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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-01-07
soRTH CAROLINA FARMERS STATE ALElI-
ANCE,


ANCE.
President Dr.. Cyrus Thompson,
RichIands, =. =.
Vice President-Jno. Graham, Ridge
way, N. O. 49,,
Lecturer. T. B. Hoover, elm City,
NC.
now, N. G.
Chapiain-Rev. P. H. Massey, Dur
ham, n. Q.
Door -keoper-Geo. T. Lane, Green's
boro, n. @.
Assistant Door keeper-Jas. E. Lyon,
Durham, N. @.
Sergeant Arms-A. D. z. Wallace,
Rutherforiton, N. @.
Stste Business Agent-T. Ivey, HI Is
Trustee Business Agency Fund-W.
A. Graham, Machpelah, N. q.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES OF THE NORTH
CAROLINA FARMERS STATE ALLIANCE.
AT. Hileman, Concord, N. c.; N.
G. English, Trinity, n. G.; James Nd.
Mewborne, Kins on, N. Q.
STATE ALLIANCE JUDICIARY COMMuTTEE.
John Brady, Gatesville, N. G.; DR..
J.F. Harrell, Whiteville, N. G.; T. j..
Gambler, Acton, n. Q.
ssegth Carolina Reform Press Association.
Jgscers-J. L. Ramsey, President; );
:saTiOn Butler, Vice President; w. s.
RSzFssss. Secretary,
PAPERS.
Pyczrsssivs Farmer. State Organ, Raleigh, n. @.
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EXECUTIVE BOARD.

Il. L. Loucks, Huron, s. D; Mann
Page, Brandon, Virginia; I. e. Dean,
Hcneoye Falls, New York; q. =. Dem
oling, Secretary. Harrisburg, Pennssyl'
vanIe; Marion Butler, Raleigh, n. Z.
JUDICIARY.
2 A. Southworth, Denver, Colo.
2. ". Beck, Alabama.
z. D, Davie, Kentucky.
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&C NATIONAL. FARMERS ALI
aNcR AND INDUSTRIAL
UNION.

! President-J. r. Willetts, Topeka,
Vice Presidential. Q. Snavely, Leb
1 anon, Pa.
5acre5ary-Treasurer-Col.D D. P. Dun
9An. Columbia, 8. Q.
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Write for terms to agents. Drop us
a postal.
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aEeyth Carolina Reform Press Association.
1ggCers-J. L. Ramsey, President; !;
suF;0n Butler, Vice-P President; ". s.
E<Ez7sss, Secretary,
PAPERS
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-09-04

The opposition to free coinage have
persistently held that should free coin
age be instituted in the United States
it would drive gold to a premium, and
cause q widespread and disastrous
panic. On Monday of last week William
Mckinley, republican candidate for
president, apostle Of gold money and
high priest in the sanctuary Of high
tariff aud production, made a speech
before pottery wOrkmen at Canton.
In that speech he said: AT the close
Of the lOw tariff period Of 1860 there
was but one white ware pottery in the
United States. with two small kilns
Decoration kilns we're not known. In
1878, encouraged by the tariff and Che
GOLD PREMUM, WHICH WAS AN ADDED
PROTECTION, We had increased to %
potteries, with 68 kilns." Does bic
Kinley mean to dispute ali gold stan.
dard authority and assert that a pre-.
MUM on gold would result In protec-
ton to American industries and
increase maHufsgtUriss, Or dess hs
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-09-04
HARRIsON's SPEECH.

Ex-President Harrison opened the
republican campaign in New York re-
Gently by lengthy speech, containing
as the principal ingredient compli,
ments to gold, Cleveland and himself
Unlike MIR. Mckinley he thinks that
money is the issue, gold money at that
Tariff, be thinks, is a settled question
with the American people.
His stock of inYectives, applied to
the silver advocates, was replete if not
original. BE also falls into the com
mon error of gold standard speakers
by contradioting himself in declaring
a silver dollar under free coinage viii
be a 5O-cent dollar, and in the Mex
breath admitting it win be dollar o.
100 cents. Why does he, and does
others, allow themselves TO stultify
their arguments by such contradic
tives? The reason is obvious. If they
would but dare explain the meaning O
the term they have applied TO the sill
yer dollar they would admit that thu
meaning was rather a rise in the Valut
of ali property. Such an admission
would not be good for their cause. ant
so they go abroad enunciating an in
conguity.
Mr., Harrison is an international bi
metsllist." He it was who appointed
delegates to a conference at Brussels
in 1892, to bring about such an agree
ment, in response to demands from
large element Of his party. and the re
suit was that after the election wa
over and it was seen that CIeVeIan,
was chosen, he instructed that delega
ton to vote for against the coinage O
silver at any ratio, and they did so.
MF. Harrison referred to himself as
has been, on the retired list, and it val
be veil for the American people {
keep him 50, and q good many other
CT his ilk, also,
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-09-04

