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f THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER: JULY 21, 1896. o MM . . . .m i . . i THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER. MRS. L. L. POLK, - Proprietor. J. L. RAMSEY, - Editor. J. W. DENMARK, - Business M'g'b. Raleigh, N. C. SUBSCRIPTION Single Subscriber, One Year I 1.25 " " Six Montka 75 Tlve Subecriber, OneYew 6.C0 ten " OneYew 10.00 One copy one yer free, to the one sending Clnb if Ten. Ccu Invariably in Advanet. Money t our Tift, If sent by registered letter st money order. Pleat don't tend ttampt. Advertising Rtes quoted on application. To Corrttvondentt : Write all communications, designed for pub lication, on one side of the paper only. We want intelligent correspondents In every ounty in the State. We want tacit of value, reeults accomplished of valne, experiences of ralne, plainly and briefly told. One solid, demonstrated fact, is worth a thonsand theories. The editor is not responsible for the views of correspondents. RALEIGH, N. P., JUftY 21. 16S6. 1 hit avr mured at teeond-elatt natter at th Pott Ogle in Ralcioto, N. C. The Progressive Fanner 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 t ou have been getting it. gy- Our friend? in writing to any of crar advertisers will favor us by men- doning the fact that they paw tne advertisement in Taa Progressive ?arher. 'fZ? The date on your label tells you 'ben your time ia out. " J am standing now just behind the curtain, and in full glow of the corning mnset. Behind me are the shadorvs on the track, before me lies the dark valley and the river. When I mingle with its dark waters J vxint 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 Uh. 1890. N. R. P. A. EDITORIAL NOTES. To our personal knowledge, men who have been quoted as favoring the en dorsement of the Democratic nominees, have been misquoted. "Wait a week and hear the truth." Our candid belief is that a new party is absolutely necessary to give this country reform. Is it better to use the one started four yeare ago, or to wait a few years and start another? The goldbugs still want to drop silver and take up State banks. That will make more goldbugs and less money in circulation, of ceurse, or else the goldbugs wouldn't favor the scheme. Senator S:ewart claimed to be a Pop" ulist. But he comes out for the Dem ocratic ticket, and we are inclined to believe that he only had a slight bil lions attack when he intimated that his heart had gotten right. Our Populist friends are brave, pstri otic and generous, but we hardly think they will 'make their party a rescue station and loose their own lives in sav ing the drowning Democratic party. Self-preservation i3 the first law of nature. Will the Populists go from silver, or bi metaliism, to goldbuggery at a single jump? We hardly think so. But if the Populists get tangled up by endors ing the Democratic national ticket, the jump will have been made, and reform set back for years. It wap a magnanimous act for the goldbugs to turn over the Democratic party to the silver men, after they, the gold men, run the machine for four years and got their bond issues and other pet schemes in operation, at a time, too, when there isn't a shadow of a chance for the party to carry the country. With a few notable exceptions, the big goldbugs and the little goldbugs who have been running the D-mocratic party, are going to vote the Democratic ticket. That means a gold party with a silver head to the ticket. Is there any logical reason why the Populists should vote for them? That is the surest way in the world to defeat any fiaan cial legislation. Some of our Western friends are so intensely in earnest about getting sil ver remonetized that they are ready to grasp anything that looks like a glimmer of hope. Toe only way the Democrats can ever fool us again is by getting down to a little honest work in Congress. But, as Bill Nye said about the Indians, becoming virtuous, the Democrats will not begin honest legislation uatil afcer they are dead. Jerry Simpson delivered the 4h of July address at Fort Dodge, Iowa, and was paid two hundred silver dollars for the job, he being a strong eilver man Jerry took them without a change of countenance and stowed them away in hi3 grip. The committee afterwards offered to pay him in currency, but Jerry said he preferred the silver. When you think you can disgust a sil ver man by paying him in silver, you are barking up the wrong tree. DEMOCRATIC TOMFOOLERY. The Democratic press has opened up the usual campaign of gush, nonsense and sentimentality. Tne papers have had Bryan doing more different things since he was nominated, ten days ago, than a man can do in a life time. At the same hour of the same day he vis ited his great grandmother in Indiana, addressed "a monster mass meeting" in Chicago, and another in St. Louis, "visited the scenes of his boyhood" in' Illinois, kissed his wife on both cheeks at the same time, and for charity's sake made love to an old maid in Missouri, and to crown it all "weeped at the grave of the late Judge Lj man Trum bull, in Chicago, and said that "much" of his "inspiration came from Judge Trumbull." Now when we consider that Judge Tumbull threw off the old party shackles some time ago and joined the People's party, it is evident that he and Bryan were very wide apart. 