1ST
BE PROGRESSIVE FARDER : DEOEIIBER 3, 1895.
M PROGRESSIVE FARE
lllia Lu L. POLK, -J.
I.- RAMSEY, - J?0
J W. DENMARK. - Business M g'e.
B. W. S033AMAN,-Ass'tBus. M'gr.
R&lelz, N. C
SUBSCRIPTION
Clnele Subscriber, Orie Yer. . . L
- Six Mcntlifl
m Subscribers, One Year...,,
tea 44 One Year 10.00
One copy one rear free, to the one sending On
t f Ten.
Ccu.V-Ineara5Iy n tdleane.
Money t our risk. If sent by registered letter
ar money order. Pieaw don't wnd ftamv .
Advertlfllng iUtea Quoted on application.
To OorrMDondsnti :
Write all ooannunlcatlons, designed for pub
lication, on one side of the paper only.
We want Intelligent correspondents In every
county In the State. We want facUot value,
results accomplished of value, experiences of
value, plainly and briefly told. One solid,
demonstrated fact, Is worth a thousand theories.
The editor is not responsible for the
lews of correspondents.
RALEIGH, N. a, DEO. 3. 1835.
This paper nter cm Meond-etatt matter at th4
Post OHU4 in ItcOtiaK XT. C
The Progressive Farmer Is the OSclaJ
Organ of the N. C Farm era' State Alliance
Do you want your paper changed to
another office t State the one at which
you have been getting it.
E7-Our friends in writing to any of
our advertisers will favor us by men
tioning the fact that they saw the
advertisement in Tun Peogressivx
IS?" The date on your label tells you
?hen your time is out.
om 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
und the river. When I mingle with its
dark waters I want to cast one linger
ing look upon a country whose govern
ment is of the people, for the people,
and by the people, L. L. Polk, July
4th, 1890.
N. R P. A
. , EDITORIAL NOTES.
Hickory AUiance,in Catawba county.
has 75 members and holds rousing good
meetings every time. What is your
Alliance doing, brother?
A letter from Rockingham county to
Secretary Barnes brings the informa
tion that Brother Massey has been
doine some erood work there. Six
Alliances were organized and reorgan
ized.
O wing to rain early last week the
photographer could not get the photo
graphs of the buildings at Hillsboro,
recently purchased for Alliance head
quarters, and this delayed the making
of the cut?. One cut only appears with
the address of the Executive Cjmmit
tee in this issue. O -her cuts and inf or
mation will be published next week.
If reports be true, Mr. William Cobb,
of Cleveland county, who died recently
at the age of 91 years, was a remark
able character. It is eaid that he ate
a chicken every day for forty years
prior to his d3ath. At that rate he
consumed no less than 14,600 chickens
probably more than any ten persons
ever ate during a life-time, and he was
not a preacher, either.
The total tax valuation of property
in North Carolina for this year is $259,
634, 419. Thi3 includes city and coun
try property, factories, railroads.
everything. The population of the
State ia about 1,700,000. We are told
that two or three men in the North are
worth as much as our entire State
property is valued at. This shows
.something radically wrong with our
laws or trie enforcement of them.
The Nav73 and Observer issued its
cotton mill edition on Thanksgiving
Day. It consisted of 36 pages, six
columns to the page, and contained
illustrations of many of the mill build
ings and cuts of cotton mill owners
and offijers, with splendid writeups.
We understand that most of the work
was done by Mr. F. B. Arendell. Oar
neighbor displayed a great deal of en
terprise and it will astonish even the
natives to read what ia being done in
the way of cotton manufacturing in
this State. Several thousand extra
copies of the paper were printed and
they will be distributed in Atlanta and
elsewhere.
-.-
LIR. CLEVELAND A REPUBLICAN.
