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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-09-26
AN EYE OPENER.

A prominent and very intelligent
citizen of Raleigh remarked a few days
ago that our answer to a question pro
pounded by a Nash county correspon-
dent last week, in regard to free coin.
age, was the clearest explanation of
that phase of the financial question
that ne had ever read. The gentleman
understands the matter himself. but
thought that answer was palmer than
any ne ever saw, and thinks anybody
can understand after reading the edi-
torial.
IL Is strange that any of us should be
ignorant On financial matters. Every
| day we hear intelligent men saw thav
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-09-26
MORTGAGES IN NEW YORK.

By publishing the facts, we have ex
.ploded the time worn assertions of peo-
Die in the South in regard to their in
debtedness. The starch has all gone
out of the politicians who made the
South believe that the North is a great
bank of deposit and the people actually
wearing themselves out looking for
somebody to loan their money to.
When we published the mortgage IN
debtedness of Kansas and put the per
capita at $40, the people said oh! Kan.
sas is a cyclone State, full of cranks.
But we followed that up with Pennsyl-
vania and other rich States, and they
were not much better. Then came
Colorado with a per capita debt OF
s2O6. Now we have the big State OF
them all.
New York State is the natural gate
wav of the United States. Through
New York everything must come.
Through New York everything must
90. New York is a fine farming State.
There are dozens of big commercial
and manufacturing cities. New York
is a great manufacturing State. OF
course there is a great deal of money
in the State, much valuable property.
Now will you believe it9 Well, it is
true. Kansas and Colorado ''are not
in it," The people Of New York each
owe tao hundred and siGty eight dol
lars, secured by real estate m rtgages.
The population Of the State is about
5000, 600.
The debt incurred in 1880 was 1888,
| $50, 1896. In 1889 debts to the amount
Of 1881, 554, 973 were secured by real
estate mortgages. During the ten
years the increase in population was
! 19 per cent, while the debts increased
148 % per cent. The existing debt on
the first of January 1890, was n bill
lion, sic hundred and SeUen millions,
eight hundred and seUen thousand,
three hundred and one dollars.
In proportion to population New
York is about 81 times as much in
debt as South Carolina. By that we
mean per capita. In other words the
State of New York is nearly three hem
bred times as much in debt as South
Carolina. Now let the sorry mortals
who say that cotton raising and lazi
ness has ruined the South, or that the
country is all right, go into their holes
Reader are you for reform or fol-
destruction.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-09-26
COTTON

The report of correspondents of the
Weekly Weather Crop Bulletin issued
by the North Carolina State Weather
Service for the week ending Monday,
September 18th, 1893, indicate that the
first part of the week was very unfavor-
able on account of much rain, cloudy
weather and lack Of sunshine. After
Thursday the weather was good, ex-
cept some cool nights during last few
days. Special reports concerning cot
ton indicate a very unfavorabIe out
look. The probable yield cannot be
estimated over rs per cent, and will
be probably considerably under that
figure. Out of over a hundred reports
only five make cotton in good condi-
ton, with prospects for average yield.
Picking cotton became general latter
part of week. The wet weather also
caused second growth on tobacco and
some poor cures. Owing to soft condi-
ton of soil farm work has been inter
rupted. Fine weather the coming week
will brighten prospects materially.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-09-26
GETTING DESPERATE.

A few days ago the New York Times,
one Of plutocracy's pet Democratic
organs, expressed itself in this wise:
For it is obvious that the silver men
are now engaged in sheer malicious
fIibustering. 1t is nonsense to call
their talking against time debate. 1t
is no more that than it is the monot-
onous howl of discontinued dogs, and
the feeling it inspires In all rational
minds would be most aptly expressed
by the aid Of handy missiles. Exactly
how they will take the warning Mr..
voorhees, gave them yesterday remains
to be SEEN"
That goes to show that p%lutocracy is
getting very impatient, so much so
that it will allow it's organs to say very
harsh things. The spirit of the New
York organs for a few days has been
both revolutionary and i~ncendiary.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-09-26
AT SEA.

