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THE PROGRESSIVE PARMER: AUGUST 11, 1896. FT) Lt'f JIBS L. L. TOl-.r J. L. RAMSEY, - j. W. DENMARK, - Buffi RaJeijrb, N. C. SUBSCRIPTION eagle Subscriber. One Year... 9 L jive Satwcribera, One Year...., 8.00 fll. One Yew 10.00 One copy one year fr. to the one sending Club af Ten " ecu?: Invariable to .adrane. Monoy t oar hsk. If snt by registered letter r money onier. K t lin t 'ft"1?- Write il co"icarnicttons, deii?netl for pub lication, on o;ie side of the paper only. We want intelligent correspondents In every ooxtyin the State. We wict act of value, raeulta accomplished o vadue. experiences i of Fftiue, plAirJy nd briefly told. One soud. ierncmstr v.l fact. ii worth a thousand theorlea. The editor is not responsible for the views of correspondents. RALEIGH, N. O., AUG. 11. 1896. ThU payf tnTere'i m tetonA-clat matter at it. Poit 03- tn Raltfi. C. The Progressive Farmer is the OEciai Organ of the N. C. Farmers' State Alliance Do you wan; your paper chaugeu i-o another office ? State t he one at which f ou have been getting: it. Our f riend3 in writing to any of jur advertisers will favor us by men tioning the tact that, they saw tho tdvertisoment in Thb Progressive fT" Tho date on your label toils ycu crhen your time is out " 1 an ST'iiuiiwj now jiist behind the surtain, and in full glow of tte coming sunset. Behind me are tne shadoivs on the track, before vie lies the dark valley nd the river. When I mingle with iti 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 th, l9r. N. R. P. A. Shall the people or the politicians rule? Now that Herr M)3t, the leading an archist in this country, has come out for the gold standard, ic is time for the golditestc quit calling the Populists an archisti. Honest Democrats are very much dissatisfied with Sewall. Why not a?k him to retire? He doesn't belong to the ranks of reform Democrats and Populists. The sound money fellows used to call the Populists, anarchists. Cv m nuoists, cranks and scoundrels. Taey are easy on the silver Democrats and R?pub licans. Tney cill them Populists. Last week was a dull one, politically. Oily one new party was started "Tho National Democratic party," a gold or ganiz,ti:ti. Ic claims to be the only genuina Democratic party on earth. The membership cf tne South Caro lina Alliance h&3 increased sixty ptr cent during the past twelve months. We presume that this increase repre sents restored as well as new members. It is reported that Arthur Sowall, the Demccratic candidate for Vice Presi dent is very fond of fishing We've tried New England goldsug fishermen once too of tc-D. Keep them away from Washington, if possit-le. The Democratic party sure has got religion thi3 time. It has made the Y. M. C. A move cut of its quarters in this city, and Chairman Manly and force are at work sending out Jeff r sonian and Cievelandistic literature by the ton. Now that the gold Democrats are again talking about putting up a ticket of their own, it is in order for the N jws and Observer to lambast them for seek ing to "divide tho silver vote" and charge that II Anna's money is doing the work. Watch th9 members of the "Silver party." Some of them may be here this week and they will try to run the convention. It is a party of leaders, but voters are conspicuous by their ab sence We got enough of the silver party tomfoolery at St. Louis. Tae Wall Street bankers are now amusing themselves by turning gold into the Treasury and drawing it out again. The play is called ' building up the 1100,000 000 gold reserve." So long Bsthey don't issue bonds nobody objects to their little poker games with the geld reserve. "Why cau't the Populists endorse Bryan and S3 wall both and stop all this trouble?" is a q lestion that some people are asking. Simply because Bewail has no record as a financial re form man, he is not in sympathy with the masses, and is a plutocrat, put on by the Democrats at Chicago to pacify the gold element of the party. The Vice President, as President of the Senate, has unlimited power for evil. He can appoint committees that may block all legislation. No, the people will not swallow Mr. Goldbug Sowall and risk another era of broken promises. THE COTTON TIE TRUST. understand that the Tie Trust increase the price of ties erceiiterr this season. There is il cause for any increase what X labor and everything is "Via low and money scarce. J&. is nothing short of Y we can see. that the promoters of M;rust are in the new deal, and along witn them the members of the cotton exchanges in this country and E arope. This gang of re.