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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-30
HERE'S OUR RIGHT HAND.

Bro. J. F. Willitts, of Kansas, was
elected our National Lecturer at Ocala
last December. In pursuance of his
duties in this capacity, he has gone
through the State of Mississippi on a
lecturing tour. How well he has per
formed his duty and how warmly he
was appreciated, the following resolu-
tiOns will tell:
Resolved, That we, the members of
the +. A. and |. y. of Holmes county,
assembled at Durant, Miss, on June
10Th, 1891, congratulate the N. il. A.
and 1. U. upon the selection of Bro. j.
f. Willis, of Kansas, as the National
Lecturer of our order. We sympathize
with our brothers of Kansas in their
effort to relieve themselves from the
oppression of the money power, and
we extend to them the right hand of
fellowship and bid them God speed in
the noble work they are doing. We
extend to Bro. WilIitts our heartfelt
thanks for visiting and addressing us;
and we welcome him to our hearts,
our homes and fressides.
Unanimously adopted by a rising
vote.
Such expressions of sympathy and
fraternity, and coming, as they do, in
large measure, from brave men who
once engaged in deadly sectional strife,
domore to restore unity and confidence
and contribute more to the real we'll
being of the people and country than
all the political platforms adopted by
all the so-called national parties for
the past half century. When Presi-
dent Polk, at the Invitation of our
Kansas brethren, visited that State last
year, he was most violently and unjust
ly assailed and abused by the partisan
Republican press of that State. Like
wise Bro. Willitts was assailed by the
partisan Democratic papers, but the
people-the honest, patriotic, broad
minded people of Mississippi and Kan
sas-gave no heed to these fanatical
and narrow minded partisans and
manfully extended the right hand of
welcome and love to these representa-
tives of a restored Union. The Mem
phis papers heralded the coming of
this good brother as an emissary from
the Republican camp-an old aboli-
tionist-and endeavored to inf1ame the
dying embers of sectional hate, but we
tell them and all of like ilk, that the
masses are going to put their seal of
utter condemnation on such wicked
folIv North and South.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-30
HOW OUR BRETHREN FEEL
ABOUT 1T.

From a business letter received by
our Business Manager from a hitherto
died-in- the-wool Democrat who has for
years toiled in the ranks to keep his
county as it has been, the banner
Democratic county of North Carolina,
we make the following quotation:
Rest assured I will let no oppor-
tUnity pass to secure you a subscriber,
for u salvation depends upon our re
form literature, and if this movement
fails to restore to the people their
sacred rights, farewell to free America.
While Ihave been as consistent a Demo
crat as ever threw a ballot, and greatly
desired to see the Democratic party
step On our platform, my Alliance
principles have the ascendancy, and if
| am forced to surrender either, good
bye Democratic party. May God de-
liver you from the crowd that is now
directing your destinyr'
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-30
CUTTERS.

Mr.. EDTToR:-See,th rapid work OF
trusts. The following is a statement
made by Mr.. II. D. Egerton, a promi-
nent farmer of Franklin county. He
says two years ago he placed a lot of
cutters on the Oxford market that sold
for As cents. In about two weeks
thereafter he had to take 35 cents for
the same cutters in the same market.
He complained to Messrs. Davis &
Gregory, warehousemen with whom
he sold. They explained to him that
there had been a trust formed on cut
tiers since he sold the Ascent lot, and
that they were helpless to remedy the
decline; that when he sold the Ascent
lot there were five cutter buyers on
the market, and now only one, and he
buying for the trust andhadamonopoly
of the cutter trade, and if anyone else
were to buy cutters at an advance over
this buyers price, they would be forced
to lose the difference. Mr.. Egerton
says this is coming home to Katie and
the baby.
I. see in the clipping below
from the State Chronicle of June
&c thatt the American Tobacco Company
bought May Both 300, 900 pounds of cut
tiers at less than 20 cents. Now who
will bet that in less than two years
bright cutters will he less in price than
yellow cotton is now.
Just note the tumble from 40 cents
to less than 20 cents in less than two
years! Has labor advanced2 Has
cigarettes advanced? Does it cost
more to manufacture the tobacco now?
If not, where does the tremendous
profit go? P. M.
DANvILLE, Va, May 3O.-The Ameri-
can Tobacco Company has gotten in
it's work here and bought about 300, 900
pounds Of cutters. The company's
representatives were B. N. Duke, of
Durham; John E. Pope, of Alien &
Ginter, of Richmond; William A. Mar
burg, of Baltimore; f. G. Schaum,
buyer for Marburg at Winston, and
The Walker, buyer for Duke at Dur
ham.
It is said that Messrs. N. T. Robin
son, P. @. Venable & Co., George S.
Hughes & Co., P. w Terrell & Co.,
Willard Holland and D. A. overly
"unloaded."
The price paid being within a frac-
ton of twenty dollars per hundred,
the same reaching between fifty and
sixty thousand dollars. The sellers
may have sustained some loss, but they
believe themselves fortunate to get
from under the load as well as they did.
The American company is now nego-
tiating with Craddock and Paxton, but
at last accounts no deal had beenmade.
Dibrell Brothers would not sell at the
price offered.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-30
OATES RAISES THE BLACK FLAG
AGAINST THE ALLIANCE.

