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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-12
THE ALLIANCE SHOE FACTORY

The State Executive Committee is
still at work trying to select the best
site for the shoe factory that has been
or may be offered. But no agreement
has been reached yet. 1t is likely that
they will meet again this week, make
a trade and bring matters to a focus.
The delay is a matter of regret to all,
but it couldn't we'll be avoided after
the disappointment at Cary. Stock
for the factory is coming in daily, as
it should, and no one need hesitate
about sending in the cash, for as we
have said before, the factory is a GER
tainty, and the only hitch is about the
best place to locate it. If the cash for
stock is forwarded promptly all the
better for getting the factory started
at an early date.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-12
THIS MEANS SOME

In most of the several State cleo
tions last week a light vote was polled.
Even in Kentucky, Maryland, New
York and other States where the con
test was bitter and the result likely to
be close, nothing like a full vote was
polled and but little enthusiasm dis
played. In regard to this the Rich
mond Evening Star, a very reliable
and patriotic paper says:
1.-THE fact that only about 1000 votes
out of a balloting population of at least
16, 900 were cast yesterday in Rich
mond is pregnant with significance.
Twelve thousand American citizens
cared not to exercise their right as
freemenl Digest that in your mind!
"Here, as elsewhere, the arrogance
of political bosses and the Journals that
shamelessly stand with them is becom-
ing more and more ~distasteful to the
people. Here, as elsewhere, the mere
name of party is losing it's grip upon
the masses. The people are growing
e~xasperated, to think of themselves
being driven like cattle at the crack Of
the party whip. And this is natural
as they advance in intelligence and
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-12
LAST TUESDAYS ELECTIONS.

-
Elections were held in fifteen States
last Tuesday. Some voted for Gov
ernor, legislators and county officers,
while others did not hold an election
for Governor. The result is a Republi
can landslide. AS nationa4 issues did
not play an important part in some
States. and so much dissatisfaction ex,
listed among the people, the vote was
light In several States. A blizzard in
Nebraska and Utah, and indifference
combined to keep a great many at
home.
It was expected that old time Repub,
lican States would go that way this
time just for a change, to punish the
Cleveland administration, and they
went. Pennsylvania, New York, Mas
sachusetts, Iowa, OHIO, Illinois, Kan,
sas. Colorado, Nebraska and Utah all
went Republican. But the following
Democratic States took a header and
went Republican, to the surprise OF
everybody: Kentucky, Maryland and
New Jersey. Mississippi and Virginia
are still Democratic, thanks to their
way of counting votes and doing bust
ness, but the vote was light. Many
Democrats voted the Republican ticket
and they combined in some States to
defeat the POpulists. LII claimed that
the Populists doubled their vote IN
Iowa and Massachusetts, and made
considerable gains in Kansas, but this
cannot be ascertained until the official
vote is published. They will hold the
balance of power In Kentucky, and the
outlook is, it is SAID in Washington,
that they may gain two or three United
States Senators in Western States. Ii
is a fact that the Cleveland administra-
ton defeated it's own ticket In Ken
lucky and Maryland. The public is
glad that German, the Ransom" of
Maryland, is defeated, and that Har-
din, the two faced man in Kentucky,
went under. The results as a whole
are not an indication of what will be
done in those States next year, for it
seems that Indifference and prejudice
against Cleveland combined gave the
Republicans full sway, and Democrats
and Populists aided them by keeping
hands off In some places.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-12
GOLD PRODUCTION INCREASING

