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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-06-10
JAMES EFFRlES.
Champion Of the World.

RITzSIMMONs has been IN the ring
= for nearly twenty years. making
his first appearance az an amateur In
Timaru. New Zealand. In 1850 He de-
championship The following year hs
engaged In number Of contests. win
ming them all. In Australia he had
many fights. defeating Jim Crawford
in three rounds. Bill, Siavin in seven.
Starlight nine. Arthur Cooper three.
Jack Murphy eight. Brainsmeai two.
Greentree three. Dick Sandall four.
Conway two. West one. Pablo Frank
two. Jack Riddle four, Eager two.
HN principal contests since then are
a. follows:
1851 December 17-Dick Ellis, three
rounds, won; Sidney
1880. February io-Jlm Hall. four
rounds. lost: Sidney.
1890. May c0-Biilv Mccarthy, nine
rounds won: San Francisco.
1890 June 2s-Arthur Upham. Ave
rounds, knockout: New Orleans.
1891, January 14-Jack Dempsey. thir-
teen rounds. Knockout. New Orleans.
1851, April eS~Abe Coagle. two rounds.
Knockout: Chicago.
1891. May BLACK Pearl, four rounds,
won; Minneapolis.
1892. March a-peter Maher. twelve
rounds. knockout; New Orleans.
isse~Jim Farrell. two rounds. knock
out. Newark
1852. May Joe Godfrey, one round.
knockout: Philadelphia.
1852 May f+--Jerry Slastery. two
rounds. Knockout New York.
1899. September s-Miilard Gender. one
round. knockout. Admission. Ala.
lssa March Slim Hall. four rounds.
Knockout. New Orleans.
1883. March 2s-wni Mayo, knockout.
two rounds Chicago
knockout. Baltimore
isas. september Jack Hickey. three
rounds. won: Newark.
1894 June IT-Joe Choynski ave
rounds. draw: Bosson.
1894. July 2s-Frank Keller. two
rounds. knockout; Buffalo.
isa4, September IS Dan Creednn. TWO
rounds. knockout. New orleans.
1885. April is-Al Allish. shrae rounds.
Knockout: New York.
1895. February 21-Peter Maher. one
round Knockout: Langtry. Tex
fsss December 2-Thcmas Sharkev,
eight rounds. ios:. foul. San E'rancascn.
1897, March Is~Jar1es j. CorSett, four
teen rounds. knockout; Carson CITY.
New.
issa. June sJames Jsffr!ea eleven
rounds loss. Coney Island Sporting
Club. New Yark-
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-06-10

Js4 vss tardH u e4nazo -. ssA - ssess1s
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-10-10

The great number of trusts which
have come into existence during the
last twelve months has not only re-
ceived widespread notice in the news
papers, but has attracted the attention
of both the great political parties, as
likely to be a vital issue Of the next
presidential campaign.
With all that has been said for and
against these great combinations Of
capital, n feature has r. ceived scant
noticC-the over capitalization, or
''stock-watering."
Oily a little while ago a New York
dispatch announced the formation OF q
new trust, and added, the only ques
ton left unsettled is the capitaliz alton.
It will be either twenty or thirty mil
lion dollars"
The plain English Of this statement
is, that the capitalization was to bear
little or no relation to the money in
vested or thu property aCq Hired by the
trust, but was to depand on the 2
5z2rs' estimate of the amount of
''water" the public could be induced
to buy.
The evils of such a condition are
many. FIRST, it ia a : ong to the pub
lie; for the effort to earn dividends
upon excessive capital keeps prices
naediessly high, and forc,s the con
sumner to pay more than he ought for
his commodities.
Next. there is always danger that
those who buy SOCKS will lose the
money they invest. Public confidence
is thus weakened and the way paved
for the hard times" which almost al.
ways follow a period of financial &C
tivity like the present.
Finally, labor troubles not in:re-
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-10-10
THE THINKERS.
"sKLDOM sRRN."