01 all the namby pamby tootsy wootsy ducky my dear campaign ers, the Democrats take the cake. If that party ever does make a mistake and nominate a truly good man for an office, he will surely get disgusted and abandon the race be'ore the cam paign is half over. To cap the climax, the latest story is that there is a great rush of people to see Bryan's little home cottage at Lincoln, Nebraska. The papers say there has been a con tinual rush of people to view the home ; that the grass was a foot high in the yard a week ago and is now all trampled down by the excited throng, and that the people are chipping off pieces of wood from the wails and bits of brick from the chimney as mementoes to such an extent that there will hardly be any cottage when the Presidential nominee and hia wife get heme. The facts in this case are that some apple trees stand in the Bryan cottage yard, and the boys of Lincoln having inherited a love of the fruit from Mother Eve, are taking advantage of the absence of Mr. and Mrs. Bryan to steal the fruit and incidentally whittle the sides of the house with their barlow knives. So much for Democratic sen sational sentimentality. The silver wing of the Democratic party refers to the goldbug wing as goldbugs, monopolists and things of that sort. The goldbug wing calls the other fellows lunatics, scoundrels and fools. "When thieves fall out honest men get their dues." ITS WONDERFUL EFFECT. The Alliance in its work for the ele vation of the country has achieved a grander work than i3 commonly ac credited unto it. As an educational institution its in fluonce cannot be meas ured. The extent of its influence is in comprehensible, says the People's Pa nr.r Thousands who have never been at all favorable to its work have received benefit for its ( fri eient work. It has awakened a confiding laboring class of men to the l'ght tbat those in whom they were confiding to protect the la borer's intereet were bartering upon their confidence, and binding circles of bond&ge around them unto the fortieth generation. It has instilled into the hearts of the people a desire to make the American people an independent people, full of the patriotism that char acterized the founders of the first dec laraticn of Americin independence. It has opened channels of commerce from the manufacturer to the consumer whereby the enormous profits of the broker are eaved to the consumer, thereby stimulating mauy who hereto fore saw only the mortgage merchant as a means of making a crop to work upon a cash basis. The economical and social features of the Alliance are broad in their influence, deep in their foundation, steaafast against tho in fluence of the kicks and elurs of ita defamers, having stood the storms of attack made upon it by a North Caro lina legislature. Senator Hill, Senator German, the Tammany gang in New York, and Matt Ransom, of North Carolina, have all agreed to "support the ticket." That settles it. All good citizens who want reform should prepare to vote for the ticket that will be nominated at St. Louis this week. A TOOL OF THE MONEY POWER, The Rev. Dr. Kempshall, the pastor of the First Presbyterian Church here. took a3 the theme to day for his Fourth I of July eermon, "The Ethics of Free Silver." Tne clergyman said that all signs of the times indicated that this country was on the verge of a momentous crisis. It wa3 idle to ignore this fact or regard it lightly. Tne free silver madness was e weeping the West, and the league of Populists, Anarchists, and Socialists who were aligning them? elves with the free eilver cranks must be beaten if this country was to be saved from de struction. The crisis was more danger Aousthan anything since Fort Sumter . waa fired upon. Tne free silver doctrine was unsound in principle, and dishon est in practice. "May God save us," he said, "from such an event coming to pass as its success at the polls. It is an attempt to alter God'a law, which says by the sweat of his brow shall man earn his bread. The free eilverites . want some other one to earn bread for them. They don't believe in honest individual eff ort. The free silver craze is" largely helped along by Populists and Socialists of the Altgeld 'stripe. It is a wild unreason ing clamor that breaks out in time of business depression. It is fostered by prejudice and ignorance, and held out by specious false and subtle arguments in the mouths of demagogues as a panacea for the existing hard times, and they claim that its adoption will restore good times. It n the old green back doctrine of inflation over again. It means a repudiation of our lawful obligations. "The fact of its existence is a danger of desolation to our land. If not checked it would bring our nation to shame and disgrace before the civil'zid world. Farms have been developed, homes and churches built, in the West by Eastern capital. The people who in vested this money did it in good faith, that the obligation was to be repaid in gold. The present issue is not one of Democracy against Republicanism, but it means that all patriots who love this land should sink their political preferments, unit e against the common enemy and cast their ballots so as to best promote tho