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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-07-14
OFFICIAL.

To the Brotherhood of the National
Farmers Alliance and Industrial
Union:
It is now apparent. that the enemies
of reform throughout the country are
marshaling their forces for a vigorous
and determined effort to weaken and
destroy the Alliance. It's future
progress will be stubbornly contested
and resisted, but we will ~assuredIy and
g~loriously triumph, if we be cautious,
prudent, faithful and firm. The out
look for the success Of the great re-
forms we advocate. was never so hope
full and encouraging as now, The
Order throughout the whole country
is daily adding to it's numbers, and it
is in finer spirit and is more thorough
~ united than ever before. But the
peculiar conditions confronting us de-
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HERE WE ARE !
MR.. ]. L. RAMSEY.

1t is with peculiar pleasure that we
announce to the readers of THE Pro
GREssIvE FARMER that Mr.. j. L. Ram
sey again takes the chair as Associate
Editor. He needs no commentator
or introduction at our hands. His
record as Associate Editor of the paper
for nearly a year, and his well-known
fidelity to Alliance principles, is a
guarantee of what his course will be,
and we feel assured that his return to
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER will give en-
tire satisfaction to its patrons.
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THE NEW NOTION.

According to the biennial report Of
the bureau of labor for 1890, the aver
age value of land in Cook county
(Which contains the city of Chicago is
$3O7. 10 per acre, and yet this is as
sessed at 7.26 per cent. of it's real value;
while the value per acre is $32.87 for
the entire State, and the average per
centage of the assessment is more than
four times as great as the average for
Cook county. This shows the ability
of capital to escape taxation, thus
throwing a greater burden the agri-
culturist. - u. S. Senator PETER,
at Cooper Union, New York city: We
cannot lift 10 per cent. mortgages on
a 2 per cent. business. You working
people here in New York pay a profit
of $50, 900, 900 worth of watered ele-
waited railroad stock. Some day these
railroads must be put into the hands
of the people, or the people will build
roads of their own The people are
mighty. They + now in revolution.
IIACIS k ~ PONO4 w PAONC11U AZ, save
the Almighty, and He is with u.s.
At last years election, the cry of Re
pubIcians was that the tariff is a
dead ISSUE" Now, they have dug it
up in Ohio, and propose to do so in
Massachusetts,. Surely, a party is hard
up which has to go to the cemetery
for it's issues. This, of course, suits
the Democrats very well. They think
they had the best of it on the tariff
issue last fall, and only too glad to
have it revived. The fact is, both
parties are afraid to touch the only
issues the people are interested in,
which are the issues between men and
the money power-between the people
and the corporations. But parties
which r afraid of popular issues
must not expect the people to take an
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-07-14
AT IT AGAIN.
Fraternally,

The "new editor arrived in Raleigh
Just in time to say "~howdy." But as
you will see we managed to get in some
stuff that is intended to ruin "the
party" and later on the country. 1t
is generally conceded by the wise that
the writer was built for that purpose.
According to the Charlotte Chronicle,
we are an anarchist" and will set up
a little anarchy" of our own and
raise his Satanic majesty. Such peo-
pie as the Chronicle have good reason
to tremble when a movement of this
kind is on foot. For the information
of those interested, we will state that
we have the same pair of "yaller
shoes" worn last summer. They still
Get there with both feet.
But we started out to say that those
who don't want straight goods should
prepare accordingly. We have studied
the Ocala platform thoroughly. Webe
Geve it all that its friends claim. We
shall advocate and defend every par
ticle of it unless some one c%onvinces IL
that it, or some part of it, is unwise
We are built that way. Other people
nav think as they please. No indi
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mand the utmost caution, lest wo oo,,
NIT errors, which might prove fatal -
our cause. The action Of our State An!
ances and of the Supreme Council
their forthcoming annual mentin
will be universally regarded VII
earnest interest, and the characton
that action depends largely on +Ll
wisdom of the subordiate bodies
The sub-AlIiances are to select poa
bers as delegates to the county Az
ances, which are to choose deIagota.
to the State Alliance, which in t,'ss
is to select delegates to the Suprnna
Council.
In view of the great and important
work to be done during the next All
ance year, and which must necessarar
be largely directed by the State bodies
and the Supreme Council, the brother,
hood is earnestly admonished to exor.
else great care in selecting the ren
to whom must be entrusted the 20
sponsibility of guiding our course as
an Order.
Let those who are to Iegislate for Us
in the State Alliances and in the Su.
preme Council, be not only our abIest
and wisest men, but let their loyalty
to our cause be without faint Or
tarnish.
Put none but true and faithful Ali.
ancemen on guard in this hour of Our
need, and all will be well.
L. L. Polk,
Pres. N. f. A. and u
Washington, D. c., July 3, 1891.
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H KANSAS WAY.

