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Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-09-24
Advertised Letters.

The following letters remain uncalled for in
the Audubon, Iowa, pOstOilice, subject to be sent
to the dead letter office in thirty days. Parties
calling for such letters should say advertised"
giving date Of advertisement:
n. B. Andrews. Henry Bennick,
Mitchell Blair. A. DeminG
Lizzie Glover Helen HetSteo
Lars knudstu. lester Lain.
Nary through Nelson. n. NJ. Nelson.
Ed L. Porter. Isabel Sheally.
For week ending Saturday, Sept, 10th, 1891.
Ed. ID. COUSINS, Z, M.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-09-24

A green water melon sat on q fruit stand
Singing "MGllcw, I'm mellow, I'm mellow"
A Jerry stood there with u dime In his hand,
Singing mellow, its mellow, quite mellow"
And he ate it all up to the hard outside part,
And they carried him of In a long black cart,
Poor fellow, poor fellow, poor fellow.
The Needles Eve
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-09-24

Investigate their merits. De Wits
Little Early Risers don't grippe, cause
nausea or pain, which accounts for
their popularity. A. ii. Roberts says
he would not run drug store without
these little pills.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-09-24

Don't storm the system as you would
a fort. If held by the enemy, consti-
patton, gently pursuade it to surrender
with De Wits Little Early Risers.
These little pills are wonderful con-
vincers. Sold by Roberts.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-09-24
Gard Of Thanks,

We tender sincere thanks to the
neighbors and friends who rendered
timely assistance and sympathy during
our late bereavement
Mr.. AND Mrs. JOHN HIGHT.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-09-24
Mules Cry for 1t.

Now this may seem strange but If
they don't cry for it they would do so
if they only could. We are talking now
about iIaller's Barb Wire Liniment
which never fails TO cure the worst cut
or sore. For sale by A. III. Roberts.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-09-24

Perfect action and perfect health re-
SUIT from the use of DE Wits Little
Early Rlsers, perfect little pill.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-09-24

Nine o'clock a. m, Sept. 10, 1891.
Board met pursuant to adjournment
Members all present.
On motion accounts were allowed as
follows:
McFarlaue, Dickey & Co. mer-
chandise for county. ...S $50
VIM. Earning breaking on poor
farm, .................... 100
Green Bay Lumber 60. lumber
for county. ................ 2S.35
Marshall q Sharp merchandise
Tor county. ............. I.45
Geo. I. Keen merchandise and
work Tor poor farm. .,.,.. 3l.55
Cousins y Mcclure publishing
| notice. ..,...... ............. C.9O
Books and accounts of V. \. Walkup.
steward OF poor farm were examined
and on motion approved.
Petition for consent highway, on
north side of section !, towuship 81
| range IS by WIN. smoke ct al was
| examined aud on motion established as
pctitioned for.
Consent highway, between section 3
and 10, Sharon township, petitioned
| for by John Frederickson ct al was ON
motion established as petitioned for.
On motion, county road No. 20S In
Sharon township, was vacated as peti-
toned for, providing petitioners pay
costs within sixty days from this date.
On motion, county road No. 275 in
Oakheld township was vacated as petit
toned for, providing petitiopGrs pay
costs within sixty days IRON this date.
| Petition OF L. L. Goodwill ct al for
highway forty feet wide, commencing
at the II corner Of the W or OF sec
ton 80 township 80 north, range 30 west
9Th p IN Iowa and running thence
| west two and one-half miles TO county
line and terminating at W corner OF
section 81 said township and range, was
| examined aud on motion established AZ
| petitioned for, providing petitioners
pay damages within sixty days from
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Republican Senatorial Ticket.
For State Senator, 18th District.
II. F. ANDREWS, of Audubon County
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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-07-21
HOW TO TREAT THE PARTISAN
PRESS.

