The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-02-28

last We0k TOOK q OAbu ana entered
upon his duties as Secretary OF the In.
terror.
Benz F. Haywood, ex s late Treas
urer of Pennsylvania, died in Sharon,
Pa, Thursday night. He was one of
the defendants in the Q lay suit.
Emile L2ubet has been elected Pres
ident of the French Republic to sue
coed Felix Faure whose death was an,
nounced in last weeks Progressive
Farmer. NJ. Loubet was born in 1888,
and is a lawyer.
Secretary Of War Alger was Kissed
and derided as he rode through the
streets of Boston Friday. Yah, yah,
yah! Beet, beef, beef" jeered the
crowd. His smiles on the crowd, it
ia stated, finally ''stiffened into a look
Of cold impassiveness."
In a number Of counties in Pennsyl-
vania last week there we're interesting
contests for school directors, where
women were candidates, and in sny-
dertown, Northumberland county, one
of these candidates, running IN the
Democratic ticket, was defeated by
her husband, a Republican. So much
for Pennsylvania g%allantryl
In a recent speech Col. W. J. Bryan
give the anti imperialists a new motto.
Our forefathers, " said he, fought for
independence under a banner upon
which was inscribed the motto Mil
lions for Defense but not one Cent for
Tribute And. so those who to day
not only desire American independ
ence, but are willing to or )urage the
idea of independence and self govern
ment in other races can fight under a
banner upon which is inscribed a sim
liar motto: Millions for defence, but
not one cent for coUqleet.'"
A dispatch from New York, Feb
ruary 23:d, says: American tobacco
showed pronounced strength on the
stock exchange to day, and ran up 116
points ove Tuesdays closing, on the
announcement Of the financial bureau
that they had information from an
undoubted authority that a deal be-.
tween the American Tobacco Company
and the Union Tobacco Company and
Leggett & Myers was practically con
sumated last week. The details were
refused for the present, but the agree.
ment, so the bureau understands, was
equivalent to an actual consolidation
of all the interests named and meant
that the monopoly of the tobacco bust
ness had passed into the hands Of the
American Tobacco Company.
The light sentence Gen. EAgan re-
ceived is attracting considerable at
Many are of the opinion of
the New York Outlook, which says:
ITO give a General high in command,
who has been guilty of conduct unbe
coming an officer and a gentleman,
six years vacation with full pay can
be accounted a very severe
penalty, even il it is accompanied
with temporary degradation from bis
rank. The Presidents sentence
amounts to little more than a public
It involves also a certain
Injustice, since the duties Of the Com
mIssary- General must now be per
formed by his immediate subordinate,
who cannot receive a salary adequate
for the service rendered, because the
is being paid TO the man who
has been suspended from Office"
A late Alabama law exempting from
taxation for ten years all manufac
tories that may be established in the
State was vetoed by the Governor, an
exchange tells us, who stated in his
veto message that he vetoed the bill
because of its unconstitutionality, and
because it proposed to exempt from
taxation one class at the expense OF
others. He suggested that the farmer
Who cleared eighty acres Of new land
tor cultivation was surely as much
entitled to exemption from taxation as
The corporation which built a new fur
mace or factory, and he believed the
determination proposed by the bill to
De unjust. This was the position taken
oy us at the time, and we are
glad to see that the Governor will use
lis influence against this danger ous
and unjust measure.
A dispatch from Washington says: