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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-02
T T AND ITS PRIZE,

Will it pay to hold cotton for higher
prices7
This is a question which is just now
being considered by thousands of
North Carolina farmers. 1t is, too, a
question that we have not attempted
to answer The cotton crop is short
undoubtedly 30. And yet the price
may not advance. In quality, North
Carolina cotton is-at least, it should
be-good, for until about two weeks
ago there had been no rain to damae Q
it since the opening of the picking
season. About seven Fights of the cot
ton had been picked before this rain.
The prevailing opinion is that the
price is bound to advance. And in
this connection, the following clipping
from the New York Financier a lead
ing bankers journal my prove inter
esting. In an editorial entitled THE
Situation" The Financer says:
In considering the general charac
ter Of the situation, we have not taken
into account domestic business, which
is moving smoothly, and with an up
ward tendency. It is too early to say
what the West will do this winter, but
the farmers will pobably be heavier
buyers than for years past, and this
means that industry in the East over
the whole country will be revived even
more than at present. The low price
of cotton is an adverse feature, as is
che fall in corn, but the prices prevail
ing, especially on the first commodity,
are liable to q sharp Advance before the
close Of the gear. The country will re-
quire alarge amount of money to carry
on its business, and banks win continue
to find employment for funds" (Italics
.ours.)
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-02
VS.. WILSON


The case of .Jno. 81. Pearson VS.. s.
Ohio Wilson was tried at Raleigh, IN
Wake Superior Court, last week, Judge
Robinson presiding. The case is On.
titled Estate of North Carolina, z V.
Walser, Attorney General, ex rel; John
Fl. Pearson, Railroad Commissioner,
vs. Osho Wilson.
Judge Robinson held that only a
question in law was to be decided, viz:
HAS the Governor the authority to re-
move commissioners The case was
accordingly not submitted to a jury.
MacRae & Day appeared as counsel
for the plaintiff and r. 0. Burton, ex
Judge Spier Whitaker and ]. @. l..
Harris for s. Ohio Wilson.
On Tuesday, just after J. O. L. Harris
had concluded his argument for Mr..
Wilson, Judge Avery asked to be heard,
but Judge Robinson stated that it was
useless, as he would give judgment in
favor Of Pearson and so he did.
The counsel for Mr.. Wilson gave no
notice of appeal to the Supreme Court.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-02
A CHEERFUL OUTLOOK

Under this heading the. New York
Financeer Of last week says:
1.-THE great facts tending to increased
prosperity, according to John e.. Davis
and Co., still exist. The underlying
conditions continue to be all right. The
farmers of the West never had SO much
money. In eleven weeks to October
9Th the deposits in the Kansas City
banks increased Sc, 600, 600, or 26 per
cent. Those banks nov hold $50, OOO,-
600 of deposits, or IS per cent. more
than q year ago. So much for the
Kansas wheat crop. This is not moon
shine but cash; not a t'glittering gen
erality," but money, with which to
pay debts and freights, to buy supplies,
to renew machinery and wardrobes,
and to do the farm work for another
year. The month of August showed
an astonishing record of exports OF do,
nestle merchandise, but September
was still larger. In the latter month
the exports Of bresdstufs were twice
as great as in September, 1896, three
times as much as in 1895, and four
times as much as ia 1894"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-02
THE o S

Shall we ever return to the old whip
ping post as a mode of punishment
There seems to be a steadily growing
movement in some parts of the State
favoring its re-establishment, and we
honestly believe that a majority of
those who lived when this method Of
punishment was in force, favor it.
The whipping post indeed was a ter
ror to evil doors, and it is just possible
that a large portion Of those who now
violate the law prefer stripes on their
clothes to the stripes that abide nearer
the flesh.
Brother billiard, of the Scotland
Neck Commonwealth, is one of those
who have joined the ranks of those de
handing whipping post. In a recent
issue Of his paper, he says:
among the many needs in North
Carolina for the lessening of crime, is
whipping post. Call it barbaroUs il
you will; but if there were whipping
post in every county In North Carolina
at which proper crimes could be pun
ished with forty lashes, save one,
criminal courts would not often be
needed"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-02

calves can be had for S. or $40, and It
is probably so all over New England.
There isn't any need of our keeping
scrub" bulls because we cannot afford
to purchase fancy, registered ones. I
am now raising some fine, promising
heifers from a splendid Jersey bull that
cost me, when a calf, less than So. a
thoroughbred animal from excellent
butter stock. With such a stock ami,
NAL, of good vigor, a farmer can raise
in a few years, from his best milk pro
ducing COWS of native or any other
breed, by constantly culling out and
disposing of the poorest, a profitable
lot of dairy COWS. Many a 300 ID herd
has been built up in just this inexpen-
sive way"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-02
A GOOD HERD AT A Low PRICE

