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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-09-05

Geo. white Esq, has gone to New
Hampshire to look after some of hIa prop
crtv, AMI expects to return here the 18th
when be hopes that iha changes ard repair
that are in progress about the ElmwoG,
will b, about il not quite completed. Mr.
Whit j. very much irterested in his + n
wood property. and no needed thing will O.
left uudone Landlord Julkins Is fattl
nate tta' thc property is in Tie hanis o.
snch a man
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-09-05

Gas. srift sos wife rssarnsd from tbeii
stammsr'. seII nrs AZ Capitol i'isna Wed
% : .sx evening
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-09-05

Mr. Bef jsmsa PsrridKs aad family re-
turned from Cap.t,i Island Taar'dsy s'er-
NJ ~ ne 1. aaAer
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-09-05

Yosng T., njogins a big trsrsira; Tap 3
ri. popular hotel Every sight his ~eei
he ksgss is. been fal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-09-05
WATERVIlLE LOCALS

MIR Ciarles Fogg has go: back from
I'lesboro, where lie put in .eyers! week.
o. the summer, aud is enthusiastic in hi.
praise of that coast resort
The grounds gbput the Unitarian Church
were trimmed up yesterday, and present >
much improved APPEARANCE. Services will
be- held here p 9ularly nov every Sunia =.
quite a number of Wateryille Feop'e
" eat over to Ftna yesterday to the Spir
itaalist oamp-mee,ing There are i'm
mrnse crowds of people al this place every
year
The denizens OF Temple s,rtrt rtjoic,
that big pile of rr b,,h las bean rt-
moved. 1t was on private rrsmises t b,
sure, hut it hal all the appearance Of being
in the street, and looked bad
Me.srs spsulainr K K,nrison, who's
shop d. en- Temple street, iil the painting
in Alden * Deehap', rev drug store Fact
which should have teen stated in cur ac-
scription Of that fine establish ueut
Miss Ella Wrgley. one of the Mail's ex-
pert comrositor-, has returned from a visi
to her New Bruc,slek hcme, and resumed
her old position much benz II ed by tn
season Of rest which she has erjoyed.
IT, iee-,lvaler. Mpssrs. Young &
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-09-05

The mana cement of the steamer lsisr der
announces some chagges IN excursions the
latter part Of Tina week and all Of nex'
week. The regular trip dnwn SATURDAY
will h. omitted tn. week and the boat viii
make round trip Sunlsy Next week
the oulY rouni trips will he made Tuesls'
md Fri lay thy other days being reserved
for charter. The Sons Of Veterans OF
Augu,t will probably 20 Wedres lay.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-09-05

The deputy sheriff now holds a tiye-g4l
Ion jug filed with what has the appearance,
of being whiskey, ard which was seized 81
the express Office a few days ago. 1. la
been libelled in luc form, and if its owne'
does not appear a, the appointed time and
show cause why such course should not be
taken, the stuff will 20 the same way as ths
other lo;s that have been taken within tAt
past few weeks
Mr. Roundys condition is improving
somev hat, bat he Is yet only able to sit Us
few m-ments in the Gay. His as'silant,
tn desperate Clair, has not come ont int
ght yet, and will probably be careful no:
to 10 SO for the present, If he wi oal1
keep in perpetual secluson, perhaps lht
public will try and he reconciled TO the ar
rsugement though term in the STATE
prison is what such criminals oush: to have
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-09-05

II WAS stated on good authority yesterday
tlst the busincss on lhs electro railroad
for the fihh week vas $500 better than the
drst week This Is remarkable show n :
AL one which clearly demonstrates TIA.
the business 8, increasing rather ih4n d
mini.hiog i".pite the fact that the no'el>
If the thing IS no l)nger factor To tay
considerable degree.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-09-05

