The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-06-17


throughout the country, through
which to fight the Alliance. And
strange to say, some of these papers
have the same names on their sub
scription lists that are found on the
Alliance roll.
r The Charlotte Chronicle is in
favor of the publication of the tax
returns made by each and every
person. 1t thinks that a great many
fail to list their property for anything
like it's full value, There is no doubt
that this is a fact, and it seems that
the Chronicles remedy is a good one.
Many wealthy people pay very little
tax.
x It is nov ascertained that w.
J. Northern, Of Georgia, will be the
candidate Of the people for Governor
of that State Col. Livingston, it is
said, will run for Congress. Two bet,
ter men could not be found for these
positions. The "machine combine "
will hardl? tackle these gentlemen.
If it does. it stands a beautiful chance
of being smashed.
= Mr.. James A. Cheek writes US
that Mr.. John Norwood, who repre-
sented Orange and Durham counties
in the STATE Legislature two terms,
and also represented that district in
the STATE Senate, refused passes from
all railroads. Mr.. Norwood is dead
and our informant does not state " hen
he was a member, but we take it for
granted that it has been in the past
few years.
= From all sections of the State
comes the most cheering and encourag-
ing reports as to the prospects for
good crops. The mild winter and
favorable spring weather gave the
farmers opportunity to prepare heir
lands properly and the clear, growing
condition of the crops attest how
faithfully and we'll they did the work.
May the God of the Harvest reward
them abundantly.
4 Let the people hold each repre-
sentative in Congress strictly and in
dividually responsible for his individ,
ual record; not as a Democrat OF Re
publican, but as the representatives of
the American people. This Congress
viii fall to give us the relief we ask
for; let the people demand of it's
secure it. If they fail to show it,
LEI tnem be retired.
- The Indianapolis Leader says
i, don't know just what the law de-
fl rs as the duties of Statistician
Nu'ige, but ventures the opinion that
IA ssing is not one Of them. It looks
as if he was using the position just as
the Secretary of the Treasury has
used his so often in giving pointers to
spectators. The Alliance should
look into it." We have been think.
ing for some time that it would be
well for our people to watch that
Dodge pretty closely.
*. One of our esteemed exchanges,
the Southern Farm, of Atlanta, wants
every farmer to buy a pistol and teach
their wives and daughters to use it so
ahey can protect themselves against
tramps and other bad characters. We
think it a good plan, provided they
have plenty of nerve, but if the wO-
men do not take better aim than they
generally do when throwing at a dis
obedient hen, they are liable to kill
pretty much everything else on the
plantation except the tramps.
A good many political papers
are making a great noise because
Representative Mills refuses to sup
port the Sub-Treasury scheme. Mr..
Mills may be correct in his views on
the matter or he may not. But he
has been in Congress long enough to
know that his constituents did not
send him there to make laws for him,
self, but for them. When we pay
men $4,000 per year to work for us,
they should not talk back It US"
when we say do this or that. Away
with such men.
= We have received a letter from
an indignant farmer who hurls ter
rible blows at a Senator of our last
General Assembly for his cours on
the railroad commission. The people
of that good county will take care of
that Senator, and while the letter is
just, it is personal and too eve to
appear in our columns. Go to the
polls, good brother, and vote as you
write, and let all the good people do
likewise, and he will learn a lesson
that will be valuable to him in the
future. He needs that lesson badly.
Every farmer should eadr
"Plutocracy or American White
Slavery" by Hon. Thos. Norwood,
formerly Senator and Representative
. 0 Dooet wOnderful hook