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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-10-26
LETTER FROM T
correspondence Of the Progressive Farmer.
FARMVILLE n. q.
J. T. B. HOOVER,
Sc. Treas.

correspondence Of the Progressive Farmer.
FARMVILLE. n. q,
In your last Issue Bro. SJsaam8n is
guy ing those of us who were at the
last State meeting for no5 writing for
cur beloved paper. o. this / do not
complain, but together with a good
many others, I have been listening to
hear that the shoe factory had begun
TO turn out shoes, but 80 far I have lis
tened and waited in vain. Yet l have
not been altogether Idle in the Alliance
cause. I have visited Saratoga ALI
ance in Wilson county, at which time
DIR. J E. Person, Of Wayne county,
made them a splendid Alliance speech.
I found that Alliance in good working
order, with about seventy members,
which I think is the banner Alliance
for members in North Carolina. I
have ordered thirty bushels of Virginia
Grey Winter oats from the Agency for
Farmville Alliance. By the way
those are by far the best oats for East
err North Carolina that are obtainable.
Brethren who buy seed oats would do
we'll to at least SOW a few bushels of
them. They will Withstand cold and
trampling of stock during the early
winter and branch out in the spring
and make a fne crop if sowed upon
even fair land.
A sewing mach inc has also been pur-
chased through the Agency, and Mrs.
Moye is delighted with it. It is a real
beauty, and seWs perfectly. If any of
your readers were inveighgled into pur-
chasing last summer one Of the new
Davis machines at sixty five dollars,
they are out certainly enough money
to have paid their Alliance dues for
forty years in advance. My good wife
formerly had a New Home machine,
and she thought no other kind would
ever please her, but this being a ''drop
head" machine, aud therefore prettier
when not IN use, and sewing equally as
well, she wants all the Sisters to see
one Of the Alliance Machines before
throwing away their money for q high
priced machine. For $40 so o can
get an up-to date machine, and no LADY
member would be ashamed for any of
her a~ristocratic neighbors to see il
either.
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build up one industry at the e,D.,,
of another. 'APa&
I'D We believe that the mona, -,
country should be kept as mr u Dc
possible in the hands Of the MI Y
and hence we demand that all Npat Spa
and State revenues shall be Iimita99Se
the necessary expenses of the ooVs.
ment economically and hones8fIIv, ' 9
ministered. u
(e) We demand that postal ss,,.
banks be established by the pova1
mept for the safe deposit Of sSvae
of the people, and to facilitate Y
change, u
% We are ~unalterablv ounosoa .
the issue, by the United States NJ !
terest. bearing bonds. and demand T. !
payment Of all coin obligations NJ ~
United States, as provided bv eYiat,s
laws, in either gold or silver cain \
the option of the government and ~
at the option of the creditor.
TRANSPORTATION.
now owned by aliens should h =,
voting population, and that genssrT,
from each shall be elected bv N
people Of the district.
DISTRICT LEGISLATION.
Relying upon the good. COMM
sense of the American people, and N
lieving that a majority of them, Vbs
uninfuenced by party prejudiCa wi
vote right on all questions gUbmitRdt
them on their merit; and, further !
efectually annihilate the pernicm
lobbyjn legislation, we demand dire
legislation by means Of the initiaY
and referendum.
r. A. SOUTHWoRTH,
Sec'y-Treas. N. f. a. and l. Z,
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siderable money at the disposal OF the
government which otherwise would be
lost both to the government and the
citizen. It seems to me that the plan
ought to be worked out to&Feat adVan-
tage to everybody concerned" .
Third Assistant Postmaster General
Merritt said to the same correspond
ept:
"The people should be encouraged IN
habits Of thrift and economy, and no
better way of accomplishing that re
suit can be devised than by Offering
them a perfectly secure and reliable
savings bank, where small deposits can
be placed at interest. The habit OF
economy once formed will rapidly
grow and spread, and postal savings
hanks will provs a SUCCESS from the
day they are established in this coun,
try"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-10-26

