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

In our General News columns last
week we referred to the action Of Nc
Kinley's Cabinet in directing the Post
master at San Francisco to exclude
from the mails certain pamphletsis issued
by the Boston anti Imperialist League,
which we're on their way to "our boys'
In the Philippines. Now for Edward
Atkinson, the author of these pamphlets
and the famous defender of trusts and
trust rule, we have not the least sym
patty. But as Messrs. Alger & Co.,
by their action, interfered with the
freedom of the press, we think a pro
test is in order. They have set q bad,
very bad precedent-one which may
give us more and more trouble as the
years go by.
Suppose the pamphlets were sedi
tious. Dies President Mckinley mean
to say that our soldier boys have not
sufficient intelligence to understand
whether or not a work ie treasonableH
Or, if capable of understanding what
constitutes treason, does he mean to
intimate that they have not sufficient
patriotism TO spurn suggestions which
they know to be seditious and treason
ableG How much ncDler the stand
taken by President Lincoln who, when
urged to take action against those who
could not or would not agree with his
policy, simply said, mo; this thing is
for a moment only. The right of free
thought and free speech and a free
press are eternal principles. My ad-
ministration must win upon it's merits;
not by subjugation or suppreHsion!'
In this Lincoln set q precedent which
Mckinley should have followed. In.
stead he has repudiated Lincoln's state
ment that "a free press is an eternal
principle" and has set a precedent
which more tyrranical Presidents may
invoke in efforts to further abridge
this sacred right.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-16

sas Regiment, the hero Of the war IN
Luzon, whose daring and successful
feats have repeatedly excited admlra-
ton since the beginning OF Aguinaldo's
rebellion, and who for his great brav
eryh has just been promoted to the rank
of Brigadier- General by President Nc
Kinley, is also a native OF our State!
The r 4leigh Christian Advocate tells
US that Ibis parents moved to Kansas
when he was quite young and though
General Funston weighs less than one
hundred pounds, North Carolina is
proud of the manhood that is in him,
and adds him to the roll in which
Worth Bagley, Blue and shipp are late
heroes"
In this connection we call attention
to the fact that North Carolina now
claims Abraham Lincoln as one Of her
SONS. Mr.. James 81. Cathey, OF Bry-
con City, has written a book in sup
port of the theory that the martyr
President was a native Of what is now
Swain county, and though we have
not seen a copy of the book, we are
told that Mr.. Cathey has a startling
array of facts in support of the state
ment. In fact, competent judges say
he has made out a case"
Truly, our North Carolina trust is a
~wooe 4noI
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-16
THE K
MICRO D1sFRANCaIsEMENT


To the Editors of The N Y. OUTLOOK:
Iobiect to NEGRO acknowledgements
because it is bound to put the negro IN
the lead. Every boy in the land wants
to vote. black or white; this is true. II
the black boy al vote only by secur
ing an education, he will get that edu
cation, you may rest assured OF that.
II the white boy can vote by simply
being a child or grandchild of a citizen
of the United States in 1857 or 1868, ne
Won't worry much about education,
and o may rest assured of that.
In Louisiana, where white suprem
acy is greatest, or where, perhaps, the
negro is the most thoroughly Olsen
franchised, the percentage of illiteracy
is the greatest in the United States, be-
ing 48 8 per cent. In South Carolina
where the negro is but little better off,
the percentage is As per cent. In North
Carolina it is 35 7 per cent, and IN
Alabama Al per cent. Illiteracy runs
high and education runs low. Now,
shall we, as whites, just because we
can, put the negro boy on a pedestal
and cover him with the light of learn
ing, and put our W white boys in a
pit and bury them with ignorance9 I
object. II there is any stimulus to be
gotten for the cause of education from
the fact that a man must have the
rudiments of an education before he
can vote, then, I say, let US give it to
our white boys. At least, let US deal
with them as fairly as with the black
boys. I am engaged inthe education OF
white boys and girls in the South. Their
salvation cannot come through politl,
cal efforts. The problem isa deeper one.
It Is education, and that alone, that
will save US. We have already had
too much Of the politician and the
demagogue. Shall we emancipate the
negro from the thralldom of ignorance
by making for him an educational
standard in the matter Of franchise,
and continue to enslave u children
and our children's children by making
for them no educational standard
whatever9 LYMAN WARD,
Southern Industrial College, Camp
Hill, Alabama.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-16
ELECT SENATORS BY Dim.
VOTE, CC

