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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-17

"There is splendid opportunity for bal
lot reform in the south" says the Phila1el-
phia Press, but if there is ballot reform
down there, there will be no chance for the
Democratic party in 1892" There is more
need for ballot reform in the north than ia
the south, and if it sh )uld be given fair
show In such states as New York and In
diana. the republicans would have no
chance in a Presidential election With
ballot reform, the democrat would con-
tinue to carry every southern state.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-17
Is There a JOB in It2

Senator Plumb, of Kansas, is doing q
good deal of talking in the Senate. He isn't
much of an orator. but he is attracting at
tie ton. He had set-to with Senator Call,
of Florida, the other day, and got Knocked
out. He found that the Florida senator,
although very mid-'p ken man, can use
his tongue with telling effect when he thinks
it necessary TO do so.
Senator Plumb, however. is making him.
self conspicuous just now in connection
with the lease of the islands of St Paul and
St. George, Off the coast Of Alaska, on
which seals are caught. The Secretary
Of the Treasury has asked for bids for the
lease of these islands for tive lty years, with
the privilege of taking only 90, 900 seal skins
year. The bids must be In by Jan %
The present lessee of the islanis is the
Alaska Commercial Company. 1t has the
privilege of taking 100000 per annum, and,
it is alleged, has made millions Of dollars out
Of its lease.
Senator Plumb seems to think that there
is some arrangement by which the Alaska
company will get the lease again. The
fact is, it does look as if that company had
must deposit 100000 in cash with the
| secretary of the treasury, and must agree
to provide school houses, churches, etc, on
the islands for the natives. 1t would require
a good many thousands of dollars to comply
with the terms set forth in the advertise
ment and this money must be spent
although the secretary, if he should be- so
| disposed, coull reduce the number of skins
to be taken TO any extent tat he might
think advisable.
The Alaska company, of course, has
everything that is required by the terms of
the advertisement, and therefore can bid t.
much better advantage than any other
company. Senator Plumb wants more
time given for putting in bids, and in the
meantime he is saying some things that
are calculated TO raise a suspicion that
there is something little crooked in the
business of leasing the seal islands. Let the
senator go on talking by all means. He
may bring to light something in eresting.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-17

BEEcHAMs PILLS act like magic on
weak stomach.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-17

WRITING about the use of trained dogs in for
eign armies as sentineis, mes 'engers, etc, the
London Saturday ReUistg recalls that the am
poyment of dogs in war was not infreouent
from the very earliest times. Corinth is seid
to have been saw d~by fifty of these valiant
auxiliaries, which, while the rest of the garri-
son slept, remained on the alert and performed
valuable Itpost duty ii the drunken ravelers
were roised. Philip of Mlcedon utilized thar
service in pursuing the mountaneers among
their rocky tastaes ieS, during his campaign
against Argyle. Attia preferred to trust the
safety of his camps to their keen percentions
rather than to the ears and eyes Of his Huns
The Romans recognized their value for the same
purpose, and the geese of the capitol came To the
rescue not only of men, but OF dogs too winch
for once were caught mapping. TIL Earl Of
Essex. in suppressing the Irish rebellion In
the time of Elzabeti is stated to baVa o ~,
ganized force of 500 bloodhounds to accom-
pany the army. In modern times we fad the
celebrated "Moustache' amongst the heroes of
the French army at the commencement of the
century. He was decorated by Marshal Iannes
at Austerlitz, and finally met soldiers death
in the Peninsula, where he was shot saortly
after the siege OF Badajoz. At the present
time the Russians train dogs to act as sentines,
having found the necessity of their aid during
the expedition under Skobeleff in Asia Minor
where SteaIthy and cunning enemy found means
TO surprise them on more than on one occasion
Their Gertna neighbors began to experiment
on the value OF dogs for outp bsts as far back as
1885 and are satisfied as to the assistance thew
would render IN the outpost line.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-07
THIS IS FOR YOU.

