The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-12-01
H WORLDS FAIR.
Board of Agriculture Should See that
North Carolina Is Represented.


North Carolina Is Represented.
Mr.. EDITOR:-It has been said by
the partisan press THAT it was bung-
ling legislation which pretended to
supply an appropriation with which
North Carolina should go into line at
the great Columbian Exposition to be
held at Chicago; that it vas lever in
tended to mean any such thing; that 1t
it was meant it was q sufficient evl-
denCe that farmer legislation always
fails to accomplish the ends aimed at"
Much of such Chaffy nonsense has eme-
mated from those who love to belittle
the honest effort of an honest people to
right their wrongs and to encourage
their weaker brethren to hope for bet
ter things through organized and united
effort. But we brush aside, as I'M
worthy, such unmanly sentiments, and
declare now and here that the great
mass Of the Alliance, as organized in
North Carolina, is as broad, progressive
and aggressive andas patriotic as tb Ose
who have not the privilege of entering
our ranks. The efforts of the last
General Assembly (Which was a farm
ers' legislature in the sense that it vas
composed of farmers) to supply funds
wherewith the State should be repre-
scented at Chicago, vas an earnest,
honest effort, based upOnth judgment
of those best able to advise; 1t was the
c~Oncensus of the best opinions then,
that the direct tax fund would be avail
able, Oh enough at least to meet the
appropriation of $25, 600, called for in
the Act. That legislature was honest
in trying to provide the necessary
means for this most important step.
Tho fa VJD0op- Uh0 rOCn1 +ho+ h0Hu
said the State could not afford to miss
this greatest of all opportunities. They
meant 1t then and they meal it now,
though the effort has been abOrtive.
So far as we are informed, the direct
tax fund will not be available at all
could not be fer six years, were it all
left in the treasury. The State Board
of Worlds Fair Managers have met
and proposed private subscription.
This strikes us bow as impracticable.
1t would, in such event, be the town
that gave the most, on top. What the
people want is a misrepresentation of
all the resources of the State, set in the
most attractive manner.
The Farmers Department, under
the control OF the State Board Of Agri
culture, has heretofore borne the whole
burden Of holding eXpOsitiOnS; that
OOafU went 10 AUIaIlLd, 10 DO on, 10
Raleigh and to New Orleans. 1t was
the agricultural emement Of progress
that prompted those efforts which have
accomplished so much for the State
Take the stimulus given manufacture
ing alone as an example. It is more
than double since 1888. when the State
made a ten strike at Boston through
the efforts of the Board Of Agriculture.
So far as we know, the Board of Agri-
culture has as much legal authority
o as it had in the past for making
these displays, and we think it only
right to demand of them a continual
tiOn of this work. 1t has the sanction
of the last Assembly, it has the endorse
ment OF the last State Alliance and it
must be done. We trust that the Board
of Agriculture, at it's next December
meeting, will assume the responsibility
and begin to push the work. Those
who think the Alliance is not a patri-
otto, progressive organization, en-
~deavoring to promote the welfare of
all the people, are only deceiving them
selves. ELIAS CARR.