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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1892-06-11
PUGILISTIC.

Sunday evening last our citizens
we're given an exhibition where
more brutality than science was
displayed. The news that two
young boys, Alfred Fournet and
Louis Landry, both aged 16 years,
had a difficulty and had agreed to
meet outside of the corporation
limits of the town, and settle their
difficulty in a fight with bare
knuckles. The fight lasted for
several minutes and both antago-
nists showed considerable pluck
and endurance. The fight result
ed in partial victory for Fournet.
While this fight was on the ex-
citement ran high in the large
crowd Of spectators and hackers
of each faction, and for q while it
WAS thought that general fight
would follow. For a while there
were several blows exchanged in
differents parts of the large crowd
but no regular fight until a diff
Guilty arose between Michel Four
net and Alcibiade Champagne
who began to show their pugilis-
tic skill, Fournet entered some
heavy blows on his adversary's
face that brought out blood, but
Champagne who was quick as a
cat got in some ticks and when
they clincl1ed Champagne put his
fingers in Fournet's eye and got the
best of him. Fournet then got a
revolver from friend in the crowd
and Champagne was also offered
a revolver to have q fair show, but
those around thought that both
should be satisfied, with the fsti-
cuff, and this ended the hostilities.
The Cypress Island boys show
ed considerable pluck and cour.
rage, they are good blood.
These fights were the result OF
a game Of base ball played be.
tween the youths of this town and
those of Cypress Island, when
during the game some difficulty
occurred which was the cause OF
40 much excitement ind fight by
the hot heHded youths.
Some of our people look upon
such things as TN exhibition Of
scientific skill and endurance, but
we look upon it in an entirely DIFF
ferent light.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1892-06-11
III. -lll,..-H.C Cleanse the blood
n0n " in'0iOomoS by taking W.W.C
Trade Unions.

Shall l be dictated to by beg
carly union" asks the million
aire. Must 1 permit it to NEEDLE
in my affairs, to dictate whom I
shall employ, how much 1 shall
pay him and when l shall dis
charge him? Shall 1 let it force
me to pay three dollars a day to
the needy wretch whom 1 can
now have for one dollar or less?
The question answers itself.
If a union can force wages up
from starvation rates to the level
of justice and comfort, them in
the name of all that is good and
human and merciful let there be
unions everywhere. If trade
union can take the white slave of
capital and make a prosperous
freeman of him, all hail to it as a
civilizer and an instrument of true
patriotism. 1t can do in it's short
life time what craftsmanship and
philosophy and revolution have
failed to do in centuries.
The trade union properly or
ganized and conducted is a flower
upon the stem of Christianity. 1t
is an instrument of protection and
hope and progress which the
Church created and in the hands
of her oppressed children in the
darkest days of political slavery.
And the fight is perpetual one.
The instinct of capital was, is and
always will be to reduce it's labor
ers to slavery. In self-defense la
Dor must unite. 1t must present
to the employers an undivided
front in support or its just claims.
Especially is that the case to-day
when capital combines, in the
form of trusts and syndicates, to
grind producers and consumers
alike into the fine dust of poverty.
But a union" to be effective
ought to be strong and it ought to
be just. 1t ought to embody so
much of the desirable labor of its
kind that its cessation from work
would leave no satisfactory substi-
tute within reach. It would then
dictate reasonable terms to the
employer without any resort to
violence and iawlessness. II
ought also to be just end avoid
exorbitant demands because such
greediness would overlsap itself
1t would drive away the capital
(which alone can give employment
and prosperity to physical skill.
AS Christianity has created this
spirit OF union it will d-lelop and
purify it.-Morning Star.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1892-06-11

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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1892-06-11
The Annual Exhibition

Of tho Pupils of the Convent
Schools, will take place on We'd
nesday june Goth at 5p. m. In
the College Hall.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1892-06-11
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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1892-06-11
FOR SALE.

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

The Republican party through its
platforms and teachings for a quarter
of a century has lead it's people to be-
lieve that it was in favor of free coin
age. The Democratic party has done
the same thing. They have preached
it on the hustings, pleaded for it
through their papers, and proclaimed
it in their platforms. They have de-
nounced the fraud and treachery and
duplicity, through which silver was
demonetized in 1878; and yet we find
to-day both these parties squirming
and lodging and in every way that is
disgraceful and cowardIy, trying to
evade the loud demand of the people
for free and unlimited coinage of silver.
Even Northern Democrats, "our faith
full allies" threaten to secede from the
Democratic party-threatens us with
the force bill, if we shall dare to- and
by the principles Of Jefferson, Jackson
and Calhoun, and come back to the
good old ways of our fathers which
obtained in this government for a
hundred years-if we dare to stand by
those principles which we have enun
ciated in our platforms for long, long
years. They are searching day and
night for some scheme by which they
may dodge this issue and the latest
and most ridiculous and most abiectIy,
unmanly and cowardly of them all
that have yet been proposed, is to refer
the whole matter to an international
commission. 1t will be remembered
that Col. Polk foreshadowed this in
his late annual message at Indianapo-
lis. Here is what he said:
Evidence is not wanting to warrant
the conclusion that it is the deliberate
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-02
THAT'S THE WAY TO DO IT.