On the 10th of February, THE Pro.
~ GREssIvE FARMER will have been
in existence four years. Of the strug.
gle it had in the beginning, of its
undertakings on behalf of the people
and it's successes, of its loyalty and
fidelity, of its hard, earnest and con,
slant labors for the elevation and ad.
vanGement of the agricultural inter.
ests, it is not for US to speak. Its
readers know it all. While we feel
that it has done a good work, yet it
has not been all that we desired. We
have been cramped for want of means
and have been so thoroughly alb,
sorbed in official work that we could
not give the paper the attention we
felt it should have. But we intend
to exert every effort to make it a bet
ter paper than it has ever been. We
are proud of the support it has re-
ceived. But we kno10 that there are
thousands of farmers and Alliance
members in the State who should
read the paper and who do not get it.
There al be no objection to the
price. We want to increase our cir
~culation. We want help to do it.
Will our friends interest themselves
and aid US? Let our new volume,
on the 10th of next month, open with
a greatly enlarged list, and every one
of them paid up. Vany M owes us
for the paper, let the money come for,
ward By the 10th Of February.
Any n sending us ten dollars with
ten subscribers will get a copy free.
The PROGRESSIVE FARMER and the
National Economist one year for $l.75.
For two cash subscribers to The
PROGRESSIVE FARMER we will send the
Economist Almanac.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-07
THE AMERICAN FARMER AND
v SECTIONALISM.

THE same causes which have par
J. alyzed the energies of the farmers
of Kansas have impoverished the
farmers of Carolina, of Illinois and of
New Hampshire. The same evils
which confront the farmers from
Maryland to Mexico, are at the doors
of the farmers from Maine to Califor-
MIA. The American farmer, in what
ever State he may live, is weighed
down by the same burthen. They
must make common cause and come
together in a common effort for re-.
lief. They must obliterate all sec
tional lines and divisions, which really
and only exist in the prejudices of de-
signing demagogues, and declare by
their mighty and united voice, that
henceforth the farmers of this great
country will stand together in defence
of their rights and their liberties as
bequeathed to them by the patriot
fathers of the republic.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-07

liver, one bushel in bulk. The gov
eminent now issues certificates on
gold and silver, so that there Is notn-
ing new in the plan, but it Is striking
" new for the farmer, the mechanic
and laborer, to ask for anything for
their benefit
You may be ready to ask what ben
efts are expected to flow from the
adoption of this plan? =
1t would increase the price OF al
products, for the farmer need not sell
his products until they would bring
him a margin of profits instead OF a
clear loss as is now the case.
It would increase the volume OF
currency, and make it possible If such
an amount we're needed to. make the
total reach one billion of dollars.
Take our cotton crops-we could
get $50, 900, 900 dollars, and yet not
have sold one pound of cotton II the
plice was net such as would yield US
a profit. We could raise cotton from
8 IL to IL l.! cents per pound, an In
crease of over M hundred m1Ll1ons
in values in one year. 1t would raise
wheat from IS cents to ST. per bushel,
and wheat raising would once more
be profitable. 1t would transfer the
profits from the speculator to the
laborer, from Wall street to the farm.
In short we propose to have a Sub
Treasury in each county and for the
producer to receive from the govern
ment bills of exchange that shall be
legal tenders for all the people. By
adding to the volume of, currency
we would decrease the rates of inter
est and increase the values of the
farmer.
Space will not permit of more ex,
tended extracts.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-07
{ BIG FIGHT.

THE farmers of the tobacco belt
i will meet in Oxford on Thurs
day, the 9th inst. They meet to take
action in regard to the Tobacco Trust,
composed of four cigarette manufac-
turing companies. Unless we are
greatly misinformed, this Trust is
founded on methods that would do
credit to highway robbers, and we
want t see the farmers throughout
this land combine and utterly demol-
ish it.. Let them hoist their flag and
grant no quarter and ask none
Against all these thieving trusts,
which are designed to rob our honest
farmers, lot the war-cry be, "uar to
TO the knife and the knife to the htH!"
And we call upon the true and noble
men of old Granville to take that flag
and lead the charge. Men of Pied
mont North Carolina ! go to Oxford
and show your manhood and your
hatred of oppressors and robbers. We
are ashamed to hear the name Of a
North Carolina firm connected with
this d~isgraceful and Ubiquitous pro,
ceeding.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-07
THE PEOPLE WILL NOT BE DE-
CEIVED.