The American people are often spok
en- of, but they have been seldom seen
and felt face to face. They are a force
surmised and speculated about, but
unknown. These farmers and email
tradesmen and other common people,
whom the corporations enslave, and
the trusts impoverish, and whom the
wealthy and fashionable despise and
are ashamed of-here they were, and
none who encountered them can ever
forget the experience or cease to pom
der upon it's pregnant lesson. The les
son, briefly put, is that these common
people will have their way sooner or
later. 1t may not be a way altogether
agreeable to the uncommon people, or
even the way most Immediately con
ducive to the prosperity of the com
mon people themselves; but it will not
be the way of the trusts and corpora
tions. -Julian Hawthorne.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-10-10

never help the man who raises the
cotton Put the storage system profit
and q little more (the more you can
spare by squeezing yourself, ETC., the
better for you inally) and get your
mill assured and built. Why should
we suggest the more you can put in the
betterG Because the cotton mills are
all paying we'll and you are likely to
realize a nice profit on your in.
vestment.
Is there anything more we can say
in addition to the aboveG Yes. II you
have lived Ia Wake or an adjoining
county, you have seen the building and
starting of three cotton mills here in
Raleigh, all within the last ten years.
How many of our cotton growers
took stock in one of these and have
held on to it through thick and thinG
IT you do not know any thing OF the
history of these prosperous mill com
panies earning handsome dividends
by their investments in this class OF
property, ask some n who does know
of their past and note carefully all
their mistakes, or failures and study
their management for your own guild
ance. This will pay we'll. You now
have a textile school at the A. 6 NJ.
College. If you have a boy Of a me
chanical turn Of mind send him there
to prepare to work in and direct work
on and in your farmers or cotton
growers factory. Wake county a
thus found a factory manned by Wake
county skilled labor. The owners sons
and daughters can thus partly operate
it and perhaps own stock themselves.
Some Of the most successful business
establishments are operated on the CO
operative plan. The great Century
Magazine is made on this plan and the
selling newsboy receives his proper
tional share Of profits as does the edi-
tor in chief and every other member of
the great concern.
There are thousands Of CO operative
plants in successful operation among
the farmers in the Northern States and
we question why they may not -four
ish here in Wake county. Have we
not heard of one in Georgia3 and is not
a rumor ex5ant about a 10 per cent.
dividend in cash an SO per cent divi-
dend in ssock7 When we learn to
come together as farmers should we
shall be better off in more senses than
one. f. E e.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-10-10
THE M ALLIANCE,

In another column we publish an ad.
dress to the farmers which was pre
pared by a committee appointed at the
recent session Of the North Carolina
State Alliance. 1t seems that there il
a determined effort to re organize the
old organization and bring it TO q full
realization Of what was at first in.
tended. Among the new features con.
templated in the re organiz4 tion, We
notice that political rancor" and "un.
worthy men" which shave been in.
furious to the Oder" ara TO be dis.
pensed with SO far as possible. We
have never doubled the good which
might be brought about 0y a thorough
organic alton Of the farmers, there is
no other class OF people who are 30
d~isorganiz9d as the farmers; sh9y are
the Adjustable commodity oy which
and with which ali other industries d.
termine the price Of th3ir productsaad
the wages Of their Iao0rers. Tl9 cot
ton goods manufactures and the to
bacco manufacturer fix the price Of
cotton and tobacco in proportion to the
net profit which they sac fl TO realz3.
This should not be 80, and if the un'
wholesome feature which attended the
old organization of the Farmers ALI.
ance can be gotten rid of this state Of
affairs can, to a great extent be rem
edied.
Such an organic alton also inCulcateS
independent and co operative thought
among the farmers with reference 70
their affairs; they would become TO feel
that they had a more important paFi
to play in the worlds affairs than
to grub stumps and fight tn0
weeds. They are to look to the mar
keting Of their product as we'll as tn8
production Of it; and they might aisO'
by proper CO operation. instead OF En0
old blowing and hoeing at random,
learn to farm on more improved anu
methods. The organiEaEon
of the farmers would undoubtedly
have a tendency in this direction
We trust that in the re organl1a'On
of the Farmers Alliance the "OI8ch
sheep" will be closely scrutinIH"
against and kept out and that the Or
ganiz alton will develop into a heal'n
ful and all round beneficial one
Winston Republican,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-10-10
THE ALLIANCE

