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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-04-25
SOWING GOOD SEED.

The transportation plank of the ALI
ance platform has been abused, ridi-
culed and slandered for several years.
The political press have been unstinted
in the efforts to down the idea of the
government owning and operating the
railroads and telegraphic lines. But the
sentiment is growing rapidly notwith-
standing. Now comes the news that
both branches Of the Philadelphia city
government have passed resolutions to
petition Congress for the government
ownership of all telephone and tele-
graph lines. The resolutions were
adopted without a dissenting vote.
Now what do you think of that2 Phila
delphia is one of the staunchest and
most conservative cities in the world.
Her business men are specially noted
for their sagacity. After calling the
farmers and thousands of others who
favor these measures wild imprac-
ticals' and "cranks," we wonder what
the bought and paid for press will style
the officials of Philadelphia.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-04-25
AMONG THE ALLIANCES.

National Secretary, Col. D. P. Dun,
can, of Columbia, S. O., writes that
South Carolina is in line.
The South Carolina County Alliances
meetings were all full and satisfactory
to the most ardent members.
The Alliances in Virginia are ready
for a boom. The State Lecturer is on
the warpath and he will stir things up.
Nebraska is said to have a fine lot Of
Alliance officers now and a number of
good papers. We are glad to know
that this far away State is getting in
good trim for the future.
Bro. J. M. Richardson, State organ.
izer for Indiana, writes the State organ
that he has organized several new ALI
ances recently and that old ores are
taking on much enthusiasm. Several
have been admitting new members.
President Ellington, of the Georgia
State Alliance, has just finished a tour
of the State. He declares the organi
zavion is rapidly regaining its lost
strength and membership, and will
soon be stronger than ever before, He
is very enthusiastic over the outlook.
Hurrah for Georgia!
Word comes to this office from every
nook and corner of the State that the
Farmers Alliance is taking on new life
and energy. Up to this hour every
resolution from Sub or ounty Alliance
breathes the sentiment and de. ermina.
ton to make the principles and de,
mands of the Alliance the rule of action,
and to continue the organization as an
independent political school, with no
official connection with any political
parry. Every patriot should rejoice.
Southern Mercury.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-04-25

gets in it's work so far away, it is guilty.
of criminal negligence, unless it tells
all the truth. The financial institu.
tions, large and small, will go down
when their ancestors, as it were, in
Europe begin to tremble. Indeed they
are going rapidly already. The News
and Observer is condemning its own
work, it's own policy. America is con,
trolled by the gold basis men. Why
not lecture them9 The party that the
NeUs and Observer claims to be the
organ of is run by gold basis men.
President Cleveland is the rankest gold
basis man in the United States. And
here we find the Ne1US and Observer
supporting, year after year the very
men and the very policy that it de-.
clares will ruin Europe sooner or later,
and it could have added with as much
truth, America also. Such editors
ought to be arrested for cruelty to
themselves.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-04-25
GOLD TOO SCARCE.

For some time it has been hard to
tell what party the NeWs and Observer
represents, OF whether it had any r
nounced views or any subject or not,
but the two Australian bank failures,
involving over one hundred million dol.
lars, and having many branch banks.
has caused it to declare that the Eng
lish fnanciers ought to see that "goId
is too scarce to form the only basis for
money" It further declares that this
will sometime "cause a terrible crash
and wipe out all the smaller financial
institutions in Europe"
This is what THE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER has been arguing all the time
and while these great bank failures
are to be regretted and the thousands
OF people who lose money are deserving
of much sympathy, we hope the fail
ures will cause the lawmakers and
~fnanciers of all the world to change
their ruinous course. We cannot re-
frain from saying "it has been proven
that The PROGRESSIVE FARMER is RIGHT
again"
But when the News and Observer
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-04-25
THE COUNTY

We have reports from a number of
County Alliances, and hope all will
report in due time. The meetings so
far have been the best held in twelve
months or longer. There was a good
deal of enthusiasm exhibited and a de.
termination that means success. The
lea7en is at work and all needed is per-
sistent work by those who can. There
has been an increase in a number of
Sub-Alliances that is gratifying. All
sections show that the people are get
ting over their political differences and
reason is once more enthroned Let
there be a thorough campaign started
to put Alliance papers in the hands of
those who are not reading. That is
the secret of success, for you cannot
depend upon a member of any organi-
zation that does not take interest
enough to read the organs of the same.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-04-25
FRESH TROUBLE IN THE MINES

