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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-23

Upon the introduction Of such bills,
YOU will hear of ''the Injustice to the
mill owner" but you hear nothing OF
the injustice to the operatives.
In conclusion, he says:
"Let the people be free to act as they
choose in this country, and may no
legislation be enacted that will treat
env investor unfairly, if he acts in &C
cordance with the laws of the State.
He who identifies himself with the in
terests of the State and contributes to
the welfare and the public good is a
benefactor and q patriot"
Exactly. There's the rub. You must
play tweedle-de all the time. The mill
owner of course has invested his money
in the State for the purpose OF giving
employment to large numbers, at good
wages, with no thought for himself.
Hardly! You must do nothing to re-
duce his profits, or he will withdraw
his capital and thus stop progress"
The owners act in accordance with
the laws, but they take care that the
laws are few and far between, and of
little or no force when enacted.
Is it to be ever thus7 Will North
Carolina ever have a legislature broad
enough to enact laws in the interest OF
humanity9 Is it possible that men who
live in easy circumstances can look at
the pinched, colorless visages of the
thousands of children in our factories,
whose constitutions are wrecked IN in
fancy, and have no sympathy for
them9 Are they not as dear to their
parents as those who live in ~affilence?
Do they not appeal to you, g~entIemen7
Do not withhold your saving hand be-
cause a few do not wish to be saved,
for human nature is such that should
a day be set for all to enter the heav.
emily kingdom, and the manner of en-
try prescribed, we doubt not some
would petition to change a number Of
details.
/ beg you, gentleman of this legisla
ture, to extend the hand Of kindness,
rise above any previous legislature Of
this State, and help those who are
at present unable to help themselves.
Prohibit the employment of children
under Il years of age in the factories,
at least. Exert your power, and wipe
this disgrace everlastingly from III
midst, and our people will rise up and
call you blessed" @. f. COOKE.
Raleigh, Feb. 5.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-23
BUYING

From present indications, large guam
titles of commercial fertilizers will be
purchased again this year. We all
know that these fertilizers increase the
quantity and quality of cotton, to-
bacco, truck, ETC., but the question
naturally arises, ''can we afford it9'
Many successful farmers use great
quantities of fertilizers; many unsuc
cessful ones use them. We are inclined
to think that the acreage devoted to
money crops" like cotton and tobacco
should be decreased and the purchase
Of fertilizers reduced accordingly. Fer
tilizers are good to start a crop with
manurial value, clover, for instance.
But if our people will plough deeper,
plant and SOW nor peas, terrace the
land if billy, turn under green crops,
like peas, rye or clover, they will soon
get their farms in such q condition that
less guano will be needed.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-23
ECONOMY THOU ART A JEWEL

The prosperity wave is still blowing
cut of the Enrolling Clerks Office.
When last heard from that Office was
turning out prosperity at the rate OF
$50 per day. 1t was in cold cash, too;
no confidence about that business. In
short, the concern was costing the tax
payers of the State just $50 per day.
Since the last writing Messrs. Rey-
nolds & Mewbcorne were put in
charge, increasing the cost from $50 to
S55 per day. On Wednesday last the
two negroes that Swinson refused were
put on increasing the cost to sos per
day. Then Speaker Hileman went
into the POpulist caucus and
asked that two Populists be recon.
mended to eff Let the two Republic
can additions. The caucus promptly
declined to do so, telling him that the
Office already had too many men in it.
But this had no effect on the RepUb
lican and ex Popuyist spoilsmen, and
Thursday Senator Smathers secured
the appointment of James Blythe, a
Cherokee Indian from Jackson county,
to a clerical position. This runs the
expenses up to $40 per day and the end
is not in sight. Thus the peoples
money is being divided out to pay poll
tical rewards. There is no help for it
now. But the taxpayers Of North Car
DINA will speak in thunder tones at the
polls when there is another election.
No party, no man, he's ever been able
to run roughshod over the people of
this State but a short while. There is
retribution in history"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-23
GAGE AS A

