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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-03-14
TAKE A LAST LOOK

At the Democratic State Platform" See
Whether or Not the Principles herein
Recorded Have Been Enacted Into
Law
The following platform was adopted
by the Democratic State Convention
in session here last May.
The Democratic party Of North Car
DINA, in convention assembled in Raj
eigh, N. @ on this cay, May &c, 1898,
do hereby approve, endorse auu raUlfy
the last Democratic National and State
platforms, and pledge u earnest sup
port to the principles therein
expressed.
We denounce the Republican party
for the passage Of the Doggy tariff
DILL, which has increased the burdens
of taxation upon the consumers and
given the trusts and monopolists
greater power to rob the people,
Believing that under present
methods of Federal taxation more thar
three quarters Of our national reve
nues are paid by people owning less
than one quarter of the property of
the country, we protest against such
inequality and injustice, and in order
TO remedy to some extent this great
wrong, we favor an income TAX, and
favor all constitutional methods to
sustain It.
We denOunce the Republican party
for the defeat Of the Teller resolutions
declaring our national bonds payable
in silver as we'll as gold. and denUunce
IG for It's determined purpose OF more
tn 1roughly fastening the single gold
standard upon u people, and for ils
avOwed hostility to che free and
unlimited Coinage Of silver as we'll as
gold, at the ratio of 16 TO 1, into full
legal tender money.
We denOunce Tne Republic an party
for it's determination TO issue bonds at
this time, and We denOunce the
Republican wal tax bill which lately
passed the House of Representatives
as unjust and unequal In les burdens.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-03-14
HALT WHO GORs THERE

Hello, there! We're after that fel'
low whose name is on that little red
slip of paper on page 1 of this ISSUE
He's the gentleman with whom we
wish to talk. We know him, and
here he is. No lodging now. Look
the date on that label straight in the
face, and say seven times: "THB
PROGRESSIVE FARMER is run on a cash
basis, and needs the money for every
renewal, and needs it to day" Can
you say it9 If not, please renew 81
once. Do you promise to do this BE-
fore the sun sets again2 If not, We
cannot let you go, That's all thereS
about it, and we shall have to keep oW
promise. Decide quickly
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-03-14
THE FILIPINOS As REVOLU-
TIONISTS.

The Flipinos have no such claims on
che score Of their revolutionary IT cord
AZ the Cubans. Toe Philippine pOpu
Iation IS almost, If not q liGe, SIX times
as great as that of Cubs; out the Pnn
Ippine ~ilsurrection of 1896 did not oc
cur until Spain was we'll ~preoccupied
10 Cuba and was sending the great
ouIk of her troops to that island. Thus
the Cuban patriots, led by Gomez and
his associates, we're fighting against an
army of 200, 900 Spanish soldiers. The
Fllipinos, on the contrary, with their
vastly larger population to array
against the Spanish, had to face com
paratively small European army. A
good many of the native troops enrolled
under Spanish officers went over to
che camp of the insurgents. Never
theless, the Spaniards, under Gen.
Primo de r vera, completely quelled
the Insured lion, and AguinaldO and
the other insurgent chiefs by agree
ment left the islands. We have no dis
| position 20 re ct upon the courage or
pertinacity Of these insurgents. Yet
1T is proper to remark that they renew
ed the rebellion only after the Ulited
States had virtually paraly zed the
| Spanish power in the islands. In
Cuba, on the contrary, the insurgents
had fought against enormous odds for
10000 &Ln- Nhm~n uNnW1 UhoD tho IInTfnn
states went to war, and it was TN
doubtedly their purpose to go on single.
handed if the Ulited States had not
come to their aid. Aguineldo's iDsur
gent army in the Philippines is one
that has been recruited and armed, in
the main, since the capture Of Manila
by the u United States. A very con
| siderable part, indeed, OF AguinRldo's
forces had been gathered after the sign
ing Of the peace protocol. AguinaldO
had pretended that while the ! lIted
| States would be highly welcome In the
Philippines, the islands would not will
lngly pass into the hands of any other
power. He vas therefore holding to
gether an army IN order to Oe able to
resist any other disposition tina Spain
might attempt to make in "a the
United States should prefer to with
draw. His attack upon the army Of the
| United States was clearly an act of
%Ureachery, and his intelligence is too
great to admit the charitable supposi
ton that his attack was due to a mis-
understanding His complete failure
will have forfeited the confidence OF
the Philippine people. Ga the other
hand, the humane treatment of the
many hundreds Of %insurgent war prs
Oners captured by the American army
viii have served a very useful purpose
10 showing the natives that the AmerI
cans know how to be kind as well as
firm.-Fcom The Progress Of the
| view of Reviews for March.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-03-14
GOOD EVIDENCE.
NEW YORK, March 8, 1898.

