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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-07-25
IMPoRTANTToALLR EFoRMERs

In less than two weeks an extaordi-
nary session of Congress will convene.
The alleged purpose is to relieve the
financial condition Of the country. It
is a clear case Of shutting the stable
door after the horse has been stolen"
Worse still, a very large number of
our Senators and Congressman will
meet with a determination to serve the
goldbugs and make matters worse.
Whether they have been bought out
right or have become servants of the
goldbugs, who may have assisted in
their election, is something unknown
to the public. At any rate many of
them will go against the interest Of
their constituents.
These facts should be enough to cause
every man to take unusual interest in
public matters during the next few
months. You should read both sides
if possible. At any rate you should
read a clearcut, independent, truthful
paper like THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER
and e how our public servants are
serving us. We will endeavor to give
both sides. Every feature of the fnan-
cialquestion will be discussed editori-
ally and by able correspondents. Hence
this is the paper that ought to be read
in every home in the country during
the next few months especially, We
want and hope to enrole the names of
hundreds and thousands of subscribers
in the next few weeks. To do this our
friends everywhere must help us. 1t
is for yaW benefit as well as ours. We
want Democrats, Republicans, Prohi-
bitionists, Populists, Alliancemen, In
dependents-everybody-to see the
truth. Put in every spare moment you
can, get us three and six months sub.
scribers as fast as you can. Mo- ey is
very scarce, but almost every man in
the whole country can raise 25 or so
cents for a good paper to read during
this unprecedented crisis. Friends.
you cannot afford to delay in this mat
ter. Let every man. woman and bow
set out with a firm determination to
put a reform paper in every household
in town and country, and don't stop
until it is done.
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LOSS IN VALUE.

The goldbugs tell us that there has
been a loss of $40, 888, $50 OF the 1884,
292. 632 ounces of silver stored in the
government vaults at Washington by
the falling of the price of silver. That
may or may not be true. IF so, it is
not surprising. The price Of every
thing has been going down, down. The
intrinsic value Of gold and of diamonds
is about as high as ever, but you can
buy gold watches and diamonds from
dealers for a mere song as compared
with their former price. You can buy
land, stocks, bonds, wheat, horses
anything-at much lower prices than
formerly. Then why shouldn't the
price of silver go down2 The price Of
the most precious metal, of the rarest
gems has decreased, the price of abso
lutte necessaries has decreased; why
shouldn't the price of silver? The
cause all around is the same-contrac-
ton of the currency by goldbugs, too
much money in the hands Of a few and
not enough in the hands of the many.
Recently the price Of silver has been
run down artiicially by the goldbugs-
We will illustrate that point in this
way: You have a fine horse. He is
young, sound, gentle. His qualities
are unexcelled, and he is worth 5000.
You have some enemies. They circu-
late bad stories about your horse, say
that he kicks, I'll away, is unhealthy.
or that his eyes are weak. Right down
goes the value of that horse. Your
enemy has a horse to sell, perhaps, and
breaks up your trade. Instead OF offer
ing you 5000 a man will say oh I don't
want your horse at $500 now; I wouldn't
give you 800 for him since I heard he
was unsound. The goldbugs have Cir
culated just such stories about silver.
They only have a little mustang pony
to sell, but if they a prevent the sale
of your horse they q get $500 for
their $50 gold pony.
You say OIL l can prove my horse is
all right; can show that he has been
slandered. Perhaps you can. That is
what we must do about the silver. God
made silver for one of the mediums of
exchange. In Biblical history it is
mentioned oftener and more prominent
ly than gold. For thirty pieces Of
silver our Saviour was betrayed. The
goldbugs must be beaten and silver re-
stored to its proper place by free coin
age of the metal.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-07-25
MAKING DE

