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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-06-07
THE EVILS OF FUTURES.

Some of the produce spectators try
to create the impression that they bene-
fit the farmers in their operations.
Any sane man knows this is false.
The spectators have to live, and
many of them have become many
times miIlionaires, hence they and their
fortunes are a tax on the producer.
In Chicago a week ago to-day corr
jumped from rs cents to 81 per bushel.
Seventy-eight cents was a fictitious
value. Now it looks like that might
have been some advantage to the pro
Queer. But it wasn't, for in a few
hours the price fell to SO cents. Thou
sands of dollars were lost by specula-
tors in the few hours deal, it is true,
but not one of the lost dollars went
into the hands of the corn raiser. The
spectators who were ION the inside"
made the money.
In the face of all this robbery and
~rascality the American House of Mis-
representatives meets, adjourns, meets
again, wrangles owe unimportant mat
ters, smiles at wholesale robbery, winks
at corporation steals, and the people
continue to work for nothing and
watch their substance go into the
hands of those who earn not a cent.
Resolve to day that such parties never
shall oct vO1Ir vote again
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-06-07
THIS DEMANDS ATTENTION.

There is much valuable timber in
North Carolina. It is found from the
Tennessee line to the Atlantic coast.
Walnut, cherry, maple, ashe, poplar,
pine, hickory, dogwood, in fact all of
the soft and hard woods used in build
ing and manufacturing are found in
abundance.
We learn that the fine forests in the
eastern part of the State are being de-
stroyed rapidly. Most of the lumber
is shipped North. 1t is plain that our
people do not know the value of their
timber. Money is very scarce and
they r easily induced to part with
trees at remarkably low prices.
The Alliances should all bring up
this matter and discuss it thoroughly.
The State papers Chose that are not
too cowardly) should at once warn the
people against this practice. Timber
is getting very carce at the North. 1t
brings fabulous prices now, and will
increase in price. II you can avoid it
sell no timber at all, and positively re-
fuse to sell at even twice what you are
now getting for it. The New England
States have drained us Of everything
else and now they are getting u val
liable timber for nothing. Railroads"
traverse the forests in many of the
eastern counties. Make New England
leave money here when she buys tim
Der hereafter.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-06-07
A CONSPIRACY.

And now some Of the papers are
calling the Omaha Convention ga con-
spiracy." Those who expect to take
part in it are "conspirators." Theyare
determined to ruin the country"
They are "party traitors"
A little more than one hundred
years ago a little band of Americans
declared their independence. They
we're jeered, threatened and shot at.
But they kept right in the middle of
the road. After eight years of desper-
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-06-07

+bot bodv if It will adopt it. Well,
rbia is a roundabout way to get 10
Omaha, but we shall expect to see n
bovs at Omaha, bright and 1resh on
tho morning of the second of July,
eauciIv Haunting the Peoples party
badge from the lapels of their coats.
The railroads are piling up great
fortunes every year, building new track
and LAYING out competing lines. The
manufacturers are growing richer and
richer as the days go by. What are
YOU doing, farmer friends9 Are you
richer than last year this time7 If not,
why not? Have you been lazy9
A writer in the National EcOnO-
mist states that the total amount of
available working cash in national
banks in North Carolina, if divided,
would amount to twenty-five cents per
capita. About enough to pay for one
square meal. Oh! but there's plenty
of money, exclaims the Moncure Echo
~ The leading articles of the month
III the June ReUielU Of ReUjeUS includes
about fifty topics, under which the
most really significant and interesting
of recent articles in the great magazine
publications of the entire world are in
diligently condensed for busy readers.
Several portrait illustrations embellish
this department.
~ Somebody has said that the
farmers can we'll afford to carry their
produce over bad roads to market if
they can get good prices when they
get there. So they can. We would
like to see good roads, but we shall
never have any good thing while the
prices or farm products are as low as
at present, says the Moncure Echo.
~ Alabama steps into line and
touches elbows to the right. The honest
toilers Of that State have been treated
fully as unfair and mean as they were
in our State, and that is equivalent to
saying that their patience has been
taxed to the utmost limit of endurance.
But there are good and true men in
Alabama, and they have had a suth-
cheney of "boss" rule.
X Col. Farmers Alliance Odds, the
Raleigh correspondent, has been very
busy trying to find the members of
"Gideon's Band" He threatens to
have them all arrested. So those who
belong to the machine had orter"
keep very quiet. He says some Of
them live in Raleigh, and so eager has
he been to find them that he laps out
his tongue at every man he meets. He
is a small man anyhow, and this extra
Tapping" of his tongue has reduced
his weight to SO pounds, which puts
him in the field against Tom Thumb,
the smallest man on earth. Read our
poetry in another column, which is re-
s~pectfully dedicated to the Georgia
preacher who is said to have given
away some Of the secrets, and to Col.
Olds, of tapping fame.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-06-07
OLD VIRGINIA..

