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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-04
A LIFE PICTURE.
Diary of the Office Seeker of the President
at Washington
Pres. N. G. F. 8. a.

Diary of the Office Seeker of the President
at Washington
March 2-Just arrived. Washington
a nice town. Wonder if it wouldn't be
as we'll to stay here as to go abroad7
March 4-SaW Maj, Mckinley in
augurated. We folks who nominated
him will be all right now. Think I had
better take an assistant Secretaryship.
The administration wants good men
who know something about politics.
Besides, l am getting to like Washing
ton.
March 8-Big crowd at the White
House. They ought to give the Presi
dent time to settle himself. Have sold
my excursion ticket and will stay
awhile. Too many people make a hotel
uncomfortable. Have found a good
clearinghouse.
March 11-Shook hands with the
President in the East Room and told
him 1 would call on a matter of bust
ness in a few days. He seemed
pleased.
March 15-Went to the Capitol and
found Senator K He was sour. Said
the whole State was here chasing him.
Asked me what l wanted and said.
Better go for something in reach
Maybe an authorship would be the
thing.
March % Took my papers to the
White House today. Thought I'd wait
and have a private talk with the Presi-
dent, but Secretary Porter said I'd
have to go along with the rest. What
an i'll hammered set they were. Elbowed
me right along just because they saw
the President wanted to talk with me.
Will have to go back and finish our
conversation.
March 27-Got some more money
from home.
March 29-Went to the White House,
but the chap at Porter's door wouldn'6
let me in. Said it was after hours. He
ought { o be fred.
April Saw Mark Hanna after
waiting five hours. Asked him why
my letter had not been answered. He
said he was getting 400 a day and his
secretaries would catch up some time
next year. I always thought Hanna
was overestimated. Now I know it.
April 5-Had an interview with the
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-04
STORIES ON IoBACCo MIN.

Some years ago, before tobacco rails
ing became general in any part Of
South Carolina, a farmer in that State
applied to the Raleigh Board of Trade
''for a quart or &c of tobacco seed" He
stated that he wanted Ito try his hand
on a little patch" AS a couple of quarts
of tobacco seed will produce enough
plants to set out an entire county, only
about q spoonful were sent. Toward
fall the Palmetto man sent a letter of
complaint in which he said that the
seed must have been detective in soma
way, for not one Of the stalks had "any
sign Of a plug OF It,"
A North Carolina tobacco farmer
tells a good n on a Georgia man Who
was experimenting with the filthy
weed. The Georgia man selected the
right kind of land and cultivated mis-
tobacco crop pretty we'll. During the
early fall the North Carolinian was in
the vicinity and the amateur tobacco
farmer invited him TO inspect his crop.
stating that it was 'fue," equal, he
was sure, to any ever raised in North
Carolina. When they arrived at The
tobacco field it didn't take the North
CaTolinian but a few seconds to see
that the tobacco had never been
topped" and was In full bloom. that
is, the slender stalks were, for there
was but little tobacco In sight.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-04
NO c

Only Nine County Alliances Save Asked
for It, and the President Thinks it Un-
necessary.
RDGEwAY, N. c., April % 1897.
To the AIEiGncemen Of North Carolina!
DEAR BRETHREN only nine
County Alliances have expressed a wish
for a special meeting of the State Ali
ance, and as the Constitution lodges
discretionary power in the President,
no special meeting will be called May
the 3rd,
Your Executive. Committee meets
May the 7gh, and it may recommend
an earlier session of the State Alliance
for this year than regular time OF
meeting.
A full statement of our financial con
dition, inclu1ing all receipts and dis
bursements on account Of the shoe fac
tory and tannery, will be forwarded to
the various Subordinate and County
Alliances Immediately after the meet,
ing of the Executive Committee.
The seven thousand dollars of your
fund, invested in N. @. 4 per cent.
bonds, set apart by the last State Ali
ance as a special reserve fund to main
tain the credit of your Business Agent
in case of the failure of our manutac,
turing enterprises should never be en-
croached upon. Twenty five thousand
dollars have been invested in real estate
and machinery at Hillsboro.
The profits Of the Business Agency,
supplemented by other funds now on
hand, end such contributions as we
should raise without any trouble will,
in my opinion, enable us to operate our
factories. Your Executive Committed
will recommend such action as it may
deem fG to raise the necessary add
tional. fund, and will apportion the
same to the various counties. Unity
of purpose and action on your part will
insure success.
F~raternally yours,
JOHN GRAHAM
Pres, N. @. f. 8. a,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-04
IAPAN IS AL RIGHT.