North Carolina farmers are notori
oIsly slow in purchasing good live
stock. ''They cost too much" is usu
ally the eason assigned. Concerning
this a New Hampshire man shys:
''There is no need of it's costing any
farmer a large sum to obtain q herd of
good, profitable dairy COWS. Such COWS
can generally be picked up at reason
able prices, in almost any dairy section
of the country; or they can be raised
at very little greater expense than can
the improbable sort of COWS to be
found in the barns of too many far.
mers.
It ought to be possible in almost any
OF the dairy sections, by looking around
q little, to purchase at low prices good
Jersey bull calves from thoroughbred
and large butter-producing herds.
There r several such herds but few
miles away from here, where such
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-02
ON FAIRsA !

The Raleigh correspondent or the
Richmond Times says:
1.-THE fact that Vanderbilt took sew
enty premiums and the 800 special
prize at the fair last week gives dis
tinction. The argument is that the
farmer who has a little spare cash puts
forth every eff 5rt to make a creditable
exhibit, hoping to be at least repaid
by the premium money, and he has to
compete for these premiums with a man
who has unlimited cash to make his
exhibit a perfect one. The Bitmore
exhibit could get all the diplomas and
honorable mentions, but they think
the cash prizes should go to the farm
ers."
This evil is becoming more and more
palpable. The eff, cts of it were pretty
plain this year. If the Fair is to be a
success, it must be patronizad by 1.-The
farmers who have a little spare cash."
Two great farms secured nearly all
the premiums on crops, etc., at the
State Fair this year-tIUO. The Fair Is
becoming of less and less interest TO
the farmers of the middle class-''the
farmers with a little spare money
because these big farms are choking
them out. The small farmers feel that
it is useless for them to competed for the
premiums. And if the Fair is TO be a
success, that is, if it is to be real agri
cultural fair, then small farmers must
be convinced of their error-ifi it is an
error.
OF course, the exhibits by these
wealthy owners of large farms added
much to the interest of the Fair, but
money should not be the object of these
men. If they would make exhibits and
get diplomas, and let the dollars go to
the real farmers-a specimen of hu-
manity, we hear, who vas conspicuous
for his absence at the last State fair
then the Fair would bemuch better at.
tended. There is time enough to make
some reforms in this line before next
fair.
An agricultural fair should be a fair
''for the farmers, by the farmers and
of the farmers"-not a fair for fakire
or politicians and millionaire who
simply farm for the recreation they
fiud in it.
Put a z in the middle of fair andyou
have fakir. Thus fakir could not be
"fakir" without "fair," but a fair
Can be a fair without a fakir.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-02
NO DECEPTION.
ments.' ,.

Senator PETER, speaking of Bryan in
the Topeka Advocate, says:
"Mr. Bryan is nearer us than he is
to his own party so far as his private
opinions are concerned, but he would
not be willing to so declare"
Now, if Bryan is for u.s., why should
he not say 500 The PROGRESSIVE FAR,
MER favors no man who is a wolf in
sleeps clothing, neither does it want
a sheep in VOLTS clothing. He who
is on the peoples side, let him come
over. In the language of that departed
stateman, Josephus Daniels, "Come out
from among them, my people" II
Mr.. Bryan wants the votes Of the
American people and our support, let
him define his position. Where is he
at9
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-02
N MORALS

