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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-18
ST. JOHN.

Mr.. William P. ST. John, president
of the Mercantile National bank, N.
Y, may not be the only silver banker
in that city, but he is the only n who
has the courage to say so, and he says
so on every occasion, and often. Re-
Gently he said:
"Reopen our mints to silver without
stint, as I verify believe the great ma
jority of the people of the United States
demand, and the enhancement thereby
of our relations as creditors of Europe,
because of our improved relations with
silver using nations, will leave our
selves content and Europe assured of
ability to pay our debts of every
nature and according to the terms.
The laboring element, along with ev-
cry other producing class in all com.
munities, is vitality interested in the
achievement of such a monetary sys
tenn for the United States as will tend
to disseminate the wealth which they
create; dissemination of wealth, not
aggregation of wealth, being their safer
reliance to yield them their fair share
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-18

can towns of Importance that own
their own gas works are five, three OF
which are in Virginia. They r Phlla-
delphia, Richmond, Wheeling, Dan
vile and fredericksburg.
TN 1893, the gas companies In New
York made dividends amounting to
nearly 81, 900, 900 on some $40, 900, 900
of supposed capital stock. The Century
says that in ten years gas consumers
in New York have not only contributed
such dividend 90 per cent? but a fur
Their amount sufficient, in. fact, to
nearly duplicate the present system of
gas supply
1.-THE net earnings of the street rail
roads in New York for 1893 we're more
than S., 600, 900. They paid in taxes
and franchises less than $4OO, 900. The
gas, electricity and railroad companies
in the city made in 1898 in net earnings
over $14, 600, 900. They paid only a
small sum for the franchises.
The dock department. shows similar
results high profits to those with
franchises and small pay to the city
The Brooklyn Bridge in 1894 received
in gross earnings 81, 1926, 598, IS. These
figures are at least suggestive. y Wal
maingtOn Messenger.
The Messenger never loses an oppor
tunity to jump on the Alliance fol
wanting the cities and the nationa'
government to run the means of trans
portation, etc but here it is endorsing
every principle of the very thing it de
cries at other times, Editor.)
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-18
BANQUO'S GHOST.

The silver question will not down. It
is like BaDqIo's ghost. President Cleve-
land sat Oh 1t and that is enough to ex-
tlnguish almost anything, but the
ghost was up a soon as he vas off,
says the Formers Voice.
John Sherman dealt it oneof his deft
blows, but the ghost isaround as usual.
Congress exterminated it, but it did
not remain exterminated. Wall Street
and Great Britain downed it and
danced on it, but it is still frisky, and
as it stalks about in the day time it is
frightening the political parties and
the politicians almost to death. Tom
Reed his been throwing kisses at it, but
the ghost is satisfied with nothing but
a bear like hug. Mckinley does not
know exactly what to do with it. He
has been reported as saying that he
wanted nothing to do with it, where
upon one of his friends rushed into
print to say that the governor had
never made faces at the ghost. Even
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-18
THROW OUT THE LIFE LINE.

Some of the Democratic newspapers
are OeWalllng the fact that their party
leaders are making o~vertures to the
.Populists with a view to getting in on
the ground floor of that party. Well,
forbid them not. While the lamp
holds out toburn the vilest sinner may
return-that is, if he repents. OF course
the Democrats will expect to take back
seats for a while until they prove that
they are not taking this step for the
purpose of getting Office.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-18
ENoRMlrY OF THE BOND STEAL

