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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-08-12

There IL quite general movement
among the mariners sailing along the coast
to the eastwsr to have lighthouse err
ected on Buckle Island poinr, at the en-
trance to York's Narrows, uu the north
side of Swans Island. Til, island is =
little west of Mt. Desert. and the point
where the light is proposed il AN important
one for mariners. They cannot readily get
By il by night and consequently have to
lay by at Deer Isle. A petition has been
circulated by Captain A. B. Stewart of
Brooklyn, master of the schooner Victory
of Bristol. About eighty captains of
cosstwise craft have already signed it.
II il not generally known to the papers
and people of Maine, says the Pennington
Chronicle. that the Maine Central has a
road ca, mot an Office eat, but such is the
case. During the late visit TO Lewiston of
one Of the league base bali clubs. one of
the visiting PLAYERS stole very handsome
kitten and carried it away with him, but de-
serted il at Brunswick, leaving kitty in the
baggage car. The trainmen adopted the
kitten. named it The Name Central Mas
cot" and ever since the day of adoption the
mascot has been travelling about the State.
been to Bar Hsrbor. Boston. the White
mountains-,n fact all sronnsl. A collar
around its neck bears the kitty's name and
insures = most cordial reception where she
goes. "owney," the mail car dog, is no
where when the mascot appears.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-08-12
GLORIOUS WHITE MOUNTAINS

Afi"f leaving Erunswirk tfain vii run Espft !
TO Portland. after leaving Cumberland Mil. LN
press to the Mountains.
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-08-12
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-08-12
WASH GOODS

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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-12-05
SHE IS GROWING.

Nearly all the news we are getting
from the Alliance throughout the State
is good, but there isn't enough of the
good news. We want more and we
want it bad.
Bro. A. Grant, County Lecturer for
Northampton, writes that they are do
ing some good work there. He re-
organized Jackson Alliance with a
good membership on the 25th of No
vember. Bro. Hoover, Assistant State
Lecturer, is at work in Richmond
county. He writes that he has re-
organized four dead" Alliances and
has a prospect for more We want the
brethren to get awake everywhere.
Bro. r. @. Dixon, of Nash county,
writes that Sandy Creek Alliance, No.
2,O49, has been re organized and is now
in good shape.
The above is not bad news for one
week, but we want more of it and want
it quick.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-12-05
TWO ALLIANCE VICTORIES.

The Alliance has made mistakes,
made failures, and has been or
less successful. AS an educator the
benefits can hardly be estimated. UL-
told good will yet follow from what is
being done. The Jute Trust has no
love for the Alliance and there is no
love lost. The bagging trust was COM
pletely whipped. The same men tried
to get back their money by forming a
twIne trust. For some time the wheat
farmers of the North and West have
been fighting this gigantic monster. In
every skirmish so far the Alliance has
been victorious, but the farmers Of the
North and West are not as thoroughly
organized for the fight as we were in
the South and the war continues. We
notice that another united effort is to
made this winter and next spring. The
papers are giving the matter proml-
and we hope the victory will be
a complete one this time.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-12-05
THE ALLIANCE IS INDESTRUC-
TIBLE.

