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mm izabj PEIIi 20, 1C00 ' . .. CTE PR0SBE3SIYE FABIHR J, L EM, -CLARIKCE H. F02. - ' Edit::, J. W. DSNHARK, - - Sdasatfg'r. BUBSORIPTION I Cssle Subscriber, One Ymut..... .......... S UE3 - Six MontW. 75 TlTt 8atcrlber, One Year..., .5X0 fsn One Ycr 10.00 One copy one rear free, to the one lending Club fl Ten. CcmJi Invaridblu in Aivant. Honey at our rlslc. If tent by registered letter r money order. PUats dont tmd ttampu tXLrzrtlzkz: R&tct Quoted on application. To Ccrruxxmdmntt : Write all ooainranlcatlona, designed forpnb tlaatlon. on one aide of the paper only. We want Intelligent correspondent In every county in the 8tate. We want fact of value, results accomplished of value, experiences of value, plainly and briefly told. One solid, ctmonstrated act, is worth a thousand theories. The editor Is not responsible for the dews ef correspondents. BALEIGH, N. O., APRIL 26. 1898 The Prosressire Fftnner is the Official Crs&n of the II. C Farmers State Alliance fT The dace on your label tells you vhen your time is out and serves as a receipt for all money sent us ' J am standing now just behind the curtain, and in full glow of the coming tunset. Behind me are the shadows on the track, before me lies the dark valley end 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, end by the people JL L. Polk, July th, 1890. N. R P. A. EDITORIAL. NOTES. Senator Foraker says the report of the Spanish Board of Enquiry is "a lie to the living and a libel upon the dead." The King's Mountain Raformer is much improved in many ways. We congratulate Bro. Allison upon his success. As war gets nearer the sound of the jingo's voice grows beautifully less. Poor fellow; in the innocenca of his heart he imagined that it would not be necessary to flavor his dish of words with a little extract of bullets, swords, uniforms, etc. But it is learned that the dish is not palatable to the public until thus flavored. How long can workingmen be hired to vote against each other and against their own interests t And as long as they can be hired to do this can they not ba hired, as the Texas Independent says, "to shoulder muskets and fight each other and then both sides can be taxed to pay expenses, two dollars for one, with interest besides!" We are now, if possible, more strong ly convinced than ever before that there is fraud and a great deal of it in the Pamlico and Carteret county oyster cases. We believe that ex Judge Allen did not, when he defended the cases, realiz3 that there was fraud. We be lieve that he does now, and hope that he will join us in fighting them. War news one day old is of very little interest, partly because the ru mors of one day may be denied on the next and partly because the moves of one day are "taken back' in the next. In the language of the newsboys, none but the daily papers are "in it" so far as war news is concerned, and we do not care to disgust our readers with ancient history. Had we granted belligerent rights to the Cubans three years ago, and then placed them on the same footing with the Spaniards, so far as Uncle Sam is concerned, hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of property and hun dreds of thousands of lives would have been saved. Procrastination is oft times not only the thief of time, but a murderer as well. In one of hi3 recent works, Prof. Arlo Bates pays a just tribute to the almoat divine patience of the average country school teacher, and says there are teachers in the common schools to day who are only preserved to us be cause the age of translation to heaven is paat. And Prof. Bates is, we beliove, from Massachusetts, where school teachers are much better paid than in North Carolina. A good County Alliance meeting is reported from Alamance. The brethren there are wide awake and enterprising. They propose to have two grand ral lies Juiy 4;h one at Union Ridge and one at Friendship. The brethren in other counties might do well to follow the example of Alamance in this mat ter. Politics will be hot at that time, however, and a sharp lookout must ba kept in order that no partisan politics may creep in. WE WISH SO, TOO. . The Hickory Times-Mercury, one of the advocates of the new scheme to de stroy the Alliance, its work and the political good that has grown out of the Alliance, without calling names, regrets that The Progressive Farmer hasn't got such an editor as the late CoL Polk, now. So do we. It is also a matter of re gret that the Times Mercury has not got a great, wise and good editor like Col. Polk. If it had, two of the lead ing editorial paragraphs in the last issue of that paper would not have been eulogies of the News and Observer and the Charlotte News, both papers being enemies of the Alliance. If CoL Polk had been editor of the Mercury, one of the editorials advo cating an "alliance" with the Demo cratic party to "carry out Alliance principles" would not have appeared in that paper last week. CoL Polk would have remembered that the last Democratic legislature which con vened in this State repealed the char ter of the State Alliance, and only partially remedied the matter on see ond sober thought. Shades of the prophets! Talk about those people carrying out Alliance principles ! They would carry them out dead, if at all. If Col. Polk were editing the Mer cury he would not be advocating a devilish, contemptible underhand scheme to