The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-22

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ingly Of Several Matters. E
Correspondence Of The Progressive Farmer.
There is an inspiration TO she
writer in the visits of THE PRoGREs-
I'VE FARMER. Ihave read it through,
and It is a real tonic. One gets so
used 30 seeing only city papers with
their exciting and sensational news
that, so one who spent young man
hood in the country, the sgrt-
cultural paper comes with healing on
It's wings. It renews acquaintance
with Mother Nature, and one can
almost smell the warm fresh earth,
as he reads the letters from your COR
respondents, Naturally a healthy
man feels, or ought TO feel, as much
like digging in the ground as he does
like bathing. Nothing in "mind-
reading" will soothe the tired city
dweller as will the thought of his
country life, and many a man to-day
curses the time he left the farm
hoping to better himself by coming
here.
STICK TO THE FARM, YOUNG MANI
You may never be worth a million,
but you are no mans slave, and you
have enough TO eat in any event.
Come 80 the city if you can, simply
30 Q it, by all means. Every man
-h0 non ofFOwd - sho-I5 a-ou5 &o-
days here. By that time he will be
tired out, and should thank God he
has a quiet home in North Carolina
or some other State where the din
and oar and rush and nerve raoking
turmoil T OVER. As n of my
farmer friends said after I had taken
him and his wife around a few days,
'I1l be glad to get back to husking
corn so / can restI"
AN EXPLANATION OF NEW YoRK's MOST
PULLING PROBLEM.
If a stranger were told that the
police of New York had "mutinied,"
he would naturally think a serious
state of affairs prevailed, so a few
words regarding it may not be unin.
teresting, for the conduct of the
greatest city has it's lesson for every
citizen Of the nation. Well, there is
a law here providing for the closing
of saloons on Sunday, and after Ger.
tain hours weekdays. This has been
practically a dead letter and it has
been as easy TO get a drink Sunday
as on any other day. WhyP Be-
cause the police would not CLOSE
them. Why? Because their cap,
tains told them not TO if not in 80
many words, by implication at least.
WhyP Because the saloon keepers
paid these captains cash for the priv.
lege of keeping open. If a police
man disturbed the saloon keeper, his
captain saw that he was transferred
perhaps TO some God .forsaken region
miles from home, or else be sus-
pended for doing his duty. The
whole force for years in consequence
Of the threats of captains, have
'not seen" any saloons open ;
the bribery has gone on, and it was
said the law could not be enforced
and the spectacle has been presented
Of the liquor interests defying the
law for years. The violation of tbs
laws went on openly, differing IL
this respect from "moonshiners" of
North Carolina. But our saloon men
do not have Uncle Sam to deal with.
Well, on January LIST, q highly moral
administration came in. But the
didn't want to hurt an
feelings, so the same thing
has gone on, with possibly a fe
more front doors closed. But with
the Mayor, there came a prosecuting
attorney who was a terror to evil
doors. He finally gave notice that
if the police would not see open
he would get evidence in his
OWN way and the police would suffer
the consequence. So, as one officer
said sis is a choice between criminal
prosecution and the wrath of the
There was an alternative.
They could perform their sworn
Happy thought. What a
wonder it had not occurred to them
years ago. Some of them got to
and resolved TO do their duty
n spite of their captains. Oshers
followed, the captains were thrown
nto oo~nsternation if not a state of
grief the saloon men don't know
what TO do; the city is amazed, and
f the ''mutiny'' will only grow till