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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-10-10
TO GAIN

The NeaUs and Observer has the
happy faculty Of leaving unsaid any
thing that will injure p%lutocracy and
of saying much that will aid plutoc
racy, On the 9TH it contained the
following:
sit is said that the lines on which
efforts at compromise are now being
conducted run so as to include the re
peal of the State bank tax and the
issue of bonds by the government. We
lay it with an if but if Congress shall
pass any bill that will secure the fnan
cial freedom of the States from the
domination of New York and Con-
gress, we would be willing TO see the
authority to issue thahQnds given.
We would be willing to buy our finan-
cial independence at that price.
It mustNbe understood that this is
not a matter involving the administra-
ton, but Congress has usurped the
power of throttling u State banks.
1t has usurped the power to regulate
the currency of the people of the States,
and Congress has at times exercised
this usurped power with great tyranny.
We would count the purchase of our
ancient freedom as cheap at the price.
suggested"
Few papers will acknowledge that
they are willing to buy our independ-
ence (O at such a price. But, like the
NeaCS and Observer, they are willing to
buy it, and by the issue of more bonds
free us from slavery by increasing the
number of chains that already bind
us>to England and Wall street. Away
with such doctrine.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-10-10
MORTGAGES IN LORID

The mortgage industry in Florida is
not as well developed as it is in the
Northern States, but it is time to call
a halt before it goes too far.
In 1880 mortgages were recorded to
the amount of $743, 673. Strange to say
the industry did not grow at all from
1880 to 1888, for during the latter year
the aggregate incurred only amounted
to 81, COS, 957, though only two years
prior to that the aggregate was over
five millions in one year. In that par
ticular Florida differs from nearly
every other State in the Union. But
the increase from alittle over $500, 900
to more than S., 900, 900 annually in six
years was enough to cause the people
to ask where are we at?'-if they had
known it.
The real estate mortgage debt exist.
ing on the first of January, 1890, was
SIS, sos, 119, more than two thirds being
on farms and the balance on town and
city property.
The per capita debt of Florida is $40,
which is considerably more than the
debt in any Southern State yet re-
ported. The per capita debt of Ala.
bama is $26; Arkansas, $13; Tennessee,
$23. Florida does not show up badly,
however, when compared with rich(O
Northern States. Pennsylvania has a:
per capita debt of SIP, nearly three
times as large as that of Florida. New
York's per capita is 1858, or more than
seUen times as much. But it doesn't
matter about the location of the State.
The debt of the people in every State
is simply enormous, and we must get
radical reform to stop the necessity for
making more debts and enable people
to pay those already contracted.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-10-10
COUNTY MEETINGS.

The County Alliance meetings will
begin this week and will all be held
during this month. We again thank
u friends for being so prompt in
sending in reports from county meet
ing during the year. We want these
reports, but we want brief ones. If
each county sends in a column or even
half a column, publication is delayed
several weeks. Don't write more than
hundred words. Tell where the
meeting was held, number of Alliances
represented, who made speeches and
how they were received, and then stop.
By so doing we can publish reports
from each Alliance promptly, and it
will do just as much good, ana don't
wait two or three weeks after the meet
ing to send your report.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-10-10
ALARMING FACTS.

Bradstreet's commercial agency has
compiled the figures for the first nine
months of this year, and the record
shows an alarming state of affairs.
During the nine months ending Oct. LIST
there has been II, ia failures, and this
bears us out in a prophecy made sew
eral months ago that the total record
for the year would reach Is, 200. Dur
ing the same period last year there
were 1878 failures, which was bad
enough. Of that number only 121
we're for liabilities of more than $780,
900 each. But for the same period this
year $40 concerns have failed for more
than 800, 600 each. The total liabilities
this year up to Oct. LIST amount to the
enormoussu sum of 1924, 378, 768, or almos5
exactly four and O. holt times as much
as the total liabilities for the same
period last year.
This shows two important facts, . e.,
that the failures are increasing with
startling rapidity, and that larger con-
Germs r going to the wall.
We do not wish to unnecessarily
brighten anyone. In publishing these
facts we have but one object, and that
is to show the people where they are
and induce our national lawmakers
to do their duty. At this rate all kinds
of business will be PROSTATE in a very
short time. Legislation alone is the
remedy. Under present conditions,
big crops do not check the disasters.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-10-10
THE DRUMMER IN POLITICS.

