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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-22
VERY, VERY

The editor of the Charlotte Observer
is as honest as the days are long, and
is a splendid fellow; but he is very for
getful. He has even forgotten to say
much about his "North Carolina cam
paign," since the weather got hot. He
intimates that the writer don't read
the Observer very closely, though we
told him to his face that we sometimes
read it, and that wasn't six months ago.
Last week we asked if anyone could
point out an editorial friendly to sill
ver'' that has appeared in the Observer
in twelve months. The Observer has
brushed the cobwebs off it's files all the
way back to March 18th, and found
the following:
"SiIver's day is coming. The worlds
supply of gold is not sufficient to
answer its purposes. The statement
has been made-though this is incredi-
ble-that the entire present output Of
the gold mines of the world is not
greater than the amount demanded
for use in the arts. Exaggerated
though this statement necessarily is,
the fact remains that the exces is not
sufficient to meet the needs for metal
money. the bi metallists make up the
conservative middle class on the money
question. Those of this school in Amer
lea now find themselves urging all
sorts of safe measures-such as the
Bland seigniorage bill-which will give
an enlarged use and a higher dignity
to silver. but they are opposed to its
free coinage at the present ratio and as
an independent proposition. These are,
if they are Democrats, the platform
Democrats, for this is what the plat
form says upon this subject:
We hold to the use of both goldIand
silver as the standard money of the
country, and to the coinage of both
gold and silver without discrimination
against either metal, or charge for
mintage, but the dollar unit of coinage
of both metals must be of equal in
trinsic value or be adjusted through
internationa agreement, or by such safe
guards of legislation as shall insure the
maintenance Of the parity of the two
metals and the equal power of every
dollar at all times in the markets and
in payment of debts"
1.-THE day of those who hold this
doctrine is coming. 1t will not be
fastened by the foolish crusades or the
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-22
FAIR NOTICE.

1t is out proper that we inform our
friends that The PROGRESSIVE FARMER
cannot and will not undertake to fill
the place of a party organ. Candidates
for nomination by the various party
conventions must make their announce
ments through some other medium.
We will endeavor at all times to keep
our readers posted on political matters,
State and National, but will confne
ourselves to issues and discuss men
and parties from an independent stand
point, reserving the rights of a citizen
to praise or censure, as we think best.
1t is a difficult matter to conduct a
public newspaper in this way. We
are liable to go too far at times or not
far enough, but we think this paper
has made a good average in the past,
and we will try to keep in the middle
of the road.
At present there are four political
parties in the field. We have patrons
in the ranks of all four. They expect,
and it is right, that we give them the
news, secular, political and religious.
Under the head of General Political
News" we will publish brief notices of
the time and place of holding conven-
lions and such other matter as shall be
of interest to all. There must be a
limit, but every patron of a paper feels
that he has rights that the paper is
bound to respect. If a Presbyterian
official asks us to publish the time and
placed holding a Presbytery, or other
meeting, we do so with pleasure It is
a matter of interest to the public and
our Presbyterian readers especially.
For the same reason we publish notices
for Bap lists, Methodists, Episcopalians
Or other religious organizations, for
colleges and other educational institu,
tions. If the Chairman of the State
Democratic Executive Committee asks
us to publish that the State Convention
will be held at a certain time and place,
we would not refuse, for some of our
patrons belong to that party and have
a right to know. For the same reasons
we will publish news of this kind for
the Populists, Republicans, Prohibi-
tionists Or anybody else.
Now we hope we are fully under
stood, and that, while we will have to
draw the line at the proper place, or
what we believe to be the right place,
we stand ready to serve our patrons in
any way that we can so long as it is
consistent, and we believe the average
voter will get more genuine informa.
ton, facts, by reading this paper
this year than he can get out Of any
dozen party organs in the State, for
party organs present only the good side
and suppress the bad.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-22

