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The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-01-18

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The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-01-18

All kinds Of merchandise and other fraigbts.
including orss. promptly transferred from the
depot. Office NJ j Feidbcrg's ttorc and at thu
depot. Orders viii receive prompt attention.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-02-17
A NEW CONGRESS-"

The boys of Wake Forest College hav-
ing become tired Of waiting on Carlisle
and Reeds Congress for the enactment of
such laws a. will be of relief to the
honest yeomanry, hard listed sons of
toll and the dear people," have set up
among themselves a new congress. There
was resurrected from the committee room
of this Congress at its vests rday's setting
the bill (H R. No. ~ introduced by the
gentleman from Michigan, and known as
the sub-Treasury bill (same as introduced
by Representative Pickler.)
When the bill came up on its third read
ing, one after another the grave (boy)
representatives rose in their seats and ex-
pressed their views, many of them display
ing a consi5 erable kno Wedge of economical
questions, considering their snort expe-
rience in congress.
A heated debate, in whi,h seventeen
speeches were del .vered, followed the
motion to pass. But the bill was consid-
cred sloof from party lines and passed on
its third reading. We hope to get the
President, some day. to approve it, or
upon his veto to give it two-thirds.
The night sitting of the congress is set
aside for the discussion of a silver bill,
providing for free coinage and parity with
gold. The ele 3tioneering in the Hobbies
indicate the passage OF this bill without
dou 1T. The influence of the agitation Of
present economic questions may prove a
greatblessing to the rising generati IN.
RECORD CLERK.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-02-17
TH~ANKsGIvING

At the request of several brethren, /
attempt to give a brief account of two
NEST delightful occasions. The first was
a meeting of all the pc ople of "Cashie
Neck" on the last day of the old year.
Lone Star Alliance had prepared Cor the
occa ion, and it was a great success. The
services were opened by the Methodist
minister, Mr.. Harrison. Msssrs. Askew,
Greenwich, Swain and Goo6e made ap
propriate addresses, after which we adj
j0urned for dinner. A very long table
had been prepared and it was loaded down
with the fat of the land Even the
sickest man present ate freely.
This was followed by he marriage Of
Mr.. Pruden and Miss Pierce at the nearest
residence. All repaired 20 the scene of
wedlock, and beheld the happy couple
made one.
The last order of the day was a thanks
giving sermon by Mr.. 81. G. Bowen from
the Alliance standpoint.
The second was at Beaver Dam ALI
ance, Martin county, on the first day of
the new year. Alth 1ugh the day was not
so bright as the former, a goodly number
met for worship and to hear an Alliance
ermo by brother II. G. Bowen, a mem
Der Of this lodge. Another beautiful din
ner was served, followed by an address,
and we all went home with many good
resolves for the new year.
ACHsEBs.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-02-17
FOREIGN NEWS.

London Times, i'm. %. = The verdict of
Hartlepool is one that we may confidently
hope to reverse at the General Election
when the lessons of the IIsh spirit have
had time to penetrate more deeply into
the minds O. the less instructed among the
electora g. For the moment, however, it
reveals to US a danger Il at must never be
lost sight Of and that Unionists ought to
press on the attention of the country. The
superstitious worship of Mr., Gladstone
and the sociRlistic sspirati MS that are
constantly fed by the reckless pledges of
politicians are alike sustained by a contin
ually renewed influx of ignorance and
indifference. Yet the Hartlepool victory
is not all in favor of the opposition.
Mr.. Parnell who is a shreWd contro-
versialist, will undoubtedly use it to
persuade the Irish voters to treat the
G~ladstonian argument that Home Rule is
endangered through the persistence of
the Irish quarrel as a mere bugbear. IL
spite of the division in the Irish party, he
will say Mr.. Gladstone and his Home
Rule policy-wh8tever it may be worth,
Immediately or prospectively-are sup
ported by majOrities at bye elections in
Great Britain, 1t would be easy to show
the fallacy of this reasoning, bu. t e
GlsdstopianS and their Irish allies cannot
do SO without revealing the vanity of
their own hopes. For they know well
that, in spite of a casual GIL am of light
from constituencies like Hartlepool, where
their spokeSmen are running up a terribly
long bill that will have to be met n Of
these days, they are not at all prepared to
face a dissolution.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-02-17

