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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-04-11
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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-21
AN ALLEGED LITERARY FRAUD.

For some time a Chicago concernh has
been advertising an edition of the "R.
s. Peale reprint of the Edinburg edition
Encyclopedia Britannica" in a number
of papers in this State. Agents are 60.
ing hither and thither selling it at
about $50 per set.
T. z. Oglesby, of Houston, Texas, has
issued a bs-page expose of the work,
We have never examined the Edinburg
Britannica, but have always under
stood that it was a fine work. Neither
have we examined this new work. Mr..
Oglesby claims that the methods of the
firm in advertising and selling are bad,
and that the work itself is far from
truthful. He says it is not a correct
reprint of the Edinburg edition, and
the additions are not truthful.
The advertising contract sent out
was such as no newspaper ought to &C
cept, after a thorough examination,
though we suppose some of them didn't
see the true import. Each publisher is
required to sign a contract that he will
not publish the advertisement Of any
other Britannica during the life of their
advertisement; that nc article deroga-
tory will be admitted to the columns of
the newspaper; that all editorial refer,
ences will be submitted to the adver-
Using agency for approval, to be paid
for ct regular rates, If approved, etc.
By courtesy of a fellow editor we have
examined a contract and know this is
true.
Mr.. Oglesby points out land gives
page, chapter and verse; that the bio
graphical, historical and statistical
matter in the Britannica is distressing
ly false, and Jules Verne and Baron
Maunchausen are badly beaten.
We cannot begin to publish one
tenth of the hundreds of false state.
ments mentioned by Mr.. Oglesby.
A few will suffice. Probably the most
absurd bit of history given is the state.
ment that the Northern cavalry trav.
ersed the Southern roads on bicycles
during the war" We ell know that
bicycles were eve heard of MOI
thought of until several years after the
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-21
NO PLEASE.

-I
Local papers say that Raleigh can be
made a military post and secure a por-
ton of the United States Army. A
correspondment writes one of our daily
papers that it would be a big thing for
the city both financially and socially.
Perhaps it would financially, but just
where how and why it would be an ad-
vantaee socially we fail to see. A few
painted back number bellies might en-
ioythe attentions of the officers A
few other giddy up to-date dolls might
amuse themselves with the equally as
good, but not so highly honored private
soldiers. But sensible, well bred girls,
such as a majority of the Raleigh ladies
are, would not care to associate with a
lot of cigarette fiends, even if they
were dressed in a greasy military uni
form. The sensible girl of to-day is
not looking for that kind of social
annex. It is a relic of barbarism any
way. We have in North Carolina an
abundance of soldiers for all practical
purposes. And if an increase becomes
absolutely necessary the material is
here to make regiment after regiment
composed of the best blood in the uni
verse. We need no United States
thugs here.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-21
MR.. BoGGs AT RALEIGH.

Mr.. Thomas Boggs, the Wall Street
tool, though hailing from Memphis,
made a little talk in Raleigh last Tues
day night. Forty-seven people turned
out to hear him. He made sucha weak
effort that the cucoo newspapers
couldn't praise it. He started by read
ing the call for the Sound money"
convention, but failed to explain the
real object. Then he jumped on
"Coin's Financial School" for a few
minutes. He said it was correct so far
as the science of money is concerned.
OF course it is, and if Mr.. Boggs had
been real honest he would have ex-
planned that there isn't q word in it ex-
cept the science of money. Hence it is
all correct. Just as we'll say that
Smiths Arithmetic is correct in the
science of mathematics and try to leave
the impression that the science of
agriculture or something of the kind
not in it, was incorrect.
Mr. Boggs is a slick talker, but he
didn't make any speech. He appolo-
gized for the ~"lateness of the hour"
though it was only nine o'clock. The
Chamber of commerce then discussed
the question of appointing delegates.
Capt. s. A. Ashe replied to Mr.. Boggs,
saying his speech was a Cheap" point
less one. A motion to appoint delegates
to Memphis was voted down, and Raj
eigh saved her credit.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-21
COURTS AND JUSTICE.

