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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-11-04
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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-11-04

NORFOLK, Va. Jan, 70, 1890.
The Business Committee of the Farmers
Alliance of the cOunt1es of Norfolk and Prin-
cess Anne, recently convened in this city,
have unanimously reelected me as their shoe
house for the hear 1890.
1t gives me pleasure to inform my Alliance
ciate the renewed confidence Of the Alliance
by making prices that suit the times. have
no salesman on the road, but solicit CORE
spOndence and will send samples on appIica-
ton, GEO r, WHIFFHURST.
Dealer in Boots, Shoes, Trunks and Valises.
90 Market Square, Norfolk, Va.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-11-04
THE
Kentucky State Union.

The leading labor paper Of kentucky, IL
which are discussed all the leading uueS-
lions. A fearless ~expounde If the PEG
pies rights, and an enemy 10 monopoly.
trusts aud unjust legislation Price, 81
per year. Address,
KENTUCKY STATE UNION.
Bowling Green, Ky.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-01-18
Children Cry for Pitchers castoria.
Children Cry for Pitchers castorIa.
Children Cry for Pitchers castoria.

Col. A. +. Shepard, president of the
Wool Growers Association, and one
of the best authorities on this sub
ject, writes:
1t is claimed that we cannot raise
carpetwools. | deny this, and say
that Texas and the territories Of
Arizona, New Mexico, Southern Colo
RADIO and Southern California, with
proper protection, can raise all the
carpet-wool needed in the United
States.
Yes, and with proper protection"
we can raise all the pine apples and
bananas needed in the United States,
just as the English and Russian
aristOcracy now raise these in hot
houses; but is that any reason why
the people of the United States should
pay five times as much as they are
worth? So with proper" tariff on
sugar, tea, raw silk, chinchona bark,
and forty other things, We can raise
all the United States needs, by pay
ing from five to twenty prices for
them. But the people are not fools
enough to do it. If the sheep Mr..
Shepard talks about, that are SO
easily raised and are so prolific, ana
cost nothing for grazing, etc, ETC., in
Texas, cannot be made to produce
wool as cheaply as we can get it from
the antipOdes, it would be just as
great an outrage against common
sense to pay Mr.. Shepard a big bonus
on his wool as it would be to pay some
dollhouse experts big bonus to raise
pine apples.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-01-18

If old Boreas is the king of biz
yards, he seems to have migrated
from the polar regions to the south
west. Hitherto the blizzard zone was
supposed to be confined to the region
north of the 10th degree, but this
winter it has slipped down to the 3Os.
The furious blizzard in southern Kan
sas on Sunday, covering the ground
with foot of snow and running the
thermometer down below zero, wind
ing up with a cyclone at st. Louis
extending into Illinois, followed by
intense cold, all happened south Of the
10th latitude. We had some rain,
followed by snow furry and colder
weather here on Sunday, but the ther-
mometer hasn't as yet Dropped be-
low 10 above zero.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-01-18
EHE NEWS.
SATURDAY,.

The House of Representatives yes
terday passed resolutions recording the
death Of Hon. VIM. ID. Kelley and APP
nointed committee to attend the
funeral to represent the House. ana
then, as mark of respect, adjourned
The Senate Worlds Fair committee
yesterday listened to presentation OF
The claims of Washington as the FAR
site. To-day the claims of New YORK
and Chicago will be presented,-By
the death of Mr.. Kelley, Mr.. Randall
becomes "father of the house"
Further damp, warm weather Is
promised for to-day, and there appears
no hope for an immediate'change' "A
"cold snap" would probably stay the
ravages of the influenza, the spread OF
which is undoubtedly favored by the
present weather
The C. b. g. @. has issued orders
that there shall be no drinking by us
men. Men who frequent drinking
places must cease or expect to be dis
charged.
The caisson horror at Louisville Is
more terrible than anticipated, as IL Is
now certain that rs lives were lost.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-01-18

