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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-11

THE farmers of Nebraska are com.
l. planning at the unjust and dis
crminsting rates and charges on their
products by the railroads. Some of
the mandy pamby newspapers have
suggested that the farmers shall hold
public meetings and petition the rail.
roads for a reduction in corn rates of
five cents per bushel. And strange
to say, Gov. Thayer, of that State,
concurs in this suggestion. It would,
indeed, be a most humiliating spec
dacle to see the sovereign people of a
State, holding public meetings and
humbly petition railroads to lessen
rates which are confessedly unjust and
outrageous. The Alliance organ of
that State Indignantly repels the sug-
gestlon and says:
"Another reason is that the reduc-
ton should be on all kinds of grain
and stock, and not on corn alone.
And the reduction should be 10 or Is
cents per 100 instead of 5 cents. The
rate from Chicago to New York,
1000 miles, is 20 cents per 100. The
rate from Lincoln to Chicago, SAL
miles, is % cents, and % cents on
stock. Who does not know that the
western roads dit not cost one-third
as much as the eastern, and that they
can carry at a proportionately cheaper
rate. And yet east of Chicago the
charge is two cents per 100 less for
1000 miles than between Chicago and
L ncoln, SAL miles.
"Again, experience has shown that
the only way to reduce freights is by
law. The roads fought the Iowa ALI
ance at every step, but have at last
been compelled to knuckle and accept
the rates. They will make no consid,
cradle reduction voluntarily, whether
petitioned or not.
"This whole proposition to get a
small reduction especially on corn
arose out of a politicians attempt to
make political capital. 1t assumes
now the shape of an attempt to get the
farmers to pull somebody's political
chestnuts out of the fire.
4 x X + X \
"Do not call any public meeting to
petition the railroads. Discuss the
question of rates in your Alliance, and
perfect plans to elect members of the
next legislature who will make the
Iowa schedules legal rates in this
State. By this course you will main
tain your own independence, and not
be made cats paws of the railroads
and cunning politicians who are their
tools and henchmen.
"The duty of the State Board of
Transports alton is to adopt the Iowa
schedules of local rates for this State,
and then appeal to the interstate com
mission for justice On a through rate.
The time will never be more opportune
for such action, 5han now"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-11
JOURNALISTIC.
What the Knights of the Quill are
Doing.

Mr.. E. W. Mooring has resigned as
editor of the Claremont, Va, Herald.
The Tennessee. Watchmam is a new
industrial weekly newspaper recently
started at Knoxville, Tenn. The in
terests of the farmer, mechanic and.
laborer is especially looked after.
Our neighbor, the News and O6ser.
Der, came out in a new dress last Tues.
day morning. The typographical ap-
pearance is much better.
Bro. Foote, of the Carthage Blade,
was happily married on the 18th ult.,
to Miss Dannie Ferguson, one of the
most popular young ladies in that
town.
Col. John A. Cockerill, managing
editor of the New York World, works
sixteen hours a day, but he gets a
salary of $l3,O 900 a year. There r
few of the North Carolina editors who
work more than sixteen hours a day
as a regular thing, but there are few
of them who get such a salary.-Wz-
mGngtom Star.
The Pittsburg Times thinks Western
North Carolina will become the great
steel centre of this continent. Tie
indications are that Washington will
shortly become a great steal centrs
ALSO Wilmington Star.
The editor of the Germanton Times
states in his paper that he is agent for
1000 leading American publications
and 500 British, German, French and
Russian periodicals. Our brother
must be a hustler in the newspaper
business.
Col. Jno. D. Cameron, one of the
oldest and best known editors in the
State, has retired from the editorial
management of the Asheville DAILY
and Weekly Citizen.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-11
FREE COINAGE OF SILVER.