The Democratic Senate, contrary to the
best adv &c, against the advance judge
ment Of many and against the after
judgement of every body, swore in, in
defiance OF the Cons itution, those officers
whom it claimed TO lie elected. Every
body knOtos that all OF them were not
elected, many think none were. That
headssrong performance did untold mis-
CT ief and not a few think that is why it
was done.
Rumor has it that the united LIQUOR
interests of the State are demanding q
Democatic governor in order that their
party may control the county co nmis-
sioners who grant the license.
But we are as yet unwilling to believe
that any So h influence can stand efsc-
lively in the way of a solution of the
trouble. The people demand it. They,
and indeed nearly everybody who hasn't
a pers 0nal interest at stake, wants this
trouble to end and this disgrace to begin
to disappear. not grow daily worse. They
care less for party than for peace.
Now the two houses should meet in q
body or by committee and do something.
If they can agree Cp a statute regulating
the settlement of disputes, let them pass
that and send tn pending dispute to
reference, or treat it in whatever way
they agree upon. But they should meet
s-mehow and agree on something, and if
the Democrats refuse to DO that then thu
people will remember them.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-02-17
SOCIAL TOPICS.
THE OLD, OLD STORY.

LIE SLAJ 80 5AShA0
The Scotsman Edinburgh, Jan. 3l.-It
is off tally announced that 1900 of the
men who were in the employment of the
CaledOnian Railway Company before the
strike began, will now be left out of their
employment. TIE places which they va
ca-ed have been filed up, and the Com
pany cannot now find room for them.
On the Glasgow and south western Rail-
way the number of men in like condition
will be smaller but stu they are many.
In the case of the North British Railway
Company, the old hands who will be left
out of work will not be fewer-possiby
they will be more-than those who have
been left out in the case of the Caledonian
Company. Assuming, then, mat there
are 1900 in the Caledonian and 1000 in
the North British, and say 100 in the
Glasgow and Southwestern, we have
the ugly fact that the result Of this strike,
so far as the men are concerned, is that
$500 of them will have lost the employ
ment they had before the strike began,
and will have to seek for other means of
living. THIS Is not a pleasant state Of
things. 1t is one profoundly to be
regretted and the question will have to
be asked. WhO is responsible for it2
There may be men who will say that the
workers who have been left out of employ
ment are themselves responsible 1t is
no doubt true that they have foolishly
thrown up work which was regular and
well paid, and in which they might have
continued as long as they pleased But
they did not take this step Of their own
motion. They had been melted thereto by
men who had their position as Union
officials to vindicate, and who have used
the unfortunate workers for their own
purposes. It might be asked now-it
will be asked in the future, who has
glven the best counsel to the men in the
r of the strike; and the answer to
that will be that the advice to go back to
their work, and then to seek in a proper
way for the redress Of their grievanle s,
was at once the safest and kindest advice
that could be given
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-02-17
U EXCHANGES.
wH1rr1ER,s MESSAGE.

ANTHEMS, GA, Jan. 5. Miss Mile
Rutherford, authOress of a volume ent ted
Americas Authors" received an inter
esting letter of acknowledgement from
Tohn e.. Whittier, in which he says: I
hoo thee to understand that 1 had no
haired for the shareholders or to tue South.
T never doubted that they were as humane
as sny people could be and hold human
beings as property-negotiable commodi-
ties, But as Quaker, a member of a soci-
etv which from sense of duty set all its
slaves free 100 years ago, l have always
hated slavery. No n can rejoice more
tTnIv than myself in view of the inc, easin ?
nrosperity of the uth."-At11ntG Journal.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-02-17
THE TANGLE IN ooNNECrIoUT.