-poctabh (?) robbers have had blood in their eyes ever since the Alliance gave the bag ging trust such a black eye. They seem to think that there are fewer sub Ptitutes and more dilli :ulties in tho way of the farmers this time. Tais may bo correct, but wo believe that our farm ers can beat them by a united fihc. When the Aliianca fought the bagging trust the f-vrmers outside of the organi zation rendered material help, and wo bolieve they will aid again. Eery ex member of the Alliance ought to be come an active member now and others should j.in, as the O.der will have in formation that will not made public. Why not start a large tie factory somewhere in the South? If each cot ton farmer will take f 1 in stock a fac tory can be started large enough to make ties for every bale of cotton raised this year, and millions of dollars will be eaved. Tne Populist State Convention will meet in this city Thursday. We trust that tho delegates will show that they are p atriotic cit'z ns and act accord ingiy. L?t the nominees be farmers and business men and teachers. Give the professional politicians a wide birth. This applies to professional bosses, too. DEMOCRATS LOSING FAITK. Many Democrats are losing faith in their own party on account of the course now being pursued by tho lead ers cf that party. Tney admit that the Democratic party can't win single handed, and yet they are blocking the road to victory by keeping up goldbug Siwall. Just now the Populists are oc cupying a strong position, even after having thrown away the most magnifi cent chance a ycuag party ever had by the dilly-dallying of a few bosses. Toe Populists have nominated Bryan and Watson, and having met the Djm ccrats more than half way, find now that the Democrats are not disposed to treat them with any courtesy what ever. Such apparent insincerity and imbe cility is rapidly arousing suspicion in tho minds of honest Democrats. A day cr two ago three Raleigh D.mo crats tcld tho editor of this paper that if their party refused to ak Mr. S3w all to withdraw and remove the only obstacle in the way of Bryan's election, t'cat thej stood ready to vote for Wat eon and any other good man the Popu lists may be forced to name as their Presidential candidate. The P. puliats have made friends by their action at St. L )uis, even though ihe course taken there was a mistake, ana there is no denying it. Bat for the foolishness and the cor ruption of some of the Western dele gates the Sewall business could have been disposed of at St. Louis, for th?y would have positively refused to name Mr. Bryan until that wa3 done. But that is all over, and now we are face to face with another "Democrat trick," and it is going to so hard with the Democrats unless they come to their senses. Bit ween Democratic goldbugs and Republican goldbugs the real Pop ulists will not make a choice, and will run an honeet ticket. Tne time is growing short now. The Democrats must prove their sincerity or suffer tho consequences. The goldites are in the last ditch. At first they claimed that free coinage will ruin the business men of the coun try. Now the whole argument?) is that it will ruin the wage-earners. Even the plutocratic New York Herald has tears in its eyes. When we con sider that it is employers and not em ployees who are talking, the thing grows ridiculous. THE BEST DOLLAR. The shifts, subterfuges, sophistry, play upon words and pleasant sound ing phrases dealt in by tho goldbug prets reveal the barrenness of their cause. Tney will tell you a dollar as good as the best in the world is what they want, and every dollar as gcod as every other dollar is their ideal dollar. These and similar parrot phrases which fly from mouth to mouth are the daily repetition of the gold trust in its dying agony, eaya the Midland, Md., Journal. Tnere is no substantial meaning in such phrases. Every dollar made by the government is as f'good" and as "sound" a3 the Government of the Uuited States. If there is any other government sounder or better or QhrnnoAr than that of the United States. then the dollar of that government is I the better dollar. The dollar of every rou tno oia government is made for the use of the people of that nation and ceases to be a dollar in every other nation, as all laws on the statute books of every nation cease to have jurisdiction be yond the boundary of the nation. If silver, gold, copper and nickel are used for making money they are worth the market price of these metals in every market of the world. Tney