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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1896
Page
2
Editorial notes criticize silver money opposition and discuss rice merchants in New York, prize fights, presidential elections, and the Alliance. It laments downward farm prices, questions prosperity claims, and notes advertisers increasing space in the Progressive Farmer for reach and payback.
A reader extols the Alliance as central to reform and notes new members. The piece critiques the subtreasury debate, comments on a Mexico correspondence, and highlights silver vs gold coinage in U S policy and prices.
The commissioner reports $23,906.75 in tax revenue to the State Treasury from fertilizers and guano sales, noting 95 tons sold this year as farmers sow heavily. The piece argues farmers should build their own fertilizer factory to keep profits amid rising rail costs and tax concerns.
A reader recalls Senator Tillman speaking frankly on West and South views in Washington. He criticizes etiquette breaches yet voices common sentiment, noting a London Jew named as U S receiver and a hungry, destitute woman seen near the home.
The Farmers' View reports Secretary of Agriculture Morton hosted a dinner for the President with elaborate farm related decorations. Central motif a plow in emilax, haystack sugar piles, candy farm tools, vegetable sugar arrangements, and candied produce in wheelbarrows.
The American warns that curtailing money supply makes money scarcer and raises its value, similar to reduced wheat harvest raising grain prices. It argues demand for money falls only with population or production decline, and prosperity decline signals falling prices as money contracts. The piece links monetary supply to price levels and overall prosperity.
The text urges Alliance members to act in harmony with the order, support fellow members, and avoid selfishness. It emphasizes teamwork, mutual aid, respectful speech, and recognizing all members as equals within meetings and actions.
The passage urges considerate dialogue and inclusion of all opinions in Alliance meetings. It emphasizes avoiding dictatorship, valuing humblest input, and presenting ideas without dismissing others. It warns that collaborative discussion strengthens membership and attendance.
Farmers should embrace advertising to reach a broad market rather than relying on local sales. The piece urges farmers to set their own prices, place ads in widely read papers, and avoid being exploited by merchants. It offers free ads guidance through inquiries and promises helpful information to North Carolina farmers.
The Charlotte Observer notes Liddell Company of this city is introducing modern ginneries using the Murry suction system. The firm, a leader in presses and machinery, builds cotton handling equipment in Charlotte and claims significant efficiency gains with air drafts for elevating seed cotton and conveying lint to presses. Prices and demand drive improved ginning methods. a Charlotte factory now produces the machinery. The Progressive Farmer notes a $1 annual subscription.
The clipping bundles political broadsides and quotes from diverse papers praising liberty and denouncing financial elites. It notes figures like Abraham Lincoln and James Bartlett, plus a Lebanon Sentinel obituary for Eva Stane aged 101, with genealogical detail.
The bulletin announces a weekly giveaway of the $2.50 book Labor and Capital to the reader who provides the longest list of subscribers. It mentions a copy sent to M. H. Reeves of Buncombe county and that W. B. Parks of Mecklenburg county led the prior week’s fundraising effort.
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