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X ' ' t f M THE PROGRESSIVE FARUER : MARCH 31, 1896. a i n PUSH THE ALLIANCE WORK. Correspondence of the Progret-siv Farmer. As it will soon be time for the April meeting of the Alliance in the different counties in the Stata, I write to urge all lovers of liberty to begin to make preparations or eame, and let's show Bhylock how dead we are, and I espe cially ask and urge every Sub Alliance in the county to get right, if they are not already right, and be sure to have a live representative at cur next Coun ty meeting, which takes place with Acresville S .b-AlIiance the second Thursday in April, as I ain goins to try to turn ou some light that has been doiDg us lots of good here, and wo are not only willing, but anxious, to bene fit the brethren. I know how scarce money is, and what an eff ort it will be, brethren, for you to comply with this request, but I know ycu are equal to the emergency. Now this is our cause, and if we fail to sustain it I feel i:ke ail ia lost ; in fact we are going to sustain it no euch word a fail. I know the Alliance has lost members from many causes, and poverty is the greatest cause, the thing which ought of necessity to bind us closer together to cause us to apply the remedy. I am happy to say we have been gradually gaining in members in Gur Sub Alliancd for some time and if we could only have Bro. Hoover or Bro. Cyrus Thompson to give us a talk or two in this county, it would be al most a revival to us, for it seems that all who are elligible are almost per suaded, only need a little encourage ment from a distance. Almost all who have been watching the Alliance and saying it had gone into politics are be ginning to realize that every citizen in the United States is in politics the day they become 21 years old. Toe ques tion for us to settle is who are we in politics for our wives and child: en and country, or a set of politician bocm?rs I was in company with an attorney in this county in 1892, about tho time the Alliance took charge of the Demo cratic party in this county (just before they read U3 out) and he said, "Now, Mr. Lane, you Alliance folks don't treat us right." I asked him to show me just one instance in which we had failed. "Well," he says, "take this oounty for instance; we will say by the way of an illustration there are 300 Democrats of course there are more than that, but that will illustrate it 200 of them belong to the Alliance and 100 of us are not elligible to member ship; you 200 Allianccmen get together before the convention and pick over your men, and when we go into con vention you have it all your own way, and we 100 have no say in it." I laughed right in his face and asked him what form of government we lived under. Ho said republican form I asked him if that did not say the ma jority must rule. He said yes. I said you little minority have been ruling to the ruin of this great big majority ; now when we propose to take a hand in it h 1 is to pay." "Well," he said, "all I have got to s.y is whenever the fari ers are pros perous everybody else is prosperous, and we won't talk politics any more." It is plain enough for any man to see all they want i3 to control U3, not only in politics, but everything else, and men who will not ri3 up and protect themselves ought to be hewers of wood and drawers of water. R H. Lanes. LETTER FROM LENOIR COUNTY Coi respondent of The Progressive Farmer. KlNSTOX. N. C. I congratulate the National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union for adopting Toe Progressive Farmer as their National organ. Toey could not have made a berer belection in the United States. Is has always been true to our principles and I hope it will ever be true in the future. Irs columns are open for an honest and fair dicufsicn cf all questions pertaining to the re form movement hence no reformer ught to do without it. Yes, a little over one year ago Km ton, a beautiful little city by the hap py Neus9, was nearly destroyed by fire, burning up at least $250,000 worth of property. Evidence was pro cured in court to the effect that Democrats had something to do with the burning of that town for which a Democratic Judge banished them forever from the State of North Carolina, and if either one of them is ever found in this State again they will go to the penitentiary, one for ten years and the others for forty years, hence we will have four Democratic votes lefs in Lenoir county this year than in 1894. J ohn Cleveland and Grover Sherman, with others to help them, have destroy ed millions upon millions of property and according to Judge Ciark, the farmers of the South in cotton