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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1895
Page
2
Vague imagery places Tam behind a curtain as shadows stretch across a track. The narrator mentions a dark valley and a river ahead, with a desire to gaze into its waters. The text ends with cryptic, garbled phrases and names, offering little concrete context.
Ninety percent favor a six percent intercet law and lawmakers who oppose it risk losing their seats. The bad weather boosts Alliance momentum while reform papers can accelerate change. The Richmond Board of Aldermen approves city ownership of its electric plant by 23 to 2 amid debates over paternalism and reform rhetoric.
The editorial laments delays in the session while praising honest lawmakers and condemning obstructionists, lobbyists, and tricksters. It urges members from all parties to stop wasting time on minor bills, publish records, and honor pledges, promising to safeguard honest officials and retire betrayers.
The Alliance has educated many, providing a platform of principles that spurred discussion in forums, papers, and homes. It has caused workers to think and study both sides, revealing that thinking advances work, though some members benefited less and needed united effort to apply lessons and remove the shoe pinches.
Washington correspondent reports a plan to recruit Populists and Democrats from the South and West for a 1896 silver platform campaign. Named figures include McLaurin, Morgan, Pugh, Mills, Bland and Bryan amid vague assurances from others. A convention may be held in Chicago or St Louis to invite leaders of all parties.
An editorial urges consolidating honest Democrats and Republicans into a Populist aligned movement, arguing the need to act now to stop plutocracy and avoid multiple new parties. It praises the Alliance platform and calls for swift unity before a burning country, resisting slow reform.
The American Cultivator argues public sentiment favors silver over the gold standard. It says the currency system should serve U S development, not England or Europe, and warns that maintaining the single gold standard harms farmers, depresses farm values, and boosts grain production in silver-using nations. It calls for restoring silver to money and warns of disaster if Eng lish policy prevails.
The Alliance must be sustained as a non partisan school for farmers to discuss issues affecting their interests. Members from Democratic, Populist, and Republican backgrounds should search for truth, organize in every county, and strengthen the Order to resist trusts and greed.
Populist Congressman Sibley of Pennsylvania mocks Mr Springer of Illinois over finance knowledge using a lumber woods watch tale. He says Springer's bill shows a worn hair spring problem and laughter follows.
A fragment asserts that a coalition of bankers and politicians have been bought, with the sugar trust and bond buyers' trade driving huge schemes. It claims the 65 million steal was defeated in the House while criticizing the administration for allowing covert fraud and selling out party integrity. Hatch is mentioned.
A Congressman warns the country faces a crisis from rapid administration actions. He cites the fate of the Almighty’s statute book and imagines the French Revolution on an American stage with modern upgrades. He quotes Judge Forbes and John Moore, urging a cross‑party South and West alliance to vote the current leadership out.
A new Alliance with 18 members formed at De Leon Texas and another with 14 members organized at Range. Reports place Alliance activity strong in South Carolina while Texas leads the Alliance column with North Carolina and Pennsylvania close behind. Gainesville Tex based Tippett reports 45 applications in ten days for Alliance Aid insurance. Comanche County shows rapid reorganization under McMeans and Putnam notes strong material joining, education on Alliance lines boosting relief efforts.
Journalistic and personal note says editors of reform papers were warmly welcomed in Raleigh during the National Alliance gathering. Names listed include N. A. Dunning National Watchman Haskel Eastern Reformer Rabb Perquimans West moreland Thomasville News J. P. Sossamon People Paper J F Click Hickory Mercury J H McDowell Reasoner H L Loucks Dakota Ruralist Harry Tracy Southern Mercury Gen James Norton Columbia Cotton Plant Prof C Vincent formerly Nonconformist H 8 Gail Zaponent Buffalo and others.
Hon N A Dunning of Washington DC a noted author and editor visited the National Alliance meeting in our city recently. He praised the local press and quoted praising Ramsey as the right man in the right place noting the paper’s rising stature and fight against demagogues.
The article urges readers to examine advertising columns and write to firms about where they saw the ads. It argues this helps business men and endorses advertisers as reputable. It invites requests for catalogues and price lists and emphasizes advertising access as a benefit.
A political appeal harshly criticizes Congress for inaction amid economic distress. It warns that Wall Street doctors and bondholders dictate remedies, urges swift action to lift prices, relieve farmers, and curb hard money policies before the current session ends.
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