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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-12-03
AN AWAKENING.

But many of those who slept have
awakened, and others are waking.
The farmers plundered these many
years to enrich the favored monopo-
listic manufacturers are waking and
are asking why the plundering pro-
cess should beecontinued.
The toiling millions who work in
the shops, who build houses, and rail
roads, and otherwise toll for the bread
they eat, are asking why they should
be plundered of their hard scanty
earnings.
And even some of the protected "
manufacturers are beginning to ask
why they should be required to close
their doors because they are denied
the raw material free of onerous duty
which they find necessary nov to en-
able them to continue in business.
o, yes. There is an awakening and
a revolution will follow the awakening.
A political revolution or a square deal
is the ultimatum, and to that it will
come. The people are again begin
ming to assert themselves and they
will be heard Wilmington Star.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-12-03

10 other companies doing business IN
this State. The Wake County ALI
ance requested the publication OF the
above In The PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
w. G. Crowder, Sec'y.
Secretary WitherspooD, of Ashe
county, writes: We are quite young
in the Alliance cause up here in the
mountains, and it is a hard matter to
get the members to understand the
Importance of paying up promptly;
but / feel sure we will report up bet
ter the next time, for we mean bust
ness. We have been able already TO
cut the prices on mercantile COM
modities, greatly to the surprise OF
those who wish a short duration; and
we will produce still more to their as
constituent IN. the near future. Our
county organizers are at work; their
commissions came in good time to In
sure them success, as there is an Ali
ance boom on the breeze in old Ashe.
Our organizers are good and efficient
men and will be prompt in the per
of duty, and | further assure
you they will be no drag to the cause,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-12-03
FROM THE LONE STAR STATE,
W. A. CAMPBELL, Sec'y.

CRANDALL, Texas, Nov. IL, 1889.
Mr.. EDITOR:-I have had the pleas.
ure of reading your valuable paper
through the kindness of Bro. Hub.
bard, It is like reading a letter from
a relative to peruse the letters in The
FARMER. My father and mother were
raised in Granville county, moving
from there in 1848. Perhaps some
of the comrades of Major Peace that
mustered back in the forties remem.
Der him.
L have neve attained any title as a
military man, but as an Alliance man I
have had all the titles from door.
keeper to president, and feel as proud
of them as if l had won them in bat.
tie, for the war against monopoly is a
glorious ocupat on, and every farmer
should enlist for the war, and not as
some do, to see what the Alliance is,
and then drop out, and say, I told you
it would do no good, when in fact
they did nothing themselves to make
it a uccess Brothers and sisters, we
must each one do our duty, then we
will succeed in the Alliance, and not
wait for a leader to say so and so
must be done, but do right, read our
papers and attend the Sub Alliance
and you will be happy The farmers
of Texas do not raise hogs and corr
as they should do. We buy our bacon
in the North, our -four in the West,
and raise cotton to pay for all, and
sell our cotton at 8 to 9 cents which
leaves US without money in the fall.
Yours fraternally,
W. T. PEACE.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-12-03

has resulted In q proportionate neglect
of ordinary road ways. The average
country road is far from being what
it easily might be, and even its pres
emit condition is not maintained In an
economical manner. This Is the natu-
raj result of rapid transit between
markets. But a reaction already be-
gins to show itself, as the popu.
lation of the rural districts multiplies
and the demand for good highways
increases in proportion. Col. Pope is
laboring to stimulate this improve
ment by laying before the people the
best IDEAS upon road.making and road
mending. His connection with the
bicycle trade naturally interests him
in this subject and has led him to
make a thorough study of it. While
wheelmen are anxious for the i'm
provement of the roads, it is a subject
of still greater Importance to those
who employ teams of any kind to-
transport produce. Ninety-nine per
cent. of every load by railroad, steam,
boat or express freight has been carried
in a wagon or truck over a highway.
Thus even steam transportation is
measurably dependent for support on
the draught-horse and his load. "The
prosperity of any CITY," says Col.
Pope, "depands largely upon the sur
rounding country, and the better the
road facilities the faster the country
will grow in population" This makes
the advantage of good roads mutual
to both city and country.
Here in North Carolina there are
farms, only a few miles from the
railroads, whose value is at a mini
mum, yet which, we're the roads inter
secting them of the first class, would
at once rise in value we're they twice
as far from steam transportation.
Good roads are a national benefit. All
business originates in a natural
product which must find it's way over
a common highway before it can reach
a market and attain it's full value.
The farmers of our land are It's main.
stay and if, from any cause, they be-
come weakened the cities and towns
must suffer loss. Therefore if we
would build up our cities and towns,
and would have our farmers to pros.
per, we must have smooth, hard
roads, well drained, over which to
transport the produce.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-12-03
A CORRESPONDENCE.

