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Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-05-10
FRIDAY --.


Last night the great audience az
the opera house was universal IN lt1
full appreciation Of the performance
of "Clcar Grit 10y the Chicago com
edy company. Thiscompany works
hard and. they arcrewarded by gam
ing "A warm place in the hearts OF
their hearers. Although playing at
popular prices they give better
general satisfaction than the
run Of 81 shows. when they at
tempt comedy the house Is one ronI
of laughter until The drop Of the
curtain. In patios they are highly
appreciated as the intense interest
and hearty applause would indicate.
Miss hmm appeared W her best
last night IA the ro iah diamond
that had grown up anonglhc hardy
miners. She is already II Iavorilc IL
Salem. Morlimar Snow ~ alwnys
well reeeIvcd. To-nights lP'oy r.
wancashire Lns.,' which SWill, o!
course, draw an overlooking house.
Jas. f.. Dcvlin, the fuyoiis conndi-
al,, who lhls won such II 3frong holo
on the theatre gocrs olNhis city IN
comedy rolcs.was oprof his line OF
business in the Villain, but Tonight |
the great comedy "Lancashire
Lass," will be given, whep Mr..
Devlin will appear in the celebrated
comedy role of party 10y the name
Of Johnson. Tomorrow afternoon
n matinee viii be- given when the
Cotton King" will be produced. A
feature Of the matinee will be II
souvenir which will be
given to all the ladies attending.
Tomorrow night the last perform
,nce of the excellent company "The
Queens Evidence" will he given.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-05-10

Two Que year conNicts were given
their fredom to-day, They were
Victor Halter aud G, II, Morris,
nom Coos county. Halter was in
for ohtalningmopey under false pre-
lenses ann Mords for larceny from u
dwelling, NJ BACK is new ar
rival at the hsStuton, lie comes
hom foulNd torthrcc years for
larccny The shops are running
the highest number OF hands ever
worked there hcion, SA The entire
roster is hut little short OF sN.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-05-10
MSNlLLE NOTES.

NJ Cockerline of the Aumsville
mills moved this week to near
Grants pass, where he has bought
another mill.
The late rains~have been hard on
oats that are sowed in how ground
and many arc not through sowing
VET
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-05-10

~ 4. Mack, one of Salcm's horli.
cnllor.sls, this morning decorated a
desk In the JOURNAL office, with a
big rips, iame strawberry the first
OF the season. II Is orthe Sharpl,s,
variety and mcasurcs a inchr. in
clroumieNneo. Mr Mack SAY, live
or 'iN dayAot warm sun viii rhrn
straw whcfr,es and tlond the market
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-05-10
\ New Addition.

Yesterday the Oak Lawn park
addition 10 Salem was surveyed and
plated, 1t isthc property ofMessrs.
Lunn, Brown and Holman, and
consists of iise acres. 1t
hes ON Asylum avsnue, on the
right side of the road, and just east
of the Waller addition. 1t is good
and will be placed on the
market ut once.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-05-10

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lNmnnrnl nI q ~ Ilu,rnn

"''''"' Ut " W fIHENN,
rms afternoon aLtwo O'clock oc-
CURED the funeral of G.. W. lHagan,
the old gentleman who dropped
dead yesterday at noon His re-
mains were inferred ipthe Odd Eel
lows cemetery\hy~ffis friend J. NJ.
Mnnkers who resides nenr Snlnm
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-05-10

a petition has hcen pn,cn,cd 10
The city council Tor the construction
of q bridge acn,Ss the cnek ON sum.
her s'nee. Ia south Salem, Thi, is
a needed brsJec, aIid should have
consideration. Jhe bridge Win
gn'ally oVnvsnNncc AnaAy of the
families ia sh.f secy6u Of the clty.
a g"od ~ ~ l9Dr ior the conslrue-
ton Of said I r.dge, ~ the hank, a,e
high on either side.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-05-10

"nsn' compound syrup OF sarsapar.
nls ~. reliable medicine for the renovation
~ 'ns ol'''d. Tones and builds up the sys-
Nm, NJ Nv Susss skin diseas's etc sold hy n.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-05-10

A ferry license was granted to
James Ncnters, for period of fifteen
years, to conduct ferry across the
North Santiam, on the Salem road
to Turner via Scio.
The commissionerS have under
consideration "A plalfto change the
vaults in the recordsr's and county
clerks Offices, Twp vault are need
ed where is now one. The expense
would be Sl,Wp.
The road petittsped for at the Cor
neIius place to tbe MNsipn and Stay
ton road has fbeen ora~sed estab-
lishcd.
The road petitioned for from
WoOdburn to Shuck's mill was
established.
The court has much business vet
to transact and will be in session to-
morrow.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-05-10
TERMS or SUBSCRIPTION.