gave us an elegant dinner, and as it
was late the boys were hungry and
showed their appreciation Of the feast.
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER was not
forgotten, and we know you will hear
from the meeting when Bro. Mongom
cry makes his returns. We were asked
about the shoe factory; we told them
as we have told all that the executive
committee who had the management
of the matter were doing all they could
to start up and we thought it would
not be long before work would be
commenced. And right here want to
get it out Of the minds of many of our
brethren that the life Of the Alliance
does not depend, as they seem to think,
on the manufacture of shoes, and while
I would be glad to see the factory run
ming, and hope to do so, yet if it never
turns a wheel nor ever makes a pair of
shoes, great principles of equal
rights to all and special privileges to
none" still lives, and the great object of
the Alliance was never to make shoes,
but to make freemen. To so teach us
in political economy as to save US from
the schemes of the schemers, and cause
US to stand on a common platform IN
defence of our liberties. Away then
with the idea, perish the thought that
this great brotherhood has come down
to be dependent on a little shoe factory
for its existence, or that it has come to
HilIsboro to be dro wned in a tan vat.
It is unworthy of an Allianceman to
even have such a thought No, my
brethren, let US look higher and be not
discouraged, but arm ourselves with
faith In the Justice of our cause and
press forward to victory. Already the
political parties who have ridiculed our
demands, already the tory cry of an
archist which they took up and
sounded over the hills and dales Of the
nation are growing faint, and even
Greater New York is trembling with
the mighty charge Of a ccnt9nding host.
while ever and non we hear the battle
cry OF the Alliance as Henry George
shouts through his JEFF ,rsonian trum
pet down with monopolies and up with
municipal ownership OF public high
ways. You have lis the fires on the al.
tars of liberty, you have set the nation
to thinking, you have brought your de
mands squareIy before the world, and
now having done this while victory is
80 nigh, do not let US give the glory to
others, but share it ourselves.
Alter the adjourn ment of the Ali
ance Bro. Mclean took me back to
Greensboro and around it, showed me
the State Normal School building and
many other improvements. This Nor.
NAL is n of the children of the ALI
ance, a magnificent building, q pride
to the State. Greensboro is one of tbs
most beautiful cities in the South. We
would like to say more Of il but our
letter is already too long. Many
thanks to Bro Mclean and the Broth,
ren of Guilford, and may they have
many returas of the happy days such
as we enjoyed.
J. T. B. HOOVER,
S-c Treas
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-10-26

Those who attended the last meeting
know that it is absolutely necessary,
for the perpetuity of our noble order,
for the members to patronize the
Agency, and il is also true that a saw
ing car be realized in buying a great
many articles. II you desire the Ali
ance to survive patroniz9 the Agency.
Bro. Sossaman seems to be especially
anxious that we should let politics
alone. Well, Bro, take your own
medicine and let that Middle of the
Road anti Butler gang severely alone
and don't you go about over the State
epologizing for any boilers end trait
ors to our cause and principles. Don't
try to d~isorganizo the Peoples Party
and at the same time insist that we
shall let politics severely alone.
One word to the Brethren politically
don't be scared to death by this line
ami cry of Negro rule or that same
bugaboo by another name-"White
Supremacy" Bad and designing men
are trying to play upon the prejudice
of the blacks against the whites and
vice versa. The whites against the
blacks and trying to get people to di.
vide politically according to the color
CT their skins, we'll knowing that then
tits country ceases to be a republic
only in name and that we shall be com
pletely at the mercy Of the money
powers. We had tried running our
State government upon this issue for
twenty years and no issue was ever
before the people until the Alliance
came into the State and good men
verify thought that they were doing
G. IDS service when they were defr6ud.
ing and cheating for the benefit of g
political party. If we go back to the
flesh pots Of Egypt "a last estate viii
be worse than the first.
Vote as you choose, but do not be
scared to death By the silly cry OF Ne
gro.
also wish to urge upon all Alliance
men of all parties to support no mar
for office, for the nomination at least
who needs any vindication. II his
record is not clean, if he is not in good
repute with all men, if his private Life
has not been such as to commend iGseli
to good men, if he is q sharper and
trickster, no matter how able he may
be, let him severely alone, for, Juda;
like, he will desert you sooner or later
and at a most critical time at that,
Lots nominate pure, honorable, ire
proachable and i~ncorruptible men OF
none. If we do not heed this warning
good bye to all the needed reforms in
legislation, and let us be content to be
hewers of wood and drawers Of water
for our monopolistic masters and be
men and not whine and cry likespoiled
children.
A MOYR.
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CUMBE RLAND ALLIANCE.
Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.
WADE. N. O, Oc5. 18, 1897
A J MoYH.

Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.
WADE. N. O, Oc5. 18, 1892.
Tne Cumberland County Farmers
Alliance met with Wade Alliance the
ASH inst. The meeting was one of the
most pleasant and enthusiastic I ever
attended (and I have attended nearly
all of cur county meetings during the
past eight years.. Reports were in
from ten sub Alliances-three more
than reported at the July meeting
Our State delegate, Bro. Q. @. Nc
Lillian, was present and informed us Of
much that he saw and heard at the
State meeting in August, which was
very cheering to US ell. Bro. II. NJ.
FIlgaW, our assistant co-L2csurer, was
present from a distance Of over twenty
miles, and gave us an interesting and
instructive lecture. Near the close of
the meeting the claims of THE Pro
GREssTvE FARMER were presented by
your humble scribe, which resulted in
new yearly subscriber and two
renewals. | cannot close my descrip
ton of the meeting without say ing a
word about the good sisters, for there
was a number of them present, who
spread a most delicious dinner, which
was much enjoyed by all.
Yours truly and fraternally,
~ pATI
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-10-26
POSTAL BANKS ar WAsaINGroN
Two Interviews With Prominent Off
Gals Who Favor Them.

Gals Who Favor Them.
Assistant Secretary S~paulding of the
Treasury Department at Washington
was interviewed on the subject of pos
tai savings banks other day by a Chi
cago Record correspondent, He said:
II do not think the government
ought to enter the banking business in
competition with private parties, but
the postal savings bank need not do
this. As I understand the purpose of
the advocates of this system, it is to
accommodate certain small depositors
who could not in most cases reach
banks and who dissipate their small
earnings under present conditions. If
this system reaches such people it will
prove a great benefit to them, Postal
savings banks open a way for insignif
cant deposits to accumulate and be-.
come of ~appreciable value to the de
positors. In this way such banks are
an incentive for economy and induce
thrift. S~elf-respect accompanies the
possession of q little money, and such
g. system, therefore, tends to-better
citiz enship. It also tends to place con-
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-10-26
1880
(OFFICIAL)
NATIONAL ALLIANCE DEMANDS
Adopted at Washington, D. C., February
s, 1906.

WHEREAS. The Declaration of Indes
Dendence. as q basis for q Republican
form of Government that might be
progressive and perpetual, states:
''That all men are created equal;
that thew are endowed with certain H
alienable rights that among these are
life. liberty and the pursuit OF happl-
ness: that to secure these rights, gov
ernments are instituted among men,
deriving their just powers ron he
governed"
We hold. therefore, that to restore
and preserve these rights under q
Republican form of government, pr1-
vate monopolies of public necessities
for speculative purposes, whether OF
the means of production, distribution
or exchange, should be prohibited, and
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 or
eminent domain, paying a just value
therefor, and operate them for, and IN
the interest Of, che whole people.
FINANCE.
We demand a 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 III
sufficient volume to transact the BUSH
ness of the country on a cash basis.
(G) We demand the free and uRlIm-
tied coinage of silver and gold at the
legal ratio of Is to II
d. We demand a graduated income
tax.
(G) The government shall purchase
or construct and operate a sufficient
mileage of railroads to efectually con-
troll all rates of transportation on a
just and equitable basis.
Or The telegraph and telephone,
like the posGofHce system, being a ne
cessity for the transmission OF intelli
gence, should be owned and operated
by the government in the interest Of
the people.
We demand that no land shall be
held by corporations for speculative
purposes or by railroads in excess of
their needs as carriers, and all lands
claimed by the government and held
for actual settlers only.
ExEoTIoN 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
Co That our national legislation snail
DE SO framed in the future as not to
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-10-26
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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-04-18
Columbia Theater.

