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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-01-31

He talked about that for five minutes
and then introduced a resolution,
Re soIued. That we want no anti
option bill passed." and before you
could snap your finger it was passed.
Rut there was no real farmers in the
meeting.
-. The Raleigh correspondent of the
Wilmington Messenger says THE Pro
GREssIvE FARMER attempts to ridicule
the Indictment and arrest of S. O.
Wilson, and asks: What would that
paper say if the Union League were re-
vived9" We know but little about the
Union League, but we are opposed to
all secret political societies, no matter
what the name. We are also opposed
to malicious prosecutions.
~ The Southern TObaccOnist says:
Tho Reidsville, N. O., bank made IL
per cent. in 1892, declared s per cent.
dividend, and carried 4 per cent.
to surplus. Durham's First National
Bank, J. S. Carr, President, earned
$44, 600 in dividends in four years."
Other banks are doing as we'll. We
have often said that if we all had a
bank Or Two apiece, we could afford to
join the pro 'perity howlers.
To our friends who have sent in
clubs recently, and to many who have
subscribed and renewed, we wish to
express our thanks. Now that the bad
weather is over we hope for an in
crease. If good reading counts for
anything, the paper ought to be very
interesting now. Let all u friends
send in one or more new subscribers
and let opponents understand that
their constant work to break up the
Alliance and its papers will not be
successful.
X In another column will be found
a circular letter from Chas. Lyman,
President Of the United States Civil
Service Commission. The President
has recently amended the postal rules
so as to include all free delivery offices
in the United States. No employees
can be removed, except for cause, save
one, and that is special delivery mes
sengers. All applicants for positions
in free delivery offices must pass the
civil service examinations. There are
only a few such offices in North Caro-
lima, but those who have been expect
ing positions under the new postmasters
at such places may find it pretty hard
work to see a vacancy in the clerical
force. This matter has not been made
public before.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-01-31
THE GRADUATED INCOME TAX.

Some OF our large daily papers are
becoming alarmed at the speed of the
sentiment in favor of a graduated in
come tax. One journal declares that
certain papers that should know bet
ter are advocating it." 1t is always a
very safe conclusion to arrive at that
whatever the old moss back press op-
poses is right, says the Farmers Voice.
There Is a suspicious squirming on
the part of those who should be made
to pay the bulk Of the taxes in regard
to this system Of taxation. It is such
a pleasant proceeding to the rich to
compel the poor or middle classes to
bear the burden of contributing the
money to support the government that
they dislike to yield the pleasure, The
farmer, whatever may be the condi
ton of his prosperity, must respond
promptly TO the demand IF the tax
collector. 1t matters not that he may
not have made a cent profit during the
year; it counts ornothing that he may
need every dollar to make his family
comfortable; it weighs nothing that he
may scarcely be able to pay for the
school DO ks needed by his children,
he must pay taxes. Nobody should be
asked to contribute to the support Of
government who does not earn above
his expenses of living 81, 900 a year. It
is an outrage to assess men who are
making nothing above their expenses.
It is a worse outrage to permit those
who are making thousands and mil
lions Of profit yearly to escape an
equitable assessment. It has transpired
that during his life Jay Gould succeeded
in evading taxes on his personal prop
erty to the extent of millions of col
lars. Let us have the graduated in
come tax, making such changes in
State constitutions-where that may
be necessary for the purpose. Under
the system there is no such opportun-
ity as exists under the present system,
to escape equitable taxation, a fact that
is shown by the determined opposition
of the ax>shirkers to the proposed re
form. When men with $50, 900, 600 in
personal property swear and keep on
swearing year after year that they
only have q few hundred thousand
subject to assessment, as Jay Gould
did, it is time that there was reform in
our methods of taxation.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-01-31
SOUTH CAROLINA's PROGRESS

The South Carolina newspapers have
been wringing their hands and crying
calamity ever since Governor Tillman
was first elected. They predicted all
sorts of disasters. The Atlanta Jour-
nal, with it's usual keen perception,
sees through the darkness more clearly
than the press in South Carolina. It
shows that the increase in the number
of operatives, looms and spindles en-
ployed in cotton manufacture during
the past year was greater in South
Carolina than in any other Southern
State; that as many new cotton fac.
tories were started in South Carolina
during the year as in Alabama, Geor-
gia, Texas and Tennessee combined; ;
that, in short, the Palmetto State leads
the great New South in the manufac
ture of the South's leading staple and
stands second only to Massachusetts, in
all the Union.
Best Of all, this remarkable progress
and development has all taken place
during Governor Tillman's administra-
tion-a fact that the South Carolina
newspapers studiously ignore.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-01-31

