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The herald., 1895-08-18
Where Rain Never Falls

The dirtlest place in the world is that
part of Egypt between the two lower falls
Of the Nile. Rain has never been known
to fal. there. and the inhabitants do not
believe travellers when told that water
can fall from the sky.
The herald., 1895-08-18
Trade In rlonkey Skins

One of the remarkable exports Of the
Gold coast is that OF n onkey skins. Dur
ing the last 6ve years an average of 49,
900 skins. valued at $3.50, 900. have been
condition ana with few shot holes are
The herald., 1895-08-18

Last August while working in the
harvest field | became overheated, was
suddenly attacked with cramps and was
nearly dead. Mr.. Cummings, the drug
gist, gave me dose of Cham berlain's
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy,
which completely relieved me. | now
keen bottle of the remedy handy.-A.
NJ. Bunnell, Centerville. Wash. For sale
by Off & Vaughn, Fourth and Spring. and
c. f. Heinzeman, 223 North Main street.
kregelo d Bresee, tuneral directors.
Broadway and Sixth street. Tel. 243.
The herald., 1895-08-18

foreign operas. ballet music, symphonies,
folk songs and dances and a splendid
collection of military music.
Miss Ellen Beach Yaw. who arrived in
London recently. too late to participate
in the season, left that city on Friday,
Aug. ID, or the Rhine and Switzerland,
to take a much needed rest after f con-
cert season lasting over seven months.
She will return to this country in the fal.
and will agaiu be heard in concerts.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-02-19
APPRECIATED OF COURSE.

Hon. N. A Dunning, of Washington,
D. c., author of 1.-THE Philosophy of
Price" and other valuable books on
political economy, and editor Of The
National Waterman, the ablest reform
paper in America, was a visitor at the
National Alliance meeting in our city
recently. He had many nice things
to say about u people and State. We
may be pardoned for quoting the fol-
lowing:
1--WE visited The PROGRESSIVE FAR
MER of course, and found our young
Brother Editor Ramsey at his post as
usual. We told Brother Polk years
ago that friend Ramsey was the right
man in the right place, and our predic-
tions have proven true. He has kept
up the standard of that excellent paper,
and is making it and more the
terror of tricksters and demagogues.
Ramsey is a born fighter"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-02-19

1t is generally believed that a ma
iority of the Senators and Congress
men, President Cleveland, Secretary
Carlisle, and others have been bought
outright by the English and Wall
street bankers. Everything points that
way, but the evidence is only circum-
stantial. The bankers in question have
made millions of dollars in the past
twelve months by dickering, secretly
and openly, with the government. No
government has aver been engaged in
such stupendous, fraudulent transac-
tons as has been tolerated by this adj
ministration. The Populist Congress
men and Senators have stood against
it all like a stone wall. A few Demo
Gratis and Republicans have stood with
them. But the sugar trust and the
money or bond buyers trust succeeded.
The President and his Cabinet, and
that class of Congressman and Sena-
tors who have sold out doubtless re-
ceived a large per cent. of the sum de-
E4V0O 11O" UO84 SSAOS 040 O@2O4 ~
rupt practices. In no other way can
their inexcusable conduct be explained.
They have killed their party organiza-
tions and blasted their own public
careers.
The $500, OOO, 600 bond issue c
mended by President Cleveland, has
been defeated. The 965 600 o steal
proposed, was defeated by the House
Thursday. Both of those schemes
were thrust forward as decoys. While
Congress has been shooting at them
the reel work has been done. Congress
refuses to give the President authority,
but allows the huge steal 20 go on indie.
fnit6ly. Thursday, Congressman Hatch.
Dem, of Missouri, while criticizing
the administration in general, and the
bond business i particular, said: IF
the memorable Law Of cause and effect
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-02-19

has not been expunged from tie
statute book of the Almighty, unless a
halt is called pretty quick, you may
expect the horrors of the French Revo-
luton put on the American stage with
all the modern improvements, and
that within the next decade" That q
pretty plain talk to como from q
Congressman, especially a Democrat.
In a most dramatic way he quoted the
language of old Judge Forbes to John
Moore when he said: "Good bye,
world, howdydo, hell That is the
situation. This administration has
done so many bad things in rapid sue
cession and brought the country to
such an awful crisis that we feel like
exclaiming: Goodbye, world, how.
dydo, hellr' The only way to get out
is to vote out, and the South and West
must form a solid phalanx, composed
of the best men from all parties, and
save the country.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-02-19
FRIEND,