Miss Georgia Cayvan and her company
will tomorrow night present for the
first time in this City a new comedy by
w. r. Wakes, entitled MARY Penning-
ton, Spinster." This is said to be dainty
comedy of The same category as the Rob-
ertson comedies of a generation ago, or
the Carton plays of to-day. 1t was origin
ally proluced in London, and is to be
given here exactly as when first produced
In New York, as all the original scenery,
properties and appointments are carried
with Miss Cayvan's company for all of the
plays in her repertoire.
Mr. Wakes has made the oyer-educated
woman the object Of his satire. His hero
inc. Mary Pennington, has been educated
at Girton, hotbed of English female in.
dependence, and has there absorbed some
very radical ideas, among them belief
that woman Is Dsoiutely the equal of man,
a theory which she puts into operation
when she assumes the management OF her
deceased fathers business. a large milling
property. She substitutes women for her
male hands and rays them mems wages.
with the unhappy result of encouraging
idleness among the men, and eventually
precipitating strike which works the
financial ruin of the old and honored firm
of Pennington. Mary is also opposed to
matrimony, holding that it is unworthy of
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-04-18
The Knights of Pythias.

The official visits which it had been an
nounced Grand Chancellor McGlashan would
make during the week, commencing on the
10th inst. and concluding on the Goth inst, in
the southern part of the State. haveb been can
celed on account of the fiesta at Los Angeles.
Those who will have charge of the manage
ment of the entertainment of the Grand Lodge
of Pythias, that will meet IN Hanford, are
designated by the committees appointed, as
follows:
Reception-B. L. Barney lchairman), +. NJ
oodrch, =. sutherland, q. w. Randall. Justin
JACOBS. J. w. Graham NJ. L. Short. Decoration
]. Handley hairman), George Slight A. NJ.
squire. Ball-H. I. hendricks chairman, n.
W-sbaum. s. kehoefYer. Banquet-E L. Bush
(cnsirmAn), II. NJ. bernstein, N. Weisbaum,
B. L. barney. J.. NJ. Aambleton, John
Van Vicar. =. Walker, r. +. McKenns,
w. A. Long, David Porter. Charles kimble, &. q.
Church, I'd Pickett, p. Micxle ]. NJ. Clark George
Magan ]. schnerEer, +. Bader. Printipg-N.
Wesbaum. Handley. transportation. D..
Nathan (chairmanl s. shannon. j. Handlev, A v.
Taylor K. IT, While, II. McGinnis- subscription
b. l. Barney, 4. f. Bush, X. g. White J.. D..
Nathan, J. o. Hickman. kooms-F. X Hight,
D. r Cameron.
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AIcazar ]heater.

Tomorrow evening Tom Taylor's ia
nous comedy 1.-The Overland Route will
be performed. 1t was in this play that
Henry Irving first made hit in 1860
while playing at the Theater Royal, Man.
chester. England. The entire Alcazar COM
pany will be seen in the comedy. includ-
ing George Osbourne and Mr.. F. NJ. Bates,
who makes her reappearancs after an
absence of two months. The stage set
tings will be realistic, the first two acts
showing the deck and cabins of the P.
and o. steamer homeward bound from
India, and the last act the coral reef,
where the voyagers are wrecked. The last
performance OF Called Back" will be
given this afternoon and evening, the
matinee being the last Sunday matinee to
be given at the theater.
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Baldwin Jheater.

Primrose and West, who bring their
minstrel organization to the Baldwin
Theater tonight, have company COM
posed of q hundred mem bers-in fact a
double company. The. novelty of this
consists III the way the first part is
given. 1t is divided into two sections. or
"two editions" as they call it. The first
edition" is meant to show the origin of
mins,reisy and is given by a comp any of
genuine colored minstrels, and consists OF
original "buck" dancing. singing and ac-
robatic work. The next .editionn is
given by the white company of Ministries
and is an exposition of the modern idea oil
minstrelsy.
The company this season includes
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-04-18
Tivoli Opera-House.

