The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-01-07
COULDN'T GET 1T ON A POSTAL
CARD.
Bro. Tohn McDufhe Writes Many Kind
Things About This Paper--It Will
Strive to Deserve Them.
FAYETTEVILLE, n. =.
Mr. j. ". DenmGTk,
Raleigh. n Q.

Raleigh. n Q.
DEAR BRoTHER:-I read your letter
to the Alliance aud reform brethren IN
TuE FARMER recently,
asking for an expression of their vie VS.
az to the worth of that paper, and for
criticisms and remarks generally IN
regard to it's past course, its future out
look, etc, etc, to be written you on a
postal card.
I feel the subject to be of such mo
ment that 1 avail myself of other means
than a postal to express my views.
Perhaps the best illustration that l
can give YOU of the value that I set
upon this paper, as is made up unde
the present management, is that out OF
a dozen papers, dailies and weeklies,
that come to my house, including some
of the leading papers of each OF the
great political parties of America, HE
PROGRESSIVE FARMER is the only n
that I have the back of which bound
with cloth on the sewing machine and
carefully sewed on to its fellows, In
book form, and carefully preserved for
future reference. That | would tax
IS. or even SO, for one of these volumes
containing a years issue of The Pro
GREssTvE FARMER is too preposterOus to
talk about.
For several years 1 read The PRO
GREssIvE FARMER, through a newspaper
exchange I carried on together with a
near neighbor or two, but became 80
impressed with the value of this paper,
from several standpoints as a farmers
unerring friend and guide, that 1 be
came a subscribers for my own special,
private use-neither lend nor borrow"
l wish every farmer in North Caro-
lima could really know, as I do, the
great cost of running a paper like The
PROGRESSIVE FARMER, without having
to pay for the knowledge, as I have,
however, and l feel confident that 70
many earnest appeals would not have
to be made to have them pay up their
Arrears; nor could they be induced to
compromise the debts due the paper
for less than 100 cents in the dollar.
Ny experience, in the cost of a weekly
Daper, came from the necessity we felt
o have a county paper 20 help along
he reform movement in the campaign
8f 1894; and l then learned, by costly
experience, thata paper of the make up
-of THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER, could not
be run without great loss to the pro
prietor, at one dollar subscription price,
unless thousands of paid up subscribers
were enrolled upon it's books, together
with a good advertising patronage
With my experience l am able to say
that there is no weekly paper within
my knowledge, certainly not for less
than double the price, that gives 50
much original matter set up in type by
its printers as The PROGRESSIVE FAR
MER. a large number of the weeklies
are made up with cheap patent out
sides, with much Of the inside made
up with cheap plate-matter, obtained
by gettingimpressions on melted metal,
composed of something looking very
like lead and bRbbitt metalmixed,
from the type that has been set up for
large city dailies. So that the average
editor of the weekly paper of today,
outside of a few columns in what is
called ''Tne Home Side, knows as lit
tie about what is going to appear in his
paper before it c0mes from the press as
does his readers With this knowl.
edge, I must confess to much anxiety,
for several months, as to the welfare
of The PROGRESSIVE FARMER, for any
one having but little newspaper expe
rience can see at a glance that there is
no short cuts taken in the makeup of
that paper, and that it must have the
united support of the farmers of North
Carolina, especially of those standing
ny the reform movement, to stay in the
= field and maintain its present high
I standard.
That it is the finest, the greatest and
noblest weekly in the South goes with
put saying. Is this not a matter to fire
a farmers heart with pride, to think
: that the paper which is distinctly the
organ of his class and his cause has no
superior In any respect.
In speaking of the future Of The Pro
GREssIVE FARMER, if the past is to be
taken as our criterion, how great it
will be.
Who that has read The PROGRESSIVE
FARMER for the last sever years and
has noted the progress of the reform
movement made under its leadership,
can lnnk nnnn IL with less than the