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THE PROGRESSIVE FAEIIEB : DECEMBER 22, 1896. O , i THE PROGRESSIVE FABED MRS. L. L. POLK, - Pboprietor. i r. RAMSEY. - Editor. J. W. DENMARK, - Business M'q'b. Raleigh, K. C. SUBSCRIPTION 1rscrn Sn Jmo rihr. Ono Year. L25 76 Rtx Mnntha Q.iuxtun fir.n Year . 6.C0 One Ynir - 1C.00 One copy one jer free, to the ono Bending Club tl Ten. M Ccuh Invariably in Afoante. Money at crar risk, if sent by registered letter r money order. rus aon irr.t l Advertising Rates Quoted on application. 77i rorr3ondnta : Write all communications, designed for pub lication, on one siae oi me yaycir um. We want intelligent correspondents in every ormtyin the state. we want jacin m vwuo. reanlts accompltahed of value, experiences of f axne, piainiy iuu ufu ' temonstrated fact, is worth a thousand theories. The editor is not responsible for the views of correspondents. RALEIGH, N. 0., DEO. 22 1896. V'i Mi vaver entered as t6eond-elau matter at the Poet 0:4 in RaleiaK N. C. The Progressive Farmer is the O fecial Organ of the N. C. Farmers' State Alliance Do you want your paper changed to tnother office I State the ono at which you have been getting it. gTT- Our friends in writing to any of our advertisers will favor us by men tioning the fact that they saw the advertisement in Tnn PEOasES3iVE Faeheq. The date on your label tella you vhen your time is out. " I am standing now just behind the curtain, and in full glow of the coming runset. Behind me are the shadows on the track, before me lies the dark valley and 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 StK 1890. N. R P. A. EDITORIAL NOTES. Congress should first recognize the struggling masses of American citizens as belligerents, and then see what can be done for the Cubans. If our legislature elects a gold man to the Senate it will end the career of every member of the legislature who votes for him and it ought to. Shorn of his power, Cleveland is now simply a dangerous and troublesome derelict floating around in the political waters, and McKinley will be the same shortly &&ex lie. goes hi. - - Say, neighbor, are you talking to your neighbor about that special Alii ance meeting on January 9-h? You ought to. Toe members of every Sab Alliance in the State ought to get to gether on that date. Several Sub Alliances have suggested that the Executive Committee uso enough of the Business Agoncy fund to start the shoe factory. We think that a mistake. Let the shoe factory be run by stockholders' fund. It can be raised if the brethren mean business, and we think they do. The population of Ohio is 3 825,000 The total vote cast there this year amounted to 1,100,000 It is generally conceded that the voters average one to five in our population. Bat Ohio comes up with one voter to 31 or there abouts Fraud is plainly apparent there as well as in other Central States. A large number of Alliancemen hold county and State offices and are in a position to take a liberal amount of stock in the Alliance shoe factory. It will be a good idea to watch and see whether or cot they attend the special Sub Alliance meetings on January 9:h and whether they take any stock not. Watch as well as pray. Test their sincerity. Some of the Damocratic Congressmen from Texas must be sweet birds. Con gressman Crowley, of that State, was arrested for alleged brutal treatment of an old woman organ grinder on Pennsy lvania Avenue, in Washington, one night last week. He was arrested and locked up in the 12 sh street station house. He was detained until mid night. The Congressman remarked at the station house that he had been arrested seven hundred times in Texas and had no objection to a little gayety along that line. The shipment of fruits from Mexico to the United States is destined to be one of the mcs important features of our international trade within a few years. The number of cars of oranges sent to the States this year by the Mexican Central one is almost double that of last year. Mexican oranges are ready for the market almost two months before those raised in Florida and California, and with this advan tage they will have no difficulty in finding ready sale. The country around Tampico raises the finest bananas in the world. The natives of that section are planting many trees, and as they bear within a year, Mexican bananas will doubtless be better known in the American markets before long. WILL GOOD TIMES COME? We hope so. But there will be no genuine revival of businees until plu tocracy is driven from power, and it is now on its last legs. The people can not be deceived much longer. They have learned that the gold bugs are plain, unvarnished prevaricators. When they declare that good times are coming by their route, worse times always follow. Until water begins to run uphill there can be no prosperity with falling prices and a diminishing currency. Year after year the gold bugs continue to lie. But they have overdone the business. Their remedies have the same effect salt has on a fresh wound. The Alliance and the People's nartv have the onlv solution of the K mi - vexed a uestion and our theories are growing in favor every day. We look for a little improvement about the first of January. Business will start off on a conservative basis. A majority of the people are learning economy and adjusting themselves to the changed conditions. The farmers are now