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SHE PBO&BEZDIVE FABHBB': AUGUST 30, 1808 5 1 i ! 3 r. I I SHE PROGRESSIVE FARUER LXRS. L. L. POLK, . . Proprietor. J. L. RAMSEY. . . . Editor CLARENCB H. POH, . Asso. Editor. J. W. DENMARK, . Business M'g'r. Raleigh, N. C. SUBSCRIPTION Single 3abcrlbr, One Year.... 100 Ineocpy onrur free.tc any neieadlns c.-o of en. Ccuh InvariaJAu in J.&vann. N. R. P. A. MONOPOLY'S GIGANTIC SCHEME. Tha negro lamity howling Hypociats may howl on, but th9 fact remains a3 firm and unshaken as Gibraltar itelf that when the Populists made them a proposition which would have put the white people of the State together, they refused and spurped it. They can, may and will howl on, but their cries cannot drown the truth of the statement that after tha Populist made the first effjrt to secure the su premacy of whita man end whita me .1 they refused it, cursed it, and held it in contempt. Can they now expect anyons but a fool to believe them sin cere in their cry of "nigger f' Every intelligent, man should sea to it they take him for a fool but once. We have heard of the cheek of the army mule, but an army mule would ba ashamed to exhibit as much cheek as the Stata saver and come of his allies exhibit. As for the negro of whom they are so much afraid, we doubt no' that the average darkey with all his ignorance, is hotter by nature and prac tice than many black-hearted tools of monopoly who seek to keep the labor era divided in order that the monopc lists, who remain united, may win and disfranchise those whom they have oppressed and made poor. Kiep cool, workingmen. Let not the Hypocrata deceive you. If you listen to their hypocritical cry of "negro," and allow money to capture the legislatures of the country, prepare to fight for your liberties. We doubt cot that some honest men have been deceived by plutocracy's catchy cry, negro supremacy," and are really sincere. The monopolists are sharp, but the cloven foot is not completely hidden. Suppose you listen to the cry of the Hypocrats and divide the laboring men according to order. We predict that the tools of monopoly would then enact a law disfranchising all who iiave been mo3t oppressed by monopoly, those who have not a certain amount of property. Mark our prediction. Forewarned is forearmed. Can there be a more diabolical scheme than this latest plan of monopoly? What think ye, laborers? Are you ready to march into the trap? Are you ready to surrender your liberties? Can the Hypocratic leaders be anything elsa except tools or fools? Are you xeady to follow them! In November these questions will be answered. We doubt not that the sturdy sons of old North Carolina are far too sensible to be led into any such trap as that prepared for them by the money power, and we expect to hear the answer "NoP in such thunder tones that the "State saver," the "vie iting statesman," and their allies will not for years again attempt to fasten the chains of political slavery on the laborers of our Old North State. MORS DEMOCRATIC INFAMY. On the 18th of August a little daily paper published at Wilmington, called the "Daily Record," edited by a Demo cratic negro scamp, by the name of Manly, who has been repudiated by his race and his party and taken up by certain Wilmington Democrats, and who has eunk so low in the scale of decency tbat he can only be regarded as a fiend in human form, published an editorial containing the following len guage: "Poor white men are careless in the matter of protecting their women, es pecially on farms. They are careless of their conduct toward them and our experience among poor white people in the country teaches us that the wc men of that race are not any more par ticular in tha matter of clao destine meetings with colored men than are white men with colored women. Meetings of this kind go on for eome time until the woman's infatuation or the man's boldness brings attention to them and the man is lynched for rape. Every negro lynched is called a big, burly, black brute,' when, in fact, many of those who have thus been dealt with had 'white men for their fathers, and were not only not black' and 'burly ,' but were eufficienty at tractive for white girls of culture and refinement to fall in love with them as is well known to all." We are reliably informed that for some months this paper has had but little support from negroes. Since it has been attacking the Republican anofPopulista parties with so much venom it has been supported