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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-16

lines out Of ten be VIII 60 down ia.
defeat. Now here is a lesson for the
members of the Alliance and the other
soldiers of reform. The Alliance is
right but it will not, cannot win unless
we fight for the cause. Then let US,
let every reformer, every lover of
right and enemy of wrong, buckle on
the armor of truth and fight without
ceasing. Yes, fight as long as wrong
exists. and let every delayNand the ap-
bearance of every new wrong be a new
inspiration to the soldiers of reform
and perfect liberty. The Caucasian.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-16
THE PAUPER MILL STILL GRIND
ING.

~~ 49, 49,
This businessof making ten thousand
laupers in order to make one million
hire is an industry that still thrives.
1t is encouraged by many people and
gets all the fostering ear and protec
ton from this government that it
needs.
A woman in whose ears this refrain
rang tottered down the stone steps into
an eating house in the basement of "a
Park street Thursday night, says the
New York World. A tattered black
serge dress covered her wasted BODY,
and a thin shawl was thrown over her
head. Shivering she sank into the
nearest seat and feebly called for a cup
off coffe as she placed before her the
last 2 cents in her possession. When
the boy brought her the coffee she drew
from her pocket a dry crust and tried
to eat it, bat found it too hard and
cold. The boy offered to soften the
crust over the stove, and the m
handed it to him, with a sad smile. In
a few moments it was returned. warm
and soft. She tasted it and swallowed
a sip of the coffee, then put the rest of
1t back in her pocket. Her hand
stretched toward the coffee again, but
fell short upon the table in front of her
Her eyes closed and a convulsion SHOOK
her frame. Her head fell forward 1non
her breast, and her earthly troubles
were over.
The woman's clothes, though old,
were clean. Her face was fair and
w1thouta trace of the dissipation which
surrounded her, and the big blue ewes.
open and vacant, were as innocent as
a chlld's. Her heavy dark brown hair
was neatly coiled.
Perhaps she had been making shirts
at 10 cents a dozen. The man who en-
pioyed her is wearing diamonds. His
wife and daughters spend most of their
Vnne changing dresses. The pauPer
mill Is still running.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-16
MONKEYS AND POLITICIANS

The Charlestown. w. Va Farp
Advocate gets off some good and
sible things. Here is an iIlustra
showing how some politicians
caught:
Monkies are said to be ea2G'
making a hole in a cocoanut jusi
enough for Mr.. Monkey to get his "a
in, and then inserting a lump of sn.
The animal discovers the sugar
hiding place, thrusts his hand
grabs it. The aperture not beln
enOughfor him to withdraw his cl (
fist, he is so much encumbered I
prize he desires to secure, that NJ =
ture becomes an easy matter. SSP
with a politician. Some boss msfPs
nice fat office in a political coo pu
and II ofice-hunting friend gets ~
of it, and he would rather go tel Il
devil than let go, and thus falls a pr
to the designer of the plot. Mopki
and men can be caught in the ban
trap.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-16
PATRIOTS.

The Peoples Advocate, of Gaines
vile, Texas, a Peoples party paper,
was burned out a few days ago. The
paper had just been founded, and but
n issue was printed. The fire is gen
orally accepted as the work Of malicious
old party politicians. The hose drivers
found their harness tempered with,
the fire plugs so firmly screwed down
that it was a long time before they
could be loosened, and thus an hour
elapsed before the fire company could
get to work.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-16

