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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-21

under which the laboring and wealth
producing masses have been ignored
made the sufferers by class legisla
ton which has from time to time CEN
trallzed wealth in the hands of a few
to the detriment of the many.
BRO. John M. Wilborne writes
from Centre Grove Alliance, No. l, 6O4,
Guilford county, that they had
a a" jolifcation meeting on Nov. 18th
and quite a good crowd. DR.. D..
Reid Parker made them an excellent
address; that Alamance Alliance was
addressed by Rev. G.. Miller OF the
7th of December, and by Bro. vii
borne on the same day. They have
more picnics on the way. Go ahead,
brethren.
BRO. G. Lewis, Secretary of Unity
Alliance, No. l,445, Pamlico county,
was here last week attending the
meeting of the Masonic Grand Lodge.
He tells us that there is a good deal
of opposition to the Alliance down in
Pamlico. The school committee has
refused his Alliance the privilege of
meeting in the district school house.
But they went to work and have the
lumber to build a hall. They will
need nails, shingles, glass, ETC., and
owing to the nearly entire failure of
crops in that section, they need help
to buy them. They need at least $75
to complete their hall. Won't the
brethren, especially of the tobacco
section and western part of the State,
help them2. Some brother bring this
matter before their Alliance and con-.
tribute 25 or SO cents out of the treas
ury to these prosecuted brethren.
You will never miss it. Bro. Lewis's
P. O. is Goose Greek Island, N. G.
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ORGANIZERS REPORT.

NEATMAN, N. c., Jan. 6, 80.
Mr.. EDIToR:-I herewith send a re.
port of my work for the month Gf
December, 1889: !
Corinth Alliance, No. 1858, was
organized at Petree's School House on
the 23d of November with the follow
ing officers: President, R. J. Petree;
Vice. President, E. J. Styers; Secre.
tary, J. A. Petree. ORGANIZED with
nine members.
White Alliance organized at
Whites School House on the 18th Of
December with the following officers;
President, D. E. White; Vice,PreSi.
dent, j. A. Moser; Secretary, j. W.
Fowler.
billiard Alliance was organized at
Mitchell's School House on the 18th
with the following officers: President
M. T. Mitchell; Vice President, P. T.
Carter, Secretary, G.. A. Mitchell.
Organized with "a members.
Gam Alliance was organized at
Mt. Herman Church on the 9th with
the following officers: President, ",
G. Wilson; Vice-P President, W. T.
Carter; Secretary, j. R. Scales. u
ganized with II members.
The aggregate number of members
organized is 81.
There is 8 great deal of opposition
to the Alliance in Stokes county, 0ui
we will melt their conscience 0y
"heaping Goals of fire on their heads.
Though the order is quite young IN
Stokes there are about 500 members
in the county, and still they come
The county meeting was a Success =
in every respect, as I suppose you VI
be informed by our County CorrespOa.
dent for The PRoGREss1vE FABNERn
a short while.
G. A. CARROLL, d.
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READ THIS PAPER TWICE.

TT is gratifying o be able to state
that, notwithing the hard times, the
old subscribers to The PROGRESSIVE
FARMER are renewing promptly, and
every mail brings new subscribers. The
paper now goes to nearly every State
i'm the Union. This issue contains q
variety of useful editorial matter, very
readable selections, poetry. cold
Fogy" gives out some matter of mo-
mentous Importance, the news columns
are crowded with the latest news,
none of it of the sensational quality.
Read this number twice, and e if
you can afford to do without it; then
hand it to some of your neighbors and
doubtless they, too, will decide that
they are losing by not being subscrib-
.ers. If every subscriber will get one
or two others to take it, we car i'm
prove the paper accordingly.
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JOURNALISM IN A NEW ROLE,