Hoke Smith's paper, the Atlanta
Journal, in speaking of the recent elec
"Judging from the unanimity with
nents oi me irresiueiifc luaw xuesuuy,
the people are still with Mr. Cleveland
m.- - i t- :j a. 1 t. m j
If the recent elections show that the
people are with Mr. Cleveland, as the
Jotirnn.1 nfnfna C. atral a n A muaf K
n. full t ui: mi i
licana carried all of the Northern States
and Marvlftnrt and .v .j;
tion. It the Journal ia correct in its
statement. Wn mi .-
Publican.WUmington Dis-
A NATIONAL ALLIANCE ORGAN.
We publish a very interesting letter
from Secretary Duncan, of the National
Alliance. It is found on page 8. We
fully agree with, him as to the impor
tance of a clonal organ; in fact, all
ho write
I the national officers
should (
or elsetf
a great
nd heard in that organ
T$ ia a shame that such
vtion has no national
organ, rat one did not meet
pectations, it isliae, but there are hun
dreds of true and tried editors that
can't be bought. At one time the
National Economist was the most in
fluential paper in the United States,
but it deviated from the beaten path
and its patrons dropped it at once, and
they did right. But right then and
there another paper ought to have
been started with an honest editor.
The National Watchman, whose edi
tor has been in the Alliance ranks from
the start, has been kind enough to
offer the uae of his columns, and much
good Alliance matter has appeared
therein from time to time, and the
only reason more has not been printed
was because it was not furnished. The
Alliance must be kept up and the waste
places rebuilt. A national organ is the
need of the hour. It can be published
in Washington, or elsewhere, no matter
about the location, but the editor must
be true and tried, and capable of run
ning an independent, nonpartisan pa
per, and be a non office hunter himself.
Political action is necessary to secure
important polital reform, but an Alii
ance organ should not wear a party
collar.
CONGRESS HAS MET.
Congrees is again in session. For
some time such an announcement has
been sufficient to frighten the bravest
of the brave, for instead of benefiting
the people, each session has been a
curse. We hope the present Congress
will be an exception, but there is noth
ing to encourage anybody. Of course
many old, tried and true tools of the
money power have been retired or will
all be when their terms expire such
as R-mscm, Brice, Gorman, Breckin
ridge, Hill, Ingalls and others, some
new blood has been infused, but not
enough yet to rescue the country.
The Republican party has the chance
of a life time to redeem a dark past, in
part, at least, but will it do it! The
Democratic party acted both the fool
and the rascal two years ago, and the
Republican party will likely do the
same.
But we have less to fear from this
session than any previous one for
twenty years, and less to hope for in
the way of good things, as we see it.
That leaves us in a position to hope for
nothing good. Oa the other hand we
are led to believe that no bad laws can
be passed, for the six Populist Senators
hold the balance of power in the Senate
The only chance to pass a bad law, if
these Populist Senators are true, is for
the Republican and Democratic Sena
tors to combine. If they do not com
bine no bad law can pass by a party
vote. But the disgraceful, dishonest
combination of Republicans and Demo
crats in the last Congress to demone
tize silver is still fresh in our minds and
it may be repeated. But, as we said
befora, unless there is a combine of the
tools of the money power, we are in
less danger of bad legislation now than
for a long time. At any rate let us be
cheerful as possible and hope for the
best if the worst comes.
WHAT HAS IT ACCOMPLISHED.
The country has been assured that
upon the death of the free silver craza
the business of the country would take
on new life. That great man of the
goldbuer contingent. Mr. Confidence, it
was said, upon the accomplishment of
this end would step forth in his best
dress and start up business with a
boom, says the Richmond Star.
The cold Dress assures ua that free
silver is dead, very dead, dead with a
big D, but Confidence does not seem to
have gotten on his "Doom rig," but
still remains in biding. The Atlanta
Constitution has an editorial on this
subject which we think gives ample
room to doubt if the cuckoos have not
been fibbing to the people as they did
in their promises as to what the repeal
of the 43herman law would accom
plish.
The Constitution says: "There were
two lessons drawn from the results of
the recent elections and commented to
the public by the cuckoos and the gold
organs.
'One was that, although the Demo
crats in all States where they met de
feat had indorsed the administration's
policy in the most fulsome terms, their
defeat was a Vindication of the ad
ministration which they indorsed.