Carter Harrison was invited to a
banquet by the Greystone Democratic
Club at Denver the other day, and in
speech on the occasion, to put "
mildly, made noodle of himself. sHe
claimed to be a tariff refOrmer-but
he was opposed to putting tariff re-
form in the Democratic platform. 1t
was bad policy. Cleveland had inn
posed it on the Democratic party by
his message, and the result was de,
feat. Mr.. Paddock, of Texas, another
guest, said Mr.. HarrisOn's democracy
was Of the kind d bat never accom-
plished anything, and spent its force
in caviling, and trucking to the men
who raised castor beans and hemp,
and whose interest lay in their pocket
books, and not in their country. The
applause which greeted the latter
speaker showed that Carter Harrson's
opinion among Colorado Democrats, at
least, isn't worth much.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-01-18
WEATHER TRICKS.

A Change of Sixty-three Degrees in
Twenty-four Hours.
A little bit of cold, and little sun
shine:
A heavy rain storm. next day fine;
Tomorrow an overcoat, shirtsleeves
Is it anv wonder we all are veXed?
You read in the paper "cold wave
nigh"
The result is generally warm and dry.
The a warm-hag hops from the top or
the mast,
And in fifteen minutes it's freezing
fast.
1t is said that variety is the spice
of life" but the weather changes for
the past two weeks, if variety is what
is essential, ought TO satisfy the most
difficult and eXacting. Last Saturday
was a warm spring day-mercury, as
was stated, Is degrees above. Satur-
day afternoon from = T. NJ to 4:3O p. NJ.
the mercury rose ii degreeS-an I'M
usual proceeding with the elements at
this season, in fact, almost unheard OF.
DR.. j. O.. Harris, our weather re-
porter, came into his office Saturday
last wearing large boquet OF full
flown dandelions, and some of them
were still in his Office yesterday. j.
Adams Wilson, the photographer,
stated to several gentlemen Yesterday
that he picked lettuce and pulled nice
onions from his garden ON Saturday
last, grown since the late warm
weather, and that he also had fine
:adishes growing until within three or
four weeks. DIR. Harris also stated
that he pulled that he pulled lettuce
from his garden last Tuesday.
The buds on the cherry and apple
trees in town were prominently de-
yeloped, being as fresh and green as II
Nav; and whether the sudden change,
with heavy rain beginning Sunday
evening, and the mercury on Monday
morning down to IL above, according
to a tested thermometer placed in ac-
cordance with signal service rules,
will ruin the prospects of fruit remains
to be seen. The average thermometer
in town registered from 8 to Il above
yesterday morning, but these are not
| tested thermometers and their register
is not taken by the local weather re-
porter.
The icemen Monday morning were
jubilant and merchants generally feel
! ing in better frame of mind. 1t Is
conceded by physicians that II the
weather remains in its present state
! that the victims of influenza Will re-
cover rapidly and new cases be scarce
and far between.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-01-18
TUESDAY.

Hon. Jas. E. Campbell was yester,
day inaugurated Governor of Ohio.
The Democrats were ''Out in force, y
and the Inauguration ceremonies were
more elaborate than on any similar oc-
casion for many years. In his mes
sage to the legislature theGovernor rec
ommends the adoption Of the Austria
liam ballot law, the furnishing OF
school books by the state, and the
abolition of the Office of railroad COM
mission, substituting a commission II
state, supervision is deemed necessary.
A tornado passed over the east side
of Clinton, KY, on Sunday night, de-
molishing fifty-three houses and kill
ing eleven people, besides more or less
seriously injuring fifty to sixty more.
In st. Louis the number Of houses de-
molshed is about $50. Thirty miles
from Toledo, Ohio, at Custer, freight
car was blown from siding to the
main track of the c., ii. & ID. road,
where it collided with passenger
train, wrccking part of the train.
Clark has not yet been appointed
collector Of the port at Chicago, but
the chances are that he will be, on
the ground that he isn't a politician
and is not credited with leaning to-
ward any presidential aspirant out
side the White House.
The interest now centers In the or
ganization Of the Iowa legislature,
which promises ''livcly time" for
Des Moines for some days to come.
Rising temperature is predicted for
to-day ii Illinois.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-01-18