The time has passed when news
papers can be successful on lines of
policylaid down by partisan platforms,
or in the grooves of blind obeisance to
party dictation. Once in these ruts,
and their liberty of speech, their self,
respect, their influence upon public
affairs, are hopelessly handicapped.
The newspaper which has convic-
tions and the courage to express them,
which advocates what it believes to
be right, irrespective of considerations
of party expediency, which withholds
neither criticism nor approval where
criticism or approval is deserved,
which gauges its opinions by its own
Judgment rather than the Judgment
OF a caucus, and which devotes it's
energies to the widest and fairest
possible publication of the news and
to such unhampered comments upon
current events as they may seem to
requlre-such a paper cannot fail to
win the confidence of the community
in which it is published, and upon
that confidence as a basis build up an
assured prosperity Washington Post.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-21

hairs for the father, more signs for
the weary mother, more ignorance for
the children and more gloom and
dependency for the industries of our
section. Will not, therefore, each
one of you exert your influence and
persuade not only your wives, your
sons and daughters, but also all of
your neighbors to attend my appoint
ments As Lecturer for your district,
at the time and places appended. 1
shall address, the people upon the great
social, political and industrial prob
lens of the day as expounded by the
National Farmers Alliance and In
dustrial Union in the State Conven-
ton at St. Louis. Bro. T. B. Long,
State, Lecturer, promises to attend as
many of my appointments as possible.
Yours f~raternally,
J. B. SMITH, Dist. Lecturer.
Ormond, n. c., Jan. 8, 1890.
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WHY NOT LEAVE 1T IN THE
HANDS OF THE FARMERS2

For 1880 the estimated treasury re-
ceipts will reach the sum of $385,ooo,-
900; the estimated expenses of the
government 1928, 900, 900. After all
valuable bonds have been purchased
and the requirements of the sinking
fund satisfied, there will still remain
a net surplus of over $43, 500, 900,
some of which Secretary Window
thinks might well be used to enlarge
our foreign markets. He is decidedly
of the opinion that part Of the money
should be paid to American steamship
companies to enable them to compete
with subsidized foreign vessels. He
says the United States has encouraged
the building of railroads by large
grants and subsidies, but has not done
one thing for her great maratime in
terests. Well, what if she has made
large grants to railroad companies 2
Are the farmers any better off ? Don't
the railroads get richer and the farm
ers poorer every day? But to cap
the climax, the Secretary agrees to
repeat the same mistake by draining
the working classes of the country to
enrich a few steamship companies. If
Secretary Window will hatch up some
plan to let the surplus stay where it
belongs-in the hands of the people
instead of recommending it to be paid
out in subsidies to already rich cor
porations, then he will get the hearty
commentator of The PROGRESSIVE
FARMER. But it will never endorse
the other wild scheme proposed.
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AMONG THE ALLIANCES.
What the Organization is Doing
Throughout the Country.

What the Organization is Doing
Throughout the Country.
The Florida State Alliance met on
the 18th inst, at Jacksonville.
There is talk of building an ALI
ance cigarette factory at Oxford,
N. G.
The Baldwin county Alliance has
established an Alliance store at Mil
l~edgeville, Ga.
An Alliance paper is soon to be
established at Tampa, Fla. 1t will be
the Alliance Advocate.
Buncombe County Alliance is NOV
ing to establish an Alliance imple-
ment factory at Asheville.
The South Carolina Alliance Elk
change was opened at Greenville by
the State Business Agent on the 9Th
of January.
The NewS, of Jackson, Georgia,
says that the Butts County Alliance
has purchased and will open a grocery
store at Floville.
Col. Felix Corrupt has resigned the
Presidency of the Georgia Alliance
Exchange and Mr.. W. L. Peek has
been elected to fill the vacancy.
A joint stock company has been
organized at Fairplay, S. c., to
manufacture the "Grady Alliance
plowstock," invented by J. O. L.
King.
Bro. G. W. Macune, Chairman of
the Executive Board of the National
Alliance, announces officially that
Bro. j. H. Turner has filed his bond
as Secretary of the National ALI
ance.
The Dalton, Ca, Argus drops this
timely suggestion: "Let every Sub
Alliance in this county make agree
ment with every member to SOW a
few acres of red top grass seed this
spring"
At the St. Louis meeting the ALI
ance State Business Agents formed
an association with headquarters in
New York, and Oswald Wilson, of
Texas, former President of the Flor
ida State Alliance, was elected Sec
rotary.
The new State Asylum has just
been completed at Milledgeville, Ca,
and on the 18th of January a grand
Alliance ball was given in n of the
large rooms. About 5000 people
were present. The ladies were dressed
in plain everyday cotton osnaburgs,
81 IL mnn IN nnA+nn Ia mnincr
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-21
THE CONSOLIDATION