We are frequently asked to give our
opinion in regard to papers that are
bitter in their opposition to the ALI
ance. Perhaps the best way to answer
these questions is publicly.
This is an important and delicate mat
ter. Common sense should guide you
at all times. We never recommend
a boycott. This should be avoided, if
possible. If a paper earnestly, honest
~ and candidly discusses the organi-
cation, there should be no objections.
The country is free and any and all
people have q right to express them
selves. Then you should not refuse to
~patronize a paper because it differs
with you, for it has a right to, and
sometimes you learn something. If
any paper Or anybody can produce
facts and reasons sufficient to prove
that our measures + wrong, we
should look upon them as friends in
stead of enemies. But on the other
hand, if any paper persists in SANDER
ing you, your order, your leaders or
anything, then common sense ought
to suggest that you repudiate such
papers and pay your money for papers
that will not misrepresent you, your
calling, your family, and try to lead
you astray by Misrepresentation. You
should read both sides of a question,
but some editors fail to fairly represent
their side. In such cases common,
everyday sense ought to decide the
matter quickly. Again, there is a class
of editors found in this State and else
where who are without honesty or
stability. They do not pay their debts
or tell the truth. How they manage
to palm off their papers on the public
for any length Of time is a mystery.
You should spot them and withdraw
your patronage at once. We know of
a few so-caIled Alliance papers that
are not what they should be. They are
friendly enough to keep up appear
ances, but when any test comes they
show the white feather. They are
traitors in the camp and should be
treated as such without delay. Be
ware of giving aid to traitors in or out
of the Alliance.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-07-21
sIDE-TRACKING U

The partisan press and the politicians
who are opposed to the Alliance, are
extremely anxious to force the order
into false positions. They assert per
sistently that the Sub-Treasury bill IS
the ultimatum of the Alliance, when
they well know that in every instance
where it has been made the issue, it
has been forced on us. And we may
remark that in every such case, the
Sub-Treasury has COME out victorious.
1t is now being asserted that President
Polk makes the Sub-Treasury para
mount to all other questions. The
enemy puts down his position as fol
lows: That he regards as most import
ant
1st. The ~Sub-Treasury bill.
I'd. Free and unlimited coinage of
silver.
Sd. The modification of the tariff.
President Polk has always held that
a change in the financial system Of the
government by and through which the
industrial many are being robbed and
ruined by the mOneyed few is the great
OUerSbGdOlCjng paramount issue before
the American people. He has always
held that free coinage, tariff, Sub
Treasury and all other questions 7
subordinate to this great issue. No
free coinage act, no modification Of
the tariff, no increase of the currency
none, no all of these, can ever bring
Just and substantial relief to the PEG
pie, so long as the present unjust and
outrageoUsly wicked financial system
prevails. The national banking system
must go. The money of the people
must be issued to the people, independ-
ent of all expensive agencies and in
sufficient volume to do the business of
country. This, and not the Sub-Treas-
ury, this, and not the tariff, this, and
not free coinage, is the mighty hUing
issue before the people.
The Alliance wants and demands a
modification of the tariff, and it intends
to have it. The Alliance wants and
demands free and unlimited coinage of
silver, and it intends to have it; but it
will no longer be deluded and ensnared
with the fallacious idea that these are
paramount to the money question, The
politicians of the country have been
deceiving and s~ide-tracking the people
on these false ideas for a quarter Of a
century, but they can do it no longer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-07-21
THE STATE

The North Carolina State Alliance
will convene at MoreheadC City on Tues
day, August 18th. From all indica-
tions q large crowd will be present.
Every county in the State will be rep
resented. Bro. Barnes has not heard
from all the railroads yet, butn no doubt
they will give the usual low rates. Go
and take your families, by all means.
Last year the meeting was held at
Asheville. The mountain scenery was
a rare treat to down east people. Our
western brethren can now have an
opportunity to visit the seashore and
see the many curious sights. The
grand old Atlantic is a show that will
never be forgotten. In every respect
the trip will be a treat. We have en-
th~uSiastic reports from many counties,
and it is safe to say that earnest, intel
delegates have been elected.
Come yourself, whether you are a dele
gate or not.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-07-21

A FINE SPEECH.

