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equal of their neighbors' on. That is
the way the Home and Farm goes
about putting gold aud silver on a par
ity. Legislation against silver has de-
preciated silver and appreciated gold.
Since 1873 silver bullion worth 1896,
OOO, 900 has been put in the government
vaults at Washington. Had this bull
lion been coined at the ratio of Is to 1
and put in circulation as it would have
been but for the characterization act of
1873, silver and gold would to day be
on a parity. The price Of silver has
fallen in proportion to the amount of
legislation against the use of it as
money and farm products went down
with it.
The Home and Farm proposes to s op
making money in order to increase the
amount; we say begin to make it to in
crease the amount. The Home Gnd
Farm says the efforts of the govern
ment to maintain the price of silver
has caused the price of silver and farm
products to fall; we say that the faI
are of the government to maintain the
price has caused the fall. Any fool can
see that we are right.
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EXECUTIVE MANSION.
L1AMOO n N ANUION,
WASHINGTON. Sept. % 1898

Hon. w. j. Nortben,
My DEAR SIR:-I hardly know how to
reply to your letter Of the 18th inst. It
seems to me that l am quite plainly on
record concerning the financial Ques
ton. Ny letter accepting TIE nomina-
ton to the Presidency, when read in
connection with the message lately sent
to the Congress in extraordinary ses
sion, appears to me to be very explicit.
l want a currency that is stable and
safe in the hands of our people. I will
not knowingly be implicated in a con
diti0n that will justly make me in the
least degree answerable to any laborer
or farmer in the United States for a
shrinkage in the purchasing power of
the dollar he has received for a full dol
lars worth Of work, or for a good dol
lars worth of the product Of his toll,
| not only want currency to be of
such a character that all kinds of dol
lars will be Of equal purchasing power
at home, but / want it to be Of such g.
character as will demonstrate abroad
our wisdom and good faith, thus plac-
ing it upOn a firm foundation and credit
among the nations of the earth. Iwant
our financial conditions and the laws
relating to u currency SO safe and re
assuring that those who have 0
will spend and invest it in business and
new enterprises instead of boarding it.
You cannot cure fright by calling it
foolish and unreasonable and you can.
not prevent the frightened man from
boarding his money. I want good
sound and stable money, and a condi.
ton of confidence that will keep IL in
use. Within the limit g of what [ have
written, I am a friend to silver. but 7
believe it's proper place in u Currency
can only be fixed by a re-adiustment
of currency legislation and the in.
a~uguration of a consistent and conDre-
hen5ive financial scheme. I think such
a thing can only be entered upon profit
ably and hopefully after the repeal of
the law which is charged with
financial woes. In the present state of
public mind, this law cannot be hTiIt
upon, nor patched in such q Wav as To
relieve the situation. I am therefore
opposed to the free and unlimited coin
age OF silver by this country alone and
Independently; and I am in favor of
the immediate and unconditional re-
peal OF the purchasing clause of the So
called Sherman law.
l confess | am astonished bv the on
position in the Senate to such promnt
action as would relieve the present IN
fortunate situation. NY daily PRAYER
Is that the delay occasioned by such
opposition may not be the cause of
plunging the country into deeper de-
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CROP OUTLOOK.

The reports of correspondents of the
Weekly Weather Crop Bulletin for the
week ending Monday, September 25th,
1898, indicate that the weather during
the week was very favorable, The days
have been warm and dry, with album
dant sunshine, and the nights not un-
usually cool for the season. Cotton
has certainly opened with remarkable
rapidity. The prospects r that the
entire crop will be gathered earlier
than usual this season. Harvesting Of
peas and rice in progress. Irish and
sweet potatoes and turnips are in good
condition.
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SILVER AND GOLD.

