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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-16
WANTS TO BE FOOLED AGAIN

The Richmond Evening Star is Ger
tainly in a p%recarious condition. 1t is
rushing around to get its pockets pick
ed, or wants to buy a gold brick, or
box of saWdust, and we guess it will
not have to hunt much longer. On the
18th it said:
The last issue of THE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER expresses surprise to find The
Richmond Star and the Denver News
joining with the Democratic party in
an effort to secure relief to the people
from the effects of the single gold
standard. We must confess that we
ere as greatly surprised that THE
FARMER or any other paper honestly
desiring to see the people lifted from
the responding condition of loss and
idleness is not willing to accept the
earliest and most certain agency to &C
complish that relief"
Teen follows a long song about what
the Democratic party has always been
for, what it has done and tried to do.
We know what it has claimed; we
knowi it generally voted for free coinage
when it vas certain that the Republi-
cans had a majority in one or both
Houses of Congress. We know that it
had the President and a majority in
both Houses of Congress from March
46h, 1898, to December 1st, 1895, two
years and a half. We know that in
less than six months after it got that
power, that majority, it wiped the last
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-16
NATIONAL BRIGANDs D1sBAND.

TIE National Aggregation of inan-
cial Asses and LOCALIZED Banditti dis
banded on last Thursday unwept, un-
honored, and, we are sorry to say, I'm
hung.
Toe present Congress was no better
than the n that proceeded it though
the complexion was changed, giving a
large Republican majority in the lower
House. 1t did no worse than the
Democratic Congress, though, it might
have done as bad Or worse had IL not
been for the balance of power held by
the Populist Senators IN the Senate.
Tuis efectuaIly blocked all bad legis-
lation, and probably more would have
been attempted had it not been for that
barrier. 1t is greatly TO the credit OF
the Populists that, sc far as anyone
can see, none of them sold out, though
they had unlimited opportunities.
But this Congress could have passed
ell necessary legislation. The Popu
lists introduced many good bills. All
were defeated. Everything went to
prove that the money power has almost
complete control of both old parties
and made the same sly selections for
Congressional candidates that they
made in former campaigns, and this
makes it palmer than ever that moth
ing but an uprising of the people and
their entire strength thrown into a
new party, with honest candidates,
will ever overthrow the money power.
1t is true that there is always a few
good men in each party in Congress.
The money power wants them there to
keep up appearances. But it is equally
true that so long as the money power
aids in selecting candidates they will
always select men who can be bought
or driven.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-16
SILVER GOING UP.

The goldbug prevaricators will have
to get a new value on the silver dollar,
Tor the price of silver is advancing.
Hugh Mcdonald, the California mil
lIonarie and gold mine operator, has
been in Boston for some days and has
just bought 100, 900 ounces of silver at
70 cents per ounce. He says it is simply
a business transaction and he will hold
it until next year and then go to the
mint and get it coined. That looks
like Mr.. Mcdonald is very hopeful
about the prospect of an honest Presi
dent and Congress. He says half the
people in the State Of Massachusetts
are for free coinage, Notwithstanding
the alleged ~goldbug strength there. He
also says that he has no interest in sill
yer mining, but is not opposed to sill
yer reconciliation, for it is needed,
and that he thinks silver will go to
so cents per ounc9 before the gear is
ont
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-16
A FORWARD SEASON.

Mr.. James H. Pate, of Gibson's Sta
ton, Richmond county, sends us the
fret cotton bloom we have seen, It
opened on the 9th. This is unusually
early for blooms in this State, June
goth being about the earliest heretofore.
But the Laurinburg Exchange report
ed n two weeks ago, it having open
ed about the 1st, which beats all re
cords. Some years ago a cotton bloom
by the first of July was considered a
rare thing. The wheat crop has been
harvested two or three weeks earlier
thar usual, and is reported very light.
Crops of all kinds are further advanced
than the Oldest inhabitants ever saw
them at this time of year.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-16
PUT LIFE IN YOUR ALLIANCE.

