The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-01-03

III PIIia0elp1la alone. axe
more in his life, and had q seen
and heard so much that was interest
ing and gratifying in any journey he
had ever taken. He is not only graft
fed at his reception and rejoiced at the
spirit and sentiment that WAS shown
by the Southern people, but is rested
and refreshed, Notwithstanding the
number OF speeches he has made and
The exection that was required. to keep
up with the hospitality. Has face is
bright and rudy, and DO returns to
his executive duties with renewed
vigOr and interest.
A Washington dispatch, 20gh ult.,
says: ENCOURAGE by the sentiments
expressed by President Mckinley dur
ing his Southern trip, Senator Marion
Butler today proposed an amendment
to the pension appropriation bill pro.
vidiDg: THAT from and after the
passage of this bill every pension law
shall apply to every invalid soldier,
widow, minor Child, dependent or re-
lative, army Eurees and all oEher PEN
sioneTs, without regard TO whether the
SAID soldier was enlisted in the Federal
or Confederate service during the civil
war" Ii is stipulated that no back
pension be drawn. To carry out this
plan the amount carried by the pen
sion bill is Increased from $144, 600 600
to 1914 600, 600 and the number Of
agencies increased from Is TO 80. The
PROGRESSIVE FARMER is inclined to be.
l1eve THAI this is a bad move.
Harpers' Weekly recently said:
True bills of Indictment have been
found against Senator Quay, his son
Richard r. Q lay, former State Treas
urer Benjamin J. Haywood, John s.
Hopkins, and others, for what prac-
tlcally amounts to embezzieEnent of
the funds OF the State of Pennsylvania.
The case against Senator Quay has
oeen set forth in these columns, and
it is a very strong one presumptively.
1t is a disgr8c3 to the Safe tina such
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Whether or not he la technically guilty
of a crime which will land him in the
penitentiary, he is in fact guilty of an
offence against morality and propriety
which would prevent a sensitive COM
munity from intrusting him with high
Office. But Quay seems to own the
Republican party Of the State OF Penn
sylvania, and the Republican party
owns the commonwealth. Those who
are ashamed OF a person like Q lay are
IN the minority; and if Quay goes to
prison as a just end to his public career,
it will be the State of Pennsylvania,
more than he, that ought to feel shame.
The trouble in Chicago over the pro.
position to extend the franchises OF the
railway companies for so years longer,
Is not by any a discreditable
affair. 1t is, on the contrary, a cheer
ing sign that the people Of that big
city are alive to their interests and
ready to assert themselves ia behalf Of
their rights. When the people lack
that readiness we may begin to fear
for our future. There was a belief
abroad in the city that a majority Of
the board of aldermen had been fixed
by the railway corporations and were
about to vote away these valuable
franchises for no compensation to the
city. How this strange suspicion got
abroad, we don't know. o. course it
vas absurd Alderman never were
known to do such terrible thinge, and
even it they would do them, we all
know that railway corporations would
die sooner than bribs an tffciall We
have been reading the New York Sun,
and it says go. But the absurd sugpi-
cion got abroad just the same, and
over a hundred mass meetings have
been held, and strong language indulg-
ed in, and the aldermen seem to have
bowed 10 the storm and to have made
up their minds to let the proposition go
hang, rather than risk themselves.
Some of the protesting anti boodlers
actually wore a badge having on it the
outline Of a gallows and a dangling
rope with a moose on the end. One Of
the features of the contest has been the
promptness of each eide to show that
the other side are anarchists" Ever
since the execution of Spies, Parsons.
ct al it has become customary in
Chicago, when one has exhausted ar.
gument in vain to defeat an opponent.
to turn upon him with the cry Of
anarchist. The Chicago Inter Ocean
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