Sir Jules Benedicts romantic Irish
opera, 1.-The Lily of Killarney" will be
continued all this week. On Monday
evening, April %, Denis O'Suilivan, the
eminent barytone, will make his first ap-
rearence in tets his native City in Charles
VilIiers Stanford's romantic Irish opera,
''Shamus O'Brien." singing the title role,
which he Ilayed in London and through
out the East. In addition 10 the company
of the Tivoh that will support him M iss
Myra Morella, late prlma donna of the
Abbott, Konried and Carlton opera com.
panies, will make her first appearance at
this house. The scenery, costumes and
accessories are being painted and made
from the London models. This produce
ton shows the desire OF the manage men
to present the latest successes.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-04-18

m ans name, some of his flock may object
to play-acting. but lift is sinful to write
a good play the San Jose clergyman
flock may set their minds at rest. His
work is about as fitted for acting purposes
as the city directory. Probably he has
never been inside theater and knows
even less about stagecraft than the young
lady who had seventy-four speaking char
acters in her first act. In one respect the
San Jose clergyman is like the cobbler
who sticks to his last-his play is bibli-
cal drama. Good, unsophisticated soul !!
fancy sitting in his study, surrounded by
Bakers Saints Rest" Buffers Anal
ogy" and other light and airy theological
works and writing biblical drama for
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-04-18

the use of fin de steele company. Alas!
and hippant, and knowing that even
Sarah Bernhart makes q colossal failure
when she tries to act hi bical drama. If
We want the Bible acted with meet and
due reverence We have to 60 to the SIM
pie, uuworldly peasants of Oberam-
mergau.
All the aspirants for dramatic honors
are not so honest as the girl with sever MY
four characters and the clergyman who
dramatized Bible story. "a great many
people bring US old plays with other
titles and the names of the characters
changed" says Belasco, ''and we receive
mum bers of plays which are little more
than typewriter prescriptions of IA
miliar dime novels. College students
seem to spend great part of their time
in writing plays, to Judge from the num-
be: OF letters we receive from the UNIVERSE
ties, and fond parents are continually
bringing their chldren's work." And
is everything utterly, hopelessly bad"
ask, thinking regretfully OF the wasted
time AID energy. mot at ALL" says
Lotto, cheerfuliy; "some of these people
show promise. but their work is crude and
displays NO knowledge of stagecraft. To
make it tit for production it would have
to be entirely rewritten by a practical
playwright. If some of these people
could get an expert to collaborate with
them they might be really successful"
And then go my way, wondering how
1t is that no provision is made for guiding
the play wright in.o the straight and mar
row pat of experience that leads to snc-
cess. This country is full of dramatic
schools that undertake at so much a head
to manufacture wild. untamed amateurs
into finished artists. There are SO many
dramatic schools and voice builders, and
stage-gestrre professors and what not
that they positively elbow one another,
but the poor amateur playwrights are left
to err and stray alone like lost sheep. No
dramatic school open its portals to them,
no experienced playwright says: Come
to me and l will teach YOU" In view of
the vast mum Der of people who are writing
plays l wonder that no professor of
stageoraft" has put out his shingle and
started school for aspiring dramatists,
undertaking to convert raw material into
Shakespeares ana Molieres while you
wait" Just think ofit-over %, 900 plays
are annually submitted to managers in
this country and not dozen succ essful
plays are annually produced.
MARIE EVELYN
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Companions of tho Forest.

Next Wednesday Loyal Circle will give q
grand entertainment in Foreste rs building.
Tomorrow evening Liberty Circle will give
party in its hall in the Maccabee Temple and
OH Friday Twin Peeks Circle will give q grab
bag party.
Minerva Circle announces q country dance
in costume for the evening of the 10th of May.
costumes
Mizpah Circle gave q pleasing entertainment
to lis friends in Oakland last week and the
hall was crowded TO the doors.
The Grand Circle will meet in this city ON
the 18th Of May in the Foresters' building.