Maj William A. Graham, the FF0o,
dent OF the Farmers Alliance, 10 d u
man to be at the head of that OrganI11,
ton. He is a farmer himself, Wn0nI
an important qualification, but ID ~
dition to that he is a wise mar anu
had large experience in public an .ntrI
Il is not hard to recognize his sAnD n
hand in some recent movements
Alliance circles, and it is to be nyR wa
the politicians have had their la'. -.
If the Alliance can be kept ouE o. ront
tics and if the politicians can be ksp'
out of the Alliance, it will yet D 18th
greatly useful to the farmers Oh Savs
Carolina. And the brethren
made a good start in that dlFec',N
Charity and Children Religious
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-10-10
ABRTrER DAY FOR JOURNALISM

The facts do not bear out the Rsser
ton Of Lord r oseberry that the coming
newspaper will be one that prints the
news alone without editorial comment.
It will print the news fairly and i'm
partially; it will also print fair and
impartial opinion. Indeed, not the
least important phase of newspaper
development is the. tendency toward
impartial opinion. 1t is one of the
most hopeful signs Of the times. Poll
tics has played an ~abnormally large
part in the life of our people in the past
and the newspaper has been under
more or less of compulsion to take
sides While there are parties there
will have to be party newspapers, but
the number Of newspapers that see
good only in one party and evil only in
the other are rapily diminishing The
tendency is irresistibly toward a larger
measure of independence. The coming
newspaper, the one that will WELD the
largest iLfIence over men, will be the
one that does not attempt to fnd all of
truth within party lines. 1t will r
serve to itself the right to condemn
and to praise what it will. 1t will dis
cuss public policies, but It will discuss
them as the unbiased critic and not as
the partisan advocate.
This, then, will be one line of de
markaton-the divorcing of the news
paper from the political party. AS
the natural sequence Of it will come
the erection of journalism into a pro-
fession in the true ems Of the word,
and one that will attract to it men OF
the broadcast views, highest culture
and most infexible moral courage. It
will be a happy day for journalism
and for country. The profession has
been subjected to politics too long al
ready. It has done theneWspaper and
the public i~ncalculable harm-and
most Of all it has harmed the ne rs
paper man.
1fthese Cbsel vatiOns are correct, and
/ believe they are justified By present
day conditions. the newspaper of to
morrow will be one that emphasize
quality in it's news, that is absolutely
fearless and independent in it's expires
sions Of opinion, speaking Gus the
whole truth as it sees tbs truth, and as
the result of this the erection Of ur-
naIism into a profession worthy of the
name.-From c. P. Sapp's Address,
1.-The Newspaper and the Mar" de
at the meeting of North Caro-
lima Press Association, July IL, 1899.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-10-10

quently are traceable to stock
ing. A manufacturer, fndino water.
unable to earn dividends uno1 unset
greatly in excess of real SSplta
value, tries to curtail expensao SEIVe
ducing wages. His employees y te'
and a strike ensues. resist,
The manufacturer himself NM
perfectly innocent. The ''wate,"s De
have been introduced by Others may
he acquired possession of the bns; o'OFs
Nevertheless both he and his emnIo"
suffer from the practice. Sees
TIE evil, although common to t,,...
is by nc means confined to tbora
undermines outside Corporations II
weakens railroads. ALREADY Sou
states have enacted la VS. apain.t :!
and others ought to follow their -
ample. Companion. "a
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-10-10
CHILD LABOR IN OUR FACTO.
RTES.

With the exception of tie fact that
all our educational institutions have
opened with such remarkably large en-
rollments, no sign of the times is more
encouraging to n 0rth Carolinians than
the decrease Of the number of children
working in our factories.
The report of the Bureau of Labor
Statistics for 1896 showed that there
were at work in the States cotton mills
that year 6 822 men, 10 567 women
and 5 046 children, very nearly as many
children ss men.
The report for this year will show
that Is 915 men, Is. 887 women and
S.44O children are employed, showing
that the number Of men employed has
increased 100 per cent, that of women
has increased so per cent but that of
children has decreased so cent.
This is a most encouraging sho wing.
The problem Of child labor in the cot
ton mills has not by any means received
the attention it des Tves, and the fact
that 8 440 children are even now %
fined IN the mills makes the problem
still q serious one.
We have recently talked with a mum.
Der Of cotton mill men upon this sub
ject and are glad to fud that no one
seems to realize more fully than they
that no child under fourteen years of
age should be allowed to work in a cot,
ton factory unless attending school at
least four months in the year, and that
no child under twelve years Of age
should do factory work. The cotton mill
managers say they are anxious to pre-
vent child labor but that without con
cert OF action they are unable TO bring
about the results most of them per.
sonally desire.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-10-10
THE U PROBLEM.