In but little yer a year the Alliance
has gone through the crucial test. For
some years the wonderful growth and
subtle power of the organization has
bafled the shrewdest politicians and
~plutocrats. They are always cautious,
but in this case unusually so. They
read and watched. Every movement
was noted, just AS the cat watches a
mouse. At first they got a number Of
so called farmers to join who acted as
spies and traitors. In this way they
kept posted. This information fire.
quently went out from some Sub ALI
ance, but if anything new was on foot
it was SUR to go outfrom every county
and State meeting. Certain men knew
every important step that was taken
in each meeting within a few hours at
most. This was injurious to the Order
at all times and still more so when the
prominent farmers" either got an
Office while posing as members of the
Order and claiming to be in hearty
sympathy with the objects desired, or
when they finally withdrew from the
Order because they could no longer
hope for political aid from it as such.
Those who got Office, with a few not
able exceptions, at once withdrew as
members or became Indifferent. Nota
few Of them became active enemies of
the Alliance and were diligent in
trumping up everything possible to in
jure the organization. Those who were
successful in getting office may have
promised the plutocrats that they
would turn traitor. Those who were
unsuccessful naturally felt sore.
Last year ~plutocracy took advantage
of everything in sight and the preju-
dice of the people frequently yielded
to the influences. It was the same in
every State. Texas, the oldest Alliance
State, long since passed through all
this and is now On safe ground. The
newer Alliance States are now recov-
ering and there isn't a State, where
the Alliance has a foothold, that is not
building up the waste places slowly
but surely. This proves that there is
vitality in the supposed corpse, and
that it is practically in~destructible.
From every section the news comes
that Alliances are re organizing, old
are coming back, new ones
are being enrolled for the great strug-
gle for industrial and financial free
dom.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-12-05
GOING, GOING, GONE.

Two more great monarchies have
yielded to the gold standard monster.
The Kingdom of Greece says she can
not meet her payments any longer.
Her people are poverty stricken and
the rich goldbugs hold the government
by the throat.
In Italy the condition of the people
is horrible. Many financial institutions
have toppled over. The public treas
ury is empty and the government can
not get credit. Only last week the fail
ure of the Credit Mobilier, a great
banking institution, with branches all
over Italy, was announced. This insti-
tuition was to Italy what the Bank of
England is to England. France, En-
gland, Germany and Russia are not
exactly bankrupt, but will soon be so.
India has gone to the wall. The gold
standard has ruined every country
where it has been forced upon the PEG
pie. America is now on that downward
road. Within the next two years the
die will be cast. The only hope for is
is for the people to get wide awake, get
together and outvote plutocracy. In
this way the %plutocrats can be driven
out of Congress next year and a Presi
dent elected in 1896. This can be done,
but it will take hard work and eternal
vigilance The campaign of education
is going on, but it must go at a greater
pace. Prejudice must be buried. If
this isn't done by 1896, ~plutocracy will
drive the last nail in the coffin of the
Republic and a disreputable monarchy
will take it's place.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-12-05
BEFORE AND AFTER TAKING.

Human nature will assert itself. no
matter where nor when. If that we're
not true, we would need no political
parties, nolaw the people could govern
themselves. But we have political
parties; we have law. Party leaders
and those who dispense the laws after
they are made, should not yield to any
portion of the people. This yielding
has well nigh ruined the country.
For years and years the Democratic
party has been pledged to tariff re
form. On that issue it got into power
last year. Naturally we expected every
Democrat to be willing to take the
medicine he had so long prescribed as
a specific. But what a change! The
moment the Ways and Means Com
mittee of a Democratic House began to
frame a new tariff bill, we saw a large
delegation of Democratic coal barons
from Tennessee, w. Va, and elsewhere,
down on their knees begging Congress
not to make any reduction in the tariff
on coal. From the North other large
delegations of Democratic manufacture
ers were in Washington for the same
purpose. Don't reduce the tariff on
our goods and wares" they cried.
From Alabama and elsewhere the tried
and true Democrats (before the cleo
tion) genuine tariff reformers, came to
Washington to ask Congress not to do
what they had been voting to have
done for years. Well, these virtuous
tariff reformers(O have carried their
points. They voted for tariff reform
and got in. They then go and declare
they didn't mean it. 1t is all a joke,
we s~uppose-like financial reform.
They merely wanted "a chance" They
got the chance and the people have got
no reform of any kind. Those of us
who have been voting for tariff reform
should be sure to stick a pin here
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-12-05
CONTINUE THE GOOD WORK.

