The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-09-19
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Cornelius Vanderbilt, the famous
millionaire, died last week.
There have been 21S cases of yellow
fever and IL deaths at Key West, Fla.
New Orleans has seven cases, and saw.
eral cases have developed at J Jackson,
Miss. The outbreak is most severe at
Key West. Ths Florida mainland is
free from the disease. It is thought
that the disease will be speedily
stamped out.
A crowd of white men, full of whis-
key, went to a negro camp meeting in
Lancaster, 8. @, Monday night.
Negroes objected to their conduct, and
the whites fred into the crowded
church. The negroes returned their
fire. Two whites and a number of
neroes were seriously wounded. None
are reported dead and no arrests have
been made.
The way one monopoly works is il
Illustrated by the situation in the coal
market. The eastern coal combine, at
the head of which are J Pierpont
Morgan and the Vanderbilts, tele
graphed it's local agents August 80 to
advance the price of coal % cents q
ton September 1, with an additional
charge OF % cents for delivery. This
will be a total advance of 80 cents and
will make the price of anthracite IS so
a ton. Close on the heels of that an
nouncement came tidings that the
P~ittsburg Coal Co., the $64 900 600
combine, would assume control to. day
of the various coal lines already pur-
chased. Dealers declared that the ad.
vance ordered to go into effect on the
first of the month is only the first step
in a series Of Rdvnces.
The New York Independent says:
William J Bryan writes to a Dsmo-
cratic leader in Nav Jersey advising
three things. OF these the first is an
amendment to the Constitution Author
izing an income tax. This is not a
bad proposition. A State or the ma
ton ought to have the right to raise
taxes in that way, as is done in SO
many other countries. Then he wants
another amendment allowing United
States senators to be elected by pop
ular vote. There is no reason why this
privilege should not be free to the PEG
pie, altho il is q matter of no very
great Importance. Neither OF thes:
suggestions a be made TO draw q
party line. His third recommends
ton is for legislation against trusts,
by constitutional amendment, il nee
essary. B 1t when he comes to specify
ing the kind Of legislation it SINNERS
down to laws against watering Of stocks
and the prevention Of monopoly, and
the license to do business outside Of the
States in which they are Incorporated
Labor Day was generally observed
throughout the country, the process
sion Of workingmen in Chicago being
unusually large, and it was witnessed
by a very large %concourse of people
Among the most striking addresses o.
the day was that of ex Gov. Altgeld o.
Illinois, who spoke at New York
striking because it dealt with thC
pressing problems Of the day. In the
course Of his address he said: "YoU
ask, Can these monOpoIies be de-
stroyedT 1 answer, No Most of then
cannot be destroyed, and, what il
more, they should not be destroyed
The principle Of monopoly is benef
cial, giving the whole people the ben
6t of it, and it should be a blessing
Allow the few to have it and it is
curse. The great railway system can
not be, wiped out. Instead of destroy
ing than, the remedy consists in Civ
ing the entire public the benefit of them
II this we're done then a large numbe
Of the trusts and criminal combina
tions in the industrial and commercial
world would at once disappear, TO
Gu6y are maAA90AAOO INV W SAAA4A40
favors granted them by railroad man
ayers. Let the government carry tbr
freight, just as it now carries the let
tiers of all, and it will again be possibl,
for the small merchants and the small
manufacturers to DO profitable bust
ness. They are now being destroy Ell
by railroad discrimination"
THE PHILIPPINE DESCRIBED.