alone, bftve lost $216,000 000 during the year 1835. B vidence can be produced in th court (if we only had the court) to prove them guilty of crimes azainat Crod and their fellow man too great to unpunished and ought to be ban ished forever from the United States to 8t. Helena or some unknown island of the sea, and there die without friends, and with the full satisfaction of know iner that ih?j have committed the greatest crimes of this or any other age. I see a great deal is being said just now about co operation or fusion with the Republicans this year. I wish to have my say along this line. Wt mu come together as brethren and not say hard things about Bro. Butler, Bro Ketler, Bro. Green, Bfo. Rowland or any o-her brother because they differ from U3 about this very great and all important que.-ti m. The way for us to do is to understand each other bet ter, is to express our thoughts freely along the line of co operation. We must weigh every question looking to fusion and make no m stakes if we do make mistakes the enemy will have us sure. I can not believe brother Butler wants to organizs a new party until our party proves false to our cause Brother Butler eays he will vote for no man for president who is not a free sil ver miii Mr. Democrat and Mr. Re publican will you do the same thin? He, knowing at the sametimo that the National Democratic Convention will put up a gold bug for the preei ercy, the National Republican Convention will put up a gold bug for the presi dency and that the People's party will put up a free t-ilver man for the prosi dency, hence Mr. Butler, like ail free silver men in ded and in truth will have to, vote the People's party Na tional ticket. This non partisan taik is all rignt in its place and it will do Kood in the way of getting old Rpub licani and Democratj to take eff their partisan coat and put on a little com mon sense. Y(-a. we are willirg to fuse if we can fuse on principle, but we will never fuse with a gold bug (knowingly.) We fus-ed in 1S94 on the county and State tickets, and elected two United States Senators neither of whom are gold bugs. One hundred and fifty thouear d men in North Carolina endorsed the above fusion. So far so good. Now let us fuse on tho above endorsed fu sion. Now comes the question abcti-, fusion on our electoral ticket. The way for tre People's party to do is to put up eleven People's party free silver elec tors and then ask notonly Republicans but Democrats, Prohibitions s, and in fact all men of all political faith to help us elect them. That will make a hi m for all t-ilver men in tho gold bu par ties. With euch a fusion as the above. Bro. Kestler, and in ftic: all People's party speakers can face the devil and the gold bug parties on thehus.iogn with a clear conscience and sword of truth in hat:d and in November next march up with a great victory for our cause, lr the cold buz partv or widc of the R-publican party in North Car olina will not fuse with us as above stated, then let them and the D jrao crats put up their gold bug electors. miking three electoral tickets in the field two gold bug electoral ticket and one silver electoral ticket N w. fellow People's party men of North Carolina, in this case the gold bugs will divide their votes and they will have to have two votes to our onf to be with us in November, atd if they don't have that many then we will fleet eleven electors to Cist their votes for a free silver man for president cf the Uuited State frm North Carolina in November, 1898 Brother Kstlor, take back part of your letter ad let us fuse for principle and not for cfiice, and we will get thre Eii, pure, because there are more silver voters in North Carolina than gold bug voters, therefore we will beat them at least two to one Locir county will indorse such a fu sion as the above, but we will never consent to fu-e with a goli bug. Yours for the fight, E P. Haussr HUMBUG3ERY AND OPPRESSION. Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer. Tnis has been denominated as "an age of eteam, gas and electricity." If can be as truthfully and as appropri ately called an age of deception, op pression and wrong doing. It has been said that the "American people love to be humbugged," but I do not believe it. It is true that we have been repeatedly made victims of humbuggery or some other kind of "oug," but it was not because that we loved it, but becau39 of ignorance and over confidence on our part. Poiiti cally speaking, we have been blind partisans and may be yet. "Votir g at ot partv's call. Not ihiakhig for oureives at all." We have bit at sugar coated baits in haste and repented at leisure. The American people do not