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; 1) THE PROGRESSIVE? FARMER : NOVEMBER 12, 1895. IB. if !! 4 THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER. MRS. L. L. POLK, - Proprietor. J. L, RAMSEY. -J W. DENMARK. - Business MGR. R. W. SOSSAMANVAss't Bus. MGR. Ralelgb, N. C. -SUBSCRIPTION- insr1 SntTlnflr. OneYefcT... Six Months Cue Ye AT...-? five Subscribers, Ten One copy on year at Tea. $ L25 .75 5.00 10.00 tre. to me one seii"-1 - Money at our rtsfc, 1? sent by register r money order. PLtat aorft ttad ttavn n J&vanct. ! regis tered lette: or money order. mw T', ! t ; r inn Advertising rcaisa quoted To Corefjofviertt.t : Write aU coununlcatlons, deeisrned for pub lication, on one side of the paper only. We want intelligent TSorrespn'i If vMne nnntv In the State. We want faca, of value. S Loompllshed of value, experiences of 2S olaSSv and briefly told. One solid, dSonstraSFaS is worth a thousand theories. The editor is not responsible for the views of correspondents. RALEIGH, N. 0., NOV. 12, 1835. Thit paper entered a iee-onA-eiau matter at the Poit OJiee in Raleigh Jf. C. The Progressive Farmer is the Official Organ of the N. C. Farmers' State Alliance Do you want your paper changed to another office I State the one at which you have been getting it. Our friends in writing to any of our advertisers will favor us by men zoning the fact that they saw the advertisement in Tna Progressive Farmer. f7" Tho date on your label tella you vfhen your time is out. " J 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 tenters 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 ith 1890. N. R. P. A. EDITORIAL NOTES. The Democrats did pretty well last week. They carried two townships in Mississippi and one in Kentucky. Will some one please point out the man who said we can get free coinage or anything: else we wan't in the Demo cratic party? The Democratic National Committee favor a short presidential campaign next year It ia the old adage a short horse is easily curried. Lenoir, the county seat of Caldwell county, has a "Wall street." We guess the sound money Topic news paper ia published on or near that street. The new woman is loaded. A 16 year old Asheville girl had a misunderstand ing with a girl friend and settled the matter by shooting her friend with a pistol. Nero fiddled while Rome burned, and Grover the great went squirrel hunting last Tuesday while the Republicans thrashed the earth with the fragments of the once great Democratic party. Nineteen counties sent 53 convicts to the penitentiary in October. Of these New Hanover contributed 14. The total expense to the State, of convey ing the3e birds to the cage was 1936 65, an average of $17 67 each. The Democratic State Convention of Nebraska, 26 th of Sept. 1894 adopted as one of the planks in its platform, the following: "We are in favor of the operation of the telegraph in con nection with the postal system. It is gratifying to learn that nearly twice as many counties were repre sented at the last annual meeting of the Georgia State Alliance as were at the meeting last year. Georgia has good material, and we would like to see the State in the front ranks. The Salisbury Watchman has a bran new editor. He talks business in this strain: "The Watchman demands equal and exct justice to all,' and on that platform it proposes to stand until Gabriel toots his trumpet, or Josephus Daniels adeems' the State and saves the church." Mr. E. E Reynolds, LAST TUESDAY'S ELECTIONS. Elections were held in fifteen States last Tuesday. Som9 voted for Gov ernor, legislators and county officers, while others did not hold an election for Governor. The result is a Republi' can landslide. Asv national issues did not play an important part in some States, and so much dissatisfaction ex isted among the people, the vote was light in several States. A blizzard in Nebraska and Utah, and indifference combined to keep a great many at home. Ic was expected that old time Repub lican States would go that way this time just for a change, to punish the Cleveland administration, and they went. Pennsylvania, New York, Mas sachusetts, Iowa, Ohio, Illinois, Kan sas, Colorado, Nebraska and Utah all went Republican. But tho following Democratic States took a header and went Republican, to the surprise of everybody: Kentucky, Maryland and New Jersey. Mississippi and Virginia are still Democratic, thanks to their way of counting votes and doing busi ness, but the vote was light. Many Democrats voted the Republican ticket and they combined in some States to defeat the Populi3ts. I c is claimed that the Populists doubled their vote in Iowa and Massachusetts, and made considerable gains in Kansas, but this cannot be ascertained until the official vote is published. They will hoid the balance of power in Kentucky, and the outlook is, it is said in Washington, that they may gain two or three United States Senators in Western States. Ic is a fact that the Cleveland administra tion defeated its own ticket in Ken tucky and Maryland. The public is glad that Gorman, the "Ransom" of Maryland, is defeated, and that Har din, the two faced mn in Kentucky, went under. Tne results as a whole are not an indication of what will be done in those States