The New York Times quotes figures
to prove that the annual production of
gold is increasing in the United States,
Australia, Africa and Russia. Speak
ing of the probable effect it says:
cit will certainly have one effect
that will be both potent and beneficent.
1t will facilitate the maintenance and
extension of the gold standard and re-
lieve the world of that source of dis
turbance and depression involved in a
fuctuating currency. Probably that
will be the most important influences
that it will exert, and the Importance
of this cannot be overestimated."
1t also says the increase in quantity
of gold will have a tendency to raise
the price of everything. Hear it.
cit is natural that from the actual
increase in gold product, and still
more from the advance which is clear
ly possible, there should be expected a
very considerable effect upon prices,
and that the effect will be to raise
prices. 1t is generally believed that,
other things being equal, an increase in
the volume of the metal now univer-
sally accepted as a money metal must
cause it to exchange for a smaller
quantity of commodities-that is must
raise the price of other commodities. "
This is the first time a gold standard
paper has admitted that an increase in
the volume of money will INCREASE
prices. We expect the Times was not
wide awake when that editorial was
penned, and that Wall street has given
it more than one curtain lecture for
making such a fatal admission. The
advocates of bimetallism are not
against gold. They want to see every
dollar produced that can be dug out of
the earth. But it doesn't circulate;
you hardly ever see a gold piece. and
when we clamor for a RESUMPTION of
silver coinage we are talking in favor
OF a money that will circulate, ~neonle'e
money. But if gold were not boarded,
If 1t were in circulation constantly. the
supply is inadequate, and silver is the
metal to use as a supplementary money
or silver certificates based upon silver
9I-either or both will do the work.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-12
SOME RESULT IS OF PUBLIC OWN.
ERSHIP OF ELECTRIC LIGHT
ING PLANTS.

What can you say for the benefits"
of private ownership of electric light
ing plants after considering the follow
ing facts:
Bangor, Maine, under private own
ership, paid $3.50 per lamp per year
under public owership Bangor pays
$48.
Lewiston, Maine, under private own
ership, paid 1882 per lamp; under pub
lie ownership Lewiston pays $55.
EIgin, Illinois, under private owner
ship, paid 1886 per lamp; under public
ownership, Elgin pays $43.
Fairfield, Iowa, under private own
ership, paid 1878 per lamp; under pub
lie ownership Fairfield pays $40.
Marshalltown, Iowa, under private
ownership, paid 1925; under public
ownership, Marshalltown pays $27.
In nearly every instance the service
under public ownership is better than
private corporations give.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-12
FACTS TELL ANOTHER STORY

The Statesville Landmark draws a
beautiful picture, on paper, of how
we'll the farmers of North Carolina
are getting along, and says they would
be entirely happy if the politicians and
editors would hush up. 1t says:
1T should not be difficult. under
present circumstances, for the people
OF this good State, who are doing their
duty to themselves, to enjoy a large
measure of contentment. The earth
has responded generously to their
wooings; the prices of agricultural pro
ducts are fairly high; the"things thev
have to buy are unprecedentedIy low
they enjoy comparative freedom from
~vexatious debt. They would be happy
if pestiferous demagogues who wan.
offices, and unprincipled editors WIZ
! want their money, would stop dinnine
16 to 1 into their ears. Their good
sense and intelligence ought to enable
them to see that their prejudices anC
all the latent discomfort in them arr
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TO ORGANIZE.

IF there was ever a period in the his
tory of the Alliance when it is prob
able that the Order can be of service,
that period is now confronting us. To
say nothing of the ell important sub
jects of State and National politics,
we are confronted with organization
on every hand, of every magnitude,
kind and character, all on the make
with se~lt-interest right down close al
the bottom. In fact, self interest is
the tap root that supports and ever in
duces these organizations, says the
Columbia, Cotton Plant. The farmer is
the hardest and most difficult being in
the world to move up along this line
and force to see and fully appreciate
the necessities of organization and co
operation.
While we are getting ready for win
ter quarters and are forgetful of the
future from a cooperative view the
fertilizer men are organizing and get
ting ready for the crop of 1896. 1t is
but proper for them to organize and
and know just what the fertilizer mills
of the country can produce, and as
nearly what the farmer will use as is
possible for him to know.
The making of the fertilizer, is not
done for the fun of the thing but for
the money that is in it. While it is
but just, proper and right that the
fertilizer men organize and keep them
selves fully posted in order to move
and manage their business with intel
Iigence, success and profit, it is also
proper that the farmer keep himself
posted as to what is going On in every
department. of the farming world.
The bagging trust had it's origin in
an organization of manufacturers of
bagging organizing for their mutual
benefit and protection, but uncon-
sciously fell into the hands of a greedy
monopoly who got control of the out
put of mills and then forced prices up
without any benefit to the manufact-
urers.
This is not impossible in the a s of
the fertilizer companies. Their output
might fall into the hands of a syndi
cate organized to control the supply,
and thus prices could be forced up be.
yond reason to the farmer.
Organize, and be ready for whatever
may come. These fertilizer companies
are not our enemies but they are men
like ourselves and are organizing.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-12