AGeorgia correspondent of the Home
and Farm sends that paper a very able
article on the question of free coinage.
The Georgia man tells how silver was
demonetized in 1878 and shows that the
price of cotton and wheat has gone
down exactly in the same proportion to
the fall in the price of silver.
In answering the Home and Farm
uses the regulation goldbug arguments,
1. e., that free coinage would drive out
gold and bring us to a one metal basis,
and cites the Sherman law as proof. 1t
then makes the r~ediculously absurd as
sertion that the efforts to remonetize
silver by passing the Bland and Sher
man laws are responsible for the great
fall in prices of farm products from
1878 to 1898. If there is a ten-year old
boy outside Of an asylum who would
take such a position we would like to
see him.
According to the latest official figures
sent out by the Director of the United
States Mint, there are 1904, 900, 900 of
gold in the United States. From the
same source we learn that there are
1918, OOO, 900 in silver-only eJeUen mil
lions more silver than gold. Now why
should the two metals not be on a par
ity9 The Home and Farm SAYS it is
willing that they should be equal,
should circulate side by side. The
Home and Farm wants the two metals
to be on parity so much that it is will
ling to kill silver entirely. Suppose two
parents have a son of whom thew are
very proud. Two neighboring parents
have a model son. The first two ad-
mire their neighbours son very much
and hope their son will be his equal in
personal appearance and intellect-be
on O. parity with him. 1t would be no
trouble to get the first two parents in
a lunatic asylum if they should kill
their son in order to make him the
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The Charlotte NeoUS says many Re
publicans and oil of the reform papers
announce to their prejudiced readers
that the cause of the present financial
distress is due entirely to the fact that
the Democratic party is in power, We
read all sorts of papers and have read
nothing of that import, and don't be-
lieve the NeWs has We have said
that the two old parties are jointly re
sponsible for it all, both having had the
power to prevent bad legislation, and
we have also said that the Democratic
party is alone responsible for failing to
enact suitable legislation to relieve the
distress during the six months it has
had full control of every branch of the
National Government We have said
it and will stick to it, for it is the plain,
u~nvarnished truth.
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ALLIANCE NOTES.
Brief News About What is Going on
Everywhere.

Brief News About What is Going on
Everywhere.
A great picnic was held b. the Ali.
ance at Logan Valley, Neb., recently.
It is said that the membership of the
Alliance in Colorado is larger now than
ever before.
Leadmine Alliance, Catawba county,
has been re-organized with a good
membership.
Eight new Alliances have been or.
ganized in San Bernadino county, Cali
fornia, within a week.
The Alliance Store at PeJyer, S. c.,
was blown down during the fearful
storm a few weeks ago, but has been
rebuilt since.
The next annual meeting Of the Cali
fornia State Alliance will be held in
Fresno county. Great preparations
are being made.
Major Mann Page, of the National
Alliance Executive Committee, has
been nominated for the State Senate
in Virginia. He is n Of the most
! popular citizens in that State,
Wyoming Lodge, No. 29O, New York,
held an enthusiastic meeting recently.
Several new members were initiated.
The membership pledged themselves
to get twenty five more inside month
The State Lecturer of the Minnesota
State, Alliance and two assistants have
mapped out a campaign for speaking8
all over the State. They began in
Renville county on the 22d Of Septem.
Der.
We have received a copy of the Wool
Hat, organ of the Richmond County,
Ga Alliance. 1t is considerably over
a year old, and, notwithstanding its
name, is making the fur fly for the re.
form cause.
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THE CRANKY CRANK.

There are fools for money and fools
for the want of sense. Just SO with
cranks. The real cranky crank cares
neither for money nor honors. He
votes by habit and does not expect an
office. He would rather be wrong than
be President. He believes there is too
much money simply because he has
got none. If you tell him there isn't
enough money in circulation and point
out low prices of everything and bust
ness failures as proof, he will shut his
eyes and mutter something about the
tariff. He is more uneasy about the
English dollar than he is about Ameri-
can dollars. The American dollar bears
this inscription: in God We Trust. "
The cranky crank ends his prayers
every night with: Oh! Lord, never
mind America, give all your attention
to England" The cranky crank swore
last fall that the tariff was the leading
issue. Three months ago he swore the
financial issue was the real one. Now
he says the repeal of the Federal cleo
ton laws will do more for the country
than anything else. Next May he will
swear that white supremacy over
shadows all else, will shut his eyes and
vote his children into a slavery more
CALLING than any negro eve suffered.
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NEWSPAPER BORROWERS.