The gay and festive drummer has
been a power in politics. For years the
South has been overrun with them.
Not a few drummers are Republicans,
but when they come South part OF
their duty is to serve plutocracy in a
non-partisan way. The object in this
was to keep the real issues from pub
lie view. First the drummer, either
Republican or Democrat, sought to
make Southern merchants believe that
the tariff was the great issue, we'll
knowing that if the South would re-
main solidly Democratic the North
would stay in the Republican column.
Last year new tactics were brought
into play, The financial question was
about to overshadow all others, and
many voted accordingly. Then that
awful h~obgobblin, the force bill, be-
came a part of the baggage carried by
every drummer. Every merchant was
touched in a tender spot at some time
or in some way. Drummers talked on
the train, in hotels, everywhere, and
the people were horror stricken. Every
dog has his day. The drummer has
had his day. Many of them are now
out of a job or travelling on reduced
salaries. They are doing very little
and the future is dark. The face of
the drummer is not visible as often as
of yore, or, if in sight, it is very long.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-10-10
RAILWAY STATISTICS

We have received an abstract of the
Statistics of Railways in the United
States for the year ending June 80,
1892, from (which we compile the fol-
lowing:
Total railway mileage June 80, 1892,
was III, 500. 50 miles. Increase during
the year, 1850 8 miles. The State of
North Carolina leads in construction
showing an increase of 212. 90 miles.
Only five other States exceed $50 miles
each. There were 1872 railway cor
porations, a net increase of 81 over the
last year. During the year nine roads
were abandoned, 10 merged into other
corporations, II reorganized and Is
consolidated. OF the 1922 corpora
tions 43 operate SO, 231.74 miles, or
1886 of the whole. The number of
locomotives was 3.136, an average of
90 for each 100 miles of track. There
were 1,215, 092 cars, 18 passenger and
708 freight car for each 100 miles of
track. Each passenger locomotive car
r1ed an average of g. 1899 passengers,
and made 1, $40, 273 miles. There were
1857 freight cars to every million tons
of freight moved. The number of en-
ployees was 821, 415 or one out of every
70 of the total population. The capital,
cation Of 1852, 1897. 80 miles covered bv
the report was. ........ $40, 226, 748, 1874
represented by stocks. 1888, 1O8, 763
by FUNDED deot......... 5,O53, OBS, $50
There was an increase in capitalize.
ton over previous year of 1897, 273, 119.
Or the stocks and bonds the corpora
lions held as their corporate property
q, 591, 45'7, O52, an increase of $1O8, 531,-
S33 over the previous year. About 25
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-10-10
soMEwBFp1

Chicago has entered UPON ~.
OF feeding the hungry. work
compelled to begin several wooL Vas
Other cities will be forced to 81 since
same thing. 1t is suggestive Of . . The
full mistake somewhere. q lear.
Farmers Voice. N'S the
After making due allowance
improvidence of thousands and te
laziness of other thousands, tbo ' Tie
that there are still thousands Of ,act
trious worthy men and womon UQ
the verge of ~stervati0n in q upOa
that boasts of al accuHaulatpd g
of 60 billions and of a natural fo ~sS!tA
of soil and richness of mines tbat
unsurpassed, points directly ~ arc
management of some kind. IF ~. ws'
mighty made no mistake in nIa.: A.
5 5000, 5000 people in the United ets
we must look elsewhere for i
made no mistake. He makes ~
and If we had no other evidence Of ~,
fact that the mistake is one of
the plenty that abound8 on every h..
would be enough. If the nation
famine stricken it would be difor,n4
But wheat is so plenty and cbean ~,
1t is being fed to hogs; there is inot -
much money as we have had for A VOC.
and so far as legitimate conditions
concerned, no nation in all the wo,ls
is as favored as this nation is to devt,
vored. Yet vast armies. of men w.
men and children are pleading for brooa
in the midst of vast wealth and a mao
nificent plenty and the producer is IN.
able to sell his products for enough IA
pay him for growing them. In what
direction shall we look for the causa n
this remarkable state of affairs, WIZ
has made the mistake2 The pponIo
themselves have made the mistaka
They have not taken care of their rights
and of their liberties. They have ppr
mitted capital to dictate policies, to
make laws and to establish customs
They have allowed a handful of selfish
men to dictate to the great majority
AID to make their own personal inter-
ests the basis of the policy of govern.
ment; and this has gone on until the
money power is able to crack the whip
of sovereign authority over the backs
of the millions. The owners of the ma.
tional currency that is locked up in
bank vaults, are the direct cause Of our
present distress and their system are
the products of the peoples lethargy.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-10-10
FAILURES.

