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Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-01-14
Foraker Glad IFS En- led.

. WASHINGTON, Jan. IL When asked
his opinion on the subject of the first
days balloting in the Ohio senatorial
situation, Senator Foraker said: 1.-The
contest has been extraordinary in many
respects and all who have the good OF
the party at heart must be glad it is
ended. The feeling that has been
aroused has been very bitter, but I
trust that natural conditions will soon
obtain, and that united party will DO
the result
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-01-14
CONGRATULATE HANNA.

was cleared.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-05-17
war Nornk m

r. -E-TL E1 Ma -
LIThe demand for United States flags
i UNPRECEDENTED. 1Whoiesale houses
report that they are unable to supply
the demand.
GgsDain has 18 600. 900 people. The
United States has 20, coo, 600 OF Spaiu's
eighteen million, only 5000, 900 can
read and write, and nearly 5000, 600
have no trade or profession. This
shows the kind ofopeeple we. are called
upon to fight. Premier Salisbury or
England says Spain is. one OF the
dying nation.ps Il our boys get aafew.
more ticks at her they will end her
misery and she WnI baa dying nation
no more. yr2 se5soh oso# Us 80 o1&
eff In this country, men Of all parties
support the administrations in iBs war
policy In Spain there are Carllsts and
Republicans in great numbers who ia
sist that the war is not being carried
ON ingthe proper manner Thus it will
be seen that it is a. question of only a
very short time when Spain with
IS, OO0, 900 people divided against them
selves must yleldgtoo Americas 10000
900 who are united and loyal. a"t.@
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-05-17
SLAVES TO PARTY.

There is enough sense in the follow
ing item which we clip from the Ala
bama Monitor to keep the average man
thinking for a week. We commend it
to the consideration of our readers:
How many men vote for a life
time with the same party without in
vestigating the merits OF. any other
partyl To vote is to ratify certain
policies advocated by the party whoee
ticket is voted. How can any man
know that he is voting in accordance
with his convictions, unless he investi-
gates and finds out what each party
seeks to accomplish A vote is q sacred
right. Il should be cast with intelli-
gence and patriotism, with the full
meaning and effect of it understood be
fore cast. A party is merely an organ.
ization to represent certain policies
and purposes, which change every
four years. No man can perform his
duty to his country and himself With
out investigating and rendering q de-
cisioL at each election on the issues in.
volving in that election.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-05-17
QUEER COUNTRY.

Just before the war with Spain com
menced, a Missouri orator VINO was
certainly lacking in patriotism, made
the following remarks regarding our
country: ..s
I'VE live in the land OF high
mountains and high taxes, low
valleys and low wages, big
crooked rivers and big crooked states,
men, big lakes, big strikes, big drunks,
big pumpkin heads, silver streams that
gambol in the mountains and pious
politicians who gamble in the night,
roaring cataracts and roaring orators,
fast horses and fast young men and
girls, fast, faster, fastest, sharp law
yers, sharp faanciers, and sharp-toed
shoes noisy children, fertile plains that
lie like sheets of water, and thousands
+of newspapers that lie like thunder"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-05-17
NO TRLRGRAMs FROM FARMERS

Senator TilImlan of South Carolina
doesn't allow his famous pitchfork TO
get rusty. In a recent speech he again
used it to1goordb e advantage, as the fol
lowing extract will show: -,.<r a~.cs5a
ut is claimed that this is the land Of
the free andgthe home of the brave"
said he, yet look at the conditions.
The masses are industrial slaves and
money is in the hands OF the few.
From my seat in the Senate during
the tariff debate T. saw the desks Of
chalrmen OF committees crowded with
kilograms from corporations demand
ingAnot requesting = that they be
cared for. No kilograms came from
the farmers or merchants-they are
not represented in Congress- ''~J ~
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-05-17
STATEMENTS WORTH REMRM
#''1...' gong BERING. ga

the successful farmer must fertilizs
with brains aud make live stock an
important auxiliary of his BUSINESS
by a better cultivation of the soil and
It's crops Of grass and grain the people
could improve in quantity and quality
their animal productions, from which
their principal revenues are to be de
rived % Farmers are learning year by
year that their business, il prof liable,
must be go conducted that it is not q
mere playing of a game of chance with
the weather or with a single crop; that
a somewhat diversified, and yet not
too scattering, agriculture, and a study
Of and adaptation to climatic condi
tions, the demands and the markets
are essential y Muscle to win, must be
fabricated with brains" are statements
we'll worth remembering found in Sec
rotary Coburn's Introduction to the
report of the Kansas State Board Of
Agriculture. North Carolina farmers
as well as their Kansas brethren, will
do well to put a little thought on these
statements Of Secretary Coburn. -sa
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-05-17