The Charlotte Observer, of July 18th,
had an editorial that puts any of the
alliance demanders" in the shade. It
is to the effect that 'One Hoover"
speaking in Mecklenburg county, said
the State Business Agency of the
Farmers Alliance had done a business
of 1924, 900.
The Observer demands that the State
Business Agency be taxed, says it is
doing business in competition with
Democratic and Republican merchants,
and that it is discrimination for the
Agency to escape taxation. 1t wants
all merchants to be on equal footing,
and that many merchants are finding
great difficulty in making buckle and
tongue meet along about now.
In the first place Bro. Hoover hard
ly said the Agency had done a business
of 1924, 600 since it was established. He
probably told his audience that it had
done a total business, up to July LIST,
1898, of 81, 400, 813 Oh, and that in the
past ten months, ending July 1st,
$3.50, 92O.25 worth of business had been
transacted. The runner" who gave
the Observer the information was off
the track in every particular, or else
the Observer got it down wrong. The
business done the first J ear the Agency
was conducted, ending August LIST,
1890, amounted to 1924, 473.17. How
ever, we must confess that the Observer
hit pretty close as it only missed the
exact amount by 81, 166, 813 O4.
The Business Agency has nothing to
do with the merchants of the State,
| except that it will order goods from
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-07-25
HOW MUCH

A professional man, and a very in
telligent one, was in our Office recent
ly. During the conversation he re
marked that he had been compelled to
borrow money during the past twelve
months at the rate of 80 per cent. per
annum. The writer asked him how
much longer he would continue to vote
for such a condition of affairs. His
answer was: "Not much longer. Then
he said, Had it not been for the
danger Of negro domination I might
have voted differently last fall"
Here was an educated, and, we be-
l1eve, an honest man who has been
voting himself, his wife, his dear chill
dren into slavery all on account of
imaginary negro domination. No
white man is willing for an inferior
race to rule over him, but no one who
will put on his thinking cap can be mis-
led that way any longer. There are
many moderately honest negroes, but
many of them r in the market, and
the ~plutocrats, the men who are put
ting money up to 80 and 40 per cent,
are the men who will buy them. They
are not as good as the negroes they
buy. IF you vote with these men you
have a combination of negro and pluto
cratic rule. If you want to save your
country, your families, you must
avoid both negro and p~lutocratic rule.
The only way to avoid the combination
is to vote for reform. We will name
no party, for it is unnecessary. Any
man with sense enough to think of
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-07-25
APPROVAL FROM A CALAMITY
HOWLER.

THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER has de.
cided to give it's readers both sides. In
it's last issue it makes numerous clip
pings from the Prosperity Ho1cIer, 50
that the people may hear and read both
sides. The politicians should now be
satisfied, for the thousands Of people
who read THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER
weekly get the side Of the calamity
bowler and prosperity bowler at the
same time. By the way THE PROGRESS
sIvE FARMER improves each issue, and
is doing splendid work for the reform
ause,-GOldsborO Caucasian.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-07-25

GQ0m JuSG as QulCk as IrOm
in any other State, prices being equal.
A large number of farmers are bound
together in a fraternal organization
They elected one of their number their
agent and they order whatever they
want through him. No goods are kept
it stock, therefore the Agency is non
taxable.
We suppose the Democratic and
Republican merchants" have nc more
difficulty in making buckle and
tongue meet" than other people. Ordi-
narily the Observer would tell them
that tariff reform is all they need.
But here it is now wanting to tax the
State Alliance Agency ito relieve the
country" What has become of your
administration and the "~relief" it has
promised if it "only had a chance?"
The Observer says there is a general
demand that all persons and properties
be brought under the taxing laws Of
the State" Why, of course; who ex
pected anything else7 When your
great and only legislature appropriated
1911, 600 in excess of the State taxes we
knew something would drop. Tax the
members of the legislature, tax the
dogs, tax the non partisans anything
anybody; but we protest against tax
ing n~on-taxable institutions to make
up deficiencies. We demand that only
parti8anS be tQHed to raise money for
partisan purposes. Tax your magis-
trates, road ~overseers, school commit
teemen, your candidates, your judges;
you can do nothing that is not in keep
ing with the last legislature. But.
whatever you do, don't ask innocent
people to pay for the follies of the last
legislature.
If the Observer was not ten years be-
hind the times 1t would have known
that the State has a Treasurer and At
torney General, and that they have al
ready taken such action as the law re
quired and the Business Agency has
complied with the law in every a
ticular.
The late Donald W. Balm, State
Treasurer, made a ruling on this very
matter on April 23i, 1891, in which he
said: Upon the representations Of
the nature, purpose and methods of the
Agency, I am Of the opinion that it il
not subject to a tax on its purchases,
inasmuch as they are not made for the
purpose of trade, speculation or profit
of the Agency or of the Alliance as a
corporation, but for the use, consump-
ton and benefit of the members who
are the purchasers through their own
appointed factotum or purveyor, the
Business Agent" He further said: Il
think the decision Of the Supreme
Court of North Caroline in the case of.
Stokes VS.. IN Department. of Agricul-
ture, 1O6 nv. Reports, page 439, US
tains the position 1 have taken"
Neither the Observer nor anyone
else will doubt that Donald w. Balm
investigated the matter fully and rem
dered an honest opinion. Treasurer
Tate and Attorney General Osborne
hold the same opinions expressed by
Treasurer Balm. The Observer can now
turn its attention to other matters as
the State officials have disposed of the
matter in a way that shows they know
the law and know their duty.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-07-25