Gov. Hill, of New York, in his an
nual message, strongly opposes to
adoption by that state of the Austral-
ian system of voting, his principal OBJ
lection being that it would practically
disfranchise all voters unable to read
English. His objection is shared by
the political bosses of all parties, in
whose hands the voting cattle under
the Australian system would become
a worthless commodity.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-01-18

The old pupils of the late Thomas
II. Clark In this city, and they can De
counted by the score, will be pleased
to learn that there is movement on
foot in Aurora by the alumni of the
high school of that city to erect IN
Aurora a monument to the memory OF
Mr.. Clark, a meeting having been
called for Sunday afternoon to act
upon report of special committee
in charge of the matter. Amonument
to Thomas II. Clark would honor
Aurora as the man hOnOred 1t when
living. No purer man ever lived than
Thomas III. Clark; no better friend TO
youth: more devoted friend to educa-
ton; and no pupil lives to-day VINO
does not honor his memory.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-01-18

The FREE TRADER's complaint that
''the tariff inquiry now going on before
the Ways and Means Committee at
Washington" is "the biggest humbug
of the day" is wholly without justifi-
cation. There has been no repetition
of the star chamber proceedings of two
years ago. The meetings are open TO
everybody, and no one has complained
of unfair Observation-Disclosures Repubtt-
can.
1t is humbug and fraud, because 1T
is attended, and was expected to be
attended, by class only who desire to
increase the profits of their business
by increased tariff taxation on their
products. The masses of the people
who pay these taxes, in the nature OF
things, can have no hearing at such
an inquest. The whole ''cabOodle" OF
them are beggars of government
bounty and violators of the aphOrism
lately uttered by Judge Fuller and SC
widely commended, but the credit OF
which he gives to Grover Cleveland,
that at is the duty of the people tC
support the government and not OF
the government to support the people.
Paternalism, the opposite of that
aphorism, is the tit attribute only OF
a deSpOtiSm.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-01-18
SUNDAY.

A special from Versailles, KY, states
that the stables belonging to Macy
Brothers burned yesterday morning al
4 o'clock, destroying thirty-tive out OF
thirty-eight horses. Among those
burned was the horse Bell Boy that
was sold there at autiOn by Jefferson q
Seaman to j. Clarke for S5l, 900. 1T is
said that Clarke had refused 100000
for this horse.
The Senate committee yesterday
heard pleas for Chicago and New York
for the Worlds Fair site Memorial
services were held yesterday in honor
of Hon. w. ID. Kelley in the house,
which were largely attended.
Chicago had two suicides yesterday
--one deliberate, a woman opening an
artery in her wrist and bleeding to
death; the other, a young girl, shot
herself while crazed by morphine.
A family of four in Dearborn, Mich,
yesterday took strichnine instead or
auinine while dosing for the influenza.
The mother and daughter died.
The chief of police of Moscow was
shot by a woman while raiding a
Nihilist club yesterday. The woman
afterward committed suicide.
A cold wave is predicted for Illinois,
Indiana, Wisconsin and Iowa. The
local prediction for Chicago and vicin-
ity is 'much colder weather"
The New York banks yesterday held
over SO, 900, 900 in excess of the % per
cent. rule.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-01-18

The Saprcue Court OF the United
States lbs just made decision which,
it is said, will put about 81 900, 900 into
the pockets of the importers of silk
ribbons and their attorneys. The tariff
OF 1883, it appears, placed a duty of 20
per cent. on ribbons used as hat trim
mings and so per cent. on manufac-
lures of silk. The custom house, act
ing on the general principle of giving
the advantage of a doubt in favor of
protected manufactures, has been col
Letting duties on all silk ribbons as
manufactured silks" but now comes
the Supreme Court and says that was
wrong and the lower duty only should
have been collected. So Uncle Sam
must pay back to the importers the
difference between 20 and so per cent.
AS. the importers have already col
lected this difference out Of the people
to whom they sold the ribbons, with
the higher duty added, to whom ought
it to be paid back? 1t is another IL
lustration Of the hocus pocus character
of everything connected with the
tariff, which, no matter how you work
it, always ends in big grab out Of the
people.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-01-18
RRICE.

