The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-12-18

and with your beSttw1SheS. Try GnlS
plan and you j not regret it.
Bro. J. C. Balm will devote this
week to Alliance work in Robson
county. Bro. Balm is an effective
worker and we expecta good report
from him for our next issue.
A practical farmer, one of the PEG.
EDle. he knows what he is talking
about when he discusses the needs
and benefits of organization. By
the way, he organized another Sub.
in Cumberland early in this month.
Some of the newspapers are hav-
ing a rather lively time trying to ex-
plain away alleged humbuggery in
regard to the census guessing con-
tests. whereby "a number of papers
ropedi in thousands of guileless green
les. The best plan is to avoid all
papers that adopt such schemes.
Let every tub stand on it's own bot
tom. A paper worth the money
doesn't have t. resort to guessing
contests to maintain its circulation.
But, verify, people love to be hum
plugged.
While Congressional apportiOn-
ment is n of the subjects most
talked of at this time, we have no.
ticed So far but one article, on the APP
portionment of representatives by
our next Legislature. A correspon-
dent OF the Charlotte Observer says
that by the census figures Beaufort,
Buncombe, CASTOR, and Union will
each gain u member of u House
of Representative while Chatham,
Granville, New Hanover and Samp-
son will lose one each 81
Here again is that plank from The
Progressive Farmers platform /:
We believe there should be-and
must be if our State would secure
the standing it should have-gOOd
roads everywhere, a good school in
every district, a good newspaper in
every home" Put these things
down as things to work for in your
own township during the New Year.
Don't try to reform the country !;
you will have done your part if you
have the above platform put in
force in your township,
As we have already said, the fac
tory problem came in for its share
of attention at the Baptist State
Convention. And in, discussing it,
DR.. R. T. Vann gave u]tterance to
this sentiment well worth repeating !:
God forbid that the time will yer
come when the Coat of Arms of
North Carolina will eyer be a dollar
mark" Amen! say we. Let us be
rich, if we can, but first and last,
let US be just and humane. We want
the factories to prosper, but they
can do so without overworking the
operatives or rObbing childhood of
its joys.
Free rural delivery is an undoubted
s lccess in North Carolina. Once
tested in a community, it is ever
after regarded as IA necessity. AS
an enthusiastic farmer writes in an
exchange: 1--WE are rejoicing in free
delivery. Instead of being obliged
tt go two miles through storm and
snow drift, sick or we'll, It's of old,
we sit by the fire and wait for Uncle
Sam to bring the mail to our door.
Of all the things this government
has done to help the farmer, nothing
comes anywhere near to rural free
mail delivery. The world looks bet
ter to US than ever in the past"
Tax Payer" whose letter ap-
pears on page z. having been crowded
out last week. evidently does not I'M
derstand the Reformatory. tits not
tn be Il prison merely, as Tax Payer"
will see by reading DR.. Alexander's
letter in our last issue instead it is
proposed to place the youthful
wrong-doers under the care of capable
men. to learn them some useful trade,
and endeavOr to make them good
members of society. Instead of
making them worse criminals, as
Tax Payer" suggeSts-and as is the
case when boys or girls are confined
in prisons with hardened criminals
statistics prove clearly that d major
ity of those that enter reformatories
become useful citlZens.