A hundred million dollars indebted.
ness added to already large debt f!
But that isn't much for a large nation
like ours, you say. You'll see. Six
teen million dollars profit in the steal,
shared in by a bakers dozenl That
isn't much. We have hundreds of
men in the United States each reputed
to be worth more than SIG, 900, 900.
But at last, the whole thing is enor-
nous. A bridge already bearing a
thousand tons may be broken by ad-
ding a few hundred pounds weight.
Briefly, Cleveland, Carlisle & Co.,
sold 800, OOO, 900 worth of United
States bonds. There was no excuse for
it. E~x-Secretary Whitney and the
Drexel, Morgan syndicate negotlaCeo
the sale. This was no task. Any ten
year. old boy could have secured pur-
chasers, so eager were the bidders.
The bonds would have brought market
value. but the scheme was fixed so as
to shut out the public. The bonds sold
for 1.O44 are now worth 2O3-
were worth thatat the time of
the sale. The syndicate made 16
cents clear on each dollars worth of
bonds. In round numbers the profit
was SIG, 900, 600, divided up among the
select few. No outsider can tell how
much of this Cleveland received-a
good sum no doubt.
Suppose this profit of SIG, 600, 900 was
to be paid in wheat, At so cents per
bushel (the average price for a year, it
would require 80, 600, 900 bushels of
wheat. This would furnish bread for
4, 1000, 900 people, or one sixteenth of
the population of the United States,
for an entire year. If a wagon train
should be formed to haul this wheat
and 80 bushels were placed on each
wagon, it would require 1000, 900
wagons, 1000, 900 horses, and 1000, 900
men to drive the teams. Let the wag-
ons follow each other fifty feet apart
and the train would be more than 5000
miles long and would more than
reach across the diameter of
the globe. Now you get a faint
idea of the profit that gang of thieves
made, to say nothing of the great IN
terest bearing debt they placed
upon ue.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-18

Auditor R M. Furman has returned
to the city after spending several weeks
at Greensboro, now quite a noted health
resort. He brought in his wake Lord
Chief Justice Campbell, of the AIRING
ton legislative committee. These two
gentlemen are quite good friends and
have had some high old times together
in the past. We hear that Auditor
Furman allowed Mr.. Campbell to col
lect pay for eight days while the com.
mittee only allowed him pay for two
days. Perhaps this will explain why
the lastlegislature cost so much money.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-18
A FEW SOUND MONEY" MEN.

The Bank of Commerce at Broken
Bow, Neb., has gone under. About
81, 200 of county funds went under
with the bank. Depositors loose a
good deal.
The United States Cordage Company,
with headquarters at Trenton, N. j.,
went into the hands of a receiver last
week.
The First National Bank of Pella,
I'll closed it's doors last Monday.
About 50, 900 ''sound dollars are tout
of sight"
NJ. J. o Brien, who embezzled SIG, 900
in funds belonging to the Catholic
Knights in America, and set himself
up as a ''sound money" man on Wall
street, New York, was tried at Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, last week.
The Freeholding Building and Loan
Association, Pittsburg, Pa, claiming a
capital of $4,000, 900, is in the soup.
Investors will sweat for the loss of
their sound dollars"
It is charged that F. T. Wall of the
Cordage Trust, ''sound money" has
squandered $500, 900 belonging to the
Company.
The Fifth National Bank at San
Antonio, Tex has gone to the wall
owing a great many sound" dollars.
Edward A. Griffin, cashier of that
sound money" institution, the Park
Bank, at Albany, N. Y, is short just
about $18, 900 sound dollars. The bank
will be the sufferer.
E. W. Agnew, President Of the First
National Bank, Orlando, Fla, is under
arrest for rascality. The liabilities of
his bank are over $500, 900, while the
assets are only 5000, 900 ''sound" dol
lars.
James R. Holland, ex Cashier of the
Merchants and Farmers National
Bank at Charlotte, N. c., was tried in
the Federal Court in that city last
week. He gets seven years in Albany
penitentiary. The amount of funds
stolen foots up $95, 900 Sound" dollars.
Ashby Slocumb, Chief Clerk, and
son of the railroad agent of the A. @.
L, at GOldsboro, N, G., is a defaulter
to the tune of 50, 200 ''sound" dollars.
He has departed.
Albert S. Moore, book-keeper and
confidential clerk to the great Sound
money" firm of Inman, Swami & Co.,
New York, forged checks to the amount
of $3.50, 900 and worked them off on
various New York banks last week.
Ct. E. Metcalfe, railroad agent at
Palatka, Fla, forged checklist for various
amounts, all "s7und money" He was
arrested at Lexington, Ky, last Wed
nesday.
Brown G Burners bank at Metropo-
lis, ILL, the Oldest bank in the town,
suspended Wednesday. The liabilities
are about $50, 900 ''sound" dollars.
Banker Smith, of Atlanta, Ca, played
a heavy" game of poker the other
day and disappeared. He probably
carried off some sound" dollars that
will be good in 'Yurrup."
A bank president and a cashier were
tried at Jetfersonville, Ind, last week
for a~ppropriating money probably
good in "Yurrup."
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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-18
N. r. 2. A.
EDITORIAL NOTES.

