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THE! PH03BO3IVE -I7ABE FEBEUAEY 15 10S8; Jl ii I ! : : I m PBMVI FARIIER IISS.LL.F91S,' - - - ftepito. J, L, WSBI, - - BJte. ClASENCE H, F02, - - Kit:?. J. W. SEKHm, -' - Btasa K'g'r. IRaJLeigla-, O. - BUBSOBHTION rMRnHhT. On Tear............... S LS5 SixMontHa STre Subecrlben, OneYeur..., 6.C0 fin " One Year 10.00 Ona copy on ywur Ires, to tfco one lending Ulub si Ten. QuS Invariably in Ativan. aloney t our rlflk. It sent by registered letter ax money order. PUcu don't una $tampu Advertl&inz Rtea quoted on application. To Corrwonatnti : ffrltd all comimnnlcfttlona, designed for pub laatlon. on one tide of the paper only. We want Intelligent correspondents In every fonnty in the SUte. We want facti of value, results accomplished of value, experiences of yalue, plainly and briefly told. One solid, Camonstrated facU Is worth a thousand theories. The editor is not responsible for the clews of correspondents. RALEIGH, N. 0., FEB 15, 1898. The Progresjure Farmer Is the Official Organ of the N. C Farmers' State Alliance 27" Tiie date on your label tells vou when your time ia out and Berves as a receipt for all money sent ua. " 1 am standing now just behind the turtain, and in full glow of the coming runset. Behind me are the shadows on Vie track, before ne lies the dark valley znd 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 th, 1890. N. R. P. A. EDITORIAL NOTES. A preacher in New Jersey claims that there are no female angels all are men. This will be cheering news to all "new women." Won't they be glad to learn that they will, some sweet day, become men! we notice that a number or papers, notably the Dunn Union, Smithfleld Herald, and Rocky Mount Argonaut, continue to advertise the so called limbless cotton. We also could have made quite a lot of money by advertis ing it,- but as we accept only reliable ads., and always prefer to expose any scheme to cheat the farmer, we decided to investigate. Results are well known. Some idea of the value of American poultry may be gained from the state ment that chickens and eggs rank above the wheat crop in value. The value of the poultry product is siid to be $290,000 000 Tea. value of the cot ton crop is 1260 000,000; of the wheat crop only $238 000.000, and of the swine crop $187,000 000. In North Carolina poultry matter, there is great room for improvement. Our readers doubtless remember the story "Eagineer Connor's Bon," by Will Allen Dromgoole, which was pub lished in The Progressive Farmer some weeks ago. It was a most pa thetic little story, and our readers doubtless enjoyed it. Next week we shall publish a humorous story by the same author. The title of this story is "George Washington's Bufday," and those who have read both stories will ' be ready to admit that the author is a master of both humor and pathos. Don't forget to read it. We must insist that if the date no your label is not changed within two weeks after j ou send us monoy, that you notify us at once. If you wait a month or more and cannot tell the ex act date when money was sent, were put to a great deal of needless trouble. Some people wait a year or more and thus expect us to look through a list of several thousand names to find out whether or not their label was properly changed, It is worth several dollars to trace up errors like this and we hope subscribers will in future remember the rule: Notify us at once, if the date on yourv label ia not changed within two weeks after you send your money. The Populist party ia not the only one that ia having trouble with ita National Chairman. National Chair man Jones, of the Democratic party, is-trying to get ex Chairman Harrity, hia predecessor, off the National Execu tive Committae of that party, because of his pronounced gold bug views, and many Democrats are kicking. "It is," says the Wilson Advance, "a curious spectacle to see tSe Chairman of the National Committee of a divided politi cal party solemnly sitting in judgment upon and proposing to politically exe cute a man who, as chairman four years earlier, led that party to suc cess." Just what thia fight will lead to cannot yet be known. THE WAKE COUNtY ALLIANCE WIDE AWAKE. The adjourned meeting of the Wake County Alliance held at the Courtf House in Raleigh last Thursday was well attended and a most enthusiastic and satisfactory meeting. It was a beautiful day and th.ere was a larger turnout than usual. Brethren were present from several Alliances which have been dormant seme time, and they purtook of the enthusiasm and will bo heard from later. Brother Denmark explained a plan he thought a good one for the Alliance to adopfeand put in motion at once, and a committee appointed to take the mat ter under consideration advised its adoption as the most simple and prac tical plan yet suggested for the dispo eition of the shoe factory product most easily, distributing it more generally, and most safely and easily worked. The Executive Committee of the County Alliance together with the President and Secretary-Treasurer were constituted a Board of Directors to arrange details and put the plan in operation at the earliest practicable moment. Feeling sure that this plan will be adopted by other counties, we will await the completion of some