It has been recently d~iscoveredss
two atheists were teaching In@.
schools in Mecklenburg county. p,S
Q. 81. Mebane, our Jealous and poDn"
Superintendent Of Public Instrueto,
at once declared that their certiRc,,
should be taken from them. He m,.
also that liquor sellers should not /
allowed to teach This strikes ia !
being on the right line. The tolovip
anecdote clipped from a recent isssS
the Youths Companion points a morl
San East End of London boy Of g5
years who was put on the witDg
stand, said he did not know what n
was.
DC you go to SCHOOL,
Yes, SIR
Don't they teach you that it
wrong to tell lies3'
No, SIR
What do they teach you, them
Sums, SIR
What a picture of mechanical ed
cation which cares for figures and
for faith; for marks and not for man
ness; for catch questions more than
a clear setting forth of the fundame
ais of moralityI'
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-02
"ME, TOO"

Brother Gasquo of w Salisbury
Watchman grows poetic" as he thinks
Of the subscribers paying up for their
paper. In the last issue, he gets eff
the following:
Sweet as distant bells at sunset,
Sweet as songs of joyous May
Are the footsteps of subscribers,
When they come their dues to pay"
We are not in a poetic mood just
now, but we'll say, "Them's our ssnti
ments."
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-02
FOR PARr[

An exchange truly says that.
needs to be educated tecbnio.a
his pursuit just as much AZ .
a physician or an engineer no.s s
educated for his profession
are jack-leg lawyers, quack hS
and incompetent engineersD = t0''
"just as there are poor farno ~
for the same reason. The s'as Y
farmers-the ones who rise ahoS
average-are they whose
knowledge of farming is built r n'
supplemented by a Theoretical RL@a
edge of the principles of farmina
Some farmers oppose eduaot.
the grounds that it is the e5pa'
man who is cheating the farmo,
so much now. This is Just so ~S
reason why farmers need morn :,
ton. Educated farmers can IooS sa
their own interest. Thew can
sent farmers in all of our lepiIT'p
bodies. When farmers, as a class !,
better educated, we shall 10 Io.'
need lawyers and professional ~,
clans for these places. Education :
weapon. Because one has NM =
weapon, he must not say it is viii
to possess or use it. Rather lot !
secure the weapon himself that bs~
compete with the other fellow,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-02
WHY DON'T THE SHOE FACTORY
STARTa

The State Alliance Executive Com
mittee met last Friday on call Of Chair
man Denmark at Headquarters. All
were present except Capt. Bro. Flem
ing, who had sickness in his family,
and Bro. Hileman. Bro. Parker the
new State Business Agent who took
charge OF the Agency yesterday, was
with them. They found the factory
and everything mi had been arranged
and with steam up your Committee
had a clear, convincing, demonstration
that there Was a surplus of machinery,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-02
IN THR GOOD OLD DAYS.

After copying u article, ''SOme
More News" from our issue of the 10 b
uIt. relating to Encouragement of
the Secretary of the States office be
fore DR.. Thompson took charge, the
Winston Republican comments as fol
lows:
The above clipping is from THE
PROGRESSIVE FARMER of last week.
We ask our readers to read it over
carefully, scan each item and see if it
is not the ~cleverest illustration of clean,
honest government, along the lines of
white supremacy, that they have
ever witnessed. What books not bal
anced and checks, postal notes, money
orders and even cash thrown around
loose. Money Wrung out of the scanty
earnings Of the people, handled thus
carelessly, and this same set Of fellows
bowling Justify to be re instated in the
favor of the people, to be indicted into
the Offices again from which the PEG
pie drove them for their outrageous
4W6S OOW4 04NG4 B40 GOIAA5 III
law and without it. No wonder that
our schools grew shorter while the tax
burdens nearly doubled. No wonder
that the people groaned until the Yves
tern North Carolina Railroad had to be
sold to quiet their murmuringa and to
relieve their burdens Of of taxation for
just one year. No wonder that the
people we're willing to try fusion rule
Ves even Republicans and Populists)
to escape the tRskmasters who had
s~quandered g, 500, 600 of the peoples
money on the Penitentiary alone and
now r claiming that it was self,sus
tanning, If the people listen to the
siren song Of the News and Observer.
and suffer themselves to be blinded to
their own best interest by the CIV Of
negro domination and next year return
to power the crew who have been plum
dering the State for 30 yearu then they
will deserve their fate and should stop
their croaking.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-02

