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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-30

SpecIaI 20 TIE IH~uIdHdpOTS JOuTnaI-
SOUTH BEND. Ind. June 2.-Henry
Allen has until to-day been a hostler for
Dr. J. B. Greene. OF Mishawka. Yesterday
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-01
BANKER o s1L

Capt. James Fl. Smith, O. eEs .at
National Bank of Sterling, although q
banker, and one who might a~ "a
to have single gold standaI q q
pronounced silver man. Tae following
extracts are taken from 81 ms remarks
recently made by him:
"The single standard will ruin Our
country and it's credit. We haven't
gold enough to bas9 our large efrcula
ton on. 1t leaves the government at
the mercy of designing capital. This
fact forces gold to a premium. 1t
scares gold and it in a measure goes out
OF circulation. This reduces the circu-
lation by at least 900. 600 600 of active
and willing money.
II object to England shaping the
finances of this country which, if we
allow her do, will place us at the mercy
of London. I believe in absolute fuan
cial freedom for this country, whether
Europe likes, it or not. "-Topeka Ad-
VOCate,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-01
TOBACCO MEN

A Raleigh daily paper published an
article last week stating that tobacco
was being taken from Raleigh to Dur
ham and there sold, because Durham
was a better market than Raleigh.
This is untrue, so far as Durham be
ing a better tobacco market than Raj
eigh. There is not a better tobacco
market in North Carolina than R Raleigh,
and our warehousemen feel highly in
censed at the injustice done them by
this home paper.
Tobacco raisers in Wake and adjoin-
ing counties will receive the best mar
ket prices, will receive fair treatment,
and have every courtesy shown them
by tobacco buyers at Raleigh, and they
will do we'll to patronize their home
people.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-01
MORE FRAUD IN AUGUSTA

In the Congressional election last
year for the Tenth Georgia districr,
Black, the Democratic candidate.
claimed Is. 1000 votes in Richmond
county, giving him a majority of 7 373
over Hon, 7 E Watson, Populist
Watson and his friends knew that
fraud had been practiced, and charged
1t. After a great dead of talk, Back
resigned his seat in Congress and the
election will be held again this fall.
The Georgia leg stature passed a
new registration law last winter and
it is thought to be better than the old
one. The new registration has been
completed and the total registration
for Redmond county is ONLY r 400
against the is 90 votes claimed no +ho
Democrats last year. This shove +hot
10, 800 OF tie alleged vote last yea was
fraudulent Watson and his friends
charged that az least 10, 600 fraudnIant
votes were cast, or counted, and tn a
SHOWS mat they we're right.
But the nsw registration loo h
entlrely discouraged the Auopsto
sc unoreIs The registration books If
ChaC city, the c sunty seat of Richmond
county, for this year, contain. 49,
names of exactly 1 200 negroes uboo1o
registered as coming of age this wear
Now isn't it strange that out Of q col.
ored voting population of certainly not
more than 3 OOO, 1900 should have
oeen born in 18749 This fraud is too
apparent for anything. Even if the
oaiance OF the registration is clean and
nohest' they have over a thousand
nlee7i colored voters on the list. Wat.
: SUN may overcome even this fraud.
u II he does not Congress should seat
Inlm on general principles.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-01
DANGEROUS INSTITUTIONS.

The Pittsburg K tnsan raises danger
signal as to universities founded by
rich men, to which the unsophiscated
point with pride as evidences of
millionaire philanthropy" but where
the professors ''teach with gags in
their mouths, several having been re
Gently removed from American uni
versities as Professor Tnerold Rogers
was from Oxford, because they dig out
facts or elucidate themes in a manner
obnoxious to the plutocratic control.
This" say s the Kansas, is a positive
menace, and it may be necessary for
the State to subject these pretentious
concerns to public discipline" But
1.-The State" and the plutocrats are sub
stantially M
John D, R rockefeller, Standard Oil,
made-that is, plundered from the
people-$75, 600, 600 in thirty years He
could not have made the thousandth
part but that he was allowed by laws
1.-The people" never had anything to d
With, not only to monopoliz9ra natural
product, but to control it's production
by others and its transportation to
consumers By discrimination in freights
and by bus ing legislatures wholesale.
To insure the p~erpetuity of this plum
der Cor until the people get their eyes
open to peoples rue" fction) he ex-
pended 81, OOO, 900 on the University of
Chicago. By some means professors
got in there who don't believe that some
men were born booted and spurred to
ride on the backs of Others Profes 5or
Bemis, of that university, denounced
the robbary of the people by corpora
tiOns and civic authorities, thus tread
ing on the corns of Yerkes, the street
railroad magnate, who had given $500,
900 to the same university in the form
of a telescope, he having made SO, OOO,-
900 out of the people of Chicago in ten
wears, that would have remained in
their individual pockets, or been ex-
pended in public benefits, had there
been public ownership of railroads.
Prof. Bamis did not favor the A. r,
U. strike, but believes in labor unions.
After the strike. he addressed several
millionaires in DR. Barrows' church.
and said that the railroads too are
law breakers, and must be made to
obey the Inter state Commerce Act"
~whereupon Marvin Hughitt, President
of the Chicago 6 Northwestern r. r
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-01