next year, for it seems that indifference and prejudice against Cleveland combined gave the Republicans full sway, and Democrats and Populists aided them by keeping hands off in some places. The Washington Post humorously remarks: "Now the Democracy knows the exact sensations of a gentleman who falls down stairs with the kitchen stove." OUR PER CAPITA CIRCULATION. Several years ago Col. Polk claimed in editorials written for this paper and in speeches made at various points, that the actual per capita of money in circulation had dwindled, by contrac tion and increase of population to less than $7 when it should be not les3 than $40 or $50. But many could not see why this ehould be so. They quoted the report of the Secretary of the Treas ury a3 being the best authority on the subject, and he claimed that the per capita was about $24. But the Secre tary of the Treasury was counting all the money that had ever been coined and printed. He made no allowance for that which had been burned up, loBt by shipwrecks, carried out of the country, etc. Recently Senator Vest, Democrat, of Missouri, made a speech at Fayette in that State. Senator Vest is an able man. He stands very high in public estimation In this speech he de clared that the actual per capita is but $3.84 and gives the figures to prove it This goes to show that our reform statisticians have not attempted to de ceive tne people, ana mat tney were even too liberal in their estimates. All this is the main cause of the business depression and it can't be removed un til the cause is removed. Several State exchanges declare that the farmers are better off than they have been since the war. If thi3 be true we will not contmue to advocate governmental reform. Thia is a farm ers' paper. We want a letter from every farmer in the State for publica tion. Give us the facts. FACTS TELL ANOTHER STORY. The Statesville Landmark draws a beautiful picture, on DaDer. of how well the farmers of North Carolina are getting along, and says thev would . 1 a tnoroue'ri t- I be fmtirelv harmv if tho nnMtiniana onA being played upon for base purposes; that no good is to come of their chas ing fireflies; that those who are stir ring them up to 6trife mean nothing honest by them. It is time for them to open their eyes. If they will do so happiness will return to them with re turning prosperity ana tnen will be the time for the unprincipled politi cian to be miserable." Just how any man with as much in telligence as the editor of the Land mark has, cm write such stuff is more than we can understand. With onlv a half cotton crop and eight and a half cents for it the farmer can't be pros perous uor contented. Wheat is only a little over 50 cent3 ner bushel loea than cost of production. Corn, we are informed, is selling at 20 cents per bushel in Statesville. Tobacco i3 bring ing better prices than any other pro duct, but it is raised in but a small portion of the United States and can't benefit the public generally, even if the price was twice as high. And this is what the editors and politicians are complaining about. The remedies they suggest are the only sensible ones. In stead of inveighing against them the Landmark ought to be side by side fighting for financial redemption. Oar columns are open to any citizen of Iredell county who will undertake to show that the Landmark is correct in the position taken, or to anv one -j rf - who will take the other side of the question. Let's settle this importhant question right here now. It is impor tant, and is debatable. CONTINUE TO ORGANIZE. In Wake county Superior court Judgo Coble decided one point in the penitentiary case last week. He holds that the directors were not legally elected and that they could not, there fore, elect Capt. W. H. Kitchen eu perintendent of the penitentiary. The case will probably go to the Supreme court. SOME RESULTS OF PUBLIC OWN ERSHIP OF ELECTRIC LIGHT ING PLANTS. What can you say for the "benefits" of private ownership of electric light ing plants after considering the follow ing facts: Bangor, Maine, under private own ership, paid $150 per lamp per year; under public owerehip Bargor pays $48. L3wiston, Maine, under private own ership, paid $1S2 per lamp ; under pub lie ownership Lewiston pays $55. E'gin, Illinois, under private owner ship, paid $266 per lamp; under public ownership, Elgin pays $43. Fairfield, Iowa, under private own ership, paid $373 per lamp; under pub lie ownership Fairfield pays $70. Marshalltown, Iowa, under private ownership, paid $125; under public ownership, MarehalltOwn pays $27. In nearly every instar c3 the service under public ownership is better than private corporations give. GOLD PRODUCTION INCREASING. former and experienced newspaper 1 editors would hush up. It says: man is now eunur ui mo ouiaoury 1 "is snould not be difficult, under Watchman. He will doubtless make a 1 present circumstances, for the people good paper tor ine people 01 tnai sec 1 or. tnia gooa State, who are doing their X tien if they will all unite in giving the duty to themselves, to enjoy a large ... J T : I mooo,,. . " support tne paper ueserves. -ouaiuvrss 1 "'omH Ui. Jnxentment. The earth has been so dull in all lines ana m tne I naa responaea generously to their