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THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER : DECEMBER 24, 1895. 2 TEE PBOGRESSIYE T?unir"u " URS. tu L. POLK, - Proprietor EDITOIi J W. DENMARK MVVr E. W. S033AM A.N.-A83 t Bus. Mgr. RaJelb. N. C. -SUBSCRIPTION to?leSubecrlber, One T.. ........ ... .75 fir,, ou, onaYear C0D7 ma wfeicCto the one nudta 10.U fTea CacY-r.tera3l! in Atwnc. ' To Oorrtsvondentt : Write mil coaioanlcfttJoas, desired for pud- The editor is not responsible for the riews of correspondents. BALEIGH, N. a, DEC. 24 1895. Pent Ojttt in BaI?o7u C The Progressive Farmer Is the Official Organ of the N. C Farmers' State Alliance Do you want your paper changed to another office? State the one at which you have been getting it KT-Our friends in writing to any of sex advertisers will favor us by men tioning the fact that they saw the advertisement in Tsa Progressive Farhsb. 127" The late cn your label tells you frhen your .time is out. " I am standing now just behind the curtain, and in full glow of the coming tunset. Behind me are the shadows on thj. tmrk before me lies the dark valley nd the river. When I mingle with its dark waters I want to cast one linger bnn innk unon a country whose govern ment is of the people, for the people, and by the people, L. L. Polk, July jth, 1890. N. R. P. A. EDITORIAL. NOTES Johnny get your gun, Q rover is on the warpath. The gold organs are slightly off color. - It is sound public men that we need instead of sound money. : And Cleveland wants to save our national honor." Bosh! He couldn't save a pound of pork with a ton of salt. It was very thoughtful in the Preai lent to give the people a Christmas gift in the shape of a war with Eng land. WahVfor that $50,030,000 bond issue. 'The London telegram says it is being negotiated in London. Then the war talk will die down. The Hou39 bill to appoint a Com mission to investigate the Venezuelan affair pa3sei tb.9 Senate Friday. Another junketting tour. We notice that most of the blood thirsty citizens who endorse Cleve land's message and favor war with England are too old to go to war. If you will notice right closely you will see that Q rover is just as anxious to give ti3 a "sound financial policy" now as he was two years ago, and yet he has been giving us that all the time. Great is fraud. Prof. John Graham, of Ridge way, Vice President of the State Alliance, and others, have been in the city since Friday. They are preparing to bring suit to set aside the lease of the North Carolina Railroad. Now is the time to work up your Sab Alliance and county Alliance. Get the members of your Sub-Alliance to gether and get in shape for the Jan uary county meetings. The time is ripe for a genuine bxm, and some counties are going to have it. Why not your county too! Also send in your stock for the shoe faccory. Grover has added $162,000.000, to our national indebtedness just to please the money lord3. Fifty millions more will bring it up to $212,000,000, or about $3 25 per capita. If you have a family of S9ven people you will be $23 more in debt than you were when Grover took his seat. Yet some of you are still throwing up your hats for him. r The Legislative Finance Committee, composed of Senators Farthing and Mit chell, members of the House, Hileman, Julian and Ellis, have completed their ; work in making an examination of the books of the State Treasurer and m - i Auditor. Thev louna every mine in eoDle-pie order. Tne committee con eisted of twp Populists, two Democrats and one Republican. If Grover Cleveland really wanted to prevent foreign invasion and ag gression, why didn't he say so before tie began to sell bonds to Eaglisb bankers? If he wants to guard the lit tle sand-bar down in South America, worth probably ten cents an acre, why didn't he try to save the prosperity hnnor of the DOOple Of thft ?reftt United States instead of bar gaining it away for a few paltry dol lars! Boahl 11 I . - . . . Ti?rt7CCITV I I -iTt7 AT I.IANLU, IS A - Why should farmers and laborers organize? Can any good reason be given for saeh an organization as the Alliance! We think reasons can be adduced which no one ought to ques tion, says the Alliance Advocate, J ones town, Pa. Why did not the farmers and laboring classes organizj forty or fifty years ago? We did not hear of labor organ izations then. Neither did we hear any talk about money kings, monopo lies, or railroad corporations "putting money, bonds, or stocks, where they will do the most good" to influence the action of Congress or State legis latures. The farmers have been fleeced by somebody. They are growing poorer and poorer every day. When people are not suited they may use all honor able means to change their laws. Something is wrong somewhere, and the people have found it out. Hence, the necessity for organization; and it means s amething. Tnere is s omething radically wrong somewhere when those who work least get most. This fact forces itself home to every thoughtful mind. We want to find out where the wrong is. Therefore, we must or ganize. The Farmers' Alliance was organ ized for the purpose of studying and investigating the questions having di rect reference to economic legislation. We have no warfare to wage upon any political party. As an Alliance every member