His Rival in Love, q Dashing Young
Spanish Diplomat -

His Rival in Love, q Dashing Young
Spanish Diplomat
A Washington dispatch to the. Her
aid says: lOlub, chatter among inti-
mates of Commodore Dewey revives the
fact of q previous encounter with
Spain, in which he did not come out
first. II <.zr-us.'. i..e-sth. VI. "a
Love, not war, was the source OF the
original trouble. The devotion of Com.
modore Dewey to Miss Virginia Low
cry, the handsome daughter of Archi.
bald Lowery, one of the most promi,
nent and wealthy Of the residential
set in Washington, is we'll known
here. Miss Lowery was beautiful and
when very young became engaged ia
a dashing, impecunious secretary OF
the Spanish legation, Count Jack
Burnett. s.<.. ... IL. ~. ts.
Her father refused to sanction the
affair, but Miss Lowery kept during 90
years her plighted troth. Three sea-
sons ago, with the consent of her faith
er, she became the wife OF the Duke
D'Arcos, her devoted and loyal admir-.
er, who not only inherited q title and
estate, but represented his country as
minister to Mexico. .ns.
They say Dewey resented bitterly
his defeat by a foreigner, and it is prob
able that he sent hot shots at Manila
with added vim, recalling the horrid
day when Cupid set SPANS flag above
the stars and stripes on the trim crate
Of his hearts desire. rrafa a. ss
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-05-17
37n1 8fI EtiH1lE5&
CORN AS HUMAN FOOD.

-. r ~ -- Er ra#=2 s. EaHrl E4##Gf@aEEtab =. =
In q recent article Henry Stewart,
while urging the increased production
of corn, declares against exporting it..
saying that our farmers should convert
it into higher products--meat, poultry,
eggs, butter and cheese. To, export raw
materials when they may be advanced.
q step by the exercise Of labor or by.
changing them into any kind Of manu-
featured products, he says, lis not.
only an indication Of the want of good.
business sense, but Of a lower degreetof
civilization and intelligence unless, as
in our case with cotton. we have, a.
monopoly of the product and sell only.
our surplus, without any risk of com
petition from other nations" e.
No one will deny Mr., Stewards con-
tention; but that he should exclude
corn from the latter classification seems
strange. We certainly have as com
plete a monopoly Of corn (maiz9) as we
nave of cotton, and it is only our sur
plus we may sell. Corn is susceptible
to higher food uses than that Of mere
animal food. 1t may be used success
fully in a countless number of ways in
the cuisine of the world, and we owe it
to ourselves to encourage this wider
and higher use in all ways, says the
Farmers Voice. g., -sl.. .... r.-
Indeed, weneed to cultivate the corn
eating habit right at home, and are
assured by the editor of the National
Advance (San Francisco that. il we
only knew how to cook corn the in
crease would come fast enough. He
says: There is a Mexican woman
who keeps a little restaurant at Visalis,
away down in the San Joaquin valley,
who can cook such a meal in such q
way that if the. United States Govern
ment had saved the whole $3.50, 600 that
they threw away OF the free seed fake,
and spent every dollar of it in teaching
the women of the West and the Eastto
cook these delicious dishes of corn
just common corn-Rnd, a few. other
things that any man with an acre of
ground can raise himself, they would
have enlarged the use Of American
corn enough to have warranted the
whole expenditure, and at the same
time have taught, the people how many
good things there. arr to be, eaten il
they are cooked right, which any man
can raise himself with his own labor"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-05-17
IMPOR OF SCALES Us
~. u-EJ FARM