On Thursday Of next week the NJ G
A VIII q "a an excursion on the Islander
to Rodford's, CAPITOL and squirrel island
AMI M0nhegan. If the weather permits
This will be one Of the finest excursions OF
the season ~ the local manag mcut IL fret
class The dcstiaail1n of this excursion
/. new one for tlifs ,,a.on Is no other
party from this section ha. visited the hi'
tnricsl ISLAND Of Monhegsn.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-02-18

or mortgages, is no better than issued
on chattel mortgage on products Of
the soil
Do you not know that your pet
banks will not take real property for
security, but demand personal security
just the same we offer? 4
Do you not know that 1000 bales
of cotton is better security than mile
of railroad ?
You do know that product certii-
Gates would aid the farmer while
certificates based on Indebtedness in
jures him at least to the extent of his
part Of the interest.
You do know that in 1924 the
issuing of money enabled this govern,
ment to prosecute the most expensive
war Of modern times, and that the
great abundance of money then in the
country built up manufacturing more
than all the tariffs have. ever done.
Knowing this, and that all our
periods of great prosperity were those
when money was abundant, and all
RO1AOGS VI %AObLOc0lOA "O1O JCo1o " AOh
the currency was limited, why do you
not give the strugA ting farmer and
laborer as good ance as you do
those who do not f 1lt the countrys
battles.
Way do you not take the silver
from the vaults and pay it to those
you robbed when you taxed cotton
Sis bale and incomes of 200 and
upwards
You say you can't get silver out in
circulation Pay the people in these
dollars you took from them and see
how easily it will get into circulation.
The truth is, you know all these
facts, and [ am sorry to have to say
you seem to care no more for the
people-you seem to heed their de-
mands no more than King George
did, and you may discover as he did,
some day, that the people will not
quietly suffer such unjust oppressit9a.
Washington, D. G.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-02-18
THEIR TRUCK FARM DEVELOPS
INTO A PHOSPHATE BED.

About four years ago Mr.. P. B.
Key, of Statesville, and the late Col.
V. Q. Johnston, met in Florida, and
while there they were attracted by
piece Of land which was regarded as a
fine tract for trucking purposes. It
was offered cheap and they bought i6
The tract cnntains 2, ,460 acres and is
located in Citrus county, near Ocala.
1t looks now like this purchase is 10
turn out real bonanza, as it is located
in the very centre of the recently dis
covered phosphate beds in Florida,
about which there has been such a
great excitement lately. Fabulous
prices are being offered for this and
adjoining lands. Capt II. P. Johnson
is now in Florida looking after the
interests If himself and Mr.. Key. The
excitement over the phosphate discov-
cries there is said to be intense, and
the truck farm being in the centre Of
the phosphate area, is in big demand,
and is expected to bring bigger sum
than would be paid for 2 gold nine.
Nesos OSSStJt9
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-02-18

change the views of any one. What
want is for all to think and speak.
[ want the careless to become inter
ested and do away with such express
sions as, d" 1 can live if everybody else
can" No, its not the possibility of
living that should most engage our
minds, but the best possible way, the
way we can live to accomplish the
most good without doing any harm.
Independence is what we want, both
in word and deed.
In conclusion will say, stick to the
Alliance. Your cause is right and
progressive. Success to The PROGRESS
sIvE FARMER
A FARMERS s Son.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-02-18

the farmer on the warehouse floor ard
give them all it is worth. Notice
they do not say all we think it IS
worth. But when we take our cutters
to market we find o ly one buyer for
cutters on the market, and he just
prices our tobacco and takes it. But
suppose the farmer says you shall not
have my tobacco that way. The trust
buyer will say there is no one else to
buy it, sir, and I have given you all
that | think it is worth.
We frequently hear farme"s say
land Alliancemen at that "there is
no remedy, the trust has got the money
and we can do nothing that will
amount to anything" They seem to
lose sight of the fact that the producer
first owns the tobacco, and if we can
manage to control one-half of our
cutters we will have given the trust a
death blow. The question arises now
can it be done2 Yes, if the Alliance
will stand as a unit on such plans as
the committee may formulate. But
if we begin to say II cannot agree to
that or this as it is against the tobacco
market in my section that we are try
ing to build up" the trust will grind
us down lower and lower. Now,
while the Oxford meeting will be a
means of formulating some plans to
defeat the object of the trust in low
ering the price of leaf tobacco, yet the
great remedy to defeat all trusts and
combines was started at the meeting
of the National Farmers Alliance and
Industrial Union, in ST. Louis, known
as the sub-treasury plan. How long
could the tobacco trust last if the
farmers could store their tobacco and
draw 80 per cent. of it's value for IL
months at one per cent ? Who will
answer
Yours fraternally,
T. Y. ALLEN.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-02-18