The nomination Of Calvin S., Brice
for United States Senator by the
Democratic caucus of the Ohio legis-
lature, OF course insures his election.
1t is conceded that the only objection
urged against Bricc was his wealth,
which is said to be several millions,
acquired within less than a dozen OF
years, mainly through fortunate rail-
road speculations. IT, as Murat
Halstead says, his success in these
consisted in beating the Vanderbilts,
it is certainly nothing to his discredit.
AS there are at least twenty other
millonaires in the United States
Senate, the objection Of great wealth
as a qualification for membership OF
that body seems to have been regarded
as OF such little consequence in refer
ence to others, that it loses most of
its force when applied to Mr.. Brice
alone. 1t is, however, urged addi-
tionally, that large proportion OF
these milliOnaires in the Senate have
obtained their seats by more or less
direct purchase, and that all OF them
are under direct suspicion of owing
their seats more to their wealth than
to commanding fitness for the position.
This latter may be true in regard to
Others as well as Mr.. Brice; yet man
may so use his great wealth as to
acquire an army Of warm personal as
well as political friends without using
it corruptly. He may do so in the
exercise Of judiciOus generosity, and
instead of censure deserve common
dation. And it is not unfair to as
sumo that Mr.. Brices strength lay
mainly in this direction. AS chair
man of the Democratic National Com
mittee he was liberal with his means,
and yet no charge was ever made
against him of engaging in or en-
couraging any ''blocks-of-tlve" or other
such schemes OF electiOneering ras-
cality. His record on that score Is
above impeachment. 1t is true, there
may have been other Democrats in
Ohio of better qualification for the
Senatorship than Mr.. Brice, though
that remains to be tried. 1t is con-
coded that he is active, alert, well
informed and thoroughly capable
business man. Such qualifications
are often of vastly more value than
the mere graces of oratOry. AT any
rate, Mr.. Drlce is thorough tariff re-
former and an earnest Democrat, and
that is the class of men now needed IN
the United States Senate above all
Others. We have do doubt his record
will be such as to commend him 10
the unhesitating approval of his party
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-01-18

And now comes a northern CONNER
cial traveller good republican at
that-howling that in a trip from
Mobile to Atlanta he was compelled
to take an upper birth in sleeper,
because the lower birth had been given
to negro! Never in all his travels
In the north had he been put to such
degradation! Negro equality in the
form OF solid blocks Of votes for the
republican ticket is very fine no doubt,
but to be pushed into the same COM
partments in a sleeping car with a
nigger-faugh!
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-01-18

