davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-28
THE HOMESTEAD LAW.


WILTON, n. c., Dec. 4, 1889.
Mr.. EDIToR:-Allow me to say a
few words concerning a crying evil
in this land The exemption laws of
North Carolina require every mans
homestead of ST., 500 in value to be
laid off before any of his property can
be sold for his debts. This is equiva-
lent to saying that at least nine tenths
of the citizens Of North Carolina may
get in debt to their fellow. citizens all
they can and shall not be required to
pay it. Perhaps there are as many
creditors as debtors who do not own
the amount of the homestead. There
is no principle of justice or morality
upon which such law can be justi-
fed. Alas, for the moral sentiment
of any people whose government
teaches dishonesty by forbidding, in
the fundamental law of the land, that
a just debt shall be paid. Can it be
otherwise than that such a tree should
bear its natural fruits? Confidence
between man and man has almost dis
appeared. Comparatively few people
have any credit. Crop liens, chattle
mortgages and extortionate time
prices have reduced many to the
verge Of pauperism. When shall we
have a legislature with the moral
courage to grapple with this monster?
Con. SEC'Y.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-28
LETTER FROM YADKIN.

JANUARY 6, 1890.
Yadkin County Farmers Alliance
has met and adjourned. 1t was a
harmonious meeting and one calculat-
ed to do our order good in this coun-
ty. 1t was composed of some of the
best meL of their respective communi-
ties. Our order is weak as yet in this
county but we hope ere long to be
strong as any.
The County Alliance subscribed ten
dollars to the Business Agency fund.
The State Alliances promised to con-
tribute as much as possible.
Our reports show only six sub Alli-
ances in our County Alliance where
there should be at least fifteen. The
reports show not above $50 members
IN the county where there should be
1900. The great need of our county
is an eloquent lecturer. The people
are not thoroughly aroused to the
great questions of the times.
Our people have not had the oppor-
tunities that many sister counties
have had in hearing the great princi-
pies of the Alliance explained by such
men as Tracy, Polk, D. Reid Parker or
any other good talker.
! am told that Bro. D. Reid Parker
is Lecturer for this district, if so [
think he should be sent here. We
think our county needs him worse
than any county in his district.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-28
A DAY THAT WEBSTER FORE
SAW.

Seventy years is long way to look
ahead, but Daniel Webster in 1920
foresaw the chief features of yester-
days doings in Congress as clearly as
we see them this morning from the
accounts of the printed page. Edward
Atkinson, in his latest book ("The
Industrial Progress Of the Nation, :"
published by the Putnams), takes
from the files of the Boston Advertiser
an account of a meeting of a meeting
of Boston business men held in Octo-
Der, 1920, to resist the attempts of
Calhoun and other representatives of
the slave State, to establish a system
of protection for the benefit of the
cotton industry; at this meeting Mr..
Webster pointed out the results of
such a policy as follows:
Hence a perpetual contest carried
on between the different interests of
society. Agriculture taxed to-day
to sustain manufactures-commerce
taxed tomorrow to sustain agricul-
ture-and then impositions perhaps
on manufactures and agriculture to
support commerce. l can hardly
conceive of anything worse than
policy which shall place the great in
terests of this country in hostility to
one another-a policy which will keep
them in constant conflict and bring
them every year to fight their battles
in the committee rooms of the House
of Representatives at Washington.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-28
FROM robson COUNTY.
LEEsVILLE, n. G..