their own views. If the Alliance, a
majority of the party, will go. admit
to held by them, very small minor
ity, and to vote as directed by them,
and nominate and elect candidates set
up by them, the Alliance is charge
able with breaking up the party. Was
ever such nonsense heard before? 1t
is high time we had heard the last of
it. 1t would be an easy and cheap
way to break up the Alliance, and re-
duce its voting strength to subjuga
ton to the political boss, the profes
sioual politician, the party caucus, if
it could be made effectual Nothing
is so cheap as this kind of wrath,
which, if it cost anything to manufac
ture, would not be so lavishly poured
out. 1t is a species OF natural gas
which expIodes spontaneously and
and makes great splu.ter, and emits
bad smell, but illuminates nothing.
Doubtless these persons are giving US
their best counsel, and if they knew
how valueless we ho'd it, they would
take the only brief piece of gratujtous
advice we have for them and shut up.
The situation of American agriculture
is far too serious, the depressed and
degraded condition of those who man
all the great production industries of
this great country is far too grievous
for the Alliance to turn aside from It's
great mission to handy words in idle
dissension with these party hench-
men. If parties cannot discover a
modus vivandi with the Alliance we
are afraid they must go. We desire
few closing words with those earn
est patriotic leaders Of both parties
whose abilities, whose experience and
whose services, entitle them to the re
spect of the people. That there are
such men in both parties we freely con-
cede; we believe a greater number of
them than is generally admitted. We
say to them that they are IN duty
bound to give due diligence to the
study OF the true meaning of this Ali
snce movement on the part Of those
who, impelled by necessity, have con.
certed together to take measures for
their common safety. We ask them
to give to the solution of the great
economic question which must be
solved, on a non-partisan basis, toe
benefit of their talents, and expert
euce, and influence. And We tell
them plainly we will not consent to
give indefinite support to men who
are known to US to be at heart hostile
to us, and unfriendly to our interests.
We can not be relied upon to continue
to give voting strength to parties which
despise our necessities, and leaders
who deliberately insult our intelli-
gence. II this be party treason, make
the most of it'll Springs D0vIdSon,
IN Charlotte Democrat.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-02-18
RESOLUTIONS AND A NOTE
FROM SWAIN COUNTY.

Mr.. EDIToR:-At a meeting of
Swain County Alliance, No. l,748, on
January 25th, 1890, the following
resolution was offered by Rev J. NJ.
Earls and was unanimously adopted
by the Alliance:
WHEREAS, The North Carolina
Farmers State Alliance, at it's session
in the month of August, 1889, de-
clared itself in favor of Railroad
Commission in North Carolina by a
series of resolutions; therefore be it
ReSolved That we, the Swain County
Farmers Alliance, at it's regular ses
sion in the month of January, 1890,
by unanimous vote, ratify said series of
resolutions, and use every effort to
carry them into effect.
ReSolved, That the Secretary be
directed to send certificate of the
action OF this body to the Secretary of
the State Alliance.
Mr.. Editor, I further desire to say
that our Alliances in Swain county
are making fine progress. The best
men of our county are all coming to
the Alliance. Vice President Hayes
remarked few days ago that he was
becoming stronger and stronger as an
Alliance man. So I think if he gets
much stronger than he is, [ do not
know what he will turn to next.
Fraternally yours,
L. LEE MARR, Sec'y S. F. A.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-02-18
PRIVILEGES TO LAWYERS.
The Extraordinary Favoritism that is
Customarily Shown Attorneys.

Customarily Shown Attorneys.
A subject of widespread interest is
reviewed in the St. Louis Globe Demo.
crat as follows:
The observer of current events in
our courts and Legislative bodies can
not have failed to wonder from time
to time how it comes that so many
privileges are given to lawyers which
are denied to all other classes of citi-
zens. By some curious process of
favoritism all the ordinary rules of
responsibility and propriety seem to
have been suE pended for the benefit
of this particular fraternity, and to be
a lawy er nowadays is to enjoy immu
mites that amount to practical exemp-
ton from restraints which in the case
of the great majority of people are
supposed to be indispensable to the
safety and welfare Of society. Hardly
a day passes that this fact is not glar-
ingly illustrated. Under the plea of
professional privilege the most fragrant
breaches of personal right and cOur-
tesy are constantly being committed,
and the victims of these outrages are
expected and required to submit, on
the singular theory that man who
contrives to gain admission to the bar
is by that happy chance invested with
the authority to violate the very laws
and obligations which he undertakes
l. 1oH-o oo1 on eOPon
There are insults heaped upon wit
nesses in common legal proceedings
by attorneys pretending to be anxious
only to discover the truth, which
serve to make mockery of the dig
nifty and decency that should prevail
in the halls of justice. The lawyer
would not think for moment of
taunting and provoking man upon
the streets in any such fashion; nor
would a man thus insulted in any
other place be obliged to forego the
right of self-defense. Individuals are
promptly and properly punished every
day for offences which lawyers per
sistently indulge in for the mere pur-
pose of confusing honest witnesses and
making the worse appear the better
cause; and if the witness asks for pro
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-02-18
LETTERFRoMoRAN COUNTY