love to be humbugged, but they are very patient and long-suffering. Iu the Declaration of Independence wo learn something of th oppression and great suffering that our forefath 1 era patiently endured; how they bore the great burdens of a heartless tyrant ; how chey petitioned for redress in the most humble terms; how their repeated petitions were answered by repeated inj iry; how their patriotism burned wiihia them, and how they "pledged to each other their lives, their fortunes and their sacrod honor," and after pas sing through the smoke and conflict of many hard fcught battles, the ty ran oical yoke fell from their shoulders and they became a free and indepen dent poople. Tney bought their free dom with their blood But how is it with U9 to day ? Where is that gov nrnmeut whioh was of, by, and for the peopl-. f Gooe ! Yp. gone. The money lords (?) have it by the throat choke. eg it to death. When wo consider the condition of this country bow the cry of ditre3 and want comes up from millions of homes how the dark cloud of dobt hnngs over us how we are forced to eell our products for less than cant of prod.uct.on we can but exHaim, 4 Oh 1 freedom, whore art thou? Oil! patriot ltnn, hat thou gone forever?" Talk about standing by the Monroe doctrine, why not imitate J fferson, Jackson and other great men as well? There never was an effect, be it good or bad, without a cause. When we desire to remove the effect we must remove the ciuse. A mnn may be sick bit know the c?ue of hs sickness. Am a nation, we have been financially sick for a long time The political doc tors would come around and look at our tongue and feel of our pulse, and tell us that our trouble was caueed by the opposite political p irty, and that if we would let bim prescribe we would get well in a minute. So we swallowed it down, but continued to grow sicker. Thus we grew from bad to worse and in 1892 Cleveland, the Dmocrati--? doc tor, uud his gang came along aLd t ld us that if we would let h'm prescribe for us, he, (Cleveland) would "relieve" ('0 us so q lick that it would make our "bends swim." S me how, it may have been by "duplicity and fraud," he was declared our doctor. But, unfortunately for us. he felt of England's pus ' and gave it f ho "golden discovery," wnich has mide us so sick that he did not only relieve us of our medicine (money) but some who bwhI lowo him have bepn relieved of their stornachea trying to throw him up Still we are growing sicker. Since we have tried two doctors, rep resenting two great political parties, who not only increase our suffering but have produced every cause, woulJ it not be wie and. patriotic to choose the third doctor, n m another political par ? I think so. Ii is said that all bad laws are the d'.r cs fruits of ignorance. Tne Farm era' Alliance is a gre.tt educator, but it dots not give any diplomas because it has no graduates. Ir, is the only or ganiz it'on tha;is fighting for the rights of tbe ppople. Turn your back on it if you please, "cu W it if you will, bur if do, you insulc your best fritd It is through this cganiz ition that tem poral solvation muueome, and from it we munt obtain the n.eiiciue to heal this nation of it po'iticil rottenness. Now, in conclusion, brethren, let us open the great toror.tle of truth wile and let fl ) ds of lignt and truth come upon the people, teaching tbem to be wise and patriotic; to demand their rights and to bavn manhood Hndjm'ri otism to stand by thpm at all risk. Lt it bi country first and last, though we let political parties go to the "sea post." "Then If t u be rp ani d-t- g, V tLi a lu-Hit, 'nr e erk f-te, Stili a' hinvt g et.il s pur u ng Learn to la jr aud 10 wait. ' J O. Lasley, Sc'y Treasurer R ckingham (J. A. B ;rry, N C LETTER FROM PRESIDENT PAGE. We make the following extr&cs from a letter received from Hon Man P .ge. President of the National Farm ers' Alliance and Industrial Union; Brandon. Va , March 20 '96 J W Denmark Eq , Tiuainess Alana gerofthe ProgreHxive Farmer, Dear Sir and P.ro: Piease accept my very warm tbauKs for your letter of congratulation and your promise to continue to support and uphold the principles of the National Farmers' Al ltance. Would that all who are en gaged in the pursuit of agriculture as well as those who reap the ben fits thereof, could be induced to Pee and feel the mc-suy of sustaining this most important crganizttion whose aim and obj jct is the education of the masses in the science of political econ omy. Could we induce the merchants, me chanics, planters, farmers and produc ing classt s to c mider well the de mauds, aims and obj cts of thiagnat industrial organization, I feel coLfijent that cur