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The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1899-05-25
DEWEY is
ALL RIGHT
Surgeon Page Says He Is as
Well as Could Be Expected,
Considering Everything.
NEEDS LITTLE MEDICINE
Has Not Once Asked for a Pre-
scriptiOu During the
Last Year.
TpEAT pRIc0NEpc RRIITAIIY
TREAT PRISONERS BRUTALLY
Terrible Suffering Of YoTktown's
Prisoners Macarthur and Funs-
ton Route Eight HUndredRebeIs.

WASHINGTON. May A.-surgeon ]. e.
Page. Of Admiral Dewey's flagship. oIym-
pia. has arrived here on leave. He said
today:
Admiral Dewey is IN uS sense a sick
man. but Is AZ well as any man eonsid-
cred after spending a year in The tropics.
Asked II he had prescribed for Dewey
ot lat Surgeon PAGE said:
NO he has no need for prescriptions.
During the last year he has no, once
asked for a prescription or taken medi-
cal advice exeep, in casual way. II
he wants anything he sends down 10 the
ships apothecary and gets It, His habits
are so regular thar he needs little or no
medicine.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1899-05-25
GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
United Presbyterian Churches Of North
America In Session a Philadelphia,


PHILADELPHIA. May 2L-The forty
first general assembly o, he United
Presbyterian churches OF North Ameri-
ca began It's sessions here today
The board u home missions reports
rha, for the first time the payments by
mission stations exceeded the entire out
lay Of ,he board. On the other hand the
decrease of membership is without pre-
csdent Twenty eight stations have been
In the special care Of the board
All bu; four of thess-Canton, Detroit
Lincoln and Tacoma, whose terms as
special missions have not explred-reman
in tsis relation TO the board and their
requests for the coming year have been
acted upon. The total receipts OF the
board for the year amount 10 S>SSs, and
The total expenditures S3l72
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1899-05-25

NOTIORI
Books, Periodicals, Magazine cc.,
Rre MOTTO be Taken From /
Library without permission
ono t1.od guilty Of such offence,
viii be liable to prosecution.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-06-20
PRE- JUDGE VS.. FAIRNESS.

There is more newsy, refreshing
truth in the following paragraph from
the Durham Sun than we have found
comprts 3ed in a similar mount of
space for several weeks. 1t is n9wsy
and refreshing because so few papers
tell truths Of the kind contained in
this item. Some of these days the PEG,
pie will awake to the fact that news
papers which give their opponents
credit for good intentions at least are
much safer guides than the narrow
and prejudiced ones which cannot
speak respectfully Of those who fail to
endorse all their pet schemes. but we
started OUT to give the Suns opinion,
not our own, and here il is. Read it
and think about it:
'Ole or more Of the newspapers
venomOus, vicious, vLndlctive and vim,
egary in their censures, criticisms and
comments on all the men aud measures
Of that political party of opposite
opinion and faith TO their own that
they have really gotten to be dis
gushing and indecent. Nothing good
comes out Of Nazareth to them, un-
less it comes branded with the name
and creed OF that particular party to
which they belong. McKinley's best
action is hypocrisy; C~levelend's great
speeches are ~foolIshness, and Bryan's
belief is socialism and anarchy. They
s9e always through a a glass very
darkly, If they see at all; there is no
''other eide" to them in any thing; they
give no nan credit or honer for be
lieving anything right, or proper
save what they believe themselves;
they rarely treat with fairness that
which comes from the opposition; they
are never clean or conset vative IN any
thing about anybody of the ''other
party" Cans their editors wake up to
the realizAt atom that every thing that ia
true, patriotic, right or honest in pol
iLics is not confined exclusively and
solely to their particular party7 Some
body else may, by poes ibility, at least,
be right, and they may be wrong. We
suggest that in their blind partisan
zeal and Col S inmate conceit they for
one moment, just one, give somebody
else the credit, at least, of thinking he
is right that is all"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-06-20
REFLECT COL. HoLLADAY.