Resulting from fractional fights i,
several General Assemblies W.
States will have but one Q. s, saU oats'
each in the next Congress. Ana AVN
fourth, Pennsylvania, will bavo
only by the permission of the INV WV
States Senate. There will be- in V
Senate fifty one Republicans. tvo.. Ie
six Democrats, four Populists ~
Silver Republicans, one Independo'.
The failure Of Legislatures to elect ~,
the frequent defeat of the popular nU
by the corruption OF Legislatures ~ ~
significantly growing number Of saD ~
tors whose influence is owed to tb,s,
wealth, all. hasten the day when ~,
people will demand to elect Unit,
States Senator'S themselves. AlraoS'
it is perfectly clear that conditio1.
have 80 changed that Legislative aIs'
tions of Senators is not safe or wise
Biblical Recorder.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-16
ONE o YEAR.

The American people have learned
that a year may be a long time in a
country history. In April, 1898, the
land was listening with a thrill to the
notes of preparation for an approach
ing conflict. At that moment probably
not a person in the United States
dreamed that the events then before
the nation would have more important
results for the republic than would be
involved in internal political changes
in Cuba, and in Cuba's relations to
Spain and the United States.
April, 1899, witnessed the exchange
of notifications of a peace treaty which
not only placed the responsibility for
maintaining order in Cuba upon this
country, but transferred to it's domin
ion almost the whole of Spain's colonial
possessions. The change is far more
important to the people Of this country
than to Cubans, Puerto Ricans or
Filipinos. They have but a problem
to solve. We have one for each of
them and one for ourselves.
The insurgents in Luzon continue a
var which they have long been wag-
ing In their view they have merely
changed masters. The refuse to pause
long enough TO see that they are not in
the hands of a ruthless, despotic power,
and are not ready to believe the assur
ances Of our government that tyranical
conquest is not it's purpose in opposing
the armed insurgent forces. Our task
is to make manifest their error.
In Puerto Rico we have been brought
into intimate political relations with a
friendly race, but one so different from
our own that we are sure in dealing
with them to make serious mistakes,
perhaps to misunderstand them and be
misunderstood by them.
Cuba is to be set, if possible, upon
it's own feet The people of the United
States are pledged to give it an indie
pendent government. How to organ
ize that government, whom to favor
in setting it in motion, when to remove
the guiding hand, these are perhaps
the hardest problems of all that our
legislators will have to solve.
Meanwhile, after more than a century
CT prosperity and growth, under a poll
tical system that has been free from
serious foreign entanglements, the
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-16
EDITING AND "FILLING" ANEWS
PAPER.

The Raleigh Christian Advocate
truthfulIy says:
1--WE know all about the difference
between filling a paper and editing
a paper. Any one, almost, can 'iu' a
paper in two hours. Oaly he who is
willing to give days and nights of in
telligent, faithful toll car edit a
paper. If any one has an idea that
the work of an editor is a sinecure we
would say that, as far as the posses
sion of facts is concerned, the absence
of such an idea is better than it's
presence"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-16
ABOUT LYNCHING.

The sancti1ed Rev. DE-. Kingsbury,
editor of the holy Wilmington Messeu.
ger, says:
There is a sure cure for lynchinga
North Carolina. It is possibly the only
one as yet known. It is for the scoun.
drels who commit rapes and assassin.
ate white men to cease their crimes
That done public sentiment will be to
healthy, too just, too humane to tola
ate violence by mobs."
This is too much, says the Hickory
Mercury, even for the editor Of the
AshevilIe Gazette, though he be only
Philistine and not one of the Lords
elect. The Gaz9tte makes the follow.
ing comment on the sanity reverend1
editorial efusion:
I'VE are weary of these excuses tG
lynching. Since the exhibition Of a
week ago in Georgia of what tbe
lynching mania leads to it seems tOu
a poor time to encourage the bushes
The only way to put a stop to lynchiDg
is to quit talking such nonsense as thl
of the Messengers and to condemn
mob violence as a crime that no CON
munity should tolerate. Because one
murder is committed in a community
is no reason why a large part Of ts
community should turn in and commit
murder. If we are forced to wait till
all the rapists and murderers are sE'
tinct before we begin to humaniEe our
selves we will wait until the lunstc
asyIums are empty, alcohol ceases 70
inebriate and dogs cease to go mad" :
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-16

