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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-19
BLOOD MONEY.

It has leaked out that three hundred
wealthy citizens met together about
the time Of the Haymarket riot in
Chicago three years ago and agreed to
raise a fund of 81, 900, 900 to inspire
the police of the city to be more vigi
liant in their search for anarchists"
1t is all right for lawlessness to, be
put down, but it is not a very nice
thing for money to be put up for the
purpose of making officers do their
duty, They ought to be found at their
post without extra inducements.
The way the rich have of doing
nowadays is not at all commendable.
We have an army of 80, 1000 Pinkerton
detectives in America. We have local
military companies and a standing
army. All of which is kept up to
suppress the lawless poor of our
land"
The proper thing to do is to give all
the people an equal chance, let them
prosper and become patriotic and there
will be no need of all these projections.
If we can see straight all our boosted
civilization, freedom and love of coun-
try is rather falling back to the rear
and we could to day learn much in this
line from the monarchies of the old
country.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-19

not ask your honorable bodies r.
ture upon doubtful expedient or av Ven
riment, but respectfully and most ooLe
estly present the deplorable and aIarna
ing financial condition of the aor;oIi
tural interests of the country VII
the hope that a remedy may be- sno +yH
lily sought and devised through Wbi"5
they may be relieved from impendinn
bankruptcy and ruin, and which VIII
secure to our people and to posteritu
the blessings of a permanent, lust an5d
equitable financial system.
L.. L. POLK,
@. w. MACUNE,
MANN PAGE,
w. r. GwYNNE,
L. P. FEATHERsTONE,
National Legislative Committee of
the N. F. A. and |. u.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-19
SOME GOOD

Mr.. B. J.. Upchurch, who lives about
four miles from Raleigh, took the first
premium at the recent State Fair for
the best yield of corn on upland. On
five acre s he made 60 barrels. This is
a very large yield for upland in this
State.
Mr.. Upchurch is a member of the
Alliance. He recently killed enough
of meat to last him two years provided
he sells none. One of his hogs weighed
900, another 400 pounds. He has a lot
of beef cattle for sale now. He and
his brother, Mr.. w. G. Upchurch, of
Raleigh, conduct a fine dairy farm and
have the best herd of Jerseys in the
State. They make on their cotton
farm an average of a bale of cotton per
acre. They buy no supplies-sell them
every year, and yet with all this good
farming they say that "farming does
not pay them"
This knocks the stufing out Of the
little, measly assertions of smart Alexis
who are forever saying that the farmers
don't prosper because they "do such
poor farming" or because "they buy
their supplies" The truth is farming
does not pay anybody that farms hard
ly, but it does pay some people who do
not farm.
On the farm just mentioned corn,
wheat. oats, clover, grass, cattle and
hogs are raised. They sell a surplus
of everything except wheat. Now if
they don't make it pay what is the use
of blaming other farmers. The Messrs.
Upchurch do not do fancy farming"
but simply substantial, common sense
farming. Now why don't it pay them?
What would be the result if everybody
made as much per ecre as they do2
The country would be covered with
products that could not be sold.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-19
THE CAUSES.

A number of persons are writing
brief letters to the Chronicle, of this
city, giving their views as to the causes
of financial depression among the
farmers.
Some Of these answers r very good.
But a majority of them are sorry bits
of nonsense. A good many say the
farmers are not prosperous because
they buy their supplies. This may be
a cause with some, but if you will go
into the Northern States, and within a
few miles of the great cities, you will
find the same state of affairs. There
the crop lien and supply buying is un-
known. Besides, they have excellent
home markets. Others say it is ex-
travagance. This will suit some cases.
But nine-tenths of the farmers are
tlCice as economical as other classes.
They spend but little for clothing or
luxuries. Another class Of the writer's
say it is laziness. But facts knock all
the logic. out of this SANDER. The
farmers have furnished the means to
build more largeand small cities, towns
and villages, railroads, churches,
schools factories, at a greater cost, in
this country in the past hundred years
than any country, ancient or modern,
can show. We don't mean to say that
the builders themselves have not been
as energetic, but do say that the means
have been furnished by the farmers.
Others say the railroads are TO blame.
This is as absurd as anything else that
has been written. The railroads have
been very costly-perhaps nor ex-
pensive than necessary-but the ad-
vantages are great, too, and there is no
use in attributing the trouble to them.
Others attribute the trouble to whis-
key. Of course some farmers spend
money for whiskey, But there is more
the country put together. We know
some old bUmmers in towns who can
and do drink more than the people of
a whole township of rural people. The
smart Alexis 60 on and enumerate
some other silly things that would be
discreditable to school boys.
Our opinion is that the cause is the
making of m~illionaires by the hundred
every year and the making of "thcu-
sandaires" by the thousand every
year. A farmer worth from one to two
thousand dollars is considered "welI-
TODD" in North Carolina. The same
may be said of the mechanic or factory
laborer. To make one man worth a
million dollars, it takes the effects of
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-19
STILL THEY COME.

