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A E MISTAKE.

In a brief speech at the A. and NJ.
College last week Mr.. A. Leazar made
the astonishing statement that the
''Watauga club" of Raleigh, originated
the idea of building that college. Such
statements need but brief notice. The
object plainly is to obscure the real
originator for certain reasons. Gel. L.
L. Polk was the first man to agitate
this matter. He was an enthusiastic
worker for the college during his last
years. When he was Commissioner Of
Agriculture he wanted to use the pub
lie land scrip in aid Of the college.
This was opposed by certain men
and was one Of the causes of Col. Folks
resignation as Commissioner Of Agri-
culture. The first issue of THE Pro
GREssIvE FARMER had a two column
demand that this school be established,
and he kept up the fight until the con
vention Of farmers, representatives Of
the 500 clubs he had organized in the
State, met here on January 26th, 1887
and made O formal demand on
the legislature, then in session, for it's
establishment at once. Then it was
done and not until then. The A, and
M. College is a standing monument to
the untiring energy and persevering
determination of L. L. Polk, who set
his head to have it and to fight for it
until it was an established fact, and
the people were with him in his de-
mand.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-06-20
THAT SIXTY MILLION DOLLARS

The NeUs and Observer stated recent
ly that there is $50, 600, 900 more money
in the United States at pres
ent than ever has been. Grant
that this is true and what
is sixty million dollars in a country
with sixty five million population and
all their varied pursuits7 Especially
is it comparatively nothing when the
country has been short of money for
years Ten times sixty millions added
to our circulating medium would not
bring it up to half what it ought to be.
The Baltimore NelU8 recently stated
that within the past twelve months in
that city alone $50, 600, 900 had been in.
vested in city improvements. Bait.
more is only a speck on the map Of the
United States, and yet the NeW8 and
Observer would have it's readers believe
that $50, OOO,O 900 is quite an ad iition to
the circulating medium of the country.
And what if Baltimore can invest $60.
900, OOO in municipal Improvements
Dunn & Co., report business very dull
there. Of course they can issue bond:
and call it money because "the people
paw the freight"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-06-20
LOSS IN VALUES.

The New York Herald a few d..
ago published table of the listed bon5s
and stocks in that city, showing tbss
there has been a shrinkage in vaIneo%,
twelve months of 1927, 419, ST. in tba.
city alone. It further claims that ts.
price of corn slower than it was va,
ago, causing a loss in the country ~
$3.50, 900, 900, also a loss On wheat NJ
800, 600, 900, and claims it is all cap,o3
by the Sherman law. Yet it gives n,
tangible evidence in proof of the ASA,
ton. The editor of this paper at one.
addressed a note to the editor Of tbs
Herald asking it to give in plain term,
all the vital evidence of the truth n
such a startling assertion. If it will
prove it we will admit it at once; if
ignores the request, we will take il IA,
granted that no proof can be given
We have no doubt about the great
shrinkage in values, but are not ready
to believe that the Sherman law is tn
cause of it.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-06-20
STATE BANKS OF IssUE--THEIR
RECORD.

''There is no fairer test of men or
methods than the record they make for
themselves" The most imperfect bank
ing system that ever cursed a land was
that which existed in the United States
from about 1900 to 1860. It was chaos
diversified. Tt was different in differ
ent States. Some had coed laws, others
had crude makeshifts Some had super
vision, some had none. In no State
were losses to stockholders and cred
itors reported. We can find only gen
eral statements and estimates of loss.
By direction of Congress in 1882 the
secretary of the treasury was instructed
to investigate and report to Congress,
and several times since Congress has
made it the special duty of some one to
investigate the subject and report the
result to that body. We have these
reports in various ~treasurers' reports
and reports of the comptroller of the
of the currency, from which we con
dense. Violent expansions and con
fractions were not uncommon in those
good old anti bellum days. In 1911.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-06-20

present ard many others who a.,
blinded with prejudice. It is Rt
that the Democratic party has Io f4alR
greatest leader in the South, y =
Mr.. Watterson would be mo,. 0Od
home in the Alliance or Porn,.a At
party than where he is. Bevonau S'
doubt recent events have about a
verified him, and he will never fol- WI
home among plutocrats and ba ~ :,
kick more vigorously. We hone ar WV
reform paper in the land will cow y
above account of his speech here. :" Il
is possible that weaver and Wat."p
son" may carry the reform bannny !:
front Of the great plain people Of a. =
United States in 1896. Stranger tb;a~
have happened. ~
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-06-20
ovRR-PRoDUcTIoN OF MONEY