TSe politically and 49,.
u up' 3 T6poSgS 34 Tiipn5 must not ,1 be sli:;
soFeneads they hope to ca lew other
points. Wall street is carry their
contemplate scheme. It's De esr the
are now plainly visibls. T9 ear marks
out OF a job, he has got it now man was
But there is a bright sido
1t is fortunate that sometbin 20 1t all.
occur at this time to attract 3 Should
ton of the farmers of all cue sne attep,
the schemes of the schema onS to
will fully arouse all lukewo.s, This
bers of the Alliance. The farr IL Mem,
all sections of this Union aro nlers Of
learning that their interests ,oPlaly
tlca!; that they must stand Ilen.
that sectionalism is dead and sstner;
be resuscitated. Speaking for y not
Carolina and the South genoran 'oF'0
say TO the Alliance bre5bran0 1 ", We
East and West that Wall stree Worth,
succeed in this d~etesta5le hid nnOt
through Tillman or anybody aIao CaE me
sections will remain united a%i The
ance reform will go forward "uu ALI
great work is accomplished 1"' In2
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-01-31
TARIFF LESSON NO. TWO.

We continue Our weekly tariff lesson
by enumerating briefly some Of the
" tariff reform"O of 1890, under the
head of Schedule A.
Coal tar colors or dyes and all other
tar preparations were left unchanged,
the tariff being 35 and 20 per centum,
but oxide of cobalt was reduced from
20 per centum to so per centum. How
in the world can that be a reduction?
We believe, and a prove, that 80 per
cent. is more than 20 per cent. Our
tariff reform congressman must have
heaved a big sigh of relief when they
voted for that reduction(0 Next we
find that %collodion, all coloring mate
rial5, copperas-all much used, were
not reduced. Ether was reduced from
so cents to 40 cents per pound. Now
how much ether do you use in a
year2 There are thous ands who never
saw a pound of it. But just wait.
Extracts of HemlOck bark was reduced
from 5 cents a pound to ! a cent.
Glycerine was reduced + Of a cent per
pound. Indigo was slightly reduced.
Next comes ink and the various DOW
ders used in making ink. This is an
important item to the public generally,
and no reduction was made. The
tariff on ~licorice was raised, and then
a slight reduction made On magnesia.
Next comes Epson salts, which are
more used, perhaps, than all the ar
ticles mentioned above. The tariff is
raised from Il cents per pound to $40
cents, more than doubled. That is
tariff reduction by the wholesale.
Morphine was reduced one half. oils"
are in the next chapter. We fud that
all oils containing less than so per cent.
of castor Oil are reduced CD from 25
cents per gallon to 40 cents per gallon.
Our arithmetic claims that 40 is more
than 25. Then follows castor oil, cod
liver, cotton seed, croton, fax-seed,
fusel, hemp-see and olive. Some Of
these reduced slightly, while others
were made higher. Peppermint oil
was raised from 25 cents per gallon to
80 cents per gallon. How much reduc-
ton @ is that?
Keep up with these tariff lessons
every week. They will not stop until
this tariff reduction rascality is all laid
bare. Save your papers and you can
refer to them at any time.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-01-31
EDITORIAL NOTES 5.