Every instrument OF tool, .,ns
time has demonstrated saves = n
man or farmer money, ougn' b
added to his outfit just as sO0u
c an 8f)rd it. Tnis strictly sor q
ing scales No farmer can S "tas
send a load OF wheat, corn or po Sn,r
a drove of cattle or even a AT no
to market, without first known ssoS
many pounds be has to SELL
are without number where 80
would have saved the price Oh
scale in one day by knowing -
to sell by the bushelin welgneI od
in measure. The day for nisnd@
in scales is past as any reader 40
onstrate by addressing Fpe
Scale Company, Binghamp'1 ia
whose advertisement apPe"i'
issue.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-05-17

An exchange tells of q countryman
who expressed a desire TO enlist in
Kansas City and was directed by a
joker to a Salvation Army tent. The
SaIVationists were singing a song when
the farmer crowded up TO their little
circle. He waited patiently. Then
one Of the men made an address ap
pealing for volunteers. The young
farmer pushed into the circle, and,
taking off his hat, he stuck out his
hat to the uniform man who was talk.
ing. 81 want to enlist" said the
farmer. Bang went the big baesdrum
and "Hallelujsh" shouted a sweet
faced little woman. Another sinner
saved; let as prayl" exclaimed the
soldier, who held the farmers hand as
he knelt down. on the asphalt pave,
ment r%everently. The farmer was
thoroughly scared by this turn of af.
fairs. Instead Of kneeling he looked
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-05-17
rHEE WAR, E7aB sOhpzoLDak
AND THB LABoRRR.i

''The rich mans waE, tho poor MANS
fight" is a. preverb often quoted; and
i5 seems that our war with Spain will
ba another witness to the truth of this
saying. The war will not be of any
great benefit to the farmers and labor
ers of the country. ! They must bear
the brunt of battle and the burdens of
taxation.
The income tax would remedy these
evils, but as it is, the poor mar. will do
the fighting and then pay che tax
which pays his own salary.
Again, the issue Of interest. bearing
bonds means that the war. win prove
to be another means Of increasing the.
rich mans wealth by the sweat of the
poor mans brow 0'2 -.-D = 49,
The price of -four has already ad
vanced several dollars per barrel Now.
some will say, .'FWeH, you should not
complain. Do not the farmers make
the wheatG' Let US see if these are
arguments or, mere prattle. Perhaps
80 per cent. of the wheat crop ii. in the.
hands Of the specializing cliques.
1t ia plain to all thinking men that
the war has not been long enough in.
progress to affect the price of wheat,
but this little scrap with Spain has
been seized upon as a pretexs for ad-
vancing the price of wheat and squeez
ing a few more millions out of the
working people, 5.s -.*.r-
But the profits of these wheat specu.
lators are almost nothing compared
with the vast sums of money which
will pass into the hands of the bond.
holders. Yes, the bondholders, God
bless their soulsl How patriotic are
these undetermined citizensl They
never fail to come to the rescue of poor
Uncle Samuel. Otcourse, now, naturally
they make Uncle Sam pay enormous
sums in interest, and the burden rests
heavily upon the poor tax payers for
years. But then we mussn't notice
that. Don't eulogizs Dewey, pass Lee
in silence, but don't forget to give three
cheers for our patriotic bondholders
Loyal, NOBLE. free hearted citiz ans !
May their shadows never grow lessi
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-05-17
TRUTHS.

Be patient. Be willing to bide you
time. If there is a pearl in you
make up the world will find it yet
To do less than ones best is a mos
common failure and really about ''
only one many make. We owe IL" |"
God and humanity to do our best gu
the time.and in everything.
Be sure you are right and then leHl
to move onward, giving little n0a'
either to the worlds praise or OlSna
Paul has an inspired thought thassO''
seethis. Gal ga D. Fl, FUTILE
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-05-17
n. r. p. a.
IatestWar News.