in a better condition as a whole than anybody else. They have enough to live upon. In the cities there is actual hunger among the very poor and many others are forced to the most rigid economy. The city man, with a few exceptions, has gotten his eyos open. He is no longer disposad to jeer at the theories of the 'hay seeder," for the city man now knows that the com plaints of the farmers were just. Po litical intolerance is dying out an ex cellent sign. The farmer ia pretty safe for somo time to com9. Bat few of them have money, but they can live. They can't make much headway toward paying debts, but the creditor can't make much headway collecting by selling mortgaged property, for there is node mand. The farmer can'c spend much on improvements or in educatiog his children, but he knows his city neigh bor is getting into the same hole and will soon join hands with him in the effort to climb out, and united efforts will bring lastiDg results. The mer chant, professional man and banker are all going down with the farmer. But the farmer hasn't got far to fall and will not get hurt so badly. He will ba ready to say to hi 1 neighbors: "I told you so," and they will then start hand in hand to bring about a change, and that is all there is to encourage us to continue the fight for political re form. But that is ensugir, and it is coming. - CUBAN AFFAIRS. Even yet there is doubt about the death of Maceo, the Cuban general. Some assert positively that he was killed, somesay he was betrayed, while others assert that he was killed on an open battlefield. O.hers believe that he is yet alive. At any rate the war goes on. Cuba is winning sympathy and aid. Much money has been raised and forwarded from the United States. Trained nurses are going over, and volunteers from this country are going to her aid. Men from Colorado, Kan sas, Arkansas, Missouri, Texas and Connecticut are now on their way or getting ready to slip away to Cuba. It is a violation of the neutrality laws for them to go openly. A commiteee of one hundred citizans in Chicago is raising food supplies, which the Cubans claim they need more than men. A mas3 meeting was held in Atlanta Fri day and many men volunteered to start at once if a company could be formed. The fillibustering steamer, Three Friends," has again escaped from the Florida coast with 400,000 rounds of amunition, cannon and other supplies for the Cubans. She has done the same trick several times lately, though closely watched by two United States warships, the Raleigh and New ark, and persued by them. But it is not believed that our navy sets up all night watching such things. As usual North Carolina is not mak ing any noise, but if there is anything needed to protect American interests and honor she will be on the spot with all four feet. IT GROWS WORSE. Some time ago we mentioned that North Carolina soil was hard to beat, and named six pound turnips as one of the leading products. We had an idea that larger turnips have been grown here, but we thought six pounders a fair average turnip. Q iito recently several of our exchanges have added to the gayety by stating that Mr. So and so has shown the editors thereof turnipa weighing eight, ten, twelve and fourteen pounds. Now the Boone Democrat comes forward with this item: "We will say to the Qastonia Gazette that the fourteen pound turnip, in his possession, is hardly a drop in the bucket to some raised in Watauga. What would you think of a turnip that weighs thirty pounds I" We believe that the editor of the Democrat can come about as near tell ing the truth in a turnip discussion as any editor in the 8tate. if he will try, but that is the question. In order that no mistake be made in this serious matter we have interviewed State Librarian Ellington, who has taken several turnip premiums in his day, and is an authority on anything relating thereto. He stated that twelve and fifteen pound turnips are possible.. Some years 8go he planted a very rich field in turnips, on hi3 Johnson county farm, and they broke all previous re cords. They grew so rapidly that many of them were lifted out of the ground by the more sturdy ones, and died on the epot When harvest time came the ones that were not pushed out of the ground by the others, weighed from ten to fifteen pounds, three filling a half bushel measure every time. Senator Farthing, of Watauga, was here last week, and dropped in to see us. The question of thirty pound turnips came up and we asked him if Watauga had really pro duced such turnips. He declared that she had not, to his knoweldge, and he knows the county pretty well. But State Librarian Ellington asserts that fifteen pounders can be raised, and that goes. Any statement about heavier ones will be turned down at this office unless accompanied by the turnip itself and an affidavit by five or six well known citizens, and at least two of them must be regularly ordained min isters of the gospel TO CORRESPONDENTS. We would not say anything to dis courage our many correspondents for a great deal, and what we are going to write will not be considered anything of the sort, we are sure. We are going to ask you, one and all, to write plainly in the future. Types nting costs money, and we have a certain amount of space to fill every week. If part of the mat ter is badly written it consumes a great deal of time, extra time, for the printer to decipher