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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-10-30

trifing incumbrance and the fact that
that it cost more to produces tie wheat
than it can be sold for is a matter of
no Importance. The suggestion, too,
that In consequence of the bandit
financial legislation of the country,
the dollar Of to day is wcrth more
than it was when most of this mort
gage indebtedness was contracted, is
positive anarchy. Besides all this, in
debtedness represents only one-third
the average value of the mortgaged
farms according to the ms report
and the newspaper comment. AS the
value of farm property has shrunk
about so per cent in the last two years,
it would seem that the holders of farm
mortgages are a pretty lucky set of
fellows, if their security is still three
times the value of their claims. But
the census bureau nor the venomous
editors who are determined to make
the people believe, if possible, that
when the sheriff stands at the door
with an execution or foreclosure paper,
his visit is simply an element OF our
general prosperity, take any notice OF
the shrinkage of values. They do not
seem to know and do not want to know
that everything has shrunk except the
mortg age. They proceed upon the
utterly loose and senseless plan of esti,
mating property at former valuations,
as most people do. In any community
ask what farm property is worth and
you will be told $50, SIS or 800 an
acre, perhaps. But nobody is buying
it at that price. There may not be a
single farm for sale in the whole town,
ship. The price given is that which
prevailed when wheat was worth more
than hog feed, when there we're not
several hundred thousand men out OF
employment, and when our industries
were not paralyzed. If only n third
of the farms in Illinois are mortgaged
we are glad of it. If the enormous
sum of $99, 900, 900 represents the entire
farm mortgage indebtedness Of the
| State, we rejoice that it is not more
But how is this $99, 600, 600 to be PAID
with SO cent wheat and cheap cattle
and cheaper wool9 That is the ques
tion that interests us. If the blatant
apologists for Shylock oppression car
tell us how and when, under reason
ably prudent management, the owners
of the farms that are mortgaged, car
pay the Indebtedness, it is all We
require.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-10-30
SENATOR MORGAN FOR A FREE
BALLOT.

The following is taken from an inter,
view with Senator Morgan of Ala.
bama with a correspondent Of the
Nom onformi8t. 1t will be read with
interest by all who are acquainted with
the situation.
It is the most heinous Of all crimes,
he said, unless we except murder or
rape, and a man who would aid in
doing it would steal the bread from the
after or the sacred vessels from the
communion table. A man who would
reject a legal ballot, throw it out, not
count it or make a false return, is not
fit for human society. He would rob
his mother. He would steal the saw,
ings of a begger. 1 would not trust
him with anything He not only robe
the man whose vote is suppressed but
the whole nation.
I thought that comforting the sui
frage upon the negro was a mistake,
He did not have the intelligence-t to use
it for his own benefit. l thought that
it was wrong to do it. But the negro
has the right of the ballot by consitu-
tional amendment, and that right
should be maintained. It may not
harm the negro to suppress his ballot,
but it harms the man who does it. If
1 see a body lying in the bushes and I
fire into it with the intention of killing
the man and then robbing him, and
afterward it proves to be a dead body,
I am a murderer. l did not harm the
dead man, but I harmed myself.
Every man, white or black must
have free access to the ballot box. HIS
vote must be received, it must be
counted, correct returns must be made
and the man who has the majority, if
it is only one vote, must be inducted
into Office and exercise it's functions,
or this government cannot endure"
This appeal for a free ballot will
hardly suit the brutal Democracy of
that State, since their only hope of
carrying the election depends upon
the rape Of the ballot ox.-NatiOmGl
Waterman, july Goth 1854
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-10-30
THE SHIP FRAUD COMMISSION

Back in the dark days of '68 ana "
there were some dark and corrup'
transactions in this State. Both DemV
Gratis and Republicans were in the sVeSt
The whole matter was investigated anu
the evidence published in the 0nPp
Fraud Commission. The Democrat"
politicians who were in the dark trans
actions have burned every Oh In0'0
books they could get.
We have been trying for six mOn'I'
to get a copy and have just succeeu ~
We find that Col. Sam Tate, 'I0
present State Treasurer, and candloay0
for re election, figures prominently -
the ugly transactions. The ehor
seems to show that he was in a NUM-" "
of corrupt transactions. MAJ, D
Wilson, present Chairman OF Dn0 ~ Toto
Commission, testified thai w ~ be
made propositions to him WHICH he
could not accept or consider D5o Don.
considered them corrupt Matt Ean,
som was the attorney for tne gang
were robbing the State. nora
We did not get the book I'LL W T0 nooke
ready to go to press. We VIII ohows
extracts from it next week. IL Sn
one thing certain that Col. IaO0 his
a fit man to be State Treasurer ,;rb
hands are not clean. He smells n9
in the dark record of the raua 0
mission of 1871.-GOEdsbOr0 C""'
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-10-30
INCONSISTENCY.