We learn that President Holiday
Of our Agricultural and Mechanical
College, while not seeking re election,
will serve as President of that institu
ton another term, il the Board OF
Trustees desire that he DO 80. And
we are glad TO see that the conviction
that this is the best possible solution
Of the perpIextng question which the
Board of Trustees has vainly tried TO
solve is steadily gaining ground. The
members OF the Board have been I'm,
able to agree on any man to succeed
Col. Holiday and at present there
seems to be no prospscs Of agreement.
In our opinion, they cannot serve the
College better than by dropping other
candidates and re elecEing Col. Holla
daY.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-06-20
LET THE PEOPLE VOTE ON rRIN,
CIPLES

IT the Republicans shall renominate
Mckinley for President, and the D3mo,
Gratis ehaIl renominate Bryan, what
will be the action at the polls of those
voters who oppose both silver and the
policy in the Philippines, or of those
who favor silver and the u%pholding Of
the Philippine regime7 Manifestly. in
this land Of boosted popular freedom,
the voter in either of these classes will
be forced to decide which of the two
issues philippines and currency is
the more important to him, for
that issue and stultify himself on the
other. 1t is of ourse possible that we
may have a third candidate who repre-.
sents ''sound money" and an oppo-
sition to President McKinley's methods
in the far E astern Islans, but that
would afford no relief to the nan who
desired to vote for free silver and ex
pansion. and would be of little benefit
to the r 'publicans, who would fear
that by DESERVING Mckinley they would
eject EEyan.
The cleo lion law Of the = 1ited States
should be 80 amended as 20 permit the
people to vote on issues at every Presi
Dental election at least. It would not
be necessary to give executive force to
the verdicts go registered-in fact, that
would be inadvisable, because there is
a saving conservatism in the ipdI-
vidual liberty possessed by the eff ;ial
representative of the people, to oppose
their wishes if his conscience com
mands and his courage suffers Few
Presidents, Senators or Representatives,
in Congress would care to stray far
from the lines dre WI by the voters at
the polls, and the result would be a
responsible government.
Tue people of this free country ought
to have q chance to at least sUgges a
line of conduct to their represent ia
tives; they ought, in an election like
that Of 1900, to be given an opportuni
ty to explain their votes. -Ffed Nge
in Saturday Evening Post.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-06-20

the special privileges which it secures
from the State. One instance Of this
character is referred to by the Mt.
Olive Advertiser OF last week. 1t says:
1.-THE franchise given to the Atlantic
Coast Line by OUT ancestors is one OF
it's most valued possessions, AMI by 1t
that corporation is enabled to perpe
trate so many wrongs upon the people
of the present day. This franchise be-
ing of so much value, should be taxed
in the same degree as other property
of equal worth. A corporation that
declares a dividend of 40 per cent. upon
the original paid in stock could very
we'll afford to pay four cent. of its gross
earnings towards the maintenance OF
State government and should be COM
PEELED to do 80. 1t is just and proper
that holders of special privileges should
pay for the same"
Hon. VIM. J. Bryan said in a recent
speech: ''The man who fights the trust
Of commerce is quite as brave as a man
who swims a river or climbs a San
Juan hill" The Washington Post
makes the point upon this that Mr.
Bryan is mistaken. "It calls for no
courage at ALL" it says, ito fight the
trusts. The most white livered coward
on earth could hold his own with the
bravest of the brave in making war
on trusts and combines" O!lhe two
opinions ina held by the Post is much
nearer correctness. If Mr.. Bryan
thinks he can find trust defenders at
every turn Of the road, he is very
much mistaken. The greatest danger
is that 80 many real trust sympathiz'
ers will make a pretense of fighting
trusts that the people will be unable to
distinguish their friends from their
enemies. The trusts do not object to
popular clamor against trusts. Their
plan is to have their servants join in
it. But against the man who proposes
to destroy the aus that make trusts
powerful, will they stand in solid
phalanx. Watch.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-06-20
THE THINKERS.
TRUSTS AND PARTIES.