g. Mondays dailies report that all the
members OF the Spanish cabinet have
resigned. Sagasta will form the new
ministry, which tits said will not be
for peace, as at first reported, but they
intend to prosecute the war with:neW
Vigor. 1Ts-st5G ir-| SOB g. a-@..s
1t will be remembered that McKin
ley called for $4,000 volunteers. Be
ports received &C Washington up TO.
Sunday evening show that IS 900 have
already been mustered into service.
Affairs in Havana are reported worse
than at any tims since the Weyler
regime. The Spaniards have sent
many of the commentaries out OF
the city into a desolRte portion Of the
country between the coast towns and
the insurgents, lines. Senator Proctor
and others sag this region is too barren
to support grasshoppers and OF course
the reconcentradoes there are perish
ing in great numbers. Hundreds of
these poor wretches were too weak to
walk out of town when ordered out by
the Spanish and fell In the streets or
died in the suburbs where focks Of
vultures still feast on their remains.
Admiral Dswey reports that he can
take Manila at any time. The follow
ing dispatch from him was sent from
Hong Kong Sunday:
"Maintaing strict blockade. Have
reason to believe that the rebels are
hemming in the city by land, but have
made no demonstration. Scarcely
any provisions in Manila. Probably
the Spanish Governor obliged to sur
render soon. Can take Manila at any
moment. Climate hot and moist.
Ga May IL captured gun boat Callao
attempting to run blockade.
Have plenty Of coal. One Spanish,
one French, two German and one
Japanese vessels here observing"
The steamer G Issie, which left Tam
pa, Florida, May 10th, with two com
panies of the First infantry on board,
in charge of seven thousand Tiff % and
two hundred thousand rounds of
ammunition, intended for the in
surgents in the province of PInRr
del Rio, remained of the coast of Cuba
Thursday Friday and Saturday, con
voyed by the auxiliary gun boat Man
ming, in a vain attempt to land her
cargo.
The S~paniards were alert, and though
the Gussie's crew made two attempts
to land both we're unsuccessful as the
fire from Spanish troops warned
them that a lively welcome was in
store for them.
Three American ships sailed into
Oienfuegos hsrbor with orders to cut
the cable connecting Havana with San
tiago de Cuba. This task was accom-
plished after a terrific fight between
our war ships and several thousand
Spanish troops which lined the shore.
Oae man killed six wounded. One OF
the wounded is Robert Bolz, or VaIz OF
Carteret county. Many Spaniarda
sought safety in an old light house but
q shell from our ship Window, de-
stroyed their place Of refuge.
a battle between Sampson and the
Spanish feet is expected soon.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-05-17

This is indeed an "Age of O,D,.
tupitys" and the article on that ' snS
act in Self Culture for Nav will y.
particularly interesting to young nv :
and young women who are ambitions
to- make the most and the best ont -,
their lives. The author emphasis,
the Importance of a thoroughly Soma
education, either scholarly or tecbni
cal, as the necessary preparation n,
successful work.
The literary features of this nunb.,
are Of varied interest.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-05-17
FHR INFLUENCE OF THE NEWS
? #iiEa.,- At5 PAPER. h''" ~

Notwithstanding the fact that our
present war with Spain is said to be an
evidence OF the influence exerted by
the quiIl-drivers Of the country, the
New York Voice rises to inquire,
What has become of the power OF the
pressG7 ".f s11~@b-> ch@ e~1
The Voice then gives some REASONS
Tor making this inquiry. The mayor
Of Chicago, it tells-u as, was elected de
spite the firm opposition Of every daily
in that city, and the mayor of New
York had the support Of but one Of
New York's many daily papers. Z @s5
The Voice then proceeds to answer
it's question, 'What has become Of the
power of the PRESET" or rather, "Vhy.
is the power Of the press waningF" In
the answer we are given a peep behind
the curtain, so to speak, and are told
how great metropolitan dailies are con
trelled. g.. tE. ,.5.f". T.. s= s@s~
1.-THE answer, as it seems to u.s."
says the Voice, "''is to be found in the
fact that the newspapers, especially
the daily, has become a great CONNER
rial enterprise pure and simple, oper-
ated with almost exclusive reference
90 commercial success. The old time
journalistic traditions survive in q
ray, but they are entirely dominated
by the commercial principle. The
newspaper holds itself in the same at
titude as the lawyer who is ready to
espouse either side of a fairly decent
case, according to the retainer placed
in his hands. 1t is only a question OF
what will pay. The personal convic
tions OF an editor count for nothing.
The editor is very rarely his W mas
ter nowadays, being a mere tool in the
hands Of a stock corporation, and per
sonal responsibility for the utterancee
of che paper r difficult to place. The
control Of the paper is vested first in
the stockholders and second in the
chief advertising patrons. Their inter
ests Of the public nor the rights of the
readers, are theones considered About
the only latitude now allowed to per
sonal feelings and opinions is in the
way of malice and spite and blackmail.
The paper takes up its side in a politi-
cal fight as q paid advocate would, and
fights with as little regard for fairness,
truth, and notions of honor as q lawyer
would in corporation case. The ex
captions r becoming fewer each
year" a'as 3D. s-s
There ia a great deal Of truth in the
statements made by the Voice. The
incidents of each day bring to mind
more forcibly the need of editors who
are not and will not be slaves. For,
as Lowell says,
They are slaves who fear to speak &C..
For the fatIsn and the weak, .f.-..
Tney are slaves who will not choose }
Hatred, scI fling and abuse .-- tJ-z
Rather than IN silence shrink 81. ~.
From the truth they needs must think;
They are slaves who dare not be n,
In the right With two or three" -Ge
The press is said to be free, but there
are alasl too many slaves of the kind
! described above. But ''aIl the people
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-05-17