what the writer may term writing, but which, in reality, is noth ing but irregular pen or pencil marks. Wo know that all of our correspond enta can write plainly if they will Some words are plainly written while the very next may be undecipherable. We hope none of our friends will send any carelessly written manuscript in the future. Piease don't. Write slowly and distinctly. If you can'c do any better, rewrite the article. You prob ably can improve it by so doing. We don't want any spencerian flourishing or shading. Your fijgers may be still, but you can write plain. Most of the best writers in the country have their articles typewritten or rewritten by a plain writer, frequently rewriting everything before it ia sent for publi cation. Oar correspondents can't un dertake so much, but they can write a legible hand. GETTING IT IN THE NECK. Recently a number of banks have gone into voluntary liquidation, giving as a reason that business is so bad that they can'c afford to continue. We ex pect they will got enough of their gold standard and come to their senses, though the change will be slow. As a matter of fact the small bankers are the victims of the single standard as much as any other class of citizens. It is the millionaire bond auy era and rail road wreckers who are reaping the harvest out of all this trouble. But the smaller bankers have been as loud in their silly financial clap trap as any, and they will not get much sympathy when they are forced to go out of bus iness or fail, as dozens of them are do ing every week. The people are get ting their eyes open faster now than at any period since the panic started, and it means that they will settle the busi ness in a sensible way when they get another chance. INDIANS DID IT. Some people like Indians. We don't. They have been the cause of a lot of trouble. They are responsible for the long names attached to some of the crack farms around Durham. When CJol. J. S. Carr fastened "Occoneechee" to his farm the seed were sown. But he has made a pretty place of it, and we had decided to forgive him. The next outbreak was made by Col. Al. Fairbrother when he christened his "You Be Yam Farm" ju3t outside of the corporation, and used A Hatchet to cut the name on the side of a hill. This ought to have called out, a detach ment of the State guard, but it didn't, and the trouble grows apace. Some law breaking citizen up there has named his place Wa way an dan-; whoop-pee Farm " This thing has gone far enough. First thing you know you will arouse a spirit of rivalry and some Raleighite will call his farm Hoo hoo boo ram katte - on the - Neuse, or something of the sort, and then there will be war. The fellow who was afraid of a "fifty cent dollar" will be glad to get any kind of a dollar before the thing ia done with. Cedartown, Ga. Courier. . i -, " PRITCHARD ENTERS A DENIAL. Senator Pritchard sent the following letter to the Charlotte Observer on the 17ch, and gives the public to under stand that the fight for the Senatorship will not be made according to the Mark quis of Hanna rules in the coming legislature: Will you permit me through the col umns of your paper to refer to a state ment contained in this week's Caucasian to the effect that there is 'a bold, brazen and deep laid scheme on the part of Mark Hani a and his allies to capture the legislature of North Carolina." The intimation contained in the article in question, to the tffct that Mr. Hanna and his committee will attempt to buy the votes of Populist members of the legislature, is entirely without founda tion. No such thing has ever been con templated by the Republican party and the statement referred to ia made with a view of intimidating those Pop ulist members who recognize it to be their duty to comply with the agree ment entered into two years ago be tween the two parties as well to observe the pledges made to their constituents during the last campaign. The people of North Carolina are honest and con servative and I resent the intimation that any member of the North Caro lina legislature will sell his vote for United States Senator or on any other question. Respectfully, (Signed) J. C. Pritchard. But Pritchard has pursued a course recently that does not entitle his de nials to much consideration among people who cannot be humbugged. A MERRY CHRISTMAS. There will be no paper issued from this office on Dec 29 ,h. The next will appear January 5th. Tois is in ac cordance with an old custom amoDg weekly papers. Some argue that there should be no holiday suspension. But unless there is the employees can get no rest at all during the year. We be lieve that subscribers are willing to grant a week for rest after having been served faithfully for fifty -one weeks out of fifty two. We hope all of our subscribers will enjoy themselves dur ing the holidays and be ready to start in with the beginiog of the New Year refreshed and stronger than ever in the faith. During the holidays please send in what you owe and renew for the future. We want to revise our list about the first of January and hope that it will 110c be necessary to cut off even one name. Many subscriptions expire January 1 Renew promptly. During 1897 The Progressive Farmer will be oetter than ever before. We will en deavor to give, in addition to regular matter, full reports of the legislature and the proceedings of Congress, now in session. Any