Lyman J. Gage has recently admit
ted that his bank loaned $500, 600 70
the Yellow Poplar Lumber Co., IN d.
rect violation Of the law, which pro
vides that no bank shall loan more
than ten per cent of it's capital stock to
one mar or corportion. To concea
this violation of law $500, 900 OF this
loan was charged off" to profit ana
loss as a bad debt, although President
Gage himself says, THE Yellow Pine
Lumber Co., is a strong concern Wild
valuable property and large holdings
of LUMBER and I am satisfied the banS
will not lose any Of its loan" 1t VIII
be remembered that the National BanA
of Illinois was forced into liquidation
when perfectly sound by the action o.
the Chicago clearing house, Of which,
Mr.. Cages bank is the most infuenJ%
member, and the a alleged VA
that a loan had been made in excess "
the ten per cent limit and concealed D!
being transferred to the "foreign eA.
change" account. Just why it ia any
better to charge an account to ''proD..
and loss" than to foreign exchange
when both charges are made to co.,
ceal a violation of the law it is diticu'
to understand. But in q case Wv
manager of the bank was uDjusM
driven into bankruptcy and a SUICIDE
grave and in the other he is appolnts'
Secretary of the Treasury. 1t makes
difference whose OK isgored. -Weste''
: Rural.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-23
NEW YORK

For years New York has not only
been the entrance gate for all the
nations Of the earth, but has been the
out going gate. also. But a change is
coming. The people are getting tired
of her rule. her ~domineering spirit.
The Denver News says:
New York is actually frightened
oyer the diminishing proportions of her
Iexport grain trade and the trunk lines
are about to take a hand in it's restora
ton. AS to it's contentious with Balti-
more and Philadelphia, the West cares
but little, but the transmigsissippi
states have turned their traffic toward
New Orleans and Galveston, and what
New York has lost from these grain
growing states it will never regain.
Commerce is certain to find the short
est route to tide water, and this is the
route to the gulf from the states which
lie west of the Missouri"
With Boston to contend with on the
North, Philadelphia and Baltimore on
the South, and New Orleans and Gal.
weston in the Southwest, it really seems
that New York will have to adopt a
slower gait. And why not9 What is
the matter with Norfolk, already a
great shipping port for, Va W. Va,
and Kentucky products. There is moth
ing wrong about New Berne, Beaufort,
Wilmington, Charleston and Savan
nah. Smart railroad corporations are
building towards all these points. 1t is
simply a matter of time. The country
is tired of New York and her English
views and tendencies. Besides, it has
been predicted that New York will be
destroyed like the Babylon of old in a
few years, anyhow. Don't invest your
dust in New York dirt.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-23

measure, and that his name should be
added to this roll of honor.
The following are those who voted
that the present corporation high sal.
aries and rates should not be abated,
that the burdens should not be light
ened, and that the manufacture OF
m~illionaires should continue at u ex-
pense:
Messrs. Adams, Aiken, Allen, Ar
ledge, Arlington, Bailey, Bingham,
Blackburn, Brown, Brewer, Bryan, OF
Edgecombe, Bryan, of Wilkes, Bunch,
Burgess, Gambler, Chaplin, Chilcutt,
Clanton, Cook, Crews, Currie, Dancy,
Daniels, Dayton, Deweese, Dixon, OF
Cleveland, Dockery, Duncan, Elliott,
Easley, Ferguson, Freeman, Green,
Grubbs, Hare, Harris, of Halifax.
Hodges, Jones, Leak, Mckenzie, Mears,
Murphy, Ormsby, Peace, Pool, Rawls,
Roberts, Somers, Spruill, Sutton. OF
New Hanover, White, of Alamance,
White, of BERTHE, Marlborough and
Young-55.
In the Senate % voted on the peo-
pIe's'' side. Their names should be re-
membered:
Messrs. Alexander, Atwater, B 4rker,
Butler, Clark, Earnheart, Geddie,
Lyon, Maxwell, Mitchell, Moye, Mer-
rift, McCaskey, Newsome, Parker, OF
Randolph, Patterson, Ray, Robertson,
Scales, Shaw, Utley, Walker and
Wakefeld-23
The following voted as the corpora
tions wanted and opposed reducing
one jot or title of corporation high
salaries and exorbitant rates:
Megsrs. Abel, Anderson, Anthony,
Ashburn, Barringer, Cannon, Dickson,
Grant, Henderson, Hyatt, Justice,
Maultsby, Mccarthy, Mcneil, Odum,
Parker, of AIamauce, Person, Ramsey,
Rollins, Sharpe. of Wilson, Sharpe, of
Iredell, Smathers, Shore and Whedbee
I-24.
These roll calls should be cut out and
preserved. 1t is very easy during the
campaign to make professions of devo-
tion to the people, but the test is when
such measures as this come up and the
vote is taken in the presence Of corpo-
ration Hobbies and the people are far
away.
Keep these roll calls. They will be
useful to refer to hereafter when these
gentlemen are asking the votes of the
people.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-23
BY ONE VOTE IN EACH HOUSE

