The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-04-11
EDITORIAL NOTES.

ZULU "a AN - -N0P-~
bs a free silver crank" Of the most
pronounced type.
The American soldiers in the Philip
pines are resting for q week, in order
to give the Flipinos time to read and
digest the proclamation given in an
other column.
In Wall Street Friday, the prices Of
trust stocks fell from 4 to Is points.
AS a result of the general crusade
against monopoly capitalists are be-,
ginning to lose confidence in trusts.
Let the good work go on.
Be The Pope of Rome seems to have
caught on to our American way of get
ting famous. He has taken and en-
doTsed some sort of patent medicine,
and his picture now appears regularly
top of column, next to pure reading
matter" in some of the cOuntry's lead
ing dailies,
The casualties (Americsn)in thePhilip
pines from February All to April An
are reported to the Adjutsnt Generals
Office as follows: Killed, 1874; woun-
ded, 979; total, 1913 The Insurgents
have lost, some military authorities es
innate at least twenty thousand in
killed and wounded.
Elsewhere IN this issue we give Sena
tor Butler defence of his bill to pen
sion Confederate soldiers. Although
one Of the most remarkable speeches
ever delivered in the United States
Senate, no other paper, 30 far as W
know has given such liberal extracts
from it as we given elsewhere. The
young men of the country should net
be ignorant Of the facts to which this
sheet calls attention.
"Ob, it is great, and there is no other
greatness-to make q nook Of Gld's
creation more fruitful, better, more
worthy of God to make some human
heart a little wiser, manlier, happier
more blessed less accurssd." So
says Carlyle. Some persons are dis
posed to sheer at this eccentric author
but who will dare say that there is not
more trus religion and philosophy in
this one sentence than there is in
many q book of sermons3
The negro emigration agent is here
again now that the legislature has re-
moved the tax on him. A special
from Durham to the Raleigh Post says:
"R. Il. Lyon, negro emigration agent
left here yesterday with fifteen negro
men for Cliff wood, New Jersey. LEON
said that these men had been employed
on truck farms and as coachmen. He
said that one man at Cliff wood wanted
$50 men, and that he would be back
here again next month for nor ne
groes. Lyon is a Durham negro, but
has spent some time in New Jersey"
The News and Observer has become
very much exercised over the con
stantly increasing power of the trusts
that is, since the Legislature ad
journed. When the Solons were here,
however, q real anti trust bill was
brought forward, and the News and
Observer, which claimed to be the leg
isIRture's chief counsellor and guar
dian, allowed said Solors to add amend
ment after amendment to the bill, I'm
I'll this so called anti, trust law could,
with squal fitness be called the pro
trust law. And as a sheep before his
shesrers is dumb, so the News and o.
server opened not his mouth.
State Business Agent Parker ap
peared before the new Corporation
Commission here last Thursday and
asked that the railroads Of the State
be required to give carload rates on
fertilizer shipments Of ten tons or
mor instead Of on Is tons or more as
at present. 1t will be remembered
that the State Alliance at it's last an
nual session called the attention of
the Railroad Commission to this mat
ter. But although the farmers of
South Carolina get carload rates on
shipments Of ten tons or more, and
from our point of view no one has
given a good reason why North Caro-
lima farmers should not have the same
privilege, the Railroad Commission re.
fused the Alliance petition. Moreover,
the new Corporation Commission has
decided not to hear the case until the
22d instant -When the fertiliz sr season
Of 1899 will be practically over.
A dispatch from Harrisburg, Pa,
last week said: Governor Stone to.
day approved the bill extending the
minimum school term in the State to