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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-02

q |ay5 bOHu BUylHB.
WASHINGTON, Feb 1.-The bond Offers
ings to-day agg eg ited s495, $50. The ssc-
rotary accepted s454, 900, all 41as, at lC9
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-02
DEBT OF TIE NATION.
a Net Balance of $1,121 ,845, ,e73 Due
Government creditors.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-The public debt
statement issued to-day makes the following
showing:
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-02
UNDER CONSIDERATION.

The matter has been discussed by Messrs
Colquitt and Gambler and the President aud
the Attorney General in sever j interviews.
The probability is that the President will
i0pt the su ggesti0ns made, and extend
amnesty and pardon TO ali minor ofe ders
who have not been guilty Of aggravating
their offenses vi lently resisting officers
of the law. Several hundred persons who
have already partially ex ed their crimes
would thus be restored to liberty in Geor-
eia North aud South Carolina, Alabama
Tennessee and other southern states and a
few in the northern states. IftLe President
does not finally approve this scheme he will
undoubtedly OK xtetd clemency to as many
Of the clas, described as he can give con-
sideration to before March 4
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-02
PRESIDENTIAL PARDONs.
General Amnesty for Revenue Law
VioIators Proposed.

General Amnesty Tor Revenue Law
Violators Proposed.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-Senator Colquitt
and Representative Gambler have recon-
mended to the President and Attorney
General Garlsnd in strong terms that a
general amnesty and pardon be extended
by the President to offenders against the
int rnal revenue laws now under indict-
ment and conviction. Numerous individu i
app ication for executive clemencv in such
case have been presen ed to the President
by Messrs. Colquitt, Clndler, and others,
which would probably all be granted if the
President had time TO examine them, but it
is simply physically impossible for him to
examine theu all, and hence the suggestion
that he dispose Of them all at once, under
such res rctions, Of course, as would shut
out unworthy cases
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-02

THE MORN1NG NEWS, l
'17zrApIIsHED 1850. INCORPORATED 1855.
]. II. ESTILL. President.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-26
IS THERE NO NEED FOR A RAIL.
ROAD COMMISSION

THE Newbern Journal enters a
i modest but most powerful plea for
a Railroad Commission in the follow
ing:
merchants in New Bern want to
handle the goods of factories in Char
lotte and other towns in North Caro-
lima, but the freights are prohibitory.
Freight on the same goods from
Canada or West Tennessee is much
less. People between Goldsboro and
Greensboro want to come to the New
bern Fair; they can only buy a ticket
to Goldsboro; then buy again to New
bern. Newbern has corn to sell;
Richmond has corn to sell brought
from Chicago; Raleigh wants to buy;
Newbern, as every man endowed with
common sense will admit, ought to
have the Raleigh market, but the r.
& d. forces It Richmond.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-26

Will they tell us 2. Are the farmo,.
the Taxpayers of these two counties
posed to a Railroad Commission ? w +,
they tell as? ="
Meeting a distinguished oar+,.
man on the street, we asked: wv
do you think of the chances for LAT
ing the Railroad Commission b 2Hs 81
He replied, with a significant nod
Hannibal fingered at Capua.n W..
that great General with his snlond;1
and hitherto invincible arm1 mopa
into winter quarters at Capua M I tbo
enervating and emoralizing effects m on
his troops of luxurious liyiDo con ~
near running his army, and we corI L9
see the point in the gentIeman's ra'
mark.
When the Railroad Commissior I'm
was under consideration on its tbird
reading in the House, Mr., G NJ
Cooke made a capital speech for + T.
which he said: eve want men 49,
have as big backbone as this marb1o
columh-men who will treat the rail
roads fairly and who will say; sTbno
far you shall go and no further, W.
don't want on the Commission the sort
of man who would come here and bO
for a Commission the first three weAkO
of the session and afterwards arainat
it."
Capt. Cooke is one of the uoldn
members. He has served here several
sessions and has done so with ability
and fidelity. He knows what he i
talking about when he so delicatelv
hints at those members who for the
first three weeks of the session are for
a Railroad Commission, but for some
unexplained cause, about that time.
turn against it. He has seen that
same thing time and again, in former
sessions. Voters, taxpayers, think of
it. When the legislature assemblies
fresh from their promises and fresh
from the people, they are ready to
vote for a Commission and to stand
by the people, but after having
breathed the Raleigh atmosphere for
a few weeks, their backbone gives
way, they desert the people and go
over to the railroads. Something pc.
culiar in this Raleigh atmosphere,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-26