TT is amusing to note with what
A profound interest and concern GER
tain trucking papers are endeavoring
to throw dust in the eyes of the peo-
pie in regard to the action OF the St.
fyouis Convention. But the people
will not be deceived. Some of these
papers display, either wilful deception
or inexcusa6le ignorance in their at
tempt to mislead the public, For ex,
ample, the Farm, Field and StockmGn,
whose strong partisan bias gives color
to all its discussions of questions of a
national character, very adroitly man.
ipulates and comforts the proceedings
of that body with che evident intent
to do injustice. It takes the action of
the Knights of Labor, the North
western Alliance, the National Farm
ers' Alliance, and President Harri-
sons message and jumbles them all
together, and gives this middle out
to it's readers as the action of the
National Farmers Alliance and In
dustrial Union. 1t has fallen into
line with other partisan, political pa.
pers and persists in the false state
ment that the Alliance and Knights
of Labor consolidated.
We notify the people that there are
papers which are mere tools in the
hands of our enemies. They are the
mouth-pieces of m~onopOlists and rah-
roads They will assail US in every
conceivable way. They will not hest
tate to misrepresent us. They will
claim to be the champions of the peo-
pies rights, and some of the people
will be deceived by them. They will
stand out and crack the whip Of their
political bosses over the heads of the
people and strive to brighten and in
timidate them. They will be in the
service and at the bidding of monopo-
listic and corporate power. They will
practice the same deceitful game that
they have so successfully played for a
quarter of a century, and which has
impoverished the c~onfding, trUstful
farmer and we'll nigh ruined the
whole country. But they had as we'll
submit in good grace. The farmers
of the land will stand Loyalty by the
action of the St. Louis meeting, and
will thereby save the country from
the grasp of corrupt 1piutocracy and
impending ruin. The people wiU not
longer be deceived. We intend to shell
the bushes and drive these bush
whackers into the open field, if posi-
BILE, and force them to show their
colors. Let the people be constantly
on guard, for the enemy is marshaling
his forces.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-07

did. In 1866 the public debt could
have been paid with 1882, 600, 900
pounds of cotton; to-day it would re
qulre $780, 5000 pounds to pay it,
although the debt is ST, $50, 900, ooJ
less now than it was in 1857. Now
when these corrupt men and their
hlrellngs tell you that the low prices
OF your products are due to overpro-
ductlon; it is false. With our present
financial system you can have no con
troll whatever of the price of your cot
ton or anything else you produce, and
farming in these United States is
practically one vast system of ten
antry. Ny advice to you, Mr.. Ad-
kins, is to take Alliance papers and
read and study more about your bust
ness"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-07
OUR SUCCESSOR.

tTHE new Secretary, to be appointed
Il by our State Executive Commit
tee, will be announced in our next
issue. We bespeak for him, whoever
he may be, the same forbearance and
the same Jealous and loyal support
from the brotherhood, that it has been
our good fortune to enjoy. That he
will be worthy and well qualified, no
one a doubt who know the men
whose appointee he will be. His, will
be no easy task. Encourage him,
trust him and stand by him. We
know not who he will be, but he will
need your aid and your generous,
fraternal support. The PROGRESSIVE
FARMER a greatly aid him in his
labors, and it will most ~cheerfully
render any service it may be able
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-07
HE WAS PUZZLED.

TARMER Adkins: ~ don't under.
Il stand it. In 1870 1 owed a man
$3.50 and brought one bale of cotton
to town weighing 500 pounds and
sold it and took up the note. I was
owing another man this year the
same amount and brought ttOo bales
to town and sold it to-day and it took
the last cent to pay it. couldn't for
the life of me understand how it is
that it takes Just 1000 pounds of
cotton today to pay the same amount
that it took only 500 pounds to pay IN
1870. It required twice as many
hard ticks to make these two bales
they cost me twice as much as the
one bale and yet they buy me no
more money. Somehow or other it
looks to me that just one-half nv
labor has gone for nothing and some
body has got it without paying for it."
"Say, Allen, can you tell me hoTit
is that 1 have to do twice as much
work TO- for that $3.50 as [ had to
do in 1907"
Allen: well, Adkins, money is
like any other, commodity in one re-
spect, the scarcer it is the higher it is.
Money was plentiful years ago and
was cheaper, now it is scarce and it
takes more of your labor to buy it.
You say you Are puzzled to know who
got the half of your labor in making
those two bales Of cotton. Those who
manage and control the money got it.
The National Banking system and
Wall street manipulators and specula-
tors have ~conspired to make money
scarce and thereby raise the price OF
the dollar. You see they hold the
dollar and the higher value they can
put on it the more of the products of
your labor-your cotton for example
they can get for it. Our national
debt is in the hands of these same
money lords, and has undergone ex.
! actly the same process that your $50
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-07
RUIZ AT BOTH ENDS.