Do you want a~nythingG Then care
fully examine our advertising columns
and if you see it there write at once to
the firm, sending your order, and tell
them where you saw their advertise
ment
By doing this you will help us make
it tothe advantage of business men to
patronize us.
We can, with more than comparative
safety, heartily recommend all of our
advertisers, as it is very seldom an
irresponsible party gains access to our
columns.
Write to our advertisers for cata-
logues, price lists, or any information
you may desire regarding the goods
they handle. They viii be glad to &C
commodate you. And DON'T forget
to add as q postscript to your letter, II
saw your ad. IN THE PROGRESSIVE
FARnER.n
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-02-19
n ALLIANCE WORK.

The Alliance work should not be
neglected at any time. The Alliance
must be sustained as q schooLhouse in
which We study all questions affect
ing our interests In a non partisan way.
There are still many questions unsolved
that will affect the farmer in the future
and the Alliance is the place for all
farmers to meet and discuss them.
In this manner the truth a be
reached and in no other way. Men
must lay down party spirit before they
are prepared to search calmly for the
truth.
The Alliance is a school in which the
Democratic farmer, the Populist far
mer and the Republican farmer meet
to discuss their common interests.
When they haze found that, then it
should be their aim to secure it.
The Alliance will not have accom-.
plished its purpose so long as there is
a wrong to right or burden to relieve.
So long as there are widows and
orpans who need the strong arm of a
friend the Alliance should live-must
live. The Order is not only a great
educator, but it should be made what
its declaration of purposes Indicate
8 brotherhood of man. Now, let every
man who has ever been a member Of
the Order return to the fold and put
his shoulder to the wheel to build up
and strengthen it. It is the hope of
the country and without it the farmers
aud producers are at the mercy of or-
ganized greed. Let organize be the
watchword in every county until every
farmer is in the Order. The bagging
trust, the sugar trust, the money trust
and the trust of our Representatives
in Congress should be sufficient arm
ing to the farmers to organize and stay
organized. If anybody thinks for a
moment that this reform battle is half
won, let him at once @disabuse his
mind of such a fallacy. It will take
years yet to redeem this country, and
Alliance principles will be necessary.
Build up your Alliance; get your mem
bers to read reform papers and con-
tinue the fight.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-02-19
QUITE TRUE.
now wearing

The American CttltiUator, published
at Boston, one of the oldest and best
papers in the country, has this on the
money question:
public sentiment is tending more
strongly than ever in this country to-
wards the increased use of silver in our
currency. We certainly need to es-
tablish a currency system which is
best for our own country and own
national development, rather than asys
tenn which England other European
countries are so strenuously insisting
that we should adopt. Very many of
ourablest thinkers and business men are
not In favor Of maintaining the single
gold standard simply to please John
Bull and a dozen of his leading bank
ers. In maintaining the single gold
standard we are ~depreciating the farm
value Of our products, bankrupting
our farmers, who are the bone and
sinew of the country, and we m also
forcing increased grain production in
silver-using countries, which are TAX
ing advantage of our unfortunate posi-
ton. Every patriotic citizen should
demand the restoration of silver to the
money Of this country and to the
world. Continued disaster is sure to
follow the attempt TO adopt the Eng
lish advice to maintain the single gold
standard"
One by n the honest papers are
taking a stand. But for this fact we
would be discouraged. When all the
honest papers come ont on the right
side, success win be near.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-02-19
L ON

A few days ago, while criticizing a
q financial bill introduced. by Mr..
Springer, of Illinois, Mr.. Sibley, the
brave and able Populist Congressman
from Pennsylvania, who gave half of
his salary during the past two years to
the Alliance in his county, told the
following story:
Ny friends we all appreciate the
abilities, the distinguished character,
and services of the gentleman from
Illinois, but when it comes to dealing
with the question of finance I think he
has got into pretty deep water. I do
not think he understands this subject
much better than a constituent of my
friend Kribbs understood his watch.
came from the lumber woods of
Pennsylvania with an old bull's-eye
watch to a jeweler. and said: 81 want
you to fix my watch" The jeweler
asked, "What is the matter with your
watchG' "WeIl," replied the man, ST
have been looking into it, and / can't
tell exactly; but as near as I can make
out I guess the trouble with it is that
the hair ia all worn off the hair
spring" Laughter And, my friends,
/ thing that is the trouble with Mr..
bill.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-02-19
ALLIANCE NEWS.

