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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-03-22
REDUCTION OF RATES RIGHT
AND JUST.

The reduction of rates by the Rail
road Commission will aggregate less
than the increase in net earnings re-
ported by the railroads over the year
previous-a small allowance being
made for increased travel. If the reduc
ton will break the roads, how did they
get along before last year, and the
year before that, for every succeeding
year they have shown an increase of
net earnings over the preceding year.
The Railroad Commission was estab-
Iished in 1891. to reduce rates. Cotton
was then 10 to IL cents a pound. Now
it is 5 cents and corn 40. Till now no
reduction by the Commission had been
made. If not now, how much longer
would we have to waits
The railroads carry passengers across
the State from New York to Florida, at
less than n cent a mile. Why can
they not carry our own people at 81
cents per mile2
They carry drummers and folks with
ready money at 2 cents..per mile On
1000 mile tickets, but say they cannot
carry those whose toll supports the
roads ct % cents.
They carry over 100, 900 politicians,
omceholders and rich people, on passes
free; but they say it will break them to
carry the lone gallus" man for less
than 81 cents. He has no Influence
and they cannot waste favors on them.
But he does not want favors. He is
now demanding rights the right to be
carried as cheap as anybody else.
The Southern contributed $3.50, 900 to
the Mckinley campaign fund, and thus
materially aided in fastening the gold
ct andard and monopoly rule on US
which has brought cotton down to
cents. The people have paid this
back twice over by high rates. They
do not intend to keep on paying
excessive rates to raise q half million
dollar contribution to give Mckinley
in the next campaign. The large cam.
paign contributions made by the rail
/ roads was Hanna's main dependence.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-03-22
AND~THEY WILL,

Certain Democrats assert that if
their party ever gets control of the
legislature again they will pass a Mis-
sissipi election law, and they evidently
mean it. According to this the people
of the State will again be called upon
to say whether they wish political
slavery and rotten State government,
or political freedom and good govern
ment. The money power, the trusts,
the monopolies of all kinds are pretty
hard to take, but knowing the Demo
cratic party to be a friend to them ION
the quiet, : : also a champion of political
slavery, very few people who are not
Democrats, will be willing to see North
Carolina back into the hands of a
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-03-22
FALSE

The News and Disturber and other
sheets have industriously attempted to
show that Gov. Russell is willing to
lease the A. & N. @. Railroad al the N.
@. was leaked-secretly and without
giving any and all railroad companies
q chance to bid. Such is not the case.
Governor Russell has not and will not
consider any proposition to lease the
road unless it be in a fair and open
manner, different companies bidding,
and then the lease to be subject to CON
frmation or rejection by the next legis-
lature. In that event it would be voted
upon by the people of the State next
fall when the legislature is elected, pro
vided it were made an issue, and, of
course, it would be.
No, this is not a cousin Elias Carr
and Col. Alex. Andrews midnight affair.
Gov. Russell don't dispose of State
property at such hours as honest Gov.
errors and railroad directors are sup
posed to be asleep.
Gov. Russell will make no mistake
if he never leases the A & N. O. Road.
1t is not as valuable a piece of property
as the N. @. Road, but it is good prop
erty. A representative of the South
ern Railway Company tried to con
vince the writer recently that it would
be a great sacrifice" for the Southern
to lease the A & N. @. Road. Non
sense! There is not a mile of railroad
property in North Carolina that is not
valuable and desirable. In fact the
Southern or some other company has
been secretly trying to get possession
of the A. 6 N. Q. for sometime. This
road ~traverses some Of the finest farm
ing land in the world, touches some i'm
portant towns, and as North Carolina
is rapidly becoming the garden spot"
Gov. Russell will make no mistake in
holding on to the A. & N. G.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-03-22
WAR NEWS.

At the time of going to press, the
board of enquiry sent to Investigate
the Maine explosion, has not made it's
report. Secretary Long, OF the Navy,
says that if it says that Spain blew up
the Maine, there will be war m6tteen
minutes thereafter. He and many
others, however, are convinced that
the board will make no such report.
Meanwhile preparations for war con
tinue and the daily papers print col
umns of wild rumors n day and deny
them the next. The United States has
bought two more battIeships and am
munition and men are being trans
ported from n fort to another. The
country awaits, with breathless inter
est, the report of the board of enquiry,
but there seems hardly so much proba
bility of war as a week ago.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-03-22
STRANGE IDEAS OF FINANCE.

