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THE L0DGE-CORLISS BILL.
THE IMMIGRATION RESTRICTION
LEAGUE ADVOCATING 1T.
1t Believes That the Educational Test
Will Exclude nany Undesir.
able Immigrants.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.-Prescott F.
Hall, the Secretary and John F. Moore,
a member of the Executive Committee
of the immigration Restriction League
of Boston, are in this city to urge the
passage through the Senate Of the
Lodge-Corliss bill to restrict immigra-
ton by an educational test. The COM
mittee's last report, which shows the
effect Of immigration upon the United
States and the reasons for further re-
striction has been printed and a copy
viii be furnished each Senator and
Representative. Speaking with a United
Associated Presses reporter, Mr. Hall
said: The Lodge Corliss bill pro-
vides that all immigrants who are more
than IA years of age must be able to
read and write some language, but it
also provides that aged parents and
grandparents of admissible imlni-
grants may accompany or be sent for
by such immigrants.
The theory of the reading and writ
ing test is not that an illiterate person
may not be moral and Industrious in
particular cases, but that in general
illiterates are least desira BILE for other
reasons. Statistics show that the coun-
tries sending US the most illiterates
send also the largest number of those
ignorant of any occupation and those
who drift into our city slums and fill
our Doorhouses and jails It is be-
iieved that a reading and writing test
Will prove perfectly simple and exact
in its application and will exclude those
whose standards of living and charac-
ter are not suited to American citizen
ship.
There is a good prospect that the
Senate will pass the Lodge bill in some
form at once, and as the House has al
ready indorsed the educational test by
vote of 19o to 26. the measure seems
likely to become law at an early day.
IL viii effect a much needed reform"
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CUT HIS ARTERIES.
A Chicago Doctor Takes an Attempt
at Suicide.

CHICAGO, Dec. CDR. John Cotter.
81 years old, and unmarried, attempted
to commit suicide last evening at the
home of his cousin, John Cotter. No. 7S
Walton Place. by cutting his throat
with razor. He also severed an artery
in his right wrist
The physician was found in the bath
room bleeding profusely from his
wounds and conveyed to the Alexian
Brothers Hospital where it is said his
condition is serious.
DIR. Cotter recently came to this coun-
try from Ireland. His practice. it is said.
had not been lucrative
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callers of a political character. This
evening Major Mckinley was thorough
iy rested and in the brightest of spirits.
There will be a good many distinguished
visitors at Canton this week, though the
number Of Congressman will not be as
large as 1t has been
Michigan politicians who passed
through Canton to-day are authority for
the statement that General Alger will
be opposed in his own State and that
Mayor Pingree, ex-senator Palmer and
others may make formal protest
against his appointment to position in
the Cabinet.
1t is also stated that influences in
Michigan that are unfriendly to General
Alger will seek to have Senator Sher-
man, whose opposition to him is a mat
ter of history, oppose his confirmation
If his name be sent to the Senate as a
Cabinet officer. There is no doubt of the
fact that while General Alger is strongly
urged for a Cabinet position. there is
some opposition to him, though the ex-
tent or Importance of it has not de-
veloped.
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MCKINLEY RESTS.
General AIger to be Opposed in His
Own State for Cabinet Position.

CANTON (O.), Dec. 6.-After a week
of the hardest work he has experienced
for two months. Major Mckinley en-
joyed a day of thorough rest The sun
was bright, the skies clear and the tenn
perature agreeable. Major Mckinley
took drive with Colonel and Mrs.
Myron T. Herrick in the morning and a
walk in the afternoon. There were no
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CONGRESS OF MOTHERS.
r1rs. Adlai Stevenson and Others Go
to New York in Its Interest.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.--Mrs. Adlai
Stevenson, Mrs Phoebe A. Hearst, Mrs
w. L. Wilson, Miss Morton, Mrs. H. w.
Fuller, Mrs. Theodore w. Barney and
Miss Janet E. Richards will leave for
New York Tuesday, December Sth, and
will be at the Hotel Waldorf for two
days.
They go in the interest of the National
Congress of Mothers to be held in Wash
ington. February 16, 1897. They will
hold receptions at the Waldorf Tues
day and Wednesday evening for the
purpose of comforting with those inter-
ested in this movement, which is max
ing most gratifying progress.
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North Dakota Returns.