thus choose to argue this question
negatively /? Why did he not come
nearer home and take a State and
people where they do control freights
and tariffs and tell as ho0 at operates 2
Why does he not tell the Legislature
that Georgia has just such a Commits
sion as is proposed here2 Why does
he not tell us that since she adopted
this law, Georgia has buaH more males
of rasEs0ay than eUer before aOathsm the
same period, an all her history? Why
does he not tell us how many applica-
tions were made to the recent Legisla-
ture of that State for charters for new
railways Why does he not tell us
| that never in the history Of that State
has capital been so eager for invest
ment in railroad enterprise as it is to
day !? Why did he not quote these
facts to our Legislature and why does
he not. tell our people that the net
earnings of the roads in Georgia in
1887, in a State where this horrible
law exists, was So, 729, 952, or $l,O43
1OI every Lille VI 1dA1WoJ y WI
ders2 No wonder the people OF
Georgia and the railroads are con-
tented, prosperous and happy. No.
wonder these facts are overlooked by
those who would deprive North Caro-
lima of the benefits of a Railroad Com
mission. If our Legislature would
subserve the best interests of our whole
people, it will heed their great and
strong demand and give them the
bill that is now pending. If they
would serve the people, they must
turn a deaf ear to the lobby and to
employed agents of railroads. The
people are looking on and are expect
ing the farmers and business men
especially, in this Legislature to do
their full duty in this important mat
ter.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-26

Trinity College. Does the President
Of Trinity College know that twenty.
six States in this Union have been
guilty of this "moral perfidy ?" Does
he know that the people of California,
Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Mis-.
sissippi, Missouri, New Hampshire
and South Carolina-have been guilty
of this same "moral peridy Does
he know that in these same nine States
where this "terrible" law exists that
the net earnings of the railroads in
the year 1887 was $84,42l, 952 Is
it "moral perfdy" for a struggling
people to make an honest effort in. an
honest aOoy to free themselves from the
grinding expressions under which
they are staggering? Is it "moral
perfidy " for the farmers and laboring
and business classes of our State to
try to throw off some of the load, so
they may be able to send their boys
to Trinity and other schools to be
educated ? Is it "moral perfidy to
resist unjust, discriminating and ex-
cessive charges on our railroads 2 IF
30; then We can inform President
Crowell that mane-tenths of the good
people of North Carolina have DELHI
erately made up their minds to commit
the act. And we desire to say further
that there are a number of patriotic,
intelligent Christian gentlemen in Jul
Legislature, whose character and bear
ing as citizens does honor to them and
their Alma Mater, Trinity College,
and who received lessons in morals at
the hands of the grand old DR.. Craven,
and who WaW support has ball from the
high moral standpoint of patriotic duty
to their State. They desire to see the
noble boys of the State educated.
They want to see the halls of Trinity
College crowded with them and they
know that the passage Of this bill is a
step in that direction.
We bid President Crowell God
speed in the noble work of buildingu UP
his college, and we will most gladly
give him any aid in our power, but in
all kindness we suggest to him that he
take time to investigate the conditions
which environ and deaden the energies
of our people, before he charges them
with "moral perfdy" in an honest
effort at self-protection. This is moth
ing more nor less than a ~clear-cut,
well-defned "dead, square fight be
tween monopoly and the people, and
he that is not for us is against us. The
people, the railroads and the Legisla-
ture, we believe so understand it.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-26
HOW TO PLANT AND Guilt
VATE CHUFAS.

r N response to our request, Bro R.
Id. Carr, of Magnolia, N. c., kindly
sends the following for publication:
In reply to your request for
best plan for planting chufas, !, give
u plan, which I think is very good:
Plant chufas any time from the mid
die of May until the middle of june.
Run off rows about two and a half
feet apart. Put two seed in a hill,
from twelve to fifteen inches apart In
the drill-cover tolerably deep. Ma
nure the same as for cotton, pillow and
hoe over whenever they become grassy.
Some very fine late watermelons can
be made by planting seed among the
chufas. Plant watermelons after first
blowing so the vines will not be in the
way.
Success to The PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
Fraternally Yours,
r. D. CARR.
n. B.-I like "The Buried River"
splendidly.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-26
EDITORIAL NOTES.