The open Alliance of Nebraska held
its annual State meeting last week,
and adopted a resolution, unanimously,
instructing the State delegates to their
annual National meeting, to be held in
Chicago, on the 9th inst, to vote for
a permanent union with our Order.
This brings into our Order one of the
strongest and best organized of all the
the American States. And thus, we
"are going all to pieces" day by day.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-19

Hello! Mr.. Editor"
Hello! Mr.. B1lkins."
B.-"Who is that9"
DIT is me, the honorable Devil
of this Office"
B.-"You are not nee ded. Hitch me
to the editor an tell him to wake up
an tell me if he has seed anything Nv
the Third party foatin' err ound an if
it hes horns an cloven-feet."
R.-"No; the Third party has not
reported here yet. The Mecklenburg
Times says it has horns an tusks four
feet long. It was travelling so fast
when the editor of the Times turned his
dark lantern" on it that he is not
willing to swear as to its having any
feet. The editor of the State Chronicle
and author of a neat little religious
tract called State Printing, designed
especially for young readers, thinks,
as we'll as he could see, that it was on
wheels. I can't tell which one of them
are correct"
Bit must have bin goin' purity
fast"
R.-"Yes, suppose so. The editor
Of the Times admits that it was going
so fast that he couldn't see it,"
BLOW is the price of cottonG"
R.-"It is all right-for the mill
men. They are filing their purses.
The Southern Manufacturers Associa-
ton agreed last fall that they would
keep up the price though the Heavens
faIl"-that is the price of their goods.
The farmers are declaring losses to
the extent Of about 100 per cent. The
mills are declaring dividends of 10 per
cent, but their profits are probably
not less than 25 or 80 per cent. per an
num-"
B." Where will the members of the
Plaid Trust go when they die2"
R.-"That is a hard question. Some
of them in North Carolina want to go
into Office before they die. It depends
on whether they make a deathbed con-
fession or not, before we can say where
they will go when they die"
B.-"DO you know what l think9 |
think that the millennium is pretty close
an that the devil is just tryin' to getFn
all the work he can before the time is
up. Betsy says she can feel the mil
lenium in her bones. She says that
reform an temperance are a GROWN
fast because the devil can't manage the
common people, but that he has got in
side the politicians an the cotton men
an the millionaires an he is gettin' in
his work in good shape. What do you
think of Betsy's calkerlations2
RI don't know. 1t looks like
Mrs. BiIkins is full of sound sense.
There are many people who think just
as she does"
B-"If you hear enything er bout
the Third party, be sure an ring my
phone. Betsy says she wants to see it
l want ter see its horns, for they must
be hummers. Good bye"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-19
WHY STOP7
necessarily

The Peoples Paper, published in
Missouri, mentions the objections of
the Journal Of Agriculture to the Sub
Treasury plan, and in the course of it's
comments, says:
THE Journal halts at the Sub
Treasury plan because: We do not
think it would bring relief Because
the pushing of it to the front to the
exclusion of other important and
feasible demands stopped the effort to
secure other demands and endangered
the life of the farmers organizations. ,
Because it is hopeless to expect any
law to be enacted in accordance with
the provisions of this scheme This
reminds us of the lawyer who after
giving various excuses for the non
attendance of his client at trial, finally
said that the last reason he would give
was that his client was dead. IF the
Journal felt that no such law could
ever be enacted why has the brain been
ransacked to present the awful conse-
quence of the adoption of such a law?
Why If it felt it to be a dead letter, did
1t waste its space to cOntrovert a moth
ing that was doomed to remain a
nothing? The part of wisdom would
have been to regard a nothing as such
and go On with the advocacy of the
more important features which it could
hope to have finally adopted as law"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-19
PRINCIPLES