of the minor details before publishing. These details will be arranged as soon as pos sible, and plan furnished to the breth ren. The brethren were delighted with it, and theso who were inclined to doubts, now have those doubts dis pelled, and are confident this plan solve a the last problem between the 6hce factory and success. There is now no need.for a Sub Alli ance remaining in a dormant, do-nothing condition because of the tardiness in 'starting the shoe factory. The f ac tory is now running, and it turns out the best quality of shoe. It is your factory. It was paid for with your money. Built at your expense. It is your property, and you should feel proud of it, and interest yourself to spread ita products. North Carolina has been running a bo at eighteen shoe factories in New Eo gland regularly for years, paying New England laborers to make their shoes, and New England capitalists, who own our railroads, to bring them to us. Now will State pride and a disposition to free ourselves and use the product of our own labor, in ir own factory, stimulate us to unite and stand together? What say you, my dear reader! Who would be free must first strike for liberty. UrfWISB CONDUCT. For sometime Wilmington and Char lotto have been threatened with an epi demic of smallpox, the most fatal of all the contagious diseases. By prompt action of the authorities in both cities the danger seems to have been greatly diminished, but thia ia by no means certain. Many of the people in both citiea submitted to vaccination volun tarially, and many others were vacci nated by force of a compulsory law. But many resisted the law. Indigna tion meetings were held by those who opposed vaccination. All this opposition seems strangely out of place. We know that vaccina tion is not a pleasant operatton. If successful a sore arm is a foregone con elusion. But it is a certain preven tive of this horrible disease, at least it prevents a serious attack, and it ia re markably strange that people will even hesitate when the disease appears in a city. Of course it is hard on people who are obbliged to perform daily man ual labor. They are liable to lose a few days from their employment. But in many instances the strongest op position has been developed among people who could afford to spare time enough to allow vaccination to take effect. Before thia preventive waa discover ed millions died of smallpox, now only thousands die, and they are those who are never vaccinated, or who have not been vaccinated in a number of years. People should hesitate long before they create a row against vaccination, the most wonderful of all the discoveries made by medical men. RALEIGH NEWSPAPERS. The Post and the News and Observer, Raleigh's, morning dailies do no seem to be in the best of humor with each other. Both are Democratic. The Post is an open defender of the South em Railway. The News and Observer is for anything that has filth in it Oar readers remember what a fuss it made over the Butler "shortage" at the A. & M. College. It was claimed by it that butler was $5 000 short in his accounts. Later events showed that he was "long" $3 00. The Biblical Recorder, (religious) aptly eays that if the shortage had been $50,000 and Butler's politics had suited the News and Observer, that sheet would never have mentioned it. Had we to choose, we prefer the Post's clear and fearless defense of mo nopoly to the News and Observers Pharisee-like, pretended friendliness for the people. But to return the following clipping may shed some light on the subject of the love which Raleigh's leading dailies have for each other: THE POST AND . The Post and : ,Ral eigh's two bright and newsy morning papers have recently made some valu able additions to their plant the first put in type machines anp the later has added a new press of the latest make. Both papers are much im proved. Thanks for both the Post and the -. Roxbor Courior. Where the Courier mentions the News and Observer, the Post, as will be seen, places a dash. The Post editor doesn't dare take the holy (?) name of the State saver's daily be tween his sinful lips. The newspaper war in Raleigh is pretty interesting to on lookers, and when the promised Republican journal finally steps into the already crowded field, it is likely to be more interesting still. DISGUSTED. Some newspapers in North Carolina could raise themselves greatly in the estimation of the thinking public and at the same time greatly ease their own consciences by following the example of the editor of the Petersburg, Ind., News, a Republican - paper. He is dis gusted with himself for having dis tributed goldbug "prosperity" supple ments during the year 1896, and in a recent issue of his paper makes this statement: "During each month of the year we furnished our readers with Republican prosperity supplements. No more such supplements will be sent out withmr paper. The supplements are a fraud, a delusion and a lie. We are ashamed of them, sick and sore at the idea of sending out such prosperity supple ments' when at the same time we are unable to collect enough money to meet our bills after having made them.", . . . This campaign year The Progressive Farmer ia prepared to stand up for the interests of the farmers and laborers, regardless of