give the impression that the free silver
agitation is dying out.
Even those who will join the clubs
do not guarantee that they viii actu-
ally vote that way. A prominent re-
publican of Chicago is so indignant
over this attempt at coercion that he
advises the reform and free silver
papers to keep standing a card Of ad-
vice as follows:
To Railroad and Other Employees;
When oppressed by your employer, make the
pretense of yielding to him, so as TO deceive
him and keep your job, and then go out and on
the sly do your utmost to counterfeit his efforts.
Take the gold in this campaign and go and buy
bread for your children, but keep in mind all
the time that you shall vote your sentiments
and for better times than these British gold
standard times. Don't lose your place or your
temper Play it fine, boys, act eonservatively
and wisely and don't let them get you on the
hip to the extent of Incorporate expression. and
you viii win the greatest victory of modern
times,
This advice is likely to be taken by
those who do not feel as if they can
openly defy their corporate master.
The refOrmeFs this year will have to
combine the hsrmlessness of the dove
with the guile of the serpent.
On street railways similar plans are
being tried For instance, the conduct
Ors and mortormen are bribed to take
part in discussions with the passengers
and advocate a gold standard. Men
who will do this are promoted to regu-
lar runs, while those who refuse are
laid off indefinitely. It's rather hard
when a mans chance of employment
depends on his becoming an active sd-
Vocate Of the republican party.
The people ought not to forget that
the capitalists of the country are a far
sighted class. They are not so much
afraid of free silver as they are that
the Wageworkers will accidentally find
out that they have some poweF-that
| it is possible for them to act together
under leaders of their own selection
instead of under the party lash of lead
ers selected by corporate power.
If the people vote for free silver and
are victorious, the capitalists will loOA
at each other with bianched faces anC
inquire:
SNOW, what is to prevent this rabble
from taking away our vested rights
and taking back, for the use of the PEG
pie, the natural opportunities which w
have so successfully cornered? What
is to prevent the people from govern
ing themselves and setting US aside il
once they discover their strength"
These are the questions the million
aires are asking themselves, and they
will stop at nothing to prevent the
people from having a free expression
of their opinion by their ballot.
M.E.A.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-09-04

its failure to provide sufficient revenue,
overlooking, perhaps, that his own pet
measure had the same failing. His
attacks upon the Wilson bill and COM
pliments upon his own are unseemly,
further, in the knowledge that the ex-
ports under his measure in 1892 we're
exceeded under the Wilson bill in 1896
by S70,OOO,0O0; and his remarks upon
the question of wages comes with full
poorer grace, by reason that a challenge
tU him to cite single instance where
wages, under his bill, in protected in
dustries were advanced a single farth-
ing, is yet unanswered. Coupled, more
over, with the labor troubles at Cour
de AIene, Homestead and Tennessee
coal regions, the McKinly policies, re-
needles and propositions will receive
but little encouragement from the sons
of toll.
Admitting prevailing conditions are
shOckingly bad, he presoribes no re-
medy but what has been tried, found
wanting and repudiated by the Ameri-
can people.
The whole letter but rehashes ex-
ploded sophistries and stock arguments
that have long been relegated to the
trash heaps by progressive politicians,
and in inficting it upon the people Mr.
Mckinley has but lowered himself in
the scale Of craftsmanship.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-09-04

eonsummated. There is nothing that
can save to the American people the
cherished legacy Of freedom begueath-
cd them by their valiant sires, bat 2
decisive victory over the forces Of
plutocracy. alien dependents and gor-
shippers Of the golden calf that are led
to the assault by a hired man Of a
moneyed Jew. Commence at the bot
tom Of that Hessian ticket and bury
it deep nnder an avalanche Of ballots
for American independence and men
who have the manhood and courage to
stand for American honor.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-09-04

TEE democratic and populistic party
have declared in favor of the free coin
age of gold and silver at the present
ratio and believe that under such a
system the business of the country
would be conducted on a cash basis.
This, Of course, would be hard on the
money lender. The republican party
believes in the free coinage of gold, and
of silver as soon as Europe consents,
but holds that no money is needed
nothing but confidence. In other words,
they prefer credit system to cash
system. Is it difficult to understand
why the money Ioaner is for Mckinley?
Should not all others be against him.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-09-04


