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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1894
Page
2
Fragmentary OCR mentions readers helping ads in the Progressive Farmer and notes a Lincoln era quote by L. L. Polk from July 4 1890. The text is contextless and reads as a blended advertisement blurb with a patriotic quotation.
The piece critiques bonds and alliance politics, notes Edgecombe County Alliance adjournment due to weather, and reports on local business activity like 681 dozen eggs shipped to Northern markets. It comments on Congress, Wilson tariff debates, and calls for seaports and seaward growth, with satire on New York influence.
A Virginia lawmaker proposes free passes for all state officials judges and legislators while editors with passes defend the practice. The writer condemns such privileges as discriminatory and questions where it ends calling it anarchy highway robbery and centralization. The piece mocks reform hopes and blames political fault for the current stalemate.
The piece argues the income tax will fail under a plutocratic administration and Congress, criticizing New York opposition and the idea of invasiveness. It defends taxation as fair for rich and poor, cites protectionists, and contrasts tax lister practices with customs checks. Also notes the first issue of Tobacco journal from Durham, renamed Tobacco Review due to existing paper with the same name.
The article asserts Secretary Carlisle plans to auction government bonds without Congress action under a 1875 law revived during silver demonetization. It accuses Carlisle of acting with financiers to push a drastic financial move, predicting harm to the republic if continued.
A political screed argues reform is stalled by spoilsmen. It warns of 5 percent bonds bid by insiders, lax registration, and ballot-box theft. The piece calls for cross-party unity to rescue government and punish rogues. It stresses enforcement and fair bidding to curb graft.
The passage critiques a New York Times editorial from January 18, arguing bonds benefit a few wealthy New Yorkers and not the public. It claims government borrowing anchors credit while diverting idle money, warns of currency contraction, and questions the President’s seed aid spending as excessive.
Miss Ethel Warren of the Chicago Ledger tested millionaire philanthropy by posing as a hungry woman. She visited many mansions, observed their reactions, and published details in the Ledger claiming true philanthropy isn’t in their makeup.
The piece argues for a comprehensive graduated income tax, citing England Germany and Switzerland as models with strict enforcement. It notes Congress discussions, warns of money power opposition, and frames royal privilege versus equal rights while highlighting local figures like Dr. E. Burke Haywood and bond schemes impacting laborers versus financiers.
The New York Herald promotes a popular loan plan to issue bonds from 20 dollars upward. Carlisle would issue 200 million dollars in varied denominations, but many workers and small producers cannot buy. The scheme promises broad access yet faces practical affordability limits.
A satirical note on Mrs. J. G. Carlisle’s new cook book cites a lavish Kentucky mince pie recipe with cherry and plum preserves, raisins, currants, citron, apples, oranges, suet, cider, spices, and whiskey. It mocks feasibility and uses wartime defense as a lure, then cites a New York Herald remark on bonds and Populists.
Washington dispatch reports Benator Hill of New York blocked the Supreme Court nomination of Hornblower, noting slim qualifications and political flaws. The piece covers tariff talks, bond issue criticism, remonetization of silver, and political maneuvering around federal election law, with references to Senator Vance, Simmons, and Hale Elias, plus comments on the Hawaii affair and other Senate moves.
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