mainly by advertising, etc , given it by Dem ocrats, who doubtless inspired the edi torial, or flattered him until they got him worked up to the point where ho wei willing to write such outrageous rot to please them. r Of courca every Democratic daily paper seized the editorial at once and attempted to make politic?! capital out of it. That is what it was written for It is a pity that there is no law to pun ish such a defamer. Weareoppoced to lynch law, and will not advise violence, but the negroes of the State should cse that he is driven out of the State never to return. The white people should treat tha low-down white men who are supporting and keeping life in the vile papar the same way, and there should ba no delay, about it. Any merchant continuing to advertisain the sheet is aiding and abetting and should be boycotted by all decent people, white or black. THE PENITENTIARY. We presume that we will not be ac cused of unfairness to Democrat in this matter if we publish without com ment tha letter of Chairman Dcckery and the accompanying letter of Capt. Smith, exactly as we find them in the Rileigh Post, which has been very bit ter in its condemnation of the peniten tiary management. The Post says: "If W8 take Mr. Smith's statement correct, he is at onca the best farmer and superintendent of farms, and the most maligned man in North Carolina. He takes pcrsecaion of the five farms on April 1st in a "very backward stata of preparation," with tools "worn out and useless." stock ruined or worthless, with Mr. Laazar's "unpaid debt," not "two weeks of supplies" on hand, and only $2,2.00 in round figures on hand, and yet he turns the institu tion over on the 1st of January, 1898, in better condition than ever before, and without any debt hanging over his administration for the year just then ended." But the Post then say a that "with an abundenca of "f; zd made the year before" some of Mr. Smith's statements will meat with grave doubt. The Post is very much in error c s we c m prove again by Damccratic testi mony. In Superintendent Le? Ear's report for the year 1896 he says: "The area cultivated in all crops tbi3 jrear (1896) is estimated at 11,300 acres. Upon these broad fields there was the middle of July (1896) a magnificent crop supe rior to any heretofore produced on them. The heavy rains of that period brought the greatest flood for many years upon the Roanoke valley. The July fl)od was 42 feat end over at Weldcn and invaded all the farms on the river. The dike on Caledonia farm protecting 3,000 acre of corn and cot ton, otherwise exposed to the river, was broken through at a point which had stood impregnable for more than half a century. The d?ke on North amptenfarm was oroken at two points. The fl id covered 3 000 acres of corn and l,i00 acre a o! cotton, be sides other crops, destroying not less than 100 000 bushels of com and 425 bales of cotton. It hft about 15 per cent of the corn crop, tnia remnant be ing entirely upon the highlands The coin saved will be Buffi jient for support till 8prDg " Mr. Leazer then gives a table of principal crops for years 1895 end 1896: Name of Farm. Corn Crop, Bush'ls 1895 1896 Halifax, 12 977 3 750 Northampton, 22.640 8 400 Caledonia, 63 344 5 COO Total, 93 961 17 150 This is sufficient proof of the fact that there wn far, veiy far, from "an abundance of feed made the year be fore." (Tne above was crowded out last week. Eds ) MORE FUSION "INCOMPETENCY " The Agricultural Depaiiment slid out from under the old administration June 14 :h, 1897 The new administra tion has completad its fir3t year. Now comparisons, sometimes pronounced "odious," but in this caea, perhaps, "odorous" may ta ?n order For the last year of the old adminis tratton from June 14 ,h, 1896, to June 14 th 1897, receipts were 52 602 93 Disbursements were 67 470 79 Disbursements exceeded re ceipt 114 863 06 Fjr the first 11 months of the present management h from June 14. '97, to June 1. '98, receipts were $57,973.72 Disbursement were 37,345 23 Receipts exceeded disburse ments, $20,623 49 This shows, from the records, that the present administration has re ceived $5,370.99 more, and spent 130,- . 