fool the members of the People's party into a trap and bind them hand and foot until more snares could be laid, and the only fair and honest election law this State has had einco the war destroyed, and the right to cast the ballot of a freeman ac cording to the dictates of his own con science is likely to b9 hereafter denied. If CoL Polk were editor of the Mer cury, that paper would not be advo cating fusion with a party that only pretends to favor in a positive way one of the essential Alliance demands that of the free and unlimited coin age of silver and which has a record of helping to kill every silver bill that has been introduced in the past thirty years, and which, when in full power, during Cleveland's last administration, with a majority in the 8enate and House both, really fastened the gold standard upon us, for it is a matter of fact that we never had the full force of the gold standard until the Demo crats repealed the purchasing clause of the Sherman law in 1893. Tiue, the Republican administration is now carrying out what Cleveland and his crowd inaugurated, but the ridiculous part of it appears when anybody jumps up and wants to "fuse" with the very folks who fastened the gold standard on the country and started the great panic of 1893-91 95-96-97 and '98 to get silver admitted to coinage again. If CoL Polk were editing the Mer cury, he would not be raising cane about monopolies, &c, and wanting to fuse with the Democrats to break them up, when he would remember that the Democrats in tha last legislature professedly fro 3 silver and anti-monopoly men, too stood almost solidly with Col. Andrews against interfer ring with the midnight lease of the North Carolina railroad. The next thing you know the Mercury will be telling us that Rothschilds is opposed to usury, and that Pierpont Morgan wants railroad rates reduced one half. If Col. Polk were editor of the Mer cury or Caucasian, either, those papers would not be helping to carry out a policy, started in 1896, to utterly rout and destroy the People's party, the only party that really favors the free coinage of silver and other reforms so dear to the hearts of the people. The destruction of the People's party is in evitable unless the members thereof rise in their might and unhorse a few politicians who are trying to ride it to death, for what purpose they only know, we do not. In the matter of adherence to and guarding Alliance principles, this paper is ready to compare records with the Mercury or anybody else in the State, and we feel sure that the result of the comparison would be-entirely satisfac tory to ourselves. If the Democratic party is the place to go to get free coinage of silver and other great reforms, then Spain is the place to go for good government, mercy and peace. Their records are similar. ENORMOUS FRAUDS. Tne Cierk of the Superior Court of Pamlico county in 1893, and the Sheriff of that same county for that same year, and the Solicitor of that district at the same time, together with some others, some of whoee names are familiar eounds in most of the State, claim to have issued and served upon 691 people of that same ccunty of Pam lico, warrants or Eummons to appear at court and .show cause why they should not be dispossessed of certain property called "oyster beds," for which they were eaid to have claims. The vote for Goveraor in that county in 1893 was 1308. Tneae papers, eaid to have been served upon citissns of that county, number 691, or one for every other voter, and then have 28 warrants left. The strange thing about all this is that four years after all this thing was done there is a bill presented to the State Treasury for $4 651 40 for cost taxed against the State in these cases; anditinot until a year after this demand is made on the Treasury for this bill of cost in this 694 cases, did the people of Pamlico learn or ever hear anything about it. Is there the barest possibility that anywhere else the people are so dead asleep all the time that one-half the voters in the county could be summoned by the sheriff to appear at court and show cause why they should not surrender their property to the State, and the whole county not be stirred to the highest pitch of excitement! This seems to have been the condition of the people of Pamlico at the time. And not until after the lapse of five years did they know anything about it. We are not much surprised that Others should disclaim any knowl edge of these frauds, when more than one half the county were deeply interested and still in absolute ignor ance of them. WHY DID BRYAN VOTE FOR WEAVER ? The true blue Bryan silver Democrat must have been not a little disgusted with the reply of the Shelby Spindle and Loom to the Charlotte Observer's observations regarding the vote Bryan cast for Weaver in 1892, showing as it does how far the so called silver ele ment of the Democratic party will go to reconcile the goldbug element. In the article referred to the Obser ver said : "Mr. Bryan is a fusionist. He sup ports fusion in his own State, and in 1892 he voted a fusion electoral ticket for General Weaver, the Populist can didate for President." Doubtless most silver men felt a lit tie prouder of Bryan after reading this. Their admiration of oim increased as they saw him taken to task by a gold bug paper for voting for a silver man in 1892 even though he had to go out of his own party to find euch a