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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-09-25
SOUTH CAROLINA MILLS AND THE HIGH
PRICE OF COTTON.

COLUMBIA, S. c., Sept. 2O.-A num-
Der of mills in the upper part of the
State have declared that they cannot
run on full time with cotton at it's
present price. However, these mills
all manufacture for foreign CON
sumption almost exclusively, and
their foreign trade has been crippled
by the Chinese trouble, but the ma
jority of the mills in the State man
ufacture for home consumption and
they r running on full time.
Although the crop in this State is
only a little more than half, the
price is proportionately advanced,
and farmers are trying to hold for
still better prices.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-09-25
WHILE THE CATS AWAY.
Senator Appointed for Utah While the Gov
ernor Was Out of the State.

Senator Appointed for Utah While the Gov
ernor Was Out of the State.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Sept. 30
While Governor Wells and State
Secretary Hammond we're in Idaho
last night to meet Governor Roose-
welt and escort him to this city,
Judge o. W. Powers, a Salt Lake
Democrat, was appointed United
States Senator to succeed Frank J..
Cannon, of Ogden, whose term ex-
PRED March 4, 1899. The appoint
ment was made by Aquilla Nebeker,
President Of the State Senate, who
was acting Governor according to
the State Constitution. 1t was signed
a little while before midnight, at
which time the train bearing Cover
nor Wells was expected to cross the
line into Utah.
The last legislature was Demo-
cratic, although the State officers
are Republican. There was a fight
for the S~enatorship between A. w.
McCume, of Salt Lake, and Repre-
sentative W. H. King. Adjournment
was taken without breaking the
deadlock and the seat has remained
vacant.
The suggestion was made in Demo
cratic State headquarters last night
that a United States Senator be an
pointed by the Acting Governor on
the same basis as was done in Mon
tana. Mr.. Nebeker consulted a law
yer and was told that he had power
to make the appointment. He ac-
cordingly did SO. The State sealwas
locked up and could not be obtained.
but Mr.. Nebeker's legal advisers
maintained that his action was valid.
Judge Powers is a Salt Lake poll
and he declares that he will
make a fight to retain the seat. The
appointment was drawn carefully in
legal form, signed and witnessed.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-09-25
WHAT WILL CUBA Q

Havana, Sept. 22.-The results of
the elections of delegates to the,
forthcoming constitutional conven-
ton are being freely discussed by
Havana delegates and other prom
inent Cubans. The conclusion reached
is that the convention will be CON
trolled by the revolutionary element.
Senator Alfredo Sayas, nationalist
delegate, said today:
'sThe convention will not allow it.
self to be Influenced by any repre-
sentative of the United. States. Is
will adopt and follow an independent
policy throughout, in my opinion,
refusing to decide as to the relations
which shall hereafter exist between
Cuba and the United States. This
is a matter that should be left to a
special commission"
Mayor Rodiguiz expressed the
same opinion, and other Republican
delegates in various parts of the
island adopt the same attitude.
In the main the delegates are cap
able men. Most of them, it is said,
are in favor of immediate and abso-
lutte independence, without the in
tervention of a protectorate.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-09-25
MORE h SHUT DOWN.
Progress of The Great Strike in The Pennsyl-
vania Coal Region.

GA@S SS@ @S6@S0
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 18.-H, as
President Mitchell, of the United
Mine Workers, claimed last night
that 112, 900 of the IA, 900 mine work
ers in the Pennsylvania anthracite
coal fields were idle yesterday, it is
certain that this number has been
considerably augmented today by
additions to the strikers ranks. Re
ports from the four big districts en-
bracing the hard coal region are to
the effect that fewer men are at
work today than were working yes
terday and that c~ollieries that work
ed full handed or nearly so, yester-
day, r either badly crippled or
shut down today.
The weather has grown much
colder since yesterday, and this
change is greeted with joy by the
mine workers, who believe it will
greatly increase the demand for coal
and thus force an early adjustment
of the differences between them and
their employers.
Talk of arbitration is so persistent
that the hope is growing that this
method of settling the strike will
finally be adopted, although the
mine Owner declare that they will
deal only with their employees as in
dividuals, and the strike leaders say
they will insist upon formal recogni-
ton of the union. This difference
would appear sufficiently strong to
keep employer and employe apart
forever if persisted in.
One little band of miners in the
Wyoming Valley, those of the West
End Coal Company at Mocanahua,
numbering a few hundred men,
stand out prominently as the only
men at work out of nearly 80, 900 in
the Lackawanna and Wyoming re
giOn. Efforts to induce them to join
the strikers have failed. They say
they have always been treated kind
ly, they have no grievance and they
will, therefore, remain loyal to their
employers.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-09-25
THE STRIKE A GREAT ONE.

