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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-01-07
NOT AT ISSUE.

When Prof. Graham and the at
torneys for the Alliance met in this
city on the % ID of December and ask
ed the Attorney General of the State to
allow the use of his name in bringing
a suit to test the legality of the North
intend to try to annul the charter Of
the road. The charter was not brought
into the question at all. The validity
of the recent lease is in doubt, and the
Alliance is after those who hurried the
lease through in such a manner.
Judge Schenck says Attorney-Gen
eral Osborne went to Charlotte on the
24jh and several Southern Railway of
ficials c~ongregated there at the same
time. Judge Shenck received a tele-
gram from Mr.. Osborne asking him if
he intended to apply for a restraining
order or receiver.
Judge Schenck promptly replied:
Il never had any idea of applying
for a receiver or embarrassing the
operation of the road, but only to test
the validity of the lease. We may ask
for an injunction and if we cannot
give the Oond it might go over to final
hearing"
Judge Shenck supposed then that
Mr.. Osborne was opposing a receiver
and a vacation of tn. charter, but was
mi0taken.
ITO his astonishment swift came a
reply from the Attorney General, say
ing:
do not apply for restraining order;
my permission is to bring an actionlto
vacate the charter and nothing else.
1 refused to grant permission to apply
for injunction. l will state so TO the
court and ask a dismissal of the casJtf
anything else is attempted.
'tIt the Judge does not refuse re.
training order I will require a bond of
$50, 600 and will withdraw permis zion
if it is not given"
This, OF course, blocked the suit com,
pletely, as it had been brought. But
since that Mr.. Peter CJbb and wife,
stockholders, of GuilfOrd county, have
brought suit to test the validity of the
lease in Guilford Superior court, g the
Attorney General and his game will
not work.
We cau-say for the Alliance people
that there has never been any desire
to vacate the charter, hav3 a receiver
appointed or embarrass the company
in any way further than to test the
legality of the lease, and this will be
done. If the present laws are not sui
ficient the next legislature will pass
the right kind and the people will elect
the right kind of an Attorney Ganeral
if the present one refuses to serve
them. The railroads must learn that
other people also have some rights in
this State, and the sooner they learn it
the better it will be for all concerned.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-01-07
OUR THANKS.
ton bIaI

In this, the first issue of THE Pro
GREssIvE FARMER in the new year we
feel it is due our many subscription
agents that we express our thanks and
appreciation for the good work they
did for us during the past year. We
can't name them all but we want to
thank specially the following who have
never let a month pass without send
ing from to five Inscriptions.
J. P. Tucker, Lenoir county; Capt.
J. w. Early, BERTHE; s. T. Flake, An
son; J. A. Walker, Rockingham; J.
M. Goode, Jr. Cleveland; s. G.. Satter-
white, Vance; Fl. o. Proctor, Lincoln f;
G. Ell. Kestler, Treas. Cabarrus; J P.
Sossaman, Lect. Mecklenburg; j. F.
Groom, Baden; L. E. Newsom, Will
son; J. E. Spence, Chatham Rev. Geo.
E. Hunt, Davidson; Hon. Fl. G. Butler,
Vance; Misses Sallie Sneed, Vance;
Bette DeBruIe, Halifax; Matte Perry,
P4squotank; Maj. W. A Graham,
Lincoln.
Of the above list we want to say that
Bro. J. P. Tucker, Lenoir county
averaged at least 2 subscribers a week
during the year 1895.
Can't all of Jul friends do that well
this year. S9e the advertisement
headed "Come let's figure together"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-01-07

stead Of making the money so badly
needed, and it has over 5 900 tons of
silver lying in the vaults as Washing
ton which might and ought to be made
into coin at once as a starter.
But it the present Congress has
enough honest men in it to pass a silver
bill, or any other financial bill in the
interest of the people, and we fear it
has not, the chief bond seller, duck
hunter and fisherman who has been
foisted on the country as President, will
veto it.
This is the situation as we see it now,
and it is plain that the peoplewm have
to unhorse a good many more of the
old party representatives and elect a
decent President before the country can
be put on it's feet again. If they go
about it right, it will be done this year,
but it can't be a success with a one
idea party.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-01-07
NO HEDGING HERE.