is left free to choose his own political affiliations. We labor to improve the condition of our members mentally, morally, socially und financially, and not to hoist a certain class of men into office on the strength of membership fealty. E ach member votes his own sentiments unrestrained and uniDfl aenced. The Alliance has among its membership men from all political parties and of all shades of opinion, working together in the cause of labor. We aim to educate our members uDon Dublic Questions affecting the welfare of the people in general, and especially of the laboring claase?. Most of the public speakers in this country confine themselves to idea gathered from the newspapers, which are too often paid to publish articles tending to mislead the people. It is our purpose, . as an organization to study and understand certain eco nomic principles which underly our our structure of government, and upon which our prosperity as a people and our continued existence as a Republic depend. We, as an organization, do not charge the political sins to any one party. Tae Alliance is one of the grand est institutions the world has ever pro duced ;rising,as it does,above the slums of party politics, it aims to elevate its members to a highe plane of citizen ship by a system of teaching its prin ciples of political economy, in a strictly non partisan sense. This will enable them to exercise the rights, that of suf frage, to the best interests of not only themselves, but the country at large. This right, we believe, we have testi mony showing, the capitalists have bought and are controlling through the principal avenues of intelligence. Thus you see, farmers and laborers, when you have finished a week of top, you take up your newspaper and read an article on trade, commerce, finance, or the productive interests of the coun try, supposing it to have been written by a sincere thiaker, in your interests, its tone and arguments uninflienced by any expectation of reward, while, in fact, it has been dictated by your monetary enemy, whose interests are just the opposite from yours. By con trolling the channels of information the capitalist holds your confidence with one hand, while with the other he rifles your pockets. The money power is not only controlling the press, but the legislature of the country as well. GOLD EXPORTS AND DECREASED REVENUES. The drain on the Treasury gold ro serve, which Mr. Cleveland character izes as 4 'exasperating, " contines una bated, and concurrently with ths ex" port of gold, we find a marked falling off in government receiDta whioh. nn doubt, is no less exasperating to Mr. Carlisle. To have cut down aDDarant K c expenditures for November to a little over $27,000,000, a sum less by $1,200. 000 than the expenditures during r.h wmilar month last year,says the Phila rrr. and rom 12,000,000 " inetace of increased cnarges of $1,100,000 over the same month of last year, interest chargea made necessary by the accru- - i t 0a tae 1,011(13 8oli for old e- 'vo ana rnpn t u streauou3 efforts to cut down so as to rennrt. a o pt5Q8ea va i in rr w.ww cw compared with October, must, indeed, have been most disappointing to Mr Carlisle. To Mr. Carlisle this falling eff in re ceipts from nearly $28,000,000 forOcto ber to $25 986,503 for November was, perhaps, not expecteu, but to any one not perversely blind to the effect of of gold exports and falling prices on the volume oi imports, this falling off in revenues was not surprising. On the contrary it was just what we ex pected and just what we predicted. That large gold exports and a marked falling off in receipts should come to gether is not accidental. Decreased custom receipts are inevitable result of gold exports, and, custom receipts forming about half of our revenue, a falling off in gross receipts is almost sure to follow such decrease. The coincidence between gold exports and falling prices is only natural, for gold exports lead to a contraction of our currency, and a contraction of our currency is inevitably followed by lower prices, with the result that in centive to foreigners to s?nd us their goods for sale is chocked, imports de crease and custom receipts naturally fall off. In July last receipts aggregated $29,- 069,697, and in August $28,952,696. In the last part of August, gold exports, which had been small and spasmodic durirg July and part of August as sumed large proportions and in the fir-t week of September increased still further in volume. Oir next exports of gold for the last part of August and the first part of September aggregated over $30,000,000, with the result that prices fell, naturally leading to a de cline in the volume of imports, and with the decrease in the volume of dutiable imports, revenue receipts fell from nearly $29,000,000 in August to $27,549,678 in September. During the latter part of September and October gold exports were stayed, and revenue receipts for October showed a slight increase, aggregating $27,901,748 With November gold exports were re sumed, and still continue, in a volume alarming to gold monometallists in general. The result has been to cause a farther fall in prices as our currency has been farther contracted, a decrease in revenue of nearly $2,000,000 over October. RESCUE IT, INDEEDI That unique paper, the Brovard Hustler, says the politicians of this State are trying to obscure State affairs by clamoring against the acts of the national administration. It then says that the only genuine issue before the DeoDle of this Ssate is to rescue the State from the hands of that unholy combination called fusion. Such talk a. is fatigueing. Who is going to rescue it? Do you think that the little handful of post masters and revenue paraders all that is left of the Democratic party can do the job? If the State really needs rescu ing we would like to join in. But as matters stand we don't see any occa sion for anyone to risk his life to save the State. 