LEEsvILLE, n. G.
Mr.. EDIToR:-I have been a reader
of your valuable paper for about two
years, and have seen but one article
from this part of the ALLIANCE VINE
YARD, and as it seems that no one will
say anything about No. 40, [ will try
to write few lines, though I am a
poor newspaper correspondent. Our
Alliance is moving smoothly along.
We received three members at our
last meeting, also one application for
membership.
Though we are down here and but
little heard of US yet, we mean to
stand firm by the principles of the or
der, and ever try to be ready to lend
a helping hand to any and all plans
and movements set on foot for the
betterment of the laboring classes
task-if it may be called a task
which all good citizens should be
willing to do whether they are mem.
bers of the Alliance or not. Yet
there are those land they are farmers
too) who stand, as it were, with fold
ed hands and say, by their actions;
"COme rings and combines, fraudulent
trusts and spectators, come make our
fair country a nation of landlords and
tenants. Come, we will be your
slaves. We are tired of being our
own lords and masters" Now these
are the sentiments, as spoken by the
actions of our friends (?) who are
standing on the outside and who will
not join the Alliance, but will raise all
the objections possible. We are glad
to say that the number of this class is
comparatively small and is gradually
decreasing in this section.
May the time soon come when every
man and woman who is eligible may
become member of that grand and
noble order, the Farmers Alliance.
We need few good lectures to show
to the people the condition of our
country and the purpose of the ALI
ance.
This should be done, in order that
those of our people who do not read
as much as they should, might know
the dangers that await us.
We have hard struggle before US,
and need the help of all who are true
to their homes and their families.
The enemy is upon us! We must
stand for our rights and our liberties
to retreat will fasten the chains of
slavery upon us and turn our happy
homes into miserable tenant houses;
and not only we, but our children,
will be the slaves of those money
kings who are now seeking to bring
US into servitude which is more terri
BILE that was that of the black slave
before the war.
Now, brethren, let me ask you to
arouse, from your lukewarmness put
on the aUhole armor of unity and har-
mony and resolve to work out the
great problems of the future welfare
of our country, though we have to Ia
Dor under many disadvantages.
With best wishes for the PPoGREs-
sIvE FARMER and it's honorable editor,
| am, Fraternally,
R. BEST.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-28
A SENSIBLE LETTER.
The Principles of the Alliance to be De-
Tended.
APEX, Wake county, n. c.,
Dec O5 1894

. APEX, w axe county, N. ",
Dec. 25, 1889.
Mr.. EDIToR:-Apex Alliance has
been one of the most silent, but, per-
haps, not one of the least enthusiastic,
over the great principles that go to
make up the word alliance. The i'm
portance attached to anything is
measured by the solidness it carries
with its name. The Alliance, there
fore, when first organized, was not
looked upon as thing of much i'm
portance, because the territory which
contained it was so narrowly bounded,
but since the work of organization
has developed in such immense pro
portions, it stands today as one al
most solid structure of united work
ingmen, all looking for the same pur
pose, and the grandest of all those
principles set forth in the Constitution
until that great and underlying truth
called principle has been so shaped as
that it metes out high degree of i'm
portance to the laboring classes of
America.
] am impressed now as formerly
that 10 make the Alliance a success
men who compose it must be mem
bers from principle and from no
other source or purpose; not members
because they can say they belong to
an organic alton; not members merely
for the pecuniary profits they may
suspect of gaining; not mem bers to
use the Alliance as a pretext under
which to transact their business and
fail to meet their obligations; not
members that would render them
selves incredulous by making and
circulating an untruthful thing to
avenge a little odium that may have
arisen formerly, but members who
will stand by the principles and pur-
poses Of the Alliance unto the end.
| am again impressed that there are
tod many weak members in the order
whc do not look upon the conception
and inception of the farmers organi
cation as times that will revolutionize
in the near future great achievements
to the agricultural classes. 1t is,
therefore, to the interest Of all Sub,
Alliances to be careful and take no
man who is unworthy and may prove
disloyal to the cause. I do not be-
ieve the Alliance makes model men
out of everybody, but do believe it
is very poor organization that does
not better either the social, moral or
financial condition of man. In other
words, I mean that q man who is not
made better by belonging to an organ
ization Of the right kind had better
form an organization of one and be to
himself. All good men ought to be-
long to the Alliance to help swell tae
force until simple petitions from the
people would get IN honest hearing in
Congressional and Legislative halls,
and thereby help to defend the prin-
ciples of the Alliance.
It may not be amiss to say that this
Alliance has contributed, both by
individual subscription and as an ALI
ance, about $50 to the business
agency fund, and doubtless would
have doubled, or, perhaps, trebled
this amount had it not been for p
shortage in crops for the past two
years. Let the Alliance keep wide
awake on the subject pertaining to
their future interests.
Fraternally,
J. P. PEARSON, Sec'y.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-28

uoRrH CAROLINA FARMERS STATE ALLIANCE.
President-Eias Carr, Old Sparta, NC.
Vice-President-A. H. Hayes, Bird
town, n. C..
3eoretary-E c. Beddingfeld, Raleigh,
N. c.
.-casurer-J. D. Allen, Falls, N. G.
Lecturer-Thos B. Long, Longs, n. G.
Assistant LECTURER. B. Hunter, Char
l't5i5 Chaplain. J. Scott, Alfordsville,
NC.
stteville, N. @.
Assistant Door Keeper-H. E. King,
Peanut, n. G..
Sergeant-at-Arms-J. S. Holt Chalk
Level, N. G.
State Business Agent-W. H. Worth,
Raleigh, N. G.
Trustee Business Agency Fund-W. A.
Graham, Machpelah, N. G.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE NORTH CARO-
LIMA FARMERS STATE ALLIANCE.
s. B. Alexander, Charlotte, N. O.,
Chair nan; J. M. Mewborne, Kinston N.
C;J.S. Johnston, Rufin, N. @.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-28
GOVERNMENT BONDS.
BY OLD FOGY.