NEVER was there such an industrial war in
Ia Englandi never was there such destituion
and never was there such an inlammabIe dis
content in the very heart and center of the land.
Relief committees, and soup kitchens, are un-
ceasingly at work throughout the strike areas
bread is distributed and fought for by furnishing
men and women, and gardens and orchards are
robbed in the frantic search for food. Hungry
children attend the schools to weak to learn,
and women tramp from village to village beg
gipg for money or foOd.-LondOn Daily News.
That is the condition of the English
werkingman, in the home of the parent
Of tbs gold standard, the heart of the
commercial and banking world. British
ag6nbsats can be heard around the
world, and the walls Of her starving
wage earneTs are also fast completing
ths circuit. American workingman, do
you wish to see a like condition in this
countFyY If SO, cast your vote for Mark
Hanna, the foe of labor, and his stalk
ing horse William Mckinley.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-09-04

IT seems that the republicans have
given up all hope of getting farmer
vote this fall and are paying undivided
attention to the laboring men. Their
speakers one and all admit that free
coinage would raise the price of the
farmers product and use it for an
argument why the labOringman should
not vote for it as it would increase the
cost Of his living. The laboFingman,
however, knows that agriculture is the
main industry Of the United States,
and that high prices for farm products
means more work and better wages for
him. Their votes will go the way their
interests lie.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-09-04
APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP
Slgned,,
Address

These applications for membership
are to be distributed to every railway
employe in the United States. While
there is no specific threat made, yet the
employees understand perfectly we'll
that to refuse to fill out the application
will jeopardize their positions.
The formation of these clubs is 5
most audacious form of bulldozing. A
club is usually formed for the purposes
of discussion and education. In this
scheme the member pledges himself in
advance to work and vote against a
certain issue. He must profess himself
to be already educated and converted
to SO called Sound money when he
enters the club.
The railway men Of the west have al
ready received the application slips
They are very indignant over the bare
faced attempt to coerce them. They
have good reason to 'fear the Greeks
when they come bringing gifts, or, in
other words, to fear any organization
proposed by their employers. The at
tempt to form these clubs has done
more to crystalize the free silver senti-
ment than any amount Of agitation fOI
| it. Persecution makes a reform move
ment flourish.
So great has been the outCry about
these clubs that MI. Harry Robinson.
editor of the Railway Age and the
fgurehead who stands for the founder
of the movement, interviews himself
in this strain recently:
I started the campaign without consulting
single person, railway managers or otherwise
inspired solely b. the conviction that the ire
silver campaign Is, before everything else,
war on the wage Garner, and believing tina
the Railway age was better abs TO reach Ila
railway employees Of the country and put thsz
on their guard than any Other fundamentally
psrsOat organ Or paFtE.
Ga Eg first appeal tie railway Iasn sross j
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-09-04

With $4,000, 900 of people in 1880 and seventy odd
millions now those who talk OverprOduction of wheat"
responsible for the decline in price are of reckoning
The tables of the worlds productions for these years will
not show much wheat per capita twenty years ago
Nor will the other excuse so frequently given of
methods of cheaper production fertilizers" ETC.,
answer IcOsts in country to raise bushel of
wheat in labor and in land occupied and to be worked
than did twenty years ago In the great wheat produc
ing states the cropping of soil has reduced the yield per
acre below what it when the land was fresh and
blowing reaping and binding, and threshing take as
much labor ever acre for acre This applies to corn
cotton and all soil crops
The real trouble about the price is the gold dollar
which constantly appreciates in its power to measure all
other commodities.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-09-04

REPUBLICANS tell US that in the event
Of Bryan's election our credit abroad
viii be ruined, that nations of Europe
viii refuse to longer have commercial
dealings with US. They also make the
claim that should Bryan be elected all
England will rejoice. How can they
reconcile these two statements?
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-09-04

The Weekly Independent of San Ber-
nsrdino, Cal, the Parsons" paper, gives
the following receipt for making a bar
rel of soap; "Find good big goldbug,
well dressed and living in ease on other
peoples toll. Beat him to a pulp with
the club of historic and scientific fact.
Do him up in a burlap sack and put
him under LOCO years of historic press
uFe, to get the lie out of him. Then
take another goldbug with patches on
the seat of his pants. Put him under
financial pressure to pay a debt long
due and treat him with caustic remark.
Nix this grease with the lie of the
other goldbug and boil thoroughly.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-09-04

Nog since Concord, Lexington and
Bunker Hill dyed the pages of history
sed Etth The blood of American pat
.-Tiefs, has american independence been
IN eucA danger Of dissolution. What
n army with banners failed to aCcomp-
.Isss4 The more insiduOus and dangerous
foe Of financial dependence has ali but
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-09-04
WHEAT PRODUCTION.
Another Gold Standard Argument shown to be False BY the Figures
Not An OEerprOdaetion.

