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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-02

debt statement issued today:
Interest Bearing Dept
Bonds at 4l2 per cent..... s61, 1,1s9Oo0 90
Bonds at per cent. 49,. 568. 2o4, 100 90
Refundlng certificates at 4
per cent. ................ 99,49o 90
Aggregate of interest-bear-
ing debt, exclusive of L.
5. bonds issued TO Pacific
railroads. ......... -. S629, ,492 500 90
Debt Oh which interest
has ceased since ma
turity -. -. -. 1.6s7,345 90
Debt Bearing No Interest
Legal tender notes ........ S346,6sI ,OI6 90
Old demand notes ..,..... 56,032 90
National Bank Notes
Redemption aceount(de-
posted in treasury under
act uly IA, 1890 -. 52,994,622 60
Fractional currency, less
lost or destroyed. -. 6,91o,626 90
Aggregate of debt bearing
no interest including ma
tional bank fund de-
posted in the treasury
under act OF July IL,
1OIU. Tibo,O4Z, -9O w
Certificates issued on de-
posts of gold and silver
coin and legal tender
notes:
Gold certificates -. ..... S175, ,072, ,oG9 90
Silver certificates. ...-.... $40, $3.50 4 %
Currency certificates. 6,5 5000 90
Treasury notes of $780,. 1925, 800 90
Aggregate of certificates
offset by cash in the
treasury S0ll,4|3,SS0 w
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-02

Aggregate of certificates
offset by cash in the
treasury...,.. ...........
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-02
99.49o 90

S175,N72,oG9 90
3lO,553,0 4 %
6,5 5000 90
IL, 25S, 500 90
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-05-06
AFTER A TRUST.

THE grand jury of Granville
H. county at the January term of
the Superior Court, found a true bill
against W. S. Kimball & Co., as rep.
resentatives of the great cutter trust,
which was formed some time ago.
AT the recent term of the court the
Solicitor indicted the parties and the
case will come up at the next term of
the court. This action was brought
under the provisions of the act passed
by last legislature against trusts.
Such cases are becoming quite com.
mon in the courts of our land and
are but another proof of the struggle
between individual rights and civil
freedom on the one hand and central
lied capital on the other. What
would have been the issue in such
cases fifty years ago? What would
our honest old fathers have done if a
lot of men had banded together then,
as now, for the pillage and plumber of
honest labor? What would they have
done with a Congress or a State Iegis-
lature that would have permitted
such a state Of things? Let every
reader of The PROGRESSIVE FARMER
ponder well these questions before he
casts his next vote.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-05-06
LErrHRiR L1vEsAND RECORDS
SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES.

TT is noticeable throughout the
country that where the farmers
show a disposition to bring forward
for official positions those whom they
believe to be in full sympathy with
them, there is an effort sprung at once
to get them divided. One of the
favorite methods seems to be to bring
out as many farmers for the same pc.
sition az possible and thus get the
forces of the farmers divided up into
as many factions as there can be
men found to lead them. The farmers
should be vigilant and should be true
to principle. Great economic and
political reforms should and must be
effected. These reforms as in all, the
past, must originate with and. be car
ried to victory by the great mass of
the people. The farmers are liable to
make some grave mistakes if they
act without due elaboration and are
not governed by the great principle,
1.-THE greatest good to the greatest
number" In the selection of men
for responsible positions it should be
! remembered that it is not every
farmer who, if elected, would be
true to their interest, 1t is also true,
| we are happy to know, that we have
just as good and true men who are
not identified with us, as can be found
in our ranks. So that after all, we
must Judge and measure men by their
lives, by their records, by their &C.
tions. 1t is a painful truth that we
cannot afford, in this hour of our
peril asa people, to rely on promises
alone. Promises we want and prom,
ises we will have, but these promises
must be backed up by a life and by a
record as a citizen that will guarantee
to US, beyond all question, that the
man making them will faithfully and
honestly strive to carry out his prom
ises. Bed.
The country has entered on peril
Gus times. The agricultural interests
r threatened with bankruptcy and
ruin. The power of money to Cypress
has, through the manipulations of
selfish men and the treachery of your
public servants, reached the point
where it must be checked. Fortunate.
ly for the country the people. have
been aroused to an appreciation of
the alarming situation. Our hope is
based on their patriotism and man
hood. They must nerve themselves
up to the demands of the situation
and elect men to represent them
whose lives and records entitle them
to confidence. Such and only such
should be elected to our legislature
and to Congress.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-05-06
ANOTHER SUBSTITUTE FOR
JUTE.

