Farmers Alliances and Reform Talk in North Carolina
The article lists officers and committees of the North Carolina Farmers State Alliance and related groups, naming Marion Butler J L Gilbert W Barnes Cyrus Thompson J M Mewborne and others. It discusses farming advice, crop planning, and tax reform, urging members to attend meetings and grow corn and peas for soil and profitability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carolina Farmers’ State Alliance
J. 8
Bridges
N.C
Barnes
wiger-Cyrus Thompson
Rich
T—J.m. Mewborne
Kinston
Istant Leese
T. B. Hoover
City
Tito
T. T. Speight
Lewisx
Ts Xeeper
Geo. T. Lane
J. J. Long
Eoka
N. C
A. F. Hileman
Concord
Ele Alliance Judiciary Committee
N.M. Culbreth
Whiteville
Jota Brady
Gatesville
John Graham
Ridgeway
North Carolina Reform Press Association
Oficers
J. L. Ramsey
Eec
Sarion Butler
W. S. Jenes
Progressive Farmer
State Organ
Ral
Raleigh
N.G
Yaucasian
N.C. Mercury
Hickory
Rattler
Whitakers
Carolina Dispatch
Hertford
Our Home
Beaver Dam
Ae Cc
the Revolution
Marion
Onslow Blade
Peanut
Atling
Plough On and Stay Steady in Alliance Struggles
An open letter from N C Farmers' Alliance President urges members to attend sub alliances, seek speakers, and study the tax and political forces harming labor. It warns against plutocracy, urges mutual aid, and cites potash use and peach yellows as agricultural guidance from W F Massey and university insight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. M. Mewboorne
Pres
N. C
Farmers’ Alliance
Kinston
Congress
Vfew
Wall Street
Washington
Jefferson
Farmers Face Prosperity Misreadings in Editorial View
A brief critique of editors who claim good times for farmers based on small sales. It argues prosperity comes from earnings, not sale volume, noting the cost of production and labor value for crops like corn wheat and cotton. The piece cites the Hickory Mercury as remarking that earnings matter more than market activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hickory Mercury
They Would Be Lost: Blessings of Government Money
A Missouri World editorial argues that universal legal tender money would disappearance of millions of tramps and beggars who would vanish in the busy hum of industry. It suggests some would resist but ultimately abandon their “profession.”
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
Polk Memorial Day Address Highlights Unity and Reform
In Cumberland County a Polk Memorial Day address by Bro. McGunn discusses L. L. Polk’s legacy of charity, equality, and anti monopoly. The speaker urges funds for a monument, celebrates sectional unity between the South and West, and recalls Vance’s passing while urging forward march toward liberty and shared progress. The talk also extols agricultural education and a broad alliance aims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bro. McGunn
Cumberland County
N. C. Farmers’ Alliance
Greensboro
L. L. Polk
Christ
Rocky Mountains
Pacific
Atlantic
West
L. L Pelk
South
Pelk
North Carolina
Vance
Washington
Moses
Egypt
Red Sea
Mount of
Horeb
Carolinia
Leonidas
Polk
Convention Called by People Party in Person County
A People’s Party convention is called for June 4, 1894 at Roxboro court house to unite voters hostile to Cleveland’s financial policy and advocate silver coinage, graduated income tax, $50 per capita money, open elections, and a free ballot. Hon. Harry Skinner to address the gathering. William Merritt chairs the executive committee. Dehorning cattle is presented as humane and profitable, with legal backing and support from Ithaca NY experiment stations and Prof. Roberts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Epior
Person County
N. C
Court House
Roxboro
Grover Cleveland
People’s Convention
Harry Skinner
William Merritt
People’s Party
United States
Great Britain
Illinois Society For the Prevention
Haas
New York
Ithace
N. Y
Roberts
Bankers Bond Promises Industrial Revival and Higher Wages
An editorial argues a proposed bankers bond could channel capital to industry at 3–4 percent, lowering mortgage and loan costs for farmers and manufacturers. It predicts broad economic revival, reduced unemployment, and higher wages as credit flows to production rather than speculation. Also includes gardening notes on currants and pruning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eorror
United States
Bond
Democratic Party
National Capitol
L W. W. Guilford College
N. C
Chicken cholera remedy recipe from Farmer's Daughter
Annie Turner asks for a cure for chicken cholera and receives a fifteen year tested home remedy. The recipe combines saltpetre alum copperas sulphur in corn meal dough to treat afflicted fowls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Home and Farm
Annie Turner
Farmer's Daughter
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Itional Farmers’ Alliance
ND Industrial Union
Orsident
Marion Butler
Goldsporo
J. L Gilbert
Cali
Col
D. P. Dunne
Secumbis
8. C. of
Brandon
Virginia
I. Dean
Falls
H. C. Dem Bera
Harrisburg
Pennsylx
Judiciary
Southworth
Denver
Colo
Beck
Alabama
Yd. Davie
Kentucky
Alliance
Tou
Colon
Orance
Ericuley Coe
Mewbourne
Mr. Smith
Agricultural Department
University of Illinois
Burrill
New Jersey
Prof
W. F. Massey
Ives
Moore
Norton
Cynthiana
Brighton
Virginia Experiment Station
Delaware
Gaertner
Wyoming
Duchess
Green Mountain
Winchell
Lady Washington
Niagara
Chicken
Holera
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