Since the days of Adam newspaper
borrowers have fourished, though
papers were not published so
early. Just why they have not
been stricken down by some ter
rible disaster we can't tell. These
peculiar bipeds are divided into
several classes. One class borrow a
paper because they do not agree with
the sentiments it expresses, yet they
are eager to see it; and, after reading
the paper closely, give the editor Hail
Columbia. IF you read a paper every
time it comes out you ought to pay for
it, ven if it does not speak your senti
ments. Another class borrow a paper
because they are mot able" to pay for
it. If the time spent in borrowing was
put to a better use, perhaps you could
afford to pay a dollar or two for a pa
per each year. Of course we refer only
to chronic newspaper borrowers. 1t is
no harm to lend your paper to a neigh,
Dor two or three times a year when
you have something he ought to see.
While the newspaper borrower has
his dozens of faults, he may hide a
fairly good heart under his vest, but it
is always hid and generally buried
with him in the same grave before his
neighbors find out his good qualities.
There is still another class Of borrow
ers. Borrowing" is a soft name, per
haps it might be termed newspaper
burglary. When a man comes in your
Office every publication day week after
week and reads your paper, always be
ing careful to carry away a copy after
reading it, he is a newspaper burglar.
He doesn't steal the paper, but if you
were to enter a protest, he would kill
you just as any other burglar would
whom you might discover in your
house; and, for that reason, ought to
suffer the death penalty. We have
been there. Our office is burglarized
by newspaper burglars every week.
Somebody please pray for them; we
can't.
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New York was supposed to be a rich,
prosperous State. We published the
facts last week showing that the people
of the State owe 81, 6O7, 807, 3O1, secured
by real estate mortgages. So the peo-
pie Of that one State owe more than
half as much as the public debt of the
United States amounted to at the close
of the civil war. When the great COM
mon people there learn where they are
at they will renounce the English Wall
street crowd.
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WHY WE FAVOR GOVERNMENT
OWNERSHIP.

Every investment of 81, 600 in the
Western Union Telegraph sto *, will
have received up to September $50, 600
in stock dividends of 800, 600, OF an
average of 800 per cent, dividends per
wear. Il has realized 800, 600, 600 of
net profits in twenty-five years by its
high charges. These figures are I'M
c~ontroverted statements made to the
committee of the last Congress, before
whom that company was represented
bv it's President, It's able array Of coun-
sci, and numerous lobbyists, and when
it was opposing a measure in favor of
a limited adoption of the telegraph by
the Postofice. Hon. Walter H. Clark,
Ii. d., Associate Justice N. @. SW-
pren2e Court, an Arena, March, 1892.
Is it any wonder that the stock
holders in such enterprises as tn tele-
graph and telephone most vehemently
oppose all efforts tending to the gov
errment ownership thereof9 Ii the
telegraph had been operated by the
government as part of the postal eys
tenn those enormous dividends of
800, 600, 900, being 800 per cent. a
year on the original amount invested,
would have been saved to the people,
1t is through such enormous profits
in other enterprises that men become
millionaires. It is by such extortionate
charges that & few men become worth
ten, fifteen, twenty, fifty and seventy
five million in a few years.
How otherwise than by an inves.-
ment yielding 300 per cent. or o a
year could any man acquire seventy
five millions in twenty-five or thirty
years9 Could a farmer do it? No,
but the coal barons, the oil kings, and
the railroad magnates can. Is it not
about time for the government to take
all such enterprises and let the peop-
pie save these great amounts of moneys
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-10-03

Since the first of January last $50
State and private banks have failed in
the United States. During the same
period 155 national banks have failed.
- State and private and 70 national
banks have resumed. Total number
that have failed, 715. Total number
that have resumed, 142. The above
facts show that it was a lack of money
instead of lack of confidence that pre-
cipitated the failures.
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Manufacturers, merchants, bankers,
railroad men, professional men and
others, join their various organizations
formutual protection and co operation.
they do not get mad and quit the or
g~anization because every man votes as
he pleases, and yet they all vote for
what they conceive to be the best par
ties. Farmers ought to learn a lesson
from this, all join the Alliance and
stick to 1T, politics or no politics.
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M
"Cultivatio1 of Debts"

