National Farmers Alliance and State Alliance Leader Lists
A dense roster outlines officers and committees of the National Farmers Alliance and Industrial Union and the Carolina Farmers State Alliance. It lists presidents, vice presidents, secretaries, lecturers, chaplains, and committees across multiple states, urging papers to publish and advocate the Ocala platform and warning of stock certificate frauds within the alliance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina Reform Press Association
Gieers
J. L. Ramsey
Marion Butler
TY. S. Tarnea
Yer
State Organ
Raleigh
N.C
Clinton
Hickory
Whitakers
Agricultural Bee
Goldsboro
N. C
Carolina Dispatch
Hertford
Our Home
Beaver Dam
Editorial suggestions urge farming tips and Alliance benefits
The column urges timely hive readiness and prudent feeding of brood sows while urging farmers to share experiences to improve methods. It counsels planting Irish potatoes and adding milk for sustenance, emphasizes manuring with clover or grass, and questions Farmers' Alliance participation amid mass mortgage concerns in Massachusetts. The Bureau of Animal Industry cost is cited as about $850,000 a year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmers’ Alliance
Massachusetts
Free Silver Craze Critique Prominent Democratic Paper
A critical editorial denounces the Free silver craze as ruinous, attacking the press and politicians who supported silver coinage in past platforms. The piece lampoons Grover Cleveland and laments debt, prayer, and political confessional rhetoric amid reform and tariff debates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Grover
Reform
Wall Street
Rothschilds
Democratic Party
Harrison
Revenue Department
Progressive Farmer urged for readers to subscribe
The Progressive Farmer invites readers to share the paper with others, promising truth about farming and steady weekly content. It appeals to readers during hot days to read during noon rest, claiming the issue will give topics to ponder and ease the work week.
Cromwell land value under mortgage questioned
In a rebuttal the Progressive Farmer argues Elisha Cromwell’s plantation of about 1400 acres sold under mortgage yielded only the mortgage total, despite potential value of ten to twelve thousand dollars if unencumbered. The piece accuses the Southerner of suppressing facts and stresses currency limits as the cause of land value shrinkage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tarboro Southerner
Elisha Cromwell
Farmers Alliance push and political stance in North Carolina
M B Williams criticizes past legislature for attempting to break up the Farmers Alliance Business Agency. He urges farmers to resist measures that raise costs and reduce producer consumer ties, praising The Progressive Farmer for standing against the political storm. He notes renewals for himself and S A Horney and calls for ballot support to defend farmer interests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. B Williams
General Weaver's Philadelphia Address Prompts Widespread Approval
General James B. Weaver spoke at the Baptist Temple in Philadelphia last Thursday night. The audience shifted from apathy to sympathy as Weaver framed the Populist platform as remedies for industrial ills, calling the People's party movement Christianity in motion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
General Weaver
Baptist Temple
Henry Waterson
Mr. Conwell
Colonel Watterson
Exp
Weaver
People’s Party
Mounteb
America
Nxt
Journal of the Knights of Labor
Quotes on money power and control from 19th century figures
A collection of excerpts arguing that control of money volume shapes prices and power. Included are thoughts from John A. Logan James A. Garfield Daniel Webster Prof Walker John Stuart Mill U S Money Commission Thomas Jefferson and Thomas H Benton on banking, currency and the dangers of financial monopolies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John A. Logan
Reform
James A. Garfield
Daniel Webster
Prof
Walker
John Stuart Mill
U. S. Money Commission
Treasury
Thomas Jefferson
Neptunes
Thomas H. Benton
Reform Echoes and Tax Gripes Across Newspapers
A compendium of reform-minded quotes and slogans from Missouri to Kansas criticizing Wall Street influence, monopolies, and debt. Highlights include passages from the Iowa Tribune, Des Moines Tribune, National and Western papers, urging unity, thrift, and resistance to financial control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mammon
Missouri
Wall Street
Iowa Tribune
Des Méines Tribune
Congress
Southern Mercury
Burlington Courier
Peoples’ Advocate
Florida
United States
Kirwin
Kansas
California
Chicago Express
Nabobs
National Spectator
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National Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Union
H. L. Loucks
Huron
South Dakota
Goldsporo
Col
D. P. Duncan
Columbia
8. C
Ben Terrell
Seguin
Texas
L. Leonard
Mt. Leonard
Mann Page
Brandon
Virginia
J. E Dean
Honeoye Falls
New York
H. C. Demming
Harrisburg
Pennsyl
Vani
R. A. Southworth
Denver
Colo
Carolina Farmers’ State Alliance
N.v
T. B. Long
Ashville
W. Barnes
Cyrus Thompson
Hichlands
Ino. Ammons
Madison Co
R .A. Henry
Eilijay
King
Eant at-Arms
J. 3
State Alliance Business Agency
Alliancemen
Allianceman
Bureau of Animal Industry
Washington
Cromwell
James B. Weaver
the Reform Press
Farmers’ Advocate
Yates Center
S. J. St. Clair
Abraham Lincoln
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