The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-06-12

SlBlOn presents 1GS6l1 That is worthy
of more than passing consideration,
and that is the deportation of all
negro criminals to one of our tropi-
alislands as fast as convicted. This
would materially reduce the enor-
NOUS expense they RI to the people
of the South, and would materially
decrease the crop of criminal and IL
legitimate offspring which is annual
-ly increasing under existing condi-
tions."
The monument to North Carolina
Confederate dead in Stonewan Gene
terry at Winchester, Va, was un-
yelled Wednesday. The services
we're impressive, and attracted the
largest throng ever assembled in
Winchester. Over $4,000 people
lined the streets and thronged the
cemetery, among them hundreds
from North Carolina: Capt. Claude
B. benson, of Raleigh, delivered the
grafton. The monument is of North
Carolina granite and was erected by
the women Of our State, assisted by
Mr.. Charles B. Rouss, of New York,
who contributed one-haf to the cost.
Conflicting reports come from the
Philippines. Being at long range
The Progressive Farmer will not ex-
press an opinion as to the condition
of affairs. Mr.. Irving Hancock
writes from Manila to the Boston
Transcript that General Macarthur,
now in chief command, said to him
I'm common with others, I had a
notion that this rebellion was only
the armed resistance of a small po-
litical party among the natives. I
rather believed shat when we had
given the insurgents a few good
thrashings the backbone would drop
out of the whole affair. We have
already given the rebels a harder
thrashing than Spain ever did in
years. The rebellion isn't crushed,
though. Every last one of these fell
lows is heart and soul with the in
surgent movement. The women and
children are as inscrutably loyal to
their cause, as if their lives Deepen
ded on it."
A movement, looking to the estab-
lishment of a National negro party
has been started by prominent North
ern negroes, and a convention will
probably be held in Philadelphia in
August. A promoter says that the
platform ''will insist upon the OBJ
servance of the constitution of the
United States, the civil and political
rights of every citizen, without re-
gard to race, color or condition the
Monroe doctrine and opposition to
all monopolies, trusts, and rings, and
the duty Of the government to con-
troll all public conveyance such as
etc, and all the telegraph
and telephone operations, so as not
to burden the people with unneces-
sary taxation" Bishop II. M. Tur-
ner, of the AN. E. Church, when
informed of the project, expressed
doubt as to any practical results
from the organization if it is inten-
ded to be a political party in the or
binary sense, for the reason that the
negroes composed minority of the vC-
tiers. He added: II am in favor of
a national negro party which will en-
able the negroes to move to a place
where they can be by themselves. I
take no stock in any movement
which does not contemplate the sep
aration of the races"
The municipal elections in Cuba
were to have taken place in May, but
were postponed to June 10th, in
order that the census might be used
as a basis of registration, says the
Youths Companion. There is an
educational qualification for the bal
lot, and for the ~illiterate there is a
property qualification, while all re-
strictions Ire waived as regards men
who served in the Cuban army. AS
nearly as can be estimated from the
census returns, the number of ma
tive Cubans qualified to vote will be
about three times as large as the
number of Spaniards. As the first
test of the capacity of the Cubans
for self-government, the elections
are of unusual Importance. The
principal political parties in Cuba
are the Democratic Union, the Re
publican and the Nationalist. These
are formed on issues which have