Dun's Review reports 329 failures for
the week ending September Both. This
is ten more than were reported the
previous week, and fifteen more than
for the week ending Sept. 10th. Dur
ing the week ending Sept. Both railroad
stocks declined an average of 81 AZ per
share. Trust stocks averaged 81 so per
share.
During the three months ending
Sept. Goth there were 900 business
failures, the liabilities aggregating
about $3.50, 900, 900, greatly surprising
the record for any previous three
months.
Dun's ReUieU states that while many
of the manufacturing concerns that
had closed have resumed in whole or in
part, they find orders so light that it is
a question whether they will continue
or close again. The Norrie iron works,
the largest of the kind in America,
closed last week. The output Of this
concern has averaged a million tons a
year.
In the meantime Congress does but
little and that little is only heaping
brands upon the burning pile of com
mercial di sasters. The President and
his cohorts are making no effort to stay
the ruin
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-10-10

Go prepared to hand him what you
owe it. Remember it stands on the
watchtower and keeps faithful watch
for you, and does not fear to give you
fair warming when danger approaches.
We want to do our duty and we desire
to have each brother do his. Now let
every brother who attends a County
Alliance meeting this month, go with
his own renewal or subscription and at
least one more besides his own, and see
to it that some one is authorized to re-
ceive the cash and names and send
them on to us at once. We are in debt
and must pay them if we have to sacri-
fee the paper. There is more due us
than we owe. Perhaps you owe some,
or perhaps your neighbor does; pay up
if you do and get all your neighbors to
do likewise. Then see to it that the
paper goes regularly hereafter to every
home in your township. Thus you'll be
doing your duty, and until you do
yours we cannot do all ours. Get ago
on, brother; do not get left; the great
column is advancing. Keep in line;
let's all touch elbows all along the line
and be ready at any moment to put
every shoulder to the wheel, and for
any other emergency, and victory
glorious and complete will yet be ours.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-10-10
PARTISAN

Items like the following have been
floating around in the columns of a
number of State papers:
marion Butler now sports a pair of
kid gloves to hide his toil-stained
hands. AS every Thirdite in the State
desires to initiate Miss Mary Ann as
much as possible, they, of course, must
have a pair too"
The Sanford Erpress and other pa
pers of that faith may do the cause
they represent some good in that way,
but we doubt it. The poor kid-glove
aristocracy and bicycle-jumpers are
evidently mighty hard pressed. If
Marion Butler or anybody else in the
Alliance does wrong, then criticize
them as much as you please, but such
things as the above are very small.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-10-10
ATTEND YOUR COUNTY MEET
INGS.

This is the month for our regular
quarterly County Alliance meetings
throughout the State, and the outlook
for our cause was never brighter. The
interest throughout the State is i'm
proving. Our principles are now tax
ing deep root in the very best and
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS soil, and growing
off luxuriantIy. We must nov watch
and work as we never have done be-
fore, lest the enemy SOW tares in the
field again. News from all quarters is
cheering. There seems a deeper inter
est in the county meetings than ever.
Everybody desires to attend, and all
who can viii do So. Do not fail to be
there if possible to attend, brethren.
1t will do you good. Get everybody
else to go. There will be public speak
ing and a good dinner at most of them.
Then each County Alliance will name
a brother to take your renewal O sub.
scription for THE PRoeREssTYEFARMER.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-10-10
L AS A TRAITOR.

Seven years ago Roger @. Mills, of
Texas, was a member of Congress. In
a speech on the Sd of February, 1886,
he said:
1.-THE agricultural States have suf-
fered eighty times more than the silver
States by the demonstration of silver,
and would be benefited eighty times
more by free coinage, and sir, by this
infamous crime Of 1878, the farmers
r now suffering a yearly loss of 81
800, 900, O0O."
Now we understand that Roger O.
Mills is IN the goldbug side. He was
elected to the y. S. Senate two years
ago. Like John G.. Carlisle, he has
tasted of the Wall street feshpots and
is no longer on the side of the people.
How much longer will the american
people tolerate traitors9
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-10-10
INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT.

