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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-04-05
THE TROUBLE.

81 am looking into the faces of men
who have worked hard and economical
for years, yet you are poorer than
ever before. 1t is not over production,
but under-consumption. Farms are
being abandoned everywhere. No
people work harder or live harder. The
fight is against the dollar. The unjust
financial system is the trouble. The
brokers asked 49, per cent for money
at the close of the war. This was re-
fused and the banking system, based
on government bonds, was established.
The government bonds were bought up
at so cents on the dollar. Now they
are worth $1,2O. Congress gave the
national banks a monopoly of the issue
of money. State banks were taxed out
Of existence. Wall street absolutely
dictates the amount of the volume of
currency. When we had $50 per capita
in circulation, cotton was worth 20 to
80 cents per pound. A few years ago
ten bales of cotton would pay more
debt than forty bales will today
President Polk at Charlotte, March %.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-04-05
WILL YOU READ 1T?

The PROGRESSIVE FARMER is quoted
from more than any other paper of fanny
kind in America. 1t stands solid for
all reform measures. It has never
finched under fire. 1t cannot be
frightened or bribed. 1t is owned and
edited by President Polk, of the Ma
tional Alliance. It has subscribers in
every State in the Union. It has three
times as many subscribers in it's own
State as any other paper published. It
contains a greater variety of matter
than any other paper published. 1t
has the best corps of correspondents.
1t has been in the fight from the be.
ginning and will wave the banner in
times of defeat as well as victory.
Reader, is there any reason why you
should not go to work at one and
double and treble it's circulation in
every State? You will be doing a great
work for your country.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-04-05

t!on Of the tariff, he breaches the neces-
slGles OF the party. To reconcile you
10 New YOrk's domination of our
politics, he breaches partyism-says
Wen lose the pivotal State" New
York has made and keeps herself
pivotal" to make a fool of all who
Will be fooled. Now let us REBEL against
party1sm. Wall street, through such
clap-trap, can never again dictate a
successful candidate for this State. It
can call itself by the sweet name
democrat" but We'll ask it 20 prove
us Democracy by giving us free silver,
more money and lower taxes. Neither
can they us with a m1D anylonger.
we are not false hero wOrshippers any
more. We all understand now why
they try to make a demigod of Grover
Cleveland. He is no demigod. His
reputation for greatness rests upon his
ability as a business man; yet there are
half dozen in Raleigh as good as he is.
W. J. PEELE.
Z. ST am satisfied now after much
consideration that the fight ought to be
made against committing ourselves
beforehand to the Chicago Convention.
Let us wait and see what they are go
ing to do. If they give us the platform
and the D o. we want, all right; if they
fail, we are not committed to them,
and their action cannot bind us. We
know beforehand that they cannot
make a platform that will suit our
people. Our people can make their
own platform without getting the aid of
anybody. We know what we want.
The majority of the people of this State
want free silver, low tariff or no tariff,
and increased credit currency. Let us
stay at home and make our own plat
form, not be running after people
whose interests are adverse to ours.
w. j. P.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-04-05
DYING FOR A LEMON.

Every day we read of some one dy-
ing because it is no pleasure to live.
Sometimes the swift leaden bullet does
the work. Again the various poisons
are brought into use. But oftener still
the person dies for lack of attention,
nursing or for want of some cheap
luxury.
Only the other day an invalid lay in
a Chicago garnet. For months his
brave and true wife had forced back
starvation and death by making pants
for a big clothing factory at two cents
a pair. The invalid husband called
his wife to the bedside and said: eff
1 only had a lemon to eat 1 could live
Tears came in the eyes of his wife,
Said she: 81 have no money to buy a
lemon; we can't spare two cents to
day" "Then," said the husband
what is there for me to live for7
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-04-05
OBJECTIONS TO THE sUB-TREAS.
URY.