wild rawlings of extremists-those who
do not want the free coinage called for
In the above paragraph but another
sort of free coinage altogether. These
people are delaying the day. But
rational insistence, the demands of
commerce, the wisdom of the world
and the natural operations of the
underlying laws of finance and of
trade, will bring it about in due course
of time"
We confess that the above is just a
little friendly" to- silver, but not more
so than President Cleveland and John
Sherman appear to be-. We believe
that both of them have said more than
the above at one time or another dur
ing the-past year. Cleveland's message
certainly was as friendly to silver as
the above. Yet the real friends of
silver in this country know that Clere
land and Sherman are the two ring
leaders against silver, its deadliest
enamies. They are as much against
silver as the devil is against true
christianity.
But the Observer didn't have to go
back more than twelve months to find
a friendly" editorial, and we give up
that part of it. However, that shows
how forgetful it is, actually forgot to
write anything friendly" since March
the 18th and now summer is almost
here. We expect the Observer has for
gotten the free coinage plank in the
State Democratic platform of 1890, and
1892, forgot that it's editor supported
them, although it says it is against the
Is to 1 ration. 1t has also forgotten
all about a tilt it had with the writer
in 1892 when we commended that Cleve-
land was an avowed enemy to silver.
The Observer denied it and didn't say
it was against the 16 to 1 ratio, either.
It is f~orgetful. The next Democratic
State platform will contain a free coin
age plank, Is to 1, and the Observer
will be first newspaper to crawl up on
it and shout for silver. If it buys any
new type during the campaign it will
order silver type. During the cam,
paign Cleveland will be guarded long
enough to get sober and will write a
letter friendly to silver, or, at any rate
R. B. Glenn and probably others will
get such letters and read them on the
stump. But after the campaign is over,
the Observer will forget again, all of
them will forget, unless some other
party wins, and Clevelandism and
Shermanism will be rampant again.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-22
WILL INDIA REBELa

Thenatives of London are very much
excited about what the natives OF India
are likely to do. Many fear that a
mutiny Is being planned in India
England conquered India with the
sword, or to use q more modern expires
sion. with powder and ball. England
ID tvrannical and has bled India for
years. The characterization Of silver
last year for the benefit OF London
cold bugs threw the entire business OF
the country into a panic, and it is at a
standstill yet. It will be remembered
that this action was taken only a few
weeks before King Cleveland called the
extra session of Congress to demone-
tize silver in the United States.
India is a great country containing a
population of about 285. 600, 900, or
more than four times the population of
the United States. England acquired
this vast and populous domain by con-
quest in 1888. Since that time she
has taken advantage of the people in
every conceivable way. In short, the
285, 900, 900 people are England's slaves.
India's people r a strange, reticent
gang. Just now England is apprehen-
sive because during the past month it
has been discovered that thousands of
Mango trees have been smeared with
daubs of mud, containing a slight mix
ture of cows and pigs hair. This
means something and has been done
with great secrecy. The natives would
have their tongues torn out before
they would tell an Englishman what is
on foot. Possibly it means war to the
death rather than submit longer to
British tyrany. It will be remembered
that America kicked out of the traces
about 12O years ago and gave England
"a genteel thrashing.
In 1928 c~ocoanuts we're passed from
hand to hand all over aportion of India.
But there was no outbreak. In 1857
c~uriously formed loaves of bread were
passed from hand to hand. The NEAR
ing of that was eve told, but the
IdIlNSS SOOu "uUl1ISN 6bl1O UhOOS0AANS
of English were slain before the rebel
lion was put down. It is more than
likely that the smearing of tres with
mud is a signal for an outbreak.
Demonetiz alton of silver has been
fearful in consequences. The suffering
and business prostration is simply
awful. In addition to that an English
syndicate has a monopoly on the indigo
trade and other industries. Taxes have
been raised in some provinces. In
some instances ten times AS much as
they e a year ago. This is done for
the purpose of making a few more Eng
lish lords. The masses of America
will sympathize with India if trouble
begins, but what does sympathy
amount to when murder is being done
to gain liberty9 Let Americans be on
guard and prevent further English en-
croachment here.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-22
U BAL SENATORS.

The following from the New York
Times may be regarded as pretty plain
talk, but we fear that the Times is not
honest enough to help the people re
form the evil. To condemn is easy,
but when the p~lutocratic party whip
is applied the Times will do as other
sheets of it's kind have always done
fall into line and perpetuate the evil:
THE Senate Of the United States is
a body that cannot be killed, however
obnoxious it may make itself to the
people. It's life is virtually guaranteed
by the Constitution, for the one thing
that cannot be amended out of that in
strument is the equal representation of
the States in the Senate, except upon
the practically impossible condition
that they all c%onsentto give it up. The
Senate cannot be got rid of without a
revolution, but, as it threatens to be-
come deadly gangrene in our political
system, it behooves the people to con
slider whether it can be cured.
Nothing in the calculations Of the
framers Of the government has gone
more amiss than the constitution of the
Senate. Their purposes in the matter
of the electoral system for the choice
of President and Weep President were
long ago defeated by popular action,
and it may be possible for popular &C.
ton to cure the malady of the Senate
which has itself defeated the purposes
of it's creators. It was intended to be
a body of statesmen, not only raised
above the shifting currents of popular
opinion, but above the reach of purely
local and selfish interests. But it has
come to pass that the independence
secured through election by legislatures
and through long terms of Office is not
used as a bulWark of protection for the
higher and more permanent interests
of the country, but for the promotion
of selfish ends in which it's own mem
bers have a personal share. They dis
regard the pledges Of party and the
demands of the people, and make the
whole country suffer for their profit or
advantage, relying upon changes dur
ing their terms of Office and upon the
power of money and political manipu
lation to save themselves from the pen
alties of a betrayal of public trust.
Placing them beyond the reach of the
people has had an effect quite opposite
to that intended, and the question is
how to bring them into submission to
the will of the ruling power and COM
pei them to serve the interests of the
nation.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-22

The Wilmington Messenger wants
the next Democratic platform to be one
that all car understand. Well, we
thought the Chicago platform was
fully understood. We couldn't find a
man during the campaign who would
admit that he didn't understand it. We
actually talked with men who had
never read the platform, and they said
they understood it fully; that it said
this or that, and was as plain as broad
daylight.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-22
o ARE NOT ALL DEAF

Last week we stated that a replJ here
tative of a Philadelphia paper was hi Sis
Giving the town a free writeuP IN mt If It
journal. We were so informed men
appears now that the business so. n
mention mentioned il in said writing are 81 s1R pc 100
to take and are taking o ~ S1O a
copies each at 10 cents a COPY %py Berne
hundred for advertising ,1SnIohia-
business in the city Of Phll@oS'p
NeU Berne journal.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-22
SOME STARTLING FACTS.

An exchange says: The true valua
ton of the United States in 1890, &C
| cording to Census bulletin 379, was
sos, OS7, O91, 1877, of which $39, 544, 1873
represent real estate and improvements
thereon and &25, 492, SAC, 1854 personal
property, including railroads, mines
and quarries.
The live stock on farms, farm nipple
ments and machinery stand for 50, 703,
O13. O4O; mines and quarries, $780,
291, $40; gold and silver coin and bull
lion, 81, 158, 664, 948; machinery of mills
and product, s., O58, 500, AL; railroads
and equipment, including street rail
roads, So, 685. 5O7, 1928; t~elegraphs, tele-
phones, shipping and canals, 1888,
821. These figures are instructive IN
regard to certain matters now under
discussion, the tariff, bimetallism, etc.
The manufacturing interest, which
makes so much noise and perverts our
tariffs in a spirit of greed, only
amounts to about one eighth of our
total interest, including unprotected
along with the small number of our
protected industries. The value of the
farms of the country, according to bull
letin 379, was $15, 279, 252, 500. Adding
the value of farm implements and ma
chinery, $1O1, 247, 467, and live stock
50, 2O8, 767, 573, we find the total farm
ing interest in 1890 was over $17, OOO,-
600, 600, or about twice the whole man
ufacturing interest. Taking $16,0OO,-
900, 600 as indicating roughly the capital
invested by farmers in their industry
it is interesting to note that the total
value of farm pro6ucts in 1890 was but
81, 400, 107, asa, while the s., 1873, 719, 6O4
invested in manufactures produced
products valued at So, O54, 435, 236. The
farmers, it thus appears, on a capital
nearly three times that of the manu-
fa~cturers, geta profit worth under one
third of that of the manufacturing.
The disproportion is excessive. The
profit of the manufacturer may not be
what he would like them to be, but
they are vastly larger than the
farmers.
Notwithstanding all this the man
facturer is wanting more protection,
more profits; and, under the Wilson
bill, is not only getting more of each,
but has the advantage of free farm
products and other raw material. The
farmers may conclude to stop this by
voting more sensibly hereafter. If
they don't then they deserve no help.
This country is fearfully and won
derfully made, If you wear diamonds
and silk hats, you a rob the treas
ury; but if you are a poor workman,
out of employment, you will be fined
for stepping on the grass, even if you
don't step on it.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-22
N r. p. A.
EDITORIAL NOTES


