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THE PROGRESSIVE FARIIEB : JUNE 30, 1896. THE PRD&BESSIVE FABIIEB MRS. L. L. POLK, - Proprietor. X. L. RAMSEY, - Editor. J. W. DENMARK, - Business M'g'b. Raleigh, N. C. SUBSCRIPTION tingle Subscriber. One Year S 1.38 ,l Six Montta .75 five Subscriber. OneTer...,, 5.00 fen OneYew 10.00 One copy one year free, to the one sending Club if Ten. G.Y InoartaMy in Advance. Money at our risk. If sent by registered letter r money order. PUau ion't tend tiamw. Advertising Kxtea qu tei on pyilctlon. To CorrstvondenU : Write all cosnntinicAtlons, deslsmed for pab .lCAtlon, on one side of the paper only. We want Intelligent correspondents In every onntyln the Stale. We want factiot value, results accomplished of valne, experiences of ralne, 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. P., JUNE 30. 1SS6 ThU papr entered at teeond-datt matter at the Post OfHee in Raleioh, C. The Progressive Farmer it the Official Organ of the N. C. Farmers' State Alliance Do you want your paper changed to another office I State the one at which f ou have been getting it. gj" Our friends in writing to any of jar advertisers will favor us by men tioning the fact that they saw the advertisement in Tax Progressive IS?" The date on your label tells you rhen your time is out " I am standing now just behind the surtain, and in full glow of the coming runset. Behind me are the shadotcs on the track, before me lies the dark valley und the river. When J mingle icith its dark waters I tcant to cast one linger ing look upon a country whose govern tnent is of the people, for the people, and by the people L. L. Polk, July th, WO. N. R, F. A. EDITORIAL NOTES. Wcnier how much Chairman Tau beneck ia to pay for the Wall street Democracy, if ho succeeds m buying it. The Cuban war is progressing rapid ly. Gen. Weyler and his 2CO,000 men have driven another newspaper cnrre spondent out of Cuba, Mr. W. W.Giv I oi the JNew xotk vvona. ... - iaiana State Demo CFd p- Cleveland, Sherman anmuf15nechild3 can stand flat footed on it. Yet he is the mm the free silver Democrats are booming for Pretident. The Goldsboro Argus says it believes that the eilver crtzi will practically disappear within a comparatively short time. If the people depend upon the Damosrats that surmise will prove correct. The silver itself will alao dis appear. Mexico is a silver country, and the people are only half civilized so say the goldbugs. Statistics show that but one person in 24,500 ia murdered in Mexico. In the United S ates one in every 7.0C0 dies by the hand of a mur derer. The goldbugs want to start seme other lie. See notice of Alliance speakings else where in this paper. County Alliances should make effort to change date of county meetings to conform with date of speaking, but if this can't be done, be sure and have a good crowd at the speaking, and hear all about the shoe factory and other enterprises. Boise, of Iowa, is hedging already. In a recent interview he said : "When the question of what constitutes an honest dollar reaches the country, whatever influence I possess will be used to maintain the parity of the dif ferent coins." A John Sherman G rover Cleveland utteranc, as sure as Christ mas. Remember thi3 : With a D mocratic President and a majority in both Houses of Congress a majority of 148 in all the Democrats didn't pass a free coin age bill, though many bills were intro duced. Now, when they have no hope of electing a president or a majority of Congress, some of them are the rankest free coiners in the country. What has become of the reform press of thi3 country f Will the papers keep quiet and let Teller and Taubeneck con tinue their efforts to deliver the reform voters at the Chicago Convention in order that all hope of reform may be destroyed? This will bo the reeult Those heading that way may not in tend anything wrong, but they should be called to their senses Prize fighters, like political parties, outlive their days of usefulness. Cor bett tackled a young sailor by the name of Sharkey, at San Francisco, last week, and was certain that he could knock him out in four rounds. But he didn't. Sharkey kept him busy and the fight was declared a draw. Cor- bett was not scratched, showing his superior skill, but with better training .the result would be in doubt. DANGER AHEAD. It is not necessary to tell our readers that The Progressive Farmer is an independent paper. They know it. We have promised to point out mis takes and denounce fraud and corrup tion in all political parties, and we are going to keep that promise to the best of our ability. If we are wrong at any time it will bo an error of the head and not of the heart. At this particular time we believe the Chairman of the National People s party Executive Committee and some members of that committee need atten tion. A movement in on foot, and if it is not defeated all hope of reform will be gone forever. Chairman Taubeneck has been associating with certain Dem ocratic rainbow chasers until he seems to have gotten it into his head that he can deliver the entire People's party into the lap of Wall Street Democracy at one time. He and twenty five other so called Populists have signed an ad dress, scund enough in its way, for it keeps the real purpose concealed, but which means Populist support for a so callt d silver man who may or may not be nominated at Chicago. Senator