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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-26

We believe Judge Powers really
means .Atiring from active participa-
ton in politics and devotion to his pro-
fession and his family. His reasons for
it are sound. We offer our sincere con-
era t1llat lions.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-26

Those fellows who want The earth
should understand that according to
an eminent scientist the earth weighs
6,O49, S3s, 900, 100000 tons
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-26

Speaking of the expert testimony of
the doctors in the case of the Halliday
woman, the New York Morning Jour
nal says:
Eminent authorities on insanity not
only disagree as to the womans men
tai condition, but do so radically.
Some believe that she has always
feigned> insanity; others that she was
not only insane when first committed
to the asylum. but has never been sane
since her liberation. Still others think
that she had an interval of reason be-
tween her first insanity and the one
apparent now
Never was the saying more true
when the doctors disagree the pa
tient dies"-than in this case. The
Halliday woman has been condemned
to die by electricity.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-26
Silver. o.. Lead, S3.Io,
HERALD Calendar for June.

Read the resignation of the chief of
the Tuscaroras.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-26

State Senator j. Frank Hanley, who
was recently nominated for Congress
by the Republicans of the Ninth Indi-
anna district, is only thirty-one years
of age, and self-made in the full sense
of the term. In the summer of 1879 he
was saving wood in Warren county,
Ind, for rs cents a. day, and the fol-
lowing winter he worked on a farm,
attending school for the first time in
his life in the evenings. For more than
ten years he worked as farm laborer
and Taught country schools, and it was
not until 1890 that he got his first real
start in life by being admitted to the
bar. Since that event his rise has been
rapid. This is an object lesson for the
young men of America.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-26

Powers out of politics means a new
kind of Powers to Utah.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-26

Hoods SarsaparilIa absolutely cures all
diseases caused by. impure blood and it
builds up the whole system. 81
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-26

Concerning the decision of the New
York banks to furnish gold for ex-
port, the Washington Post Qnd)
says:
The course of the banks shows that
they concur with the secretary of the
treasury as to the desirability of a
further issue of per cent. bonds, and
their ready response to his we'll
known wishes and expressed intentions
in this regard should be a subject of
general congratulation. The banks, of
course, are actuated by purely bust
mes considerations SO far as the bond
matter is concerned. They feel that
another issue would not be conducive
to their interests, inasmuch as it
would undoubtedly affect injuriously
the quotations for the former issue"
But it is well for the country to have
the question settled as it is.
The New York bankers have con-
veyed the idea that their anxiety con-
corning the government credit was the
anxiety of patriotism. Their anxiety
now seems to be to keep up the price
of the government securities they hold.
The fear seems to be of more gold
and not of more silver.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-26
sELF-CONDEMNED.

The thread-bare and nearly worn out
Republican fabrication that a Demo-
cratic administration, just elected, was
responsible for the disasters caused by
more than thirty years of Republican
legislation, is almost abandoned in the
east, but is held up by few disreput-
able sheets in the west as sort of
scarecrow to simple minded people. 1t
is chung to by our local Republican
oracle with the tenacity of a drowning
hand to a straw.
What makes this local example of
stupidity and faulty more execrable
than any other is, that it has declared
with sickening iteration for many
years, long before the overthrow of the
Republican party, that the abominable
anti-silver legislation of that party
was the real, original cause of the
ills of the age. And since the panic of
1898, with its attendant trade troubles,
it has repeatedly charged them to the
same cause.
It's desperate attempts to get away
from this position would be pitiable if
there remained the slightest respect
for it's utterances. But in view of it's
shocking mendacity and its shameless
endeavors to deceive the public, it's
contortions are a delight to onlookers,
and a truthful report of the effects
upon its readers would be largely
bracketed with loud laughterl.
It says: 1.-The country was vitality
prosperous all the time under Republic
can management" and yet while the
country was still under that manage
ment this local organ of deceit was
continually pegging away at the anti
silver legislation wrought by that party
in 1873 as the root and source of the
great crop of disasters which it said
had been increasing ever since 1873.
We could fill this page with quotations
from its columns, referring to the
poverty, distress, strikes, misery and
crime, that had come upon the country
and was increasing with the years all
due to the killing of silver by the Re-
publican party in 1873, and all before
the Democratic party came into full
national power. The need of repeating
this, is the continual effort of our con-
temporary to unload the responsibility
for these accumulated evils on to the
shoulders of the Democratic party.
Reason, plain facts, the irresistible
logic of history and of current events,
have no effect upon our unprincipled
opponent. We therefore have to bring
out its own statements, that the proof
of its error may come from its own
columns.
If the Republican party was not the
source and cause of all the calamities
that have come upon the country up to
date, then the organ of that party in
this city has been falsefying it through
all these years. And if that party is,
and has been, as it has affirmed, the
real original cause then that organ
is falsifying now in blaming the Demo-
cratic party for the sins of the Republic
cans for third of a century. Thus in
any event it is-well one must look in
to its own columns for its favorite
epithets to fairly describe what it is.
-.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-26
ting on the Wiman case the

