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Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-07-24
Al NAOAIIOIAC3 M1AAOO1
And continued monthly thereafter.
CAPITAL PRIZE, $15O,OOO.OO.
If,, 600 Tickets $40: Halves, So; Tenths,
81. American Currency.
CLUB RATES: 8 Tickets for $50.
c,,a,,;a1 ,.atas arranged with agents.

AGENTS WANTED in every town and city in
United States and British America.
The nayment of Prizes is guaranteed by q spe-
ciai deposit of five hundred thousand dollars
$500, O0O), with the State Government and ap-
proved by Jesus Arechiga, Governor.
Drawings under the personal supervision of
Tic. Herminio Arteaga, who is appointed by the
Government as InteryentOr. :,
II certify that with the State Treasurer al
necessary guarantees are deposited. assuring full
payment OF all prizes of this drawing.
4 HERMuNo ARTEAGA. Intervention"
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-07-24
SUMMONS.

STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA, GO.
Eighth Judicial Circuit, 3D.
RI within and for IlaWrancA
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-07-24

and serve cold lunCn WlCn ''lceQ Tea.
Now is the time to buy real estate in
Sturgis. It is s'dirt cheap" to-day, but
the morrow in the near hence will bring
a boom that will surprise the natives.
This is pointer, and II you should lose
anything by following it charge the loss
mp to your advertising account-if you
= have one.
The Sturgis people were entertained
Sunday afternoon by game OF baseball
between the Sturgis and Tilford clubs.
The features of the game we're the kicking
ON the decisions of the umpire, the noise
made by the spectators and the home
runs made and flies caught by the visit
ing club.
It ia not safe to buy land without a
correct abstract OF title. Many OF ou1
citizens have paid dearly for deed only
to And out subsequently that they bad
NO title whatever Do not buy foot oil
ground without an abstract OF title. Gel
your abstract OF Judge Polk. He has
Just prepared at large expense set o.
abstracts of lands in Meade county.
p. E. Sparks has on exhibition at hui
wholesale and retail grocery store
beautiful imported China tea set OF fifty
Xix pieces which viii be given to son'
one Who purchases box OF that genuin'
American Family Baking Powder. Thes
goods are among the very best and per
feet satisfaction is guaranteed.
The light showers during the pas
week have made the weather spiendld 70
the grain that is now ripening II tai
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-06-03
WHAT YOU MAY EXPECT.

addition to ali the news through
out the State and country, edito-
rails and Alliance items, The Pro
eREssIvE FARMER contains letters
every week from many intelligent
correspondents in this and other
States. Many of these contributions
are very valuable. In the next few
months our columns will be chock
full of good things. Prof. Gerald Nc
Carthy, of the N. G. Experiment
Station, has begun a series of papers
concerning noxious insects which,
Judging by the two articles printed up
to this time, will be interesting and
valuable. During the summer Prof
John F. Crowell, D. D., President Of
Trinity College, will write a series of
of articles on political economy. 1t
is unnecessary to say that they will
be highly instructive. Another thing
will be a series OF articles on the Rail
road Commission and its advantages,
by prominent gentlemen in Georgia.
These articles will sho the workings
of ths State Railroad Commission in
that State and will be written especi
ally for THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER
We will also publish articles from the
pens of Prof. W. F. Massey, OF the
n. c.. A. & NJ. College, DR.. H. B. Bat
tie, Phi. D., of the N. G. Experiment
Station, and other prominent agricul
writer's. From this it may be infer
red that The PROGRESSIVE FARMER is
going up step by step, and will strive
to leave nothing undone that will
benefit, instruct or entertain its read
ers. Let all of its friends increase
their efforts to extend it's circulation.
Every Alliance should appoint some
one to take subscriptions, and every
Sub-Alliance in the State should send
from two to twenty or subscrib
ers than they nov have. Get three
or six months subscribers if you can't
get them for a year. W. know that
money is scarce, and made this offer
some time ago, and many have taken
advantage of it. You will miss a
great deal if you fail to read the paper
this summer, and it is too cheap to
borro Y. Did you know that THE
PROGRESSIVE FARMER is going to have
%, 600 subscribers by the first of
January, 1891? Well, it is So. Moth
ing will prevent it but a crop failure,
and we hope that will not occur.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-06-03

commission, bat this is such a plain
case that it speaks out in meeting. 1t
is high time that more papers should
begin to champion the cause of the
people. The Interstate law is either
of no value or not enforced. These
freight determinations have been car
ried on for years and will never get
Justice until the commission is estab-
lished. Now a long pull, a steady
pull, aud re will get it this year.
But we won'5 do it if we put pro-
fessional men and broken-down politi,
clans in our legislative halls. If you
send any professional men be sure they
are of true grit.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-06-03
WE ERE IN ARNEST.

