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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-09-07
Southern Farmers.

Every man who loves this sunny
land must feel thrills Of pleasure at
the work being done by Southern farm
ers.
Very often we have looked at these
honest sons of toll, and thought how
badly adjusted are the scales Of justice
that allows the producers Of wealth to
be ''hewers Of wood and drawers of
water" to those whose dainty hands
are strangers to work, and whose elias
sic broWs have never been bronzed by
burning sunbeams.
Far be it from us to intimate that
there is no excellence in other callings.
AN Honest man. in any department
of life, sis the nOblest work Of God .
IT to-day our bosoms glow with unsual
enthusiasm it is because the farmers Of
the South are moving in grand pro
cessions along the highways that lead
to honor, wealth and independence.
The Interstate Farmers Association
is now in session at Raleigh. We can
not anticipate their work. We cannot
foreshadOw their achievements. We
rest contented in the assurance that
virtue. wisdom and manhood have met
in council, and we calmly await the
revelations Of the future Let not our
people expect any dazzling display or
sudden splendor.
Solid growth and steady progress is
the natural result of the farmers work.
An acorn falls upon the ground. 1t
is little thing. but it sprouts, it
grows, it strikes deep it's roots and
spreads wide its branches, it stands the
giant oak of the forest.
We do not mean that it will be ten
decades before the blessings that are
to come from the farmers revolution
will exert their benefcent influence
we only mean that there must be seed
time and harvest-the grain, the blade,
the stalk, the ear and the full corn III
the ear.
Onward, farmers Of the South, and
bring deliverance to this Southern
land With resentment towards none,
and with fruits and flowers for all, the
South looks to you to rebuild her waste
places, and make of her beautiful and
deIightsOme land.-Journal, 80.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-09-07
THE FARMERS IN EARNEST.
RALEIGH. n. c., Sept. 1st, 1888.

At this time any information re-
-garding the cotton bagging matter is
of particular interest The Whining
ton agencies will not assure, nor will
the merchants there buy cotton cover
ed with cloth Here the merchants
will buy all such cotton and the agents
insure it. The dealers in bagging keep
the Alliance or cloth bagging on sale.
Had it been known III time that this
matter of the cotton bagging trust
would have been sprung on the unsus-
pecting South, the merchants would
have purchased no jute bagging if the
Alliance could have notified them
Merchants here are heartily in accord
with the farmers in this fight against
trusts. 1t is big matter, and certain
ly a very serious one. A prominent
merchant here says if the South, as
matters now stand, uses the cotton bag
ging it will lose six millions of dollars.
and if it buys the jute at the trust
prices it will lose two millions. The
trust has the farmers in tight place,
of course, but it is believed that South
ern pluck will be able to crush down
and break monopoly which is so dis
tinctively sectional in It's aim and scope.
Had the mills in the State known ear
lier about the complication they would
have put in machinery for making a
very heavy grade of cloth. By next
season they will be in shape for this if
the trust is not slaughtered in that time.
Some farmers here are taking their
cotton to the gins and selling it out
right. They swear they won't use the
jute bagging, and do not propose to be
bothered about the matter. Never were
people in such earnest, and they do not
seem to at all mind the pecuniary loss.
As dealer remarked yesterday, the
South is submitting to a great sacrifice.
but it is blessing in disguise. If by
its agency this trust is broken UP, the
others will have to 90. 1t is direct
case of the people against monopoly
the most direct in the whole history OF
this country.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-09-07
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.

The Presidents message on the
Fisheries question is attracting almost
universal attention. In commercial
circles it is seriously discussed In
New York there was considerable
anxiety manifested over the effect Of
the Presidents message at the Stock
Exchange before the opening, and the
first sales of stocks in railroads depend
ING upon Canadian business showed
sharp declines. Michigan Central open
ed down L per. cent, and Canada
Southern opened down per cent.
Supporting orders had been placed in
the market, however, and prices were
bid up ] to Z cents from the opening.
When this recovery was noted conf
dence was at once restored. Bankers
and railroad people generally believe
that no action@will be taken by Con
gress on the message, but that if COM
merce with Canada should be Interrupt
ted. the only roads affected adversely
will be the Michigan Central, the Can
ada Southern and the Canadian Pacific
Durham Plant
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-09-07
LATE NEWS.