Commenting on the Wiman case the
New York Times Dem), says:
The only ground upon which to rest
the plea In behalf of Mr.. Wiman, that
he had no criminal intent in transfer
ring money of the firm for which he
acted to his own account, through the
forged Endorsement of a check drawn
to pay bill of the firm. was that he
intended to make the amount good in
time If that were valid de-
Tense, the embezzling of funds in such
way would not even be attended by
the terrors of exposure Exposure
might mean humiliation and shame, but
1t would mean no serious penalty, for
the excuse would be made that there
was no intention to defraud, and it
was only accident or misfortune that
prevented the matter from being made
good. The plea of no criminal inten.
is only less ridiculous than that of only
doing what others have done.
Public opinion is usually too lenient
to this class of criminals. But the
origin of the trouble is. usually is an
undue desire to make wealth by some
sudden stroke of business
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-26

Commenting on Colonel Aldace f.
Walkers position regarding govern
ment control of railways, the Washing
ton Post Qnd), says:
1t will be time enough to agitate the
government ownership of railroads
when it shall have been demonstra ted
that the owners of these properties are
incapable of handling them with a
Just and proper regard to the public
welfare; or shall fail to provide ade-
quate transporta ton facilities at equit-
able rates. In the mean time the legis-
lation of Congress, as of the several
states should be directed, not to the
embarrassment of the roads, but to
their greater freedom of action--not
with a view to forcing them nearer and
more nearly into the hands of the gov
eminent, but to better protect and pro-
mote their interests by the legislation
of freight and passenger contracts be-
tween the various trunk lines, as pro-
vided for in amendments to the in
terstate commerce law now pending.
Advocacy of government control of
railroads is advocacy of paternalism in
government. And then what a splendid
political auxiliary the railroads would
make during campaigns.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-26

That representative Republican paper
and arch-enemy of silver, the st. Louis
GlobeDemocrat, says:
1t is encouraging to observe that the
leading Republican papers of all sec
tons are opposing the concession to
silver which a few of the party's states
men advocate, and which two or three
OF its conventions indorse A
surrender on silver at this time by the
Republicans would be especially fatu-
Gus and cowardly.
1t would be very encouraging to the
miners of the west to have a party
come into power that is SO apprehen-
slVe that silver will be restored to its
proper place in our monetary system
as is the Republican party
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-26
The Boston Post (Dem.) SAYS:

There is absolute truth in the state
ments made by Senator Hill in his
speech, that the country expected Con-
gress to put bituminous coal on the
free list, that this was substantially
required by the Democratic platform,
that almost every Democratic orator in
the land who had spoken on the sub
ject had demanded free COAL and that
this relief was a solemn pledge of the
Democratic party.
All this is entirely true And one
of the strangest features of this in
cident is that New England, whose
manufactures unanimously ask for free
coal, did not furnish a single senator
out of the ten which this section has
in that body to stand alongside Mr..
Hill in advocacy of New England in
terests.
Senator Hill was right in his demand
for free coal. and the shame of the
thing is that the other Democratic
senators did not support him in his
championship of the rights of the peo-
pie in this case
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-26
POLITICAL NOTES.

