Deen an in
crease of wealth it hs been iu the
cities, where there has been a falling
off in the rural d agists.
"From 1870 to 18S0, the d cade in
which silver was demonet-z d, there
was a depreciation of the actual values
of all property in the S;ato of New
York to the amount of $192 Sll 2 l la
the following decade, from 18S0 to
1890. New York had bgun to gather
the fruit of demonetiz ition, and prop
erty values, instead of depreciating
were increased 2 203, 701 991. These
figures are taken from the statistical
abstract furnished by the department,
'dinca thi3 period of demonetization
property values all over the South and
West have been falling off until in the
n?arl18-93 94, a3 shown by the reports
ont0ial assessments, in thirty one
aSuM w17"1,66-8163 there was an
waa a 3whf welvo States there
cram fcooe;
ot f 336,000.000. Of this
of Ne w York thi occurre,d m the State
of the country' oney"lendiDS centre
GOLD-OCR AC Y AND ITS METHODS
The "sound currency" committee of
the Reform Club of New York, have
presented their report, which shows
the efforts they are making to bolster
up the goldocratic financial ideas.
The committee reports that they
have arranged meetings and furnished
speakers, printed over 1,500,000 pam
phlets on "8ound Money" and furnish
ed "broadsides suppliments" for in
sertion in local papers of the South
and also West with a circulation of
220,210, and "plate" matter, which has
been inserted in 503 papers with an
aggregate circulation of 724,469 The
number of documents issued as either
pamphlets or broadsides since the be
ginning of the year is 6,107,000.
Sketches and cartoons have abounded
in their publication, intended to pop
ularize. More than two thirds of this
enormous out put has been intended
not as answers to angutnents not
. . . ,
reason ry, but nas Deen riaicuie uu
abuse of those who have reason and
justice on their side, while not a third
of it has been of a statistical or serious
nature such as an honest presentation j
of facts.
This report shows that this commit
tee is editing the Cleveland Goldocrat
ic organs of the country, and doing it
free of C03t to the organs.
TRUE OR FALSE?
One of the first declarations of the
Alliauce was for the restoration of sil
Vifr to its proper place in our monetary
system. We have faithfully striven
to educate the people to see the iin
portance of this demand of the Al
liance, we have stood by it, fought for
it and worked for it, and in every
legitimate way havo endeavored to
show, to convince the masses that the
restoration of silver to its proper po
sition was bound to come or the masses
of our people, the producers and la
borers generally, would be reduced to
slavery. It was coming and our teach
ings were not false, nor in vain, the
eyes of those who have done and said
everything in their power to bring
our teachings to naught, hare at last
opened. They are beginning to see as
we see, as we have said for years, they
are deciding that S3me step must be
taken and taken at once, to bring
about this restoration of silver. A con
vention has been called, the call is to
all men of all parties, who honestly
believesin these doctrines we have been
teaching for seven years, to meet in
Raleigh September 25 sh, 1895, to dis
cuss this matter in a non partisan
spiritand see if some plan can not be
devised whereby the honest money ad
vocates can get together under one
banner and carry North Carolina
solid in the next general election, in
favor of this the main plank in the
Alliance platform. "Tnere is a tide
in the offairsof men" it is said, "which
taken at its fl. od leads on to fortune."
The high tide in th's Alliance move
ment is now upon us. Non partisans
of the Alliance and those who have
hitherto tfli.iated with all the old
partie?, and havo earnestly sought the
objects for which we havo so earnestly
labored and prayed for these long
years, lour time lias come now,
show your faith by your works and by
your presence at the convention. Do
not eay "every signer of the call was
of a certain party," its a trick." "I'll
have nothing to do with it." Don't
think of these things come right along
or send your best men to represent
you. If there ia any trick in it it wih
out, atd woe betide the trickster. You
are sincere you will remain so. The
signers of the call are either sincere or
they are not sincere. The" convention
will know which before it adjourns.
And the manor men who show the
white feather will be remembered.
L?ts all be on hand or eead a strong
delegation I ; will n .t do for the Al
lianc3 to lag at this point. Let who
soever will, come, and let us show to
the world that we are rad) to appear
end encourage any movement which
looks to the securing of our demands.
WHAT NONSENSE.