Suppose that the amount of govern
ment Indebtedness is one thousand
millions of dollars, and the interest
Alp per cent. The interest would
be As, 100000 Of dollars yearly.
Would the indebtedness be any
greater if this debt was cancelled by
the issuing of similar amount Of
greenbacks by the government and
buying up these bonds?
The indebtedness would be the
same, the form only would be changed
from bond to draft, not interest
bearing. This alone would save the
S45,O0O,OOO we now pay in interest.
This would increase the currency by
the difference between national bank
circulation and the amount of national
Indebtedness. This would destroy
national banks and State or private
banks would follow.
Two worthy aims, surely. This is
called GreenOackism. What of it !?
The Republican party opposed this
because the national banks are their
pets, and contribute largely to the
campaign fund. The Democratic
party opposes it because to be success
ful they must carry New York and
New Jersey, and as the party is led
by men like Tilden, who invested his
money in British consuls bearing 2
per cent. and bonds at 4 I-2 per cent,
they did not dare to make it
an issue, so it died. To
day we are battling for the right, for
Justice and special favors for none. If
the payment of the bonds would aid
us-the farmers-then we ought to
force in due time this as an issue.
I care not how the law now reads,
the question of Justice is before all
special legislation, enacted for the
benefit of bankers and brokers.
Is it right to pay in gold for bonds
bought in greenbacks worth 55 cents
on the dollar? Is it just? That is
the burning question. So far as I am
concerned [ would take Garfeld's
views quite as soon as the views enter
tanned by the bond holding Democrats
or Republicans of the Northeast.
Garfield said "That the people
would remember the bankers and
capitalists Of Wall street as the Ger.
mans remembered the robbers of the
river Rhine who never came out of
their strong holds but to plunder and
rob them"
The solution to this problem is, we
nave listened to the siren song of our
parties and have not thought of our
own interests. Now that we have
abandoned the old parties and have
commenced to examine for ourselves,
the organs of the bond holders will
howl and tell us secret parties will
ruin the country.
Was it right to take 200 millions
ofwhat had been a circulating medium
and transform it into bonds biaring 6
per cent. interest? Was the legisla-
tlon that made this vast charge inst?
II not let us charge it and force upon
them as they have on us what we de-
sire as they did what they desired.
Our cause is just, theirs was unjust
and legalized robbery is no less wrong
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-28
-,,z NATIONAL FARMERS AL
TrANCE AND INDUSTRIAL
UNION.

President L. L. Polk, Raleigh, N. G..
Vice President-B. H. Glover, Cain
u Se9cretary-J. See II. Turner, La Grange,
Georgia. 1,
IIPecturer-Ben Terrell, Texas.
EXECUTIVE BOARD.
CIV. Macune, Washington, D: c:
kIonzo Wardall, Huron, South Dakota.
7 F. Tillman, Palmetto, Tennessee.
JUDICIARY.
R. c. Patty, Macon, Mississippi.
Isaac McCracken, Ozone, Arkansas.
Evan Jones, Dublin, Texas.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-28

The business portion OF Flora, Miss,
was destroyed by FIRE on Tuesday
night.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-15
OPPOSITION TELEPHONES.

A New Company for This and Other
North Jersey Cities.
Special to the jersey City Nelcs.
TRENTON, July Is, 1890.-A new tele-
phone company has organized to operate
through North Jersey. 1t is known as
the Central New Jersey Telephone Com
pany. The capital stock is $4,000. The
lines are to extend from q point under
the Hudson River, in Hudson county,
through Jersey City and Kearney town
ship, Newark, Irvington and Clinton
townships, South Orange, Milburn,
Livingston, townships of Union,
Springfield and Summit, in Union;
city of Morristown. townships
of Chatham. Hanover, Morris, Mendham,
Chester and Washington, in Morris;
township of Lebanon, in Hunterdon;
townships of Mansfield. Washington,
Franklin, Greenwich, HopatcohG and the
boroughs of ~Phillipsburg and Washing
ton, in Warren county, to a point under
the Delaware river where the lines con-
meet with other lines. The incorporators
are;-Edward ]. Hall, Jr., Morristown;
Melville Eggleston, Elizabeth: Edward
P. Meaney. New York; Charles R. Bangs.
Perth Amboy; James G. Vail, Hanover.
They each have 100 shares.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-15
CORPORATION Notice.