Mr. EDIToR:-The only profitable
crop in this country now is the crop Of
debts. These grow and flourish in all
the States engaged in ~ayricuIture,
Debts are cultivated and fortified BY
letting them stand a long time and de.
creasing the medium in which they
are to be paid.
Mr.. Gladstone says the crop Of foreign
debts, due England is fifty THOUSAND
million dollars or more, and that it
would be strange for her to wish them
paid in "cheap metals" It is much
stranger that the United States should
wish to pay them in the dearest metal.
w. J. PEELE.
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their example,

Congress is doing nothing. First
tariff reform was laid on the shelf. The
financial question then demanded all
the attention. Recently that was
thrown into the legislative junkshop.
More recently the repeal of the Fed
eral election laws came up. That is
hanging fire. The next step probably
will be an address to the farmers ad-
vising them to raise their own supplies
and go b~arefooted.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-10-03

A goldbug paper recently said that
Senator PETER would never be satisfied
until the government printed enough
greenback money to fill bedticks. The
government has allowed Eastern bank
ers to print bank notes and clearing
house certificates until the Eastern
bankers have filled their bedticks with
money, now the public generally ought
to have a chance. Don't you think sO9
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HOW VANCE WILL COMPROMISE.

A few days ago Senator Vance was
I! asked if he would agree to a compro
mise on the silver question. He said
he would provided the bill called for
the coinage of a thousand million dol
dollars, for we could probably get
along with that amount of silver coin.
For q compromise that would prob
ably be a reasonable one. To coin that
amount all the silver now in the Treas
ury vaults and the probable output
for twenty years to come would be re
CURED. By that time we could see
where we are at and take a new start.
However, we are opposed to a compro-
mise, even such a liberal one. Any
compromise is a partial surrender to
the English, Jewish, German and
French goldbugs. Free coinage st the
ratio of 16 to 1 is the only real just
way to settle the question. We must
go to that, and, as the fight is on, let
it be war to the knife and knife to the
hilt. Our ancestors refused to sur
render to English tyrants, let us follow
their example.
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II. r. 2. A.
EDITORIAL NOTES

Congressman Morse, of Massachu
sets, and Fithian, Of Illinois, gave the
country a little relief" Thursday b.
calling each other liars.
The Farmers Encampment will be
in full blast to-day and to-morrow at
Hickory. Bro. Marion Butler and Col.
Harry Skinner are the speakers.
Mr.. Logan D. Terrell, of Wake
county, has been appointed to fill the
position lately held by Mr.. w. W. Hall,
deceased, in the Bureau of Labor Sta
tistics.
1t is now generally believed that
Mayor Trout, Of Roanoke, fired the
shot that made the wound in his own
foot, and that no firing was done by
the mob in the attack on the Jail
Guilford County Alliance will hold
its next quarterly meeting with Spring
field Sub Alliance on the 14th of Octo
Der. Persons attending by rail will
leave the train at High Point, about
three miles from the place of meeting.
We frequently notice items in our
exchanges urging people to ~patronize
home industries. That is good so far
as it goes, but the great need of the
hour is men who will vote for home
and home industries when an election
is held.
A Washington telegram to the Char
lotte NeUs on last Friday stated that
the Ways and Means Committee had
just agreed to double the tax on beer,
whiskey and tobacco. This is the way
we get the revenue laws repealed and
get tariff reform.
A grand Alliance rally will be held
at Bunn's Level, Harnett county, on
the 18th Of October. Hon. J. N. New
borne, President of the State Alliance,
and Col. Harry Skinner, Of Pitt, will
be the orators of the day. The public
generally are invited.
The Richmond Times, Democrat, and
the Richmond San, Populist, have
agreed to exchange editorials once a
week so that their readers will get both
res during the State campaign. That
is a g0Nd idea and ought to be appreci.
ated by tie people of that State.
About han Of the administration or
gans now say the repeal of the Sher-
man law is all that the country needs.
The other half say the Mckinley tariff
law is the seat OF disease. As both of
these laws were made two years ago,
20 to ask what the row was about
tenty-fve years prior to that date.
Il BiIkins is not infallible, but we
he is about correct in his expla.
aof the difference between a gold
nd a humbug. He says a goldbug
ian who owns some gold and may
rly be called a goldbug, but if he
no gold and persists in singing
.aises of the present Congress, he
umbug.
Peoples Party Paper, Atlanta,
owned and edited by Hon. TIE. Wat
son. is now two years old. 1t was the
first new party paper in the South and
had a hard struggle for the first few
months. It now has II, 900 subscribers
and deserves several times that num-
Der. az it Is an i~ncorruptible and cour-
caS1r ion Of the rights of the
masses.
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Nearly every one believes that a few
large banks and bondholders precipi-
tated the panic in order to help bring
the country to a gold basis, If any one
doubts the fact that the anne parties
who are accused, threaten to bring on
another panic if the Sherman is not re
pealed at cnce and Internationally,
ought TO remove all doubts, Let EN-
panic. They are opening the peoples
eyes and the shackles will be thrown
off.
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preston than it has yet knoun
that the Democratic party NAV and
justly held responsible for such not BE
trophe. 0SVas
. Yours very truly.
GROVER CLEyELAND
We assert, without fear Of oon
dicUion, that there are so, 900 ten.1oS
old boys in America who can VIZ lar,
more patriotic and wiser letter ~
the above. 1t shows that he is 40 4 t~
from giving relief as ever.
He says: "Within the limits of NH
I have written I am a friend to siIra ua I.
Of course he is, bu5 the limits ara
narrow that re 0'T al the silver i,
squeezed out Sine ot our cxchara.
say this letter proves that the Pre o'
dent is a bi-metalist. He said in ~.
message that he was for keeping II.
silver money now in circulation oooa
but it is plain that he is against furtbo,
coinage. This declaration and the M,
that he is ga friend to silver" is ahort
as logical as would be that of man
who, after killing a married man
would say to his widow, "wbv'
madam, I was one Of the best frieni,
your husband ever had while he was
living; I loved him so much that !
killed him"
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NOTICE.
To Sub Alliances:
form cause

