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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-05-02

On another page we publish the re
DIV of President Loucks to DR.. Ma
cune, editor of the National Econ
Omist. This is none of our fight and
the only interest we feel is the welfare
of the organization. We have never
paraded any of the many charges pub
licly made against DR.. Macune. We
have lever considered him Of enough
Importance to stop the wheels Of ALI
ance progress, because he lies down
now and then and allows the a to
pass over him. His personality may
be important in his own affairs, but
the Alliance would be as strong, if not
stronger, if he had never been born
The National Alliance at the Mem
phis meeting began steps to cut the
Economist off as national organ. We
think this was a wise course, for it has
been very unsatisfactory to most Of
our true members all over the country.
President Loucks and the four mem
bers of the Executive Committee, all
LOl1OOV C44O S1pCO4O A4CL4S A1 OO A"A
as possible, carried out the wishes of a
majority of the delegates to the Ma
tional Alliance. Since then most of the
stock in the National Economist has
| changed hands and is owned by non
Alliancemen. The paper has been
withdrawn from the N. r. P. A. Yet
it still claims to be the organ Of the
| National Alliance. It's editor claims
that it is a political fight that is being
made upon him. He tries to divert at
tention from certain matters by a null
titude of foreign matters. All these
things and the general tone Of the
Economist for some time past satisfies
us that it is unfit for the organship and
that it will pull down instead of build
up the Order. Hence it will not and
cannot be longer recognized as organ
of the Alliance by us. Most Of the
matter that appears in it from week to
week is not calculated to do the Order
good. Take, for instance, the issue of
April 22d. Only two short squibs of
editorials appear on the editorial page
and the cloven foot bristles out all over
them. The first is as follows:
The Populist movement made a
mistake in trying to build on the bare
ground beside the tariff platform;
they should have built on top of it.
Every one Of the Alliance demands can
be sustained better on top of a low
tariff platform than to ignore that
ISSUE"
The second reads this way:
Under the present financial system,
with only one money center, all money,
the moment it becomes idle, gravltates
toward that center. There should be at
least one money center in each State"
Now there is not a little weekly pa.
per in the whole country that does not
say more than that for the organiza-
ton every week. There is not a word
nor line that even remotely refers to
the Alliance, and yet this paper with
only two editorial squibs on its editorial
page declares that it will be organ of
this great organization wen if it has
been discarded as such. We care
nothing about what party the Econ
Omi8t admires or what it has or has
not done in the past. 1t is nc longer
organ, it is without influence with
those who are we'll posted and it must
accept the inevitable.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-05-02
CONTINUED PROSPERITY.

The prosperity is just humping Itself
Two Australian bank failures, one fa
$40, 900, 900, the other for $65, 900, OM
inside of a week, to say nothing d
hundreds of very large mercantlt
failures throughout the United States
is all the proof needed to show that
things are on a boom. The latest bank
failure is from Columbia. It's door;
were closed Friday. Ye statesmen, y
prosperity howlers, why don't you all
buy a fiddle and saw while the bottom
falls out? If you have no music in
your big souls, buy a hand-organ and
make a racket anyhow.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-05-02
THE PRESS ASSOCIATION.

The State Press Association held a
verv pleasant meeting at Newbern on
the goth and 9th. The attendance
was a little larger than ever before and
a number joined who had never before
affiliated. The editors Of this State are
n O longer in the business ''just for
fun" They are becoming hard work
ers and applying business methods.
These annual meetings are partly for
pleasure and partly for actual business
purposes.
Mr.. Jerome Dowd, of the Mecklen
burg Times, was elected President, an
Office that had been gracefully filled
by Mr.. E. E billiard, of the Scotland
Neck Democrat.
The citizens of Newborn entertained
the visiting editors very kindly, giving
a steamboat exclusion, a carriage ride
around the city, giving the visitors a
chance to view some of the many beau
tiful truck farms in that vicinity. On
the night of the 9th an elegant supper
was given in the Y. M. @. A. Hall, and
when the table was cleared the orators
selec ed for the occasion entertained
all with their wit and eloquence. No
wines were served, but only those edi-
tors living west of Raleigh entered a
protest. A banquet without cham
payne is a little dry" it is true, but
many of the most successful nes are
of that kind. Every editor left New
bern feeling that it was good to have
been there, and that city should not be
among the number to make ''offers"
unless they wish the editors with them
again at no distant period.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-05-02

PLEASE DO.