For advertising rates apply at this Office.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-05-10

Have just received and complete line of Staple and
Fancy Groceries, and invite the attention of the Public
to the following Goods which we carry in none but
the First and Best Grades, and will Offer
them at the very lowest prices
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-19
THE CAUSE IN VIRGINIA.
RED BANK, VA, Jan. %, '89.

RED BANK, VA, Jan. %, '89.
Col. L. L. PoLK.-Dear Sr:-We
organized Halifax County Alliance at
South Boston to-day. Thirteen ALI
ances were represented, Red Bank
Alliance being in the lead in point of
numbers. We have a membership of
forty-four males and three females,
with a number of petitions lying owe
DIR. Lee, of Caswell, N. c., was with
US. He is a most earnest man. The
officers were elected, but we had not
time to install them, We will meet
on the 18th of February for that pur-
pose. / think the farmers are thor
oughly aroused to the importance of
united action, with few exceptions.
Some, however, express a desire to
buy fertilizers of agents if they al
get them cheaper than the Alliance
will sell to them. Now, l think this
fly is only there to ride the sharpers
of the hook. [ learn some merchants
say they will put prices below the
Alliance. l ask any right-thinking
maj if that is not the best evidence
that the Alliance is a power for the
good of farmers? Who, l ask, made
the merchants able to sell goods so
cheap? | answer, the laborer. If it
is kindness to the farmers, why did
they not put down prices before ? We
have the reines of this government if
we will only pull them. Some specu-
lators, I am told, threaten their GUS
toners who owe them with a suit if
they join the Alliance. Why, sir, are
we the slaves of the spectators ? Are
we not free? Are we not allowed to
organize for our protection? The
Importance of united action is evident,
and if we could only get the farmers
to realize that they are independent of
the speculator, they would not hest
tate to take hold of the work at once.
The speculator is willing to make
sacrifices in order to burst up this
organization, because they know that
if they can do by waiting a few years,
on the profits of the farmers
labor they have already accumulated.
When this organization is bursted, w
will be in their power and at their
mercy, which will be be shown in a
less degree than the African slave re-
ceived. Fraternally,
W. P. g.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-19
HI COFFEE U

HARRIS CREEK ALLIANCE, No. 765,
Cyrus Onslow Co., n. c., Jan. "a 80.
Col. l.. L. PoLK.-DeGr Sr:-
Will you please be so kind as to pub
fish the following resolutions:
Whereas, a combination called the
Coffee Trust has been formed for adj
vancing the price of coffee and thereby
increasing the wealth of a few at the
expense of many; and,
Whereas, said trust and all other
trusts and combinations of capital for
such purposes are odious and are re-
'pugnant to the genius of our institu-
ton and laws and should be opposed
and c~ounteracted by proper and law
full means; therefore be it
Resolved, That we will abstain from
the use of coffee until the price is re-
duced to it's normal figures; and to
secure this result we earnestly invoke
the cooperation of all Alliance mem
bers and the Grange association and
all other persons and organizations
whose interests are common with ours.
Yours fraternally,
E. j. LANIER.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-19

MR. EDTToR:-The curse of Ireland
has been absenteeism. The landlord
who spends his income elsewhere than
by living upon his landed estate per-
sues a policy which has a tendency to
impoverish the land. We find that
this evil is the greatest burden the
Irish tenantry have to bear.
The above fact Is an historical one
and true, Now, we find all our agri-
cultural papers, associations, and ALI
ances deploring the depressed condi-
ton of the farming interest in North
Carolina, They all give various rea-
sons for it; many of them true, many
of them not true. | only propose to
give one reason for the hard times by
stating a fact which is Gin sight"
Almost Immediately around me there
are seven farms, the owners of which
live in town or elsewhere. Ten wears
ago the product of these farms was
about 80 bales of cotton besides
large quantities of corn, wheat and
oats. Last year they did not produce
more than 80 bales of cotton and a
numerous quantity of grain. Three of
these farms have developed into splen-
did rabbit runs with here and there a
cultivated patch. Three are patched
over with the one mule tenant. One
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-19
ALLIANCES ORGANIZED IN vIR-
GINA.
81. 1889.