The State Association or super
visors met at Bloomington Monday.
Among the subjects that may be taken
up for discussion will be the question
of assessments. 1t is not at all likely
that these discussions will do anything
to correct the tremendous abuses that
have grown up in assessments maze
under the Illinois revenue law. Moth
ing short of an absolute and complete
abolition of that law will correct that
evil. 1t is an outrage on land owners
and holders of visible personal prop
erty that is perpetrated not only In
Illinois, but in majority OF the
states of the Union. The principle
an equal assessment of all kinds or
property, real and personals one
that in theory is laudable and all that
could be desired in system OF taxa
ton; but in practice, as the experience
of all that part of the world which has
tried it knows, it is simply impossible
of accomplishment with the machi-
merry that the shrewdeSt legislature
has been able to bring into operation
This assessment evil is no new
thing. 1t is as old as the system or
taxation itself. The revenue COM
mission of few years ago cited 1t as
the chief of evils growing out of our
hopelessly imperfect SYSTEM and
Professor Ely, in his Taxation in
American Cities" states, as its re-
sulting wrong, that the land bears
So per cent. of the taxes levied. VI
the remaining Is per cent, stocks OF
goods and machinery and back stock
nav doubtless IA per cent, while
credits, "other than bank, banker, y
etc, probably do not pay to exceed
one-half the remaining per cent. AS
+. y. Crandon, one ofthe members OF
the late revenue commission, says lin
quotation in an article by l.. IL.
Wyle, published in the Earlvllle
Leader, which Rose, of the journal,
steals bodily and publishes Sunday,
without credit, as an effusion Of his
own brain, which does not, in fact,
contain enough real information on
taxation to enlighten gnat), the
honest holder of credits, in making uT
his schedule, at once encounters men
who lie about theirs. If he gives an
honest statement, he does what not
one in thousand will do. Then
when the County Board goes through
the miserable farce of equalizing, 1t
has more assessment added, perhaps
and when that superlative Of al
shams, the State Board of Equaliza
ton, meets, they add still more to his
burden. AS a result, he is ruined by
his honest statement-tlned, so Il
speak, because he was honest! He
will never repeat the operation. This
began about 1873, and has been get
ting worse ever since. Not only dc
individuals endeavor to lessen theil
assessments, but every assessor i'm tn,
state does the same for his people, and
is backed up by mis- own County
Board. The only honest assessment
that has been made In this county In
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-01-18
The persistence of the mild weather

The persistence of the mild weather
this winter, says Harpe's Weekty, is
attributed by various scientific au-
thorities, who, however, are not
named, to the fact that the gulf
stream is drawing nearer to the coast.
Such an explanation might do for the
coast region, but will hardly fit fifteen
hundred miles west of it.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-01-18

ago by a Farm Ridge assessor, who
not only put down everything taxable
in his town, but assessed 1t, AS the
law required at fair cash value"
When his books came before the
equalization committees they ordered
him to reduce all his figures one-half.
And when he refused to do this under
oath, the Board relieved him of his
oath, and the assessment was by him
cut down one-half, and some per cent.
additional by the committees them
selves. Is it any wonder that the
assessment is running smaller and
smaller every year? Assessors in this
county last year made their assess
ments, as they had for years past, at
the valuation placed on property by
the State Boards equalization for the
year before. And their assessment
was again reduced. Next year they
will take the last figures and assess
on that basis, and, to keep pace with
the cuts made by Chicago's as
SCISSORS, they should still have their
figures reduced a half! In Chicago
in 1884 the last figures we have at
hand) the assessment on credits covered
only about 100000. Think of it, only
5000, 900 loaned in Chicago!.! The same
year that kind of property was assessed
in La Sale county at nearly the same
amount! Yet there are men In this
county bowling for a higher sassess-
ment in this county. What will it
amount? Simply to hold up La Sale
county and rob her in order to tighten
the burdens of Cook county in state
taxes. The constitution says that in
the collection of taxes all men shall
be taxed equally. If the present mode
of assessing all property is to continue
in Cook county, then our own should
be reduced, re-reduced and re-re-re-
duced, but not increased. For county
purposes it would rather make no
difference whether the assessment be
high or low, but, as the same assess
ment must pay also the state taxes,
our only salvation from being plumber
ed to benefit Cook county is in a still
lower assessment and not higher.
And for this reason it is absurd to
expect that "the State Board" as the
Journal, with characterize ignorance,
calls the State Association Of Super
visors, can grant relief, seeing that
they have no legislative powers and no
executive powers except as members OF
their own county boards, and even
then their executive power is limited
to the CHASTITY farce of making an
equalization, being able to add not
one penny to the total Of the assess
ment for the county as tabulated
from the town assessors returns, or to
take one cent from it. The relief must
come from the legislature, and that
body can grant relief only by a COM
plete remodeling of the law. When
taxpayers themselves shall rise in
their might and demand the abolition
or radical reform of the present sys-
TEN, the poor devils who own lands,
lots and visible personal property will
get relief, but not before.