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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-09
TO SUB-BUSINEsS AGENTS.

I have sent out, through the State
Secretary, to each Sub Secretary, for
the Business Agent of each Sub-Alli-
ance in the State, a bond to be filled up
and sent to me and when it is accepted
by me, each Sub Business Agent can
trade direct with this office and make
his pavments inside of thirty days from
date of each bill. Each Sub Alliance
that will accept the advanta ges of this
offer can get their goods at wholesale
prices and will be a blessing to the com
munity in which said Sub-Alliance is
located. Each Business Agent of Sub
Alliance is requested to call on his Sec
rotary and get said bond, and then he
can execute it or not, as he prefers. BY
this arrangement you "a get the full
benefit af the fund contributed by the
brethren and Sub-Alliances.
Fraternally,
w. II. WORTH, S. B. A.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-09
REFORM BOOKS.
The Progressive Farmer List Of Reform
Books.

POOkSs
For the benefit of our readers we
have made special arrangements with
publishers of the list of books given
below, and will take orders at publish
n mailing price, which is given. We
have examined all the books mentioned
in this list and unhesitatingly com
mend them to our brethren and the
public generally. We will place new
books in this list as they appear and
we have time Odecide upon their mer-
its and we will guard against unwor-
thy books.
The COMING CLIMAX IN II DESTI-
MES OF AMERICA, by Lester .. Hub
bard, 4S0 pages of new facts and gen
e%ralization in American Radical exit
construction. An abundant supply of
new ammunition for the great reform
movement. Price cloth, ST. so, paper
SO cents, post paid.
JASON EDWARDS, AN AVERAGE MAN,
by Hamlin Garland, powerful pen
picture of the life of the averabe me-
chanic in the great cities aid the
farmer Of the great West. The. story
is absorbingly interesting and tn most
powerful plea for a wider sharePf JUS
tice for the average man we have seen.
213 pages. Price paper cover, so tents,
cost paid.
Address all orders to THE PRQREss-
I'VE FARMER, Raleigh, n. G..
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-09
TO SUB-ALLIANCES WISHING TO
TRADE DIRECT WITH THE
STATE AGENT.

The State Executive Committee
recommends that each Sub-Alliance
who wishes to trade direct with the
State Business Agent, make a deposit
of a sum of money with the State Bust
ness Agent, the money to be used for
such Sub-AlIiance only, and to be with
drawn by the Sub-Alliance at any time;
This will enable each Alliance at all
times to do business with State Busi-
ness Agent without inconvenience to
either. Each Alliance will be entitled
to trade to the full amount of the de-
Dosit. S. B. ALEXANDER,
J. M. MEwBORNE,
Executive Committee.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-09

+ba wheel and their ballots
shoulders g ~ the cause of reform.
in the box me never responded to the ap-
We hae essistance which so frequent
peals tor IN THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER
ly a2p1r have we made any appeals),
(nelL gne think perhaps we are e~xcusable,
DuU have about all we can attend to
a. hat line at home. Charity begins
u home" but we hope ere long to be
lble to say by our acts that it should
stop there.
M, B. PRINCE, Sec'y.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-09
NOTICE.

The Executive Committee of the N.
@. T. S. Alliance will meet in the Office
of Secretary-Treasurer, Raleigh, N. c.,
in Tuesday, the 9th day of February,
1892. All communications intended
for the committee should be addressed
to S. B Alexander, Raleigh, N. c., in
care of w. S. Barnes Secretary-Treas-
urer. By order of Chairman.
w. S. BARNES,
Sec'y-Treas. N. @. T. S. A.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-09
TO Wake COUNTY ALLIANCE

RPkTHREN:-Your committee, tt
Ehom was referred the resolutions
passed ~ the county meeting at Au-
burn on Che 14thi and 18th instants IN
~reIerenee to the reduction of the cotCodd
acreage and the increase of the I?Oo
crops and of inviting the CO OPeratlon
OF the merchants of the county therein,
Deg TO report that we held meetln ~
With the merchants of RalelEH', st
Janualy sSth and on February ondj
TIE merchants met us cordially az
co-opergtted with us heartily ano rirx
result ef these meetings, the LOL ~ rd6-
resolutions were passed, when re ear
Ilsh for your information, ana co -oper-
nestly call upon all farmers
ate with this movement.
A. G. GREEN, Dorou
r !. PkTLL,
VIZ WORTH,
~ =: ALLEN.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-09
TO BUSINESS AGENTS.
RALEIGH. N. O. Feb 6 I

