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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-12-01

ne major REFUSES 10 NUN ~ 4OI SCheESA
Opposed to OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
the Legislature to Impeach Cleveland,
Mckinley, Mark Hanna and General
Weyler
B.-"HellocM Editor"
R.-"Hello! Mejor. Go ahead and
launch your senatorial boom, for l
know you are bound to enter the a
So far as l know you are the only pri
vate citizen left in the State, SO let her
go gallagher"
B.-"You have slipped up this time.
amt in the race. I'm opposed ter
overproduckshun, an I think there IL
an overproduckshun ov candidates fer
Senator now. Unjust respectfully, but
positively refuse ter allow the next leg
islature ter take my mama ia vain. 1t
takes awI ov my time ter keep out ov
the way ov that wave O. prosperity.
More than that, Betsy won't let me go
nohow. She says them Senators gen,
orally turn out bad, an amt willin' fer
me ter run the risk"
R.-"Well, that relieves the situa-
ton somewhat. Unless you change
your mind, there will be at least one
spectator when the senatorial fight Is
pulled off. Be sure and keep both eyes
open and see the fur fly.
BIT will do that. I'm not inter
ested in the Senatorial fight so much
/ can't see lots ov other things needin'
attenshun. The legislature will hev
lots ov work ter do if it makes things
satisfactory. The mistakes of the last
legislature must be corrected, and lots
of things done ter git things rite. Leg
islashun IL a serious business, an WUz
W more so than now. I want the
legislature ter impeach Cleveland, Nc
Kinley, Mark Hanna an Gen. Weyler,
an if it don't do it I'll hev ter git a di-
vorce from Betsy. She says they are
awl dangerous out laws and shouldn't
be allowed ter run at large any
more. Betsy aWlso says the legisla
ture must see that they amt anymore
blockadin' done around the capitol like
they use ter be-. Two or three years
ergo you could smell whiskey awl over
the capitol buildin' an could see smoke
comm out ov little pipes aWl over the
capitol grounds. This caused mt an
Betsy ter go on a still hunt Ground the
capitol one. day. We didn't find any
stills, but it made SUM ov 'em be a little
more particular erbout expcsin' their
snakebite cure an it's effects. But we
can console ourselves with the ole say
in: What is ter be will be-" Guide
bVe."
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-12-01
The A

| Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.
At every legislature there is a big TO-
do about the State printing, and the
wire pulling and bidding for the same
reminds one of Wall street. Every
| body seems to think there is millions
in il" but the initiated r not gener-
ally so sanguine. I see that several
| papers are already cut for their favor
ties. This writer is in no way person
ally interested in the matter more than
any other citizen of the State, but he
| wishes the work done lin a workman
like manner, as the law specifies, and
/ with as little inconvenience to the State
officers as possible. The present State
printers are gentlemen and practical
printers, and so far al the work is con
cerned, I am no critic, from that point
of view, but I do think that the work
should be done st the Capitol, as a
matter both of convenience and econ
omy.
see from an article in the News and
Observer some days ago that the cost
Of the State printing for the last two
years was over $15, 600 more than any
previous years, Notwithstanding the
contract appeared to be much less.
The same authority states that this in,
crease does not include freight or ex
preesage. 1t should not, as the law is
very plain in this particular, though
perhaps the News and Observer is fully
aware of this fact, and merely wish to
inSinunte otherwise. But be that BIS it
may, it does not alter the case in re-
gard to justice and convenience, not to
say economy. Messrs. Stewart Bros.
do their work in Winston, n. O., and
it is said that portions of it has been
done in Richmond, Va. This appears
to be a pretty state of affairs, if true.
Just think of it! Two great political
parties in control of the whole State,
and send their State work, the work
the people are taxed to pay for, to an
other State, while the Sheriff is run
ming around with @ pocket full of gar
nashees for home printers if they hap
pen to do a few days work. This is
not only unjust, but ~disgraceful; and
more especially SO as both the Populist
and Republican parties pose as the
friend to the WOrkimg people, and the
people have SO regarded them. I hope
there are no Judases in the legislature
elect.
This writer does not wish to advocate
any particular person or person for
this work, but as it is reasonable to
suppose that the parties in power will
support men OF their political faith,
why not give the printing to Barnes
Bros, who have labored indefatigably
for the success of the administration,
both State and National, and who have
the best facilities for doing the work,
and doing it we'll, and who WiH DO 1T
right here at home, and the printers
will be enabled to support their fami-
lies and pay their taxes.
This is not a matter that should be
dropped and thought nothing of, but
every member of the General Assembly
should weigh the matter we'll, and do
his full duty to his State and his con
stituents. CITIZEN.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-12-01
o.
OOrn