Will the NeaUs and Observer refer to
its files and name a few of the dates in
which it said that gold is too scarce
to form the only basis for money"
probably five hundred times in the
past fourteen years" We would like
to see the editorials, and not having
bound files we cannot refer to the paper
as easily as the editor can himself. We
will reproduce the editorials if this re-
quest is granted.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-05-02
AMONG THE ALLIANCES.
What the Brotherhood is Doing and sa
ing All Around.

What the Brotherhood is Doing and Say
ing All Around.
The news from the Alliance in Cali
fornia and Oregon is first good, tha
better and finally best.
Inactive Sub-Alliances r being re
vived all over North Carolina and il
many other States. Truly "there i
life in the old land yet"
The membership of the Alliance ID
Davidson county has increased fully
% per cent. since the October meeting
in 1892.-ThOmasUilIe, N. C. Ner8.
State Lecturer Burkitt has beer
speaking to the Alliancemen in th
eastern counties of Mississippi. Hell
a good one and we hope things will
boom there now.
Parker County Alliance, the brit
place of the Order, passed a resolution
sustaining the action of the executive
committee in suspending the NatiOnd
Economist as official organize
TeTGS Sentinel.
The Alliance in the State of Washing
ton have located their co operative
warehouse for shipping grain a
Tacoma. The citizens of the city CAV.
the site and bear half the cost Of the
building, which holds 1, 200, 900 bu8heI
Of sacked grain.
The West Coast Alliance reports t!
San Benito County Alliance held APR
1st the best attended and most enthua
tic ever held in the county. Ever
Sub-Alliance in the county is in
fourishing condition and was repre-
sented .-TuI0re, CaL., Citizen.
Prof. King came up from WildfOTaI
last week and reports the AlliaDa
there as having a grand meeting Tua
day night. Six members were initiated
and a basket supper was served. Tbi
Alliance has 80 members and is in f4
working order, having a lady pre-.
dent. We predict it will be the lead
ing Alliance in the county in the nS
future. -Tulare CaI., Citizen.
The Alliance in South Carolinat
day is on better footing than e7S'
The camp followers, who were AlliaD'
men only for personal gain, havef oM
and the body stands in it's purity-T>
equipped to battle in the cause Of J'
tice and reform. These camp-folIO5g'
have been spotted and are rapid
showing their hands. The fraternJ3
are not making loud noise, but theySH
formulating future plans, and holdP
their public servants on probation
OcOnee WeoU8.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-05-02
II. r. p. A.
EDITORIAL NOTES

The Executive Committee of the
State Alliance will meet in regular
quarterly session in Raleigh on Thurs,
day, May 18th.
~ We have received a copy of Land
and Water, a London publication de
voted to field and water sports and
agriculture. 1t is we'll printed and full
of interesting matter. Is also very
English" in style.
The parents, brothers, sisters
and sweethearts of the gallant soldiers
who fit" on the grassy plains around
James City last week, are requested to
write out applications for pensions.
There should be no delay about this
matter.
~ Nine million m~ortgaged homes
ought to furnish nine million votes for
an increase of the currency, issued
and controlled by the government, and
the nine million votes should come
without the promise Of pie, says The
Coming Crisis.
~ The New Berne Journal says: It
is always claimed by those who go into
trusts that prices are not to be adj
vanced, and just as regularly prices of
trust controlled articles are advanced.
It is about time the people got up a
credulity trust.
* We are indebted to Professor
Whitsett, principal of Fairview Insti,
tute, for a handsomely gotten up invi,
tation to the annual commencement
exercises, which will take place May
21-24. 1t is a pleasure to know that
this excellent school is fourishing.
~ ShoppeUs' Modern Houses, is a
very interesting publication. 1t is
published quarterly at 5Ocents for each
number. It contains 70 pages, hand
somely printed, and Illustrated with
numerous designs for houses, Archi-
tects especially, should read it. New
York is the address.
~ The Pennsylvania Steel Com
pany, doing business near Baltimore,
failed last week. Report says the
failure was not for want of work, but
was "due solely to the stringency of
the money market" Well, what of
that9 The p~roprietors have been vot-
ing to increase the stringency of the
money market. They deserve no SYM
pathy.
~ A w~el-knOwn citizen of this State
vas heard to say a few days ago that
"aIl this sickly sentiment against
trusts in North Carolina must be
crushed out; that it is driving capital
out of the State and keeping it out"
The ''siGkly sentiment" will not be
crushed. No citizen of the State who
is doing a legitimate business, accord
ing to the ten commandments and the
laws of the State, will go on that &C
count, and no one who wishes to do
such a business will be kept out.
Others can go as quick as they wish or
ca stay away if they contemplate
moving here. We don't need people
who are Mt willing to do a legitimate
business. Ta.s is official.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-05-02