There is much talk again about the
appointment of a committee to confer
with foreign nations in regard to sill
YER. President Cleveland has limited
at that several times recently. No such
committee is needed. No European
nation has anything to do with our sill
yer money. Gold is the basis for all
our commercial dealings with other
countries. Silver money is used ex-
clusively as a home money. Might as
well ask England or Germany to name
the hours for breakfast, dinner and
supper in this country, or ask them
whether we should put salt in our
bread or eat it without. Any public
man who favors such a course is no
better than the Tories and traitors of
Revolutionary days. We all remem
Der the result of the Brussels confer
ence a year ago. Nine-tenths of the
delegates to such conferences are
known to be goldbugs before they are
appointed. No good will come from
them.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-10-10
LIFE INSURANCE ARRANGE,
MENTS.


1t would seem particularly apprOpri
ate that the National Executive Com.
mittee of the N. F. A. & l. U. should
recommend the Mutual Life Insurance
Company, of New York, as its STANDARD
mutual company, when the institution
so recently celebrated its semi center
NAL or golden wedding. In this issue
will be seen the National Executive
Committees hearty recommendation
of this, one of the greatest life lnsuF
ance institutions that the world hs
ever known.
Let us look at the grounds on which
this company was selected from alargs
number of other leading companies o.
the United States. The committee
says, CATER careful study and in7es
tigation we are led to believe"
First. That it is the largest ana
strongest mutual life company IN 'n'
world.
Second. 1t is The oldest company ID
America.
Third. It is run on lines similar "
that of the Alliance, being strictly n'
tual, solely the property of its nnenOa
ship which number several hunaf"
thousand.
Fourth. 1t is the largest dividend"
profit, paying company in the WORN
Fifth. 1t is the strongest financl'lp
stitution, its assets amounting TO nSI
~ two hundred millions OF o0Daa
every dollar of this vast sum beng w.
property of its policy, holders.
Sixth. It's accomplishments sY~
those of the next two largest WI vi
panies in the world, having nal~
and disbursed for it's members o'si
hundred millions of dollars.
Such potent facts as these wouIr c.
tainly indicate that the hhS' 'rd
Committee had acted with then
good judgment and wisdom
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-10-10
N. r. ?. A.
EDITORIAL NOTES

The Wilmington Messenger says;
''The Democrats did not promise in
their platform to repeal the Sherman
law. Stick a pin here" Well, what
is the row about7
The new Cleveland postmaster at
Merry Oaks hasn't heard that the last
Congress voted itself an increase of
salary, although he is a daily reader of
The Ne1Us Observer Chronicle, &c.
The frost predicted by the Weather
Bureau for North Carolina has failed
to come SO far. 1t is fortunate, too,
for much tobacco remains uncut in the
northwestern part of the State.
For years the opponents of reform
have fought reformers with ridicule
andy holding out promises of reform.
People now see that the promises are
false and ridicule is no longer available.
The very latest and most reliable
news from South Carolina is that Gov
ernor TilIman is still Governor and that
he is running the State according to
his own ideas. Corporations are not
in it.
Some people believe in the 'mind
cure" They think you can cure all
kinds of diseases simply by exercising
faith. People who expect reform from
this administration must practice the
faith cure.
The Populist is a new i x-column
paper just started at Lumberton by
Bro. J. z. Green. Like any paper that
he edits, it is full of good matter, and
in the interest of the masses. We wish
him much success.
Those who have stood up and voted
against silver in Washington will never
again have the confidence of the people,
even though they come over and dis
play some ~hypocritical friendship for
the money of the people. The public
cannot be deceived by cringing poll
ticians now as they once were.
The editor Of the Elizabeth City
Economist can't get right, it seems.
Last week he wrote a long editorial
about the suspicious" course of Sen
ator Vance, and wound up with these
words: eff any event in political life
could bring our white hairs to the
grave, it would be the detection of our
brave old Democratic warhorse
Wance)." We think he should be
more alarmed about his party than
about Senator Vance. The party is
falling to keep its promises and Col.
Creepy should hang his head in shame.
A good many of our town and city
friends attribute the scarcity of money
% the fact that a few of our farmers
own buggies. They say that farmers
should ride in OK carts. A prominent
merchant in Raleigh made this charge
to the writer recently, but was made
to swallow it before the conversation
ended. How would it do to charge
that hard times are due to the fact that
many town and city people are buying
BICYCLES. That is true, and tina bicycle
+ tories are not able to furnish them
IS fast as orders go in. Town and city
people spend ten times as much as
farmers in proportion to numbers, for
pleasure, for fine living, fine clothes,
jewelry, bicycles and other things they
can do without.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-10-10