sub alliances would increase rapidly, and our State organizations would command the talents of our abl est men, and would bring such an in fluence to bear upon our professional law makers that they would not dare to use their positions as representatives of the people in our National Congress and State Legislatures as attorneys for corporations, trusts and combines, for the people would then look more care fully into their qualifications, and party platforms would have no double mean ing. Tnen truth, justice and honesty would be the cardi- al points to guide the statesmen of our country. There is another department, the bu sinesa department of our National and State organizations which should be organzad and conducted on true busi ness principles not to antagonize those engaged in manufacturing and mercan tile pursuits, but conducted so as to command their hearty CCToperation. To accomplish this shall be my aim and object during my efficial term as President of tho National farmers' Al liance and Industrial Union, and I ap peal to all true Alliancemen to aid in this patriotic work. In conclusion let me say that, appre ciating your offer of The Progressive Farmer for such official communica tions as I may wish to write, I shall gladly avail myself of the same. Fraternally, Mann Page. AN OPEN LETTtR TO GROVER CLEVELAND. rreepondence of the Progressive Farmer. Grover Cleveland Sir: Thinking you might like to hear of the prosperous condition of the Old N jrth State, I take this opportunity to give you some idea how this great wave of prosperity (so much talked of but never realized) has effected us, the labor ing classes of our State. I hope some remark I drop may be the means of bringing you to rep ntance. You began your notorious career by oppressing the poor for the purpose of making the poor poorer and the rich richer. You have climbed the ladder one step at a time in quick succession, until you have reached the middle and well to do classes and put everything iu chaotic confusion. Poverty and crime walk arm in arm, not only in the O.d North Scate, but over the whole nation. Y u have robbed the farmers of more land in the last three years than enough to make a republic as large as both France and Spain Wo men and children go half fed, half clothed, exposed to all kinds of weather; their haggard looks tells the pain and privation they suffer; they work hard from sunrise until sunset, and the re muneration they get is not enough to supply sufficient food for themselves and families, let alone clothing to make their bodies comfortable, and an educa tion is out of the question. Aro thei?o the cjnditions you have worked for? If so, you have most faithfully performed the desires of yourself and your masters. Y su have sold our nation to tbe Brit ish Jews for gold O ar Savior would share the eam9fate at your hands were He here in person to save a suffering people from the hands of their task mas ers; all the difference between you and your Judas conspir tors and the be tr yer of Christ is you require gold and he ( Juda?-) took lilver. Dj ouin yfur eober moments (or dojou never have am) think of the chaos and confusion you have caused? Do8 conscience, the white winged augel, over disturb your meditations or rob you of sleep? Have you entirely strangled her with your wickedness eo you never feel any pangs of conscience about the evil deeds ycu arocommit ting? Do you think the people do not know the caut-e of the desperate condition of tne crimes and financial failures? If eo you are mistaken; they know you 1 1 be the prime cause of the desperate conditions that assail the nation; they know it is in your power to avert them, if by calling an extraordinary session of Congress lasting three months you could and did distress the people as ycu have, you could have bettered the con- n t ion had y our recommendations been patriotic instead of traitorous. Yes, it is cu. you, Grover Cleveland, that is the prime caue of the disaster and disiir ice that stalks abroad in our fair land, and your administration will go down in history as one of the most disastrous and disgraceful that has ever been recorded. History is fast repeating itself. Do yOu want your name to go down in history in connection with Nero and tbe ancient rulers who wrecked their nations by their prf fl gay and barbar ism as the moat nefarious of them all? The crimes of Cortez Pazarro and Nro, the ancient goldbugs, pale to nothingness compared with those ycu aud your Judas conspirators have per- 'i V -.iVH (jOa'OJ, 'S4S!ilUJ tiB8j0 ' X V 't y XSI vjd'j iu if i'q apn iUoiiBSnqo TiBno jTjJTrDOi ;qu X;TDnfTB pur uouoBsuBJjssariisnq ips ui iqjouoq jVKjjad 