We heard a prominent and intelli
gent citizen make an assertion some
thing like this recently: II hope the
court of inquiry will find that the
Maine was blown up by Spanish treach-
cry. 1t will probably bring on a war
and the result will be to put plenty of
money in circulation and give US boom
ing times again"
This citizen is not alone in such
views. But he has not been voting for
more money. Now he wants to go in a
roundabout way and involve the coun
try in a war that may cost hundreds
of thousands of lives lst to bring good
times. Good times! But at what a
fearful cost! How much better it
would be to bring about good times by
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-03-22
WHY NOT BAL R

A meeting, or conference, of the Pop
ulist leaders in this State is being held
at Raleigh. Their object is to consult
together as TO the best plan for retain
ing their Offices, for of course nearly
every one Of them is an ohceholder,
and all they care for is an off 5e.-Caat-
ham Record.
We wish to call the attention of the
press of the State to the above clipping.
Items of similar nature are seen, every
day. Newspapers of all parties boldly
say that the members of other parties
are simply for pie" They make these
sweeping statemeL ts almost every day,
little thinking that they are thus losing
the respect of all fair minded men. The
people do not believe these statements.
When a Populist paper says that Dem
ocrats or Republicans ''care for nothing
but Office" that they are dishonest
knaves-when newspapers of whatever
politics speak thus of members Of other
parties, no harm is done to any party
except to that to which the paper be-
longs.
Why not deal fairlyG When you can
find no charge against the opposing
party but one so silly that no thinking
man will believe it, it is time to pull
down your flag. We say this for the
consideration of North Carolina news
papers, No party has a corner upon
political virtue. Each party has some
rascals in it, and each party contains
some honest men.
There is no way Of ascertaining which
party contains the largest per cent. of
rascals. The only method of even
guessing at this is to ascertain the mum
Der of papers in each party that say
that all who differ with them are a
Gals, and care for nothing but Office.
Then find out the number of editors on
each of these papers. AS a result, we
see that the number Of rascals in each
party r about in proportion to the
number of editors of this stripe.
We wish to inform our brother edi-
tors that North Carolina people are too
intelligent to believe that because a
man belongs to a certain party he is a
rascal. Such statements will be boom
erangs, Act with common sense and
fairness, and put Tar Heel journalism
on q higher PLAN.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-03-22

voting for them. Use your influence
to that end and the good times will
come as easy and az natural as sun
shine and rain. Congress could pass
laws in forty eight hours that would
bring a greater boom in business OF all
kinds than would follow a ten year
war. Congress would pass these laws
if more of such men as the n quoted
would cut loose from the old hidebound
parties and declare to the world that
they will no longer wear a party
collar that gals every particle OF the
cuticle on their stubborn, party loving
necks.
Start the mints again, throttle the
trusts and all kinds Of monopolies, and
hard times will disappear as rapidly as
snow beneath a summer sun. Reform
laws are the need of the hour, not
wars. Will men always be blinded by
party prejudice9 Will they always
stand ready to be deceived time after
fimoP
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-03-22