We had the honor of a pleasant visit
from Mr.. John McDufie, editor of the
Fayetteville Solid South, a few days
ago.
The Wilmington Messenger says:
"If the Democratic platform does not
teach free coinage Of silver, then Ian
guage was used to deceive"
At last the whitewashers have got a
JOB in Washington. They will i'm,
meadiately whitewash the sugar trust
and the Senators who have gotten rich
by dealing in sugar stock,
A rather sensitive Kansas man has
sued a neighbor for S., 900 damages be
cause his neighbor addressed him as
"Breckinridge." The silver tongued
orator and masher ought to defend the
defendant.
The Winston Sentinel asks this ques
ton: why should a United States
Senator saddle his private expenses
upon the public9" Simply because the
public have been voting repeatedly to
be buncoed.
Col. Henry W~atterson, editor of the
Louisville Courier Journal, and lead
ing advocate of tariff reform in the
South, says; IF my dog should wag
his tail at the Wilson tariff bill, [ would
kill him the next minute"
The forty sixty annual commence
ment of the Chowan Baptist Female
Institute will be held May 28th to Both.
Baccalaureate sermon by Rev. r. T.
Bryan; annual address by Rev. A. B.
Dunaway, Of Churchland, Va.
Somebody in Durham county claims
tohavefound a biscuit IS years,old. Now
the administration organs are using this
to boost up their frail structure. They
argue that this proves "overproduc,
ton" beyond a doubt, and, is, at the
same time, proof that nobody need go
hungry.
The Morgan horse is the title of a
new book on this noted breed of horses.
It is now on press and will be published
about June LIST by the author, Joseph
Battell, of Middlebury, Vt. Including
rs pages of Illustrations, it will make a
volume Of 1859 pages, printed OF fine
paper and handsomely bound in half
morocco, and will sell at S..
Our Dumb Animals, organ of the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Dumb Animals, takes up the Coxey
cause and argues that it will be more
humane and cheaper for the govern
ment to grant Coxey's request and
issue greenbacks to pay for labor on
public works than to dispose of the
millions of unemployed otherwise.
The Boone Democrat learns that Mr..
N. II. Horton, of that vicinity, sheared
864 pounds of wool from ten sheep re-
Gently, and adds that if the Mckinley
tariff was taken eff woolit would sellfor
80 or 40 cents a pound, but is now only
worth IL and Is cents on Northern
markets. Now we are opposed to the
Mckinley bill and the Wilson bill, but
will appreciate the kindness if the
Democrat will tell, for the information
of its readers, and ourselves, just how
the Mckinley bill or any other tariff
bill can make such a difference in the
price Of wool.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-22