THE Press and CarokinGan wants to
/ know if we were really in earnest
when we said in an editorial a week
or two ago that it was "nobody's
business whether a farmer worked
hard and systematically or not" OF
course we were. Why not? The
Press and Carolanaan wants to know
if a rich man cannot sit down in town
and enjoy his wealth and still not be
a tax on the farmers. Why, certain
ly he can. But it depends On the
way lie made that wealth. If he
made it by hard work and economy,
then it is his. If he made it by 5tu1y-
ing up schemes to fleece the farmers,
or by any questionable methods, such
as the very wealthy generally employ,
then he is resting upon the proceeds
Of somebody elses toll. But it is not
always the rich that do the resting
act in towns. A great many town
people work as hard as the farmers,
and no doubt a few stick closer to it.
But we were advancing the argument
that there r as many loaters in
to Rn as there are in the country, and
up to this time the assertion has not
been contradicted.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-06-03
WE CAN'T PUBLISH THEM.

A FTER this week al communica
n tions recommending this or that
man for Office will be thrown into the
waste basket. The PROGRESSIVE FAR
MER has no contract to do so and will
not undertake to publish all that may
be sent in, and it would OF be fair
to publish some and not all A mum
Der of letters have been published in
which somebody's fitness for some
Office has been mentioned incidental.
ly. But hereafter they will not go
in. Local papers who have only one
county to serve have to charge for
such things sometimes in self, defence.
We have SO counties to look after,
so you see the reason. We are alive
to the fact that it is very important
that care be exercised in selecting
candidates, and we will do and say all
we can in a general way to carry this
out. But The PROGRESSIVE FARMER
can't afford to champion the cause of
any man for Office no matter how
good he is. The people must wake
up and make their own selections.
We will aid in Bny way possible, but
we can't publish the hundreds of en-
dorsements that probably would be
sent in.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-06-03
WE ARE GOING TO HAVE ONE.

THE Kinston Free Press of last
Il week says it is in favor of a
railroad commission. 1t says:
GA lot of ITO barrels of -four con.
signed to several firms in Kinston last
week was shipped by the Old Domin.
ion line which connects here by the
steamer Kinston. The water was too
low for the steamer to come up so the
agent of the 0. D. line turned the
-four over to the A. & N. G.. r. r. at
New Berne, as that was the only way
under the circumstances to send it
forward to it's destination. Superin.
tendent Dill, of the A. & N. G. r. r..
refused to make any deduction from
the local rate to Kinston, which re.
fusal may or may not be just and
proper, and which phase of the matter
we do not propose to discuss. What
we do propose to discuss is the out
rageous discrimination against local
points.
"The freight from Norfolk to Kin
ston on -four by the O. D. line is D
cents a barrel; by the E. @. E. line,
which connects with Kinston by the
A. & n. G. R. R., it is "a cents a bar
rel. The local rate from New Berne
to Kinston is Is cents a barrel or &C.
tually n cent a barrel more than to
bring it all the way from Norfolk to
New Berne, transfer it and then bring
1t over the same road to Kinston. We
understand that a longer haul can be
made cheaper in proportion than a
shorter haul, but when a long haul is
made over the same line cheaper in
total than a shorter haul, then no sort
OF excuse OF argument can be made
to prove other than that az injustice
is done"
We do not know how the Free Press
has been heretofore in regard to a
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-06-03

day, besides what was sold by local
dealers throughout the State. This
matter ought to be discussed in every
Suo'AIllance regularly. Reforms
should begin at home. Our farmers
must get out of the old rus them.
selves and 0 waste all Of their
strength IN pu hing other people out.
ii our farmers will show that thew aro
in earDes they can accomplish other
under akIngs more easily. But we
are learning a good deal and are
bound to claim that the Alliance has
been a great factor in this progress.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-06-03
NEWSPAPERS AND NEWS
PAPERS.

earnest, eager, and intense
i desire for Alliance news induces
newspaper reporters to draw at times
largely on their imaginations. It was
recently charged that the Alliance
had sold out to the Democratic party.
Within another day the charge was
changed and it was, the leaders have
sold out to the Republican party. DR..
Macune has been charged with hob.
nobbing with Senator Quay, while
the truth is the two have never met.
Major G, W. McClammy introduced a
bill in the House on Tuesday, the
9th of May, authorizing the issue OF
legal-tenders for schools and other
purposes based on the lands of the
States. Newspaper reporters said the
Alliance had changed base; that they
had abandoned the Sub Treasury bill,
etc. Had they known anything OF
the Alliance they would have known
that the Alliance, through it's leaders,
could not abandon the Sub Treasury
bill-the Supreme Council only could
change its base. They charged that
Col. Polk had written the bill, where
as Col. Polk had not yet returned
from his official trip in the Southwest
and the first he knew of the bill wa.
when shown it in the Record.
1t simply shows the desperate straits
to which politicians and politica
newspapers r put to when they art
forced to manufacture from the Who'll,
! cloth such statements.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-06-03
POLITICAL NEWSPAPERS.