Lat the people beware OF the polltI
clans on this trust question. Let them
tell the parties right at the outset that
though political platforms and polltl
clans may fool all the people some OF
the time, and some Of the people all the
time, they can't fool anybody on this
trust business for a minute.
At the D ymocratic love feast at ST
| Louis the other day loud were the pro
testations of ''anti trust" and it was
freely declared that the platform OF
1900 would have an anti trust plank
that would freeze the marrow OF the
biggest and fagGest trust on earth
And the Chicago Tribune, becoming
frightened at the ferocity of the plat
form makers at st. Louis, rushes into
the arena to demand that the R9publi
can party do not get left on thus great
issue. 1t says:
1.-The Republican party is not 90
strong that it can view with indIffer-
ence the possibility of the loss Of the
votes OF all the men who have been
and are to be thrown out Of work by
the industrial combines. That loss
might cost the party the electoral votes
of states it is essential it should carry.
Men are inclined always to ascribe
economic evils to the party in power.
Thc9e individuals who are out OF work
because of the uncurbed activity of
the trusts will be quite ready to put
the responsibility for trusts on the Re,
publican party unless it takes strong,
positive ground against them and per
mits no other organization to show
itself more hostile to them"
And the sincerity Of the Tribune is
as deep as the sincerity of the average
politiciRn-each wants to encompass
the success of his party at the polls,
and any old thing will do if only it
will pull the wool over the peoples
eyes till after election day
TIE foundation of all trusts is pri
vate monopoly, as we have pointed out
before. Any trust or combine which
is not based upon monopoly will soon
fall under the power Of competition,
natures great regulator and equalizer,
and is not subject to legislation. What
the people should declare ia this: We
are opposed to the trusts as they exist.
But the trust is only a symptom Of the
disease; not the disease itself, which is
private monopoly. Nothing but heroic
treatment will answer. Any party to
have u support must declare it's OPP
position to all private monopoly in lite
platform and give us a clear and prac
tical program for destroying all pri
vate monopoly. In other words, the
only salvation of the people lies in the
principles of Thomas Jefferson az
enuuciated in his famous declaration:
Equal rights for all; special privileges
for none," and no party which stops
short of that position is worthy Of their
consideration Farmers Voice.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-06-20
UNDER WHICH A

The folio wing papers continue to
publish among reading matter the
catchy, cunningly. worded readers of
the American Cotton Company. They
howl about the evils of trusts and mo-
nopolles, but when a most formidable
and wicked trust offers them the cash
for articles il defense OF its methods,
they are either too ignorant to know q
trust from a legitimate co0oration, or
knowing it to be a trust continue to
publish articles endorsing its sharp
schemes and cunning plars Watch
them.
Here are the papers that are pub
fishing articles endorsing the Ameri'
a Company: The Raleigh News
and o Observer, Goldsboro Headlight,
Scotland Neck Commonwealth, L2u
rinburg Exchange, Graham Cleaner,
Kinston Free Press, Shelby Aurora,
Wadesboro Courier, Wadesboro Mes
senger-Intelligencer.
The following papers have assisted
US in the work of exposing this cylin-
dical baling trust: Southport Stand.
ard, Statesville Landmark. Toe Kin.
ston Free Pre- S J, it should be said, print
ed it's article this week as usuRI. but
Quieted it's conscience by credising it to
an exchange.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-06-20
rs CIVILIZ ALTON REALLY
WORTH WaILR2"