Judge Gilmer has recovered from
his recent attack of sickness.
Work on the Tarboro Cotton Fac
tory was commenced last week
The Elizabeth City Fair Will be
held on the 10th, 18th and 18th Of
October.
The Fayetteville Light Infantry has
just celebrated its ninety-fourth ami
versary.
Hon. Allen @. Thurman Will prob
ably speak in North Carolina during
the campaign.-EX
The date of the next State Fair is
from October IS to 10. There VIII be
over $4,000 in premiums.
Caterpillars have attacked the
cotton crops around Raleigh and are
working considerable damage.
The Greensboro Gas Company has
been sold to a Baltimore syndicate,
which proposes to enlarge the plant by
adding an electrict light system.
At WadeSborO last week 3 negro
prisoners broke Jail. The jailer was
badly bruised and two white men
who came to his assistance were
wounded, one Ofthem fatally.-News.
An exchange says the London pa
pers do not consider the failure of the
Senate to ratify the Fisheries Treaty
matter Of any consequence, as they
regard it as simply pOstpOnement
until after the Presidential election.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-09-07
SUBSTITUTES FOR JUTE BAG
GING,
LoUIsBURG, n. c., Aug. %.
Editor News and Observer:

Editor News and Observer:
Our people are very much e1as-
perated at the "Bagging Trust ana
wish to encourage every effort to pro
duce substitutes; they would be glac
to know that every means and al
available material would be used in
making something to wrap cotton.
Let all who propose to make some,
thing for the purpose advertise, and
they can engage all their product, as
farmers express a willingness to pay
even more than the jute haggtr 6
would cost. ANTITRUST.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-09-07

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True q Co., Augusta, Maine.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-09-07

FOR SALE-One 40 Saw Brown Cot
ton Gin and Condenser: warrented IL
excellent condition and good as new
will be sold cheap. A rare bargain fo}
anyone needing such a size Gin.
w. G. DOwNING,
Mackey' S Ferry, n. c.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-07-04
A Good Illustration.

The following extract is from General
Stiles recent speech at the:Iroquois Club in
Chicago:
"To argue that a tariff is a blessing or
that more speed can be obtained or progress
made either by an individual or by Nation
carrying heavy burden is to adopt tho
logic of the army ymule-driver. Get off that
mule said the Quartermaster to 200
FOUNDER astride mule not more than three
times his own weight. The mule has
enough to do to haul his half of the load
without carrying you 'Humphr said tho
driver, he can haul a great deal more with
me on his back. i hold him down TO his
work. Sixty millions of people in this Ma
ton are being held down TO their work by
the great tariff burden which this boss trust
has imposed on them.
"a few years ago, during the temporary
suspension of Messrs. Powers & Weight
man, the tariff on quinine was removed At
once the country was flooded with quinine
brought from abroad, which the millions of
consumers here could buy for eighty cents
per ounce, instead of three dollars per ounce
which they had before paid And while
Messrs. Powers & Weightman continue to
carry on business at the old stand, five new
manufactures have started since that tariff
was removed. Lessen the tariff on iron and
wool, remove it altogether from coal, salt
and lumber, and let the country mark the
result. Both parties have promised to re-
form our tariff laws To which shall DO
given the confidence Of the countryl To
that party to whom the confidence of tho
country was given now nearly four years
ago-the Democratic party; and yet not to
the Democratic party that was, but to tho
Democratic party that is and is to be; not
to the Democratic party of Andrew jackson
or James Buchanan, but to the Democratic
party of Grover Cleveland, to whom all
hailD
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-07-04
Tariff StraddIing.