1t seems that the report that japan
had adopted the gold standard was IN
true. Il was STATED, no doubt, By the
goldbugs, for they r the most reck-
less liars in all the earth.
Japan has solved the problem of in
trinsic value and met most Of the Oh
jections, reasonable or otherwise, to
practical bimetallism. Instead of
doubling the eize of the silver dollar,
or "yens," as they are called there,
they simply make two dollars out of
the metal in the gold dollars or yens,
and there you are. This is an objsct
lesson for the United States.
Now it would seem that this course
would please the g~oldsbugs immensely
this making their gold worth twice
as much as it was. But that is contrary
TO their logic. They are not satisfied
with getting their snouts into the
trough, but hog like, want all four OF
their cloven hoofs in the trough. In
other words, they want a complete
monopoly. They wish ID wreck rail
road companies, factories, mine and
farm owners 80 they can take their
high priced, scarce gold, and buy three
or four dollars worth of property with
one, and then miser-like gloat over
their possessions, which they bought
cheap, but cannot realize much profits
from on account Of the general depres
sion in business.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-04
DEFECTS AND &

Some of the Democratic newspapers
in this State have displayed ghoulish
glee when any defective legislation en-.
acted by the two last legislatures has
been found, and We may say that there
has been entirely too much of that
kind Of legislation-more than there
ought to have been. But it seems that
there is a possibility of a discovery Of
bungling work in a famous Democratic
measure, which has been allowed to
pass muster. We refer to the civil
service law, which has given more con-
ISOLATION to gloomy Democratic hearts
than anything in the world, for that
party is go rotten nationally that it
hardly expects to W. regain power,
and Cleveland was authorized 30 pop
usariz9" the law during his admins
tration by keeping many Republicans
in and getting as many Democrats in
as possible, at one and the same time.
1t was supposed that the law was ex-
! actly right, hence a Democratic House
and Senate did not examine it for pos
sibIe defects. A Washington dispatch
says:
1T appears, from an interview with
one of the civil service commission,
that if an employee of the government
is removed from Office for q political or
other cause, his reinstatement in that
eff e may be ordered by the civil SER
vice commission. But what If the eff
cial who removed the employee and is
| ordered to reinstate him, refuses to do
soR Will the heavens fRlli Hardly.
The utmost the commissioners could do
is to recommend to the President Of
! the United States that ne remove the
head of the contumacious eff 3ial. And
how if the President will not removed
Then the C1so stops there; there is no
relief for the removed employee; and
the only chance remaining of having
the vacant Office filed with a mau of
the same political faith as the one re
moved. lies in the possibility of there
being none of opposite faith IN the list
Of those who have passed civil service
| examination, and can be recommended
by the civil service commissioners"
II this turns out to be true, there will
be- weeping and wailing from Wall
street to Point township, Florida.
AS a matter of fact, a more transpa-
rent fraud than the so called civil ser
vice law was never perpetrated upon
the American people, aud surely we
have had the cream of the frauds. It
is q long step toward monarchy and
anarchy. 1t is filling the government
service with incompetent men and
they cannot be gotten out, even when
the administration changes. Only mere
boys can stand the examinations, and
many Of thCs3noW going in don't know
enough to bell a bUzzard." If they
are just out of school they probably
can answer the questions in geography,
write a few sentences correctly, and
work out q few mathematical prob
lens, etc but lack many of the requi-
sites for filling this or that position,
and frequently doing 80 to the detri-
ment of deserving party workers.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-04
EXPOSITION.
Will Open May nth at Charlotte, N. c,