4 RMOUR & 60. and the railroads
IA combine to control the beef
market of the country. Armour &
Co. form a combine ands force the
KansWB farmer to sell them his beef
for less than it costs to produce it.
They then telegraph their agent at
Asheville, N. c., to offer beef so low
that the farmers of Buncombe county
can not sell their beef to the butchers
and thus take entire possession of the
Asheville market and establish a mo-
nopoly in beef. Who is proited by
this arrangement ? Armour & Co.
and the railroads and possibly some
of the consumers in Asheville. Who
is hurt by it? The farmer in Kansas
and the farmer in Buncombe, who
are forced to raise beef for less than
cost in order that capitalists and rail.
! roads may make money on it.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-07
LET THE PEOPLE UN Err
STAND THE ITUAT ON.

1860 the total wealth of the
Il United States was SIG, OO0, eOO,-
900, of which labor owned $1,000
900, 900 and capital, $4,000, 900, 900.
In 1870, total wealth, $50, OOO, 600, 900,
labor owned Sll, 900, 900, 900 and
capital $l9,O 900, OOO, 900. In 1880,
total wealth, $43, 600, 900, 600, labor
owned $4,000, OOO, 900 and capital
$34, 900, 900, 900. 1t will be seen that
in 1860 labor owned 43 per cent. of
the wealth of the country, in 1870 it
owned SO per cent. and in 1880 it
owned 90 per cent. The census of
1890 will show that capital owns
nearly the entire wealth of the coun-
try. How is this alarming state of
affairs to be remedied q? By the peo-
pie rising in their majesty and hurl-
ing from power those who have de-
ceived and betrayed them with false
promises.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-07

We are sorry to hear of the serious
illness of Bro. Albert Wicker, of
Canon Falls Alliance, No. 100.
BRO. W. M. Taylor is President
of Graham County Alliance, and Bro.
L. M. Medlin, of Welch, N. c., is
Secretary.
Bro. J. ". Heston, writing from
Clarkton, N. c., informs us that Bro.
Mears, of that place, died on the 3rd
of December.
BRO. J. F. Brinson writes from
Pamlico county to say that his Ali,
ance endorses the insurance feature
of the Alliance.
Bro. j.. NJ. Miller writes from
Troutman's Alliance, Stanly county,
that they r moving along slowly,
but are "getting there, Eli"
--Surry County Alliance was or.
ganized Dec. 4th, 1889, with A. L.
Bunker as President and j. G.. Cooper,
of Dobson, N. c., as Secretary.
jenkins x Roads Alliance, No.
416, Union county, recently passed
resolutions concerning the loss, by
fire, sustained by Bro. J. S. Little in
the burning of his chair factory. His
loss is about $1,000, and they ask
that each Alliance in the State send
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-07
THE PRINCIPLES OF THE FARM
ERS' ALLIANCE.