125 46 less than the old Democratic ad- ministration Now let the negro lam , ity howlers howl on. k . A GUILTY CONSCIENCE. It is generally conceded that a guilty conscience needs no accuser. It is equally true that a mean man gener ally imagines that his neighbor is about his own t q lai as to meanness. Oa the day of the recent Wake county Popu list Convention the Morning Post pub lished a yarn to the effect that Mr. Mewboorne, Superintendent of the Penitentiary, had sent a horse and buggy belonging to the S" t3 and a State employee throughout the county to work in favor of the nomination of Mr. Mewboorne's son in-law for register of deeds. Mr. Mawtcorne promptly esked the Po3t to publ'Sh a denial, which it did. The Po3t either manu factured the story or was imposed upon by a manufacturer. But that attampt to injure r n irnccent men caused others to remember some things well nigh forgotten. We are told upon what we believe is gcod au thority that during the contest be tween Mr. C. M. Cooke and B H Bunn a few years ago for the Damo cratic nomination for Congress in this the Fourth district, Supervisor Sater, then the Democratic Supervisor of the Penitentiary farm, in Wake county, sent every horse and every employee belonging to the penitentiary force at the Satar farm except three guards, out through Wake county to work for the nomination of Cooke. All work was stopped for one day and the pris oners all locked up while some forty or fifty employees, with State horses, buggies and wagons went out to do campaign work. The prisoners were told that it was a holiday and only three guards were left in charge of all the prisoners on the farm. It is a won der that the entire crowd did not find a way to escape. "Murder will out." A TIP TO PROPHETS. For a long time the world haajbaen full of prophets who predicted that the signs are goad for the beginning of the milAenium, that period we are expecting, during which the lion and the lamb, the gold bug and the silver advocate, and the balance of the outfit can lie down together and not raise a row about every little difference of opinion. For our part we are trying to maintain a neutral position. But our sympathies are rather with the fellow who believes that Biblical his tory has been pretty well wound oil, and that the millenium is liable to be gin any time in the next 50,000 years. We have Biblical proof when wg as sert that "the Jaws shall ba gathered together in one land" before the begin ning of the millenium. A London paper brings the news that prominent Jews are trying to purchase or lease Palestine from the Turkish govern ment to establish a "Jewish State," so that the remnants of this wonderful race, now scattered in every land on the globe, can gather together and live in one country, as one people. The Jews have played a wonderful part in the &ffiirs of this world from the beginning of time, and it is possible that this is but a start in the direction of getting together as the scriptures teh us will ba the forerunner of the millenium period. At any rate, the modern prophets can now have the pleasure of saying: 4I told you so," and with something tangible to baca the statement upon. Djn't fail to road twice the thought ful and able essay on "Negro Suprem acy" which we printed on page 4, Aug. 16 ;h. We are glad to see that our lady friend has eo completely torn the mask from this frightful "bugbear" and shown it to us as it is merely a harm lesi skeleton, ucsd by monopoly to keep the working classes divided Every man with intelligence enough to be a votar must see tbat financially aid politicaHy the interests of the negro laborer and the white laborer are identical. B 3th want laws which will kill monopoly, give; them good prices for the products of rbeir labor and rneke them independent and pros erous. SHOULD SUE HIMSELF FOR LIBEL. The Monroa Eaquirer of the 11th inst. insults Mr. L.azn, the former Democratic Superintendent of the peni teitiary. It virtually accuses him of stealing or squandering the people's money. Here is its statement: "The fusionhts claim that the Demo crats J leased the farms now taing worked by tha convicts at an entirely too high price. Ba th it as it may, be fore the Democrats went out of power in this State the penitentiary was not ' only self sustaining, but was a source of revenue. The penitentiary is now I run at a heavy loss to the tax payers of the 8tate and instead of sweeping before their own dc )rs and repairing the breach in the wall over against .their own habitation and making our j State penal institution self supporting j aSafQ the f usionists are mouttiing be- cause the Democrats saw fit to lease farms at what they consider a too high price. It will be high time for the present administration of affairs to criticise the Democrats after