Teller is said to be a party to this move. T. M. Patterson, of Denver, is another of tbi3 class. Away down East, Whar ton Barker, of PniJadelphia, editor of the American, who recently left the Republican party, is launching a little boomlet of the same kind, except that he claims that no ore but an Eas tern man can be elected, and that Wharton Barker is that man. Away with euch tomfoolery ! In the absenca of proof we will not charge that Teller will sell himself for a Presidential nomination, or that Taubeneck has been assured that he can have a cabinet position if he can deliver the millions of reform votes to the fast decaying Democratic machine, but we want to sound a note of warn ing. This move cannot be successful, but it can be carried far enough to do incalculable damage. Taubeneck was not selected to carry his party out of the middle of the road, he has no au thority to attempt it, even though his intentions are good. We defended the People's party Executive Committee in this State recently because it was true to its party, and refused to make honorable and fuicidaL. jde condemn Taubo'r ' ' , , , , c ,wieck and his kind for attempt'cutr , ...jg to make one. The eilver question is a vital one, but it is only one of several important iseues. If the Democratic party were in earnest, ard we don't believe it ia, it would stop when silver is remonet'zed, and that would be a compromise bill, something like the Bland or Sherman law, and then the reform forces would be disorgan zed and helpless while mo nopoly would laugh in its sleeve?, and ten chances to one demonetize silver inside of two years. Remember the fato of the Green back party started twenty years ago. It had grown so large that the old mo nopoly parties were frightened. Both parties made concessions to get it out of the way and then flooded the coun try with the news that the National ticket had been withdrawn, cutting down the vote greatly. Here we are now struggling to get the people in power again, when it might have been done long ago had the Greenback party stood to its guns, and we are glad to say many of them did fight to the last and are now in "the ranks of the true reformers. The Republican party hes declared for gold. It is a part of the pro gramme now for the D m: crate to change their course and disorganize the People's party and buy some of the leaders with office or cash, whichever they chocs3. Tnen they will have the masses by the throat again, and it may be that they can never be rallied Reformers to your gun& ! Victory will come if you stand firm. In the mean time you will be no worse eff with honorable defeat, if defeat it is, than with dishonorable and illogical victory even though that is a remote possibility for no ticket nominated at Chicago can be successful this year, for there will be an independent ticket. Let the reform press epeak out in thunder tones and let every patriot denounce any effort to sidetrack reform by those who are negotiating with the secret agents of the money power to betray us into a fatal step. The only people's convention this year will be held at St. Louis, July 22 ad. We repeat, re form editors to your guns'! A TRUE POPULIST. Senator Peffer is not one of your namby pamby greenies ready to be caught by the Democratic free coinage saw dust swindle. He left Washington for his home a few days ago, and be fore leaving, said: "The recent pronunciamento of a few Populist gentlemen at St. Louis, urging the Democratic convention to nominate Mr. Teller, was, in my judgment, an impertinence, and it was treacherous, so far as it attempted to epeak for the the Populist party as a whole. These gentlemen spoke without authority from the Populist party, and I do not believe the party will sustain them. 'They had not conferred with the party and had been given no commis sion to speak for it. Personally I have a high regard for Mr. Teller, but I have no idea that the old party spirit of the Democratic organ'z ition will be so far relaxed as to bring about his nomina tion. "And in any event I do not think ex isting conditions warrant Populist in dorsement of the Democratic presiden tial ticket, even though the nominee is for free silver and the platform con tains a positive free silver declaration. I regard the integrity and perpetuity of the Populist party as essential to carrying out the plan of reforms we have espoused. "The money question is but one of these. While the Democratic conven tion doubtless will be for free eilver, yet it will not be e pressive of those other great questions of land tenure and of labor which the Populist party regards as vital. I had hoped that there might be some amalgamation of Democrats, Populists, tilver men and all others in a new declaration of prin ciples, and, if need be, a new name. But the time for that has gone by, and all that remains is for the Populist party to maintain its integrity by nom inating its own candidates on its own platform." m The Wilmington Star is bragging on its financial editorials. They may be good, but the great length of them is driving men to accept the gold faith. AN OBJECT LESSON. Mose.3 Cone, the smart Alex, and a member of the palid trut, has some thing to do with the finishing mills at Greensboro. He is a great unwashed goldbug. The other day he brought down a thousmd Mexican dollars-from Biltimore, the great big dollars that contain more silver