There could be no greater political
mistake made than to suppose that the
rank and file of the Republican party,
the business men, farmers and artisans
who still give it their allegiance, are
welded to McKinleyism. They do not
regard it as a cardinal principle OF the
party.-Sioux City Tribune.
The election in 1892 proved most con-
clusively that the people are not we'd
ded to McKinleyism On the suppose
ton that they were, the marriage has
proved a failure
If it comes to question of giving up
Dave Hill of giving up the income tax
the Democracy will sacrifice the Ell
mira statesman with a scant cere-
mony and as little of regret as charac-
terized the casting overheard of one
Jonah some decades agone-Chicage
Times (Dem.).
Mr. Hill does not seem to be in
touch with the Democratic party at
many points, and the income tax is
one.
The Ohio coal miners have re-
pudiated the action of their represen-
tatives in agreeing to the Columbus
scale, and will continue the strike I'M
der most disadvanta geous circum-
stances. Their action makes it useless
for the operators to confer with them,
for the agreements they make are
evidently not binding. Philadelphia
Ledger Rep.).
To agree to arbitrate and then to
repudiate the decision of the arbitra-
tors is neither the way to settle differ
ences nor to beget confidence. Con-
cessions must come from either side.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-01
GROVER H GREAT

A man of mighty genius is he,
Who through such wisdom to see,
With sagaciOus statesman's eyes,
That molasses (omces) would catch
A warm Of hungry flies.
That the idle, vacant all
Would soon a prey to his power fall
Who in purse and body had suffered
long,
Their faith in Grover now grows strong.
Grover yer his party soon gained the
day;
With prOmptness now they all obey.
Attention. by the right flank. March,
haiti
Left dress, one and all
On the head of Republican column tall
Until now we pause
The two grand old armies in a common
cause,
A mighty host! my servant, ye brave,
Who rush to victory or to the grave.
Now who dares to withstand
The power of this Well-armed bandit
Ye wicked, shiftless, ignorant sons OF
How dare you our brainy schemes to
foili
You financial failures, you J~eftersonian
cranks,
How dare you to oppose with your thin
and puny ranks3
Submit at once to your helpless fate
And be We forever the slaves of State.
The golden eagle, our banner fair,
With monopoly on the land we'll take
it in the air.
None but the rich and great shall nov
be free,
Supreme our power on land and sea.
The ~burlesque of free government has
long enough been played;
The time has arrived when such fool
ishness shall be laid in the shade.
The two old parties now In solid column
arrayed
Are backed by all the money in Europe
that's ever been made.
ALI the inventions of which porgress is
due
Are intended for the worshippers of
msmmon, the sharp, brainy few.
The old story of Christian civilization
that reaches so low
L. a wornout fable we don't care to
know.
In this world we'll take u pleasure
and ease;
Let financial failures look to the next
if they please.
What care I for the applause of men
of low degree
When the potentates Of all the world
worship me, don't you sect
J. Q. ELLIOTT.
PolkviIle, Cleveland Co., N. Q.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-01

ditions. First on the part OF the gov
.rnmant and expressed on the face or
the bond. that the bond shall draw IN
+orost At the rate of 4 or 5 per cent, as
NAV be necessary to induce capable
men to engage in the banking business
,,nder this plan. Second, on the part
Of the banking corporation, that l
anv and all loans by the bank the rate
of interest shall not exceed a certain
ner cent, Gay s or 4 per cent? On
other points the same principles may
mainly hold that now apply to the
,present national banks. In the plan
proposed the government would not
fail in carrying out its good wiltoward
present existing national banks. They
could be allowed to exchange their
.oc,1rities for the bankers bond and
reduce their rate of interest according
". or continue as they are and take
their chances with the new banks
which would certainly be organized.
Such a system would be in fair deal
ing with all parties. 1t would be L
harmony with the spirit of Jul civil in
situations, and it would make but little
change in our present system OF cur
rency.
Best of all, it would secure to honest
industry a sound currency at a low
rate of interest, bring new courage to
the man in debt by enabling him to pay
off the principal as we'll as the interest,
restore faith in commercial circles and
bring q spirit of thrift to a nations in
dustries. J.. w. w.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-01
for reform.
LETTER R o ORANGE

