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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1894
Page
4
A kaleidoscope of 19th century Reform rhetoric. Editorial taunts target Democrats and bankers, praising reformers and exposing gold standard anxieties. The page blends governance critique with pro reform sentiment, Indiana to North Carolina letters praising and urging vigilance in political alliances. It ends with a note from Onapay Hill North Carolina on Alliance strength and member shifts.
A summer school for teachers and others will run July 3 to 28 in University buildings at Chapel Hill North Carolina. Tuition is 5 dollars admitting to all instruction. Faculty includes sixteen professors from North Carolina Texas and Louisiana universities, state normal and industrial school for women and graded schools of Charlotte Wilmington Raleigh and Goldsboro. Subjects include languages literature civics history pedagogy arithmetic algebra geometry surveying road construction geography botany political economy and more. Board and furnished room for the month cost 15 dollars. railroads offer reduced rates. Circulars available from President Winston Chapel Hill N C.
In a broad economic view FW argues that low interest is needed to aid debtors and revive industry. He outlines two classes, moneyed lenders and farmers, and urges conservative policy to protect the weak while stabilizing currency. A bankers bond proposal would set 4 to 5 percent interest for bonds and limit loan rates, aiming to ease debt, sustain banks, and restore confidence.
An essay recounts the nation’s slave era and the rise of liberty led by Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence. It laments the loss of democracy and the growing oppression felt by the people, contrasting past freedoms with present hardship.
Bladen County Alliance denounces a county order banning public meetings in the courthouse without special permission. They recount the rebuilding after fire and note members sought a quorum but faced enforcement, calling the ordinance insulting and risking violence. Resolutions urge publication in The Progressive Farmer and Caucasian.
A satirical verse by J. C. Exwiorr from Polkville Cleveland Co NC attacks Grover Cleveland era politics. The poem leans into anti Republican and anti free government rhetoric, warning opponents to submit to the powerful new order under a banner of monopoly and national strength.
A Vienna banker’s daughter was duped by a confidence man posing as Edward Vanderbilt. He wooed her with talk of Fifth Avenue wealth and palace life then asked her to siphon $30,000 from her father. She delivered the cash, promising repayment, triggering the banker’s search in America for his daughter and the funds. The piece notes the performers and a witty, cautionary tone on reciprocal schemes.
At Union Ridge on April 12 1894 the Alamance County Farmers Alliance reports a resolution package. It calls for reductions of salaries for all government officers from the President to county officials by at least one half or one third until economic conditions improve. It also vows not to support candidates unless they back the pay cuts and favors offices seeking men over men seeking offices.
A citizen voices protest in The Progressive Farmer against inadequate public school terms in North Carolina. He recalls Appomattox era valor, pleads for extending from thirteen to sixteen weeks, cites examples of literate children, urges legislators to fund full development of state talent and protect property and citizens.
A letter to the editor discusses tax voting and political issues while detailing the Holstein Friesian Association of America. It notes Thomas Wales losing re election as Secretary, replaced by F I Houghton, and mentions a May 1 relocation to Boston. It lists district organizers across North Carolina and surrounding areas, outlining counties served by each organizer.
In Topeka Kansas on February 6 1894 the Farmers Alliance and Industrial Union adopted a platform demanding a government issued national currency with tax limits and no banking corporations, free coinage of silver and gold at 16 to 1, expanded per capita money supply, a graduated income tax, and public ownership ideas for land and railroads with postal savings banks to aid the people.
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