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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-02-06
THE BURIAL OF THE MAINE
SAILORS.

The recent burial on Anne icaR Cd
of the bodies Of the Names sailor
brought home from HRvanna whe
they had remained since the mysGerIOa
Of the battIeship Name, b
nOs provoked the Comment that
should have brought forth. Som
time, we believe, a true poet will COZ
mamorate in enduring phrases the SS
ness and soIemnity of the occasion.
us it seems a theme worthy the hsD'
ling OF & master poet-the winds WsP
picturesque hills of Arlington He'gbS.
the wintry day, with the sob and mo-
and plaintive, my sterious whispeFiOl
Of the December wind; the eartb
mantle Of snow and the days dsnI
ness and ohilliness; the ~resoundp
notes Of the bugle and the retreatD
throng, leaving TO the sleep Of ages .
bodies Of the unfortunate heroes; o
mystery that still envelopes the Maj
disaster and will probably remain OF
explained till those dead bodies sOS
be resurEecsed; the disasters that hs'
fallen thick and fact, like penaIsH
inflicted by an avenging God, upon .
country thought guilty of the crime
material surely which q Tennyson OF
LOngfellow could develop into q mS
terpiece,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-02-06
WHAT THR NEXT LEGISLATURE
SHOULD GIVE US.
months public schools.

Four months public schools.
A Law to prevent the removal of
cases by corporations from State to
Federal courts.
A statute making agriculture a CON
mon school study.
A retormetory for young criminals
A fair election law, providing for
equal representation of each faction
upon boards of election Idges and
registrars.
A law making it Illegal to employ
children under f'seen years OF age in
any cotton mills, except where the
child go employed attends school for at
least three mon hs of each year.
Lover pric d school books.
A graduated tax upon the gross earn
ings of railroads, one half of the pro.
ceeds to be devoted to public schools.
The schedule TO be that contained in
the original bill considered by the Joint
Finance Committee of the last leglsla,
ture, viz
Less than 81 600 per mile
(gross earn'g-) annually, ! per cent.
As much a. 81 600 DER mile
or less than 81 5OO......
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-02-06
THE VI TROUBLE

As will be seen from General
Ne ws department Of this issue, the
kentucky political troubles that have
been bre wing ever since William g rebel
By schemiug and trickery SO 'ured the
Democratic nomination for Governor,
or perhaps ever since he through his
legislature forced upon the State one
of the most unfair election laws on
record, has culminated in bloodshed
and death.
Aud who is this William G Nebell He
lie, in q sentence, a deter mine d, brainy,
but ambitious and INSCRIPTIONS, party
Ooss, ruling with a rod of iroa-a
cromwell In politics. Born ~ years
ago in Pennt ylvsnia, a very poor boy,
ne has risen t the leadership Of Ken
lucky democracy by the force OF his
O wn indomitable will, coupled with
such schemes of cunning Al he has
Thought essential to his SUCCESS. We
can but admire his sagacity and his de
termination, but Cd the whole his is
not a character to be patterned after.
Aud these two traits, sagacity and
determination, alone would have Won
him honor. But he could not wait;
and in his eegerness for the spoils of
L, Roe he stopped TO methods disgusting
TO the honest people Of kentucky.
Goebel himself killed q man a few
years ago and it is charged that he
escaped punishment by political
manipulation.
Ho Eever brainy and daring G0ebel
may be, the fact that such a man with
such record has secured the position
attained by him is in noWise crediTable
20 kentucky. True Goebel was saio
to be bitterly opposed by railroad in
duence and that he defended the PEG
pie from the attacks Of some powerful
and grasping corporations. But in no
casa a the mau who atte mpts to sup
press the will Of the people at the bal
lot box be trusted to stand unpurchas-
able and defend the interests Of human
ity against money and greed.
And so G rebel was untrustwortby,
was dishonest. And brains and will
power, compared with honesty, are as
but the dust in the balance-not to be
considered. Great 10 some points, his
weakness in others repels the admira-
ton his superior intelligence should
But GoebeI's faults do not in the
slightest degree excuae the dastardly
attempt upon his life. Every man who
in any way encouraged the horrible
crime should be mess severely dealt
with.
Since writing the above, news of
Goebel's death has reached US. And
the kentucky trouble, in our opinion,
IS By no means ended
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-02-06
A GUiLELESS COLLEGE PRESI.
DBNT.