SALISBURY, N. c., Nov. %, 1889.
The inhabitants of Rowan county
mostly are of German decent, but
there is a mingling of Irish and
Scotch blood and altogether it is q
happy combination.
The land in Rowan is generally
rolling and a small portion of it quite
hilly. A small section of the south.
ern partlo of the county is sandy, but
generally it is red clay land adapted
to all the grain and clover. Better
stock cannot be raised in any part OF
our State. Most of the land is rich
and produces fine clover. The public
school system of the county is not the
best, but is being improved rapidly. :
Salisbury, the county seat, has long
been known as n of the oldest,
slowest and muddiest towns in the
State. But in the last few years a
great change has been made. A large
cotton mill has been built, also two
tobacco factories. :, Many handsome
private residences adorn her streets.
The town is situated on the Richmond
& Danville railroad A miles north
from Charlotte. 1t is also the eastern
terminus of the Western N. G. r 4.
These two great roads make things
seem lively.
Rowan county contains about 40
Sub-Alliances with a total member
ship of about 1900. Capt. Jake
Fisher, the President of the County
Alliance, is a man of sense and ener-
gy. No county has a leader more
Jealous in the cause, and if the men,
bers throughout the county will only
stay close behind him, emulating his
examples as a member, as a farmer,
and as a citizen, the victory will be
won.
1t is observed that the roads of this
county r fearfully bad; that the old
way of working them by throwing in
a few brush and some dirt, making
"breaks" across the road, is followed
to a dot. 1t ought to be a p~enitentiary
offence for a road overseer to put
breaks across a road.
In numbers of fields I see fodder
standing out in the weather. The
tops were cut of, shocked, was excel
lent feed at one time but the rains
have ruined it. Why not haul these
in before they are rotten? Do any
Alliancemen leave fodder out until
this time of year? If so his Alliance
should draw him over the Goals.
Never before has so much small
grain been seeded in this part of the
State. The manner in which it has
been done bristles with improvement.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-12-03

the shipper, more than one-half of the
shed-room, nearly all loss of calves by
abortion and all loss in the shipping
of cattle. All this in the State OF
Missouri, would give a grand aggre-
gate saving in one year of more than
SIS, 600, 900; and in the United States,
largely over 500, GOO, 600.
We learn from the Newton
Enterprise that Mr.. J. r. Cline's acre
of upland corn which was entered for
the prize offered by the State Agri-
cultural Society, was gathered two
weeks age 1t was measured &C.
curately, by a surveyor with a chain,
and the corn measured and certified
to by a committee of disinterested
parties. The yield was ffty-t~o
bushels.
Mr.. Green Russell, of Goose
Creek township, who is about IS years
of age, vas in town Tuesday, says the
Monroe Enquirer, trying to engage
some pork which he swished to bring
to town. Mr.. Russell never bought
a pound of -four or pound of meat in
his life, and corn only once, and never
owed a debt that he didn't pay. He
now has a suficiency of this worlds
goods to comfort his declining years.
Economy and good judgment ccm-
bined with industry, will bring a com
potency to any man who will practice
them.
There is a good deal of com
plant now among those who want
Office about the farmer in politics and
fear Is expressed that the Farmers sAl
lance will become a political organiza-
ton. If anybody supposes the
farmers have actually gone to the
trouble of e~ffecting a great organiza.
ton for the purpose of a~pportioning
among themselves the spoils of Office
he has read to little purpose. They
have a far deeper interest than this.
If anybody supposes that the farm
ers will be deferred from pursuing
their interests even into politics or
anywhere else by these oft repeated
warnings, he too, has been reading
with eyes shut. The truth of the
matter is, that the farmers are special
ly interested and also organized to &C
complish certain well defined reforms
and without antagonizing any of their
friends seeking the same ends they
propose to pursue the straightest and
the safest way to their accomplish
ment. Whenever an existing law op-
presses them and is at the same time
unjust, they must see that men go to
Congress and to the Legislature who
will secure it's repeal, and in doing this,
he will be meddling with politics and
doing exactly what the politicians
have always told ushe should not do,
viz: attending to his own business.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-12-03
; A BAPTIST FEMALE COLLEGE.