The noble old Virginia "plow boys"
are not much on dress parade, but
when it comes to solid, sensible, manly,
earnest work, they may always be re-
lied on. You have not seen a dozen
lines in the papers about the great
ground swell from tide water" to
the Alleghanies. It almost took the
breath of the Birmingham Conference,
when the resolutions from the Virginia
Conference of officers we're read, say
ing that u people will not go into the
primaries of the old parties, They are
not strutting arounl with bombastic
show-they are not throwing off their
coats and bounding into the ring and
swearing they lean whip the world "
they are not running "band wagons"
and professions of fantastic, brainless
whoopers, but they present that calm,
determined mein that looks like bust
ness. Already they have two or more
splendid Peoples party papers and are
organizing very quietly but rapidly.
When such men as Page, Venable,
Goode, Person, Chrisman, the Beverlies,
Rawlins, Silvey, and hundreds of other
equally true men, shall meet in the
Peoples party State Convention on the
23d inst, you may expect that the
sterling manhood and patriotism of
that grand old State to be fully sus-
+oiDo5
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-06-07
THE "BLACK FLAG" RAISED.

Last week we called attention to the
fact that the State Chronicle. of this
city, had declared that no man who
favored the government ownership of
railroads ought to be elected to any
office, State or National. In it's issue
Of last Thursday that same paper,
which is one of the two organs of the
Democratic party in this State, Or
claims to be, goes to the length of the
rope and shows it's flag in the follow
ing declaration:
We repeat, that no m1Gn 1UhO faUOrs
the st. Louis platform ought to be
elected IN North Carolina"
If we had said thatn no man who does
not favor the St. Louis platform ought
to be elected in North Carolina, we
should express what we believe to be
the feeling of a large majority of the
Alliancemen of this State. But since
the Democratic Convention has put
forth it's candidates we have waited to
see if any further attempts would be
made to drive out of the party a large
number of gentlemen who, while
favoring the st. Louis platfotm, in
good faith submitted to a platform
that was understood to be a COM
promise, for the sake of .harmony jim
the support Of the State ticket.
Now, then, the bold declaration
comes forth that mo man who favors
the st. Louis platform ought to be
elected" In other words, the fight is
to be made against every gentleman in
this State who favors the platform,
whether now or hereafter to be nomi-
mated. It makes no difference if. he is
the choice of the people in a Demo
cratic convention, the State OH OnicZe
raises the black flag and says he should
be defeated.
If this "organ" really voices the
sentiment of the party it claims to
represent, then the Alliance people in
this State, and all who with them favor
the principles set forth in the platform
adopted by the st. Louis Conference,
should thoroughly understand it.
We have believed heretofore that
this was a free country, and that gen
tlemen might differ on matters of gov
eminent policy and yet be loyal to
their chosen party. That the late Mr..
Randall might not agree with his
party about tariff reform and yet be
deemed eligible to office. That Senator
Vance might not favor civil service re-
form, and yet maintain the conf
dence of his party. That Capt. S. B.
Alexander might support the govern
ment ownership of railroads and not
jeopardize his seat in Congress.
If the ticket recently nominated in
this city by the Democratic State Con-
vention should be defeated it will be
due to the proscriptive policy set forth
in the paragraph we quote from the
State Chronicle. We say what we be-
lieve our people feel, and that is, that
they are not going to submit to this
dictaticn of what they shall think any
longer. They have done this to their
serious hurt already too long, to con-
tinue to do SO is to surrender whatever
of freedom and manhood they have
left.
Tho Ii1-o11ocE ooDor ivo tho ooporoiro
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-06-07