stepped up to the pulpit and shouted:
I consider that language an outrage;
) imply that the railroads cannot
come into court with clean hands Is In
famous"
This took place, we believe, some
time last year; and it ID a marvel he
was not dismissed at once, but he was
popular with the students. He be
lleved that a university should be IN
close touch with the labor movement
and municipal and monopoly problems,
and that it is true conservatism to in
troduce legislation, more honest and
just local taxation, and such methods
of city government and monopoly con
troll as prevail in Glasgow, Birming-
ham, and others of the best governed
European cities"
Therefore, he has recently IS vered
his relations with the university" be
cause its friends and supporters dare
not haze the truth taught.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-01
THE PLAIN TRUTH.

Depew reports that business is bright
ening very much abroad, as it certain
ly is here; and, therefore, we must be
lieve that an era of good times is near
a hand in spite of the that the
continued exploration of gold gives
Richmond Dispatch.
The falling eff of assessed values in
Virginia was something over 81 600,
600 in 1894; in 1895 this falling off will
reach between 81, 900. 900 and IS. 600,
900. There has been a gain in some Of
the cities, but the general prosperity
of the State has continued to wane.
The country is on the eve of another
bond issue to maintain the gold reserve
one of the most foolish ard impract-
icohIs CnOrts 9V0L -o1o hg any gov
eminent. There can be no general
prosperity to the country so long as
Grover Cleveland's ideas of finance is
followed out of filling up a sieve with
borrowed gold.-Richmond Star.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-01
WE TOLD YOU So.

Nothing better for the POpuliss cause
could have happened than the result
of the free silver convention at Raleigh
yesterday when the Democrats had to
go out of their own meeting. The Pop
ulisrs have always attacked the Demo
Gratis il this State on the ground of in
sincerity as to silver. Some of them
wero put to the test yesterday and
could not stand it. What is there now
for the Populists to do except to point
to the outcome of this convention and
say, "What have we always told you9'
Charlotte Observer, 26Ch
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-01
33,168.

80, 1853 what9 Why pairs of shoes
shipped into North Carolina from Bos-
ton alone in the last four weeks. That
is at the rate of 1922 pairs for each
week, and 1, 382 per day for each work
ing day in those weeks. An average
factory turns out 800 pairs per day
hence the shipments from Boston alone,
at this time to North Carolina equals
more than the product of four average
factories. Money has to leave the
State to pay for these shoes, and many
times more than these, while we have
the material in abundance in the State
going to waste, which u idle labor
could convert into shoes. Verbum1
sop. brother. What have you done,
and what are you doing to help on OUR
shoe factory?
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-01
EDUCATION GOES FORWARD.

1t is gratifying to learn that the col
leges of the State are not only holding
their own, but actually going forward
despite real and imaginary obstacles.
We learn that Wake Forest opened
with 23O students, a larger number
than it ever had before, and more are
expected. Davidson opened with about
100, more than have attended during
any other session. Guilf0rd has been
compelled to build an addition to the
college to &C 3omodate the increasing
patronage. O.her colleges are full,
and some of them running rel Thus
it appears that State aid has lot in
fured the private institutions, at least
not to such an extent as to seriously
injure them, and we hope this will al
ways be the result Of it. Indeed we
have never been alarmed about State
aid to education SO long IS it is proper
ly managed. The more education the
people get the more they want, and
unless the safe gees into it or a much
larger scale it is not likely that the ex
listing institutions will be damaged. If
they are suffering at all it is from bus
mess depression just as nearly every
otEer business is suffering.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-01
WATsoN's FOUR TRUIsMs.