come to realize that principles are
above party and men above measures.
"While it is the duty of every man
to vote, it is more to his credit not to
vote than to do so blindly and igno-
rantly. When a man comes to the
point where he refuses TO vote, how
ever pessimistic he may be with regard
to politics, it is a hopeful sign. He
has begun to think, not deeply, it may
be, but he is apt to go deeper, and after
awhile be able to locate himself"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-12
IMPORTANT DUTY RESTING
CLERKS OF THE SUPE.
RIOR U

Section 5 Oh. 159 of the Acts off,
is as follows: That the CIerkof
Superior Court of each county Il
Witbin tCeIUe months after the m.
cation Of this act, establish, aIte,
create separate places of election
their respective counties, 80 as to
vide, as near as may be, at least
separate place of voting for e
three hundred and fifty election
every sub division of their respqc
counties, whether such sub-divisio.
a township, village, city or ward
which said action the clerk shall
due notice by advertising IN some
JIG journal published in the count
any such there be; otherwise, in
public place within the boundarir
each of said voting places or precl
and at the courthouse in the couf
Ratified 85h March, 1895.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-12
CREAM OF The PRESS.
Hard Hits. Bold Sayings and Pat III
Paragraphs from Reform Paper

Hard Hits, Bold Sayings and Pat a'
Paragraphs from Reform Paper
Hold up the hands of the editor Lat
are fighting the money power if J1
would preserve liberty IN this coulsT
-Labors' Tribune.
If the cuckoos would talk less -o.l
honest money and more about tr@.
elections, the people would rejo
Southern Mercury.
Colonel Bob IngersoIl says thai be
was president he would quit las
long enough to recognize the CuO'1sa
belligerents. Chicago Express.
Has the price of cotton, cor ala
wheat no rights that should o.22
served, as well as the price OF 10y
bonds and notes?-TuscaloOsa Jola4.
The Bible denounces usury. .Li
includes simple, legal interest 4,
fixed income class is the usury
Voter, of whatparty are youf-fa.I '
and Miner.
Somebody has been mean enol7- v
suggest that it is a pity that OIL
portraits of Cleveland and Snern ''
hanging in the bank of Enga
Tuscaloosa Journal.
Farmers you have no busnI1
enquire what your money goes
is only your business to get q
your working pants and dig u
Council Grove Courier.
Aldridge of Dallas, says Wall .'
would be for free silver if it van
injuring the poor farmer. It II"
yer is an injury the poor
wants to be "%injurid. "-U.o~
Herald.
Our government is liable to d.
war against France for the I'D
ment of Waterfront Debs Is +
prison without a fair trial, 81
government is silent-TuscaI0oS"
Journal.
The difference between 20
and Demo Republicanism ls tnS
former believes in the Ia"
money, while the latter favorS
making the laws.-Coxey 8 DAN
The British are after the golo
of the Venezuelan country, al
will have them regardless Of
Sam can do, controlled .
as DOW hold forth at W.
ton.-Southern Mercury.
The old party fellows tell u
is plenty of money in the -.
try. The preachers tell US tns-.
plenty of fire in hell, too, but j.
not warm the poor who haven
money to purchase coal this VII
Reporter.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-12
CALLS A HALT.