There is more warfare at the coal
mines in Tennessee. A fight occurred
Thursday between the troops and out
ragged miners, One man was killed
and several wounded.
We don't know the facts, but think
the State is to blame for placing the
convicts in competition with the min
ers. The miners object to working
with them and to the reduction in
the price of labor on that account. The
miners may be rough men but they
are what the State and the monopoly
owned coal barons have made them.
Doubtless they would be peaceable if
the convicts had never been put in the
mines. The miners should be law
abiding but they should have justice
and batter treatment, and the State
should not disgrace itself by such
OutrageS.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-04-25
TAR DROPS.

1t takes more religion to hold a man
level in a horse trade than it does to
make him shout at a camp meeting
DGUje Times.
A young lady in Wilson on Monday
night spoke of her attentive beau as an
~intolerable bore. This does not augur
well for the prospects of his suit.-WH
SON Mirror.
Douglas, the three dollar shoe man,
wants to be Governor of Massachusetts
He wants to get in office so that every
one will be wanting to get in his shoes
Durham Globe.
1t does look a little presumptous for
the Alliance to make demands on the
government; but no more than that Of
railroad corporations, manufactures,
whiskey dealers, bankers and owners
of gold mines. Hickory Mercury.
A Tennessee man gave President
Cleveland a half dollar for luck. We
don't believe in that thing, but we
would be willing to givei it an indefinite
number Of trials if some DIE will send
on the half dollars WIImington Star.
Brooklyn has just made the discOv.
cry that her aldermen have given away
a railroad franchise for nothing for
which they could have gotten $3.50, 600.
But she has not yet discovered how
much the aldermen got Wilmington
Star,
There is n thing I like about the
religion that this here Sam Jones dishes
up" said the man with red clay on hi3
boots and hayseed in his beard. ut
don't interfere none with the Language
afeller uses when heis a. drivin' mules
Charlotte Democrat.
North Carolina has the reputation Of
offering up more candidates for consul
ships than any other State of it's size.
Such is the willingness of North Caro-
lima politicians to serve their own c0un.
try that they are willing to go to other
countries to do it. Winston Sentinel
The reports from the meeting of the
County Alliances, Thursday, have the
same familiar whereases, now there
tores and resolves as of old. At The
July meetings we shall doub less have
the accustomed demands. "-CharIOH
Observer. Of course they will; why
nat?
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-04-25

Iior Now he is telling that he was the
champion corn shucker in his county,
and saws he thinks nothing of shuck-
ing 200 bushels of corn in a day" That
not only beats Jerry Rusk, but would
have knocked Annanias out in the first
round.
Senator PETER has served notice
on the United States Senate and politi
cal parties that since the courts have
presumed to decide on one phase of the
labor problem, they must not stop till
they have investigated further and de-
cided whether there is another side Or
not worth hearing.
-. A Minnesota Judge has decided
that q dentist cannot legally take q
mortgage on false teeth that he makes
for a patient. He say S as long as they
are in your mouth they are a part of
your carcass and cannot be seized as
chattel property. Now mortgage your
teeth and cheat your creditor.
~ 1t is mighty funny to hear some
papers talking about purifying the
Alliance" Why, good gracious, the
very fellows that are begging for this
to be done would themselves contami
nate a hog pen. Morally and politi-
cally they are nothing but a wad of
diseased microbes They should ring off.
~ Defalcation is altogether toocom-
mon. A long established good name
and unblemished character, a lifetime
Of fair dealing, all the reputation which
business men would once have spent
years of self denial to obtain, begins
to lose it's commercial value. Welook
askance at everybody. We go about
asking whom we can trust, says the
Minneapolis Times.
Bro. J. I. B. Hoover, employed
by the Business Agency, will make
public lectures in BERTHE, Chowan, Per
quimans, Pasquotank, Camden, Curri-
tuck, Gates, Hartford, Northampton
and Martin counties between May 10
and June 10. Appointments will be
published next week in the order in
which they come on this list. Bro.
Hoover is a good lecturer and carries
samples % show the brethren and tells
them how to trade through the agency
and the advantages to be derived
The Chatham Record one of the
Ananias organs, hints that resolutions
were sent out from Raleigh for the
various counties to adopt ~denouncing
the legislature. That is false. No
copies Of resolutions or anything of
that nature was sent out, and no ALI
ance was asked to do anything in that
direction. But plenty of good, honest
Democrats voted for the adoption of
resolutions in some counties in which
the Legislature was unreservedly de
nounced. Now what are the Annanias
organs going to do about it.
~ About $50 of the book and job
printing concerns in Chicago have
formed a trust. Why don't everybody
do this and make a perfect pande-
moniuml The newspapers a form a
trust and put up the price of the pa
pers. The farmers can form a trust
and make the public pay big prices for
their products, say about so cents a
pound for butter, so cents a dozen for
eggs, % cents a pound for pork, 50 a
bushel for corn and everything else in
proportion. Rome would howl then
sure enough. But the farmers have
been treated that way for some time
and their so called friends in power
don't help them any. Farmers sell at
trust prices and buy at trust prices
| robbed at both ends Of the line fire.
| uuentlv.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-04-25
THE COTTON P