To Sub Alliances:
Blanks for quarterly reports for SUP.
Alliances were sent out on the 218t 0!
September If any Of you have failed
to get them, write me at once Inc
proceedings and constitutions will De
sent out this week. Ali applications
for losses to the 1st of October must De
sent in by the 10th of October, as the
funds for relief on hand will be dis,
tributed On that date pro rata as
directed. F~raternally,
W. S. BARNES,
Sec'y-Treas. n. @. +. 5 a.
Raleigh, N. c., Oct. 1, 1898.
Speakers who will be present at In9
different County Alliances at the neA'
quarterly meeting:
First district-BrO. P. Il. Massey
Second district-Bro. Marion Butlst
in Pitt, Bro. NJ. L. Wood remainder u
district.
Third district Bro. j. NJ. Mew9orHe,
Harnett; Bro. Marion Butler, Wah0'
Bro. A. 9. Shuford, in Durham, GraL
Vile and Vance, and Bro. j. ). L0Do
in remainder of district.
Fourth district-Bro. Cyrus InomP
son in Richmond, Columbus and BrunS
wick, and Bro. j. NJ. MeWborne IN IL
mainder of district. An.
Fifth district-Bro. MeWoorne IN az n
son and Union. Bro. A. Z. Shutoru q"
remainder of district ~ y uoouor
Sixth district-Bro; ): l. 3: Hoo'e IN
Seventh district-Bro. Hoover ~
Rowan and Iredell, Bro thompson"
remainder G On iet Thomps6G
Remember, those co. counties mt d%oI f@ated
Nv State authorities, for reasaS
under districts.
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and intelligence, we are further behind
than we were one hundred and twenty
years ago. The blood spilled by our
ancestors was thrown away. Grover
Cleveland, liz Republican and 100
Democratic Congressman have cut the
silken cord OF our liberty.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-10-03
LETTER.

President Cleveland, in answer to q
letter from Governor Northern, of Geor-
gia, sent the following day last
week;
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In writing TO anybOdg, always 30
sure TO give the name OF your p0stodce,
and sig9 your own name plainly.
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Do you want your paper changed TO
another Office State the n at which
you have been getting it.