"IGm standing o Just behind the
curtain, and IN full glOtU of the coming
sunset. Behind me the shadows on
the track, before me lies the dark galley
and the riUer. When I mpingLe NTH ats
dark rUaters I tCGnt to cast one hngeT-
ing look upOn o. country WhOse govern
ment is Of the people, for the people,
and 6g the people. u. L. Polk, July
Eth. 1890.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-22

cattle. They are willing to pretend to
give relief by passing bills making bad
matters worse, such as the Wilson bill
or the State bank bill. Or else they
pass such bills as the income tax, so
shaped as to be imperative, or anti
trust laws that are never enforced.
Many of this class of ''big heads"
pretend TO be blind and deaf whenever
anything substantial is suggested.
They seem to think that a nubbin of
corn thrown to the masses will keep
them quiet to be gouged another year
or two. They r willing to doctor an
ingrowing t~oenail, but if the patient
has pneumonia, typhoid fever or any
other dangerous disease, that must
wait. This country is dangerously i'll
and needs heroic remedies. The ALI
ance platform contains the essence of
the remedies.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-22

~ Oar friends In writing TO any Of
u advertisers viii favor us by men
tioning the fact that they saw the
advertisement in TIE PROGRESSIVE
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-22
A FALSE RUMOR,

It is rumored here that the Ameri-
can Bell Trust has seized the telephone
Of Col. Ezekiel Bilkins, NJ. A., for in
~friugement of it's patent rights.-Dur-
ham Globe.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-22

Do you want your paper changed to
another Office State the one at which
gou have been getting it.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-22

81 The date on your label tells you
when your time is out.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-22

IA WRITING to anybody, always be
sure to give the name of your postOHce,
and sign your own name plainly.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-22

A few days ago while some of the
employees were at work in one Of the
rooms of the Philadelphia mint, a por-
ton of the $50, 600, 900 in silver dollars
piled up in bags fell over and nearly
crushed the life out of several men.
Now if that $50, 600, 900, and what is
piled up in Washington, New Orleans
and New York, as we'll, were in circu-
lation, as it would be but for de
monetization, the mint employees
would not need go much accident in
surance.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-22
TWO DAILYPAPERs TALK SENSE

Ali that bloodthirsty talk from Kan.
sas which we published in tele-
graphic columns yesterday we swal-
lowed with salt, and a good deal of it,
too The petty and shallow organs of
plutocracy and conservatism have go
persistently and maliciously misrepre-
scented and lied about the people of the
West. and particularly those of Kan
sas, that we are inclined to believe
pr cious little we read in the columns
of such papers. Richmond Star.
The man that believes everything he
reads in the average partisan or pluto
cratic daily about the troubles of the
struggling masses-particularly that
emanating from the West-at this time
will find, upon investigation, that he is
a very much deluded creature. In all
matters that affect the welfare of the
toiler these papers are always ready to
throw all the venom of their polluted
souls. But the Star, it is refreshing to
testify, is not of this class. The farmer,
to them, is a hayseed tn vt had better
be at home picking off tobacco worms
than attending meetings of interest to
him; and the average mcdaniel why,
he is an out and-out Anarchist. The
toiling masses are the under dogs in
this unequal fight, hence their iendish
delight in wilfully disappearing
these matters. Petersburg Enterprise,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-22

The Progressive Farmer IS the Official
Organ of 1.-THE N. c. Farmers State Alliance
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1894-12-29

4 "IOulSixu OH AlLlo As...... f
l.zAnrR last autumn gave a truthful account
of the affair the Minot is.oe' aud 'c,cscn.et'.
did not happen ut Standing Rock. but
at Fort Berthold. The ''hostilcs' were Of
Packineau's own people. They came before
the Agent weak with want and heart sick
with hope deferred. Their $500, 900 for which
they sold their land, h.d been reported as al.
ready half drawn. There was nothing felt
within themselves for this ~sttupenduous ex-
penditure, or had there been. Members OF
their families continued to grow weak and
faint and die. To be sure their new Agency
was again torn down andr removed to sand
plains opposite the Little Missouri at a cost of
thousands of dollars. A.few sets Of harness
was received and distributed to fsvorites. A
few diseased animals had been booked up as
|" graded stocK,". and a convenient fire in
the Agency clerks Office that was helpful
enough to obliterate some papers, was oil mis-.
" and p~oetical to these hungry Gros Ventres
as incomr reheu ible 70 their verdant
minds as a copy of Homer in, original Greek
to the tangled brain of a Minot news gatherer.