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THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER : MAY 5 1896. T3E PROGRESSIVE FARMER MRS. L. L. POLK, - Proprietor. J. L. RAMSEY, - Editor. J. W. DENMARK, - Business M'g'b. R&Ielzh, N. C. SUBSCRIPTION tingle Subscriber, One Year S 1-5 " Six Months .75 five Subscriber. One Yer Ten " Oii8Yer 10.00 One copy one year free, to the one sending Club Ten. . M Money t our riat, if sent by registered letter r money order. Pieate don't tend tiamvt. Advertising Rtes quoted on application. To CorretvonUnt$ : Write al! cu'imnntcattons, designed f or pub .icatlon, on one side of the paper only. We want lntellia-ent correspondents In every eounty In the State. We want facts of value, reeulta accomplished of value, experiences of ralue, plainly and briefly told. One solid, demonstrated fact, la worth a thousand theories. The editor is not responsible for the views of correspondents. RALEIGH, N. C, MAY 5 1896. thU paper entsre.i at te3oia-clatt maiiir at th4 Pott Qf.ft in Raleigh, N. 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. 1ST" Our friends in writing to any of our advertisers will favor ua by men tioning the fact that they saw the advertisement in Thi Progressive fTAEMXR. EST" The date on ycur label tells you when 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 he track, before me lies the dark valley nd 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 hth, 1890. N. R. P. A. EDITORIAL NOTES. Send in your stock for the shoe fac tory. It will be needed eoon. Send direct to Secretary Barnes, at Hillsboro. The several State Democratic con ventiona that have endorsed President Cleveland seem to have overlooked the fact that they ought to have endorsed the administration of Old N.ck at the same time. Senator Tilimin made another nep hritic speech in the Senate Friday. Tillman can say as mean thing3 as Cleveland can d. Bat we notice that Tillman resumes his place in the Demo cratic ranks a3 soon as his speeches are finished If he believes all he says he would not cohabic with the gang any longer. Work is being pushed on the Alliance tannery at Hillsboro It will be com pleted in a short while, and then the shoe making machinery will be put in place. The tannery i9 necessary, both because it will cheapen the cost of the shce3, and the ftciory will not be nt the mercy of the leather trust, as it would without the tannery. The day has passed for careless, thoughtless work in all lines. We need to fully understand the objects of cul tivation, and to know that the soil is fully occupied by roots soon after corn begins to grew. T aese roots love light and warmth, and must not be dis turbed, save to keep down weeds, lei in light and check evaporation. Rev. W N. Cleveland, brother of the President, has been discharged by bis congregation at Cnaum nt. N Y Bro. Ciev.laud says it is because of his pol itics, his congregation being mostly Republican. We are opposed to car fying partisantry iuto church affairs, but if the minister mentioned advo cates the financial doctrines of the President, we do not blame hi3 congre gation. TThe Richmond Times declares that if the National Democratic Convention does not take a svand for sound money the party will be annihilated. Can't do it, Mr. Times. It has done annihi lated itself. Senator Vauce said, only a few months before he died, that if the Sherman la w was repealed without sub stituting another silver lav, that the party would walk out of ittef. It has walked. Too late now to talk about annihilation. There has b en much talk about the safety of the Mississippi State capitol building, which is described a3 an old, tumble-down sff-ur. On last Wednes day the Democratic State convention met in the capitol and endorsed Sena tor Walthall for Vice President. It is said this was done with a "shout that ehook the foundation stones of the capitol." Two questions naturally arise. Did the Democratic State con ventions previously held there jar the building until the walls became inse ure? Then, again, does it prove that Senator Walthall elicited much en thusiasm when the walls of the capitol are so loose as to be easily shaken! Perhaps a very small dose of Demo cratic enthusiasm is sufficient to shake ihe building. DESERVING THE ATTENTION OF OUR CONGRESSMEN. There is a growing demand for infor mation concerning the water supply in our rivers, eppecially as to whether or not it is sufficient during the driest eummer seasons for active manufac turing purposes on a large scale. This movement has gained a dcw impetus in connection with the development and invention