HILLsBoRo, N. @.
MR. EDIToR:-I write to let you
know that Orange Academy Alliance,
No. l,O73, is still moving. Our mem
bership is not so large as some others,
yet we are true Alliancemen. We
are having applications for member
ship at each meeting. At our last
meeting Bro. Morris, the County Or
ganizer, delivered a fine speech. He
showed how the wealth of the country
was made by the labor and how it was
being used to enslave him. He closed
his speech with an earnest appeal to
all the members to unite in our CO.
operative store which is to be at Hills
boro. One thing about our members,
they all killed more hogs this year
than they have for many years. We
are coming more and more to the
selfsupporting system. We have
bought less during the past year than
we have for many years, showing an
increase of economy.
Our members are all down on the
Tobacco Trust, and think we ought not
let it slip for this reason. A COM
pany that has made as much since the
war as w. Duke & Go. has made will
hardly do to trust at this hour when
our staple is at stake. Mind, boys,
the thing you do. Ny idea about the
hard times is to correct it both ways
make more and spend less, work more
and do nothing less. Our Alliance
doctrines are that the same thing that
made money ten years ago will not
make it now. In all our workings we
should use common sense.
In writing it is not my purpose to
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-02-18
WHAT DOES THE ALLIANCE
MEAN?

The. Alliance makes its own declara-
tion q purposes, clear, distinct and
unequivocal. One of its purposes is
not to break the Democratic party on
the one hand, or the Republican party
on the other. Why then do political
editors insist that they mean to do
first one, then the other, and some
times both, and to set up in their room
an oath bound, secret, political organ
ization. We have denied this until
we are tired denying it. Once more,
the thing is not true. The Alliance
does not aim at the destruction of
political parties, but the reform and
control of them. No purpose is enter
tained by the organization of setting
men by the ears, nor of indulging in
the as sperit1es which have so long dis
graced poll ical debate. Our purpose
is, if we can, to take the political
parties out of the hands of the petty
bosses, including those of every kind
and degree. We intend to assert the
power of numbers in the primaries,
and thereby, if we can, take the party
nominations out of the hands of peo-
pie who have controlled them, and to
nominate and elect better men. This
we have clear right to do, and wa
cannot be driven from our purposes
by the idle denunciations and "noisy
breath of constituted censors, editors
or others. If they have fancy to fill
the air with this sort of "inar ticulate
howls," 10 man will hinder them.
Neither will any sensible man any
more regard them than does he the
bowling of the idle wind. Such peo-
pie have been giving us advice gratis
and unsolicited, and by wholesale.
We are not in that line of business,
but in order to make them a fair re-
turn v 9 desire to say that if such peo.
pie til nix such howlings are in the
smallest degree going to influence any
persons conduct, we are Of the opIn-
ion that they are mistaken. Men who
are in earnest are open to the influence
of reason, and they are at all times
ready to listen to appeals from re
sponsible and reasonable sources, but
they are not to be cowed, or coerced
by the frothings of irresponsible and
empty-headed bosses. We believe
certain great reforms in the financial
system Of the government are neces-
sary, and at the same time that they
will benefit all classes of the people.
If we insist upon these reforms while
the bosses oppose them, and we, by
controlling the primaries, nominate
men pledged to them, is that breaking
up the party? Are they goingto break
up the party because they can no
longer run it for hepersonal ends and
of their set? When it
comes to this it is a question whether
a "secret, oath bound political organ
ization is better or worse than such
a political banditti. These men take
the position that they will smash the
party unless they can rule for their
own purposes or in furtherance of
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-02-18
THE TOBACCO TRUST.