Four years ago it was the Democratic
party that did most of the wide straddling
on the tariff question. The preliminary
State platforms were of different shades,
all the way from straight protection of the
Pennsylvania variety to tariff reform of a
decidedly pronounced character, and the
National platform was of all colors and in
the total about as meaningless as it was pos
sible to make it. This year the Democrats
are getting down of the fence in every di-
rectiou, and the Republicans in some quar-
ters are climbing up into their places Even
in Ohio, says the Chicago Times, where the
Democrats are particularly addicted to
straddling, the Presidents message is in
dorsed without qualification, as also is the
Mills bill. There is no attempt whatever at
evasion
Generally the Republican conventions
have been quite as outspolen against the
Mills bill and the Presidents message, and
as strong against any reform whatever in
the tartf, as the Democratic conventions
have been in favor of reform But In the
West there is less unanimity The Illinois
Republicans would not commit themselves
10 the maintenance to all eternity of the
forty-seven per cent. war tariff, and now
the Minnesota Republicans have indicated
that they are not adverse to some little
HAOUuiSoaOh VI OhI preStuJ system OF Jaflu
taxes.
An attempt was made to commit the Min
Resota convention to the tariff reform end
o. the Democratic platform of 1884 That,
Of course, was not successful; and yet the
Kelly sort of protectIonists did not dare
venture to force Pennsylvania resolution
down the throat of the convention.
They contented themselves with getting
the following into the platform: while
adher1ng to the principle of protection to
American labor and productions we de-
mand that the duties on imports shall be so
adjusted as not to foster monopolies, and in
the adjustment of such duties such pro-
lection shall be afforded to the various in
dustries of the country as will best promote
the general welfare This plank is enough
of a concession to the reformers of the
party to indicate fear of a stampede to
the Democratic party in case the platform
should declare without reserve in favor of
the existing monopoly-t trust tariff. The
adoption Of few more Republican plat
forms OF the Minnesota sort will result in
some pretty wide straddling in the platform
OF the party to be constructed by the Ma
tonal convention.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-07-04
THE SURPLUS.
The Republican Party Want to Reduce It,
But Would Not Remove the Causes
Which Produce 1t.

The Republican Party Want to Reduce II,
But Would Not Remove the Causes
Which Produce 1t.
1t was the sapient Fred Grant, emulous
OF his fathers ability to say pithy thing,
who remarked in one of his speeches that
lit was easier to handle surplus than a
deficit" Doubtless he thought that a sur
plus of money in the National Treasury
bears the same relation to the Government
as plethoric bank account does to a private
individual, and that all the Government has
to do to reduce it is to lend, to spend or give
it away
The saying is. of course, unworthy of a
well-advanced school-boy, and would not be
recalled now, says the Chicago Herald, were
it not that the Republican orators and plat
form-makers seem TO regard the surplus in
very much the same way. AT the. Grant
banquet at Pittsburgh General Harrison
said that if the country would elect Re-
publican President this year he would guar.
antee a reduction in the surplus, a better
navy, better coast defenses and the return
of the direct tax to the States. That is tc
say, he would squander the peoples money
in all sorts of extravagant and unjust
schemes. Not word as to reducing taxa
tion or relieving the burdens of the tax-pay.
ers, which causes the surplus.
% ule pennsylvania Republicans IN their
recent platform denounce the Presidents
message and declare that the surplus can
be got rid of by spending it on pensions,
public buildings, Notifications and the navy.
They do not look upon unjust tariff taxes as
tho main cause of the surplus, but say that
if there must be any reduction in the taxes
it should be made by the repeal of the in
ternal revenue taxes. Better free whisky
and free drunkenness, than that the sacred
tariff should be touched.
Thus, following the keynote struck by
Blaine In his Paris message, the Repub-
lican party is being committed more and
more deeply TO these unstatesmanlike
theories. And as Blaine is their leading
statesman on these lines, why waste time
in subterfuge and dallying with second-rate
menl By all means let Blaine be the candi-
date on the Paris platform. And if we
might hazard another wish let little Foraker
stand there with him. Then with one single
kick the American people can express their
collective disdain of them, Their motives,
their theories and their craftsmanship.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-07-04
An Eject of High Protection.