The financial journals Of the country
are full Of reports of cancellations OF
giant manufacturing, mining, trans
portation, banking and other interests
into huge Trusts. They tell US that the
aggregate amount of capital stock rep.
resented in these trusts that have
secured charters in the State of New
Jers; y alone exceed three and a half
billion dollars. This enormous amount
exceeds two to one the aggregate
amount o, actual money of all kinds in
this country, including gold, silver and
paper. These trusts are not all incor-
porated in the State of New Jersey, but
perhaps half OF them are This would
pan out for the last year eve billion
dollars Of stock, or 800 for each man,
woman and child in the United States.
This does not include those previously
Incorporated, o does it even Include
banking and transportation corpora
tions.
It is a fact easily proved, and denied
by those only who are in one way or
another interested, that these stocks in
these trust companies represent in
stock about ten dollars, some times
twenty, to every dollar of actual cash
originally invested in the plants which
form the combine. The obi ac5 of these
combinations of industrial or manu-
featuring enterprises is then plain-to
do away with competition, to save ex.
penses by discharging drummers and
clerks, to fill ell orders from one com
mon center, to curtail and control
labor, to purchase raw materials al
lower price and sell their products at
higher prices; in other words, to in
crease the margin Of profit between the
price of the raw and the finished prod
ucts in such ratio as will pay dividends
on from five to twenty five times the
bined.
A recent statement to the point: Two
giant combines control 80 per cent. of
the tobacco manufactured in the United
ObhGCSs a 10" 0AGCE PG4SGB u6F6 u0lU
out against them, trying to force the
trusts to let them in on better terms or
because they do not believe in the
trusts methods. Nov and then they
fell in, however. One OF the two giant
combinations very recently gulped in
Ehree other plants. Six hundred hands
were Immediately discharged and the
wages of those retained cut at the rate
of two dollars out of every five. They
tell the public that these combinations
are beneficial; they regulate prices
both of raw and finished products, and
give stable, Interchangeable pay to labor.
But facts prove the contrary.
With such conditions facing US,
should not the common people of the
country unite for self protection and to
learn how to throttle these giant com
bines9 Something must be done, and
without organization and united effort
nothing can bs done.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-10-10
NOTES.

LIST US repeat: Attend your County
Alliance meeting whether you are a
delegate or not.
IT you get more than n copy OF
this weeks paper, hand to a neighbor
and ask for his subscription.
The New York World has been op
posing the Philippine war daily for
months. Nov it is tashering Admiral
Dswey's Presidential boom. Verify,
consistency is a jewel.
Wake County Alliance meets at the
A & NJ. College, West Raleigh, Oct.
18th, at IL q. m. The Cotton Growers
of Wake and adjoining counties meet
at Raleigh Oct. 18th, at IL a. ID. These
meetings should be well attended.
The State Normal and Industrial Col
lege has opened with four hundred and
twenty. five students. the largest open
ing in the history Of the college.
Every North Carolina school we have
yet heard from makes a good showing.
May the good work continue.
Our readers will fad our advertis
ing columns of special interest this
week and each advertiser ia thoughly
reliable. Read the ads. and when you
write for prices, free catalogues or
further Information be sure to say, Il
saw your ad. in TIE Progressive Far
mer."
We are glad to learn that hereafter
no child under twelve years of age will
be allowed to work in the East Dur
ham Cotton Mill. This is a good rule
and ought TO be adopted by every mill in
the State. If our legislatures had done
their duty a law prohibiting the en-
ployment of children under twelve in
the cotton mills would have been
adopted long ago.
Forty one manufacturers of agricul.
sural implements met in Chicago last
Monday, and by agreement raised the
price of all farm tools 25 per cent. They
were enabled to do this by thorough
organization. Doyou sees The cause
in the rise in price, they state, is the
increase in price of iron, steel and lum.
Der. At any rate it may be worth
while to give this item a little thought.
The trust problem seems to be one
Of international Importance. Consul
Brundage, at AK la Chapelle, Ger
many, reports that every industry in
his district is controlled by trusts for
the purpose Of regulating prices Of both
products and labor. Oae Of the oldest
Woolen cloth manufacturers there said
to the consul, in answer to the q Iestion
why they did not establish factorit s 10
the United States: I'VE can make more
money by manufacturing here. Your
labor is too high, and your wooden cloth
men do not stand together; they cut
prices too much. Here we can regulate
business and can adapt ourselves to
competition by controlling prices and
labor. We made a great deal of money
before the high tariff went into effect
in the United States"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-10-10