Au efficial of the Philadelphia mint
says that it U impossible to get 50,000,
000 silver dollars that are in the miut
in circulation. There is not a manufac
turer, a merchao-, a working man or
a farmer in the c.uatry who will not
take thesj dollar.-?. What is the diffi
culty then in getting them into circula
tion? Simply because this bull-headed
government will not pay them out,
says the Farmer' Voico
Ta, people cannot go to the mint and
?et them for the asking. But the gov-
cj
ernment can pay them out in the set
tlement of its debts and they will take
care of themselves after they are paid
out. The government is eDgaged in
the work of "maintaining the parity
between gold and silver." Its method
of doing that is to lock up the silver,
borrow the gold and circulate it ; and
if things go on in this way much longer
there will be an awful disparity between
our debts and our ability to pay them.
Our obligations will be to our resources
as 16 to 1 in the course of time at our
present rate of speed toward national
bankruptcy. The government with its
silver is like a man with $1,000,000 in
money and $2,000,000 in debts, but who
should refuse to pay out his money,
and yet should worry over the prob
lem of getting his $1 000,000 in circula
tion. Either the heads of our authori
ties are as thick as ten pin balls or they
think that the heads of the people are.
HON. JOHN F. DILLON.
Few more significant deliverances
have te3n made lately than the follow
ing from the address of Judge Dillon,
before the Bar Association. He is one
of the ablest men in the Union, and re
signed a United States Circuit Court
judgeship to become leading counsel,
at a high salary, to certain large rail
road companies.
"If we are blind to history and to
duty, if we idly drift and do nothing,
then with an overcrowed population
pressing with augmenting force upon
the means of subsistence, with the
hopeless separation of the rich and poor
into distinct, hostile and incommunica
ble classes without common interests
and c immon sympathies, and with th6
growth of a proletariat armed with the
ballot in one hand and a gun in the
other, the prediction of LaSalle, the
great orator of German iconolastic So
cialism, may come to pass may within
the next century come to pass, even in
this goodly heritage of ours: 'The God
dess of Ravolution, after the lapse of a
certain time, will force an entrance
into our social structure, amid the con
vulsions of violence, with wild stream
ing locks and brezen sandals on her
feet. ' "
THE ISSUE IN 1896.
Some of the old party papers are say
ing that the i.-sue next year will be the
tariff. That will be strictly in accord
ance with partisan management. The
old tariff skeleton that had all the flesh
talked off it a long time ago, is thought
to be good enough to fool the people
with again. It would be rollicking fun,
however, to see the two old parties
lock horns on the tariff, says the Far
mers' Voice. They have both shown
themselves to be as alike on the ques
tion as two peas in a pod. The present
tariff law is a Democratic law, and it
stands for protection, indeed for about
as much protection as the republicans
would dare advocate. The time has
gone by when anybody thinks that wo
need the re enactment of the MeKinley
law, and no party will assort that we
are in any such need. If the tarff bat
tie is fought over again it will be a
hypocritical sham battle on both sides.
To go to tho graveyard for a presiden
tial campaign issue, when the money
question and the income tax are press
iug for solution, to say nothing about
other burningly live questions, would
seem to require more impudence than
even a practical politician possesses. But
mind you, gentlemen, you cannot fool
the people all the time. You will take
up live issues or stand an extraordinary
chance of somK to the cemetery with
your long since decoieed issues. The
people are weary of your antics, your
hypecriay and your duplicity. They
abominate your methods and distrust
you. You will go into the campaign
handicapped at best, and common wis
dom ought to suggest to you that you
got on one side on tho other of living
questions. If you are convinced thit
tho mn j irity of our voting population
are idiots enough to suetain you in
your ff )rts to impoverish them by go
ing on the side of monopoly and Shy
locks, go there and fliDg your banners
on the outer walls. Gj somewhere;
advocate something; show some signs
of life and keep away from all four
year old corpses.
HAS ONLY 97 CHILDREN.
T..e following is a copy of a letter
received a few days ago by Mej.
Enry, manager of the Roanoke Rap
ids Power Company, from a man at
Whiteville, N. C, and is as follows:
Manager Roanoke Ripids Co ,
Sir: I am a man of a family of 97
children and would like to move to
your place if I can get work for me
and my children. I am a mechanic,
a- d can do some of anything, carp en'
ter, brick work or blacksmith In
fact I am an all-round man. F.r re
ferences I refer you to Dan McRakin
bookkeeper for the North Carolina
Lumber Company. Can give ycu all
the references you want. Can prove
myself. Please let me hear from you.
