The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-01-23
EDITORIAL


We send out this week a number of
sample copies to persons who will not
receive the paper after this week. II
you, dear reader are not a subscriber,
you will find it profitable to send 81
for a years subscription,
Send to our advertisers for copies Of
their seed and nursery catalogs You
may be sure OF getting honest treat.
ment from them. Make your eelec-
tions and order early for crops Of many
kinds are short and late buyers will be
disappointed
The fact that so many of the months
County Alliance meetiogs we're vel
attended in spite of inclement weather
and bad roads is an encouraging indi-
cation of the interest and determine
tion OF Allianceman generally. Occa-
sIonally, TOO, " near Of congratulations
Eions and q lite often o. sectlos where
the one thing lackg to eff 9ct a tt orough
reorganization is some one to take the
lead. We hope that County Secreta
ries who have not yet forwarded us
reports will do 80 at once.
In q recent editorial the Greensboro
Christian advocate, referring to the
fever epidemic in the Safe Normal
and Industrial College, said: $50 far
as we have seen only a few papers
have shown a disposition to take ad
vantage of the misfortune to give ex-
pI ession to their personal feeling "
Whereupon it Is decidedly amusing to
dud a Raleigh editor, whose name had
not been mentioned, remarking edl
torially: 80 much of the foregoing
as ia intended for this paper we pro
nounce both false and cowardIyT'
Tbs price Of paper is now nearly 30
psr c. 1T. hif her than q year sgo and
no other artIcls used IN newspaper
masking has been reoused in price
Expeo ses being Increased, we must ion
press Upon subscribers the necessity of
renewing promptly. If the date on
your label is % or 90 please pay up
and renew at ncs Send al any rate
q part OF the amount due-senO 81 and
get date moved up ore year. We en-
ter u Fl teensh volume February ISL
and hope that each delinquent will re
new before that time. If the date on
your label does not show paid to date
this means you.
Congressman Atwater called to sex
us last week We are glad 10 find him
so enthusiastic in his report OF the bill
extending free rural mail delivery.
No other Congressional measure with
any prospect of adoption promises SO
much Cf value to our agricultural
classes. With free rural delivery our
country population would be put in
clio e touch with the business worl,
and with markets, farming would be
more profitable, farm lands would ed
anc in price, more N |spRpers would
be taken, more literature used, and cur
rural population would rapidly adj
vance slong educational lines
TRUSTS cheaper price Of products
they manufacture; taxi q Standard
Oil Company fIr an example Such
for years has been the weapon with
which trust defenders have sought 20
Eout their opponents. This weapon is
40 longer theirs, tor this Standard Oh
Company has juss advanced the price
of oil 8 cents a gallon. The Whining
ton Star figures out that Gne people of |
this C un'ry consume 976 900 600 gal
Ions OF oil a year, nc means S29, |
$50 900 more revenue for che oil trust
each year. Let the people take warn
ing Tnis Standard Oh trust chaapened
prices until il had driven GU omp
tition and now, there being no rivals
to fear, iT b-gins its work of IDcreas
ing pri ses aud levying iOcr, as d Trib
ute upon the American people. Other
trusts will follow this example. The
cat tresds softly and hides its claws
till its pre- cannot escape. So CON
pIetelg are the An ricAn people in the
DO yer of this monop lily on one Of the
n Csssaries of life thai the Standard
Oil Company ~ advance prices three
times three cents per gallon as easily
a three cents. Will tina people slum
ber ont