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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-01

Robert Howard and Thomas Williams
We're brought here from Randolph, yester-
day, and lodged in Jail for 80 days each
for drunkenness.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-01

The Journal acknowledges the receipt
of March Harper's Magazine from j. +.
Pierce who now has it on sale.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-01
Printed Bills Read and Assigned.

An act to amend An act to authorize
the extension of the kcnnebcc q MIS-
casset Railroad, and TO change the name
of the company and to add to- and to
amend existing acts in relation thereto
approved Feb. Il, 1873.
An act to incorporate the Fort Kent
nrnlnnhnnn Cnrnnany
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-01

Mrs Tolman Malcolm, of Gardiner, is
here visiting Mr.. and Mrs. A. o. Sanborn
at 81 Eastern avenue.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-01
REPUBLICAN CITY CAUCUS.

The Republicans of the city Of Augusta are
requested 10 meet at common council room on
Friday evening, March l, at 80 O'Clock, for the
purpose of nominating candidate for mayor.
Per order.
REPUBLICAN CITY COMMITTEE
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-01

Rev. II. G. Hayes has returned from
Lewiston, where he has passed several
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-01
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS TODAY.

Neckwear-Taske Bros.
Chadwick's Music store.
Patent Medicines-City Drug store
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-01

A row of shelves has been arranged in
the office of kennebcc Jail, which will DO
a great convenience.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-01

6. T.. Gay, commander of Seth Williams
Post, is confined to the house by sickness.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-01

Frank Trask of Windsor represented
Whitetield Lodge, at the Grand Lodge in
Boston.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-01

A large cat owl in the window of the
Fairbanks shoe store, attracted much at
tcntion, yesterday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-01

The gas pipes ON State street at the
junction of Green are being repaired
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-01

people will go to Portland to the Melba
concert
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-01
GRAND OPENING!
Ladies' Cotton Underwear.
On TUESDAY, FEB 26, 10 Continue one week.

N Increased Iof re'''iS
.,oo6s. Particularly is this true OF I-i.S
Cotton IJnaerxv and in other nTneh Oh IN,
A.,
goods
fact NJ
Of high grade skilled i"oi'
.1,.s ,soss;yp.e. We goods direct
and by doing are th''-
red to prices about as low s you can oH
will lind Entire line
LADIES :,4dN ESssElss' COTTON d>DlIlN-
ANNEII1E"EEtI WE1AI-
ard new Infants goods of
aUt1 displayed i'm
MILLINERY and CLOAK DEPARTMENT
VvC lasI low on
these, goods. wiz say. with many
otvcrs that Finest
cyc,. sscc,, in Gardiner Look il over and don't
ss,cl Obliged buy. we like to show our new
WV e. STUD Sz CO,
1891 WATER ST., GARDINER, NE.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-01

II. j. Cross and wife went TO Bangor,
Thursday morning,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-01

Detective Heald of the Maine Central,
was here Thursday
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-01

Mrs. q. II. Brickett went to Boston,
Thursday morning.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-01

March list; the windy month begins.
F. 5. Ames of Machias, was here,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-01
Local Matters.

March list; the windy month begins
+. 5. Ames of Machlas, was here
Thursday.
Mrs G. H. Brickett went to Boston,
Thursday morning.
Detective Heald of the Maine Central,
was here Thursday.
II. j, Cross and wife went TO Bangor,
Thursday morning.
The gas pipes on State street at the
junction of Green are being repaired
6. T.. Gay, commander of Seth Williams
Post, is confined to the house by sickness.
--- ---
Rev. II. G.. Hayes has returned from
Lewiston, where he has passed several
days.
Frank Trask of Windsor, represented
Whitefield Lodge, at the Grand Lodge in
Boston.
1t is quite probable that some Augusta
people will go to Portland to the Melba
concert.
A large cat owl in the window of the
Fairbanks shoe store, attracted much at
tention, yesterday.
A row of shelves has been arranged in
the office of kennebec Jail, which will DO
a great convenience.
Mrs. Tolman Malcolm, of Gardiner, is
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-07-09

16 to 1 of gold, which is the Populist
doctrine 1t is not as much Populist
doctrine as it is Democratic. The
Democratic party has long been nfavor
of free coinage at the present ratio. A
majority of the party has 30 voted in
Congress, we believe, every time the
question has been voted upon. There
was little division in the party until
Cleveland led some Of his followers to
endorse the Republican position. The
last Democratic State convention de-
clared une quivocally for free coinage.
Was that a Populist gathering9 Vance
was a free silver man. Was he a Pop
ulistY Jno. s. Henderson is a free
coiner. Is he a Populist9
The majority of the Democrats are
free coiners. Are they Populists3
Does the majority rule? In other words,
does the dog wag the tail or the tail the
dogs Where r we at, anyways Is
it Populistic to be a Democrat and ad-
vocate the time-honored principles and
policies of that partyG 1t never was
so considered until the goldbug Demo
Gratis cavorted onto the money plank
in the Republican platform, and with
the vain hope of trying to induce others
to do the same thing began to shout
Populist at silver Democrats.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-07-09
STATE ALLIANCE MEETING.