all cease to be money when they reach the boundaries of their own nation as the laws become inoperative at that point. So every dollar is as good as any other dollar, if the law does not name a specific diflhrence, of every nation in the transaction of business within the jurisdiction of that nation. Tho gold dollar, tho silver dollar and greenback are all of the same value iu transacting business among the people of tho United States because the la v say 8 bo. The greenback is not as good in law for paying interest on tho public debt and dues on imports as the other two because the law has said so. There was no necessity for making this dis tiuction, but it was the result of a trick by the gold gnmblors of Wall street and London. Tnere was no necessity for the "redemption" of the greenback in c )in in the legitimate business opera tions among tho people. This clause in the law was also a trick of the same gang of bunco steerers. The paucity of argument of thoR3 publican party to support their fiaan cial scheme o gold standard, reveals the falsehood on which the whole rotten mass rests. Tne world has never produced a parallel to the plun dering game of the gold standard. If Senator Allen refuses to notify Mr. Bryan of his nomination by the St. Louis Convention, as tho Conven tion directed, he should be treated to a dose of tar and feathers, and Mr. Bryan should be ignored by the honest voters of this country. Tnis is no time for foolishness. Senator Allen's d'S honesty while presiding over the delib erations of the St Louis Convention is all the people are going to put up with from him. Cleveland bourbonism was tame a3 compared to some of his ac tions as presiding clliierof that body It must be understood by the bosses that all the people are not ready to bo come their slaves yet. SULPHUR WILL CURE DIPH THERIA. It is a well known fact that common sulphur, or brimstone, as it is frequ nt ly called, is ono of tho best and c'.ieap est remedies for home use in the entire Hit of remedies. It is a cure for nearly every form of s.-re mouth and can bo used to advantage for sore throat. A srmll q lantity dis?olved in tho m :uth two or three times several hours apart will cure tho worst case of mercurial salivation, and you are likely to need a cure if you eat food contain ing acid after taking calomel. Too London Lancet says: A few years ago, when diphtheria was raging in England a gentleman accompanied tho celebrattd I).. Pild on his rounds to witness tho so called "wonderfulcures" which heperformed, while tho patients of others were drop ping on all sides. All he took with him was powder of sulphur and a quill, and with these he cured every patient with out exception that is, he put a tea spoonful of fl ;ur of brimstone in a wine glass of water and stirred it with his finger instead of a epoon, as sulphur does not readily amalgamate with wator, and on the sulphur becoming well mixed ho gave it a3 a gargle, and in ten minutes tho patient was out of danger, as brimstone kills every species of fucgus in a man, beast or plant in a few minutes. Instead of spitting out the gargle he recommended the swal lowing of it, and in extreme cases, in which ho htd been called just in the nick of time, when tho fuugus was too nearly closing to allow the gargling he blew the sulphur through a quill into the throat, and after the fungus had shrunk to allow of it, then the gargling He never lost a patient from diphtheria. Or if the patient cannot gargle, take a live coal, put it on a shovel, and sprinkle a spoonful or two of tho brim stone at a time upon it. Let the suff r inhale it, holding tho head over it, and tho fungus will die. A BILLION OF COINS To gain an idea of a billion of coins placo a f 5 goldpiece on the ground and pile upon it as many as will reach 20 feet in height. Then place numbers of similar columns inclose contact, form ing a straight line and making a wall 20 feet high, showing only the thin edges of the coin. Imagine two such walls running parallel to each other and forming a long street. It would be necessary to keep on extending these walls for miles. And yet a few men are aspiring to be billionaires, and no doubt they will pretend that they can make that much money honestly in a life time. Please send in what you owe The Progressive Farmer. WATSON, SEWALL AND HAR MONY. The Denver Daily N9ws, a red hot Bryan and Sewall organ, though it has been a Pcpulist organ foe two years, is not at all pleased with the outlook. It begins to see as how Mr. Sewall will never be Vice President of the