Such is the title of an article in a re
cent issue Of one of our exchanges. 1t
is merely another form of another
question, us the educated man hap
pier than the ignorant mans" That
euch questions are constantly being
asked Is perhaps not unnatural. Our
poets have sung Of the JOYS of the In
dian or the pioneer with his wild, free
life, his ignorance, his primitive Gus
toms and methods. So,called great
men have asked if the upward trend
Of science and education is a thing
really to be desired and q famous edu
Gator has recently discussed the ques
ton, Does education foster peesimism9
After all, the question, Does civiliza
ton and education increase a mans
happinese9 depends upon the man him
self. 1t depends upon whether the m n
has or has not noble impulses, upon
whether he sspires to higher things or
is content, like the sIothful servant,
with the knowledge that his talent is
in the nspkin.
II come not to send peace on earth,
but 6 S yord." The Creator doesn't
put a man here to hide aud shrink
from the great tasks Of life. He puts
him here to fight LIES batIles-to Fl d
Joy in crosses, In prlvaCionF, in trials
II by these crosses and tria,s he ia en-
Rbled to better fulfill his great purpose
of mskiug the world better for his
having lived in it.
To the truly great man-tC him who
seeks to fulfill that great mission God
intends man shall fulfill, ignorance,
idleness, lack OF responsibility, cannot
cons itute happiness By working,
learning and bearing responsibilities
he may have more trials and more
crosses than he who sits in idleness,
but if his purposes are high and pure,
these cares and crosses are forgotten
in the greater JOY of the strenuous
life"
The doctrine emphasized by Gov.
R boswell in a recent address on our
duty as citizens of a great nation is
as good doctrine for US as individuals.
He said:
Il preach to you, then, my country
men, that our country calls not for the
life of ease, but for the life of strenu
Gus endeavor. The twentieth century
looms before US big with the fate OF
many nations. II we stand idly by, if
We seek merely swollen, slothful case,
and igno0le peace, if we shrink from
the hard contests where men must win
at hazard Of their lives aud at the risk
Of all they hold dear, then the holder
and stronger peoples will pass US by
and will win for themselves the domi.
nation OF the world. Let us therefore
boldly face the life of strife, resolute
to do our duty we'll and manfuliy;
r~esolute to uphold righteousness by
deed and by word resolute to be both
honest and brave, to serve high ideals.
yet TO use prac :ical methods. Above
al, let US shrink from no strife, moral
or physical, within or without the
nation, provided we are certain that
the strife is justified; for it is only
through strife, through hard and dan.
gerous ~endeavor, that we shall ulti
mately win the goal Of true national
greatness"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-06-20

ships success without STOPPING
slider the means by which that ;, 49,
has been obtained. The s,,oo'
promoter is it's prophet, the snoo"
politician it's high priest, and tho
magnate it's king, with the hipb "ea
ever trucking to the king en S'ls
prophet making off with his sbn 'q
the swag. The king, however =" Y
find peace in his multi millions toS
cries Of the laborer he has rohboS S'
of the widow and fatheryo.a Gp'
broken backed, helpless victims "
stink off out OF the crowd tn Al, w wy
wounded dogs, have entered int, !
ears Of the Lord of Sabaoth. And " y
king must needs endow g coIIoa.V
build a library for the public to so nS Y
his souls unrest. His ears have bes
the terrific woe uttered by the stern '
brave apostle: Go to now. 70 wy
men, weep and howl for your misa,;'
that shall come upon you. Your a."
ments are moth eaten; your gold ~ ~,
silver is cankered." 10y
Happy is the farmer who is coD....
to live with his cheerful wife o,1
romping children under his own Wv
and fig tree, ever il his vineyard hs'
well titled corn field and bis Fl, treo'
apple orchard.
QIeer as this world seems and nj,
terly wrong as seem many of its 4,
ings, there is a hand at the helm tb,.
has for at least six Thousand vo.,.
compelled the vanity and folIv sDI
greed and even the ~wickednees Of M,
to work out a higher good for Il,
commonest of the common peopIe e,5
He will so govern this world until A.
saying comes true: Thy people sbsr
be all righteous. Walla ce's Fsrms
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-06-20

this sad story. We have given enough
to prove (O that the Biblical writer's and
those who framed the Declaration OF
Independence we're sadly in need OF
Dr.. Kjgo's advice. Let us hope that
the people will have DR.. Kilgo amend
these documents and present them to
the world improved and beautifed by
his. wise suggestions and sage ideas.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-06-20

There is no use denying that 'n0
trusts are paving the way to state ',
national socialism. The magnates ~
the trusts are the strongest allies ~
the socialists. They go just far enOubD
to stop short of state control OF IDuu'
try and labor, and the line at Wn"'
their operations halt may not prove ;
difficult one for the people themseI''1
in the exercise of Their sovereign po""'
to cross. -,
The chief objection to socialism ~ :;
been the proposed elimination OF lp ~,
vidUal effort and competition -,
gse eat trusts, each in it's line. Da,,
overcome this objection by ell cI9 ~
competition, ard sub~ordinatlng ~,
vidual effort to trust control. ~,
most repugDant and disagreeaOIe 20.
of the socialistic programme -
therefore, already been carried ou' ~
the trusts. The next logical m s
would be for the people to put TIE sT ,:,s
in the place of the trusts. AOUI~
trusts or adopt socialism, WHICH,
Success.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-06-20
A SIGNIFICANT Co.lNClDRNcv