The Democrats have "swunk" up so
much that everything looks ''swunk"
up around them. The Statesville Land
mark never loses an opportunity to say
something against the Alliance. Re-
fering to the fact that the next meeting
of the State Alliance will be held at
Cary, that paper says Our noble Or
der'' must have "swunk" up a great
deal or it could not meet at a wayside
village like Gary. Gary is not such a
small village. But if it was only half
as large that would>not interfere with
the meeting of the State Alliance.
There are only 96 counties in the State
and S Ome of the delegates always fail
to come. But if every delegate came
one from each county-would it re-
quire a large town or city to entertain
say one hundred men? Of course some
visitors will attend, but they always
look out for themselves. Cary is not
far from the centre of the State, is
located on two of the leading railway
systems, and is, therefore, accessible.
The citizens of the town and vicinity
have thrown open their hospitable
homes and there is a hotel in the town.
Why look elsewhere for a meeting
place9 1t is more than likely that the
Alliance shoe factory and other indus
tries which mean so much for the
membership, will be located at Cary,
and we want the delegates to Q the
advantages of the location. When the
Alliance gets "swunk" up as much as
the organization represented by the
Landmarks, then it will be time enough
to make fun of it.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-07-09
WHAT THE MONEY POWER IS.

Money has no patriotism. 1t has no
moral principles. In the life of the
government were in danger to, mOrrOw,
as it was in 1876, the money power
would hold it up by the throat. If
fact, it is now strangling the govern
ment. 1t smiles on you when you rec
ognize it's power, but will crush you if
you antagonize it, just as it induced
Pontius PLATE and the officials of gov
eminent to kill Jesus Christ and scat
ter his followers, writes w. II. Harvey
another of Coins Financial School,"
in the North American Review for
July. It is now only partially aroused;
if the danger to it continues to arise in
this country it will exhibit all it's
strength and it will be terrible! It will
seize the government. Official despot
ism will follow. Men whose characters
have been moulded and made by the
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-07-09
NEW SILVER

A recent Washington dispatch says:
Senator Stewart, of Nevada, advances
the proposition that the characterization
of silver will not only reduce the mum
Der of marriages in the future, but that
it has already done so to an alarming
extent. He produces statistics to sup
port this utterance.
1.-The reason" the Senator continued.
sis obvious. From the landing at
jamestown until fifteen years ago the
only questions asked of a young man
proposing marriage were: Is he hon
est, industrious, intelligent and of good
character If these we're affrmatively
answered, the consent OF the parents
was ordinarily given. The question
now is: Has the young man an in
Gomez The possibility of his making
a living for himself and family by his
industry is regarded as too remote for
consideration"
why is this3 Are not young men
succeeding to day in business enter
prises as well as in the pasta"
mot at all; there is not one succeed
ing to day where one hundred succeed,
ed half a century ago. You ask the
cause7 1t is due to falling prices If
a man is in business, he is unable to
dispose of the fruits of his labor to an
advantage. On the contrary, the more
he struggles and engages in business,
the more continually do prices fall.
The few who deal in money are the
only ones who are now able to marry
and support wives"
"What becomes of those who cannot
afford to marry9"
They live, " replied the Senator, ION
their parents or go into servitude.
Women are seeking employment in
stores as typewriters and as upper ser
wants. They must do something; they
can't afford to marry"
"What will be the effect upon our
populations"
THE effect will be to reduce popula
ton. The census of 1890 showed a fall
ing off in the increase of our popula-
ton, and the census of 1900 will accen-
tuate this decrease. The number of
marriages have decreased from 25 to
40 per cent. during the last five years.
These figures may not be exactly cor
rect, as 1 am speaking from memory.
but they are approximately So"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-07-09
1T IS a FACT.