NEW YORK, March 3, 1898.
The Progressive Farmer, Raleigh.
N. @.
DEAR SIR:-As strong evidence OF
our opinion concerning your paper as
au advertising medium, we slmpl,
mention that we have ALWAYS had il
on our list and our advertisement has
never failed to be in a single issue dur
ing the season of advertising
Yours very truly,
GERMAN KALI WORKS.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-03-14

and at the next state meeting We can
be in shape to be felt. There is still
the old guard that has never allowed
allowed the banner to trail and they
will not in the future.
J. P. SOssAMAN,
N. L f. A. 81. y.
Charlotte, N. Q
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-03-14
LITERARY MOTIFS.

Inc GQIDg 8OOuG GL0 0nIIleLG
public men now writing for Scrlbner's
magazine is that they are skilful and
entertaining writer's as we'll as men OF
affairs. For this reason the contri
buttons Of Senator Hoar and Governor
R 0oseveIt are literary productions as
we'll as chronicles of action.
The March number of The D Jlineator
is called the E rly Spring Number, and
commends itself to Subscribers as a
wonderfully complete epitome Of what
is to be the vogue in every department
Of dress for the coming 8 The
Literary features are Of exceptional
merit, and the H 1usehold ana Ocial dis
cussions marked by a singular quail
ty of originality and utility.
Toe complete novel in the March
issue of Lippincott's is The Sport of
Circumstances" by Ciarinda Pendle
ton Lamar, a tale OF modern Southern
life.
Joseph A. Nlnez, in an article on
"Cuba," gives timely and interesting
facts relating to animal and vegetable
life in our neW possession.
An account of the marvellous new
substance, liquid air, based on CONVEX
sations with the d~iscoverer, Charles <.
Tripler, will appear in McClure's mag
ezine for March, with numerous pic
lures illustrating intere sting expert
ments and the whole process Of man
utacture. If liq lid air proves to be
all that it now gives promise Of being,
Mr.. Tripler has found a universal mo-
tive power that is inexhaustible and
practically costless.
March Current Literature is a treas
ure house of varied literary gems. As
always, it contains something for
everybody. The following are a few
drops in the buckle: AFRICAN Pigmies
and Their PecUiiariEies," Capt. Gay
B lrrows; IAN Incident of the Area
dan Exile" Charles 6. D. R berts;
: D -partment Oh French Letters" Mrs.
William D Cabell; Echoes of the
War" I'm Praise of Music" w. Fran
els G 3tes % )iter DIctR," Aug Justine
Birrell The Sparrow, and Why it is
Called Loquacious," Q. M. Skinner;
Tragedy of Real Life in a Great City, ="
Athol TRANSCRIPT; PHILOSOPHY of Mr..
D oley,' F P Ddnne 81 leila Cooke"
f M Hopkins.
Self Culture for March is a very at
tractive number of an interesting and
valuable magazine, which has rapidly
made for itself a high position among
the periodicals which appeal to lovers
of good literature, and for which there
should be a place in every cultivated
home. The cover this month presents
a fine portrait OF @ vernon Roosevelt,
Of New York, in ~cICz3n's dress, which
not only commands attention by the
physical strength and determination
OF character 30 clearly portrayed, but
will also be Of interest to the hundreds
of thousands OF people thI Oughout the
country who have known the G vernon
chic fig as colonel of the famou4 Rough
Riders" and are onlv acquainted with
nIs pictures in his eff 3ial dress.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-03-14

~ Our friends 10 writing to any o.
our advertisers will favornus by mgL
tloninR the fact that they saw tBO
Rdver isement in The PRoGREssT"
FARMER.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-03-14
L costs lots Of mnnaY to run

paper like THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
If you owe US anything send the money
TO-DAY. Don't wait till to- morrow.
We have bills to meet to day thai will
not wait till to morrow.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-03-14
BRINGS APPLICATIONS
SELLS STOCK

That's What An Ad. in The Progressive
Farmer Does.
BATTLRB Ro, N @.
January 10, 1899.
The PROGRESSIVE FARMER,
Raleigh, n. &.
GENTS y )urs with bill for ad
($12 5OJ received. Please find my
cneck on Rocky Mount bank to pay
the same You need not continue. l
prefer TO wait now IN il March Is
next at which time you may publish
again. l have had m8nV applications
and have sold some stock by Uhe aid of
my ad. in your paper.
Respectfully,
T p BRASWELL.
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FROM MURPHY TO MANTEo.