How silly are all these assertions that a
high tariff raises the value of farming
lands. The fact is, says the Indianapolis
Sentinel, that the effect of high tariff sys-
tenn like ours is just opposite to what is
claimed for it. Instead of increasing the
values Of farms it lowers them For an
example look to the agricultural districts
of New England. OF all the sections of
this country, that is most hig hly favored by
our unequal tariff laws. Yet even there
farms are steadily going down N value.
Market gardens are the only lands that
stand where they did ten years ago.
The only shadow of truth in this claim Of
high tariff advocates Is just here: Lands
near large manufacturing towns on which
vegetables and other perishable products
can be grown do rise IN value as their
neighboring towns increase in numbers.
But what good does that do to the farmer
that lives hundred mnes aways No one
seriously believes that the market garden
eris extra profits come Of themselves. The
Land Of the farmers that live outside the
magic circle is worth no more, indeed less,
under a high. than a low tariff. They are
the ones out of whose pockets the extra
profits Of market gardeners as well as pro-
tected capitalists come.
Right here Is the fallacy Of every argu-
ment protectionists urge. There is no such
thing as a gain by a protected industry that
is not q loss TO some other industry. An
alysis of apparent benefits to country from
high tariff shows more than countervail-
tng damage In every instances
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-07-04
NO STRADDLE.
Tho Democratic Platform Sound and
Square on the Tariff Question

Tho Democratic Platform Sound and
Square on the Tariff Question.
There was no straddle on the great ques-
tion of the day on the Democratic platform
this time The party has come out square
ly for tariff reform as represented by the
Presidents message and the Mills bill 1t
was manifestly absurd to think of nomi-
mating Mr.. Cleveland by acclamation and
refusing to accept the plain, unmistakable
issue put forth in his last message. The
convention realized the situation and
turned a deaf ear to the puerilities of those
chicken-h earted trimmers who would dodge
the questi on Of questions.
The time for lodging had passed; tariff
revision was no longer something to be put
on and off like garment. The bold stand
taken by the President left no alternative.
The issue could no longer be befogged or
mystified, nor could the senseess cry of
free trade be advanced as an excuse for
timidity. Those who were not with the
President on this issue were against him.
The very fact that the enemy was endeav-
oring TO raise cloud of misrepresentation
and false testimony between the people and
their interests and would have been only too
glad 10 take advantage of any equivocal
statement of Democratic opinion on the sub
ject of the reduction of taxes made it
doubly necessary for the convention TO take
hold OF the question with bold, firm grasp.
On all sides, says the Albany Argus, is an
emphatic demand for tariff revision and tho
removal of the restriction on industry On
all sides there is an appeal for liberty TO
enter the markets of the world on some
thing like equal terms with other nations,
thus enabling us to dispose of our surplus
products Reduction of onerous and un-
necessary taxes would stimulate a trade
with other countries, which can now be
hardly said TO exist. Thus broad and
healthy development of our industries will
be stimulated, and those who are now
grooming doleful jeremiads over the dire
consequences which must follow a moderate
reduction of taxes, may, when they realize
the benefits of the change, be the first TO
sing the praises of tariff reform. They will
rejoice in the disappearance of glutted mar
kets, periodic depressions, labor troubles
and vampire trusts, and will wonder at the
short-sighted policy which solong kept them
out of the worlds markets.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-07-04
The Reactionary Republicans.

That the Republican party is gradually
becoming the party of revolution; that it IS
abandoning the field of debate, and resort
ing to extra constitutional methods to per-
petuate its power and to defeat the will of
the people expressed at the polls, becomes
evident, says the Louisville Courier Journal.
when we review the course of the organiza-
ton and the differences of the leaders.
First, it is proclaimed that Mr. Cleveland
was not legally elected President of the
United States
Then came the attempt to array against
him the Grand Army of the Republic, not
simply as citizens, but as soldiers.
Next the support Of this organization was
bid for by extraordinary pension bills, and .
raid on the Treasury was preached from
every stump in the North with the idea that
by joining pelf and patriotism it would be
possible to solidify the old veterans into a
body strong enough to menace the Govern
ment. Every opponent of these pension
bills was denounced as an ally of the Con-
federacy.
Following this came incendiary appeals to
working-men who were informed that the
Presidents message was an open assault on
American industry.
Next Republican leaders declared that the
reconstruction of the Southern States was
Government.
Now it is said that the Judiciary Commit
tee of the Senate must postpone the con-
sidtration of the nomination Of Judge Full
Ter until after the election in November,
with the hope that the Republicans may
then secure the vacancy, possibly, for SEN
ator ingalls,.
The significance of this suggestion is in
creased by the reflection that there is tie
on the bench in the telephone suits, and that
Senator Edmunds, who is chairman of the
Judiciary Committee, is employed as coun-
sci before the court in these important
cases. AS Republican leader, he is urged
to defeat the nomination of Judge Fuller,
not openly, but by treachery and trickery,
by violation of party precedent, and by
disregard OF its constitutional obligations.
1t Is most unfortunate that bitter partisan
like Judge Edmunds, with big fee in his
pocket, has the power to review the Presi-
dents nomination for Chief Justice
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-07-04
INDIANA ALL RIGHT.
The Leading Democratic Paper OF the
State Indorses the Ticket.

The Leading Democratic Paper of the
State Indorses the Ticket.
The Indianapolis Sentinel, commenting on
the selection of Mr. Thurman Tor the second
place on the ticket, says: Never was an
honor more worthily bestowed. The name
OF Allen q. Thurman is a SYNONYM for all
that is wise and great in statesmanship,
pure and upright in public life, and anna
BILE and lovable in personal character A
man of grand intellect, of rugged integrity,
of uHfiinching courage, and of genuine
patriotism, he fulfills the loftiest ideal of
American manhood and citizenship. His
public record is without blemish, his pri-
vate life without a stain. He is the ex-
ponent of all the best tendencies in our
politics. He has been an implacable foe of
corporate rapacity, and the magnificent
work he did in the United States Senate in
originating and carrying through, over the
opposition of Jay Gould and his tools in that
body, the Pacific Railroad Funding bill, is
gratefully remembered by the American
people, and especially by those on the Pa
cit1c slope. He has always anita gonized cor
ruption, jobbery and monopoly in every
form, and no American statesman has, or
deserves warmer place in. the hearts of
the toilers of the land.
He is a Democrat of Democrats, thor
ougniy ldentlned with the traditional prln-
ciple Of the party, and in full sympathy with
its purposes and aspirations.
His name on the ticket will be tower of
strength IN the great campaign that is now
upon us. 1t will appeal with force which,
perhaps, none other could, to the pride and
the patriotism of the "old line" Demo-
Gratis of the country. 1t will arouse per-
feet whirlwind of enthusiasm all over the
land.
Indiana had candidate of her own whose
defeat is sincerely regretted But it is no
discredit to be beaten in Democratic con-
vention by Allan G. Thurman, and the In
diana Democracy have the satisfaction of
knowing that if their candidate was de-
feated it was not by an unworthy man, but
by one whose deserved pre-eminence in his
party none will more readily concede than
Isaac p. Gray. There is certainly no man
in the country, outside of Indiana, who is
more popular with the Democrats of this
State. They reverence him and love him,
and will give him their hearty and cheerful
support. Indiana's fifteen electoral votes
may be safely set down for Cleveland and
Thurman.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-07-04
Poor Thing.

Aunt Riah and Aunt juicy Ann met or
tne street Both were elderly ladies OF
African extraction, and both were enormous
at the sinch,'' as cowboy would sav. A
hoop Of hogshead would be of about the
circumference of their respective and re.
spectacle waists, and they would make a
set OF coal-weighing scales creak by step
ping on the platform, and the weights
would have an upward tendency.
:" How is you dis morniu', Sistah Riah %
asked Aunt juicy, in a soIicitous way.
Il feel powerful weak" responded Aunt
Riah-" "How is you, yo'selfr'
feel mighty donsy," eaid Aunt juicy:
an come to look, you duz seem to be
whitfield down scand'lous."
"Yessum," Aunt Riah replied, ian, Won
looks monst'ous like one er desc var Iiyin'
skiletons vo'selfD