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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-12-03
CREAM OF THE PRESS
Hard Hits, Bold Sayings and Patriotic
Paragraphs from Reform Papers.

Hard Hits, Bold Sayings and Patriotic
Paragraphs from Reform Papers.
When food, wool and cotton are the
cheapest why IRE the people so hun
CRY and poorly Glade Answer with
your ballot. Sound Money.
A free silver man who will vote for
a goldbug candidate because his party
dominates one, ought to trade back
bones with a fish worm. Peoples
Pilot.
The history of the world does not
furnish a single instance of a system Of
banks of issue that did not rob both
the government and the people Lead
vile News Reporter.
Let us think for ourselves, brother
farmers, says a farm paper. 1t is coed
advice, but farmers come as near
thinking for themselves as any other
c!ass.-Farmers' Voice.
The poorest job that God ever did
was making the man who kicked like
a bay steer against hard times yet
voted for them every time with a jack
ass smile on his face.-Rl sseltville
Hustler.
The November returns to the De
partment of Agriculture report the
present corn crop the largest on record.
The large yield will benefit the specu
Iators, not the producers Western
Waterman.
The D-mocratic party seems to have
fallen in the grave they have been dig
ging for the Peoples party. Better
quit digging graves gentlmen, you are
too small to get out, when you fall in
one.-Farmers' Outlook.
If we had a bread famine in this
country and only fifty million bushels
of wheat to feed our people, what kind
of a proclamation would Grover issue
to help us out and relieve the famine9
Destroy oneffth-ten million bushels9
This would be in accord with his fnan-
cial plan. Sound Money.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-12-03
o SURPRISING.

The man Schlatter, who has been
creating such q commotion at Denver
and other Western cities, is a very
smart fellow. He pretends to perform
miracles, healing the sick and doing
other wonderful things. People swear
that they are cured the moment he
lays his hands on them. We can't
quote the Scriptures from memory,
but think something is said about such
cattle. It is even told that men will
claim that they are Christ himself.
However, Schlatter makes no such
claims, and, to his credit, be is said
that he makes no charge for his So
called healing powers. But that may
come later. Doubtless he is a man
possessing a wonderful amount of
magnetism and strong will power. The
supposed healing is nothing more nor
less than a species of hypnotism aided
by imaginative patients.
But he has made a reputation. His
followers number thousands. They
believe that, he is infallible. This,
however, is not at all surprising.
When we consider that Cleveland has
made probably one fourth OF the peo-
pie of this country believe absolutely
(they say they do) that the only way
to make money plentiful is to quit
making it, and that money is needed
in but a small number of business
transactions, and other rubbish that
any ten-year-old boy or girl knows to
be untrue-contrary to all common
sense, all natural laws-when he can
do this, and in addition create doubt
in the minds of many others-make
them half believers in his hell-born
schemes to ruin the masses and en-
throne a few plutocrats, himself
among the number, you need be
astonished at nothing you hear in the
way of humbuggery. The people like
to be humbugged; they are in an ex
cellent mood for it right now. Tell
them that the SUI is five hundred mil
lions of miles from the earth; that
Professor so and so has just measured
it, and straightway they turn loose
that other astronomical lie about it
being exactly $4,000, 900 miles away.
Just any tomfoolery will be swallowed
by the so,called smart set. But, thank
God you can't fool all of the people all
the time. This era OF foolishness will
pass away, the clouds are drifting.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-12-03

as a Rotchschild. He says, among
other muddy things, that 1--WE must
keep in mind that under the United
States form of government the people
always get the laws they want" That
sounds like the vaporings of a subsid-
lied editor of a great daily, and it is
impossible, with the evidence at hand,
to determine whether the writer is a
representative fool or a representative
knave. When did the people get what
laws they wanted9 And if they did
secure a little legislation that they
asked for, when was the law executed3
Did not the people object to the whole
sale distribution of public lands to the
railroads. Did the objection do any
any good9 Have they not demanded
that the railroads be compelled to re-
turn the land grants that they have
not earned9 Were they made to do its
Did they not vote for a rigid reform
of the tariff when Mr.. Cleveland was
elected9 Did they get what they voted
FORE Have they not clearly signifed
their antagonism to trusts, and has it
done them any goods Have they not
clearly shown that they wanted protec-
ton from railroad extortion and have
they ever got it2 And considering the
silver plank, in the last national Demo
cratic platform, did not the Democratic
landslide mean that the people wanted
free coinageG If it did not mean that
and thorough tariff reform what on
earth did it mean9 And the recent
landslides the other way was ar ex
hibition of the popular indignation or
it meant nothing.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-12-03
WHAT HAS 1T ACCOMPLISHED

