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

lux @A9N ASe Jan ~ @-S
First North Carolina Regiment twas
given q discharge" was Of course in
correct. We intended to say that
mot one was given a dishonorable
discharge"
Mayor Jones, Of Toledo, Ohio, to
whose great victory over the opponents
of municipal ownership, we referred
some weeks ago, announces himself a
candidate for the Republican nomina
ton for Governor of Ohio. We are in
clined to think, however, that he,
Lincoln like, is too near the great COM
mon people to command the support
of the Republicans of Mark Hanna's
State.
We notice that some of the cheap
farm papers are publishing articles in
defense Of trusts. Better watch your
farm literature. Some Of the papers
that seem so anxious to help the farmer
make two blades OF grass grow where
only one grew before are making des'
perate efforts to get labor entirely in
the power of monopoly. By support
ing such papers you are giving aid and
comfort to the enemy. And again and
fnally-Watch.
All over North Carolina the aus Of
public education is making most graft
flying progress. Oalast Monday Abe
marie voted to issue IS, 900 Of bonds
for graded school purposes Ga the
same day Waynesville voted bonds for
the establishment of a graded school.
AsheviIle voted an increased graded
school tax in order to provide school
facilities for its growing population.
Durham voted for school bonds to en-
able it's school board to provide for
children as it's increased population
demands. Washington by a large ma
jority voted a tax to establish graded
schools.
We learn from press dispatches that
at the next session OF the Georgia legis
Iature representative Morris will in
troduce a bill relative TO lynchings
which, it seems to Us will if passed,
make such IaWlessness utterly mex
cusable. Mr.. Morris bill provides for
the trial of the accused within five
days after this arrest and upon convic
ton the measure provides for public
hanging five days after. A unique
provision Of the act is that the testi
mony Of the assailant's victim may be
taken in private by a special commits
sioner in the presence Of the accused
while the trial is in progress.
Some very dark, mysterious things
seem to have occurred during the ses
sion Of the last legislature. One OF
these, relating to the changing of the
dates on the bills a%bolishing the r all
road Commission and establishing the
new Corporation Commission, is espe-
pecially mysterious, and some of the
pspers-those that mention the matter
at all-are limiting at forgery" The
question is, Who committed the 'for.
gerry" if there was such9 Some OF
our Raleigh newspapers once made it a
business to expose ''incompetency"
and scandal Why do they not dive
into this matterR
The American Steel Hoop and Cotton
Tie Company completed it's organiza
ton last week. That this company
is closely identified with the National
Steel plate and Tin Company is evi
dent from the fact that seven of the
of the latter company were
directors Of the former COM
pany. A little observation will con
vince the most skeptical that while the
various industries are forming pools
and trusts the great money barons
who rule them are preparing to get all
these trusts together In one colossal
co operative combine. If the people
do not check these great combinations
now, the time may come when moth
ing short Of q revolution will check
them. This is no idle or unpremedi-
tRted statement. Already there is in
this country many a combine whose
pay roll is larger than that Of the
United States Government. When in
1898 the banks Of the country wanted
the Sherman silver law repealed they
brought on a panic. But the banks in
1898 had but a small per cent. of the
power possessed by the trusts in 1899
With thousands upon thousands OF
laborers dependent upon them for
daily bread; with the manufacture Of
many Of the necessaries of life solely
in their hands; with unlimited wealth
at their disposal; with banks and inan.
cial institutions in their clutches, what
Congress can stand the pressure that