AlIiancemen have never realized and
appreciated the urgent need for more
life and interest in their meetings: or
realizing it have neglected to meet It's
demands. This, more than anything
else. has been the cause of the Cisband-
ment of nineteen out of every twenty
Alliances which have forfeited their
charters. They have devoted their
meetings entirely too much to politics,
and while doing their full duty IN this
regard, have neglected the social side
of their Order-the arm-tOuch between
their members, says the Cotton Plant.
We need q revival along these lines.
Bring the young people into the order,
and arrange for more picnics and gath
erings than we have had in the past.
Set aside Saturday evening for the dis
cussi0n OF farming matters, and other
things of interest to you. Meet and
discuss the road working in your town
ship, and have your Commissioner
give his plans to you and make a show
1lR VI LIS NAGNU4 SOA4GAu VI
funds. Advise with him, and make
your complaints as a body; and if he
is the man be should be he will thank
you for it. Discuss your schools and
make your recommendations for their
management. Agitate local matters,
and make legislative candidates prom
Use to give you more local self gov
eminent" than you have had-in other
words make your Alliance a referen
dunn" for the discussion and settlement
of local questions.
We do not mean to advise partici
patton in local q~uarrels, or to make a
faction Of your members-but rather
to settle disputes, and to give a voice
to the wishes of your people, There
has not been, in our State and county
government, enough voice given to
the people in many questions vitality
affecting their welfare-such as roads
and schools-but by the right effort
you can secure this voice through your
Sub Alliance.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-16
PRIZES.

The North Carolina State Dairyman'
Association offers three prizes Tor d
two days test of dairy COWS at 'n7
next State Fair.
The prizes are $25 to the first; fI2:
the second; $40 to the third. Isn't 'nr0
worth trying for? Full details "S W
the test can be found in the tTS' a.
nual Report of this Association rec7n"'
issued.
Membership costs 81, and the ous'
are 81 per year. The Report Is iU'
nished free to members.
If you have a good COW why noS ".
for the prize? 25 to l.; Is to l, or W.
1 that the Report, if we'll read 8na tsn
gested, will yield better returns IN
the prizes offered at the fGiT amour, .ba
to the winners. But who Will O0 %
winner of the LIST, 2nd or 3rd Plbet
Will he be a member or non m0"
of the Association .rv.
Address E. B G. Hambley, 0ecf0 Nv.
Treasurer, enclosing 81 for mSlD oIso
ship and mention this paper the
state whether you intend to en'0I
competition for the prizes.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-16

vestige of a silver law off the statute
books and positively refused to enact
another law of any kind, at any ratio.
We know that silver bills were intro
duced day after day in every lmegln-
able form, ranging in ratio from Is to
1 to 81 to 1, and every n of them
was promptly defeated. We know
that the worst panic ever known began
in three months after it got that ma
jority and was in progress at the very
time the silver law was being destroyed
and was at it's height when the various
bills for it's restoration were being de-
feated by a Democratic President, @
Democratic Senate ard a Democratic
House, and the panic is still going on
yet. We know that during all that
time nine tenths of the Democratic
voters and the Democratic papers
were backing up and defending that
President, Senate and House.
We also know that in order to fool
the people again and try TO regain
power to get soft plecas and gorge
their pockets with unholy gain, at the
expense of the masses of the country
the Democratic leaders, with a few ex
captions, have changed tactics and are
now advocating the very measures
that they so bitterly denounced only a
few weeks ago. ALL this we know and
much more. We know that the man
who will be caught in such a trap is
not in earnest or else he lacks that i'm
portant element known as common
sense. We are not willing to believe
that the Richmond Star is dishonest,
O that it is edited by fools, hence we
will expect it to discover where it is at
before it is too late.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-16

far as products and commodities go.
As to securities, in spite of many years
of false teaching, the investing class
would quickly discount the fact that
SECURES must advance with a renewal
and enlargement of trade.
calling prices for every twenty
years have locked up money by de-
stroying confidence in u money, but
falling prices mean inevitable loss, and,
of course, destroy confidence. With a
general rise in prices, which would en-,
sue from the free coinage of SILVER,
copf lence in business would come
back. Nothing but a rise in prices
can bring it back. The moment a gen
eral rise set it on a scale to indicate it
has come to stay money will come out
of all the hiding places created dur
ing a quarter of a century, and will
flow in from other countries to get into
business based on rising prices.
Rising prices in money lock up the
money and destroy confidence in bust
ness. Rising prices in products and
commodities unlock money and breed
confidence in business and stimulate
new enterprises. When rising prices
begin we can quit 're~Organizlng' and
go constructing"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-16