IS a vigorous feeder and
spends we'll to liberal r@r .% re,
ton, On corn lands the , ,.:l9 :,
increases and the soil im0r |,S.d
if properly treated with '0,es
tlllzers containing not rnT yF'
actual ~'0sf
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-12-01

Browns BRONCHIAL TRoCHEs" are
a simple and convenient remedy foE
Bronchial Affections and Coughs.
Garry them in your pocket.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-12-01
N0TTCc

Having this day qualified as A6msrftr.
the estate of John Hare. deceased l9r4 nt 'r@3' %
county. notice is hereby given toaI l4r,fa, 45s
ing claims against said Dc cedent tn rTrr1.s4.D,
same to me or my attorney on or l,f1r. ,1l IL
day of November, 1891. or this n.r.oaV rI, #.
PLEADED in bar of their recovery. All @r- be
indebted to said deced-nt are rot.+a g47I>2ls
prompt payment Is required. This 4E 4. y1a
November, 1896 1". o.
J. NJ. HARE, Administers
H. E. Norris, Attorney. a.of
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-12-01
Potash,

A trial of this plan costs bn.
little and is sure to lead ~ ~
profitable culture.
All about Potash-the results Of .su..t
pertinent on the best farms in the g...E o.-@s&
told in a little book which we publish ..s >.&es-s
mail free to any farmer in America WHOM ~- ss5y
GERMAN KALI WORK, "'"'A
90 Nassau ST., New w.,
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1896-09-24
A "200=Cent Dollar

Repudlatonlst orators continue to harp
upon the idea that gold standard dollar
is a 600 cent dollar" Let us see where
such an assumption would lead. W J
Bryan or ''Silver Dick Bland, or Com
Harvey himself, would not dare to deny
that every form of value in this country il
now measured by the ''20O-cen dollar "
Let us see who it is that is hurt by such
a dollar presuming that it really exists
Let us see especially how it affects the
farmer.
Last year the corn crop was valued at
S561, 900, 600 Upon the theory Of 600
cent dollar this crop was actually worth
81, 134, O00 600. The cotton crop, for the
same year, was valued at S262, 600, 600.
According to the free silverites, its true
value was 1924, 600, 600. The hay crop, in
Ike manner, was valued at 1898, 900, 900.
If Mr.. Bryan and his able assistants are
right the owners of this hay really re
ceived about 1856, 900, 600 for it. The
value of the wheat crop was 1928, 600, 600
On 5000 cent dollar basis it brought in
exchange for other commodities S476,-
0O0 600.
But it is not such staples alone that
were thus affected. The value of all
kinds of farming property must likewise
have practically doubled in worth Farm
lands, fences and buildings, according to
the last census, We're valued at SIS, 300, :
600, 600. On a 5000 cent dollar basis,
however, their actual value was $50, 600, l.
600, 600. Live stock on hand in 1890 was
set down as worth -, POO, 900, 600. Its
value in money which is ''too good was
81, 400, 600, 600 If free silvertes be cor
rect in THEN assumption concerning tie
gold dollar, every farmer who has sold
any cattle, hay, oats D. land during the
last year or two has received therefor
twice as much money as lie was entitled
to receive.
And how about the receiver of wages or
salary? A ''200-cent dollar means that
he has been able to buy SO coat for -,
a IS pair Of shoes for 3, ton Of coal
worth 81 for $50, to rent a house or
flat for So per month which is worth $50,
and to purchase meat and groceries at
half price. Either a S200-cent dollar
means this OF it means nothing. 1t means,
in addition, that every dollar invested by
employers in brick and machinery has
gone twice as far as the alleged ''dollar Of
the daddies' would have done
Where is the flaw in this argument?
Will some advocate of the 3D. cent dollar
explain? n. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1896-09-24
A Gem from Speaker Reed.