The North CGrolioiGn says the
Sherman law must be repealed so the
farmers can have "their inning" You
mean the farmers that pillow on Wall
street. The repeal of the Sherman law
will certainly enable them to reap a
rich harvest, but so cent wheat, 5 cent
cotton etc., will be the real farmers
harvest
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EDITORIAL NOTES

- Bradstreet reports 398 failures
for the week ending July 18th, For
the corresponding week last year only
166 were reported.
- Pitt County Alliance held a good
meeting on the 18th. The Alliance is
growing there and a Jealous member
writes rs that he thinks they will be
stronger than ever before in a short
time.
Elizabeth CadXSta6ton says the
first piigrjm-t5set foot on Plymouth
~R0ekk~Was a woman. Well, what are
you going to do about it9 If a woman
should set her foot on your neck you
couldn't help yourself.
At the recent meeting of Wake
County Alliance several boys who are
thoroughly imbued with Alliance prin-
ciples, conducted a lemonade stand,
and the entire receipts of everything
sold will be turned over to the Polk
Memorial Fund.
~ Hon. D. B. WellmOn, who was
the Speaker Of the first House OF Rep
resentatives in North Dakota, has
joined the reform ranks and burned
the bridges behind him. He says 46
cent wheat and other things in proper,
ton has fully converted him.
~ Mr.. W. B Smith has a letter of
inquiry about how to raise peanuts, on
Cur first page. We don't know who is
goober raiser in the State, but
hct Bro. NJ. G. Gregory, E. a.
pine other eastern man to
pc benefit of Mr.. Smith.
ravians are a most excel
1--WE learn that property
p, N. @, have reduced
lilies to the amount of
ng the panic. This is
able act and will great
n getting through the
b one week ago we saw
in a Democratic paper
led from a speech made by
erman to prove that the editor !
e paper lis a good Democrat" AS
lie crossroads papers say: 1--WE think
we will be able to report a wedding
pretty soon"
~ Mr.. G. B. Afford writes that tie
printer in setting up his article last
week made the word ''learn" in the
18th line from top, whenit should have
'leave" the fundamental principles. In
the 5th line from the bottom ''com-
mittee" was printed where it should
have been convention"
~ For twenty five years we have
been told that the tariff was robbing
the people and the cause of all the hard
times. For twenty-five days the same
papers and speakers have told us it is
the Sherman silver law. If all the sill
yer bought since the Sherman law was
passed was put in one pile n Of the
starlH speeches made and put in print
would cover the pile. Somebody ought
so be arrested for slandering the tariff
or the SAe'm.nAw. Which is it,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-07-25

himself and family first when he goes
to the ballot-box, has sense enough to
pick out the best party.
w hope the above will meet the eye
of the gentleman referred to and that
he will put on his thinking cap. If he
does he will be in the reform ranks
hereafter.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-07-25

Il am standing nOaU Just behind the
curtain, and an full glO1U Of the coming
sunset. Behind me are the shadows on
the track, before m1eIies tbedark GALLEY
and the riUer. When I mingLe With its
dark aUater8 I W1nt to cast one finger
ing look upop q country WhoSe goUeTn-
ment is Of the people, for the people,
and by the peopIe."-L L. Polk, july
18th, 1890.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-07-25

