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The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-06-14
THE WORLD OF LABOR.

Cleveland shoe workers struck against
forew0man.
Milwaukee furniture men and woodwork
ers average 90.
In St. Louis many women get 50 for sew
enty-two hours.
Beaver Falls street car men got an advance
without striking.
New York beer drivers are fined s. for
working overtime.
Paterson On. J.) silk ribbon weavers were
cut 10 to 20 per cent.
The iron and steel workers will demand
10 per cent. advance.
Cleveland (O.) trackman struck for an ad-
vance-$1.25 to $3.50.
The G. L. A.. News suggests an enumer-
alton of liquor drinkers.
Cleveland men wheeling iron on a boat
struck for 35 cents an hour.
St. Paul BARRIERS want early closing. and
paper hangers have organized.
Baltimore block-pavers struck for s.,
| nine hours and eight on Saturday.
San Francisco shareholders kick against
the use of Chicago-made stairs.
| New York bakers union soli 7,5Ot
union labels to bosses in one week.
Baltimore, Chicago and Erie pattern
makers get Is cents day advance.
An Italian torpedo ram fires 44S-pound
! PAOJCSuAAC SAtouSA - AASASo Va 1OAs
San Francisco wholesale provision dealers
talk of O'Clock closing on Saturday.
| The garment Miss Fair of California,
wore at her wedding cost over $1OO,OOo.
The St. Paul stonecutters ale winning the
strike of year ago for eight hours and 81.
I, Boston railroaders will prosecute a com.
pany for violating the weekly payment law.
i Philadelphia glazed kid is crowdinc thu
French article out of the American market
At Brooklyn large buyers of ice pay G.
cents a hundred. Last year it cost 20 cents
A Brooklyn employer settled strike b,
paying the $500 owed the union by eight O
his men.
The Workingwomen's Improvement asso
citation of Chicago board women luxurious
ly for S2.25 week.
Brooklyn tin and sheet-iron worker
struck for $3.50 for outside work. So for in
side and eight hours.
Emperor William sent experts to examin
the hygienic condition of the mines and tn
> grievances of miners.
Columbus, O.. street railway conductor
struck for IL cents an hour, drivers Is an,
! barn men S1.50 a day.
Tie Cleveland brewers won. Union me-
, will have the preference. Ten hours n da
= and $3.50 to S15 4 week.
. New York boss union brewers refuse t
r sign the new scale which calls for a redut
q ton from 10 to hours Il day.
= Quicksilver miners in Spain get 20 cents
day. In five years the men are PHYSICAL
: unable to continue the labor.
). New York sends $50 German-America
8 marksmen to the world's contest at Pankov
Germany, in which l0.0OO will join.
OF the 1890 steamers in tie world, ,
q over 100 tons register, 5,914 are British an
d only AS belong 10 the United States
z Graat Britain's cooperative societies ha,
!, 1,uN.0oO members. capital of $4,000. 90
Il sell $lS0, 00o.0t0 worth u year and make $l5
10 cox, 600.
d The International SLoeworkers' union ht
- a3,o0O members, is young and has raise
y wages S3JO.O0o year, and gained bot
o points.
r The Warren Ind. Farmers union aske
- for bids to supply it's members. No me
chant made a bid, and the snion has DO,
u cotted the town.
Lnses sssA3 sspsro ana sElntea. v.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-06-14

IF the democrats in the United States
senate take a determined stand, they
can defeat any federal election law that
may be pressed by the republican ma
jority. Speaker Reed undoubtedly will
force such measure through the house,
but in the senate the democrats have
not been gagged. They can continue
the fight indefinitely. The democrats of
the country expect them to make such
fight and defeat the Infamous measure,
if the session of congress never ends.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-06-14

count, the voters themselves having alb
solute charge OF everything until the
names Of the persons elected are filed
with the proper officials. In this re-
spect the people of Japan are long
way ahead Of the republican party in
the United States, which is moving to
secure perpetuity Of power by placing
federal minions in control Of every bal
lot box in the land.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-06-14

