The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-03-13
EDIEORIAL
EDITORIAL T

A good maxim to keep In mind dur
ing this years campaign is this: 1t is
better for you to vote for what you
want, even if you do not get it, then to
vote for what you do not want and
get il.
The Progressive Farmer has no
truer friends than its lady readers. A
Virginia lady has our thanks for four
new yearly subscribers sent last week.
Aud yet some of our strong, healthy
men think it a task 10 work for one
new subscriber.
Durham county tobacco growers
met recently but nc M reported the
meeting for The Progressive Farmer.
We learn that an organization was
effected by electipg the following off
GERS: T. J. Holloway, President; w.
T. Mangum, Vice-P President; Robert
Hicks, Secretary and Treasurer.
A franklin county brother, behind
with his subscription, sends US 81 and
says: 81 am we'll pleased with your
paper and will pay on the installment
plan" If your subscription has ex
pired, dear reader, and you can't send
all Just now, remember that we will
welcome a partial pay meDt. Will you
please try the instslment plant
Exports OF agricultural products Cfor
1899 were 1874 776. 142. Or manufac
tured products we exported in value
$3.50 500, 146. being larger than any pre-
vious year, Ii is a noteworthy fact
that the only year in all our history
history when the producta of our nan
ufactories sold abroad exceeded those
bought were 1898 and 1899.
The portal savings bank bill seems to
have had little attention from Congress
thus far. Such a bill was introduced
very early in the session. A bill for
this purpose before the last session of
Congress grew so popular as to seriously
alarm the opponents of this reform, its
passlge being demanded by more than
half a million petitioners, representing
every state and most Of the territories
Of the Union.
After this week an advertisement OF
50 called cream separator that has
been running in columns will SD
pear no longer. MOI that we think it
exactly shumbug, but we consider 9th
ers Of It's class iLf rtely superior and
is Is cue purpose TO protect our readers
By advertising only the best and most
reliabls Of everything Whenever you
need anything look up our advertising
columns And when you write to an
advertiser besUre 80 tell him you read
his ad. in The Progressive Farmer.
During a campaign year it requires
some courage for a party newspaper
!critioisa any a9t OF its party, or in
innate that its party ever did anything
it should have LET'S undone or left I'm
done anything il should have done. Il
gratifying, therefore, to fad one
paper, the Winston Sentinel, putting
asft5 the Temporary interests Of its
Darsy long enough { tell the refresh
truths con 5ained in the folio wing
paragraph. The Sentinel says: when
legislature meets in J1ue it should
make soma ef3r5 to undo the terrible
Dotchary it com nists1 in passing that
3o-Cailsd anti trust Law. We thought
as tbs time taat it was q worthless
nakss1itF, il not a deception. Subse
Iuens eVents, or rather the lack OF sub
evsnts, have not changed his
Has anybody heard OF &
single tr1st being suppressed or evsn
noie5sed in thu slightest decree by
his iawf This is 0 serious matter AID
gil nave to bo confronted By the
Democratic party in the coming cam
2algn, unless a % Irs Stringent law
tru759 is passed. TIE people
ire asking for bread aud thy are net
'onseus with receiving a stone. Let
DEMOCRATIC Legislators take warn-
ng aud do sonstaing that means
lomething TO ward relieving the people
rom the expressions Of the trusts"