The venerable editor Of the Elizabeth
City Economist has found where he is
at in his old age. Speaking of public
affairs in his last paper, he said:
There is nothing more characters
tic of this political period than the I'M
rest, vacillatiOn, unsteadiness and I'm
stability of political opinion that pre-
walls among III politicians and states
men, among all classes, parties and
conditions. Indeed it has become so
common for public men to wheel about
and change places in the political reel
Of life, that they who adhere to their
opinions and stick to their political
convictions, when once deliberately
formed, are getting to be regarded as
stOlid, Indifferent, and wanting in in
dependence and m%anliness of political
thought and action. The political pot
is seething and boiling, and change is
as common as the change of particles
in the bubbling cauldron. 1t has be-
come imprUdent and unsafe to tie to
any body and every man has to think
for himself and act for himself without
reference to any one else's opinions in
public life. Such is the necessity of
our situation, and we are compelled to
unite ourselves from our leaders and
do the best we can in the tumultuous
and surging political pillows"
We are glad to read the above. The
writer got to that point a good while
ago, and believes that it is the only
sensible position for a free man to &C
cupy.
Again Col. Creecv saws:
I'VE looked around for a bimetalic
leader to tie to in the fuctuating bill
lows. We first turned to our two iron
greys in the Senate-our senior Senator
first-we reviewed him, up one side
and down the other. A man after our
own heart-accomplished, experienced,
able. courteous, the soul of chivalrV
and honor, me of the most gifted de-
baters in the Senate, but loving his
friends better than himself and serving
them before himself, he flung away
personal ambition and was not often
enough in the hurry burly of debate.
for a plain man to light his torch at the
brilliant light he might so easily have
turned on" R9serving him for quiet
friendly counsel, we turned to a review
of our junior Senator, war Cover
nor, sturdy Z9b Vance, a man, as we
thought. with a back bone as stout and
stiff asa crowbar. Alas alas! we found
him coqueting with the anarchists,
using honey words to the most danger
GUS, the most ignorant, the most reck-
less element in our politics."
Right there we take issue with Col.
Creepy. Senator Vance has not
changed. He is not ''coqueting with
anarchists" or the reckless element.
Ten years ago the Economist was with
Senator Vance, but prejudice led it's
editor away after strange gods and to-
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-09-26

know nothing about finances, and that
they are willing to leave it all to our
national lawmakers. Yet these men
would be ashamed to admit that they
know so little about other matters. If
you were to ask them how much four
pounds of coffee would Ecome to at 25
cents per pound, they could tell you in
two seconds. They would not admit
that they do not know black from
white. Any Of them could go into a
store and buy goods. They would not
buy sugar when they wanted calico.
They would not pay ten cents per
pound for nails if the merchant only
asked three cents per pound. Finances,
OF a political nature, are just as simple
as everyday financial affairs at home.
The money lords of the world have
tried to keep the average man in the
dark. Some Of the greatest bankers in
the world put on a long face and de,
clare that they know nothing about
government finances. Newspapers say
they know nothing about it. This is
all humbuggery. Friends, you can
know if you try, and you are criminal
~ negligent if you fail to try. Aman
would be a specimen of laughing stock
should he allow his neighbors to cheat
him as often as he allows politicians to
take him in. We know men who
would kill a neighbor if he should
cheat them out of twenty-five cents.
Yet these same men go on year after
year and allow the fnanciers, politi,
clans, crop and stock gamblers, usurere
and others to take half their earnings,
get them in debt and absorb every,
thing, and don't even have the moral
and ply steal courage to vote against
such robbers. After you have been de
ceived a few times you should learn
something.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-09-26
A CONGESTION OF MONEY.