VIZ notice thai about thirty bills
w have been introduced into Con.
gress for the free coinage of silver.
Doubtless a law will be enacted for
this purpose. But we apprehend that
the public generally will be disap-
pointed in regard o the amount that
viii thereby be added to u circula.
ton. An accurate estimate of our
do nestic production of silver cannot
be made, so says the Director of the
Mint. But it is estimated that the
amoun that will be coined will not
exceed S35, 600, 900 annually, as about
one, fourth of our product is consumed
in the arts. But suppose the maxi
mum amount Of 81, 600, 900 per month,
named in any of these bills, should be
coined, it would add only a little over
seventy cents per capita to our circu-
lation. But it is not so much in the
increased volume of currency that we
are to derive benefit from the free
coinage of silver, but by giving the
silver dollar the same dignity and
commercial value as the gold dollar
the latter is robbed of its tremendous
power to Cypress. rI
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-11
THE FERTlLIzERPoo BROKEN

ONLY a lew days ago it leaked out
~ that d number of fertilizer COM
panies bad formed a pool and were
trying to evade the payment of the
$500 State tax.
The State Chronicle of last Saturday
contained the following news from the
pool:
"Allison & Addison, of Richmond,
who first moved toward fighting the
tax, yesterday sent in an application,
accompanied by a check of five hun
dred dollars, for alicense to sell "Acid
Phosphate of South Carolina Dissolved
Bone" This is the brand on which
they started the fight against the tax.
"Other licenses were also issued by
the Treasurer yesterday as follows:
"Tarboro Oil Mills, to sell EARN.
ers' Bone Fertilizer" Old Dominion
Guano Co., Of Norfolk, to sell "Farm.
ers' Friend "guano.
"Fifty-two licenses have been issued
so far this year"
Thus we have fresh evidence that
the Alliance is a power in our State.
1t DON vas known that the farmers
would not buy from any company who
joined the "pool," and so the bic
guano men, knowing that they were
driving nails in their'own collins, have
| quietly submitted to the State laws.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-11

stands as a reproach and disgrace to
American craftsmanship. And how
is it proposed to restore and revive
IT'D BY granting hundreds of millions
of dollars as subsidies to rich corpora
tions and eighty per cent. OF which
must come out of the pockets of the
same Illinois farmers and their i'm
poverished, struggling brethren
throughout this money-ridden land.
The Steamship Subsidy Lobby is
now in the city of Washington, mag
~nifcenGly quar5ered and bountifulIy
supplied with all the appliances, which
are supposed to be potent in winning
the support of the average Congress
man. They are there tor the avowed
purpose of inducing Congress to g5Ue
them over 800 millions of dollars to
aid them in putting their ships to
work.
The people-the farmers of this
country, r not now in the humor to
allow this great wrong to be perpe-
trated. But it may be done, never.
theIess. The people are watching
more closely than they have ever
before the action of the present
Congress, and unless their interests
are better protected than they have
been and unless they get some just
measures for relief there are many
men in Congress to-day who will not
answer to their names when the roll
of the SD Congress is called.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-11

Resozped, That whereas, John W.
Hinsdale, attorney, representing ALI
son & Addison, of Richmond, Va,
and others in defying the collection
of the $500 fertilizer tax, thereby
cr1ppling the Department of Agricul-
lure and the Agricultural College of
North Carolina, therefore
RESOLVED, That we urge all Alliance
men in the State to refuse to buv or
use any fertilizer OF said companies.
ResolUed, That this resolution and
action of the Wake County Alliance
be published in The PROGRESSIVE
FARMER, and that all other State pa
pers friendly to the agricultural inter.
est of North Carolina are requested to
publish the above resolutions.
E. G. GREEN, Pres.
J. J. DUNN, Sec'y.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-11
CHE HITS THE NATIONAL BANK
> SYSTEM"

THE Press and Caro1Snsan some
time since asked THE PRoGREs
sIvE FARMER to load up our rife and
make a centre shot.
We. endeavored to do so.
Bro. Murrill evidently thinks we
"got there" But if we made a good
shot brother Murrill is not blind and
he hits the "buIl's eye." He says:
"Sincewe heard or read that the gov.
eminent paid the national banks 80
millions of dollars a year to refurnish
a currency for the people, we have
opposed them. We believe when the
people become acquainted with the
system, they will demand and have
a change"
You are right, brother. They are
now demanding a change. The sub
ject of interest is one of immense
proportions. The government allows
them to issue. $50, 600, 900 of dol
lars, the interest of which is %
millions. They pay the banks II
millions of interest on the bonds on
which they issue their money; the
government then hands to its pet
banks SO millions at l per cent. and
they pocket the difference.
They allow them a monopoly of
banking, and when it is footed up in.
stead of being 80 millions it amounts
to five times that sum-. The people
not only demand a change but will
have it.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-11
BRO. MURRILL AND SISTER
MORGAN.

