The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-14
EDITORIAL NOTES.

= The time has come when bar
riers must be erected between corpor-
ate power and the rights of the
people.
~ Monopolies cannot be abolished.
but they should be controlled. Govern,
ment must control monopoly, or mon
opoly wiH control the government.
x We have heard some objections
urged against the Alliance, but we
have never heard any one assail the
principles of the Alliance. Its princi-
pies are founded on Truth, Equity
and Justice.
= Make your own bread and meat
at home, if possible. If you have a
supply for your family, you can, at
least, live. To that extent you will
be independent. You may want to
repair your house or build a new one.
You may want to buy a horse or
wagon or a machine. But if you
can't get the money with which to do
these things you a get along with
out it. But your family cannot live
without eating, neither can your stock.
Money or no money, you must have
bread and meat. Raise it and you
will have it. Let the Alliances all
over the State, at the beginning of the
new year, talk over this important
matter and resolve that whatever else
may happen they will, at least, make
their own supplies.
We have no full report from
the Oxford meeting on Thursday, but
news was ~telegraphed from Raleigh
to the Durham Daily Sun as follows:
delegates from 25 counties of
Virginia and North Carolina met this
morning at Oxford, N. c., to attend
what was officially called by the ALI
ance the anti cigarette trust conven-
ton. The convention is a strong body.
Capt. Williamson was chosen chair.
man. The convention at once took
up the subject of the trust and agreed
to receive representatives of all the
great cigarette manufacturers in the
country. Representatives of Duke &
Sons, Allen & Ginter, Kinney and
Goodwin were present and made state
ments to the convention. A commit
tee was appointed to consider their
statements and report" We hope to
get a full report in time for next
weeks paper.
= The cigarette manufacturers
have arranged for their agents to go
Cd the floors of the tobacco ware
houses and exercise the right to fix,
absolutely, the price they will pay for
the farmers tobacco and take it. Sup
pose the farmers could store their to-
bacco in government warehouses of
80 per cent of its value, which certi-
fcates should be a legal-tender in all
transactions, then such a conspiracy
for robbing them would be impossible.
The government places the control of
it's currency in the hands of men and
loans them it's credit on evidences of
debt at one per cent.-it holds whisky
three years for it's owner, if he so de-
sires-it rushes to Wall street and
pours out ten millions OF dollars Of
it's gold in one day to ave the stock
gamblers from wreck, then why can't
the government extend some protec-
ton to the farmers? ""
- The farmers Of eastern North
Carolina have never, perhaps, suffered
such disaster to crops al theyexperi-
enced during the past season. For
seven consecutive years they have
made 20 u. crops, but the failure Of
1889 has well high ruined them.
Many of the farms have been entirely
abandoned by the negroes. They are
leaving the east by thousands. The
merchants are unable to aid the
farmers and the farmers are unable to
supply the negroes and the negroes
are compelled to leave. Those farmers
who fattened their pork could not
slaughter it because of the very warm
weather and in many instances their
scanty supply of corn has been ex-
hausted in the effort to reach cool
weather. Many have slaughtered and
lost it. This is only a brief outline of
the situation. The farmers of central
and western Carolina made good crops,
as a rule. In the tobacco counties
they have realized excellent prices for
tobacco. Could not some plan be
arranged through our State Business
Agency by which our brethren OF
these favored sections could aid ou1
brethren in the east =?