The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-09-05
EDITORIAL NOTES.

ness by the brethren in Wake. What
are the other counties doing3
The Dreyfus trial continues. Up to
date the evidence seems to be almost
entirely in favor of the prisoner, but
n. Labori, Dreyfus's attorney, does not
speak hopefully regarding the verdict.
A decision is expected in a few days.
If the date on your label is behind
the date Of this issue, you are earnest
" requested to renew. We did not dun
delinouents in the summer months,
but the summer is now past, and your
renewal is desired, needed and justly
due. Send it in, please.
The editor is deeply grateful to quite
q number Of his brethren Of the press
for recent kind words regarding him
self and The Progressive Farmer. The
newspaper men Of the State are doing
much to upbuild North Carolina, and
in every effort of this kind they shall
have our undivided support,
There are two errors in our Alliance
directory as printed on page 8. Bro.
Q. Q. Mcclellan has resigned as a mem
Der of the State Executive Committee
and has been succeeded by Bro. John
Graham, our worthy ex President.
The name OF the Steward is given as
D. D. Balm instead of ]. Q. Balm al it
should be. Bro. J.. Q. Bain's address
is Wade, N. O.
We learn that 8. B Price, mayor Of
Macon, Ga, has begun a campaign Of
education among the illiterates Of his
own town by seeing that the news
paper finds it's way into every house.
There is no better way of elevatipg
politics and public morals, provided
the right kind of newspapers are used.
No reform measure is more rapidly
growing in popularity than direct leg
islation as exempIified in the initiative
and referendum. The lLtest I'VE
ton to endorse it is the Ohio Demo
cratic Convention, which met last
week and gave q direct legislation
plank q prominent place in its plat
form. Reforms never go backward.
We want to double our subscription
list before January 1st. New subscrib
ers r o coming in with unusual
rapidity and a little earnest work in
every neighborhood will do the work
for us. II you have any acquaintance
who do not take The Progressive
Farmer, and will solicit subscriptions
for US, write Us at once for terms
blanks, etc
The Tarboro Southerner sets q good
example for some other newspapers by
stating that il does not know whether
the Roundup bale is best or not, and
that the articles which have appeared
in the S~outherner for several weeks on
the Roundup bale are not editorial ex
pressions, but paid matter" The worst
feature of the Roundup advertising is
that the company attempts to sIbsidize
the press.
We congratulate Prof. j. N. John
son, Of our A. & NJ. College, upon be
ing rendered the position of Assistant
Professor of Animal Husbandry at the
Texas A.. & NJ. College, at a consider
able advance in salary over that of the
position he now holds. 1t is quite a
compliment to Prof. Johnson, but we
hope that il will not take on q more
serious aspect, as we do not desire to
lose him from North Carolina.
The Iaxity of our divorce laws is be
coming a subj oct Of much comment
among thinking people. The last Leg
islRture passed a law making separa
tions for one year cause for divorce,
and it is said that many people are
taking advantage Of this Law ito get
unmarried" as an exchange puts it. It
is suggested that "a few more changes
in divorce laws will make it easier to
unmarry than to marry"
It seems incredible, yet it is given as
q fact that an American citizen at Gin.
cinnati last week was cheered by other
American citizens when he made the
remark: 81 hope Otis will be kept in
and will keep on laundering till be and
the whole army are driven into the
sea or captured Though as a rule
u sympathies are entirely with the
anti expansionists, we heartily admire
Murat Halstead for facing the mob
and declaring that the man who
thinks that way is g traitor to his
country" 1t ia one thing to oppose *.
pansion; to pray that our troops may
be defeated aud dishonored is quite an
other.