? A Railroad Commission is needed,
not so much to correct abuses of
power by the roads, but to prevent
abuses of power by them.
Ex-Gov Vance, Ex-Gov. Jarvis,
Ex-Gov. Scales and Gov. Fowle-all
favor a Railroad Commission. Who
believes for a moment that these men
are enemies of the roads, or would
sanction any policy that would i'm
pede the development of our State !?
It is the merest twaddle.
We are greatly indebted to Serg't
A.. 4. White, of Co. D, Add North
Carolina Regiment, Scotland Neck,
n. c., and who was wounded at Get
tysburg, for a copy Of the Fayette-
vile Observer of August Sd, 1863.
We will Gull from it for the informa
ton of our young readers, and by
way of refreshing the memory of
some Of our older readers, for next
weeks issue.
It is asserted here in Raleigh that
the people of Randolph and Moore
counties r opposed to a Railroad
Commission. We do not 5elseve3. We
received and placed before the Legis.
lature memorials from eighteen Ali
ances in Randolph and seventeen II
Moore, unanimously demanding a Rail
road Commission. Did these farmers
mean nothing by these demands
Have they changed their views
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-26
DEALING IN
Two Measures to Prevent it Reported
on Adversely.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. '89.

on Adversely.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. '89.
TNHE House Committee on Agri-
i culture to-day decided to report
adversely a bill to punish dealing in
futures in agricultural products; also
a bill to prohibit fictitious and gam
bling transactions on the price of
articles produced by American farm
industry.
The objects of these bills are to stop
grain gambling in the public ex-
changes and boards of trade. The
committee has had these bills under
consideration for some time, and con-
siderable testimony has been taken on
the subject. The committee arrived
at the conclusion that Congress has
no jurisdiction over the subject matter
of these measures, as they pertain to
the State MISUNDERSTANDING.
Now let the Legislature do some
thing to stop this national disgrace and
this wicked robbery of the people.
Will it do it?
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-26
TCor. THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
WELL TIMED.

-
TINE article on free wool in last
Il weeks paper is "we1 timed" It
is high time that the farmers were
seeing that their products were pro-
tected; that they got value received
for what they have to sell and that
their labor is not brought in competi-
ton with the Lowest pauper labor of
the world. Alliance men seem to be
thinking only of buying cheap, and
not how to get the money to buy
with. 1t is getting value received for
what a farmer sells that makes him
prosper. Senator Plumb, of Kansas,
said In a speech that he was told by a
Massachusetts farmer that everything
around him was protected Except farm
products, and although he had a good
farm, it was hard to make both ends
meet. Every farmer knows how hard
it is to make both ends meet here.
Cotton raisers are interested in free
wool as we'll as sheep-raisers; free
wool would reduce the price of cot
ton. Millions of pounds of cotton are
now used in making noared goods; at
6 or Z cents pound would be used
instead of cotton and millions of yards
of wooden goods would be used where
cotton goods are now used, thus re-
ducing the consumption of cotton;
and with the present consumption of
cotton, cotton hardly pays a laborer's
wages to raise it. Are the cotton
farmers willing to aid in reducing the
price of cotton 2 If farmers prosper
they must stand together and aid n
another. It is being governed by
theorists that has reduced farming to
the grovelly edge Of bankruptcy. We
must look in detail into practical facts,
attend to our own business and pro-
tect our own business. There r
many things that "fgger WELL" and
many men that ''spout" well but when
they are tried they "don't pan worth a
cent" Give us practical men, and
we a expect u interest to be pro-
tected. Discuss more how we can
get better prices for what we have to
sell, and examine well the question
what laws discriminate against the
farmers and who are responsible for
them and who failed to do their duty
in trying to have them repealed. Gen.
S. D.. Lee said in his article in last
weeks paper, that from 1850 to 1850
the farmers had increased the produc
tive wealth 1O1 per cent, and from
1870 to 1880 only 9 per cent, and re-
marks "at IS eVen much a0orse than thGs,"
and shows that by reason of farm
mortgages the farmers in the ten great
corn States are virtually bankrupt,
their mortgage debt being greater
than that Of the United States gov
eminent at the close of the war.
Tafy for the farmers and protection
for everybody else has done the work.
If we don't attend to our own bust
ness nobody will do, it for us. Trust
our legislation into the hands of the
theorist, and we might as well make
an assignment. The lobbys of or
porate greed, monopolies and com
bines have gotten in their work, and
before onr homestead goes it is time
to call a halt. FARMER.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-26
NOTES.