The metropolitan papers ave re-
DaatedIv warned the people of the dan
GER of too much money. The cross
roads weeklies, whose editors are often
dolIarless, have tdrawled out o o
muc-hm o ely. By persistent lying
these papers have almost made many
people believe that there is too much
money. Poor, foolish business men,
who are making assignments, think
there is too much money. Poor, foolish
farmers, with mortgages on their farms,
and b~arefooted, ignorant children,
have been made to believe that there is
too much money, end they think the
Sherman law ought to be repealed I'M
conditionally.
The latest and most desperate attempt
along this line is now in progress. News
is being sent out from New York say
ing there is "a congestion of money in
that city" The dispatches say that
outside banks are sending money there
in such quantities that the New York
banks actually cannot handle it. Tne
news is rendered more heartrending
wheni it is supplemented with the state
ment that from two to three millions
of dollars have to be carried around
from n bank to another there every
day. Like other fish stories circulated
by plutocracy, this will be believed.
You car find merchants and farmers
today in every State in the Union who
believe these lies, and who are actually
shedding tears in sympathy for the
poor New York bankers who cannot
find(0 DON to store the money they
are getting. So much for gullible man
kind.
You will remember that these same
scoundrels frightened half of the PEG.
pie three months ago with a big yarn
about gold going to England so rapid.
ly. Well, it was going; it goes every
year in trade between the various
countries of Europe and America, but
it comes back in the natural course OF
trade. No doubt two or three millions
OF dollars are passing from bank to
bank in that city every day. What il
it does9 The same thing has been go.
ing on for years. The only difference
is that there is less money in New York
now than for a long time.
If New York has too much honey
why is 200, 900 of her population idlei
If she has 50 much money, why is it
that the business failures in that city
foot up almost one fourth of the entire
failures Of the United States every
week, though the population of New
York City amounts to only one :thirtieth
Of the total population of the United
States. Plutocracy will get many be,
levers, but they r people who don't
know enough to come in out of the
rain
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-09-26
ALLIANCE NOTES.
Brief News About What is Going on
Everywhere.

Brief News About What is Going on
Everywhere.
California has $40 active Alliances.
The Alliance is in a thriving condi.
ton in Arkansas.
Strong efforts are being made to re.
cover all lost ground in Tennessee.
The Alliance encampment whichmet
at Mt. Gretna, Pa, recently was a
great success. Twenty thousand peo
pie e. on the ground.
Missouri and Arkansas State ALI
ances IN session recently each passed
resolutions demanding the free coinage
of silver at the ratio of Is to 1.
The Alliance has educated the people
until the bloody shirt and the tariff rag
are no longer political factors. Let it
go on until every other myth has been
exploded.
A surprise is in store for the Alliance
people all over the country. The Bua.
ness Agency has done a wonderful
work in the State, and it will soon
make another master stroke.
The Alliance is gaining in North Car
Dina steadily. New members are JOIN
ing in every county, old ones are re
newing their allegiance and Alliances
are being reorganized,
A free silver club has been organized
at Vineland, N. J. With free coinage
papers in New York and clubs in New
Jersey, the reform cause may be sad
to have gotten inside the enemy's lines
During the campaign the Virginia
San will be issued semi-weekly. Com,
the great free coinage advocate, VIII
be freely distributed in the State, aS
other papers. Speakers Of natlona
reputation from every section will hoo
alOof the banner of reform.
State Secretary Barbee, of the CaD'
fornia Alliance, has issued an adore"
to the membership. He tells them "
be up and doing for the future OF tn'
Golden State rests with the so AM
ances in the State. True in every otASl
State, for the Alliance is the most pow
erful of any of the several honest"
CARNATIONS. Push it friends.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-09-26
THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT.

1t is commonly supposed that the
seat of government is at Washington,
or thereabouts. This is a popular SUI
perstition. As a matter of fact, the
center of government is not at Wash
ington. If you wish to find the center
of government in America, you should
walk down Broadway until you reach
Trinity church, and turn into a narrow
lane to the left. Walk down this mar
row lane, between those mountainous
buildings that rise toward the sky, and
as you walk the length of Wall street
you have traversed the main corridor
of this nations capital. Wall street is
the center of the government of Amer
lea. 1t has been SO for "a generation,
and there never was a time that it was
more so than to-day.-ReU. Thomas
DiTOn.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-09-26