We are under obligations and return
our sincere thanks to Bro. r. w. Fitch
for a club of nine new and fifteen re
newals, all for me year, with cash in
full. You are doing good work, Bro.
Fitch. Keep at it right along on this
line. You are ahead so far.
Since writing the above we have re-
ceived a club from Bro. r. H. Lane
with fifteen new and eleven renewals.
all for a year, with cash for full
amount. Many warm thanks, Bro.
Lane. You have it on Bro. Fitch, but
Bro. Fitch is going to do so or a little
more so again. Look out for your
laurels. Who comes next?
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-02
WHERE IS DowD AND DAN1ELs7

We want to know what has become
of Dowd, of the Mecklenburg Times,
and Daniels, of the State Chronicle.
They are supposed to be ready to quell
all political disturbances.
Some weeks ago they found a little
third party symptoms in Mecklenburg
county. At least the Times said it
could see signs Of it, Both papers
turned loose the dogs of var and the
trouble was soon over. But it seems
that the dogs of war won't get to rest
much. The Henderson TOnuahGWk says
the people of Sandy Creek township,
Vance county, have issued a call for a
Peoples Party" convention at Hen
derson on the 18th. The Times and
the Chronicle should put on their war
paint and go for them. The PROGRESS
sIvE FARMER is not in politics this year.
We are going toh have some fun, though,
watching the political fire companies
put each other out.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-02

purpose of the two great parties of tn.
country to avoid. evade, and ionoro
this great issue in their platforms and
campaigns, That it is their deliberate
purpose to divert the minds of then eO-
pie from 1t, by giving undue and MAG
nified prominence to those questions Of
secondary Importance, which have in
this regard served the purposes of the
money power SO we'll and so faithfulIv
for. the past quarter of a century. With
their solemn and repeated pledges on
the subject TO the voters of the country
and before the world our financial
| system was not made an issue bv
either Of them in a single State or a
single congressional district in their
campaigns of 1890 or 1891? They fear
to discuss it before the people. They
dare not discuss it before the people,
Is not the recent declaration of a par
tisan Senator from a great and power
full State, that the two parties were and
had been in thorough accord on this
question, abundantly sustained by the
history of our financial legislation for
the past quarter of a century? At the
dictation of the money power the gov
eminent ceased to coin silver on the
first of July last. Emboldened by
"udG IL CIdllllS DIS q NICGOES III IQ0
recent State elections, it declared
it's purpose within forty eight hours
after the polls closed, to demand of
Congress that the purchase of silver
should cease, and that the question of
it's reconciliation should be submitted
to an international commission. Shall
this great government and this great
people be subjected to the humiliating
farce of submitting this question to
those powers at whose behest the great
and Ubiquitous outrage of it's demOne-
tizatiOn was accomplished? Will Con-
gress aggravate and augment this great
crime by Obeying the dictates of Wall
street? Shall the intrigue of foreign
capital be invoked to aid in fastening
upon this country a policy, the legiti-
mate fruits of which will be the pro-
ductiOn of milliOnaires and p~auperss
Will the two political parties stultify
themselves by discarding and repudiat-
ing their repeated pledges on this sub
ject9 Will they bow before the man
dates Of money and corporate power
and force upon the country such a
policy az will produce a fierce and bit
ter antagonism between capital and
productive labor?
Great national ~exigencies or emer-
gencies are crucial tests of the spirit.
the manhood, the courage, the wisdom
and the patriotism of a people.
Liberty was never won or pre-
served, through slavish dependence or
cringing doubt"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-02
THE SAME OLD GAME--WILL 1T
WORK.