One of the saddest features Of the
late trouble in Georgia which culm
mated in burning a negro criminal
at the stake was the lynching OF an 10.
nocent negro preacher by the name Oh
Strickland. The spectators OF tDS
former lynching were told by Hose
the criminal, that he had been Insu'
gated to his crime by Strickland. InS
statement was strenuously denied W
Major Thomas, one Of the most repU
table citizens OF that section. LILO
crowd, heated by the terrible scenS'
on which they had been gazing, acea
on the testimony Of Hose, and nuDS
their victim, who protested his lnDV
cence unto the last. This fact HUE
trates the dangerous potencies WnSD
slumber in the crime of lyncning' LUZ
guilty one ia not the only victim. ANI
innocent man, no matter who ne m'I
be, is liable to fall a victim to the 1u!
Of the mob. The only thing tor o.
good people to do is to advocate ".
necessity of allowing the law 10 SSn'
It's course.-RaIeigh Christian Aa''
cate.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-16

Don't ask US, from three to FWS',.
months or more in advance, TO S','
sending the paper after your suOscI% y,
ton runs out. We cannot rememt
It with thousands of names TO wv
after-besides you may change yU~ n
mind. But if you really do WaI' .,
stop it's visits wait till the time paiu"
is up, then drop us a postal card
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-16

Is the Corporation Commission a
commission ''ot, for, and by the o
porationsR" True it now proposes to
give our farmers the benef5 Of car
load rates on fertilizer shipments Of
ten IONS and over instead Of fifteen
tons and over as at present, and for
that it deserves credit. But at the
same session it decided to keep in force
the present high freight and passenger
rates. And last week it decided to re-.
store at once the old rates on telegraph
messages as follows:
Ten words and under, 25 cents.
Over ten words, 2 cents for each ad.
ditional word.
Over two or more telegraph lines,
owned and operated by separate and
distinct corporations or individuals,
the joint rates for a ten word message
shall not exceed 40 cents.
Over ten words, over two or more
lines, 8 cents each additional word.
The Railroad Commission last sum-
mer reduced telegraph rates to Is cents
for messages of ten words, and 1 cent
for each additional word; the joint
rate to 80 cents and 2 cents for each
additional word.
From this rate the Western Union
appealed and the case went to the
courts, where it still fingers. Now
that cid rates have been restored, how
ever, the Western Union will carry
the case no further.
II the Corporation Commission is
better than the r abroad Commission,
will some one tell US in what respects
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-16

Charity covereth a multitude of sins,
but it is the sins of our fellows which
ye must cover by it-not our own.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-16

When it was announced some weeks
ago that the Reorganization Commit
tee was to declare vacant the position
Of Agricultural of the Experiment
Station and of Professor of Agricul.
ture at the A. & N. College we sup.
posed that politics was at the bottom
of it. But the plan seems to be en-.
tirely different as we attempt to chow
in another column.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-16

United States finds itself psrmen.~,
loaded with it's full share of tn
mans burden" That is what the t "al'%
of peace with Spain signlfes.-v"sss9
Companion. 'U'as
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-16

Mention The Progressive Farmer
when writing to advertisers.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-11-29

will be perpetual benediction.
While the buildings in which the
faculty and teaching students re-
side are large and commodious,
still the popularity of the Insti-
tute is so great that the buildings
ara entirely inadequate and the
academy building i'll Buncombe
connected bv telephone with the
Institute is used for the pupils of
the primary and intermediate de-
partmen;s and the kindergarten
is taught at the home of Rev. L.
R. Gwaltney. In these three. de
partmfnts there are about one
hundred aud forty pupils. The
dining room which was enlarged
durlug the summer is found to be
toe small, aud lumber is now be-
ing placed on the grounds for a
new dining room 5Ox30 feet. This
room is expected to be completed
in two weeks time. There ara two
hundred and ninety students en-
rolled this year, one hundred and
seventeen Of whom are boarders.
Every room in the dormitory is
full, aud nine young men and
Young women are waiting to come
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-11-29