- The St. Louis Monitor is correct
when it says revelation is reform too
long delayed"
- The "oldest inhabitants" will
have some whopping big yarns to tell
about the cold weather this winter
thirty years hence.
-. For the accommodation of those
who expect to commit murder, our leg
islature has divided the crime into two
degrees. Take your choice,
~ A great deal is being said about
B. F. Butler, 1.-The ~tyrant." There are
enough living tyrants to hold the atten-
ton of the country, without abusing
the dead.
wheat elevator, containing
1880, 900 bushels, was destroyed by
fire at St. Louis a few days ago. That
ought to reduce the "overproduction"
somewhat.
~ The Populists and Democrats in
the Kansas Legislature have joined
forces in the election of a Senator. Last
Wednesday they elected Judge John
Martin to the U. S. Senate.
Messrs. Hinton Helper, of the
New York World, W. E. Burbank, of
the Winston Sentinel, and Geo. P,
Pell, Of the Mt. Airy NeU8, all gifted
journalists, have looked in upon us
within the past week.
The Denver Daily NetU8 says:
"It seems to be as difficult to get a
farmers relief bill through the Senate
at Washington as it is for the Scrip
tural camel to pass through the eye of
the proverbial needle"
~ The Bessemer City Messenger is
wringing its hands and crying kill
the anti option bill" Bro. Smith is
building a cotton mill and he don't
want to see the poor farmers getting
Imposed upon" by the price of cotton
going to Is cents.
~ A weekly paper must condense
the legislative proceedings in order to
get other matter in. We give all bills in
troduced, who by and for each par
ticular locality. The bills under head
of passed third reading" are through
and enrolled as law.
~ Senator Vance has been in the
Senate a good many years. He has
got the Senate Committee to report
f~avOrably upon an appropriation for a
monument at Guilford Battle ground.
There is a wide contrast between what
he has done and what he says ought to
be done.
~ The Cotton Plant says, Judging
from the recent county meetings
throughout the State, the Alliance is
not very dead in South Carolina. The
same may be said of all sections. If
the weather had not been unusually
severe good meetings would have been
held everywhere.
A sensation equal to that of the
Ernest Seyd silver demonstration er,
pose is promised by Congressman Eel,
lows. 1t is charged that several mil,
lions of the Panama Canal Doodle was
paid to American Congressman and
Senators. The French Government
promises the names.
We begin the publication O
t~hirty-ge4en prize essays in this issue
They are AL concerning the famous
JERSEY cows.N All our readers who ar
inter, s!cd l. c&.Ne and dairy farming
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-01-31
THE SIX PER CENT. BILL.

The 6 per cent. interest bill is having
a stormy time. Quite a number in
both Houses of the Legislature favor
its passage, however. The usual ster-
eotyped objections are being offered
that it will drive capital out of the
State and prevent it's coming in. " Some
of the statesmen argue hat ~"sUnnIv
ana demand regulate the interest
Perhaps there is some truth in that
Money Is very plentiful in New YORK.
anu can De borrowed at 8 and 4 per
cent In the South it is scarce and
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-01-31
GOOD IDEA

By sending ten cents to vii
at Washington, D.. O., you oocoive
your name enlisted and t. If bis.
twice a month, fifteen copies "
Iitical Economy Lesson one e8nca
will prove just the kind OF tITgia1ncel%
exercises needed in each ALLiI iI cor
and Industrial legion. l! ~" Natts
these divisions: "ouOyeOSa Pract
Points for Discussion, =, Cend
Points" and Questions; AZ miss
them for your lodge or 70 ~ SOborb9
ary work within your ceni Q
Stamps will not be taken, and (
so as to get the first leSS0A
the connection.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-01-31
APPROPRIATIONS FOR DIN,
Bull DINGS BY THE FIPTv'N
FIRST CONGRESS-

We have been informed bv
changes that the Fifty first Cona, "
made an appropriation for a n o,l%
building at Reidsville, N. G. We Eor,
just seen a statement of the spno,1,
ing architect, published in the r,~
~gressiOnol Record, Jan. 22d, 1893 f,or
which we learn that more than ~
600, 600 were appropriated for rrbr,
buildings by the Fifty-frst Copp,s,,
and that our people may see whero II,
money goes, and "where we are AZ
we give the figures showing fl.
amount going to each State, as fo1or,.
~ ~
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-01-31
JOURNALISTIC

ANY lady who goes To- chQTcn ' TIr
her new sack is SackreLlglOuS'
Mirror.
The policeman who cannot 5Idp, Isi,r
himself from being rooOeQ Sno IIri,.
sign and take in washing ia
-ASheUilLe Citizen. gs
1t is said that Mr; Cley esorp rS %
about two hundred letter. Is e, rr9vqs 5e
ing before breakfast. d m Pa q ID
yond question that he Is a man
tiers. = Wilmington Star ...ss
When money talks an emp tr
book has nothing TO say
San. fls
1t is said that the custom c q = t5.
morning and evening salu'gIT5 ms bel
government $1,000 a day. t - ros
It would be economy to IRE VIC
Concord Standard.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-01-31

Do YOU want your communicates
published Il 80, g1Xe us your 9
name and your post0ffice.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-01-31

Do you want your paper changed TO
another office State the one at which
you have beer getting 1t.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-01-31