The following from Augusta will
be read with interest by all our
readers:
William E. Jackson, a well.known
lawyer of this city, has solved the jute
bagging problem that has agitated
cotton circles for so long. Jackson
has perfected mechanical appliances
for making bagging from cotton stalks,
and he has just returned from New
York with a roll of bagging.
Expert cotton men say that it is in
every respect equal to jute bagging.
He will buy the bare stalks from the
farms and can afford to pay about So
a ton laid down. An annual stalk
yield will bale three years cotton crop.
The machinery comprises heavy cor.
rugated rollers, with vats of running
water, carding machines and baggip9
looms, It is estimated that in making
bagglng from cotton stalks two mil.
lion dollars annually will be put into
the pockets OF farmers for what is
now cleared from the fields at an ex.
pense.
Augusta will be headquarters for
the company's mill and officers, which
will extend from Virginia to Texas.
Jackson had the roll of bagging which
is exhibited woven by the j1te bag,
ging looms of J. G. Todd, at Patterson,
N. j., and he says that experts pro.
nounce it equal to its jute rival. Cot.
ton stalk bagging is less infammable
and is only a shade darker than lutte.
Cotton circles here r jubilant.
The above would indicate that the
problem has at last been solved. The
PROGRESSIVE FARMER, as its readers
know, has time and again expressed
the opinion that herein lay, not only
the solution to the bagging trouble.
but a vast saving to the farmers of
the South. We are nov investigating
the claims above set forth and hone to
be able at an early day to give to
our readers the facts in regard to the
matter. Of one thing we feel assured
-bagging a and we predict will be
made Of the fiber of the cotton stalk
at a less price than from any product
now known. Whether the process
and appliances claimed by Mr.. Jack
son is the best to accomplish it is to
be tested, but it can and will be done.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-05-06

that the farmer by thrift, dill
gence and the use of proper appliances
cannot prosper, Or does not prosper,
there is something practically and in:
herently wrong. Who so tit and
proper to determine the wrong and
decide a remedy as the farmer him
SET, and when the great body of agri-
culturists, not only in our own State
but in the other States devoted to ag-
riculture, have suggested a remedy
for their wrongs, why should not all
other classes of our people acqulesce
in this decision and assist in the amel,
~ioration of their condition by adopting
and insisting upon those measures OF
relief which in their wisdom they
have determined best calculated to
give them relief and put them on the
right road to prosperity. ldeclare to
you that any well considered measure
for the relief of our agricultural breth-
rem, and well considered, as know they
will be and have been by them, should
receive the support and should be car,
ried into practical legislation by. all
who love and desire a perpetuity OF
our institutions, upon the principles
of freedom to all and equality to. ALL
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-05-06

he happens to know that the Judge
has a pass in his vest pocket from the
authorities of that road 4? If he rides
hundreds or thousands of miles on the
free passes of the roads, thereby saw
ing hundreds of dollars, does he not
know that the public watches his Off
cial bearing towards these roads with
suspicion ? And is he willing to thus
incur the risk of impairing that pure
and spotless character which should
always be the Hottest ambition of
those who wear the ermine ? We do
not believe that Legislators or Judges
should ever, under any circumstances,
accept these gifts of railroads. We
do not believe that there is a legislator
or Judge in the country who would
willingly undertake to stand up before
the people and justify it, and yet it
would astonish the people to know
who and how many of our public
officials r constantly receiving these
gifts from the railroads. Will the
Judges in North Carolina who do not
ride on free passes write and give us
their names ? The people wantsto see
the list.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-05-06
H GREAT STRIKE.