newspaper business especially, that wooingg; the prices of agricultural pro most papers are having a hard strug-1 ducts are fairly high ; thethings they cle for people are disposed to econo-1 have to buy are unprecedentedly low; mize in that direction more than any I they enjoy comparative freedom from other, and it requires constant and spe-1 vexatious debt. They would be happy cial efforts on the part of reformers to I if pestiferous demagogues who want help their papers weather the storm, omces, and unprincipled editors who But these papers are needed and must want their money, would stop dinning be supported if the country is redeem 16 to 1 into their ears. Their good ed. Farmers must be persistent and sense and intelligence ought to enable not stop at any reasonable sacrifices in I them to see that their prejudices and tVlO j- t il. I 11 11 1 i . n , -reictsu ui. vueir papers. 1 an iuh luieni aisconient in tnem are 1 The New York Times quotes figures to prove that the annual production of gold is increasing in the United States, Australia, Africa and Russia. Speak ing of the probable effect it says: "It will certainly have one effect that will be both potent and beneficent. It will facilitate the maintenance and extension of the gold standard and re lieve the world of that source of dis turbance and depression involved in a fluctuating currency. Probably that will be the most important influences that it will exert, and the importance of this cannot be overestimated." It also says the increase in quantity of gold will have a tendency to raise the price of everything. Hear it. "It is natural that from the actual increase in gold product, and still more from the advance which is clear ly possible, there should be expected a very considerable effect upon prices, and that the effect will be to raise prices. It is generally believed that, other things being equal, an increase in tbo volume of the metal now univer sally accepted as a money metal must cause it to exchange for a smaller quantity of commodities that is must raise the price of other commodities." This is the first time a gold standard paper has admitted that an increase in the volume of money will incrase prices. We expect the Times was not wide awake when that editorial was penned, and that Wall street has given it more than one curtain lecture for making such a fatal admission. The advocates o bimetallism are not against gold. They want to see every dollar produced that can be dug out of earth. But it doesn't circulate; the you hardly ever see a gold piece, and when we clamor for a resumption of silver coinage we are talking in favor of a money that will circulate, people's money. But if gold were not hoarded, if it were in circulation constantly, the supply is inedequate, and silver is the metal to use as a suplementary money or silver certificates based upon silver either or both will do the work. If there was ever a period in the his tory of the Alliance when it is prob able that the Order can be of service, that period is now confronting us. Tp say nothing of the all important ; sub jects of State and National politics, we are confronted with organization on every hand, of every magnitude, kind and character, all on the make with self-interest right down close at the bottom. In fact, self interest is the tap root that supports and even in duces these organizations, says the Columbia, Cotton Plant. The farmer is the' hardest and most difficult being in the world to move up along this line and force to see and fully appreciate the necessities of organization and co operation. While we are getting ready for win ter quarters and are forgetful of the future from a co-operative view the fertilizer men are organizing and get ting ready for the crop of 1896. It is but proper for them to organize and and know just what the fertilizer mills of the country can produce, and as nearly what the farmer will us 3 as is possible for him to know. Tne making of the fertilizer, is not done for the fun of the thing but for the money that is in it. While it is but just, proper and right that the fertilzer men organize and keep them selves fully posted in order to move and manage their business with intel ligence, success and profit, it is also proper that the farmer keep himself posted as to what is goiDg on in every department of the farming world. The bagging trust had its origin in an organization of manufacturers of bagging organizing for their mutual benefic and protection, but uncon sciously fell into the hands of a greedy monopoly who got control of the out put of mills and then forced prices up without any benefic to the manufact urers. This is not impossible in the case of the fertilizer companies. Their output might fall into the hands of a syndi cate organized to control the supply, and thus prices could be forced up be yond reason to the f aimer. Organize, and be ready for whatever may come. These fertilizer companies are not our enemies but they are men like ourselves and are organizing. The Washington, D. C. "News" con tains a long article by Judge Walter Clark, of Raleigh, N. C, reprinted from the "American Law Review" in favor of the telephone and telegraph being operated by the government for the benefit