The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-08-01

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the dead negro was not q rape 6end,
but aninnocentlunatic WhohRd escaped
from the State insane asylum at Jack
son. And Georgia reports a lynching
almost daily. What means this cpl
demic of lawlessness3 The Scotland
Neck Commonwealth is right In say
il that "there ought to be m rem
edy for this double evil that is threat
ening the very safeguards Of Cur gov
eminent. The sight and smell Of blood
without warrant n getting too com
mon in this country; and it remalns
for some one to bring about such pro
vision of Justice as will remedy the
evil. Surely there ought to be a better
way of appeasing the wrath of a justly
outraged people than hanging and
shooting without ceremony the all-too
numerous criminals. Can't we have
it,"
In u opinion the most Thoughtful
and encouraging address delivered at
the recent meeting Of the State Press
Association at Carolina Beach was the
grafton by Mr.. Q. P. Sapp, OF this
city. Mr.. Sapp is a young man and If
all the newcomers in the newspaper
field are actuated by such broad and
many sentiments as those to which he
gave utterance in his GRAFTON, the press
Of the country is destined to make
even greater progress and exert more
influence for good in the future than 1t
has heretofore done, or is now doing.
"The newspaper of the future, says
Nj. sapp," will place a higher estimate
upon principle snd place truth above
party interests. It will publish all the
truth-not, as many papers now do,
only so much of the truth as will bene-
fit the political party to which it be-
longs" Let US hope that Mr.. Sapp's
ideal is not too high. 1t should not be
A college in an adjoining State has
just conferred the degree Of L. L. D.
upon Walter 3. Page, who, if not, as
the Charlotte Observer says, 1.-The
ablest man born in North Carolina in
the last fifty years." has certainly
achieved greater success as a literary
man than any other North Carolinian
of this century. AS the Observer says:
Himself a writer Of great power, he
lifted The Forum from comparative
obscurity to the front rank of Ameri-
can periodicals, and critics say that
The Atlantic Monthly was never SO
good as since he has been its editor.
One fit to succeed In the editorship Of
The Atlantic Monthly such men as DR..
Oliver Wendell Homes and James Rus.
sell Lowell, and thought by many
competent judges to outshine either Of
them in this position. is no inconsid
cradle man. We are proud that he is
a North Carolinian."
Prof. Edward W. Bemis of the Kan
sas agricultural college says that before
the trust question is satisfactorily set.
tied there must be such a change in
our attitude toward government as
will no longer render it possible for
Standard Oil Influence to spend over
$40, OCO q year in teaching the people
economics and sociology, while the
state of Illinois spends under S. 600 for
the same purpose, or which renders it
possible for American states to be con
tented with commissioners, State at.
torneys, etc., worth two or three
thousand dollars a year, while a sugar
refinery or a railroad lie ready to pay
10 times that amount for it's talent
where with to oppose or checkmate puo
lie control" There is much truth in
Prof. Bemis' assortion-truth whica
should have the careful attention of
all interested in the fight against trusts.
The phase of the question to which he
alludes has received far too little at
tention.
And Alger has resigned. Undoubt
eddy he made a bad record las Sec,
Of War, but we have an idea
that many-a great mayfair worse
men now in politics have not suffered
half az much abuse as he. Possibly he
deserved all the censure he received,
but if so We think many of our public
men have failed to receive their share.
Besides many declare with Senator
Proctor that President Mckinley is to
blame for many of Alger's mistakes
and that General Alger had no respon
at all for ONE of the polici. S
or acts for which he is criticised" AL
ger was spotted by the yellow journals
special object of abuse, and in this
capacity we do not know who will sue
coed him. OF his successor as Secre