The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-17
General News.
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.
The Latest Reliable News From the Earth's
-Four Corners Selected and Condensed for
Progressive Farmer Readers.

Foul Corners Selected and Condensed for
Progressive Farmer Readers.
State elections will be held in
North Carolina August 3; in Ala
bama, Aug 6; Arkansas, September
3; Vermont, September 4; Maine,
September 10, and Georgia, Octo-
Der 8.
The anti-imperialists plan to hold
a liberty congress- in Indianapolis
August Is, with the prospect of an
attendance of over 700 delegates.
ITO determine the best possible way
to accomplish the overthrow of i'm
perialism" is the avowed object Of
the convention.
The British have issued another
casualty list from South Africa, show
ing that during the week ending
July z, there were killed, wounded
or captured, Is officers and $50 men !;
accidental deaths, 2 men died of
disease, 4 officers and 1914 men ;
invaded home, 70 officers, 1,136 men.
Total casualties as a result of the
war are 48, 1873 officers and men.
This news comes from famine
stricken India: "The rainfall has
been fairly general this week in
Bombay, Decane, Berar, Khandeish,
the central provinces of the Gan
getic plain, and the Punjals, but has
been much below the average for
these tracts, except in Decane, the
cholera mortality is high in Bombay,
there being 1O,32O deaths the last
week in June. Famine sufferers re-
ceiving relief number 6,O13, 900.
Representative Jas. D. Richard
son, of Tennessee, Democratic House
leader, who was chairman of the
convention at Kansas City, says of
the Democratic platform 1.-The con-
trolling eason for using the phrase
10 to L. in the platform, was be-
cause some thought that while free
silver was not the issue of this year,
yet were it omitted, the very fact of
omission would give it more promi-
hence and possibly cause it to be dis
cussed more than if it we're simply
repeated in the platform. The ar
gument was that if it were left out
of the platform it would be an issue,
but if put in the platform, it would
be superseded by the great issue of
imperialism"
Bishop Potter made a speech at
the annual dinner of the New York
commandery of the military order
of the Loyal Legion of the United
States at Delmonico's recently. AS
to the Philippines, the Bishop said
that his mind has not undergone
any radical change since his return
to the United States. He thus illus
trated his views: eff my son should
come to me and say he proposed to
marry a young creole woman with
seven children I would call him a
great ass. But if he came to me and
said he had already contracted such
a marriage l would still try to sus-
tain intimate relations with him.
Now, gentlemen, what we have done
has established just such a relation
as that, and it would be a source of
national modification if we gave up
our responsibilities because we find
them difficult"
Social and economic conditions, as
they are reported to exist in Guam
Gone of the Philippine Islands), seem
almost idyllic, says the Youths
Companion. Almostevery n owns
land, and lives happily in cultivat-
ing it and only men do that neces-
sary work, for the women remain at
home, engaged in appropriate
duties. No mans necessities con-
strain him to work for another. He
is his own capitalist and hired man /;
consequently there II no strikes,
no lockouts-no Labor problem, in
fact, to perp1ex and disturb. Since
there is no defective demand" for
what the people do not produce
themselves, they do not need money.
There is neither store nor market on
the island in which household neces-
saries may be bought by exiles from
the outside world, and according to
Lieutenant Stafford, vice ex-governor,
upon whose authority the more es-
sential facts stated above T based,
You have to beg people to sell
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