The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-04-30
EDITORIAL NOTES.

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our order are playing q shrewd little
game. They attack us through the
Columns Of political journals and seek
to deceive the public by claiming to
be friends or members of the Alliance.
One of these tried his hand In the
Wartenton. Gazette, and two of the
brethren, 81. E.@W. and &C. Fits,
literally :: sailed him down.
Nothing is done on a small
scale along the Great Lakes. Detroit,
Mich, is one of the wide-awake Ameri-
can cities. 1t will hold an Interna-
tional Fair and Exposition, beginning
September 18th, to run ten days,
They have bought a site for which
S150,O00 was paid and on which they.
Will erect buildings that viii cover
fourteen to sixteen acres and will pay
Out 500, 900 in premiums.
=. Just like him. Bro. D. Reid
Parker tells us that the Randolph
| County Alliance will hold its next.
quarterly meeting in the chapel of
Trinity College on the 4thj 9Th and
9Th of July, and in connection with
the meeting will be- held'5 a Model
Farmers INSTITUTE He serves notice
on the editor of The PROGRESSIVE
FARMER in due and legal form to be
there, He is one of the incorrigible,
irrepressible and interchangeable Alliance
workers, and we are not afraid to say
in, advance, that it will not only be
interesting and profitable, but that it
will excel any occasion of the kind
that has yet occurred in our State.
Let every farmer within reach of
Trinity College be there. 1t will do
them good. ~, >a BE
We we're greatly gratifed at
the action of our Legislature whensit
incorporated a clause in the statute
allowing the elementary principles of
agriculture to be taught in the COM
mon schools. A friend asks us if any
text books suited to our Southern
agriculture are published. We an
swer that Prof. F: A. ,Gulley, director
ofrthe Agricultural Experiment. Station
of Texas, has published one, and also
DR.. Lupton, Professor of Chemistry
in the Agricultural and Mechanical
College of Alabama. This subject
was thoroughly considered and dis
cussed in the meeting of the National
Alliance and a most admirable report
was made to that body by an able
corhmittee it and adopted the following:
Resotved, That we recommend that
each State Alliance memorabilia it's
Legislature and most earnestly petition
It to pass some law requiring the in.
str9ction of the children attending all
public schools as herein recommended.
r.
An admirably written and very
interesting letter from our Michigan
correspondent will appear next week.
He makes many practical and pertinent
enquiries regarding the social and in
dustrial condition of our section. He
says in a private letter that he is re-
ceiving large numbers of letters from
our people to whom he has been SO
kindly introduced through The Pro
GREssIvE FARMER. "Kin0, whole
souled letters from a whole-souled
people. They write fatteringly and
hopefully of help from the North.
Well, it is sad, but true, that we the
farmers of the North are being crushed
slowly but surely. An average of
s per cent. for money and 55 per cent.
of the farms of Michigan mortgsged.
You are doing a great and grand
work, fighting our battles so h~eroically
in The FARMER" The farms of the
great West mortgaged, the farmers
of the East throttled by the products
of Europe, which are shipped to their
doors at a less price than it costs them
to make them, the farmers of the9
South making a crop for the wh6lei
world, over the pricesof which they
have no control, with an unparalleled
stringency in money matters and a
treasury groaning and ovHrfowing
surplus Millions with money
going. begging in great commercial
centres at three to four per cent. and
cannot be had in the rural districts
for less than double and q~uadruple
that rate, surely there is a great work
to be accomplished. But The Pro-
GRKssIvE FARMER has no hope that it
can or will be done, until the farmers
of this country-North, South, East
and West-shanj join their hands and
hearts In the resolve that we mast and
tOiU haze reform. Il
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