OHAPRL HILL, N. O.
Mr.. EDITORIALS l have eve seen
anything in your valuable paper from
Stonewal Alliance, 1 will undertake to
drop you a few lines. Our Alliance iS
stronger than it has been in -four years.
We took in two new members our last
meeting.
The last political campaign did us no
harm as an Alliance. 1t is true we lost
one ortwo members, but they ought to
have never been in the order. AZ an
Alliance we profited by it. 1t taught
us a lesson we would not have learned
any other way. We learned who were
true and who could be trusted; also it
will cause US to be more watchful, for
we we're sure we had q majority and
when the counting was done behold we
we're left. T. e SPARROW.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-01

ruled and covered by pure Democracy.
But it seems that it cannot be retained
under the old time name. There must
now be another change. We must
now stand with the people. In the
campaign field you must work for men
who will listen to the distressing cries
of the people and endeavor to do some
thing besides fishing and duck hunt
ing. Let us ever stand with u dear
deceased Bro. Polk, whose name will
aver be cherished by lovers of reform.
He once said: 81 am standing now
just behind the curtain and in full
glow of the coming sunset. Behind me
are the shadows on the track, before
me lies the dark valley and the river.
When 1 mingle with its dark waters l
want to cast one longering look upona
country whose government il of the
people, for the people and by the peo-
ple." Now, let us work until we &C
compiish what our noble and brave
leader so earnestly fought for while he
was with us. Oh that our country was
filed with such noble, earnest workers
as President Polki Then we might
again obtain the prosperity We had in
''olden times" But we are thankful
to know we still have some faithful
workers in the field who will ever be
for reform.
And with such men as Marion B.,
We are coming to the front, you see;
And with brave Weaver and Field,
We don't propose our rights to yield.
You must not be for party,
But each be for the State;
The rich man helps the poor man,
The poor man loves the great.
And then we may get our country
Back to its former standing.
oh! hasten, hasten happy day
When We can wipe our fears away
And no more feel the pain and woe
We have while battling with the foe.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-01
ALLIANCE
NAERICA,
F. L. HoUGHToN, Sec'y

Jas. II. Wright, Carlton, N. G q.
ganiEer for Sixth district, composed :,
counties of Johnston, Wake, DDrban
Granville and Vance.
@. Meg. Dunn, Populi, N. G, Orps,.
Zer for Seventh district, comnosad -
Cumberland, Robson, Bladen, CoIn~,
bus and Brunswick counties.
Elijah ". Flake, Rockingham. n
O., Organizer of Eighth district, com.
posed of Harnett, Moore, Richmond
Arson, Union, Stanly and Montgou.
cry counties.
Geo. E Hunt, Michael, N. c., Organ.
izer for Tenth district, composed q
Guilford, Rockingham, Stokes, For.
syth, Davidson, Davie, Yadkin and
Surry counties.
J. 2. Sossaman, Huntersville. N. G..
Organizer for Eleventh district com.
posed of Rowan, Cabarrus, Mecklen.
burg, CASTOR, Lincoln and Iredel
counties.
First district, composed of the coup.
ties of Currituck, Camden, Pasuuo,
tank, Perquimans, Chowan, GATES,
Hartford, Rev. T. w. Babb, Hartford,
N. O.
Ninth district, composed of Ran.
dolph, Chatham, Orange, Person, Gas.
well and Alamance, J. R Means, Tril.
ity College, N. @.
Fourth district, Don G. Sanders, Of
Burgaw, N. c., Organizer Counties
in the district, Wayne, Duplin, OnS-
low, Fender, New Hanover and Samp.
son.
Twelfth District, composed of the
counties of Alexande~, Wilkes, ALE
ghany, Ashe, Watauga and Mitchell,
j. w. Cox, Edwardsville, N. G.
George W. Hahn, Tuscola, N. G.,
Organizer for Fifteenth district, com
posed of the counties of Haywood,
Jackson, Swain, Macon, Graham, Clay
and Cherokee.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-01
BLADEN COUNTY RESOLUTIONS.