Some'say that lightning never strikes
twice in the same place. Some wag
has explained that by saying that after
striking once there is no place left to
strike. However, Capt. John Horn, of
Nash county, says that a large pine
tree, now dead, has been struck twice
by lightning every summer since 1886.
II that be a fact, the scientist, philoso-
pher, or politician who started the yarn
about lightning never striking but once
in the same place, should rise and ex-
plain.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-16
LYING.

The ewspapors, especially the single
standard sheets, often point with
pride" to the record some farmer has
made, who bids defiance to hard
times" and, also, the man who pays
but little attention to politics" These
papers tell how Mr.. John Smith buys
and pays for a farm in a few years,
builds fine houses and barns and lends
money right and left. They aleo tell
how Henry Jones didn't attend Al
lance and Grange meetings" and raised
immense crops on so many acres Of
land, and dozens of other things.
Much Of this comes about through q
chronic habit some newspapers have
of lying, for there are newspaper liars
as we'll IS other liars. Then, too, Mr..
Smith and Mr.. Jones are the liars
They may be doing pretty we'll, get a
large yield per acre, Or something Of
the kind, and they straightway HE
away to a newspaper Office. The editor
listens to their tale with establishment
depicted on his face. They grow elo
quent and tell a cargo of lies about
how much they have raised, how
quickly they paid a large debt, (Which
it often happens is not paid or about
how much money they have made and
have loaned out.
The Wall street newspapers use this
claptrap to argue in favor of the single
standard or to knock the spots out of
the reform movement.
o. course some farmers succeed bet,
ter than others, a few have o to
lend, a few raise extraordinary crops,
but fellow citizens, much of it is exag
geration. A fisherman has been known
to magnify a ''bite" into a string of fine
fish.
A few men will make a brilliant suc-
cess in any line of business, under my
and all circumstances. Nobody can
account for it, but it is true.
What w want to see is the return of
prosperous times we enjoyed from 1866
to 1885. Then every farmer, every
business man, had a chance. If he
didn't do fairly we'll it was his own
fault. Laws are made mainly for the
weak. Let's have financial laws that
will enable the weak to cope with the
strong, make money easier and take
off the premium which is now such an
incentive to human greed.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-16
GENIUS SHOULD BE REWARDED.