We have given elsewhere in ~.
issue an extract from Col. L 7, po,Ll
salutatory, in which he set forth H.
ideas of the editors highest dutv Az
other great editor, Horace Gteelv. ~.
spoken on the same subject ons
what he said is worth remembori1~
and is also worthy of careful thonabt
We quote:
There is a different and a ster,..
path;-I know not whether there !.
any now qualified to treadit; I am nv
sure that even one has ever followed
it implicitly, in view of the Certain
mea gerness Of its temporal reward.
and the haste wherewith any fama a..
CURED in a sphere SO thoroupblr
ephemeral as the editors must +,
shrouded in the waters of Oblivion
This path demands an ear ever Oman =.
the plants of the wronged and sufo,,
ing, though they can never repav I'D,
vocRcy, and those who mainly sunnor,
newspapers will be annoyed and often
exposed by it; a heart as sensitive tn
oppression and degradation in the peyt
sheet as if they were practieed in
Brazil or Japan; a pen as ready to ey.
pose and reprove the crimes wherebv
wealth is amassed and luxury eniova6
in our own country at this hour az if
they had been committed only nv
Turks or Pagans in Asia some cen.
turtles ago."
Decorah-posten., 1899-09-26
BONNER til Chicago.
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Crlop % 100000 Helle'
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til at bsfsss Gbituso unosr Ss'tts'isrne
/ Sttob,r. SnbbposIisn bar uoitsot al
Gupernsrsn at S1inois.
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tunos rsiIs pda en- Wdacs, Iom a%nitaar
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0nn bill rims!ioui5 tiItrnbe I'm Rsifs
omtrin1 ben 3bis Oft. Inner bans
fraper furacrer uoenriasminiiter So
nocip MnriIsol iom BrGiibsnt.
Decorah-posten., 1899-09-26
Daqut= 1%noiancrne.
Dc braber eaer lager p9f amerifanifc
Sfierpere.

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quiz Snoiunerne fprti9tter line 6sriins
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dmeritanite Stiarpers bar life blioenoe
Stef. 5pis bet er Iunot, ION bet er
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/ Sobuaripus Diitrittst. os mango andre
sr blet plpnor't for alt, be eisr, os berpdd
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tcm | qften BERTH fra sprs gaqui Riuer.
De bleD at Rscbuoerns frataget ale fine
GienoeIe os iasst oat. De git so Mil
ueen at image Wuobibsn, os enooa er
be glade, be Hap fra bet mso 9ioet.
Decorah-posten., 1899-09-26
Sifer life at arbcibe.
Maugc paa Eprto Nieo pil bellcr
icOe paa Gaaoe.

Sun Suan, 20os Sept. - Mr. 5oF,
YrPiioent for 8oaro Of CHARITIES, bar
netop cffentlisgiort fslssnoe Statiitit,
uoarbeioet sftsr Spgapsr inob;ntst fra
Supsrintsnoentsrns / De fprItitligs 0is
i~trittsr paa Zen: Den belle SsfoItning
teller 1854. 6atti9s uofu rins:Its
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men bsrjeOe pRrIt. Sans cFitieQc Rap
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lite fan faa Grbeiosfolt moi, % Opttos
rem for'Ildar, at Hsgisrinasn Iluttsr
meo at uoosIs 9rootant. Wdnas 2Gz
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~itritter Ear anbcfalet BIT Iamm: al Icms
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