United States. The News says: "Developments from day to day go strongly to prove that the Populist delegates in Sc. Louis who held that it was better to nominate a straight mid die of-the road Populist national ticket than to indorse Bryan and nominate a Populist Vice Presidential candidate as his running mate, were right. The ready withdrawal of one or the other Vice Presidents which optimistic Pop ulists saw in the near future for the sake of harmony hasn't come to pass, and it is now very clear tht it never will. In Taursday'a dispatches came a signed editorial by Tom Watson, prin ted in his own paper, declaring in a manner not free from acrimony that nothing could induce him to withdraw, and practically insisting that Mr. Sewall mu3t withdraw or tho Populists may not support Mr. Bryan. This was met in yesterday's dspatchos by Mr. Sewall, who, in an interview, also tinged with acrimony, says that any body who entertains the idea that ho should withdraw "is not worthy of an answer," and Senator Jonop, Chairman of the National Democratic Committee, follows this up with a dispatch to the Atlanta Constitution in which he says: "I cannot consider any proposition for the withdrawal of Suwall." Ic may be accepted as an accomplished fact that neither Sewall nor Watson wid with withdraw, and tho campaign must be fought and the election held with these two gentlemen candidates for Vice President, each on a ticket with Mr. Bryan. "Tee one ray of sunshine coming from any of the national managers is tho statement of Senator J jnes, coup led with his refusal to consider any proposition for Sewall's withdrawal, that 'I will entertain as far as I have power, and promote to the best of my ability, any just aEd fair proposition for fusion on electoral tickets.' If Senator Jones should be mt in the same spirit by the Populist managers it is barely possible that there will be an harmonious acd satisfactory cut come; but Senator Jones may be op posed by Mr. Sewall, and, judging from the tone cf tho Watson editorial, the Populist managers will not act along Senator Jones' line3 with the ap probation of Mr. Watson. "With both candidates in the field, there seem but two methods of com promise that will work cut good results. Ono of them is to compromise on State tickets Democrats allowing to Ppu lists the lion's share of State nomina tions and Populists accepting straight Democratic Bryan and Sewall electors. To this Mr. Wateon and tho Populist Executive Committee are not at all likely to agree, for it leaves Watson altogether out in tho cold. He could receive no benefit from Eucia an ar rangement. The other is, and it may bo the one that is in Senator Jones' miad, to di vide electoral tickets between Demo crats and Populists, either upon arbi trary lines or iu proportion to Populist and Democratic strength in the several Slates. This looks fair enough upon its face, but a little reflection will raise serious doubta as to its feasibility. Sewall would probably object to it, for it would, in tho very nature of things, result either in the defeat of Bryan and Sowall, both, or in the election of Bryan to tho presidency and Watson to tho vice presidency. "The following considerations will show that, logically, one or th9 other of these results must fl w from fusion tickets. If, say, fifty Bryan, and Wat son electors are elected, and it will re quire say thirty fivj or forty of them with the Bryan and Sewall electors to give Mr. Bryan a ma j jrity in the elec toral college, which he must have to be president, the thing that the Wat son electors are quite likely to do is to make certain of Watson's election, for, their vote beiDg necessary to Bryan's election, they can force term3 with the Bryan ard Sewall men for Mr. Wat son or, if refused, they can defeat Mr. Bryan. The election being over, and a ma j tr ity of the electoral college consisting of Bryan and Sowall and Bryan and Wat son electors, fifty of them being of the latter class, is not the following not only possible, but is it not probable: The Bryan and Watson electors will inquire of the Bryan and Sewall elec tors whether they intend to vote for Mr. Watson for Vice President? Tho Sewall electors will reply, 'No, we were elected to vote for Sewall for Vice President and we will so vote.' 