President Hsdley, OF Yale, in a
spsech before the Candlellxhs Club of
Denver, recently, gave his remedy for
trusts as follow
"When a man operates a trust against
the public good, don't invite him to
dinner, don'5 call on his family, dis
qualify hin socially. Whenever you
make a man understand by doing Ger
tain things he is disqualified socially
and condemned by public opinion, you
have set in motion the strongest force
in the business or political world"
Aud so President Hadley has lived
in America for two score years or more,
has risen to the high position he now
occupies, and yet has not discovered
that money never fails to bring with
is ''sccial standing" that riches form
a never ntfectuaI bar against social
disqualification and that TO be engaged
in polite and high toned forms Of rob
berry or gambling, involving millions
Of dollars, makes q mans social stand
ing with the upper -four hundred"
secure-at least as long as he can
handle millions. Your millionaire may
have made his fortune In the worst
trust in existence; may bave corrupted
courts and bribed Legislatures; may
have defed public opinion and griev
ously oppressed his employees-yet, if
safe from the hands Of the law, moth
ing under heaven is more secure than
his social standing, nothing is surer
than that so called society" will
snee8e when he takes snuff.
And the college president, remem
boring that some Of the trust msgnates
occasionally grow generous and give a
fraction of one per cent. of their trust
money to colleges, will shut his eyes
TO the evils Of trusts and tell the people
that the accumulation of the country's
wealth into a few hands ia q blessing
that if this we're not go they would not
have the glorious privilege of accept-
ing charity from the men who rob
them Of the fruits of their labor.
PresidenL Hadley's eugge stion should
be remembered as the crowning ioke
OF the century.
Candor is the brightest gem of crit
Il nSn~n D--
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-02-06
LITERARY r

The publishers of McOIure's Mao.
say that nothing else they hav, :
brought out has attracted such "
attention and such hearty Comma.
ton az The Life of the Master n
John Watson Clan MAclarenN
second instellment viii appear in
February NUMBER with five lima.
tions in color and many in black :
white, all from special paintings,
drawings by O z Linson.
A study Of the German Empire :,
a point Of view not often taken
writers for the American press ia
sented in the Review OF r view,
February by Baron Pierre oe O
bertin in an article entitled "A Fro,
View of the German E npire" a
many is treated in anything bul
hostile spirit, and the portrait of R
peror William is more favorable
the American reader ordinarily SEQ.
HCOe
In the February Scribner Theod,
r 1osevelt's second chapter on
career Cromwell deals with the IL
Parliament and the Owl War
contains Colonel r losevelt's acute .
alysis of the early battles of the G,
War, the personality of the TROOPS
use Of ''shock tactics" the importsn
Of cavalry and the small relative
duence of the musketeers Thers
also an interesting comparison betw W.
the EoRlish Civil War and the Ams
can Civil War.
There ia much Of sound practt
sense in Hesty Ct Gems discussion
The Benefits of a Business TrslDiI
for Women" which appears in
February Woman's Home Companio
Speaking from her wide experience
a woman of affairs she contends tb
lit is sheer nonsense to believe oP
woman to get a bus ness training IS
crush all poetry out of her life; rata
it is but one more accom- pllshne
added to the list which a young wom8
of to day is expected to acquire"
With the Ledger Monthly for F8br
ary is Incorporated D morest's FAM
Magazine. The Fashion and Patta
D -parCments of the latter msgszlDe q
continued in the ledger Monthly, maj
ing this a very valuable home period.
cal. The February number has on
cover one of Harry r 'selands md
amusing "coon" pictures. cali
. Granny's Hungry Little PIckaninny
which is beautifully Reproduced
colors. The Fronts piece by Zig
entitled I'VE Ancient Custom.
ls a beautiful engraving emblematiq
IT Y Valentines Day. II
Among the notable contributions b
Tne Coming Age for February al
Educational and Therapeutic v I'D
HypuOtism," by the eminent NgI
York physician and autaor, DR.. q
Osgood Mason. M D, A M ; III
Ideal Philosophy Of Leibnl z " by Pr.
c M. Onesley, A. M ; Happy HJui
a Mlrthless Childhood" by Ain.
Johnston; Personal Atma
by Annie Phlsbury Younl
An UnobjecGIonable Expan, ion, g
| L Albert; The Poems of Emerson
critically considered by Onarles Mallqi
PRESIDENT Of the B )ston Emerson 81
sIety aud Poe and e nerson," con.
pared by Leigh Fl. Irvine. There al
several other articles worthy of mes
ion, besides the regular department
0uE The above are papers which cna
enge the attention Of all thought
men and women. The success of u
Coming Age is we'll merited. LtrtfN
inc best thought OF the time, and Of
oesls to the moral no less than the il
side OF mans life.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-02-06

az gOW TeceiUe q sample copy
thGS paper 10 Is &C remind you that y
shOuI0 subscribe for the best and cDTe
csc paper published n the State 7
PROGRESSIVE FARMER-&1 per year
you receive more Unan one copy, q"
TO your nelghbor.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-02-06