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 2O.-A special
to The Telegraph from Hazleton
says:
There never was a strike like
this. Organized labor was never so
skilfully handled, and instead of ex-
hibiting its greatest strength at the
outset, is daily gathering momen-
tum, Gripping mine after mine, to
the establishment of operators and
the entire country. But while the
strike leaders are active the opera
tors are by no means idle. They are
planning to break the back Of the
strike, and they do not hesitate to
use spies in order to learn the weak
points of the enemy's line. These
spies are sent into the strikers
homes and the result of the move
ment is likely to bring about start
ling developments, perhaps next
week but certain it is that the eff
feet of the operators plans cannot
be long delayed. One suggestion
has been made that the operators
will work quietly among the men,
endeavOring to induce them to re-
turn to work in certain colleries at a
specified time, the mines to be, start
ed without the blowing of a whistle.
Should this plan fail, it is said that
the old one of agging the men on to
violence will be followed in order.
that the strength of the strike might
be broken with the military arm of
the State
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-09-25
FILIP1Eos ACTIVE AGAIN.
Twelve Americans Killed and Twentv-s;x
Wounded in a Recent Fight.

Wounded in a Recent Fight.
MANILA, Sept. 19.-Ane engagement
has taken place near Sinilcan, prov
ince of Laguna de Bay, between a
thousand rebels, armed with rifles,
and attachments of the Fifteenth
and Thirty-seventh regiments. The
Americans fought CALAMITY, though
they were waist-deep in water. They
lost twelve killed, including Captain
Mitchell and Lieutenant Cooper,
twenty-six wounded and five miss
ing.
For several days the rebels have
been showing increased activity in
the vicinity of Manila. They are
attacking and harassing the Outposts
and garrisons, especially on the lake
shore and along the railroads. The
Americans have sustained some cats
ualties from these attacks, and a
number of the troops are missing.
The Philippine Commission has
adopted the civil service bill.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-09-25
MINERS SHOT BY sHERIFF's PossEE.

MINERS SHOT BY SHERIFF. POSSEE.
SHENANDOAH, Pa, Sept. 21.-A
sheriff's possee fired on a crowd Of
riotous men near here this afternoon,
killing two persons and wounding
sever others.
Sheriff Toole and Deputies O'Don-
nell and Brenneman were called to
Shenandoah today to suppress the
mobs that threatened mine workers
and colliery property. At quitting
time three sheriffs and a small posse,
whom the sheriff had summoned on
the ground went to the Indian Ridge
Colliery of the Reading Company to
escort the workingmen to their
homes. The colliery is located a
short distance east of Shenandoah.
The workingmen left for home
shortly after 4 o'clock. They walked
the middle of East Center street and
reached the Lehigh Valley railroad
station. Here had gathered a large
crowd of Poles, Slavs and Huns, men,,
women and children who lined Dotn
sides of the street. A shot rang out
from a saloon. This was followed
nv a. shower of stones. Many OF the
crowd had picked up sticks and
stones. and we're acting in a threat
ening manner. Seeing this the
sheriff, who had previously cautioned
his men to keep cool and not to use
their fire arms, commanded them to
fire The order was obeyed with
terrible results. The crowd pursued
the sheriff and his posse to the Fer
guson House, where they took refuge.
Evening star., 1900-05-03