The Washington correspondent of
the New York Herald has made inves
LEGATIONS and publishes figures to show
that there has been an over-production
of money. He says that since 1873,
under the Bland-Allison and Sherman
laws, $419 1914, 835 in silver coin has
been issued. This, he says, is more
than fifty times as much as was coined
during a previous period Of 81 years. +"
When we remember that during the
81'years we had free coinage, and dur
ing the IA years limited coinage, the
correspondents yarn sounds mighty
curious.
The yarnist further says that there
are 1914, 292, 532 fine ounces of silver bull
lion stored away in the government
vaults. At the market price of silver
to day there has been a loss OF SO, $685.,
$50 on the bullion stored.
Well! WE'LL! well!!! Who would
have thought it9 America is to day in
ruins because the farmers raise too
much. With millions of bushels of
grain, pounds of meat, cotton, wool,
tobacco and all that, the country is
crying hard times. There is a panic in
money matters, everything is topsy-
turvy. Well, we might swallow that
over-production theory if we didn't
know it is all a lie. Next comes the
statement that there is too much money
in the country. Fifty times more silver
has been coined in fourteen gears I'M
der restricted coinage than was coined
under free and unlimited coinage in
| eighty one years. Thus with our vaults
| overlooking with money, an Ovcr-pro-
duction of it, in fact, failures are
doubled and the cry Qrom some
| sources) is too much money For Gods
cake stop making money until we can
| get clear of some Of some of it.
We r in a fix sure. After all this
we can do nothing but advise our read
ers to quit work entirely for about five
years, mould their silver and gold
money into bullets and go squirrel
hunting, plaster your ~greenback on the
walls ofyourhouse, eedyourdiamonds
to the pigs, make your jewelry into
fish books. Hereafter any mar caught
trying TO raise corn, wheat, meat, to-
bacco, cotton, hay, or anything else,
must be put to death. He is a disturber
of the peace and will ruin the country.
Any man caught with money, either
gold, silver or greenbacks, on his per
son, or who is known to be working at
any trade or profession with the nc
tive Of earning money, shall be tried
and, on conviction, put to death.
Ratified on this the 10th day of June,
1898
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-06-20
DRIVES THE NAIL 0 M

The ReUozmtioni8t, the new paper
recently started at Charlotte, hits The
nail right on the head and drives Il
home in the following:
We do not hear much about freedom
nowadays in our legislative halls, bi
the interest on the bonds must be paid
The liberty of the people seems to bea
thing of the past, but business interess
of commerce must be carefully GUARDED
A financial policy that will put none!
in reach of the people whose properly
it represents is a dreamy, crankyN
tion," but it must be accumulated d
piles with the banks so that the spec1i
lators may have it in hand with WhND
to ''move the crops" The people ma!
not ship heproducts of labor over t6eB
own roads at cost; but the bondhOlde;s
may carry it all over their bonded roas
and retain a portion of it to pay ts
profits On their investment and the u
terest on their bonds. So hurry "
your crops, boys, pay up your hoas2'
debts and honest interest(0 with "noI
est" money to honest bondholders aIa
be honest and contented. 1t only taSrs
about eighty per cent. of your surPIs
earnings to keep up this honestO GD
dition of things. Glorious fre8dCnp
Boosted liberty. A sovereign peoPR
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-06-20