before. 1t will be honest and fearless
Our m tito shall still be, Equal rights
to all and special privileges to none"
We will "stay near the people, for
they are always right"
To the Alliance brethren and all good
people, our columns will always be open
for the insertion of notices and other
matter of public interest. It is still
a paper by and for the people.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-06-07
Editor Progressive Farmer.


The above letter is self-explanatory.
The PROGRESSIVE FARMER was the
first to raise the Alliance banl er in
North Carolina. Of it's devotion and
loyalty to the cause, it's record must
speak. 1t has kept fully abreast with
the great educational movement which
has taught the people of the sources of
the wrongs, the evils, and the out
rageous oppression which have brought
them face to face with bankruptcy
and ruin.
L has stood by the people in an honest
and persistent effort to obtain relief
and justice through the two dominant
political parties. 1t has seen these
parties openly violate their pledges,
and repeatedly betray the interests of
the people. 1t has utterly despaired of
any relief or any honest effort at relief
at the hands of these parties. Fully
nine-tenths of the Alliance people of
Our State are sOlemnly impressed with
these same convictions, and their only
hope is to cast their fortunes with the
great industrial elements of the coun-
try in the Peoples party which is to
hold it's National Convention at Omaha
on the 4th day of next July. The only
consistent, logical and manly course
for The PROGRESSIVE FARMER is to 90
with them and stand by them. 1t has
been publicly and boldly asserted from
the beginning of the Alliance organiza-
ton that we must get relief through
the ballot box; that we must vote for
such men only as would honestly adj
vocate our principles. We have tried
this through both the old parties and
have signally failed, nor is there the
least hope or promise of relief at the
hands of either of them.
1t nov remains for the people to
assert their rights and do for them
selves what their fo%refathers did before
them. Independent action, based upon
the education gained in the Alliance is
nov the only hope and last resort of
the people of this country. THE Pro
GREssIvE FARMER will in the future as
in the past, defend and promulgate the
true doctrine of the Alliance, believing
it to be the foundation upon which
must be built the citadel of all indus
trial reform. In taking this stand it
is simply putting into practice what
the logical result of the Alliance propa-
ganda leads up to. This is the only
honest and consistent course to follow
and it is taken with the hope and belief
that it will meet the appreciation of
the candid, earnest, people of North
Carolina as well as other sections of
this unhappy nation.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-06-07
n. r. P. A.
EDITORIAL NOTES.