When silver is restored to it's proper
place and the coinage of it is resumed,
times will grow better, but that is only
a part of the financial reform needed.
The people don't want a silver party
nor a silver candidate for any Office.
No one idea men or parties. if you
please.-THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
This is strange talk from a reform"
organ. From the tone Of the PopuIist
papers we had thought that free coin
age at Is to 1 was to cure all our ills,
and that a party with a solitary plank,
and that for free silver, would be vel
coined. Are the Performers" begin
ming thus early to hedge On the silver
question9-S5atesville Landmark.
The talk is not strange at all. There
has been no hedging here. A few papers
and a good many individuals have
sought to make the silver question the
paramount issue, but they are greatly
in the minority. The free and unlim
tied coinage of silver has been much
talked about, and being better under
stood than some other phases of the
financial question, and being an old,
tried and true plan for supplementing
the gold coin and paper currency of
the country, more has been said about
it than anything else for some time.
However, a provision for issuing paper
currency and other financial la VS. are
needed. Some plans should be adopted
to keep money in circulation after it
once starts instead of being gobbled up
by sharks in the shape of trusts and
dealers in futures. Furthermore, we
do not want to be at the mercy of the
silver men any more than we want to
be in the clutches of the gold men. In
short, we want the government to obey
its own constitution and supply a sufR-
Gent quantity of some kind of none
to do the business of the country in
stead of closing up its minis and sup
ping the printing presses used for get
ting out paper currency, as it has done
during the past three years, and which
have been run only part of the time
since 1873.
What is a government for, anyways
1t seems that the present administra-
ton is devoting it's time and talents to
the issue of interest-bearing bonds in
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-01-07
NEW BOND ISSUE.

The news comes out from Washing
ton and New York that we are to have
another bond issue. This time the
amount is said to be 5000, OOO, 900. 1t
is said also that the syndicate is to
pledge itself to secure the gold without
drawing any of it from the Treasury
of the United States, says the Rich
mond Star.
It is apparent from all this that the
present administration has brought the
credit of this government to a critical
condition. Mr.. CIe7eland's illegal eff
fort to maintain the 800, 600, 900 gold
reserve by refusing to pay coin obi
cations in coin has wellnigh brought
us to the verge of bankruptcy. We
have already passed the limit where it
is possible to redeem the interest of
our debt in gold and meet Dur other
gold demands. This constant effort
and determination of Mr.. Cleveland to
go counter to the provisions of the law
and the wishes of the people in making
gold payments is evidently fastening
the time when the maintenance of the
gold reserve without the use of silver
will be impossible. OF course it is un-
derstood that even if Congress should
be able to pass any legislation looking
to the restoration of silver Mr.. Cleve-
land would veto the measure. But
there is evidently a time coming be-
fore the expiration of Mr.. Cleveland's
four years that will give him great
trouble to pull through without the use
of the silver in the treasury for re.
deeming treasury notes. It is said that
greenbacks have even now gone to a
premium and that New York banks
are refusing to pay them out on
checks. All this shows that the Presi-
dent has before him q time In the near
future in which he will find that he
has turned loose a food of reckless
fuanciering which he will be unable
to stem otherwise than by boarding the
old life boat of constitutional money.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-01-07
A NEW MOVE.

Baltimore comes forward with some
thing new and quite sensational. 1t is
stated that the Populists of that city
are going into the theatrical business,
and that the Cyclorama, seating 5000
persons has already been rented for the
occasion of producing Populist plays
exclusively. Edward Marble, the cele-
brated playwright and actor, a mem
Der of the celebrated Marble family, is
in charge of the enterprise. The first
play to be produced will be entitled
"Kiag grover ILL.," while Henry D..
Lloyd's popular work, Wealth
Against Commonwealth, is also to be
dramatized. A grand opening will &C
cur the week of January 30, and all of
the successful produc lions will be put
on the road as soon as suitable travel
ling companies can be organized and
bookings made. Those back of the en-
terprise say: "Our entire present sys
tenn of political intamy and industrial
slavery is to be exposed and the bribery
and corruption at our national capital
repeated act by act before the very
eyes of the plundered thousands x + =
by the best dramatic talent in Amer
ica." The new move is creating a
great deal of talk in Baltimore and
Washington.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-01-07
WE'LL TAKE EN-.