man. If such was the case, then their faith in the sincerity of the Democratic lead era in the advocacy of free silver must have been badly shaken by reading the reply of the Shelby Spindle Loom which, we believe, is also Demo cratic advocate of free coinage. It says: : Now why don't he (the editor o the Charlotte Observer) tell us why Tlr.j Bryan voted for General Weaver? He knows that it was an arrange ment entered into by the leaders of the Democratic party to give some of the Western States to Weaver and thus prevent Harrison from winning them, and Mr. Bryan was simply obey v ing orders from Cleveland, Whitney, Harrity & Co., when he voted for Weaver." Bead that again. Is this homage paid to the goldbug element by the ail ver element in keeping with Demo cratic campaign speeches 1 When Bryan is attacked by a goldbug the so called silver papers say : "Oh, don't leave us Bryan is all right. He went out of the party to vote for a silver man in 1892, - but he was simply obey ing the orders of the goldbugs." Such disgusting twaddle J3 listened to with evident satisfaction by gold standard men, but it also goes far to convince earnest opponents of gold monometallism that the Democratic party is insincere in its profesions of friendship for free silver. Bryan may be all right, but he is keeping some very bad company. Lst him refuse the support of goldbugs, if he wishes the undivided support of their opponents. ' m A CORRECTION. We now understand the facts with reference to the connection of ex Judge W. R. Allen with the oyster suits to be, that he was not retained in the cases until after judgment against the State in the Superior Courts of Pamli co and Carteret counties, that he had no connection with them before that date; that he had no understanding as to the amount of the fee ho was to re ceive for his appearance in the Supreme Court, but was simply requested ta ar gue the cases upon appeal in the Su preme Court, and knew nothing as to the merits of the cases, as inquiring into them was unnecessary and pre cluded by the final judgment of the Superior Court. Having learned all these facts from an authentic source since since our ed itorial connecting Judge Allen with the fraudulent transactions, as we eee them, we cheerfully withdraw any state ment, or charge, of particeps criminis so far as Judge Allen is concerned, ond state with pleasure that we are convinced his connection with the cases was entirely legitimate, and only euch as any attorney might assume without being subject to adverse criticism. INSURANCE IN NORTH CARO- -. .- LIN A. The report of the Secretary of State, Hon. Oy Thompson, of the Insurance business in the State for 1897, snows that 113 companies reported xne total amount of risks written was $91369,01019, divided as follows: 66 fire and marine companies, $55,- 855,204 85; 37 life companies, $15 2twf- 950 C9; and 10 miscellaneous compa nies $20,229,855 55. The total amount of Premiums col lected by these companies was $2,577, C69 93. and the total losses incurred, $1,323,587 72. This shows a difference between the premiums received and losses incurred by these 113 licensed companies, of $1,253 482 21, or, in other words, our people paid last year $25 77 for every $13 23 of actual in surance they received. The Secretary of States complains that violations of the insurance laws are being encouraged to the detriment of the State and also of the companies and agents which comply with the law, "and these violations" says he "are encouraged, for the most part, not by the ignorant and the vicious, but by the most enterprising, intelli gent and thrifty elements of our popu lation." For instance," he adds, "of the 130 cotton mills in North Caroli na; only 23, so far as I am informed, are insured in companies licensed and paying taxes on premium receipts in the State. In other words, 160 cotton mills, having protection from the State under our laws, avail themselves of the inducements eff erred in violation of the law, by unlicensed companies." Fusion means confusion. Confusion means defeat. The people will no Ion ger be traded out of principle by lead ers, and, "as a lamb before his shear era is dumb," open not their mouths. Had the Populist party never fused with either Democratic or Republican parties it would be in vastly better condition. Populists are tired of boss rule; tired of committee rule. They are tired of seeing bosses accuse every one who dares oppose them of being friends of monopoly. They are tired of being told by bosses what kind of men to send to conventions. If the People's Party is to live it must be a party of the people. CONSERVATISM NEEDED. We have been permitted to read a letter from a true and tried reformer which in our opinion contains so much sound wisdom and good common sense counsel, which at this time seems to be so much needed and eo little heeded, that, notwithstanding he Bays "this is private," we feel it our duty to quote it freely. He says: "As a matter of course we want the best possible position for our party. We cannot afford to follow the extreme wing of either branch of the party. We must be conservative. Our plat form is broad and ample enough for any right-thinking man to stand on, and even for one to partially stand on if he will go no further. I am opposed to reading people out of the party. Let the people do that at the polls or in the primaries by refusing longer to let