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States. As to feeding Itself, it would
be very interesting to know how much
New England contributes to its own
bill OF fare, and when it ever was able
to iced itself. On she other hand, the
supremacy of the South as a cotton
grower has been the basis of the man
utacturing industries of the North
which are now swiftly tending to-
ward the South, and it is q matter OF
easy demonstration that the South ID,
perhaps, the only section in the coun-
try that has within itself the possiblli-
ties of doing all it's manufacturing, and
at the same time of feeding itself. A
realization. of that fact is the bed rock
of much of the hostility toward
it among those who never will learn
that the healthy development OF the
whole country is to be more desired
than the stimulated grow WITH Of one SEC
ton at the expense Of another"
As to the second statement, it would
be interesting to know just where the
Middle and New Eogland States would
be to day, had they been placed in the
position in which the South found her
self at the close of the war in 1865.
Her farms had been neglected for four
years. They wer left poor and IN
aided, and a long and worse than fruit
less struggle, with the loss Of a large
portion of their property, they went to
work, and, to any fair minded man,
the advancement they have made, con-
sidering the new conditions to which
they had to adapt themselves, is simply
marvellous.
Let the critics be silent. The South
is progressing. We hope some OF our
progressive farmers will take the item
of poultry raising to themselves. There
is O for a number Of live, energetic
pouItrymen Ia this and other Southern
S ates, provided the business is con-
Quoted rightly and in a business like
manner.
Let diversified farming continue.
Raise home supplies. Read agricul-
tural papers. Study your work This
done, the New York Press and other OF
its ilk will have to surrender. In other
words, they will have to "crawl in a
hole and pull the hole in after them
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-24
A NEW START AT MAS aVILLF,
FOURTH OF JULY, 1897.

Correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
HIGHLANDS, N. Q.
Independence forever! Let the Amer
lean eagle soar over the one in many
Union of indestructable States forever,
and do not ask Great B itain, Ger
many, France or Spain, whether we
shall coin silver as money or not, and
teach Congress that there is a party
and a people determined "that Con
gress has power to coin money and reg
ulate the value thereof, and of foreign
COIN; and that there is a party fixed
in its purpose and o5stinately bent to
die undaunted or to circumvent this
dead letter of the organic law of the
Constitution of the United States of
America, which both the Democratic
and Republican parties have set aside
and ask other nations to open their
minis to coin silver, and then, and not
until then, we, the United States, will
open ours.
To coin money applies to gold, silver,
paper or copper, and Of all these United
States treasury notes, based on the
whole property and executed on silk
ribbed paper, which defes counterfeit
ing, ard never to be redeemed, but used
until unfit for use, and then returned
to be destroyed and a new bill issued
in it's stead, is the best. The power
granted to Congress must be exercised
and was intended to have used by Con
gress for all the people Of the United
States, and not to be delegated Nation
al Banks or q Secretary of the Treas
ury-one who is not elected by the PEG
pie, OIL responsible to them in any way,
and let those who are far remote from
them dictate the volume of currency
for over seventy millions Of people. If
go down we must, let us 60 down with
loyalty to the principles of the party
and without a blemish upon the folds
OF the flag of our party. How will
ever relief come to the rank and file of
the people unless the principles of the
party are chrystaliz9d into laws9 How
will this ever be accomplished with
fusion with either the Democratic or
the Republican party9
approve of the move at Nashville.
and the address issued, and will write
my name there and aid In the canvass
and add all I can to the stock of knowI
' edge already on hand, as to the spread
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GOVERNMENT HAS NOT SENSE
ENOUGH.