the reservations for the public structures.
Pennsylvania avenue commends itself to
the esthetic sense of the people and to the
economical instincts of the government
Pennsylvania avenue will never lose its his
toric value. 1t is known the world over as
the nations most famous and in some re-
spects most beautiful street. A boulevard
through the Mall would secure no special
reputation. It would never become en-
dowed with the historical associations
which now cluster around the stretch OF
Pennsylvania avenue from the Capitol to
the treasury. 1t stands to reason that TO
conserve and accentuate the traditional and
the artistic value q this magnificent street
would be most fittingly to mark the CEN
tenary of the city with whose fame it is
so closely associated. This can be surely
done by eliminating, for practical purposes,
the rookeries and undecorative buildings
now occupying the medal space and con-
stituting of the south side of the avenue
plaza upon which the nations offices of the
future will be assembled.
1t would be false economy to cut up the
park into building lots or to bisect it with
an ugly, useless avenue. 1t will be true
economy to clear away what is now little
else than rubbish on the most conspicuous
street of the city and replace it with en-
during monuments to the republics great
Evening star., 1900-05-03
The Canal Bill.

BY an almost unanimous vote-with only
thirty-fve members voting in opposition
the House of Representatives yesterday
passed the bill providing for the construc-
ton of the Nicaragua canal by the United
States government. Thus that vitality i'm
portant project was advanced materially
toward consummation. AS 1t leaves the
House the proposition is in practical, salts
factory form. The bill is simple and to the
point. 1t first authorizes the President to
secure from Nicaragua and Costa Rica suf-
ficient territory for the construction and
protection of an interoceanic ship canal.
1t next provides that when this has been
done the President shall direct the Secretary
of War to construct such a canal over the
generally understood Nicaragua lake route,
together with requisite harbors with such
provisions for defense as may be necessary
for the safety and protection of said canal
and harbors." 1t further directs that in ne
gotiating with Costa Rica or Nicaragua the
President Is authorized to guarantee to
those states the use OF the canal BY all
Evening star., 1900-05-03

| vessels owned by them or by their ciu-
zens. The bill finally appropriates $40 600.
900 Immediately for the furtherance Of the
project. the cost of which is limited to
$40 100000.
No specific route is laid down, no pre-
vious surveys are approved. none of the
many controversies which have marked the
career of this proposition since its incep-
| tion is involved in the enactment. Every
thing Is left as to detail to the President
and his subordinates. The House does not
| undertake to interfere with the pending
questions as to the neutrality Of the canal
nor does it seek to prescribe the manner Of
defending 1t. By the use Of the phrase
provisions for defense it implies dis
tinct purpose that the canal shall not be
vulnerable to attack by man or nature.
Yet it does not call for fortifications by
name, nor does 1t suggest that anything
contained in the bill shall interfere with
such arrangements as may be entered into
between the United States and other pow
ers concerning the peace and war use of
the waterway. Thus the whole intcrna-
tional aspect Of the enterprise Is relegated
to the President and the Senate.
This is probably the most satisfactory
form in which the measure could reach the
eppSA houSSy even now JuTlSulC-
ton over the international features of the
canal project. Whether the Hay-Paunce-
fote treaty shall be ratified in its original
form. or amended, or rejected altogether,
or the Clayton-Bulwer treaty shall be swept
away by a new convention leaving the
United States in undisputed control of the
canal as a war agency, the most important
step toward the construction of the canal
has been taken by the presentation to the
Senate of clear-cut, simple, practicable
proposition. which could be safely passed at
any time. The demand of the country for
some such enactment is Overwhelming. No
doubt can possibly exist as to the national
sentiment. The need for the canal grows
every day. While 1t may be the prospect
that the canal bill will not reach the Presl-
dent at this session, there is no present
reason to doubt that a strenuous fight will
be made next winter for the final step to
make this measure law and thus to start
after many years Of delay project re-
quired by every consideration of progress
safety and enterprise.
Evening star., 1900-05-03

