The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-16

Tie Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley
Railroad has been divided between the
Southern Railway Go. and the Vii
minRton and Weldon 20. The South
ern gets that part from Sanford to
Mt Airy; the w. & ". from Sanford
to Wilmington.
Even when the Texas Legislature
goes wrong, the Governor Of that State
fights the peoples battles with all his
might. The railroads Of Texas sue.
ceeded by dint of a powerful lobby in
procuring the enactment Of q number
of railroad consolidation bills. Gov
ernor Sayres has turned them all down
by refusing his signature. Happy ID
is the State that has q governor with
sand enough to do this, remarks Wal
lacs's Farmer.
Says a correspondent Of the Hickory
Mercury "Catawba Alliance No. 1887,
was reorganized last Saturday with
twenty one members. We hope every
Sub-alliance in Catawba county will be
reorganiZsd, and send delegates to the
County Alliance which meets in Kick
DRY the second Friday in July" Why
can't your neighborhood do as we'll,
lear readers9 Perhaps it could. At
least there's no harm in trying-or in
trying again, if you have already tried.
We call the attention of u readers
to the fact that section 5 Of the pro-
posed Constitutional amendment has
not been correctly printed in The Pro
gressive Farmer until this week. We
secured our copy Of the amendment
from some of our daily exchanges and
did not discover until last week that
that there were errors in it. r 3ad
section 5 as it appears on page 4 this
week, If you wish to make no mistake
in the matter.
Oar Raleigh evening contemporary,
the Times Visitor, on last Tuesday,
gave its readers its opinion as to the
proper way to secure q cas- Of ''the
jimmies," which We presume are
something like the ''invongrous des,
titude," q thing to which it that day
referred. Next day it told Of a work,
man who twas mortally, but not
seriously, hurt" The question arises,
Did he have a Ease of the jimmies, "
or was it merely 1.-The invongrous des
titude3"
The trusts are beginning their gIo
rious work Of reducing % prices. We
find the following dispatch in one Of
last weeks papers: The American
Sugar Refining Company Wednesday
advanced the price of sugars sold by it
/ cent per pound. Standard granula
ted was thus placed at So, against st.
This move was quickly followed by all
independent reineries The current
advance was real lily begun in London,
where refined sugar prices have been
hardening for some days"
Senator Chauncey N Dapew, of New
York has leased the Corcoran man
sion in Washington City for elk years
at a rental Of so, COO a year, double the
amount Of his entire salary as Sena
tor. The fool killer is badly needed
for the mar who can face this fact and
express a belief that Mr.. Depew will
serve the people and not the corpora
tions-that he will go into debt thou
sands Of dollars for the privilege of
promoting the b6s interests of the great
common people Of New York State
whom he has hitherto faeced and
robbed.
Hurrah for Texas and the Texas
Democratic legislatorsl Legislators
out there seem to have some backbone.
The trusts and trust attorneys flooded
t1em with indignant kilograms, made
all sorts Of threats, and it is
said, even tried bribery, but all to no
avail. The Senate passed an anti,
trust bill ever more drastic than the
Arkansas law, and the House carried
il through at the ratio Of nearly 80 to
L 1t is said that the telegraph COM
panies sent messages protesting against
the bill free Of charge-in short, all the
trust hirelings attorneys and friends
worked like Trcj ans to kill the bill.
1t takes courage to face opposition like
that and we congratulate Texas upon
having such a body of law makers.
Perhaps we shall have to accept the
statement Of the Wade Court of In.
quiry that the army beef was not EN-
balmed. But as the New York Out
look observes, there is nothing in the
finding which will re move, or ought to
remove, the painful impression that
incompetent officials were appointed in