The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-06-17
EDITORIAL NOTE

*. Bro " O1tu, State Business
Agent, came back from Chattanooga
Satur lay
Mr.. NJ. j. Ham, Of Wayne
county, who was a member of the
last Legislature, writes that he did
not ride on a free pass, though a pass
was offered to him several times.
The Old Homesteat, published
at Savannah, Ca. comes for this
month well filed with a great amount
of original reading matter. It is one
of the best family magazines in the
country,
The Western North CarohnGan
is a new paper just started at Brevard,
Pennsylvania county. Edwin A.
Aiken is editor and proprietor. 1t
makes a fine start and deserves good
patronage.
A telegram from Washington
City on Saturday informed us that the
State Alliance in North Dakota and
Wisconsin had voted for consolida
ton with the National Alliance. No
particulars.
Lay away the four papers con
tanning articles on successful farming
and also future papers. The first ar-
ticle was an account of Capt. William
sons stock farm. Read and re read
these articles. They will do you good.
There two great parties in this
country-the one is the people, the
other Wall street and it's tools. And
the great issues at stake between them
dwarfs all other parties and party
issues into utter insigni6cance. Choose
We whom we will serve.
- The Commonwealth Club, of
Durham, have sent out handsome in
vitations to the editors of the State
saying that they will be pleased to
have them as their guests during the
Press Convention to be held there
from the 23d to the 25th of July.
"Your Sub Treasury bill would
not do" says the Congressman to the
farmer. But the old Hayseed So
cialist " asked: "Well, why did you
not fix it so it would do, or get up a
better one for us 2" And the Con
gresham sat down as dumb as a clam.
- It is said there are at least FIVE
lawyers in the Sixth Congressional
district who are trying to lift lawyer
Rowland out of his Congressional
seat. The farmers of that district
should step in as peace,makers and
settle this scramble am .ng our legal
brethren.
One Of our western agricultural
papers says cit is apparent that there
is a need for the farmers to form
themselves into some kind of an or
ganization." Poor creature! You
have been taking a Rip Van Wrinkle
sleep. 1t is a wonder that you didn't
sleep a hundred years longer.
-. A woman in St. Matthews town
ship, Wake county, plows goa. Last
year she made a bale of cotton, p
barrels of corn, four bushels of peas
and IS bushels of potatoes. In ad-
dition to this she has a good garden.
Some men who work good horses or
mules don't do much better than that.
x. A wild man has been discov-
cred in the woods Of Canada. He
wears no clothing and IS hairy like a
bear; can run on ali ours and bark
like a dog. There is n.,rhing strange
about that. He is p'""ably one of
our North Carolina politicians who
has gone crazy for fear the Alliance
will go into politics.
= An exchange says the annual
consumption of sugar in the United
States is 16, 900, 900 tons. If our
population is "a, 900, 900, then each
human being uses 500 pounds of
sugar, There must De some mistake
about the figures. There is too many
sour people in this country if they do
use sweetenin' at that rate.
* The qu~intesence of good gov
eminent is "the greatest good to the
greatest number" but all to the few
and nothing to the many," is now the
rule. W. have been led to think that
one of the highest aims of government
should be to make men, but our gov.
eminent seems of be engaged now in
the work of making miHIOnadres.
Just now leading Democratic
papers are abusing the Alliance and
its officers and charging that it is to
be the ally of the Republican party.
while leading Republican papers
charge that it is "a Democratic trap >
and its officers are worshipping sat
the shrine of JEFF. Davis, Bob Lee
and the rebel flag" How hard some