3iiq OAsrtoq puB 'sjbsI' $i jstn aqj l Aouaqa f 'SI aAiomi eAq pauSis.japan qi O opsioj; "O0 i3X3Iia t A Sat icf jUBjiAi suoa pajpmiH 8UQ iogo mm si.0H km W. H. &' R. S. Raleigh, N. C. WE DO STYLISH DRESSMAKING In our own Dressmaking Department at moderate nrices. N'vc make mce etylish an-I cnrrvt eost'im s. vve nive tie best work, excel ing in taste and desiu other drsinak'.nx -hi. rnentn, at much lower trices . We submit samples n nsn uess uimius, oi.. iu i.m iju 11 --- m i.'ie;u-e pric We supply Wtdrlinu: Outfits Bride and Bt Mestnuid's D-w-ses at very little cost. V I lie to Ur IOr oampieo, .ct)LlLiia.i.ee auu luctto. o man i'ii"0 .jjLuuiri v ai.mn'i now ready. Ask tor one. W. H. & R. S. TUCKER & CO. Notice: Special Values Aptly XMMn Onr Profit SMrii Msfe 20 inch Japanese Kaiki Silks, 25o. per yard. 21 im h jApantSd Habutai Silks. 79 j. per yard, in Printed Warps, Dresden, Persi m an.l Floral efft-c1". 38 inch All Wool Ca-himerep, B'acks and all colors 2"c. per yard, worth 40c. USEFUL BOOKS THE SECRETARY-TREASURER HAS SEVERAL USEFUL BOOKS lllAl SHOULD BE IN EVERY SUB LODGE. THE NAMES AND PRICES ARE AS FOLLOWS : Secretary's Roll Book nicely arranged, new kind 25 cent?. Record of Membership Secretary's Receipt Book, for dues, with Secretary's Warrant Book, with stub Treasurer's Receipt Book, with stub Secretary's Account Book Treasurer's Account Book Minute Book, new kind Working Bulletins, State Constitutions, Rituals, National Constitutions, Application Blanks, Dunit Blanks, (per dozen) " 44 (t t " 44 (in pads) Withdrawal Cards, Delegate Credentials, Fraternally, HIik"V:Ei OUSTEI "W e axe G-lTrlrxg Do you want acopy Labor by the well HL A. ALLBK Author cf "The Golden Gems HEere is tlie TV" ay to Get It: Every Saturday at 4 o'clock p m. we are going to mail a copy of this book IrT'IR.lETr; - to the person who sends us the largest list of subscribers during that week. The book is handsomely bound and EVERT" petrated upon the people of the United States within the last three years, and still you claim innocence. Look over our and and see the euicidrs, murders and robberies, and ask oureelf who is the cause of all these crimes? To be sure you have not caused them to be committed before your own eyes as did seme of the ancient rulers; but ycu are nevertheless guilty, where they com mitted one crime, you, by producing want and destitution, have caused thousands upon thousands of these atrocious deeds to be committed. Can you, in the face of all this evidence, still persist in claiming your innocence I Have you not seen the hand writing on the wall? Are you so regardless to the needs of the people that you will persist in your disastrous and traitor ous schemes until our country is taken in its drunken revelries? Are you not proud of the concluding hours of the Fifty third Congress endirg in revelry and prostitution? Do you feel proud of the record Washington, our Capital, is making as being one of the most wicked Sabbath breakiog cities in the Union, and that a mej rity of our law n akers are the letdrs in the wicked ness carried on on the Sabbath day ? Do you want the rising generation to follow your example? Have you no re spect for your own innocent children? Do you think thf re will never be a day of reckoning? Retribution is sure to follow the evil doer. I warn you not to carry your scheming too far; the people are getting thoroughly aroused ; they are thirsting for light; they grasp everything that gives light on thecaut-e of their desperate condition. I hope our ne t President will be a man of high principles, not a besotted brewer; one who has at least one spark of humanity left that is in common smpathy with the masses of our nation. A Farmers' Wife of N. C. This country could better afford to contribute $1 000,000,000 to prevent a Congress than to pay that much for one. 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DoubUj dally trains between Raleigh, Char lotte and Atlanta. No. 12, leaving Greensboro at 1:33 a. iu.. ar riving at Raleigh at 7:05 a. m., carries a sleeping car. No. 35, leaving Raleigh at 4: 3 p.m., also carries a sleeping car. All irains leavirg Ral eigh for Greensboro connect tbere with f.-t th ough trains tor the North and South, i clnrtlng two limited vestibules each way. through tickets on sale at i-riLcipal stations to all points. For rates or lnfr.rma.iion, apply to any agnt of the Company, or to J. S. B. THOMPSON, Supt. fcirst Division, Da ville VtL. W. B. RYDER, Supt. Second Division, Cbr- m lotte, N. C. W. H GREEN, W. A. TURK. Genu superintendent, Gen'l Pass. Ap- Washiiitfton, D. U. Washington, i, v. v
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