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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-04-28
NORTH CAROLINA FARMERS STATE ALI
ANCE.

NORTH CAROLINA FARMERS STATE ALI
ANCE.
President-Elias Carr, Old Sparta,
N. G.
Vice-President-A. H. Hayes, Bird
town, N. @.
Secretary-W. S. Barnes, Raleigh,
N. @.
Treasurer. D. Allen, Falls, N. G..
Lecturer-Thos. B. Long, Asheville,
N. G.
Assistant LECTURER. B. Hunter,
Huntersville, N. @.
Chaplain S. J. veach, Warsaw,
N. G.
Door-Keeper-W. H. Tomlinson,
Fayetteville, N. @.
Assistant Door-Keeper-H. E. King,
Peanut, N. @.
Sergeant-at-Arms-J. S. Holt, Chalk
Level, n. G.
State Business Agent-W. H. Worth,
Raleigh, N. @.
Trustee Business Agency Fund-W.
A. Graham, Machpelah, N. Q.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE NORTH
CAROLINA FARMERS STATE ALLIANCE.
S. B. Alexander, Charlotte, N. c.,
Chairman; J. M. MewbOrne, KinstOn,
N. c.; J. S. Johnston, Rufin, N. G.
STATE ALLIANCE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE.
R. J. Powell, Raleigh, N. c.; N. c..
English, Trinity College; J. j. Young,
Polenta; H. A. Forney, Newton, N. G.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-04-28
ALLIANCE CORRESPONDENTS.
WILLOW BRANCH, Gates Co., N. c.,

WILLOW BRANCH, Gates TO-, N. ",
March 81, 1891.
Mr.. EDITOR have been requested
by Zion Alliance to say to u brethren
all over the State, through THE Pro-
GREssIvE FARMER, that Alliance
has responded to the appeals of u
South Dakota brethren, who are in so
much need, by sending them 81 in cash.
Our contributions are small it is true,
but if every Sub-Alliance in the State
would do as well, we believe that much
want will be relieved, and in so doing
we will prove that we are governed by
the principles Of our grand organiza-
ton, called the Farmers Alliance.
Yours f~raternally,
II. L. BROWN, Sec'y.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-04-28
MT. TABOR ALLIANCE, No. $50.
II. L. BROWN, Sec'y.

We the Mt. Tabor Alliance, desire
to make known to the Alliances
throughout the State of North Caro-
lima and all States in the Union, that
we did, on the Sd of April, 1891, i'm
peach and withdrew fellowship from
K. D. Hardee, Secretary, for violation
of the 9th article, section LIST of the
Constitution, and hereby warn all Al
Iances against him as an imposter and
fraud.
Done by order of the Alliance on
the Sd day of April, 1891, with request
for publication in THE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER, our State organ.
B. F. HARRISON was appointed to fill
the unexpired term as Secretary.
S. F. NORRIS, Pres't.
j. SOLES. Lecturer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-04-28
R~ENOVAvING LAND.

A farmer in North Carolina writes :
81 have a field which has been in
corn for five years, eonsecutively. It's
capacity Is about Is bushels per, acre"
And yet he proposes to plant this
land In corn again this year, and wants
to know if 100 pounds acid phosphate
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-04-28
HURON, SOUTH DAKOTA, II, 1891.

A1OHON3 OOC1h OAhO1A, L. 1901.
J.. w. DENMARK, BUSINESS MANAGER
PROGRESSIVE FARMER, RALEIGH, NC.
Dear BrOther:-Your kind letter of
the 9TH inst, to Mrs. Sophia M. Har-
den, Secretary State F. A. 81. u, en-
closing a postal note for $500 contribu-
ton to our relief fund, has been, with
its contents, referred to me. I have
credited the amount in my books to
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER, as indicated
in my enclosed receipt. We thank
you most heartily for your kind and
thoughtful remembr 4nce of my people
at such a time as this. The generous
response that we have received from
III noble people in the Southern States
to this relief fund will never be forgot
ten by us. It has contributed gener-
ously to the breaking down of these in
fernal walls of hate that have so long
divided you from us. We are one peo-
pie. This nation needs rest. Peace
and prosperity must be restored to us.
And it shall be the mission of our noble
Order to extinguish all traces of this
sectional hate that has so long divided
us, and been so wickedly used as a
partisan stepping-stone to political
power. No Mason and Dixon lines
shall longer separate us, and the fields
of peace and good government. No
North, NJ South, no East, no West,
but one happy, prosperous people, with
a government shielding the weak and
poor from the oppressive encroach-
ments of the strong and rich. We
must accomplish what the patriot JEFF
ferson 81 much desired-the greatest
good to the greatest number"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-04-28
LEXINGTON, N. O.,
April 16, 1891.