The bill to reduce railroad passenger
and freight charges, telegraph and tele-
phone rates, failed IN the House SIS to
"a votes, as announced by the clerk,
but Mr.. Foster claims that he voted for
it. 80 in truth it stood So to 55. In the
Senate the reduction Of rates bill stood
"a against reduction and % for it.
Thus each and every man who voted
against relieving the people from the
presenthigh rates, and against reducing
the So 900 and $25, 900 and SO, 900 rail
road salaries knows that on his indi
vidual vote rests the responsibility.
This just measure to relieve the PEG
pie would have passed in spite of the
combined lobby Of the rich and power
full corporations and their packed and
paid Hobbies, but for the fact that two
Of the Railroad Commissioners q. W.
Wilson and s. Ohio WILSON, appeared
before the committees, and otherwise
used their influence, to prevent q re-
duction. They seemed to think that a
reduction by the legislature after they
themselves had refused to reduce,
would be q reflection on them, and to
prevent that the people of North Caro-
lima must pay several hundred thou.
sand dollars a year more than they
ought to Rothschilds, Pierpont Morgan
& Go. for the next two years. It will
be remembered that when the Seaboard
Air Line last year voluntarily reduced
rates, Major J. w. Wilson rushed in to
the help of its competitor the Southern,
and forced rates to be put up again.
He is violently opposed to any reduc
ton of the tribute the people are com
PEELED to pay to these non millionaire
railroad kings. We must tell him the
Railroad Commission was not created
for that purpose. 1t was intended to
protect the people.
On the roll-call in the House, the fol-
lowing voted to give the people relief
by a moderate reduction of railroad,
telegraph and telephone charges:
Messrs. Abernathy, Babbitt, Barrow,
Bryan, of Chatham, Carter, Cathey,
Chapman, Cooley, Cox, Craven,
Crumpler, Cunningham, Dixon, of
Greene, Drew, Duffy, Eddins, Pagan,
Ferguson, Terrell, Gallop, Hancock,
Harris, of Hyde, Hartness, Hauser,
Holmes, Johnson, King, Lawhon, Lusk,
Lyle, McBryde, McPeeters, Morton,
Nelson, Parker, of Wayne, Pearson,
Person, of Wayne, Person, of Wilson,
Petree, Pinnix, Plott, Price, Purgason,
Reynolds, R5untree, Schulken, Sutton,
of Cumberland, Ward, Walters, Watts,
Whitener. White, of Randolph, vii
son and Wrenn-54.
Mr.. Foster has since risen in his
place and said that he voted for tn
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-23
CREAM OF THR PRESs