Bales Of money, sneered the moss
backs: Says the Hon. Tom Watson,
they who sit on the dead limbs of the
tree of thought and solemnlF boot at
each progressive idea.
The making of money is a govern,
mental function, isn't itG
Surely.
The amount of it should be regula-
ted by the power which creates,
shouldn't it2
Surely.
Why, then, shouldn't the govern
ment create money out Of paper 2 asked
the Populist.
Because the government would make
too much of it, answered the hooters
of dead limb breed.
If the government hasn't got sense
enough to know how much currency
is needed, it hasn't got sense enough to
govern.
The government seems to have sense
enough to fix the amount of our taxes.
It seems to have enough to fix the
amounto of our national expenses.
Why then shall we say that it has
not got sense enough to fix the amount
of the national currency9
Will the telegraph explain to us why
it is that the government cannot be
trusted to discharge the governmental
function of supplying the people with
moneys
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-24

known champion of the peoples rights,
Col. A. M. DArden, a large planter and
an all round good citizen.
At 8 O'Clock we talked to quite a
crowd in that village. At the close of
the meeting we were~ turned over to
one of Hartford county's most pro-
gressive citizens, Mr.. e. T. Snipes. He
has been identified with all the i'm
provements of the county for years,
having represented his county in the
Legislature and is now one of the county
commissioners, and has been for q mum.
Der Of years. He conducts a model
farm, has it stocked with the best stock
to be had down to the poultry yard.
He has the pleasure of having around
him a healthy, we'll behaved, indus
trious, intelligent family. We camped
with the family from Saturday night,
245h, to Monday morning, 265h. Mon
day we dined at noon with Col. Chitty,
another of Hertford's up-to,d date citi-
zens. Monday at 8 o'clock we talked
to a good sized audience-farmers,
merchants and colored brethren at st.
Johns. We were taken in charge by
Senator J. f. Newsome, President of
the County Alliance, and conveyed to
his elegant home and spent the night.
The Senator is an up to date farmer
and looks after about $50 acres of fine
land in a high state of cultivation.
Tuesday the 275h, we talked to the boys
at Winton. From Winton we we're
lowed to HarrelIsville, our last ap-
pointment, by Bro. Copeland. Bro
Copeland had charge of us one day
and two nights. He and his good wife
know exactly how to make it pleasant
for strangers when under their roof.
We found the Alliance q very lively
corpse in Hartford county. The ''Over-
production" and money good in Yur-
rup" gang need not send Alliance
Collins to that county; they are not
! needed. We found Hartford to be a
fire farming county. They raise cot
ton, corn, tobacco and peanuts. We
have never seen finer crops than they
can show. The soil is loose loan and
almost perfectly level. We did not
see a rock as large as a hen egg in the
county. We saw peanuts growing
which the owners said would make so
bushels per acre; corn, rs bushels per
acre; cotton, two bales per acre..
We saw water in which they gather
more than so bushels of fish per acre in
the fish se4son. We heard a fisher.
man say that he had caught this season
at one haul %, 900 herrings. We thought
that was quite a lot Of fish. The lum-
Der business is one of their big indus
tries. They talked to us about getting
5000 feet Of lumber from one tree. We
thought that was quite a lot of lumber
from one tree.
We will close by saying that we did
not stop at a house in the county at
which THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER is not
a weekly visitor, and a welcome one.
J. p. SOSsAMAN.
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now owned by aliens should 10
voting population, and that Son w y
from each shall be elected b r0
people of the district. W "
DISTRICT LEGISLATION.
Relying upon the good cor,u
sense OF the American people, and ~
lieving that a majority of them '1 no %
uninfuenced by party preiITdioo "aS
vote right on all questions sIbrnitf,Ss "
them on their merit; and, furtbeDSS = =
efectually annihilate the nern;o;.Ia
lobby in legislation, we demand d;esls
legislation by means of the initia tSs
and referendum. "'Fs
r. A. 8oUTHwoRTB
Sec'y-Treas. N. T. A, and 7 +
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CASTOR COUNTY ALLIANCE
BEssEMER CITY,