RALEIGH, N. G., Feb. 6, 1892.
l am now prepared to supply gro
ceres In whole packages ONLY at lowest
wholesale prices.
Al Sub-Business Agents who wish to
get n 80 days time on their bills, will
execute bonds now in the hands of the
Secretary of each Sub Alliance in the
State, to whom said bonds have been
sent for the Business Agents of Sub
Alliances. The following prices are
subject to market fluctuations:
w. H, WORTH.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-09
NOT DEAD.

HEKDEA,y X. Vance County, a. Q.
MR. EDrE Sandy Creek Alliance,
No. 253, is II dead, notwithstanding
the silence hitch it has 90 perslstentIy
m~aintainedl Our January meeLlng
was the Ian est we have ever neIu.
Twenty fouIt Of our male menlDeIS
being preseI and seven apP1llcaGi On u
for member an All seemed full OF
enthusiasm Rd ready to put tnelr
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-09

Send your name and address 0 a postal card, and you viii receive by mail
full particulars.
We want agents in every county in North Carolina where " e are not Already 4
represented. SAMUEL l. ANDREWS, DAo4hDIC1
756) DWnami A, y.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-09
CHATHAM COUNTY Alliance
MEETINGS.

DR.. D. Reid Parker, District Lee
turer, and w. F. Strowd, CountyLec
turer, will address the people at the
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-09

PubIlc speaking VIII begin at eleven
o'clock a. m. at each place. The after
moor will be devoted to special work
with the membership. All Lecturers
and Business Agents are especially
urged to attend as many of these meet
lngs as possible.
Thegeneral public is cordially invited
to attend these meetings.
By order of County Alliance.
APPOINTMENTS OF DR.. D. REID
PARKER, DISTRICT LECTURER,
AND MR. A. c. GREEN,
COUNTY LEG
TURER.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-09

Public speaking viii begin at II
o'clock a. m. at each place. All Sub
Lecturers and Sub Business Agents are
especially urged to attend these meet
ings. The general public is invited to
attend these meetings.
J. J. DUNN,
Secretary Wake Co. Alliance.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-09
Assets Invested as Follows:

LOANS SECURED BY MORTGAGEs ON REAL ESTATE, /
FIRST LIENS.
NEW YORK CITY ........
WATER BONDS
WA0
COLLATERAL LOANS
REAL ESTATE, COST L
CASH i BAT AND TRUST COMPANIES
INTEREST ACCRUED, PREMIUMS DEFERRED N
N ETC.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-09

The Washington Life Insurance Company Of New
York has an Enviab1e Record of Thirty-fTe Years.
See Annual Statement for Business Done in 1891.
-
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-09

DR.. D. Reid Parker, Lecturer for the
4Uh Congressional District, and Mr.. A.
G.. Green, Lecturer for Wake county,
will address the brotherhood Of the
county, and the citizens, at the follow
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-09
FARMERS ALLIANCE SONG

By E. o. Excel and DR.. D Reid Par
ker, per doz
Single Copy by mail ...........:...
The Alliance SOngSteT.
Paper backs, per dozen.
Board " ................
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-09

Two loop pillow clevises, roc. per dOz.
Three " - soc. f" "
Re air links C. gross.
Nails from stock. basis, sos per key.
Nails from factory, not less than 5 kegs, Sis
per keg.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-02-09

Paper backs per cQPy.........,....'"
DOdEQ ssSSsssssssssssSs
Cox Cotton Planter.
Improved Foster Cotton Planter. .....
Bur sell Corn Shelter.
KEYSTONE corr PLANTERS.
4 Oh
With Fertilizer attachmen. ,..........
Smith feed cutter.
VICTOR SAFES-FIRE PROOF.
No 2. Weight 225 lbs. Outside 2lx14x16
No 8. 500 d" I" 28x1Sx18
No 4. 75b 4" /" 32X22x2
Illinois Staats-zeitung., 1892-04-04