Hard Hits, Bold Sayings a Patriotic
Paragraphs From Reform Papers.
One of the tenets in the creed OF
~plutocracy is that the man who does
the most work shall receive the least
for it. -People's Advocate.
How much difference is there be
tween ian alliance on leading issues
and just plain, ordinary "fusion"f
Perhaps Mr.. Washburn can explain it,
but we hardly think he will.-Chicago
Sentinel.
Wall street has publicly assured
Grover that it endorses all his past acts
and loves him far better than q brother.
Especially is it pleased with his none
tery acts. Lettuce pray.-Council
Grove Courier.
There is a big rally in Chicago every
day now. About 40, 600 people assem-
bic, not however to celebrates the cleo
ton of W. J. Bryan. They merely
visit the free soup house to keep from
starving Farmers Tribune.
We are requested to let the R9publi-
cans alone on the ground that it is no
use to keep hammering on the dead,
but we want to teach them that there
is punishment for the wicked after
Discrimination Populist.
The fact that Spain is proposing
measures of reform in the government
of Cuba indicates that the mother
country feels that it is getting the
worst of the struggle for supremacy
with the rebellious Cubans.-Topeke
Advocate.
A man who devotes one week to ad
vertising and then rails at the returns
is like the boy who studied law two
days and then said: 1.-THE law ain't
what it is cracked up to be. am
sorry I learned it."-Farm and Real
Estate Journal.
The Kansas Legislature has declined
to pass a bill, the purpose Of which, &C
cording to its author, was to allow
every man to be his own lawyer.
What is really wanted is a bill allow
ing every man to be his own Judge and
Jury.-Grange Advocate.
Senator Pritchard's Populist leader,
Mr.. Harry Skinner, came to Raleigh
last week and issued an address"
Two addresses" in one week, n from
Col. Skinner and the other from Capt.
Kitchen, is about as much as a patient
and long suffering public can stand in
the same week.-Lumberton Populist.
A masked ball to cost $3.50, 600, in
which the high flyers OF New York
society" will display themselves in
their real characters as apes and fools,
is one of the sensations of the metrop.
oils. OF course America is rich and
prosperous, thinks the world, when
$3.50, 900 can be spent on a single ball.
This money might have relieved q vast
deal of suffering, but there is no suffer.
ing to the shoddy aristocrRcy and law.
! made millionaires Progressive Home,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-23
DID HE VOTE THE GOLDBUG
TICKERT7

There was q pitiable development IN
Harlem, New York, police court, a few
DAYS ago. John LANCE was before the
Judge on the charge Of stealing. 70
liceman Hawkins testified: "Whlle
walking my beat, I saw a man ap-
proach a bread wagon, take two loaves
and walk away. He did not see me;
but walked right in my arms" Lang
said; although looking for a job
every day, l have been out OF work
for four months. Not a member OF my
family has tasted bread for forty eight
hours. Last night I paced the floor of
one room while my wife and children
slept uneasily in another. This morn
ing I started out as usual in search or
work. I discovered the bread wagon
on account of the delicious odor that
came from it. Noticing that the owner
was away, I seized two loaves and
started home. The policeman arres
ted me Immediately" When the story
was completed, Baker Feltman, the
owner of the wagan, said: II with
draw the charges" and Judge WeRt-
worth told LANCE that he could go.
The poor fellow went, but went with
out the bread. And all this occurred
in a city which boasts of having on
deposit one-third Of all the currency
that is in circulation in the entire
United States.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-23
PROGRESS OF THE ANTI-LEASE
BILL.

The bill passed the House Tuesday
by a vote of 60 to 81. Next Friday will
witness the contest in the Senate.
Everything indicates a close vote. II
it is defeated, the Southern Railway
Company ought to have a deed to the
State, the Democratic and Republican
parties, and the plant of the Raleigh
Tribune, for it will be the recognized
owner until the voters get another
chance.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-23

The great Sseel Trust organized in
1873 as the ''Steel Rail Association, -
has disintegrated. This combination
has had the steel trade absolutely I'm,
der its control. The price of steel reSs
went down in 1898 to $21 per ton; this
c)mbination run them up in 1895 to
$24, in 1896 to $28, while at the gsm9
time other steel products suffered a
great decline in price. Since the Trust
dissolved steel rails have declined
again to $2I, at which price thousands
of tons have changed hands in the past
few weeks. Oae of the many transac-
ton recorded since the dissolution was
for SIS. 900, 900.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-23
N. R. p. a.
EDITORIAL NOTES.

