The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-12-10
EDITORIAL NOTES.


the establishment there of knitting
mill with q capital of $685. 600, and
expressed themselves as pleased with
the outlook.
The trustees of the new Protest
ant Cathedral at New York have
offered lin view of a seeming public
demanG) the site of the proposed
cathedral as a place for holding the
Worlds Fair
The editor of The PROGRESSIVE
FARMER has been absent for the past
ten days, in attendance upon the meet
ing of the National Alliance, in ses-
sion last week in the city of St. Louis.
His absence will account for a y i'm
PROJECTIONS in this issue of the paper.
= It is reported from Birming-
ham, Ala, that a Scotch chemist
named Archibald has discovered a
process by which all phosphorus may
be removed from iron and the ore
converted into Bessemer pig iron at a
cost Of only so cents a ton. The pro-
cess is said to have been successfully
tested.
= The U. S. Railway Mail Service
has inaugurated a fast mail from New
York to San Francisco. The fast train
arrives on Tuesday, practically gain,
ing a full day. The new schedule
gets the mail matter into San Francisco.
in l08 hours, As minutes, and it is so.
arranged that it is ready for carriers to
distribute the moment it reaches the
city.
* The Governors of Virginia and
Maryland, though carrying on a con
troversy about the disputed oyster
beds, maintain the best personal rela-
tions, says an exchange. Governor
Lee on Monday telegraphed Governor
Jackson as follows: "Come down and
dine with me. Over and oyster stew
we a discuss this question as the
Governors of North and South Caro-,
lima used to do"
= Roswell P. Flower announces
his intentions to present a bill in Con-
gress RELOCATING the selection of post
masters, custom house officials and in
ternal revenue collectors to the people
of the vicinage wherein their duties
are performed. Mr.. Flower maintains
that Congress should provide for the
election of those officers every four
years and that the power of the Presi-
| dent should be restricted to removal
for cause.
= The American Wool Reporter, of
Boston, published on Thanksgiving
day a petition to Congress in favor Of
free wool, signed by a column of
wool manufacturers from all parts of
the country. Eighteen of them were
from Pennsylvania, besides a formid-
able array of signers from Maine, New
Hampshire, Massachusetts,, Vermont,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York,
New Jersey, Tennessee and other
States, with some to come.
= One Congressional custom, says
the Atlanta Journal, which ought to
be prohibited by law is that of grant
ing pay to unsuccessful claimants or
contestants for seats in that body.
The contestant ought at least to be
made to show that he had good reas-
ons believe that he had been fairly
elected. It is evident that contests
are now made by defeated candidates
in the South with the prime object of
obtaining the pay that will be allowed
for an unsuccessful contest.
"a prominent Alliance official, who
has been active in establishing ALI
ance business exchanges, in an article
in the National Economist, makes this
pointed assertion: The producing
class must unite, market their own
products, and buy their own supplies.
In this way the chain that binds our
farmers to the speculative class is
broken. Credit is the strongest weapon
of the ~speculator, and the worst enemy
to the farmer and laborer. Eliminate
this and we have taken a long step to-
ward freedom.
In discussing the recent national
Thanksgiving day, in advance of its
arrival, the Athens Banner and Chron-
sc1, glancing I'VE the great work &C
complished by the Farmers Alliance,
said: with these many valuable
achievements, who can deny that the
Alliancemen's thanksgiving will be
the happiest and best of all others !?
What consolation and comfort there
is for the farmers tomorrow ! What
qualification ove the past and what
delight over the bright prospects of
the future for them
The National Assembly of the
Farmers Mutual Benefit Association
closed at MI. Vernon, Ind, on the
ed ult., with a grand public meeting
at the court house. President Moore,