8ome decided improvements are needed A good many members of the last legislature some of all parties need to b ) kept at home, and the people are going to do that, and they are going to prefis by the mistakes made lastxyear. In the language of the elangist, no more monkey business will be tolerated. Tne last legislature did some excel lent work, it did some bungling work, it did some things we didn't approve. but another one, with the objectionable features and members left off, can and will put this State government in bet ter shape than any other State in the country Rescue it! Well, well! What would you do with it? Do you really believe that any considerable number of the good people of this State want it res cued and placd back in the hands of the soul destroying grave robbing, ballot stealing, spittle-licking, Grover ized political mossbacks who were in full charge for nearly twenty years prior to the last election? We have had trouble enough along that line. Let us strive for better things ahead, but do not take a backward step. HELP BRO. DAVIS. As will be noticed elsewhere, Bro. W. H. Davis, of Williamsboro, Vance county, lost his tobacco cr p and most all his provisions for next year in the burning of his pack house. Brother William is a zealous and energetic AUianceman and has a large family to support. Jf every brother in the State would send him but a small sum it will help liirn very much. , Make his good heaij glad by sending him a Christmas igift. Any funds sent to this office will forwarded him promptly, or it can beJent directly to him. Sub and Countylliances will please take hold of the mtter All delinquent subscribers who write to wish us a Happy New Year, should enclose $2.00 with their letter. Offer on 6th page. THAT TORY MESSAGE. Judss betrayed Cirist with a kiss and received hie pay in silver. Thirty pieces was all he received. Benedict Arnold was probably the most ardent(?) Americaa in the history of the Rsvolu tionary war, but he was tne most con spicuous traitor, tfrover uieveiana betrayed his constituents immediately after he was inaugurated President the second time. Tne amount he received for the job in unknown, and the qual ity of the money is still in doubt. He is the most stupendous traitor ever known, but he adopts the role of a con fidence man and goes about it method ically, seeming to have an unlimited amount cf gall, cheek or whatever you may call it. His Venezuelan messsage, which we publish in full elsewhere, is the latest surprise. The message reads like it came from a thoroughbred American patriot. But it is full of bar room temperance and brothel morality. The Monroe doctrine is all right so far as we know, but nothing pure can come out of cor ruption. The President has shown un-Ameri canism in every move he has made. No sensible man will be caught by this change of front. Oil and water will not mix. His entire administration has been in the interest of the bond buyers of Eagland. He first demone tizsd silver and then began to issue bonds. It is absurd to think that he is unfriendly to Eagland. By reading between the lines you can see the scheme in all its horrible enormity. The same day the message was read the following dispatch was sent from Washington and appearecHn most of the daily papers : "Washington, Dec. 17. The opinion is expressed in treasury circles that the President's message to Congress to-day on the Venezuelan boundary question will have the effect of causing tne Eng lish holders of American securities and stocks to throw them on the market for sale, thus further depleting the treasury gold reserve, as gold would nave to be sant abroad in payment of them." We all know what the depletion of the treasury gold reserve means. More bonds must be sold. London bankers want the bonds as an investment. They are going to got them, and the reserve must be depleted rapidly. The finan cial editor of the London Telegram states that the sale of $50,000,000 bonds has already been negotiated London, the issue to be made when the gold re serve gets down to $60,)00.000. It will soon go there with all this war talk. Some critics claim that the message is a bid for a third nomination. No doubt that has been duly considered. Thegoldbug8, regardless of party, want Cleveland, their most pliant tool, elected again. They hope his patriotic(?) talk will put him in better shape. Only four years ago Benjamin Harrison, then President, attempted to get on the shoulders of the people by talking war. He declared war on Chile, a little spot of earth about as large as one of the largest counties in this State. But the absurdity of the thing proved a boomerang