than our American dollar, but which, owing to adverse legislation, are only worth but a little over 50 cents as our money i3 reckoned. He paid off the hands employed in the mills the other Saturday with MpviQan dollars to furnish them an 'cect Yes" son in nuance. Tne funny part of it is that the hands were well pleased with the lesson He paid them two dollars for eich dollar due them, and they spent them like hot cakes, some passing each dollar for 100 cents, thereby doubling their wages for the week. Now the joke i3 on Mote Cone. The next time he furnishes an object lesson he will use a black board or something of that sort. The mill hands t re beseeching him to pay them in Mexican dollars every Saturday, but Moses has not fully decided to carry on his financial school any longer. He has learned that North Carolina folks are not all fools, and that they will use anything for a dollar that has a gov ernment stamp on it and contains the lawful amount of silver. Mr. Cone will confer a favor by bringing down a few car loads of these silver dollars from goldbugdom. We need 'em awful badly. ---- NEEDS A TURNTABLE. Only last week we congratulated the Charlotte Observer for standing by the administration and calling things black when they are white, or vice versa. We did this notwithstanding the well known fact that tho editor of that pa per has changed his financial views several times during the past few years But the Observer, Democratic like, had to go ar.d spoil it all. On the 21st it said: The Wadesboro Messenger Intelli gencer says that in view of the recent prediction in this paper that no free silver coinage law will ever be adopted in this country, is was "somewhat sur prised" to see, Tuesday, an expression of our belief that "if the elections were held to morrow free silver would sweep the country." Yes, sir; that is a rather curious way we have. If, upon a show ing of facts, we see what warrants a change of an opinion, we change it. We are not here to hold doggedly, in the face of proofs, to preconceived ideas, but to tell the truth as we see it. We said in the editorial from which our contemporary quotes that a re ac tion may come. If ic does, and we hare occasion to change our opinion again and get back to the original position, we will do so and tell the people about it." Now we see that the goldites who put up money to establish the Obser ver will be bound to add another item of expense. They want to put an edi torial turntable in the office so the edi tor can ar just himself to suit all changes. It need not be as large, cr aa heavy as the turntables used by rail1 roads at terminal points, but it should be strong enough to hold up a ton at least. If this is done, the Observer will have the mcst complete newspaper of fice of the size in the country, and its readers may reasonably expect at least two or three changes every day. ALLIANCE EXPERIMENT STATIONS. We intended to make editorial ref erence to the article appearing in our last issue under the above title, but pressure of other matter prevented. The plan is an excellent one, and is well worth the serious consideration of every sub Alliance in the State. Dr. Battle and his assistants have had a great deal of practical experience in each and every branch of agriculture, hor culture, dairying, and in the man agement of live stock. Nothing like practical experience. Then scientific knowledge is a great advantage. Since farming is no longer a mere vocation, but as much a science as any other oc cupation, and since men are being edu cated to become farmers at our Agri cultural and Mechanical Colleges, and are as ca efully trained as if they were studying for the practice of medicine or dentistry, all begin to see that there is something in "book farming." True, uneducated fai mers are doing as well and even better than tome of the edu cated ones, and the same is true of mer chants and manufacturers. But the progressive farmer of the future will not set If at agricultural education and information. When tho government first estab lished experiment stations it was up hill work to get people interested, but there has been a change. The experi ment stations, with specialists in every department, have demonstrated their usefulness beyond a doubt. Tho experi ment station with farm, stcck, fruit, poultry, and everything handy, can devote more study to different diseases of animals than tho average farmer can, and find the best remedies. They can make chemical experiments that our farmers cannot make, even if they have studied chemistry, for they have not got the appliances. A detective is seldom above the average man in smartness, but it is his cccupation. He has the time, the patience to run down criminals, he studies his business. Same i3 true of any specialist. Now if each Sub Alliance will elect an experimental committee and co operate with the experiment station, much vnlimhln fnf nrrr '"inn mn be secured. A great deal of valuable ag ricultural matter in bulletin form will be published free of cost and questions of general interest sent to the experi ment station will be answered and the answers published in The Progressive Farmer Surely all this is worth a little effort on the part of the farmers of the State. What Alliance will be the first to appoint a committee of one or more persons and report the fact to the Experiment Station? BUT YOU DIDN'T CARRY MECK