After due reflection, the following
remarks seem to us to be clearly true
1st. The preacher who makes Jesus
Christ take a back seat when the in
terests of the Democratic party are at
stake was laboring under an honest
mistake Of fact when he thought that
he heard "a cali" to preach. It was
some other noise he heard.
2nd. A ProhibitiOnist who supports
the Democratic ticket was mistaken
when he thought his conscience would
Mt let him support a bar-room candi
date. He knows now that his con
science isn't so easy to tear and rip as
he feared it was. He finds, to his i'm
mense comfort, that it will stretch.
3cd. That the free silver Democrat
who remains with his party in the
hope of getting ''relief" inside the
party should lose no time in reaching
an agreement with the Alliance Demo
Graf to make wills in each others favor
and mutually pledge each other that
the survivor will attend the funeral OF
the one which dies first.
If it should be further agreed that
Livingston should be the executor of
whatever assets they may leave and
testamentary guardian of any des
scendants who may be left lying
around loose, the arrangement will be
all the more fitting, satisfactory and
proper,
4th. That if there is any political
body on this earth which is precisely
like a mule-in that it has neither
pride of ancestry nor hope of poster
ity-it's a Democratic free silver con
vention.-Peoplas Party Paper.
T. E ".
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-01
L PROPHETS.

FOR seVera years we have been told
oy Democratic papers and politicians
that either Populist or Republican con-
troll OF the State meant ruin IN her
financial credit and various industries
a little less than a yea ago the two
parties gained control Jointly. the
Fopulists getting a majority in the
senate and the Republicans a majority
IN the House. The prophets became
hysterlcal when the result of tho oIoo
ton was known. They have not omit
nowilng yet. In the past nine months
North Carolina bonds have advanced
several points. Indeed thew are an
nlgh now and considered such a sa fe
'esCment that no bonds are or the
nar6et. You can'G buy one at a reason
@0ie price. In the same period more
oaPlCal a been invested in cotton
Lnllls ana other enterprises in this sto+o
1nan ever before in the same length Of
tlne: Above all, a prettv.good cronot
nearly everything has been roiao5 -
0Alhg mat somec claimed wasimnosaib1o
except under Democratic rule W.
are cursed with national misrnio h',t
80 Tar as State legislation goes n',bI;o
confidence has been restored n1S ~
facts and figures put a oniet,,s ~ ~ t Io
croakers. 0A ""o
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-01
OTIACK ESSTIF

For about twenty years after the
close of the war, the ''bloOdy shirt
did duty in keeping the Republicans in
power, while the Democratic slogans
were freedom from Federal interfer-
ence with elections in the South, and
denunciation of protective duties,
which duties were retained by Repub-
licaus; but all this time there was re
ally no question of principle between
these two parties. By slow degrees,
the bloody shirt" was dropped, the
tariff took frs place, and the whole
policy Of both parties was to make
that so prominent as to hide all i'm
portant issues behind it, and to make
such a barbarous din over it as to rem
der all reasonable talk for reforms in
land, money and transportation maud
ible.
But as the Democrats, after getting
into power on the tariff issue, have al
most ignored it, that can no longer be
made the bone of an imaginary con
tention, and to prevent the people
FRI m imbibing radical views on the
subjects of land, finance, and trans
porGetlon, some sort of quack business
has to be started to emuse the people.
Whlle the ~parties-no matter which of
one, tWo' or three-capture the spoiIs.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-01