the circulation in the United States
was $28. O0O, 900, four years later it was
only $45, 500; the next year, 1916, it was
$68, 900, 900, and four years later, 1920,
only $44, 500, 600.
In 1910 Ohio had 81 banks with &c.
600, 900 capital. In 1916 she had but 8
banks with $2,17I,8O7 capital. Up to
Jan. LIST, 1857, So banks had failed IN
Ohio, leaving their notes worthless. Is
O had collapsed, leaving their notes
worth from so to Is cents On the dol
lar. The circulation Of the country de-
creased from 1914, 788, 892 to $l55, 208,-
IA, a fall off of $50, 900. 900 in one year
1850.
In Illinois the circulation increased
from S., 500, 600 in 1857 to $12, 300, 900 in
1861. The security, though provided
for by the legislature, proved made
uuate and in 1858 % banks suspended
and the State settled the losses of 10 at
par and the other Is at from SO to 81
cents on the dollar. In 1859 the Wis
COl1Slu Ddl1hSIS IC4SA q SS4H AtASA OHN
fixed q rate of discount on Illinois
banks at 8 per cent. Illinois banks re
taliaeed by boycotting in the same
style and at the same rate on Wiscon-
sin banks. The Indiana bankers then
sat down on both Illinois and Wiscon-
sin. New York discounted all interior
banks at from so per cent. down. Was
not this a lovely state of affairs9
Then it was that the counterfeiter
piled his trade, with none to modest or
make him afraid. 242 new counter
feits appeared between Jan. 1 and April
/, 1859. 81 per month.
Let's come down from ancient to
more modern times. 21O State and saw
ings banks failed in the three years
ending Jan. 1, 1879, with aggregate
losses to creditors of $32, GIG, 661, while
the average losses of national banks for
Is years up to the same date vas only
1890, O12 to creditors. For the year
ending June 80, 1891, III Of these same
institutions failed, entailing a loss of
$17, Az, 419, and the year ending June
80, 1892, there were SO failures and
81, 919, 439 losses to creditors. Here we
have reports of 5 years showing 1913
failures and losses to creditors amount
ing to $55, O13, $40 or at the rate of
II. O02 7O2 per year,
In the face of all these facts there are
individuals and newspapers in aoun
dance who are crying for a return to
these good old times when Oac71
banks shall assume the responsibility
again of providing the blood of the
body polite which shall have free aud
unlimited and unmolested circulation,
and restore to youth and vigor cur
languishing trade. Verify it looks to
us like asking us to jump from the
frying pan into the fire.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-06-20
DEMOCRACY.

In another column will be found an
article written by Mr.. W. J. PeeI9. He
first sent it to the Washington Post
next to the Atlanta Constitution. Both
papers declined with thanks. Thenb
sent it to the New York World. Again
it was returned to the writer.
It is a good article and will be read
with more than ordinary interest be-
cause these papers refused to publish
By that act they show plainly that
they are not the great papers the pub
lie suppose them to be- At least they
are unwilling to give both sides a hear
ing. They are narrow and are despef
ate enough to attempt to suppress am,
thing that may tend to shog the faI&.
cious doctrine of the gold bugs.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-06-20
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

See the advertisement of W. a.
Belts in another column if you wish to
purchase good land at a great bargain
near Raleigh.
Owners Of land in Wake ard adj
joining counties desiring to sell are
requested to send description, price,
etc, to box 873, Hamilton, N. Y.
The Sea Breez9 House at More
head City has an advertisement in this
paper. If you go to Morehead this
summer do your eating with Bro,
Eaton, the proprietor.
What has become of the Legisla-
tive Committee of the State Alliance?
Col. Forney says he didn't suggest any
legislation IN regard to the, Alliance
charter. Why don't the other mem
bers of the Committee sing out one
way or the other?
Recently a Catholic church in St.
Petersburg, Russia, was robbed of an
immense sum of valuables. 1t has been
discovered that Catholic priests did the
robbery and the vaiuables were found
in their rooms. They will probably be
sent to Siberia for life.
Secretary of Agriculture Morton
says he has "no use for any member
of the Alliance" and pronounces the
Ocala platform ''vicious vagaries. "
The Secretary and many Of his friends
will live to see something very near
like it inroperation if they live long.
As in everything else, so also is
it with cotton gins. If you must have
one, it pays to get the best. Then
write to Smith Sons Gin 6 Machine
Co., Birmingham, Ala, for their illus
trated catalogue and see what they
offer. See their advertisement in an
other column.
~ The latest bank failures reported
In addition to those found on our third
e page are: First National, Arkansas
City, Kan, deposits $500, 600; Farmers
and Merchants, Fairmount, Indiana;
Exchange Bank, Weston, Ohio; s. Bon
ham. banker, Fairfield, Ill. Great pros
perity seems to be in the air.
~ J. I. BIakely was o registrar at
Huntersville, Mecklenburg county, last
fall. At a recent term of the Federal
court at Charlotte the grand jury
found a true bill against him for irregu-
larities in registering names. But
errors were discovered in the bilI'
since and he has been turned loose.
~ A small Alliance store made an
assignment last week. It has been
carted around in the columns Of every
paper in the State. There were over
SUI other failures in the country, many
OF them ten and twenty times as large
as the Alliance store, but hardly one
of these papers mentioned them. Draw
YOUR own conclusions.
-. The New York papers are very
Old fashioned. They wants all the money
t. be made Of gold, are opposed to
elec:1i e street r and to honesty.
Whi:o shav are doing that white cap''
organizations are being formed. white
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-06-20
WE TOLD YOU THEY WOULD.