(FyOm tie Nel0 York Financial Neas)
Underer the headingof ''Wheat Production Compare
sons" our Cincinnati contemporary says:
Inquiry has been made for yearly figures Of winter
and spring wheat production separately and the Price
Current submitted the following as the official indication
should be understood however that recent years
the production has been manfesty largely in excess Of
these estimates:
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-09-04
Mothers Friend

system that Childbirth Is made
easy and the time Of recovery
shortened-many say stronger
after than before confinement. 4"
It insures safety to life Of both
mother and I'D. Ali Who haze
used '@Othtr's Friend" say they
will never be without it again.
No other remedy robs confine-
ment Of its pain.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-09-04

desire to be made out a hypOcrite, pre-
tending to believe in protection and
advocating a cause directly opposed
TO what he, himself, has asserted In
public speech to be a fruitful source Of
protection? In keeping Mckinley muz-
zled, Hanna has shown high grade
political peTspicscity.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-09-04

TIE peoples ticket will be found at
the masthead this week. Ali that is
necessary to say at this time is that it
is winner.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-09-04

IF the gold standard is such a good
thing, why does the republican platform
pledge itself to deprive US of it through
international bimetalIism.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-09-04

"A customer whose wife used 1EsthoF's EFisRj,
ssys that u shs had % 80 through tie ordeal
O5tzinsd, and tie costWss sl6o03 per bottle, nc
Eugld lEFs thsa,p GEO LAYTON, Dl9tou, Ohio.
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FALL in line for the peoples ticket.

No ALIEN ring about those resolu-
tions, Ell?
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Million Gold Dollars.

Would not bring happiness to the person suffer
ing with dyspepsia, but Hoods SaTsaparilla has
cured many thousands Of cases of this disease.
It tones the stomach regulates the bowels and
puts ali the machinery IF the system in good
working order. Il creates a good appetite and
gives health strength and happiness.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-09-04
IN INTIMIDATION OF LABOR.
Harry RObinsOns Scheme for BuIldOzing the
Railway Employees.
Every American Should Protest Against
the Dastardly Attempt of This English
Adventurer and the Tool of the
RObbsr Corporations.

The sound money republicans and
democrats are united on the campaign
issues, and they are sparing no effort
to coerce the wageworkers into voting
against free silver. The latest is an eff
fort to force the railway employees all
over the country to declare for "sound
money"
Here is the form of application. 1t
was invented by Harry Robinson, editor
of the Railway Age of Chicago, and it
has been officially taken up by the re-
publican national committee;
APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP.
1, the undersigned. .,....a..........,.......
in the employ of the..,..,........ railway, here,
by make application for membership in the
Railway Mems Sound Money club of. ......,,...,
and do hereby pledge myself to use my vote
and influence for the defeat of the free coinage
of silver at the forthcoming national election,
believing that such free coinage of silver would
be injurious to my personal interests as an
Garner of wages as well as disastrous to the
United States as a nation.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-09-04

ssztby Man. q rassps of.lcs fz5 Pr 10JT EE. Eoat
&c sE.[FEcfAlSF EoIhEits. Uzfis4 ils1 Gcli-ili-s
ssllanl- ilf1rusti11 ard Esizrfss. ssstiE1si-Is
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For sale by druggists at % cents per boz.
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ton. Tonic, blood purifier and vermifuge.
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Engeliaa. we don't. That's me NAOl1
code"
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pREsInENTIAI ELECTORs.
COUNTY TICKET.

For representative. ................F. H. SMITH
For probate judge. ...,.,...........R. A. KENT
For clerk of the district court. L. H. HANEY
For superintendent Of public instruction.
......................... c. SMITH
For county attorney ........JOHN HARTZLER
For county surveyor ..... WILLIAM BUTLER
For commissioner, Third district. ...........
.......................... B. RUBES0N
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maps, rates, apply to any coupon
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The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-09-04

n His ysord. he shortly afterWard intro
Iuced a bill 10 abolish the ONCE OF stare
,-otarirarr sllreann. The GALAXY Of the FeL-
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snail hunEriiy aF73fL % ~ 2 80 -
~ EugVlsdge OF shis language is no
nrofouBd. j asked the porter this atlsi
noon 81 my laundry was 30. be answer
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The Rock ISLAND is foremost in
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The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-09-04

Daign viii be the most aggressive ever on
Quoted IN the State. Senator Aeedy de-
a7-k ~ Mill not anrcr into ul-aru-
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-09-04

OF dress, his apparel Is always scTupuIOusly
clean. He generally affects a suit OF some
s0rt of figured gray, and his clothes are
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DC -l19f =
ton 10 go to war. The b0yish desire 10
take nart in the civil conflict was the only