The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-01-18
PITHY AND PERTINENT PAD,
GRAPHS.

Penciled by Tar Reel Journalists
Among your new year resolutioD,
let there be this one: Plant less cotto.
and more cotton, peas, oats, wheat
and raise hogs.-Salisbury Watchmsn
(Pop)
Master Craig" is stilI wrestling viii
that railroad lease. If it had been A
honest, fair deal, how could they ban
long coming to q conclusion9 EVER,
body believes there is something roL
ten in il. Hickory Mercury (Pop)
Perhaps the workingmen of II.
country will not be so eager to votetr
lower wages in 1900 as they were last
year. WIS are of the opinion there o..
also a few farmers and other peonIs
who will not be so anxious for that (
cent cotton wave Of prosperity to call
again soon.-Atlanta Constitution.
That was an important co~nferencan
the silver leaders in Washington Sat-
urday. It was practically settled that
the Democrats, Populists and Silver
Republicans would pull together, esUa.
cially in tbs West, for control of thu
next Congress. That is the only wsv
silver can ever triumph, and its enc.
mics know that all that is necessary to
defeat it is to divide it's friends
Statewide Mascot (Dem,)
Kerosene oil has recently been ID.
vanced in price. We have been eI.
pecting to see the announcement in ts
daily papers that Rockefeller, Of the
oil trust, has given another large
amount to some college. College pro,
fessors and presidents had better BE-
careful to say nothing in favor of silver
or the oppressed millions, else they
may share the fate of President An.
drews and Brown University Rich
Square Patron and Cleaner DEM.
When Judge Faircloth was PLACED
on the non partisan Judiciary tickath
1894, the railroad organs and the Ran.
som machine politicians ridiculed him
numerically, saying that he knew 10
law and was totally unfit to be judge.
Since his dissenting opinion in the Rai
road Commission case, followed By
writ OF error to the Supreme Courtd
the United States, these same parties
have suddenly discovered shat be is
great lawyer and great patriot. RAJ
elgh Caucasian pop.
This session of Congress may or may
not be a long one, but it seems safe to
predict that Hawaii will be American
territory before it ends. Undoubtedly
the annexation project is ~strongernoF
than it was a month ago, when Con-
gress convened. The land grabbingt il
China, and. the disposition of Germany
and some Of the othor European Coln'
tries to pick up all the territory not sF
propriated by some other powerful "a
ton, has raised up many new irlea0s
for Hawaiian annexation, -WlnsRA
Republican (Rep)
When the announcement was mads
in the News and Observer last week
that Mr.. e. q. Butler, Bursar OF ~'
Agricultural and Mechanical OoIeSa
was short in his accounts, his trIena'
In Vance county felt sure that tns''
was a mistake somewhere.
Il our understanding Of the matt"
lie correct a great injustice hes Oe~
done a good mana fragrant wrong
his character which cannot be repal'a
by a mere correction. E. g. Ba'"
may be on the wrong side of the l0n"
politically, but his friends recognS
him 20 be q man of characters hBp
toned Christian gentlemen-Whase,"
shade of opinion he may hold on qus
tions OF politics. Henderson GolON
Oem.)
The election of Mark Hanna Wnp'
in nowise a surprise is still disheaI'.
ing, not in a party or partisan Ssp.5
but to the men of all parties Whop~
for some recommendation in the We
of services or ability in a Senator
Hanna is not a Republican. De C1@
no moro for the Republican party o%
principles than he does for the renS'
of the Parsees Or the picture wrl'lpS
the Aztecs. he belongs to that 81
yet dangerously large body OF
who use political places to fofTa
their own private commercial scnsn
He cast his lot 10 with the RepuODV
party merely because it ofereo
best chances Of success. He W.
have cast his lot with the PopuLssI
the Democratic party under cnsJ
conditions. To show to that suCe o
his real position II la only neCessaLJ