The country has been assured that
upon the death of the free silver craze
the business of the county would take
on new life. That great man of the
goldbug contingent, Mr.. Confidence, it
was said, upon the accomplishment of
this end would step forth in his best
dress and start up business with a
boom, says the Richmond Star.
The gold press assure US that free
silver is dead, very dead, dead with g.
big D, but Confidence does not seem to
have gotten on his ''boom rig" but
still remains in hiding. The Atlanta
Constitution has an editorial on this
subject which we. think gives ample
room to doubt if the cuckoos have not
been fbbing to the people as they did
in their promises as to what the repeal
of the Sherman law would accom-
plish.
The Constitution says: There were
two lessons drawn from the results of
the recent elections and commented to
the public by the cuckoos and the gold
organs.
lone was that, although the Demo
Gratis in all States where they met de-
feat had Endorsed the administration's
policy in the most tulsome terms, their
defeat was a 'vindication' of the ad.
ministration which they Endorsed.
Another was that the defeat of the
Democratic party in the States where
the administration had been Endorsed
was On assurance that the cause OF
bimetalism is hopelessly doomed.
I'VE find it impossible to follow this
line Of reasoning" =
"But, putting that confusion aside.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-12-03
NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CONFER
ENCE.

We publish a copy of a call for q
general conference of Christians which
will meet in Atlanta Dec. 10 and 10
The call has been widely circulated
and signed by many prominent min
listers, teachers and citizens. The call
we publish was signed mainly by cit
liens of Raleigh. We think the idea
is a good one, and it is gratifying to
gee that they appreciate the fact that
to have a good government good men
must be elected to Office, and that
many of the evils of the day r di-
rectly traceable to political corruption
and blind party adherence. We notice
that but few of the political papers are
publishing the call. This shows that
such a uniting is not approval by the
party bosses,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-12-03
HAS e

Congress is again in session. For
some time such an announcement has
been sufficient to brighten the bravest
of the brave, for instead of benefting
the people, each session has been a
curse. We hope the present Congress
will be an exception, but there is moth
ing to encourage anybody. Of course
many old, tried and true tools OF the
money power have been retired or will
all be when their terms expire-such
as Ransom, Brice, German, Breckin
ridge, Hill, Ingalls, and others, some
new blood has been infused, but not
enough yet to rescue the country.
The Republican party has the chance
of a lifetime to redeem a dark past, in
part, at least, but will it do it, The
Democratic party acted both the fool
and the rascal two years ago, and the
Republican party will likely do the
same.
But we have less to fear from this
session than any previous n for
twenty years, and e to hope Tor In
the way of good things, as we see it.
That leaves US in a position to hope for
nothing good. On the other hand we
are led to believe that nc bad laws can
be passed, for the six Populist Senators
hold the balance of power in the Senate
The only chance to pass a bad law, If
these Populist Senators are true, is for
the Republican and Democratic Sena.
tors to combine. IF they do not com
bine no bad law a pass by a party
vote. But the disgraceful, dishonest
combination of Republicans and Demo
Gratis in the last Congress to demone,
tie silver is still fresh in our minds and
it may be repeated. But, as we said
before, unless there is a combine of the
tools of the money power, we are in
less danger of bad legislation now than
for a long time. At any rate let US be
cheerful as possible and hope for the
best If the worst comes.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-12-03
WHAT THE FARMER WANTS.

In n of our daily newspapers we
find a communication from an alleged
Kansas farmer, who says that 1.-The
farmer cannot afford to do away with
100 cent dollars" The farmer Gel tain
ly does not want to do that, and no
farmer has ever claimed to want to do
it, says the Farmers Voice.
He simply wants 100 cent dollars,
and no SO or $50 cent dollars. But just
now, whether the farmer likes it or
not, somebody has done away with all
kinds Of dollars. The farmer is not
burdened with dollars of any kind.
shape or material; and while the rich
money-loaning thieves of the world
have their way in our national legis-
lature, the farmer never will be
troubled with many dollars of any val
ne. But this alleged Kansas farmer
seems to be in a happy frame of mind
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-12-03
POSITIONS OF HONOR AND
TRUST.