OK the first of next month the people
of Japan will for the first time exercise
the right of popular suffrage. 1t is
curious to note that this progressive
country starts out with experiments
that were made in this country at the
beginning and have been pretty gener-
ally given up. Thus, property qualifi-
cation for suffrage has been determined
upon. To exercise the right to vote a
man must possess land of the taxable
value of 5000 or an annual income Of
$1,000. He must have been paying
taxes on it for the full period OF one
year, or, if he pays an income tax, he
must have been in receipt Of such in
come for three years before the day OF
registration. The law of Japan in re-
gard to voting is nearly as complicated
as the Montana machinery. Only quail
fed voters are to be admitted to the
polls, and these must previously obtain
tickets OF admission from the proper
officials. These admission tickets are
numbered, and if there is crowd al
the polls the voters Gre admitted &C
cording to the numbers on their tickets
There will be no ballot boxes, as m thil
country. The judges will hand pape,
to the elector, who will write on it thu
names Of the persons he votes for ans
sign it with his own name and place &
residence. To this paper the voter wi,
aflix his own stamp or seal After tn
voting is over the ballots will be place
in locked boxes and taken to a distric
odice TO be counted by committe
composed Of witnesses from the differ
ent voting booths. The government
Uill s1srciss no supervision over tn
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-06-14


OFFICIALS of the war department be-
lieve that the bill to prevent assertions
from the army, which has passed both
houses will prove an effective remedy
against the evil which threatens the
complete Generalization of the service.
The law goes into effect July l. It pro-
vides that after that date there shall be
retained from the pay of each enlisted
man four dollars per month for the first
year of enlistment. This sum shall not
be paid until his discharge, and shall be
forfeited entirely if he does not serve
honestly and faithfully to the date of
his discharge. The money held back by
the government is to draw interest at
the rate of four per cent per annum.
The bill also make the life of the private
soldier more endurable by liberal sys-
tenn of furloughs. At the end OF three
years service soldier is entitled te
three months furlough, and may at the
expiration of his furlough receive hif
discharge if he so elects, thus enabling
3 him 70 leave the service at the end O.
three years instead of five, if he is dis
satified. Should he become dissatifie(
before the first three years expire, hi
may purchase his discharge under con
ditions to be prescribed by the secretar.
Of war. The war department has beel
investigating the many complaints as t
the poor quality of food furnished to tn
enlisted men, and there will be an i'm
provement in their fare. A pound G
vegetables is to be added to the dali
rations.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-06-14

Mayor Bradford returned yesterday from
the Dearborn country. He says the big
canal is now opened and settlers are buyil 6
water. The Dearborn canal now cover,
a2oCO acres and carries sufficient water fol-
G0,OoO acres. Arrangements are being MACK
TO extend it So as to take in an additions,
5000 acres. Mayor Bradford reports fhs
crops i'll the northern part of the count,
looking very fine,
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-06-14

FOURTH DAY-sATURDAY, JULY s.
faces for this day will be made up
during the meeting. In the event of
any of the above races, Running or
Trotting, not filling, others will bs sub.
stituted.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-06-14
HELENA, MONT, JUNE IA, 1890.

.-Montanians abroad will always find the
n,Iry I,DEpEspENT on file at their favorite ho-
tolls Fifth Avenue and Metropolitan, New York;
Grsnd Pacific, Chicago; West. Minneapolis;
Baldwin and Palace, San Francisco: st. Nicholas
ard McDermott Butte; Leland Hotel. Spring
field Ill.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-06-14

The ladies of the w. C. 7. L. are intend
ing TO put up drinking fountain on Main
street. There could be no simpler or more
practical aid 10 temperance, for when d..
and heat conspire 70 produce q parched
tongue and throat man must drink.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-18
MOVING ONWARD.

THE work goes bravely on. Organ,
l. izers have been commissioned
and sent into the States of Michigan,
Montana, Wyoming, California, Iowa,
Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. Bro. Ben
Terrell, our National Lecturer, is now
on a tour of the following States:
Texas, Arkansas, Indiana, Wisconsin,
Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas,
Indian Territory and Missouri, which
will employ his time up to the middle
of August. Our National President
passed through our city on Monday
on his way South, to meet some i'm
portant engagements with brethren in
the States of Georgia, Arkansas and
Missouri. President Polk informs us
that the cause is moving grandly
forward all along the lines, and asserts
that the cause is stronger and the
order growing more rapidly than ever
before in its history.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-18