"Another was that the defeat of the
Democratic party in the States where
the administration had been indorsed
was an assurance that the cause of
bimetaliam is hopelessly doomed.
"We find it impossible to follow this
line of reasoning."
'But, putting that confusion aside,
and agreeing for the moment that the
defeat of the Democrats in States
where they have indorsed the single
gold standard means the doom of bi
caetalism, what is the first result that
confronts ut It .will be more signfi
cant if we permit the gold organs to
to tell the story.
"At the the close of election week
the New York correspondent of the
Philadelphia Ledger writes to his pa
per that there was a pretty general de
cline in prices, some reaction from rev
cent activity in trade, a noticeable in
crease in the number and importance
of failures and the temporary closing
of factories in several large trades,
either because of a decreased demand
or from a desire to maintain prices by
curtailing production. The boom in
iron is subsiding. Sugar refiners have
been closed. The United States Leath
er Company has stopped production
for sixty daya."
Monday last the Philadelphia Press,
a gold organ, said that prices have
been failing for a week;' that pig iron
lost value, cot ion fell, the tanneries
have resorted to the desperate expedi
ent of closing to maintain prices, and
that 'food and raw materials are fall
ing in price. The same paper describes
the situation as 'a financial powder
magazine.'
"All this in the face of the alleged
fact that all fear of an unsound cur
rency has passed away ; that the public
credit has been reetored and that the
'hundred cent dollar' has been vindi
cated. Putting the victory' and the
collapse together, what do the people
think of it! No sooner is the 'public
credit' restored , and the single gold
standard 'finally established' than busi
ness firms begin to fail, prices fall,
manufactories close down, gold begins
to go out and we find ourselves in the
midst of precisely the same conditions
that precedod and followed the repeal
of the purchasing clause of the Sher
man act.
"With the Philadelphia Manufac
turer, we desire to inquire what the
people have gained by the establish
ment of the British gold standard.
Who is profiting by the situation!
What have the people gained by the
collapse that has been present with us
ainco a recklessly inefficient Secretary
of the Treasury violated the law by
ruling that, while silver may be good
enough for the people, only gold should
be paid to the bankers and nabobs of
finance who demand that metal at the
counters of the sub treasury.
"Who is reaping the profits of the
situation! the farmers who must work
harder for each dollar they get! the
manufacturers who are closing their
mills! the storekeepers who have lost
business by reason of the impoverish
ment of their customers! Though the
British gold standard has increased the
profits of the nabobs of finance a thou
sand fold, has' it given the common
people of the country anything else
than desolation and misery f '
Who rejoices! Nowhere do we hear
the masses of the people telling of in
creased employment. Nowhere do we
hear of the merchants boasting of in
crease of trade. Nowhere do we hear
of the farmer increasing his acreage
and preparing for increasing his force
of hands. On the contrary, the reverse
of all this is heard on every hand. The
cuckoos and gold press find great cause
for rejoicing and thus give evidence
that, like Nero, they "fiddle" while the
common people who read their flaming
announcements are at the point of
starvation.
The small farm3r should produce the
best horses, as he is better prepared to
carefully mature the two or three colts
constantly under his care and by hand
ling them constantly they ar9 educated
to work ; but most do not appreciate
their advantage; they raise the scrub,
and let the larger dealers raise those in
which i3 the most money.
POPULISTS DYING IN KANSAS.
Below we give a comparative state
ment of the vote in Kansas for county
officers in 1893 and 1895. It shows, as
we suspected, that the Associated
Press report of the election was un
true: , 1893
1895
CO CD O
3 2 ''
? 8 5
P trf
P P
CO CD
o
13
5 E.
Officers. o
Op
P a-
Clerk 75 4 26 66 5 33
Treasurer.... 72 5 28 69 3 32
Register 77 3 25 69 4 32
Sheriff 70 4 31 65 4 39
Coroner 69 6 30 73 3 29
Surveyor .... 71 3 31 73 0 31
Total 434 25 171 415 19 196
These figures show that the Repub
licana lost 19 ; Democrats lost 6 and the
Populists gained 21 county officera.