it makes the penirantiaiy self-supporting and takes that burden oil the pcaple." The fac4"! are: The Superintendent of the penitentiary in his report for the year 1891 saj s that he began the year with a cish balance of $113 069 98." Add ta th8 the appropriation of 1893, $25,000. and the appropriation of 1S95, $44 158 71. Tnis shows that the "nsti tution had including the balance started with $1S2,228 69, which it did not earn during the years 1891-2 3 4-5 end 6. Then it is evident that, if the peniten tiary was self sustaining all this time, it should, at the end of 1896, have had cash balance on hand cf at least $182, 228 69. But we find that the toal bal ance was only $91,694 40. Deduct from this an advance by the State Treasurer of $5,000 which is not mentioned in the report, and you will see that counting everything in sight at his own figures, he had only, all told, $86,694 40. Subtracting this bal ance from what it should be, if self supporting, 'here appears a ehortage of at least $95 534 29. ; Now does the Eaquirer mean to say that Superintendent Leazar squandered or stole this amount? Lot it retract or prove its statements. The honor of Superintendent Leazar is at stake. But the funny part of the matter is that Superintendent Leazar himself is reported as eaying that the penitan tiary was self sustaining, thus virtually accu?ing himself of squandering the money. Unless he retract, he should sue himself and the Eaquirer for crim inal libel. That seems the only way out. DANGEROUS DOCTRINE EX POSED. Some people have some funny ideas regarding the relations existing be tween tie Alliance and the People's party. A forcible reminder of this fact came to this office last week in the shape of a letter from a well known gantleman of the counties south of Raleigh. He said: "It is evident that the Farmers' Alliance and the People's party cannot both pull to the front. I thick therefore it would be bast for the Alliance to give way. Bro. Den mark recently stated that The Pro gressive Farmer received no aid from the Alliance. Hence, I can sae noth ing to tramel you in the least and I think we should all join together to build up a great party." The gentleman may not realize it, but this is dangerous doctrine and is founded on a mistaken conception of the nature of the Alliance. The Far mers Alliance is an organization of farmers and has nothing more in fact, we believe far less to do with partisan politics than the Bankers' Association Farmers of all parties are members, and we are inclined to doubt the B'n cerity of any pretended friend of the farmer, be he Democrat, Populist, or Republican who does not make some eTo.'t to luld up this organization. vV e have been hoping that the Demo cratic press would j )in in the effort to build up this great nonpartisan order, but it seems tbat they do not want the farmers to unite. No, we have noth'"ng to "trammel us in opposing the Alliance," except our conscience and an earnest desire to do everything we can to better the con ditionof the farmers of the country. And we hope that never will thve two considerations fail to trammel us enough to pi event us doing anything to break down an order, the sole ob ject of which is to better the condition of farmers and laborers of all parties and to make all men real z 3 more fully "the Fatherhood of Qcd and the brotherhood of of man. It ?s our pur pose to continue to urge upon all far mers the necessity of joining so noble an order, and we earnestly hope that the Alliance may some day have anoth er Polk, a noble, urselfhh leader, able to awake the farmeis from their leth argy, and teach the necessity of join iug together in a fiarrnal organiza tioa to fight the battles of Uuth and right. YOUR ATTENTION, PLEASE. We w;sh to thank those of our sub sscribers who so warmly praise the re cent issues of The Progressive Far mer. We are here to 4fve the people the truth, and we have administered some large doses of late. That's what we intend to continue doing. Bus the truth must be put into the hands of the people. We want every subscriber to get us a club of campaign siibrcribers. The paper will he sent f om now till the election for only 20 cents. 