Judge Chas. P. Latham, of Virginia,
gets after the Richmond Times, gold
bug, and the Times can't answer.
Judge Latham writes the Times as fol-
lows:
''But," you say, cotton will prove
the most puzzling problem of all to
them" Cotton within the last six
months has almost doubled in value"
'Why has that gone up so amazingly
in price, if the demonstration of silver
vas causing so many things to fall?"
You give a partial answer to this
question yourself when you say in the
same editorial that as we make little
more than half of our usual cotton crop
we ought to get double price for it.
AS the United States produces nearly
four,ffths of the cotton supply of the
world, a failure of the crop in this
country will necessarily put up the
price, Notwithstanding the demonetiza-
ton of silver, but producing little more
than half of our usual crop, cotton is
now only nine cents per pound, where
as in 1873 it was twenty cents. 1t has
constantly and regularly fallen since
that time, until in 1894 it sold for a lit
tie more than six cents. In each of the
years, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1882, 1888,
1889, 1890, the crop wa larger than the
present one. The crops for all of these
years were as large as usual, and yet
the price averaged more than ten
cents.
Before the demonstration of silver
we could make a full crop and get a
good price for it, but now we must
make only half of u usual crop or
consent to take half price for the full
crop. This is the legitimate effect of
the destruction of one half of our re.
demption money. A failure of the
American wheat crop would have no
effect upon the wheat market Of the
world, because we don't produce so
great a portion Of the worlds supply Of
wheat as we do of the worlds supply
of cotton.
In 1873 we produced 3. $50, sos bales
of cotton, for which we received 1901,
OS7, 500. In 1894 we produced 7,549
81 bales, nearly twice as much rs in
1873, and yet we received for it only
1868, 857, 900, about $50, 900, 900 lees than
we received for one half of the quantity
in 1878. Who has gotten the benefit OF
this fall in price? England and the
other countries of Europe, because they
purchase every year more than two
thirds of our crop.
It seems to me, MI. Editor, that the
only thing produced in this country
that has not fallen in price during the
last twenty years is gold, and the ten
dency Of the price Of that is still up
ward. As long as that goes up the
price of everything else must come
down. 1t is governed by the law OF
supply and demand, so often quoted by
you. Population and the demands of
trade are constantly increasing, while
the supply of gold remains unchanged.
While this condition lasts the purchas-
ing power of gold will continue to in.
crease, and we had as we'll look the
fact squarely in the face.
Respectfully yours,
CHAs P. LATHAM.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-12
N. r. p. A.
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Democrats did pretty we'll last
week. They carried two townships in
Mississippi and one in Kentucky.
Will some please point out the
man who said we can get free coinage
or anything else we want in the Demo
cratic party7
The Democratic National Committee
favor a short presidential campaign
next year It is the old adage-a short
horse is easily curried.
Lenoir, the county seat of Caldwell
county, has a WAL street." We
guess the sound money Topic news
paper is published on or near that
street.
The new woman is loaded. A 16 year
old AshevilIe girl had a misunderstood
ing with q girl friend and settled the
matter by shooting her friend with a
pistol.
Nero fddled while Rome burned,
and Grover the great went
squirrel hunting last Tuesday
while the Republicans thrashed the
earth with the fragments Of the once
great Democratic party.
Nineteen counties sent So convicts to
the penitentiary in October. OF these
New Hanover contributed IA, The
total expense to the State, of convey
ing these birds to the cage was 1896 IS,
an average of $17 81 each.
The Democratic State Convention OF
Nebraska, 26th of Sept. 1894 adopted
as one of the planks in its platform,
the following: 1--WE are in favor OF
the operation of the telegraph in con,
nection with the postal system.
1t is gratifying to learn that nearly
twice as many counties were repre-.
scented at the last annual meeting of
the Georgia State Alliance as were at
the meeting last year. Georgia has
good material, and we would like to
see the State in the front ranks.
The Salisbury Watchman has a bran
new editor He talks business in this
strain: 1.-THE Watchman demands
equal and exact justice to all and on
that platform it proposes to stand until
Gabriel toots his trumpet, or Josephus
Daniels 'redeems' the State and saves
the church."
Mr.. E. E. Reynolds, a thorough re
former and experienced ~newspape,
man is now editor of the Salisbur,
Waterman. He will doubtless make
good paper for the people of that SCI
ten if they will all unite in giving th
suppor the paper deserves. Bushes
has been so dull in all lines and in th
newspaper business especially, tht
most papers are having a hard struI
gle, for people are disposed to econ
mize in that direction more than an
other, and it requires constant and sp
cial efforts on the part of reformers
help their papers weather the storr
But these papers are needed and mu
be supported if the country is redeer
ed. Farmers must be persistent al
not stop at any reasonable sacrifices
She interest of their papers.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-12