highest interests of our nation. Let the motto bo "In God We Trust," and let us remember the result of the ballots cast next Novem ber will determine the weal or woe of our beloved country for years to come." Just imagine how the angels weep when they hear such preaching as the above ! Isn't it the very men who do not earn their bread by the sweat of their brow that favor the single stan dard? CONFLICTING DATES. Some of the officers of the State Alli ance complain because the date for the State Convention of the People's party has been fixed for the same week. Too State Alliance mests on the 11th and the State Convention on tho 13 ;h. If any of the delegates to the State Alii ance are delegates to the Convention, they wi'l be in an awkward position. However, the State Alliance may dis patch all the business in two days and nights if they go about it in a business like manner. At any rate, the Scate Alliance work should have the u&i vided attention of the delegates to it first of all. and none should ieave until it is finished. A session of the State Alliance can be held on the morning of fhe 13 :h and those wishing to come to Raleigh can come on the east bound train, which passes Hillabcro about 1 p m. and arrives at Raleigh aoou; 3 o'clock, and be here in time for tho convention, as but little work will be done ty tho convention before that hour on that day. This will give de'o gates a good part of throe days at Hillsborc, and certainly the work can be done in that time. At any rate, no delegate should leave unfinished work, and wo hardly think they will. TELEPHONES AT COUNTRY POSTOFFICES. By adopting the telephone at most postdates, instead of the telegraph, the increase in tho number of pesteffice employees would be inconsiderable. The vast influence of the great tele graph monopoly can be used for po litical purposes by coloring news and in other more direct ways. When the telegraph service is made a part of the postoffice and placed under civil rules and subject to the direct force of pub lie opinion the experience in other countries has been that it exerts no more power on party politics than the army or judiciary. Originally the telegraph (n 1816) belonged to the posted je When it was abandoned to private corporations on account of its supposed expense, Henry Clay, Cave Johnson and other leaders of both parties had the foresight to foretell the mischief done in abandoning an essen tial governmental function to private monopoly. Hobart, Republican nominee for Vice President, is a lawyer by profes sion, and in practice a receiver, director, or large shareholder in a score or two of railroad and other large corpora tions. All who profess to be oppoeed to railroad rule will give the lie to their professions if they do not vote against the Republican party. When your Congressman asks you to help re elect him for another term, remind him of the postal telegraph bill now slumbering in the committee on posted ces and postroads, and secure from him a promise that he will use his influence in getting favorable con sideration for the measure both from the committee and the house. WATSON ON THE CHICAGO NOMI NEES AND THE PLATFORM. The People's Party Paper, Atlanta, Ga., edited by Hon. Thomas E. Wat son, takes about the sime position on the Damocratic nominees and platform that we have taken. It says it is so much better that we are tempted to quote freely. Here are some extracts: "It did not make any particular dif ference who the Democrats nominated at Chicago, for, as things now stand, the nominee hasn't the slightest chance to be elected ; but when they swallowed three-fourths of our platform without batting the eyes, and selected as stand ard bearer a brilliant young orator who had said he would bolt the Damo cratic party if it nominated a gold standard candidate on a gold standard platform, the situation becomes com plex. "But, it may be said, if the Demo crats win, that's all we want ; and if they lose, we will lose also therefore the perils suggested are fanciful. ' "If we make a separate fight under our own leaders and with our own organization, defeat may discour age, but does not demoralize us, dis rupt us, or degrade us. We can rise and come again strong in our self respect and in the respect of honorable foes who recognfz ) our royalty to prin ciples. "If Mr. Bryan carried in his hand, the vote of the Damocratic Hcus9 and Senate, I, for one, would trust him to carry out these platform pledges. But he does not do so. He can no more an stver for his colleagues in the public service now, than he could in 1892, or in 1893. Ho knows, just as we know, that some of the guiltiest criminals in the crime of 1S92 and 1S93' have been re-nominated by the Damocratic party -some for the House and some for the Senate. "As now constituted it is just simply impossible for the Democratic party to enact a free coinage law. "la every turn of the free silver fight, the Democrats have shown that they were for their party first, and for the principle next. If they can get free silver inside the party, all right ; if net, they won't have it. "Acting upon this idea in 1892, Mr. Crisp killed the free coinage bill by taking it off the fl eor, where Pop3 and free silver R epublicans could vote for it, and put it before