Tom Watson takes every inch Of hide
off the Atlanta authorities for prevent
log freedom of speech by arresting J..
B. Osborne, whose only crime was that
he started to make a speech. Osborne
was fined 800 and costs. Atlanta is
noted for that and the day of retribu-
lion is near at hand.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-09-26
n. r. P A.
EDITORIAL T

s. Younts, Sons Go. made an assign,
ment at Pineville on the 18th. Liabili
ties about $50, 1000.
The country don't need any 81 cent
dollars and it don't need any 81. 81 dol
lars. We want more 100 cent dollars
and want them quick.
One thousand, three hundred and
sixty-four square inches of reading is
what you get for one cent in The Pro
GREssIvE FARMER at 81. 90 per year.
In the small city of Yonkers, N. Y,
5000 people are idle and without food.
The entire city has been turned into a
charity hospital, yet Congress does
nothing.
There are only two goldbug daily pa,
pers in the great West-the Portland
OregOnian and the Salt Lake Herald.
They are all in the reform column.
That is a hopeful sign.
Machpelah Alliance, Lincoln county,
has ten members more now than she
had three months ago The Alliance
is the great educational institution.
Let the good work go on.
Read the Business Agency page care
fully this week. There is important
matter on it for you. From now on
business will be done on the thirty
days plan with bonded business agents.
Accidents on railroads are becoming
too frequent in the neighborhood of
New York and Chicago. The latest is
one near K~ingsbury, Indiana, in which
eleven persons were killed and many
wounded. 1t occurred Friday morning.
For two months the New York Her.
old has had a standing editorial headed
''The Sherman Law Must be Repealed. "
Last Monday it contained an editorial
headed, "Will the Sherman be Re
pealed9" How the mighty have fallen.
The columns Of 50 copies Of The Pro
GREssIvE FARMER pasted together so
that the reading would join regularly,
would make a column 1886 yards and
2 feet long, or nearly 4 5 of a mile, of
the very best of reading, and all you
are asked to pay for all this is $1.OO.
If the people Of the United States
will demonetize about two hundred
and thirty Congressman and fifty Sen
ators, send them home and put them
on a bread and water diet or basis, the
country would have a chance" Next
year is the time to put that in practice.
1t is amusing to read editorials about
the pledges solemnly made at Chicago
last year" Those pledges cannot be
construed to mean anything. Of
course the goldbug administration is
willing to continue the use of both
gold and silver, " but how much of each9
The proportion seems to be about Is of
gold and 1 Of silver.
Senator Mills, of Texas, threw an
old, wormy, chestnut into the Senate
Chamber a few days ago. Speaking
in favor of the repeal of the Sherman
law he grew eloquent and after the
manner of a tragedian declared "that
Of every dollar of silver in the silver
States were coined free, the farmers Of
she country will only get it by the
sweat Of their brows." That is Just
Svhat the farmers want. They have
Ben sweating long enough without the
silver, and now they want it.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-09-26
"-BEELLzEBUB OF LIARS

RALEIGH, n. ~
Mr.. EDIToR:-It would be good reaG
ing TO: you to copy some of the e9I p5i.
ais of the New York, Chicago ana Can %n
adelphia press against the silver 0 ond
ators. For impudence, arrogance III
mendacity they have not been equaPSJJ
The New York World, edited by q t tEis
ish Jew, is easily the BeellzebuD Oh w.
host of liars and slanderers.
"High on a throne of royal SS .ont
satan exalted sat" No free goVernIbT
has ever been overthrow eXceRV o M
the anarchy of aggregated capltad
the communism of pampered g [91Tr
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-09-26
THE PROSPERITY HOWL