consequences. Democrats, Republican?, and Populists are on our stall of editors, and we bid defiance to party lash. We shall serve no master and shall be ruled by no faction. Each one of the editors is a true blue Alii anceman and we shall work for the Alliance and its principles. If you want a paper that ia a slave to party and is afraid to say anything wiClTXtit the consent of the party boss, then Vou must try some other paper. But if you prefer a paper that does not fear to tell the truth on all a paper that will in terest every member of the family and ia alike a paper for the campaign, farm and fireside, then you want The Pro gressive Farmer If you are a sub sen be r, get us up a club. If not a sub scribej, Bend in your own subscription. As it is campaign year, we will run the paper at $1 per year. 50 cents for six months, three months for 25 cents. Let us have a club from your neighbor hood. RANSOM'S CATSUP. One of the most courteous and polite representatives of the South who ever came to Washingtong is ex 8enator Ransom, of North Carolina, who has re cently returned to this country from Mexico, where he waa the American minister. If there is anything that "Matt Ran som," as he ia called, prides himself upon it is his courtly manner and dis tinguished bearing under any and all circumstances. But hia dignity was given a j )lt at the Metropolitan Hotel a few days ago in a manner that the punctilious North Carolinian will never forget. Only a few moments before the in cident occurred he had been lecturing a constituent on the evils of drinking and pointing to himself as an example of sobriety and total abstinence. Hang ing upon his arm at. this time was a light weight overcoat, and his hand was tightly gripped around the handle of a small leather satchel. One of the bell boys grabbed the overcoat and satchel simultaneously for the purpose of taking them up to Mr. Ransom's room. In bis haste the bell boy tripped and sprawled on the floor and a sup. picious looking black bottle slipped out of one of the overcoat pocket and was smashed into a thousand pieces on the marble floor of the hotel corridor. "There goes my bottle of catsup," said Mr. Ransom, withot changing a muscle of his face. But the odor that arose from the marble floor was sug gestive of the strongest liquor ever biewed-by a North Carolina moon shiner. Chicago Tribune. Listen a minute. We have a re quest to make Wnen you read this copy of The Progressive Farmer, hand it to a neighbor ana get hia sub scription. He'll never regret it, and when he has taken the paper a year, he will thank you for asking him to subscribe. NOTHING TOO GOOD FOR OUR READERS, r We believe that the best of every thing is none too good for our readers, and we are pleased to tell our readers this week of a treat in store for them and not simply a treat, but a great treat, in fact, two great treats. We have secured the services of Prof. Frank E. EoaeryT Agriculturist N. O. Agricultural Experiment Station and Secretary Treasurer of the .N. O State Dairymen's Association, as editor of our Dairy and Live Stock Depart ment. All of our farmer readers are to be congratulated upon thia selection for, as every one will admit, there is not, within the bounds of the State, a man more capable to edit this depart ment. Prof. Emery is a true-blue Al lianceman, and best of all, writes from experience. To every one who owns a cow, thia feature of the paper alone will doubtless be worth the subscrip tion price. y This is treat No. 1. Again, Prof. B. Irby, who waa until recently Professor of Agriculture A. & M. College, Raleigh, has consented to become the editor of our agricultural department, and will, besides, write on various other topics of interest to farm ers. His letters will indeed be a treat. Mr. Irby has had much experience in farming. He knows the farm in all its phases, and from every standpoint. Our aim in securing him aa editor, is to make The Progressive Farmer such a help to farmers that no farmer in the State can afford to do without it. And we predict that future events will prove that we have almost succeeded. This is treat No. 2. Not the least valuable feature of these letters ia that they willbepecu liarly fitted to that great farming and and trucking section between Rich mond and Savannah, as they will not try to cover the whole country as some papers attempt to do. THINK OF THIS. The Southern Mercury of Dallas, Texas, of February 3rd, contained a cquib which will bear three readings. Here it is: "We don't say thia because the Mer cury ia a farm or reform paper, but be cause it ia the truth of history. If pre sent economic and political evila are ever checked or reformed it will be by a vigorous effort in the country school houses spreading to the towns. Reader, the responsibilty is as much on you as on any other man or woman. Talk it in your school house, at your fire side and in your town. You are dominated by political fakirs because you are either ignorant or slavishly submissive. Don't be a party or hero worshipper, or a made to hand hero." When this has had its three readings, we think it will pass unanimously. SUPPOSE. Suppose you were to see a man bitten by a serpent, whose bite you knew was in most instances fatal, and sup pose that man, instead of