(late Journal of United I@1 q Labor
speaks of the consolidation thus
farmers and their agreement 81 the
Knights: With the
Essentially the principles Of H.
organizations being the same sWo
their aims being identical, it Is and
terlal to which a man may belon luna
Inc Knight of Labor who helms pan ana !
up the National Farmers Alrianoo uId
Industrial Union is doing the ss and
work as if he were building M sane
assembly of his own order y Tie.
before was the future 50 full ~ I'Vef
With fidelity to conviction ~ nope.
ever hoped for is now With We
reach. W. have formed an lou
with a body who are earnest lance
intelligent, and who believe 90 IS1
oughly as we in the great princ irGr,
upon which our order is foundaJ pes
for the carrying out of which # ans
Our allies are not fair. weather friaIs
not new converts, but men of Jo.
and well-roOted convictions: men Yep ~
"know their rights, and. KNOW; %a0
dare maintain" They are men ne
can be depended upon to do their % fuS
part in the struggle. Let Us SEQ - -U =
that we, too, do ours.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-21
A GEORGIA
A Henry County Farmer is GRANTED j..
Patent for a Guano DISTRIBUTE

@~E Ava Guano distributor,
Mr.. A. Conkle, jr., who is an boD.,.
and Industrious farmer at BsS5
Henry county, Ca, has been grsDta5
a patent on a guano distributor, which
is perhaps the best cheap impIemen,
of this kind which has been oHoraj
Southern farmers.
It can be made and sold for S3 m
and can be attached to any plow stock
double or single. 1t will pay for itseIf
in a very few days, and it dispeDses
with the labor of n hand on tho
farm who is accustomed to do this
work with a tin bugle. The guano is
covered as soon as it is put irto the
ground, and there is no loss from the
wind.
The machine is so constructed that
the quantity can be regulated with
perfect accuracy, and fifty to five
hundred or more pounds per acre can
be put down.
The Georgia farmer should be
proud of his work, and Southern
farmers should buy it if, upon exsmi.
nation, it is found to be what is
claimed for it.-Attanta Journal.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-21
A IN N S
Prominent State Officials Bribed by In
surance Companies.

SUESuCe
A. R. Fuller, Secretary of the To-
peka, Kan, Insurance Company, re-
Gently testified in court that his COM
pany had paid to Hon. Frank Gillette,
Republican State Senator from King
mar county, at one time $500 and at
another time $3.50 to influence legis-
ton in favor of the insurance com
pany. To Hon. J. r. Burton, Repub-
ican Representative from Abilene,
and candidate for the seat in the U.
S. Senate soon to become vacant, the
company had given four or give notes
of $500 each. A cash payment to the
amount of 1881 had been made, and
$l3 interest had been paid on these
notes.
G. H. Palmer, Clerk of the House
Committee on insurance, admitted
that he was paid $50 per month to
keep the company posted on the do
ings of the committee.
This is but another instance Of rot.
tenness on the part of public and
trusted officials. It goes to show that
the people are being robbed in various
ways by apparently reputable con
Germs and the money thus gained is
largely used to promote the welfare
of such concerns through corrupt leg,
islators and others.
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"IF 1T BE TREASON, MAKE THE
MOST OF IT."
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER

VIE hO0hEOO1 u Ell
has taken but little interest in
the controversy in Alabama between
certain members Of the Alliance and
the Montgomery AdVertiser. 1t has
been but little disturbed by the sensa-
ional dispatches from that quarter in
regard to the matter and which have
been published in the NeaUs and Oh.
aerveT. We have not forgotten the at
titude of the Advertiser at the begin
ming of our fight with the Jute Trust,
nor the false dispatches from Mont,
gomery in the interest of the Trust
against the farmers. We are, there.
fore, prepared to hear almost any
thing from that quarter and are
equally prepared to doubt the truth.
fulness of it. The Atlanta COnstttu.
tion is by no means nervous over the
situation in Alabama, and aver re-
CARDS the action of the st. Louis Con-
vention (which seems to trouble the
dreams of some people, with calm
and serene satisfaction. 1t is of the
opinion that the Advertiser "is ex.
aggerating the situation" and is in
elined to ridicule the futter that in
terested politicians is making over it.
The truth is, that some of the mem.
bers of the Alliance are prominently
mentioned for Office and the bosses
Ere drawing the reins down on them
Rnd are cracking their little whips
With all the skill known to the science
Of political trickery. You see, the
glory and honor of holding all the
offices belong to the bosses and duty
Of eIecting them belong to the people.
The bosses of Alabama, led by their
organ, the Advertiser, are only trying
to hold on to the public teat-thst's
an there is I'M it. The "new revolution "
has already evolved some interesting
Gand to some people most horrible and
alarming) phases. "The farmers are
going into politics =" is a dreadful and
monstrous idea. Men seem to forget
that under our system of government
ne evils which Cypress the farmers
ana the reforms they seek can be
4eacned only thrr1gh political meth
"3s' The farmer at least, begin tc
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JOHN IN 1873

"But, sir, I saw two years S8S,
we all see it clearly now-sas.
the existing relations between -.
public creditor and the Taxpayer
one by which the former enjcys a.
the blessings of a government WItlOus
cost, receives without dlmlnpuoL
higher rate of interest than you
courts would enforce between citNen'
NAV demand payment of the PrlnoPa.
in gold for paper lent, while y'1i
courts refuse to enforce a sPeclal GU.
tract for the return for gold. 0ucn'
system cannot endure in a govern
ment not entirely deSpotic wlsnOa,
creating discomfort that may endangei
the performance of the public engage
ments. You cannot disguise you
knowledge of this growing disconGent
The unavoidable effect of approscnLnas:
specie payments in reducing PRIME he
and shrinking values will increase so. sns
discontent. In that painful process
the people will e that the unI md
productive annuities OF ne Line
holder alone will be increased IL rlI
while all other forms Of properly ..ord.
he reduced. = Congressional I'
page l73.
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realize it, and they intend to see to 1t
that hereafter the laws shall be just
to all classes and interests. And to
secure such laws they intend to place
the law.making power more largely
in the hands of those whom they
know to be friendly to their interests:
This may be treason in the eyes OF
some. but if it be they say: "make
the most of it"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-21
X SECRETARY BEDDINGF1ELD.

DRO. BEDDINGFIELD is getting
ID down to his work, and no State
has a more attentive and obliging
officer than he. He now has comfort
able quarters in the second story of
The PROGRESSIVE FARMER building,
where he can be found at all times.
The PROGRESSIVE FARMER and Daily
Call force of writer's and printers and
the State Business Agent and his
three assistants, with the State Score.
tary and his assistants, all under one
roof, presents an ~animating scene. A
buster place cannot be found in
Raleigh.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-21

= The January number of the
Southern Farm, Mr.. Grady's farm
magazine, surpasses any issue yet
printed. The Southern farmers never
had a better friend than Mr.. II. W.
Grady. The magazine will be kept
up to its present high standard. Mrs.
Grady will retain her husbands in
terest in the paper. DR.. W. L. Jones,
the highest salaried agricultural editor
in the South, will continue to edit the
Farm. Bill Arp, Mrs. FELTON,, "Uncle
.Remus" and Plunket will contribute
to its columns regularly, Price ST
per year.
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A WORD TO ALLIANCE MIN.

