The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-08-27

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earnings and profits of their honest
labor. I. for one, shall rejoice to
see the day when the farmers OF the
South and of the whole land, shall,
with one voice, demand the same pro-
lection for the products OF the farm
as is extended to the products OF any
other class of our citizens. Equal
rights to all and special privileges to
none is one of the fundamental prln'
ciples underlying our form OF gov
eminent, and upon which we mustre-
form, reconstruct and re establish
our economic systems n u
civilization. And, first, a
restoration of a proper n
Just equilibrium between the great IN
dustries of the country is necessary.
We must have more farmer leglsla-
tors, more farmer Congressman, more
farmer Governors, more farmer Fres-
idents, and a higher and nooier type
of moral manhood IN high places.
Our form of government and our tree
institutions are on trial, and among
their advocates and defenders none
will be found more faithful than those
whom this body represents here to-
day. We have "come up out of great
tribulation;" our humble possessions
are the results of honest toll and our
hands are unspotted by the
rapine of avarice or the
plumber of the helpless. Removed
from contact with foreign ideas and
foreign thought, the Angio.Saxon OF
the South, stands to-day, the highest
type and purest representative Of the
American idea of free government
and of the old Angle-Saxon love for
civil liberty, and the work before
them is as prodigious, as its accom-.
plishment shall be grand and glori.
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The address was listened to with
earnest attention, and the speaker
was frequently interrupted with out.
burts of applause.
There was an interesting discus.
sion of the mortgage and lien laws,
participated in by a number of dele
gates.
The following resolutions were of.
fered and adopted:
Whereas, there is an effort made
by combines and trusts to defeat the
express will of the cotton planters, as
given out by various conventions OF
representative men, as to the use OF
cotton bagging as wrapping for our
present crop of cotton; and whereas,
it's use will encourage home industries
and manufacturers; and, whereas, we
regard it as an infringement of our
personal liberties to say that the pro.
Queer shall not choose his own wrap,
ping for his products; and whereas, it
may be to the interest of the Liver
pool Cotton Exchange to encourage
jute because it is grown in the Eng
lish dominion, and whereas, it is the
interest of Americans to use their
own cotton and save millions of CAPT
tai to u own country; Therefore,
be it resolved.
First, That we recommend the use
of cotton bagging to our cotton
planters and that we will not use jute
bagging under any circumstances.
Second, That we return thanks to
the several commissioners of the
Southern States and Secretary Rusk
for their interest in behalf of the cot
ton planters in securing the co-opera-
ton of the American Cotton Exchange
in recommending the use of cotton as
wrapping and equalizing the rate of
tare, so that the actual weight of bag
ging OF wrapping represents tare.
Senator Reagan is down for q
speech on transportation and it's re-
lation to agriculture" The Hon. w.
J. Greene, of North Carolina, will
speak on 1.-THE grape industry of the
South" To,night1s session is de-
voted to hearing an address from DIR.
Leroy Brown, president of the State
Agricultural College, on the subject
of Industrial education" A great
many delegates arrived tonight and
the meeting will be much larger to-
morrow.