THE rapid growth of the Alliance
IL in the Western States is phe.
nomenal. The movement seems to
have caught the fire and spirit of these
aggressive and progressive people.
And one of the most hopeful auguries
for its future in that section is in the
fact that in no part of the Union has
any aus a more wide, awake, intelli.
gent, aggressive and vigilant press to
support it. The farmers of the West.
read and think.
The Atchison (Kan.) Champion says:
"The farmers of Kansas are begin
ming to realize that the best waY to
relieve the depressed condition of
agriculture in this State, is to secure
representatives in the State and Ma
tional legislature who will do some
thing more than to coin unique and
startling phrases for the delectation
of the galleries"
Again the same paper says:
"It is not agriculture alone in Kan.
sas, but agriculture everywhere
throughout the West that is depressed
and is suffering, not because of a fail
ure of crops, or because Of a depreci-
ated condition of the soil, or because
the productive capabilities of farm
lands have been exhausted, or because
of any defect in farming as an industry,
but chiefly and solely because of Ger.
tain artificial conditions-imposition
and hardships, caused by trusts and
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-18
THE LANDLORD THE POOREST
MAN IN VIRGINIA.

OENATOR BARBOUR, in discuss
- ing the Blair bill the other day,
in the American Senate, used the fol-
lowing strong language:
"The statements made as to the
wealth of the South were not true, SO
far certainly as the State of Virginia
and North Carolina were concerned.
The great flow of wealth rolling over
the Pactolian sands had, not reached
them. He had never known the agri-
cultural interests of Virginia to be
more depressed than today. He be-.
lieved that there was a better day be-
fore that State; but that better day
had not yet arrived. The landholder
IN Virginia vas regarded as the poor
est man in it. He might be the owner
of a thousand acres of land, and yet
not have money enough to pay for his
breakfast"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-18
TO THE LECTURERS OF THE
FARMERS ALLIANCE.

WE can only hope for relief in
w national affairs from Congress
sional legislation. There has been
unwise State legislation as we'll as
unwise national legislation.
1t is your duty to present to your
Alliances all unwise Legislation and
have the brotherhood understand the
situation. You can interest your Ali.
ance and instruct it as well by giving
the facts in reference thereto.
Is it wise or just to have on u
statute books laws that cOmpels a man
to pay tax on what he does not own?
If Nh. A. buys Of Mr.. B. a farm for
$4,000 and pays in cash $1,000 and
gives a mortgage on the $4,000 yet
to be paid, is it wise or just that A.
should pay the assessed value of the
farm, and that B. should be taxed on
the money received and the mortgage
held to secure the balance yet to be
paid It will be conceded thai A.
has only a conditional interest in the
farm.
1t is agreed that he does not own
the farm until paid for, and is it wise
to compel any one to pay tax on what
he does not own-on what is not his?
Is it wise or just for Nh. D., who,
we will say, owns land adjacent to or
in a town or city, and who holds it at
800 or 5000 dollars per acre to have
it assessed at prices that farm lands
are assessed at? Does not such hold
ing prevent the growth of towns or
cities =? Now if Mr.. D. desires to
hold the land he owns at high prices,
and we will say it is really worth all
he asks for it, ought he not pay tax
in proportion to what it is worth ? ..s
l undertake to say that land owners
in u towns and villages retard the
growth of towns and cities in this way
and then do not pay tax in proportion
to their wealth. If they do not is this
fair or just? .s.>
In the Western States a few years
ago land spectators bought up land
at very low prices and held it. They
knew that lands would advance.
They were wealthy and could afford
to wait. The land was for years as.
sessed at government prices. At last
the Western farmer saw that he was
making these spectators rich. When
they improved their farms they in
creased the value of the lands joining
it. They yer paying tax on their
lands at 20 to 80 dollars per acre
while the speculator had his assessed
at government rates. They passed
laws compelling the assessors to assess
the lands at what they could sell them
for for cash. They thus compelled the
s~peculator to help pay the tax of the
county and State in proportion to the
worth of his property.
Suppose you had such a law and it
would be just the value of lands
owned by wealthy men would increase
your tax list 25 per cent. and thereby
reduce your rate of taxation.
Discuss these and similar measures,
and if you think the laws as they
stand are just, then retain them. If
unjust demand of your candidates a
change and vote as you demand.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-18