A bank at E1inburg, Iud., closed its
doors last Thursday. Some genius con
nected with it certainly should not be
out of a job long. Dunn or Bradstreets'
commercial agencies ought to employ
him at once. He can turn their "busi
uess situation" man down before break
fast any morning in the yeer. This
fellow stated that the failure of the
bank was due to a lack of deposits"
Great guns! what commercial agency
stuff that man is made Of. If we had
the management of q commercial
agency and wanted to serve the money
power, as such institutions generally
do, we would give that fellow his own
price. Dunn and BrRdstreets' men are
regular daisies" They have managed
to explain why business don't get bot
ter, and why so many failures are &C
curing, to the entire satisfaction Of
the business man That is why the
financial question cuts SO little ice
among business men," With lamb,
like fai and simplicity they have
allowed those fellows to fool them week
after week with such stuff as this:
Collections and business continue slow
and are not likely to exhibit marked
changes until the cool weather warns
up" or, the hot Weather has retarded
trading activities and business seems
to be in a waiting attitude" or q half
dozen other a~tereoty ped sentences.
But the Indiana man goes right to
the root of the thing and tells the whole
truth in such an innocent way that you
feel refreshed at once. Mark Twain
once knew q man who was such an &C
cOmplished liar that it was really q
pleasure to hear him lie. This fellow
can tell q painful truth in such a man
ner that almost any bank or business
concern would rather fail and have
him explain why than to succeed in
business.
After we get free coinage and some
other financial reforms, you will pick
up q paper and see items like this: THE
FIRST National Bank of Perkinsburg
failed yesterday. Liabilities only 81
25; assets $500. 900. Failure due to a
rush of depositors who insisted on
making a storage warehouse of the
bank for their spare change. The bank
decided to quit business rather than be
burdened with so much cash" We
have to use a good many words to ex-
press it, but this Indiana man will be
equal to the task. He will simply saw:
Lack Of room to accommodate de
positors."
But there is q serious side to the In
diana bank failure. The folks around
there ought to be prosecuted for not
having money to deposit. No matter
if the government has quit making
money; that is no excuse.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-16
N. r. 2. A.
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The silver Democrats are now going
to nominate Boise, of Iowa. Then Wall
street will say: go it, Boise, you are
our game"
An exchange has a piece headed:
''The Railroad as a Newspaper Maker"
We suppose the railroad just makes a
at the editor and he does the rest.
1t is reported that a sanctifcationist
revivalisG he's made a Goldsboro citizen
so good that he coughed up some money
he had stolen years ago. What q pity
those good evangelists can't never get
a fair whack at delinquent newspaper
subscribers!
A London paper Gays if silver wins
in this country American securities
will be worth Just half what they are
now, which, OF course, is a colossal lie.
London wants our securities and cotton
at low prices, and that is why she
favors the gold standard.
In response to our challenge for the
Democratic press to name the PopuIists
who have ''come back into the fold, "
the Concord Times names two there.
Chas. Mcdonald and J P. Hornbuckle
Instead of Populism, it must have been
something else they had dyspepsia,
probably.
Editor Knstler says in his Concord
Vestibule: "a party without the Off
ces won't be a party very long, it will
bust 1t is just like an engine with
out water. Yes, but a party that
throws honest principles to the four
winds and gets the offices, will ''Oust, ="
too. The Democratic party is a shining
example.
Here is the banner that hung IL the
Prohibition convention Hall at Pitts
burg, Pa a few days ago: Righteous
ness Exalteth a Nation" They put
up a goldbug ticket and platform,
causing a bolt. A better banner would
have been: I'VE are for Gold, Panic,
Misery, Destruction and Suppression of
the liquor Traffic"
The other day at Rich Hill, Mo, a
city assessor was to be elected. Two
Democrats, n Republican and one
Populist sought the position Toe Pop
ulists got mad when they found a com
bination formed to beat their man,
went to work and beat the whole out
fit, getting 1923 votes. The three COM
bination candidates getting only 3O7
votes.
The Peoples party is q good deal like
the Irishman's fence. He built it of
stone and it was twice as wide as it
was high. He explained that if it blew
over it would be higher than it ever
was. Every time the old parties turn
the new one ove it appears about
twice as high az it a 1t is now a
condition and not a theory that con,
fronts them.
Miss Helen Gould is not a bit like old
man Jay. She is generous and has g
level head, too. She promptly sent g
check for 800, 900 for the benefit Of the
cyclone sufferers in st. Louis. Jay
Gould wouldn't have sent n dollar o
all his millions, had he been living
Moreover, we have no idea that any
foreign ''jook" will succeed in marry
ing Miss Helen
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-16

Connecticut Populists met at Hart
ford May 22i, elected delegates to the
st. Louis convention and declared for
free silver and gold at the present ratio.
Itseems a piece of this busted up" pop
party has sprung up in every Stats in
the Union Exchange.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-16
TO DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLI-
CAN ALLIANCEMEN.