UASbOu w. NS W
The G. lston- County Farmers Ali
ance met at the Hoyle's Bridge School
house with the surrounding Subs on
July 90, with Bro. Jonas Passour in the
chair.
After the regular routine of business,
the Alliance prCc 3eded to the election
of officers for the present year, which
resulted as follows:
Jonas Passour, President; T. W.
Thompson, Vice President; J J. White,
Secretary Treasurer; J. e. Jones, Chap
lain; ---, Lecturer; P. J.
LlrebeIger, Door-keeper; L Q. AFRO
wood, Steward; L. A. Thornberg, Ser
geant, at Arms; E D. Thompson, J. J.
Ormand and A. w. Hoffman, Execu-
tive Committee.
Bro. L. g. Oathey was elected dele:
gate to the State Alliance.
At the proper time we partook of a
splendid dinner which was nicely pre-
pared by the good sisters of the sur.
rounding Subs, and heartily erj eyed
by all.
Most of the afternoon session was
taken mp with short talks on the Shoe
Factory, and the salary of u State
Business Agent and Secretary.
A committee of three was appointed
to draft a resolution on the above.
The committee reported, as follows:
We the CASTOR County Alliance in
general session assembled, do recon-.
mend that the Office of the State Bust
nees Agent and the State Secretary
Treasurer be consolidated into one at q
salary of not more than 81, 200 per year.
JOHN E JONES,
T. ". HANNA,
JOHN J. ORMAND.
Committee.
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J. ]. WHITE, Secretary.
THR SOUTH AND ITS CRITICS.

Sectionalism still exists in some por
tons Of the country and there are some
who take a wicked delight in tanning
the '~'smoldering embers" of sectional
hatred. Among these are some North
ern papers which stand ever ready TO
discourage and abuse all things South
ern. Such bigoted and narrow minded
sheets deserve no attention, but as the
old Romans said, 1T is we'll to learn,
even from an enemy" Let US see what
portion Of their criticism is well foun-
ded, and what we may learn from their
slurs.
A recent issue Of the New York
Press contemptuously says, THE South
does not feed itself. Again: 1.-THE
South had not merely to go to work
again after the war, but it had to learn
how to go to work at all. There is g
deficiency of forty six annual eggs to
each of 30, ZOO, OOO inhabitants, and
the best evidence at once of the South's
backWardness and it's capacity for ad-
vancement is it's light mortgage debt"
While this, at best, is nonsense and
a Misrepresentation of the actual facts,
yet we may profit by it. The South
does not, in every thing, furnish it's
own supplies, and there is here-as
there is everywhere else-ample room
for improvement. Yet we are gaining
here. Diversified farming is, to our
personal knowledge, on the increase in
this State. Farmers are producing
their own meat and dairy products,
and there r signs of increased activ.
ity in poultry affairs.
As to the matter of feeding itself
the reply of the Southern States for
August makes good reading:
Farming is more profitable in the
South than in the Middle States. the
value of farm products divided among
the population giving an average of
$50 per head, against $34 in the Middle
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-24
(OFFICIAL
NATIONAL ALLIANCE DEMANDS.
Adopted at Washington, D. c., February
6, 1906.