SK1PWITH, d.
MR. EDIToR:-The meeting Of the
lrmers' Alliance Bright Tobacco In.
strial Union that was recently held
Oxford, is now thing of the past.
t the work layed off az d the reso-
E.4,ns passed at that meeting are
ngs for future consideration. The
ms can not be published as they
in the hands of a committee who,
hope, will report soon. Although
ite a number of good resolutions
re passed and have been published.
t what will it all amount to if we,
Alliancemen, fail to carry out
bse resolutions and plans that may
Submitted by the committee? No
& now except members or employees
the tobacco trust will dare to deny
existence of the trust. l think I
prove by some figures and facts
rem to the Union by a warehouse
N, that the trust not only exists,
that they have combined to lower
price of leaf tobacco and use the
Eer of money to oppress the pro
cer, and that they have levied a tax
the bright tobacco farmer equal to
10000 per annum and will collect
e we quietly submit or wait to see
the trust will reduce the price of
bacco, as l heard some Alliancemen
during the meeting in Oxford.
e warehouse man said that few
rs before the meeting he had looked
sr his books to, see if there had
lily been any decline in cutters since
trust, and his books showed that
crop of 1889 up to the trust had
ragged $23.83; since the trust,
.82, making an average decline of
Vol. Now I take it for granted that
h is about the condition in all of
warehouses since there is only
buyer on each of the leading
rkets and he gets his orders from
general boss. 1t was also stated
fhe trust manufactured last year
10 .azeIbs. of tobacco. Now if the
rage decline is $500, we can see
+ it will be $3.50, 900 that the trust
i Il take from the farmers.
Ehepc is not more than 60 counties
raising bright tobacco, and
average cannot be more than one
rth of the soil in each of the go
mites that will produce bright to-
co. So, then, we have territory
I Yal only to fifteen counties in which
trust says the farmers shall pay
r $3.50, 900 per annum. Now
] we sit still and listen to the mis-
~ statements in those letters
members of the trust as read
IL ~ Union in which they stated
n they were not after the farmers
leaf speculator who had been
King them pay from eight to ten
lars per hundred more than the
ners received for the same tobacco
he warehouse floors? Was ever
love as that for the poor farmer 2
" deceptive are those statements
what snare to catch the poor,
orant farmer las the trust will say.)
y, says the trust, we are trying to
Just what you Alliancemen say. you
It to do-knock out the middle
We want to buy directly from
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-02-18
HE NATIONAL FARMERS AL
LANCE AND INDUSTRIAL
UNION.

President-L. L. Polk, Raleigh, n G.
Vice -President-B. II. Glover, Cain
idge, Kansas.
Seer etary-J. 81. Turner, La Grange,
eorgia.
Treasurer-W. II. Hickman, Puxico,
issouri.
Lecturer-Ben Terrell, Texas.
EXECUTIVE BOARD.
G. W. Macune, Washington, D. G.
Alonzo Wardall, Huron, South Dakota.
J. F. Tillman,- Palmetto, Tennessee.
JUDICIARY.
r. G. Patty, Macon, Mississippi.
Isaac McCracken, Ozone, Arkansas.
Evan Jones, Dublin, Texas.
ORTIZ CAROLINA FARMERS STATE ALLIANCE.
President-Elias Carr, Old Sparta, NC.
Vice Presidential. H. Hayes, Bird
secretary-E. G. Beddingfeld, Raleigh,
Co.
treasurer. D. Allen, Falls, N. G.
lecturer B. Long, Longs, n. Z.
Assistant LECTURER. B. Hunter, Char
'C61aplain-J. J. Scott, Alfordsville,
LC.
Door Keeper-w. H. TomlnsOn, Fay
1eville, n. @.
Assistant Door Keeper-H. E. King,
panut, N. @. :,
sergeant-at-Arms-J. S. Holt, Chalk
State ai Il Business Agent-w. H Worth,
Ieigh, N. G.
trustee Business Agency Fund-W. A.
aham, Machpelah, N. Q.
zorrTTvE COMMITTEE OF THE NORTH CARO-
LIMA FARMERS STATE ALLIANCE.
). B. Alexander, Charlotte, n. @,
air nan: J. NJ. Mewborne, Kinston N.
is. Johnston, Rufin, n. @.
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p. Fl. HILL LIBRARY
North Carolina State College