The Democrats and Republicans Of
Kansas, fused in the last election and
celebrated together what they claimed
as a victory over the Alliance of that
State. They got together in Emporia,
dragged President Polk in effigy
through the streets, hanged him to a
lamp post, fired blank cartridges at
him and burned him, amid the mingled
shouts and demoniac yells of both
Democrats and Republicans. Of what
crime had he been guilty, to merit
such treatment? Simply, and only,
that he had the nerve and the manhood
to go into Kansas and stand before her
brave old soldiers and people and de
nOunce the corruption and dema-
goguery of the two political parties and
plead for unity and fraternity between
the sections. Can any true Alliance
man, North or South, forget this out
rage and this insult to our Order? In
South Carolina and in Georgia and in
Mississippi and other States, the Demo
Gratis and Republicans fused together
at the ballot, box, to defeat the people.
Every day we see accommodating evi
dence that the Republicans and Demo
Gratis of the Northeastern States will
fuse together before the people shall
win and rule. And now comes the
latest from sister State South Caro-
lima. A committee of one hundred,
who represent the white Republicans
of that State, has sent a secret circular
to the "straightOut" Democracy of
South Carolina, (the same crowd that
b0lted the Democratic convention in
1890, and called on the negroes to aid
them in defeating Governor Tillman
and the people, and ask these ~so-called
Democrats to join with the Republi-
cans to defeat the people this year.
This one hundred Republicans say, in
this secret circular to these. straight
out" Democrats:
1--WE make this personal appeal to
you to join US in our efforts to build up
such a Republican party IN the State
as shall command recognition in State
politics and prove of service in giving
us good government. The old line Re
publican party in this State does not
represent the intelligent and respect
able adherents of the true doctrine of
Republicanism."
Decent, self respecting, honorable
men are watching this tendency to-
wards national fusion between the old
parties, for the purpose of defeating
the will of the people and for perpetual
ing ring and boss rule in this country,
and they will condemn it in thunder
tones next November at the balIot-box.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-02
HOI FOR ST. u

Quite a number of our people will go
to the great industrial conference at
St. Louis on the 22d inst. There will
be ten delegates. THE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER desires to arrange, if possible,
for a very cheap rate for the North
Carolina. Send us your name and
postofice address at once. If the
whole party will start from the same
point, say Greensboro and go together,
we think we can arrange for cheap
rates. Col. Polk has kindly suggested
this and offers to do all be can to aid
as soon as the names are filed in this
Office. Let us hear from you immediate
ly-Or by the 10th inst at least.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-02
GETTING TOGETHER.

The political organs are always ready
to join hands when the people propose
to take a hand. When Perkins, the
Republican who was defeated by PETER
last year, was appointed to fill out the
u~nexpired term of Senator Plumb, the
Kansas Democrat had this to say:
"The Democrat is, and has been,
a 'stickler' for straight Democracy.
We have kept the flag flying and
preached the gospel of Jefferson and
the Constitution, because they are
truths, and fundamental
principles upon which this government
is founded. At the same time we have
cautioned the Republicans, our natural
allies, against any action that might
bring about an insurmountable breach
between Democracy and Republi-
caniSm"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-02
SOLID, FIRM AND ENTHUSIASTIC

Reports of the late quarterly meet
ings from counties all over the State
are coming in on us so rapidly that it
is impossible to furnish room for them
as they come. 1t is indeed gratifying
and encouraging to note the unanimity
and enthusiasm with which they pro-
claim their solid and manly adherence
to our principles. On this important
matter they speak as if with one voice,
Stand by your guns boys and don't
falter. The victory will come as surely
as we are faithful and true. Stand
true to your principles. Let the world
know that you are men and that you
will stand or fall by your principles.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-02
MORE PUBLIC BUILDINGS.

The State of California is pushing
claims for about Sc, 900, 900 for public
buildings in that State. California has
as much right to public buildings as
any other State. However, we want
to call attention to the fact that public
buildings get a fair chance in the
American House Of Lords, but when
the farmers ask for protection, for
buildings to help take care of theirpro
ducts, the bills are always tabled. Eel
low citizens, how much longer are you
going to let this business go on uninter
rupted
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-02
Mr.. Bilkins Kets Another Politician Fool
HIM and Gets a " Rakin'."