WHEREAS, Tt has been customary to
use the county court house to hold all
public meetings; and whereas, the
Farmers County Alliance has been
meeting therein; and whereas, our
court house has been burned and re-
built; and whereas, our county com
miBsioners have passed an order for
bidding the holding of any public
meetings therein except with special
permission from said commissioners
and whereas, the County Alliance be-
ing ignorant of said order, assembled
to hold their quarterly session, expect
ing to u.s. said court house, but were
informed of said order and had to use
another building or violate said order;
and whereas, the Alliance teaches the
duty to be lawabiding to it's members;
and whereas, we feel that said order
was especially intended to insult us.
Now therefore we, the Baden County
Alliance, IN regular session, denounce
such order of said commissioners as an
insult to u people and unbecoming
the commissioners of this county, lead
ing to acts of violence and ~lawlessness
or tame submission to Injustice and in
suit.
Resolved, That these resolutions be
sent to THR PROGRESSIVE FARMKR and
Caucasian for publication.
C. MCG. DUNN,
Sec. Bladen County Alliance.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-01
JUST LIKE RECIPROCITY.

Princes, Earla, Dukes and other
titled foreign cattle have for years
seized every opportunity to replenish
their pocketbooks by marrying rich
American girls. MIlionaireS drain the
money from the masses and the Dukes
swipe in the girls and the money, leav-
ing our people to make more if they
can.
Every dog has his day" The Amer
can dog is getting in his work. Poor,
but sharp American confidence mon
are now fleeing unsuspecting foreign
ers. Recently q rich Vienna banker,
who has q pretty daughter. was intro
duced to one of these confidence men.
Finally Armstrong, az he called him
aelf, admitted that he was Edward
Vanderbilt" The banker was over
ioyed, and not doubling the truthful.
ness of the story, invited the young
met Miss FredR, the daughter, and it
aeomed to be a case of love at first
sight. VRnderbilt(O told the young
Iadv about his magnificent palace on
Fifth Avenue. New York, and she was
entranced. Pretty soon he told her
that it would be &c romantic to elope
and get married, especially if she could
manage to carry along $50, 900 in cash
that the old man had in his safe. She
managed to do that and wrote a note
to her father saying that it would be
paid back or he could retain the
amount out of an estate g rich uncle
had promised to will her. Now the
banker is in America looking for his
daughter and the $50, 900.
Without approving the methods of
either side, we can smile ct the clever
attempt at reciprocity.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-01
AN ESSAY ON OUR COUNTRY.
By E. F. WILLIAMS,

Years ago when our country owned
and held slaves in bondage, the people
became dissatisfied and the CRY for
freedom began to ascend from house.
top, until at last the cry was needed,
and that ever famous, honorable, es
Seemed and trustworthy Thomas
Jefferson drew up the American
Declaration of Independence" Then
the country became free and the glad
cry of liberty rang sweetly out in
strains which many of us living in the
present age would like to hear this day
and know that freedom and prosperity
was n Q more unfurled and spreading
its fragrance abroad over this now
oppressed and careworn country. In
the good old days now remaining only
in history, when our country was
blessed and protected by old-time De
mocracy, such as existed in the days
of Jefferson and Jackson, then the PEG,
pie felt that they were free from all
bonds. Tt was then that they could
live in peace, fearing no evil or oppres-
sion; but as time passed on and those
peace loving rulers passed away, leav-
ing their good deeds only in memory
encircling the hearts of their country
men, there came still another change,
n which no doubt has been more
keenly realized than any previous one.
This last change has placed the people
In a d~eplorable condition, which still
continues to grow worse The people
are again demanding the freedom that
foated over the country in such mag
nificent strains when the country was