6, 1896.
WHEREAS, The Declaration of Indea
pendence, as a basis for a Republican
form of Government that might be
progressive and perpetual, states:
THAT all men are created equal;
that they endowed with certain Il.
alienRble rights; that among these are
life, liberty and the pursuit Of happi-
ness; that to secure these rights, gov
ernments r instituted among men,
deriving their just powers from the
governed"
We hold, therefore, that to restore
and preserve these rights under q
Republican form of government, pri-
vaGe mOnOpolles Of public necessities
for speculative purposes, whether Of
the means of production, distribution
whenever any such public necessity or
utility becomes a monopoly in private
hands, the people of the municipality,
state or union, as the case may be,
shall appropriate the same by right of
eminent domain, paying q just value
therefor, and operate them for, and in
the interest OF, the whole people.
FINANCE.
We demand g national currency,
safe, sound and flexible; issued by the
general government only; a full legal
tender for all debts and receivable for
all dues, and an equitable and efficient
means OF distribution of this currency,
directly to the people, at the minimum
Of expense and without the interven-
ton of banking corporations and in
sufficient volume to transact the bust
ness OF the country on a cash basis.
(@ We demand the free and unlim-
tied coinage Of silver and gold at the
legal ratio of 16 to 1.
6 We demand a graduated income
tax.
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(c) That our national legislation shall
be so framed in the future as not to
build up one industry at the expense
of another.
(d We believe that the money Of the
country should be kept as much as
possible in the hands Of the people,
and hence we demand that all National
and State revenues shall be limited to
the necessary expenses Of the govern
ment economically and honestly ad
ministered.
(e) We demand that postal savings
banks be established by the govern
ment for the safe deposit of savings
of the people, and to facilitate ex-
change.
(f) We are unalterabIy opposed to
the issue, by the United States, of in
terest- bearing bonds. and demand the
payment of all coin obligations of the
United States, as provided by existing
laws, in either gold or silver coin, at
the option of the government and not
at the option of the creditor.
TRANSPORTATION.
(u) The government shall purchase
or construct and operate a sufficient
mileage of railroads to efectually con
troll all rates of transportation on q
just and equitable basis.
o. The telegraph and telephone,
like the postoMoe system, bling q ne
cessity for the transmissionof intelli
gence, should be owned and operated
by the government in the interest of
the people.
LAND.
We demand that no land shall be
held by corporations for speculative
purposes or by railroads in excess of
their needs Rs carriers, and all lands
claimed by the government and held
for actual settlers only.
EXECTIoN OF UNITED STATES SENATORS.
We demand the election Of United
States Senators by a direct vote of the
people. That each State shall be di
vided into two districts of nearly equal
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-08-26
TROUBLE WITH PERU.
UNCLE SAM MAY HAVE TO
THREATEN THAT REPUBLIC.
No Reply Has Been Received to Secre-
tary Sherman's U1tim
waited Case of Injustice-Tennesse
Woman Starves to Death.
Mccord Claim Must Be Paid.

Relations between this Government and
Peru are badly strained, and it is within
the range of possibilities, indeed, of prob
abilities, that it may become necessary
for the United States to make demon
stration against the South American re-
public. If similar conditions existed be-
tween Spain and the United States to
those that now exist-between this country
and Peru, we would be in the full enjoy
ment Of well-developed war scare. Ihe
trouble grows out of an attempt OF the
United States to collect claim against
Peru on behalf of Victor II. McCord,
citizen Of Pennsylvania. This is claim
for $4,000, and as it has been aired IN
the newspapers there is no necessity OF
entering into detailed history of the mat
ter. Suffice it to say that the present ad-
ministration has assumed the attitude or
backing it and of enforcing it's collection.
Secretary Sherman several days ago sent
an ultimatum to Peru through the repre-
sentative of the Peruvian Government at
Washington. No reply has yet been re-
ceived to this communication, although
a sufficient time has elapsed to have heard
from Lima. The case is considered by the
State Department as being one of pecu-
liarly aggravated injustice against a cltl-
zen of the United States, and it is the
purpose of the administration, as express
ed by Secretary Sherman both orally and
in official documents, to compel repara-
ton. The Peruvian Government has new
er offered anything but the fimsiest eX-
cuses for the wrong committed against
McCord, and the justice of his claim,
which is now ten years old, has never
been seriously disputed. He was simply
held up and robbed of a large sum OF
money by men who were then represent
ing the revolutionary government, when
was successful and is still in power.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-08-26
Appea1 to the Court.

1t is announced that papers have been
filed in the United States court at Boston
on behalf of James Mcnamara of Jersey
City for the appointment of a receiver for
the American Legion Of Honor. The pc
titioner asks that the receiver shall take
charge of all moneys paid in as assess
ments by members of the order, and that
the Legion of Honor be enjoined from
separating moneys received by 1t from
former assessments, as is now done. The
bill sets forth that when Mcnamara be-
came a member of the Legion of Honor,
each life insurance certificate was a
charge upon all moneys received from as
sessments, and the number of deaths reg
ulated the number Of assessments order
ed; that Dec. /, 1896, change was made,
and persons holding certificates were d.
vided into two classes; that the money re-
ceived from each class was held separate
and charged only with the payment Of GER
tihcates in the class to which the money
belonged, thereby changing the object Of
the original contracts without the assent
of the members who made the contracts,
and also increasing the number of assess
ments. The filing of this petition for the
appointment of receiver for The Ameri-
can Legion of Honor is a continuation of
the old fight which has been made by
some of the members against the order.
They contended that the assessments
were made SO frequently they were I'M
able to bear the burden. The American
Legion of Honor was incorporated in
Massachusetts, to carry on the business of
life insurance upon a mutual benefit plan.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-08-26
MARKET QUOTATIONS.