'THE Railroad Commission bill
l. came up in the House on last
Wednesday, and on motion of Mr..
Alexander, of Tyrrell, the salary of
the Commissioners was fixed at $4,000
each and that of the clerk at ST., 600.
Several other amendments were
offered but were voted down. The
question was put on the passage
of the bill on its third reading and it
passed by the following vote:
Ayes-Messrs. Alexander, Ander-
son, Anthony, Bass, Bascom, Bedding
field, Bell, Bond, Carter, Chadwick,
Cheek, Cherry, Clifton, Cofield, Cooke,
DeFord, Doughton, Dunlap, Edwards,
Galloway, Gibbon, Ham, Hampton,
Hamrick, Hargrove, Hoffman, Hoke,
Holman, Hood, Hopkins, Huitt, John
son of Fender, Jones, Kellogg, Ring,
Littleton, Long of Columbus, Lyon,
Makely, Marsh of Beaufort, Marsh of
Union, McCotter, Mcdonald, McGill,
Miller, Newland, Nichols, Outlaw,
Overman, Parker, Pearson, Phillips,
Regain, Scott, Stevens, Sutton, Taylor,
Walker, Watson of Robson, Wei
Ions, White, Wilkins, Wilson,
Wooten of Richmond, Yancey-Total
65.
Noes-Messrs. Amis, Arledge, Baird,
Banner, Bennett, Blanton, Blevins,
Blue, Carver, Carey, Cooper, Crisp,
Crowder, Dills, Franks, Grant, Green,
Hendricks, Holloway, Howe, Hussey,
Jacobs, Justice, Lawson, Long of
Mecklenburg, Mastin, Matheson, Nc
Cubbins, Millikan, Pugh, Rawls, Rey-
noids, Robinson, Smell, Starbuck, Tenn
pie, Tilley, Wall, Walser, Ward,
Watson of Vance, Waugh, Woods
Total 43.
Mr., Wooten, of Lenoir, paired with
Mr.. Baucom, of Green. Mr.. Wootenl
would have voted aye, MI. Baucom
no. Mr.. Trull was paired with Mr..
Gilman. Mr.. Trull would have voted
no, and Mr.. Gilman aye s22mfl
The bill to establish a Central Train
ing School for teachers passed the
IhOSLdb0 dLd01 COuS1u6IdUuS .ttlSCuSSlOus
A bill for securing a more efficient
system for working the public roads
of the State was introduced by Mr.. Nc
Donald in the House and excited lively
discussion and passed it's second read
ing. We will publish the bill in full
if it shall become a law.
The bill to appropriate $4,000 to
the establishment of an annual en-.
campment for the State Guard passed
its third reading in the Houae by the
following vote:
Ayes-Messrs. Alexander, Ander-
son, Anthony, Baird, Baucom, Bed
d~ingfeld, Blanton, Bond, Carter, Chad
wick, Cherry, Clifton, Cofield, Cooke,
DeFord, Edwards, Galloway, Gibbon,
Gilman, Ham, Holloway, Hood, Hop.
kins, Howe, johnson of Johnston,
Johnson of Fender, Kellogg, King,
Long of Columbus, Long of Neck.
lenburg, Lyon, Makely, Marsh OF
Beaufort, Mcdonald, McGill, Miller,
Newland, Outlaw, Overman, Pearson,
Phillips, Regan, Stevens, Sutton, Tay.
lor, Walker, Walser, Watson of Robe
son, Wellons, Wooten of Richmond
Yancey-Total 81.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-26
WIDENING OUT.
a College President Takes a Hand in
the Fight.

the Fight.
M R. JOHN CROWELL, Presi-
,1ldent of Trinity College, a~ssails
in the NeoOs and Observer, most vigor-
ously the Railroad Commission bill
now pending before the Legislature.
According to his view of the matter,
it would be a fool-hardy proceeding
to pass the bill, "fort the plain reason"
he says, "that this Commission with
such powers as it is granted cannot
exercise them without bringing rail
road building to a sudden and violent
check, driving away capital that is
coming into our State" &c.
Mr.. Crowell is doubtless a good
College President-':is not a legisla-
tor" as he says, "but is a student of
politics-of political science, methods,
practices and results" &c. We are
happy in the belief that he knows
more or these things than he does of
the condition of the people of this
State, and the relations, existing be-
tween them and the railroads.
Bringing railroad building to a
sudden and violent check |" "Driv-
ing away capital from our State" in
deed II If bold and reckless asser-
ton were argument, then, indeed,
would the article of President
Crowell be a ponderous document.
He admits that he does not know
"what the results have been of the
operation of the law in Georgia"
Well, he should have known before
he assumes to put himself up to teach
the people, For his information, we
would tell him that during the nine
years in which the law has been OBJ
Grated in Georgia, the value of the
railroads in that State has increased
$l9,437,99S-an increase of over 200
per cent; that during that time more
miles have been built and more money
invested in that State than ever before
in its history for the some period of
time; that within the last two years
100 miles were built. Do these facts
sustain the wild assertion that this
bill will kill the railroads of North
Carolina !? Really and seriously, did
President Crowell know anything of
the great interests of which he writes
SO vigorously ? Or has he simply fall
len into the procession with his mighty
gong to aid in frightening and bull
doing the Legislature
But he mounts to a higher plane.
The passage of the bill would not only
bring financial ruin to the railroads OF
the State, but it would be "an.act OF
moral perfdy" to induce capital to
come here " and subject it to such un-
called for RESTRICTIONS so says the
agitated and excited President OF
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-26