and the President was laughed out of countenance. Now Grover tries it by jumping on England. If he we.e an honest American citizen there might be some results, but as it no sensible man will be deceived There will be no war with England. THE VENEZUELA QUESTION. Doubtless the average readsr will be surprised when he reads President Cleveland's latest message. As the surprise part wears off the close ob serve, r will, however, begin to see the jingoism in it. The cause of the trouble will be of interest. These facts are, first, that Venezuela represents the Spanish title and Great Britain the Dutch title to any territory that may be in dispute. The treaty of Muenster in 1648 undertook to define these respective titles. As the settle ment wis not clear a subsequent treaty between Spain and Holland in 1791 gave the "Orinoco Colonies" to the Spanish and the "Essequibo Colonies" to the Dutch, without, however, difining the boundaries of these colonies. In 1810 Venezuela, having asserted her independence of Spain, assumed jurisdiction over all the territory pre viously subject to the authority of Spain. On the question of her western boundary she found herself subsequent ly involved in a controversy with the independent Republic of Colombia. This question was submitted to arbitra tion, and on the decision Venezuela lost a large part of what was supposed to be her territory. To this decision Venezuela gave prompt and honorable acquiescence. On the eastern boundary the claims of England, though decided by a treaty with Holland in 1814, re mained with out any accurate assertion until 1841. At that time one Robert Schomburgk," a German naturalist employed in the survey of British Guiana, drew an ar bitrary boundary line defining the limit of the British claim. As this line was drawn in utter disregard of any title that Venezuela might have to the ter ritory it defined, it has no value what ever either as a fact of history or os a point of international law. It has never been accepted by Venezuela. It is said that it has been repudiated by British Ministerias. At all events any determ- j ination made without the concurrencs and consent of the adjoining power cannot give a valid title. The consent of Venezuela to her boundary is just as necessary as" the consent of Russia or the United States would be in any similar question. This unfortunately is not the worst of the situation. The question of a boundary is essentially a question of fact and of history, and as such emi nently fit to be settled by impartial ar bitration. The suggestion of such a settlement in this case is met by Eag land with an intimation that while she might be ready to accept an arbitration as to any territory which had been omitted in drawing the Schomburgk line, she should not be asked to consent to an arbitration on any territory with in the Schomburgk line. These are the historical facts in the case, briefly outlined. What bearing they may have on the Monroe doctrine of eighty years ago, or on the still more important question of the welfare of the people of the United States to-day, or what right they give us to interfere in the matter and decide on the ex parte report of our own commission what are the merits of the controversy, is another question. CHRISTMAS AGAIN. Christmas is here again. How fast time flies! We earnestly hope that each and every reader will have a happy season of rest and diversion, and that it will be well spent. According to a time honored custom we will not publish a paper next wek. The next issue will appear January 7ch. If the editor and other employees of a newspaper stick strictly to busi nsss their work is one of unceasing toil. The reader expects a paper at least fifty-one weeks in the year, hence the only chance for a brief respite is to stop one week for the holidays. We thank our friends for their kind ness during the year. Doubtless they have received full value for their money. Oar readers are a unit in say ing so, at least. The paper ttr's week will be especially interesting, filled as it is with good agricultural matter, news, correspondence, editorial, Cleve land's two messages and all about the Venezuelan matter, clippings and mis cellany. Those who like good stories will find something to their taste in "the in teresting original story by a well-known North Carolina writer entitled, "All But Lost," it being a North Carolina romance throughout, well illustrated. The poem "Satisfied," by Mr. U. B. Gwynn, is equal to James Whitcomb Riley, and will make good Christmas reading. We have been very liberal with those of our subscribers who are behind. Many have paid up, but others have not. The time will soon be up, as this offer will not be extended beyond the first of January. Take advantage of it and send us a nice Christmas present by paying up. Those who paid up to the first of January are expected to re new promptly, paying in advance, as our object in making such sacrifices was to help our friends get on a cash basis so we can run the paper that way in the future. Don't delay this another day. We hope to make The Progressive Farmer a better paper next year than it ever has been, and we trust that our friends will second our efforts by send ing in large numbers of new subscrib er s Put in a lick for it every time