La writing to anybody, always bt
sure to give the name of your p~0stofhce.
aud sign your W name plainly.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-01-31

We trust our readers will not q
strue this improperly, nor accuse m
sectionalism, but we can not REIN
from asking you to take your map
the United States and locate ta
States. North of the Potomac an
Ohio rivers and east of the Missi&T
river you will find they get Of the
appropriations . ... ....$12,69,b
All west of the Miss. river. 4Gjg
East Of Miss. river and south
of Ohio and Potomac I'll
buildings -. .......... 656W
Out of a total of. .$l8,1 1870 a
Takeof Alaska's$ SIS, 600 and
SIC, 600 for a lot, making. %0
And itleaves for 70 build'g8. SIS I55 y
An average per building Of z''''
The West and Northwest get q.
81 bulldogs averaging each zSoS J,
The South gets II, averaglg .. ~ u
North Carolina gets one at. % y
There is much more food for tn0Os7
in these figures, and we hope our Feai
ers will study them. ApproPra.o
bills have to originate in the Hou's1
Representatives. There is Wnels !
must look for reforms along this Id
Morning journal and courier., 1893-03-29
FREE HYGEIA ICE.
The Only Expense the Price of n Pos
tai Card-Proht by This OPportu-

The Only Expense the Price OF n Pos
tai Card-Profit by This OPportu.
nifty.
Although many families do not begin
using ice before May, it would be well for
all who desire to use the best to learn
about the merits of Hygeia Ice, including
the economy resulting from Its great dura-
bility, before settling upon their sources of
supply for the coming season.
There can bs no better proof of the con-
fdence which the Hygeia Ice company has
in its products than its decision to furnish
free Ice for one delivery to anyone who
sends to the company a postal GARD con-
tanning name and address.
The intention is to send the wagons into
a different section of the city each day of
the FIRST week in April and to fill without
charge the ice boxes of all dealers and
householders from whom postal cards have
been received.
This proof of the pudding is In the eat
ing, and the proof Of Hygeia ice is in Civ
ing it trial to learn its purity and dura-
bility.
Those specifying the day on which they
desire ice delivered will be accommodated
as nearly as possible. Early sending OF
tie cards will be favor to the company,
as it will facilitate the arrangement of
routes.
Postal cards should be addressed to the
Hygeia Ice company, SS1 State street
Please state approximately the capacity OF
ice boxes
Morning journal and courier., 1893-03-29

The burglary at the Ames family's resi-
dence on Admiral street Monday evening
has awakened considerable interest. Mrs.
N. L. Deacon, resident of the house, yes
terday morning discovered that $50 of her
money was missing, making total of $3.50
gone.
Mr.. Updyke, who had the $500 taken,
said that the statement which appeared in
last evenings Register to the effect that he
had expressed the wish that the detectives
should stop all Investigation, was absolute
ly incorrect, with no foundation whatever.
He also states that he has instructed the
detectives to do their best in trying to ap.
prehend the criminal. He called at this
Office with Mr.. Ames last night to have
the story corrected.
The Evening Register also says: cat
station 4, where Ames was invited to go
and talk the matter over with Captain
Brewer, he admitted that he thought some
one in the house got the money"
Mr.. Ames said that Captain Brewer says
that no such conversation took place he
tween himself and Mr.. Ames and that Mr..
Ames did not make any such admission.
Mr.. Ames also denies that he made any
such admission, and dsnounoes the article
which appeared in the Register as in the
main very misleading. The police have
not been able to find any clew or cast any
light upon the burglary, but are diligently
engaged upon the case. Many of the resi-
dents of the vicinity, who are among the
most influential residents of that section
of the city. have called upon Mr.. and Mrs.
Ames, who are among their intimate
personal friends, to sympathize with them
over the affair.
Morning journal and courier., 1893-03-29
wALLINGFORD.
Murphy Comes April 13-Barbers'
Early Closing-Good Friday at the