DRO. MURRILL, of the Hickory
ID Press and C~arohniGm, devotes
nearly a page and a half of his last
weeks issue to a reply to a communi-
cation which appeared in THE Pro
GREssIvE FARMER a week or two ago.
The letter in question was signed
"B. A. Morgan" and the hand writ
ing evidently was that of a lady.
However, we cannot say which sex
the author belonged to. At any rate
she yields a graceful pen, and from
the amount of ink used by Bro. Muir
rill, she must have struck him "ker:
bip" in a tender spot.
In the absence of Col. Polk, the
junior editor respectfully asks Bro.
Murrill to excuse him for failing to
surrender space for the reproduction
of his fve-column reply to sister Nor,
gan. "Mrs." or Miss" Morgan, as
the case may be, lives in Cstawba
county and doubtless has read the
Press and Garohniam by this time. So
if Bro. Murrill and sister Morgan wish
to engage in an intellectual duel they
can do so at closer range. Meantime
The PROGRESSIVE Farmer will stand
with uncovered head and hold a bunch
Of violets which will be presented to
the victorious party.
Will say to Bro. Murrill that "Sister
Morgan " may have been in the right
when she decided that Col, Polk did
" hit him ker bip during the friendly
controversy about the tariff and other
things a few weeks ago. But ever if
he did, it was done in a friendly spirit
and the same editorial would have
been written in reply to any paper
that undertook to discuss matters on
a line not in harmony with the in
terests of our farmers.
Furthermore, we will say that when
| Col. Polk starts out to argue anything
through the columns of his paper, he
intends to hit them T." ker bip," but not
in an offensive way, and we have no
idea that such a bright lady as "Sister
Morgan" seems to be, would misun.
derstand the drift of such things.
Hence, she was only joking you, Bro
Murrill, when she used that language.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-11

Bro. g. ". Johnston, Of Cedar
Creek Alliance Cumberland county.
writes us that they have some good
meetings.; that he would like to get
some Zephyr cotton seed. We win
say to the brother that those who have
the Zephyr seed-at least a great many
OF them-would be glad to sell him
some of them. But he would be
ready to sell himself after one or two
years--[ED.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-11

- The steamer Quetta sank a few
days ago. The announcement gave
an elaborate description of the vessel,
its length, breadth, depth, tonnage,
cost, owners, insurance, &C., but as to
the human beings who went do wn to
the depths of the sea, it only said:
"Two hundred souls were on board
and were lost" This remind us of
the accounts of battles. 1.-TWO hun.
dred and sixty killed and five hun.
dred and twenty wounded. Brighter
General -- won fadeless laurels In
his glorious charge on the lines OF the
enemy" Such is the power of money
and the glitter of fame !
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-11

Do you want your communication pub
lished2 If so, give us your real name
and your ~postofice.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-11

er Our friends in writing to any of
our advertisers, will favor us by mention
ing the fact that they saw the advertise
ment in The PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-11

Er The date on your label tells you
when you time is out.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-11

Do you want your paper changed to
another Officer State the n at which
you have been getting it.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-11
EDITORIAL T

x Bro. G. E. Voliva, of Columbia,
Tyrrell county, has our thanks for a
club of Is subscribers.
The Dickinson press., 1890-02-08
Russian Influenza.

Almost every one is now interested
in knowing the proper treatment fol
this disease. According to the best
authorities it requires precisely the
same treatment as a severe cold, and
it is generally known that there is
nothing better for Il severe cold than
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy taken
as directed. Extreme carr should be
taken to keep the feet dry and warm,
the body we'll clothed and to avoid
exposure, especially when recovering
from the disease, and to keep up the
vitality. Persons physically weak
should take tonics to keep up their
strength. 1t is also important that
the bowels lie kept regular. No or.
binary case is likely to require any
further treatment than this to insure
a complete recovery. For sale by
Merry & Mcdonald.
The Dickinson press., 1890-02-08
An AcrOStic.