President Ellington, Of the Geor-
gia Alliance, is doing a heroic work in
building up the Order in that State. NJ.
D. Irwin and T. E. Watson are helping
him with their valuable papers. In
addition there are fifteen Or twenty
other Alliance papers in the State, all
doing yeoman service. Georgia is
bound to come.
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UNLIMITED COINAGE OF SILVER

ONLAN04 "a OF olive X
On the 4th page we publish a long
but very interesting article on the sill
yer question, written for this paper by
Mr.. w. II. Standish, Bismark, N. D.
The silver question, like all financial
matters, has been shrouded with mys-
teries as far as possible by our finan-
ciers and their organs. Many fairly
intelligent people have been misled in
this way. Financial matters are as
easily solved in a common sense way
as anything else, but require study,
and you must first find out what you
want to know and then all becomes as
simple as can be.
We have heard much about flat
money, :" dishonest money, - ''depreci
ated money" There is no such thing
as dishonest money, unless it is q
counterfeit article. Dishonest laws
only are responsible for dishonest
money, be it gold. silver or greenback.
Get that impressed upon your brain
and you have solved one of the mys-
teries of finance.
Mr.. Standish does away with the
next mystery by showing that foreign
countries could not rush their silver
into the United States if we had free
or unlimited coinage. The government
would take out 10 per cent. for alloy
and 10 per cent. for mintage. Hence
the foreigner would not bring silver
here and sell it for 80 cents when it is
already worth 81 in his own country.
Silver is at par in Switzerland, Greece
and Belgium. In fact it is all over the
world except in America, England,
France and India, and only in the past
twenty years has it been made dis
honest money in these countries, and
that by fraudulent and dishonest laws.
Silver has always been used mor az a
medium of exchange than gold, though
gold is considered the most valuable
metal of the two. From Biblical his
tory we learn that gold was used for
ornamental purposes and silver as
money. By the dishonest laws the
value of gold has been increased and
the value Of silver decreased. Dishon-
est laws have also dscrease d the value
Of wheat, cotton, land and other
things. What we want in regard to
silver is free coinage and equal value
between the two metals as money.
The goIdbugs of England, France
and America want a gold basis. The
have worked through many schemes
and the next will be started on the 7Ch
of August, backed by a Wall street
administration. The scheme will bene-
fit probably one person in a thousand
and ruin the other 800. Thequestion
is. will the nine hundred and ninety
nine submit tdmefy and allow the one
to ruin them? We don't believe they
will. We believe that the 500 will re.
pudiate the n at the ballot-boX in all
future elections and the goldbugs will
have to take a back seat. But the
friends of equal rights must be up
and doing. We have a tough gang to
fight, though they are few in number.
Worse still, there are goldbugs who do
not own a dollar in gold. They r as
mean as the owners Of gold and as hard
to crush. We have them in North
Carolina-everywhere. They are edit.
ing newspapers, holding Office, farm
ing-engaged in all occupations. Ali
men backing up the Wall street crowd
are pOldbnps.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-07-25

The best banking system in the
world" is getting mighty shaky of late.
The bankers don't allow their organs
to publish the failures, and newsboys
have been arrested for crying: Eek
ira; all about the big bank failure"
Yes. it is getting mighty hard work to
keep the people fooled nowadays.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-07-25

In writing TO anybody, always be
sure to give the name of your postofice,
and sign your own name plainly.
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Do you want your paper changed to
you have been getting il.
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So Our friends in writing to any OF
our advertisers viii favor us by men
tioning the fact that they saw the
advertisement IL TIE PRoGREssIvE
FARMER.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-07-25

A Wheeling, w. Va, dispatch
claims that the Alliance is rapidly
disintegrating in that State, owing to
the fact that the State Democratic
platform had a free silver plank IN II
last year. The farmers of West VIZ
ginia know, or ought to know, that a
silver plank in the State platform does
no good with the national end Of the
party made up of goldbugs.
Look all through the paperfor SPEAK
eps' appointments.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-07-25