A notice which we keep standing at
the head of our editorial columns says
says that we want intelligent CORE
spondents in every part of the State
Tell us what is happening In your
neighborhood. If it's only a brief item
send a postal card. We shall be glad
to get up a good club of postal card
contributors. Help US out in our vari
GUS departments. Admission free
.Ooen to all,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-02
GOV. ATKINSON AND LYNCHtNGs

Gov. Atkinson, of Georgia, in his
message to the legislature last week,
takes a bold stand against lynching.
Innocent men, he says, have been
lynched in Georgia, even during his
own administration. He urges the
legislature to do all in it's power to put
an end TO this la Wlessness.
Among other things, Gov. Atkinson
says:
81. feel the more deeply upon this
question because from the best infor-
nation I can secure, I believe that dur
ing my administration there have been
in this State several men lynched who
were not guilty of the crimes with
which they were charged. How many,
can never be known, for their tongues
are hushed, and they are denied an
opportunity to prove their innocence.
I am informed that one man, whom
the mob believed to be guilty, was shot
down. A question then arose as to his
identity and he was sailed down like a
hog, shipped to the location of the
crime and found to be the wrong man
AN innocent man."
As we have said before, much of the
power to prevent the recurrence of
lynchings lies in the hands of the Gov
errors of the various States, and it is
their duty to see that nc opportunity
to strike a blow at lawlessness goes
unimproved. Gov. Atkinson points
out another evil of lynching which is
little considered. This is that when an
innocent man is lYnched for a crime it
serves to protect the guilty. The mem
bers of the mob, their friends, etc.
to justify themselves, strive to impress
upon the people that the right man has
been punished. Thus, If the mob has
in its haste and passion punished the
wrong man, the members of the mob
by striving to convince all that the
lynched party was the right one, shield
the guilty person who often times
goes unsought and unsupported. Gov.
Atkinson says a prisoner should be
given an opportunity to defend him
self against the violence of a mob.
These are his exact words:
THE arresting officer is now clothed
with authority to take the life of the
a~asailants when resisting their efforts
to take a prisoner from his custody,
and it is his duty to take life if neces-
sary to protect the prisoner and retain
him in custody. This he should be re.
quired to do at the hazard of his own
life, or the prisoner should be WnshGck
led, armed. and giUen an opportunity
to defend himself. The knowledge on
the part of the mob that this would be
done would deter it from pursuing It's
lawless purpose, and the law would be
permitted to protect the innocent and
punish the guilty"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-02
N. E. p. a.
EDITORIAL NOTES.

: Gas friable as a campaign pledge is
likely to become a proverb IN America
at no distant day.
We have received many new sub
scriptions~ recently. Can't gOu send us
one or two9 We hope that every n
of our readers will send US one new
subscriber before December /. Write
US for samples and subscription blanks
f Owing to the absence of Editor Ram
sey, subscribers will please excuse the
absence Of spicy editorials. His as
sistant-a less Joyful" and Laughing"
personege-in fact a Calamity Howl
ing Populist" is an amateur editor, and
subscribers must wait for rich things
until next week.
4 We have received from the Macmil
y Ian Co.. &c Fifth Avenue, New York, a
copy of Sketches from old Virginia"
by A. G. Bradley. 1t is quite an in
teresting volume and treats Of Virginia
as it was in ante bellum days. These
sketches are true to life and will
be enjoyed by all who love to read
plantation lore and memories of ''ole
Virginny" in the days ''befo' de wah."
Price 81 so.
It is said that there is another vari
ETY. of cotton almost if not quite exact.
ly the same as the famous Jackson
Limbless cotton which is selling for
much less. Director Redding, of the
Georgia Agricultural Station, says the
Jackson variety is a good thing, but
$50 a pound is too much entirely. He
says: THE whole thing is simply a
scheme to sell the seeds of a fairly good
variety of cotton at an unc 0nscionably
~exorbitant price. Welborn sells them
at 60 per bushel or possibly less, Jack
son wants 81 per hundred seeds, or $50
per poundl The tale about the seed
having been introduced by q Wander
ing jew" who found them on a bush
growing wild on the banks of the Con-
go, in Central Africa, is simply q
yarn" We should like to hear from
the Atlanta Constitution on the mat,
ter.
The way in which President McKin-
ley has acted regarding the declaration
Of the Republican convention pledging
him to promote international bimetaIl,
ism, again calls to mind the friable
nature Of campaign pledges. The
President did appoint a commission
ostensibly looking to this, but about
all that was required of them was to
accept the appointment. And while
they-as representatives Of the Presi-
dent-Were abroad, it was said to labor
for ~bimetallism, the President himself
was here doing all in his power to
fasten the gold standard upon us. Eng
land has justly treated the whole affair
as a huge joke. 1t is, however, a costly
joke, and a joke at the expense of the
American people. This pledge was put
in the Republican platform simply as
g bait for suckers, and it caught them.
And we'll wager a jug Of buttermiIk
that these same dupes will shut their
yes K the truth and get in line to be
deceived again.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-02

