The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-10-10
GOODWIN ALLIANCE STILL AT 1T.
GOODWIN, n. @.

session assembled, 1 have dec ded to
let our friends and neighbors know
that Goodwin Alliance, No. 131, Is still
doing business at the old and original
stand. 1t would be we'll to mention
that a few have left us while others
have taken their places. Others, from
financial causes, are not meeting with
us in person, but the spirit is still there
and will remain.
We have confiding% confidence in our
Congress now in session, for with the
number of renegades among them the
honest Democrats, Republicans and
Populists can do nothing in the way of
fulfilling the Chicago Democratic plat
form pledges. And we lhave no alter
native but to remodel at the next
Congressional elections and send true
and honest reformers, such men as
voted themselves One extra hundred
per month, work Or play. We are &C
quainted with such a man as this, rep
resenting the Third district, now in
Congress, and on that line he very
much resembles the J. P. in Texas,
holding his court among the roughs.
They got into a general fight, he com
manded the peace and they would no.
heed and he being of gigantic portions,
laid aside his books, commissions and
the law and sWore if he could not have
peace he would have a hill of a row
trying, so he knocked down both sides
till there was none to row.. This Rep
resentative tried at first to retrench by
cutting down salaries. That would not
work, then went to the other extreme
and voted for the one hundred dollars
per month increase. That worked like
oil on the troubled waters.
1t seems that the calamity howlers'
commenced in anew place. New howl,
new set. This is howl No. 2. No. 1
came from the farmers and laborers
generally more than ten years ago.
The reply from our solons was, your
howl is unconstitutional, but when it
came from the colonies, composed of
the bankers, merchants and their ilk,
Capt. Cleveland, of CUR blessed OLD Snip
of State, heard the howl and says to
his crew, do you hear the poor fellows
bowling in the jungles on the bank?
Stop at once, something mast be done;
the wolf is at them. They say this
wolf is the silver purchasing clause in
the make shift Sherman law, and we
are fast getting to the place that with
a few exceptions, and these exceptions
are a credit to any age or government,
that the manipulatOrs Of our govern
ment are as cOwardly a make-shift for
statesmen as ever disgraced the outside
shell of the world.
There is no doubt but that our
last State Legislature took pattern
from the national from the way they
spent money. It'll perfectly absurd to
mention it after it has been rehearsed
and rehashed so many times, but l
must mention the effort to repeal our
charter, and to put it mild will only
say this: Two motives and only two
could have conceived the idea, and the
same in voting to repeal. These mo-
tives consisted, one Of ignorance, the
other rascality.
AS a little 2x4 editor out on the line
of Robson and Richmond recently
. said: The Peoples party, it is true,
are illiterate and ignorant, butfor once
are right on the silver question" This
is very gratifying to Us to have such a
commendable notice from B. A, A. B g,
L. L. D., please tell US which.
We do watch and are for the most
of our aims right, and many a n Of
these learned editors, if they had ever
made L crop Of COW peas in the coun-
try, would not be so willing and free
to give advice on all subjects On farm
ing, in theory, and don't know any of
it by practice. However we will con-
tent ourselves now for a while and
listen to howl No. 3. But let me tell
you, this new set of howlers gather in
the ''scads." The Peoples Bank, of
Fayetteville, the First National of Will
mington, and the stately State Bank in
Wilmington "howled" $3.50, 900 out of
the hollow of Robson county's hand,
to say nothing of the other meat they
got by howl No 2.
Crops are fairly good, but not an
average without an unusually late fall,
but we must be content. Potatoes,
pumpkins, persimmons and 'possums
are in sight, and no tariff on the latter
and none on the dog, and we can join
with or brother in hlack-ha has the