NORFOLK VA March Is. 1898
j L Ramsey, Esq Editor, Raleigh,
N c.:
DEAR SIR:-We herewith enclose
ryou check for 8 90 to pay for our ad
n your paper, and will say we feel
that the money was we'll spent, as 10
brought us communications from Muir
ply to Manteo, in regard to eggs and
other produce.
Yours truly,
POWELL 6 Co.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-03-14

u MEN do you want a good ~.
ROAD? If SO. l can help You. Age must be be.
tween Is and 35 Enclose I2c for terms postage
etc. jill WILSON, Dep. q, CataWba n. Q.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-03-29

The next governor is to be selected
from east side aspirants and Lieut..
Gov. Bates of St. Iohnsbury may try
conclusions with w. w. Stfckney Of
Ludlow, who came so near receiving
the nomination when Josiah Grout
carried it off. Judge Ross and c. H.
Prouty may take hand in the
struggle for the chair in the U. S.
Senate. Ex.Gov. Dillingham; and
Gen. Grout are already in training
for the encounter. The election of
town representatives will turn large
ly upon the preference for one OF these
candidates and the matter may be
virtually settled before the legislature
meets.-[White River Junction Land
mark.
Road Commissioners.
The suggestion made by an ex-
change that the reason there is more
strife over the election of road com.
missioner than any other town office
in Vermont is because it is the best
paving Job in the list of town Offices,
is no doubt true. This leads to the
suggestion that every town officer
should receive a fair remuneration
for his services. If such were the case
good men could be prevailed upon to
take their turn at the wheel and
town affairs, which sometimes are
run in a haphazard manner, would
be conducted in a business-like way.
Fair pay for services should be the
motto of all towns. This would be
tine most profitable in the long rum
[Morrisville News and Citizen.
The Best Beard of Trade.
We notice in several exchanges
from time to time earnest calls for
the formation of boards of trade to
assist in booming their several towns.
Such steps are praiseworthy, but not
conclusive. The best possible board
of trade is town whose citizens are
a unit in working for the towns
welfare. Without this, no board
can succeed and with it no board is
necessary Randolph Herald.
Rutland at last has a paper that
stands squarely Tor the enforcement
of the prohibitory law. And Rut-
land has long needed just such a
paper Hardwick Gazette.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-03-29

"The old idea of keeping out of all
foreign matters has advocates. They
would have stricken down Spanish
power in the Philippines and silently
stolen away and left such civilization
as existed to the mercy of anarchy
and barbarian rule. But the mod
ern notion prevails, and the govern
ment OF Spain is to be succeeded by
the gentler and stronger rule of our
great republic, and at no distant day
the spice isles will give forth rich
perfume OF thrift, intelligence. wealth
and gratitude, and our own people
will reap countless stores of comfort.
satisfaction and riches, and the seed
of general education and peoples
rule will spread until the children
from the isles OF distant seas will
rise up and call us blessed"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-03-29
Fire Theory.

Edward Atkinson, the wel-known
economist, in an interview, stated
that since the recent disastrous
Windsor hotel fire in New York he
had given considerable thought to
the possibility Of preventing a like
occurrence in the future. Mr.. Akin
sons theory of the origiuation of the
fire, from the facts which appear, is
spontaneous combustion. He says
it is probable that the fire smoldered
for long time and that gases gen.
Grated by the slow combustion
invaded nearly every part of the
structure, so that when the blaze
finally sprang up it spread to.every
part of the building almost simulta-
neously. 1t is thus that Mr.. Akin
son explains the numerous fires in
different places in the building which
were noted in the Windsor fire. Such
a fire, he explained, could only occur
in such a building as the Windsor,
commonly known as the cellular
type.
When asked for remedy, Mr..
Atkinson replied that in his opinion
no fire department in the world
could successfully cope with fire
under such circumstances in such a
structure, but, nevertheless, it would
be possible in great measure to
protect life He suggests line oil
automatic sprinklers carried near
the ceiling, with sprinkler heads
designed to throw a sheet of waite,
toward the ceiling and walls
Water flowing from these woulc
retard the progress of the flame.
sufficiently for every person in tn,
hotel to escape before the condition
of the building became dangerous.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-03-29
Are You Going South
From the New England States ?,
The Best Route to Travel
is From Boston to Norfolk, Va.
BY THE
Merchants & Miners Steamers,