The following resolutions were adopt
ed by the Populist Conference which
met here last week:
"ResOLUed, That the spirit of this con
ference warrants the assertion that any
differences which may have existed in
the Peoples party Of North Carolina
are eliminated, and the sense OF this
conference is that every effort to create
discord hereafter will be an object Of
grave suspicion, and the promoters Of
such an effort may be looked on as in
imicaI to reform and good government
"2 That the spirit of the recon-
mandatory addresses by the National
Chairmen of the Peoples party, the
Democratic party and the Silver Re
publican party, invoking a union Of
all forces favoring a reform Of the Ma
tional financial system, is cordially en-
dorsed, since such reform raj the in
spiratien of the Peoples party, and is
now it's greatest purpose.
"S That it is the hope Of the confer
ence that the State Convention Of the
Peoples party may be able to devise
means for furthering all it's principles
and efforts as will in no wise compro
mise the integrity of the party or the
beneficent results Of legislation already
accomplished"
The second resolution was adopted
by a vote of 46 to 26 These resolutions
are merely the opinion Of a few Popu
lists, and no action of the conference
is considered as binding upon the party.
Many prominent Populists attended.
State Auditor Aver was made Secre-
tary and Secretary Of State Thompson
permanent Chairman. Thirty eight
counties were represented. Letters
from Populists in twenty.one other
counties were read.
Railroad Commissioner L. @. Cald
well, introduced the following resolu
ton, which passed unanimously:
"That tie members of the Peoples
party, unanimously, in conference in
Raleigh, on the 16 h of March, respect.
fully and earnestly request and suggest
to the State Executive Committee that
the same committee meet not later
than April 1st, 1898, and that the pri-
maries be c lied at the earliest day, to
the end that the State convention may
be called at the earliest possible date
thereafter"
The conference adjourned at 4 o'clock
in the morning of the 17Gh. Populists
seem we'll pleased with results, though
the minority who opposed the resolu-
tons will doubtless work hard to have
them voted down at the State Conven
tiOn
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-03-22

We are always glad to have the ex-
periences of our farmer readers for
publication, and gladly publish an
article On first page on "ArtichOkes,"
by one of our subscribers.
Some writer's in speaking Of the arti
choke give the impression that they
are difficult, in fact impossible. to ex-
terminate. This is not true.
Put a sufficient number of hogs in
the field and you can if you so desire
have the srtichokes entirely extermi-
mated on short notice.
Like a parsnip, freezing improves
them. They may, therefore, be left in
the ground all winter, even in most
Northern States. They mature later
than potatoes, four to five months
from planting. They are ready for use
in the Fall, two weeks after the bios.
som falls,-in this latitude Oct. LIST.
If intended for fattening, give the hogs
also all the corn they will eat. At the
Perdue University Experiment Station,
where one lot of hogs was fed ex
clusively on corn, it took 784 lbs. to
produce 100 lbs. of pork. Another lot
having access to artichokes, made the
same gain on 215 lbs. of corn. They
form bone and muscle, improve the
favor of the pork and make the flesh
sWeeter. Let the hogs use them any
time until they grow again. Here let
US quote from the Southern Stock
Farm.
"Why don't Southern farmers grow
artichokes9 With their mild winters
and unfroz9n ground, hogs could root
them from early Fall till Spring, and
thus reduce the Wintering of them TO a
minimum cost. Northern breeders find
them profitable, although the ground
is frozen the greater portion Of the
winter"
Live stock is a great factor in the
prosperity Of the American farmer,
and, taking one year with another,
there is no more reliable money maker
than the hog. He has bought more
farms, lifted more mortgages, educated
more farmers SONS and daughters, and
built more farm homes and filed them
with the comforts of life, than any
thing else. He is a marketable com
modify Of greater value than the grain
be eats, but his proper feeding and
treatment is too often neglected. This
causes millions of dollars loss each
year-suffcient, it is said. to have paid
all the mortgages on the farms. The
people of the State of Illinois, alone,
last year lost S.. 500, 900 worth. and in
Iowa z, 600, 600 head, or one third of the
hog crop, succumbed to the ravages of
diseases. Exercise is a necessity to
swine, as, confined to pens, they are
more liable to fall victims to disease.
The most successful plan is to give
them more or less range-in pastures
when the grass is s~ucculent, and, after
that, artichokes. These are said to
yield from six to ten times as much as
corn, and supply the nitrogen which
corn lacks. 1t is nearly or quite i'm
possible for hogs to have fevers while
on an artichoke diet, because arti
chokes build up and thoroughly invig
crate the system. A pig with cholera,
pastured on artichokes, would be a
curiosity. Let us raise more artichokes.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-03-22