BISMARCK On. d., Dec. 6.-The off,
cial returns for North Dakota, long de-
layed by the storms of the past two
weeks, have finally arrived at the State
Capital and are in the hands of the Sec
retary of State. The official canvass
Will be made on Tuesday. The total
vote of the State was AZ ,3S1, of which
Mckinley received 26,336, Bryan 90
6S9, Levering 356. There were no
Palmer or Machett electors in North
Dakota. McKinley's plurality is 5,647.
Johnson, Republican, for Congress, was
elected by 166
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Will be a Secret Order.

LINCOLN (Neb.), Dec. 6-The Mary
Bryan Free Silver Club, which did much
effective work during the campaign in
behalf OF the Democratic nominee, de-
clded at a largely attended meeting held
at the State Capitol building last night
to continue the organization and at the
suggestion of Mrs. Bryan changed the
name to that of the Womens Bimetallic
League of Lincoln, Neb. The league
Will hereafter be secret order, reauir-
ing a pass word for admission. New
officers We're elected
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DAN STUART.
He Predicts That There Will Never be
Another Big Fight on This Coast.

ST. LOUIS. Dec 6.-Dan Stewart ar
rived here from Texas this evening. He
had slight recurrence of the stomach
trouble that recently allied him, and re-
manned in his rooms at the Planters
Hotel. At IL o'clock he left for New
York. During the ten minutes inter-
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view he gave to reporters he stated
that the Fitzsimmons-Sh Sharkey fight
had settled nothing, but had done much
to injure pugilism. There will never
be another first-class meeting in San
Francisco" said he. The men who
pay to see square contests will never
again assemble on the Pacific Coast.
If the affair had been under the man
agement of my club there would have
been no after proceedings in which a
law court sits in judgment"
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Killed His Employers Sons.

MEMPHIS CTenn), Dec. "a negro
named Lewis, while out hunting with
the two sons of his employer, Joseph
Williams, aged ID and 13 years, near
Pine Bluff, Ark, attacked the boys with
a knife, cutting the throats of both and
crushing the skull of the Oldest The
elder boy is dead and the other one can
not live. The negro escaped
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Henry Watterson Returned.

LOUISVILLE (Ky), Dec. 6-Henry
Watterson returned to this city tonight
after an absence of eight months in Eu-
rope. Tonight dinner was given in
his honor at the Pendennis Club Mr.
Watterson will at once resume active
charge of the Courier-Journal."
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STRIKE OF THE DOCK
LABORERS At HAMBURG.
Il Has Become a Matter Of Political
Importance.
Executive Committee of the Socialist
Party at Its Back.

Left to Themselves the Dock LabOrerS
Would Have Settled the Dispute,
But, Backed by the Socialists,
Their Demands Have Increased
Till Employers Must Submit or
Fight Out the Battle to the End
The Government May Soon be
Bound to Interfere-Desire to Sup
press Further Revelations in the
Editors Libel Suit.
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The Government Wins.

WELLINGTON On. Z), Dec 6.-The
general elections have resulted in a
victory for the Government. The re-
turns show the election of forty Govern
ment candidates, twenty-eight opposi-
ton candidates, and four independents.
All the Ministers were returned.
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Cover nor Bradley Recovering.

CINCINNATI, Dec. 6.--Two opera
tfons were performed on Governor
Bradley of Kentucky yesterday for his
throat trouble and he is unable to talk
to-day, but his speedy recovery is ex-
pected.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-08-25
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP.

The question of government owner
ship and control Of the telegraph sys.
TEN of the country is one that will beer
agitation and advocacy by working
men at any and all hours, at any and
all stages of economic discussion. Or
ganizsd labor owes it to itself toenforoe
the issue Of this question 10 every po-
litical direction. 1t meets with oppO-
sition from no other source except from
the capitalist and monopolistic classes
and from those who are influenced,
either with bribery or subsidy, to stand
against it. 1t is within the power of
labor in every Congressional district to
secure the favor of its representative
for the measure of government owner
ship and control of the telegraph sys-
tenn. Let partisan bias not interfere
in the coming canvass. Stand for
something tangible, something real,
something that will bring results. Toe
government rune the postal depart
ment in pretty good shape; the govern
ment is running thousands of miles of
railroad, through receivers, and should
take hold Of the telegraph, cheaper the
cost Of private communication on a
line with letter postage, and tear the
arms eff the octopus of monopoly.
Why should not the government
control and operate the telegraph
facilities of this country, as it does the
postal service2 WOrkingmen and all
reformers should urge this measure.
The country press IS in a position to
be very materially benefited by the
government ownership Of the telegraph
lines. The printers are agiteting this
reform, with good prospects of success.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-08-25
IGNATIUs DoNNELYs STORY.

