The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-03-28

President intended to get down on his
knees and deliver the Office, and an
other man got that position. Now the
Major is at sea" in S~tatesvilIe. Cheer
up, Major. The Governor of the great
tarheel State is still appointing notaries
public now and then.
~ We want to ask some of our non
partisan exchanges a question. If sup
ply and demand put up the price of
cotton in November why is it that the
price is down now when the supply is
much shorter than it was in Novem
Der and the total visible supply" is
more than a million bales less than it
was at this date last year.
~ The Hickory Mercury was two
years old last week. 1t is an excellent
local newspaper aud in addition is lev
81 headed and jealous in the reform
cause. The Mercury deserves a much
larger circulation in Western North
Carolina than it has, and we trust
that the farmers Of that section will re
alize this and act accordingly.
~ A New 70 k scientist has figured
it out that the millennium is nigh at
hand. Of course it is. The Republi
| cans and Democrats are already lying
down together at Washington. 1t
| won't be much trouble now for the
lien and lamb to begin to snooz in
each others arms and the job will be
complete. Just as soon as Grover and
his Wall street friends get all the
money, the show will begin.
* CIeveland's new Secretary of
Agriculture, Sterling Morton, is a rail
road man. He is also a cousin Of
Brigham Young, of Poligamy fame.
He is an a~ristocrat, and has often said
that there should be no United States
Board of Agriculture. AS an etomolo.
| gist and farmer he will be a failure.
! He will not even tell the farmers that
the gold bug does them more damage
than all the chinch bugs and potato
bugs in existence.
~ The Durham FeTtilize r Company
has an advertisement in this issue, to
which your attention is invited. For
three years this company has been
manufacturing the North Carolina AL
| lance Official GuanO upon the fOrmu-
Ia aud under the directions Of our State
Business Agent, and it can be safely
and truthfulIy said that no other brand
Of commercial guano has given more
| general satisfaction. II AIliancemen
VIII buy guano they should buy this
brand.
~ The Warrenton Record publishes
resolutions adopted by Jones Spring
Alliance, Warren county, which is no
thing but a respectful protest, but says
its columns will be closed to such mat
! ter hereafter. Wonder if the farmers
Of Warren county are not a part Of
the population and @ large parv Won
| der if they are not entitled to q hear
ing through the columns of a county
newspaper ? Wonder if the farmers
will quietly allow themselves to be i'm
posed upon by people they support di-
rectly or indirectly much longer?
~ The Farmers Advocate, of West
Virginia was decapitated by the State
Alliance last fall and is no longer it's
organ. 1t bowls bitterly every week.
1t now wants the conservative ele
ment" to r~eorganiz9 the Alliance and
make it Democratic. 1t says the Pop
ulists captured the State meeting, and
that the conservatives" must blame
themselves for not attending and keep
ing matters straight. We'll, why didn't
they attend ? The Farmers Advocate
and"its Wall street mate, published
at Washington are both lin the soup"