The Denver News was the first great
daily paper to come over to the reform
side. Now the San Francisco Examiner
is in the ranks. The Eranoi'1er is the
widest circulated daily west of the
Mississippi aiver. Let them come.
The power of the press is mighty.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-10-10
GIN HoUsE BURNED

Mr.. EDrroR:-on Sunday night s IF
list, at half past 9 o'clock the ga goEspA
of Mr.. Y. B. Bachelor d roedG
Nash county, N. c., was o0n n s ~
fire, containing some 'op tq0o. ID.
loss is estimated at about - hole d
engine house was saved by
water with the use Of buckets
Respectfully ~ B,yEs.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-10-10

The Farmers Weekly is a new ISE 4
paper started at Jasper, New lO "Tss
is a good one and the farmers T r,,r.
York are learning to read reforn ~ >,
ture. PIutocratic newspapers ,1i
ing into the hands of receiver s
suspending every day, while tns.' iy.
press is gaining recruits e'ei'
Let the good work 90 on
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-10-10

proud to confess a little ignorance that
/ may grow a little wiser thereby, l
write to ask you to tell myself and
others, through your paper, what is a
clearing house.
Yours truly,
A. r. EADER,
ANswER.-A clearing house is a
place where the exchanges of banks are
made; an association of banking cor
po~rations. For example, in the city of
New York there are quite a number of
banks, at one time as many as Is, and
these were located at remote distances
from each other. In the daily deposits
in each of these banks are large
amounts in checks and drafts on other
banks. At the close Of the day these
checks and drafts, on all these banks,
are carried to the clearing house in
stead of to the various banks or which
drawn. Each bank is credited with
what it sends in and then charged with
what others bring in against it, re-
quiring and paying balances in lawful
money. It is said that so rapidly r.
these adjustments made that on n
occasion accounts amounting in the
aggregate to 1895, 821, 422. 81 were settled
in one hour. We append a clipping
from the New York Herald of last
Wednesday, which we think will be
of interest here:
Representatives of f~orty-six national
49, ~sLA>zz CA@A@ 1911 80 IL
Assistant United States Treasurer, com
posing the Bankers Clearing House
Association, met in fortieth annual ses-
of the association, No. IA Pine street.
President George G. Williams occupied
the chair.
The following officers were elected
for the ensuing year:
President-GeOrge G.. Williams,
president Chemical National Bank,
Secretary-AleXander Gilbert, vice
president Market and Fulton National
Bank,
Extracts from the annual report of
Manager Sherer for the year ended DC,
tober 1, 1898, show that the Clearing
House transactions for the year have
been as follows:
Exchanges ...... 1914 ,380, 1863. 50
6aIances' l,o96,2O7,l75.52
Total transactions $50, H. 88, O45.O
Average dly transact'ns were:
Exchanges. $ll3,978, O82 81
Balances. 5,G15,5S0I5
S11p,59I, 1926
Total transactions since organization of Clear
ing House (fOrty years.:
64changes'' > ,O2l ,O18, 593, 454 80
Balances. 1881 1897, 6OQ.zO
Total. ........ 81, O67, OCO, 49,, C44.58
The entrance fee for banks has been
until now graded from 81, 900 to So, 600,
In accordance with the capital of the
bank seeking membership.
1t was decided yesterday that banks
whose capital does not exceed SIS, OOO,-
600 shall pay a membership fee of
S., 900 and that banks with a capital
than SIS, 900, 900 shall pay 81, 500.
The salary of Manager Sherer was
IAnnHDAAl 49, An