WASHINGTON, June 23.-Representa-
tive Oates, of Alabama, who is an old
fashioned Democrat of the most I'M
compromising sort, takes a very serious
view of the Alliance movement in the
South. Speaking to-day, he said that
he thought that the Southern Demo
Gratis were too timid and trustful in
dealing with the Alliance and that they
did not fully appreciate the seriousness
of the situation. '"Too many of our
folks" he said, "are trying to make
friends with the Alliance, in hopes of
holding their own hereafter. They but
deceive themselves. The Alliance folks
are not fooled, but our people are com
promised. The fact is just this: We
have got to fight the Alliance right out
with all our might or it will get the
best of us In the South.
Norman can believe intheS ubITreas-
ury and land loan schemes and claim
to be a Democrat. The lines must be
drawn sharply and at once. The Ali
ance is now in the minority, but it is
organized well and our people are
weakening themselves by cutting shy
OF the fight. What we must do is to
organize against the Alliance and beat
1T out Of existence. IF we do not it will
beat us, though we are in the majority.
In every Democratic convention
for it is In these conventions that the
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-30

tags and see that the guano was
properly tagged before he delivered it
or allowed it to go out, the tags were
left with him, and at the time of this
reported seizure in Oxford there was a
tag, or had been, in the hands of the
Alliance agent in Oxford for every bag
which had been shipped to that point;
and if a sigle sack of Alliance Fertil-
izer manufactured by the Durham
Fertilizer Co., or any other brand, as
to that, has gone into the hands of a
consumer without a tag, since the tag
law went into operation, it has been
without the knowledge, consent or
connivance of the Company, or any of
its officers II managers And Mr.
Morgan further states: eve have hid
nothing nor have we tried to hide or
conceal anything from the Agricul-
cural Department. We have shown
the Commissioner all the invoices Of
ingredients, giving actual cost to us,
and each invoice was accompanied by
the analysis of the material. VIZ have
shown him the formula by which the
goods were manufactured, and the
sworn statement of the foreman who
superintendent the mixing, / and we
have cheerfully afforded him, every
opportunity for a full and thorough
investigation of the whole matter
We think this proposition is fair,
and since the damaging rumors have
gone forth, that they should be sub
Stimulated or proved false by a fair and
impartial investigation into the whole
matter. We say to Mr. Morgan and
to his Company that we will not set
idly by and submit to imposition upon
our farmers when we know it. We
will not sustain them or any other
man or corporation in any fraudulent
transaction. AS they claim, and we,
with the lights before us, think,
that they are being adversely criti-
cised and condemned and injured in
their business. 1t is due them, and it
is due to the thousands of farmers of
this State that fair and impartial in
vestigation be made and that at once,
the people should be given the truth,
let it hurt whom it may. We will not,
we cannot sustain fraud, and we shall,
until we have more evidence to the
contrary, believe the Durham Fertil-
izer Company not guilty of any wilful
fraud or deception in this wholematter.
We believe also that they have not
gone out Of a line which others have
followed, and that too, with the knowl-
edge of the Agricultural Department.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-30