We wish to call the special attention
of our readers to the speech of Hon. E.
Barksdale which appears in this issue.
The occasion was a discussion between
Mr.. |arksdale and Senator George CON
corning the Sub-Treasury as a plan Of
relief. Read this speech twice; it will
do you good. Every word Of it is true,
and it is on a different key from many
other arguments in favor of the Sub
Treasury scheme. Unless Senator
George has a very thick hide, and of
course, he or any other man who has
studied the Sub-Treasury thoroughly
and still dares to oppose it has, he must
have felt rather cheap when Mr..
Barksdale was pouring such a broad
side of facts into his Aimsy position.
Read it.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-07-21
GREAT

Last Wednesday morning we put on
our celebrated yellow shoes and for q
few hours excitement ran high. 1t
was thought that something unusual
was on foot. Messengers were sent in
every direction. Gov. Holt was APP
pealed to and the Governors Guard
were ordered out. The stars and
stripes were run up on the Ne1CS and
Observer building and Capt. Ashe pub
licly stated that he originated all the
reform measures years ago and that
the NelcS and Observer had favored
them all along. The Chronicle hid its
private telegraph wire III the cellar
and carried it's new cutter and paSter
up to the fourth story, where it went
to work and cut the State printing con-
tract all to pieces and also pasted it
up again. The cutter and paster then
fell to work on other things and cut
and pasted some more. Col. Daniels
telephoned the fire department, but
when the companies arrived the cutter
and paster had been subdued. Every
thing is quiet again. AS a consequence
the new Erenjng Mirror did not appear
Saturday.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-07-21
GENERALIZATION.

a Kansas paper says the Sub
Treasury scheme is the most foolish,
absurd and nOnsensical proposition
ever entered by a people. OF course it
will never materialize, for the more
intelligent classes see the sweeping
breadth of it. 1t tends to Capitalization
and cons ,quentIy to wipe out State
lines"
That is a great big mistake. ehave
Capitalization now in its worst form.
The great centres like New York and
Liverpool ccntralize the cotton crop.
In other words, the crop is warehoused
there. The grain centres like Chicago,
Cincinnati, St. Louis and other points
control the surplus grain, it being
stored there to await consumption.
Under the S~ub-Treasury system we
would havemany warehouses scattered
over each State. For instance, cotton
raised in Wake county would be
stored in Raleigh instead of New York
or Liverpool. Surplus grain raised in
Buncombe county would be stored at
Asheville instead of going to Chicago
or elsewhere. Millions Of dollars would
thus be saved on freight and commits,
sions. The system is exactly the re
verse of Capitalization.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-07-21
A GOOD REPORT.

Five immense Alliance mass-meet-
ings were held in Georgia last week.
Gen. J. B. Weaver, of Iowa, Hons. L.
f. Livingston, of Georgia, and Jerry
Simpson, of Kansas, ere the speak
ers. President Polk was with them
and delivered addresses at Atlanta and
Athens. He came to Raleigh to spend
a couple Of days with his family, and
is with the South Carolina State ALI
ance to-day in its annual meeting at
Spartanburg. He will speak at Kings
Mountain on the 25th. He reports the
order in Georgia as in fine and salts
factory shape and that great unanimity
and enthusiasm prevails among the
good brethren. He says: THE Geor-
gia Alliance is solid
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-07-21
SOCIALISM.