Brief Items From All Over The Country.
A new Alliance with IS members has
been organized at DeLeon, Texas.
A new Alliance with fourteen mem
bers was recently organized at Runge,
Texas.
The Alliance is reported in good
shape in South Carolina. Some claim
that it is growing.
Bro. J. A. Tippett, of Gainesville,
Tex, writes the Mercury that the ALI
ance Aid insurance is on a boom there.
He has written 45 applications in ten
days.
President Evan Jones is constantly
lecturing in Texas. That State is still
first in the Alliance column, followed
closely by North Carolina and Penn
sylvania.
81 have revived every dormant ALI
ance I have visited in this county, be-
sides organized two new ones; one
with IL and the other with Is mem,
bers. Comanche county is coming to
the front in Alliance work in fine
style.-C. A. Nc Means, IN Southern
Mercury.
"The Alliance in Comanche county
will soon be as strong as it ever was.
The work of reorganization isprogress-
ing rapidly under the efforts of Assist
ant State Lecturer McMeans. The
best material in the county is coming
into our ranks as the only way to get
relief. Education on the Alliance line
is having telling effect. "-Wm. Put
nam, Comamche, Tee., IN Southern
Mercury.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-02-19
JOURNALISTIC AND PERSONAL.

The following editor of reform papers
visited Raleigh during the meeting of
National Alliance and were heartily
welcomed: N. A. Dunning, of the
National Watchmom; Mr.. Haskell,
Eastern IN. O. Reformer; Babb.
PerquimGns IN. O. Record; West
moreland, Thomasville IN. o. Neps;
J. P. Sossamon, People Pepper, Char
lotte, N. c.; J. T. Click, Hickory
On. o. Mercury; ]. Fl. Mcdowell,
ReGsOner, Nashville, Tenn FL. Hob
son, San, Richmond, Va. Fl. L.
Loucks, Dakota RWrGlist; Harry
Tracy. Southern Mercury; Gen. James
Norton, Columbia Cotton Plant; Prof.
@. Vincent, formerly of the NoncOn-
formist, indianapolis; Fl. s. Gail, Er
pOnent, Buffalo, N. Y.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-02-19
A NEW PARTY.

In the Chicago Times recently the
Washington correspondent declares
that an effort is going forward to in
vite Populists. Democrats and others
in the South and West TO q campaign
on the silver platform i'm 1896. Thames
as men interested, McLaurin, of South
Carolina, Senators Morgan, Pugh and
Mills, and such House men as Bland
and Bryan are said to be interested.
Populists like Pence, Simpson and Tau
beneck are alleged to be prominent in
these informal and preliminary dissen-
tiona. It ia expected that Tom John
son and Mcguire, of California, will
take stock in the enterprise. Bryan.
when approached, declared that while
he had heard talk there was nothing
definite which could be said and Bland,
McLaurin and the Populists told the
same vague story.
Finally the correspondent finds a
Democrat who does mo- want his name
used and he proceeds to outline q pos.
sible programme. He says that follow
ing hard upon the close of Congress a
convention viii be called in Chicago or
st. Louis which viii invite leading men
of ii parties. It viii be O. Democratic
effort seconded by silver Republicans
! and Populists. Adjournment VIII re-
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-02-19
DELAYS ARR ~pANeERous.