8urely every subscriber can send a club of five. Lat us have them. We thank those who have already sent clubs, and trust that others will keep the bail rolling. Hand this paper to your neighbors and send in a club. Tae time is short, and what is done must be done quickly. I A CO INCIDENCE. "It was at Buie's Creek said Mr. W. B. Spilman last week "when the News and ObEerver containing an obit uary of Mr. W. P. Byrd arrived "Mr. Bjrd took the copy and sat down by a tree to read the news. I was sitting near him when suddenly I saw his face change and he turned to me and hand ing me the paper containing the notice of his death said : "I think this is ex aggeratad." News and Observer. Strange cc incidence. The Populist party, too, has been rtading its own obituary in the Ob3erver every day for months, and as time goes on, the conviction deepens that the statements are greatly exaggerated. P. 8. Still another cc incidence. Since writing the above, another paper has called attention to the fact in al most the cme language as that we use above. "WHAT THE PENITENTIARY NEEDS FOR 1895 AND 1896." Under this subhead on page 9 ot Superintendent Laazr's report for 1893 and 1894, we find the following: "We have used $25,000 appropriated by the last Generel Assembly, and $25,000 only, in the last two ye rs With the exception of this $25,C00, we have lived upon our own earnings, without another dollar of tax money, and are here at the end of 1894 with a debt of $14,188 71 now due." Then further down he says: "The penitentiary, on account of in debtedness now due, needs an appro priation of $15,000, and in addition a regular appropriation of $35,000. to carry it without debt to October, 1895. Then if a good crop has been made, and if there is not another decline in the price of products, or other similar disaster the crop ought to support the institution till October, 1896. But dis aster may come, flood, fire or decline in prices, and, therefore, there should be a contingent appropriation for 1896." Then again we find in this same re port which is signed by "A. Leazar" the following: For the information of those con cerned, I submit here tables of the ap propriations and pay rolls of the peni tentiary for a series of years: Appropriations. Pay roll. 1883, $ 75.000.00 $ 1884, 75,000 00 1885, 135,232 59 50 617 85 1886, 121,900 00 56 780 61 1887, 100.000 00 65.20100 1888, 100,000 00 71 079 99 1889, 75 000 00 66.088 08 1890, 75,000 00 63 3089 1891, an average of $37 500 for 4 years, 1889-1892 61 335 85 1892, 56,884 43 1893, 12 500.00 51,337 83 1894, 12 500.00 48,565 70 These dates and figures are quoted exactly as they appear on page 10, of Supt. Laazar's report for 1893 -4. Now let us look at his report for 1895 and 1896, beginning on page 5, we find, "The short crop and more especially the low prices of products of the year 1894, had not left us fully provided for a lother year, and therefore we needed che appropriation of $30,000 made by the General Assembly of 1895, and used the came to defray about one seventh of the expense of the peniten tiary for the year." Then the Superintendent explains the magnificent prospects of the finest crop on record in 1896 and its destruc tion by a fixd seldom equalled, if ever, then says: "The corn saved will be sufliaientfcr support till spring." What spring was this? The spring of 1897. Now it wUl be remembered that Mr. Laaz r went before the General Assem oly of 1897, and did all he could to pre vent an appropriation to the peniten tiary for the 5 ears 1897 and 1898, and none was made. It is also a fact that j Mr. Leazar was Superintendent until the time fixed by him for the corn sup ply to give out, the spring, for he was Superintendent until April 1st. So that it appears that notwithstanding Mr. Laazer's present statements on the stump, the penitentiary has never bean self sustaining. That it was with out corn, at left, to begin operations of 1897, and that 1897 seems to have been about the only year in the history cf the institution when there wei no appropriation made for ii support. THE STATE PEN. Referring to the records covering the last ten years of the management of the penitentiary by the Democrats we, find that the days of so called "good government" were not without their disgraces, and the examples of inhu manity were calculated to curdle the blood of right minded people. Much ado h&s been made by the par tisan prec 3 over the fact that the pree ent administration has used His pen so freely in signing pardons, and that the management of the penitentiary has been so lax that the institution was about to be depopulated by pardons and escapes. Since the ex pie eaters l.taf. t.Hoti eanfra of. f Via ri Vl ir rk.1 imKim .uuh ewura w vuo yuwliU fio wuU&O nnthinc tnn vita vulvar fiifhr