ON last Thursday the greatest
" labor strike on record occurred.
For some time rumors have been
afoat that on the first day of May
the members of the labor unions
throughout the world would demand
that working hours be reduced. They
claim that eight hours is sufficient for
a days work. Riots occurred in many
cities in this and foreign countries. 1t
is likely that the demands of the work,
ingmen will be acceded to, but there
will be a long and bitter struggle.
News Saturday morning was to the
effect that the men had won in Cincin.
natl and Minneapolis, also in Louis
vile, KY. But in Chicago and other
cities in this country and in Rome,
Italy, and in several cities in the
northern part of France the proceed
ings were quite riotous and trouble is
feared.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-05-06
H CROP OUTLOOK.

TT is yet too early to say much
Il about the prospects for corn and
cotton, but up to this time nothing
very ~discouraging has occurred.
Wheat in many sections is said to be
fine, so is the oat crop. But in the
vicinity of Raleigh there is much
complaint. The insects preyed on it
too heavily throughout the winter and
early spring. Preparations have been
made for a large crop of tobacco. In
Nash, Wilson, Edgecombe, Johnston,
Franklin and Wake counties, which
are known as the new tobacco terri
tory, the acreage will be fully so per
cent. greater than ever planted before.
There seems to be a shortagein plants
in some parts of the tobacco belt, but
no doubt enough will be found to
complete the planting. The truck
farmers in the east have suffered again
by frosts, but the shipping of early
vegetables and strawberries has begun
and it is to be hoped that the truck
farmers will come out pretty well.
Though not fattering, the outlook is
nearly up to the average at this
writing.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-05-06
THE OUTLOOK FOR THE ORDER

NEVER in the history of our
IN order has the outlook been so
bright and encouraging. The action
of the St. Louis Convention in consol-
idating the sentiment of the South
and great West On great vital econ,
omic questions, and in its just de-
mands for a governmental policy that
recognizes great living issues in
which all the people of all sections are
directly concerned, gave to our move
ment fresh impetus and awakened re-
newed interest from one end of the
country to the other. In those States
where our order had not been intro
duced, the farmers are clamorous for
organizers, and our national head
quarters are beseiged with applications
for organizers and Alliance literature.
In the older Alliance States the order
is growing steadily and is strength
ening every day. During last month
ninety organizations were added to
the roll,call in Virginia. Even in our
own we'll organized State we one
hundred have been added during the
past four months. The various farm,
ers organizations in all the States are
happily inclined to join in with US and
make one great and grand organiza,
ton.
We have planted our banner in the
great States of New York, Ohio and
Pennsylvania. President Polk ad-
dressed the farmers of central Penn
sylvania, at Harrisburg, on the 26th
ult. Eight counties were represented
and every n present, who was eligi-
BILE, became a member of our order
among them some of the leading
Changers of the State, and others
who had never before belonged to any
similar order. On the same day Bro.
Ben. Terrell, our National Lecturer,
organized the State Alliance of In
diana, at indianapolis. Our organ
izers in Michigan, Illinois, New Jer.
sey, West Virginia, California, Ore
gon, Wisconsin and Montana, are
moving smoothly forward. Vermont
and New Hampshire and other States
are calling loudly for help. Organ.
izers will be secured and put to the
work as lapidly as possible. The
order is in fine spirit everywhere and
the, prospect is most hopeful for a
gathering at Jacksonville, in Decem.
Der next, such as has never been seen
IN, the world. Let our brethren
everywhere take fresh courage and
lend their best effort to the advance
ment of our glorious cause.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-05-06
DO HIGH TAXES HURT THE
FARMERS?