of transmitting power through electricity from the rivers to the factories, thus enabling the facto ries to be located on the railrosdand at the same ticce be operated by water power. For several years the Unite d States government has made an ap propriation for 4 'gaging the streams and determining the water supply of the United 8tates," but nearly,- or quite, all of that work has been done in the Western States where this infor mation has been demanded for irriga tion purposes. Now, while we grant that this is a work of very great im portance to the Western States to know the amount of water which can be counted on for irrigation purposes in the driest seasons of the year in all rivers, it so happens that it is also a matter of considerable importance in connection with the rivers of the Eas tern and Southern States that we know whether or not, during the dry pea- sons, there is water enough in the riv ers to run our factories; and if we can settle this question definitely in the affirmative, the number of factories built on the more important rivers in North Carolina will be greatly increas ed during the next few years. Last year the appropriation for this work of me asurirjg the water supply in all the rivers in the United States was but 20C0. Tnis appropriation was used in making measurements at 140 stations in the United Scatcs, and out of that number only eighteen measurements were made in the South ern S:ate, while 122 were made in the Western States (including Texas ) The appropriation for this very im portant work ought to be considerably increased. Oar Southern Congressmen ouht to iDeist now that it be increased to f 50,000 lor the next year; and with our State Geologist they ought to fee to it that a much larger amount of work be done on the North Carolina rivers during the next year, co operat ing with the State survey, which is now examining and preparing reports on our water powers. INJURING EVERYTHING. The following editorial is taken from the March, 1SPC, number of the Oid Fellows S.uvenir, the national organ of the great fraternity of Odd Fellows. In a personal interview with the editor we aro informed that this editorial is the result of much consideration by many of the most conservative mem bers; that this question has been under consideration for more than a year and the official data at hand is so convinc ing that it is useless to attempt to claim that the present monetary conditions are not working great ir j iry to the or der, say 8 the Industrial Lader. In part, editor M F. Dowd paid: 'The present monetary condition has been a great injury to our order. The . ffic:.al data received at this c flice shows that we lest in 1593 S6 8SG members by suspension for non-payment of dues, and in 1894 the number dropped was 4S .339. a total of 85,225 for the two years, and it is bolievt d that the official reports for 1S95 when completed will show nearly as many suspensions as in the years 1803 '4 combined. In 1893 we initiated 72,807, while in 1894 we in itiated G3 S45, a decrease of nearly 9 000. Wo have about 800.000 mem bers in the United States and terri torus." "Yes, they are all voters. Be fore a man can become an Odd Fellow he is required to sign a contract which is binding alike upon himself and the order, hence it is necessary that he should be 21 j oars of age. When the situation is propf rly understood I be lieve tbe American people will demand free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 tol. 'The Souvenir does not hacd'e po litical questions, i.e., from a partisan stand point.ncr is the q'ze-'tion of finance a partisan question iu any sense of the word. "It is, however, a question that vitally afffcts the great order of Odd Fellows. Tnis is a great benevolent in stitution and anything that retards the prcgrcs3 of the order is a eubjet; en titled to the fullest consideration. A contraction of our currency makes money dear and thus increases the bur den of our members. If the purchas ing power of money becomes great the price of labor and the products of labor becomes lesa valuable; hence, if the purchasing power of the American dol lar is twice as great under the gold standard as it would be under f roe coin age of both gold and silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, then it will be twice as hard for the members to pay their quarterly dues under the present gold standard as it would be under the free coinage of both gold and silver. It is also twice as hard for thcs9 outside of the order to pay the price of admission. When we look over the reports of the various jurisdictiors and