The Atlanta Constitution asks why
it is that sensible people will persist in
doing the Democratic party the in
justice Of confounding it with those
eastern bushwhackers who were elected
to Congress under the name of Demo
Gratis in order that they might more
perfectly carry out the desires of
the Shylocks and their partners in
Europe3"
We should like to ask the COnStitu-
ton if Mr.. Cleveland is not as much a
bushwhacker as the Congressman it
repudiates as Democrats. Those men
were just as openly opposed to the frt g
coinage of silver as was the President
before their election, and had any one
of them been nominated for President
by the National Democratic Conven-
ton, instead Of Cleveland, the Cousti-
tuition, would have supported him and
stigmatized all who refused as traitors
Of the deepest dye.
The Constitution supported Cleve-
land, knowing he was hostile to silver.
So where is the sense or consistency of
conceding to him the honesty of his
convictions and denouncing Congress
men who are in the same boat with
him on the money question9-Rich-
mOnd Star.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-10-30
REMEMBER
the law,

The PROGRESSIVE FARMER has pub
lished many important facts recently,
and we will remind our readers of some
of them again.
The total land tax paid by the farm
ers of North Carolina in 1898 was Is
per cent. more than was paid by them
in 1879, while the merket value of their
land is only about one-third what it
was then.
Out of a total of 81, 1876, $50 70 of taxes
collected from all sources sfor State,
school and pension purposes in 1898.
''our agricultural class" paid more
than 81, OBS, 900 of it and other sources"
paid the balance or about one-fourth of
the whole.
The total exports from this country
of all products, in1893, we're 1881, 03O, 785
Of this amt we fiud credit'd
to agriculture ......... 615, 1872, 1886
All other produces. 1915, 647, 799
This shows that about three tourths
of those products which add to the
wealth of the country are agricul.
tural.
The expenditures of u State Gov.
eminent were, in 1880, only.$ 1876, 72O. SO
In 1898 they were........ 1873. 648. IL
An increase of .....@....$ 822, s27 n
Which in cotton would have been
In 1880, Bales $3.50
In 1893, 1884
r 7OO1 6 A OC0
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-10-30

lam standing Just behind the
curtain, and in full gIotU Of the coming
sunset. Behind me are the shadows on
the track, before me lies the dark vaLLey
and the riUer. When I mingIe gith its
dark s0aters I tOGnt to cast one hmgeT-
mo look upon a country wbose govern
msnt is of the people, for the people,
and 6g the peopIe."-L. L. Polk, July
eth, 1890.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-10-30

GA 6NCAo6O VI 4S.OO WOOASj WILL aver
age attendance of 142, 1862. Colored,
2,219 schools, an average of ID weeks,
with average attendance of 70, Az.
The average pay of teachers was
White males, $26,46 per month; fe,
males, $23 81. Colored males, $23 80;
females, $2128.
The number of school children was
White, 399. 1853; colored, 218, 788; total
618, 511.
The enrolment was: Whites, $685.
$50; colored, 124, 1913; total. $50, 958.
School districts in the State are:
Whites, 4 .937; colored, 1926.
From the data given we will ask, if
it takes $4O9, 1874 % to run 4, 500 schools
for white children 1870 weeks, how
much would it take to run 1887
schools Is weeks, as required by the
constitution
If it takes $199, O48 81 to run 2,219
schools for colored children IL weeks,
how much would it cost to run 2. 296
schools for 16 weeks, as required by
our constitution?
Figure this out and tell US if YOU
don't think, if scme of the many items
for county superintendent, t~reasurer's
commission, mileage, other purposes.
ETC., could not be reduced somewhat.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-10-30
OUR SCHOOLS.

