The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-06-14
AN ANNOUNCEMENT.

AN ANNOUNCEMENT.
7 have made up my mind that |
ought to give a portion of my time to
the people until certain questions now
attracting widespread attention are
settled.
cannot well practice law and edit a
newspaper at the same time, and as |
do not intend to quit the practice of
law, flor the people at all times need a
friend acquainted with its technicali-
ties) at the same time | intend to write
one letter a week upon the vital Issues
of public policy now under discussion,
and this | can do without serious tres
pass on my professional duties. This
letter I intend to issue on a special
sheet about the size of The Special In
former. This little sheet will be called
The Financial Ne1CS Letter, and will
contain, besides the letter referred to.
some notes and comments relating to
financial and other needed reforms, to-
gether with quotations and extracts
from the most celebrated authors on
these subjects. | shall take great pains
to saw much in a little. It is not hOlC
much, but UhGt you read that will de
termine your knowledge Of a question.
A great refOrmer once accused the
moss back politician the pharisees) OF
rendering the word of God of none
effect by their traditions, They had
piled verbiage Of subtitle disquisi
ton mountain high upon the truth,
and nothing but the lightning of Divine
Inspiration could have pierced down
to it. The traditions of our fossil poll
ticians are piled mountain high upon
the truths of financial reform. The
air is thick with the darkness of their
abuse and misunderstanding. They
have loaded down every reform dear
to the hearts Of the people with the
avarice Of selfishness and the meanness
of personal ambition, until it is hard
for a full sized man to hold any office
of trust or profit n this State. Bar,
gains and counter bargains, trickery
and Chicanery disgrace every conven.
ton which they control or influence.
In the beginning God said let there
be light and there was light, and there
must be light Only in the darkness
of partisan fury, of sectional hate, OF
iniamatOry color line speeches of per
sOnal politics and of campaign lying
can the ills we now suffer flourish, in
crease and multiply.
The subscription price of The FIndn
cldt NeUS Letter will be twenty five
cents for six months, and fifty cents
for one year, The first issue will be or
the 4th day Of July, 1892, or as soor
thereafter as the subscriptions war
want. 1t is my special desire, and i
seems to be fit and proper that it should
begin like the liberties of the people i
will seek to defend on that great day
l shall have many things to say which
ought to be said, and l hope will b.
felt throughout North Carolina, anC
far as the curse of monopoly be found
I would suggest that as far as pos
sible the friends of financial reform
organize clubs. I cannot send the
NelCS Letter to them any cheaper thar
to single subscribers, but it will facili
tate the sending in of the subscription
price, which must otherwise be sent il
small amounts, for by adding severa
small amounts together, one p~OstOfict
order or registered letter will do fol
all. Every citizen of North Caroline
known to be an earnest believer in {
financial reform is hereby authorized
to form one club of from four to {
dozen subscribers. Address w. J
Peele, Raleigh, N. c., p~ostofice boz
No. 374.
Whenever a club is so formed, hope
1t will elect a chairman and keep uI
the organization, as [ may have some
are work for it to do in an organized
capacity before this business is over
A little meeting of such a club every
week Or two to discuss financial mat
tiers, cannot fail to do good.
The principal Of boiling everything
down to its smallest possible compass
has perhaps never been tried in NORTH
Carolina journalism, but it's applica
ton is greatly needed. The people
TO- want light upon a particular point
of scrutiny and study. They will reaC
the news in an hundred other news
papers, therefore | will not undertake,
to do a thing that is already overdone
AS the battle grows hotter | NAV en-
large the NeW3 Letter from time +,
time, and if so, l will employ the mos
talented young man I can find in tn,
State or out of it, with nothing else t.
but devote his whole time to it. A
500 as your eye falls on this article
send your subscription by return mai
if possible, for there is no time to lose
w. J. PEELE.