II is stated that the conference commit
tee in charge of the District appropriation
bill has now reached the provisions added
by the Senate for a reorganization of the
public school system. 1t is oppOrtune.
therefore. to utter a few words expressive
of the hope that the Senate conferees will
stoutly stand by that section of the bill
and that the House members will recog-
nize the necessity for this measure of re-
form. The Investigations conducted by the
Senate District committee produced
sound belief that the educational system
in vogue here is inadequate, in that it con-
GluCes to imperfect training of the young
and a lack of responsibility for failures.
There is urgent need of some enactment
to give the board of trustees real power. to
enable them to supervise the processes of
education.
Tn investigation, coupled with the natural
results of the present system has thrown
the schools into a dep'Orable state of un-
rest and anxiety Teachers and pupils
unsettled There was probably never such
a sad state of affairs in the whole history
of public education in the District. A
remedy is required now by every considera-
tion of justice to the pupils, the parents
and the teachers alike. The Senate pro-
poses reform which is approved by al
most a solid sentiment. 1t commends itself
to the reason of all observers, and,
though opposed by a few whose selfish
interests dictate obstruction. it may be
said to embody the urgent wishes of the
entire community.
1t would be a gross mistake to allow this
matter to go over to another session. The
Generalization in the schools. now sadly
apparent. would be continued and accen-
tuated- The difficulties of adjustment
would be even greater a year hence. If
the bill is allowed to pass in its present
shape it will be possible for the school
year of 1901 to open under new auspices,
with a board of trustees in charge with
full powers and responsibilities. with
every subordinate accountable to this CEN
trail body, and with. in all probability, the
objectionable features of the present sys-
TEN replaced by more rational mode of
instruction
Evening star., 1900-05-03

From the Boston Transcript.

If General Greedy is correctly reported
his speech at Worcester last night was ex-
traordinary for a man holding his position
and another example of the unfortunate
tendency to loquacity and self f-advertising
which appears to run unchecked In both
the army and navy. In effect, as reported
General Greedy indicts the whole army
with the exception of the Signal Corps, OF
which he is chief. of weakness and ineffi-
cheney. This Indictment Is so sweeping
and his condemnation of his brother officers
as the creatures of political influence SO
broad that 1t is only charitable to suspend
Judgment on this portion of his speech
An army which took Santiago and which
has displayed SO much energy and gal
lantry in the Philippines is neither weak
nor inefficient. Save in numbers the "old
army of fifty years ago was not weak
either. We doubt if in the history Of the
world army numerically so small,
scarcely ever exceeding 100000 men, grad
uated so many commanders of the first
rank and ability. An army could not he
either weak or inefficient which was the
training school Of Grant, Sherman, Sher-
idan, Thomas. Lee. Stonewall Jackson and
Johnston. Our military organiza ton is still.
in its administrative departments, very
crude, and that 1t has been Influenced by
politics, either army or the other kind. is
suggested by the fact that the adiutant
general has no higher rank than the chief
signal officer.
Evening star., 1900-05-03
Sentiment Against the Mall Axepue

The Star prints today another letter from
a citizen of Washington on the subject of
the proposed Centennial avenue through
the Mall. emphatically objecting to all such
schemes and expressing the hope that the
Integrity OF the park will not be disturbed.
The writer asserts that the great majority
or the people of the District demur at the
Mall avenue proposal. They want to ses
the centenary Of the capital properly COM
Hemorated, but not by an act destructive
OF the very principles which have made the
city worthy today of an enthusiastic birth
day celebration.
1t is to be hoped that this public senti-
ment. which thus earnestly expresses it.
self. will be considered by Congress in ad-
Indicating the matter. 1t may be taken for
granted that the memorial bridge plan will
De adopted, sooner or later. The demand
Tor the bridge is too insistent to be over
looked and the government stands virtually
pledged today TO the erection of this struc-
ture- But as regards a further means of
marking the completion OF the capitals first
century there is a difference Of opinion.
From very few came the project Of
cutting a useless. disfguring avenue throuph
one of the most beautiful and heaIth-giving
parks of the city. From the people through
their organizations came a more practica-
bic scheme-to raze the buildings that now
ohstruct and disfigure the space lying be-
tween Pennsylvania avenue and the Mall
and the erection thereon of all future public
buildings Coupled with the original Mall
avenue project, was the suggestion that
sufficient space for such buildings would be
found on the park lands already owned by
the government.
As regards the artistic and the practical
merits OF the two plans there should be lit
tie reason for hesitation in choice. The
boulevard enterprise offends every sense of
park preservation. for It Is certainly no less
than q long step toward the utilization Of
Evening star., 1900-05-03
Silver Always First.