THE Baptist State Convention at
l. Henderson adopted the report of
the committee appointed at its session
last year recommending the establish
ment of a Baptist Female College,
and appointed the following Board
of Trustees L. L. Polk, Raleigh,
DR.. G. A. Rominger, Reidsville, Rev.
w. R. Gwaltney, Greensboro; Rev.
R. R. overly, Belcross; Rev. T. H.
Pritchard, D. D., Wilmington; Rev.
J. D. Hufham, D. D., Scotland Neck;
Rev. R. T. Vann, Edenton; N. B.
Broughton, Raleigh; Rev. R. H.
Marsh, D. D., Oxford; Rev. A. G..
McManaway, Charlotte; Rev. H. w.
Battle, New Berne; Rev. G. Durham,
Raleigh; Rev. J. w. Carter, D. D.,
Raleigh; Rev. B. Csde, Louisburg;
Rev. G. W. Green, Moravian Falls;
VIC Petty, Manly; E. K. Proctor,
Jr., Lumberton; J. M. Currin, Ok
ford; ]. 81. Lassiter, Henderson; w.
G.. Upchurch, Raleigh; Hon. w. T.
Faircloth, Goldsboro; DR.. R. P.
Thomas, Bethlehem; D. F. King,
Leaksville; Rev. DR.. Chas. E. Taylor,
Wake Forest; Rev. J. L. White,
Durham.
The Board held a meeting on Sat-
urday, November 18th, and l.. L.. Polk
was elected President, and DR.. G. A.
Rominger, Secretary.
A committee of five, consisting of
l.. L.. Polk, DIR. G. A. Rominger, Rev.
DR.. G. E. Taylor, Rev. j. L. White
and Rev. w. R. Gwaltney, was ap-
pointed to advertise the purpose to
build a Female College of high grade
in North Carolina, to receive bids
from any town in the State which
may desire such a College located in
their midst, to visit such places and
examine the claims and inducements
of each, and to report to a call meet
ing OF the Board of Trustees to be
held in the city of Raleigh on Tues,
day February 18th, 1890, at 1902:
A committee of three, consir11g %
Rev. G. Durham, L.. L. PoiK anu ~.
B. Broughton, was appoint 20 ura1'
a charter and to report S0ro m0e'-
ing IN F 9o Marsh, Rev. B.
1ev 1t nj. H. Pritchard were
$500 prepare a constitution
appeeeylaws for the government of
<dis Board of Trustees and to report
to the said meeting in February.
Rev. G.. W. Green, Rev. DIR. Marsh,
B. Cade and Rev. J. D. Hufham,
were appointed to suggest a purse of
study for said College and report to
the meeting in Raleigh.
We rejoice at the movement. The
more we care for our sons and daugh-
tiers at home the better for them and
for our State. We venture the as.
sertion that there are enough young
ladies sent to colleges out of the State
every year to afford good patronage
for at least one such in our own Dor.
ders.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-12-03
THE IDEA.