The most elegantly fitted boats
finest state rooms and best meals
The rate including meals and state
rooms is less than you can travel bv
rail, and you get rid of the dust and
changing cars.
If you want TO 60 South beyond
Norfolk to Southern Pines and Pine.
bluff, the winter Health Resorts orto
Vaughan, N. c., the Pennsylvania
Colony headquarters, Peachland, N.
c., the New England Colony, Strath.
am, Ca, the Ohio Colony and head.
quarters of the Union Veterans
Southern Settlements, you can con.
meet with the Seaboard Air Line.
For information as to rates of travel
address w. P. TURNER, General
Passenger Agent, Baltimore, Md.
For information as to farming or
mineral lands, water powers, man.
ufacturing sites or winter resorts,
rates of board, rent of cottages, ETC.,
address JOHN PATRICK, Chief In
dustrial Agent, S. A. L., Pinebluff,
North Carolina.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-03-29
Press Comment.

Apropos of the coming senatorial
contest in Vermont, it is not impos-
sible that Judge Ross may wish to
pose as a candidate before the legis-
lature for the additional two years
yet remaining from that time to the
completion OF the unexpired term of
the late Senator Morrill,. Such a de-
velopment as this would make the
general situation still more interest
ing and the least side" would be
anything but dull locality. Mean
time the four leading candidates
aside from the present occupant of
the position are marshalling their
forces and getting ready for what is
likely to prove the liveliest race for
senatorial honors that ever walked
up the Green Mountain state Ben
nington Banner.
Already there is talk that the sue
cessor of Senator Ross is not likely
to be himself, particularly for the un-
expired part of Morrill's term which
ends in 1908. Dillingham;, Grout
and Prouty are avowed candidates
for the seat. Because there is not much
said on the surface it does not signify
that a great deal of effective work is
not being done. 1t is apparent al
ready that the fight will be a hot
one and the result not a walkover
for any man. For once, the demo-
cracy has to be reckoned with-an
unusual thing in Vermont-and there
is no telling what the roundup will
be. Senator Ross took the place
without making any promise to get
out OF the way next year and unless
he concludes to do SO, which is most
improbable, he will be in what might
be termed the anxiously receptive
mood. With the field so mixed, it
is not at all unreasonable to conceive
that one or more of the candidates
named, in case that there is a strong
prospect that he cannot himself win,
will prefer to throw his strength to
Ross and thus disappoint his rivals
and postpone the real struggle two
years more. Ross will have some
strength of his own and with assis.
tance of this nature might easily win
ont Randolph Herald.
Lively Times Ahead.
A rumor is going the rounds on the
east side that Gen. w. w. Grout will
decline a denomination asrepresenta-
tive in Congress from this congress
ional district next year. He is one of
the best practical politicians in YER
mont, and should this report turn
out to be correct it signines he will
devote his energies to capturing the
seat in the U. S. Senate temporarily
occupied by Judge Ross. There will
be no dearth of candidates for repre-,
sentatives. Col. Kittridge Haskins
of Brattleboro, speaker of the YER
mont house at the last session, has
been favorably mentioned as one.
Judge L. NJ. Reed of Bellows Falls,
who made an unsuccessful fight
against Gen. Grout in the last cam.
paign, may try his fortunes again
Hon. Frank Plumley of Mortified
has a number of friends who would
like to have him enter the contest
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-03-29
NEWS IN GENERAL.
Americas Growing Power