A member of the Alliance was talk
ing in this Office recently and said:
''The Alliance has done an immense
amount of good in this country. 1t has
been a great educator, but I can't see
the necessity of keeping up the organi-
zation any longer. Those who have
not yet gotten their eyes opened will
probably remain blind all their lives"
At the first glance the above appears
logical, but it is only a surface view,
and an erroneous one, too. We know
that this brother means well. But he
is like many other men, found in all
classes, who cannot see a day ahead.
If the Alliance has been a good thing it
can always be SO. AS an educator and
eye-opener it can find plenty of mate
rial to work on every day in the year
and every year. There are men who
imagine that they are educated in GER
tain lines. College students frequently
graduate and think they know it all.
But the really educated college student
has gone through college and found
that he doesn't know anything, and
when he graduates he begins to make
a practical use of the so called educa,
ton to educate himself. In North
Carolina we have hundreds of schools
and colleges. We have quite a num-
Der of educated men and women.
What would you think of a man who
would declare that we have no further
use for the schools; that a portion of
the people are educated and the bal
ance will never be benefited. If an
educated man was to make this declar-
alton in earnest he could get a certif-
cate of insanity in less than two hours.
1t the Alliance were nothing but an
educational institution there are as
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-12-05

tagonize men and parties known to be
opposed to the best interests Of the
members. Self preservation being the
first law of nature, there could be no
vel -founded objection to this course.
To illustrate, we will suppose that a
Democrat, a Republican, a Populist
and a Prohibitionist engage in a bust
ness enterprise, the C of which
depends largely upon friendly legisla-
ton. We will suppose that three of
the political parties adopt platforms
and nominate men known to be antag-
onistic to the success Of this enterprise.
The other party adopts a platform and
dominates men pledged to treat this
enterprise fairly. By putting party
aside ninety nine men out of every
hundred would answer at once that it
would be foolish for these four men to
cast their votes for either of the three
antagonistic parties and injure or de-
stroy their business. Alliance mem
bers are in that position exactly. It is
true that they ask for class legisl alton
friendly to the farmers-but if it is
consistent for any class to claim special
privileges, it is for farmers to do so, be
cause their prosperity means the pros
perity of all other classes. However,
we do not ask for anything but justice
and fair play. We ask that special
favors do not be granted to other
classes, and that justice be done by re
pealing bad laws in existence and Gre
ating better laws.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-12-05
THE NEW TARIFF BILL.

The Richmond Times doesn't think
much change for the better has been
made by the new tariff bill. 1t says:
1--WE are utterly unable to compre
bend the principle which guided the
WAYS and Means Committee in fran
ing the new tariff bill. A determine
ton to impose taxes or imports so that
n set of men in the United States
may be protected at the expense of
Emitted States, Is a most vicious prin-
ciple on which to found legislation.
but it is a perfectly ineligible one,
The opposite Of this is the principle
which demands that the revenue which
the government derives from duties on
imports shall be no more than what
the government needs when economi
cally administered, and that these
duties shall be made to fall on all i'm
ports ratably and alike, and this is the
principle which the Democratic party
declared to the world it stood upon in
the platform which it adopted in June.
1892, at Chicago. But the new bill
imposes duties ratably, it is true. on
some imports, but admits MANY others
free of duties. This is a discrimina
ton in favor of those Americans who
want the imports that are admitted
duty-free and against those Americans
who want the imports that are required
to pay duties. What the difference ia
here between the Republican principle
of government and the Democratic
principle, we confess ourselves htterIv
unable to determine. The thing Re ali
wrong and must be revised in the
House o. Senate.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-12-05
THE TRAMP MILL GRINDs DAILY.
One of our State exchanges says:

One of our State exchanges says:
''The tramps are becoming a perfect
nuisance here and if the good ladies of
the town don't stop giving them SO much
to eat they will take the place. To feed
a man who is able to support himself is
not charity"
This shows a sad state of affairs. It
is wrong to feed a man who is able to
support himself. But for a government
to be managed so as to stop industries
and force men to become tramps, as
ours has done for twenty years, is
criminal. Thousands of capable men
have become tramps every year, and
during the past few months a million
have been added to the great army of
unemployed. Why7 simply because
the wheels of the great manufacturing
enterprises they worked in are stand
ing idle. We know that there are
long-faced, hypocritical plutocrats who
say that ''every honest, industrious
citizen can get employment of some
kind" This is false. How many
farmers, merchants, manufacturers or
other citizens in North Carolina to-day
can afford to employ the unemployed
Not one in a hundred can afford to
employ one additional man. Every
one Of them r reducing their work.
ing force. The same is true in every
Stat&
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-12-05
JOURNALISTIC TAR DROPS.