They show that both old parties are
losing ground in Kansas, and that not
withstanding reports to the contrary,
the populists are getting more popular
than ever, even though the fight was
on State, or rather county issues, there
this year.
POSITIONS OF HONOR AND
TRUST.
The laws of our land declare that no
citizen can hold two positions of honor
and trust, No man can fill two county
offices legally, nor can he fill a county
and State office, or State and national.
This is right, but in some instances the
law has been violated, and we will not
have to go outside of this State to put
our hands on the men who have done
euch things.
There is another species of wrong
that the law does not reach, except in
a general way : Members of the bar
who are elected to Congress to fill high
positions in the State frequently go
right on with their law practice and
neglect the duties required of them as
public officials. Often men in high
places fill positions of trust in corpo
rations and various other business en
terprises and go right on drawing sala
ries from two sources. Senator Carl
isle is still an attorney for the whiskey
trust, it is said. Many public men
might be mentioned. This is not right.
NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CONFER
ENCE.
We publish a copy of a call for a
general conference of Christians which
will meet in Atlanta Dec. 18 and 19
The call has been widely circulated
and signed by many prominent min
isters, teachers and citizens. The call
we publish was signed mainly by cit
izens of Raleigh. We think the idea
is a good one, and it is gratifying to
see that they appreciate the fact that
to have a good government good men
must be elected to office, and that
many of the evils of the day are di
rectly traceable to political corruption
and blind party adherence. We notice
that but few of the political papers are
publishing the call. This shows that
such a uniting is not approval by the
party bosses.
NOT SURPRISING.
The man Schlatter, . who has been
creating such a commotion at Denver
and other Western cities, is a very
smart fellow. He pretends to perform
miracles, healing the sick and doing
other wonderful things. People swear
that they are cured the moment he
lays his hands on them. We can't
quote the Scriptures from memory,
but think something is said about such
cattle. It is even told that men will
claim that they are Christ himself.
However, Schlatter makes no such
claims, and, to his credit, be is said
that he makes no charge for his so
called healing powers. But that may
come later. Doubtless he is a man
possessing a . wonderful amount of
magnetism and strong will power. The
supposed healing is nothing more nor
less than a species of hypnotism aided
by imaginative patients.
But he has made a reputation. His
followers number thousands. They
believe that: he is infallible. This,
however, is not at all surprising.
When we consider that Cleveland has
made probably one fourth of the peo
ple of this country believe absolutely
(they say they do) that the only way
to make money plentiful is to quit
making it, and that money is needed
in but a small number of business
transactions, and other rubbish that
any ten-year-old boy or girl knows to
be untrue contrary to all common
sense, all natural laws when he can
do this, and in addition create doubt
in the minds of many others make
them half believers in his hell born
schemes to ruin the masses and en
throne a few plutocrats, himself
among the number, you need be
astonished at nothing you hear in the
way of humbuggery. The people like
to be humbugged ; they are in an ex
cellent mood for it right now. Tell
them that the sun is five hundred mil
lions of miles from the earth; that
Professor so and so has just measured
it, and straightway they turn loose
that othbr astromomical lie about it
being exactly 92,000,000 miles away.
Just any tomfoolery will be swallowed
by the so called smart set. But, thank
God you can't fool all of the people all
the time. This era of foolishness will
pass away, the clouds are drifting.
WHAT THE FARMER WANTS.
In one of our daily newspapers we
find a communication from an alleged
Kansas farmer, who says that "the
farmer cannot afford to do away with
100 cent dollars." The farmer cei tain
ly does not want to do that, and no
farmer has ever claimed to want to do
it, says the Farmers' Voice.