Now, just one word more. 1 heard
people talk about the great advantage
it would be if we had the free coinage
law 80 that men could go cut and buy
silver for fifty cents and sell it for 100
cents and make the difference. Ihave
known men to spend the time speculat-
ing upon how much could be made
upon such a system.
lam going to illustrate that PROPOSE
ton by a story told of Ignatius Don
nelly. Mr.. Donnelly Cbse1 we'd two men
discussing the question in a car, and
one gentleman said tothe other freedom
age man, Don't you think it is wrong
for the government to say by law that
any man could go and buy silver for
so cents, ard after it was coined could
sell it for 100 cents and make the diff,
ference9" Aud the advocate of free
coinage said to this person, Under
free coinage any person who holds 4125
grains of standard silver can take that
silver to the mint and have it coined
into a dollar at any time. Now, if that
is true, "who," he asked, under the
free coinage of silver would sell his all.
yer for so centeY' [Gteas applause, 7
There was a silence for a moment. and
then some one says, II would" The
free silver advocate went to see where
the voice came from, and he found that
it came from q sallow faced young fell
low, sitting by his mother, and the
mother said, Don't pay any attention
to the boy, He is an idiot" Great
applause
Now, whenever n person can do
that under free coinage everybody can,
and if everybody can do that, 1 cannot
for the life of me see where the profit
is going to be. 1 cannot see who is go
ing to sell silver for less than he can
get it coined, but yet there are people
who are specializing as to the amount
that can be made by buying it at half
price. [Applause.l One of Bryan's
! speeches.
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7

We learn that certain patent medi
cine houses are sending out advertising
propositions which ought to be rejec.
ted by all self respecting papers, and
buyers should leave the medicines for
goldbugs. The Lumberton Robesonian
says it has received a proposition from
one concern with the following stipula-
ton at the bottom of the contract:
1T ip also agreed that should the
free silver candidate Bryan be elected,
the DR.. Miles Medicine Co. have the
privilege of cancelling the contract"
We are glad that Bro. McDiarmld
had the courage and honesty to refuse
the offer and expose the scheme.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-08-25
n. r. ?. A.
EDITORIAL NOTES.

A million Populists will refuse to
support Bryan if S9wall is not taken
down.
The gentlemen who are running the
Cuban war should either put up or
shut up.
Where is Senator Allen9 Is he going
to obey the convention and notify Mr..
Bryan CHcially2
Let Mr.. Sewall come down. That is
the only way to bring peace while
affairs are go threatening.
When the Alliance gets done with
the tie trust, that organiz Ition will be
as fat as the goods it makes.
In the midst of the political excite
ment we are apt to forget the Alliance
work. This should not be thus.
An exchange says there is a big revc-
luton on-that is the masses against
the rich. Mistake. 1t is the rich az ainst
the masses.
Hannaism, McKinleyisn, Cleveland
ism, SewRllism and Hobartiam are
Synonymous. Let the reform press
fight one just as hard as the other.
Just now the ~goldbugs seem to be
engaged in a lying contest. Anuanias
and Saphira couldn't hold a candle to
the ~goldbugs if they we're here now.
Wait a week and hear the truth.
1t is reported that the bankers are
manufacturing another panic. Let em
panic. Every time they panic the PEG
pie get their eyes opened an inch or
go wider. Yes, let the rascals panic!
The population of this country at
present is composed of Populists, silver
Democrats and Republicans, blamed
fools and blamed ~rascaIs. Now can't
the first three combine and whip out
the other two2
The Populists have met the silver
Democrats more than half way, but if
Sewall is not taken down q Presidential
candidate is certain. This feeling is
strong in the North and West as we'll
as in the South.
A few years ago the Democrats called
the Populists anarchists, lunatics,
~vagabonds and scoundrels. Now the
Democrats are trying to outpop the
Populiets, are very much like them, in
fact. AS the old negro oma said in
trying to tell a lady that she could see
a striking resemblance between the
lady and her child, Its got all de
symptoms you has"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-08-25