Hartford COurant (Rep), Jan. 30.--The
House will act on and, of course, pass
the resolutions of the majority report
next Tue .day. That is what the Senate
is waiting for. AS we said yesterday,
those resolutions are In the nature OF an
overture to the Senate.
In the name Of the people of Connect
cut, we advise the Ser ate to listen and to
do something that can be taken as indicat-
ing even q desire on its part to have the
pre- sent snarl undone. We are an orderly
State and a decent people. This wrangle
at the State House is . disgrace to Con
necticut. The two parties met at the
Capitol across a bill diff Of opinion.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-02-17

robbers and for the judges and the legis-
lators and the public teachers who have
been their accomplices.
Meantime these fasts are to be kept in
mind-that we have among us a class of
men who, in their rapacity, are bent on
%enriching themselves by forcibly Selling
the property of their neighbors; and that
they have learned how to use for this
purpose the organized force of the State.
Son e means must be found of putting a
stop to them. Unless this be done speedily,
the res oect for law on which social order
rests will not long survive Century.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-02-17
woMAN's WORK AND WAGES.

NeaU York Commercial Advertiser, jan.
81 On Monday last the Commercial
published an interview with Miss Van
Et.en, president of the Workingwoman's
Society of new York, which threw a
really startling light on the woman labor
question. The lesson to be drawn from
the testimony of an authority so entirely
competent was, in a nutshell, this That
while woman had not been benefited to
any considerable extent through the
throwing open to her of late years of
avenues of employment hitherto monopo-
lied by men, the EARNINGS of man had
been reduce2. In a word, the answer to
woman's demand for equality of earnings
for equality of work has been, not a
raiaing of woman's wages, but a lower
ing of mans. That this had happened
was made painfully clear by Miss Van
Etten. and clearer still by the supple
mentary testimony of Mrs. M. J. Creagh,
Superintendent of the Workingwomen's
for making and finishing mems waistcoats
are now from II to % cents, whereas ten
years ago the prices were from 80 to 40
cents. Trouser- makers used to get from
80 to As cents a garment; to-day the
average pTIC0 Is ~ COuISs vi Tic Jersey
makers, the woman who earns so cents a
dozen is envied, while in the dull season
she is considered lucky if her daily wages
average 25 cents. Women who work on
umbrellas average so cents a day-just
half as much as they did ten years aga.
But there is one class of workipgwomea
who are in no danger of being driven to
suicide by Want-those who, by going
into service, secure good wages, q COM
Portable home and abu dant food. And
it will be seen that it is prec ,isely this
class who are doing women's traditional
work-not work from which they have
driven men. OF these, all the thrifty are
so prosperous, and so entirely beyond the
the reach Of want, that societies devoted
to improving the condition of wori ing
women and helping them in their diff
culties exclude servants from their range
of work" In the language of Mrs.
Creagh, They get places Whenever they
want them, receive good wages, don't
know what hunger is, and are well
acquainted with the looks Of q handbook.
They don't need help"
That any woman should befound who
would rather lead a lingering existence
one cannot call it life-of ceaseless anxiety.
hopeless penury and grinding toll than
the comparatively easy and vastly more
prosperous life of domestic service is hard
to understand. Taat the vast majority of
astounding. Such madness would almost
seem to rob them Of all right to pity, were
not madness itself most pitiable.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-02-17
THE BEHRING SEA QUESTION IN THE SUPREME
COURT

~ 2. Times Cnd), Feb. 3.-With
unexpected prompness the Supreme Court
at Washington has determined to grant
leave to file a petition for a writ of pro-
hibition to prevent the District Court of
Alaska from carrying out the decree of
forfeiture in the case of the British
schooner Sayward, seized in Behring Sea
in 1887 for capturing seals in the { waters
of Alaska" The only question really
decided in this action of the court is that
it has jurisdiction to proceed by writ Of
prohibition in respect to the Alaska Court.
It is evident from the remarks of Chief
Justice Fuller that the Court did not
regard the nature Of the case, the ques-
tons involved, or the parties concerned
as having anything to do with the ques-
ton of Jurisdiction or the propriety of
granting leave to file the petition. 1t
was treated like any ordinary case. The
rule of the court was made returnable on
the second Monday in April, and at that
time the Behring Sea question, with all
that it involves, will be brought before
the Supreme Court. On the issue of
granting the writ itself, the merits of the
controversy will be argued and considered,
and il is possible that it may be taken out
of the field IF diplomacy so far as ques-
ton of &C .ual jurisdiction in Behring Sea
are concerned.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-02-17
TAXA TON.