Here is an offer: If any ness
paper in North Carolina will stOF'
genuine argument that they b'a
made in favor of tariff reform OF
reform of the tariff" since the eal
Eon' we will give a copy of this pap
'one year to any person on the subscPI
ton books of said editor
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-05-02

and not over-production. The follow
ing dispatch from Moscow of date April
10, shows the condition in Russia:
There is a famine in the European
part of the empire greater than ever.
The poor are dying by hundreds.
In the smaller villages the poor PEG
pie have ceased trying to bury all the
hOdieS
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-05-02

liam standing noU just behind the
curtain, and IN full glo1U Of the coming
sunset. Behind me are the shadows on
the track, before me lies the dark VaIley
and the riUeT. When I minQIe uUith ats
dark 1Caters I U0nt to cast one Linger-
ing look upon O. country uUbOse govern
ment IS Of the people, for the people,
and by the people. d. L. Polk, july
18th, 1890.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-05-02

E- Our friends in writing to any Of
our advertisers will favor us by men
tioning the fact that they saw the
advertisement IN The PROGRESSIVE
FARMER.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-05-02

In writing 10 anybody, always be
sure to give the name of your postoRce,
aud sign your OWL name plainly.
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Do you want your paper changed to
another office State the one at which
you have been getting it.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-05-02

H The date on your label tells so
when your time Is out.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-05-02

The Progressive Farmer is the Official
Organ ofthe N. G. Farmers State Alliance
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-05-02
RALEIGH. N. O., MAY 2, 1898.

This pcpey entered az ~secOnd-eLdss matter at the
Post Of5cs GE RdLetgb, N. G.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-05-02
PLENTY OF LIFE.

patriotism at once
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1893-07-29

The vice president is about to visit
Oregon, and a Democratic exchange
perpetrates the following in speaking
of him: "He is an American pro-
duct in the field of craftsmanship simi-
lar to Abraham Lincoln. His public
career has been faithful service in the
interest of the masses. Like Mr..
Lincoln he possesses the genius of
common sense to an eminent degree,
and his warm sympathetic nature,
coupled with quick perceptive facul-
tie, enables him to keepln touch with
the people" Wherein the parallel can
be drawn between the mar.yred Lincoln
and Adlai E. Stevenson we cannot
understand. In life they were wide
apart in thought and actions, and the
future historian will not place them
side by side in what he writes con-
cerning their character. Mr.. Lincoln
was a patriot and statesman in the
most trying epoch of the nations ex-
istence; but this will have yet to be
proved true of him who now occupies
the vice presidents chair. It is right
that the position should be respected
by every American citizen; but it is
advisable that no comparisons be made
that will in the least be disparaging to
the honored dead.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1893-07-29
An Immigrant of 1862.