Few persons have sufficient wisdom
to prefer censure, which is useful, to
praise which deceives them.-Roche-
toucauld.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-02-06

o n friends by the tong lists of new
SUBSCRIBERS and renewals they are
sending are making US happy. Have
you yet sent a cluoR If not, why notR
We want twenty five new subscribers
from every township.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-02-06

The short st and surest way to Inv
with honor in the world, is to be in
reality what We would appear to be-
Socrates.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-02-06
rHz INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBLE

Said a prominent Populist, who holds
q responsible fl 70, to us the other
day: Toe act of the Populiss Ezecu
tive Committee in debating the policy
for the party in advance Of the State
Oonven ion i. inde ensiole Most Popu
lists became POpulists because of boz
rule, and this sort OF thing will disgust
hem" Which goes 10 show that 10
N nth Carolina ring rule is not popular
Said q prominent and i f1enGial
North Oarolinian with a State wide
reputation, who is being daily quoted
as an ardent advocate of the OonsJifu
tionsl amendment, to US the other day:
L em beginning to fear the amend
meuG. Not that it in itself is or Sc
tionable, but the election law ia too
crooked. Why, by it they can dis
franchise me. college graduate though
I am. Aud / know the sentiment OF
the people OF North Carolina when I
say that unless it is changed at the
June session OF the Legislature, you
will hear something drop" Which
goes to show that the people Of North
Carolina do not endorse c~r0okedness,
III lstice, and vote stealing.
And il these evils are to be remedied
the people themselves must take mat
ters in hand and hold their public ser.
wants and their party officials to strict
accountability. Politics, of course, is
dirty, but it will be cleaner IN
Gil it is purified, not by off 80 seekers.
but by dieiuterested voters For what
YER political evils now in existence
che individual voters are responsible.
- ~-
A unanimous repOrG has been made
by the House committee on election Of
President, Vice President and Repre-
sentatives in Congress, recommending
the adoption Of q resolution amending
the Constitution providing for the cleo
ton Of Senators by popular vote. On
mor than n previous occasion has
the House taken SUCH action but the
movement never gets further than the
doors Of the Ssnase Chamber. Senator
Clark knows he cannot bride the whole
people as he did the Montana Iegisla-
ture; and other Senators, whose ma
chimes have smooth sailing with sixty
or a hundred legislators, fear to trust
themselves to the handling OF a hun.
dred thousand plain voters who ha We
no personal interest in the machine.
It the State legislatures are really in
earnest in demanding popular election
OF United States Senators, let them
elect no man to that position until be
pledges himself to work for the change.
In this way only jar they do ef. ctive
work for the reform.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-02-06

"sTHE INDUSTRIAL AND EDUOA-
doNAL INTERESTS OF OUR PEOPLE
PARAMOUNT TO ALL OTHER ONsIDERA
HONS OF STATE POLICY ia the motto
1f The Progressive Farmer, and upon
his platform it shall rise or fall
IN all matters relating specially
o the great interests it represents, it
will speak with no uncertain voice, but
will fearlessly the right defend, and
the wrong condem mn. SerV
ng nc master, ruled by no faction. CIR.
gumscribed by no sel6sh or Mario =
2olicy its aim will be to foster and
promote the best interesrs of the whole
3eople of the State. From Col. Folks
SGlWtdtOTy, Feb 10, 1886
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-02-06

Candor is the brightest gem of crit
cism. Disraeli.
The Portland daily press., 1900-10-19

Boston, October 18.-The jury in the
case Of Hugh j. Hill, chief train despatch
er Of the Taunton division of the New
York, New Haven & Hartford railroad,
who has been on trial charged with vio-
lating the United States statutes which
prohibit railroads discriminating
against an epploye because he is a mem
Der of a labor organization. reported dis
agreement shortly after 9 O'Clock tonight.
The Jury had the casa under considera-
tion between eight and nino hours. It
is alleged that Hill discharged Peter J..
Galligan, a train dispatcher, because
the latter belonged to the Order of Rail
way Telegraphers. There were four
counts in the Indictment, two charging
the defendant with threatening an en-
ploye OF the road and the others accus-
ing him OF unjust discrimination.
The Portland daily press., 1900-10-19
THE TRIAL OF YoursEY.