n, orIoE rs. Hereby GIVEN. THAT ON Fl
~ lish aay e Mstss. 1924 SPgpacs eaGm,a vas {ss, made
By j, 6. ottO5an sss 9sasSs SN S0T tss Improvement of
70 rom m Central Is aye Ssos e sanf Flnse nsscs io n the f0now-
To have the street for the full width thereof
graded to the establ{shed gyade by eycavating or
TO have new 20 inch curb 5 inches thick set on
DG IL have the, Carriage way paved with inch
laid and new Efidgestons aid where necessary.
to A 5say "a 0 IN sS w9 How 1O g eh ses surface mss V ~at asc aSd e
complete 1.-THE Improvement IN. o GOOD and substau-
tial manper, but not 70 inluse ne dgees OF sne1r
and to be finished byHeptember ], 1890.
Notice Is also given that on the 9Qth DAY Of June
t tsse' s sms dV q strest and Water " 6ommissioners their
preliminaEEy ss Settcc5R s aSa Try n,tsa , b5s emSpn gi "
P PssS0seRs y e sso asse ios or ana parc sas u P lsnd, aiso saSu PROB 5
able amount Of assessment per foot OF frontage for
the said Improvement, and the same Is now opsa 70
Board Of Street and Water Commissioners:
And notice Is also given that the following
s are included in said assessment namely
from Central ave. to Sanford Place
from sherman Place. about IS feet east and Is feet
west. .,-.,n nm
from sherman Place, about $50 feet east and 12S
is ana that the 9TH day Of August, 1880. at ten o'clock
| Time and place when and where the hoard OF Street
| Interested in said application, and all retnon-
strauces against said Improvement that may be
pr By order i the Board !. Of street and Water Com.
miss'0nesS' GEO. 4. BouToN,,
mated Jarsav CIV. Julv 8. 1890.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-15
DISCIPLINE OR ABUSE?
A We11-to-Do Woman Ac-
Cused of Cruelty to Her
Stepdaughter.

Charlotte Ferrigan, of No. AZ Sussex
street, a well dressed, fine looking, mid
die aged woman, was a prisoner before
Justice Stilsing this morning, charged by
her two stepdaughters, Rose and Mamie
with abusing andrruelly neglecting their
ten-year-oldssister Sarah. The two com
p~lainants, who claim they were driven
from home by the cruelty OK their step
mother, were accompanied in court by a
bevy of feminine neighbors to oorroborate
their statements. Rose, q demure, lntel,
ligent and pretty young runette OF
seventeen, wearing spectacles, emp
to act as prosecutor, and, had sne peen
allowed to do go, would no doubt nave
handled her sisters case in a credltaple
amer a
The first witness called to the STAND
was Mrs. Annie Spellisy, who lives next
door. She testified that the child's CRIES
were common music to the neighbornood.
step-mother's harsh and cruel epltnels
applied to the child while beating her.
This, said the witness, had been going on
since last December.
Mamie, the f~ifteen-year:old sister. testl-
fed that she was obliged to leave no me q
year ago because OF her step-motners
cruel treatment. She had been thrown
into the street. She had seen her younger
sister beaten and cuffed around the MOOR,
and on one occasion the step-mother
threw a tea cup at the child and cut ner
foot. Mamie herself had, since ner
mother elected her from the house. taken
refuge with her aunt, her fathers sister,
ON York street. She had complained TO
her father several times. but he paid no
heed to her. Lawyer Manning. who rop-
resented Mrs. Farrigan, ndeavored 70
break down the girls testimony, but dld
not succeed.
The child, Sarah, stood up in the Wiz
ness chair and answered plainly all the
questions the Justice put to her. she
testified that she was whipped only Wnen
she deserved it. She had been sent TO
No. School md attended regularly I'M
til vacation. The Judge attempted to
draw out from her the fact that she had
been drilled into her answers, u did not
succeed; but thesfather when questioned
said the child had not been attending
school regularly of late. He said he had
eight children altogether, three by his
last wife. He declared that his sister in
York street was the cause OF all his fam
lily roubles and had succeeded IN poison
ing all his older children against him.
The case was laid over until tomorrow
morning.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-15