The minister was a great ham
s~haker-shutting down like a vie
One day he took a boys hand andg
it an awful squeeze as he said: NJ
little fellow, I hope you are pretty vel
to day" With tears in his eyes, Hl
boy answered: II wass till you sh0i
hands with me. "-Ex
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-02
WHAT AN EDITOR SAYS.

Lives Of poor men oft remind us, hoDs
toll don't stand a chance;
More we work we leave behind US By
ger patches on our pants,-
On our pants once new and glossy, no'
patched up of different hue,
All because subscribers liuger OBJ
won't pay us what is due.
Then let all be up and doing; send you
mite however small,
Or when the SHOWS Ct winter ssrlEeu
we shall have no pants at all!
After LONGFELLOW-a lOng ways aIa
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-02

F- Listen a minute. We haze q re.
quest to make. When you read this
CODY of The PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
hand it TO q neighbor and get his sub.
scription. He'll never regret it. and
when he has taken the paper a wear,
he will thank you for asking him 10
subscribe.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-02

The way agricultural % fairs
ara being managed in the North, is
well illustrated by the following re
ference to a New York county Fair by
the American Agriculturist:
although avowedly an agricultural
show, the announcement did not make
a single reference to farm products,
blooded stock, women's work, farm
machinery or any other thing in which
the better class of country people are
interested. An ex-pugilist gave an ex
hibition of sparring, a vitascope re
produced life-size pictures of a prize
fight, fifteen distinct shows brought to
mind the most disreputable features Of
the Midway Plaisance, midair trapeze
performers, with men who dived from
an elevator into q tank of water, were
the leading attractions"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-02

Our readers will be interested IN
knowing that of the 1,042. GIL bales
consumed by Southern mills 258, 92S
bales were taken by the mills of North
Carolina, which is about ~one-fourth
the whole taking of Southern mills, as
will be seen by the following state
ment of the consumption of Southern
mills bV States:
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-02

Last patterns, ETC., but still some very
important machines we're lacking.
Much of the machinery being especially
suited to fine work and ladies, misses
and children's shoes, while for heavy
work our mems shoes, and in fact the
standard shoes we wish to to make,
the machinery, patterns and lasts are
unsuited. It was the unanimous yer
dict of all present that 0 machin-
cry, lasts, etc, would have to be put
in before any work could be done, and
the Superintendent was authorized to
take a trip North to select what was
needed, and to dispose Of what we have
that we cannot use. To make this
exchange and get started may
require three or four weeks, when this
is done you will surely hear from us.
There is enough superhuous machinery
etc in the factory to more than pay
for what we must have to do the work,
and leave a margin to the credit to the
factory If a fair exchange can be made.
The Committe is determined to start
the factory at earliest possible mo
ment. but is not going to rush blindly
forward and have to stop inc week. 1t
is their earnest purpose to make it a
success and to do this they r deter
mined to be sure they are right before
they start, and to be prepared to fill
vO1P orders for the shoes Won need
thereafter. -
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-02

While the increase was Is 2 per cent.
for the whole South, the increase in
North Carolina was only II II per cent.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-02

This from an exchange is StroDg
and tersely put, but not too muchpa
haps: eff a man had a $50 pupH
would look after it and not let tfI
around all night over town. But Il u
has a boy it is different. He is tuEnS
loose at a tender age to go to the Os'l
At all events the boy ought to be g''l
an equal showing with the bull Pup,
Father, mother, does this apply ID y''
case9 Where is your boy atnighT