the college is one of its mose inn
portant aud distinctive excellencies
The students are allowed enough
latitude to give them the benefit of
all that the town of Edg"feld Can
afford in a moral, intellectual, and
spiritual way, and no more. They
are world of their own and within
the spacious walls of the college
building find ali that they should
desire in the way of recreation and
healthful amusement.
The S. G. G. |. is the oldest and
largest co-educatiouil boarding
school in the State, having bngun
itsawork before co-education was
adopted in ou numerous colleges.
The Orangeburg college: which is
perhaps the next largest co-educa-
tional school has az lis Pre- ident, a
former student and graduate OF
the S. G. G. l.
So much do the citizens Of Edge
field prize the Institute that during
the past summer when a meeting
was called for the purpose of coll
sidering a tax looking to the pur-
chasing of buildings or th" eroc-
tion of other buildings for the COL
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-11-29

, now principal of the Ridgeway
Graded School IN the town of
Ridgeway, S. c., He has three
assistant teachers. The people of
the town have put up a handsome
$4,000 building, and he is receiving
good salary. Mr.. S. E. Smith,
is principal of the graded school
in the town of Packsville, in Sum-
ter County. He has two assistant
teachers. and has large and -four
ishing school. Mr.. L. E. Cogburn
is in charge of the graded school in
the town of Hendersonville, S. C.
He has one assistant teacher, and
the people are delighted with the
work that he is doing. Mr.. A. S.
Appleby has the Mountain Creek
graded school in Greenwood county
His school opened few weeks ago,
with large number of students.
Mr.. T. E. Dorm is principal of the
Rrd Hill High school, Edgefeld
County. Mr.. Dorm has one assistant
teacher, and from what the people
say, he is doing wonders for that
part of Edgefeld County. Miss
Lillian Anderson has charge of a
school in the Curryton neigbbor-
hood, AMI one of the trustees who
recently paid us visit, said that
she'was giving them the best school
that they had ever had. Miss
Blanche Lazzelle has charge of
school in Ramsey, Sumter County,
and from all accounts Is giving
thorough satisfaction.
President Bailey guarantees to
procure positions for all those who
complete the course. and every
year he has more calls for teachers
than he has graduates; it is no
difficult matter TO get place for
the graduates of the S. C. C. l., for
besides giving them actual practice
in teaching, complete course in
pedagogy is laugh; and those who
thus bid their alma mater farewell
have a thorough knowledge of Low
TO manage school. Trree former
students, one of last year and two
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-11-29

Another cycle of swift fleet
ing days has passed, and the
South Carolina Co-Education-
al Institute has again found its
happy home in Edgefefd. Its
necessitous existence grows
upon us, for the people of the
town and county have had un-
folded to their vision, physical
and mental, the wonder work
ing out-growth of such an in
stitution, unexcelled for thor
oughness of work and high
ideals in attainment.
The standard of intellectual
lite in our town has been per-
ceptibly elevated and the in.
spiration to more ardent and
jealous search for knowledge
greatly increased by this pres
ence abiding in our midst. The
influence of the high moral
tone and Christian upright
ness of character which marks
the personality of the faculty,
and a number of the students
have been of incalculable ben
eft to us in the work of our
churches in all their depart
mentS.
The strict military di<ciplin" of
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-11-29

lege, it was found that every liberal
and broad minded citizen Of our
town who was anxious for the we'll
being of bis town and community,
was zealously anxious for any
measure which would make the
South Carolina Co-Educational
College permanency i'll our midst.
The banner which now waves
over the walls of the Institute, or
more beautiful banner still, will
yet display to Edge6eld her Own
proud possession, and when she
shall thus come to hold President
Bailey, her faithful friend aud
benefactor, in the hollow of her
hand, she may exclaim in thrilling
accents, "Edge6eld is blessed in-
deed, and her citizens are worthy
of their inheritance"
Parents who have daughters OF
cons to train for life in it's fu,leg:
sense, can fad no better locality
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-11-29

student body. There was no diff
c .lty in selecting those who could
h ,nor themselves and the instltu-
ton. On each succeeding evening
the Opera House was not only filled
but crowded, and numbers, even of
ladies, were obliged to st md. Each
part of the program was full of alb
sorbing interest and fascinating
attraction. This showed to ali the
audi nee al once the high order of
instruction which TIE Institute
afforded, and its exceeding desira-
bleness as an educational institu-
ton.
While the South Carolina Co.
Educational institute is not the
outgrowth of Edgefeld's wisdom,
as for SEVEN years she abode in
Williston, S. c., she is now ours
aud is not . prophet without honor
in her own country. The people
of Edge6eld would have been proud
Of the S. C. G. [. had she been the
child of h own fancy; as il is
she grs.efully accept the honor
thrust upon ber, not deserved, per-
hans, bnt thankfully appreciated,
all honor to thu ike Of whIch she
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-11-29

