The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-06-27

eigh last week. His school has made
splendid progress and he has found 1t
necessary to erect a new building to
accommodate his pupils.
Again we say, watch your school
funds A correspondent Of the Ashe-
vile Citizen reports that the commits
sioners OF Yancey county propose to
appropriate the school funds toward
paying eff the indebtedness of the
county" This should not be allowed.
The recent cyclone did great damage
in and around Townsville. Our read
ers who can contribu ie to the suffering
should send donations to The Tribune,
brownsville, n. Q. The Baptist Or.
phanage also suffered serious loss in
the destruction of It's crops. Contri
buttons for this worthy institution
should be sent to Rev. J.. B. Boone,
Manager, Thomasville, N. Q.
Congressman AtWater made US a
pleasant call when in Raleigh last
week. He announces that the farmers
of Chatham have conquered Gen.
Green" and are happy. Mr.. Atwater
SUNS up his political creed as follows:
Anti Trust, Anti Monometallism, Anti
Expansion and Anti Militarism, and
stats that ne favors Mr.. D. Almond,
Of Missouri, for Speaker Of the House.
Our f~riends-and in this term we
trust all who read The Progressive
Farmer are ircluded-when visiting
Raleigh are cordially invited to call on
US in Toe Progressive Farmer cm;e on
Fayetteville street. Incidentally We
may say that a few dollars in the shape
of renewals and subscriptions for
neighbc1s in nowise diminishes the
~heartiness of our welcome to callers.
Lynchingg are frequent nowadays in
almost every Southern State, but we
notice that South Carolina has not had
q l~ynohing since its Supreme Court
sustained the c7nstitutionality OF the
new Rnti-lynCh Law of that common
wealth. This Law, it will be remem
bered, provides that the heirs of a
person lynched shall be given S.. 900
By the c-u1ty in which the lynching
oCcIrs. II this plan works well in
South Carolina, why should not other
States adopt it,
The lat S is that General Russell A.
AIger, Secretary Of War, has en-
noun1ed that he is in the Michigan
Senatorial fight with Anti Trust" and
Election Of Senator'S b. direct vote of
the people, On his banners. And go
the Alliance leaven is woI king. No
candidate now dares go before the PEG
pie wi.h2ut endorsing one or more of
it's 0 rnerly despised demands. From
now On the greatest difficulty will be
to distinguish between true friends of
reform and those who, like Alger, are
only P~retenders.
The truckers in Eastern North Caro-.
lima c0mplain-With good reason. il
reports are true-that the railroads of
that scction are treating them unfairly.
and thereby greatly reducing the prof
It's OF their business. Oae of their
chief grounds for complaint is that
they are compelled to pay much higher
freight rates than competing truckers
IN other sections. In order Ito de
wise ways and means Of securing a Just
and equitable freight rate" a conven.
tion Of ell interested in the reduc-
ton Of freight rates on truck and all
other classes OF merchandise" is called
to meets in Wilmington, Monday.
July 10Th. This convention should be
largely attended and will, we hope.
proveo Of benefit TO our trucking friends
We are glad to notice the call for a
convention Of road builders to be held
in Charlotte for some days, beginning
July 11ch. II addition to the vaIuabIa
information which will be impaired
by Prof. J. A. Holmes end Gen. R1v
Store a. this meeting, Mecklenburg
county's good roads constitute a sDlen
did Ctjact lesson which ~road-sulc /
eEs In other counties should not fail to
see. See that the road supervisor in
your county attends tbis meeting IL
he IL e really capable man the CON-
misstoners should send him at public
expense. We are u Ire the 30 ts" and
encouragement he would receive, ma
t%erlaliz,ng in the shape Of better high
ways, would repay the people of the
county tor the outlay.
The Progressive Farmers expose OF
the American Cotton Company's
scheme to buy up perchasable editors