The expenditures of our school funds
for the year 1898, as we learn at the
Office of the State Superintendent of
Public Instruction, were as follows:
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-10-30

Kansas exchanges indicate no posi-
bility of the loss of that State to the
Republicans.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-10-30

In writing to anyb0dg, always be
lure to give the name OF your posCoIhce'
and sign your " name PLAINLY
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-10-30

~ Our friends in writing to any OF
,ur advertisers will favor Us by men
Joining the fact that they saw the
advertisement IN The Progressive
FARMER
-The date On your label tells you
Rhen your time is out.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-10-30

Do YOU want your paper changed TO
another Office State the one at which
you have been getting 1t.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-02
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

The statehood question is badly in need
of stimulaut
The Perry Democrat has coined the word
''blizzsrdette.
The FL Reno Herald has become the Ell
Reno Daily Globe.
Sam Small and McMasters have fallen
out, which was not Mt all unexpected.
Ex-Secretary of Territory Martin will
be the Republican candidate for mayor in
Guthrie.
Cameron's case is rather sad. When
the vest side gets a pie the east side locks
up ne piecounter.
Governor Renfrow is having little
trouble in strikigg out the enacting clause
Of Parson Parker.
The Press-Gazette of Oklahoma City is
in favor of fixing it SO that that town can
have six postmasters.
Oklahoma can get into the full horrors
of 4 political campaign quicker than any
other region on earth.
McMasters will have 10 edit his paper
somewhere outside of Oklahoma City and
he has selected Guthrie rs the place
The Sam Small plant. that is the old
one, is in the hands OF the sheriff. Small
intends to get new outfit throughout.
Parson Parker as much Ms he dislikes it
will have to plead guilty to the general
charge that lie is the Mrs. Lease of Okla
homa.
Cameron who is just now in possession
of an appointment without the power to
take the office, is u Methodist minister
from Texas
Now is the time ia Oklahoma when the
candidate puts in, a dollar announcement
and then expects the editor 10 give him
ten dollIr puff.
Somebody rang the new frebell at Enid
for fun the other day, aud some OF the
firemen are chasing wildly about town
looking for the fire fiend yet
Oklahoma is the only place ia this
country where the want of political eS-
citement is so strongly felt that it is nec-
essary 10 have an election to settle a posi-
office fight.
Guthrie Capital: In the libel suit of
Captain Tandy vs. William Banks before
Justice Cassiday yesterday afternoon,
William was placed under a $50 bond.
William made n statement that TaDdy
had been paid $3.50 and would receive $3.50
more for turning over the negro vote 10
the Democrats.
Enid Wave: Journalism in Oklahoma
mas proven transitory and delusive TO sew
eral adrenturers of late As Frank Greer
of the Guthrie Capital said that Ell Greer
told him that Bill Hackney had quoted
Horace Greeley as having said: 'ls re-
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-02
TIE sTRASBURG CLOCK.
rom ihe Philadelphia TeIesraph.

FROM the Philadelphia telegraph.
For the third time the municipality
OF Strasburg Germany. decided in 1886
that a new astronomical clock should
be placed in the frame of the old
one. A Strashurg matchmaker by the
name of Schwilgue was intrusted with
the undertaking, and within four years
he finished the unique mechanism
which stands to-day to the wonder and
amusement of natives and visitors Not
only does this clock keep the time from
day TO day, but it runs from year to
year without the intervention OF any
clockmaker. Besides this its face con
tains disk indicating all the varia be
holidays of the year. Easter. and so on.
It regulates itself in the leap years II
gives the phases of the moon, the
eclipses. the equinoxes and the revo-
lutions of ali the planets OF the
solar system. The fineness of the
structure can be understood when
il is known that of the
seven golden balls of different sizes
representing the .pianets. the nearest
TO the sun. Mercury takes twenty-eiga;
days to make the circuit Of IFS orbit,
wmie Saturn only can complete as
course in 1,147 days. or nearly three
years The entire mechanism its
maker calculated, would run until the
year 1929. II the brass and other metal
of which il is built do not wear out in
the meantime This wonderful con
trivance IS unfortunately in dark
place, where those who constantly wish
10 view ii yell are scarcely able TO DO
so. Its site is wing. which can be en-
tered either through the cathedral
proper or portal. which directly leads
thither from outdoors
The time OF greatest interest is a,
noon each day. though there are Little
performance at every quarter hour At
noon is the time the cock crows anc
that l. wat everyone wants 70 hear.
The interest never seems TO wane-
For an hour before twelve O'Clock day
after day crowd gathers in This
corner waiting for the exhibition The
early arrival IS partly in order - get
a good place and party because he
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-02
quires larger per cent of brains in the
business Office Of newspaper than any