Murphy Comes April 13-Barbers'
Early Closing-GoOd Friday at the
StOres-Personal Notes.
The date of the visit here of Thomas E.
Murphy has been finally decided upon
Thursday, April 10. The executive com
mittes will proceed at once to complete ar
raugements for that date. A union tenn
peranee meeting will be held In the Con-
gregational church Sunday evening and
other meetings will be held in other
churches between now and the date of the
great temperance orators appearance here.
The hearing of the Yalssville water and
electric charter was had before the legis-
lative committee in Hartford yesterday,
and decided opposition to the granting Of
the charter was developed from here. At
tornsys J. Q. A. Thayer of Meriden and
@. A. Harrison appeared as counsel for the
Yalesvills petitioners, while Judge Hub
bard ia looking out for the interests of the
borough.
The meeting of the BARRIERS yesterday to
discuss the Sunday closing Of the barber
shops was a failure, as only Heslin and
Billian were on hand at the appointed
hour.
Undertaken J. W. Fitzgerald will have
charge of the burial of Mrs. Caroline
Tuttle, aged eighty-four years, In North
Haven this afternoon.
Mrs. L. N. Bennett and son of Rockville
arc the guests of Mrs. 8. ]. Hall of Curtis
avenue.
Miss Jennie Campbell arrived home
from Smiths college, Northampton for the
Easter vacation on the 8:29 train last even
ing.
The case of Emory Morse vs.. Collector
Austin was on trial yesterday in New Ha,
ven, and was continued until this morning.
A. I Martin has sold to +. @. Allen an
undivided half interest in four building
lots on Whittlesey avenue. ". A. Trask
ia the other owner.
r. G. Allen has sold q strip of land
3x175 feet and one piece 1885 feet, be-
tween Whittlesey avenue and Main street
Most of the stores in the borough will be
open from to Q o'clock on the morning Of
Good Friday.
Simpson, Hall, Miller & Co. will CLOSE
up it's works on Good Friday and run al
day Saturday emitting the usual half hoh
day.
Robert ]. Lane is one of the soliciting
, committee for the coming fair of the A. b
Dutton post, g. A. R.
Superintendent William Poole of tn,
rubber chop has moved his fam
lily from New Haven and ia now 10
Gated in the G. E Howard house on Cente
street.
J. S. Parker brought home dne strinl
| of fish last evening that were caught nea
| his mill down in "Quinnie."
H.. J. Redmond and family will star
Saturday for Philadelphia for two days
Visit.
Chief Smith has ordered out the fire de
partment for practice Friday morning a
| 10 O'Clock.
The White Rose Social club will give al
entertainment aud dance in the town hal
Saturday evening, April 8.
Morning journal and courier., 1893-03-29
FATALLY HURT.


Another Workman Falls-His Con-
dit1on Very Low.
At 10 O'Clock yesterday morning, half
hour after Duffy's fatal fall, William h.
Hooghkirk, aged ffty-eight, a Joiner. of
312 Orchard street, fell in L. @. Bates new
building at 46 George street and sustained
probably fatal injuries. He was on the
third floor with several other workmen.
He had been filing his saw, and 1t is sup
posed that while walking across the floor
he stumbled and fell into the unguarded
elevator well. He uttered no sound, and
the men on the same floor did not know
that he had fallen until attracted by the
shouts of the workmen on the story be-
low. Some of the latter saw the body of
q man shoot down the elevator shaft, but
they were too Mortified to perceive which
of their fellow-workmen had fallen.
Hooghkirk was found unconscious at
the bottom of the shaft. Drs. B. A. Lewis
and White were called, and after q brief
examination he was taken to his home on
Orchard street. Medical Examiner White
said that he was suffering from conclusion
of the brain and that his recovery was ex-
tremely doubtful
Late last evening the injured mans COZ
dition was very critical. BE was yet alive
but there were but faint hopes of his re-
oovery. He is son of Charles E. Hoogh-
kirk, the harness maker at No. 70 Orange
street.
Morning journal and courier., 1893-03-29
WEST HAVEN NOTRS.

False Fire AlarAs-Dr. Wilson ILL.,
The Fire Engine Company Benefit
Fair.
The West Haven fire alarm bell struck
last evening for false alarm for the tenth
time In about three weeks. 1t is supposed
that some boys are the perpetrators, and
the community, which is considerably
aroused, is making an effort to ferret
them out.
Dr.. Wilson, the chief of the fire depart
ment, was called out to one of these false
alarms in severe rain storm about two
weeks ago and contracted a severe cold,
which developed into pneumonia, and he
has been very Ill since that time.
The committee in charge of the fair to
be given in Washington hall, West Haven,
on April 8, I, 5, 8, z, 8 and 10 for the ben
eft of the West Haven Fire Engine COM
pany are doing all in their power to make
1t one of the greatest fairs ever held in the
borough.