see the thousands of b mothers who a e being suspended from the benefits of the order by their ina bility to pay their due3, it is simply ap palling. The order now pays out for relief about three and one half million dollars annually. If the present con ditions continu3 it is only a matter of time when there will have to be made a eliding scale this sliding scale will be to decrease the number of dollars paid for the relief of members and fam ilies of deceased members or increase the dues of members that the present ratio of dues is as high now as the members can pay goes without saying. Then the only thing left will be to de crease the benefits. It is argued that wo should have only the kind of money that will pafs in all parts of the world. Nothing can bo more absurd. Our gold eagles as now coined are not accepted at their face in all countries of the world and never have been never will bo. It is more difficult to pass gold money in the United States than it is a piece of American silver. Another ob j action urged against the use of silver is its weight. While a silver dollar i3 much heavier than a gold dollar, it is also true that a laboring man can carry home all the silver dollars he can ever hope to obtain for one week's wages, and if any of our laboring people should desire to make a European voyage they will not object to paying the necessary exchange for money that will be ac cepted or bear the necessary discount at the other place. What the American people want is enough money to keep the laboring classes employed and transact the business of the country, ad any money coined by the United S rates is honest money, and it is cer tainly unpatriotic to stamp any of it as anything elso. When the greenbacks wert fi st issued by the government there were these who said it was both dishon est and unconstitutional, and yet a pa triotic people accepted them as money. After a third of a century the green back is still accepted and no one wants them more than the banking fraternity, who were the original objectors to their issuance. If a bill passes the next Cangress restoring silver to its place in cur currency, i. e , free coinage of gold and silver at a ratio of 16 to 1, a patri otic people will accept both for all de mands and our idle m-mbers can then find employment and te able to pay their dues. Evi ry Odd Fellow in Araer ica should work and vote for free coin age of both gold and silver." Che editor of Souvenir may or may not know that some of our highest cili cials are Oid Fellows. It would S2em that by pursuing a financial policy so detrimental to the welfare of the great Order and its membership; individually and collectively, they have created more than enough trouble to cause their dismission from the lodges, for they aro certainly violating every iota of the obligation. The Order is fraternal and non-political, but there is not one principle about it that does not oppose what these high officials are doing. At any rate, there are not many lodges where such men would note be received a3 members Editor. THE DEAR SOUTHLAND. "Come to the Dar Old Southland" is the suggestive title of one of the prettiest songs we have soon for a long time. The word 3 as well as the music are the composition by our talented musical artist, Mr. C H. Addison, and is one of the best of hi3 many musical gems. This beautiful song is dedicated to the memory of the lamented Henry Grady, which make3 it all the more interesting to dwellers in the South land. It is offered for sale at the rooms of the Standard Music Co., Dan ville, Va., and mo,y be bcught of any regular musi o dealer. OU3 RESPONSIBILITIES VOTERS AS Rev. A. C. D'xon gave U3 a clear idea of tbe comparative responsibilities of a citizen of the United States and a citizen of any monarchical govern men t, when he said, "I shall be sorry for the Czar of R-issia and the Emper or ol Germany t.nd the King of Italy and the K'cg of Spain when they stand before God. Tiaey are responsible for so much. Bat I shall be j istas sorry for the citizan of the United States; for he is just as responsible. Through the ballot every citizen of this nation 13 a s vereign, and whether he wins or not, he is responsible for his vote. A Christian who votes as he thinks Christ would not vote, is unworthy the name." This is every word true. The citizen who surrenders his sovereignty to a party or a party boss, will be respon sible for the result; the citizen who votes against what he knows is best for the sake of getting a friend or a fellow partisan into office, that citizen commits a wrong against himself, his religion and