The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-09-05

urer and Business Agent OF the State
Alliance, expects to be with County
Alliance Lecturer King at the speak
ing at White Oak night Of September
Stu and at Olives Chapel night Of Sep
kember 9th. Let every Workingman
in these neighborhoods attend and
hear Alliance principles discussed.
Every n who attends will be pleas
antly and profitably entertained.
We are always glad to have our
friends, in whatever part OF the world
they may be, furnish US with news
items of general interest-such as Bro.
Lanes letter in this issue and Bro. Tay-
lor's in our last on the recent storm in
Eastern North Carolina, and Mr.. Fus
sells letter from the Philippines. Each
of these letters furnishes much infor-
nation on the subjects treated that
cannot be found in the usual newspa
per dispatches.
The Charlotte Observer quotes ap'
provingly Senator Tillman's recent
speech in which he told his hearers to
quit w~hitecapping negroes but to muir
der white Republican leaders, and says
it is s'sound advice" And this from a
paper which is considered n Of the
most decent partisan journals Of the
State, and q paper which has been Wig.
orous and active in denouncing lynch
ingsl The doctrines of the anarchists
seem to be as popular in the South as
in the North.
The statement Of the Alliance situa-
ton setting forth the need for farmers
to again come together in the Alliance
and take their proper place among the
forces that are acting in the building
of the history Of our times is the work
of a committee of which Bro. w. A
Graham is chairman. It is mainly his
work and it is heartily concurred in
by the committee and all the brethren
who have seen it up to the present
time. It will be ready for publication
at an early date.
Honor to whom honor is due" We
wish to commend the action Of the
Seaboard Air Line Railway in estab
fishing circulating libraries along ite
line for the purpose Of introducing the
best current literature to its patrons,
and thus promoting the cause Of edu
cation and progress. The Libraries were
at first three experimental lots; now
there are twenty five. They remain
sixty days in a place and are then
moved. We hope that the people prop
erIy appreciate this bit Of good work
on the part Of the 8. A. L system.
The Ohio Democratic convention last
week nominated John r Mclean, the
editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer, for
Governor, declared for Bryan and Is
to 1; against imperialism for the init
alive and referendum; for N eight
hour law, and recommended a consti
tutional amendment providing for the
election of President, Vice President
and . lited States Senators by direct
vote Of the people. The gold element
Of the Democratic party now seems to
have no chencs Of controlling the next
National Convention
The war IN the Philippines drags
YEARLY on but an aggressive campaign
is now being planned and will begin
very soon. President Mex nley an
noupces that henceforth There will be
no useless parley, no pause, until 4 ein
]surrection is suppressed and the Ameri
can authority acknowledged and estab
lished," Such a policy will meet the
approval of all sensible people, regard.
less of their views On expansion. The
American people may not care to keep
the islands, but they do want the in
%surrection quelled with all possible
speed.
Prof. b. @. Adams, of the Univer
sity of Michigan, in a recent Interview
on the remedy for trusts, sensibly re
marked that the subject is too vast for
a newspaper interview. mo statement
representing the problem of trusts
would be Ineligible without reference
to the railways abuses" said he "a
very considerably number of CONNER
cial trusts and combinations, perhaps
all Legitimate or undesirable associa-
tions of this class, would be Withered
and blown away in the breeze of
healthful competition, were it not for
the persistence of discrimination in
railway rates. This is the principal
evil in modern industrial society, and
upon the fact that railways discrimi
nate between shippers, rather than no.
on anY other single fact that can be