A cat has nine lives, but the bootjack
outlives her. - Weldon Neocs
The grocer who mixes sand in his
sugar seems to be willing to give his
customers the earth. durham Re
cOrder.
How Long Girls Should be Courted"
is the subject on which a Texas editor
is trying to throw some light. We
don't know how they do down in Texas,
but up this way the long girl is courted
the same way the short girl is.-WI-
minqtOn Star.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-12-05
N. r. P. A.
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Read President Mewboorne's address
carefully. God might make a better
man than Bro J. NJ Mewboorne, but
we don't think he has done SO yet He
is tried and true in Alliance work.
Branson's Agricultural Almanac for
1894 is before US, bright and accurate
as usual. Dr.. Branson makes his own
calculations aud guarantees them to be
correct to the nearest whole minute.
The Arkansas Farmer, organ of the
Arkansas Alliance, has come out in a
new dress and is much improved every
way. Arkansas Alliancemen ought to
be proud Of such a paper and give it
liberal support.
It is estimated that bad roads,
cause a loss of $3.50, 900 per annum in
Georgia. No doubt they are the cause
of much money and time being lost in
every State. But where the bad roads
cause loss of thousands, the gold bugs
AUS a loss of millions.
The banks in the city of New York
alone have $40, 835, 175 lying idle in
their vaults. This is about $1.1O per
capita, or S. so to each family in the
United States, and what New York
has is only a small portion. If u
present financial systemi is not changed,
all the money will soon be in the banks.
When writing to us our patrons will
confer a favor if they will mention any
Improvement that they would like to
see made in the paper. Is any of the
matter, original or selected, objection
able9 Are there any new departments
you would like to have added? A few
words on this line from anyone will be
appreciated, and we hope to get some
valuable suggestions. Speak out plain
and tell US what you think of the pa
per. We want to make it as good as
possible.
J. f. Tilman, of Tennessee, who
turned traitor to the Alliance last year
and got his reward by getting ap-
pointed Register of the Treasury, has
made his first report, and in it recon-
mends that his salary be increased
from $4,000 to 5000 a year. This is
cheek for you. With two drunkards,
Carlisle and Tilman in the United
States Treasury it isn't much wonder
that the thing is getting shaky. The
chances are that neither of them can
tell a gallon jug and a ten dollar gold
piece apart half of the time.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-12-05
THE ALLIANCE IS NoN-PARTIsAN

The observation-disclosures Wall street
arguments have made many people be-
lieVethat the Alliance is simply a par
tisan machine. They actually drew
the lines so tight that not a few good
members of the Alliance were SON
verted to this theory. That was just
what Wall street desired. In that way
they hoped to scatter the membership
and create such intense party feeling
that they would never get together
again. This was partially successful,
but like everything erroneous, it is be-
ginning to recoil on the promoters OF
the smart schemers.
Ever since the Alliance was started
the general tenor of its teachings has
been that the membership ought TO an.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-12-05

Close and that a dollar will ~
more now than it ever U v1o,, Guy much
but we can't get the dollar W before,
the poor folks of the we guess
them all. We are too honest 1t ~ got
and hence must depend on fbo 70 rob,
lstratlon to rob the people of fbo au4ln,
dollar and pay it out to US for '',s last
IN a revenue capacity, or a. "sung
master. This is plain talk, bnt post
a plain man, especially when We are
hungry. Grover, give NE helm We are
perish. up Or |
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-12-05

many good reasons for it's continuance
as for the upbuilding of schools and
colleges. Old or middle-aged men can
still learn more. The young men ought
to be brought in as fast as they arrive
at the age of maturity. In short there
are as good reasons for continuing the
Alliance as there is for continuing the
schools Of the country, and M is
needed as much as the other.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-12-05
THE PROSPERITY HoWLER.