How stereotypcd this sentence is: Mr..
Bryan devoted his address to the discus
sion of three questions, viz. money. trusts
and Imperialism" We get 1t from every
point where the Nebraska leader speaks.
We get it today from Detroit, where Mr..
Bryan spoke last night. He makes no
change in the arrangement of his topics.
He everywhere puts that issue fore
most which he thinks is the most i'm
portant- Whether his audience be gath
cred from the money Centers, or from the
rural districts, he appeals to it strictly in
line with his own conception of what the
country stands most in need of. He op-
poses trusts and Imperialism but he presents
before both of those issues the money is
sue; and the money issue. as he expounds
1t. calls for the free and unlimited coinage
of silver at 16 to l. What he calls the
money trust is. in his judgment, the
greatest of all trusts. and under it, as he
insists. already have a species of impe-
riaIsm in this country.
Some of the gold democrats affect to be
undisturbed by Mr.. Bryan's arrangement
Of the issues That, they think. does not
matter. As they see the situation, it is not
in Mr.. Bry power to vitaIize the silver
issue for this campaign. They believe that
Il is dead, and past the power of kicking.
They smile at Mr.. Bryans outgivings on
the subject The issues. as they assert,
viii be differently arranged VIXEN the cam
paign opens. and the issue which Mr.. Bryan
now puts first the country will then put
last.
This sort of reasoning can comfort only
those who are Sorely in need of comfort.
1t will not bear examination. There were
silver men who in 1892 persuaded themselves
that Mr.. Cleveland's sound money views
were of little consequence. They conceded
him the right to talk and write as he
pleased on that subject. but they smiled
when they thought of how easy it would be
to manage him after he had obtained the
presidency with their assistance. They
smiled just in time. A little later and the
other fellows smiled.
There are many people who deny Mr..
Bryan wisdom. but very few who deny him
sincerity. On the money question he talks
according to his convictions. and if he is
invested with the power of the presidency
he will be certain to exercise it to the
full in an effort to advance the free silver
cause He means business on that point if
ever man meant business on any point.
Evening star., 1900-05-03
Those Cleveland Devotee..

The more enthusiastic of Mr.. Cleveland s
admirers are urging him for the presidency
again. They regard him as the man for the
emergency. and have persuaded themselves
that. if he will but put out his head. great
numbers of men, who are now all but In
despair for the country, will take heart and
rally to his support. This sort Of devotion
is welcome to Mr. Cleveland, but he Is likely
to think twice before acting upon the sug-
gestion.
As a matter of fact, Mr.. Cleveland is ut
terly out of the question. He is more i'm
possible as a candidate even than Admiral
Dewey. The present democratic organiza-
tion is largely a protest against MIR. Cleve-
land. He brought 1T into being. Hatred Of
him and his methods-real hatred-fills the
bosoms of eight-tenths of the men who put
him into the White House in 1892 They
would not support him now for any office.
1t is the supreme regret of their lives that
they ever followed him in anything at any
time. So that to talk of Mr.. Cleveland for
the presidency this year is to talk either of
a mere side show. or of the disruption of
the democratic party.
As evidence of this it is only necessary to
point to Mr.. Hill. to Mr.. German. and to
Mr. Mclean. They are all opposed to Mr..
feat him at Kansas City. They had hopes
for a time of Admiral Dewey. They may
still have hopes in other quarters now that
the admiral is practically out Of 1t. But it
is safe to say that those hopes do not
center in Mr.. Cleveland They could not be
brought to support him against Mr.
Bryan. Neither one of them was a visitor
to the White House during Mr.. Cleveland s
second term, and all three derived certain
satisfaction from the belief that when he
left there he retired from political office
forever.
1t is really a funny thing to hear men
talk about and against Imperialism, and in
the same breath assert that there is but
one man in the country equal to the coun-
try's present needs. He alone can save it
from smash What is that but making of
Mr. Cleveland a sort of waddling Caesar. in
capable of mount. but mighty afoot? How
much of the republic Is left If we are re-
duced to this one man for safety?