Will Open May nth at Charlotte, N. {,
Correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
CHARLOTTE, N. @.
The comprehensive and attractive
programme for the Women's Expoai.
ton of the Carolinas is nearly complete
The doors will be thrown open the eve.
ming of May 18th, with q reception to
the public. Mrs. sallie Southall Gotten,
one of the South's leading women,
whose address on s National training
school at the Mothers Congress at
Washington attracted such wide spread
attention, will deliver the opening ed
dress.
A number of addresses by prominent
Southerners and entertainers Of va,
rious kinds will extend through the
entire month. "Gala Week" the week
of the Goth will be crowded with
events. In addition to the numerous
attractions aft 1rded by the Exposition,
the fastest bicyclists in this country
will be here at the meet Of the National
racing circuit; the competitive fire
mems races and displays, and various
other organizations Will have e plaCeln
the celebration.
Special rates have been granted the
Exposition from all points in North
and South Carolina and nearby points
in the neighboring States. The rate
including Norfolk, Suffolk and Dan
vile is one fare for the round trip. For
May 18Th and goth Rs low rates will
prevail as have ever been given in the
State, the rate being one cent q mile.
This will enable all to attend. The
Century Poster Co. exhibit, probably
the finest in world, including all the
private collection of Mr.. w. Ellsworth,
Secretary Of the Century Co., al
works Of the finest French artists, or
rived this morning.
Some fifty paintings from Washing,
ton artists have arrived, and many Oh
the leading art exhibits will be here IN
the next few days,
The work OF the building is abou'
complete, and the rooms are being
given the finishing touches; the build
ing presents a handsome appearance
ia we'll situated, and the arrangement
is as good as could be desired.
One of the features growing in inter
eat daily is the exhibit of the colleges
Of the State. The University of Nortn
Carolina will send a most credltaOl0
exhibit, including the famous deaIn
mask Of Napolean, valued az $50 OOo'
Greensboro Female College, the 5ta'0
Normal School, st. Mary's, GuufoI"
College, Salem Academy, Eizaoesn
College, and other institutions will %
represented. Parties of students trom
the various institutions will visit tn0
Exposition; indeed, the plans are "
arrange special excursions from these
schools and colleges, a real gala oa'
affair.
The month of May will be croWa0U
with events in Charlotte, and indIc"
tions point to the largest crowds IN 'n0
history of the ely.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-04
n. s. 2. g.
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Gen. Weyler and Gen. Gomez have
reached the you are a liar" stage at
last. We may now look for some slight
skirmishes Ia Cuba.
A Democratic meeting to nominate
city candidates in Charlotte, recently,
broke up IN a free fight. Wonder if
they were Populists in disguised
It is said that the late Grover CIeve
Hand loiters around the depot at Prince
ton, n. J., and watches the trains come
in just like any other common loafer.
A Wilmington darkey has been ad
Judged insane and sent to the colored
asylum at GoIdsboro because he
thought he was Mayor of Wilmington.
There are others"
At last a remedy for badness has
been discovered. Piano and violin
music will make the hair grow like
grass in spring time. Just employ a
musician and sit by and watch your
hair climb cut OF the top Of your head.
The Charlotte Observer is try ing to
revive its old question for debate: do
8 nany goat have horGs7" When that
is settled Joseph Pie will proceed to
masticate his 'ceiief" lunch, which
turns ou5 to be his retention on the
asylum board at M0rganton.
Superintendent Of Public Instruction
Mebane ia about to have a rucus with
some school chart agents. We think
the Superintendent is right. A ten
dollar school house don't need a $17
chart. The average school house can
get along without such Appearances.
Il is said that the Secretary of the
Treasury will recommend a reduction
IN the tax on whiskey and an increase
IN the tax on beer. It is said that the
increased tax on liquor-from % cents
TO t11O per gallon, has multiplied the
number of moonshine stills until there
10 no chance to control the Illicit out.
put.
Tonnage tax rec8ipts at the State
TreRaurE Department show that 189,
728 tons Of Fertilizer have been sold IN
the State the fret 8 months of the
present fiscal year, since December 1,
1896. This is a larger quantity than
was ver before sold in a whole year.
At $22 50 per ton, 1t will take 81 268 $50
80 pay for this guano.
AS announced elsewhere President
Graham declines to call a special meet
ing Of toe State Alliance. We hardly
think it necessary. Il is only g matter
of a few weeks now anyhow, and per
haps it is well enough to save the ex-
pense Of an extra meeting aud
the State Alliance a little earlier than
usual, il 1t Is thought best to do 50.
The Dun and B7adstreet agencies
both report business disappointing"
last week. We are real sorry for those
commercial agency fellows, They lied
the country into trouble and ore now
trying to get it cut By telling the truth
an a line Or two Of their reports and lie
ing through the balance Of the rot they
get out. Better tell the truth end DE
done with it.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-04
Treasury Dept, Raleigh, A
THE L GUARD,
Subscriptions, Renewals and Kind Words
Extracted From Letters.
State Treasurer.