'Very well,' reply the Bryan and Wat eon electors, 'if you will not vote for Watson we will not for Bryan.' The outftnmfl of nnnrflo wmilri ha ait-tiA. - - w W VtVUtJA that Bryan would bo defeated or Watson with Bryan would be elected. "The above supposable case is not al together imaginary. In a conference at St. Louis between three Bryan and 8ewall Populists on the one side and a middle of-the road Populist on the other, the subject being an amicable arrangement for just such fusion tick ets, the middle-of the road Populist was asked the plain question whether Watson electors would not insist in the electoral college upon Bryan and Sew all men voting for Watson in return for their votes for Bryan, and he frankly replied: "It would be human nature that they should, and I expect that they would." The News coincides with that conclusion, for it is in line with human experience, and particlur ly with political experience, that men of one political party will insist upon a consideration for favors granted to those of auother. And every day is establishing that political advantages, real or supposed, have far greater in fluence over the actions of politicians than mere public advantages, however great such advantages may be. Mr. Sewall must comprehend at the very outset that all fusion electoral tickets are stabs at the ambition. He is wise enough to know that every Watson member of the electoral college will very likely insist that Sewall elec tors shall vote for Watson, aad that they will possess the power to enforce the demand. This being so, wili he be likely to consent tha5 Senator Jones should, though Populiats meet him hilf way, promote any proposition for fu&ion tickets? He may from one con sidtration. Hd and the Democratic managers may conclude that while it would bo highly impolitic for him to withdraw, he should for the sake of the eucccess of Bryan acquiesce in the formation of the fusion tickets and to Watson's election by means of them and look for his compensation to a cabinet or other high appointment from Bryan in case he becomes presi dent. Will he? Tnat's the question. Tho signed editorial of Mr. Watson bristles all over with very plain threats to bo executed in the event that Sewall refuses to withdraw. Tnese, coupled with the diffieuties attempted to be explained in this article, show that there are breakers ahead and that the optimism of sanguno silver men, which bubbled up eo finely immediately fol lowing the Sc. Louis convention, is liable before long to receive a rude shock. However, let U3 all hop a for the beat and do whit we can to pro mote the harmony which at this time seems to bo sorely threatened." THE SECRET OUT. A dispatch from Hutchison, KansiS, dated July 2S.h says: "Jerry Simpson wa3 taken to task last night by the Democrats when he arrived here, on account of the nomi nation of Watson, and the withdrawal of tbeir support in his race for Con gress was threatened, but Simpson as Bured them that Watson would be taken off the ticket just as soon as the national committee thought it advis able to do so. "It is was only a scheme," said he, "and ycu may rest assured that Wat son's name will bo withdrawn in plenty of time to get the two parties united on Bryan and Sewall." When asked if he spoke authorita tively he replied that he knew exactly what he was talking about." If that dispatch contained the truth, and we have many reasons for believ ing it is true, Jerry Simpson's part in the St. Louis convention is laid bare. He was for Bryan and Sewall because he had a promise of support in return which will probably place him in Con gress again. The writer had it from the lips of delegates at St. Louis that trades had already been made in some of the North western States by which leading Pop lists are to go to Congress and others to the United States Senate. There have been trades also for State and other minor offices. Such iEfluence probably caused the National Populist Committee to fritter away the most magnificent chance a party ever had when it decided to delay the National Convention and simply turn it into a ratification mass meeting. Some of the delegates to St. Louis doubtless were actuated by the best of motives when they oppoeed a straight ticket. But it ia apparent that certain ambitious leaders were induced to work i and make speeches against such a course for office considerations. Now the question is: Shall we as avowed reformers submit to this cor rupt sell out or shall we rise up and take our original stand for reform by repudiating the work of this horde of trading Statesmen who are preparing to get "relief" regardless of the fate that awaits the reform movement? Shall patriotism or fraud triumph? A choice must be made. Which side are you ou? The trouble with the Democrats is that they are better reformers