~ The data OF your label tells got
when your time is out,
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The North CGroIin0n says THE
PROGRESSIVE FARMER publishes the
failures in the prosperity Column"
apparently to further dissatisfy it's
readers. Not by any means. THE Pro
GREssIvE FARMER is a newspaper. 1t
does not publish a paper to keep it's
readers in the dark, but more than
one hundred other papers in the State
do this. We only publish a few
of the failures anyway, one paper will
not hold them, there being more than
three hundred each week-nearly four
hundred for the past two months. The
truth might as we'll be told, and the
party with a chance, and which does
not use that chance, shall be shown up.
If Cleveland was a Democrat, did not
belong to Wall'street, and if Congress
did not belong to Wall street, an extra
session would have been called on the
4th of March and most of these failures
would never have occurred.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-07-25

The Progressive Farmer is the Official
Organ ofthe N. c. Farmers State Alliance
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-07-25

This papef. entered as secoTd-cIGes mGttCr at the
Pcst OTsee 81 Raleigh, N. c.
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THE STATE MEETING.

The annual State Alliance meeting
will be held at Greensboro, beginning
August 8th. We think good delegates
have been elected from every county
and the meeting will be one of the best
ever held. Il will be important in
several respects. Officers are to be
elected, delegates to next annual meet
ing Of National Alliance, etc
Reduced rates on railroads will be as
follows: Less than two hundred miles,
fare for round trip 5 cents per mile.
Over two hundred miles 4 cents per
mile for round trip. If the ticket
agent at your starting point should
fail to have tickets on hand, ask him
to give you a receipt for the amount
paid and the matter will be corrected.
Low rates for board have been Sc
cured at one of the best hotels in
Greensboro and also at several good
boarding houses. We hope many
members not delegates will attend.
Lets have a rousing meeting. If you
wish to engage rooms or want further
information, write to Secretary Barnes.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-07-25

RALEIGH. N. O., JULY 25. 1893.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-06-19
Please Tell Us.

The LIGHT is glad to announce
to its readers that the city auditor
says his books show only about
$4,000 of the $4,000 was used for
printing and advertising for 1892.
The financial statements, as pub
lished in tho Express, tells differ
ent story, however. If not used in
paying printing bills please tell us
what was done with the balance,
$4,000; is it still in the hands of
city treasurer AS the taxpayers
are asked to vote for more bonds,
itwould not be bad idea to publish
a financial statement of the city's
cash, amount received, the amount
paid out, and what paid for, and
how much money is on hand.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-06-19
Easv Payments on Furniture.

Those who have tried the weekly
or monthly payment plan Of buy.
ing furniture, usually recommend
it highly to others, as they find
they can in this way have many
home comforts that otherwise they
would go without. They seldom
miss the outlay, as it is in small
sums, that would be probably spent
foolishly in other ways. Try the
installment plan and call on the
G. A. Showers Furniture Company,
2O3 West Commerce street, for
terms. 6 II st.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-06-19
Doing a Good Business.

The Alamo Foundry shipped a
steam engine and car load of
boilers to Fort Bliss Saturday.
They also have two S0-horse boilers
on the road for New Braunfels, and
large boiler for the Landa Flour
Mills ut the same place. This
makes 33 boilers this foundry have
sold since the first of January.
This firm, (Holmgreen Sons) have
sold over $4,000 worth of machin-
cry and boilers this year, besides
large amount Of other work and
repairs. Their business is fairly on
a boom.
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The Afternoon Papers

In nearly every city in Texas
have been selected by the Board of
Aldermen to do the official print
ing and advertising. Some of them
are as follows:
Galveston: Evening Tribune.
Dallas: Evening Times-Herald.
Waco: Evening News.
Marshal: Evening Messenger
Fort Worth: The Mail-Advance.
The Herald and Age
Houston: do most of the city
and county work.
SAN ANTONIO: The LIGHT is the
lowest and best bidder, but our al
dermen have not had time to
figure on such small matters as a
few thousand dollar printing con-
tract.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-06-19
They Know a Good Thing.

The business mon of San Anto-
Mo know a good thing when they
see it, as is evidenced by the LIGHT
of last Saturday. Aside from our
weekly supplement the paper con-
tanned twenty-five columns of
Give" advertisements, and had no
room for Boiler plate matter.