The New York World ia growing
patriotic at a rapid rate. It opposes
the sale of bonds to a banking syndi-
cate and editorially offers to buy
81, Zoo, 900 four per cent. bondsit Cleve
land will offer them to the public, and
says it eau find the gold to pay for
them, 1t further says: Why invite
a national scandal when, by offering
the bonds for sale to the public you
can invoke a great demonstration of
patriotism and love for the welfare of
CouutryG"
Correct you are, MI. World. You
r a trump, but you can't lay on so
much agonizing style around this shop.
If the newspapers are to save u
national honor and show the world a
great pyrotechnic display of patriotism
and aurora borealis of love for the vel
fare of the country, The PROGRESSIVE
FARMER wants to take a hand, If the
United States Government can't buy
wood or coal to heat up things and coin
a little money in its own minis, or if it
can't buy green DO ink to print green
backs on its own presses, it is time
something heroic be done. We had no
idea the government was in such q
Pitiable condition. What a change
since last Thanksgiving Day!
Now to business: The World offers
to buy 81, 900, 600 of the proposed
800, OOO, 900 interest-bearing, nontax
able, nonforfeitable bonds. 1t calls
that patriotism. The man who loans
money at IL per cent. is also a patriot,
probably. Now, if the World is really
feeling generous and patriotic it will
accept our proposition. Here it is: If
the World will buy 81, 600, 900 worth of
the bonds at par, with the interest
clause stricken out, The PROGRESSIVE
FARMER will agree to take the other
500, 600, 900 on the same terms. If we
don't find it C )nvenient to hold all the
bonds until the government can redeem
them, we'll dispose of them to other
North Carolina newspapers. This will
tide Uncle Sam over the present diff
culties, and will not cost him a cent.
Now let the World put up or ehut up.
England has at last met a foe worthy
of her steel. She has got into a war
with Africa. President Cleveland will
remain neutral.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-01-07

This is not an idle boast. Thousands
of people in this State know THE Pro
GREssTvE FARMERS record since it first
unfurled the banner Of reform and good
government in North Carolina, and all
can see to day what it has already &C
complished. The PROGRESSIVE FARMER
was the first paper in the State totnroW
aloft the flag of equal rights to all,
and no man dare say she has ever for
a moment let it trail in the dust.
Now, readers, rally around your
color bearer and we will reap a grand,
glorious victory this year. We enter
1896 encouraged. The kind words and
good wishes, together with the sub
scriptions we have received the last
two months, have put us in buoyant
spirits. Nearly all of our subscribers
have paid up in full and start the new
year out of debt. So we all feel better.
We ali feel more like working for each
other. We feel more like standing
shoulder to shoulder and battling
unitedly. Let's do it. Start now,
friend, with this paper in your hand
as a sample copy, and see if you can't
induce a neighbor to hand you a dollar
to send us for a years subscription.
If you do not know our terms to
agents, drop US a postal card and we
will take pleasure in sending them,
together with envelopes and subscrip
ton blanks.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-01-07
BRO. sossAMAN IN CLEVELAND.

Correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
Bro. ]. P. Sossaman, of Charlotte.
addressed Elbethel Alliance, Cleveland
county, Wednesday Jan. 1st. He had
an audience of between three and four
hundred people, about one.third Of
which was composed of ladies. Ate
a two hours speech from Bro. Sossa
man, a fine dinner was spread and =
general good time socially was enioyd
by all. Bro. Sossaman has engap
ments ahead for speeches in Rowal
Cabarrus and CASTOR counties.
He is an earnest, enthusiastic Al
lance talker, and his ready wit make
his remarks entertaining to all whethe
Alliancemen or non A-lIiancemen. ii
must be heard to be appreciated
Wishing THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER
happy and prosperous new1year, am
A Dyed-in-the- wool Allianceman.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-01-07
N. r. r. A.
EDITORIAL NOTES

