The progressive farmer., 1900-06-26

AS matter of fact, it is very doubt
full if the slightest effect on these
prices will be noticed. The greater
part of the fat used in oleomargarine
is cheap lard and refuse which can
not be used in any other way" And
it has been conclusively shown that
the destruction of the oleo industry
could not effect the price of cotton
one cent per pound. Now what ex-
cuse can the pro-oleo Congressman
give for their course?
Bro. Parker's address to tobacco
growers makes good reading. To
bacco growers should go to work for
their organization. See what can be
done. If ninety per cent. of the
growers will organize there is no
doubt under the sun that all the cap
ital needed to push any enterprise
agreed upon can be secured. The
growers will then be masters of the
situation and capitalists everywhere
will be anxious to furnish money
and share in the profits.
We have confidence in the good
people of Kentucky, who have con-
Quoted themselves with calnness and
good sense during a most trying
period, and believe that if ex-Gov-
ernor Taylor were to return and de-
mand an investigation of the charges
against him in connection with the
GOebel murder that he would have
perfectly fair trial. Running off to
Indiana and seeking the protection
of the Governor of that State (who
has refused to honor a requisition for
him), appears cowardly and has
greatly lowered him in our estima-
ton.
The Progressive Farmer has had
reports of scarcity of farm hands
from Wake, Northampton, Caswell,
Guilford, Person, Mecklenburg,
Montgomery and Warren counties.
The condition evidently exists
throughout the State, due to the en-
igratiOn of negroes to towns and the
North and of whites to our cotton
factories. We are not yet disposed
to consider the condition unfor-
tunate, however, for as a result
farmers are beginning to invest in
labor saving machinery, and will
find, we predict, that in forcing them
to do this, scarcity Of labor is a
blessing in disguise
One of the planks in the Progress
i've Farmers State platform is +:
g Lower priced school books See |
that your candidate for the legisla-
ture gets on this plank. We notice !
that the Goldsboro Argus is with us
in this matter. THAT the book |
concerns are growing rich at the ex-
pense of those who are barely able |
to keep their children in the schools |
three months in the year, no one can
deny" is the way it puts it. Bro. |
Johnson, of Charity and Children,
we believe, is authority for the state
ment that with proper effort on the
part of the last legislature, prices
could have been reduced twenty per
cent. Pledge your legislative oandi-
dates to make this proper effort"
next time.
The Durham Herald reports that .
in Oxford one night last week a dude .
negro was shot and killed for making
himself offensive and pushing white
woman that happened to be in his
way off the sidewalk a few hours
before. The negro deserved severe
punishment for his insolence-and
the white men of the town should /
have seen that he was properly pun
ished-but he did not deserve death,
and those that shot him should be
dealt with. The deed should have
called forth an old-time Ku-klux
and warning, but to kill
the negro was an inexcusable and
act. We hope that the re-
port is incorrect. The sacredness of
human life, regardless of race or
is everywhere a test of
George w. Vanderbilt is to erect
an $4,000 dairy upon his famous
BiltmOre farms. Ground has already
been broken for the foundation of
the buildings and the werk will be
pushed to completion in five months.
there is-and will be after
Mr.. Vanderbilt's becomes a success
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