It is only now and then that courts
are charged with corruption. It is
well. If judges and jurymen we're not
so honest in a majority of cases our
condition would be far worse. But for
some time we have noticed a DISPOSE
ton to be too lenient. Rogues who
steal thousands of dollars get off lightly.
Men who commit brutal crimes fare al
most as we'll in many instances. There
is a tendency-a growing tendency
we regret to say, to be too easy on them.
Only last week we noticed that a young
man was tried at Winston for SANDER
ing a young lady. He was found guilty
and fined $25 and costs. That was a
pretty come off indeed! If he was
guilty at all; if the evidence vas suf1-
Gent, and the jury though it was, he
ought to have gone to the penitentiary
for several years, or to the whipping
post for fifteen minutes.
We have been told that a negro was
tried last week in Nash Superior Court
for murder. The jury found him
guilty of murder in the first degree.
By legal jugglery the verdict vas set
aside and a ley jury empaneled. The
foreman of the jury, without hearing
any evidence, or any argument, arose
and gave a verdict of murder in the
second degree. If our information is
correct this was nothing more mol less
than a judicial farce. No jury has a
right to render a verdict of any kind
without hearing evidence.
There may be "extenuating circum-
stances" in each instance Of which we
know nothing, but such things are be-
coming too frequent, not only in this
State, but all over the country. The
people have had enough of goody,
goody courts and juries. They want
justice dealt out to all alike.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-21
Mr.. PALMER CHANGED HIS
MIND.

"For ten years" said Potter Palmer,
of Chicago, Il made as desperate a
fight against organized labor as was
ever made by mortal man. It cost me
considerably more than a million dol
lars to learn that there is no labor so
skilled, so intelligent, so faithful as
that which is governed by an organiza-
ton whose laws recognize that an en-
ployer has rights which labor must
respect, and whose officials are we'll
balanced, level-headed men, who can
distinguish between a real and imagin-
arv grievance. When the men in my
mills first organized and sent their
committees to me to discuss questions
at issue between us my Indignation at
their presumption was unbounded.
THE idea Of men whom I employed
daring to dictate the treatment they
should receive so incensed me that I
forthwith discharged them all and pre-
cipitated a strike. Well, I tried non
union labor and swore I would never
again allow a union man to enter nv
service. persisted in this fashion for
ten years, until I had transformed one
of the best paying plants in the West
into an almost hopeless wreck. Every
thing went wrong. Men got drunk,
machinery broke down, product was
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-21
DR.. BLACKNALL ON MONEY.

The NeeCs and Observer, May 18th,
had this: There is entirely two much
money afoat in the country for the
population, " said DIR. Blacknall yester-
day, land people don't work like they
used to either. Why, when I was a
boy fifteen cents a day was good
wages"
A few days ago DIR. Blacknall was
made a member of the Democratic
State Executive Committee in place of
w. r. Henry, resigned, a silver man.
Nobody believes that DR.. Blacknall has
any belief or even opinions on finance,
but Gen. Ransom, to whom Blacknall
is under most tremendous obligations,
has made a great deal of money by
protesting Cleveland's financial views,
and he now holds an Office worth
$17, 900 a year, a fine price for his be-
traying the most vital interests Of his
people. If the Democratic leaders ex-
pect the people to pay any attention to
their multifarious p~rotestations of love
for silver, they must cease stultifying
themselves by putting such men as
DR.. Blacknall in places where they can
shape the policy of the party by re-
fecting the views of aliens and traitors
to Southern interests. ME-. Hale, of
the Fayetteville Observer, is trying to
purify the party from within. Let him
expose and denounce such frauds on
the interests of the people as the above
clipping shows, and some people will
still believe that the purging apparatus
of the now too costive Democracy is
not hopelessly deranged.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-21
1T IS PLAIN.