Kansas is maintaining her reputation
as a "hustling" State. We learn from
the daily press that yer 200 mass
meetings were held by the people on
the 4th of July. In each of the one
hundred and six counties of the State
held mass-meetings. The Peoples
Party was everywhere enthusiastically
endorsed. The demand for speakers
could not be supplied-many of the
speakers were forced to be at two or
three meetings during the day. The
feature of all the congressional meet
ings were huge banners telling the
three crisis in the nations history. The
first was in 1776 when the. Declaration
of Independence was made, the second
the abolition of chattle slavery, the
third would be in 1892, the abolition of
industrial slavery through the Peoples
Party.
When the people of Kansas move
they move all together and with all
their might.
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AN

TRIANGLE, N. c., July z, 1891;
Triangle Alliance, No. 341, hereby
appeals to each Sub-Alliance in North
Carolina for help for sister Mary. W.
Hager, a widow woman who is q
worthy member of this Alliance. She
had the misfortune to lose the only
horse She owned a short time ago. At
a regular meeting of our Alliance we
took into consideration sister Hager's
condition and investigated her loss and
estimated her loss at 1926.
We respectfully ask each Sub-AlG-
ance to give something to help the
sister, A small sum from each ALI
ance would not be missed and would
be thankfully accepted by Mrs. Hager
and family.
All contributions should be sent to
A. Lee Cherry, President Triangle ALI
ance, Triangle p. O., Lincoln county,
N. G..
I, the Secretary of Triangle Alliance
No. 341, certify that the above state
ment is correct and done by mutup
consent of the members of said All
ance, whereof set my hand and at1p
the Alliance seal.
J. III. LUCKEY, Secy'
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DEMAND AN ANSWER.

When a man or men so strenuously
and so persistently oppose any meas
ure, as do certain men the Sub-Treas-
ury plan, they should be able to offer
some amendment to it, or offer some
substitute for it, or openly and man
fully declare that they r honestly
opposed to the objects of the measure.
If, as most of them say, they r in
favor of the objects of the plan but are
opposed only to the bill, let its friends
say to all such:
WHAT IS YOUR PLAN?
Listen to all their objections and
then say to them: NOW for the sake
Of argument, we will grant all your
objections, but aUbat IS yOur pEan?"
The Alliance has submitted to this un-
manly dodge of the enemy long
enough. Push these DIRECTORS to the
wall and force them to the true issue,
and it will be found that the true OBJ
lection is to the objects which this bill
is intended to secure to the farmers
and not to the bill itself. What are
these objects? LIST. The abolition Of the
National Banking system. I'd. The
issue of money by the government to
the people, at a low rate of interest,
in sufficient volume to do the business
of the country. Sd. The doing away
of gambling in futures of agricultural
products.
Is there a farmer in all this country,
who has sense enough to plant corn or
potatoes, who believes for II moment
that these objects can be accomplished
without a terrible contest? Will the
bankers, spectators and trusts ever
permit these things to be done without
a struggle? And does any one believe
it possible for any bill ever to be de-
vised to do these things that would be
acceptable to the money power9 Who
believes that the National Banking
system can be done away with without
provoking the s~ternest opposition
from the money power? Who believes
that the usurers, spectators and job
bers will ~peaceably allow the farmers
of the country to establish a low rate
of interest? Who believes that they
will quietly consent to stopping gamb-
ling in futures?
Herein lies the true objection to the
Sab Treasury plan. It is not to the
bill. They don't care a fig for the bill.
1t is the policy and change to be
established by the bill in financial
system is where the shoe pinches.
The friends of reform have had
enough of cowardly lodging on the
true issue involved in the more
cowardly fight that has been made on
this bill. Let them draw these artful
dodgers down to the issue by asking
them how they stand on the three
planks in our platform, named above,
and which are covered by the bill. If
they agree that these three planks are
right, then ask; "TVheTe IS yOur pJan
for carrying them Out?" They will fail
to answer every time.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-07-14
GOOD MORNING.