Chicago-Cattle, common to prime
$500 to 1915; hogs, shipping grades,
$500 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, SSc to 9Oc;
corn, No. 2, Csc to soc; oats, No. 2, tic
to 19c; rye, No. 2, Acc to 47c; butter,
choice creamery, Ice to tic; eggs, fresh
12c to 13c; new potatoes, 6Oc to 75c pei
busheI..
Indianapolis-C Cattle, shipping, $500 te
1926; hogs, choice light, $500 to 1926
sheep, common to choice, $500 to $500;
wheat, No. 2, SSc to 90c; corn, No. 2
white, Csc to Soc; oats, No. 2 white, 1Sc
to zoe
st. Louis-Cattle, $500 to $3.50; hogs
$500 to $4.25: sheep, $500 to $500
wheat, No. 2, Ole to 93c; corn, No.
yellow, 25c to &c. oats, No. white, tic
to 19c; rye, No. 2, Acc to 47c.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $3.50 to $3.50; hogs
$500 to $4.25; sheep, $3.50 to $500
wheat, No. 2, SOC to Ole; corn, No. 2
mixed, 2Sc to Soc; oats, No. 2 mixed, lie
to 1Sc; rye, No. 2, 45c to 47c.
Detroit-Cattle, $3.50 to 1925; hogs
$500 to 1925; sheep, $3.50 to $500;
wheat, No. 2, 9Oc to 92c; corn, No. 2
yellow, 29c to Sic; oats, No. white, zoe
to pc; rye, 47c to 4Sc.
Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 red, Ole to 93c
corn, No. mixed, Csc to Soc; oats, No
2 white, tic to 1Sc; rye, No. 2, Acc to 4Sc;
clover seed, 81 % to $3.50.
Wheat, No. 2 spring, 500
to Ole; corn, No. 3, Csc to 29c; oats, No
2 white, 21c to 23c; rye, No. /, Acc to 47c;
barley, No. 2, 35c to 43c; pork, mess
$500 to $3.50.
Buffalo Cattle, $500 to $3.50; hogs
$500 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to $40
wheat, No. 2 red, 33c to Soc; corn, No. z
yellow, BE to Sac; oats, No. 2 white, DC
to 23c.
New Ycrk-Cattle, $500 to $3.50; hogs
$3.50 to $4.75; sheep,fi $500 to $3.50
wheat, No. 2 red, 96c to 97c; corn, No. 2
33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to
24c:: butter, creamery, 12c to 1Sc; eggs,
Western. 14c to Ice.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-08-26
ONE VAST FIELD OF GOLD.
Alaska Miner Saws Untold Riches Are
i'm the Yukon Valley.

Alaska Miner Says Untold Riches Are
in the Yukon Valley.
Postmaster General Gary has received
a copy of the Alaska Mining Record of
Juneau of Aug 4, in which is an interest
ing sketch of the gold mining regions and
advice to the incoming miners. The artl-
Gle says that the gold-bearing regions
have never been fully prospected, but
enough is known to demonstrate that 1t
is the richest gol6-bearing belt on the
globe. The valley of the Yukon and its
tributaries constitutes, it says, one vast
gold field, where scarcely shovelful of
earth can be found that will not show the
color of the precious metal. But 1t also
calls attention to the difficulties which lie
in the path of those who come to seek for
gold. 'In the first place. it says, who
ever comes to Alaska must be prepared to
support himself for at least two years.
The development of the country is such
that it's present population is fully up to
every Industrial requirement. In the field
of industrial labor, every position is filled.
The professions are fully represented; the
labor market is glutted. Artisan and me-
chanic find no opening here. Mining and
prospecting alone remain open to the new
conner, and he must find his own field, and
must be prepared for self-support until he
has found it. He cannot depend on his
own labor for support in any direction, for
the field is fully occupied"