The laws of land declare that no
citizen can hold two positions of honor
and trust, No oman can fill two county
offices legally, nor can he fill county
and State Office, or State and national.
This is right, but in some instances the
law has been violated, and we will not
have to go outside of this State to put
our hands on the men who have done
such things.
There is another species of wrong
that the law does not reach, except in
a general way: Members of the bar
who are elected to G 1ngress to fill high
positions in the State frequently go
right on with their law practice and
neglect the duties required of them as
public officials. Often men in high
places fill positions of trust in corpo-
rations and various other business en-
terprises and go right on drawing sala-
ries from two sources. Senator Carl
isle is still an attorney for the whiskey
trust, it is said. Many public men
might be mentioned. This is not right.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-12-03

Friends to the movement Will pl0'"
paes around this call for signature
and send along names without o0ios'
Christian people of all denonIo
tions and of all political parties a0A
vited to attend.
All who wish to speak at this Oo
ence will please send their names -
subject at once.
Funds are needed for immediate
future expenses. Ali Christian p
OTIS are requested to contribute 0o o..
thing to the cause of Reform"
manlty, Christ and Country. -.
In addition to speeches. to %
nounced by programme, a fe" noun @r
che Conference will be LETT oP0n
general discussion.
Address all commandments ~
Temporary Secretary, Atl0"ta' ~,
W-Au Christian papers. and 70
friendly to the cause, are requS'
copy.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-12-03
A NATIONAL ALLIANCE ORGAN.

We publish a very interesting letter
from Secretary Duncan, of the National
Alliance. It is found on page 8. We
fully agree with him as to the impor-
tance of a C~onal organ; in fact, all
he writss the national officers
should Eend heard in that organ
or elsew 3 is a shame that such
a great Ntion has no national
organ. Toel one did not meet ex
pectations, it's tIle, but there are hum
dreds of true and tried editors thai
can't be bought. At one time q
National Economist was the most LII.
fuentiaI paper in the United S1aVeS'
but it deviated from the beaten pain
and it's patrons dropped it at once anu
thew did right. But right men anu
there another paper ought to nave
been started with an honest editor.
The National Waterman, whose edl-
tor has been in the Alliance ranks from
tho start. has been kind enough to
o#or the use of his columns, and much
Good Alliance matter has appeared
therein from time to time, and the
only reason more has not been printed
was because it was not furnished. The
Alliance must be kept up and the waste
places rebuilt. A national organ is the
need of the hour. It can be published
in Washington, or elsewhere, no matter
about the location, but the editor must
be true and tried, and capable of run
ming an independent, ~nonpartisan pa
per, and be a non Office hunter himself.
Political action is necessary to secure
important polital reform, but an ALI
ance organ should not wear a party
collar.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-12-03
MR.. CLEVELAND A REPUBLICAN,,

Hoke Smiths paper, the Atlanta
Journal, in speaking of the recent cleo
ton, says:
Judging from the unanimity with
which they arose and smote the oppo
nents of the President last Tuesday,
the people are still with Mr.. Cleveland
and against the Bosses"
If the recent elections show that the
people are with Mr.. Cleveland, as the
Journal states, Mr.. Cleveland must be
full sdged Republican. The repub
hcans carried all of the Northern States
and Maryland and Kentucky in add
uon. IT the Journal is correct in ite
sSaCement, Mr.. Cleveland is neces
Ely a Observation-Disclosures Dis
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-12-03
RRFoRMRRs TO MEET.
Call for a National Christian Conference
to be Held in Atlanta, Ca, De-
cember I8 and 70, 1895.