power to control or regulate it's issue
We believe that all issues of the goG
eminent should be based on real valueO
and not on evidences of debt. This
system we freely admit is revolution.
airy and contrary to our present fnan-
CT Il system, which is both unjust and
oppressive-unjust because the credit
of the government is loaned to a class,
and oppressive because that class OBJ
tains, through the necessities of the
people, usurlOus rates of interes,. And
it is not an untried experiment. Ger
many and France have both used it.
The former built up the empire
through this plan. The latter saved
the Republic in the last great trial by
its use, and so admirably did it meet
the exigencies of the situation that
France adopted it as a permanent
financial policy.
The world will never forget the
readiness and ease with which France
paid the enormous indemnity Of ST.
600, OO0, 600 imposed by Germany in
1870, and the marvellous rapidity with
which she recuperated, notwithstand-
ing the loss of two of her richest
provinces; but the world has been
slow to learn the secret power which
she possessed. That power was de-
rived from her system, and we now
present substantially the same plan to
the American Republic. It's most
valuab1a and commanded 1n faatT7ro iS
that it gives us a volume of currency
exactly adapted to the demands of
trade, and better than all, a flexible
volume, which expands or contracts as
the necessities of the people require.
[ need not elaborate this system
further, as it will be uppermost in
the minds of the American people for
years to come, and will be more thor
oughly discussed than any similar
question ever presented to the public
mind"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-18

will not be the least disturb bed by this
totally unwarranted and unjust attack,
but he will in this hour of his peoples
extremity, as always in the past, de,
vote his best talent and best energies
to their relief. Millions of farmers,
through Senator Vance, have fled
their application for relief. 1t is
based on the true principles of equity
and justice and on the soundest prln-
ciples of true political economy. They
say, through him-this is the best and
safest, because the most equitable sys
tenn we can devise. They will say
through him, if you can give US a
better we will gladly accept it. But
ne must haze relief.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-18
"THE JUTE TRUST"

ONE of our exchanges has the fol.
" lowing to say about the jute
trust:
"The jute combination has dressed
itself in a new name-'The American
Manufacturing Company Eight mills
are in the new pool, with a capacity
of $1,000, 600 yards. Fourteen mills
are independent, with a capacity OF
80, 600, 900 yards. The jute men
were greatly amused when the farm,
ers laid down the flag, and they are
realizing the truth of the saying, He
laughs best who laughs last"
This sounds a little queer. Less
than twelve months ago we we're told
that only one mill was outside the
trust. Now it seems that eight mills
r still in the combine and fourteen
are independent" That is a neat
game, Mr.. Jute Trust. But we are on
to your racket. By June or July
there will only be two or three mills
" in the trust " all the others will be
trying to serve the "dear people. u
Our understanding is that our South.
ern farmers have solemnly given their
word that they will use cotton bsgging
or some substitute other than jute. Ii
was decided at the St. Louis meeting
that cotton bagging would be FURNISHED
much lower this season on account Of
the certainty Of the manufacturers
finding sale for it. At any rate, il
seems that we are in for another fight
and we should make preparations al
once.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-18
THE LEAVEN BEGINNING TO
K WORK.

