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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1893
Page
2
Reader is urged to state current paper delivery office and sign name in writing to request change. Instruction emphasizes including post office name and plain signature. Quoted excerpt from L. L. Polk reflects 19th century rhetoric about government of the people.
An extended digest of Alliance activity and political commentary in North Carolina. Items include legislative tax talk, editorial preoccupations, religious revivals, new journals, lectures, and local elections. Prominent names include J. B. Carlyle, A. W. Dixon, H. E. Morely, Dr. Daniel, and various county alliances with calls for member reports.
The author extols the Alliance as the world’s greatest educational and fraternal order, facing external enemies and internal traitors. It claims the Alliance educates members and others, shapes state legislatures and even Congress, and urges active members and reform press to broaden influence, recruit youth, and unite neighbors across party lines.
This piece discusses the power of wealthy owners over newspapers, praising the Alliance press for truthful reporting and urging reform papers to support Alliance work. It argues that coordinated editorial efforts could spur significant change and questions the concentration of wealth in banks and cotton markets with calculations from 1872 to 1892 to provoke reform.
The Charlotte Observer is pressed to prove or retract a claim that last year's third party campaign used Alliance funds. The note lambasts critics, praises Bro Wilson’s court-cost contributions, and notes recent municipal reforms in Asheville Hickory Rutherfordton. The piece argues the Business Agency continues lecturing and hints at state campaigning for the Alliance.
The Winston Sentinel endorses planting walnut trees as a practical patrimony. A farmer in Watauga county recently sold a walnut tree for 500 dollars, and rising demand suggests walnut furniture could become unaffordable. Planting acres now could yield benefit in twenty five to thirty years.
The Wilmington Messenger argues for an election law overhaul and praises ballot reform amid criticism of party disunity and alleged abuses at the polls. It contrasts Democratic zeal with calls for honest methods, noting opposition from rival papers and intra party tensions.
The article laments ongoing global failures and the wealth concentration in a few hands. It describes Friday on Wall Street as a veritable Black Friday, compares it to 1873, and notes the unabated economic turmoil with no clear end in sight.
In telegraphic exchanges from Portland to Salem on May 3 Governor Pennoyer rejects federal pressure to enforce the exclusion act. He asserts Oregon will enforce its own laws and criticizes President Gresham for requesting enforcement without congressional warrant, highlighting tensions over order and civil policy.
Local note from Swan's Station North Carolina praises Mr. Epitor Hoover for his 19th inst visit, praising his address on farm organization and business agency benefits. They urge another visit, calling him the right man for the moment and lauding his stand and delivery.
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