A prominent farmer and Alliance
man in Laurens county, Ca, under
the signature of Progress" thus
writes to the Dublin Gazette, and the
editor commends his views to a care,
full consideration:
A new year has commenced, and
with it the Alliance farmer enters
again upon his field of labor. Those
appointed to the duty will doubtless
remind him of this responsibility; will
endeavor to Undue each member with
the conviction that he is engaged in a
battle for the preservation of our re-
publican form of government, the
existence of which is jeopardized by
the rapid concentration of wealth and
power, thereby paving the way for
the establishment in it's worst form
an aristocracy of wealth. That the
Alliance organization has received the
approving impress of Him who rules
the destiny of nations, many do be-
lieve. It's origin, its progress and It's
elevating results may well create such
belief.
Such being the ultimate purpose OF
the organization, each member should
be imbued with the Importance and
necessity of his individual effort, sus-
tanned by the knowledge that he has
by his side comrades true who cannot
dessert him or fail to aid him without
being consigned to that Potter's field
the contempt of their fellows. With
out the uncompelled unity of the indi-
vidual members, all manhood would
be sacrificed.
The burdens of the farmer, in com
mon with all producers, are heavy.
So were those Of the generations now
almost passed away. Theirs came at
once-yesterday a competency, today
beggars. Too proud to beg; unused
to labor, but among them were no
whining complainers. Their cheerful
obedience, their tolls and hardships
and their sacrileges to the inevitable,
O the respect and esteem of the
world through which their deeds of
heroism had just flashed Immortality.
Your burdens came gradually as
the spider entangles one, then another
of the limbs of his victims. So you
were entrapped, lsdened with poverty,
your manhood numbed and your
occupation derided and scorned. At
that period came the Alliance, teach
ing that your occupation should arouse,
foster and mature the noblest aspira-
tions of the grandest intellect.
You n producers. From your
occupation comes all that elevates and
ennobles man. From the non-pro-
ducers spring all the vices that de-
grade society.
All that adds to the wealth, com
fort and happiness of mankind comes
from the labors of the producer, and
all who are producers-and onlythose
can become members of your organ
i~zstion.
Imbued with this conviction, every
true Alliance member will begin the
year with the determination to free
himself from the servitude Of debt
benumbs his manhood, never forget
ting that united you must succeed,
divided you must fall.
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To the Members Of the National Farm
ers' Alliance and Industrial Union an
the Fifth Congressional District Of
North Carolina.
GENTLEMEN:-Another link in the
chain with which to bind you and
your loved ones into slavery has just
been forged in the workshops of the
despotic plutocrats, this time jim the
shape of a Tobacco Trust, which, un-
less crushed by the prompt and in
telligent action of all ibertytloving
people, will bring sorrow and distress
to each Preside. None can escape its
cruel effects. It means more gray
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-21

Do you want your paper changed to
another Officer State the n at which
YOU have been getting it.
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Do you want your communication pub
Iished2 If so, give US your real name
and your postofice.
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~ Our friends in writing to any of
ear advertisers, will favor us by mention
ing the fact that they saw the advertise
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81 The date on your label tells you
when our time is out.
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ALLIANCE NOTES.

Railways give the name and number of
your Alliance, your postofice and your
county, plainly, when you write to the
President, Secretary, Trustee, Business
Agent or Chairman of Executive Com
mittee of the State Alliance.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-08-12
coLoRED MEN roR THE ELECTION BILL.

Washington, Aug. ll.-Ab1ut zoo hrtfoc' anu S'N
cral white men attended a mass mccuHS ne" d" "''"t
Army Hall 10 night, IN the interest of the Federal
Election hill Sprcchc, were made by Representative
crr of Iowa: General Chalmers, of Mississippi, Joln
NJ Lang,ton and Others. Letters of regret were Ieal
from Tcdcrcl1 Douglas, Assistant fo,im"oicr cic'ai
Carlson senator Quay and other leading Hcp"hl'ih
Iudrc r. A. Dawson. Of Ncw jersey, from 'onhlN5
,ppnintcd for the purpose, reported PraHlblc an"
re- ,lutinu. which Wcr, adopted The resolutions re-
,itc Thai the south Is greatly indebted To the negro
lar th,t ne I drprIycd hy southern Democrats of ms
,.,tc Lv every mean 100 their power. The r"eo li"h>
then urge the passage of the Federal Election Dill a
,r &C. President Harrison, Administration ana tha
or of bc prr-nnt Congress. express admiration i"r
sneaker Reed and tac Ecpuhcau pre- auu tcHucr
tb,T,ks to Congressman Lodg', of Massachusetts.