Our Northern and Northwestern
brethren are asking each other if the
Southern Alliancemen will stand by
them. Our people here are disposed
to ask, "Will our Northern and West
ern brethren stickYa
We cannot answer for any but u
own people. Judging from the grit.
nrsh and patriotism of our Northwest
ern brethren we believe they will
march to the mouth of the cannon
We are not willing to believe that the
present good prices of grain in that sec
ton, brought about by the shortage of
crops in Russia, will prevent them
from carrying out their plans, for our
Northwestern brethren are too intelii-
gent to be caught mapping. Such pa
pers as the Topeka Capital contend
that the farmers are all cOntented now;
that they will stop kicking.
The people of the Northwest know
that things may, and probably will be
reversed next year. They know that
a full crop in Europe means s~tagnation
in prices for their products just as they
have had before. They know that even
now the spectators are reaping more
profit from the advance in prices than
the producers. So we are not willing
to believe that they will be deceived
again, We do believe that good prices
are being paid in the Northw west for
the purpose of making the farmers
feel good" and that the price of cot
ton was made low for another purpose
entirely.
Will our Southern farmers stick2
Who first declared their independence
in IT'S? Ahandful of citizens in Meek
lenburg county, North Carolina. Their
number was small, but they kept
sticking" and reinforcements came
and they we're successful, Call up the
spirit of Lord CORVALLIS and ask hin
whether or not the people of this SEQ
ton stood firm. Ask him if every
place he stopped at in this section was
not a "hornet's nest" Call up the
spirits of Grant, Mcclellan and other
brave Union Generals and ask them
about the sticking qualities of the
Southern people. The masses of the
people in the South opposed war, but
when it came they fell in the last
ditch.
When we consider that our farmers
are hot headed, impatient and as brave
as lions, it is a wonder that they have
stood oppression as long as they have,
They have been organized several
years, but they have taken no rash
steps. They have waited and given
the powers that be all the time they
could expect. But little relief has been
given. Our people are not willing and
cannot delay matters longer. They a-e
Iearning to love their wives and CID
dren and country better than they do
a few political bosses. They are tired
making millionaires out of a few peo-
pie and paupers out of themselves and
families. They are tired working and
selling their toll below actual cost.
They know that they have been de
ceived time and again. They see that
their property is rapidly slipping out
of their hands. They know that they
have far greater grievances now than
the colonies had more than a hundred
years ago. They know that manhood
and patriotism must exert itself. They
are going to practice what they pre- ach
and vote as they pray. Yes, our NORTH
western brethren can depend on us.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-16
SOME VERY DT

The bills introduced Congressman
Alexander and others q prevent snec
ulatlon IN futures hf heated a good
deal OF apprehensio84 some quarters.
Ihls future dealiH. I2 Is made a few
people very rich a531d early ruined the
farmers of the So1ita1 Id West. Power
full efforts are bengn ade to defeat the
bills in Washington. In order to create
sentiment against the bills the cotton
and grain men are sending out all sorts
of stories. Last Thursday, Hubbard
Price & Col New York, cotton men,
sent out the|folloWing:
ct hask developed that much of
the advance OF the past feWdays
has been duo to the ~realizat6Qn
the part IF the Western operaA
tors who w5Ee largely interested in
the cotton market upon their hold
ings. The reason assigned for their
action vas The general apprehension.
that the antioption bill nov before
Con- Afe8 would become Law. Should
sua Ease Il viii almost Be i'm
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-16
THE TWO MARTYRS.

McAllister, Of Mississippi, and Hall,
of Missouri, have Issued a circular
warning Alliancemen against the St.
Louis Conference.
Now what have these cranks got to
do with the Alliance? They are no
longer members of it's council. They
could not get in the indianapolis meet
ing, They have been designated as
traitors. They are nothing but scabs
on old political sores. They are en-
titled to nothing but sympathy and the
prayers of good and true citizens.
What are they, anyhow?
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-16