The legislature has been in session
more than half of the allotted time.
It has done a good deal of work, most
Of it wise legislation. But much of
the legislation has been in the shape
of small, unimportant bills. It is con
coded that a majority of the members
in each House are as honest as can be
secured. We believe that a portion or
the Democrats, Republicans and Pop
ulists are honest. On the other hand
there are O lot Of obstructionists, fill
busterers, and corporation tools. They
have done all in their power to hinder
important legislation. Some or them
out in a good deal of time speaking
when there ia no need Of il. Lobbyists
and attorneys have delayed much
time i'm the contested election cases.
Others have made it a point TO bring
up the legislation and scandals or
1868. It is also plain that everything
runs quite smooth in the Senate
branch of the legislature and just the
reverse i'm the House. Several impor-
tant bills have gone through b eSenate
only to meet opposition in the House
the six per cent. bill for instance. The
election law will probably go through
all right, but the county government
bill and six per cent, interest are drag
ging along.
The good men in all the parties, in
each House, must sit down upon these
Obstructionists, and must stop this
everlasting wasting of time on little
bills, good or bad. Redeem your
to the people. Hurl those
sricksters associated with you to the
rear. Put them on record and hold
heir records up to public view.
Unless the legislature does better
work during the remainder of the ses
sion than it has up to this time the
members had better not go home.
The PROGRESSIVE FARMER will publish
the record Of each member, and these
who betray the public confidence will
be retired to oblivion, as numerous
other statesmen CD have gone. We
want it distinctly understood that we
mean no reflection upon any good
man in either party. We will uphold
the hands of all honest men, and only
wish 90 urge them to come down to
business and carry out pledges in spite
of the tricksters. Gentlemen, you
deal with them firmly and
promptly.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-02-19
WHAT HAsTHE ALLIANCE DoNEi

To some of us the above question
viii sound strange, for in it appears to
contain a doubt. But we all know
that there is nothing doubtful about it.
The Alliance has, first of all, been a
great educator. It has given out q
platform of princiles, not perfect. it is
true, but as near perfect as such things
can be made. This platform has been
discussed on the forum, i'm the papers,
in the home. Men, once blind parti-
sans, are now broad minded. They
study both sides of every question.
Best of all they think. Whenever
you get men to thinking half the work
is done. Some members have been in
the Alliance school and were not bene-
fitted. That is true of all schools. Ii
is not every man who graduates from
q college that becomes a good and use
full citizen or q great statesman. But
the seed have been sown and a large
portion have fallen in good ground.
We should carefully cultivate the
plants that are shooting forth and SOW
more seed.
Though we have been benefited
wonderfully, our benefits have been
more of knowledge than practice. We
have learned where the shoe pinches,
and how it pinches, but we have not
taken the shoe off, and we cannot hope
to take it off unless we make a united
and concerted effort. There is much
yet unlearned of the causes, and we
need the brain of every laborer to help
find them.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-02-19
N. r. P. A.
EDITORIAL NOTES


Ninety per cent. Of the people want a
good six per cent. interest law. They
will get it or get the scalp of the legis
lators who work and vote against it.
When the bad weather gets ove the
Alliance will get on O boom. The
movement is ripe for building up. Re-
form papers and writer's can accelerate
things by giving plenty of time and
space.
The Richmond Board of Aldermen
voted % to 2 in favor OF the city own
ing its own electric plant. Why, gen.
tlemen, this lis ''paternalism. Such
doctrine among farmers is called
anarchy!
"Brick" Pomeroy, of New York, has
decided to convert his monthly Ad-
rance Thought into an eight page
weekly. 1t is red hot for free coinage
and against bonds. "Brick" is still one
of the ablest reform writer's in the
United States.
Extravance has, it ia said, caused the
State to pay out about $50, 600 more
than it has received during the past
twelve months. Add that to the school
book adoption extravaganza and you
wiz see that the State was not turned
over any too soon.
Physicians and scientists say we eat
too much. Plutocratic newspapers say
W. produce too much. IL they are
right we don't eat too much. Another
class Of smarties say we are lazy and
don't work three months in the year.
None of them know enough to come in
out of the blizzard.
The bad weather and snow has
knocked business sky-west during the
past few weeks and has caused much
loss and suffering. But there is a bright
side to it-au. The snow and cold
weather will help the wheat crop and
save the fruit. Look out for a good
wheat crop and the best fruit season
we have had for years.
At Charlotte, N. c., last Thursday,
ut was only two degrees warmer than
at Bismarck, N. D., probably the cold
est part of the United States. or course
1t gets twenty or thirty degrees colder
at times in Dakota than the coolest
weather in this State, but this serves
TO show that for once the Sunny South
was about IN equality with the biz
Eard-swept North.
A. special election was held in War
rem county or the 18th to fill the
vacancy in the House caused by the
death of DIR. s. A. Williams, Populist
member from that county. Mr.. W. It.
Fleming, a good Allianceman, and n
or the best men I'm the county, was
elected. He got about a thousand
votes and his Democratic opponent
about one hundred and ten.
A western paper says: 1.-THE bust
ness men OF a town who fill the local
paper with good paying advertising
are making a better investment than
90 put money in government bonds"
correct. And Alliancemen who spend
dollar or two a year for q arst class
reform paper are also making an in
vestment that viii pay better than
government bonds or bank stock. Sup
port your papers.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-02-19
THE SCHOOL BOOK MONOPOLY.