quires A larger per cent of brains in the
business Office Of newspaper than any
where else."
Ira n. Terrill is out in a letter to the
Chandler Democrat in which he walls
thusly: ALLOW me through your col
umns to express my thanks to the citi-
zens of Chandler for their courteous de-
meanor toward me while attending court
in your city, and to state that l ain we'll
satisfied to receive at the hands of jury
of your county verdict to the effect that
the territory of Oklahoma has failed after
a trial of three years to give me fair and
lawful trial, upon charge the graeest
known to the annals of crime; which had
been preferred against me by grand jury
of Logan county; aud the sole cause that
has cost SO much to the public and myself
was the outgrowth of prejudice arising
against me in the hearts of the Doodle ele-
ment Of Guthrie, Ok, because such ele-
ment could not buy my vote and the vote
of others on the Oklahoma City capital
bill in the first legislative assembly of Ok
lahoma Territory.
Il still stand ready and able to vindic ate
myself OF this charge at any time the
prosecution gets ready to give me fair
trial. Notwithstanding the fact that the
minds of many good citizens of Oklahoma
have been poisoned against me by the viii
lifications of drunken aud irresponsible ed
itors and reporters of the press of America,
let the fight go on. l am still III the ring
and the taxpayers put up the stakes"
L Y. TERRILL
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-02
Daily Ea91e|
Nj NJ MURDOCK. Editor.
DEFEAT WITH DlsRoNoR.

Not only the disaster of depression,
shown by the bank clearances to be S4OO.-
OOO. 900 weekly, is worrying Wall street.
bat the additional burthen of an income
tax causes the New York Sun to rush to
the rescue in a triple loaded editorial IN
which it lays its pen TO more mean
epithets against President Grover than
was ever laid 10y any Republican paper
that has yet essayed the job. New
York elected Mr.. Grover Cleveland and
the Sun knows it, Wall street fixed up
the lob for his nomination two years be-
fore the meeting of the convention and
Wall street paid the bills. and the editor
of the Sun, who indorsed the whole pro-
gram, should not be found biting has
back now. Here is the Democratic
editorial leader in full, just as we cut 1t
from the top column of the Sun:
Grover Cleveland's plurality for presi-
dent on the popular vote IN all the forty
four states of the Union fifteen months
ago was 366.211. The popular vote on
Tuesday last against Mr.. Cleveland and
the politics of his administration, was
half as large as that, in the single state
of Pennsylvania, one state out of the
forty-four.
Such is the verdict from Pennsylvania.
The verdict from New York fortnight
ago was the same. 1t will be the same
wherever the people get chance to
vote.
Political disasters and new humilia-
tions are closing in upon the Democracy
from every quarter. The popular con-
demnation of the dishonest, anti-Demo-
cratic Wilson bill, the insane income-tax
project, and the infamous monarchical
plot which the present administration
has made its distinctive feature, takes
an impressive form whenever and
wherever the ballot boxes are opened.
This is the time to tell the plain truth:
and here is the truth in its nakedness.
Defeat does not necessarily bring dis
honor. Defeat in defence OF a principle,
or in an honest attempt TO redeem sacred
pledge, or for the right, or for the flag.
ran never be dishOnorable. That is not
the sort of defeat to which Grover Cleve-
land has led the Democracy in the eleven
months since he entered into office with
a commission plainly written, and with
a straight and clear way before him.
Promises repudiated and insolently ig-
nored,-Democracy trampled under foot,
responsibility shirked, lying and cowardly
evasions substituted for the unqualified
declarations of few months ago.
American sentiment outraged and defied,
personal whims or personal spite made
the party's law; here we have in forty
words the history of the first year of
Democratic administration that began
with golden prospects!
Defeat with dishonor, that is the bitter
ness of it; and the dishonor is worse than
the defeat. What Will the senate do!
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-02
Turned the Hose on Them.