To travel, or not to travel, is for each
question-hut if we
Have to ride behind the putting iron
horse, the
Experience of all our friends advises
us to choose "The
Burlington" u line whose builders
planned not il scheme
Utopian. by rare good Judgment
guided, and
Reading the sign of progress rightly,
they
Linked with bands of steel the cities
chief
In nine great states 1--WE drop the
metre)-
Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa,
Minnesota, Colorado, Wyoming,
and South Dakota.
Goest thou II journey to any town in
these! Then
To thy agent HE thee. and buy thy
tickets
On "The Burlington" the finest, fast.
est line, and
Never shalt thou have cause for vain
regret.
For rates, tickets, maps, and any
information, call on agents of "The
Burlington" or connecting lines or
address w. ]. G. Kenyon. Gen. Pass.
Agent C. b. & N. r. r., st. Paul, MINI.
The Dickinson press., 1890-02-08
Brighter Prospects,.

Anything that savors of a rise in
the price of bceves is welcome news
to our rangemen, even if the an
nouncements do come from the B:g
-Four o. their lieutenants. However
the reasons for an improvement in
the price of cattle. given by n OF
Armour's right hand men, in an inter
view, + so nearly the reasons that
we have assigned in IL predictions
for good prices that we give the i'll.
terview as additional evidence, bear
ing some weight, because it comes
from one of the opposition.
"We believe i'll higher beef and
pork, and are trimming IL sails that
way" said George II. Webster, of
Armour & Co., to-day. "Pork and
beef have risen during the last two
weeks and will so still higher. We
expected higher prices last year than
those which prevailed, but various
causes operated to keep off the adj
vance. 1t has now come, and to stay.
Beef and pork will be higher this
year than last, and will be higher in
1891 than in 1890.
"Why! There is a constantly in.
creasing consumption without a cor
responding increase in range produc.
tion."
"Are exports increasingly"
mo, the exports of beef and pork
in 1889 were about the same Is the
preceding year. 1t is the home con.
sumption that is increasing. The
population is growing fast and the
increase is greater in the cities and
trade centers than in the farming dis
tricts. where some consumers are
also producers of beef and pork"
The very blue tint that the utter
ances of IL cattlemcn have, are the
product of past disappointments.
Year after year la re they been beck
oned to the future by Il promise Of
better prices and as often have the
prices dropped a notch lower than the
preceding year;-there is no doubt
reason in their fear that the price of
their range product will still fall low.
er instead of raising. We must, how
ever, assert that to lis the signs of
the times are more encouraging.
There is no doubt that the wholesale
marketing of anything that wore
hair, which has been going OF for
three years, has reduced the supply
of beef cattle from the range and
from the farm, far below the de.
mand for beef, and this decrease
must be felt Immediately, and when
the decrease is made apparent, as in
the nature of things it must be. prices
have got to increase. Taking one
thing with another we are of the
opinion that next season will witness
better prices.-Stock Growers Jour.
nal.
The Dickinson press., 1890-02-08
Natures Method Of Raising Forests
Made Practical.

An intelligent farmer, living ut
Gary, S. d., who planted himself
three years ago when the country
was just settling up, plowed the re.
| quiren ten acres on his timber claim,
and with high culture raised crops on
them for four successive years, each
year blowing deeper and deeper until
he got down to Il foot or more. Hay.
ing, late in the summer of the 4th
| year plowed under the stubble and
%blossoming weeds, he let them rot,
and just before the ground froze up
dragged the land us he would for corn;
then mixed different native forest
seeds, ash, box elder and others, and
sowed them broadcast in profuse
quantity and dragged the ground
once.
That is all the work lie did OH the
lot, except to guard against the an.
nual fires. He never used hoe or Gull
tivator. The next spring the ground
was literally covered with little trees.
The weeds soon overtopped them, but
owing to the deep, pulverized condi.
ton of the soil, the trees took firm
root and generally survived. For a
few seasons there was Il battle with
tho weeds, but the trees. gradually
gaining the victory, at last lowered
up in matted arches whose dense
shadows at length destroyed all weeds
and grasses under them.
The "fttest' lived and grew tall,
symmetrical, healthful and beautiful
and that man has a magnificent for.
est, the very best in the prairie coun.
try. Though he had not obeyed the
letter of the law, lie had the trees in
superior order, and the government
gave him a patent.-Northwcstern
| AgriculturiSt,
The Dickinson press., 1890-02-08
TAYLOR NOTES.