The Nashville Argonaut-one OF
the best edited of North Carolina
newspapers = copied a paragraph
from an article we wrote relative to
the bad effects of the Tariff upon the
farmers and dissented from our con,
illusions. We quote:
"While it is doubtless true that a
protective tariff lays a burden on the
farmer, yet to attribute the want of
thrift often seer among farmers to
the influence of protection is to give
them an excuse for shiftlessness to
which they r not properly entitled.
Political conditions which would affect
one would affect all; but we find in
every community, many who fill up
the beautiful picture drawn in the
above extract. If protection keeps
one man poor, why does it not keep
all poor? Allowing it's Disadvantages
we must look somewhere else for the
prime cause. The man who moves
about in the country and witnesses the
want of intelligent energy, the slip
shod, haphazard way in which many
farmers conduct their business, will
not be at a loss to discover reasons
for want of thrift"
Unlike ourselves the editor of the
ArgonaWt has tried his prentice
hand" at farming. We agree with
him as to the genera charge of slip
shod farming-to a want of thorough
ness and intelligence in much that is
done.
The above recently came out in the
Wilmington Messenger. It is a sample
of stuff that respectable papers now
and then deal out to their readers.
Why they do it nobody knows. That
papers of such standing and ability as
that of the Argonaut and MESSENGER
should shoot so wide of the mark, is
surprising.
In answer to the argument made
by the Argonaut that eff protection
keeps n man poor, why does it not
keep all poor 2" we will leave that for
children to discuss. But we will ask
the Argonaut a question: Why is it
that travellers do not sail in and rob
the robbers who frequently attack
them ?
Now as to the slipshod farming.
What is there in that statemebl ?
Nothing. The argument that all tie
trouble is due, or even a large portion
of it, is too puny for anything. That
chestnut is as old as our republic.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-05-06

There is a great deal of slovenly jour
nalism 10 this country-fully as much
in proportion as there is slovenly
farming, but we do not include the
Argonawt and Messenger when we say
that. There is any amount of "sllp.
shod" merchandising; and a lot OF
"slipshod professional work of all
kinds. So every class has it's black
sheep" so to speak" We say with
out fear of contradiction that with all
their faults the farming people of this
country are as good if not a little
better than any other class. You will
find more idlers in our towns and
cities than in the rural districts; more
rogues, more drunkards, more gam,
blers, more worthless characters of all
kinds.
But we can view it from another
standpoint. Our national statistician,
Mr.. Dodge, says it is overproduction
and his statement has the support of
many others. So there can't be no
great amount of "slipshod farming.
II there is so much how do we pro
6uce so much? If our farmers make
sc much under the present ssystem
what would it be if they were more
industrious The result would be
fearful. Corn would bring from 5 to
Is cents per bushel; wheat, 70 TO 2V
and cotton perhaps 4 or 5 cents
The worst thing our farmers have
been guilty of is the slovenly way they
have of looking after their business
after they have made good crops.
They have allowed every other class
to drain them until they are nearly
dry and some of those who have aided
in this draining directly and indirect.
ly, by their open approval or by their
silence, are now ready to cry out
slovenly, slipshod, lack of brains, nc
system, don't work, too ignorant for
anything, and such. We hope the
Messenger and Argonaut will recon
slider The matter, and if they do and
will give the matter more careful
thought they surely will conclude
that the farmers WHO have managed
to build up one of the richest and
most powerful nations on earth in less
than 500 years r not to be called
"slipshod farmers"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-05-06
JOURNALISTIC.
What the Knights of the Quill are
Doing.

The last issue Of the Monroe Regis,
ter was a II page paper:
The Fayetteville Observer is IS
years old and says. it was W in
better health. May this happy condl-
ton continue.
The Oxford Day announces that 1t
will soon arrange to take teIegraphlc
service and furnish news FROM all sec
tions OF the country.
The Atlanta Journal Of last weeG
contained Is pages. It contained q
great deal of advertising and portraits
of noted men and bits Of history.
Mr.. W. E. Gillian, editor of the
bright and newsy Reidsville RevieW,
was in the city last week at the Cham
Der of Commerce banquet. He made
The PROGRESSIVE FARMER a brief visit
which was much appreciated.
An exchange says: would ad-
wise all country editors, when they die
and are waited to heaven on angels
wings, to slip their subscription
books under their arm and leave them
at the gate for st. Peter to examine.
We think there would be a great
many people compelled to stay on the
outside, for it would be tool late to set
tie accounts then.
Our esteemed .uamesake, the Pro
,gress51ve Farmer, published at Mi. Yer;
non, ILL.,, and which is the official
organ of the Farmers Mutual Benefit
Association, an organiza ton which is
quite strong in the West, was three
years old last week. "Our PROGRESS.
II FARMER" is about a wear and
two months the oldest, and, up' TO the
time the Mt. Vernon paper was .estaO
lished, was the only paper of the M 'me
in the United States. But if o. Il
namesakes be as good as the F. N,
B. A. paper, we shall not object to-
having more named after us.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-05-06
SHOULD AJUDGE CARRY FREE
PASS2