his country. Biblical Recorder. AFTER JAY STERLING. A Dhicaero and Minneapolis seed house has sued the Secretary of Agri culture for libel, fixing the damages at $100,000, and has made serious charges against his conduct of the seed distri bution. It is alleged that the Secretary awarded the contracts to a firm whose bid was eleven thousand dollars higher than that of the Northrup Braslau- Goodwin Co., who bring the suit and a series of telegrams from the Sec retary are produced in evidence which place him in a most unfavorable light, says the Western Rural. The seedsmen charge the Secretary with having advised their competitors of their bid after the sealed proposals were in, and allowed them to change; and also that changes in the specifica" tions amounting to a reduction of $10, 000, after the contract was awarded, thus netting this much more to the successful bidders. The libel suit against Mr. Morton individually is on the ground that in a New York paper he stated that the Chicago seeds were of an inf. rior character and the com pany a mere commission house which could not perform its contract. There are various other charges which make the outlook dubious. There is a pros pect of an immediate investigation by Congress of Secretary Morton's action in letting the seed contract, and it now looks as if there were a large sizsd scandal ahead involving a number of persons in the Department of Agricul ture. . . GOLDBUG PREVARICATORS. The recent contest for the Damo cratic nomination for Governor of Alabama was a hard fought one. Clark, the "sound money" candidate didn't hardly black the board. Capt Joseph H. Johnston, who is a North Caro linian, by th9 way, is one of a few free coinage bankers. He won the nomina tion. Now the goldbug papers charge that Capt. Johnston was nominat:d with PopulUt aid. They claim that he carried 22 Populist counties counties that gave a majority for Kolb in 1894 At any rate Johnston will hardly be elected by votes, ai most of the people in Alabama have gone over into the Populist camp, that State already hav ing two Populist members in Congress Howard and Godin. Johnston will stand a slim chance, owing to the fact that the convention adopted a resolu tion endorsing Cleveland a repetition of the Kentucky farce. The people will knife Johnston, notwithstanding hi3 silver tendencies. THE CHICAGO FARCE. No well informed person believed that the workingmen of Chicago in vited Secretary Carl sle to go to that city and discuss tho financial question for their benefit. Wall Street instiga ted the whole affair. Hero is what the Farmer's Vice of Chicago, a widely circulated agricultural paper, said about it : "Secretary of tho Treasury Carlisle has been in Chicago, professedly to de liver a lecture to laboring men in be half of the gold standard. It was a criminal deception to represent that this man who was an advocate of free silver, until he became a cabinet officer at a salary of 18,000 a year came hero at tho invitation of labor. He did nothing of the kind. He came here at tho suggestion of the Cleveland admin istration and in the pay of tho bank ing interests. Cleveland is determined to press the gold theory down the throats of the people. He and tho bankers eent Carlisle here. Now see the result: The city of Chicago will go at the next election for the Republican ticket, unless Gov. Altgeld, a free silver mm, should run -for reelection. If Governor Altgeld should be the candi date, we believe that he would carry Chicago and Cook County. He would have the Germans with him solidly ; h3 would have the labor elements with him; and it is presumptuous for Socre tary Carlisle to come to Chicago and advocate gold. He got a cold recep tion. Tne workiugmen in the city were not in the audience; and suppose they were. There is not much confi dence in she saying of a man who was a red hot silver man and turned into a gold advocate because he became a clerk of Grover Cleveland. The farm ers of Illinois, to whatever party they may belong, are generally for silver coinage ; and a3 that is to be the secret of the prosperity of Illinois agricui ture, the party that adopts it will be very apt to succeed. It must not be forgotten that while the Republican party will probably elect its State ticket in Illinois, the Republican party is by no means sure of capturing the legislature. It may be a Democratic legislature. It is possible that the Populist party may have the balance of power. Carlisle did not touch the 8tate when he came into Chicago." The Western Rural, another influ ential and reliable agricultural paper, said: "Secretary Calisle