fleeing from his danger or killing the reptile, should again and again bare his arm and place it to the serpent's forked tongue in order that more of the deadly poison might enter his system. Well, you might say the man had most likely just escaped from a lunatic asylum, or that he intended to commit suicide. And it is very probable that one of these two reasons for his strange action would be the correct one. Now it is hardly possible that you will ever see a man calmly allow a ser pent to bite bim more than once, but it is very likely that you are doing something almost as foolish. Lack of organization among farmers and labor ers is a serpent which has more than once bitten them, poisoned their hap piness and hopes and proven fatal to prosperity. Does not every thinking farmer or laborer know this is true? And yet he again and again bares arm, so to speak, to this deadly serpent. He calmly allows it, again and again, to poison hi3 happimes and blight his fondest hopes. Why does any sane man persist in this suicidal codrsej Why docs any sane man sit still with the silly cry of "I can't 8tick,"or "we can't organize," and wait for some one else to take the lead, while all the time the deadly poison of class legislation and lack of organization ia getting in ita deadly work? "What would at thou have a serpent bite thee twice?" asked Shake speare, two centuries ago. And again in these the closing days of the nine teenth century, the question presents itself to the American farmer and laborer with more than ordinary force. It demands an answer. An answer it must have. With the evidence of the deadly poison besore us, will we be long in answering the all important question: "What, wouldst thou have this serpent bite thee twice!" Thia question, aa we have stated be fore, must be decided by the farmers and laborers themselves. They cannot shift the responsibility. The question, too, must, be answered by acta, not by words. It is not enough to abuse the serpent, not enough to howl calam ity, or send up pitiful wails, but -T70 must cease to bare the arm to this deadly serpent and must assert our in dependence. v When the question of organizing ia pressed upon us, it is not enough to say that we realize the need of it, but we each one of us, individually, must feel the need of getting to work, and must do it. An Alliance should be organized or reorganized at every school house in North Carolina. Here is work for each ore of us. Let each sub-lecturer bestir himself. Our farmers have much to learn about political" and domestic economy, and until they get together at least once a month in each school house in North .Carolina there is little chance for improvement. Let us not try to "save the nation," or the State, or even our county, but let us not rest until a strong Alliance is organized in our school district. x Dr. V. N. Seawell, State Lecturer, is now trying to re organize the Alliance on a strictly non partisan basis in Har nett, Duplin, Sampson, and surround ing counties, Let Alliancemen in these counties bestir themselves. democratic Alliancemen should re member that Populist and Republican farmers are as much interested in securing good prices for their products and in making the farming class inde pendent as they themselves, and vice versa. Farmers of all parties are alike interested in improving farm methods, and in fighting the enemies of the farmers. Then don't let p aft is an poli tics crop out. If an Alliance was organized in each school house in North Carolina, the results would soon be apparent in better posted and more intelligent farmers, well kept farms, and better prices for farm products. Every sen sible farmer now sees the folly of trusting to "party." If the farmers would be free, they themselves must strike the blow. Theic Republican clubs, their Democratic clubs, and their Populist cluba keep a sharp look out for party, but none of these, in fact nothing short of a farmer's club, will look out for the farmer's interest. QUILL DRIVERS. What They are Saying and Doing. E. O. Waterman, who is the quill driver of the Newport News, attended church the other night. He was, we suppose, very pious looking that night, and when called upon to lead in prayer, proceeded to perform the duty in the following style: "Almighty and kind Father, who doth from thy throne look down on the government of men and delinquent subscribers: Most humbly we do be seech Thee to draw near unto them and whisper a few things in their ear that the statutes forbid us to print. Thou knowest our wants, but the subscribers knowest them not and seldom steps in to inquire. Let it be known unto them that there are patches on the home stead of our pants, and there in an ach ing void in the front of our backs and that we hunger and thirst and he asketh ua not to sup with him. Thou knoweth Lord that our plant, paper and ink cost money, but the subscriber knoweth it not and careth a blame sight less. Thou knowest we are cold and the sub scriber bringeth not the wood he prom ised, and we are shivering and shaking while he roasteth his shins before the red hot stove of hisrnother in law. Tell him all these thicg-Lord, and if he faileth and bringeth no succor, ban ish him to the lower regions to dwell among the calamity howlers, and