& beer war is the latest sensation.
We are betting odds on President Cleve
land in a fight like this.
Col. A. @. Lincoln, of Topeka, Kan
q cousin of President Lincoln, has
Joined the Populist party and is max
ing speeches to vast audiences all over
the State.
Judge Thomas L Nugent, grand
man, died at his home In Texas a few
days ago. He ran for Governor on
che Populist ticket last year, getting a
barge vote.
AS the weather is too cool for q fish
ing frolic just now, we suggest that
President Cleveland amuse himself by
writing another war message. It will
please the retired army officers i'm
mensely.
The Cuban insurgents have defeated
the Spanish army and it is now be-
lieved that the war is practically over
We hope it is true, aud that our game
little neighbor will henceforth be an
independent nation.
The Pennsylvania State Alliance has
started q State orga n. 1t is published
at Jonesto wn, and the name alliance
Advocate, " is quite appropriate. It is
filled with excellent matter, and will,
In connection with several other good
reform papers, WELD a power for good
in that great State.
At last the National Alliance officers
have began to use their pens for the
u~pbuilding of the order. Better late
than never. We publish an address
from the President and secretary in
another column. 1t is to the point,
and it is to be hoped that every reform
paper in the country will reproduce it.
The Biblical Recorder, organ of the
Baptist denomination in the State, and
one of the best and most influential re-
ligious papers in the couatry, has been
purchased by Messrs. Edwards 6
Broughton, of this city. 1t is under
stood that the price paid the estate of
the late DIR. Bailey for the paper was
$16 600. Mr.. William Bailey will con-
fnue to be its editor.
The State Secretary Treasurer and
Business Agent of the Alliance have
moved their offices to Hillsboro, where
they a have oversight of the manu-
featuring enterprises to be established
there. The removal will not affect the
business of either officer, as the past
arrangements will be continued as be-
o Brethren, deal through the
Agency, if you want to save n
The Pennsylvania Alliance Advo-
cate says: IF you want to study true
government; to learn true economy:
70 help the oppressed; to promote your
4nterests morally, socially, and fnan-
70 become a better neighbor
ans q more worthy citizen; to break
che curse Of monopoly to crush ont the
trusts sHd sy~ndieRtes, join the Alliance
ana attend every meeting. The man
Who only occasionally attends the AL
4ianee meetings is about like the one
WAC never goes to church; he knows a
Aitf4e about it but is too careless or
0egleets to learn all. By all means at
@sad the meetings regularly"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-01-07
SENATE TALKLNG SILVER.

The Senate Finance Committee, at a
meeting last week, decided to offer a
-substitute for the House bin author
iziug the issue of bonds. This bill for
bids a further issue of bonds and opens
the way for the free and unlimited
coinage of silver a a ratio of 16 to 1;
also providing a way to issue silver
certificates for circulation in place of
the silver coined under the first section
of said law. 1t is believed that this bill
will pass the Senate, but it will be de-
feated in the house. But even if it
should pass both branches of Congress
Cleveland will certainly veto the mea
IRE.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-01-07
GIVE YOUR %PosToFFIcR.

The following named persons will
aid us greatly in giving them prompt
credit on their subscriptions If they
will kindly favor rs with their present.
postofhce address A. NJ. Bowden, P.
L Cline, J.. @. Frans, r. v. Batche-
Tor, j r. Moye, Branson Coletrane, S..
W. Preslar, D. 7. James, P. P. w.
Plyler, Adam Hedrick.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-01-07
ECONOMY FOR THa CHILL