Whenever any man states publicly
that a man cannot amass a million or
ten million dollars in a lifetime and
get it honestly, some of the plutocratic
press are ready to jump upon him and
pronounce him a socialist or anarchist,
or both.
If Adam had received a salary of
50, 900 per month from the time of his
birth until the present, 1000 years,
with all expense thrown in, he would
still lack over fifty million dollars of
having as much money as John D.
Rockefeller has made off the American
people in the last twenty years.
Now what do you think of that ?
Two thousand dollars a month is pretty
good pay for any kind Of work. That
is nearly as much as the President of
the United States gets, and about 200
times as much as the average editor
and farmer gets nowadays. Yet if
Mr.. Rockefeller had been getting a
salary of 50, 600 per month for 1000
years and all expenses paid he would
still lack fifty million dollars of being
as rich as he now is. Now how much
has Rockefeller made per month during
the past 20 years? Figure it out. Do
| you want conditions that make this
possible to continue? If so, just con-
tinue to be a weakened Allianceman,
let your party and public servants do
as they please, and you will SOC be a
serf subject to the direction of a few
RockafeIlers.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-07-21
WHAT IS THE ALLIANCE ISSUE ?

The New York Times, Of the 14th,
contained a strong editorial a column
long headed, what is the Alliance
issue?" The writer didn't turn on any
light, but goes ahead and gets things
more mixed than ever. 1t thinks that
the Sub-Treasury scheme cannot be
made a political issue. You are right,
Bro. Times, the Sub-Treasury scheme
is strictly agricultural. We don't pro-
pose to warehouse politicians, and it is
not for their benefit. Politicians and
Organ-grinders 7 two classes Of pro
ducers that I not provided for in the
Sub-Treasury bill. However, they can
subsist on whatever we agricultural
people don't want. 1t has been stated
that great amounts of grain, etc,
would be left on the hands Of the gov
eminent. Perhaps the government
can feed this to the politicians and
organ-grinders. After we Alliance
men get through with job we will
give the government permission to
give the politicians and organ grinders
a reservation in the Yellowstone Park.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-07-21
NOTES.

* Jerry Simpson, of Kansas, will
be invited to Cabarrus county Fair at
Concord this fall.
* The Rural Home, edited by Bro.
w. S. Barnes, our very efficient State
Secretary, glitters all over with pure
Alliance doctrine.
X Your Uncle Jerry Simpson, Mrs.
Mary E. Lease, Senator PETER and per-
haps other A liancemen may beinduced
to come to North Carolina this fall.
- In Georgia they are asking for
eight months free school. We ought
to begin an effort for that in North
Carolina. This is one of the para
mount needs Of our State.
* Twenty-Five Alliance meetings,
being one to every four counties, will
be held in North Carolina this year.
Prominent speakers will be here from
the West and elsewhere. Get ready
to attend them.
~ Are you q member of the Ali
ance? If not, you ought to be. If so,
do you believe in the proposed meas
ures? If you don't, ask your Secretary
to erase your name. Don't be a mem
Der of anything unless you have faith
in it.
* According to an exchange a
Northern man has applied for a pension
on the ground that he lost his voice
while reading war news to farmers
who met at the corner grocery at night
during the war. He ought to get it
or anything else he wants.
"The RatHer" is the name of a
new paper started at Whitakers by
Bro. J. @. Bellamy. We have not yet
seen a copy of it, but from the name
of the editor and his endorsement, we
have no doubt but that it will be an
able champion of the Alliance cause.
Col. Sam. Ashe claims to be the
father of all measures suggested for
the relief of the people. We want to
know whether he got up the anti-Sub-
Treasury convention of three that met
at Fort Worth the other day and
appointed themselves a committee of
five.
The writer came in last week and
found the work much behind. Dozens
of communications were on fle-some
of them too old for publication. We
have done the best we can up to this
time. But if you find any cause for
complaint, please pardon u.s.. AS soon
as we can get things straight you may
expect better treatment.
X Gen. Weaver, who was candidate
for President on the Greenback ticket
a few years ago, made a speech at
Americas, Ca, last week. In his open
ing remarks he asked the people if
they had come together to see a Weaver
shoot his greenback shuttle into their
minds, to gaze upon a sockless states
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-07-21
FUNNY.