Georgetown, October 18.-The Youtsey
trial is drawing rapidly to a close. All
the testimony is In, the instructions have
been given the jury and the speeches are
being made. A verdict is expected by to-
morrow afternoon. There is no improve
msnt in Youstey's condition, though he
is not any worse today. Opinion here as
to the verdict is divided some thinking 1t
will be guilty while others believing In
an acquittaI or hung jury.
The examination of one witness for the
commonwealth and of two in rebuttaI for
the defense, closed the testimony this af-
ternoon and was followed by the reading
of the courts Instructions to the jury.
John NJ. Stevenson opened the argu-
ment for the 'efense.
Georgetown, October 18.-H. Gardner
Wallace was the nrst witness today in the
trial of Henry Youtsey. Wallace said he
was in the assistant adjutant generals s
Office when the shots were fired and
''Iallow Dick'' Coombs, Mason Hooker
smith and DIR. Pruett were in the room
with him and others whom he did not
know. The defense then closed finally.
Col, Il. G. Campbell attorney for the
prosecution, was put on the stand for the
The Portland daily press., 1900-10-19
DEFENDS BRY AN.
What Senator Jones Has to Say
About Republican Charges.

Chicago, October Ex-senator James K.
Jones, chairman of the Democratic ma
tional committee today made the follow
ing statements:
1t has been the fashion of the Repub-
hcans for some years to denounce Demo-
Gratis as anarchists, revolutionists, and
the like, and the Republican party seems
to have a monopoly of revolutionary sug-
gestions just now.
''We see a Secretary of the Treasury,
in an effort to disturb the business OF the
country for political effect, suggesting
that Mr.. Bryan, In case of his election,
would deliberately evade the law, with
a purpose as unstatesmanlike and unpa-
triOtic as his own in making thisSsugges-
tion.
"But worse than this is the fact that
other men who should espise such pre-
lenses, affect to believe that in case Mr..
Bryan shall be elected, he will pack the
Supreme court for purposes of his own.
There is nothing in any Democratic
platform or in the utterances of any as
semblage of Democrats or of any single
leading Democrat to suggest such an
idea. The construction put pom the ex-
pressions in the Democratic platform of
1886, which were perverted and miscon-
strued as a basis for such charges. was
unwarranted and untrue, No such pur-
pose has ever entered the mind of any
Democrat but the leading idea with
Democrats everywhere is to return to the
principles Of the Constitution and to
faithfully administer the laws as writ
ten"
The Portland daily press., 1900-10-19
FOUND HEAD and ARMS.
Best, Suspected of Lynn
Crime, See Them
Says the Body is Evidently That of
Bailey.
Police Satisfied With
the Identification.
What Best Told Miss Susie
Young of Wiscassett.

Lynn, Mass, October 1S.-The entire
body of George E. Bailey Of North Saugus,
who was murdered about October 8, is
now In the possession of the Lynn police
and has been positively identified. The
missing head ana arms were found By
the police in dragging Glenmere 'hoat-
ing bride" pond this afternoon. These
remains were taken to local undertak-
er's rooms and there identified by people
who knew Bailey well. John @. Best,
who is held on suspicion of having COM
mitted the murder, was confronted with
the head, but all he would say was that
he thought it might be BaiIey's.
The dragging Of Glenmere or, as To-
calIy designated, FLOATING bridge
pond, was resumed this afternoon, and
at 4 20 Officers Il. Il. MeKenney and Lor-
ing Burrell finally hauled up an old
meal bag. Upon examination the bag
was found to contain the missing arms
and a stone Weighing 90 pounds. The
outer shOrtsIeeves as we'll as those of the
undershirt were on the arms and were
of the same material as those found on
the trunk On the left hand one of the
fingers was twisted, this being the re-
suit of former injury. This is one
Of the strong points OF Identification
Half an hour later officers Lyons and
Darvey brought Eup another meal bag
about 10 feet beyond where the arms had
been found. In this bag were the head
and a large stone, the bag being tightly
tied at the mouth. The head was In gooc
condition, the hair ana moustache being
perfect
at the tip of the chin on the LETT side
OF the face was quite large hols which
looked as II 1t had been made by a mis-
directed blow when the head was chopped
off. The remains were removed to a
local undertaker-s and Medical Examiner
Pinkham was summoned,
Albert G. Day, wood heel manufac-
turer in Lynn, identified the features as
those of Bailey as soon as he saw the
face and also recognized the distorted
finger.
Several Of the Lynn police who had
seen Bailey at different times, also iden-
titled him.
John G, Best, the suspected murderer,
was then brought from the police sta
tion in charge OF Sergeant Fitzgerald
and taken into the room where the dis
membered remains of Bailey were lying.
He was very cool, and although he was
carefully watched, he showed no change
Of countenance, all that was noticeable
being slight nervous movement of his
fingers. He was asked If he recognized
the dead man, but his only reply was,
'Well, think that may be him. He
was taken back to the station and locked
up.
The Portland daily press., 1900-10-19
FIVE HUNDRED SPEECHES
Have Been Made by Gov.
Roosevelt.
lie Has Travelled Nineteen Thousand
Miles.
His Great Tour Ends In
Baltimore Today.
He Nails a Campaign Lie In
West Virginia.