01it ben 8eitrdgen, -tpeG6e in ben Iekten
Sasen nod BET Dem 8anfDauie 9reTel &c
50. til 86ila6elpbia. 8a., etn8inge1, be-
loufen ft6 Die @eiammtbeitrdge gum Scnhs
fur Die gtotbleioenOen &uBlanos aaf
1926 Qolars.
Illinois Staats-zeitung., 1892-04-04

Seiteu itarten 8ude etu wobl9elun9enes
8ilo unb elm furaer 2ebensabriB oes Ser
itorbenen.
Die veSninois Staatsseitung" ienoet Dies
tpert6uoQe Sud- unentgeltli6 allen tbren
Qeiern, pel6e bas 8latt elm Sabr i'm
8orars besablen.
Illinois Staats-zeitung., 1892-04-04
RetfebiIoer bon bermann Rafter.

AelleDIIoef bon Dermdnn Rd1ter.
Ser bon sabIrei6en 2eIernn 6ringenb
aus9elpro6ene Bunid, elm bleiben6ss 9tnz
6erten an 9erntann &aiter gu beIiben, bat
Die Sau1tlte 0es Geritorbenen neranIaBt,
inter obigem Sitel Die seitbonen unb
lnterehanten 8riefe in 8udform su berz
DttentIt@en, tpel9e unier tobter Sreunb in
ietnen lebten %2ebensiabren (aus N1erito
1884, aus 9eutiGIanb 1886, aus Oeutl6z
lamb, S9pet3 unb StaIien 189O-9D an
Die 2eier Der DSainOis Staats3eituna" ge>
rt6tet bat, barunter aud ben Lebten PLUS
benz 9rauen @lenb", nit benz er in boiler
@rtenntntB ieiner bal6 beborftebenben &ufz
lDinng bon tbnen 9Ibi9ie0 nabm. 8orgez
fIgt lit benz ie6r bibi3 ausgeitatteten, 318
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-03-12
Terms of County Commissioners.

In response to Il request OF the Senate,
Attorney General Poe has submitted to
that body an opinion on the power of the
present General Assembly under the re-
Gently adopted constitutional amendment
concerning the terms of county commits
soners. He decides that the Commits.
soners chosen last fall were not elected
for two years, but without term, which
must be fixed by the present General
Assembly He says
when the constitutional amendment was
adopted it displaced and superseded the pre-
existing section, and as by its terms it EN-.
braces the county commissioners elected on
the same day upon which it was adopted, it
necessarily repealed the limitation of two
years for which, prior to its adoption. county
commissioners were elected and left the coun-
ty commissioners elected last November with
out any definite and prescribed tenure, but
it mauilestly contemplated and its trainers
and the people who adopted it expected that
this General Assembly would by appropriate
legislation define and limit their terms of
Office, and thus make definite and specific
that which it purpoSely left to be prescribed
by law.
"If this General Assembly should adjourn
without enacting law liking the tenure of
the county commissioners who were elected
last November, those commissioners would
hold Office without any precise limit 10 their
term, and in Noyember. 1893, serious embar-
rassment and difficulty would arise. To
avoid this result it is plainly the duty of this
General Assembly to legislate upon the sub
-, l.,tu tho srartpAg
not exceeding six years for which the county
commissioners now in office are to remain in
Office it is clear that in order to carry into
effect The provisions us TO the enlargement of
their terms NJ to the limit of six years they
must extend beyond period of two years
the time or times for which some of the com
misSoners are TO hold. That the constitu
tional amendment was designed to apply to
the county commissioners elected last No
vember very clearly appears from the first
clause which provides that the election for
county commissioners shall be held on the
Tuesday next after the first Monday in the
month of November. commencing M me
yeaT eighteen hundred aud ninety one.
'''rhe law which it requires this General
Assembly to pass was not intended TO be
made prospective in its operations and to
apply for the first time to the county com
missouers who may be hereafter elected, but
the contemplated law was to apply to cover
and fix the terms moi exceeding six years OF
those who were elected, commencing in the
year eighteen hundred and ninety one ]
answer your question, therefore, by express.
ing my opinion that the present session ofthe
General Assembly can constitutionally enact
a law prescribing for the county commssio-
uers who were elected last November terms
of service which shall continue beyond the
period OF two wears
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-03-12
Unreliable Reports.