Nearly all the farmers in the Tenth
district are for Watson. Owing to the
frauds in Augusta last fall they boy
cotted the Augusta ExposiSion and it
was q failure and the company is now
| der,1nct, They also wanted to boycott
the entire city by taking their products
to other towns and also purchasing
goods elsewhere, but Mr.. Watson,
through his paper and otherwise,
boooed them not to do this, a it would
ntaiTIoss on business men and others
who are innocent, making them suffer
along with the guilty. Now that the
fraud has been repeated for the third
time. though on a smaller scale, we
think Mr.. Watson should refuse to in
tercede in behalf of the city any longer.
Let the people boycott the veritable
hell hole, Tor such Augusta is, and let
it rot and crumble away rather than
that justice shall longer be thwarted.
The farmers of the Tenth district do
not deserve the name of men if they
continue to yield and to patroniz9su C
scoundrels. Men who steal votes will
steal anything else, and men who deal
with rogues knowingly are not guard
ing their own interests. Transfer your
trade to other towns or else join hands
with the Augusta rogues. This is our
advice to the people of the Tenth Geor-
gia district, and it will stand any test
that may be applied.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-01
DANIEL WEBSTER A SILVER
CRANK

Gold and silver is the money of the
Constitution. The constitutional stand.
ard of value is established and cannot
be overturned. To Overturn it would
shake the whole system. Gold and
silver, at rates fixed by Congress o
stitute the legal standard of value in
this country, and neither Congress nor
any State has authority to establish
any other, or dispose of this."-Daniel
Webster in Congressional Globe Ap,
pendix, pages "a and Sc, Twenty fourth
Congress, December 81, 1886.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-01
TIE STATE FAIR.

The railroads have agreed to make
a M cent per mile rate to the State
Fair. This ought to insure a large at
tendance, and doubtless will.
President Carr and Secretary Nichols
have been hard at work and have Sc
cured many attractions. The racing
and stock exhibit will be especially
fine, A handsome premium list has
been published and can be had on ap
plication to the Secretary.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-01
n. r. 2. A.
EDITORIAL NOTES

The word "battage" at the end of the
first line in the third verse of the poem
printed on the fifth page should be
cottage"
The American Law Review and the
Denver Daily News, each among the
leading papers in the country, are out
in favor of the government ownership
of railroads.
Fairintosh & Amer, New Jersey
goldbugs, have made an assignment.
They owned an interest in the Butord
hotel at Charlotte, n. c., and the Avon
Inn, in New Jersey.
Rowan county Agricultural Fair will
begin at Salisbury to day and continue
three days The programme is excel
lent and the Fair promises to be better
than ever before. 1t deserves Success.
Overproduction means more of an
article than the rich man wants. If
the rich can't eat up all the grain raised
or ell the cotton and wool pro
duC2d, they cry overproduction. But
still the wants Of the poor are not near
satisfied, and the rich take care that
they are bled so they can't buy as much
as they need.
Over 500 pensioners are paid in To
peka by checks, cashed at Topeka
banks. A circular was issued inform
ing the pensioners that they were n
titled to pay in gold, and advising
them to demand it. O1e did so, and
was kicked out of the bank, the presi
dent Of which characterized the circu
lar as ''diaboljcl." 1t drew out the
facc that, while gold advocates claim
there is enough gold in the country for
all it's business, there was not enough
to pay 500 pensioners.
The New York Times says it is a
t'contemptible shame" that the Score
tary of the Treasury has no power tc
borrow money when he needs it. 1t is
q contemplate shame" that he should
borrow it or need to borrow when the
government can make more than
million dollars a day of either gold
silver or g~reeuback, and does not neec
to borrow anything. The flames O
hades will be blue with the poison 0
such writer's as the Times editor wheI
they are getting their just punishment
The result of the sam Jones meeting
IN Winston is hat the drug stores ar
closed on Sunday and noon day praye
meetings are held every day at the Y
M. G A Sam got 81, $50 Sound money
for the ten day S work out OF the cit
GEMS of Winston. We are curious t
know whether or not Sam gets pa
from the Reform Clue" in Wllllar
and Wall streets, New York, for tn
hell stained financial doctrine he
said TO mix with his sermons Chrls
drove the money changers cut OF u
Temple for doing the very thing tns
Sam advocates, and this leads us 20 o
-lieve that the parity and intrinsic Valu
between Sam and his Saviour Is muc
greater than the parity between shV'
and gold, even while silver Is demon
tized. Sam ought to tell the PuOl
why he is serving God and Mammol
both.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-01
L