Mr.. Bryan in it's declaration that my
withdrawal would kill my party" MI.
Bryan is not "a good enough Populist'
for Mr.. Watson. By the peaceful Platte,
where all mems votes are counted, and
the dominant Republican party has
sought to cement it's power with blood
and buttress it with fraud, the lines be-
tween other parties may seem loosely
drawn. But by the dark Savannah,
with it's shameful It fl 9ction Of robbery
and wrong, the difference between
Democrat and Populist is clearly OBJ
servable to at least the Populist.
The progress of the camel will be
watched with an interest sufficient
even to divert Mr.. Bryan's attention
from "Damosthenes and a hundred
other books of cratory" wherewith he
is now preparing his Madison Square
Garden speech. We trust that some
more Democrats will ask some M, re
questions Of Mr. WatsUn-New York
Press.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-08-25
FOR BRYAN AND WATSON.

A Bryan and Watson Club has been
organized in New York City. Hon.
Thomas Cobb, of Atlanta, was present
and made a thrilling speech. He SAID
that he was a Democrat, was torn a
Democrat, and that he and a large por-
ton of the Democrats in Georgia would
support Watson and Bryan because
they preferred Watson to Sewall, n
felt IN duty bound to support Watson
in return for the Populist support to
| be given Bryan. He said: ''Sewall is
q p%Iut0crat, a national banker, q cor
poration king; Watson is a statesman
and a man of the people. Watson
stands on q parity with Bryan IN IN
t~ellect, courage, patriotism and service
to silver.
81 have waited till now before de
claring my position, hoping S9wall
| would withdraw, and believing he
would. Watson cannot withdraw, for
he was nominated to save his party.
Every silver man in the Union would
rejoice to see Sewall get out. Watson
spoke to 10, 600 Democrats in Atlanta
the other night and they cheered him
to the echo.
'Tne Atlanta Commercial and South
Carolina Headlight and other Southern
Democratic papers have declared for
Bryan and Watson, and every POpu-
list paper in the Union has stuck to the
St. Louis contract. Bryan's own State
has acted in favor of Watson and the
other Western Popuiist States have
5Shown themselves stauuch to Watson.
The Populists made the Democrats
pass an income tax law, when the
Democrats and republicans had failed
to call for it in their platforms. And
it would be law to day if it had not
been for the Influence of a little private
gold.
Lastly, let me say that the South is
not only back in the house Of its fathers
and here to stay, but we are not in the
Union as servants, as slaves. We are
equals with any section. The South
gave Marshall to the bench, Washing
ton to the sword, Jefferson to the pen
and Patrick Henry to America. These
four men did more than all others to
make the Union what it is"
Mr.. Cobb's speech wrought the little
company up greatly, and led to the
prompt and enthusiastic organization
Of a Rrvan and Watson cluh-thp fl rat
in this city.
This pledge of Democratic support
was quite a surprise to the Gothamites,
and will casue Democrats every where
to renew their efforts to get SewalL
down and out.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-08-25
THE WATSON CAMEL IN THE
BRYAN BAZAAR,

The camel is a stupid beast; but
when, in Oriental fable, it got the tip
Of it's nose into the bazaar, it rested not
in its advancement of it's cause until
there was standing room only in cor
ners for the original Persian propa,
gandist of the prevention of cruelty to
animals.
Mr.. Tom Watson has got a good deal
more than the tips of his ears into his
friend MI. Billy las he calls him)
Bryan's shebang. He has been only a
week in doing it, and when politely
asked by a trembling innate the edi-
tor of the Atlanta Constitution-as to
what his idea is of "a fair division of
electors" between himself and Mr..
Sewall, thus plunges in up to the sec
ond hump:
''Sewall can come off the ticket
without hurting his party. Ny with.
draWal would kill mine. Our people
cannot be led to the support of Bryan
and Sewall. Unless Sewall r~etires, the
AA"SSOS VI Jul parry WILL III my jug
ment, demand a straight Populist
ticket"
At this the crowded inmate feebly
gaspe: Your telegram does not an,
swer our question"
Nevertheless, it does answer the ques-
ton. It answers it with an uumistak.
able definition of Mr.. Watson's notion
of "a fair division" of electors. 1t il
that Mr.. Watson shall have all the
electors. And it shows a fine fanatical
scorn for the opportunist Populism Of
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-08-25
EUROPE HAS NO SILVER TO UN-
LOAD.