Call for a National Christian Conference
to be Held in Atlanta, Ca, De-
cember Is and 70, 1895.
We, the undersigned advocates of
reform, viewing with anxious concern
the many evils of the day, unite in a
call for a National Christian Confer
ern to be held at the city of Atlanta,
Ca, December 18 h and 18Th, 1895.
Crime and lawlessness are abroad in
the land; Sabbath Dissertation is great
and growing; laws for the suppression
of b1asphemy, gambling and other
vices are frequently and shamelessly
violated; in many cities and in somo
whole States the Bible has been ban
ished from the public schools; in the
United S ;atss there are more than forty
different sets of divorce laws; the sew
enth and eighth commandments and
other precepts of the DecaIogue are
constantly broken; the people of the
United States alone squander 81, OOO,-
900, 900 for liquor in a year, while the
liquor traffic, causing a large proper,
ton Of the crime and suffering, is an.
nually killing 100, 900 of our citiz 3ns
and the army of the destitute and the
ranks of the unemployed r continu-
ally growing.
Viewing also the bribery and corrup-
ton in politics; remembering the dis
graceful acts and riotous scenes in some
of the State Legislatures of 1895, and
the shameful closing hours of the fifty
third Congress; that, while there are
some good men in Office, we have been
electing and appointing far too many
bad and incompetent ones, all the way
from courts of Justices of the Peace to
the halls OF the United States Capitol;
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-12-03
N. r. r. A.
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Hickory Alliance, in Catawba county,
has 70 members and holds rousing good
meetings every time. What is your
Alliance doing, brother9
A letter from Rockingham county to
Secretary Barnes brings the informa-
ton that Brother Massey has been
doing some good work there. Six
Alliances were organized and reorgan-
lied.
Owing to rain early last week the
photographer could not get the photo
graphs of the buildings at Hillsboro,
recently purchased for Alliance head
quarters, and this delayed the making
of the cuts. One cut only appears with
the address of the Executive @ Jmmit-
tee in this issue. Osher cuts and infor
nation will be published next week.
If reports be true, Eli. William Cobb,
of Cleveland county, who died recently
at the age Of 81 years, was a remark
able character. 1t is said that he ate
a chicken every day for forty years
prior to his death. At that rate he
consumed no less than IA, 600 chickens
probably more than any ten persons
ever ate during a lifetime, and he was
not a preacher, either.
The total tax valuation Of property
in North Carolina for this year is 1853,
634, 419. This includes city and coun,
try property, factories, railroads.
everything. The population of the
State is about LOO, 600. We are told
that two or three men in the North are
worth as much as our entire State
property is valued at. This shows
something radically wrong with ouI
laws or the enforcement of them.
The News and Observer issued its
cotton mill edition on Thanksgiving
Day. 1t consisted of 36 pages, six
columns to the page, and contained
illustrations of many of the mill build
ings and cuts of cotton mill owners
and off 7ers, with splendid writeups.
We understand that most of the work
was done by Mr.. F. B. Arendell. Our
neighbor displayed a great deal of en-
terprise and i5 will astonish even the
natives to read what is being done in
the way of cotton manufacturing in
this State. Several thousand extra
copies Of the paper were printed and
they will be distributed in Atlanta and
elsewhere.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-12-03

These figures show that the Repub-
licans lost 10; Democrats lost 6 and the
Populists gained 81 county officers.
They show that both old parties are
losing ground in Kansas, and that not
Withstanding reports to the contrary,
the populists are getting more popular
than ever, even though the fight was
on State, or rather county issues, there
this year.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-12-03
starvation

The small farmer should produce the
best horses, as he is better prepared to
carefully mature the two OF three colts
constantly under his care and by hand
ling them constantly they are educated
to work; but most do not appreciate
their advantage; they raise the scrub,
and let the larger dealers raise those in
which is the most money.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-12-03
PoPuLIsTs DYING IN KANSAS.

Below we give a comparative state
ment of the vote in Kansas for county
officers in 1893 and 1895. 1t shows, as
we suspected, that the Associated
Press report of the election was un-
true:
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-12-03

