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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1894
Page
2
A dated message urges readers to mention seeing ads in THE PROGRESSIVE PARTNER and notes the label date marks time running out. It then shifts to a poetic scene describing standing behind a curtain with sunset glow and a dark valley ahead, ending with a critique of a country whose meat is pork and a pledge to “by the people.”
Editorial notes urge renewed subscription and purchase of stock in the Alliance shoe factory and tannery. They praise Judge Clark, warn about Turkish seizure of American papers, mock Democrats and stay-at-home voters, and call for 30 days of prompt, thorough Alliance action amid notes on economic distress and political critique.
We urge creating a state reform school to curb juvenile crime. The piece argues boys should not be sent to penitentiaries, proposes religious and moral training plus useful work, and asks ministers and philanthropists to aid. It notes reforms in other states and calls for legislative action next session.
An Alliance organizer urges officers to use THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER to recruit and retain members. Reorganization is easy if former members read the State organ, and new readers among subscribers can be won with persistence. Emphasizes circulating the paper, urging three to six months’ subscription where funds allow. Continuous effort will strengthen reform.
An op-ed argues monopolists prey on citizens, urging opposition to centralized power. It contends urban voters, diverse classes, and even educated groups are prone to favor monopolies and oppose liberal reforms, insisting on broader money circulation without production.
State Board of Canvassers met in Representative Hall on a Thanksgiving day, hearing Nash county contest but noting ministerial powers. Chief Justice results show Faircloth 148434 and Shepherd 127593, Cooperative majority 20841. several congressional districts reported with Skinny details and votes.
Farmers clubs and alliances should study a special subject at meetings to gain vast information quickly. One club studied agricultural chemistry last winter, sparking strong interest. Members learned fertilizer analysis, soil needs, and made dollars in their pockets through informed feeding and budgeting.
The Alliance raises the farmer’s influence through education and truth seeking. It dismisses old parties as creedal constraints and champions inquiry over partisan lines, urging ongoing investigation and public engagement to sustain its progressive goals.
The Washington N C Gazette editor H A Litham, a reading clerk in three legislative sessions, will not return. He laments the end of wearing his distinctive white duck suit on Raleigh streets, noting the suit’s long history and promising a future beyond the current legislature.
The Farmers' Voice laments millions lost due to low cotton prices and blames unwise legislation for ruinous conditions. It argues Congress aimed to strengthen bankers over debtors, harming rural production and the overall economy as a political campaign ends.
The passage laments tariff debates overshadowing money issues. It argues the South suffers from cotton losses and the North from Congress's assaults on circulating money. It urges silver recognition as money to restore farmer earnings, commerce vigor, and national prosperity against gold standard pressures.
A column laments football violence after five players were carried from a Washington game and notes Yale versus Princeton police protection. It mocks the sport’s prominence, cites a 34 to 0 UNC loss to Virginia, and reports a Southbridge Mass wagon wreck that killed two players and wounded five, urging railroad safety and higher engineer pay.
A Benoit Populist mails a formal notice to Congressman Charles Boatner contesting his right to the 5th Louisiana district seat. Benoit alleges fraud intimidation and excess white votes, claims he won a majority of legal votes, while Boatner foresees a 10,000 vote majority. The source criticizes southern elections as sport.
Mr Gordon Clark of Washington reveals a scheme by London banks stamping American and Mexican silver dollars. The coins are sent abroad with Mexican dollars going to Asia and U S dollars to the Indies, then returned as gold to balance trade. Profits arise from buying silver at 63 cents per ounce and minting 871 grains into 100 cents, netting 658 dollars per 1000 ounces. The National Watchman notes Americans lose to foreigners using silver.
A dense collage of quotations from reform papers and party critiques spans debates on taxation, debt, railroads, and public welfare. It cites voices from Kansas, Arkansas, Chicago, and Biblically tinged appeals, highlighting distrust of parasitic office-hunters and calls for public ownership of railroads.
Lenoir county candidate Mr. E P Hauser reads clerk in the House. Dr J J Mott Statesville among visitors. Rocky Mount lawyer J R Underwood called. Sheriff Cozart Granville county among callers. Dr J Emerson Wayne county in the city. Chairman Holton tired but confident of victory. Chairman Butler here. unwell after heavy work. D H Gill and T Garrett Vance county workers visited. Malvern E Palmer Warrenton attorney and Peoples party man visited. J E Spence Moncure editor of Chatham News among friends. Congressman Stroud spent week’s end here then to Washington to push reform.
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