elan. . o -, - ej" , j , EMU- 1 derous, maliciously and wilfully false, . could be found in their vu... express their feelings toward whom the people saw proper to 1 iu pusiuuns wnicn these feiw V held and abused with impunity they had presumed they had for life on the public crib. Bit, what we intended to do vr call our readers' ' attention to som0 ures from the records. From isrr g" 1896, inclusive, a period covering n! last ten years of the old managem! of the penitantiary the records Pardons 271, annual average 27 1 Escapes 564, annual average 56 4 Died of disec-a 570, annual aver 57 0. ag9 Died of inj iries 2, annual average 2 Killed attempting to escape 24, ann- average 2 4. 151 Killed by accident 6, annual average & Suicide 1, annual average .1. Sent to insane asylum 7, annual av age .7. er" Depopulation on tha accounts 1 14 annual average 144 5 1 ' The records for the year 1897 th first year of the present adminiatra8 tion, shows on the came accounts a follows : 8 Pardons , E-scapfs . ' . Died of disease Died of injuries 38 40 19 0 jUb.ov utbuui (wiug vj touapg 2 Killed by accident . , 0 Suicide Sent to insane asylum . 0 0 Total on these accounts . 93 The records show too, that it was the custom of the "gcod government" to pardon only those, with very few ex ceptions, whose physical condition could no longer endure the inhuman treatment that fell to their lot. Find ing a convict ready to die he was par donedturned out to die. It is Bug gested that at least 50 per cent, cf those pardoned were of this class and on this account. The records will explain theae things. Add 50 per cent, of the pardons ta the death records and note the inhumanity of their last tan years as compared with the first year of the presant administration. This is an age of miracles. Just what will happen next we do not know, but if any of our readers find His Satanic Majesty conducting a religious revival and advising people to turn from their evil ways they must rfot ba surprised. The News and Distortar after making false statements about the management of the white blind institution in a v?ay that wou'd have struck Baron Mun chausen dumb with ritonishment, ha the cheek to abuse Dr. Cy. Thompson for tailing the truth for eaying that "Jim Young is not now a director of the institution." The News and Dis torter says it "understands this is true," and in the same breath declares that the "statement is another sample of the unreliability of statements made by f usion orators 1 ' These are its exact words. The 8tate-saver is evidently much contused in his effort to make a lie out of truth. AN OBSCEN& SHEET THAT OUGHT TO BE PROSECUT&P. The she at edited by one Joe Daniela, called. the News and Observer, ia its issue of Sunday the 21itday of August, contained a filthy cartoon with a lot cf filthy doggerel. It surpasses our un derstanding that decent people should permit such filth to enter their homes. The obsennity in this case is gross, rancid and reckless. It violates the laws of the United States, which say that the publisher shall be sent to the penitentiary, and if the laws are en forced that ia j ist where he will go. , We call this matter to the attention of the District Attorneys Bernard and Spears It is their duty to enforce this law like any other law. The law is expreised making it a felonious of fence to send obscene matter through the mails. Some time ago a man was sent up for twelve months for publish ing matter less, filthy than this. No d rtibt there are others in the United States Penitentiary today. Our own S:ate is pacing through revolutionary days. The nights are filled with alarms. Policies, doctrines, private character, educational institu tions, are being eisailed with ruthlees hands. The very altars of the church are being desecrated aa if they bad never been corsecrated by the touch of Jehovah. It is a good and necessary thing to remember that no one need be alarmed at the situation. As we have said, the fl.f thfl birth period 01 UBJ, O W UIV IV l" , -II progress, God still reiges. Truth win prevail. Under His atoigbty hand opinions, . thought! and events are be ing bent toward that glorious consum mation when the -knowledge of the glory of God shall cover the earth as the waters cover the 6ea.w-Greensboro Christian Advocate. Sermon oa a Stamp.-My ' eon, ob Eerve the postage .stamp. Ugtic ness depends upon its ability to w to one thing till it gets there WlT Gazette.
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