Thine shall be the glory and praise through out our newspaper career. Amen." Despite their poverty, editors have some advantages over other people. Robbers, knowing full well that it is useless to try to get blood from a tur nip or money from an editor, always pass them by. Hence, in robberies, the editor always gets out his note book and calmly writes up the affair while the masked gentlemen take the filthy lucre from his more fortunate breth ren. We said always, but it so han pened that the robber in one case was a new hand, and an exchange thus chronicles the result: "Hands up!1' said ihe villian with the low brow and the bulldog jaw. "All right. I'll put up my hands," replied the man with the tall forehead and the pals countenance, "but you have evidently made a mistake. I am a newspaper man." "Here," said the footpad, tears of pity springing into his eyes, "is a quar ter. Don't let this ever become known, or the gang'll put me back in the ama teur class." The Lexington Dispatch says that a man was out in the woods hunting a short while ago and waa caught in a hard rain. The rain poured down in torrents and the hunter crawled into a hollow log for shelter. When the rain ceased the log had swelled so the man couldn't move an inch. While in that unf or tunata condition he began to think over all hia meanness and rpm, that he had not paid hia budfc to that paper, when he actually A small that he Crawled right out 5? log, l We won't guarantee that the feJ was not also one of our delinqu6Qt J you begin to shrink up as y0ll Jl thia, know you by these presents $ it means. Some people don't know v,J editor is like. For the benefit of E3 (1 VkiXNVtaw anwrrtm The editor is just as you see hirn in other words, he presents him, just as you may wish to look at hi) He ia aa independent aa a farmer 5 pastry when he can, just like a capp ist, and often dines on chuck eteaW corn bread as a laboring mm, don't care a darn what you or I th: ' of him. si 1 ia absurdly amusing, howev how different people look upon tj editor. Some take him for a football to KicKea aown stairs when hp, something that doesn't suit. Some people imagine he ia a basebt to be knocked about over the common1 I once had an old lady mistake for a pauper, and she sent me a pair! socks and a pair of woolen suspend) Some people imagine an editorial ostrich who can live on Ecrap iron ice water, for they never pay him. I If the editor writes an editorial tr say he is dictatorial, if he don't, t: say he's lazy. j I once knew a man who didn't h nerve enough to milk a cow unleash hind feet were tied over her homs,r said the editor was a coward. j Some men who haven't sens9 cnoo' to ell a syntax from sod corn th'1 they could get out a better paper th the editor, one hand tied behind The man who owes the editor ner calls on him, and the man he or calls every morning; between thetj the editor is constantly between ha: and high water in the creek. Notwithstanding this, there are acre fields full of men stand in? nm 0 everywhere who want to be an edit One of our advertisers has been k;' enough to show us the replies to t ad. in The Progressive Farmer, e? we were disappointed to find ti hardly one in ten of those whose nan: are on our subscription books bk that they saw his ad. in this pap This is1 but a ttttle favor, and we i greatly appreciate it if each eubferit' will mention The Progressive Fast when writing advertisers. Don't l get thia. STATE LECTURER'S APPOIK MENTS. Let Every Farmer and Laborer, Wheti! Alliancexnan or Not, Attend j I Dr. V. N. Seawell, State Lectur 1 will lecture at the following times a: places with the purpoae of reorgai ing the Alliance: I Harnett Co., Witt Alliance, fJ, ary 16 th, 11 a. m. j Cumberland Co., Fayetteville A ance, February 17ch, 11 a. m. Harnett Co., Dunn Alliance, F ruary 18th, 11 a. m. Sampson Co., Newton Grove if ance, February 19 th, 11th. Sampson Co., Maple Grove Allia: February 21th, 11 a. m. j Sampson Co., Mingo Academy k ance, February 22ad, 11 a. m. f Sampson Co., South River Allia:, February 23rd, 11 a. m. j Sampson Co., White Oak AUia February 24th, 11 a. m. Sampson Co., Roseboro Allias. February 25 th, 11 a. m. - j Sampson Co., Ingold Alliance, Fj ruary 26 th, 11 a. m. . J Sampson Co., Taylor's Bridge i. ance, February 26 th, night. j Sampson Co., Clinton Alliance,?, ruary, 28 th, 11 a. m. J Sampson Co., Harrell's Store K ance, March let, 3 p. m. J Duplin Co., Rock Fish, March p. m. Pender Co., Sills Creek, March 3 p. m. Moores Creek, March 5, 3 p. m. Doughtcn, March 7, 3, p. m. Rileys Creek, March 8, 3 p. m. Rocky Point, March 9, 3 p. m. Topsail 8ound, March 11, 3 p. el Maple Grove, March 12, 3 p. el Burgaw, March 14, 3 p m. Cane Neck, March 16, 3 p. m. Bladen Co., Colly, March 17, 3, h Centrevillo, March 19 ;b, 3 p.m. White Qak, March 2lst, 3 p.m. Tar HeeL March 22 ad. 3 p.m. Bladenboro, March 23.-d, nignfc Abbottsburg, March 24th, 11 Register, March 25 sh, 3 p ra. Columbus, March 265b, 3 p. Samples of shoes from the Shoe factory will be on exui The brethren will assist the U&j in getting to each Qf hia appoint106' i and otherwise assist in the wor& Can you look the label of you & squarely in the facet if you tt ts because your subscription W unpaid.
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