1t is absolutely necessary that the
next legislature be composed of men.
Pick them out.
Look for a LAND slide" about
the latter part Of the present month,
that will make the political world
tremble.
It is important that Congressman
be elected in North Carolina who can
be trusted. Now is the time to begin
the work.
The Greenville Reflector says:
"The Colonel [Skinnerl is still silent"
Well, don't our constitution give a
man the rght to be silent now and
then?
Amt we been having nice, grow
ing weather3 Everything has been
doing it's best to outgrow the Alliance,
but it can't come it, says the Hickory
Mercury.
Florida farmers captured the
convention last week and nominated
their man, Judge Mitchell, for Cover
nor. He says he sis for the people
and with the people,"
The Peoples party of Virginia
will hold it's convention in the city of
Richmond on the 23d inst and will be
largely attended. The sterling old Vir-
ginia Democrats are arousing to vigor-
action.
~ The Peoples party Convention of
Kentucky will meet on the 18th inst.
and organize thoroughly. Over two
hundred of the boys from 1.-THE dark
and bloody ground" will go to the
Omaha Convention.
~ The Virginia People, a red hot
and able People s party paper, has just
launched forth at Charlottesville.
Edited by R. H. Rawlins. 1t promises
to be a giant worker in our cause.
Price, $1.0O per year.
~ The "Force bill" would be a bad
thing. But there is no danger of it.
The great West and the great South
have Joined hands. All the cut-throats
and financial ~assassins in New England
can't scare our people.
~ Mr.. HowelIs intends spending his
summer in a quiet nook in New Eng
land, devoting a large portion of his
time to the writing of his novel of
American girl-life, to be published in
the autumn in The Ladies' Home Jour-
mol.
~ Politicians who have crept into
the Alliance and who wish to run it in
the interest of the Democratic party,
are preparing to capture the next State
meeting. At your July county meet
ing put none but true blues on as State
delegates,
~ The TT. Worth Advance says that
the words "In God We Trust" on the
silver dollar should be changed to "In
Gold WeLTrust." This is what the Re
publicans and the Eastern wing of the
Democracy want, or in fact this is
what Shylock wants.
The Peoples party Convention
has been held in Maine, and that State
sends Orenty-eigh delegates to Omaha.
The bread Winners of all New England
are becoming tnOroughly aroused to
the dangers which thre~ten their Iiber,
ties and they will be heard from in No
vember.
y. South Carolina sends her delega-
ton to Chicago with the Ocala plat
CORN "or something better" to ask
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-06-07
CAPT. ALEXANDER ANSWERS.

Some of the papers in the 9Th dis
trict have been calling on Hon. S. B.
Alexander to state where he stands as
to the St. Louis platform.
He has written a letter in which he
says he endorses every plank three)
Finance, Land and Transportation
He says the conference platform is the
same adopted by the National Alliance
at St. Louis in 1889, and were three of
the national planks when he was
elected to Congress. He says the inan-
cial question is of the most Importance.
Now that he has again stated ex-
plicitly that he endorses every word
of the st, Louis platform, and as each
OF the three planks will be opposed by
the ~plutocrats in the 9th district, his
friends there may look out for a deter
mined effort to defeat him.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-06-07

ate strife they won their inderon,
and the admiration of all the ~
world. uR
On the 4th of next month a h..,
men will meet at Omaha d.
their number will not be laroor aA
paratively, than the handful tbnt 0Q
at Charlotte on the goth of MaD @e
or the handful that met at P5ii 40
phia on the 4th of July, 1776 :
patriots of that period had inst ~
to declare their independence, NJ. DS
of their c~ountrymen did not ANN.
of their action, but they went eb'
and achieved the greatest victorr
modern times. What was THEN V
plaints9 Taxation without renros'
tation." 1t was a small mattor
few chests of foreign tea caused i a
Outside Of that there were great NV
ciples at stake.
The little band of Spartans who Win
meet at Omaha or the 4th of july viii
draw down upon their heads the ON,
bined wrath of the plutocrats and Il
political a~ristocrats of the entire con,
try. However, they will have the g.,
isfaction of knowing that their grior
ances are a thoUsandfold more ag,,
waiting than were the grievances 4
the revolutionary patriots. The prn
ciples for which they will contend AN
the same and of equal importance
Liberty and justice; equal rights IA
all and special favors to none" Tbe5
object will not be to rescue their Conn.,
try from the misrule of monarcbs ~
kings, but from uncrowned financial
manufacturing and railroad kings and
legislative barons who Iegislate for hi.
or that corporation and class at 81
much per job. It is a protest agaiDr
the present financial system by which
the government farms out the bushes
of issuing money to a few individual;
at the expense Of the masses of ts
people Of all classes. 1t is a protes
against the protection doctrine of the
Republican party which advocatg
protection to a few while the masses
are robbed and left to the mercy d
the robbers to be robbed year after
year. 1t is a protest against the
tariff for revenue only" doctrine Of
the Democratic party, which declares
that it is wrong to rob the people of 4
per cent, but is willing to rob them at
the rate Of 40 per cent. 1t is a prOt8t
against the various causes that pro
duce millionaires by the thousands and
paupers by the millions. 1t is a pro
test against the system by which th
towns and villages are having unprea
denied growth while the rural districts
are on the down grade and going at
breakneck speed. 1t will declare thai
it is wrong for nine million mortgages
to be in existence at this time. Step
will be taken to stop the absorption d
wealth by four or five New Englan5
States while the South and West ar
filled with paupers. There a work 0
reconstruction will begin and the 8ys
tenn that allows a few men to contO
prices of farm products and compe
the producer to take less than cost 70
his corn, wheat, cotton and tobacc
will be knocked to pieces. 1t will b
an attempt to rescue sixty million pee
pie from financial slavery. The "Se(
ond Declaration of Indepence" is nee
essary, it is right; must come and vii
come.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-06-07
ANOTHER STEP FORWARD.
Hon. S. B. Alexander, President Erec.
utiUe Board, N. G. State Alliance,
WnehinOtOn d q.