The cost is a mere bagatelle. The
enhanced price of products would soon
pay the cost The farmers pay so per
cent, of the taxes. If they can risk it,
other people can. The government in
creases the standing army. 1t puts up
public buildings. 1t puts letters in your
house at the expense of the public.
The Constitution does not forbid the
loaning of money. If the government
has a right to build court houses it has
a right to build warehouses. 1t has a
right to create money. The Sub Treas
ury is ~paternal, but it is p~aternalism
of the right kind. 1t is for the general
good. Is it impracticable? 1t is i'm
practicable to raise cotton and other
things at less than s t.-COl Harry
Skinner OF Charlotte.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-04-05

is absolutely no hope for our farmers
unless they break the rules and fix a
price on their products.
Owing to the advantage gained by
all professions over the farmers, every
business is crowded; cities, churches,
colleges, railroads, factories and every
thing are springing up like magic. If
the farmers had justice they surely
ought to get along well, for there are
thousands of "home markets" that
you hear so much about. However,
we have been allowing the thing to go
on, voting and yelling to aid those who
r sapping our very existence. Will
we be fools and be deceived longer by
the petty objections to the Sub Treasury
and other Alliance measures, or will
we be men and throw off the shackles
that r being rapidly bound around
uS2
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-04-05
SENATOR HILLS TRIP SOUTH.

Senator Hill, who is making such
desperate efforts to be made President,
has made a tour of the South. The
writer heard him make a short speech
at Charlotte. There was nothing in
the speech. It was a good deal like
the average schoolboy grafton, except
he managed to say a good deal without
saying anything. He is simply a
shrewd, scheming politician, not fit to
fill any Office from road ~overseer up.
The Mississippi Leader, a very fair
paper, heard his speech at Jackson,
that State. Writing about it the Leader
says:
"In view of the issues which must
be met by the Democratic party and
it's candidate, and which cannot be
side tracked, the speech, taken as a
whole, was remarkable for what
it did not contain than what it did.
Tariff reform and the free coinage of
silver were studiously ignored, An
Alliance member Of the House was
about to rise and catechise the Senator
and ask him what he thought of the
Ocala platform and the Sub-Treasury
in particular, but inasmuch as Mr.. Hill
was the guest of the Legislature and
such a question would have been a
serious embarrassment to him and his
anti Sub Treasury friends, the Alliance
brother was persuaded by friends to
restrain his curiosity"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-04-05
MEXICAN BANDITS KILLED.

GUANAIJATTA, Mexico, March Is
For sometime past an organized gang
of Mexican bandits has been carrying
on it's operation along the line of the
Mexican Central Railroad north of
here, A few days ago six Of them were
discovered by a detachment of the
rural guard near Leona taking up the
track of the road for the purpose of de-
railing and robbing the express train
that would soon be due. The militia
fired upon the bandits, killing every
one of them.
This stopped the depredations of the
other members Of this band until yes
terday, when five of them rode into
the town of Pedrito and held up anum-
Der of citizens in the streets at midday,
securing a considerable amount of
money.
One man resisted being robbed, and
was shot and fatally wounded by the
bandits. They then coolly rode out of
town.
The band is under the leadership of
Jean Flento, one of the most desperate
men of his class in the republic.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-04-05

am ready to die. When a man can no
longer get a lemon it is time for him
to die" In a few minutes he was dead.
Thousands die every day in just the
same condition. Under-consumption
is the cause. There is an unlimited
supply of money, of food, but the
money has been legislated into the
hands of a few. People cannot buy
without money. The few who have
the money cannot consume much,
hence there is under consumption.
"The money-changers should be driven
out of the temple"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-04-05
DO o u EARS BURN?

We have a long list of those who owe
us on back subscriptions, and some
times we look over it and are surprised
at the large number of good men we
recognize there. And as hard times
pinch US for debts we owe and we
think how much easier it would be for
1000 men to pay us 81 zach 49, j.
Tor 9s fQ~!aSa q, 600, we can't help
thinking hard thoughts. Pay up,
brethren and friends, and come in q
club for another year.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-04-05
THEY WILL STICK.