Mims,:is the only artist of marked
genius, which Edge6eld has ever
produced. On this account she ls
the more peculiarly esteemed by
all among US who are admirers of
the beautiful in art. Though Miss
Minis has been eminently success
full in all phases of the work, she
has been specially noted for her
excellence i'll portrait painting
and her productions, which adorn
the walls of many homes Of Edge
field county and elsewhere, are the
most striking evidences of her
gifts. Her paintings have been ex,
hibited with distinction at several
expositions. At the Augusta Ex-
position several years since she
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-11-29

youth has been transmitted to her
veins. Her eyes are no longer
dimmed that she may not perceive
what IS the basis of her best inter-
ests. Her mind which was once
warped with age and isolation is
beginning to expand, as the flowers
to the refreshing dew. All wrinkles
of narrow prejudice are being
smoothed from her face by the en-
ergetic and developing influences
of youth and hope. She will not
go down i'll sorrow to her grave.
The faculty is composed Of the
following teachers: F. N. K. Bal
ley, President; DR.. L. R. Gwalt-
ney Vice President; Capt. R. B.
Cain, Secretary; Rev. R. w. An
derson, Rev. R. C. Mercy, Mrs.
Franklin Bailey, Director of mu-
sic department, Miss Marcle Gwalt-
ney first assistant teacher of pi-
ano, and teacher of mandolin; Miss
Lila Quattlebaum, End assistant
teacher of piano; Miss Sophie
Gwaltney teacher of violin; Miss
S. s. Bailey, teacher of vocal mu-
sic; Rev. P. P. Blalock, director of
band and teacher of wind instru-
ments; Miss Eliza Minis, teacher
of art, Miss Angel Cheatbam,
teacher stonography and typewrit-
ing; Miss Daisy Sarling teacher of
elocution and physical culture;
Mr.. NJ. A. Taylor, teacher of tele-
graphy; Prof. Entzminger, princi-
pal of the preparatory school
Miss Sudie Davis, 1st, assistant;
Miss En- Williams. 2nd assistant
teacher; Mrs. King, teacher of the
kinde garten department, Mrs.
Staggers, malron.
Among the faculty of the S. C. c.
|. there ERE those who would adorn
any college in any land or CLINE,
thos. who possess such strength of
intellect, gr.c. of character, tact
of speech that their influence will
I.avn marked impress upon the
youth coming under their super
vision. which during IL life time,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-11-29

Tom Carson. More guns have been
secured and great improvements
have been made in the military de.
partment. Capt. Cain is the eff
cient Commandant. J. A. Brails-
ford is the College Adjutant and
B. F. Mays, Military Adjutant.
The three literary societies are
the Pierian, for the youngImen,
the Fidelian, for the young ladies,
and the Robert E. Lee for the
larger boys of the preparatory
school over which Prof. Entzmin-
ger presides. At the last meeting
of the Pierian society, the follow
ing officers were elected: President:
Capt. Cain; Vice-President, Robert
Black; Secretary, A. G. Quattle-
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-11-29
Kindergarten.

This department is in charge of
Mrs. King, daughte, of Dr. L. R.
Gwaltney, aud lady of education
and culture such as to make her
pre-eminently suitable associate
for little child 'en. Parents of
Edgefeld should be gratifed that
their children are afforded such
unusual opportunities for such
companionship. The kindergarten
is conducted in the home of DR..
Gwaltney, and the room used for
this purpose is fitted up with all
appliances necessary to the amuse-
ment and instruction of the little
children. This department has
been mentioned last, but is by 10
means to be last or least consider
ed. 1t is said that children learn
more in the first four years of their
ives than they ever learn after