that many good laws are not enfo,o.,
and that there has been much NJ
and corrupt legislation. Remonue
ing, too, that the nations that tF'
God, shall be turned into destrnot:se
that righteousness exalteth a noS l;
but sin is a reproach to anv noo"1,
that when the righteous are in anL"'
ity the people rejoice, that Mosoa
counseled to provide out of Tho was
pie able men, such as fear God. ma po.
truth, hating unjust gain" and TSa
eternal vigilance is the price of Ebo.4
Believing that as the morals Of ny
in authority so in great measure %SS
be those of the people; that no polital,
party has a right to expect the s,nnoe4
of Christian peopleso long as that nes.'
dominates corrupto or incompetent ny
that from seventy-fve to ninety
cent. of the people are in favor NJ ~
different reforms advocated; that ~.
best politics and the best political aooS
omy is to elect the best men: that -
a mistake for good citizens to hold booI
from politics; that primary electior>
and nominating conventions are AZ !,
portant as the polls on election dar.
and believing further that the p,o.,
impediment to action is not discussa3
but the want of that knowledge Will
is gained by discussion, and that tba,o
should be a union of all reform forces
we request all Christian citizens Of tbo
United States to attend or send ren,a.
sentatives to this Conference to be bsa
at the city of Atlanta, Ca, BEGIN.
MING AT 9 A. M "WEDNESDAY. DE-.
GENDER 18th, 1896, to consider thess
vital issues of the hour, to promote all
wise measures of reform, and to dew q
some means for choosing only good and
competent men for public Office,
Christian churches, societies of
Christian Endeavor and other young
peoples unions, Woman's Christian
Temperance Unions, Young Mems
Christian Associations, and all kindred
organizations r urged to send dele,
gates to this Christian Conference.
8. T. NICHOLSON,
Special Agent Union Central Life In
surance Co., and Temporary Seere
tary.
REV. D. 81. FUTILE,
President State Temperance Associa.
ton.
J. W. CARTER, D. D.,
Faster First Baptist Church.
JAMES DINWIDDIE,
Principal Peace Institute
B. F. MONTAGUE.
W. N. JONES.
M. M. MARSHALL, D. D.,
Rector Christ Church.
G. B. BENSON,
Principal Male Academy.
HUGH MORsON,
Principal Male Academy.
A. M SIMMS, D. D.,
Pastor Baptist Tabernacle.
JUDGE WALTER CLARK, L. LID.
REV. JOHN N. COLE,
Pastor E 1enton st. Church.
COL J. s. CARR.
T. B. FULLER.
w. J. YOUNG,
Principal Iastitute for the Blind
WALTER II. OVERTON,
General Secretary Young Mems Chris
Association.
R.. T. GRAY,
Attorney at Law.
w. H. WORTH,
State Treasurer
W. 8. PRIMROSE,
President North Carolina Home lnsH
ance~Co.
A. M. POWELL.
JOHN T. PUALEN,
Cashier Raleigh Savings Bank
EUGENE DANIEL, D. D.
HON. G. M. COOKE
REV. JAS. L. FOSTER,
Pastor Christian Church
N. B. BROUGHTON,
Publisher.
HON. @. M. BU5BEE,
Postmaster
J. @. CADDELL,
D. J. MOOD,
Supt. Sunday school
EMMETT L. MOFFITF,
Editor; and Others
Friends to the movement will plea"
paes around this call for slgna1ul"'
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-10-11
THE EPISCOPAL CONVENTION

The house of deputies of the Episcopal
convention on October 9TH refused to ad
journ to attend the mass missionary meet
ing at the Lyceum Theatre and at which
eXSecretary of State Foster is to be the
principal speaker, come from Washington
for the express purpose.
At l1:40 the committee, in response to
an urgent appeal from the general Secre-
tary of the Board of Missions, sent by Il
dcputation from the Lyccum, rose by
vote of l51 to II. and the house adjourn
cd.
The joint committee on the standard
prayer book reported final revision and
printing of the Book of Common Prayer
ON fine paper, and the distribution of
copies among the diocescs and promlent
institutions.
\ handsome vcllum volume. bound in
leather and silver. and enclosed in cary
ed oakcn box was delivered formally to
the custodian of the standard Book of
Common PRAYER. This volume, a marvel
of the printers and bookbindcr's art, was
held aloft in Secretary Hutchins' hand,
while the house rose to its feet.
The committee on new diOccScs report
ed, recommending the division of dioccscs
of Maryland, Kentucky and California.
The report was adopted without debate.
Another debate ensucd over the ques
ton of selecting a term by which the head
of the House of Bishops should be known.
At present he is called presiding bishop
and holds office through seniority. The
revised vcrsition calls him primus and
has him elected. There was strong
opposition to the use of Latin words and
many other names were suggested. Among
them were arch bishop, president bishop
and primate. This last will be the one
finally adopted, although the debate is
still on. The other terms have all been
voted down.