According to the March report of the
Agricultural Department there are III )
000, 900 bushels of wheat in the hands of
growers, and 500, 900, 900 bushels of corn.
This is a very large surplus, and if the fig
ures are true lower prices must rule. But
what are the reports worth p? Absolutely
nothing. Such information is impossible
to collect with anything like accuracy.
Can any man or any fifty men tell the
amount of grain in the hands of farmers
in this State? Certainly not. The Agri-
cultural Department relies upon cores
pondents sparsel y scattered over the coun-
try, and their reports are mere guesses.
There is no way to ascertain the supply Of
grain held by growers, except by gather
ing the information direct, just as cen
sus is taken. The publication of these re-
ports, unreliable as they are, is detriment
to farmers. They will result in the lower
ing of the price of grain, as they are liable
to make holders believe that prices will be
lower and they will rush their grain to mar
ket at once. 4 glut will follow, and prices
will decline.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-03-12
The Mckinley Act Sustained.

The Supreme Court of the United States,
in several decisions delivered last week, sus-
tanned the constitutionality of the McKin-
| ley bill and the House rules that permitted
| Speaker Reed to count quorum. By the
latter decision the House is practically
without restraint in establishing rules, and
the majority has power to suppress debate
and do absolutely as it chooses, if in &C
cordance with the rules OF procedure. The
people still have a voice. and they will
suppress the majority whenever it under
takes to stife debate and to ride rough
shod over the rights of the minority, as it
did with the majority of the last Congress,
very many of whose leading spirits are ex-
statesmen out of a political job. The Court
held that the reciprocity clauses of the Nc
Kinley bill were constitutional, because it
did not transfer Legislative power to the
President, but simply authorized him to do
certain things, specified in the bill, when
the occasion required-in other words, APP
pointed the President agent to do certain
things when in his discretion the time had
arrived to do them. Chief Justice Fuller
and Associate Justice Lamar disscnted from
this view, and held that the reciprocity
clause actually transferred legislative powers
To the President They concurred in the
conclusions of the court, on the ground that
there was not Il vital connection between
the reciprocity section and the tariff por-
tons of the bill. The whole bill is uncon-
because the duties are laid with
a view to protection, for the classes as
against the masses in the interest of favored
interests. This view of the case was not
involved i'll the issues presented, nor can
issues be framed to bring this phase of the
matter before the court. On this question
the appeal has to be made to the people
1t was made in 1890 and there was an
overwhelming decision against the bill, by
voting out of rower so far as they could
be reached, the men responsible for the
bill. They will be appealed to
again next fall on the question, and unless
other issues distract and disturb, the Exc
outive who signed the bill will be replaced
with one who believes that unnecessary
taxation is unjust taxation, oppressive and
unconstitutional
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-03-12
The Tariff Debate On.

The tariff debate began in the House of
Representatives on Wednesday. Mr. Me
Millin, of Tennessee. in the absence Of
Chairman Springer, OF the Ways and
Means Committee, who is i'll. calling up
the bill TO put wool on the free list and
providing for reduction in the taxes on
manufactures Of wool. Mr.. McMillin
opened the debate. He asked where were
the benefits that were to flow from the
Mckinley bill, which had been in opera
lion for about year and a half; where
the increased price of wool? the increase
of wages to labor? He declared that
wool had declined from two to three cents
pound, and that no one gonld point to a
single laborer whose wages had been in
creased by reason of the Mckinley act.
On these points he challenged any Repub-
licau in the House for contradiction.
The tax oa wool is eleven cents a pound,
fixed in 1867, and Levied to protect, osten-
sibly, wool-growers. The result had been
a falling off in the number of sheep east of
the Mississippi river from 1865, 900 in
1868 to 1896 900 in 1891, and reduc-
tion in the price of wool. The manufac-
turers had been restricted 10 the quality of
their goods, by reason of the high tax, hav-
ing to use shoddy-old rags that have
dropped from the backs Of beggars in other
eountries-and were restricted in their
market 10 their own country Thus wool
growing had declined and wool manufac-
lures also, of the finer grades Mr.. Nc
Millin made IA forcible speech,
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-03-12