The Russian government, through
Count Cassini the ambassador here, has
informed the state department that IL Is
prepared to negotiate a RECIPROCITY
treaty with the United States. A num-
Der of other European governments,
notably Great Britain, France, Germany,
Austria, and Italy, have recently SHOWN
a disposition to expedite negotiations
toward the same end. Although some
of these countries have made overtures
to the state department in connectio,n,
with reciprocity agreements, they, did
not, until lately, evince any great desire
to press the business to conclusion.
Now. however, tor some reason, they
are all anxious to make treaties as soon
as possible, and it is probable that the
negotiations with some of them will be
concluded shortly. The expected expan-
sion of American trade in the Paciflc
through the requirement of the
Philippines and the Hawaiian Islands IS
believed to be the moving cause in this
revival of interest.
COIebrook Banks.
A delegation Of interested persons who
went to Washington recently with the
affairs of the Colebrook National Bank,
which was compelled to close its doors
some time ago, has returned and report
it's interview with the comptroller as
satisfactory. 1t is expected by the first
of April the bank will be running again.
The bank suspended last fall after it
was found out that the treasurer had
permitted heavy overdrafts on the part
of certain stockholders. 1t is understood
the overdrafts have been made good.
The Colebrook Savings Bank, forced to
suspend after the national benk closed,
will resume business soon, and a new ma
tional bank, organized with capital
stock of $4,000, will open its doors
within a short time. The new bank will
be the Farmers and Traders National
Bank.
To Investigate Nature of Malaria.
Prof. Robert Koch, the celebrated bac-
teriologist, who, in 1883, at the head of
the German cholera commission, visited
Egypt and India and then discovered the
so-called Comma" cholera bacillus, will
start with an expedition next month for
the tropics, to continue his investigation
as to the nature and origin Of the mala-
ria. The German Reichstag has made
grant of 10000 marks in aid of the
undertaking.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-03-29
A Fortunate Man,

Ex.Secretary of State Sherman has
enjoyed a privilege seldom granted
to men; that of being mourned as
dead by newspapers all over the
country, eloquent eulogiums to his
memory published, and living
through it all. A public man reads
so many mean things about himself
that it must be pleasure in his de-
Ginning years to have all parties
unite in saying the nice things they
never would have thought of saying
when they supposed he would see
what they said with mortal vision.
He probably never realized himself
how great and good man he was
till he read his death notices last
week.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-03-29
The Heron Sensation.

Prof. George D. Heron of Iowa
College has stirred up storm of
indignation by his assertion recently
in Chicago that the Spanish war
was precipitated upon the United
States by capitalists who saw that
out of it they might fill their Golfers
to over6owing; that by concerted
action of certain gentlemen such
pressure was brought to bear upon
congress that regardless of the
president or conservative citizens,
such measures were insisted upon
as would make war inevitable. The
object was accomplished and the
gain these capitalists sought came
to them through the enormous
government contracts and the rise in
the stock market that followed the
war. However much of this claim
may be true, we have to admit that
there is a good deal of corruption at
the bottom Of great many of our
national affairs; but as far as the
war is concerned, there isn't real,
genuine, patriotic American today
who wishes the war had not occurred,
for we can all see now that the duty
confronting us one year ago we were
commanded of God to perform, and
in the very nature of things there
was no other alternative. The salts
faction that comes to US thus should
not blind Us to the fact that corrupt
combinations of capital are menace
to the true American spirit, which
seeks to make wealth a blessing to
all, and to free the land alike from
the curse of corrupting wealth and
the curse of poverty.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-03-29
"rl0dern Notions"

In a recent lecture on Modern
Notions" our townsman, Alexander
Dunnett, Esq, refers to the problems
that confront us as nation, and
says:
AT Mistassinni, far to our north,
is famous cave which is regarded
by the Indians with the utmost rev.
erence and awe. They think their
dead chiefs, prophets and sorcerers
were buried in it. 1t is to them the
sepulchre of ancient days. They
believe that the spirits OF the dead
hold their councils there, and that
ghostly debate is always in progress
in its gruesome chamber.
If there is some place in this broad,
happy land of ours, where the
! spirits of the mighty dead meet and
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-03-29

So far as the United States is con-
cerned, Japan will soon have a place
among the up-to-date, civilized ma.
tions of the world. Our new treaty
with her goes into effect the 18th of
next July. By the terms of this
treaty the judicial and commercial
restrictions hitherto existing between
the two countries will be largely re-
moved. Japan has a great future
before her and while we shall be able
to do much to further her advance,
ment, the yankee Of the East" will