J. w. DENMARK, Dear Sir:-Your
very kind and a~ppreciative letter come
to hand a few days since, and would
have been answered Don but have
been very busy planting corn. The
boys all appreciate your kindness very
much in offering to write up an edi-
torial for us.
We are all members of Pilgrim Ali
ance, No. 2,O55. We were all raised
on the farm and all follow farming for
a living except two. One of them
teaches vocal music now for a living;
the other teaches vocal music in winter
season and looks after his farm in the
summer. The boys r all good farm
ers and make lots of grain every year.
The boys are all good musicians, and
understand either vocal or instrument
al music. We can make as good music
as any band in the state that has not
been organized longer than we. We
have been organized four years. We
furnished music for nine commence
hAC1Uo 4aOO CdA d1Au LII IOuA GA11Id11CC
Grand Rallies. We have a good team
of four horses and a nicely-arranged
band wagon. We have a fine uniform
Our outfit has cost us so much and
we are just out Of debt and want to
make a big run this season. If the
Alliance will ~patronize us, we will do
their work for much less than they can
get any other frst-class band to do it
for. We would refer any one who
wishes to know our ability to make
music to Prof. r. j. Herndon, of York
vile, S. c., our teacher, and also to the
following brethren who have heard us
and cOmplimented our music: Prof.
N. @. English, of Trinity College; DR..
D. Reid Parker, of Trinity College,;
Prof. J. T. Alderman, Fork Church;
Col. L. L. Polk, Washington, D. c.;
Hon. N. A. Dunning, Washington,
D. c.; DR.. - BenbOw, Greensboro;
Prof. w. H. Crowder, Denton; Hon.
S.. B. Alexander, Charlotte; Hon. J..
M. Mewborne, Kinston.
[ could give you quite a number of
other names, but will not give any
more.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-04-28

Send in your renewal, if behind.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-01-29
IHE NATIONAL Treasury sssgRupr.

As well asst is generally known
that the large surplus in the Ma
tional Treasury at the beginning
of the present administration has
already been squandered, and
that there will at once bea great
deficit, unless money is borrowed
and new debts contracted which
will require more taxes to meet,
the exact situation is little known
| outside official circles. Senator
Carlisle has prepared a statement
of the squandering OF the surplus,
which he will publish in the Feb
ruary Forum. In brief it is this
At the beginning of the Harri-
son administration, March 4,
1889, the cash balance in the
treasury, which was a surplus,
amounted to $15O,OOO,OOO. At
the end of this fiscal year, June
30, 1891, there will be q deficit
of $14,OOO,OOO; and at the end
of the next fiscal year, June 80,
1892, a deficit of $S4, 900, 600.
This is the inevitable record of
this Republican administration,
because the legislation that has
already been enacted prevents
the decrease ofexpenditure. There
can now be no turning back.
The increase of the expenditures
of the National Government has
been very much more rapid than
the increase of population. The
achieved result tells the story
of Republican extravaganza in
spite of Republican promise and
prediction.
Senator Carlisle's conclusion is
this: cit is the confirmed and
incurable habit of the party now
in power to dispose of the public
money in a wasteful and extrav-
agant manner, and there is no
reason to suppose that it will
cease to pursue this course until
the treasury is exhausted. What
was two years ago the richest
public treasury i'll the world will
be substantially bankrupt long
before the term of the present add
ministration expires
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-01-29
ALIEN CORPORATIONS.

