The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-09-26
EDITORIAL NOTES.

A convention of cotton growers has
been called to meet in Raleigh, O3to'
Der 1S.h-Wednesday of Fair week.
We hope that some good will result.
DIR. Jno. +. Foard, of Statesville, will
at an early date commence the publ
cation of a monthly periodical, THE
Advocate of Missions" Dr.. Foard is
an entertaining writer aud we trust
that his new venture will prove III
cessful.
Most of our exchanges that publish
the Alliance Directory fail to keep it
properly corrected. We notice that
one at least runs last years list Of
National Alliance officers. And State
Lecturer SeawelI's Postohce is Faison,
not Vllianow.
For something over a year we have
been searching in vain for a Kllgo
Methodist among the farmers and la
boring people of our State. We thought
when we visited neal Kjlgo Postohce,
in Chatham county a few weeks ago,
that our deligent search would be at
last rewarded. But alas! though we
saw many Methodist we found that
they were all anti-Kilgo, and that the
Doctors speech before hisGraduating
class last spring was nowhere more
warmly condemned than by the people
of Kilgo n~eighborhood.
Our Ieniency in dealing with rail
roads has attrected the attention of
Massachusetts,. Reading a Massachu-
eetts paper the other day we found the
following item: North Carolina rail-
roads cost &S7, OOO. coo to build and have
a bonded Indebtedness of $115 .OOO. 900,
yet the total assessed valuation of the
road by the State commission is only
$42 600, OOO" Our New England con
temporary failed to State that our rail
roads are kicking because they have
topsy taxes on even $42. 600, 900. Per
haps it feared it would not be believed.
And verify it does sound incredible
A religious journal, under the head
"Wise Words" prints the following:
Attempting what you know you can
not accomplish is like running your
head against q stone wall" This is ad
vice of a rather questionable nature, it
occurs to US. A man should not ask,
Gan l accomplish anything; can I
win on this side7" Rather let him ask,
SIS this right; should / take this side
even if the whole world takes a differ
emit views" Such action is in no re-
spect like running your head against a
stone wall. On the contrary, it ia like
being the stone wall is If, firm and
immovable, in spite of contrary winds
and storms Of opposition.
The Asheville Citizens "Tattler"
sagely remarks: 1.-The Is cents a line
writeups in the recent ive-pound edi-
ton of the Raleigh News and Observer
indicate that Asheville and numerous
other towns in the State have some ex-
cent authors in the line of a~utobiog
rsphy. The aforesaid special edition
was doubtless a fine thing for the pub
EsIers." Tattler has the right idea.
The News and Observers special edi-
ton looked nicely enough, was we'll
gotten up, etc. But somehow we did
not feel any prouder of North ICarc-
lima to find that there are within her
borders d many men willing to pay Is
cents per line for personal ppf4.
The following item from the Phila
delphia Record strikes the key note:
THE Grown Cotton Mills at Dalton,
Ga, last year declared a dividend Of
A per cent. and this year of SO per
cent. This shows a tremendously
pronSaOle business, and would seem to
indicate that as between the growers
OF cotton and the manufacturers of
Gotten there ought Tn ha a mora oo,,j