LENBURG. In the counties of Gaston, Lincoln, Cabarrus, Burke and Iredell, in this State, where there are sound money weekly papers like the Gaatonia Ga zette, Lincoln Democrat, Concord Times and Standard, Morganton Her aid and Statesviilo Landmark, there is a pronounced sentiment in favor of sound money, and it was in evidence in the Democratic conventions recently held in these five counties Charlotte Observer. That is so, but what about Mecklen burg? Tae Observer is published in that county, and it contains the largest city of any of them, and yet the Ob server didn't preserve sound money worth a cent. Probably our contem porary was in tha act of changing its views just as tho conventions met, and the folks not knowing what to do, got lost in the sbi fil TRANSPARENT FRAUD. The best and wisest people can be deceived, but there is no excuse for it when a thing bears the impress of fraud. We were told by Democratic papers and individuals before the convention that the goldbugs in the party were to be retired and well known, tried and true men nomina.ed for every position. But what a spectacle ! The State con vention was thoroughly sprinkled with gold men. True a gold resolution waa voted down by an overwhelming majority, but it is well known that cowardice prevented many from voting their true sentiments. One y ear ago the same crowd would have adopted a gold resolution. Where were all these silver men during the past three years? Not a word did they say in de fense of eilver. Where were they when the silver convention wt s held in this city last September? Not more than twenty five of them were here. What did the convention do? Did it nominate Judge McRae, who had the manhood to stand by the call he had signed and act as chairman of the con vention? D-d it nominate Capt. Sam Ashe, who signed the call and stood by the convention until he saw that the Democrats did not come? No. McRae was defeated for the nomination for Governor and Ashe for Treasurer, though both had strong backing. Did it nominate Ex Governor Jarvia or Ed. Chambers Smith? No. The only man who took part in that convention in September who got a nomination, was C. M. Cook, and he was only in the convention as a kicker and demoral izer. Where was Watson, Mason, Aycock, Furman, Scarborough, Osborne, Avery and the balance of them all the while? Has anybody ever heard of them doing anything for the silver cause? Have they been bold enough to denounce the administration when it was destroying the people's money and selling bonds to enrich a few in dividuals? Then again, if gold men were to be retired why was it that Col. Paul B. Means, H. A London and other open and avowed goldites were eltc ed on the Executive Committee, which is really the party when the party ia cot assembled in convention? All these thing are unexplained, and cannot be satisfactorily explained. We wouldn't give ten cents a thousand for such sil ver men as the Democratic party has nominated in North Carolina, to say nothing of the gold men, it has uom inated. . A CURIOUS ASSOCIATION. One of the most comical, but, at the same time, remarkable associations in this country is "The Uuited States Hay Fever Association." None but the wealthy can afford tobeiorsg to the Association, but the poorest cau in dulge in a gorgeous luxury like hay fever. It is an old institution, but very few people know that there is such a band The twenty third annual meeting will beheld at Bethlehem, N. H., on Au gust 25 ;h. Many prominent people be long to the association, and most of the members attend regularly. There is a list of supposed "exempt" places pub lished annually, and the members hie away to them whenever they can dur ing the summer. However, it is gen erally known that a change of locality and rest almost invaribly gives at least temporary relief, whether the patient goes to a so called "exempt" locality or not. At the annual meetings promin ent physicians discourse learnedly, and enerally humorously, about the causes of thruicS29?vbat remedies have been tried, and how" accessful they have been in not effecting cures.' Hay fever is very closely related to catarrh of head, and generally attends each and every case of catarrh, though the two diseases, if they are separate and distinct, may not always get in their work at the same time. Catarrh is worse in the winter and during rainy weather. Hay fever never gets down to business much except in hot weather. People who are nervous, and who lead sedentary indoor lives are generally the shining marks selected by hay fever. It is claimed that small germs attack the mucous membrane in the nose and produce the frequent, and of ten, incessant sneezing. That may be entirely correct, but there is proof on the otht r side. A trip of a hundred miles will relieve the hay fever, and it also disappears when the first frost comes in the fall, leaving the victim free until hot weather again. The best i evidence that it is not a germ disease is tho fact that a load of new mown hay will generally start the patient into a fit of sneezing. If the smoke from a burning sulphur match ia inhaled, or any pungent odor, the bay fever gets right down to business. Some people have what is called "Rose fever." A rose held close to the nose will produce symptoms exactly like new mown hay will produce when brought near a hay fever sufferer. Both diseases evident ly are closely related. So