is managing this part of it remarkably
well. and you should give it your pat
ronaoe Every business agent in the
State should take THE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER.
The Associated Press is a funny
organization. It claims to furnish
dailv paper all the news the same day
it occurs, yet at the last election seven
teen counties in Illinois were carried
by the Peoples party, and this greaC
news association has not reported the
fact vet. 1t should get a hump on
itself. .
y. The St. Louis Globe Democrat
saws :. war with Chill would have IN
sured Republican success in h neAO
election. When political part1e try &c
cot nm a war in order to perpetuaIe
their existence, it is time to call a halC
We have two parties in this country
whose leaders would do this if they
could.
T. Mrs. Van Norden, daughter of
the late Isaac Bernstein, of the Loulsl-
ana Lottery. was burned to death IN
the Hotel Royal fire last week. She
had $50, 900 worth of diamonds which
we're burned in the fire. A great deal
of money is locked up in jewelry in this
country. No wonder money is scarce
among the masses.
- The New York Herald, speaking
the fire there in the Hotel Royal,
says: "Most of the men now m
as inspectors of buildings in that
city, are little politicians who know
nothing and care nothing about the
of buildings. They inspect
hotels by working for ,. r Hill and
other politicians, in Harlem beer sa-
~ The WOrkingman'S Helper says:
Z" When you find a dozen souls playing
a game of base ball in the shade of a
dime, you cart avoid the conclusion
that the Lilliputians T not yet ok
tinct. Have you eve thought along
this line, my brother? If not, light
your lamp, put on your study cap and
you may learn something that will do
you good"
- The National Labor Conference
will meet in ST. Louis, February 22d,
1892. All labor organizations will be
represented. The Montgomery AdUer-
tiSer will then hear something "drap"
that will be very apt to aus it to
understand that this rule or ruin bust
ness has played out and the country
will be run on the wise and safe Ocala
platform awhile. The people have de-
cided to have things to suit themselves,
and let the bosses take a rest, says the
Alliance Monitor.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-16
last report:

We only name in this list those sL
ing three or more names, but the man
brethren and friends who have sent {
their renewals have our thanks alsc
Bro Lane look out, Bro. Williams |
up with you, and says he has anotne
list most ready. Bro. Pembertonsps
is all the way from California. W
want to make this list a whole coluH.-
long every week. What are you dOnls
to help us, readers
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-16
A SUMNER.

The Columbia Cotton Plant, which,
is a very, sensible paper and ought to
be and is an authority on cotton pLatt5
ing, believes with us that the overt
production stuff is mere rot, but thT IFS
that the only solution of the mattf/ in
reach of the people at present ISL Re-
duction of the acreage. Read VI
says: 4 w.
I've are going to accept br 4al
the solution Of the money Slel Bdca5
by G1V our neg goIiti S9 I t6eo 1i W Vii RiI re.
duce the production one-half Then if
their theory be correct wef.@ build get
IL cents for it. Under the7"Q1k eory we
might sit down every otR FEAR and
thus get as much for onfE 1kr's labor
as we now get for two."b7
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-16
A LESS COTTON

The Columbia, S. c., Cotton
organ of the State Alliance, hag
say about the necessity for a r
in the acreage:
The convention of cotton
which met by appointment La
in Augusta, recommended a r.
of 20 per cent. in the area plan
We trust that this recommf
will be- adopted by eUery farntd
utter honsence to talk or to thil
the probability of your neighI
ing less while you plant as
more than you did last year,
The only way to reach t
posed is for each farmer
with himself not to planT
cent. as many acres as he lteI
year. Any plan that prog s U
different line is doomed td3 ZAP
neutrality-suspicious. of mi
ual farmer, disappointm9l an
aster to the country at lard
Let each Individual ia FgI
that there is no money b. IcUual |
for hlm1, in any acre aboTS 20 per @
of what he planted last yer; and /
act like an intelligent business maI'
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-16
wHArARE YOU DOING ABoUT1r7

Let every Allianceman in North
Carolina work now. Let him see all
his neighbors and induce them to sub.
scribe at nee for THE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER. Get their names and hand
them to your secretary st next meet
ing There Il scarcely an Alliance in
the State that cannot send IA 25 sub
scribers We put a enbo Of 2aor more
ct 60 cents each for one year.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-16

possible to carry the present laa 81
plus of cotton as It is { iatl)nt
through the medium of fl Ala 70
tracts, it would not be practl Ia al
the burden Of its weight wo1 Hin
most entirely upon the trade k ID
not been for the system of t al p
contracts for future delivery We III
it may be almost certainly afi m
that cotton would have sold dis We
below 5 cents per pound as it did
intervals before the war when S1epI
ent system of contracts was unkno'
Now, does any sensible person s
pose that the cotton or future buy
have been paying the difference
tween five cents and what cotton
actually been selling at2 Would ID
great philanthropists O. pay from
to So on each bale of cotton just fHI
purpose of keeping it up2 Last !
not least, would these rascals \
deal in futures oppose these !
against dealing in futures if it wa
profit to t~hemselves2 No, inae
This is the dryest rot we have see :
sometime. We hope Capt. Alexdo'
will get his bill through.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-16
WILL THEY BELIEVE TIP

OverprOduction and starvation all at
the same time in the same country.
Who can conceive such a state of
affairs? Yet the people are asked to
believe that such is the condition.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-16
N. r. P. A.
EDITORIAL NOTES.