Secretary Barnes informs us that the
work Of Alliance reorganization goes
right on Some eight or ten Subs have
been re organized in the past week or
two. Toe need of such an organlza-
ton grows more apparent to the think
ing farmer every day. Good politics
are all right, but the man who thinks
political parties will do all they should
| without a great reform force behind
| them is very much mistaken. POllGl-
cal parties, as such, seek to please their
strongest organized adherents, hence
| the old parties lean to the bankers,
manufacturers and saloon keepers wen
knowing that they are all thoroughly
organized. As matters now stand, ana
while protesting to favor all legitimate
business and industry, q FeoPle
party will not dare to ignore the Wlshes
of the organized farmers and
ORGANIZATIONS. Hence the necessity or
keeping up our farmers organizations
The old parties have good men IN them,
but the managers run then IN the IN
terest of the office seekers and the
blood sucking organizations that will
put up big campaign funds. The PEG
pIe's party can neither cater to the
office seeker nor the boodlers, but must
keep near the great common people or
get no votes, and that explains why 1t
is better than it's predecessors. Now
let the organized farmers, mechanics
and business men divide up and let
their organizations become detunct,
and you will soon see the honest lead
ers and adherents dropping out of the
Peoples party and it will then go OF
the bargain counter or be put up at
auction to the highest and most unscru
pulous bidders as the old parties are
now being ha wked about.
So much for the political feature of
the Alliance. Rivers cannot contain
water if the sources dry up. The only
reformed party in politics to day comas
from such sources as the Alliance.
Don't let the spring dry up.
But aside from the very important
political feature, from which we must
always expect much of prosperity,
there are other reasons for keeping up
the Alliance. Toe social, educational
and business features are so important
that we hardly know which to men
ton first. The factories in our State
must be erected and kept in operation.
There is no lack of interest, and we
feel sure that the money will be forth
coming. 1t is not unusual for an Ali
ance to take from ten to thirty dollars
stock in the shoe factory, and yet a
coed many mot dead but sleeping"
hove done nothing. Recently,
l.. l. Polk AlllanUu 4oak about s15O
worth Of the stock. ard it is a small
Alliance. Bro. A. r. HiIeman writes
that three Sub Alliances in his neigh
borhood have taken $3.50 of the stock,
and the county will take $500 alto
geober. Individual members are tax
ing IS, 80 and $25 shares. Others say
they will take stock. All this shows
that the Order is very much alive and
there is no reason why it should not
have three or four times the present
membership, and we believe iC will be
largely increased this winter.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-01

am standing o Just behind the
curtain, and in full gLOU of the coming
sunset. Behind me are the ShGdOIUs on
the track, before me lies the dark GALLEY
and the riUer. When I mingLe ruth its
dark tUdters I tUGRt to cast one inger-
-Gng look upon q country IGbOse govern
ment is Of the people, for the people,
and by the people, d. L. Polk, July
18th. 1890.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-01

The New York Herald says when
people begin to think that times are
getting better, they will be better.
That is sound logic, But the trouble is
that people will not begin to entertain
such desirable notions until Tins do
get better.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-01

81 The date OF yoar label tells you
when your time is out
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-10-11

| posa SEWER, our beautiful blonde
s.,;ustinr neighbor is visiting the
\ as - her aunt Mrs. DR., Priestley.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-10-11
Exposition Notes.
HENCE.

Mr.. R. H. Edmunds, editor of the
Manufacturers Record, writes from
Baltimore that the New England Cot.
ton Manufacturers Association will
leave Boston in special sleepers, Octo-
Der 2lst, and arrive in Atlanta on
Wednesday, October 22d. Mr.. Edmunds
has been largely instrumental in Undue
ing this important body of manufac-
turers end capitalists to visit Atlanta
and study the possibilities of cotton
manufacture in the Southern States
He thinks the sojourn of the New
Englanders will promote good feeling
and rebound to the benefit of all con-
cerned. Committees from the EXPOSE.
ton Directory, Chamber of Commerce
and the General Council are preparing
IL royal reception for the visitors It
is understood that a feature of the
occasion will be banquet, rendered
the visitors by the citizras Of Atlanta.
The Ph@niX Wheel. made of structur-
al steel, is l25 feet in diameter, stand
ing on Midway Heights. seventy five
feet above the lake. The upper rim ris
ing two hundred feet above the lower
part OF the grounds. cuts respectable
figure against the horizon. The wheel
carries tweive cars with capacity of
twenty people each. On Saturday che
invited the Exposition
Directors To take trial trip on the
structure.