Mr.. j. A. Strowbridge, leading mer-
day. He was one of the immigrants of
1852, and arrived at The Dalles iu the fall,
and his father, mother and other membsrs
of the family proceeded down the river to
the Cascades on a raft, made the portage
aroand the rapids, and from that point were
taken to Portland on the Wuitnonadh. Mr..
Strowbridge drove the horses aud horned
cattle over the trail, and they arrived IN
good condition. Three days after they stop
ped at their destination the father died.
and about the middle of December snow
fell to the depth of two feet AS no hav
could be procured the live stock all perished
during the winter, and the Strowbridges-
like other immigrants of that year-were
left Ill an impoverished condition. He says
during that long winter of over sixty days
he never tasted butter or meat, and cut
wood for 80 cents cord. The preceding
season crops had yielded good in Oregon.
but in California the harvest was failure,
and the surplus grain in this territory was
purchased by our southern neighbor. When
the immi2 rants arrived in the fall, after
making the 10 and tiresome journey
across the plains, there were not provisions
enough to support them, and thev were
forced to buy them from CalIfornIans at
very high figure Flour sold at $l00 a
barrel, potatoes SIS bushel, and other
things in proportion. This caused great
deal of suffering. and the pioneers of 1852
were entitled to considerable credit for
their indomitable energy and perseverance
in founding an empire In this portion OF the
northwest
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1893-07-29
Work at the Locks,
CASCADE LOCKS, Ore, July "a, 1893.
El;tnr TInRs. MuI1 rAINRRR.

CASCADE LOCKS, Ore, July "a, 1873.
Editor TINES -MoUATAISEER:
Believing that the people throughout
Eastern Oregon, Washington and Idaho
feel deep interest in the opening of the
Columbia river to the ocean, send you a
few items concerning the work going on
here for publication, If you deem it wor-
thy of space in the columns of your
widely circulating journal.
The contractors were at great disad-
vantage at the start owing To various
causes, chief OF which was the extreme
and long continued bad weather. But
since the weather has beco ne settled
work Is going ON in excellent shape, and
they are preparing as fast as possible for
the sheltering OF the stone cutters and
their assisting drillers, so that stone cut
ting can go on in all kinds of weather,
rain or shine, having already built The
frame for shed three hundred and sixty
odd feet long and thirty-slx feet wide and
mounted thereon one of the finest travel
Ing derricks that has ever been been set
up on the Pacific slope. What is meant
generally efficient.
The getting of rock on the ground is
being done on a grand scale compared
with the mode practised heretofore. The
contractors haye two broad guage loco
motives at work all the time, one on their
spur to the quarries and the other on the
main u P. line running ii down ID
where or very near the place where II
will be worked and placed in the walls.
| will lrv in future artice to give our
readers some idea of the quick manner IN
which the huge rocks are handled by
steam derr:cks. Some of them weighing
eight or ten tons are lifted on and off the
cars as quickly almost as an ordinary
man would lit hundred pounds into u
Wagon. Il.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1893-07-29
Fatal Accident.

Prineville Neacs: About O'Clock last
saturday afternoon Edsel Hoover, aged
20 years, was thrown from horse and
killed The accident happened at the
Plummer place, about three miles from
Prinevllle. Young Hoover rode a pony
TO the school house where Miss Effie
Vanderpool was teaching on lower Nc
Kay creek, and carried two of the smaller
children home on the horse. After letting
the little ones of, the pony, which is ap-
parently gentle but inclined 10 run away,
started to run, and Hoover remarked that
he would give the animal all the run he
wanted. 1t appears that after running a
short distance deceased attempted to
check the horse by turning him toward a
fence IN which was gateway closed by
bars. The animal attempted to jump the
bars, but fell headlong oyer them, turn
ing complete somersaut. Hoover was
thrown violeDtlyto the ground, striking
ON his head, and producing conclusion of
the brain The horse als) fell on him,
probably fatally lDjuring him internally.
he breathed about two hours, but never
regained consciousness. The body was
buried in the Prlreville cemetery next
day, Sunday. The bereaved family have
the sympathy of all In their great affiic-
ton.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1893-07-29
Sad Drowning.