Mr.. EDIToR:-We have seen and read
some articles about railroads in general,
and the Wilmington & Weldon in p~articu-
lar, not paying their part of taxes. Now
what I have got to say is this: 1 am a
farmer, and if I don't pay my taxes the
sheriff seizes my property and sells it.
Why should a corporation be fed out of
one spoon and / out of another ? is the
question. You and l know, Mr.. Editor,
that if railroads and corporations had been
made to stand up like we farmers and
other citizens have been forced to do, all
this agitation about lab Or and capital would
not have been. What troubles us is that
the Wilmington & Weldon and other
companies with their millions of dollars,
do not pay any, or as good as nc taxes,
and every little one-horse farmer is forced
10 pay taxes in proportion to what he
owns. 1T it is said these companies have
a contract with the State which clears
them from paying taxes. Well, this one
thing I do know, if these companies are
free from taxes, it is only for such prop
erty as is necessary to run their business
in the lie of their contract, everything
else they W is like the farmer or the
merchants property-liable to taxes.
What property do the Wilmington &
Weldon and the other corporations own
beyond this imit2 That is the question,
and our legislature ought to make them
answer it in full before it gives them any
more favors. I have been looking for 9
message from the Governor to the legis-
lature on this subject. During his Office as
Governor he has been standing up for the
n~eonla's rights Now would not ask the
Governor or anybody else to force nor
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-02-17
DER1TA ALLIANCE, Mecklenburg Co., N. c.,
Fob 7 1901
II. A. HIGHT.

DERITA ALLIANCE, Mecklenburg Co., N. c.,
Feb. Z, 1891.
WHEREAS, the time is at hand when all
those who hold public trusts of any kind
should be held to a strict account for their
action, and when the people should not
be backward about expressing their views
upon public matters; therefore
Resolved That the members of the
General Assembly of North Carolina, now
in session, who vote or use their inlu-
ence against the interests of the lsboring
classes of our people, thereby favoring
the money powers of this country, de-
serve the condemnation of all true men.
ReSoIUed, That we will remember and
honor those who, by their words and &C
tons, stand up like MEN for the welfare
of the farmers and laborers of North
Carolina, whether they be Alliancemen or
not, or whether they come from the oyster
beds of Hyde or from the hills of Cherokee.
RESOLVED, That it is a thin argument
against the 6 per cent. interest bill to say,
"the President of the Farmers Alliance
of Mecklenburg county is opposed to the
bill" or that che was in the fullest SYM
pathy with the farmers" when we know
that he is also opposed to some of the
most important demands OF the NaLlOna
Alliance And we call upon the Senator
from Mecklenburg to say whea he was
informed that his County Alliance was
not in sympathy with that bill"
ResolVed, That we care very little what
a man thinks of his own honesty, or how
good he claims to be,-by their fruits we
propose to know them.
The Alliance may not be able yet to
"act independent of other classes, but
we think an honest man should act for
and with the classes he proposes to love
and represent.
ResoEved, That we approve of some
good law that will give the poor children
Of our State a better education, but we
oppose any and all extravagant measures
that do not benefit the classes that need
the help. The money should go direct to
the children of the public schools.
ResoIved, That a copy of these resolu-
tons be sent to our State organ, and {
the Charlotte papers for publication.
N. GBBoN,
President Derita Alliance.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-02-17
DOMESTIC NEWS.
THE EEr1N OF CLEVELAND AND HILL.