JANUARY 81, 1889.
Cor. l.. L. PoLK.-DeGY &r:-Per-
NIT me to make my report as Organi-
e for Norfolk county, Virginia, for
January, through the columns of The
PROGRESSIVE FARMER:
Organized Gertie Alliance, at Wal
laceton, on January 18th, with Geo.
T. Wallace as President, and B. F.
Vaughn, Secretary; organized Hickory
Grove Alliance, at Hickory, on jan
uary 10Th, with P. w. Sanderson as
President, and A. A. Jordan, as Sec
rotary; C~entreville Alliance, at Centre
vile ..postofice on January 18th,
with D. L. Wright as President,
and John Fentress, Secretary; Indian
Creek Alliance, at Indian Greek, OF
January 29th, with j. W. Creekmore
as President and S. Creekmore, Sec
rotary.
I hope to follow up the good work
during next week at Great Bridge,
CORTLAND, Deep Greek, Northwest and
Tanners Creek. The work is pro-
crossing slow but sure, on account of
the busy time with the farmers, who
are getting out corn for market. [
find no difficulty in organizing when
| can get a meeting, and those that
are organized are taking hold with a
will. [ hope it will be the means of
increasing the circulation of your
valuable paper among our farmers,
teaching them the benefits of Co
operation and organization for our
mental protection. Long may it live
in the defence of the farmers of the
Yours ~fraternally,
THOMAS TAPP.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-19
TIMELY
RIDawAY, N. c., Jan. 81, 1889.

RIDewAY, N. c., Jan. 81, 1889.
Mr.. EDIToR:-The fertilizer season
is upon us. The all important ques-
ton is "buy or not buy" If we must
buy, let us patronize the one company
only that has recognized the Alliance
so far, and at prices below last year,
while all other dealers that have
quoted prices to the trade, not ALI
ances, are from two to four dollars
higher. The next question is, why
this advance Are the farmers more
able to pay, buy at all +? l answer
emphatically, no and add that the
farmers are poorer and the country
more destitute of the necessaries of
life for man and beast than aver be-
fore In the recollection of our oldest
inhabitants. If it is clear that it is to
our interest to buy fertilizers why are
we so poor? We have certainly
bought enough to be Independent, if
there was oven a small profit to us.
Now, brother farmers, how can we
stand the advance or even pay last
years prices 2 Let us accept the
offer of the North Carolina Phosphate
Company and proceed at once to send
IN orders with the cash or satisfactory
notes, in order that they may have
time to manufacture every pound
possible and let the other
deposit their "ttmited stock" in bank
for s~afe-keeping. If we are not
worthy of recognition first-handed,
our paper is toe worthless to encum-
Der the banks. Now, brother farm
ers, let us cut off the cotton and to-
bacco crops one-haH, and let the fer
tilizer go to tophet. If we will do
this it will be more plentiful and
cheaper next year; provided we should
want it. If we will reduce our mar
ket crops one-half we will be more
prosperous and mortgages will be
things of the past. Experience has
been bitter enough to have taught us
that the old way of cropping is a fail
ure.A Now is the time to halt. Before
We start another crop stop and think.
Let your neighbor put in his big
acreage, if he will. "Big crops" have
been q ruin; we don't want any
more 3 to 8 cent tobacco or 81 cent
cotton, but Is to 20 cent tobacco and
Ii to l5 cent cotton, full cribs and
granaries, big hogs, cows, colts, &C..
Take advice and act right now. Let
TINS motto pass down the line and be
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-19

Col. l.. L. PoLK.-DeGr SSr:-Wat-
kins Alliance, No. 288, at its regular
meeting held February I'd, 1889,
unanimously adopted the following:
WHEREAS, We believe the present
homestead law is a curse instead of a
benefit, and has ever worked to the
farmers disadvantage in every way;
the1 efore
Resolued, That we ask the Legis-
lature topass the bill now before the
House to abolish the homestead law,
and urge our Senator and Representa-
tives from Johnston county to use
every possible effort to secure the pas
sage of said bill.
RESOLVED, That we ask every ALI
ance to join us in this, our petition,
which we believe to be just.
Resotved, That a copy be sent to TIE
PROGRESSIVE FARMER for publication
Con. SEc'Y.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-19
A VOICE FROM K
Give the Masses a Chance.