umns of the Meas and Observer of a
recent date, for the purpose of saying
a few things.
The readers of the Ne1Cs and Observer
have become accustomed to that
method of attack on President Polk.
Time and again that paper has pub
lished slanderous and untruthful
charges against President Polk, made
by those who are the bitter enemies OF
the Alliance, and assuming that they
were true (as in this case), has pro
ceeded to hold President Polk up to
the scorn and e~xecration of our people.
So common had become this ugly con-
duct of that paper, that The Progress
sIvE FARMER had resolved not to notice
them hereafter. But when the change
in the editorial management of that
paper was about to be effected, Presi-
dent Polk was voluntarily assured that
he should "be treated fairly hereafter
in it's columns"
Is this a specimen Of the fairness "
which he is to receive? President Polk
was surprised at this unfair, unjust
and unmanly attack upon him, in
view Of the voluntary assurance above
mentioned, and he authorizes us to say
that the quotation from the Milwaukee
Sentinel is absolutely false. 1t has
been clearly and repeatedly demon
strated that the partisan press will not
deal fairly, honestly or truthfully with
the Alliance or it's officers. And no
one paper in our State has demon
strated this fact more clearly or Oftener
than this same NeWs and Observer.
That paper says: eve submit to the
people of North Carolina whether they
propose to have this SANDER supported
by such testimOnyg" And THE Pro-
GREsSIvE FARMER submits to the peO-
pie Of North Carolina whether they
propose to have this SANDER against
of their most esteemed and hOnored
citizens supported by such testimony
as is furnished by these two rampant
partisan papers-the Ne1Cs and Observer
and Milwaukee Sentinel?
Readers ofTHE PROGRESSIVE FARMER,
friends of fair and honest dealing,
AIliancemen of North Carolina, read
the above extract carefully. Remem-
Der that it is from the columns of a
paper that processes to be a friend of
the State-yea, q friend of the ALI
ance, and that it is based on a deIi6eT-
ate .f~alsehoOd, published in a strong
partisan paper, and blush for modern
partisan journalism.
FREE to eUery One-year subscriber
sent as after today, the Groupe Pic
ture of oar Leaders. Subscribe at once
md not If
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-30

FROM the Clarion-Ledger and other
papers published in Mississippi, as well
as from letters from that State, it is
evident that the campaign of Polk,
Livingston, Mcdonald and Willets, in
the interest of cause in that State,
has been a grand and glorious success.
They YER received everywhere with
the liveliest enthusiasm and their solid,
logical reasoning has greatly inspired
the good brethren Of that State. Let
our people hold local mass-meetings
all over the State and get together and
talk together and learn the truth.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-30
WE send out this week
q 73 9 O

copies Of this paper. We send a pack
age to each Sub-Secretary for distri-
button. We ask the brethren to please
place these papers in the hands of good
men who do not get it regularly. Why
can not every man who receives this
paper send in his dollar for a years
subscription. Hot times ahead, breth-
rem, and we are going to stand square
on the Alliance platform, and we
earnestly ask every one who sees this
to become a subscriber himself and
then get at least one other to do the
same. Encourage us, brethren, by
swelling u regular list to $4,000 at
once.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-30

MR.. EDIToR:-I am requested to say
that DR.. v. n. Seawell, Third Dis
trict Lecturer, spoke to a large au-
dlence considering the enemies we
have In this part of the country. 1t
seems to me that he left nothing I'm
said for the good of the Order, and we
hope and believe that all we weak
kneed members will be encouraged to
press onward, as the fighting is strong
here and only a few against many,
though we expect to get there Eli just
the same. We enjoyed the secret
meeting very much. Thanks to the
committee that sent Bro. Seaweu to
see us. Come again, brother, we will
be very glad to see you. Should this
find its way to our valuable State
Organ let me say to the brethren,
though few in numbers, we are here
to stay, and we hope that others after
hearing the lecture will be encouraged
to join hands with us in this great and
noble fight for justice to ourselves and
our children.
F~raternally,
r. p SESSIONS, Sechy.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-30
THE DURHAM FERTILIZER co.