Our Northern and Northwestern
brethren are asking each other if the
Southern AIIiancemen will stand by
them.
Will u Southern farmers stick9
Who first declared their independence
IN 1776 A handful of citizens in
MeckIenburg county, North Carolina.
Their number was small, but they kept
"sticking," and reinforcements came
and they were successful. Call up the
shirt of Lord CORVALLIS and ask him
whether or not the people of this Sec
ton stood firm. Ask him if every
Mace he stopped at in this section was
not a hornets nest" Call up the
spirit 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 r not willing
and cannot delay matters longer. They
love their wives and children and
country better than they do a few po-
litical bosses. They are tirel making
millionaires out of a few people and
paupers out Of themselves and families.
They are tired of working and selling
their toll below actual cost. They know
that they have been deceived time and
again. They see that their property is
rapidly slipping out of their hands.
They know 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 preach and vote as
they pray. Yes, Jul Northwestern
brethren can depend On us.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-04-05
CHINESE REBELS KILLED.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 27.-Accord-
ing to advices just received from
Shanghai, the recent engagements be-
tween imperial troops and rebels in
Northern China resulted in the slaUgh-
ter of several thousand rebels. The
imperial army lost only five killed and
forty-fve wounded. Over 5000 rebels
were put to death with the sword, and
500 were burned alive.
A number of engagements are re-
ported. A body Of insurgents number
ing 800 was overtaken by the imperial
lists at a place sixty miles from Kulun,
and over 100 of them were killed and
three leaders made prisoners. In a
second engagement over fifty Of the
enemy were put to the sword, and the
remainder were obliged to retire to a
pawnshop, the strong walls Of which
made it an admirable place to defend.
The imperialists closely invested the
building and killed over $50 of the In
mates. Intelligence later reached the
imperialists' camp that a force Of the
enemy, comprising 600 cavalry and
800 infantry, had arrived with the OBJ
ject of coming to the rescue OF their
confederates. They were attacked IN
| the front and rear by the imperial
forces anu IOS6 4UU M6u OuIAuS OAO O1C
tie. Those who escaped encountered
another party of imperialists, who shot
| fifty of them and made a score OF
prisoners.
Another detachment of rebels was
posted at Meiyaokoutze, to whichplace
the imperialists continued their march.
The rebel detachment numbered about
100, Of which go were killed and 20
made prisoners, among the latter being
the so called leader of the Van Guard,
Lii Hung Tsa, who was instantly de-
capitated. A still larger force of the
enemy was posted in the Chi9n Chang
District, where they had an encamp-
ment, with gums fitted up in lOopholes
of the walls surrounding the villages.
| Churches Of the new creed served as
outposts of the rebel army. An on
| slaught was made upon their position,
and after an engagement lasting two
hours 800 out of a total Of 1900 were
put to the sword.
About 500 of the rest were burned
falive. and, including stragglers, 1T IS
Estimated that not less than 1,4O0 OF
: spemy were killed on this occasion:
a oresAuumber of the adherents OF
the new cread we're captured, including
three leaders who were instantly de-
Il ea0itatod
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-04-05

BRUSSELS. March 90 An anonymous
letter was received this morning by
the Antwerp Stock Exchange Commit,
tee announcing that the B9urse would
be blown up with dynamite during the
day. Though the threat has not been
executed the incident shows how the
dynamite craze is acting on the weak
brains of cranks.
HUNTSVILLE, March 28.-Iti is reliably
reported here that in the neighborhood
OF Madison x Roads last night a bach
elor farmer, who was a recluse, by the
name of Tom Edwards, was murdered
and his home burned over him. Two
citizens of that community, named
Martin and MuIlens, are suspected. as
they have m~ysteriously disappeared.
CHICAGO, March. 29.-The expected
Indictment of ex-State Senator M. b.
Herley, one of the members OF the
Chicago Board of Education, was pre-
sented in court this afternoon. Like.
the nine indicted Doodle aldermen, he
is charged with conspiracy to commit
bribery. Herley is chairman OF the
Board of Education Committee on sup
| plies. He intimated that his lndlct-
ment was spite work, the o~utgrowth
of disappointment on the part OF a
certain firm at not securing more
| contracts
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-04-05
HE MUST DO IT.