The Alliance organization III It's SUB,
county, State and National meetings
have decided on a platform of prin-
ciples. 1t is a duty of every member
to stand by these principles, these de
mands. The Alliance member who
goes outside of the lodge room to offer
another plan, ~conceding "for the sake
of harmony" to any party, a particle
of these principles, deserves the cen
sure, and should receive it, of every
true man in the Order. 1t seems that
the members have been duped long
enough with compromises to parties
without principles to back them We
are surprised that a brother now and
then so far forgets himself as to offer
a compromise on any of our demands,
especially the Sub Treasury plan, the
one of all the demands (if made into a
law which will undoubtedly destroy
the power behind the throne" to
Cypress us.
We have written this much, noticing
the occasional substitute offered by
some brother, behind which we can
recognize the "clOven foot" of an old
political boss, who has by fattery or
otherwise induced this brother to try
his hand in demoli5hing our leading
principle. It is well enough for our
enemies, and those of our weakened
brethren who are induced to act so in
discI eetly, to remember that the Sub
TreasWryplo lon is the real hVing issue,
and that the other demands are sub
ordinate to this one; and that the ALI
ance and other labor organizations will
stand by it, and will have it or some
thing better made into a law, world
without end" We farther say that no
man in North Carolina will be voted
for by the Alliance members who dares
to dodge this issue, and not align him
self with it. We know that an effort
is being made to boom a certain party
for a certain high State Office, but no
man who fought and helped defeat the
railroad commission bill of 1883 and
the 6 per cent. interest bill of 1890, or
belongs to any trust or syndicate, can
become that official in North Carolina
by the votes of the people. No matter
who the man is no matter how much he
improves as a speech-maker; no matter
how much taffy is offered to the farm
ers through these speeches, they are
not going to be blind folded when they
cast their votes in 1892.
What bosh, and how ridiculous it
sounds for q man to say he is with the
farmers, wishes them well, &c, and at
the same time when it comes to make
laws for their relief, his votes, his in
genuity, his whole skill as a politician
is used to defeat these ends. Let the
booming business go on, and let those
who think they are fooling the masses
by all this clap-trap continue their
foolishnesss. The people are watching
and waiting, and when the time comes,
the masses, not the old political bosses,
will name the man. Brethren watch the
booming business through the partisan
press.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-19
n. r. ?. A.
EDITORIAL T

~ Cowley county, Kansas, has AZ
Alliances, all in a f1ourishing condition.
President Butler spent Friday
night and Saturday morning in the
city.
We are indebted to the Secretary
of the New Berne Fish and Oyster
Fair for a complimentary ticket. The
Fair opens on the 22d.
Col. @. F. King, of the Atlanta
Journal, and Col. Edward Gillian, of
the Reidsville ReUieoU, were visitors at
Raleigh this week. Col. King was toting
the new watch the Journal gave him
for a Christmas present.
The District Alliance for the
Sixth Congressional district is called
to meet at Charlotte to day, January
10Th. 1t is hoped thatall of the county
lecturers will meet Bro. Culbreth. the
excellent District Lecturer.
~ Col. G. F. King, Of the Atlanta
Journal, has been elected ''advertis-
ing director" for the Modern Tobacco
Barn Company, the Oxford Day states.
He will fill the chair of director to the
satisfaction Of all, no doubt.
John Wannamaker's weather re-
port, or Immediate Weather Report "
now comes to us daily. 1t is a pretty
correct bit of literature and may safely
place it in the hands Of your children
for there is nothing immoral about it.
The Atlanta Journal has sent out
a very handsome almanac for 1892
with gilt lettering on the front cover
On the inside is to be found good deal
of useful information and everything
else for which an almanac is recon-
mend.
DIR. D. Reid Parker, of Trinity
College, came down and went up to
Vance county meeting on Thursday.
Friday he went down to Auburn to
attend the Wake county meeting. He
made addresses at both places, and or
ganized lecture bureaus.
We havereceived a calendarfrom
the Youths Companion, the best pub
LEGATION for young people in this coun-
try. 1t is very handsome and shows a
cut of the new building now being put
up for the use of the paper. Youths
Companion has a circulation of 500, 900.
Some of our great statesmen at
Washington are putting in their time
trying to get appropriations for mon
uments, and other things that can be
put off awhile. What we need now is
financial legislation, and all the states
men who fail to go to work at once
should be turned down. This is no
time for sentimental tom-foolery.
The Commissioners of Agricul-
ture from five Southern States met at
Memphis, Tenn, a few days age. They
a that we should reduce the cotton
acreage 20 per cent. We suggest a
further reduction of 30 per cent. from
the salaries of all officials who are
overpaid. There is an overproduction
of salaries just now in some places,
The Salisbury Watcbman has
been unanimously adopted as an organ
of the Mecklenburg County Alliance.
The paper will be published at Sails
bury as heretofore, but an Office has
been opened at Charlotte and the local
news of the county will be given just
If the paper was published in Char
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-19