the Committee on Rules, where it was necessary that a majority of Democrats should sign a petition before action could be had. A moj rity of Democrats refused to sign, and the bill went to the bone yard. "When the Democrats at Chicago hooted at the idea of naming Teller as their candidate, they proved that they thought of party at.d pie counter first, and principle next. "Is it the genteel thing to come bolt ing into cur cabin, snatci our chairs, benches and beds, carry them away to their house, and then invite us to step over and help them luxuriate on our furniture? ' Dressing Billy Bryan up in Popu list raiment makes Billy an attractive figure to our admiriDg gaze; but, as long as he remains mixed in with the scrub sheep of the Democratic flock, we are much inclined to say to him, in the language of the ancient anecdote, 'We love you, Billy, but d n your company.' "The proposition is now made that we should abandon our party because its principles have secured Democratic endorsement. "The Democratic party has been whipping us for four years and, aa a result, has embraced our principles and professed our faith. Let them whip us one more time, and perhaps they will be ready to join our church. "It was this siren song of 'trust it to us' that the Democratic party sang to the Alliance in 1890. In every South ern State, the Democrats incorporated tho Alliance demands in their State platforms. 'Trust it to u,' sweetly sang the Democrats and, with this melodious delusicn, the Alliance was gently led to the political cemetery and was peacefully laid under the sod. It is under there yet. And as soon as the burial was over the Democrats quit putting Alliance demands in their platforms. "And yet it occurs to me that one cf the things we have heard oftener than any other was, that the old parties were not to be trusted that they had broken every promise they had made to the people, and would continue to do it, "With infinite labor we have built up the People's party. Through days of darkness we have worked for it. Through nights of pain we have prayed for it. Through storms of abuse, ridi cule and misrepresentation we have carried its flag. It lives and moves and thrives to day because of the fear less devotion and deathless love of brave men and pure women men who have put principle above party, women who loved right better than the world's applause. "So you will see, comrades, the Democrats are anxious for all the par ties to break up and unite on a silver man but you must do all the break ing. Smash your own cups and saucers, plates and dishes, as much as you please, but you must not break any of their crockery." THESE BIG RAILROAD SYSTEMS. We know that selfish means, inspired by selfish motives, never accomrjlish other than selfish ends. We know that the devil never originated any good if he could help it. We know that the devil fish, when it seizes an animate object, never lets go until it has sucked it dry. J5y parity of reasoning we know that a cent per cent. Wall street combine, commanding hundreds of millions of capital, when it invades the South and clutches its revenue pro ducing territory, intends to export from it every dollar it can be forced to yield. Its object is not to develop the resources of the country, but to absorb them as fast as others make them valuable. It proposes to take the cream, and leave to the public the skim-milk. The South cannot and must not per mit itself to be mortgaged body and soul to a monopoly that will absorb the very life blood of its commerce, by the imposition and collection of a merciless tariff on all it earns and produces. THE "SOUND MONEY" MYTH. A peculiar feature of the silver q-ie3 tion at Htz'.eton, Pa , is that an Aus trian of linguistic capacity haa per suaded the many foreign laborers there that the silver dollar is only worth 50 cents, and proved it by citations from goldbug papers, so they held a meeting and decided that they must have "sound money" for their labor. Then contractor Hogan wanted to get $1,900 in gold from the bank, on whicathe teller told him that he could not get that much in the whole county, though here are $11,000,000 of money deposited in the county banks. Were an actual gold basis to be generally insisted upon, there would be a universal panic all over the country. This is clear evidence of the dangerous character of the Re publican finance plank; the whole "sound money" view rests upon a pal pable myth. THE SPLENDOR OF ROME'S DE CLINE. One of the afterclaps and side fea tures cf the Republican National Con vention shows the general drift of that party to railroad rule and plutocracy impressively, especially in the follow ing incidtnt reported by Hon. John Wiley, of Saattle, who is one of the silver bolters : "In the railroad yards at St. Louis during the convention were twenty eight palace cars, especially appointed, royally equipped, and stocked with ex travagance and luxury ia food and drink that are said to have character ized the orgies of the later Rman Em perors. Whom did these chariots bear to the city on the Mississippi? Where were the common people? Whence came their representation in that con vention ?" LAST WORDS OF GREAT MEN. "My newspaper for a slice of pie" Josephus Daniels, the original pieman. "My 1 but that