About seven months ago the writer
began an article in The PROGRESSIVE
FARMER by writing the word "Fare-
well. This was not a pleasant task, for
the friends<o of the paper had been ex-
ceedingly kind to me. But 1 only
changed the harness, and have been
at work all the time for the same cause.
I again greet the thousands of readers
of THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER with a
CHEEKY "good morning" AS they
know me so we'll it is not necessary for
me to wait for an introduction. I will
go to work and invite myself to your
homes every week and stay as long as
I please. 1 will only say that during
the brief interval since I bid you fare
well, my faith in the Alliance has
grown stronger. In my own humble
way 1 shall take the platform adopted
at OcaIa last December for my text,
and though my sermons may not be
entertaining, they will be in accord
ance with the text. I feel sure that the
Ocala platform is eminently wise, just
and more suitable to the wants of a
majority of our people than anything
yet proposed by any organization. I
prefer peace, but if there must be war,
you may look to the front for a banner
with "THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER" in
scribed thereon.
Fraternally,
I d Anrrnrr
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-07-14
THE GRANVILLE MAss-MEETING

The Alliance of Granville county and
all the country round about met at Ok
ford on last Tuesday and had a grand
time. Col. Livington, Of Georgia,
President Stokes, of South Carolina,
and Hon. Jere Simpson, of Kansas,
who had been invited to attend, tele-
graphed hat they were all speaking
at other points. Col. Polk, J. w. P.
Jenkins, Judge Winston, w. S. Barnes,
State Secretary, and County Lecturer
Peace delivered addresses. Vocal
music by an elegant amateur club, and
instrumental by the Durham band, en-
livened the occasion. The crowd was
variously estimated at 1,500 to z, 500.
1t was truly a gala day for good old
Granville. There is no better county
in the South than Granville, and no
truer Alliancemen and women in all
this land than those who assembled at
Oxford on the 9TH inst. The occasion
was a grand success, in view of the
short time for advertising it, and the
fact that it was the busiest season with
the farmers. DR.. A. j. Daily was the
moving spirit, and all who knew him
did not wonder that everything done
was in every way worthy Of the noble
old county and its patriotic people.
Long live the good people of Granville.
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A PERTINENT QUESTION.

A pertinent question just now, &C
cording to the Grange AdU0cate, is,
will the voters support the candidates
in the future who have the courage to
place themselves upon a platform ad-
vocating the demands of the people
and pledging themselves, if elected, to
use their utmost efforts to carry out
these demands? There is no use trying
to rub out the fact that the people have
been fooled, badly fooled, a number of
times, and the only way to put a stop
to present methods is to elect men to
Office who will be true to the promises,
no matter what influence may be en-
ployed to induce them to go back on
their pledges.
We will gofurther than this and say
that the people should resolve right
away that they will no longer support
any but men who can be trusted to
carry out the wishes Of the people in all
matters unless it can be demonstrated
that said wishes are unwise. This is
the true course for patriotic men and
they should be satisfied with nothing
short of this. In this way politics can
be purified to some extent, at least.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-07-14

interest in them. The leaders of the
Republican and Democratic parties
will read the meaning of these re-
marks more clearly in the light of the
election returns of 1891, and still
clearer in November, 1892.
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LECTURER MASSEY IN THE 4TH
DISTRICT.