We have surrendered much OF our
space this week to the address of w. j.
Peele, Esq, of this city, before the
Senate and House Committees sitting
jointly. It contains a most carefully
prepared history of school book adop-
tion in North Carolina for the past
seventeen years, and will be read
throughout by thousands on account
NOf the great interest the public have
i'm the matter he treats of. Whatever
special interests he represented before
the committees is a matter of small
concern compared with the facts which
he shows of record and brings to light.
These facts are common property,
hitherto unpublished, and from them
the people will draw their own conclu-
sions.
Mr.. Peele makes a strong case in
favor of some change. The school
books in this State cost many thou
sands of dollars annually. The peo-
pie are interested, not only in the
quality of books, but in the cost. 1t
appears that certain publishing houses,
or a combination Of them. has gotten
control of the business. We LIZ at
their mercy. Competition, ''the life
of trade" has been ruled out. The
monopoly has reached the zenith of
power by fair can or foul. They
can change books as often as they
please, or charge what they please.
If the monopoly "a persuade a State
Superintendent that a thing ought to
be done, either by logic or otherwise,
it is done. County adoption would
hardly remedy matters. AT any rate,
this stirring up will do good and lead
to some Better system, we hope.
It is proper to state that Superin-
tendent Scarborough and ex-superin-
tendent Finger each emphatically
deny that they have shown any favor
itism in book adoption. We hope it
will turn out that all suspicious will
prove groundless, and that it can be
shown that no member Of the State
Board Of Education has been caught
in the tenacles of the book trust octo-
pus. But a change is imperative. OF
all things school books ought to be
sold at the lowest possible prices con-
sistent with durable material, reason
able prices for labor, and legitimate
profits. A total change i'm books at
this time would be an expensive ex-
pertinent, but the legislature ought to
take steps TO gradually open up com
potion and get the books cheaper, and
take off the CALLING trust yoke we are
now wearing.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-02-19

"I am standing ROtU Just behind the
curtain, and IN fIH gLO1C0 the coming
eEnset. Behind me Gre the shadows on
che track, before me lies the dark galley
and the Tiver. When I mingle tCtth cts
dark Udters 7 SCGRt to cast one knger-
in0 look upon q country IUhO8e govern
ment 10 OF the people, for the people,
and 6g the pe0pIe."-L. L. Polk, july
Eth, 1890.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-02-19

lease MS to our homes, heeays, the plan
viii be perfected and there viii be an
unriainq of honest Democrats.
We are in favor of q new party. But
wa have a new one already-one that
RlIa The bill. Those Democrats and
Republicans who are going to step out
need 60 no further than the Populist
marty. Tt has q foothold, is built ON a
solid foundation. It has taken years
to build it up and the work is well adj
vanced. Those who are in the move
ment are going to stay, and they viii
get recruits. The reformer who can't
stand the Populist party hasn't got it
in his bones. The case is so urgent that
the people can't wait on the slow pro
cess of building another new party,
if it should bel better N When
the house is burning water must be put
on quickly. The country is gradually
burning up. We don't want two new
parties; we don't want any fourishes.
Let all honest men get together, call
your party organization what you
and use the Alliance platform
for a flag by day and a light by night,
and crush out ~plutocracy at one blow.