G. w. Patrick is still very danger.
ously i'll.
Miss Belle Hagen vas down from
Glendive this week visiting her pa.
rents.
j. r. Dean is with us once again,
He has decided to make Taylor his
home in the future.
J. M. Tracey is again confined to
the house, having ventured out toe
soon, while recovering from la grippe,
he now has Il relapse.
Clarence Jinks, sol of +. Jinks,
who lives about three miles north of
Taylor, died at Mlssoula, Mont, with
la grippe. Clarence was we'll known
amongst us and was a good, steady
and Industrious young man. The
family has the sympathy of all the
community in this their sad loss.
ANXIOUS.
The Dickinson press., 1890-02-08
RIcHARpToN i
John Webb has had a weeks tus.
file with the same disease.

John Webb has had a weeks tus-
tie with the same disease.
Geo. HettebaugE and all his family
are having Il hard siege with la
grippe.
Miss n. Finger, of South Heart, is
visiting with the Misses Ellison this
week.
Miss Anna Ellison returned home
Saturday from Il two months visit at
Mandan.
R. S. Brookings was called to Yank.
ton, s. D., on Thursday to see his
mother who is seriously i'll.
Miss \. a. Ellison visited Bis.
marck and Mandan last week in the
interest of our schools and returned
Saturday.
w. a. Mcclure came up from
Knife River, Tuesday, to see his
Richardton friends. He had just got
rid of that unwelcome la grippe.
Last Tuesday being the fifty .ffth
birthday anniversary of Hon. I. S.
Underhill, a large number of friends
and neighbors assembled at his home
in the evening to celebrate that event.
The evening passed off very pleasant.
ly with music, dancing and refresh
ments.
The Richardton school will open
for a three months term in March
and it is TO- thought that the town
ship funds will soon be in u condition
to pay its warrants when called for.
The schools have been closed for
some time on account of debts ION.
tracted three years ago, when IL tax
of 4 mills was levied, and again in
1888 when the cqualizing board cut
down the assessment over $4,000
and did not inform the school board
of its action, leaving a shortage in
| funds again.
The Dickinson press., 1890-02-08
NEW ENGLAND CITY NOTES.

L. E. Partridge is in Dickinson
where he has a class in penmanship,
The sleighing is good between here
and Dickinson. Not much snow
south of this place.
Frank II. Clark left for Vermont
the first of the week, where lie in
tends to practice law.
VIM. Kirby was in Thursday to
make arrangements for Mr.. Sweets
funeral at Dickinson.
VIM. Gay passed through here last
week bringing some dressed beef:
also the mail from the Grand River
section.
There was a large attendance at
the oyster supper and dance at the
hotel and there is talk of another at
Geo. Armstrong; shortly.
HEDE.
The Dickinson press., 1890-02-08
First Publication Jan. IL, $780,

S&A1lIls
Mortgagor, jeremiah s. Let's; mortgages
Robert Lee and Charles Lee, partners as Lee
Brothers, Mortgage dated June 80, 1883, and re-
corded in the office of register of deeds in Stark
county, North Dakota. July !, 1883, at s:45
The amount claimed to be due upon said mort,
notice is S45.s5. Default has been made in the
payment of the moneys secured by said mortgage.
now, therefore, notice is hereby given that said
mortgage will he foreclosed and the premises
therein described, namely: Lot number seven, in
block number fourteen in the village of Gladstone,
in the County Of Stark and State of North Oak
ota, according to the plat thereof recorded in the
office of the register of deeds of said county and
state, will be sold at public auction to the highest
bidder for cash, to pay said debt with interest
and the taxes on the premises, if any, and $40
attorneys fee, as stipulated in said mortgage in
case of foreclosure, together with the legal dis
bLurscmcnts, by the sheriff of said county, at the
front door of the court house in Dickinson. Stark
County, North Dakota, on the 24th day of Fcbru-
airy, a. ID. 1890, at , O'Clock p. M, of that day.
LEE BROTHERS,
Mortgages.
Dated: Gladstone, N. D., January 8, A. D.. 1890,
HOWARD w. BATES,
Attorney for Mortgages, Gladstone, N. d.
Jan HIT
The Dickinson press., 1890-02-08
Estray Notice.

Taken up at Versippi ranch, Janu-
airy %, 1899, one sorrel horse, weight
about 900; two brands on left side;
also one bay filly, about 10 months
old; brand on left shoulder; all brands
too dim to be legible. Owner can
have same by proving property and
paying charges.
Gladstone r. o., N. d.
WALTER B. POWERS.