DUBLIC moral sentiment is averse
Il to the free-pass system. 1t is the
prevalent belief that it has a democrat.
izing and corrupting tendency, and
especially so where there is no equiva,
lent rendered for it. Among news
paper men it is not objected to so
much, as the advertising done for the
roads may be regarded as an equiva-
lent rendered. But we believe that it
would be fairer for the roads and for
the press if even this feature of it was
discontinued. But what legitimate
excuse a be put forward to Justify a
legislator, who is to make laws. or
a judge who is to execute law, for
accepting this gift from the roads 3?
How many members of the last legis.
lature refused to accept free passes ?
How many of them accepted them :?
We know some who positively re-
fused them, but it would be interest.
ing to u readers to see a list of those
who accepted these passes and The
PROGRESSIVE FARMER would like ex.
ceedingly well to publish the list.
Will they answer and let their con.
stituents know?
Again, The PRoGREssIvE. FARMER
would like to publish the names of orr
Judges who refuse to accept free
passes. We believe that next to the
sacred pulpit, the judges. bench
should be the purest and cleanest-
that not the remotest faint of susni.
elon should attach to it. But is there
a Judge in all this land who believes
that a litigant in a cause with a rail.
road, which is being tried before him.
does not suspect him and fear him if
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-05-06
THE BANQUET TUESDAY NIGHT

THE Chamber Of Commerce ban
4 quot in Raleigh on the night of
the 29th was a success. If all the
people of this great republic could
have heard what the speakers said of
the wonderful resources of North
Carolina and her future possibilities
as a manufacturing State, surely all
eyes would have been turned toward
our commonwealth for a time. But
though the picture is bright there is
a dark mist in front of our eyes which
must be removed or else this Industrial
progress will be only word painting.
Worth Carolina is rapidly going % the
front IN everything but agricultural
prosperity. Referring to this at the
banquet his Excellency, D. G. Fowle,
said: "No State a become great in
manufacturing or commerce when her
agricultural interests are depressed as
they are in our State. The remedy is
more money and less tariff" He said
" we must see that the people have
more money through the medium of
an increased circulation"
Mr.. Julian s. Carr, of Durham
used the following truthful language:
agriculture in our State is in q
depressed condition. Whenever it
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-05-06
AMONG THE Al L4ANCES'

What the Organizat6A ! is Doing
Throughout the Co 'nFry'
The Knights of Labor ha We 20 &C,
tive lodges in the State a III "ooU
$1,000 members.
The Alliance at Carrolt0A va
will soon build a guano factor, ' "n'
oil mill of their own.
The Cotton Plant says that 'H ~
membership of the Alliance in SON /
Carolina is now "a, 667.
The Alliance men in Washington
county announce that they expect to-
have a big picnic in July.
The Alliance at Graham, Ca, has a.
new storehouse with hall on the Sec
ond story nearly completed.
The members of our order in
Johnston county, Ca, have a -four
ishing store of their own at Wrights-
vile.
The Alliance men in Putnam
county, Fla, tell the county commits.
sioners that they must be more econ
omical in the disposition of the county
funds.
The Board of Directors of the
South Carolina Alliance Exchange
met at Columbia a few days ago.
.they pronounce the Exchange an en-
tire success.
The Mineral Bluff, Ca, Gazette says
the Alliance store at that place is do
ing a rushing business now and that
another n is oon to be started in
another section of the county.