MACKEY's FERRY, N. c., Nov. l9, '89.
Nh. ~EDIToR:-Having noticed in
your valuable paper a discussion con-
corning life insurance within our
fraternity, | brought the matter be-
fore my Alliance last meeting, and
after a little talk we concluded that it
would be a great help at a little cost.
[ know well that there is not a mle
member of this Alliance who has not
been benefited more than such q
course of insurance will naturally
bring upon us. There was lot many
at our meeting, but all presen seemed
to be in sympathy with the movement.
I think land I believe l vote the sen.
ment of the whole Allianc) that it
would be better, instead Of @ery All
ance paying one dollar or e'en every
member paying three cents to NJ e.
definite amount, say $l,i00. let
every one who will join the lie
insurance part of our sciety pay
his prorata part monthly in advance.
Let some better informed bother ge'
the full membership and b 1esal
rate monthly and inform the Aa3Ano9
through The PROGRESSIVE FARA2
we can tell exactly how mucl Wo1"
be the cost monthly should tie men.
bership keep pace of the death Fs.9.
Hope to be able to send some money
to the business agents fund Soon. "9
have forty dollars subscribed and a.
our next meeting win be the time "
meet the engagement. l continue !"
keep before my Alliance the aIlIn
portant fact of having The PRoGRbs1
s1vE FARMER in their pockets
homes to keep the lightning OF
and thunder of combinations
killing their occupation, and
throw the bread upon the VII,
hope to realize the return by ssmr.
list of subscribers in the neal
Fraternally yours
VI. M. BAfESA
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-12-03

the purpose of EXCHANGE ~
become a creation of law. T Ty has
power that makes money a same
can designate it's form Sal tender
consistency. 'uSpe and
After all the great or
quantity. At the beginni1n~"e S'lon is
Christian era the metaIie6 OF the
Of the he Roman Empire was 81 money one
600, 600. Fifteen centuries g.,SOo,.
was less than 200, OOO, oOo iaIsr it
Commerce, arts, wealth and %uOliars.
disappeared and even popp TSo9n
dwindled away. The first OPGlatlOn
of light came when paper eraner
(bills of exchange) were i]ntrod IOasy
During the war the North USal
pered as never before. It ka pros
own money, it got a large per p ~ is
from the South (some of it THEM oeas'
other countries) and increased uga
amount by the issue of miII;on. Us
paper money. When the war q
over the circulating medium wa. was
pended over the South, MAKING - u
less per capita, and the g~overnmaS,; !.
now decreasing circulation while NV
ulation is increasing. PUP
In conclusion let me advise evo,.
one to read the Philosophy of Prics
by brother Dunning of the Nat,oa",
Economist.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-12-03
OUR HIGHWAYS.

GOL. ALBERT A. POPE, of Bos-
~ ton, delivered an address before
the Board of Trade, of Syracuse, N.
T., on Wednesday last on "American
Highways" Col. Pope is well known
as the founder of the American bi
cycle industry and president of the
Pope Manufacturing Company. His
arguments the ground very
thoroughly, and evidently are the re-
sun Oh a careful study of the ques-
non; He says:
Inc enormous increase in railroads
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-12-03
THE QUESTION

Resolutions adopted by PonI.,
Spring Alliance, No. lO7, Nov, 3ad
1889: 'U'
WHEREAS, We believe that there
should be some plan of life Insurance.
established in our order.
RESOLVED, That we endorse the plan
suggested by Tabb's Creek Alliance
to-wit: That each member pay three
cents for each member of the Alliance
that dies in good standing.
ResotUed, That we earnestly request
each Sub-Alliance in the State to give
this matter due consideration and re.
port the decision to the State Secre.
tary.
T. N. CAMPBELL, Pres.
W. A. CAMPBELL, Sec'y.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-12-03