It is gratifying to be able to state
that the fruit CROP will hardly bekilled
for some weeks yet.
Necessity knows no law; neither
does the United States Supreme court
when there is Doodle around.
Sending a bill to a man who has
been dead and buried several months
is rather running the thing in the
ground.
'sYou can't have too much of a good
thing" is as old as the hills. But just
try having two or three wives and see
what a mistake it is.
The effort now being made to run
this country on the European plan
doesn't suit people who want three
square meals per day.
The goldbug may be likened untothe
thief that cometh in the night, or in
the day time, or any other thief, that
comes at time, for that matter.
The next step in order now is for the
people of the United States to abolish
the Supreme Court. A new deal is
needed The present crowd have sold
out to Wall street.
As there is a difference of opinion
among the people as to what Senator
Pritchard believes On the silver ques-
(tion, we offer him the useo of our columns
to set the public mind at rest.
By an oversight the article whittier
are we Drifting" printed in our last
issue, was credited to Mr.. G. E. Kestler.
Mr.. Barnhardt, of Cabarrus county,
was the author. Mr.. Kestler sent the
article in, however.
A Montgomery daily which is evil
IDENTIFY the paid organ of the goldbugs,
refers to a Birmingham daily as 'the
unpaid organ of the silver barors."
The Birmingham paper ought to be
proud of the distinction.
Hurrahl now we have it. The Rich
mond Star heads a Cuban news item
<'Trousered Brutes." Just what we
wanted. For a few weeks now we will
vary the programme a little and refer
to Cleveland and his Cabinet as ''trous-
cred brutes."
Beware / The gold bugs have issued
one of their lying books in exact imita-
ton of Coins Financial School," IN
der the anne name. Don't buy books
from any bookstore or paper Offering
them for sale uRless you know who you
are dealing with.
Cleveland, Sherman & Co evidently
want the people to believe that they
can work miracles. The story Of the
loaYes and fishes was all right, but the
business of this country can't be done
with less than One-tenth of the actual
amount of money required.
While all the taxes collected in the
State of Maine in 1898 from all insur.
ance companies amounted to only $751;,
Ssi 10, the license tax collected on dogs
IN that State the same year was $40,
1885 There was paid out of the State
treasury ''tor damage by dogs to do.
nestlc animals" 81, 286. IS, leaving the
ass TAX from dogs &S5, s76 20, or, g..
$3.50 more than the total tax received
Lrom insurance companioo wouId
you call this ''class le9islnt:"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-18
FRANCHISES IN THE GREAT
CITIES