The Roxboro Courier ome out in
defence of the goldbug editor of the
Charlotte Observer. It says that once
before the O5SerUer man stood on the
watch-tower and fought almost single
handed and alone against the Alliance,
declaring that it would eventually hurt
the politics of the State, and time has
proven that MI. Caldwell was right,
and, the Courier thinks, it will turn
out that he is right on the money
question.
Nj. Caldwell was right, so far as his
views on the Alliance question we're
concerned. The Alliance did hurt the
politics of the State-smashed the ma
chine to which MI. Caldwell belongs,
or owns, into smithereens. The fight
for free coinage and justice is hurting
the same machine and it's manipulators
and beneficiaries; it is the same old
Alliance fight. Just how any intelli-
gent North Carolinian can be a goldbug
is a mystery to us, but tina makes Mr..
Caldwell none the less consistent in
taking his same stand at this stage of
the game. 1t is un-American, and his
paper would not have been tolerated in
the birthplace of liberty" a hundred
years ago, but that doesn't matter.
Time changes all things. The descend
ants of the Alexanders, Brevards and
McDowell's may be just as good as
their ancestors, but they are slow about
declaring that they will not submit to
English goldbug rule. 1t is time for
the people of M~ecklenburg county to
throw off the English yoke and make
the second Declaration of Independ-
ence.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-07-09
COUNTY

We desire your aid at your next
county Alliance meeting. THE Pro
GREssIvE FARMER is the State Organ of
the N. @. Farmers Alliance and we feel
no hesitancy in asking every Alliance
Secretary to act as our agent at the
county meetings and call the attention
of the AlIiancemen to their duty to
wards their State Organ. Insist on the
brethren subscribingf for THE PROGRESS
I'VE FARMER if for only three months.
We know money among the farmers Is
a scarce article but the poorest can
spare 25 cents to support their stand,
ard bearer. We are very proud to
say the Alliance is growing in every
section of the country. This should
encourage every man who has the re-
form cause at heart, for without the
influence of the Alliance no political
party will give us the relief demanded
by the Ocala platform. We are still
more proud to say The PROGRESSIVE
FARMER has not Jagged behind in bring
ing about this revival in the Alliances.
We have never deviated one iota from
the path marked out by Col. L, L.
Polk when he accepted the State or
ganship for The PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
We have never deserted a single prin-
ciple of the Alliance Demands, nor
made any apology for defending them,
and existing conditions in North Caro-
lima to-day, tho not what they should
be or will be, are proof that u work
has not been in vain.
Now wewant every county secretary
to represent The PROGRESSIVE FARMER
at his county meeting. Send us a large
club of subscribers and let us send
pure Alliance doctrine into hundreds
of homes that have heretofore been
without it.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-07-09
SOME OF THE SOUND MONEY
MEN.

Haywood & Son, bankers, Clinton,
Iowa, have failed, owing 5000, 900,
mostly to poor depositors. That is the
way the money good in Yurrup) goes.
A Chicago ice company failed last
week owing $3.50, 600 sound dollars. We
guess it was froze out.
Sigmund, Freitch 6 Co., pork pack
ers, Cincinnati, assigned on the 1st.
Liabilities $58, 900 "sound dollars"
II. Baruch, ''sound money" mer-
chant, Charlotte, N. c., assigned on
the 1st. He did a large business in the
dry goods line, but dollars good in
"Yurrup" would not buy goods, except
In limited quantities, hence the failure.
John Smith, a private banker doing
bushes at Atlanta, Ca, skipped a
month ago. He was considerably in
debt. Smith telegraphed his wife from
Juarez, Mexico, a few days ago, and
the authorities there have been in
structed to arrest him.
The Gayosa, the largest hotel in
Memphis, went into the hands of a
receiver last Wednesday. The liabiIi-
ties are $3.50, 900; assets about the same.
Sound money" did the work.
W. H. Hill, a large dealer in dry
goods at Winston, N. c., has tried bue-
mess two years under goldbug rule and
finds his business in the hands of as
signees.
Frank E. Davis, representative of
the Fire Insurance Association of Phil
adelphia, located at Portland, Oregon,
committed suicide Thursday. He was
short in his accounts $1,000 sound
dollars"
N. P. Pegram, merchant, Charlotte,
N. O., has assigned. That ''sound
money town is getting it in the neck.
Two big assignments inside of a week.
The Observer will please observe.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-07-09
GOING IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS

The Democrats who are riding horses
going in opposite directions seem to
make but little progress. They have
not yet gotten far enough apart to quit
asking each other questions. The Con-
cord Times is goldbug. 1t says the
free silver Democrats are advocating
Populistic doctrines. The Charlotte
Net0S comes back at it and declares
that the Democratic party mas long
been for free coinage" Referring to
the Concord Times editorial, it says:
"phe statement in the above quota.
ton that is particularly offensive is
this: The Democracy of Cabarrus is
almost solidly against the free and un-
limited coinage Of silver at the ratio of
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-07-09