A twenty-round glove contest, which
gave better satisfaction than any ever
held in Livingston, Mont, took place
there recently. Before the contest it
leaked out that it was to be a rank
fake, and arrangements were made to
give it fitting reception. Time was
called shortly after ten o'clock, and as
soon as the principals entered the ring
a section of the city hose was coupled
onto hydrant near by. By the time
the third round was called everything
was in readiness, and while the prin-
cipals were engaged in carrying out
the rankest of fakes rush was made
for the front window, a nozzle was
thrust through the glass and the full
force of the water was turned into the
ring The first shot struck one of the
combatants in the small of the back,
resulting in knockout blow. Both
the principals rushed from the ring,
and the water was turned on the spec
tators, few escaping without drench-
ing.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-02
MARK The PREDICTION.
From the Atchison Champion

From the Atchison Champion.
The Wichita EAGLES advice to stand
by your state is sound and sensible. The
facts of the record show that in its in
crease of acreage of crops, its building
improvements, and In the decrease of its
debts, Kansas compares favorably with
any Of its sister states, east or west. sit
is q mean bird that fouls its own nest. !"
1t is poor citizen who continually de-
cries his own state. During the period
of financial unrest of the past year,
Kansas has had less failures in business,
in aggregate of dollars and cents in pro-
portion to population and capital, than
New England, New York, Penn
sylvania or Illinois. Better times
will surely come. The man who
is frightened now, when clouds are
dark will be ashamed of his fears when
the sunshine comes and "the clouds roll
by" Stand by your state. Your own
personal example of grit and pluck may
impart courage to others. The splendid
farms in Kansas from Atchison to Good
land, from the Kaw's mouth to Syra-
cuse, amply attest that the soil of Kan
sas has no superior upon the earth, and
within the next decade-mark the pre-
diction-the actual available wealth of
Kansas will be quadrupled, its popula-
tion doubled, and, not a man, woman or
child will then be found ready to admit
that they ever had doubt about the fu-
ture of Kansas.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-02

clock keeps solar time. which now Is .
half hour behind ordin ary Strasburg
time. Here are tourists, soldiers, nuns,
bridal couples. peasant women with
baskets. boys with bundles, who have
run in from the street to get another
look at the thing. Now it is only a
half hour until the performance; will
the room hold any more?
The beadles, like the street-car con,
ductors, are sure there is plenty OF
room ''up 'front.'" or rather, in this
case, behind. They wave the wands
of their majesty, and back the people
surge. Still more are coming. The
natives, who never seem to tire OF the
sight. and who know better about the
variance in the times, are now drop
ping in-mothers with babies, business
men from around the corner, and
every body else. There is no space to
sneeze. Now there are only Ave min
utes until the rooster crows Maybe
he will not crow to-day. Every body Is
looking at the clock. In the very center
of the big monument to the ciockmak-
er's ingenuity is gallery.
Here stands Father Time represent.
ing Death. He has about him on re-
volving plane four fgures-Childhoo
a boy; Youth, young hunter: Man
hood, fully armed knight; Old Age. a
gray-haired man clothed in the skin of
a beast. Childhood had struck the
first quarter hour, Youth the second.
Manhood the third and Old Age the
other hours of the day; but now at
noon it is Deaths own chance. The
four figures come out to view before
him, while, with a grim hammer OF
bone, he sounds with twelve strokes
the death of another day.
A little figure down near the face of
the clock now has his turn. and, with
little shake, reyerses his hour-glass.
Above all this is another gallery. II
begins to squeak. The machinery is in
motion. In the middle is a figure OF
Christ, and around Him are to
pass the twelve apostles. Out
they come, one by one. Each
stops an instant before the Saviour,
turns face. bows, and receives the bless.
ing from His outstretched hand. But
the rooster, where is he? There he still
is high up on pedestal, beside
stained glass-window. Now he clucks
Now his old metal-plated throat swells.
He flaps his wings and crows. Another
minute. Again he flaps his wings and
crows And third time. Was there
ever such a rooster as this? 1t is all
over The beadles drive the people
out. shut up the cathedral, and go tc
dinner.
The time of greatest interest comes
but once year, in the night from the
S1st of December to New Years day.
Then an immense crowd always assem-.
bles to watch the revolutions of the
as it regulates itself ready
for the labors of the coming year.