Back Of many a coincidence liz,
mighty cause. At the Wake Forest
Commencement there were three sDssk
ers, one a Congressman from North
( arolina, another a minister from Ten.
nessee, the other a professor from an.
other part Of the same state, each Of
whom saw and heard the Others At
Wake Forest for the first time Each
chose a diff yrent subject for bis dis
course, bat the central thought Of each
was the same: The social mission ots
man; the duty Of a student to his teE
low man; the serious condition of our
country, and our dependence upon the
educated young man to relieve it. We
do not fear to say that each Of the
three speakers, beholding the state Of
affairs from entirely different points Of
view, are agreed that the condition o.
humanity in the Uuited States, and
throughout the world for that matte
is as serious if not more ecUtely so tn
il has ever been, and that Wemua
look to the coming generation to meet
conditions which it not met will evolve
widespread disaster. Mr.. KltCbin DE-
clared that concentrated wealth wa
threatening our government; Nj. Trent
declared that u political system Wg
seriously failing; Nj. R 1st declara
that the idea of brotherhood VA
largely unknown, and that humanity
was starving for it. Mr. Kuc0ln pro
posed a righteous, intelHgenl Go
fearing citizenship as the hope; d.
Trent proposed a political system Gu
ditioned upon these very terme; Nj
Rust declared that Jesus Christ cane
and that HIS life and G. Gospel were RI0n
for the relief of this very ~situaHoDi
that the churches must upIitt bamanl
tY, that the churches must HgHV
wrongs by the regeneration Of e""
hearts, and that there was no o'net
remedy.
We may be thankful for this cyl
dencs of three of the best represents
tiVes of the three classes of our cltlEA
ship most able to be of service tnS'
they are alive to the condition OF Du
manity, and most Of all for the DILL
liant setting forth Of the Bible and u'
churches as the instrumentaIltIes /"
which humanity must look for all tn''
it needs. Biblical Recorder.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-06-20

A small boy, writing a composition
on Q Makers, wound up by saying that
the Q takers never quarrel, never get
into a fight, never claw each other, and
never Jaw back" He added, Pa is
a Quaker, but Ireally don'E think that
ma is."-Ex.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-06-20

Abraham Lincoln-lf q goVef.tsrp
contracted q debt with q C1 and
amount of money in circulation be BE-
then contracted the money Votuw n0st
fore the debt was paid, 1t Is Tue couId
heinous crime a government
commit against the people.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-06-20
A QUEER WORLD.

What a queer world this is, any way /
A greedy money grabbing world which
in its centers Of greatest activity wor
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-06-20

To keep posted read The Progressive
Farmer.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-06-09
The Gold Democrats a Sham and a
DeIuSion.

That politician makes mistake when
he thinks that by mere denunciation of
trusts you can fool great number of
Democrats i'll 1900. The people want to
known what we propose to do about it.
Look at the situation from any stand
point, and you will find that the so called
gold standard Democrats are not earn.
estly and heartily with us on any of the
great questions that now confront our
people. By affinity, taste, interest, af1il-
iation and natural selection they are OH
the other side. The idea of abandoning
principle and adopting some cheap, COM
mon cry, with the hope of thus swooping
the country and getting offices, even is
unworthy of moments consideration at
the hands of any man who loves his
country. But it would be futile, and if
the national Democratic convention of
1900 should adopt such course, it might
as we'll issue a certificate of elevation to
William Mckinley.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-06-09
Brave 1en Fall

Victims to stomach, liver and
kidney troubles as we'll as women,
and all feel the results in loss of
appetite, poisons in the blood, back
ache, nervousness, headache and
tired, listless, rundown feeling.
But there's no need to feel like
that. Listen to j, w. Gardner,
1davil'e e, Ind. He says: "Electric
Bitters are just the thing for man
when he is all run down, and don't
care whether he lives or dies. 1t
did more to give me new strength
and good appetite than anything l
could take. | can now eat any
thing and have new lease on life. -
Only SOC, at DR.. L. r.. Kinks drug
store. Every bottle guaranteed.