Veteran Corps badge. The lucky man
was Sergeant B.. f. Moore who won with
q score Of SO. This is the fifteenth bar to
be added to this badge, and as 1t is required
that it shall be won three times before
becoming personal property 1t bids fair to
have a.number of bars yet added before
being finally won.
Captain A. n. Graft, quartermaster OF
the Fourth Regiment, having been ap-
pointed as Post Commlssary during the
encampmeut of the Second Brigade, will
go to Sea Girt and assume his duties on
Friday, July IL.
The leave of absence granted to Lieut.
enant Colonel H. E. Hamilton, Inspector
of the First Brigade, having expired.
Major Boltwood has been relieved as
Acting Inspector and Colonel Hamilton
resumes his duties.
First Sergeant William Pierson has
beer elected Second Lieutenant of Com
,pany T, Third Regiment, vice George Nc
LEIGH, resigned.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-15
CORPORATION Notice.

nj oTrcE IS EREBY GIVEN. THAT ON THE
4sses so me 1ag ai 1s i IN The ri; Z q the Clerk q the
Board OF Street and Wafer commissioners tneH
final assessment map and report for the improve
SUMMIT AVE,
from South st. to Paterson ave, Including al m
tsTssctions, * grssa ling g snd the s. sstaDlls 6SS 5 gEasss;
e eross walks Walks paving ths carriage way with Belgian
saGs q pI proVide Tor the dow Of surface, water ana
to complete the Improvement IL a good and SUP
Re iasps aesans III a sSs 'a or sc@s q Z SSs SiRsrk 2, y sssid
hesss: 81 ops aT nSs!ss Is o also Das sHssn ar ths sss sas isSSs%rssaosf
are included In sai suMsMfF ave,
from South ST. to secaucus Road
from summit ave-. abont 80 feet east and 50 feet
YVES" ERR ST.
from Summit av., about l57 feet east and 1853 feet
YVES" ST.
from Summit ave-, about ISL feet east and l5s feet
wes'' CONGRESS ST,
from Summit ave, about 1871 feet east and los fees
west; .r. sr
from summit ave-, about SO fesst east and sl5 feet
west; .,onrr or
from summit ave. about s5s feet east and 200 feet
west; ,c 9 IN
from summit ave. about So feet east and $50 feet
west; g.
from Summit ave-. about sa7 feet east ana 10 tees
wect; IN ON
from Summit ave-, about SSs feet east Ano . Asos
"s's LEONARD ST..
from Summit ave, about Ss1 feet east ana 10 tee'
1850 HAGUE ST.,
| from Summit ave, about 2s5feet east and 10 ieet
"sS sECAUCus ROAD.
from Summit ave, about p feet east anu 2 Iees
west .oao !,
o'clock a. M, and the meeting room OF the Board
| OF Street and Water Commissioners are nereoy
dxed as tho time and pace when ana. where tne
| Board OF Street ana Water commissioners VII
meet to hear, consider and ad}uaicate upon an Cd
| ieetions TO said assessment ana report.
All objections thereto must be presented IN VIII
ing. xv,ta- roc,
missiouers. ~ n unfrroN
Clerk.
Dated jersey CITY. July Q. ;s9A
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-15
ALL ABOUT THE WAITER GIRL
Particulars of a Shooting ARRAY by the
Sad Sea Waves.

Particulars of p Shooting ARRAY by the
Sad Sea Waves
Special to the JERSEY Citg Netcs.
AsBURY PARK, July 10, 1S90.-An at
tempted shooting ARRAY occurred here
Sunday, causing great excitement among
the hotel guests and citizens generally.
The facts are as follows:-Asbury Hurley,
well known here, was paying attention to
a Miss Cordelia Vaekner, n of the wait
resses at the Saratoga, and the young lady
not appreciating his attention, quietly
gave him the mitten. This aroused all
the ire Of the Tilted sutton, and he resolved
on desperate methods. He called at the
hotel and found her in company with an
other young man, and after O few hot
words the young woman fled, Hurley pur-
suing her, and drawing his revolver fired
ever, took effect. He was disarmed after
a desperate struggle, and committed to
the city prison. He will answer at court.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-15

The handsome silver tea set to be voted
to the most popular Chief or Past Chief
Ranger of Forestry in Hudson county at
the Lady Forester's picnic tomorrow at
Pohlman's Park is on exhibition in Com
missioner Kelly's show window corner
Grove and Newark avenue. Unusual in
terest is being taken in voting by the
various Foresters. Past High Chief
O'Meaiia is In the lead followed closely
by Past Chiefs Flaherty and Crissy, High
Chief Kelly and Chiefs McHale and
O'Neil; with several others well up.