I am for free silver and gold 16 to 1.
Tnis means 81 20 per ounce for silver.
More money means better times if it
means anything, and it is not true that
silver will be cheap money. We are
the only country that can rem0netize
silver. But we must not allow England
to put the price on it for US, when she
only produces 1920, 900 and the United
States 81 500. 600, or nearly twice as
much as all of Europe, Asia, Africa
and Australia. Their production being
only $48, 000, 900, not including enough
for the small coins and the arts. There,
fore Europe has no silver to dump over
here. l wish she had. Custom house
exports show we have shipped to
Europe since January 13t of this year
%, Q63, $50 ounces. If they had it to
dump would they come here and buy 2
This is one of the goldbug's lying argu-
ments. Another is the so cent dollar.
How much value has a paper dollarY
When our government says the law is
l6 to 1, OF 81 80 per ounce, this is what
it will be quoted in London and other
European cities, less freight and com
mission. NG. II. Sutherland, In N. Y.
World.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-08-25
CHARITY.
World.

Last week we had occasion to refer
to the ruffianly treatment of a dying
man by the police and a police justice
Of New York city. This week we have
a pleasanter task to perform, the
chronicling of an incident that tends to
restore mans faith in man. On Mon
day a Mrs. Sarah HCtfmann was arral-
gned on dispossess proceedings before
Justice Bolte of that city. Hell hus,
band had deserted her about a year
ago and since that time she has sup,
ported herself and her seven small
children, the eldest not yet ten years
of age, by washing. She had occupied
the premises from whichit W~asprOpOsed
to eject her and her children six years,
paving SIP a month and was only one
month in arrears. Her landlord was
Trinity church, represented IN court
by a marshall. The poor woman made
a pitiful plea for a delay of a week.
II have seven children, " she moaned.
land because of my late sickness they
are without shoes or stockings. I could
not go to a hospital, for there was no
Ole to care for them. All l ask is a lit.
tie time to enable me to sell some
furniture to pay the rent. For pitv's
sake do hot allow them to turn me and
my little ones into the street,"
The Trinity church marshall opposed
any delay, ~whereupon he was sternlv
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-08-25
AFTER THE TIE U

Tie South Carolina AlIiancemen are
after the cotton tie trust with their
usual energy. Wire has been adopted
instead Of fat ties and the Charleston
Cotton Exchange says the bales, some
Of which have been put up, will pass
through all right. If all other Elk
changes will follow suit there will be
no doubt about the victory to be gained
by the Alliance. We feel sure that
the cotton planters, in and out of the
Alliance, will co operate and give the
trust a drubbing that it will not forget.
Let the good work go on.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-08-25
DANA DESCRIBES DR.. MOTT.

Our esteemed contemporary, The
Springfield Union, adorn8 itself ana
makes western Massachusetts happy
with a portrait Of the Hen, Jonah Jer6
miah Mott, chairman of the Silver
party and the only North CaroIInI8D
of the nineteenth century who was
born not merely with a silver spoon
but a silver trumpet and popgun IN Dis
mouth. There he is, in the picture
good enough to melt up and recon-
melancholy, bearded like a pard, Ou' "
re effective pard, a pard with Views
The high, transparent forehead 6lean'
with an almost unearthly palIor. In'
gloom of those pensive eyes IS deeP'!
than the ocean. The hand is stre0cn50
out to to greet the delegates VINO w
not come, and to grasp the future WIZ
a tragic clasp. 1t is related OF tnls e.
celIent Tar Heel philosopher tn"' ".
one occasion, in a lonely field IL
native State, he met a bull OF the most
ferocious kind, a bull with a reootI
casualties as long as a Pop pIa'Iod
The bull charged at once, and II us"G
ly style. DR.. Mott gazed into tn0'o
famed taurine orbs with his OWL Sn
fably sad and gentle eyes. "Frl0nI'
he said to the bull, "before you 90 o.,
further I wish to give you my 'U
on the crime of 1873" The bull e"Do
into those earnest eyes, began 10 W.T. Do.
bitterly, ran away at full speed w
eigh and then committed SUICIDE
china shop. 1t was a pity, for oon
had lived he would certainly a w.
converted to DR.. Motifs opinions. mo"
York Sun.