DR.. CYRUS Thompson, President OF
the State Alliance, was here a few
days ago, and while discussing ways
and means for the upbuiiding of the
Alliance, ne suggested that a general
and cordial Invitation be extended TO
Democrats and Republicans who we're
good members OF the Alliance, but have
not affiliated for some time, owing, we
suppose, to differences Of opinion on
political policy; that they be invited
to resume their old PLACES end nothing
be said about the past.
We like the idea and hope that every
true member, not only here, but in
every State in the Union will interest
himself in this noble undertaking.
A few Democrats and Republicans
have held their membership in this
State through it all, and though politi
cal extremists may have critic}z9d
them, we think they have no cause to
regret their action.
The principles, fraternal, industrial,
educational and political, remain IN
changed, but it is an ~inexcus8ble error
to claim that any Allianceman should
be expected to lay down his P arty c)n-
victions. The student who takes a
course in a denominational college can
Join a church of that denomination if
ne wants to, but it is not compulsory.
In 1892 the new party was started,
and thousands of Alliancemen voted
the ticket because they had lost faith
in the old parties (and all will now ad
NIT that they had cause toy and be-
cause the new party adCpsed our prln
ciples as its platform. A hot CAM
paign was waged aud the money power
and it's hirelings took advantage Of the
excitement to alternate as many mem
bers of the Alliance as possible, hoping
to destroy it.
We believe that every intelligent
Democrat and Republican can now see
through the deep,laid scheme. We
have always ~contended that if a mem
Der of the Alliance was thoroughly
Convinced that the reforms advocated
by the organization were essential. that
1t is his duty to vote with the new
party, but we grant all the right to
diff1r with us as to the Importance OF
any measure, and as to the methods
proper to pursue in getting certain re
forms. The only Alliancemen who
were called traitors were those who
advocated a new party, helped TO
start it, and then acted the part of
towards and traitors Most of t1ese
are known aud are not wanted in the
organization again. But those who
thought their respective political affl
liarions good enough and acted &C
cordingIy, whether they be Democrats
or Republicans, have never been re-
garded as traitors, and they are each
and all cordially invited to become
active members again.
Brethren, let US hear from you on
this matter. How many will write
brief letters containing a hearty sec.
ord to our motion?
Mr. Walter R. henry, who is next TO
Sandow in physical strength, couldn't
lift Annie Abbott, the magnetic %
der, during n Of her exhibitions OF
Charlotte the other day. An lie can
point her fnger at a child and the
strongest man in the State can't lift the
child from the floor. But ali this needn't
encourage the Democrats. Walter
Henry will lift them out of their boots
before the November frosts kill vege
tation.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-09-08
ALLY iNDEpEaOsAT
W. ". sooHER. Editor and Pro-
prietor.
AN EVENING PAPER,

sued every day. SUNDAYS excepted
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-09-08
NOTICE or SALE
OHHigh School Bonds.

Notice ls hereby given, that the Board Of
County Commissioners OF Elko County Ne.
vada, will receive sealed bids up to O'Clock
p. n. on the 5th day Of September 1896, for
the purchase Of Five Thousand (e5,OOO.IO)
dollars of Elko County's Bonds, authorized
by en- act OF Legislature, entitled IAN act
authorizing and directing the Board OF
County Commissioners OF Elko county, State
Of Nevada, to Issue Bonds for the purpose
OF providing means to establish, construct
and maintain County High School in said
County" approved March IS, 1895.
Said Bonds to be issued in sums of mot
less than Five Hundred (S5OOOO dollars
each in lawful money Of tho united States
and shtll bear interest from date, At tho
rate OF aix per cent. (0'sl per annum, inter-
est payable annually on the First day Of
January, 1897, and each wear thereafter.
One thousand 1000 dollars on the princl.
pal ofsaid Bonds shall be payable january
I, 1902. and One Thousand (tI ,HO) dollars OF
said Fl .ncipal shall be payable the First
day OF January each year thereafter.
Said bids shall be directed to the Clerk OF
the Board Of County Commissioners, Elko
County, Nevada, and marked Sealed Bids
for thc purchase OF High School Bonds"
Tho Doard shall reserve the right to reject
any ard all bids.
JOHN HENDERSON,
ounty Clork'
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-09-08
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
ADVERTISING RATES.

Will be made - low IN 10 consistent with
sund business nripciDles. Apply ~ the Of
Gcef terms.