Next week we shall give a very In
teresting communication on BROAD
and Narrow Tires for Wagons" Keep
your eye peeled for it, as it is worth
reading.
The announcement of meeting of
the Populist State Executive Commit
tee is published exclusively in The
PROGRESSIVE FARMER. Apologies to
Raleigh Post.
Now that spring time is here and
planting season near at hand, we want
correspondents IL every neighborhood
in the State. Tell US whether or not
the farmers in your section will use
more commercial fertilizers than usual;
whether they will plant more or less Of
each crop than usual; whether or not
they are bHying improved live stock
and farm machinery, ETC., etc. Let us
hear from you. Give US a letter once
a month at least.
The time is near at hand when the
people will be called upon to distinguish
between patriots and party-iots. Too
many people, when hearing the jingle
of money in the public treasury, think
it is their country calling them to take
some off &c, just as some people think
the jingle Of the money in the collec
ton plate is the voice of God calling to
them to preach the gospel. Make good
use of your ear.trumpet when you
seem to hear your country call. 1t
may be some other noise.
News from all quarters shows an i'm
mense awakening in Alliance matters.
Let the good work go on, brethren.
There never was a time when the ne
cessitN for CO operation and united &C
ton on the part of agricultural people
was more needed than now, and there
never was a better organic alton for
t~raternizing and unifying them than
the Alliance. If there was, or is, let's
have it. We must organize and stand
together. Come home, brethren, to
your Alliance home. We need your
help, you need ours.
A Kansas editor discharged his old
foreman sometime ago and engaged a
new one. He made up the forms for
the first time last week and got a mar
riage and a grocer's notice mixed up so
as to read: John Smith and Ida Ona
were united in the holy bonds of sour
kreut, which will be sold by the quart
or barrel. Mr.. Smith is an esteemed
Goldfish at 10 cents, while the bride has
much nice bacon at a shilling per
pound" AS q result, the editor is
doubtless feeling sore, and Bro. Smith
perhaps has his meals furnished by
Uncle Sam.
Has that club of new subscribers
from your neighborhood been sent us3
Are all your neighbors so rich that
they can afford to do without The Pro
GREssIvE FARMER7 If not, please get
us up a club. If they positively will
not subscribe for a year, they can give
US a trial-six months for so cents,
three months for 25 A club of ten
three months or six months subscribers
can be secured at almost any gather
ing. Let us have a club from your
section, at onca, 30 that subscribers
may get the benefit Of the suggestions
Of PrOfs. Irby and Emery and other
correspondents before planting crops.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-03-22
n. e. P. A.
EDITORIAL NOTES

Tom Watson has been nominated for
Governor of Georgia by the Populists.
Owing to sickness and press of bust
ness, Prof. Irby's letter did not appear
in last weeks issue.
The strawberry crop in Eastern
North Carolina is reported to be two
weeks later than last year.
We wish to call attention to Judge
Clark's opinion of municipal owner
ship. Only a small part of this article
has ever been published before. So
able an argument is we'll worth read
ing.
Several interesting communications
are crowded out this issue. We hope
these writer's will not get angry. Some
editorial illusions share the fate of
these letters and the authors thereof
have not yet "cussed us out"
North Carolina has never fully ap
preciated her farm writer's. Upon
glancing over a leading farm publica
ton in far-away Canada a few days
ago we were not a little surprised to
find two articles by Tar Heels.
In Jackson, the last meeting of the
County Alliance was held at Loves
Chapel. A very good meeting. The
next regular meeting will be with Cary
Fork Sub. at Johns Greek School
House, on the second Thursday III
April, 1898 Let each Sub. be repre-
sented.
Senator Mason, Of Illinois, who is
strongly anti Spanish, has been chal
lenged to fight by a Spanish editor,
who rel )ices in the glorious name Of
the Marquis de Altra Villa. 1t is
amazing to US that a man with such a
high sounding title will condescend to
fight plain Bill Mason.
We neglected to note in last weeks
issue, the death of Gen. Williams.
Rosecrans, one of the most prominent
Union Generals in the civil war. Very
few of the leaders in that celebrated
conflict are now alive. General Long
street is one, however, who prefers
marriage to death, and secured ex-
tended newspaper notice thereby which
he had the pleasure of reading. Wise
chap, that.
As proof of the sincerity ca of the
Democratic party as a whole in favor(0
of the free coinage of silver, we will
mention that the Georgia Democratic
State Executive Committee last Thurs
day elected f. G. Dubignon, q sound
money Democrat, Chairman of the
Executive Committee. Senator Butler
and several other more or less distin
guished citizens might do well to make
a note Of this.
Bro. w. s. Mercer has recently re
organic two Alliances in Camder
county, Old Trap and Lone Star. HI
will speak at Shiloh, Saturday, 26sh, {
D. m. Let all attend. Bro. Greasy, O
the Elizabeth City Economist, has givel
Bro. Mercer some good advertising
and has generously refrained from
making charges therefor. For thi
service Bro. MercAr returns thanks, re
serving aportionfO i Sam of Camden.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-03-22