"The franchises of great American
cities are squandered. Instead of farm
ing them out at reasonable, remuner-
ative rates, or having the cities to run
their own railroads, light their houses
and streets and so on, they are bar,
gained off to companies at ridiculously
small charges. DR.. Albert Shaw, who
edits the American edition Of ReUieoU
of ReUteWS, has written a book on
British municipal government. He
states that ''it is almost the universal
testimony in Great Britain that mu
nicipal gas enterprises are a brilliant
success. They have steadily reduced
the selling price and largely increased
the consumption" He says the price
in the towns varies from so to rs cent?
per thousand feet. All of the great
European cities-Berlin, Paris and
otherg-pay towards the municipal
expenditures from IS to 90 per cent.
derived from their grant or by running
railroads, ETC., themselves. From an
article in the Century we gather a few
instructive points bearing directly on
our subject. New York pays $500, 900
for public lighting alone and yet gets
substantially nothing for the fran,
chisesit has granted The only Ameri-
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-18

some of the prominent English states
men have expressed a willingness to
follow the ghost whithersoever 1t would
lead. The people who murdered the
silver dollar are uneasy. They hear
strange noises in the silence of the
night. It is the footsteps OF the ghost.
Thew acted on the principle that the
dead tell no tales. But the ghost talks
incessantIy. It is saying unpleasant
things. 1t is all the time talking about
the price of wheat, the paralysis of in
dustries, the shrinkage of values and a
200 cent dollar. It does not talk of a
theory but of a condition. Its always
pointing to it's own grave on which
there is not a flower blooming but
about which is piled the wrecked hopes
of the people and a gloom that no light
can penetrate. John Sherman, the old
hero of many a battle with his con-
science, wishes that the ghost would
go home and stay there. But the ghost
walks and walks and talks and talks
and while the assassins of the dollar of
the daddies cry peace, peace, there is
no peace and never will be until the
grave gives up it's dead and the muir
dered dollar of the people comes forth
clothed with life and invested with a
value of 100 cents.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-18
CROP OUTLOOK GLOOMY.

There is no use in trying to disguise
the fact that the general crop outlook
is anything but fattering. Wheat is
ripening about on time, but all cult,
waited crops are away behind. Cotton
and corn are both small, but have i'm
proved very much during the past few
days. The vegetables are not up to
the standard in quality and prices are
away down. Irish potatoes are the
only possible exception. This crop is
said to be fair.
While corn and cotton are small,
there is a chance for both yet if the
season does not continue too unfavor-
able. Warm sunshine and good rains
supplemented with rapid cultivation
will work wonders with each crop. In
fact rapid cultivation, if properly done
is more than half the battle. Your
land may be rich and fertilizer abund-
ant, but neither will take the place of
cultivation given any crop quickly and
at the right time. Delays in cultiva-
ton are exceedingly dangerous.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-18
GOVERNMENT

The following from the Beaufort Her.
aid speaks for itself. If the manage
ment of a road is right the road will
always be a success:
"The old mullet' pulled out of More
head City Monday morning at 1903 a.
m, and pulled into Goldsboro at it's
usual arriving time. This makes the
run one hour shorter, and instead of
spending five or six hours On the route
you now go over behind one of the new
engines at the rate of forty two miles
per hour including stops. The train
returning on Monday left Goldsboro
% minutes late and lost 5 minutes in
New Berne, but it came into Morehead
City on time. The new schedule and
these improvements are due to the ex
cellent management of MI. W. s.
Chadwick. Before he took the road
we are told that the bed, stock, cars,
ETC., were in a fearful condition, and
that the train rarely made connection
on the other end of the line. But to-
day two large and handsome engines
that car attain a speed of sixty miles
per hour are to be seen, and the cars
are as good as any in the State and as
far as the roadbed is concerned it is
only necessary to say that the train
now makes forty-two miles per hour
over it. Mr.. Chadwick deserves praise
for bringing out the road as he has,
and a better president could not be
gotten. The Atlantic and North Caro-
lima is one Of the few roads that have
not gone into receivers hands and is
the only one weknow of that has come
out during the hard times. We hope
the present management will continue
and the road prosper as it is now. The
cars r all being fitted with the air
brake whistle which is a great i'm
provement over the old bell. Besides
this the road has paid two dividends
of 2 per cent. each. And now what is
the matter with the Atlantic and North
Carolina and why is it not as good as
any local road in the State 2
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-18
uponus