Rev. P. Fl. Massey, District Lecturer
for the 4th Congre ssional District, is
now making his round, as will be seen
by the list of his appointments in an
other column. Bro. Mark WimberIy,
Lecturer for Cary Alliance, gives us a
very encouraging report of the meet
ing with Green Level Alliance on July
9Th. He says the leading members of
seven Sub-A1liances were there and
listened to one of the best Alliance lee
lures he has ever heard. The number
present was not as large as it should
have been, though it was a large turn
out considering how busy our farmers
are with "Gen. Green" at this time.
Bro. Wimberly thinks as we do, that
every Allianceman should be sure to
attend these meetings and be certain to
carry some one who is not a member
of the Alliance with him. This is a
work, a necessary work, that each in
dividual member al do, and ought to
do even if he has to makes sacrifice to
do so, and this applies not only to this
district but to the whole State. Work
nOU, brethren.
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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1891-08-19
Brought Down Rain.


MIDLAND, Texas. Aug. 1.-THE rainfall
expedition from the United States Depart
ment Of Agriculture reached Midland on
Wednesday, and has 50 far made two sue
cessful experiments.
One Of the party said to-day: Saturday
and Monday last only part Of the rain
making apparatus was set up and prelini-
nary trial made, simply to test the efficacy
Of the special blasting powder which is be
Ing manufactured at the grounds from ma
terials brought with US. Several bombs
were exploded by means Of electric dyna-
mos. Although this powder is very power
f1l we were by no means confident that the
explosions would have any practical effect
upon the meteorological conditions.
However, about ten hours afier the ex-
plOsions clouds gathered and a heavy rain
fell, extending many miles. We do not
think that the explosions actually produced
the storm, IS they were not on a large
enough scale, but they were undoubtedly
instrumental in precipitating the moisture
which the clouds brought to the locality and
greatly increased the intensity of the storm
and the quantity of the rainfall, which was
greatest in the vicinity Of the place Of ex-
plOsion.
We shall continue to cautiously make
tests as 10 the density Of the atmosphere in
this particular locality, so that our bombs
may be adapted to meet every possible con-
dition. and when We have sufficiently salts.
fed ourselves upon these and similar points
the decisive experiment will be made, which
viii not be yet for several days"
The reporter did not witness the expert
ments referred to above, but can testify tC
the rain falling in Midland over twenty
miles from the spot Of operation. the frs
good rain for several months.
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Aoolden Harvest.

Nav YoRK, August l6.-Farm products
viii be worth $1,000 00o,OOO more this year
in the United States than they have been
during the recent years Of depression. At
least this i the estimate put forward by the
American Agricl,ltiria in its annual review
OF the harvests to be published in the forth
coming September issue Of that magazine.
On the basis Of present prospects this au-
th0rity estimates the corn crop Of 1891 at
2OO0,O00000 bushels wheat, 500.OOOO0
bushels, and oats o.. .O0O, 600 bushels, against
I, 10000, So. 5000 and 524,OOO,OOO bushels
respectively in 1890. and 1.700, ,445, AS, 49,
go and 57s,Oo0,OO0 bushels respectively
as the average for the preceding eleven
years.
This makes the total prospective crop oi
corn, wheat and oats 3,l22,OO0OO0 bushels,
or q. s per cent greater than last year and
IA per cent over the average Of the preced.
ing eleven years
The Amerioan 4grics,lhEisf believes thzi
unless unexpected Influences wholly ohangs
the current Of events the value of corn OF
the farm viii average 50 cents per bushel
wheat 81 and oats at least 20 cents On thi.
bssis the value Of the corn crop TO the farm
ers viii be 81 10000 900 wheat 500. 1000
and oats S25OOOo,OOO, making a total q
/ 81, $50, 100000.
Cotton and rye viii command better price
than last year. Cattle are worth one-tbirl
more than eighteen months ago, with othe
live stock in proportion. Tobacco is sdvsnc
ing heavily for cigar leaf, contracts being
made for the crop in the field at an advanc'
Of Is 70 % per cent. over last year
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a Strange Dislike.