blizzard of unusual severity prevailed on
Tuesday and Wednesday in North and South
Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin and
Kansas. The velocity of the wind was from
40 to SO miles an hour, the mercury dropped
from 10 to 80 degrees below zero, and the
snow drifted so as to stop the running of
trains, telegraph wires were Frustrated and all
business was stopped. Trains were aban-
doned owing to the drifts and the passengers
were compelled to seek shelter in farm houses.
Great distress prevails and cattle are suffer
ing A number Of lives are reported to have
been lost.
John Steward, a farmer residing near Craw-
louisville, Ind, died horrible death on the
9th instant. Some time ago his pet dog
showed signs Of rabies. The dog was con-
fined and soon died. In burying him Steward
allowed some froth from the beasts mouth
to penetrate a wound on his hand. The hand
began to swell at once, and soon the whole
arm from the shoulder was frightfully swollen,
and Steward was raving mad. He was tied
up, but continued TO suffer the most intense
and excrueiating pain until he died.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-03-12
No Increase.

The bill to increase the salaries of judges
is not in response to public demand.
The matter has not even been considered
by the people, and if its fate were left to
them it would be decided adversely. The
fact that the best talent is always obtaina-
BILE at the present salaries, is strong evi-
denee that no increase is necessary And
when it is remembered that the ablest law
gers in the State have contested, and sharp
ly, too, for places on the bench, the evil
dence is positive and conclusive against the
necessity Of an increase. In the counties
very few lawyers make at the bar more than
the salary Of an associate judge, and there
has been but one resignation in Baltimore,
and that was not based on the meagreness
of the salary, so far as we are aware.
The struggles for the judseship in 1867
and 1882 were most bitter, as have been
some since, and the Office at the present
salary is eagerly sought by the best legal
Talent
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-03-12
Free Coinage to be Considered.

On Monday last the House of Represen-
tatives decided by vote Of 100 to 81 to
take mp the Bland free coinage bill on
March - A majority of both parties
voted to take up the bill, but plumber of
both parties who so voted will speak and
vote against it when it comes up. Three
days will be devoted to a discussion of the
measure. It's passage is more than proba-
bic. 1t is likely to pass the Senate, also.
The fate of the bill will then rest upon the
action OF the President The House is
Democratic and the Senate Republican.
Responsibility for the passage of the bill
will be equally divided between the two
parties. 1t has been generally assumed
that the President will veto the bill Pro-
badly he will but Mr.. Harrison is ambi-
tious for another term. If he yetoes the
bill his prospects in the West will be jeop-
ardized. In that section free coinage has
a strong hold upon the people, and they
hope for more from free coinage than any
other measure, though tariff reduction is
strongly demanded
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-03-12
Tin Importations.

The British steamer Massachusetts is
loading 5000 tons Of tin plate at Swansea,
Wales, for shipment to New York. This
will be the largest shipment of tin to this
country since the Mckinley act went into
effect, says the dispatch announcing the
shipment. 1t is to be inferred, then, that
tin importations are on the increase. Be-
fore the tin schedule of the Mckinley act
became operative, an unusually large amount
of tin was imported. That supply is being
exhausted, and soon the importations will
be as great as formerly, with the extra one
and a half cents pound tax added. The
American manufactures of tin have not
materialized. and are not likely to. The
tax on tin was unnecessary, and was i'm
posed to protect the iron manufacturers of
Pittsburg, under the guise of encouraging
the production Of tin places in this country
No tin has been discovered in America,
and this was Yell-known when this extra
tax was imposed.