one of the several de partments of the paper will be well worth the subscription price, and you can'c afford to do without it. We must keep up this fight for reform until we get it, no matter how long it takes. Those of our friends who have so kind ly gotten up clubs in the past will con fer a favor by renewing their efforts along that line. We want all our old subscribers to continue and add many new ones. VOTES AND VOTING. Too Chicago Record says: It will be noticed by a reference to the elec tion returns that the city of Chicago cast 19 038 more votes than all the sil ver States combined, and 6,000 more than all the Gulf States combined, omitting Texas. The State of Illinois cast more votes than all the cotton States combined, and two thirds as many as all the States between the Missouri river and the Pacific." Yes, and it will be noticed that there is a well-grounded suspicion that more votes were deposited than there are voters, not only in Illinois, hut in Indi ana, Iowa, and several other close 8tates That Democratic Bourbon methods were adopted by R ?publican managers in many sections, there is no shadow of doubt, and it is useless for the Republican party to longer pose as one favoring honest elections. It is as completely under the control of Wall street as the Democratic administration and will be exactly on par with the ing Democratic gang of thugs. TO RECOGNIZE CUBA. Oa las'; Friday the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs unanimously adopt ed the following resolution: "Rasolved by the 8enate and House of Representatives of the United 8tatea of America, in Congress assembled, That the independence of the Republic of Cuba be, and the same is hereby, acknowledged by the United States of America. -Section 2. That the United States will use its friendly offices with the government of 8pain to bring to a close the war between Spain and Cuba." This brings matters to a focus. 8ome time will be allowed for discussion in both Houses, and it ia no. i,ti- 1 fioal action will ba taken untU Jan uary. It is understood that fully two thirds of the numbers of both Houses are in favor of the passage of these resolutions, and that they will be passed over the President's veto, if he should adopt such a course. This does not mean war with Spain, though it may cause a lot of talk. Spain is a game country, but is not great enough in military strength to fight any first class nation, and besides, she is badly crippled now in the war with Cuba and the -Phillipine Islands. To recognize Curia it simply means that the Insurgents can purchaee supplies or arms in the United States, and have any other privileges that we might ac cord to England, France, Germany, or any independent nation. CONGRESSIONAL DOINGS. Senator Call introduced resolutions denouncing the death of Maceo, Mon day. Representative Howard intro duced resolutions recognizing Cuba in the House on the same day. No action was taken. Senator Allen wants an investigation of the manner in which the goldbug campaign fund was used in the last campaign. The House passed three or four of tte regular appropriation bills during the week. The immigration bill passed the Sen ate on Thursday. It requires that all foreigners coming to this country ba able to read sections of cur Constitu tion printed in their language, before they are entitled to land and become citizens. This, it is said, will restrict immigration. Hope so. A number of pension bills were passed during the week. And with one accord they all drew their salaries ENCOURAGEMENT IN THIS. It was gratifying to read in the Ril oigh correspondence of the Observer yesterday that forty five members elect of the legislature have written that they favor increasing the school term to four months in the year. This may be assumed to mean that they will vote for a school tax which will effect this, and it is to be hoped that a majority of the members will be found to be of like mind. The last legislature set the next one a praisa worthy example in increasing the school tax. Necessarily this sort of improvement comes along slowly, but it ought never to be per mitted to stop. If the legislature to assemble next month will provide the means whereby the school term will be increased to four months, its sue cesaor will be encouraged to make the term five, and thus presently we will have a public school system under which the children of the State may be really educated and the burden of taxa tion will have been increased so gradu ally that the people will scarcely have felt the increase. Tae last legislature atoned for many sins in the liberality with which it dealt with the cause of education and the State's charitable in stitutions. In these two directions lie the best opp irtunity of the next one to do the State a service and to commend itself to public gratitude. Charlotte Observer. AN INNOCENT MAN IN THE PEN. Governor Carr has pardoned Henry Smith, of Asheville, and thus ended a very eensational case. Snith, while working on the railroad in Davidson county, passed the house of a man named E'lington, and one day all of Ellington's money one thous ind, two hundred dollars, was missing. Smith was arrested triad and sentenced to twelve years in the penitentiary. Last week the money which Smith was charged with stealing was found in the possession of Ellington's son, who, during a drunken spree, had taken and