We make the following extract from
the Bugletown Prosperity HooVler:
1.-THE Prosperity HooVler makes its
appearance again after a suspension of
several weeks. The era of prosperity
Mr.. Cleveland gave us after the repeal
bill passed was too much for our cal
ibre. We had been poor so long that
it knocked us into pi. But we want
it understood that we are a Democrat,
and expect to remain one. However,
there r some conditions to look after.
If we are expected to run a Democratic
organ with silver demonetized and cot
ton at 6 cents, we want a revenU office
under Simmons or Elias. Bro. Viii
liams, of the Newton Enterprise, Bro.
Roberts, of the Lincolnton Courier,
Bro. Thomas, of the Louisburg Times
and about a dozen other Cleveland
editors have been relieved in that way,
and were able to resist the wave Of
prosperity, while the Prosperity HoUler
was forced to suspend. Then there are
a good many of our brother Democratic
editors who were appointed to positions
in Washington. Among them was
Bro. Scott, of the Lenoir Topic. Others
not relieved in that way were made
postmasters at their towns Kerr, of
the Asheville Citizen, and the Gastonia
Gazette man are not exceptions. In
fact every Cleveland editor in the
State who was likely to become a
charge on his county when the great
era of unparalleled prosperity struck
us, with all its factories starting-up-
and money-seeking investment appli-
ances thrown in, have been provided
for. Now, we ask, is this fair9 We
get out this edition of the paper on
credit for the purpose of calling the at
tention Of this government to our indi-
vidUal need of financial relief. We are
a Democrat and believe this is the
grandest administration the United
States ever had, but it doesn't agree
with us. Other people may clap their
hands and streW flowers in the road
for the r of prosperity to roll along
on, but it will take a revenue position
or postmastership to cure the pain in
our patriotic breast. We expect to
mail a marked copy of the paper (the
last n we can get out on a single
Standard to Mr.. Cleveland. If he uses
his influence we may be able to con
tinue I'll paper as a Cleveland organ.
If the administration fails to heed our
cry for relief we must become a burden
on the county. We know that dollars
have been more honest" that tariff
reform is now Matching out; that the
output of distileries has been raised so
high that Emany of them will have to
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-12-05

liam standing no1U Just behind the
curtain, and IN fall glOtU Of the coming
sunset. Behind me are the shadows on
the track, before me lies the dark galley
and the riUer. When I mingLe NTH ats
dark 1Uaters I 1Uant to cast one Inger-
ing look upon o. country UhOse govern
ment is Of the people, for the people,
and By the people. "-L. l.. Polk, July
18th, 1890.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-12-05

In writing to anybody, always be
sure to give the name of your postof1ce,
and sign your own name plainly.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-12-05

~ The date On your label tells you
when your time is out.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-12-05

~ Our friends in writing to any OF
1ur advertisers will favor us by men
sioning the fact that they saw the
advertisement in The PROGRESSIVE
FARMER.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-12-05

Do you want your paper changed to
another ohice7 State the n at which
o have been getting it.
Arizona republican., 1893-08-22
Went to Meet Her Dead Lover.

DIR. Nevins tells very touching
story in his Disorders of the Brain"
A patient of his, young lady engaged
TO be married, was often visited by her
intended husband by the stage coach
which passed within a mile or two Of
her house. One day she went to meet
him, and found instead an old friend
who brought the news of his sudden
death. She uttered frightful scream:
''He is dead!" and then all conscious
ness of her misfortune ceased. DAY
by day for fifty years did this poor
creature, in all seasons, journey to the
spot where she had expected to see her
lover alight from the coach, and day
by day she uttered, in plaintive tone;
He is not come yet. l will return to-
morrow" Could anything be sadder
than this romance from a doctors
notebook?