un worthy servants represent them. We cannot succeed as a party if we have internal dissensions, which lead to open ruptures and to expressions, publicly made, that reflect against the individu als of our party. "Common sense and common reason would suggest a different course. If we backbite and curse each other how can we expect others to keep from do ing so when we have set the example. "Charges are made eeriously that Harry Skinner is attempting to lead the Populists into the Republican ranks and that Sanator Butler is doing what he can to lead the Populists into the Democratic camp. Now I do not be lieve either statement, although made by some of our own party. I believe the statement is made simply for the purpose of promoting the views of the respective factions. Nothing good can come out of such selfishness. "I do not endorse radicalism in any party or individual. We have had enough of this already in the State. We want a good conservative admin istration of State aff lira, which will give to the people irrespective of party affiliations the best government the State has ever known. To do this the conservative elements of the State muse get together and stand by the platform of our party, with euch amendments thereto &s conditions may suggest from time to time in this pro gressive age, always keeping in view tne best interests of the people. "The happiness, contentment and prosperity of the people must besought utter and promoted by all legitimate and prop:-r methods. Tne noblest am bition any man cm have is for the promotion of the happiness and wel fare of his feilowman. The mere as cendancy of party is nothing in com parison. Then why should we ba con tinually bobbing up with our own self ish desires and with the determination to question the honesty and sincerity of every one who doea not think along thaesme linc3 that we do, and who, for any; reason, may question the ad- visability of the course that we have suggested! "Is it impossible for men toanxer about plans and party policj f I think not, andTtherefore believe that the ut most consideration ought to be given to all, and that, slowly, a conclusion should be reached covering the best thoughts and ideas of all. We owe this to our party and to the people. Stop cursing one another aod give more thought to what we shall do for the best interest of the party, the peo ple, and the State. "Let us come together on May 17th like men and brothers, having at heart the promotion of the best interest of our party and the people. Let us give up Butlerism and Skinnerism and be the great People's Party, embracing Butler, Skinner, and all who will join with us in the fight for humanity." SIMPLE FACTS ABOUT SPAIN. Spain is about four times thesizaof North Carolina, area, 195 767; area of North Carolina, 52.286 Tne climate of Spain resembles that of the tropical regions more than does the climate of any other European country, "all nat ural forces manifesting themselves with singular power hurricanes, long droughts, violent rains, and sudden changes of temperature." The cen tral plateau is dry, without forests, and is very cold in winter and very hot in summer, but the Contabrian and Pyra nean mountains are milder and mois ter, and some of the lands on the coast have a delightful climate. One of the most noticeable feature of the country is the lack of forests. Johnson's Cyclopedia of 1883 says that "the Cast ilian occupying the cen tre of the country . . . . is proud, grave, valiant, dignified, liable to fall into intolerance and bigotry and apt to despise everything foreign and new." . . . The Spaniards stand in general civilization far below other European nations ; they are ignorant and boast most of that which constitutes their very weakness." From late happen ings we venture the assertion that this is as true in 98 as '88. The Spanish people have spent much of their time in religious wars. In minerals epain is richer than any other European country, but as yet her re sources in this line are undeveloped. Immense coal deposits are found, and salt, pold and many other minerals are mined in some sections, chiefly by foreigners and by foriegn capital. The government is a constitutional monarchy, a constitution having been adopted in 1876. The legislative pow er is the Cortes. This comprises a con gress elected for three years and a sen ate elected for twelve. The Hon. John Wanamaker, of Philadelphia, is one of the few great politicians in whom we have not found much to dislike and little to admire. John warned McKinley last spring that something must be done to better the condition of the great common peo pie, and we still hope that he will sometime see the error of his way and join the great reform army. He is a sound business man and believes in the efficacy of advertising. Besides, he is very generous. We learn that in case of war, he will hold open the positions of all his employees, pay their salaries continuously to their families, and a $1, 000 insurance in case of death. This is practical patriotism a rare kind. WIDE TIRES. We learn from an exchange that nearly every legislature that has con vened for the past twelve months has been petitioned to enact a law making the use of wide tires on vehiclea com pulsory, and that New Jersey has a law of this kind and is much pleased with it. For our part, we are not in favor of a compulsory law of the kind. We are not even in