One thousand five hundred and
ninety-two Alliances to-day.
County Business Agent, w. R.
Creech, of Johnston county, requests
the Sub Business Agents of said county
to meet him in the town of Smithfeld,
March Est, at IL o'clock a. ma
full meeting is earnestly desired.
-Reddick Alliance, No. l,l2O, of
Sampson county, sends SO cents to
the William Andrews relief fund and
urges other lodges to do likewise, re-
minding the brotherhood that it is
"more blessed to give than to receive"
In sending the resolutions, in which
Winslow Alliance declares to keep its
own councils, Bro. Campbell enforces
the good determination by this Scrip
tural quotation: He that keepeth his
mouth and his tongue, keepeth his
soul from trouble"
d. L.. Beach, of Cross Roads
Alliance, No. 1858, Martin county,
says his Alliance is prospecting and has
eighty members in good standing.
The Business Agent has made arrange
ments for trade which are very salts
factory to the brethren.
Ut. Webb, of Alliance No. |, JAG,
Chowan county, in the absence of a
correspondent, writes to say that the
brethren of that lodge are in most
hearty sympathy with every move
ment that is being made to elevate the
farmer and to promote his financial
interest.
Bro. j. II. Dark, Of Rock Rest
Alliance, Chatham county, writes that
they were organized February, 1888,
with FIVE members, and that they now
number thirty-seven. The brethren
are a unit and the outlook is good. AT
last meeting they "sat down on
high-priced guano.
Bro. G. T. Boyette, of Alliance
mo. 62l, Johnston county, informs US
that at their last meeting a resolution
was adopted calling upon the Leglsls
ture to SO frame the law al to require
citizens whose property consists u
stocks, bonds and money on dePosls
to pay the same tax as is required o.
land holders.
Miranda Alliance, No. 30l, O
Rowan county, was organized one
year ago and now has only ~thirty'Ive
members. For a long time the iGuso
stood at a standstill, but recenIly
new life and spirit seems TO have pos
sessed the brethren, and they are en-
couraged and believe that at 10 GS
tant DAY they will be rewarded l'i
their sacrifices and labors.
A correspondent writes: 81 an
glad to say that Mt. Carmel Suod
ance, Orange county, No. 469, st @aet.
out along a new line at our last ni01 ~
ine. One brother was appoln5eG "
read an essay or to deliver an Suu Let
at our next meeting, on Inc
method of preparation and cuItLs@ bsst
of a corn crop. Another on Tue ION
preparation and cultivation OF a cotIOd
crop. Other crops, such as lrlSn am anr
sweet potatoes, Sc, will engage Our 0r
attention in the neal future
esteemed President, who was re"i0N
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-26

We ~apprehend that the day is not
distant when such questions as State
Railroad Commissions will be sup
planted by the overshadowing ques-
ton: Shall the railroads run the gov
eminent OF shall the government run
the railroads.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-26
ALLIANCE T

members of the Alliance, when writing to Us.
will greatly favor us if they will always give the
No. of their Alliance. We have given the sixth and
seventh pages Of our paper to the exclusive use of
the Alliance. Use them, brethren. For all official
orders, rulings, notices, &C., the brethren will x
anime these pages.]
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-26

Do you want your communication pub
Eshed? If so, give US your real name
and your postofice.
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Do you want your paper changed to
smother Office? State the one at which
you have been getting it.
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H Our friends in writing to any of
eur advertisers, will favor us by mention
ing the fact that they saw the advertise
ment in The Progressive FARMER.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-26

81 The date on your label tells you
when your time is out.