came to Chicago last week to convince the ' working- man' that a treasury deficit of 50,C00 a iav. and universal depression in wages and prices is the first step to ward that dazzling prosperity which he premised us all when he laid aside his bi metallic ideas to accept the gold ite secretaryship. The Secretary evi dently was surprised that the large and'representative body of intelligent men who gathered to hear his eff ort, persisted in asking unfeeling questions as to some of his strongest utterances in favor of bimetallism. When he re fused to answer these questions the meeting broke up amid cheers for Eugene V. Ddbs and other labor lead ers. The audience evidently pi ef erred to accept the genuiness of Mr. Carl isle's reasoning during the thirty years of his early manhood, while his mind and conscience were alike unsmirch, to the three years of senility passed under the tutelage of Grover Cleve land and the Wall Street ring. "The auditorium was flooded with circulars of all kinds. 0e was signed by all the great labor leaders endors ing the free coinage of silver. Another read as follows: 'John G Carlisle, of Kentucky, after a lifetime devoted to the free coinage of silver at the rati o of 16 to 1, was suddenly converted in 1893 to the gold standard in order to secure a seat in Cievelar d's Cabiaer. He now comes here, fresh from the banquet tables of the Wall Street gold bugs, to tell the idle and starving workingmen of Chicago how they may be successiully robbed by the goldbugs for the next four years.' "A third was in the form of an open letter to the President, referring to Carlisle's fame u 3 statement that 'de monetization would entail more misery on the human race than war, pestilence and famine.' The great labor organi zations were indignant at the action of on unauthorized committee, asking Carlisle to speak to Chicago's working men. They character d the whole thing as a gold standard conspiracy. In consequence of this bitterness and the evidently hostile feeling of his au dience, the Secretary's speech can hardly be characterized as a succes3." STRICTLY AGRICULTURAL. Oae day last week Judge Russell said to the writer: "The agricultural departments of The Progressive Farmer are splendid. I don't see how you get them up in such good shape." The remarks were made in the office at the Park Hotel. Wo thanked the Judge, of course, and at the same time noted his loud silence as regards the political department of the paper. Evi dently it doesn't suit the would be Gov ernor. He didn't even have a kind word for our religious, housohold, po etical or news departments. But let that pass. We like Judge Raseell's agricultural departments, too. There are no fi ies on the Judge when farming is the issue. We know of nothing that would bring the bloom of youth back to our cheeks quicker than to see tho Judge plowing the alluvial soil of his Cape Fear farm. Some people think it a pity to spoil a good lawyer and farmer in making a Governor, even iu tbeso hard times when timber is scares. But the Judge has strong views on this q lestion and will not be changed easily. There are many things about tae Judge to ad mire, wo use ni3 oroaa expanse or countenance, especially when it i3 lighted up with "another county (for me) heard from." But we aro even. The Judge don'c like the political department of The Progressive Farmer, and it don't like his political department. He has never said that he will not vote for a goldbug. Therefore his agricultural and political departments are at variance. We try to even up things in The Progressive Farmer. We know that our agricul tural departments will avail nothing unless we prepare a political decoction to go along with them that will kill goldbuga. No use to raise a crop if you are not going to try to kill and drive away the goldbugs. Judge R issell will never make a success a3 a political farmer until he takes these facts to heart. The next Governor of North Carolina will admire tho agricultural departments of this paper and agree with its political department. SOME PERTINENT QUESTIONS. Do you owe this paper anything? If you do, are you going to pay it? If you are going to pay it when are you going to pay it? If you have forgotten just look at the label. Will you do that? Do you expect a paper to pay ex penses and live on wind while you are living on fried chicken and other deli cacies? We hope every subscriber who is in arrears will send in what is due right away. It is a small amount to each of you, but the aggregate will help us pull an expensive business through the hard times. Are you going to respond? Let