Some great pLilanthropists say it is
wrong for the farmers to want the
S~ub-Treasury so they can fix a price
on their products. 1t is contrary to
reason and justice. But sometimes
you must fight the devil with fire.
Supply and demand should fix the
price of all farm products. Instead of
that, however, the Boards of Trade in
Chicago and New York do the work.
Let's see how other people do. The
manufacturer fixes the price on his
wares, the merchant fixes prices for
goods; the lawyer says pay me so much
or you will not get my services; the
| physicians meet and agree that they
must have so much for a visit to the
sick; the poor editors say they must
have a certain price for tEeir papers
the photographer points his instrument
at you and says your money or
your life" the dentist pulls your
head off in ordeF-50 zsG out one tooth
and the price is tied ms8Eance
the ranroax fares AM frelgnSs are fixed
either eg Tho company OF eemmis
sioners; the cotton gnnerY charge 50
much toll; wheysyoubarry your grain
to a mill, the miller LHFvou that the
laws Of the country Tvs he shall have
one-elghGn 0 grlnul g it; the carpen-
tiers have their union Ind fx nrices for
a days work; the Printers fix their
rices at so much pe4 thousand or per
eek; the fees and salaries of all kinds
of officials are fixedby law; railroad
conductors, engineer brakemen, flag
men, etc, have unihs and fix their
wages. Even the blacksmith, whose
fame has been sung, and who is always
honest, has fixed his Irices for shoeing
a horse. The government has farmed
out the issuing of money to a few
bankers and they say what the
nrice shall be. ~ present they
have absolute co1tl and could get
any legislation they want in "A hours.
even if it were a law raising the legal
rate of interest to % xcent. So there
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-04-05
STATE NEWS.

ot Grapes and Tobacco Stems from the
N~orth-Stalks of Corn and Grains of
Wheat from the West-Peanuts
and Cotton Seed from the South
An aluminium furnace is in operation
at Leaksville.
The Keely Company has been organ
lied at Durham.
Several attempted burglaries are re
ported from Asheville.
Walter O'neal, of Sail sbury, tried to
commit suicide a few days ago.
Two Mormon missionaries were
driven out of Chapel Hill Tuesday.
Mr.. B. @. Arey, of Rowan county,
accidentally shot himself last Monday.
The Elkin Land Company has de-
clared a dividend of 81 per cent. upon
$50, 900 worth of stock.
Bob Wiley and Walter futile were
badly cut by a man named Nelson at
Winston a few days ago.
The gin house of Mrs. Garner, of
Halifax county, was burned accident
ally. There vas 10 insurance.
A colored boy had his leg cut off by
a moving train at Salisbury the other
day. It was a wooden leg, however.
The Scotland Neck Democrat says
that only one a load of guanO has
been bought for that place this season
and THAT goes mighty slow"
Sherman Greer, was tried at Wilkes
boro last week for killing his father.
He was found guilty of manslaughter
and goes to the ~penitentiary ten years.
Judge Conner, upon application
made to him, has appointed Mr.. r. w.
Lassiter receiver of the suspended bank
of Oxford, Mr. Lassiter being a resident
of that place.
The Jonesboro Leader is going to
Siler City, and the present editor, Mr..
R. M. Phillips, we'll manipulate and
also edit and publish it. It appears
Mt xt week at it's new home.
Asheville Citizen: Mrs. Catharine
Bell died at the home of her son, Rev.
Geo. H. Bell, on Haw Greek, just east
of Asheville, yesterday morning. Mrs.
Bell was in her 95th year at the time
of her death.
Oxford Ledger: On Sunday morn
ing last Mrs. Alkaline Darlington the
beloved consort of our excellent county
man, Mr.. A. S. Darlington, died after
a lingering illness of some two months,
aged 81 years.
Raleigh Chronicle: Mr. John Robin
son, Commissioner of Agriculture, says
the returns of agricultural statistics fol
1891 are badly made up, imperfect anC
inaccurate and that he fears that they
will be of little value.
Marion Tree Lance: J. J. Cross, {
former mayor of Concord, lately dice
in Cabarrus poor house. The town O
Concord has only contributed two
white males to the poor house, and the
other n was an ex-mayor.
Mt Holly NeU8: The Catholic colony
at Belmont, in CASTOR county, is max
ing rapid progress. The monastery,
very large and imposing building, is t.
be supplemented by a cathedral, upo1
which work was begun last week.
Mrs. Sarah Kidney, of Forsyth
| county, who is SO years old, has 90;
deacendants now living. Of this mum
btr, 10 are her own children, II hel
grandchildren, 131 great grand chill
dren and four graatgreat-grand-chi
dren.
The Landmarks says that MR. B
Linister, ofStatesville, who w~asinjureG
by the wrecking of his freight tran
"a the Western North Carolina Raj
road the Both of last June, has re
ceived 81, 200 damages from the railroa
company.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-04-05
rpuTH IGNORED AND HONON
DISCARDED.