Thos. s. Reed has said and written
many pungent paragraphs but none bet
ter than the following in his introduction
to 'Protection and Prosperity"
Somehow Or other, times like these are
great educators. How very fine used to
be the sneer about lifting ones self by
the boot straps. How clear used also to
seem the demonstration that taxes could
create nothing, What a fine, large mouth
the consumer had those days and how
puny and unworthy seemed the hands Of
the producer. Now tile untitled mouth
has discovered who owns the hands. This
book Will show you that this has been the
history of nations, a hundred times; nay,
1t has been the history of our nation
half a score Of times in our short life.
Like the Spanish Grandee in the Cemetery
we Were well and wanted to be better.
took medicine and here we are. Is it
worth while to undergo this death and
resurrection again? We shall never do it
if we lay fast hold on the facts of the uni
verse There may be time come when
nations will be no more, when the brother
hood of man may be established, when
communication may be so rapid, when we
shall be 50 equally advanced in civiliza-
ton, that nobody will care where he lives
OF is buried; when distance shall break no
ties, and when the universal language is
spoken by everybody without accent in
that time we may lose nationality and be
come citizens of the world. Then free
trade may reign. But such a time will
not happen within the hundred years
which centre in that week when two Eng
lish speaking nations We're ready to clutch
each other by the throat about a boundary
thousands of miles away, and the German
emperor was ready to fight the kingdom
of his grandmother about some people i'll
Africa whose ancestors left the fatherand
SO long ago that history is not quite sure
that they did leave it. Nationality j. a
fact, brotherhood is hope. Perhaps if
we live up to our fact, that may be the
best way to arrive at our hope.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1896-09-24

the revenue. Doubling the beer tax
would get sound money Democratic votes,
but the fear of the liquor vote might de-
ter the majority in the Senate from pass
ing such measure
There is one way in which the Repub-
licans, if they control the next admins
tratlon. might escape an extra session.
That is by passing a revenue bill during
the short session next winter which would
meet the approval of President Cleveland.
The change in the duty on sugar or the
increase of the tax on beer might meet
this requirement. A horizontal increase
of duties, except on sugar, as proposed in
the Dingley bill, would not meet it. Such
a bill, moreover, would be of doubtful
value as a source OF increased revenue.
The effort to dispose of the matter at the
short session would probably be defeated,
in any case, by filibustering in the Sen
ate.
The silver men will be absolute masters
of the situation when they know that the
Congress expires by limitation On the 4th
of March. Their situation will be very
different, and their power to filibustel
will be greatly impaired, if they met in
extra session under the necessity of fill
clustering through two successive years in
order to prevent legislation.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1896-09-24
The Blight of PopuIism.
V their fruits We shall know them.

By their fruits We shall know them.
The Populsts are making determined
effort to get control of the government of
Georgia Populism is about the same
thing in one part of the country as an
other, and like causes produce like effects.
The Populsts have never yet gained the
ascendency in State which did not suffer
under their rule.
A Populist administration for one term
is believed to have set Colorado back 10
years. 1t deprecated property and drove
population from the State. In Kansas
the blight of Populsm has been even
more severe, because it has been endured
longer. 1t has paralyzed enterprises that
We're once prosperous; it has prevented
the investment of capital it has driven out
many inhabitants and frightened off those
who under other conditions would have
become settlers in the State The En-
poria Gazette, which has excellent oppor-
tunities for knowledge on the subject,
discussing the effects of Populsm upon
Kansas, says:
There are about 125 900 families in the
State, and there We're about 10000 babies
born in Kansas last year, vet so many peo-
pie have left the State that the natural in
crease is cut down to less than 1000 net.
This has been going on for eight years.
The effect upon the material welfare of
the State has been fully as disastrous as
it has upon its growth in population. The
Gazette says on this point:
Every moneyed man in the State who
could get out without great loss has gone
Every month in every community sees
some one who has little money pick up
and leave the State. This has been going on
for eight years. Money is being drained
out all the time. In towns where 10 years
ago there We're three or four, or half dozen
money lending concerns stimulating indus
try by furnishing capital, there is now none,
or one or two that are looking after the in
terest and principal already outstanding
No one brings any money into Kansa any
more.
We are now asked to entrust the gov
eminent OF Georgia to party which has
done this work of desoation tor Kansas
The fair promises and the high profess
sion of Popuiist leaders cannot blind the
eyes OF our people to the results of practi-
cal experiments with Populism wherever
it has been tried. ATLANTA, Ga, Journal.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1896-09-24
Silver Money and Workingmen.
Wage Farmers Barely Exist in Free Coinage C0un
tries,

