The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-11-14
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number of women's colleges and fifth
In the: number of students attending
&hem, only Massachusetts, New York,
Pennsylvania and Maryland ous'ranK
ing our States This is a gratifying sur
prise to US and we are sure that but
few North Carolinians realiEs that our
State makes such a splendid showing
When we consider that North Carolina
ia about sixteenth in population and
wealth, our work in the line or NO
mans education appears to even better
advantage.
Here's an item from the Smithaeld
Herald, emphasizing a fact to which
we have more than once invited atten
ton. But it is worth repeating and so
we give it again, Says the Herald:
Remember that the American Cotton
Company can gin your cotton at a
dead loes for several years, if such is
necessary to secure control OF the bust
ness, and then be able to recoup their
losses in q single season. We do not
say that it will do this but it is a pos
sibility. When the neigbborhood gin,
ner is compelled to retire from bust
ness, and a few gins Of n concern
dominate the entire crop, it will then
be ssen if the cost Of putting up a bale
is as low or lower than at present"
When q monopoly newspaper cannot
ars yer anti monopoly argument, what
does it dot Simply calls the person
presenting the argument a 'dema-
Rogue," holds it's head high, and pre-
tends that it has completely disposed
Of the argument. We have noticed
this for sometime. The Roanoke
Chowan Times has also caught on to
their game" Witness the following
paragraph from its last issue: "Ehe
word demagogue, as used in North
Carolina, has undergone a radical
change in its meaning. It is now a
favorite word with the organs Of the
Tobacco Trust, the Southern Railway
and other big corporations and monop
olies to apply to those who dare ex
press Ga opinion not favorable to the
monopolies. It no longer discredits
one among good people to be called a
demagogue by these mouth-pieces Of
the trusts"
A question of no small Importance in
its bearing upon the Philippine prob
lem ia, How many or what per cent
OF the Filipinos are hostile to the United
BtetesV This question is answered ny
DR. J. g. ~Schurman; President of the
Philippine Commission, in an inter
view published in the November Out
look. He Gays that the Tagslogs, mum
bering a million and a half of people, are
forcibly resisting the authority Of the
United States, and the rest of the in
habitants Of the archipelago, number
ing some six and shalt millions, are at
peace with us, and, if not our friends,
at least passive and neutral You
hear a great deal about the Tagalogs,"
ne says, who are the only tribe en-
gagged in fighting but, but the Tagalogs
are not the most numerous tribe in the
archipelago There are two and a half
millions Of Visayans, and even in the
island Of Luzop, where the Tagalogs
occupy the provinces about Manila,
there are tribes to the north and south,
all speaking different languages, whose
population varies from a q larter of a
million each to six hundred thousand
each"
The Manila censorship over press
dispatches has been removed but the
idle Censors there may be able to find
employment in America. At least so
il appears from charges broughtagainst
the Industrial Commission by Hon. NJ
L., Lockwood. Mr.. Lockwood, it will
be remembered, was summoned before
the Industrial Commission in Wash
ingtou City last summer and gave the
Commission much valuable intorma
tion regarding the Standard Oil Com
pany and other trusts and the fsvorit
ism Of the railroads which enabled the
Standard Oil Company to crush com.
petition and secure a monopoly in it's
business. Mr.. Lockwood has, after
some effort, succeeded in securing a
proof sheet Of his testimony as revised
by the Commission for their official
report, and, upon comparing it with the
H~tenographic notes of the. same, finds
that the strongest part Of bis testimony
has been omitted or toned down. In