One dollars worth of copper pennies
are only worth about four cents, com
mercially. The metal in a dollars
worth of nickeIs is worth but little
more. Yet the goldbugs don't object
to this kind of fiat money, the quantity
being small. Even since silver was
demonetized it is worth so cents an
ounce in the market. This is equal to
about so cents, commercial value per
dollar, 16 to 1, or several times as much
as the value of a dollar in copper or
nickel. Now isn't it plain that the
goldbugs only object to silver because
it increases the amount of money and
makes the people at large less Deepen
ent upon the few men throughout the
world who have managed to hoard the
0Old2
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-21
WHO IS coINa

The above question has been asked
probably a million times. The author
OF Coins Financial School" and six
other books on finance, is William
Hope Harvey. He was born in 1851,
a Charlestown, W. Va. He received
q fair education and then ransacked
his fathers extensive library for prac,
hcal knowledge. Later on he taught
school, then moved to Ohio and read
law. A few years ago he went to
Denver, Col, and began the practice
of law. There he had a splendid OPP
portunity to study the silver ques-
tion and observe the disastrous
effect when silver was totally demone-
tized in 1898.
Mr.. Harvey is sincere. All his LIE
has been one charitable or patrlotlc
effort after another to alleviate human
suffering and right the wrongs OF tne
oppressed. He has often appeared IN
behalf of poor workingmen as legal
counsel when they had neither money
nor influential friends. When Randalls
division of Coxey's army were put In
iail at La Porte, Indiana, on a hlmsy
charge Mr.. Harvey at once came all
the way from Denver at his own eX-
pense, brought the law to bear on the
arbitrary action of the authorities and
secured the prompt release of every
man.
For some time Mr.. Harvey has de-
voted his life to the financial question.
He came to Chicago as Secretary of the
America Bimetallic League, and es.
tablished a magazine called Coin"
1t jumped into popularity at once. In
it's columns he began COINS Financial
School" and a tale of Two Nations"
About a year ago he decided to bring
them out in book form. In that time
Coins Financial School" has had a
sale of nearly one million copies
''Uncle Toms Cabin" the most widely
read book, written forty years ago, and
still sold in every bookstore, never out
Of print, has only had a sale of $50, 900
Hence, Mr.. Harvey has the
most enviable reputation of writing a
book which has had a sale in twelve
months more than twice as large as
that of any book, no matter how long
it has been on the market. Best of all
his book appeared at a critical period.
It may be the greatest factor in saving
this country from political decay.
Mr.. Harvey is a modest a He is
q candidate for no Office and never has
been. He cares nothing for wealth.
He is making anywhere from $500 to
81, 900 per day out of his book, but
every dollar goes into machinery to
print and distribute financial gospel.
AS an authority and teacher of politi,
cal economy, Mr.. Harvey is to the
country what Washington was as a sol
der and patriot. He is as high in the
science of money as Edison is in the
science of electricity. He convinces
and converts.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-21
ONLY TOoTRUE.

The New York World uses the fol-
lowing strong language regarding the
working people: To reduce wages is
to cripple the farmers market for his
products, while to reduce the price
which the farmers receive for their
products is to cripple the market for
the product of industrial labor. The
prosperity of the one means the pros
perity of the other, and therefore it is
natural that they should move hand in
hand for the social reforms now de-
manded. Excessive rent is eating the
life out of the business men and labor
ers, wherever civilization extends.
The percentage of our people living in
tenement houses is yearly increasing.
The mortgaged foreclosures are daily
wrenching from hard-working. honest
farmers the homes in which they we're
born. There are over 1, 500, 900 tenant
farmers in the United States, and yet
the people say there is no cause of
alarmI"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-21
THE FORMULA FOR GETTIN'
OF BORES.