He simply wants 100 cent dollars,
and no 50 or 150 cent dollars. But just
now, whether the farmer likes it or
not, somebody has done away with all
kiads of dollars. The farmer is not
burdened with dollars of any kind,
shape or material; and while the rich
money loaning thieves of the world
have their way in our national legis
lature, the farmer never will be
troubled with many dollars of any val
ue. But this alleged Kansas farmer
seems to be in a happy frame of mind I
as a Rotchschild. He says, among
other muddy things, that "we must
keep in mind that under the United
States form of government the people
always get the laws they want." That
sounds like the vaporings of a subsid
ized editor of a great daily, and it is
impossible, with the evidence at hand,
to determine whether the writer is a
representative fool or a representative
knave. When did the people get what
laws they wanted! And if they did
secure a little legislation that they
asked for, when was the law executed!
Did not the people object to the whole
sale distribution of public lands to the
railroads! Did the objection do any
an good! Have they not demanded
that the railroads be compelled to re
turn the land grants that they have
not earned! Were they made to do it!
Did they not vote for a rigid reform
of the tariff when Mr. Cleveland was
elected! Did they get what they voted
for! Have they not clearly signified
their antagonism to trusts, and has it
done them any good! Have they not
clearly shown that they wanted protec
tion from railroad extortion and have
they ever got it! And considering the
silver plank, in the last national Demo
cratic platform, did not the Democratic
landslide mean that the people wanted
free coinage! If it did not mean that
and thorough tariff reform what on
earth did it mean! And the recent
landslides the other way was an ex
hibition of the popular indignation or
it meant nothing.
CREAM OF THE PRESS.
Hard Hits, Bold Sayings and Patriotic
Paragraphs from Reform Papers.
When food, wool and cotton are the
cheapest why are the people so hun
gry and poorly clad! Answer with
your ballot. Sound Money.
A free silver man who will vote for
a goldbug candidate because his party
nominates one, ought to trade back
bones with a fish worm. People's
Pilot.
The history af the world does not
furnish a single instance of a system of
banks of issue that did not rob both
the government and the people Lead
ville News Reporter.
Let us think for ourselves, brother
farmers, says a farm paper. It is gocd
advice, but farmers come as near
thinking for themselves as any other
class. Farmers' Voice.
The poorest job that God ever did
was making the man who kicked like
a bay steer against hard times yet
voted for them every time with a jack
ass smile on his f ace. R asseliville
Hustler.
The November returns to the De
partment of Agriculture report the
present corn crop the largest on record.
The large yield will benefit the specu
latbrs, not the producers. Western
Watchman.
Tne D.mocratic party seems to have
fallen in the grave they have been dig
ging for the People's party. Better
quit digging graves gentlmen, you are
too small to get out, when you fall in
one. Farmers' Outlook.
If we had a bread famine in this
country and only fifty million bushels
of wheat to feed our people, what kind
of a proclamation would Grover issue
to help us out and relieve the famine!
Destroy one-fifth ten million bushels!
This would be in accord with his finan
cial plan. Bound Money.
REFORMERS TO MEET.
Call for a National Christian Conference
to be Held in Atlanta, Ga., De
cember 18 and 19, 1895.
We, the undersigned advocates of
reform, viewing with anxious concern
the many evils of the day, unite in a
call for a National Christian Confer
era to be held at the city of Atlanta,
Ga., December 18 .h and 19 h, 1895.
Crime and lawlessness are abroad in
the land ; Sabbath desecration is great
and growing; laws for the suppression
of blasphemy, gambling and other
vices are frequently and shamelessly
violated; in many cities and in somo
whole States the Bible has been ban
ished from the public schools ; in the
United S :atss there are more than forty
different sets of divorce laws; the sev
enth and eighth commandments and
other precepts of the Decalogue are
constantly broken; the people of the
United States alone squander $1,000,-
000,000 for liquor in a year, while the
liquor traffic, causing a large propor
tion of the crime and suffering, is an
nually killing 100,000 of our citizens;
and the army of the destitute and the
ranks of the unemployed are continu
ally growing.
