The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-08-04

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tisan favoritism shown by the govern
mentin nursing private manufacturing
industries. He characterized Col. Folks
views on the money question, referring
TO the government lending money with
the avOWed intent of lnjurlng other
classes of business, as socialism. 1t
would amount in the end to a division
of the property Of the people, and
produce q condition in which the
prOvident and the im~prOvident would
Share alike. He though that there was
lust as much hope at present for get
ting the Sub Treasury bill through as
there was for the South being paid for
freed negroes or getting the Federal
pensions reduced. On the contrary,
he saw a disposition to pension every
hummer" whether or not he had
ever heard the Whiz of a bullet. He
believed the time was coming when
the pensions would be increased to
5000, 600, 900.
Gov. Tillman then paid his respects
to the Third Party. He read tabulated
statements showing the electoral
strength of the Democratic and Re
publican Parties of all the States. The
idea is, he said, for the Western and
Southern farmers to control the cOun-
try, but that would be impossible if
they carried all the States in which
the farmers ayeamajOrity. 1t should
be remembered that, while there were
s 5000, coo people engaged in agriculture,
there were 81, 600, 900 engaged IN other
occupations. They should remember
that the Republican farmers in the
North were particularly bitter, hostile,
and partisan as regards the South, and
that the Democrats were for the most
part from the cities. They should re-
member that the Democratic majority
of 60, 900 in the city Of New York had
been, and could be. discounted by the
Republican farmers of New York State.
They should remember that Kansas
had given so, 600 majority for Harrl-
son, and yet we are asked by them to
turn our backs on the Democrats Of
Connecticut, New Jersey, New York,
Indiana, and this, too, for the mere
chance of electing q Democratic Prcsl-
dent by the Western vote.
Gov. Tillman showed that the Sub
Treasurybill could not be forced on the
National Democratic Convention, and
that the issues nOw could only have
the result of dividing the Nation Demo
cratic Party, as it did in 1860, and Civ
ing the Republicans a continued lease
of power He would remind the ALI
that Senator PETER, the exponent
of the Kansas Alliance, had said that
of course he would support the ALI
ance, but he would vote with the Re
publican5 on other interests, and that
POwderly. the chief of the other wing
of the industrial army, the knights of
Labor, coupled his support of the Ali
ance demands with the condition that
equality should be accorded the negro.
He held that we might have a Sub
Treasury under State control, but the
Sub-TreaSury under national control
meant the perpetuatlOn in paWer of
the party by which 1t vas established.
We give the above for what it is
worth. y great deal of interest has
been manifested in this debate. Both
of these are able men, hence j: is need
less to say hal they talked sense,
no better evidence Of the
of Tillman can be produced
than the fact that a vote was taken a
minutes after the debate ended
and the result was a unanimous en-
doTsemcnt of the Ocala platform.
The June Report of the Statistician
Of the U. s. Department of Agriculture
ambodies returns of comparative acre
age of cotton, wheat, oats, rye, and
and of the condition of cotton,
wheat, rye, barley, oats, clover, pas
apples and peaches.
The report includes a review Of the
crop situation in Europe, by our for
eign agent in London; and various
official statistics of several countries.
showing estimated production Of prin-
cipal farm crops.
A statistical review of the resources
and production and distribution of
Chilli, 50 far as such facts are recorded
and available, is also presented.
An emergency bulletin, covering the
main facts in the life history of the
mop plantlouse, and the best remedies
against its ravage8 has just been issued
by the U. S. Department of Agricul-
5ure. The insect is appearing in
alarming numbers in the hop regions
IF New York, and is causing consider
eble anxiety to the hop growers of
Oregon and Washington also. The
bulletin may be obtained by applying
% the Secretary of Agriculture, Wash
ngton, D. G.