SUBSCRIPTIONS, Renewals and Kind Words
Extracted From Letters.
We are indebted to the following
friends for subscriptions and renewals
during the past week: E. G johnson.
Robson county, o.; D. J. Williams.
Cleveland; D. A. G, Hatley, StanIy,
OF. P. Trivett, Ashe; J. ". Atwater.
Chatham; J. F. Brewer, Randolph, %;
John Ammons, Madison; J. Odum,
Robson, ~; j. W. Baaon, Alamance,
o.; E.G Butler, Vance; E. J Saunders,
Pendar; Joel K9onts, Davidson; J. R
Buchanan, Granville; Thomas Mead,
Pasquotank; Samuel Foster, Davie; 8.
n. Brothers, Pasquotank; Wiley q.
Early, BERTHE.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-04

voting contrary to the wishes OF a un-
animous constituency. a United States
Senator, for example, when he gets to
the Capitol may act Rs he pieases, he
may vote as he chooses, he may shirk
his duty, he may disgrace his con-
stituency most s~hametully, and there
is no remedy for perhaps six years.
The people are at his mercy. And how
often he takes advantage Of his posi-,
ton. 1t ia a common complaint that
public officers do as they please; that
they disregard the wishes of the peo-
pie; that they work for their personal
gain; that they accept brides to de-
feat the very measures they were cleo
ted to enact. In short they betray
their trust and exceed their authority,
and yet some people must submit.
How would it be with the Imperative
Mandate in force2 The officer would
try to please his constituency. He
/ would ascertain their wishes before
proceeding to act upon any measure.
He would realize that he could only
hold his position &c long as he per
| formed his duties satisfactorily. If he
failed in that, or for any reRso was
unworthy of his position, a citizen or
an organization of citizens could draw
up q petition, demanding his removal
and circulate or have the same circu-
lated among the constituency, and, if
a majority favored removal, then, upon
notice, the proper authority would
vacate the office and call a new cleo
Cion to elect a successor.
The people would not find it neces-
sRry to exercise the privilege very
often, for the officers would be more
| careful in their acts.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-04

The editor of the Bcevard Clipper
accuses the editor of the Sylvan Valley
News of few things. Amongst others,
that the editor Of the News sets type
on Sunday morning while the Clipper
man is at Sunday school; that the
News man catches fish Sunday even
ing when the Clipper man lis ming
ling with the respectabIe;" that the
News man is an ex tramp and ex
drunkard. Come, boys, you may fall
out if you keep that up.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-04