Viewing also the bribery and corrup
tion in politics ; remembsring the dis
graceful acts and riotous scenes in some
of the State Legislatures of 1895, and
the shameful closing hours of the fifty
third Congress; that, while there are
some good-men in office, we have been
electing and appointing far too many
bad and incompetent ones, all the way
from courts of Justices of the Peace to
the halls ol the United States Capitol;
that many good laws are not enf .... .
and that there has been much unIf- '
n.nd rrvnriTf. 1
inc t.rw- fViaf. V.. f-
God, shall be turned into deatructift
that righteousness exalteth a nat?
hilt: pin ia a .An.MnAv i. - a0Q
that when the righteous are in ami?
itv the neonlfl
counseled to "provide out of the
counseled to "provide out of the
pie able men, such as fear God meV;
truth, hating unjust gain;" and 1,
eternal vigilance is the price of libert
Believing that as the morals 0f '
in authoritj , so in great measure w n
oe those 01 the people; that no nnii-,
party has a right to expect the a
of Christian people so long as that pL.
that from seventy-five to ninety'
cent, of the people are in favor of ?
uixj.ci.cub iciUiixia ttUvocaLea; that th
best politics and the best political ecoiv
omy is to elect the best men; that it
a mistake for good citizens to hold back
from politics; that primany elections,
and nominating conventions are as h.
portant as the polls on election Jav
and believing further that the gfj
impediment to action is not discupsg
but the want of that knowledge wfcj
is gained by discussion, and that the 0
should be a union of all reform forces
we request all Christian citizens of the
United States to attend or send repre
sentatives to this Conference to be held
at the city of Atlanta, Ga., BEGIN.
NING AT 9 A. m , WEDNESDAY, DE
CEMBER 18th, 1895, to consider these
vital issues of the hour, to promote bU
wise measures of reform, and to devi e
some means for choosing only good and
competent men for public office.
Christian churches, societies of
Christian Endeavor and other young
people's unions, Woman's Christian
Temperance Unions, Young Men's
Christian Associations, and all kindred
organizations are urged to send dele
gates to this Christian Conference.
S. T. NICHOLSON,
Special Agent Union Central Life la-
surance Co., and Temporary Secre
tary.
REV. D. H. TCJTTLE,
President State Temperance Associa
tion. J. W. CARTER, D. D.,
Paster First Baptist Church.
JAMES DINWIDDIE,
Principal Peace Institute.
B. F. MONTAGUE. "
W. N. JONE3.
M. M. MARSHALL, D. D.,
Rector Christ Church.
C. B. DENSON, ,
Principal Male Acadsncj.
HUGH MORSON,
Principal Male Academy.
A. M SIMMS, D. D.,
Pastor Baptist Tabernacle.
JUDGE WALTER CLARK, L. L D.
REV. JOHN N. COLE,
Pastor Elenton St. Church.
COL J. S. CARR.
T. B. FULLER.
W. J. YOUNG,
Principal Iastituto for the Blind.
WALTER H. OVERTON,
General Secretary Young Men's Chris
Association. R. T. GRAY,
Attorney at Law.
W. H. WORTH,
State Treasurer.
W. S. PRIMROSE,
President North Carolina Home Insurance-Go.
A. M. POWELL.
JOHN T. PULEN,
Cashier Raleigh Savings Bank.
EUGENE DANIEL, D. D.
HON. C. M. COOKE
REV. JAS. L. FOSTER,
Pastor Christian Church.
N. B. BROUGHTON,
publisher.
HON. C. M. BU3BEE,
Postmaster.
J. C. CADDELL,
D. J. MOOD,
Supt. Sunday schoot.
EMMETT L. MOFFITT,
Editor; and others.
Friends to the movement will pleas
paes around this call for signature,
and send along names without delay
Christian people of all denota
tions and of all political partis are in
vited to attend. .
Ail who wish to speak at this Coher
ence will please send their names an
subject at once. .
Funds are needed for immediate
fiitnro ftxnnPfl All ChriStiau r-
ots are requested to contribute
thing to the cuse of Ref orm
manity, Christ and Country.
In addition fco soeeches. to w .
nounced by programme, a few noar8f
the Conference will be lett opeu
general discutsion.
Address all ccommunications w
,8. T. NICHOLSON
- Temporary Secretary, Atla w,
and ovT
friendly to the cause, are requeateu
copy.