/ A Glens Falls teacher vas trying ;
impress on the class the lessons
Westinghouse Birthday, and SU'D'
other Questions she asked: I'D
If the Southern Oonfederaq .oo
succeeded what would WaSnD0"
have been the Father off"
'Twins," was the prompt repn
one Of the boys New York TrlOODe
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-05-17
1ah nd1 IS tdoled al tAe Nmk sd.

6ah noe bs fooled al the ums and,
do3ner o. later, tie people will lose
.confdehce q newspapers whose 9olsors
are mere tools in the hands of design
ing men. Editors with convictions are
needed. men with opinions and g will,
ana when men Of this kind take posses
sion of the sanctums and drive out the
money changers then and not till then
will the press of the country regain its
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-05-17

aooos him; The prrayer had alres5,
Selling his valise, which lgS.
dropped on the street when ~ mad
the preferred hand of the sol3io SOOk
broke through the crowd, and Ge
the outlaws of a crowd of neg.S "u'd
he started north on Main street ys,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-05-17
OUR EDITORIAL PLATFop,

We will speak out, we will be boo.,
Though all earth's systems cre"EN1'
We will not bate a single word
~ Nor take a. letter back. I'D.
We speak the truth, and what car.
For Kissing and for scorn, We
While some faint ~gleamings we can
Otfreedom's coming morn9 u
Let liars fear, let towards shrink
Let traitors turn away;
Whatever we have dared to think
That dare we also say.
.n5ssf III !. za james Russell Lowon
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-05-17
THE THING TO DO.

This can never be a government bv
the people so long as il IS BY mil
ticians. The one thing to do, the one
thing that must must be done, il II
neutralize the effect of the professional
politician. There is only one wav i
which it can be done, and that i
through the initiative and referendum.
Living Issues.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-05-17

> The Populist State Conventio0 win
meet here Tuesday. The important
question before it will be that of fusion
About one third of the counties in
the State have held 0nventions. Tho
other two thirds hold conventions b,
day.---A RopuIist who is opposed to
Democratic fusion, and who has been
keeping up with the conventions, tSh
me that of shes478 delegates 80 far %
pointed, 1873 are for making a propm
tion for Democratic fusion and 35Om
against t.-New and Observer, IAN
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-05-17

y ~ s. A#- 1900 EFf "A' b.. 3d.
There will be dedicated beauth
granite shaft on May 20, erected to
commemorate, the signing of the Meek
lenburg Declaration of Independents
in Charlotte, n O. on May 90 l7b
The monument is q plain shaft, 40 ts8
high. The principal block of the gran
ite is IS feet high and weighs IA tons
The. shaft is mounted on a handsome
pedestal, the base being nine tt
square. This Declaration of Indepan&
ence from the British Grown was adopt
ed by the citizens of Mecklenbug
County in convention assembled, who
like the authors OF the National D&
laration, pledged their lives, theirtF
tunes and their sacred honor" oIl
support. These resolutions we're adq
ed one year, one mouth and two weeks
in advance of the Decl aratiOn in PnIG
delphia on July 4. 1875 The mont
ment is erected by the people OF Cnaf
lotte. Southern Field.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-05-17

Don't fail to read the "open letter to
Major BNkins'' and Hon. W.,.R
Henry's letter on SIKH, page. ~ orb
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~EDlroRlAL koFBs 8
80 AAA -

Former Commodore Dewey snow
Rear Admiral:
Only % per cent. =as=mueh-eotton=
has been planted in this State to date.
as had been planted up to this time