William Dean Howells' father
emigrated to Ohio half a cenlul
more ago, used this formula to-
of an intrusive visitor who hao
out his welcome. He would Dc
out on some business, and Woui
to the guest: 81 suppose you VI
be here when I return, so l WIS
good-bye!" This was not bad, eN
comparison with the superb So
ascribed to Gerrit Smith in sucD
gencies-as that he used to say
family prayers, after breakfast
the Lord also bless Brother JonS
leaves US on the ten o'clock trS
morning."
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-21

Recently we publicly reprimanded
the Boone Democrat for refusing to ad-
NIT religious articles to its columns.
The Democrat insisted that it did right.
The last issue of the paper states that
it has lost two OF it's best subscribers
because of said refusal. We told you
30. The Democrat has never hesitated
about publishing anything in favor of
Grover, but when it comes to the
Masters work, that must be sighted,
ignored.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-21
N. r. p. A.

Grover may not be q habitual drunk
ard, but he continues to take the gold
cure.
Sherman, Cleveland Sc Co., destruc.
tionists, ought to be the sign on the Cap
~itol at Washington.
Talk about the Democratic party
giving us reforml Why, that party
can't decide what it takes to constitute
q good Democrat.
The city dads at Lincolnton encour-
aged the home printing industry by
getting out the tickets for the town
election with a rubber stamp.
No political party has ever dared
commit itself in favor of any coinage
ratio except 16 to 1. This is so because
16 to 1 has always been the proper pro-
portion.
The ST. Louis Republic had a news
item recently with this head: "a Po-
liceman Drunk on Duty" That paper
may fool some folks, but we believe the
officer had been taking something else.
The Wilmington Messenger thinks it
probable that the silver Democrats
will fuse with the Populists. We here
by notify Col. Kingsbury that he must
leave his war record and Calling guns
behind if we fellowship with him.
The NeaUs and Observer, our highest
court of appeal, has affirmed the de,
cision of the Supreme Court in the case
of Cook VS.. Mears, the decision being
in favor of Mears, the Democrat. The
concurrence of Josephus in the opinion
of the court must be very gratifying to
its members.
The Christian Observer says: sit
would take ten men with SCOOP shovels
to throw away money as fast as we are
wasting it for grog." Astatementlike
this from the editor of the organ of a
liquor dealers association might not
cause surprise, but we are simply
amazed to hear such q confession from
the editor of a religious journal. 1t is
fhumiliating indeed.
Secretary Carlisle has written a letter
denying the charge that he once was q
free coinage advocate. He admits
making the speech which has been sc
widely quoted, but declares he didn't
mea it. He might be sharp enough
to admit that he was once a free coin.
age man, but has changed his mind.
iHowever, he has sold out and now he
MS trying to lie out.
At Charlotte. a few days ago, a mar
who had been deaf and dumb for thir
teen years had his power of hearing
and speech restored instantaneously
Perhaps he can help do the subject
justice in the matter of sending dele
gates from Charlotte, the birthplace o
liberty, to the Memphis sound money
convention, which is to further en-
slave the American people under Eng
fish rule.
We notice that our neighbor, tn,
Neors and Observer, has two $40, OO
libel suits on hand and a promise o
another. HOne was brought by a mem
Der OF the legislature, another by
washington correspondent, and
DanVlle, Va, man has promised th
Iatu SUM- Little things like this don
disturb a newspaper. Recently q Phile
paper paid &45, 900 at one eli
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-21
A FEW "sOUND MONEY" ADVo,
GATES.

