The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-01-27

The Sta7e legislature has been captured
by Alliancemen. Virginia and Tennessee
ca n one Alianceman to Congress.
&nd tennessee elected an Alliance Gov
ernor. In Alabama the farmers put up a
canoldate for G~Overnor, but failed to
nominate him in the Democratic CONVEX
ton, but they have control of the legisls-
ture. Congress will contain a lively set
OF 1aFmerS-3S in number and, it is said.
a little leaven leaveneth the whole"
we trust their influence, together with
those members elected pledged to Alliance
principles, will be felt in the much-needed
national legislation. Time only will tell
what the farmers will do when thew are
better equipped and better drilled il poll
TICS. Let the good work go on. The
destiny OF any country is safe in the hands
of the sons of toll.
The Standard is sad this EVENING"
Very sac! A communication from the
managing BRAIN of the Richmond and
Danville Railroad to the Old Man who
m%anipulates the keys on this musical
Instrum 9nt-a paper that speaks what it
believes to be the truth-conveys tia
sad CD intelligence that We are to have
no Editors Pass" on the railroad, &c
So the Standard is boycotted by the
great railroad concern knowa throughout
the world as the Richmond and Dsnville
Railroad Company.
We are not surprised in the least, at
the action of the b1ss. He has a right to
do as he pleases with his little red cards
that bear his signature and which his
blue coat, brass button men accept as
genuine tickets on the concerns rolling
stock, except the oar-room vestibule.
and the Standard ha' a right to use its
columns for any legitimate purpose. In
losing our pass we have gotten rid OF a
pretty to Ugh contract.
To recall some points that lie behind
this gre4t official act of a v, ry humane CO
company, the Standard rises to remark:
Some time ago this paper, representing
the independent thoughts of its own, feel
ing itself duly bound to espouse the cause
OF the masses where we believe them
right, to fight ~soulless ~monopolies, to
expose abuses of cOrpOatiors and to pub
hsh the news, took occasion to publish a
few remarks about the freight charges
made by the R. & D. R. R. Co. Hauling
$2l worth Of cOrl from Roanoke, Va, to
Concord and charging $63 90, &C.. in a
way that we saw Fit.
From time to time we remarked upon
the company's lack of appreciation for
thie town IN he travelling facilities afforded
us. Word came to this off ce that one Of
its employees prophesied that we would
lose u pass.
This is the way we looked at it: The
company gave Us spsssfcr The publication
Of its schedule and train news-a business
OHnfToof or1 Nnn that ro "A ,1E Ali.l-
included our honor, our soul, and life and
hide. In accepting the pass, the Standard
did not convey to the Richmond & Dan
vile Railroad Company its freedom, its
soul, its body, it's alive simply gave
them a column for their schedule.
Il appears now that the R. & D. en-
ployee knew what he was talking about
when he prophesied our 10 sing the pass.
We have done right, we believe; we
told the truth, as we get it from
freight bills signed by their own
agents; what we have done we are
preparing to do again; and it will oe
a ate day when the Standard, under
its present management, sells its honor,
its freedom and its birthright to a gigantic
monopoly that is robbing, by degrees, the
hard earned sheekles of a hard working
people.
When we carried an "Editor's Pass" in
our vest pocket, we told tales out of
school, On the R & D.; now that that vest
pocket is empty, we can continue to grind
away every time a "turn of grain" is
brought to this mill.
While the brains OF the R. & D. are
lobbying around the Legislature, that pro-
poses t. look into the monopoly, we are
boycotted by the management for having
exposed some of their mean acts.
In the meantime, the Standard still
grinds at the same shop, and has the sat
isfcction of knowing that its honest and
fair showing up of the practices of the
gigantic, roughshod corporation has gone
direct and penetrated the hide of the great
spirit that controls it's interests in this
State.-Daily Standard.
The farmers of the United States for
the past twenty five years have tolerated
and e ven encouraged a system of National
legislation so inimical and detrimental to
their best interests that the great wonder
is that the movement" had not reached
its present proportions years ago. The
answer is found IN the traditional conser-
vatism of this class, and the strength of
personal pride and party ties among all
our people. They have waited in vain
for relief from the party in power with
out resorting to the exercise of vigorous
and independent action. Long-continued
and repeated legislative determinations,
oppressive and increasing rates of taxa
ton, with diminished prices for farm
products and sh -inkage in values of the
best lines of property held by them, at last
gave an imp 4tus to the farmers move
ment that is unparalleled in its proportions
and astounding in the velocity with which
it spread over the land, and the unanimity
of its acceptance by farmers of all sections
of the Union, and the growers Of all prin-
cipal farm products. It is marvellous that
the ri 3e and cotton planters Of the ex
IRENE South, the tobacco growers of Ten
nessee and Kentucky, the wheat growers