ITltS.
The New Haven, Ct, Register has
printed an interview with Gen. W. W.
Skiddy of Stamford, once on Gov. Wal
ler's staff. The general goes into the polit-
lcal situation infinitely, and says that he
believes that men of the Bryan stamp are
more dangerous to the future success.
and even the prosperity of the country.
than open revolution or secession would
be. He says that the Stamford Manufac-
turing Company, of which he is the head,
purchases large quantities of raw mate
rails from silver standard countries.
Gen. Skiddy says: ''In these countries
we pay the full wages demanded, which
vary from % cents to so cents a day in
the money of the country. This money
we secure by exchange (based, of course,
on American gold), and get two to one
the result being that, ON a gold basis, the
above wages represent from y 12 cents
to 25 cents per day of our money.
''These low wages ale due to the de-
plorable condition of these countries
caused by the single standard of silver
Manufacturing interests and international
trade have been almost entirely destroyed
and they rely mainly on the export of
goods, and natural products of their soil,
and these governments are in such a Grip
pied financial condition that they are
obliged to levy export duties on these
products in order to raise revenue. The
workingmen in these countries do not live :;
they barely exist.
''Theories can be disputed, facts can
not, and these statements are the actual
condition now existing in these countries
where gold has been driven out and silver
is the only money used
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1896-09-24
Contingency.
orders PlaceG-if VIM. Mckinley is Elected.
How Prospective Bryanism Thr0tiles Business.

Wholesale houses, commission houses
and jobbers of New York have been re-
ceiyng orders contingent on the election
OF William Mckinley. Not all have re-
ceived such orders, but many have. A
large order received from the West a few
days ago by one of the most prominent
wooden commission houses in the dry
goods district was conditioned as follows:
THE March delivery of this order is
conditional and subject to change and re
duction in the event OF the election of W.
j. Bryan
The head of the house, who, for bust
ness reasons, forbade the use of his name,
said: This is a sample of many orders
we have on file, but we are receiving
fewer and fewer of them, and we hope
the result in Maine will stop them. Many
of our customers apologize for the small
ness OF their orders and assure us that
they would be larger if silver were killed"
John Sherman, manager for the Water
bury Brass Company, with mandatory
at Waterbury aud offices at No. 29G Broad
way, said ''Our business is stagnant be-
cause of the uncertainty of the money
question. Our customers are sending us
small orders or none at all.
"Here is an extract from letter which
is typical of many We have on file: My
customers say they are waiting until we
know whether we are to have dollar dol
lars or 50-cent dollars. y
The letter was from L. A. Gay of Roch-
ester, n. y, who is manufacturer of
specialties in brass
BESIDES these contingent orders, there
has been much talk in the dry goods dis
trict of payment in gold. A reporter for
the Journal could not find anyone who
had made that requirement, but John c.
Eames of H. B. Clatlin & Co, of No. PA
Church street, said: 1--WE have heard of
several orders placed in the West in the
agreement for which the New York
houses who placed them required clause
stipulating for payment in gold. These
orders We're on long time. -
Most of the business men admitted that
they had considered the ACCESSIBILITY of a
gold requirement, but said they had not
given serious thought to the subject be-
cause free silver was a long way off,
granting even the most extrayagant
claims of the Bryan men.
The result of the election in Maine has
had Il most cheering effect in wholesale
quarters as well as elsewhere. Many of
the big houses are sure Mckinley will be
elected and are not worrying any more
about politics. Boston Journal
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1896-09-24