A legislative clerk failed to ratify
the act creating additional members of
of the Board of Agriculture until a day
after the members were elected. The
consequence is that the new members
step aside. The old board elected Mr..
S. P. Patterson, of Caldwell county,
Commissioner of Agriculture, and T.
K. Bruner, Secretary.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-18
DEMOCRATIC COMMENCEMENT

The leaders of the Democratic party
having failed to attract any attention
OF inspire any confidence by their in
Simultaneous somersault into the Popu
listic camp, determined to hold a com
mencement, this being the season for
school commandments. The place
selected was Cleveland Institute. The
exercises were held in Sound Money
Hall, the date, June goth and 21st.
Chairman Pou acted the part of
president of the institution to perfec-
ton. Mr.. o. J. Carroll was chief
marshal, assisted by T. J. Allison, DR..
o. w. Blacknall, J. A. Thomas and F.
A. Williams. Their duties were small,
so was the audience.
Though this ended the third session
of Cleveland's Financial school, there
was no graduates, and all the pupils
took part. The Baccallaureate Sermon
was by Rev. DR.. T. II. P%ritchard, D.
D.. LII. D., of Charlotte. They had
no band, but the exercises were inter
spersed with vocal music. First came
an grafton, "The British are Our Best
Friends" by Col. Paul B. Means;
Song, Il Wont Play in Your Back
yard" by Mr.. E. G. Smith; Grafton,
1--WE Have Played the Fool" by Dis,
trict Attorney Aycock; Song, Bicycle.
pedias That I Have Sold," by Joseph
P. Caldwell; Grafton, "Tammany the
Birthplace of Freedom" J B. Sheriff.;
Song, Sign the Plege Today" Capt.
Octavious Coke; Grafton, Democracy
as She Was, Is and Ought to Be-" B
R. Lacey; Song, you Ought to be a
Goldbug," G. B. Watson; Grafton,
Beauties of the Gold Standard, "Theo.
F. Kluttz; Song, Down Upon the
Farm" Col. John Robinson; Grafton,
"Our National Dry Rot" DR.. T. B
K~ingsbury Song, Hear Them Tele-
phone Bells Ringing" Gov. Elias Carr;
Grafton, Cant We Fool the People
Again3" by w. @. Dowd; Song, Lets
Join the P~opulists," Col. John r. Web.
ster; Grafton, 1.-THE American Book
Company Essential to Education"
John @. Scarborough; Song, "Once l
Was as Pure as the Beautiful Snow"
James P. Cook; Grafton, STROUD AS
a. Statesman" Chas. A. Cook; Song,
Thoughts That 1 Sometimes Think"
Maj. W. M. Robbins; Grafton, "What
is Life Without an Offices" by Josephus
Daniels; Song, Ransom as a Prevari-
Gator" W. r. Henry; Grafton, Foot
Ball the Vanguard of Civilization, " by
President Geo. T. Winston; Song,
1.-The Old North State, by Prof. Chas.
D. McIver; Grafton, Buck Kitchen as
a Dream Disturber," A L9azar; Song,
Il Want to be an Angel" Kope Elias;
Grafton, Democracy is Immortal"
John P. Kerr; Song, 'See That My
Grave is Kept Green" John S. Hen,
derson; Grafton, "When I'm Governor
Every Day Will be Sunday" Col.
Julian s. Carr; Song, IF I Had Only
Known" H. @. Conner. The exercises
were brought to a close by the rem
dition of that famous two-act farce,
Riding Two Horses Going in Oppo,
site Directions, " participated in by the
entire school. In the language of the
up to-date newspaper reporter, "Cleve-
land Institute closed her 1895 session
In a gorgeous blaze of glory. Her
classic halls no longer resound with the
hum Of merry voices nor echo with the
CHATTER OF busy feet and ringing girlish
laughter, but she gifts thar all the
same"