of the people. He considers it not only constitutional but practical ly mandatory by law. THE ALLIANCE SHOE FACTORY. The State Executive Committee is still at work trying to select the best site for the shoe factory that has been or may be offered. But no agreement has been reached yet. It is likely that they will meet again this week, make a trade and bring matters to a focus The, delay is a matter of regret to all, but it couldn't well be avoided after the disappointment at Cary. Stock for the factory is coming in daily, as it should, and no one need hesitate about sending in the cash, for as we have said before, the factory is i a cer tainty, and the only hitch is about the best place to locate it. If the cash for stock is forwarded promptly all the better for getting the factory started at an early date. If our patrons will work as hard, study as hard and make half as many sacrifices in trying to pay up and keep their subscriptions paid as we make in getting out a paper that is standing up for your rights, we will soon have no delinquents on our books. This means you if you are behind. We want to hear from you at once. come to realize "that principles are above party and men above measures. "While it is the duty of every man to vote, it is more to his credit not to vote than to do so blindly and igno- rantly. When a man comes to the point where he refuses to vote, how ever pessimistic he may be with regard to politics, it is a hopsful sign. He has begun to think, not deeply, it may be, but he is apt to go deeper, and after awhile be able to locate himself." OUR OFFER FOR NCVEMBE Have you read our liberal l' 1 t "JM tun Pper, delinquent sub3crbers? If not once to the 6 th page of this 2t CALLS A HALT. THIS MEANS SOMETHING. In most of the several State elec tions last week a light vote was polled. Even in Kentucky, Maryland, New York and other States where the con test was bitter and the result likely to be close, nothing like a full vote was polled and but little enthusiasm dis played. In regard to this the Rich mond Evening Star, a very reliable and patriotic paper says: "The fact that only about 4,000 votes out of a balloting population of at least 16,000 were cast yesterday in Rich mond is pregnant with significance. Twelve thousand American citizens cared not to exercise their right as freemen ! Digest that in your mind ! VHere, as elsewhere, the arrogance of political bosses and the journals that shamelessly stand with them ia becom ing more and more distasteful to the people. Here, as elsewhere, the mere name of 'party' is losing its grip upon the masses. The people are growing exasperated, to think of themselves being driven like cattle at the ciack of the party whip. And this is natural as they advacca in intelligence and Judge Chas. P. Latham, of Virginia, gets after the Richmond Times, gold bug, and the Times can't answer. Judge Latham writres the Times as fol lows: "But," you say, "cotton will prove the most puzzling problem of all to them." "Cotton within the last six months has almost doubled in value." "Why has that gone up so amazingly m price, 11 the aemonetization ot silver was causing so many things to fall?" You give a partial answer to thi3 question yourself when you say in the same editorial that as we make little more than half of our usual cotton crop we ought to get double price for it. As the United States produces nearly four-fifths of the cotton supply of the world, a failure of the crop In this country will necessarily put up the price, notwithstanding the demonetiza tion of silver, but producing little more than half of our usual crop, cotton is now only nine cents per pound, where as in 1873 it was twenty cents. It has constantly and regularly fallen since that time, until in 1894 it sold for a lit tle more than six cents. In each of the years, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1889, 1890, the crop was larger than the present one. The crops for all of these years were as large as usual, and yet the price averaged more than ten cents. Before the demonetization of silver we cculd make a full crop and get a good price for it, but now we must make only half of our usual crop or consent to take half price for the full crop. This is the legitimate effect of the destruction of one half of our re demption money. A failure of the American wheat crop would have no effect upon the wheat market of the world, because we don't produce so great a portion of the world's supply of wheat as we do of the world's supply of cotton. In 1873 we produced 3 930, 508 bales of cotton, for which we received $301, 087,500. In 1894 we produced 7,549 817 bales, nearly twice as much as in 1873, and yet we received for it only $263,857,000, about $36,000,000 less than we received for one half of the quantity in 1873. Who has gotten the benefit of this fall in price? England and the other countries of Europe, because they purchase every year more than two thirds of our crop. It seems to me, Mr. Eiitor, that the only thing produced in this country that has not fallen in price during the last twenty years is gold, and the ten dency of the price of that is still up ward. As long as that goes up the price of everything else must come down. It is governed