The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-17

They have fOFCeQ TO Gn6 LEOn6 d
irrepressible corf ct between Man
hood and Money" The combat is on
and Republican institutions are at
stake.
On the one side are the giant cor
porations with their millions OF &C.
cumulated extortions, making and Un-
making Senator'S. bribing legislatures,
nominating Governors, and owning
some of the judges of State and
Federal courts. Owning the transpor-
tation of the country, they control the
country.
On the other side are the plundered
masses unorganized, divided, cropping
in darkness. Only the Unborn love Of
liberty that animates the Anglo Saxon
heart will save our country from revO-
luton and ruin.
A National Constitutional Conven
ton is our hope. Senators, the re-
tanned counsel of corporations and
trusts, will never voluntarily submit
their election to q direct vote of their
countrymen. No income tax will ever
be constitutional so long as the Federal
Judges are selected for life by the
money power.
The Alliance offers the remedy for all
these wrongs. The Constitution of the
United States. as compiled by our Revo-
lutionary sires was perfect for their
times. The State Constitutions Wer
emanations from the same brains and
these we have been forced to amend
time and again. At the time of the
adoption of the Federal Constitution,
our territory was a narrow strip along
the Atlantic, our population not much
over three millions. To day our nation
spans q continent and our population
is more than seventy millions. Then
railroads and telegraphs were I'M
known. Then the power and patron
age of the President were inconsider
able; now he dispenses more patronage
than any crowned head in Europe.
The power lodged in his hands is nor
NOUS and is dangerous to liberty. It
is impossible for MIN to discharge his
constitutional duties and consequently
the appointing power is exercised in
great measure by the corporations and
only q small part by the President.
The Alliance has acc emphasized great
good in North Caroline. 1t has ever
been the friend of the common school.
The State Normal and Industrial Col
lege for young women, located at
Greensboro, and the Agricultural and
Mechanical College at Raleigh are it's
offspring. Our legislative representa-
tives have always been friends to the
University and TO the various CHART
able institutions of the State. The rate Of
interest has been reduced to half that
our fathers paid, without injury to the
State, but greatly to its advantage.
1t would be of great benefit to u
membership and to their communities,
if, at their monthly meetings, topics
pertaining to agriculture we're publicly
discussed. The condition of our farms
is deplorable. We are allowing our
lands to wash away. The continuous
cultivation OF hoed crops will newt
ably be disastrous. We must protect
our fields by hill side bitches and ter.
races. 1t is q cause for coDgratulation
that necessity has taught u people
mora thoroughly than precept the i'm
portance of raising their own home
supplies. Our people are becoming
self sustaining.
The waste of 9ney in the purchase
of commercial fertilizers is immense.
Even when these guanos are as guer-
anteeG, their use tends to increase the
area Of cultivated market crops, such
as cotton, tobacco and peanuts to the
neglect Of food crops. But in my opin
ion all the manufacturers of guano,
owing to the unwise demand for q low,
priced article, have lowered the stand,
ard of their goods.
As a proof of this in my own expert
ence in the cultivation of tobacco on
new grounds. no better results are OBJ
tanned now by the use Of SIX hundred
pounds Of guano than were several
years ago obtained by the use of three
hundred POUNDS of the same brand of
guano; and yet the present analysis is
fully up to the average standard. Far
better to have the intrinsic value of our
guenos increased and their bulk dimin
ished. The saving in freight charges
would be one half and to this should be
added the cost of hauling from depot
to the farm. The use of filters" in the
manufacture of guRno is extensive.
Worthless phosphates and cheap mari