being PLAYED upon for base purposes;
that no good is to come of their chas-
ing fre1ies; that those who are stir
ring them up to strife mean nothing
honest by them. 1t is time for them
to open their eyes. If they will do so
happiness will return to them with re
turning prosperity and then will be
the time for the unprincipled politi
clans to be miserable"
just how any man with as much in
telligence as the editor of the Land.
mark has, can write such stuff is more
than we can understand. With onIv
a half cotton crop and eight and a half
cents for it the farmer can't be pros-
porous nor contented. Wheat is only
a little over so cents per bushel-less
than cost of production. Corn, we
are informed, is selling at 20 cents per
bushel in Statesville. Tobacco is bring.
ing better prices than any other pro-
duct, but it is raised in but a small
portion of the United States and can't
benefit the public generally, even if
the price was twice as high. And this
is what the editors and politicians are
complaining about. The remedies they
suggest are the only sensible ones. In
stead of inveighing against them the
Landmark ought to be side by side
fighting for financial redemption.
Oar columns r open to any citizen
of Iredell county who will undertake
to show that the Landmark is correct
IN the position taken, or to any one
who will take the other side of the
question. Let's settle this Important
question right here now. 1t is lmpor
tant, and is debatabIe.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-12
ENTIRELY

The wave of prosperity we wa
one which will sweep evenly over
farms and homes and workshops
poor and rich, in country and t.
not the prosperity which hovers ar
the doors of the salaried oficehO0 a
money lenders and corporations. d,
we will stand by any party whose pr
ciples when enacted into law will e
such prosperity.-SaIisoury Va.
man.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-12

If our patrons will work as hard,
study as hard and make half as many
sacrifices in trying to pay up and keep
their subscriptions paid as we make in
getting out a paper that is standing up
for your rights, we will soon have no
deIinquents on books. This means
goa if you are behind. We want to
hear from you at once.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-12

The Washington, D. G. "News" con-
tains a long article by Judge Walter
Clark, of Raleigh, N. O., reprinted
from the american Law Review" in
favor of the telephone and telegraph
being operated by the government for
the benefit of the people. He considers
it not only constitutional but practical
Iy mandatory Oy law.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-12

Several State exchanges declare that
the farmers are better off than they
have been since the war. If this be
true we will not continue to advocate
governmental reform. This is a farm
ers' paper. We want a letter from
every farmer in the State for publica-
ton. Give us the facts.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-12
WATSON ON BLAND AND BRYAN
CHAs P. LATHAM

Billy Bryan, as we observe, is still a
Democrat.
Billy is quite a firt. Between old
man Dick Bland at one end of the line
and young Billy Bryan at the other,
can be found every known variety of
political kicking-except thesort which
amounts to something.
Their kicking seems to be done by
accurate measurement, and their buck
ing governed by careful calculation.
We notice that while they are 'for-
ever and eternally" going to do about
and smash things and create a rucus,
that they never do it. Their roaring
is that of Bottom the weaver, and is
constantly accomplished by a side re-
mark, explaining that the lion has
human bowels after all, and really
does not mean to hurt the audience.
Go it, Dick!
Go it, Billy!
When it comes to kid glove fighting,
cologne bottle revolution, no two Miss
Nancies on the American continent
can hold a candle to you.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-12

In Wake county Superior court
Judge Coble decided one point in the
~penitentiary case last week. He holds
that the directors were not legally
elected and that they could not, there
fore, elect Capt. w. II. Kitchen su
p~erintendent of the penitentiary. The
ase will probably go to the Supreme
court.