by the law of supply and demand, so often quoted by you. Population and the demands of trade are constantly increasing, while the supply of gold remains unchanged. While this condition lasts the purchas ing power of gold will continue to in crease, and we had as well look the fact squarely in the face. Respectfully yours, Chas P. Latham. read it, If you are two or m. behind on your subscription. jt save you one or two dollars p V and mail us a dollar and your S Jh hrtn will ho mftrb-orl nn - - t We are receiving letters duily Hlir? n dent. nnhsfrihia A "uijuretov advantage of this offer, and near! of them express their thanks an preciation for our kindne-s They say money is so -lCarc3 fi tneir paper, duc inat this WATSON ON BLAND AND BRYAN. Billy Bryan, as we observe, is still a Democrat. Billy is quite a flirt. Between old man Dick Bland at one end of the line and young Billy Bryan at the other, can be found every known variety of political kicking except the sort which amounts to something. Their kicking seems to be done by accurate measurement, and their buck ing governed by careful calculation. We notice that while they are "for ever and eternally" going to do about and smash things and create a rucus, that they never do it. Their roaring is that of Bottom the weaver, and is constantly accomplished by a side re mark, explaining that the lion has human bowels after all, and really does not mean to hurt the audience. Go it, Dick ! Go it, Billy 1 When it comes to kid glove fighting, cologne bottle revolution, no two Miss Nancies on the American continent can hold a candle to you. Some people are at a I033 to define the word "money." Tne American Encyclopaedia dictionary says: "Es sentially money is a ticket or order en titling the holder to receive a quantity of any commodity or other service equal in. value to the amount indicated on the face of the order." In short. y money is a sign of value that's all. Farmer and Miner. liberal they can not help e.pprc ciat and taking advantage of it. Remember this offer only hold 3 during this month. Liter than 30th we shall expect the full am0 of ycur indebtedness, and if y0u not paid up in full by Jan. i t ' T paper will surely be stopped. j our offer. IMPORTANT DUTY RESTING CLERKS OF THE SUP. RIOR COURTS. Section 5 Ch. 159 of the Actscf; is as follows: "That the Cierkot Superior Court of each county fe within twelve months after then cation of this act, establish, altei create separate places of ckc.iot their respective counties, so as to vide, as near as may b?. at least" separate place of voting for & three hundred and fifty electors every sub division of their rop?c counties, whether such sub-divisio-a township, village, city or ware which Slid action the clerk shall due notice by advertising in some lie journal published in the count any such there be; otherwise, in s public place within the boun.hri each of said voting places or precii and at the court house in the cour Ratified 8th March, 1895. ENTIRELY CORRECT. The wave of prosperity we wa; one which will sweep evenly ovei farm.3 and homes and workshops 0 poor and rich, in country and V not the prosperity which hovers ar the doors of the salaried officehol money lenders and corporations, we will stand by any party whose ciples when enacted into law will ; such prosperity. Salisbury W man. CREAM OF THE PRESS. 7 Hard Hits. Bold Sayings and Paf Paragraphs from Reform Paper Hold up the hands of the editon are fighting tho money power i( ,:" would preserve liberty in this cou Labors' Tribune. If the cuckoos would talk less .. . honest money and more about t ;i elections, the people would n jo Southern Mercury. Colonel Bob Ingersoll says that v . was president he would q lit f -long enough to recognize the Cub- ; belligerents. Chicago Express. Has the price of cotton, cor wheat no rights that ehould served, as well as the price of 1 bonds and notes? TuscalooeaJc ' The Bible denounces usury. ; includes simple, legal interest, fixed income class is the usury Voter, of what party are youf-f r' and Miner. S.m8body has been mean eno suggest that it is a pity that or i' portraits of Cleveland and Saera hanging in the bank of Eogk,: Tuscaloosa Journal. Farmers you have no busnii enquire what your money goes is only your business to get & your "working pants" and dig 1 Council Grove Courier. Aldridge of Dallas, says Wall would be for free silver if it war;i injuring the poor farmer. If fr -ver is an injury the "poor fi'x wants to be "injund." CI -Herald. Our government is liable to t J war against France for the no mentof Walter but Debs u f prison without a fair trial, &1 governments silent TuecaliX ' Journal. Tne difference between and Demo Republicanism is tma former believes in the law d -money, while the latter favors : making the laws. Coxe D- The British are after the gM ' of the Venezuelan country, &11 will have them regardless 01 Uncle Sam can do, controlled b: tories as ndw held forth at v ton. Southern Mercury. The old party fellows tell u there is plenty of money in the try. The preachers tell us tb plenty of fire in hell, too, but 1. not warm the poor who haven money to purchase coal thwwii;-' Lgadville Reporter. I
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