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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1892
Page
8
An agriculture note urges farmers to use Bordeaux and copper carbonate sprays to curb fungi and pests, detailing formulas, mixing, and application rates. It emphasizes preventive spraying, equipment choices, and notes a modest cost compared to potential losses.
A Bethlehem Alliance meeting adopts pledges to support the Farmers' Alliance platform from St Louis. They vow allegiance to its principles and advocate equal rights for all, with no special privileges to any. Leadership praise and publication intent are noted, dated March 19, 1892, by C G Sullivan and J W Sewell.
Report from an Alliance meeting starting March 15 at Blue Fork with Bro Massey. Cold weather, attentive crowd, large alliance presence, business agency run by Bro Joe Hurdle. Next day rain and hail at the county line, large crowd awaiting serials and speeches in Purley, showcasing Alliance principles.
Henry D Lloyd recited a pointed fable The Cow and the Flies to a Sunset Club audience in Chicago critiquing reform finance. A foreign syndicate of flies drains a milch cow by promising benefits while ignoring rights, then finds itself trapped as the cow finally ends the empire of parasitism. Moral one warns against tapping a cow or a people. moral two cautions that those who live on others risk their own ruin.
Ben Terrell, former National Lecturer of the Farmers Alliance, warns that reform success hinges on strong reform press backing. He argues arousing public support through their own newspapers is essential, comparing lacking media to marching an army empty-handed against better armed foes.
The document proclaims a united labor coalition amid national moral political and economic ruin. It denounces corrupt ballot boxes muzzled press mortgage ridden homes and concentrated wealth. It warns of imported pauperized labor and an unrecognized army while calling for collective action to protect workers and their rights.
The document proclaims a united labor movement opposing corporate power and bank interests. It calls for national currency reform, silver provision, per capita money expansion, a graduated income tax, postal savings banks, and government ownership of land, railroads, telegraphs, and telephones to protect workers and expand liberty.
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