The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-04-21

tricity In place of horses ASIA motive
power in propellihg their cars.
A meeting of PreKibitionists at
Asheboro, Randolph county, Saturday,
10th inst, resolved is effect a county
organization, and nominate a prohibition
ticket!
The Commissioners of Cumberland
county, at theft last meeting, granted II
licenses for the sale of liquor in the town
of Fayetteville, which supplies one grog
shop to every 200 inhabitants.
We had just as soon expect to see a
professional politician keep his promises
to the people as to see a Southern horse
or mule thrive on Illinois corn and Penn
sylvania hay.
-"Let him that soweth SOW in hope"
but to do this he must lay his plans jul
d~iciously, and do his work intelligently.
No man deals with such intricate ques-
tons as the farmer. He must study his
business.
During the last eight years the out
put of the gold mines in the Western
States and territories was $241 100000,
$4,000 600 less than the preceding eight
years, while the product of silver was
$334,OOO,O 600, or $lO3, 100000 more for
the same period.
For fifty years the American far
mers have been periodically enlightened
by the politicians on the tariff question,
andduring all that time the farmers have
suffered from unjust determinations in
favor of manufacturers.
The State Democratic Convention
has been called to meet at Raleigh Au-
gust 25th to nominate candidates for
Chief Justice and Associate Justices of
the Supreme Court, and Superior Court
Judges.
The farmers of Crawford county, Pa,
have called a convention for placing in
nomination one-half of the State legisla-
tive ticket belonging to the county. The
nominees are to be practical farmers,
regardless of party affiliations.
Dom Pedro's grandson, who is now
visiting this country, is said to be a lion
among the ladies of New Orleans. 1t is
not a difficult matter for a titled foreigner
to be a lion i'm fashionable circles of this
country, though he may be an ass.
u. S. Senator Evarts, of New York,
is remarkable for a colossal appetite, and
for the length of his sentences when he
delivers set speeches. In a speech de-
livered in the Senate last Wednesday
n of the sentences contained one hun
,dred and seventy-nine words. \
When farmess come together, talk
together, and act Agether, for their COM
mon good, they Win attract more atten-
ton from legislatures,Nand their demands
will receive more attention than they
have done or now do. Where the voice
of the one is unheeded the voice of the
many is listened to and respected.
"A fearful cyclone swept over a por-
ton of Minnesota and Wisconsin last
Thursday. In the former three towns
were destroyed and much property swept
away and, what is worse, many lives
were lost. In st. Cloud Is persons were
killed and 40 injured; in Sank Rapids
80 were killed and 100 injured in Rice's
Station % were killed and many injured.
Farmers are the same sturdy set of
men the whole country over. An invi-
tation having been sent the Farmers
Alliance of Hopkihs\ county, Tex, by
the Knights of Labor 70 join them in a
it responded by denouncing
as detrimental to the social,
moral, financial and political interests of
all classes
The committee of the Central Labor
Union met in New York last Thursday
and issued an address in which they
denounced Jay Gould as 'an arch enemy
of the Republic" and a committee was
to devise some scheme for
'boycotting him." MI. Gould is attract
ing a good deal of attention these days,
and the particular kind of attention he
is receiving may possibly make him feel
uncomfortable at times.
Don't be misled by the publication
of high prices paid for some mans to-
bacco. The PROGRESSIVE FARMER, and
other papers, publish these figures to