FISH AND GAME. A letter received at
Gloucester from Georgetown, P. E. l.,
dated Sept Sd, confirms the previous re-
ports of poor mackerel prospect in
North Bay. Among the vessels at George
town at that time were the schs. Carrie
Dove, Marathon, Stranger, Richard Lester,
and Hustler, all having an average of 25
bbls., except the latter, which had just
arrived. The average catch of the bay
fleet is from Is to 30 bbls, sch. Joseph B.
Mcguire being high line at IS bbls........
Fishing at Moosehead is excellent, the
large fish having commenced to run. One
gentleman caught four trout, the largest
weighing five pounds and four ounces,
while the rest of the party were partaking
Of their breakfast. Another gentleman
from Boston caught in about four hours
six fish, the largest four pounds, and the
smallest, two and one half pounds. .. The
New England catch of salt mackerel to
date is the largest, with one exception, in
the last five years and it comes very close
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1896-09-24

POLITICAL POINTS. Hon. Garret a.
Hobart, Republican candidate for vice
President, has made public his letter of
acceptance He takes logical and forci-
bic stand on the platform and declares for
honesty and protection and sound money.
He gave clean cut analysis of the Demo-
Populist currency vagaries.. ... Gen. John
&. Black has written letter formally de-
Ginning the nomination of the national
Democratic party of Illinois for governor.
1t is understood the executive committee
has decided to replace Gen. Black with
ex-Congressman w. S. Forman, the pres
ent nominee for attorney general on the
same ticket. Senator Carter of Mon
tana has come out squarely for Mckinley.
Hitherto he has been reckoned with the
silver party.......Jame Nj. Braden Of
Washington, Pa, candidate for congress-
man at large, and James Denton Hancock,
candidate for elector at large have filed no.
tees of withdrawal at the office of the
secretary of State of the commonwealth.
They are both active sound money Demo
Gratis. go. Thlulow Weed Barnes, Republic
can leader i'll the 18th Congressional dis
tlict of New \ ork city, recently wrote to
W. Bourl1e Cochran, practically rendering
him the Republican nomination for Con
gress from that district. Mr.. Cochran
replied declining the honor, but announc-
ing his intention of voting for Mckinley.
.....I In letter to the Boston Herald MI.
Edward Atkinson asserts that English
men now hold large part of the silver
mines of this country, which produce
about 5000, 600 ounces a year. English
men also hold nearly all the other pro-
ductive silver mines in the world. 1t will
be seen, therefore, if Mr.. Bryan should
succeed i'll raising the price of silver to
S1.29 an ounce by free coinage, he would
not punish England very severely.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1896-09-24
No 50 Main Street, Belfast, Me.
BLEEDING TO DEATH.

Time was when doctors resorted to bleed
ing and cupping as a cure for all diseases.
They were correct in supposing that III dis
ease the blood is impure but they We're not
correct IN supposng that tc let out the blood
would remove the disease, as that method
would only cure the disease at the expense
of life.
We now know that the best way is to
purify the blood, and so enable the blood to
do its work as intended by nature. The
mineral water, Yysilanti Specific, is the
greatest blood purifier known. 1t is natures
own true remedy and should be in every
house. If your dealer does not supply you
with this water, write to the YPsnANTI
SPECIFIC Co., at 104 BROAD ST., Boston, and
they will see that you are supplied.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1896-09-24
Powers Plurality 4S, 4oI.
There We're s2,749 Votes Cast for Him. The Tab
uIated Vote.

Returns from every city, town and
plantation in the State give, for governor,
Powers (Rep), 81, 749; Frank Dem), "a,
2SS; Bateman Pop), 3,157; Ladd, Pro),
2,367; Clifford (Nat. Dem), 567. The Re
publican plurality in the whole State is
As, 461. Following is the complete vote
for governor by countless
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1896-09-24
A Yahoo in Wahoo.

Tom Watson spoke at Wahoo, Nebraska
on Tuesday. Somehow the name of the
place is suggestive of the character of the
speech. 1t was more abusive of Mr..
Sewall than usual. ''Do you want man
like Sewall to succeed the gallant Bryan if
unfortunately he should die in Officer
asked the vociferous Georgian. That
suggests another question. If unfortu-
nately the gallant Bryan should get into
office, do they want man like Watson in
order of succession? 1t is a horrible pos
sibility. Portland Advertiser.
CASTo7IA
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