The NeaUs and Observer, like all the
papers that only has opinions that are
cut and dried by the trusts and dealt
out to mislead the public, is again talk
ing about the cotton acreage. 1t evil
IDENTIFY wants to create the impression
that the farmers are entirely to blame
for the low price of cotton, and blames
the Alliance leaders for advising the
farmers wrong. AS we have often
said the One crop system, no matter
what crop raised, is wrong, and it will
not be a success even under the most
favorable circumstances. Therefore
we advise all who are given to raising
cotton and buying supplies to diver
sify. But that is no proof that the low
price Of cotton is brought about by
natural causes. We want the Neus
and Observer to answer a few ques-
tions, Why doesn't the low price of
cotton hurt the owners of cotton mills
and the dealers g~enerally7 Why every
body else get rich in the cotton business
except the farmers who raise it2 How
is it that the mills clear from 30 to 40
cent. annually spinning cotton while
the man who raises it gets poorer?
Why is it that cotton statistics for so
years show that there has been a
marked fuctuation in the price of cot
ton without regard to the crops raised.
Sometimes the price is high, when &C.
cording to supply and demand it should
be low. The past history of cotton
shows that a 1000, 900 bale crop is
worth no more per pound than an
s 5000, 900 bale crop, unless the specu-
lators and manufacturers see proper to
raise the price. The farmers are abso-
Iutely helpless so far as prices are con
cerned. They have tried to stem the
tide by working a little harder each
year, but it is not remedied that way.
Many have got in such a condition that
they think they must raise more cotton
to get out and still they fail There is
no lack of cotton, tobacco, wheat,
corn, oats, meat, sorghum, peanuts,
rice, vegetab es, cattle, horses o any
thing else. Plenty Of all these things
re raised, Ieven if some tail to diversity.
There is no lack Of consumers, for the
countless millions are ready to consume
it all and they pay good prices for it
before they consume a pound or bushel
of anything, but the farmers don't get
the good prices. He sells his cotton at
Z or 8 cents. Those handling the cotton
make as much commission as if the
farmer got 20 cents for it. The rail
roads make a good profit on the freight
charges. The cotton mill makes 80 or
40 per cent. clear. The merchants who
handle the yarn or cloth make their
profit; the railroads haul it back and
forth again and declare some more big
dividends. By the time it gets to the
consumer he pays a big price and the
poor farmer is wondering where am
I at2" If he buys some calico, dOmes
tic or a suit of clothes he has to pay
from 90 to so cents for the very cotton
he sold at 7 or 8 cents. The NeWS and
Observer would say: "Why all these
people are entitled to a profit; they
cannot afford to work and invest their
capital for nothing" Of course they
can't, and the farmer can't afford it
either, but by the tricks that are now
being played he does work and doesn't
get a cent of profit.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-04-25
n. r. ?. A.
EDITORIAL NOTES