Yours to serve,
Surely this "all round man" with
his interesting little family of 97 child
ren should be able to find employment
in the fast growing town of Roanoke
Rapids. It only requires a few fam
ilies this size to populate a town. He
should be encouraged by all means.
We withold the name of the writer.
Weldon News.
Now is the time to push the circula
tion of reform papers.
WHERE TO EDUCATE.
In noting an article in last week's
Caucasian entitled "Farmers and Me
chanic College," it inspired a few
thoughts in our mind of which we
wish to give our readers the benefit.
Why was the U. S. Government so
careful to appropriate money for the
education of the farmer and mechanic?
Btciuse they are the foundation of
our industrial system. And because
the farmer is less likely to educate than
men of other professions.
There is a common idea among our
farmers that if their sons expect to be
farmers they need only the rudiments
of an education, and that hard work
will fight the rest of the battle. Now
hard work is very essential to good,
economical farming, but not all there
is of it by any means.
A little burning of phosphorus in the
brain saves considerable wear and tear
of muscle. There will always be
"hewers of wood and drawers of
water," and we need not be uneasy for
fear we will run short of laborers. Be
sides, labor done intelligently cease3 to
be burdensome and is always more re
munerative. The farmers must be educated to
take their proper stand in our political,
social and religious affairs
The farmers of our State constitute
nine tenths of her population, and yet
they iuvariably have to take the back
seat, and all because they lack educa
tion. In any public gathering they
conspicuous for their silence. Why?
B3cause they are not interested in our
public aff ira? No 1 But because they
think they are not capable of speaking
in public, and aiding in moulding pub
lic sentiment, and their neighbors en
gaged in other profetsiors agree with
them and take possession of their right
f ul heritage. Tnis comes about simply
from the lack of education.
North Carolina is eessntially a farm
iug State and always wiil be. The
more factories we have, and the larger
our towns grow, the more profitable
will be our farms; hence the great im
portance of education along this line.
In fact, education on the line of
farming has become positively neces
sary to enable the farmer to success
fullp compete with men in other pro
fessions, who are educating along their
special lines of work.
Any class that is not educated is at
the mercy of all educated classes. Self
preservation is the first law of nature,
and the rule holds good with classes,
or branches of industry, as well as
with corporations and individuals. It
is perfectly natural for lawyers, dec
tors, merchants and manufacturers to
combine among themselves for mutual
protection.
They give each other the benefit of
their discoveries and improvements,
and each one tries to keep abreast with
the times.
Now the farmer should follow suit
and educate and improve ail ho pos
sibly can.
The question is often asked, why do
farmers' sons generally go uneducated?
In the first place they are so isolated
that it is usually harder for their chil
dren to attend school. Then they do
not get their money along through the
year as other people do, and they can
not very well send before the crop is
gathered, and after it is harvested they,
think it is then too late to start. Then
again, it must be said to the shame of
many farmers, that they feel that if
their sons are going to be farmers they
need no education above reading writ
ing and arithmetic.
If the boy expects to be a farmer he is
kept at home in the fall to assist in
frfttherinsr. and called home in the
Spring to assist in planting the crop.
Further, he may not even be allowed
to go to college if he expects to farm,
wluraas, his more fortunate brother,
who aspires to some of the learned pro
fessiofis, will be kept at college matters
not what the sacrifice may cost. Now
this is not altogether due to favoritism
between sons, but more to thoughtless
ness. The father means to do right.
and says, of course, my would-be-law
yer son cannot possibly compete with
other lawyers without an education,
hence he must go to college and take a
course, and I will keep my would be
farmer son at home to help pay expen
ses and then send him next year. But
that next year never comes, or else, it
comes when the boy is so old and igno
rant that be is ashamsd to go to col
lege, and really prefers to remain in
obECurity.
We appeal to the farmers to give
their sons an f qual showing. Let those
who wish to be mechanics and farmers
have all the advantages possible.
And where shall they be educated?
It seems perfectly reasonable to sup
pose that they can be better fitted for
their life work at an Agricultural and
Mechanical College than elsewhere.
This is a government college; hence
not only cheap, but necessarily efficient.
What are its special advantages?