THE following from the Southern
Il Alliance Farmer has the right
ring. Our forefathers ~boycotted mer-
chants and everything that stood in
their way for success. We may have
t o follow suit:
The farmers of Georgia have
been supporting the newspapers of
the State for all the years o. their ex
~istence, and now that the farmers
lave determined to have a word to
say about legislation, some of these
papers are doing all in their power to
wreck the order, and to besmirch the
characters of such of its leaders as
boldly assert the farmers right to
think and act for himself.
"There are several politicians in
Georgia who have been fed upon pub
lie funds and who had no political life
until it was given to them by the
farmers, and now since they are ex
pected to answer a few straight ques-
tons and do something for the farm
ers, turn and rend the very men who
made them.
"All this is not entirely unlike an
other of EsopS Fables. A man once
found a serpent which was stiff with
cold, and plying its distress, placed
it in his bosom. When the serpent
was warmed into life it turned and
plunged its poisonous fangs into the
breast which had restored it."
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-06-03
THE ISSUE.

The issue is clearly defined between
those who favor and those who oppose
the sub-treasury law. No quibbling
over detail will serve now as a blind
to cover up or direct attention from
the principles involved. Tho advo,
Gates of the measure have Gofered to
yield any of the details, and they there
by force the issue upon the principles
involved. This is bound to divide
the ~d1sputants upon a clear and well
defined line of friendship to farming
and producing interests, those feeling
such friendship being advocates of
the measure, and those who do not,
opposing it. For this reason, agri,
culture is to day the least prosperous
branch of industry, because it is dis.
eliminated against. The proof that
it is Disseminated against is that
under the present system of maintain
ing an even volume of money
throughout the year, regardless of the
demand, there is a great relative
scarcity or fuctuatiOn in volume at
the season in which agriculture must
exchange the products of its labor for
money This relative f]uctuation
works against the farmer, because it
depresses prices when he is compelled
to GUY; and on the other hand 1t dis.
eliminates in favor of the exploiting
class, because it depresses prices
when they buy, and augments them
when they are ready to sell. This
discrimination against productive pur-
suits must be stopped, or it must not!
That is the issue. The affirmative
will be those who r engaged IN pro,
ductive pursuits, and a few unsehSn
and patriotic statesmen. The mega
tive will be everything else. Argu-
ments will be made by men who claim
to be friendly to the true interests
of the country as to detail Of practl.
cability, legality, and other detail
which if they are truly in earnest
about being friendly, they had better
offer to improve on, by showing some
better way of securing the P[InIipV'
than to make any technical aeIaL al
excuse for an active opPoslTlon " we
bill. Such tactics viii no' longer 40;
The people are too intelligent and VIII
cortoinI1 understand the animus OF
those who fight this measure, IN spite
VI Cf'3 their sophistry.-NatiOnol Econ,
onadSt
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-06-03

right. The trouble is, neither OF the
parties carry out any of their prom
ises. But they seldom fail to do sew
eral things which they didynot prom
Use to do. That is why we are after
them" @
"Old Fogy" is Col. Folks secre,
tary, but he is an independent writer
and never borrows opinions. As a
citizen of the United States he has a
right to criticize the official acts OF
President Cleveland or President Har-
rison.
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER is not re
sponsible for his views on such mat
tiers. Every week it gives room for
communications from different writers
in which they frequently critisize pub
lie officials. The ArgonGWt has either
failed to make out any case or else we
fail to see the points. He closes out
his stock by saying: awe merely ask
The Democrats of North Carolina,
whether farmers or not, to watch the
course of affairs very closely" Now,
the Arqonaut didn't know it was say,
ing such a good thing then. That IS
Alliance doctrine in the pure. That
is what THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER has
ben advocating all the time. Yes,
match them closely. Be you Republi-
can or Democrat, farmer or artizan,
{" Vatch the course Of affairs Very
cLOSeLu."
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-06-03
JOURNALISTIC
What the Knights of the Quill are
Doing.
paper

The MOrganton HeraId, ii very ex,
cellent paper, has ENLARGED from a
seven column to an eight column
paper. We T glad to 0 t evidence
of it's prosperity.
The Fayetteville Observer has been
changed from a twenty eight to a
thirty-two column paper, an evidence
of growing prosperity and popularity,
upon which we congratulate Bro.
Whitehead, who is publishing one of
the best papers of the State.
The Southern Farmer, successor Of
the North Carolina Farmer, which is
the oldest agricultural paper in the
State, has become a weekly paper.
Mr.. J. H. Ennis, who has had years
of experience, will continue to be
editor, and his brother, Mr.. P. c..
Ennis, assumes the business manage.
ment. The first issue is well printed
and filed with good reading matter.
The Southern Farmer deserves, and no
doubt will have, a large patronage.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-06-03
PAY YOUR MONEY AND TAKE
YOUR CHOICE.