Hon. s. B. Alexander, President Erec-
WtiUe Board, ~ G.. State Alliance,
Washington, d. c.:
DEAR SIR AND BROTHER:-Having
learned that your Executive Board, at
it's recent session in Raleigh, N. c., ex-
pressed it's dissatisfaction with the atti-
tude of The PROGRESSIVE FARMER in
its last preceding issue towards the
Peoples party, I hereby tender the
resignation of that paper as the official
organ of the State Alliance of North
Carolina. While it will remain as true
and as loyal to the Alliance organiza-
ton and its principles as it has ever
been, it cannot and will not be circum-
scribed in it's advocacy Of the me- bod ]
which only can bring relief to our suf-
fering people, and which have been so
overwhelmingly endorsed by them.
In thus severing its official connec-
ton with the State Alliance, it in no
measure abates it's allegiance to the
principles of our Order, and will ever
stand ready and willing to extend it's
full and hearty cooperation to all the
officers and the brotherhood for pro
noting and maintaining the principles
which we have espoused.
F~raternally yours,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-06-07
"GIDEON'S BAND

Our poetical editor courted the muses.
awhile this morning and brought toF'n
the following and then tainted:
Do you belong to Gideon's Band|
Is the leading question in the land.
The papers say that no honest man
Should belong to Gideon's Band
In ye olden time we kuklux khan
Went rowing over this fair land.
They ate bread made IF wheat Dran,d
And buried their victims in the SanU'
This Gideon's Band sits on a log,
And laps up water like a dog; -ur,
Col. Olds says they look mighty gr tbn
And are known by "a working Oh '"'
thumb"
THE above is horrible poetry anu
may be a little partisan, but this paPol
is independent now, and the first man
who objects to our poetry will have "
write his own obituary.
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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1892-10-06

The STORY is told Of an Irish
woman who tried to console her
husband with the remark that he
would have a 1air trial with an ups
right judge. ''Look here woman"
he replied, "what'd | want with an
upright judge What l wants is
Judge that will lean a little" In
other words he was afraid he might
get justice. McClatchey's customers
are assured at all times of the best
goods at lowest prices. Fresh
cheese, crackers, all the canned
goods, French and American Sar-
dimes, Salmon, Canned Fruit and
Vegetables. Ask tor those fresh
sailed Crackers, Pickles, Olives, To-
mato Catsup, Deviled Ham, Potted
Meat, Roast Beef, Canned Chip
Beet The 5 and 10 cent counters
have just been reflled. Every
house-keeper in town needs to see
and secure lot of things from off
these counters. A lot of Crockery
that you can buy cheap. Among
other things new line Of Wash~
stand Sets just received.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1892-10-06

HARRY.-"Where are you going,
mammal" Mamma-"I'm going to
a reception, dear" Half an hour
later, Harry, who was playing out
in the yard, said to lady who was
about to ring the door bell: "My
mamma isn't at home she is gone
to deception" Now, there is no
deception at McClatchey's store.
Everybody invited. Fresh Hams,
pure lard, the best Flour and all as
represented.