President Butler spent Wednes-
aay la the city. He is in good spirits.
Bro a G. Shuford, of Catawba
county spent Wednesday in the city.
Bro. e. A. Thorne, of Halifax,
was id the city Friday. His faith is
unshaken
The postofhce and telegraph bust
nes has been consolidated in Spain.
It ought to be here.
Reports from ali sections of the
state Mdieata that the Alliance people
and viii stand together.
Bro a 8. Peace, the energetic
trae blue Iectilrer of Granville
county, Was in the city Thursday:
There is q powerful rafting of
dry bones on account of the st. Louis.
meeting The people are fully aroused.
Bro. M. Dundas, jamestown, N.
writes US chat lie has increased the
6apaclty OF his bone-meal mandatory
that place.
All aboard for St. Louis! Are
yod goinga The great labor conference
WI be a turning point in the history
Of this country.
Bro. r. S. Blair, now Of Guilford
College, formerly a resident and lee
tuner in the First Congressional Dis
net was i'm the city last week.
We are glad to learn that Bro.
Elias Carr is much better. He has been
Very sick with grip and pneumonia.
He IS now on the way to health again.
President Beers, of the New York
Life Insurance Company, resigned the
other day, and the Company voted a
lie pension t $4,000 per year to him.
Whose money was that3
Rev. Thomas Dixon, of New
says that the man who prays
en- angel and votes like a devil,
VII Be found with the devil when the
a count is made True.
And the people arose up in
Mighty host and in the year 1892 went
sc Louis and declared that things
ud be changed. From the Nine
eaA Century not yet published.
Hon s b Alexander, J. NJ. New
b5rue, and j S Johnston, the State
Alliance Executive Committe of the
Alliance, were all here at the
meeting last week. They found every
thing in very good shape.
Bro. Geo. Wilcox, of Carbonton
county, one OF the staunch All.
ncemen OF that section, was in the
city on Tuesday. He says the ALI
e getting IN better spirits and will
unit on the ocala platform.
We would like to see Prof. Mel
rne succeed with his rain making
mess but we are willing to bet that
MA does D trust viii be formed and
raised so that only the uppe
hundred can get any of the arti-
business agent is no longer
aed. We have turned over the
PAGE of Tn PROGRESSIVE FARMER
o. Worth Cor p~H5hcation Of ali
relating to III Office. The
SHOULD watch this page, and
ova af nurchmea1lH ey can through
Aeeny. Bro Worth
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-16
BOTH PARTIES ARE RESPON
SIBLE.

There have been over o 1000 business
failures during the past six years. This
includes only those recorded. 1t does
o include the hundreds of thousands
who have lost their homes-the great
est of all failures.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-16
TWO WONDERFUL PLATFORMS.

H one may Judge by what our Con
gressnen say, the platform OF the Dem !
ocratic party can be summed np in tw,l
words, ASome tariff, 2 and the pIa torn
oL the Republican party IN three yordi
Some more tariff The Lice IN :
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-16
GOOD MONET.

We hear so much aborlt money Ind
see so little of it that nyalthOrltatlv I've
statements about this. stuff cSled
money are always interesting. 1Om'
erOys AdUGnced Thought, one 0 4tbe
best publications in thqcountry, says:
Every dollar that is BY Law declared
to be full legal tender at its face value
is a good dollar. Every dollar that is
not a full IegaI-tender for a dollar Of
debit dues or taxes, anywhere iH the
limited States, is not q good dOllarI
Gold coins are full legal tendd at
their face value only when the coins
are full weight, therefore the goIddol
lar is not a perfect dollar, S1verG0l
lars, once a legal tender for any and all
debts, is now a legal-tender To- an
amount of five dollars. Greenk5 lbs,
clean, fresh, crisp and attract4 or
torn, dirty, wadded. greasy and hull
slVe' are ull lega1tender at thef1 ice,
Halue. ana, ~Gheretofe, are the bestBeI ney
inns country ever had, or ea can
The law creates money only one
Purpose-legal tender for deot. In lean
9IVe no power TO purchase, thk be forcf
an an Cnls grab, tatk, twaddle and laer
congress- aiming to give A91ey
q uniform purchasing power, S ere
partisan rot.
When the law createS-S INTO
ejaculation aInoDGY~SFiaC dEbts
the goveTnman ners6 ie-
its its credItoI na bac ef L.
we people vieige d,
g Geedl when j n
ene lea IS n0ney al
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-16