g. A. Carroll, of Neatmat P. o.,
and s. A. Hauser, of Winston, have
been appointed Deputy Organizers for
Stokes county.
The next meeting of the Stokes
County Alliance will be at Mt. Olive
Baptist church on the first Friday and
Saturday in January.
Bro. NJ. A. Abernethy, of ALI
ance No. 431, Catawba county, send
ing us a list of subscribers, says: 81
tell you DR.. D. Reid Parker is a grand
man and is doing great good for the
Alliance in our county. We want
him to come again"
"A memorial committee of Love
lady Alliance, No. 1858, notifies US
of the death of Bro. G.. S. Ramsey.
which occurred during the month of
September Besides being a faithful
and devoted member of the Alliance
he was also a consistent member of
the Baptist church. HI will be great
ly missed by his Alliance and the
community.
Bro. T. L. Jones, of Tyrrell
county, writes: The Alliance in this
county is progressing. We now num-
Der over three hundr ed in this county.
Much good to the laborer generally
has already been done in the buying
of his produce, etc. Crops are yield
ing poorly, and the farmers need every.
possible aid. We hope to introduce a
mode of farming in the future that
will be more self-sustaining, and try
and educate ourselves up to the stan
dard of an independent citizenship
rather than looking to the dictation
of the trixter's pockstbook for support
and advice. We have in this and
Dare county some unoccupied terri
tory that could be judiciously used
had we an organizer or a deputy could
be made forSthe special purpose.
W. G. Crowder, Secretary of
Auburn Alliance, No. Al, furnished
the following resolutions for publica-
ton which were passed unanimously
on the 10Th of November: Whereas,
The North Carolina Phosphate Co.,
under the management of Messrs.
Hawkins & Hogg, has wisely con-
sidered the condition of the farmers
in this tine of sore distress, and
whereas said company has been gener-
o0s enough to sympathize with the
farmers not with pathetic words alone
but by sharing the losses of those who
purchased their fersilizers; therefore
be it resolved, That Auburn Alliance,
No. Al, unhesitatingly approve and
commend the action of said company
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-12-03
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Democrat says there is talk
of Charlotte's having a soap factory,
and expresses the hope that 1t won't
end in bubbles. IS =
The Stanly Observer says that
the cotton crop in that county is
variously estimated at from one-ffth
to one-tenth of a crop.
Col. w. J. Martin, of the David
son College faculty, has been selected
by the North Carolina University
faculty to deliver an address on the
late DIR. Charles Phillips.
r An exchange sOAys short crops
are producing DISASTROUS results in the
East. Muse pos, at Rocky Mount,
and Webb, Gsdsle & Co., at Selma,
have bed forced to make assignments.
The Charlotte Chronicle says the
snortsge in Charlotte's cotton market
up to date, over last years receipts is
4,l6l bales. 4O,217 bales having
been received so far for this year. as
compared with IA, 378 in 1888.
Noah Biggs, Esq, informs the
Scotland Neck Democrat that he will
have green n in his garden De.
cember 1st. He planted the corn in
August and will have NATURAL green
corn in open air December lst.
: The total value of exports from
the United States for the year ended
October, 1889, were $685. 68. 1852.
against $678,428, 844 in 1888. and i'm.
ports $765,4l3,777, against $722,-
,97S, 245 in 1888.
The corr crop of South Caro-.
lima this year is put at 20. OOC. 900
bushels, several millions bushels more
than any year since the war. The
cotton crop is reported at $50, 900
bales. The value of the principal
field crops is $50, 600, 900, which is
$ll, OOO, 600 over last year.
A swindler sold a Clinton CO..
Mich, farmer a receipt for making
his wheat weigh twice as much as It
ought to, and signed a contract to
divide the money gained by the extra
weight with the scientific swindler.
The " contract eventually turned up
as a promissary note and the farmer
paid $500 for it.
" 1t is said that at a conference of
the business men and the Farmers'
Alliance of Edgecombe, it was shown
from careful reports that the losses by
the shortage by the cotton crop was
as compared with last season is at
least $500, 900, and this in one of the
most fertile counties in the State. The
people are greatly concerned at the
prospect, and<well they may be.
The total absence of horns, says
the Colorado Farmer, would save an.
ualiy in the United States, 200 human
lives, 20, 600 horses and cattle. q GREAT
number of sheep and hogs, one-fourth
OF hay In winter, one-sixth of the corn
to feeder, one-tenth of the car-room to