When the boilers rule the people
mourn.
The Anti Lease Bill is not a brother
20 Mrs. Mary Lease, but it should be
passed all the same.
1t is generally agreed that the name
"Hell Gate" is just right to distinguish
&he entrance to New York harbor.
The Minnesota legislature has in
structed the Senators from that State
20 support a measure for postal savings
banks.
The legislature only has about ten
days now to complete it's work, and it
hasn't begun the work yet. Let the
miserable pie hunters go to work or go
home.
We will never again have a real
President until a man can be elected
who has the undivided enmity Of Wall
street before HE election, after he is
elected and after his term expires.
In Winston, where telephone com
petition exists, the rates are $12 per
year. When the legislature was asked
to fix that rate where there is no
competing company, the lobby had it
voted down.
We want the views Of the people Of
the State, regardless of party or which
side they may take. on this legislature,
what it has and has not done. To in
sure publication the letters must not
be more than from fifty to one hundred
words in length. Write plainly and
briefly and sign your name. A postal
card will do.
In the 10 years ~1886-1896, the num-
Der of postohces increased from SO, 900
90 10000, and the postofHce receipts
from $43, 900. 900 to $82 900, 900 This was
largely due to 2 cent postage. A SIM
ilar increase in passenger and telegraph
receipts would follow 2 cent passenger
fares and 10 cent kilograms. Let us
try it in North Carolina.
England is getting paid back with in
terest. After doing all she could to
get this country into trouble, she now
has the Indian famine to deal with and
thousands are starving to death. But
England don't care for anything except
the financial loss, which will be great,
much more probably, than the profit
her bankers made on our bonds.
If any one thing tended to defeat the
Democratic party in this State more
than another, it was the arbitrary cleo
ton laws. The Republicans and Popu-
list boilers are working up certain
amendments to the present election
law that will not be tolerated in a free
country by a free people. They are
trying to out Democrat the Democrats.
The Railroad Commissioners, in ad-
dition to their salaries, asked the legis-
lature to require the railroads to give
them free passes at all times. As who.
ever rides free Goes so at the expense
of higher rates. to those who pay, this
proposition was properly defeated.
When they travel for the State, it will
pay the bill and when they ride for
themselves. they should pay 81 cents
as they make other people do.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-23
WDNNYLN

The Major Wants a Charter For tn
Raleigh Tribune Railway--That Bolt
cratic Organ.
B.-"Hellol Mr.. Editor"
|. R-"HelloI Major. Hope you as
well today"
B.-"OhI I'm recoverin'. I wenb
go ter Raleigh next week an git in
little peterotick wUrk at the capitol
R.-"What is up now9 Are you.
going to lobby in favor OF a new d.
vorce law or against the law to TAX old
bachelors to support a reformatorY
for old maids9"
B.-"Hushl I'm not after any non
sense. I wanter start a bill to etsI
Lcharter fer the Raleigh Tribune Rail
way Company. My opinion il thatt
don't need anything except q COZ.
catcher in front, a smokestack AMI
peanut seller ter make it q whole rail
! road company. If I kin git a chaTteFI
kin lease it ter Col. Andrews fer z pei
cent. on what the offs towel cost ta
999 years."
R.-"Ohl I see, you are talEt1:
about the new Republican @ organ
established here recently. We'll, thar
may be something in that. The cit
tors seem to have an abundance q
wheels in their heads. 4 Little owe!
hauling at the Southern's new shops
Spencer, alias Salisbury, will probably
make q railroad Of the Tribune. IN
stops in the railroad organ Will anaWa
for station stops. It is apparent that
the Tribune will never be a SUCCESS asa
Republican organ, for it's doctrines are
totally unlike the doctrines of such
Republicans as Abraham Lincoln
Blaine and other men who made that
party what it once was. In fact il
savors more of Cleveland Morgan
Rothschild- Democracy than any paNeE
I have ever read"
BIN goin' ter do my best ter git
q charter fer it anyhow. The b0ltin
Populists say they must hev an organ,
too, an it will need a track ter run ca,
I reckon the Tribune railway will be
awI rite fer it ter run on, fer it will
run rite erlong after the Tribune train,
of course. The Republican track il
spectors will need a hRndcar ter ride
over the track once in awhile, ana the
'Co operashunist" will fill the bill eZ.
actIy. Mark Hanna an the other rail-
readers kin furnish steam fer both.
They will hev ter be more ekonomiza
than the Enrolling Clerks Qfis
though. If they don't blamed il they
don't bust J. P. Morgan, Mark Hanna
an Wall street awl ter smash il q few
months. Wall street kin cavort party
big erbout the dailies in the big cities
that they run, fer they are GENERALLY
profitable, but awl the Rothscbllcs
millions will melt like SNOW beneath
August sunshine if they undertake ter
run two or three ''co-operashun" news.
papers in North Carolina. But let EN-
go it. There il retribushun in history,
az Bailey of North Carolina once re.
marked. Gudebye."