The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-12-19
EDITORIAL
EDITORIAL 7

Eb4 CN4EAS M -.
It is asserted that the United States
has already paid out $3.50. 600, 900 in
our war With the Fllipinos, of which
amount North Carolina has paid So
$50. coo. Costly sport.
Let each County Secretary write Ia
at once-a postal card will do -giving
date and place Of meeting Of next
County Alliance. Please give this
your immediate attention, brother
Secretary,
We are glad to learn that he Baptist
State Convention raised g 500 to erect
at Taoma vile Orp1anage a memorial
building. 10 honor Of the great pioneer
in o~rphanege work, J. q. Mills. T.
will be such a monument as he would
desire.
Let tobacco growers heed the call Of
President Grimes for the organization
Of county associations. We hope that
especial attention will be given to a
feature to which Col. Grimes aIludes-
local CO operative factories. A full
discussion ought to be beneficial. Each
county should send it's full quota of
representatives to the State meeting on
the 18th of January.
An encouraging sign of the times il
the marvellous growth OF anti cigarette
sentiment. Take for instance, last
weeks evidences of this growth: on
Tuesday the S)uth Carolina division
Of the Southern Railway issued an or
der prohibiting cigarette smoking by
its employees. Two days later tee
Georgia Legislature asked Congress for
special legislation author zing Georgia
lawmakers TO prohibit the importa
ton Of cigarettes into that State. May
the eo0d work continue.
Bro. Chas. Gibson, OF M~ecklenburg
county, writes that Oak Grove Sub
Alliance, recently organized with Capt.
8. B. Alexander as President, is in
creasing in membership with each
meeting. Capt Alexander's interest
and energy is bringing about good re
suits. Bro. Gibson says be thinks that
before the New Year gets we'll on the
way, Mecklenburg county will have a
full grown County Alliance and will be
represented at the next State meeting
by regularly elected delegates"
One Of our exchanges has an editorial
on How the Trust Evil will Ssttle 1t
self" That sort of doctrine suits the
trusts far better than open support of
trust methods. The avowed advocate
OF trusts is likely to make few converts.
But If the people can be deceived into
believing that the evils Of the trusts
will disappear without effort on the
part OF the people, the Shylockz, who
are Waging against the rights of the
masses the most desperate warfare the
world has ever seen, will bind their
cords go tightly about US that all peace
able relief measures will be gone ere
we are aware OF it. Eternal viEilancg
is the price Of liberty.
We really do nos believe that the
average farmer who reads this paDer
can anywhere invest 81 % 30 better ad
vantage than By sending that amount
to US for a copy OF Prof. L II. B ailev's |
principles Of Agriculture" This is a
work which tel the why's and where
tores" Of the business" of farming. It
ls written by a man Of great ability
who knows his subj act by long years
OF actual experience and scientific |
study. TIE farmer who secures a COW !
OF this work and studies it during his
spare moments this winter will not
only find much pleasure thereby, but
will start his farming operations next
year with greater interest in his work.
with a broader view Of his profession |
n with the probability of making
many more dollars as a result OF his
stady. There are many books upon
the market, but not for manv years
we firmly believe, has one been Issued
which the average reader of this paper
30 badly reeds.
Eernaps not one voter in each thou.
SAND has heard that of the ninety
United States Senators, nineteen sre