We clip the following editorials.
the last issue of the Bugletown IRON
perEty HoWler: Eros.
Just let Cleveland alone H..
biggest man at Buzzard Bav The
catch more fish than any man IN III! Can
He will save the country if bait wing
out. nOds
If Congress doesn't adjourn
all be ruined. We are glad the WV" co
try went Democratic, but think Il tIua,
for the administration to hide on ost
til another force bill scarce can h. u
jured up. OOQ'
I'VE notice that the Windsor 10
thinks the Alliance will not thrino"ySF
til it gets out Of politics. W. tb; W.
our contemporary believes with nsn
it must be nonpartisan, and to ho a'
should be Democratic. ""
"The impudence of the New w.,
dailies is almost ~unbearabIo NJ
Howzer never accuses anybody of I IL
ing a crank Or rascal just because tb.s
are honest. Alliancemen, Of con.s.
are excepted.
Or. Thompson, the alleged 9to,.
Lecturer of the Farmers Ariar.s
spoke at Bugletown Wednesday. 9,,I
men ought to be hung up by shetbnrS,
for six weeks. They are disturbprs ',
the public peace. The farmers ara oI
waiting for Grover Cleveland to ssr.
the country, and they don't want ~
form from any other source. But va
are bound to admit that it o
slow"
1--WE always thought the Republics,
party stood in the way of reform. Tbo
New York Herald of the 21st saws fbo.
five or six Populist Senators are BocE
ing the way to reform. Our contem.
porary doubtless is right, but for on,
life the Prosperity Ho1cler can't ss
how five Senators 4 stop Legislation
when there are 50 more left to outvos
them. But we reckon it is all righto
blame it on somebody. Still it looks
like a big black lie.
~ ~-
The State Executive Committee Of
the Alliance were in session here Fri.
day and Saturday. Bros Butler, LONE
and HeiIman were all present. Pres:
dent Mewborne and Lecturer Thomp
son were also here and assisted in form.
ing the State into eight districts forte
purpose of p~erfecting the lecture sys
tenn. See the dates for the county
meetings on another page.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-09-26
$685. 54 $7,4OO,6O5
Loss for the week, 50, 231, 851.

The North Carolina editors continue
to get office. Of course they deserve
something for standing by the pluto
cratic goldbug crowd before and after
the election, but what good will their
getting office do their thousands of
readers7 That kind of relief doesn't
better the condition of the public gen.
erally.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-09-26

In a printed card of regulations for
public information, issued by the Wells
Fargo Express Company in the sos,
the last regulation reads: This COM
pany will not be responsible for any
loss or damage occasioned by fire, the
acts of God, or of Indians, or any other
public enemies of the government"
Gould an Irishman have beaten that9
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-09-26

In answer to several persons writing
for copies of THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER
ofSept. 18th containing Senator Vance's
speech, will state that the issue for
that week has been all sent out. Doubt
less all subscribers have preserved
the paper and they will allow you to
read it if you can see them.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-09-26

The President has named William
B. Hornblower, of New York, to fill
the vacancy on the U. s. Supreme
Court bench caused by the death of
Judge Blatchford. Of course every
thing must come from New York. At
any rate the Supreme Court ought to
be able to blow it's own horn now.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-09-26
something

Plutocracy has but one more excuse
to offer the people for it's failure to give
them good government, and that is
that the last election was held in the
wrong time of the moon. The plutes
may go before the people on that issue
next time and ask for another
''chancen
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-09-26
NEW CRISIS.

One crisis in the affairs of the Gov
eminent now comes fast upon the
heels of another. While the Silver
Repeal bill is being talked to tatters
in the Senate, and the House Com,
mittee enters upon the mOmentous
tariff revision, the revenues of the
Government are falling off at the rate
of 81, OOO,O 900 a week. Last week the
fall was even greater, viz:
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-09-26

The reading matter on a page of The
PROGRESSIVE FARMER measures 14x2O
inches, and there are eight pages to the
paper and 50 papers published in a
year. This makes 116, 48O square inches
Of the very best reform literature to be
had, and all for only $1.OO. It takes
cash and a lot of it to get this paper
out, and if you owe it anything you are
most respectfully and earnestly re-
quested to pay up now.
The Washington correspondent of
the New York Herald sent the follow
ing to his paper on the 10Th: although
the Democratic whip reported 1876
Democratic representatives in the city
this morning at ten o'clock, there were
but 173 of them present on the floor at
any one time today, and the majority
again found themselves powerless to
make any progress with the bill to re-
peal the federal election laws" Now
the question the country is asking is
where is the party with a CHANGER
With a majority of 1O4 Democrats in
the House they can't get enough of
them together or to stay in Washing
ton long enough to do anything good
or bad. :
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-09-26

liam standing nO1U Just behind the
curtain, and in full glOUO Of the coming
sunset. Behind me re the 8hGdOUs on
the track, before me lies the dark Galley
and the riUer. When I mingLe tCith ats
dark WaterS I Wdnt to cast inger-
Sng look upon o. country 1UboSe govern
ment is of the people, for the people,
and by the people. "-L. L. Polk, July
9TH, 1890.