The: Morganton Herald says that
when the news that the Supreme Court
had sustained the lower court reached
the Western Hospital, located at that
town, tho patients waved handker
chiefs from windows and there was a
general demonstration of joy over the
fact that the old officers are to be re-
tanned. But then, you know, the
patients are nearly all crazy.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-04

81 am stGTadtng Saot0 Just behind the
surtain, and Sn TIzu giow Of the coming
sunset. Behind ne are the ShGdOtCs on
gse track, before ne lies the dark UoUeg
ard the rtUer. When I TgfTgLe eCfth Gts
doris UGters I sCdN5 TO cast one ISnger-
ma look upon q country tOhOse govern
Esent IS Of the people, for the people,
and 6y the people, IL L. POLL, Jf1y
9Th, 1890.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-04

Only Nine County Alliances save Asked
for 1t, and the President Thinks it I'm
necessary,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-04

The Progressive Farmer is the Omcial
Organ of the n. c. Farmers State Alliance
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1897-12-31
INCREASE IN MONEY ORDERS
BUSINESS DOUBLED IN A YEAR,
Large Portion of Foreign Orders TO
he Cnshed in Norway and sweden
Evidently Intended for Christi
mas Presents.

Washington, Dec. l7.-Reports to the
postofiice department from the money or
der divisions of the principal postoffices
of the country indicate tremendous in
crease over the same periods of the last
four years in the issue of both foreign and
domestic money orders, that are evident
ly intended for Christmas presents.
These conditions are accepted as pro-
nounced indication of the return Of better
times and improved financial affairs. A
single steamer from New York last week
took out nearly 10000 money orders, ag-
gregating sum in the neighborhood of
$l50O0O, and 70 per cent of which We're
destined for Norway and Sweden.
The report of the New York Office,
which is one of the principal "test" Offices
of the country, says that the money order
business is averaging over double what il
was this time last year. Over 10000 or
ders are benig handled daily, against less
than 10000 daily for the second week o.
December last year.
The returns from other large offices arr
proportionately of the same tenor and tel
their own story of the gradual return o
prosperity.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1897-12-31

Washington, Dec. l6. = Senator Nc
Bride of Oregon has received the follow
ing from f. P. Ash, who arrived at Port
land on November so, direct from Dawson
City: 81 know that the supply of provi-
sions in Dawson cannot last longer than
the middle of March. No supplies can
reach the interior by ordinary conveyance
until next June, and believe it will re-
quire the resources of the United States
government to equip an expedition strong
enough to overcome the obstacles of a
midwinter journey. This expedition
should be organized at once, as it viii
take from 40 to so days to reach Dawson
City from Skaguay and Dyea. am Ger
tain that there will be intense suffering
unless relief is at once provided for"
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1897-12-31

iumbia Development Comnanv !,
uoi, England. in which Lord Sudelev s !
,eading stakeholder. The amount 81 Az
pond Is S2s GOO, payable in equal install v,ls
nients at six, nine and u months fro,,,
date, Development work Is 10 no aa s
meneed without delay and the bond calls
ior the expenditure in actual WORK -
S9ooo during the ensuing three months
ana a like sum (making $4,000 in alll d,r
ing the next following three months
The Golconda group consists of Tho
Golconda, Cleveland. LAGOON, Wild Rnse
and York claims, located at dfforent
times during the years 1895 and Isoa
ana owned by Hon. George E. Foster Do
minion ex-minister of finance, the latter
having purchased half-interest in tbe
group last winter. The principal WORK
has been done on the Golconda. ON which
claim there is vein varying in width
irom three to eight feet, opened along n
distance of 300 feet by cuts made throuoh
several feet OF wash into the sulphide ore
which is solid down to about IA feet in
depth. Below IA feet the vein maintain.
ed ITS width, but it has more or less gan.
gued up. What ore there was in it was
solid, assaying from 81 to SIG, while the
mixed gangae, taken as it came, ran
from SO to So. The indications are that
all solid ore will be met with at greater
depth.