The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-04-14

"OPO OOHO u ~ NO
the business that I am doing to make
a living. 1 am doing it for the money
there is in it and expect to keep on as
long as the christian people of this
country continue tovote for it," What
a rebuke is this to such people of
christian profession! Will they never
come to e the awful responsibility
that rests upon them in regard to the
liquor trafic-the deadly upas that is
destroying the very life Of this country!
Forest City Ledger.
According to an amendment of the
school laws of the State of Michigan,
children suffering from consumption
or chronic catarrh must be excluded
from public schools. The circumstance
is interesting, declares the Scientific
American, as a first step toward the
public recognition of a most important
truth, the fact, namely, that the dis
orders of the respiratory organs can
be propagated by direct contagion, and
that the atmosphere of a consumptive's
sick room, unless constantly venti-
lated, is apt to become a virulent lung
poison.-S1Uain County Herald.
The decrease in the importation of
wooden goods since the Mckinley bill
went into effect has been very great.
In January 1890 nearly six million
dollars worth imported, while in.
January 1891 only three and a third
million dollars worth were imported.
This not only cuts down the amOut of
goods, but also increases the price Of
those imported. The effect is that our
people in order, to enrich the Ameri-
canmanufacturers have to w~earrough,
shoddy goods, and pay as much for
them as they used to pay for better
goods.-Eastern Reflector.
The latest thing in trust is an Agri-
cultural Trust, which is being talked
of by the farmers of Iowa, Kansas,
Nebraska and Missouri, to raise the
price of wheat. If they succeed they
will have quite a soft snap to make a
good deal ofmoney. When the farmers
of the country combine and say we
will sell our wheat for one dollar a
bushel or such price as will yield them
a handsome profit on the cost of pro-
duction and will hold it for that price
they will get it. The producers are
the people who feed the inhabitants of
of the country and if they would
properly combine they can success
fully carry out any movement in that
respect and regulate the price on their
w products instead of having Wall
Street to regulate it as it now does
SmithfeId Herald.
THE P. o. TELEGRAPH n TELEPHONE
SYSTEM.
Nj. SuttOn's resolution instructing
our Senators and Representatives to
favor the use Of the telegraph and tele-
phone as adjuncts of P. O. Department
has passed the House and will doubt
less pass the Senate. This measure is
not only in the Ocala platform but has
long been the wish of the American
people. 1t has been banked and de-
MED in this country alone of all civil
lied countries, by the powerful lobby
of the Telegraph monopoly, by it's
telegraph franks to Congressman and
Senators aided by the sympathy of the
money power which has so long con-
trOlled congress and which is "solid"
on all measures which favor the classes
at the expense of the masses.
The friends of the measure do not
propose to buy up the telephone patent.
The main patent expires March, 1898,
and no act Congress can pass and
be put in force before that time
will renew it. Nor is it pro-
posed to buy out the Telegraph
company at it's watered and inflated
figure. All that justice demands is a
condemnation of their property for
public uses as that of any private
individual and payment of the actual
value of the poles and wires-nO more.
The government will not be asked to
take control of the telegraph and tele-
phone. 1t should only use them as it
does the mails and forbid their use by
others for hire. Just as now railroads
carry their own letters and individuals
send letters by their w messengers
but cannot carry them for the public
a a business. So when this change
comes railroads will still have telegraph
lines for their own business and in
dividuals also and telephone exchanges
will continue to exist in the cities for
the Use of those renting them It is