favor of compelling a man to go to heaven. We are, how ever, in favor of a campaign of education in regard to the use of wide tires, and believe when the people awoke to the necessity of using them and realiz3 their value, no compulsory law will be needed. The people know a good thing when they see it and all that. is necessary is to awake them and make them see the beauties of the wide tires. "How can I get an article in your paper!" asked a correspondent of a western journal. "It all depends cn the article you want to go into our paper," replied the editor. "If the arti cle is small in bulk like a hair brush or tea caddy, spread the paper out upon the floor and placing the article in the center, wrap it up by carefully folding the edges over it and tie with a string. This will keep the article from sUd pirig out of the paper. If, on the other hand, the article is a bathtub or a clothes-horse, you would better not ! try it at all." LATEST WAR HEWS. The last thing before going to n (9 a. m.t Monday) we condense l war news oa follows: Our fleet has blockaded Cuban h bors, and captured several merch ships, some of which are quite valUak! prizes. 1 Reports that Spanish captured St Paris not confirmed, but they h-J capture a large ship belonging 2 Arthur Seawall & Co., of Bath Main laden with wheats England proclaim ed neutrality and ordered our war ehi in her waters to leave in 48 hout China does the same. This will W our ships in China waters to the pine Island, which belong to 8pai England says Spain declared war when she declared diplomatic negotiation at an end and ordered Minister Wood, ford to leave their country. The President will call on governors for 125,000 volunteers to-day. Nor Carolina will be called on for about 2,500, which we expect to see in camp at Roleigh within a week. Regular army goes in camp at Chic amauga Park, Tenn. The volunteer army will first organize at State cap. itals and then mobilizo at Richmond Atlanta and perhaps one or two other places. Havana is not to be bombarded bj our fleet until land forces are perfectly organized and ready to co operate, and it is likely that not until then will a terrific naval battle take place. Our fleet is within six or eight miles of Moro Castle, which fired eight ineff. tual shots upon discovering that tha fleet approached. General Miles and General Gormet, commander of the Cubans, are ar ranging to co operate. Cubans in tha United States are. recruiting as as rap idly as possible. A UNITED PEOPLE. In connection with the war scare it is gratifying to note the decadance of sectionalism. One would usually suppose that the rumors of war would call to mind the times when North w&a arrayed against South and brother against brother and fan into life tha smoldering embers of sectionaal hata. But such is not the case. The South has not, we believe, been more lavish in its praise of our own Fitzhugh Lse than have the newspapers and people north of Mason and Dixon's l;ne. Be fore war was bo near the Chicago Plow man said: "Away Down South in Dixie there U a robust, splendid patriotism. Tkt whole South is willing to pledge J fortune and honor to the defense of the American Republic, if the sacrifice ii necessary, we are a united country and partisan enthusiasm should nek blind us to the brilliant fact. If the threatened war with, Spain does noth ing else, it has demonstrated that thia 70,000,000 people will stand shoulder to shoulder, with hearts beating against hearts, and with a line of bayonets stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Sc. Lawrence to the Gulf, to preserve America as tha land of the free and the home of the brave." A COSMOPOLITAN TRAMP. - Morgan's organ down in Rileigh of 16th inst. quotes freely from an articla by J. K M. Marshall in a recent issue of the Manufacturers' Record, in which he claims that "the common people of this country are in decidedly better condition now, have more, live better, and are nearer on an equality than ever before. But still," he says, "the country is full of calamity howlers." B3fore we accept Mr. Marshall's evi dence we wish to know who he is. W will-have to accept his own testimony on this point. Ho says of himself in the article quoted: ((I am not a rail roader; have no interest in any corpor ation ; do not pay a cent of taxes, live in my own house, but I can tak care of myself." Safe crackers, burglars, some bank robbers, highway robbers, cutthroats, and even some bloated bondholders) can all, or about all, claim as much lot themselves as does this champion of Mr. Morgan quoted in his organ down in Raleigh. He has no abiding pl&cc He pays no taxes, but, mind you, fc' boasts "I can take care of mjeelt What is he? How should we claasif him! Another North Carolina daily, of same date a3 Mr. Morgan's organ re ferred to above, contains a statement that in one of the most prosperous an well to do counties west of the center of the State. Already this spig there have been more chattel mort gages recorded than in any previo'-8 year." "Nearer on an equality thao ever before?" Yes, on a level" witn the bottom. Levelled down according to the policy, the determined policy Mr. Morgan and all hi organs, tnroU?. out this country and all the rest of tn world. "But still there are calamw howlers." What a sin it must not to be satisfied with the conditio which confront us t
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