AS much has been said recently, both
by the press of the State and others,
touching and damaging to the good
name and reputation of the Durham
Fertilizer Company, about some seiz-
ures of untagged Alliance Fertilizers
at Mebane, and as Alliancemen are, or
ought to be, of all men most deeply
interested in this, because the charges
are that the Alliancei is being defrauded,
we have yielded space this week to the
Company to make their own statment,
which will be found in full on the 9th
page.
With regard to a statement which
appeared in the State Chronicle of 25th
inst, charging that another seizure
had been made at Oxford, Mr.. Morgan,
President of the Durham Fertilizer
Company, explains to us as follows:
"About may 25th was loading a for
Oxford, found we hadn't tags enough
for the carload, so we fnished'Out the
load with untagged bags, keeping &C
TCOu1U Ol GI0 SdL1G, dllu h1d1IOu OdSS W
consignee who was the Alliance agent
at Oxford, who stored the guano on
its arrival to await tags. We have
done this thing before, and other COM
panies have also; companies outside
the State have shipped guano and mott
fed the Agricultural Department and
the Department has mailed tags to
point of destination to depot agents to
attach. This is no new departure.
When we received tags we mailed to
Mebane and to Oxford, as both ship
ments were made about the same
time. The tags mailed to Oxford did
not reach the party to whom addressed
and as soon as we learned this we
mailed another lot. He did not get
this second lot, and notified us. We
then sent a man to Oxford with tags
and with instructions to put these
tags on the goods. The goods being
stored and in the possession of the Ali
ance agent who proposed to take the
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-30

1T gives us pleasure to call attention
to an advertisement Of such a school as
Littleton High School. When under
the management of such a thorough
educator and Christian gentleman as
Prof. L. w. Bagly. We know him
well. You car trust your boy in no
better hands. See ad. in another
column.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-30

Col. POLK returned to this city Fri
day morningfrom Mississippi and went
down to GoldsbOro on the same day to
attend the Alliance mass meeting on
Saturday. We will give an account
of his campaign in next issue.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-30

We 1CGnt 50, 900 subscribers. Help us
to get them, brother. We ore going to
stand by and fight for yoW untj1 the last
organized foe retireS.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-30


The Durham Fertilizer Company
has lately been brought unpleasantly
before the public, and has been placed
in a very unenviable attitude. For
ourselves, while printing the news, we
have not thrown any stones at this
Company, not because it was a home
concern, but because, from the high
standing Of the gentlemen connected
with it, we lave not deemed it at all
likely that any improper conduct was
intended. The business men interested
in that company would not tolerate on
the part of any of it's agents any i'm
proper conduct. Mistakes, however.
are made by all men, and allowing
any bags to leave their possession
without the necessary tax-paid tag
was a mistake which we do not doubt
the officers of the company most sin
cerely regret. We will venture to saw
that whoever was responsible for such
an error in Judgment will not commit
the same fault hereafter.
With egardto the analysis, we think
the intelligent farmers of the State will
agree that while bone dust may not
show so much soluble phosphoric acid,
it is a most valuble ingredient, because
it's effects do not pass awy in one
season.
And while we are not very familiar
with these things, we believe the stuff
this company sells, no matter how it
may analyze, is a solid, pure, unadul-
terated manufacture, and worth the
mOney.-Ne1CS and Observer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-30

LET every AIlianceman read the in
solent and naughty talk of Congress
man Oates in another column and re-
feet. Are the people dogs and slaves
that they should thus be threatened?
We will see.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-30

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published If so, give us your real
name and your postoffice.
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R COTTON o

THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER received
on the 23d inst. from Mr.. Geo. L. Smith,
of Lilesville, Arson county, a cotton
bloom which he says was taken from
the field of Charlie Mcbride, one mile
from Lilesville.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-30

In writing to anybody, always be
sure to give the name of your p~OstOffice,
and sign your own name plainly.
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~ The date on your label tells you
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Those WhO haze seen the GrOupe Pic
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COMING OVER.

Senator George, of Mississippi, has
been engaged in a most vigorous war
fare on the Alliance. He employed the
whole force Of the enemy in his State
against it. But he was unable to stand
against the tide and has just published
a long letter, endorsing the Alliance
platform except the Sub-Treasury bill
and the land loan plan. He sees that
his people Are in earnest and has
backed down from his high position.
"While the lamp holds out to burn"
etc.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-30

The Progressive Farmer is the-Offcial
Organ of the N. c. Farmers State Alliance
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-30
RALEIGH, N. c., JUNE 80, 1891.