Henry Watterson says he has washed
his hands once for all with conventions
and platforms. From the New York
Worlds answers by Congressman on
financial legislation it would seem that
somebody else has about done the same
thing.-FdyetteUiHe Gazette
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-06-20

81 Gm standing nolU just behind the
curtain, and IN full glOaC0 Of the coming
sunset. Behind me IRE the shadows on
the track, before me lies the dark galley
and the riUer. When I mingLe tcith its
dark uUaters I arant to cast one bmger-
mo look upon q country 1rbOSe 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, 1893-06-20

In writing 10 anybody, always be
sure to give the name OF your pogtof7ce,
and sign your own name plainly.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-06-20

k- Ouz friends II writing to any Of
our advertisers VIII favor Us by men
tioning the fact that they saw the
advertisement in THE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER.
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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, 1893-06-20

The Mayor of Boston says he has o.
covered that the gas syndicate tnsls
get 81 80 per thousand feet for gas a.,
it only costs 33 cents per thousana
He recommends that the city run 10
own gas work and save the taxpaye,
two or three hundred per cent. IDy
would be anarchy-in the eyes OF "
gas. svp6icate.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-06-20

~ The date On your label tells sou
when yoyv time Is out.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-06-20

The Progressive Farmer is the Official
Organ ofthe N. G. Farmers State Alliance
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aALEIGH, n. O., JUNE 20, 1898

This paper s.aterc5 80 s~eeond-eJ1ss FnGttaT Gt The
Post UBISe So Raleigh, ~. Q.
The Lamar register., 1893-10-14
rhe nencon., popet.

Someone came past Deacon Pod
berrys the other night about 10
o'clock, and was surprised to find
that good man carefully examining
his woodpile.
what are you looking for?" asked
the passer-by-
Just examining this load Of wood
to see if it was all right" answered
the good man. Il bought it from
Brother Brown yesterday aid TO-
night in prayer-meeting he called
himself so many kinds of miserable
sinner that thought maybe it was
the quality of this load Of wood which
was weighing on his mind.
The Lamar register., 1893-10-14
a ,,.etioe of the Board.

There will be a meeting of the
board said the preacher, ''at the con-
elusion of this service" So the Off
eial brethren of the church gathered
around the pastor after the benedic
ton was pronounced Among them
was stranger, whom it was neces-
sary as delicately as possible t, re-
mind that his presence was not
needed. II beg your PARDON said
the stranger; II understood this was
to be a meeting of the bored, of which
| claim to be one
The Lamar register., 1893-10-14
VARIED AND VERIFIED.

Chicago has at present 2,774 law
yers.
The world has about 1000, 900 He
brews.
The death rate from apoplexy is
highest at Turin, Italy-6i0 in 10000
The nations richest in horses are
the Argentine Republic and Uruguay.
Journal while this country has over
200.
France has the distinction of being
the most carefully cultivated agricul-
tural country in Europe
No port of the world except Liver
pool sends as many emigrants to
America as does Bremen.
The railway which is to be built
across Siberia will be 800 miles long.
Ii is to be completed in 1904.
A Chambersburg (Pa.) merchant
who paid his clerk seventy-five cents
per week and who charged him for
all the fruit. etc. he att. settled with
him the other Saturday night by Civ
ing him a two-cent stamp.
1t has oeen inquired Lnat IN tne
United States the average life of farm
ers is sixty-four wears: for lawyers,
fifty two; merchants, forty-eight; me-
chanics. forty-seven; seamen, forty
six; laborers, forty-four.
The ocean water north of Cape Cod
is much colder than the water south
of it, for the cape seems to turn a
branch of the warm gulf stream out
to sea, leaving only the chilly arctic
current to wash the Maine shore.
Twenty Cinnamon were arrested a
few nights ago at Atlanta, Ga, on a
charge of gambling. AT the hearing
the next day they denied the charge
and said that they were merely en-
gagged in the worship of their gods.
The policemen swore that they saw
money on the table in the room at the
time of the arrest, but that the game
was not fnntan Or any game that they
were familiar with, and. as they
could not swear positively whether
the Cinnamon were gambling or pray
ing, the latter We're Released.
The Lamar register., 1893-10-14
GRAINS OF HISTORY.