"HellO! Mr.. Editor"
R" Hello! Col. Bilkin-."
B-"Say, don't call me Kurnel any
more. All the Kurnels I know get
drunk an I don't want to be called
Kurnel."
R-"AIl right; no offense, Bro. Bill,
kins. How are things out your wayln
B" Blamed if I know. Betsy has
bin rakin' me over the Goals agin; says
she is gOin' to get the court to appoint
a guardian for me-"
R-"Why, what have you been do
ing?"
B-"Well, yousee Capt. - come
long by the field where !. was plowin'
the other day an got to talkin' about
the Alliance an the Democratic party.
He sed he was sOrter dissatisfied with
the way they were doin' up North. He
says Wall street, New York, lays the
plans out fer both parties. I agreed
with him. He said we Orter strike fer
our liberty. 1 sed amenl Then he
wanted to know who 1 thought ought
10 be Governor. / told him l didn't
know, but l wanted an honest man.
The Captain sed he had rode over to
get my opinion, that the Democratic
Executive Committee would not take
any action till they herd from me.
This sOrter flattered me. I felt like
jumpin' a ten rail fence, but there
wasn't any fence there. He went on
an sed he knew a mighty good man
an if | liked the man he would tell the
committee an they would nominate
him. l was nightly fattered, l felt
awful good. Then he told me who it
was. | didn't like the name, but as
they had sent for my opinion, Thought
1T wouldn't do to oppose him, So l
sed | reckoned he would make good
Governor, an that I would give him
my undivided support. He thanked
me an rode off sayin' he hoped / would
make the biggest crop this year l aver
made in my life"
R-"What has that got to do with
your having a guardian appointed"
B-"Well, you see, l felt so good
after the Capt. left that I just IN,
hitched the horses an went home an
told Betsy what I had done. She
raised cane right off. I waited till
she sorter cooled down an then tried
to reason the case. But she wouldn't
listen. She sed that I oughter be tied
up by my thumbs fer two weeks an
then be klced out of the United States.
She sed l had agreed to pledge my sup
port to a man who was with the mo-
nOpOlists tooth an toe nail. After
cum to think over it l had done thai
very thing. The man / had promised
to vote for couldn't be trusted IN g
graveyard alone. Say, Mr.. Editor Il
you know where John Sullivan IS wrlUo
to him that / will give any man my
best mule to kick me across the counIy.
But I have reformed, an amt goln "
do so any more. Good bye"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-02
DIED DOING RIGHT.

Hudson county, N. j., near New
York city, is one of the worst gamb-
ling and racing resorts in the United
States. Recently the New York Her.
aid began a series of protests and as a
result some of the gamblers we're arres-
ted and brought before Judge Knapp.
The grand jury vas made up of sym
pathizers of the gamblers, and they
failed to find a true bill, notwithstand-
ing the evidence was entirely good.
Judge Knapp vas so indignant that he
began a scathing rebuke to the grand
jury. Before he finished it hesuddenly
threw up his hands and died in his
chair. 1t can be truly said that Judge
Knapp died doing right.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-02
THE o P

1t is now about time for the ringster
politicians to begin to putin their work.
They will begin now to look out for
the most prominent and influential
Alliancemen in neighborhoods and
| counties and Districts, and offer to
trade with them. They will offer to
| aid these brethren in securing 81 nOml-
nation for cOmmiSSiOner, sheriff, county
treasurer, clerk or for the Legislature,
provided this AIlianceman will wOrkfOr
a certain man for Congress, or a State
or federal office. Already the old
ringsters have fixed up their slate and
are trying to rope in the Alliancemen
by every conceivable device to pledge
Governor. The Raleigh Ring" has
already laid it's wires, backed up by
the railroad interests, to fOist their
mar upon the people, and they are at
work like beavers. We warn all the
Alliancemen of the State not to be
ensnared in their trap. Stand right
square up on your shoe bottoms and
swear that you intend to vote for no
man in this year of u Lord, 1892, for
any responsible Office, who belongs to
the rings" or is tied up with rail
roads or any other corporate monopoly.
Go further and say that you will vote
for no man who does not stand sOIidly
and squarely on principles. This
is the a to win. This is the road to
success and honor. Don't be gulled by
the soft cooings of designing men.
Stand or fall by your principles. We
are watchirgs the manBuverings of
certain people, and we say now, once
for all, that if any attempt is made to
blind and delude people into the
support of men whose record proves
that they have been no friends of the
people; then THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER
will swing round and bring it's broad
sides to bear and it will open with some
guns that will demolish things. We
tell the Alliance to keep its eyes open
for the enemy's emissaries and for foes
within. Tricks are at work. Keep a
sharp lookout for them.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-02
GREAT AND SOLEMN CUES
TON.

The memorable logic of wants has
led the Southern people up to a great
and momentous question: Shall WEI 0
tinue to adhere to the money power of
the east and thus perpetuate the oppres-
sive and tyrannical rule of centralized
capital, or shall we align ourselves with
the great Northwest and West and re-
store the government to the hands of the
people and thus perpetuate the bless
ings of free governments The question
is not whether any particular political
party shall control, but whether the
people shall ruler Shall the citizen or
the dollar be the sovereign in this land
of boosted freedom?
Men of the South! as you gather
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-02
THE STOCK INCREASED.

It is stated that at the annual meet
ing Of the Sugar Trust a few days ago
the capital stock was increased
$25, 900, OO9.
So the thing promises to be a success.
Who knows what it will do? It is GER
tain that the object is not to lower the
price of sugar. Congress is wrangling
over things Of little or no Importance,
and the Sugar Trust is fortifying itself
for a long and bitter fight for suprem-
acy. The price may be made lower at
first for a blind, but the intent of the
whole affair is to make money out of
the people by a strong combination.
Will Congress stop it or must the
people join forces and stop Congress
and trusts at the same timer