Uhis paper entered ds secOnd-cIdss matter dt the
Post Office IN Raleigh, n. @.
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FARMER
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-24

Stocks at all United States Ports
GALVESTON, TEN. Nov. 23.
Special to the Gazette.
No report.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-24

Cotton seed-Per bushel. CSC retail
Hay-Loose. local. Sc 0Ofl1 90; best prairie
f Q. c., IS OoG9 90; small bales, best, 4oc; hest
Forny, sl2 -.
Wheat screenfngs-Chicken feed. 81 % per
100
Amber cane seed-s2 so per bushel.
Millet-Per bushel, 81 50.
Seed rye-s1 % per buSheL
Seed barley-95c per bushel.
Alfalfa seed-S7 % per bushel.
Wheat-Buyers are paying; No TO No. 5, s.
es,sOc +. o. b. at Fort Worth.
POULTRY, EGGS AND BUTTER
Prices paid BIZ dealerS-Old hens. IS 90 = doZ
spring chickens. small 81 %: spring chickens,
large, sS 40; BOOSTERS, old. 81 2O turkey hens.
DC; turkey Scbblers. spring. SIC; turkey COB
blers, old, 75c; ducks, Y doz., 81 CO. Eggs, 20c
per doz.; batter, fresh. lSc = II; buttermilk,
sour. l5c.
Retailers get-old lens. s. 80 p doz; spring
chickens. small, So 80: spring chickens. large
81 co. ROSTERS. old. 81 IS; turkey hens 65c; tur
key gobblsrs, spring. 65c: turkey gobblcrs, CID ,
81 90; ducks, 5! -; butter fresh. .oe = d. butt
termilk, sour, Zoe. eggs. pc = doZ.
HIDES AND Wool
Hides-Buyers are paying Dry flint, heavy.
732c; light. size; dry salt, &C; green salt, 4c;
butchers green. 3isc.
Wool-Light medium, 2Oc; low medium l70
lSc: fine, ISOLDE
Horns, hoofs and bones-s6 20 per ton deliv-
cred
Quotations based on small lots TO retail
dealers. Actanline Il o., Zoe; acetic acid 20,
8, q D, Sc; carbolic acid, cryst.. z 70. S5c:
muriatic acid c. p, q 10 4ic nitric acid. C. p.
Z u 25c; sulphuric acid c. p. z D s5c: fannie
acid, bulk. e ID 81 s.: alcohol IS per cent, z
gal s. 40; alum, g ID, &c; antiiebrine, q or.
carbonate q n l5c: blue vitriol, 2 n. Sc; blue
blue mass, q ID, SOC; blue ointment,
4 u, see: boraX. u n. l3c; camphor
al e II, zoe: capsicum, powdered,
Il n, Pic; coperas, q ID. 2lt3; DJvers powder,
Il ID, 81 go ether, suphuric. Z. = p, Z ID, see;
gum arabic. first pick, . ID. 81: gum shelac. Z
H. 25c; glue, brown. l2c; glue, white. Z ID. zoe;
mace. q 10. soc; mercury, . .. &c; morphine,
sup, p & W, as. u o., 81 -: morphine,
snlph OF bottles. u or. 81 So: nutmegs. z D.
70c; castor oil, q gal, 81 10Ll Is: olive oil, z
gal 81 10; linseed oil, q gal, 5dd0c; sperm oil,
W. b.. z gal, 81 ~; opium, 2 u, 81 %. opium
po, b, s. 80; black Pepper, p ID, 1Sc: potash,
bromide, 2 b, $50; potash. chlOrate, = D., 2uc;
potash. iodide z or, - S5GB2 90; qufnine. P. x
w, o.. bottles p o.. }jc; quinine. =. x w. OF
cans y o., SIC; quinine, p. * w, 5oz cans, e
or, Bic: Guiuine, Brunswick. OF bottles. 4 OF,
&c; quinine, Brun sWick, 5-oz cans, &c; sal
soda, Z ., &c; Saltpeter refined, = n i0c; salt
peter, commercial, &c; salts, Epson. Z ID, he;
salts, Rochelle, 26c bicarb soda kegs, q r, 55p
32sc; sulphur, flowers. 5D lots. 5a4 G.; sulphur,
flowers, small lots. as; spirits turpentfIe,
market rates . gal; white lead, s. p, q II,
-. C; cream tartar, q ID, 52c.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-24

creased activity, at least for the coming