out of office than ia office. People's Pilot. CREAM OF THE PRESS. Hard Hits, Bold Sayings and Pawn Paragraphs From Reform Papers! Bryan may be a very good ma but wciwu6a a yaiuy WIIOPQ record won't bear investigation. Ohio 1 on list. jpu" We must educate. We mut edu every four years, we can submit out for the sake of country. Allian cator. Viadi. It seems that the intrinsic vaJm dr ' lar has not yet played huvoc enr-ueh with the people. Ic is wonderful what a "free" people will bear. -Advance Guard. Senator Teller has declared in t of Bryan, and joined the D r rnoeratic party. Senator Teller did not iubo uiuuij uv ttiia irauf' v -oou-.nern Mercury. Say, you "intrinsic" rnonfy tean have you noticed any gold or silver metal passing: around as money that did not nave Unc'e Sam's dollar s on it? -O .no Populist. lamp r i. I What this country needs ie a govern- I ' merit that does not ask the consent of Eagland or any other country on earth $ I how it shall run its own business. f Glens Falls Investigator. L m Livingston i3 said to becvorin i - Alabama making Johnston sprvehtsat ' fifty cents a day and his dinnpr. The J 1 eervices of this old fraud comes nrghty I high these days. Advance Courier. 1 The Union Nows Company, which i ; controls the sale of books and papers on trains and depot stands is bycot- - ting silver books. Coin's books are -I barred entirely. Do you see the point? f Saturday Critic. r j The reformers of the country cinnot be convinced, that there is any good, ; I p-esent or prespective, in the Dano- k I that honest men turn from it with loathing Southern Mercury. If Bryan will not accept a nomina tion on the same ticket with Watson it means that for party success be is will ing to press the crown of thorns upon the brow of labor and crucify his coun try upon the cross of gold Augut&, Ga., Daily Tribune. This year Wall street is favoring the Republican party.; by 1900 the pecp'e will be disgusted with the Republican party, then Wall street will favor the Democratic party. Between this c;anvL of sea saw the people are continually robbed. Columbus, Ohio, Populist. When politics make a sudden lurch to one Bide and the eYnt ct etr.Ve seems liable to capsiz ?, dont fail to keep in mind the fact that every hope of better t laws must come through the agitation of the reform press. Stand by your i papers, however dark the political horizon may appear. - Chicago Express. In round numbers the political par ties spend about twenty million dollar?, directly or indirectly, in electing the President. That is little more than a dollar and a half for each voter in the land. When the campaign is over we poor, idiotic citizens of the United States wonder why the country seems to bslong to the plutocrats. T ie coun v try belongs to the plutocrats becauf9 they have bought and paid for it. To peka Co Operative. THEY V AN TED "SOUND MONEY." r Dreyfus, Kohn & Co., New York, : the large&t siik importers in this coun- i try, have just failed becauso the -iCO, COO sound dollars they couldn't get -were lacking to pay their debts. A. G. Elliott & Co., paper manufact- I urers, Pniladelphia, Pa., have aa- ; signed. . Tne Columbus Baggy Co., Colura- bus, Ohio, has failed. Liabilities P w,.r. Tno Emmerson, Fisher Carriage Co., Cincinnati Ohin has failed. Liabili- 7 v 1 ties about $370,000 (sound.) The Garden City Foundry Co , O ' cago, 111., has assigned. Liabilities , $20,000 (sound ) , A half dozen bank officials at ' ( . port, Pa , have been indicted for re- . ceiving money on deposit after they knew their bank was insolvent. Moore Bros. Chicago, 111., owners of j the Diamond Match Company, tllea I last week. The liabilities are ii00' j 000, Oound) The firm were large opentorson the Stock Exc'ial n . Chicago and the Exchange was cloV in consequence of the failure. s , The American National Bink, Je V Orleans, has closed on account of M f j uusjiuesa vxa tne goiu H5t4iiuti"- The Johston Steel Works, Loraine, riv; nina Th.inir T.onk at order? I - r .1 1 J J A nlrA li was the cause, and eight hundred oui are out of work. The Ingham Savings Bank, Losing, Mich., failed to open its doors Friw i morning. Lack of "sound dollars. C. H. Fargo & Co , wholesale ers in shoes, Chicago, have fauea. Liabilities over $200,000 (sound ) nn- a Ha bribers. Those VJTCU CUUIO ilO T DU.u-. , ' who want the truth can gel it by eu ' scribing for The Progressive abmjbw i 'V A, co 8C CO wl CO I CO eh an wr sa 1 da; W wa ex! wc r j pr stu an hai ins ef I the cer sot ree the Ex
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