News was received day that Mr. VIM
Taffe-spn of Mr. L H. Taffe of the Cello
ishery-and Jim Hogan we've drowned yes.
terday while returning in skiff from Grant.
The bodies have not been recovered. and
the boat is bottom side up at Bggs. Taft
and Hogan went to Gran for sack of
wheat, and sailed up the river in boat
They procured the grain and started down
the river. Some time afterwards the boat
was seen capsized opposite Biggs. and a
telephone message was sent to Grant An
answer was received that the parties lett
about o'clock, with the boat. In the
craft the sack If wheat still renamed, al
though the boat was half full of water, and
the supposition is in squali it capszed,
throwing the occupants IN the water. Mr.
Taffe only had one arm. and, therefore
could not swim. Hogan was from Astoria,
and had been in the employ of Mr.. Taffe at
the fishery for some time. The news was
brought to Cello this morning by freight
train. and Mrs. Taffe had not gone to bed.
anxlously awaiting some information of her
boy. It is said she was inconsalable when
she heard his sad fate.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1893-07-29
No Excuse For frauce.

LONDON. july PA dispatch to the
Chronicle from Paris saws: "Tbe tenor
of the French ul,imatum to Siam leaves
no doubt as to frances intention. She
would prefer not 20 receive the money
down from Siam. The alternative OF
becoming q taxgaiheTer N the cove'e ed
districts of Angkor and BAttam Dang is
far more To her taste"
The Times this morning publishes al
editorial which il is th ,ught expresses me
genera English opinion OF the merits OF
the Franco-Siamese dispute. 1u com
menung on Slams answer to the French
ult,matum, the Times saws: "Siam's re-
fusal to go beyond the just and reason
able limits or to concede territory TO
which France never put in an effective
C aim until the other day. is no excuse
for the measure of hostility, ostensibly
directed against the Siamese, but really
striking at the commerce of England and
other countries having commercial rela-
tlons with SIAM"
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1893-07-29
The Preacher Here,

The Portland Welcome of yesterday says:
"Rev. o. D.lTaylor, a Baptist.preacher of
N nth Dalles, snide town site near The
Dalles. was cowhIded yesterday by Miss
Equia, to whom he was indebted In the sum
of Sl00 for her services as teacher in the
Wasco Academy, said to be fake educa
tlonal institution The lady demanded
payment and being unable to Obtain it. and
kn wing how a companion had been cheated
out of similar sum by the preacher, ad
ministered to the fellow a merited chastise.
mept.
To-day Parson Taylor turned MP in Port
land, accompanied by smooth "frlend'
who had Thousand apologies to offer for
the of ndIng minister. Together thew Wis
tied the newspaper offices OF the CITY, re-
lating their tale of woe, but the Welcome
knows of one Journal that does not pub ish
it. Il is learned, however. that an evening
paper will give its readers the preachers
version
cat The Dalles Miss Equia is highly com.
mended for her bravery. She had no none,
and no relatives in the west to fight her
battle, and SO she adopted the only course
open to her to give the creature his just
deserts"
MISS Equia was not teacher in the
academy, was not owed anything, and
simply took up the quarrel in defense of a
dear friend. The academy is not a fake in
stitutlon. and if properly managed might
be prosperous school. Who Mr.. Taylor's
''smooth friend" is we are unable to learn.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1893-07-29
TIE Siam affair i, likely to involve

The Siam affair is likely to involve
Europe in very disastrous war. Il
France presses her claims Englanc
must defend her possessions, and the
two great naval powers of the worlc
will come in collision. When these
become engaged in deadly confic'
other Europeon nations will not bs
idle. Russia will aid France and will
press her forces toward India; but
Germany will consider it an available
opportunity to curb the aggressiveness
of her inveterate enemy, and Italy
will help her ally Great Britain. The
war cloud is becoming larger, and has
a threatening aspect. For long
years a general war has been
averted only by the exercise of the
cleverest diplomacy, and while Ger
many and France remained at peace
it was not considered imminent; but
the best laid plans Of statesmen "gang
aft agla," and in the little province OF
Siam the initiatory step is very likely
to be taken. A war of this magni-
tuds is much to be deplored, but the
Atlantic ocean separates America from
the old world, and the result will be
beneficial to the United States. 1t is
too mercenary to reap benefits from
our neighbors' misfortune; but such
seems to be the prevailing custom
among nations as we'll as individuals.