Correspondence OF The progressive tarM
DEsMoINEs,l
What is proft9 Profit is son
for nothing. An economic vi
That's what's the matter with 3
Profit. Mans the only fool
there is. He won't give you two
of bread for one, but he pays
and rent Gall the profit there is)
right 10 produce and exchane
right to live.
Profits can be compounded
until they take the wax out OF 9
thing. That's the fix WI are in
And we want more money" III
The government has two
to issue money, for serViees,S
loans. II it issuesfor service
it only swells prices. Very nice
eh9 Get out of debt9 Perhaps
And go in again tomorrow. Joint
stock companies boom. corrupt OF
fcials issue bonds. Everything lovely
Pop goes to sleep. Wakes up, sold in
to bondage worse than ever. Got Rlre
and children9 Oh, loans to state
counties, ETC., at cost3 Goes into eli
culation for service same as before
Same result. IT the government
loans it must have security
good security. That's gold, on
the soil. Know what gold meansg
I guess. Oh, make land the
basis for debt. D fool. Advocate
the most cussed kind of usury known
rent. Ten times as much land as
money bearing increase" now. Loan
on your notes. Happy thought. You
pay both. See2 Pretty hard to find a.
substitute for brains, and morals, amt
it.
Ever hear of Coda What do you,
s'pose he's dom. Oh, didn't know
there was one. Thought {. Well
ever hear of His laws then9 Guess
not, or you wouldn't be in sucha sweat
to legislate everything. Can't dodge
His laws sonny. Member when you
were at Sunday schools Law of Low
(harmony) etc. When things don't
harmonic they go to pieces. Uncon-
stitutional9 OF course, but they
can't repeal it. Then there's compe
tition. Another of His laws Every
thing completes. Got to. Or go glim
mering. Result, '.ftTest" types o
plants animals, and men. Wasn't 8
we'd soon have the worst, see9 Calam
ity. Got to make monopolists com
pete, then there'd be harmony Uni
versal competition means universal
monopoly. Always just as much q
one as the other. Monopolist is Il
test" just now. Reformer got to
educated. Fool now. Do EnyEnl
but reform.
Suppose reformers harmonic 81
operate). Nature gives 1000 prof
easy. Don't know what to do with al
her stuff. Hard work to get 81 out o
me. Fight first. Suppose they pro
duce, and exchange at par. Know
what they are doin'9
No body can afford to borrow land,
or money (all they can borrow and
compete. Followed natural law, seer
Natures always working to Destroy
profit unnatural profit. No borrower
no lender. No lender, no debt. No
debt no interest, rent. dividends or
profit Gall the same). Opportunities I'd
produce and exchange are now thrown
wide open. More demand for laboy
than supply. Labor gets all it earns
Money and land is worth nothing, ex
cept for use. Millennium.
Ever hear of a chap in jail Is yearsG
Idea struck him. Opened the window
and jumped out.
See that old hen and her chickensY
Wonder if they've ''got together" YETI
Now run away and legislate. G..
Twenty five cents per head, perhaps
less, from four million reformers would
establish a steel rail plant. Verb sap.
suf. JAS. II GREEN
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-01-07

Here's a man in Orange county, N
z, whose feed bill staggers him. ID
will try to cut it in two by raising
farmful of clover. That's the cheapeJ
way to produce home grown muscl
makers. A man can easily cut dow
his meat bill by growing sweet corn
Lima beans, and similar vegetables
and clover for cattle is on just the sam,
principle.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-01-07

England has at last met a foe worthy
of her steel. She has got into a war
with Africa. President Cleveland will
remain neutral.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-04-27
SLAIN WITH AN OAR
Joseph Goodness Murdered at
Buffalo.
STRUCK DOWN BY JACOB xoUsTs.

Sad and Shocking Fading Of . Day Of
Dissis~tioo-vissim Dlss Tais Moruiss
Leaving . Family In . Pisifai Coadi-
tiou.
Joseph Goodness, Of Buffalo, oppo-
site Andalusia, died this morning
from the effects OF q blow struck by
Jacob Mounts. OF that place, last
night.
The tragedy was the elimination
OF . day Of dissipation spent on the
island between Buffalo and Andalu-
sia. those participating being Good
ness. the two Mount boys. Jacob and
Barney, and Clint Powell. On reach
ing the Buffalo shore at 6 O'Clock
last night Goodness and Barney
Mounts were quarreling and Good.
ness was about to strike Barney
when Jacob Mounts struck Goodness
over tho head with an oar. He sank
down unconscious, and this morning
died.
Leaves . Family Destituted.
Goodpsss with his wife and child
and his wife's parents came down
the river in q Hat boat last fall and
have been living on the boat at Buff
falo since. The family is left with
out means Of support, and is desti-
tute. Goodness was "a years Of age.
Cornor McCortncy, Of Davenport.
has gone down to hold an inquest.
Jacob Mounts Is under arrest.