you yet a chance. SOME SOUND MONEY MSN. R. H. McDonald, at one time Vice- President of the Pacific bank, S m Fran cisco, has been arrested for stealing $20,000 (sound) from the the People's Home Savings Bank of that city. Judge Rindolph, of Virginia, one of F. F. Vs. , late a resident of Alabama, is a fugitive from justice. He has killed two men, and it is charged that he stole $12, COO (sound). He once held a big government position and was up in G socially. Unstadter & Co., sound-money dry goodsmen, Norfolk, Va., failed on the 17Ji. They owe 75,000 sound dollars, good in "Yurip." Mr. J. B. Pace, a prominent busi ness man of Richmond, Va., has as signed, owing $900,000. The money that he owes is good in Europe. He was President of one of the banks. Mr. E. D. Christian, of Richmond, Va., assigned on the 18th. He owes $166,000 dollars good in Europe. Doubt less he has been a deciple of Grover the First. Nichols, Frothenham & Co., New York, an old ' banking firm, failed last Thursday. Their money is "good in Europe." . Sands & Co., a big stock exchange firm in New York, failed on Thursday. We thought a "sound financial policy" would stop all that. j AN AWFUL DISASTER." The most heartrending accident known in this State occurred r Cumnock coal mines in county early Thursday mornin a resun loriy-tnree men are dead of the wounded may die and tt(J missing, supposed to be buriM : are mine. Tne Cumnook mine wa the centlv. known &ii th tptt.. . . until ,. , " . . " ai some time ago it was bought h a Pennsylvania company and 4 was resumed, the most of the out-T coal being used by the Seabn;r 01 Line. Jo is said that this new pany had ppsnt a great deal of on new michinery and that every fort has bsea ued to make th 6t safe. ' Oa Thursday morning 65 men their daily work in the mine. to seven of them were pflnnn miners, a fe v foreigners, and the y ance were native North CarolinJ? part of them being colored men before eight o'clock there waa a riffic explosion in the mine which ' sou leet deep, with several fa "slopes" running out in different rections. This explosion was heard for miles around. The manager of a. mine was outside, but those who case to nis assistance could not be indaN to attempt to rescue the miners m fresh air was pumped into the mj for the dangers of "foul" gas are tejj known. It is thought that the cask exploded and the concussion probata exploded ab ut; 150 pounds of dvu mite stored in a room kept for ftjt purpose. At any rate the result m terrible. When the rescuers first M w tered the mine they were met wiili ghastly sigh? s. The bottom was strewn with mangled, blackened dead. In that portion of the mine where the ex plosion occurred not a man escaped but in a distant division a few wen found unhurt, but in a suffocating cca dition. The wounded were broosh out first and then the hunt for tie dead began. Up to Friday noon forty- three dead had been brought to the surface. The grief of widows, orphan, brothers and sisters, was heartrending indeed. The mines were to close dor ing the holidays. Saven or eight Peca eylvanians were to start for home the next day. AH were looking forward to a pleasant period of reat. Their Christmas will not be spent on fcs earth It will be a gloomy Christmas in the homes of forty seven men. The mines have been operated wiSh more or less regularity for about fifty years. This was the third explosao, twenty men having been killed in Xn other disasters. Push, perseverance, and The Pb grkssive Farmer will make you eat cessful in business. You furnish tin push and perseverance and we i furnish The Progressive Farmer. 8a offer on 6 sh page. CREAM OF THE PRESS. Hard Hits, Bold Sayings and Patricik Paragraphs from Reform Papers. A hog never looks higher than is head. An old party bo33 seea noths? higher than an offioe. MainePopulft If the big thieves were pulied in J quickly as the little ones are, tins would be lots of vacant pews in s fashionable churches. Ex. A proposition to retire Grover ClM land would more nearly meet the V probation of the people than one to tire the greenbacks. Farmers' une. The brooni-ora market gin again; two car loads broke it do1 Yes, we know there is as much mocf as the ever was but who in thtw& has got it? Sylvia Banner. Where there is a will there ia a tf If there is an earnest, hone s5 desire8 unite the elements opposed to moc? oly they will be united. The gulf fc now separates them is neither nor deep. Brockton Diamond. if 1 G rover's recipe for good timei beauty. It ia to destroy $500,000,Ofl' money and create the same anions interest drawing debt;, which thousand millions wo S3 off than already are. Midland Journal. A Populist in Wilson county decl , that he converted fourteen licans with that many copies 5 cent pamphlet. Tnat was doing good than if he had contributed j foreign missions Topeka &&voC& , vising congress to destroy 327 dollars of greenbacks that do no any interest, ana issue v i amount of iaterestbearing bond the upon the sam a property the gres11 are.-Sound Money. We are continually told tna the free coinage of silver Europe3 j tions would "dump" that metal eg; our shores. Mexico 13 a suye country, but we hear notnmg dumping process there. Tfl seems to be completely overlook m A t-..irTI SS' our old party irienas. omw- Populist.