live the masses q NnS0CG.
Mr.. EDIToR:-I have come to the
conclusion that the partial failure of
all agricultural and labor organiza-
tons is due to the absence of a high
degree,of uniform, homogeneous thought.
To remedy, in part at least, this diff
Guilty l, with others, have petitioned
the Texas Legislature to divide the
State into thirty-one agricultural dis
tricts and establish and maintain in
each district an Agricultural and Me-
chanical Academy, at which our sons
may earn an education and our daugh-
tiers may acquire the highest and most
thorough domestic culture.
The gap between our short free
schools and the college or city high
school, is too great. Thousands of the
finest specimens of manhood 90 un-
educated because they have no oppor-
tunity. We have thirty-one Senate
rial districts. If you approve of the
idea, suppose you submit a plan for
the establishment of like schools in
the grand Old North State to the
brotherhood and the Legislature 2
Alliance artillery at State capital
has aroused every department of mo-
nopoly, and, as a consequence, the
lobby branch of our Legislature pre-
sents a wondrous scene-wit, elo-
quence, wine and money seem to be
in~exhaustible. 1--WE are getting there"
Fraternally,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-19
RESOLUTIONS FROM GATES
COUNTY.

At a called meeting of the Gates
County Farmers Alliance, No. 1875,
in session at Sunsbury, on Friday, the
Sth day of February, the following
preamble and resolutions were unani
mously adopted and ordered to be
sent to THE Progressive FARMER for
publication:
WHEREAS, Monopolists and million
aires are constantly forming combines
and trusts on almost every article Of
the n-ecessaries Of life, and especially
upon such articles as are used by the
farmers; and, whereas, the manufac-
turers of fertilizers have advanced
the price of fertilizers from $3.50 to
SIS per ton without showing any ap-
parent cause, we, the Gates County
Farmers Alliance, No. l, 1875, in called
session assembled, this, the 9Th day of
February, 1889,
Resotve, That we will not use any
of the fertilizers where the price has
been thus advanced unless we get it
through oar agent without any profit
to the middlemen, and not then,
unless the manufacturers will show
that the materials of which they are
made have really advanced in price
and that they are compelled to in
crease the price so al to make only a
fair living profit.
If the manufacturers combine the
farmers must combine also to protect
ourselves or we will be poorer at the
end of the year and they will be
richer at our expense, when we can
scarcely live now.
JOHN BRADY, Presd't.
H. j. REED, Sec'y.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-19
THE GOOD EFFECTS OF THE
ALLIANCE.
Trinity, UNION Co., N. c.,

January l9, 1889.
Coz. l.. L. PoLK.-DeGr Sy:-AsI
am Corresponding Secretary of Trinity
Alliance, No. 268, after remaining
silent for some time, l beg for small
space in the columns of your most ex-
csllent paper through which to inform
the brethren in regard to how u
order is progressing in this COM
munity. It may be that as they have
not heard from us lately that they
have concluded that we are dead to
the interests of our noble order. If
so, I desire to inform them that it is a
mistake. Remember that it is not the
loudest gun that accomplishes the
most good; it is the one rightly aimed.
And while we have been silent we
have been endeavoring to aim at the
point and striving to carry out the
principles of our order. The Alliance
in this portion of the county is NOV
ing on rapidly and harmoniously.
There are but few farmers in the
entire country around who are not
members, and they continue to come,
and we believe that ere long there will
not be one left out who is eligible, and
with proper care and perseverance we
will be able to march on to victory in
solid phalanx. 1t is true, some few
have been slow to take hold; they
have stood aloof until they have seen
and even felt the good effect the order
is having in this vicinity, and now
they come like men and are willing to
help US bear the burdens and share
the benefits which we are daily re-
ceiving through our order. The ALI
ance in this county has its cotton off
Ger and grades through which its
members sell their cotton. 1t also has
a cooperative store at which its mem
bers buy their goods. We hear no
grumbling at the price of cotton by
our men. We know that we get all
for it the market can pay and goods
as cheap as they a be sold, and all
is moving on pleasantly. 1t is true
we may have some things to contend
with which are not very pleasant when
they first present themselves, but in
the end it always seems to work out
for the best. For instance, a short
time ago we had occasion to demit a
number of our members, who, with
others outside the order, formed a
new Alliance. At first some thought
it vas not best, but at present all are
very well pleased and we are moving
on cheerfully with only about twenty
five good members-all men who mean
bus1ness-with no n to impede our
progress. We heartily endorse the
action of the State and County ALI
ances in regard to the bagging trust
and all other steps taken that is
deemed good for our order. We have
stood by them in all they have done,
3nd are still ready and willing to
ard by them in any action they may
TAKE hat will bring down the huge
monopolies which ale combined against
the laboring classes of men and which
is calculated to advance the grand
cause in which we have enlisted.
~Fraternally,
JAS. P. ROGERS,
Cor. Sec'y.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-19
THE STATE AGENCY FUND.
WALDEN, Brunswick Co, n. c.,