raIi want your communication
bfbiskad4 IF 50, give us your real
asiile and your p~ostofice,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-16

10 8 want your paper changed 10
rotheraaieea State the one at when
have been getting it,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-16

We are under obligations to u
lowing brethren for clubs sent III
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writing to anybody, always De
to Give Che nameof your postoftice,
I'D aien your " M me plainly.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-03-23
Salaries of Old English Actors.

Kean never spent more than two or
three thousand pounds upon a revival,
and this was considered marvellous in
those days. Messrs. Irving and Wilson
Barrett have more than doubled such
sums. Again, salaries were incompara-
bly, smaller. For some time John Ryder,
who played second to Kean, received
only three pounds ten shillings a week
until, discovering that another actor OF
about equal position was in the receipt
of eight pounds, he threatened TO break
his engagement unless his salary was at
once doubled, a request which was com
Piled with. Now such an actor would
command from thirty to fifty pounds a
week. On the other hand, Kean raised
the ballet girls from a shilling a night,
their old pay, put of which they had 10
find shoes and stockings, TO a guinea a
week, and found them everything
London Tit-Bits.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-03-23
A Sure WAY of Killing Owls.

Frost Bunker, of the Dead river re-
gion, is a guide who. it is said, is a sue
cessful rival to James A. Smith, of Phil
lips-a Rangely guide-in story telling.
Frost is intimately acquainted with
John Smith," who is well known in all
parts of the country. He says he was
with John on a hunting trip once on a
time, when they came upon a man who
hal fired at al owl perched in a big
tree) about Il dozen times without sue
cess. AS they approached the stranger
offered John a five dollar bill if he would
secure the owl. John cooked his rifle
and walked around the tree.
The owl turned his head in the same
direction as far as John walked. John
kept on going around the tree, the owl
turning his head all the while. Just as
John completed the tenth circuit the
owls head was twisted off~and he fell to
the ground dead. John said small owls
couldn't be killed that way because their
feet would fly up in turning.-Phillips
(Me.) Photograph.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-03-23
How Old Is Punch?

On landing at one of the fac
tories we found that there was a fair go
ing on under an avenue Of tamarisks
close by. The dealers sat under the
trees with their wares before them, fruit
and vegetables in one quarter, cotton
and ~calicOes in another, native wooden
stuffs, robes, rugs, cloth, ETC., in a third;
there was also a cattle fair, sheep, buff
faloes, camels and dOnkeys. There were
al fresco coffee stalls and a booth, with
in which the sounds of very noisy music
could be heard, the drum predominating.
We entered, and were much amused on
finding that it was an Arab Punch and
Judy show, but Punch wore a turban
and Judy a yashmak.
The former perpetrated a series OF
enormities, and ended by tearing off
Judy's veil during a family s~quabble;
after this he became a perfect desperate,
and on the mamour (chief magistrate of
the district), got up in the official tar
boosh and blue frOck coat, arriving, at
tended by a retinue of cawasses armed
with sticks, he knocked that redoubtable
parsonage head over heels, amid the vo-
ciferous applause of the assembled falla-
heen. Punch pasha's popularity was
now at it's height, and much sympathy
was felt for him when his career termi.
mated by his being hanged on the pole
OF a shadoof. 1t was really a very clever
and lively performance.
| turned to the inspector Of the factory,
who was with me, and said, Il suppose
they nave borrowed this from Europe
Borrowed it from Europe!" he ex-
claimed. "Why, it was performed in
the east before Europe was thought Of
So then old Punch is, after all, but a de-
generate version of an Egyptian play
Stuart's Egypt After the War"