Of all the blatherskites who cry
sound money!" the insurance COM
panies are the loudest. The United
States Mutual Accident Association is
in the soup, and has $500, 900 disabilities.
All it's money has disappeared.
G. A. Crane, President of the Mutual
Reserve Tontine Society, Omaha, Neb.,
8. @. Haines, Secretary of the same,
and Frank Eastwood, a director, all
Sound money" men, were arrested in
Chicago a few days ago charged with
fraud.
Simon Jacobs, City Treasurer, Butte
City, Mont, a ''sound money" man,
committed suicide recently. Investi-
cations disclose the fact that his funds
are over $50, 900 sound dollars short.
The goldbugs declared the Populists
would ruin Kansas when they, together
with the help of a portion of the Demo
Gratis carried the State. But it was a
very good administration. However,
Wall street andlocal corporation money
carried the State last year, putting in
Sound money" Republicans. Recently
the Governor was arrested for getting
money out of the Treasury on false
pretenses, and the State Treasurer ap-
pears on the streets of Topeka ''beastly
intoxicated"
A. B. Hostetter, of Lancaster, Pa,
Is a sound money" man. He is alarge
tobacco dealer. 'Shrinkage in Values
is the trouble and he owes $500, 600.
Probably he will get the sound money
idea knocked out of his gourd before
he gets through.
John F. T. Anderson, of Richmond,
Va, made an assignment Wednesday.
He owes $115, 900 and it is thought his
property will nearly pay him out. We
don't know John +. It's record, but
venture to say that he is a 'tsound'
money man or he could not have got
ten in debt 50 much. His financial
knowledge was gained from the Times
and Dispatch. That is enough.
The Ohio Southern Railroad went
into the hands of a receiver Thursday.
Hard times has made the road insol-
vent and sound money" don't pay
employees and other expenses because
it isn't plentiful.
The Otis Steel Company, at Cleve-
land, Ohio, has tried the Sound
money" idea and finds itself in the
hands of a receiver.
The Sound money! but wrecked
Commercial Bank, of Brooklyn, N. Y,
has IL per cent. on hand to pay de-
positors. Perhaps a little more will be
realized yet.
The "sound money" tax collector of
Buchanan county, Mo-, Geo. H. Hall,
is short in his accounts $18, 400. We
know he is a ''sound money" man, for
two national banks, the National of st.
Joseph and the First National of Blu
chanan county, made up the shortage
and stopped prosecution.
Two ''sound money men went to
the wall in Richmond Friday. Wal
lerstein 6 Co., liabilities SIS, 900; q. g.
Ryan, liabilities SIS, OOO.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-21

war closed. The historical maEser Fe, :
lating to war is mostly mcor cOoAL
much of it s~landerous to Cne
This work saws the State OF Georgia
contains about 7,19O, 900 acres OF land.
Co-rect- history says it contains 81, oOO,-
OOo acres-more than I'VE Glmes as
much. It says that w. I. =. breckln
- died in Kentucky In 1856. We
III 1ornomber that he had1a big rcus
9Th Madeline Pollard only last year.
u one place it says the C~onfederates
lost 26, coo men at Gettysburg; in an
ether 40. 900 men. Many prominent
man long since dead are represented as
otil1 living. This wonderful work says
George Drummond was the first pro-
prietary Governor of North Carolina.
William Drummond was the man. It
mentions Governor "Nast," but says
nothing of Gov. Nash. It says William
w. Holden was Governor of North
Carolina from 1868 to 1881. 1t also
claims that President Lincoln defeated
Peter Cartright for the y. S. Senate.
History does not mention Lincoln as
having been a Senator. According to
this book John Wesley had no claims
to rank as a thinker, or even as a thee.
Logan" But we have quoted enough
from Mr.. Oglesby's expose to show the
of the work. If it is as he
represents, the purchaser will have a
lot of cheap trash on his hands.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-21

''They" said the State would be
ruined if the co-operationists carried
the State, especially if the six per cent.
interest law passed; that capital would
leave the State. We notice that a
Richmond institution has brought $685.
600 into the State and advertises it for
loan in the Durham San, and the six
per cent. law has been in operation
nearly two months. You see ''they"
didn't know what they were talking
about.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-21

One of the several books written in
answer to Coins Financial School"
is entitled "Coin's Financial Fool"
Doubtless Mr.. Boggs is the hero in that
romance.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-21

We have just read a letter from
Bro. Alonzo Wardall, written from
Colorado. He says he has recently or
gained v new Alliances, with 10Y
members. Twenty-six took the ALI
ance Aid Insurance. IA move is on
foot to organize a State Alliance Elk
change in Colorado. Over $50, 900 has
been paid in. One Alliance with go
members took $17, 900 worth of stock.
That is a big country out there and
they mean business.