conditions leading up to the present
situation, when elected to office, become
the servants of this power. Their a
aries are not reduced; if changed at all
the salaries are raised. The purchasing
power of their dollars are increased by
the system they defend. Their self
interest goes with the money power,
and they court it's favors and look for
a soft spot, financially, on which to
land at the end of their term Of Office,
They seemingly become heartless on
corning the common massos-the plain
people thence, official despotiem.
These are the conditions that come
with the breaking down of a govern
ment as a natural result of the money
power absorbing the wealth of the peo-
pie. l do not mean any man individ
ually, or any number of men collective
~, when I speak of the money power.
1t is a thing impersonal.~ It is a grasp
ing perverse nature, cultivated
in man, that seizes upon the use of
money to accomplish its evil purpose.
1t is most dangerous because it gives
strength and prominence to those who
advocate it's cause, and has the appear
ance of being a just and reasonable
right under the laws of man for the
disposal of property. 1t is not &C easy
for men to Q the tendency is evil and
its victims millions, when their eyes
are blinded by the dazzling blaze of
possibilities of riches for themselves.
The right to accumulate unnecessary
property and to produce distress among
the people is not a divine right, and
should not be guaranteed by human
laws
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-07-09
enCe.

Col. Al Fairbrother, peel, hypnotist,
duelist, prize fighter, ventriloquist and
chief lion tanner to his Highness, the
Duke of Durham, recently purchased
the Durham Weekly Recorder. Blthe
cannot begin the publication on account
of a former contract made when he
sold the Globe, in which he agreed not
to publish another paper in North
Carolina for a period of ten years.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-07-09
ALL SOUND MONEY" MEN.

A New York exchange says: For
mer bank officers to the number of
sixty eight, all serving sentences in one
penitentiary! That is the remarkable
fact which will appear in the forthcom
ing report Of Warden Hayes, of the
Kings county penitentiary. To be
o explicit, there r now within the
cold gray and black walls of that insti-
tuition eve men who, when arrested
for embezzlement of d~epositors' funds,
were presidents Of national banks;
twelve men who, when rounded up in
a crime by the strong arm of the law,
were >honored and respected cashiers
OF national banks, and forty nine other
men who were trusted clerks or tellers
in banks of the same class.
"The percentage of former bank off
Gals at Albany, Erie, Detroit and Still
water, will average the same as at the
Kings county institution. The total
number of bank defaulters, embezzIers
and wreckers formerly connected with
national banks alone will, therefore,
approximate $40, or one-sixth of the
total number of Federal prisoners in
confinement for felonies.
GAS the commitments call for hard
labor, there is nothing for the warden
to do but to put them into the shop.
Men who daily handled thousands of
dollars of bank notes are now Gaming
chairs. Able financiers, with valuable
views on bond issues and popular loans,
are becoming deft in the manipulation
of needles or the operation of sewing
machines In the tailor shop. A dis
honest teller may make good cobbler,
but the majority of them are engaged
in the manufacture of the fabric known
as 'tampeek.' AS prisoners, this class
has always been found orderly and
cheerfully obedient to the rules of the
institution. They are neat and we'll
hammered, steady patrons of the prison
library and, without exception, avail
themselves to the limit of the privileges
given for letter writing. They are, as
a class, men who realize the justice of
their punishment, and are disposed to
make the best Of the situation, and lose
no chance for Communication Of their
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-07-09
AND HERE is THE SECOND LETTEI

AND HERE IS THE SECOND LETTER
RALEIGH, N. G, June % 1872
Senator John Sherman: q,
DEAR SIR:-I received your SPeep
today, delivered in the Senate WeoD'
day, August Both, 1898, during the q,
bate on silver, in reply to my le'S'
and thank you for the same.
notice on page AZ the following
guage: ''In every stage Of the Dill ~,
every print, the dollar 412B grams W
prohibited and the single gold StaDur -,
recognized, proclaimed and ul--
stood" Now if you understood III -,
the money question as we'll az you
in 1893, (end you say you are n0'1 ~
to plead the baby acD how 90
reconcile the statement Of your ? b
ton made in 1873, the day befoIo
characterization of silver, dacl@rIps
a standard of both silver AMI go!V'
the statement above quoted III In
you signify that you and evefyOI~
understood that your bill OF Io'D ID,
duced the country to q gold 8t9".I
1 have very much enjoyed YOU
nouncing the politicians in Congro ii
1873, who now, pleading the OaO!
say they were ignorant Of "na' r,s
your bill. However ardent a cD"Dr sr
of silver as standard money you nmr
have been at times and for cerS'DG ~
poses, I think with you that f9T bJ
gressmen were ever actually JUS Inn.
You. But unless you thought, 1 ~
ever, that there were some l5D'
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-07-09

In 1871 a frisky Chicago COW kicked
over a lamp and started a confagra-
ton that burned up $3.50, 600, 900 worth
OF property. In 1898 an English
American bull from Buffalo, N. Y,
kicked over a coinage law in Washing
ton, D. c., and started a panic that
cost the American people over $780,
600, OOO, 900. The COW didn't know any
better; the bull did.