First, it gives as good a general edu
cation as any other college in the State ;
second, it gives a first-class education ;
third, it gives as good a course in Eog
lish, mathematics, etc , as others ;
fourth, it gives a student the benefit of
military discipline; fifth, it gives prac
tical training, as well as theoretical
knowledge.
Too many have an erroneous idea of
the college. They imagine that it is
simply a manual labor training school.
This is not the case. It not only gives
the manual labor training, but in ad
dion gives a broad and thorough gen
eral education.
It educates a boy for his life, makes
and fits him for positions of usefulness
and responsibility, as e yidenced by the
large number of its graduates who
have procured good positions soon af
ter they graduated.
As mentioned in The Caucasian, two
of the graduates are on the Vander
bilt estate and now they want a third
one.
How does the expense compare with
colleges generally? By consulting the
reports it will be found that a student
holding a county appointment can go
through on $68, board included. If he
is not a county student he pays a small
additional fee.
Considerable work is given to the
needy students and many are thus en
abled to pay one fourth, or one half of
their expenses. This of itself is a good
educator as it teaches them habits of
industry and frugality. Too much
can not be said in praise of this prati
cal education given, along with the
thorough collegiate cause.
Let the farmers of the State rally to
the support of their college and give it
all the encouragement it so richly
deserves, and thus carry to a still
higher point the brilliant success it has
already won.
The bast endowment they can bestow
upon it is their bright, intelligent sons
who wifrh to be farmers. Send them to
college and allow them to take advan
tage of what the government and State
has so bountifully provided.
This college has not, does not, and
should not antagonize any other in the
State. Its mission is different aad will
always be different. In fact, instead
of damaging others, it will indirectly
stimulate their growth.
If the farmers wish to be on an eq ial
ity with others, let them educate along
their special line. Education should
be their watch word. It is the open
sesame to progress and advancement in
every department of life.
MIDSUMMER WHOPPERS.
A gentleman was reading yesterday
in the New York Recorder about the
boss grasshoppers that live up in Sulli
van county, N. Y. They are not only
insatiable, but omnivorous The other
day, it is said, Farmer Jay McEwen,
while working in his rye field, hung
his vest, a new one, on the fence, and
in a few minutes the hoppers had eaten
t full of holes. Oa a neighboring f irm
a man left a pair of new shoes out of
doors over night and next day found
that the grasshoppers had partly eat
en them, utterly ruining them.
"That's pretty good," said the gen
tleman, "but they beat that in Texas
Last year some railroad ran a line of
cars through Texas all painted greer,
and when the train stopped at the first
station in the grasshopper country, the
hoppers lit on the cars and ate them
clean down to the wheels."
This story is good, but the cock
roaches, or whatever yon call these
guilty conscience insects that tear eff
in such confusion of face whenever you
discover them, are almost as bad as the
grasshoppers. They have eaten all the
lunch baskets of the Observer's com
posing room fore?, along with their
contents. Charlotte Observer.
In speaking of bugs and appetites,
the above is a very good production of
facts, but at a certain home in this city
the chinch or bedbugs have such raven
ous appetites that they have, during
the past two weeks, eaten three pairs
of socks off the feet of one man and in
past two nights they have sucked the
blood out of Lowe's dummy, which
was put in the sockles3 man's place. -Concord
Standard.
ALLIANCE REORGANIZED.
Correspondsnce of the Progressive Farmer.
SPABKMAN, N. C.
Tar Landing Alliance has reorganized
and commenced work. We had, to
commence with, twenty-two members
We organized on the 27ih day of July
with the following officers : L A Jones.
President; J. W. Jones, Vice-Presi
dent; G. T. Walton, Secretary; A T.
Brown, Lecturer; E M. Bradley,
Door-keeper. We have since elected
other officers, Chaplain, Steward,
Treasurer, etc.
I wrote to you about it once before.
I did not know whether you heard
from me or not.
I wrote to Bro. T. Ivey for a blank
bond and got it, and will forward it to
mm soon, j nave not got my sureties
yet. We want to get straight and get
to trading through our State Business
Agent as eoon as we can.
Yours, etc,
G. T. Walton; Ses.
DR. THOMPSON'S FA540
Re.
As to the "Church" Bein nn . .