To encourage the building of
the first railroads in the State,
and induce then reluctant people
to risk their money in an untried
experiment., something entirely
new to the world, the Legislat-
ure chartered the Raleigh and
CASTOR, and the Wilmington and
w ED on Railroads, exempting
them from State and county tax
alton.
This was a very. proper and
considerate thing to have done,
under the circumstances then ex-
isting, and it was quite proper
for these railroads to have en-
joyed their exemption through a
period of years.
But circumstances have altered
and times have changed. The
roads no longer need this exemp-
ton, and whatever their rights
OF contract in the premises, they
should be willing to surrender
those rights, and come in and
help bear the burdens of State
government, whose protection
they enjoy.
If they will not however, andthe
lawacpnnot compel or reason in
duce them, the Legislature should
declare them alien corporations,
and have nothing more to, do
with them. When they come
asking for legislation, let them
be told that they have no stand
ing before the Legislature, are
not known there, and that moth
ing win be done, one way or the
other, regarding Them g
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-01-29
THE En-. OF roscE AND TnsFr.

The Fifty-frst Congress will be
memorable in our history as re-
inaugurating the era of Force
and Theft in politics. 1t is histo-
ry repeating itself.
The last era of Force and Theft
was bred by the unbridleed pas
sions of civil war when the car
pet Dagger desolated the South.
ruled by Force and maintained
power by Theft until the revolu-
ton of 1876 lef-the carpet-bagger
and the adventurer only a bis
tering blot on our political histc-
ry. Then, SNOW, the party that
had appealed to Force and Theft
felt that greater Force and wider
Theft must be had, and the Force
bill OF 1876 conyulsed Congress
as does the Force Election bill of
1s9O'-91. Agreat party had been
faithless to its high trust; it had
forfeited the considerable approx
al OF the nation, and Force and
Theft were summoned to protect
he party from overthrow.
The same violent death-throes
Of despotism and fraud disturbed
the tranquility of the country
then, as they do now; but there
We're patriotic Republicans then
to turn back the tide of Force
and Theft and it was smitten in
Il Republican House and died in
infamy. Blaine, Hoar and Haw-
ley werepatriotic statesmen then.
They strangled Force and Theft
and We're honored by the people.
What are they now?
There were other patriotic
statesmen in 1875 who had the
courage to revolt against Force
and Theft. The names of Gar
field and Kelley will be at once
recalled as among the patriotic
leaders OF that day. One died as
President of the United States;
the other died as the Father of
the House,-Philadelphia Times.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-01-29
DEAF AND puns AND lllsn INSTITUTION.

Among the crying wants of the
times is further provision for the
care and education of the Deaf. the
Dumb and the Blind in North Car
Dina.
The number Of deaf ,,r blind chill
dren i'll the State now,@ of school
ages, is considerably more than
three thousand. The capacity of
our Deaf and Dumb and Blind In
stitution is not adequate for their
training, by seventy-fve per cent. or
more.
The authorities of the Institutions
have at lastappealed to the Legisla-
ture for aid to extend those facilities
and have suggested the separation of
the deaf from the blind, which in
wolves the location and building of
another institution. Right here oc-
ours an opportunity for Winston
and Salem. An opportunity for
lasting material benefit to these two
cities, and at the same time an OPP
portunity for helping the State to
extend the facilities of education to
the unfortunate deaf and dumb.
The State appropriation for main
tenance of such an institution would
not be less than $4,000 year, the
whole amount of which would be
expended in the locality of the insti-
tuition. What Winston Salem can
well afford to do in this matter is to
furnish the site and mainly provide
the buildings fora branch of the
State Deaf, Dumb and Blind Insti-
tuition.
We urge it in the light of the
present, but more especially of fut-
ure benefits to theee localities. Dur
ing the series of thirty years to come,
the aggregate State appropriations
extended here would not fall under
two million dollars, sum SO impor-
tant in all its bearings upon the trade
and material progress of these cities,
that present expenditure of thirty
M, for.x thousand dollarS for b,,;ld
ings and grounds would seem of no
consequence to present business in
tercsts and property-holders.
A sum sufficient for the purpose
above indicated ought to be easily
secured by private pledge in Wins
ton and Salem without effort or loss
of time.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-01-29

The high tariff has made every
thing higher that the farmer has
to buy; but it has not added a
penny to the price of any pro-
duct he has to sell, and never
will. We shall have ample time
now to see and study the work
ings of the tariff between this
and the presidential election of
1892. Then let the farmers Of
the country vote intelligently
and periodically.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-01-29
The ALLIANCE WILL STAY