In answer to a correspondent, prob
ably a delinquent subscriber, who
wants TO know what is meant by a
ratio of 16 to l." Fairbrother's Farrago
says: sit means that il 16 men took q
newspaper, and but 1 paid for it, the
editor would starve to death at that
ratio. Or something like that"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-03-22
NOTICE.

TARBoRo, N. c., March 81, '98
A meeting Of the State Executive
Committee of the Peoples party is
hereby called to meet at the Marlborough
House, in Raleigh, on April 9Th, at s
o'clock p. m. w. E FOUNTAIN,
State Chm'n P. P. Elk, Com.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-03-22

Democratic ostracising oligarchy, s,o,
as cursed the Slate for many vae.S
prior to 1894. When the question
liberty vs.. slavery comes up all 9TH
great political issues become Of secorS
ary Importance to US. How is it wiS
YOU. brOther9
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-03-22

81 am standing HOIU Just behind the
sWTtain, and in fun gLOtO Of the coming
SMnset. Behind me are the SHADOWS on
ne track, before me lies the dark vdItey
and the rEuer. When I miegLe tUtth Ets
dark Udters I EUdRt to cast one HngeT-
ina look upon q country whose gOUern-
ment 10 OF the people, for the people,
and 6y the people, "-L. L. Polk, July
ftb, 1890.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-03-22

If you will ask The PR06RESbodg
FARMER as to the reliability OF any Sng
whose advertisement you gee ~ eli,
publication, or who advertise W srs
cular, and if the goods adVerI .ot eIss
as good or as cheap as youcan sT rsaplg.
where, we will make promPS TB5
Kindly enclose stamp. ACORN G.
Pro GREssTVE FARMER, RaIelsN'
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-03-22

The editor Is not responsible for the
views Of correspondents,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-03-22

RALEIGH, N. O.. MARCH %. 1898.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-03-22

The Progressive Farmer IL the OHciai
Organ oFthe N. c. Farmers State Alliance
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-03-22

The date On your label tells you
~hen your time Is out and serves as a
receipt for all money sent US.
Omaha daily bee., 1898-10-09
BEE BUILDING DECORATIONS
Handsome Exterior Draping, the
Work of an Omaha Firm, Pleases
the Public Greatly.

There is not building in Omaha which is
more handsomely decorated in honor OF
Carnival and Jubilee weeks than The Bee
building At night the outlines of the Gtruc-
ture are brought out by many lines and
rows of incandescent lights during the day
the building is dressed with the Ali-Sar Ben
and national colors in harmonious and
pleasing fashion. The latter decoration was
designed and executed by r. E. Lee & Co.
and was put in place under the supervision
of Mr. Lee himself.
The building was adorned particularly in
honor OF the visit of President Mckinley
and therefore the appropriate feature of the
decorations is a huge portrait of the nations
chief executive. 1t hangs directly above the
main entrance and is framed in American
standards. Huge flags of the nations col
ors are draped to the right and left Above
at every story depend masses of bunting Of
red, white and blue or the green, yellow and
red of the Ak-Sar- Ben knights. Shields
bearing the likenesses of Sampson and
Dewey and the magic word, Welcome .
are thrust into prominence. Surmounting
the whole and flying from the flagstaff at
the top OF the building floats a big Ameri
can flag and from its highest point to the
corners Of the building are strung the colors
OF the nations of the world. The decorations
as a whole are harmonious and pleasing.