far no quick cure haa been dis covered, though many things will give temporary relief The mucous mem brane being more or less inflamed, gen erally due to impure blood, which also causes most nervous troubles, a blood purifier generally produces more last ing benefit than anything else. At any rate that is the concensus of opinion as gleaned from the views of the mem bers of the Hay fever Association, and they ought to know aa much about it as anybody else. It is to be hoped that the next Congress will make an ap propriation to investigate the trouble and, if possible, find a remedy, for hay fever is not much of a joke, as thousands can testify. It deserves to rank along with tubercolis and other troubles. Ye weary silver Democrats who are heavy laden with mortgages, bonds and the gold standard, come join the People's party and find rest for your tired hearts and minds by acting in consistence with your profession. Daily Tribune, Augusta, Ga. The Advocate ia somewhat at a loss to understand why 1300,000 of Kansas mortgages should have been sold for 1341 the other day in the face of the fact that Kansas haa been redeemed and her credit restored abroad by the election of a republican administra tion. Topeka Advocate. CREAM OP THE PRESS Hard Hits, Bold Sayings and pttrift Paratrranha Prnm Bf l0tC o x -vtm fapei A nYnncre nf inma ers. a change of platform. -ArkaJS Kicker. QSaa Put $50 per capita of money in c,rc, lation and the papers will he fiii" with advertisments of employers want ing hands. Missouri World. How do you know money when yr, see it? By the government stamp. yet some fools say the government can't make money. Cleburne Herald Oats are selling at 17 cents per bu&he! in Defiance. Whoop it up for th? nM the millionaires. Advance Guard fts fiance, Ohio. The parties that demonetize silver and have refused for thirty years to remnet'z it, are not to bo trusted with remonetization now. Progres3 ive Farmer, Mt. Vernon 111. There is about as much logic in r,fr. mitting the foxes to build our chicken coopa as there is in allowing bankers to issue our money and millionaires to own our railroads. Farmers' Outlook. It is amusing in the extreme to hear Grover Cleveland talking about "so ber" thoughts. Certainly he doea not evolve such out of his own brain ccr borrow them from Carlisle. -Bound Money. r The welfare and security of society rest upon the personal liberty ot the individual ; personal f reedom-ot thought, speech and action. A people should be governed only by its own consent. Saturday Critic. " When the devil was sick the devil a saint would be. When the devil was well the devil a saint was he." When the Democrats are out of power they are friends of the people; when ia power they are for the other fellows. Missouri World. Senator Tillman has called Carlis!, the "Judas from Kentucky," Pre sideat Cleveland a "besotted tyrant" ani John Sherman tho "arch fiend from hell," yet he says the reason he can't join the Populists is "they are too rad ical." Rate ! Times Statesman. Some men say we need but little money to do business with ; it can be with personal Checks, etc. Tne check is about the same as a coin certificate. There must ba something behind it to back it. We can do without check?, but without money, never. Alliance Advocate. Mr. Cleveland should send htefcoa? guard to protect the treasury. He should be willing, as a pious Presby terian, to risk fate and dodge the cranks for a few days if the thieve3 who are robbing the public treasury daily of a million dollars can be caught. Southern Mercury. Senators Teller, Dubois Pettigrew and Cannon have quit the Republican monopolist party. The grand old pirty that used to be which freed the slaves, is out in a now game. It is committed to the gold standard, which means that both black and white are to be sold in bondage to the banker and Shy lock. American Enterprise. COMMITTEE MEETING. The State Executive Committee of the People's party will meet in tbia city on next Friday, July 3rd, to fix the time for meeting of the State Conven tion and euch other business as may be brought before the meeting. THEY WOULD HAVE "SOUND MONEY," S. W. Graves & Co., the leading mantel manufacturers in the Soutl1, Knoxville, Tenn , assigned on the 13 & Liabilities $40,000 (sound ) The Roanoke Loan, Trust and Safe Deposit Company, Roanoke, Va , cap ital $250,000, has assigned. It is claimed that the assets amount to over t)00, 000, and the liabilities a little over 200, 000, (sound) but it was impossible to realize on securities, which corseted mainly of real estate which has depre ciated under a gold standard. Of c:urte this conoern contended that the to make money plentiful was to stop making it. The German-American Savings Bank Charleston, 8 C, i3 in the hands of a receiver. Stockholders will getnothi. it ia said. Tho Eigle and Pi oe lix cotton at Columbus, Ga., the largest X01 the world, went into the hands c(& ceiveron the 13th. Liabilities fl 1; ;' 000. Tnese raills had been doing a cessful business for many years, u year or two of the gold standard rum them. i Cashier A. Brady, of the Loan ac Savings Bank, Charlotte, N. C in I is accounts to the tune of H He is a eound money Rf Pub!ic8D'rj haa not been seen since he retu from the National Convention at Louis. Brady attempted to help Democrats steal Mecklenburg cou two years ago.
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