I'VE give in part, the address of
w "Old Fogy" before the Alliance
just organized at the Agricultural
College, as it brings prominently be-.
fore u brethren the principles and
policy, adopted at St. Louis.
awe demand that the government
shall erect warehouses at any point
where a business of half a million
dollars, yearly, is done. That the
government shall take the products
Of the soil that are not perishable in
their nature and store them, and issue
to the farmer bills of exchange to the
value of 80 per cent. of the products
SO warehoused.
"Tnat the producer shall have the
right to keep his goods in the ware
house for a year, or to sell at any
time during the year.
That the certificate issued shall be
legal tenders for public and private
debts.
"That the coinage of gold and
silver shall not be limited.
THAT the government shall own
and control the railroads and tele-
graph lines of u country"
These are the cardinal principles of
our order.
Supposing that we would ultimate
ly need 1000 warehouses and that
the cost of these warehouses would
be S25, 900, 600, II double If you will,
the very liberal estimate and make it
SO millions of dollars, yet, if the gov
eminent we're to charge half the rates
now charged for insuring and ware
housing, the receipts would, in five,
yerss' time, pay for the warehouses
so constructed.
But suppose it did not. Has not
the government built in all the cities
of any size postOffces, at a cost of
hundreds of millions?
Has not the government for com
merce and contractors passed appro-
priation bills, the amount of which
makes our demands look insignificant
by comparison ?
One of the arguments has been
that where the government erected
public buildings it gave employment
to hundreds of mechanics and scat,
tered money where the improvements
were made.
You may be ready to say this is a
new or novel plan. On the contrary,
Joseph, the great Secretary of State
for King Potiphar, carried on the
warehouse system centuries ago, the
German and French governments
have both practiced the plan, and at
times when it seemed as if the State
would go down in wreck and ruin,
and they were saved by its adoption.
Every manufacturer of whisky can
hold his goods for a market that suits
him-hold for three years and the
government owns, practically, IS per
cent. for taxes.
If the cost of collecting revenue in
ternal is less than FIVE per cent, we
a safely assume that it would not
be over 2 per cent. by our method.
Our national banks are conducted
on the same plan. They deposit evi-
dences OF debt and get so per cent. in
certificates which we call national
bank notes. We, on the other hand,
propose to deposit evidences of weath,
such products as the world cannot do
without and we only ask so per cent.
of their value.
Private warehouses or those owned
by corporations persue the same line
Wheat is deposited in elevators, sold
on certificates of grade and you car
sell thousands of bushels and not de
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-07
1890.


TN the beginning of this New Year,
Il let US remember the errors, the
disappointments and misfortunes of
the past year, only to profit by them.
AS members of society, let us he more
charitable and cheerful; as kincred and
friends, more afectionate and genial
as citizens, more patriotic and manful;
as Alliancemen and women, more
faithful and f~raterna1; as farmers,
more thoughtful and provident, and
as christians, more persevering and
devoted to good works.
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER sends
greeting to its thousands of readers,
and wishes each and all of them a
happy and prosperous New Year.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-07
DOES PAY?

VES, it pays handsomely. 1t pays
Il the railroads.&c. pays the manu-
facturers-it pays the speculator-it
pays the political tricksters, it pays
the professional men, it pays the mer-
chants, it pays the money barons, it
pays the banks, it pays trusts, com
bines and other forms of legalized
r%obberies; it pays almost everybody
except the farmer. o yes, farming
pays!
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-07
N w. GRADY.

A MERICA'S most brilliant orator
IA is dead. atlanta mourns him as
its favorite son; Georgia, as one of it's
truest and most devoted citizens; the
South, as its most powerful and
eloquent advocate, and the whole
country, as n whose broad patriotism
was bounded only by the horizon of
his native land. May his dying mes
sage to his countrymen, the greatest
effort of his brilliant life, embalm his
name in imperishable remembrance +!
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-07
OUR THANKS.

EOR the many kind expressions and
II congratulations, conveyed to US
through letters, kilograms and resolu.
lions, from our own and many other
States, we r profoundly grateful,
and regret that the great pressure of
duties has, prevented us from respond
ing to them. We hope to find time
in the near future to express our
warm appreciation, by letter, to our
good friends.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-07
BRO. w H Smith, Secretary

Bro, W. H. Smith, Secretary of
Cedar Run Alliance, No. l,487,
writes encouragingly and says all the
members are thorough Alliancemen
and will hold out to the end. They
are weak numerically and financially
but are strong in the faith and have
contributed to the business agency
fund to the extent of their ability.
The writer regrets that their presi-
dent cannot attend the meetings at
present. A wound received in the
late war necessitated the amputation
of his leg a few days ago, but he is
improving and it is hoped he will
soon be able to resume the duties OF
his Office. The brother calls loudly
for a speaker. His appeal is "Send
us a lecturer"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-07
ALLIANCE NOTES.

ALWAYS give the name and number of
your Alliance, your p~ostofice and your
county, plainly, when you write to the
President, Secretary, Trustee, Business
Agent or Chairman of Executive Com
mittee of the State Alliance.]
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-07

Z J. L. Ramsey is our authorized
agent, to receive subscriptions and
advertisements for The PROGRESSIVE
FARMER.