Many Of oar subscribers haze been
carried through the summer. Crops
are o being gathered and sold. II
gOW are due anything, send at right IN,
for pe Gre needing money, bad.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-19

In writing to anybody, always be
sure to give the name of your p~ostofice.
and sign your own name plainly.
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name and your p~ostofice.
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another office State the one at which
you have been getting it.
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R- Our friends in writing to any of
our advertisers will favor us by men
5ioning the fact that they saw the
advertisement in THE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER
~ The date on your label tells you
when your time is out,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-05-07

Mr. and Mrs Edward Monahan's joy is
caused by the birth of baby boy.
The German Catholics win hold
another meeting tomorrow afternoon
in st Patrick's hall.
The case of Bridget LarkIn vs. Mary
LarkIn for assault, is being heard before
Justice Pierce this afternoon. Mattison
for plaintiff, Lowe for defendant.
The Epson & Singleton Co are selling
spring and summer clothing for men,
boys and children. You can always get
the correct style.
There will be three masses in 81
Patrick's church tomorrow at the usual
hours, z, $50 and 1890 o'clock.
Those going on the trains to Hartford
can attend the 7 o'clock mass.
The figures of merit of the severa
companies of the Second regiment are
as follows for the month of April: A
1858; B, 9515; G, $3.50; D, 9743; p, 1896
F, 9927; G, 9743; H, 9118; I, 1859; K
9633; Signal Corps 100; Hospital Corps
80; Machine and Gun Platoon, 9723.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-05-07
ANOTHER APPROPRIATION.

Thirty Thousand Dollars Voted BY
Town Meeting to Complete the Aims
house.
The town meeting called last evening
for the purpose of taking further action
with regard to building an almshouse,
was largely attended. Deputy Sheriff
Fay was made chairman, told the pur-
pose of the meeting as stated above, and
announced all in readiness.
John Fitzpatrick moved that an ad-
ditional $4,000 be appropriated for the
purpose of completing the new aims
house. Some one in the back part of
the hall thought it would be better to
make it $4,000, and so amended the
motion without objection from MI
Fitzpatrick.
When the motion had been stated
Patrick Hayes said: 81 have an amend.
ment to the amendment, but 1 want tC
know just what has been done with the
$50 900 which we have already appropri.
ated, and what is going to be done with
the next $30,000." AS Mr. Hayes al
this point began to talk about higher
taxes, the chairman endeavored to keeL
him to the question. The. amendment
was handed to the clerk, but was moi
read.
Mr. Fitzpatrick said that the money
was needed and explained that the plans
which the selectmen have adopted il
rough figures called for from $50, 900 tt
$39, 1000, but the selectmen thought il
could be done for $4,000. When the
contracts were opened, however, fol-
building, according to the plan
adopted, the lowest figures were found
to be $4,000, which amount did no
include the plumbing. The selectmer
can do no more. They ask for the addi
tional appropriation and if they ge
$50, 200 they can provide the building
with water from the west by building
dam.
Mr. Fitzpatrick having concluded, tn
regular town meeting fun began, blu
Chairman Fay put the motion to appro
pirate $50, 900 and decided it carried
after which the meeting quickly ad
iOurned
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-05-07
NEW ENGLAND NEGROES.
The COlOred Race is Decreasing
Number According to Statistics.