An observatory is ap ,roaching COM
pletion on Mott B.anc at an altitude
of Is, 7sl feet above the level of the
Mediterranean.
A new loud talking telephone has
been invented in England. The re-
ceiving instrument is said to speak
loud enough to BE- heard all over the.
room.
The tenth census shows that 23,olO >
ooo inhabitants of the United States
are supported by agriculture. H.
$50, 900 by manufactures and Is, ,6ao, 600
by commerce.
The harvests ir Ireland this wear
are fully month earlier tiran any be-
fore recorded, and the most abundant
that country has been blessed wi h
for twenty-five years.
Ordinary soda of commerce has
been successfully used in France as a
substitute for salt water in mixing
cement or mortar during cold weather.
The results have been very satisfac-
tory.
The Japanese eat more fish than
any other people in the world. With
them meat eating is foreign innova-
ton, confined to the rich, or rather to
those rich people who prefer it to the
national diet.
Lucca Della Robbia was the inven-
tor of method of hardening terra
Gotta, the secret of which died with
him. His famous groups were all ex-
ecuted in terra Gotta. which he made
IS hard as stone.
In the fifteenth century the first
glass mirrors were made in Germany
by blowpipe and were convex. The
irst manufactory of glass mirrors for
sale was established in Venice early in
sae sixteenth century.
The Lamar register., 1893-10-14
The Indian Hnd Him.

Quinnemore, formerly chief of the
Ceur d'Alene Indians has fine farm
of l67 acres on the south side of the
Spokane river, about a dozen miles
above Spokane. Wash, and the other
day the tax-gatherer thought it would
be very proper and desirable thing
to tax it good round sum. So he
came smilingly with his bill But
Quinnemore was prepared for him,
even on such an unexpected mission.
He brought forth paper which in
part read thus: "This patent is issued
upon the express condition that the
title hereby conveyed shall not be sub
ject to taxation Of any character, but
shall remain inalienabl and not sub
ject to taxation for the period of
twenty years from the date hereof. as
approved January Is, lssi.' The as
SCISSOR withdrew AMI apologized, not
smiling.
The Lamar register., 1893-10-14
INCIDENT AND ANscoore.

Indigo is now made by an electrical
process, the yellow liquid obtained
from the plants being subjected to the
action of an electric current ins cad
Of the usual treatment The product
is claimed to be purer and finer than
that made by the old method.
A primitive wooden lock used in
Bolivia has curious history, which
goes back to the time of old Egypt.
1t is, in fact, the ancient Egyptian
lock which was carried to Central
Africa by the ArabS and from thence
by the negro slaves to South America
A man who had attained remarka BILE
success in life was called upon rather
suddenly to address body of students
at the university. His forte was not
exactly speech making, but he sue
ceeded in giving some excellent advice
which he closed by saying: Young
gentlemen, if You have spark of
genius in you. water it
Hermann Pieflse was s'l5cpt in" after
school hours for his want of pro-
fi.sieny in mental arithmetic. A note
to that effect was given to him to ia .se
home and bring back the next morn
ing with his fathers signature. The
father is an honest tin-plate worker
and strict discipIinarian- Hermann
returned TO his teacher with downcast
eyes. 1t was signed as follows, ''Read
and wallop Piefke."
The oldest bank notes are the
flying money or convenient
money first issued in China, aos7 B.
C. Originally these notes were issued
by the treasury. but experience die
tatcd change to the banks under
government inspection and control
These notes were printed in blue ink
On paper made from the fiber of the
mulberry tree. One is-ued in 1899
b C is still carefully preserved in the
Asiatic museum at St Petersburg.
The Lamar register., 1893-10-14
He ,tartIed the Counsel.

In 1868. Judge Little, testy man,
but a good lawyer, was suddenly ap-
pointed to fill vacancy on the supe-
rior court bench in North Carolina
He had n habit of swearing which
could not suddenly be laid aside At
one of his first courts, lawyer, net
tied at one of his decisions, said. in a
rather en- nhatic wav: we will ap-
neal from that" The old judge for
got tho proprieties of his new post,
and promptly replied 10 the startled
counsel, IN the same tene; Appeal
and be d-d"