w ALDEN, brunswick 90, IN. VI,
February 6, 1889.
Col. L. L. PoLK.-Dear SGr:-The
Atlantic Alliance after a long and
dreary season-poverty stricken, i'll
spoken of and many other draw backs
we still try in our weakness to bear up
the Alliance banner and rally the mem
bers together once a month. Last
Saturday was our meeting at which
we tried to discuss the propriety of
raising the State Agency Fund, as we
10 believe this to be the vital cord to
the relief of our depressed condition,
financially. Our Alliance appears to
be in the spirit and have agreed to
work as a unit and every brother pres
ent, except two, subscribed to the fund;
then resolved to assess all who would
not, and if they could not pay, we
would help them to do SO. Will not
Alliances throughout the Old North
State, when the brethren are slack,
devise some plan so that it will work
easy, and let us lay our shoulder to the
main driving wheel? Success is ours if
we will but try in the right way. We
admit that money is scarce, but
where is the farmer who can't pay
SIS, $3.50 or ST to this all important
movement? Let us no longer neglect
this matter; let US put our State Agent
on a commercial footing SO hat he will
be able to combat the moneyed COM
binations. Send us another blank list.
We mean business. Success to THE
PROGRESSIVE FARMER and its editor.
Fraternally yours,
ISAAC MILLIKEN, Sec'y.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-19

Col. L.. l.. PoLK.-Dear SIR
When you espoused the cause of the
farmer, a few years ago, you struck a
chord that vibrated and still vibrates
throughout the land. The farmer
knows that he does not get fair play,
but he does not f,lly understand what
is the matter. There are, however, a
few facts that are obvious enough.
There are more taxes, more Offices
and more big salaries than there used
to be, and a stronger disposition than
ever to create new Offices and big
salaries, with the burden of support
ing them resting upon the farmers.
To sum the matter, the farmer knows
that the simplicity and economy of the
better days of the commonwealth are
leaving US and that rapacity and ex-
tortion are taking their places.
What is the remedy 1t is simple
enough. Lessen the burden of taxa
ton and reduce the salaries of all Off
GERS to what they were before the war
and create no more useless Offices.
Half the salaries now paid to our
State and county officers would be
more than they could earn at any in
dustrial pursuit and would support
them in a style of living much better.
than their constituents can afford.
Patriotism and not money should be
the moving consideration with them.
Our forefathers thought they abol-
ished all titles of nobility more than
a century ago, and with the title they
intended to abolish all the incidents
and prerogatives of nobility. What
a man can arr by honest labor is a
fair standard of value and it ought to
bear a just proportion to what we pay
our public servants for their services.
If it does not, labor is degraded.
Manual labor has its true place only
when found on a level with other pur-
suits.
If the Legislature will thus purify
the fountains of government and give
to manual labor the honor, the con
sideration and the pay which they
give to other pursuits, we would no
longer e our young men and women
stunning the industries and seeking
employment as clerks and teachers or
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-19

acted on by every Alliance. Then our
dear families will cease to be slaves
to fertilizer, meat and corn dealers,
in order to save the few chattles they
have. Then we will not care if these
articles advance or fall. Let us be a
unit and "heroes in the strife, not
dum.driven cattle" Wishing you q
long and prosperous Life, MI. Editor,
and that you may be well paid for
the noble stand you have taken to
liberate the farmers, l am,
Yours fraternally,
CLoD HOPPER.