The COIOred Race is Decreasing in
Number According to Statistics.
The colored race does not increase
rapidly in New England. Rhode Island
is the only one of the New England
states where the colored people were,
in 1890. over 2 per cent of the popula-
ton. Even there the colored population
has, according to the census, fallen off
from 2.49 per cent of the population in
1850 to 2.21 per cent in 1890. In Con
necticut, in the same period, the per.
centage declined from 2.07 to 1.72. In
Maine the colored population in 1896
was less than quarter of per cent,
a decline for the decade, but
slight, scarcely preceptible gain
as compared with 1850. The same
is true of New Hampshire and
Vermont, where colored people make
up only OILS per cent and o. 80 per cent
respectively of the population. In Mass
achusetts they were in 1890, los per
cent of the population, against O.91 in
1850. In Massachusetts,, as in all other
New England states, however, the per-
centage declined during the preceding
decade. The census enumerators found
23,57O colored people in Massachusetts
in 1890, 1928 in Maine, 800 in New
Hampshire, 1904 in Vermont, 7,647 in
Rhode Island and IL, $50 in Connecticut.
There is no Indication of the forcing of
the color line in New England politics
in these figures, but there is on the
other hand, the suggestion of physi-
cally decadent race, or at least one that
is not holding its own in its social isola-
ti0O
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-05-07
WORLD or SPORTS.

Judging from current opinion IN
Waterbury and Torrington, each of
those ambitious places have ball mines
which are looking for the scalp of the
nine of the Winsted base ball club.
Perhaps little later on, when they find
the Winsted boys, the AGNES of Water
bury and the Torrington club will be
sorry that they found what they were
so eagerly searching for. People some
times bite off more than they can chew.
l-Winsted Citizen.
The Acmes and Manager Durant left
this morning for New Milford where
they will battle for honors this after
noon. 1t will be a battle of pitchers of
Waterbury, Donahue the New Milford
pitcher being Waterbury boy.
The DEMOCRAT and American news
boys, eighteen of them, climbed over
the fence at the baseball grounds this
morning and played the most exciting
game of the season. The Americans took
the lead, in the early innings, but could
not hold the place and the sturdy lads
who sell DEMOCRATS won the game by
the score of 30 to 25. McElligott and
Hayes formed the DEMOCRAT battery,
while Hauser and Leahy were in the
points for the victims. John Shields
acted as umpire.
Several sports from out of town and
possibly outside of the state dropped
into the city a, few days ago strik-
ing up an acquaintance with Fred Har-
vey. They went around the city yes
terday playing pool and finally drifted
into the pool and billiard room in Lilley
block. Here few games were played
when one of the sports offered to play
Harvey one game of two hundred
points provided Harvey gave him
fifty. Harvey offered to play
him even for $50. The sport accepted
and forfeit of $40 was put up. Harvey
then wished to toss up coin for choice
of place to play. The sport demurred
and Harvey refused to play W hen the
forfeit was handed to the sport. Last
night the sport revealed himself in his
true colors, and he proves to be Fred
Stewart of Providence, R. l., who
claims the championship of New Eng
land. Harvey. offered him all manner
of offers to play for 5000 within two
weeks, but up to press hour Stewart
had not accepted.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-05-07
COURT RECORD,
Cases Assigned For the Civil Side of the
Superior Court.

Cases Assigned For the Civil Side of the
Superior Court.
At bar meeting this morning the
case of Webster, trustee, VS. Strain, nisi,
was assigned for the district court next
Thursday. The jury term of the court
was adjourned until May 90. One case
was assigned for that date: Force VS.
Gregory.
The civil side of the Waterbury term
of the superior court will open in New
Haven on next Wednesday. The fol-
lowing cases have been assigned for that
date:
Mary T. Fields appeal from probate.
William Kelly ct ux VS. g. R. Bald
win.
Fred R. Swift VS. M. E. Kelley.
James English VS. Martin Mcdonald.
The following cases will be tried be-
fore Justice F. Clohessey next Saturday.
Mrs Lizzie Nelson VS. Maggie Sweeney,
an action to recover for board.
Patrick Ney vs. Walter w. Norton,
action to recover wages for labor per-
Orme5