Lancaster county farmers seem to have S
dislike, if not an absolute prejudice, against
raising sheep. Just why this IS no one ap-
pears to know. Perhaps it Is an idle task to
Try to change their minds on this question
even though farms are not yielding 50 per
cent. income, and everyone is looking about
him TO see how he can make his acres pay
better. A farmer in Central New York gives
his experience in this line. Twenty-Five
breeding ewes were bought at $500 each, OF
sS6. 81 for the flock. Their wool was sold for
$3.50 Twenty-four lambs were raised, --and
they and the ewes were sold in lump for
sI35. The whole transaction melted him just
500 No grain was fed, and there was much
/ valuable manure to pay for the grass, hay
and straw fed them. If everyone Of The
I 1900 and more farmers in this county were
to do the same thing, their income would be
increased BY just $4,000 annually while th'
labor would be comparatively hght.-Nea
I Ia
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"FoR some time" says the Rochester
Post -Erpress, 'the Cleveland-Hill fight
has been going on under cover in this
city, and yesterday, it may be said, the
contest was transferred to the open. The
prospects are that the anti-Cleveland
men viii win all through this country,
but the Cleveland men threaten lively
fight" This is the way the Democrats
are preparing for the fall election, and
for 1892. Like the Psrnellites and anti
Parnellites in Ireland, they seem to have
forgotten ali about the enemy in their
Thirst to exterminate each other. II is
an interesting spectacle, especially for
Republicans. There is an old saying
about the result which follows when cer-
tain people get to qusrreling.
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The Earmers, Waek

Nj GEErSA, August ls.-The Farmers
Encampmeus was opened to-day with a
speech BY President McSparren. who urged
on his agricultural friends the importance Of
taking the recreation which the eacsmp-
ment afforded, and adnonished them to
combine brain with muscle in their pursuits
50 as 10 realize foT themselves greater profits
than they have heretofore enjoyed Hiram
Young. Of York. attacked the Western and
Southern branches Of the Alliance for their
advocacy OF the proposed sab-lrezsaEy and
other cheap money schemes
Thrce hundred exhibitors are represented
on The ground. in farmers machinery and
implements Of al kinds and other manzfAc-
tured articles. since last year large horti-
cultural hall has been erected. in which the
finest Of fruiss grain and vegetables are on
exhibition Florida is rrprrsented hy a
large car flied Vith the products o. that
STATE, 20 which q small admission Is charged
10 defray the cost of the enterprise
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President Harrison's Plans,

CARE MAY. n. J., August I6.-President
Harrison. through Private Secretary Halford,
denies the story that he is about to declare
over his own signature that he will refuse TO
be q candidate for denomination. The Presi-
dent replied in bis usual manner that he
would not discuss newspaper rumors. The
vigor with which Mr.. HarrisOn's answer
was made made it quite apparent that no
such letter viii be written.
Mr.. Harrison's friends say that while the
President Is not candidate in the sense Of
chasing AFTER nomination be does desire a
denomination and is exceedingly anxious
about it, His subordinstes are doing the
work while he looks on and notes the effect.
Secretary Tracy and Attorney General Miller
who were here some days ago, are al present
doing some good work in Mr.. HarrisOn's in
terest. They have recently approached Con-
gressmen and other prominent and inhu-
ential politicians relative to sending their
respective delegations TO the National Repub-
lican Convention next year. This is not
hearsay. The statement is based on strong
substantial facts.
These two Cabinet officials are now en-
gagged in preparing q slate to suit their chief
and through their combined Efforts II IS said
that the Maryland delegation has already
been pledged to Mr.. Harrison. Secretary
Tracy and Congressman Mudd, Of Maryland,
having arranged Affairs TO their entire salts
faction
The President has not written any letter
declining 10 permit his name to come before
the National Convention, but ii Is said that
there exists an implied understanding be
tween Mr. Harrison and Secretary Blaine 70
the effect that one OF them viii decline in
advance should the other develop the greater
strength. This Is simply tacit agreement,
existing only In the inferentiai sense, but j;
is said 10 be an agreement nevertheless.