The following is copied from the
Greenville Reflector:
ain a few months it will be in
ordec to make nominations for Con.
gress and for our State Legislature
and all over the State there is an anx-
iety and a conjecture as to the course
Of the Alliance in this important mat
ter. There r lei belonging to the
order who would drag it down to the
lower level OF polit cs, that is they
would use it to advance their personal
ambitions by helping them to places
which they cannot obtain upon their
own merits. The great body of the
organization we hope will work to
place it on the higher plane and thus
keep it clear and free from the diff
culties into which selfish designing
men, if folio we'd, r sure to lead it.
The Democratic party is made up
very largely of the farmers of the
State, and as these compose the ALI
ance it is possible for the Alliance to
control the party conventions and to
dictate their nominations. This is a
great power to be lodged in the hands
of a secret organization. If it is
wisely and ~patrioticly used no harm
can come of it, but if it shall be
directed by designing men for selfish
purposes evil must come both to the
Alliance and to the party"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-06-03

The unwilling of the Lee monu-
ment at Richmond last week was a
great occasion. Thousands of people
were present and everything was
done IN fine order. One of the pref,
tiest of the many pretty sights to be
seen was a little girl about six years
old perched on top of the roof of a
porch on Franklin street. The child
was completely enveloped in a long
dress made of a Confederate flag, and
the brownish golden curls falling
about the little ones shoulders, framed
her pretty face, and made a charming
picture.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-06-03
EDITORIAL NOTES.
* Savannah, Georgia. had a $780,,
600 fire Friday.

~ Savannah, Georgia, mad a SlOU,
600 fire Friday.
= Our patrons will confer a favor
upon US by saying hat they saw ad.
vertisement in The PROGRESSIVE
FARMER when writing to advertisers.
*. There was another railroad horror
Friday. A train on the Oakland mar
row gauge, near San Francisco, Cali.
fornia, rushed into an open draw
bridge. Thirty people were drowned.
- Bro. W. A. Darden has com
menced a canvass of the FRS Con-
gressional district and will publish a
list of appointments soon. Bro. Oar
den will make things hum where he
goes.
~ The PROGRESSIVE FARMER has
promised to look after several things
for the brethren. All can't be done
at enc time and some things are not
r pc yet. At the proper time we ex-
pect to make it hot for some certain
people.
- w. A. Styles, a sub-contractor
on the Roanoke and Southern Rail
road has decamped leaving debts to
the amount of $l6,O 600. The debts
we're for lumber and other things used
in building bridges. He is said to be
a native of K 4nsas City, No.
~ A Charlotte man who had in
vested in a nickle-j in the slot machine
which hands out a cigar, opened it a
few days ago and found 48 car seals
which had been beaten out and put in
instead of nickles. The small boys
had been getting some cheap cigars.
D.puty Sheriff E. L. Henry, of
Buncombe county, one of the solid
young Alliance men of the West, was
in the city last week, he having
brought a prisoner to the pe%nitentiary.
He says the Alliance is in a fine con.
dition in that part of the State. The
mountain boys are always solid.
~ MI. J. Turner Morehead, of the
Leaksville Wooden Mills, was in Raj
eigh a few days ago and remarked
that his advertisement in The Pro
GREssIvE FARMER had brought letters
from every county in the State. I'm
less you want to do a big business,
never put an advertisement in The
Progressive FARMER.
= The rownship primary conven-
tions of C@barrus county were held
Saturday I g oath and resulted in a
complete victory for S. B. Alexander
for Congre~~. Col. Paul B. Means of that
county wa The opponent of Alexan-
der and ha3 madea vigorous campaign
against hin,. The vote was 262 for
Col. Meano and 7O2 for Capt. Alexan-
der.
Any parties having good farms
or vineyards, will please confer with
or write to US. The associate editor
of The PROGRESSIVE FARMER is a
stranger in a strange land, and would
like for you to make the first advances.
Where god farms are near each
other we would not object to giving
some account of two or three in the
same article. We will try to go to
any farm where we can go and return
the same day by rail or otherwise.
The party organs continue to
deal out little doses of resting powders
to the farmers. They tell them they
must keep very quiet during the sum
mer; that any little exercise on their
part might prove fatal. 1t is all well
enough to listen to the advice of first.
class physicians, but quacks kill more
people than they cure. Show them
that you know something about your
own physical and financial condition,
brethren.