crow is tuff" J. P. Caldwell, principal crow eater in North Carolina. "If our Chicago scheme succeeds we've got 'em" Rothschilds, leading Jewish Democrat; also leading Repub licans. We must fish as well as is3ue bonds" Grover Cleveland fisherman extraordinary to his Highness, Mr. Rothschilds. "My position in Mexico didn't pre vent the nomination of my selections for the N. C. Scate Democratic ticket' Matt Ransom. "I don't know whether I want silver or not" Senator Stewart, who has just invested in a Democratic box of sawdust, supposed to contain "green goods." Senators and Representatives in Con gress have no more right to free tele graphic service than any other class of citizens. The Western Union is said to be lavish in the distribution of little courtesies in the shape of franks to any legislator who chooses to ask for them. For what purpose? Surely not with the idea of influencing the recipient's vote on legislation affecting the com pany's interests. And yet it is said that when law makers retire, or are retired, to private life the "courtesy" abruptly stops. CREAM OF THE PRESS. Hard Hits, Bold Sayings and Patriotic Paragraphs From Reform Papers. There is one thing you are sure to meet if you join the Alliance, and that is intelligence. Pa. Alliance Advocate. If there was plenty of money there would be plenty of enterprise and but few, if any, idle. Farm and Labor Journal. Over seven hundred Subordinate Alliances in the State and the good work is still moving on. Pa. Alliance Advocate. Ex-Speaker Crisp is too sick to at tend the Chicago Convention. Crisp is always sick when there is fighting to be done. Southern Mercury. Grover Cleveland has one thing to be thankful for to the convention that it let him off as easy as it did. It might have used him worse. Sound Money. Why should the government of the world be left to a gang of speculators who place property interests as of more importance than human life and lib erty. Ohio Populist. The time is not far distant when the revolt against the money bags of Europe and Wall street will be so great that we cannot longer be defrauded out of our legally elected Congressmen. Hf raid, Oregon City, Oregon. Do you "oelong" to the party I Are you bound to follow its leadership, even though it leads to perdition? If so, better let the "party" rivet an iron collar on your neck and stamp its name on the collar. Messenger, Woodbury, Georgia. In the slough of mud and water came the Waterloo to the real Napoleon ; in the slough of popular disapproval by an outraged people will come the water loo to this would be Napoleon Mc Kinley. People's Sentinel, Trenton, Nebraska. The administration already sees the hand writing on the wall. It has been tried and found wanting, and such will be the verdict of the pecQe in Novem ber. The reign of the gold power i3 drawing to an end. Messenger, Wood bury, Ga. The protest against hanging Grover Cleveland's picture in the Chicago Con vention hall, on the ground that the picture of living men should not be put in public places, was ill-founded. Of all the Presidents, Grover Cleveland ia the least alive. Sound Moneys Goldsbugs are afraid of Tellers logic. Tcey tried to suppress his speech in convention. The reporters obstructed the draft and had to be rmve, was the scheme, but the publicP;ot ther speech just the same. Mining Record Denver, Coi:rado. Ail that abuse of Cleveland in the Republican platform is mere dirt for the eyes of the Republican voters. In the adoption of tho gold standard Cleveland was indorsed and compli mented far above the demagogism of the preamble. News, Port Huron, Mich. Whenever you desire to secure the nomination of a man on the Republi can ticket, just go and consult V?Q money kings or factory barons, and all will be well providing they say eo. If you think this not true, ask William McKinley, Jr. Negro Solicitor, Oka loosa, Iowa. If anything on earth makes U3 tired it m to hear a man boast of his Ameri can freedom and how it wag obtained by the skill and bravery of his uncon querable forefathers when he won't tell how he is going to vote, being "afraid" the merchant will cut ail his supplies. He would fill the bill of an American fool better than an American freeman.-American Age, Alvin, Ttxas. Mr. Evan P. Howell, one of Georgia's free silver champions, made to speeches at the convention in Macon iL favor of electing a goldbug delegate to Chicago. Yet Col. Howell invites the Pops to come back to the dear old Damocratic party and help him elect silver men. O consistency thou art a jewel not possessed by the free eilver silver Democrats of Georgia. Cedar town Courier. Poet (to farmer) "See what a benu tiful prospect is unfolded in yonder billowy fields, and hark ! the voice cf the ploughman!'' Farmer "Yes; he's been cussing that mule since daylight, and it's one of them German mules that used to pull a beer wagen, so be can't under stand a word of it," American Plan ter, "I ee you are building a new house, Mr. Bung." "Yes, you are right." "Made the money out of whiskey, I suppose?" "No." "Why, you are a liquor dealer, are you not?" "Oh, yes! But the money I'm put ting into this house was made cut of the water I put into the wbT' Every farthing was made cut of Oil . j lV i i i f ! i ! I i. u J, - X 1 T r