Human Slavery, And Not of u e
Freedom-He Does Kot R
ol
ede.
speech at Cary, I made some It
which though wpII w emarb
which though well rrrv
time and without unfavorable5
kind comment bv thnanu. , T-
. , " neard
erable criticism. So far as I h
in the public prints, my critics?
tute, if I may use a term that cn
ly dangles from the pen of the revp
editor of the Wilmington MeaJ?
the man who felt called to Preafv
time of war and called to quit in r
of peace -the same "gang" th t
pressed so great solicitude fCP fV ej"
. . wnen, mthfl.
of their crocodile tears, it
nnll fcir.si anrl rnin1 Jfo"
entinto
iUDC1L rerused
other words, to be the tocl of the '
chine of Democracy in North Caro'i?
Prodigal wi h vile epithets upon J
they again seem solicitous for the w 1
fare of the Order under my preside J"
Having tolerated without proton f
they have not actively upheld
outrageous frauds upon the balloi., f
without the least compunction n?
forth as the champions of the church
Lacking honesty of purpose, thev
neither appreciated nor desired to an
predate the spirit and temper in which
I uttered the sub j set-matter of their
harsh amimad versions. It waa eag
cient for them if I had said sometli,
that they might wrest from its app
priate setting and use against me to
the injury of the Alliance.
The first of my accusers was t'r?
News and Observer. The Gideonit"
who had deceived Joshua that thev
might remain in the promised lacd,
were content afterward to be made
hewers of wood and drawers of water
if only they were permitted to live.
Certain journalists who have deceived
the people of North Carolina would not
be content to occupy so clear a position
as that; they naturally seek a lower
plane, preferring always to drop below
the common level where they can find
mud.
I have no apology to off er on account
of the speech I made at Cary. I said
nothing unadvisedly. The same speech
I would make again to-morrow before
any audience. My j idgment of the at
titude of the church is either correct
or incorrect. I believed then, as I be
lieve now, that my estimate is true. It
was, therefore, what I ought to Jaw
spoken, if it is true, indeed, itiaW.
any man should have said, and I du,
in that case, absolutely right in declar
ing it. Am I to be censured for right
doing? One good pastor eays: "But,
my brother, will it not hurt the church
for you to say it?" Evidently he knew
the import of the French saying,
"Toute vente n'est pas bonne a dire."
It can hurt the church only if it be
true. And if the truth hurts the church,
the church ought to be hurt. I f it is
untrue, on the contrary, nothing would
so much help the church as the demcn
stration of its untruthfulness. For this
at least is true, that in the church and
out of the church, among Allianceme
and non-Alliancemen, Populists, Pro
hibitionrste, Democrats deep in tie
heart of the toiling mas3 of mankind
who struggle consciously or uncoil
sciously toward the divine image and
cry with bitter longing, "Thy Kingd$
come, Thy will be done in earth as its
in Heaven ! ' you will find that the
thought for utterance of which I as
censured and abused has found wide
lodgment and grows surprisingly
conviction.
That the public may know the ppint
and temper of my utterances wherea
I am said to have "attacked," "fll
dered" and "blasphemed" the chins
of Christ, I desire to .summarize hss
what I said on that occasion with'
special preparation. I spoke my eVeff
day thoughts lam an Alliance
because I desire to be, and trust I s5
a Christian. I believe Trith Milt
that there are no songs to be coiUp
with the sonars of Z:on. nn orati jnseq'
to those of the prophets, and no pol&
equal t y those the Scriptures can te
us." I spoke of the work of the &
ance cs a oolitinal fidticator. Titf
WOUld b nn fiYPnuA fnr its exirtfel
especially in a republic, where tbef13
zen is thfnrm.irMllv a RnvereiKn,
attempted to educate and did note
tend its teahinc n.lnnL nolnical lw
It attemDta to fidunatH ' in a t
o O 1
. .j
non partisan spirit" tho only spirI
which a man can ever arrive
frnf.h ''Va cVioll Vr.xrr tho friith.
id
the truth shall make you free"' trJ
applicable alike in politics and " J"
tics or in religion, believing that
has found the truth already, douD"
text, learns no more of truth, butpf
ceed3 only to enforce his belief r
others. If we have been a free peoPj
we recogniza the constant tendency
loss of liberty. T ,h
Eternal vigilance is its price.
erty, like the manua that fell fr
heaveD, because it is perishable &
be contended for every day. P?cea