ASgO b4~B O~A~SS@
w of California, introduced a reso-
luton last week, instructing the Sen
ate Committee on Finance to enquire
what relief can be extended by the
government and particularly whether
loans may not be made by the govern
ment upon mortgages on real estate
at a low rate Of interest. He sub
mitted soma remarks on the resolution,
the substance of which was embodied
in this ~utterance: "To me one of the
most effective means of placing at
mans disposal, the force inherent in
the value of property, is through
furnishing a bountiful supply of money
based on unquestioned and secure
values"
This is in perfect accord with the
theory of the Farmers Relief bill,
introduced by Senator Vance, and is
the safest and soundest principle upon
which to base a system of finance.
The currency of a government
should have a sound basis. Govern
ment issue should be secured, If posi-
BILE, on stable values. Our govern
ment has hitherto used silver and gold
but the product of these metals is not
sufficient for the volume of currency
or issue demanded by trade and bust.
ness. It must then issue its currency
based on the power of taxation by the
government.
The crop security plan offered by
the farmers gives as security to the
government the value of one dollar
for every eighty cents issued and de-.
posts that security in the hands of
the government. We claim to offer
the best security to the government for
it's issue that has ever been devised,
except gold and silver.
We offer those staple and imperish-
able crops which the world is COM
PEELED to have, and that, too, within
a year.
The volume of circulating medium
would be guaged and measured by
the amount of the crops deposited, or
in other words, the volume being
based on the value of the deposits,
would expand just as the demands of
the trade required, or contract accord
ing to the same rule. The farmers
will press this measure earnestly and
vigorously. They want, they need
and they must have relief and it is an
hopeful indication, at least, to see
such men as Senator Stanford advo-
eating substantially the principle of
the farmers plan. The leaven is
working.
Of course the introduction of such
a measure by Senator Stanford was
sent on electric wing to all parts OF
the country, and the Washington
papers Of the next morning announced
that the Senator had received tele.
grams from bankers all over the
country protesting that the adoption
of his plan would p~aralyze and destroy
their business.
These banks borrow money from
the government at only one per cent
and lend it to the farmers at six
eight, ten and twelve per cent, and
they desire not to have their lucrative
system interfered with. If the gov
eminent should conclude that il
should feed the farmer out of the
same dish with a bank, it would be
awful
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-18

combines entrenched behind law; De-
cause farmers have been made the vic
Tins of commercial conspiracies sus-
tanned by corrupt and vicious legal
enactments, and because of the inabit,
ity to obtain much needed remedial
legislation.
"This constitutes the burden of the
complaints heard on all sides from the
farmers, and this it is that inspires the
organization of the farmers into Ali,
ances which mean buslness-politics
and politicians-the securing of rights
by means Of the ballot"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-18
JOURNALISTIC.
What the knights of the Quill are
Doing.

The Oak Leaf is the name of a
sprightly and entertaining monthly
journal published by the students at
Oak Ridge Institute, N. G.
The Charleston News and Courier
has got up a guessing match. The
person guessing the exact number of
bales of cotton raised in the United
States in I889-'9O will be entitled to
5 tons of guano. Other smaller prizes
will be given. Each ballot must be
cut from a copy of the News and
Courier. The blanks will be printed
in every issue of the paper. Five
cents must accompany each guess.
Our people had better save their
nickles.
MI. J. A. Crews, travelling CORES,
pondent of the Wilmington Messenger,
was in the city Friday and dropped in
to see us.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-18
OFFICIAL.

All petitions or memorials to the
United States Congress, from ALI
ances or Unions, should be mailed di-
rect to our National Secretary,
J. II. Turner, No. 51l, Ninth St.,
Washington, D. c.. This is impor-
tant for the following reasons:
l. That this Office may have a rec.
ord of all such petitions, their subject
matter, the number and residence of
petitioners, etc.
2. Our National Legislative Com
mittee, appointed at St. Louis, and
whose duty it is to look after all mat
ters presented by our order Of a leg
islativ9 character, will thus be enabled
TO take cognizance of and give person
al attention to the wishes Of the
brethren thus presented. The bill
embodylng the essential features of
the s~ub-treasury plan as adopted by
the St. Louis meeting, and which has
been introduced into both Houses of
Congress, is now being mailed as
rapidly as possible to the Secretaries
of all the Alliances or Unions of the
country, together with other printed
matter of an important character.
The matter thus mailed is earnestly
commended to the immediate attention
of the brotherhood.
All papers friendly to our u are
respectfully requested to copy the
above.
By order of L. L. Polk,
Pres. N. F. A. & I. ..
J. H. TURNER, Secretary.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-03-18
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISE.
MENTS.

LEE, JOHNSON & Co.-Radam's Microbe
Killer.
J. J. JOHNSON Eggs for sale.
DURHAM FERTILIZER CO.-Fertlhzer.
S. R. HILLIARD.-Notice to secretaries
w. H. WoRTH.-Cane seed wanted
JAS. L. ANDREws.-Seed corn for SAFE
WORTH & WoRTH.-Groceries.
J. G. AVER & Co.-Medicines.
SEDGW1oK BRos.-Wire FeneingA