We have received numerous enquir-
les as to the resolutions said to have
been adopted recently by the Cloud
County Alliance, as Kansas. They
were sent out to the public as an asso-
ciated press dispatch, under blazing
headlines as follows:
WHEREAS, The South was not repre-
sented in the late Cincinnati conven-
ton, and
Whereas, We believe the third party
will disrupt the Republican party to
the benefit of the Democratic party !;
therefore, be it
ReSOlred, That we abandon the third
party to return to our past utilization.
In that wide-awake and sterling
Alliance journal, The Advocate, of To
peka, we find the following letter from
Bro. G. w. Coffey, President Of the
Cloud County Alliance:
Let me say that this resolution is en-
tirely false, and that we have had no
meeting since April Is, and at that
meeting elected Hon. S. @. Wheeler
and w. Q. Slavery as delegates to rep
resent us at the Cincinnati convention,
winch duty they performed nObly.
Our people are well pleased with the
action Of that convention, and will no
doubt ratify it's actions at our next
meeting. l have written to The Capt.
taI asking that it acknowledge the lie
or publish the authors name. Poor
old Capital! How many more forged
resolutions will you publish? 1t would
be well that you stop such ~rascality or
hang out a sign, Forged resolutions
solicited or made up at this Office"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-07-21
KEPT BEFORE YOUR EYE.

The Sub Treasury plan proposes to
Abolish the national banking system
That the government shall issue
money direct to the people at a low
rate of interest in sufficient volume to
do the business Of the country.
To do away with gambling in futures
of agricultural and mechanical
products.
These are three planks in the Ocala
platform. The friends Of the Sub
Treasury bill believe that bill will do
this. If it will not, let it's enemies bring
something forward that will do it. Let
them either put up o Il shut up"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-07-21
MEETING OF

In another place will be found al ac-
count Of the meeting Of soreheads at
Forth Worth, Tex, on July 18th. 1t is
stated that about 200 Alliancemen were
present, but according to our best in
formation only a few were sympa-
thizers. 1t was a case of me, my
wife, my son Joe and his wife," that
the soreheads were praying for. We
could dispose of the whole thing by de-
nouncing it as basely false, but will
give a few statements showing how
and why the charges are false. 1t
seems that Hall, of Missouri, McAlliS-
ter, of Mississippi, and Sargent, of
Texas, were the moving spirits. They
proceeded to appoint themselves a
committee ito have charge of arrange
ments." 1t is noticed that they only
got three of the committee of five APP
pointed, there being only three sore
heads in the meeting.
The first section shows that they
have rebelled because the Alliance has
recommended the Sub-Treasury plan,
land loan scheme and government
ownership Of railroads.
Now the only sensible thing three or
four men could do when a great organ
ization like the Alliance goes wrong,
is to just walk out of it and repudiate
it. But here we see the ridiculous
spectacle of these men trying to over
turn a structure more powerful than
any organization recorded in ancient
or modern history.
Section 2 is for declaring persons
from membership and office for opin-
ions sake" No doubt that ''DEBARRING
FROM OFFICE" is the cause of the
trouble. Hall and the others are sore
because THEY were not elected to some
important positions. Nothing but an
"imbecile club" would ever think of
electing one of it's members to a high
position when it is known that he
opposes the principles, measures and
everything proposed by the organiza-
ton.
We denounce as false the assertions
that dishonest men have been kept in
high positions after they were proved
to be dishonest, OF that lust and hon
est public officials" have been de-
nounced. The statement that efforts
have been made to turn the farmers
attention from tariff reform to class
legislation is also absolutely false.
Nine tenths Of the Alliancemen in this
country believe tariff reform essential,
but few think this will cure all the
evils. But as proof that the statement
is untrue, we give one of the Ocala de-
mands, as follows:
eve demand the removal of the
heavy tariff tax on the necessities of
life, which the poor Of our land are
bound to have"
To make a long story short, the
whole set Of resolutions are without
foundation in fact. 1t is simply the
u~tterances of a few soreheads who
have been disappointed and who want
revenge and hope thereby to promote
themselves in the estimation of certain