- President Butler will speak at
Tarheel, April 28th, Elizabethtown,
April 29th. Don't fail to hear him.
Bro. Cyrus Thompson. State Ali
ance Lecturer, will have several ap-
pointments in Wake and Johnston
counties after the 10th of May.
We understand that the last
legislature made it unlawful to sell
pistols, bowie knives, cartridges, etc,
to minors. Cigarettes are also in
eluded.
~ Still more prosperity. A receiver
has been appointed for the Alabama
National bank at Mobile. The second
Australian bank failure amounts to
$65, 600, 900.
~ Still the prosperity goes on. The
Mechanics Savings Bank, of Nashville,
assigned on the 10th. This is the fourth
bank that has gone under there in the
past three weeks,
~ The Governor Of South Carolina
is now in Kentucky laying in a supply
of ''snake bite medicine" When he
gets home again, he will say to the
Governor of North Carolina; "It is a
long time" etc.
The sentiment in favor of the free
: coinage of silver is growing even in
England. In a recent test vote in the
House of Commons, the silver vote
amounted to 148, an increase since 1890
of more than 200 per cent.
- When writing to the State Bust
ness Agent or Secretary-Treasurer,
sending money or about other matters,
enclose your subscription or renewal
for THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER and it
will be turned over to is promptly.
-. An Australian bank failed the
other day with liabilities amounting
to $40, OOO, 900. Great prosperity must
be getting in its work over there. Yet
the daily papers declare that no reform
is needed. Nero fddled while Rome
burned"
~ A cotton mill to cost $500, 900 will
be built in Columbia. That is all right.
We want to see hundreds of cotton
mills built, and wish them prosperity,
but at the same time we want to see
the farmers getting fair prices for rails
ing the cotton.
~ Rev. F. L. Reid, editor of the
Raleigh Christian Advocate, has been
selected to fill the place of DIR. Dixon
as President of the Greensboro Female
College. Doubtless the College will
prosper under his management, and it's
high character be fully sustained.
~. Cleveland claims that free coin
ace would mean more money and more
money e panic and disaster. Then
WHY not burn up all the money and al
low the country to enjoy a little Whit
IF p~rosperity9 Cleveland is the cham
Mon heavy weight prevaricator OF
America.
r. A week or two ago we mentioned
the fact that Sterling Morton, the new
Secretary of Agriculture, claims That
~ vaised 1900 bushels of corn on
+1a1fv acres and made fifty campaign
Ass the same summer. We ex-
,1,assed the opinion then that if he
IA, ,,ake a better Secretary than
- pax i, would to be a bigger
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-04-25
GROWERS BAD MEMORY

The South and the North have been
storm swept, while North Carolina has
escaped with but slight trouble. We
hope the State will continue to be over.
looked by the storm king, and be for.
gotten quite Is fully as Cleveland
seems to have forgotten her.-Neve
and Observer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-04-25

lam standing nO1U Just behind the
curtain, and in full glo1U Of the coming
sunset. Behind me are the shGdOlC8 on
the track, before me lies the dark Galley
and the riUer. When I mingle uitb ats
dark acaters I orant to cast one Linger-
inq look upon q country WhOse goUern-
ment is of the people, for the people,
and By the people II. L. Polk, July
Ath. 1890.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-04-25

II Congress has the right under the
constitution to issue paper money, i
was given them to be used by them.
selves, not to be delegated to indiVld'
uals or corporations.-Andre Jackson
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-04-25

In writing t. anybody, always be
u r to give the nameo Of your postotbce,
and sign your own name plainly.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-04-25

Ky Our friends In writing to any Of
cur advertisers viii favor us by men
Eioning the fact that they saw the
advertisement u TIE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-04-25

H- The da5c Oh youI iaoei tells you
when your time is out.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-04-25

Do you want your paper changed to
another office State the one at which
YOU have becG getting 1t,
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1893-09-01

