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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1893
Page
8
Jersey cattle, praised for milking power, are traced from Jersey Island to American farms. The breed is lauded as a butter cow, with traits like early milking, high butter yield, quiet disposition, and easy handling, while noting limits for prairie beef aims.
General notes report Orange county Bro E H Wilson says Alliance membership rises at every meeting. Secretary W T Barron notes gains at Alliance No 113 Wake county with two new members and three applications. Union Ridge Sub Alliance No 1170 passes resolutions urging funding per withdrawal and lists 60 true members. Also advertised is COLUMBIAN Historic Novels Vol VI A Century Too Soon by John R Musick with illustrations, cloth binding, $1.50, from Funk Wagnalls.
A dated notice from April 15 1893 states the Secretary-Treasurer is now located in Columbia South Carolina and that the Memphis Supreme Council decided Washington DC was no longer necessary for headquarters. The message urges prompt reporting of arrears, unity, and a push for financial advancement while offering new constitutions and Alliance supplies.
The Memphis gathering adopts a platform calling for a government issued national currency with 2 percent tax cap under a Sub Treasury plan or better, free coinage of silver and gold at 16 to 1, a $50 per capita money supply, graduated income tax, and federal revenue restrained to necessary expenses. It also backs postal savings banks, land reform ending alien and speculative ownership, government ownership of railroads and telegraphs, and public ownership of communications.
The message urges the “great plain people” to join a reform movement by paying ten cents in silver or stamps to have their name placed on a circulator list. It promises sample copies of leading reform papers for free distribution to neighbors, and asks for sender name and address to be written clearly.
From testimonials by W E Farrar and others in Fort Worth Texas and Iowa the work Labor and Capital by E A Allen is praised as first class and essential reading for reform movement progress. Mentions cost one dollar fifty delivered post paid, with subscription offers to The Progressive Farmer.
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