H MEETING OF CLEVELAND n HILL.
Brooklyn Citizen (Dena), Feb. 2.-Mr.
Cleveland's refe ,ence to the Governor
was in the following cor lial terms:
Before concluding my remarks 7
desire to propose the health of a distin-
guished citizen of this State who is present;
one who has discharged the responsible
duties of Governor of the commonwealth
to the EN- nent satisfaction of the people;
one who has been rev arded for his signal
fidelity to public int rests by an election
to the high Office of Senator or in Con-
gress of the United States. I propose the
health o. the Hon David B. Hill"
To this the Governor responded
"In reply to MI. Cjeveland's kind
words, I can only say that my highest
ambition is to serve the people in the
high Office to which l have been elected
in such a manner as to merit the same
encomiums as were bestowed upon MI.
Cleveland for his administration of the
exalted Office he held for four years. I
hope 1 may also follow the example of
that gentleman, at least to the extent of
ultimately becoming a member of the
Manhattan Club"
The Governor then proposed the health
of Nh. Cleveland.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-02-17

favor the paym-ut of taxes, and 20 tax
railroads, but what I do say, is that all
should fare alike in this matter.
Give us some editorials. on this line.
You can't do the seople Of the State no
better service. What is sauce for the
goose isJ or should be, san q for the gam
der. FARMER.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-02-17

Mr. ED1ToR:-In compliance with the
request of the State Alliance, Shallow
Well and Poplar Spring Alliances, Moore
county, met at Shallow Well church on
New Years night TO return thanks for the
many blessings that have been given dur
ing the past year. A sermon was
preached by the Rev. Mr. Watson, of
Morehead City, that did credit to the oc-
~casion, and was worthy of that talented
young man who delivered it. Then Bro.
Il. D. Mason, of Chatham, was introduced
and addressed the large assembly of atten
tive listeners for nearly an hour; but it
would be useless for me to try to give a
sketch of either the sermon or speech, for
both were fully sufficient for the occasion.
We are growing in number and in power,
and we fully endorse The PRoGREssIvE
FARMER and have buckled on the ALI
ance helmet in all things.
Yours truly,
n A HTcuT
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-02-17
TIE PROHIBITION AMENDMENT.

49,
1.-The Voice CPro.), Wew York, Feb. g.
The criticisms which The Voice published
last week on Senator Van Gorder's Bill
to secure an Amendment election ia
April, seem to have had the desired result.
Senator Van Gorder practically admits
their force by preparing a substitute for
the Bill, which he requests the Senate to
consider instead of the original Bill. The
Amendment has again been saved, there
fore. How many more times will it
require saving, we wOnderl 1t is high
time some decision regarding the April
election were reached. There remain but
two AID one half months, AMI if their is
much further delay in the matter the
time will be wholly insufficient to get
the subject properly before the people.
There il, of course, considerable that can
be done while the status of the election is
still uncertain, such work as organizing,
appointing committees, etc., but the real
campaign work on the Amendment IAN
not be done, except at a great disadvantage
and a great loss of ammunition, until
the uncertainty hanging over the election
is removed. Whether the election shall
be held in April Gas the Legislature
decided) or in November Gas Governor
Hill suggests) is not of nearly as much
consequence as that ample time be given
for the consideration of the issue.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-02-17

We have circulated in the past ffty-two
weeks, including this issue, 769, 900 copies
OF THE PRoGREssIvE FARMER 1920
copies per week going out now.
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Tacoma Ledger: The rate Of Tacomas
growth has been marvellous. She was in
short dresses at the middle of the last de-
eade She is now only ten-year-old girl.
The history of the world holds not her par
allel.
The commerce and manufactures of Ia
coma place her at the head of all the cities
ofthe new northwest, excepting only Port
land, and in some important particulars
she leads the latter and is coming still.
Cike her neighbor, Tacoma ships wheat
but SO far this season she has chartered
sixty-two ships, to only six chartered for
Seattle.
Like her neighbor, also. Tacoma manu-
factqres lumber; but she does it in the pro
portion of ten to one against Seattle.
Unlike her neighbor, Tacoma's -four
mills turn out SEQ barrels of flour every day
for exports to ports of Asia.
Unlike her neighbor, Tacoma has great
smelter which produces bullion of silver
and gold from ores of this state and from
other ores brought by rail and by sail from
distant countries over the seas.
Tacoma is becoming the financial center
of the northwest. Her bank clearances are
more than double those of Seattle; some
days nearly three times as large. Last Sat
urday as an instance, Tacoma's report
showed $298, 8,947,15 against $119,616.68 fol
her neighbor, which, though young, is
three times as old.
Notwithstanding all these unfortunate
differences, we are friends and fraternize
on OCCASION