The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-04-04
OUR NEW HOME.

Our friends will now find us located
at No. 122 Fayetteville street, half a
block from the State capitol grounds,
opposite A. Williams & Co.'S book store.
By this move friends need not infer
that we are putting on style, but we
will be conveniently and comfortably
located, the change being necessary on
account of the probable sale Of the
property on Hargett street formerly oc,
cupied. Bro. w. H. Worth will occu-
DIV the first floor Of the building. Bro
Barnes will occupy the second floor
with is.
While on this line we will say that
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER is still lead
ing the procession. AS a paper it knows
neither friend nor foe-Duty is the
watchword. Truth, justice and the in
terests of it's thousands of patrons is
what it is published for. 1t is now a
permanent fixture in thousands of
homes all over America and many Of
it's patrons say they will never consent
to do without it. All classes of people
are patrons, butt paper in Amer
lea has q more intelligent or patriotic
constituency. Ii we modestly claim
that this is because the paper is reliable
because it is consistent, surely no one
will object, for it could not hold such
a patronage without merit. Many do
not agree with US, but remember that
better people have been criticised ever
since the world began. THE PROGRESS
sTvE FARMER has gone Through the
fire in the last twelve months. It has
withstood all the pressure brought to
bear, comes forth and is yet frs in
the hearts OF the people" Why Be-
cause it is honest. 1t does more for the
educational and industrial welfare Of
the people. 1t is fearless. 1t gives
more agricultural matter than any pa
per in the southeast, except the regular
agricultural m%onthlies. 1t gives more
news, more correspondence, better Sc
lected matter than any paper in the
southeast, the metropolitan blanket
sheets not excepted. It's editorials are
read and quoted in the press from
Maine to California. The various
newspaper unions throughout the
country use It's columns freely in max
ing ready prints" Recently the Char
IotteO Observer said ~editOrially that THE
PROGRESSIVE FARMER is not a legiti-
mate newspaper enterprise" The wri
ter learned many ideas about journal
ism from the editor of the Observer. He
is as good an all round journalist as
can be found in America. He began as
devil" in a printing office and knows
every step from that position to the
brilliant editorial desk. But he makes
mistakes and the above assertion was
one of them. This paper was started
seven years ago without capital, with
out a subscriber without q pound of
type or a shooting stick" 1t has lived
during that time, been exceedingly lib
eral, mas given it's patrons much, and
has as good credit as any paper In
North Carolina to day. It's circulation
grew gradually until it had three times
as many subscribers as any paper ever
published in the State. At one time in
the space of five weeks, since the wri
aer's connection with it $500 paid sub
scribers were put on the books. That
was phenomenal growth for this coun-
try, but actually occurred. No other
paper in this State ever had that many
paid subscribers in a lifetime. This
paper has lost patronage because it
kept il the middle of the road. 1t has
lost patrons from the other side be
cause it would not pursue an extreme
policy. But the loss of patrons from
either side has never affected its policy.
1t started out to publish the truth and
succeed or fail. This it has done re
CARELESS Of consequences.
We again thank our friends for
standing by us. We want and need
more subscribers, A paper this size
cannot grow rich at the price, even
with an immense subscription list so
our friends need not fear anything of
that sort, and will confer a favor by
increasing our list all they possibly can.