rbo Atlanta journal says edltorlaLIy
.,at there are three planks in the ot,
= onis platform "that should damn IL
LI"%ararn First. Government owner
IN If railroads. Second. The pension
Ink Third. Woman suffrage. That
nor knerU that neither pension nor
ran,an suffrage is in the st. Louis
11otform. But we quote it simply to
Lar that this is exactly the method
that has marked the course OF the old
~ortv papers and leaders, and to say
fTrther that is just the method that has
5one more to create a new party than
things else combined. Truth, and
not falsehood, is what the people desire.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-04-05
TRAIN WREcKERs Fo1LED.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, March 29.-At
this hour, 1 a. NJ, news came from
Boiling Gap of a fight between police
men and train robbers. 1t was sus
pected that an attempt would be mad
to rob the Louisville and Nasnv11le
passenger train and ten policemen went
up to the scene on last nights train. No
particulars are yet as~certainable, ex-
cept that 100 shots were fired.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, March 29.-The
fight last night at Boiling Gap between
the detectives and train robbers was at
close quarters. When the officers ar
rived at the scene they separated and
as one squad was passing through the
underground they came full on the
train wreckers before they knew it.
Their first intimation of their presence
was the crack of the Winchester rifles.
1t was dark and the firing was aimless,
but the officers returned it and about
100 shots were fired. Finally the
wreckers broke cover and rode off.
They were mounted, and immediate
pursuit was impossible. Detective
Barnes with blood hounds and a party
of men started in pursuit at daybreak
this morning.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-04-05
TO FRUIT GROWERS.

The attention of our readers is called
to the advertisement of the Blymyer
Iron Works Co., of Cincinnati, Ohio,
which appears in this issue. Their
Zimmerman E~vaporators for fruits
and vegetables have for many years
been looked upon as the Standard Ma
chimes. Parties in want of evaporating
machinery will do well to write for
their catalogue.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-04-05
POLK AND WILLIAMS AT VAN
CEYVILLE,

President Polk and Hon. A. H. A.
Williams will speak at a grand mass
meeting at Yanceyville, Caswell
county, on Thursday, the 18th of
April. Let everybody go and hear
them
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-02-16

Il IL the opinion Of II specialist on tn
diseases OF childhood that the majority of
infants are Improperly dressed lie oh
jects tn the flannel binder Hs neither
keeping the child warm nor preventing
rupture, and says Of t. "ln crying o.
arnining, the walls distond cyculy In al
directions, thus protecting the feehler pan
tons whcrc hernia :, APT Ia occur The
binder prevents thH evon distribution Of
force. hence the whole energy OF the strain
ing comics on certain nnrts OF the wall that
are weaker and which unfortunately The
binder does not protect, aud hernia Is the
rNsult' The p,nning blanket u objected
20 because II often is bound about the body
~ suugly that IL prevents the expansion NJ
the chest wall. and intrrfcrcs with the
movements u the limbs The skirt u con
dcmncl for the same reason, and also he
cause Il Increase, the comparative weight
OF clothing around the lower part uf ths
body.
In the place Of these garments one gar
mrnt, something like the union garment
now worn by older children, and consist
ing NJ loose. wrnpperllke waist reaching
from the uegk 20 the hips, is rccommcndod.
The drawers OF the garment should cover
the res, NJ the body, even the foct, aud be
fastened 10 the WANT by four buttons, W
that they could be- removed without taking
OF the whole garment. over this should
be- worn u skirt supported from the shout
dors, aud slip Or outside dress, made q
muslin or flannel, according " the
weather New York Poet,