every old subscriber eend us one new subscriber this week. CREAM OF THE PRESS. Hard Hits, Bold Sayings and Patriot Paragraphs From Reform Papers. A principle that is not radical is n a principle at all but a scheme dodging priEciple. Ark. Kicker. ' The country cannot be driven int0 dividing up over the at present dealj issue of protection. The Southwest If bleeding Kansas wishes to resame hemorhages she can do it by Ripporj ing McKinley. Rocky Mountain xev8 New York bankers got tSTj oo ofj worth of the bonds. The loan aa "popular" with them. The Farmer' Outlook. When Tillman alluded to Crr;;ie , a Judas, he was giving it to Ju pretty hard. Weekly Tribune, Cal laway, Neb. A few more years of gold be si-? and Ui cl9 Sam will have to pawn hi old stovepipe hat to get a drink with. Nonconformist. Portland went Populist at the school election last Monday. Now look cut for a rain, fl )ods and thunder. Da wn Ellensburg, Wash. Tom Watson says i' we never have free silver until one of the old praties give it, free silver and Gabriel s trum pet will come together. The Populist party is the only party which decUres and stands for free ver at all times and in all places anj under all circumstances. Toptka Ad vocate. Debt and destitution among the masEOS is the direct result of permit, ting the usurers to control financial legislation in their own interests. Tulare Citizen. This country is under a gold stand ard now. How do you like it? l)j you want it continued? If you answer in the negative then keep out of the Demo cratic primaries. Gainesville ift'nal. A bill has been introduced Icokiog to a conference of the power relative to Turkey. Congress will have its hands full, if it will correct the evils in this country, and not look after the motes in the eyes of other countries Southern Mercury. State Senator Cantor msde tho as sertion on the floor of the senate last week that corporations have such an influence in the Assembly that it has become impossible to pess a gocd bill. Surely things have come to a pretty pass. Saturday Critic. Every country in the world that is on a gold basis ia.jfcomplaimVs oaid times, railing prices aua business re verses. In M.xico and Japan, silver basis countries, there is conteut and prosperity. Isn't it the relation of causo and effect? Brockton Diamond. Soma of our Republican exchanges are expressing their intention not to abandon their "principles" to co oper ate with the Populists. Tho most of the Republican .leaders, like those of the Democratic party, have no princi pies to abandon. To make a fight on principle is what they den't warn to do. Lumberton Populist. Suppose a man had a safe full of money greenbacks, banknotes, silver and silver certificates, but only alit'le gold. And suppose a creditor shcu'd come in with a thousand dollar claim and request gold. Wouldn't the m in be a chump to hustle around town and borrow the gold on, say, twenty years time, at 4, or any other pric? cf in terest? Uncle Sam is doing this kind of business. Broadside. OVERPRODUCTION. For the sake of those w ho are too busy or too lazy to inform themselves of the fallacies about improved ma chinery and overproduction ve give some brief facts which the Atlanta Constitution furnishes : "As to overproduction iu wheat, ti e figures issued by the United tat.es De partment of Agriculture show that the number cf buehels per capita of population produced in 1SS0 vzu ; '' The price was then 95 Crnt-T a bu.-L 1. In 1885 thenumberof bushels per capita of poDulation was 0 3 but the pn- rei to 77 cents. In 1893 the number of bushel3 per capita of population 5.9, and tho price fell to 53 S cent'. "It will bo said, of course, by tre agents of tho money power thai ui U l caso of wheat lower prices have br,:n caused by competiaon from India a; J Argentina. But there would " vcr have been any competition frcn; ine.-;e countries buz for the bonus on tl ir. wheat (flered by the gold prcm;1 Tney have been able to undersoil us in erold Drices. but thev continue to re f ceive a dollar a bushel for their wh- in silver. 'But there is no competition in ttie production of corn. The United States ia the only great corn-producing nation on the earth, and yet the price ra fallen from 50 cents a bushel to -5 cents." But these are only two products. Bradstreet of last week quotes a general decline of 2 p?r cent, on commodities since the 1st of April. The Constitu tion adds that since 1873 prices have fallen more than 100 per cent. Tbe business man and the wage earner are equally interested in these facts. Richmond Star.
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