Parkersburg, VIVA, October lS.-Gov.
Roosevelt viii finish his general cam
paign at Baltimore tomorrow night
after having travelled nearly $4,000 miles
and after making nearly 500 short and
long speeches. Then he will spend the
final week of the campaign in New
York state. The Boston visit has been
eliminated and If possible Gov Roose-
welt Will spend next Sunday with mis-
family at Albany. Tonight he is jubi-
lant over reports from New York which
to his mind, presage a great Republican
victory there. At Parkersburg, tonight,
he paid special attention to Senator
Jones's denial that the American cotton
company is a trust. The Governor pro-
duced a statement of the company and
argued that its own figures. prospectus
and plan of procedure enUitIsd it to the
name OF a trust Roosevelt accused the
cotton bale trust of first securing pro-
hib1tive advantages in freight rates, gain
ing the foreign markets, sQuelching
competition, establishing controlling
warehouses when the money could be
loaned on cotton crops and in every way
fulfilling the most heinous otfenses that
have been ascrlbed to the Standard Oil
company an1Eother monopoIies.
In the run down the Ohio river raj l.
Grad, stops were made at Beuwood,
Moundville, New Martinsvills, Sisters
Vile, St. Mary's and Waverly. The two
first named are in Marshall county, which
is strongly Republican. At MoundsyilIe.
Gov. RoOseveIt was handed q copy Of the
same circular which created such a SEN
satiOn in the west d few days ago in
which he was accredited with some Sc
we're remarks about what should be
done to the strikers. These circulars
have been literally circulated in this
part of the state
Gov. Roosevelt denied that he had
ever at any time said any word which
might be construed into anything like
what was printed in the circular and
he said the nan who got it up knew
he was lying.
A crowd of probably 25 hoodlums col
lected on the outskirts of the crowd at
ST. Mary's, and undertook to prevent
Gov Roosevelt from making himself
heard, They were partially successful for
a while, despite the Governors scathing
shots at them. The town and county
are largely Republican, however, and
a crowd of Mckinley men took a han
in the matter and quieted the d1sturbers.
The demonstration in this place is
conceded to be the biggest political affair
In the history of the state. Preceding
two meetings there was big parade,
participated in by marching clubs and
rough riders.
The streets were lined with people,
Gov. Roosevelt spoke first to 5000 people
in the big wigwam, and was then hur-
ried to the auditorium where he ad-
dressed an audience of 2O0O. Other speak
ers were Col. Curtis Guild and former
Democratic Congressman Bynum of
Indiana.
Col. Hall, secretary of the state COM
mittee, says West Virginia is safely Re
publican.
The Portland daily press., 1900-10-19
BRYAN in THE RAIN
Discusses Democratic Doctrines Ia New
York

Syracuse, N. Y, October Is "A cold
drizzling rain which set in early in the
evening, did not dampen in the least the
enthusiasm CT the immense crowd which
gr> eted Mr.. Byran when he arrived here
at SO5 from Oswego. Mr.. Bryan spoke
from stand erected in front of the
opera house. Inside the theatre there
was a meeting which was addressed by
Mayor Jones of Toledo until Mr.. Bryan
finished his open air speech. He spoke
for half an hour from the stand and
then went into the theatre and spoke for
he presented In detail all the issues be-
ginning with the trusts and ending with
imperialism,
The Portland daily press., 1900-10-19
HANNA,S HARD ACCUSATION.

Sioux Falls, S. D., October 18.-The
two days speeohmaking in South Dakota
by Senator Hanna and Senator Frye
were concluded in Sioux Falls tonight
by three meetings. In this, the home
Of Senator Pettigrew. the biggest demon
strat1on of the campaigning tour was
held. Senator Hanna made II speeches
today closing with meeting at Sioux
Falls. Aside from Sioux Falls, the
largest crowd of the day greeted Sena-
tors Hanna and Frye at Mitchell. SEN
ator Hanna denounced William j. Bryan
for descending to public lying from
bhe rostrum."
1t is reported that at Parker an egg