hid it. He forgot the place where he had placed it, but discovered it by ac cident and gave the money to his father, who at once reported the fact to Governor Carr. KEEP THE ALLIANCE WARM. With wood or coal you can keep your bodies warm. You can also keep your hall warm in the same manner, but it needs something more than such stuff to keep the Alliance warm. Love for the ord3r will be necessary to keep the Alliance warm. As soon as the love you bear for it is extinguished the warmth will disappear and coldness will rush in and fill its placo. There fore keep the lamps of love brightly burning and let your presence add cheer to every Alliance meeting. Do not forget to talk and work while in your meeting as well as outside. Al ways have a good word to say for the order. Explain the advantages which might be gained by closer coopera tion in the Alliance room. Help the unfortunate; stimulate the strong; relieve the oppressed? cheer the faint and promote the morals, not alone of your own circle but of the entire neigh borhood and thus help bind all of your neighbors into one band of fraternal friendship. Pennsylvania Alliance Advocate. unaAta UF THE PD&or Hard Hits. Bold Saying, and Paragraphs From Ref0rm p atriUt Improve your time by attend hance meetings. You win B, liance Advocate. a. Al. President Cleveland could nrtfl place in these United ytatee ft him, so he has secured a homo uit Jersey. Tough on Jeree- 1 - a la Enterprise. J' It is about tima for Ci move some members of hi Cab pernicious partisan activity m Tttor to elect McKtnley.-Advocute Oh town, W. Va. ' Uarli Once in awhile we hear of a f that takes no paper at ail. scarely understand how thr pPQ that home entertain thenwu111 Progressive Home. Some people vote for tl " may their dislike of method 8 Plirrnnn a.. u,i1Uj, p didates they would be plca?od t0 8, port under better ftuspic? -Fi3a and Industrial Elucator, Denver Col Now that the manufacture w done as McKinly bade them and have started up some of their mills, pPrjja the President elect will inform an anxious public whence will come the money to miy tne products - L ,'iray, Va , Union. One hundred and six U en thousand raimeranaou3Kerites are S'J' ti reorganize six million Demi r-""at8. Thia is like tho one inch otub cf a Xew. foundland dog's tail, waging the whole anatomy of hii dnhip vocate, CharlestowD, W. Va. Cleveland and Carl it?! e F.vjjiej a bonded debt of $262. COO Coo upGQ the people, but it could have bvn prevent ed by the Democratic Houe and Sen ate which were elected in S2 attempt; to curb them wa made, how ever, except by Populists. World, Chillicothe, Mo. Linn, the Populist candidate for Gov ernor in Minnesota, ran 2'!,(! i votes ahead of Bryan. Thus tho vou? show up in every State where tho Populists put out a straight ticket. In TVxi8 the Populist: vote was about 6u,ioo more than that of 1891 when the immortal Nugent was candidate for Governor. -Sjuthern Mercury. That Brooklyn man who has started on the back of a donkey to ride to San. j Francisco, as the rsuV 0 an oJe'1 wager (,3rjan'fl diteaV), v?i havff a A him 36 r congenial companion under two are so well mated that occapioLally the fellow should dismount and carry his long eared companion. Whon the two arrive in San Francisco, they should hire out to scmo enow ho ad mires a well matched team. American Enterprise. There is no mistaking tho fat that the result of the election in the United States is very satisfactory to all the great industrial and manufaccurin? industries of Mexico. Mexico's silver standard has not only offered protec tion to the industries of the republic, but the advantage of making goods and raising products under a silver standard and selling under the gold standard of the United States is one that Mexican interests do not vrant to lose. ALL FORGIVEN. The matter cf State aid to the Uni versity and other higher educational institutions is attracting much atten tion now. Our genial friend, Col. Webster, of the Reidsvillo Weekly, is championing the cause of State aid nrtfVi rranl anA oKiliftr nnH knnwiD2 tl3 1VU IIUUI OUIA fMKJLM k JJ , uuv " i 4 interest in the matter we expected to H see in his paper last week a half column or so of editorial on the subject. To our suprise, however, ho contents him self with a beggarly paragraph of three and a half or four columns. Know ing that it was not lack of argument or zeal for the cause that was restrain ing the Colonel, we had begun to thins that he was not living up to his duties and opportunities in this instance, but the mystery has since been expliioed' The Colonel is to be married next Tuesday, and it is not to be expected i 4. j:. :n rncr pditoriais on weighty subjocts when euch a co- mentous event of such vital conc" to himself is so near at band Colonel is excused.-Stateiile Land mark. Failures are very rare in He- the credit of good houses is as 8ooarn. gold. American wholesalers are lea ing that to compete with European 1 porters they must give longer tun accounts than they are used to m States. It is a custom of the cou x. j. t fn.moH in 1 Dey tnat iduhi do uumuiiu .8 also learning that they enoum u- I local house, or at least an ' Mexico, where their wares can be and then advertise consistently persistently, that the public may . .f what they have to sell and wnc can be bought. ) J", n - a rf
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