II think the Farmers Alliance
movement has come to stay" said
Judge j. b. futile, of Alpena, at
the Wayne Hotel yesterday. Here
after politicians who leave it out of
their calculations are likely to be
left out of office.
The farmer will find that protec-
ton doesn't protect him. / look
for great changes in political issues
during the next five years, and it's
time they came. What we want is
laws which will Juild up and main
tain our rural people in prosperity.
They are the nations strength and
ought to be the nations pride. IN
der existing conditions it takes all
they can raise on their farms to
support them, even the most bounti-
flu crops, and they are not left suffi-
ci'nt To keep up the richness Of the
sell.
Ne may keep out the pauper pro-
ducts Of Europe by a prchibitive
tariff, but we invite the paupers
themselves here, and the labor mar
ket is all the time glutted. The re-
suit is the standard of American
manhood is being constant y lower
ed. This is not so much front She
evils which are the natural out
growth of poverty. The home mar
ket cry is simply fraud. When
crops are plenty the farmers get
next TO nothing for their crops, and
it is only when they haven't any
thing to sell that prices are good.
Europe fixes the prices of every
thing we have to sell abroad, and
[ never heard that the farmer got
more in America for his wheat than
il was worth in Liverpool. l think
the farmers are coming to under
stand the state Of their case pretty
well, and to see that if they expect
any help it must come from them
>elves.-Dctroit Free Press.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-01-29
Laura Jan Libbey's Best.

A delightful lovc-story, full of
passion and intrigue, and written in
Laura Jean Libbey's best vein. enti-
tied. "Ulmont Ulvcsford," begins
in this weeks New York Family
of Paper. 1t is splendid story and
will be eagerly read by the Thousands
admirers of the charming and versa
tile young authoress Of "Miss Mid
dleton's Lovers" Our readers
should not fail to buy copy of this
weeks Family Story Paper, SO that
they can read the opening chapters
Of "Ulmont Ulvesford," by Laura
Jean Libbey.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-01-29
A PREGNANT TRUTH.

No more striking utterance has
been made in any State paper
this year than Gov. Pattison' s
epigrammatic saying: "When
money shall be king at the Amer
lean polls, money will be king at
American capitols.'
Money was king at the polls
in the general election of 1888,
and money has been king at the
Capitol since that time.
On the day that Harrison and
Morton were inaugurated as the
result of Dudley's buying ofvotes
in "blocks of five" in Indiana,
and Quay's purchase of the cleo
toral vote of New York with
money contributed for that pur-
pose by Wanamaker and other
pharisees, the World arrested the
attention of the country by it's
editorial on triumphant Pluto.
cracy," declaring that to-day,
at the capital Of the Republic,
Money seals and celebrates it's
triumph i'll the election"
AS result of that triumph a
Monopoly Tariff law was enact
ed at the behest and under the
personal direction of the men who
contributed the money. to buy
the election. The surplus was
squandered in order to render
more difficult any reduction of
bounty-creating taxation in the
future. Money ruled at the Cap
itol.
In further illustration of the
sordid nature of the plutocrar in
politics, witness the spectacle OF
a Senator from that seat of mo.
nopoly, Pennsylvania, votingfor
the free coinage of silver as an
aid to his miserable speculations!
Witness a. Vice President nomi-,
mated and elected as reward for
and a stilnnlant to- enormous
contributions to his party's CAM
paign fnnds, ruling and giving
casting votes in favor Of gag
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-01-29
DISCRIMINATING AGAINST THE RICH"

The Hon. James Daniel Richard
son, Democratic member of Con
gress for the Fifth Tennessee district
has introduced bill in Congress,
for the purpose of imposing an in
come tax on such persons as have
an income of $4,000. ard over per
annum. The following is the text of
his bill.
Whereas. The country is suffers
under the burdens of unjust and
unequal tax laws, the consumers of
all kinds beipg forced to contribute
more largely to the support of gov
ernmcnt than those who own its
wealth and
Whereas, discrimination in favor
OF the ric.: as against the poor by a
system of taxation inauguratcd in
time of war, and now kept upin the
interest of pure monopoly and a
favored class, is unwarrented by the
demands CT the government fer law
full purposes and
Wherever. Such discrimination is
contrary to the genius of our insti~
tutions and destructive Of love and
devotion to those institutions on the
part of the people: Now, to the
end that the taxation upon the ne
cessaries of life shall be reduced and
the burden more justly and equally
imposed. and wealt', required 10
bear its proportionate share of the
government
Every railroad, telegraph, tele
phone, sleeping car, mining, manu-
featuring, or other company or cor
poration residing or domicilcd in the
United States, and every citizen of
the United States residing abroad
receiving an annual income of S.,
600 year and upward, derived
from any source whatever, shall be
assessed and required to pay income
tax as follows, the same to be COLLECTS
ed by the collectors of internal reve-
nuo and paid annually into the
Treasury of the United States, TO
wit: On $4,000 up to $1,000, 2
per ceItum of said income; $4,000
to $4,000, 5 per ccntum of said in
come; $4,000 to $4,000, 10 per
centum of said income; $4,000 TO
$4,000 Is per centum of said
income; 10000 to 500, 900, 80 per
ccntum of siad income; and all
over 100000, 40 per centum Of
said income.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-01-29
GOLD! GOLD, GOLD!
Our Cash Premium List
For 1891.