Coosaw river were found eight or ten bodies
lying on the bank close together. The
steamer Panther, out from Philadelphia, was
lost with I; of her 20 men. The schooner
Henry Clsusen, Jr., herself badly damaged,
picked up the crew, consisting of 10 men, OF
the Norwegian barque Glengairn. The
steamship City Of Savannah is a total wreck
on Hunting Island, s. c., but her crew was
saved by tho City of Birmingham.
Not since the blizzard Of 1888 have the tclc-
graph wires so generally been leveled. and even
yet the accounts OF the destruction are me SS
sands of miles and has been terrible. Inland
at the south the cotton crop has been Injured
to 8, me extent, Vt the north the orchards have
been stripped and the crops OF pears and apples
are much depleted. while many grain ioia
lies low. Savannah, Ga, got the fret blow and
there and In the vicinity some $4,000 900 damage
was done and 40 lives l0st. But even at this
date these figures are simply estimated and
may be wide OF the mark. Many portions OF the
city are said to DO practically destroyed. North
OF Savannah the region that lay In the path OF the
storm presents . scene Of devastation. Build.
ings have 0een leveled by hundreds, crops de-
stroyed and mutisudes Of people Impoverished.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1893-09-01
MEETING OF TIN CHANGERS

At Brattieboro, r uesday-Abie Addresses by
National Master Brigham and State Mas
ter Messer - Interesting Exercises
Throughout the Meeting.
Windham County Pomona grange met with
Protective grange, Brattleboro, Tuesday. q
day to be remembered because Of its terrible
storm Of wind and rain which uprooted and
tore down 30 many trees throwing some
across the roads so that some Of the enterpris.
ing grangers who ventured out In the morn
ing had to cut away trees to get to the hall to
meet Slate Master Messer and National
Master j. Fl. Brigham. The morning session
was held in Grand Army hall and the after
noon exercises 10 the town hall " hich showed
by its empty seats that the storm had kept
many away, only about 200 Icing present.
The master Of Protective grange extended .
few words of greeting and was re-
sponded to by j. r. Day of Towns
bend. A recitation followad hy Ma
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1893-09-01


EbraveIy because of their love of home.
Col H Brigham of Ohio, man of COM
rIsndipg appearance, thought that tie Yer
mont farmer was happy man and more for.
txnate than the Wesierner. because his prod.
ucts could generally 60 directly to the con.
sumner, and that there had been too
much. said about the. oppression Of
discourage instead Of encouraging those pee
pie. He could not see reason why young
man snsuld leave the farm, because there he
could secure education, comforts and more
luxuries. Farmers cleared the lands and
have done their part 10 developing this coun-
try and when internal dissension came and
brother fought against brother, the farmer
was there at the front and aid till the ques.
ton was settled and now Is they are willing
to recognize the rights OF others to their
share of the prosperity, and Its comforts Of
this country, SO now do they wish to be rec.
0snized IS equally entitled to the best this
country affords, educati0nally and socially,
and the honors that are distributed iu public
Vermoht farmers capable OF occupying
the governors chair. As this Is q
farming, state It seemed "a II Ito
interest could be best represented by farmers.
He spoke of the dangerous element who do not
care for the good of the country and that the
farmers must make the power they possess
hVhIbUic Wy uuItcu 6CLiOu III Tue TlyuJ uireC-
ton, must unite with might and strength,
reach out and take only what Is justly theirs
also study to raise good crops anu then not al
low some one else 10 take the biggest part of
the price the consumer paid. He told of .
Connecticut man who went into the melon re.
gion and fncing they were sold there for four
cents piece bought lot and sent them to
Connecticut and sold for IS cents ;some one got
some money besides the producer, before the
consumer called 1t his. Farmers ought to be
In condition to say something more
about prices than they now do. Farmers
are paying more than their share
Of taxes because they have neglected to STUDY
this subject and demand that all others
should bear an tqusl share. For 40 years the
OF OHIO csc ,ped taxation be-
csuse when the laws were made they were
On hand and looked after their interests but
finally the farmers began to think. then act,
and now the manufacturers have to assist In
pawn the taxes.
Farmers would have been much Interested
md instructed to have listened to talk given
entirely to and for them and 1t Is TO be re-
,retted that larger number could net have
attended. Such meetings must be Of great
)en( fit to those who do attend.