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The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-01-29

The Legislature Of Alabama,
having before it a proposition to
appropriate money to represent
the State at the Worlds Fair at
Chicago, formally decided to de-
fer action upon it until the fate
of the force bill is determined.
This was done on the ground
that it would be useless to invite
immigration or seek other like
advantages with such law in
force to disturb the peace and in
dustries of the State.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-01-29
ASSURED PROGRESS AND PROSPERITY.

The prospects for Winston's
spring opening We're never so
brilliantand encouraging as now.
Our tobacco manufacturers will
have had an unprecedented Win
ter's trade, and the outlook de-
mand for their present years
product seems now to be far in
excess of their greatest resources
to fill. Every establishment will
begin work up to the fullest ca
pacity, and the year will be one
of unsurpassed activity in the
tobacco industry.
Ourmanufacturers in other lines
are asfully taxing their resources
The Salem Wooden and Cotton
Mills are running without inter
ruption on full time, with increas-
ing and accommodating orders.
The Salem Iron Works are taxed
to their fullest capacity, and will
soon enlarge. The Vance Iron
Works, and Messrs. Kester Bros.
are taxed to their outside limits,
and will have to multiply their
facilities. And so of all the nu-
merous mechanical industries of
Winston and Salem, which are
thriving and steadily increasing.
Our contractors and builders
have ahead of them a busy sea-
son and will resume work with
increased forces. The most ac-
tive demand exists for building
materials and arrangements are
making for enlarged and improv-
ed facilities in brick-making. The
demand for dwellings,, store
houses, Offices and shops are such
that we may look for an increase
in the list of builders and con-
tractors and mechanics.
Winston is getting ready to
erect the city-builtlings this year;
the street paving work is going
ahead, and the construction of
the sewer system has just begun.
At the West End Land Compa-
ng's property the great improve
ments already begun will be car
ried forward, and the large fine
Zinzendorf Hotel will be built
during the year, work on which
is to begin next month.
The Winston-Salem Land and
Investment Company are already
employing three hundred men on
their grounds, South of Salem,
and the most active work of i'm
provement will go on there dur
ing the spring, summer and fall.
The Winston Development Com
pany, on the East, and the North
Winston Land Company, at their
respective locations, have project
ed extensive improvements to be
carried forward. So that in the
matter OF building.improvements,
the the prospect is almost limit,
less; and altogether a year of
uneXampled progress and pros
perity is assured.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-01-29
RHODE ISLAND FINANCES.

Governor Davis, of Rhode Is
land, says that the condition of
the financial affairs of that State
is not satisfactory. The expen-
ditures last year exceeded the re-
ceipts bymore than $S4 900 and
wiped out nearly half the balance
on hand at the beginning of 1890.
The present tendency, then, is
plainly toward bankruptcy. In
deed, ever since 1884, with the
single exception of 1889, the
States expenses have exceeded
it's income, the deficit varying
from $4,000 to $114, 900, and
this, notwithstanding a so per
cent. increase in the State tax
and a reduction OF the required
sinkingfund paymhnts. The rea-
son for this unsatisfactory show
ing, the Providence Journalsays,
is to be found in a somewhat re-
markable Increase in the salary
list and the general cost of MAIN
tanning the State government.
Salaries alone have been increas-
co in the aggregate over 30 per
cent. in the last FIVE years, and
the growth Of general expenses
during the time have been more
than $340, 900.