The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-09-14
FARMERS CONGRESS
Great National Meeting In
Macon In October.
A Splendid Program and Events of Great In
terest Will Draw Great Crowds
10 Macon.

1. Interoceanic Canal-Hon. Hoke
Smith, of Georgia.
?. National Observation-Disclosures G.
M Heintz, Los Angeles, CAL; negative,
Gilbert NJ. Thicker, Albany. n. Y.
B. Reciprocity, How May it Affect
Agricultural Interests-Hon' John X.
Campbell, YpsiIanti, Mich.
4. Effect of Present Insular Possessions
on Agriculture of the United States
). Preservation of Forest and Re-
forestation.-Hon. Geo. NJ. Whitaker,
Boston. Mass.
6. A Birdseye View of the Cereal
Fields of the World-Hon. John Hyde,
statistician U. S. Department of Agricul-
ture, Washington, D. G.
Z. Postal Reforms Particularly Affect
ing the Farmer-Hon. L. H. Weller
Nashua. Ia.
8. Mutual Relations of Northern and
Southern Farmers-E W. Mickey, Ocean
Springs. Miss.
.. The Relation of the Dairy Industry
to the Agricultural Prosperity of the
South-Hon. w. D. Hoard, Fort Atkinson,
Wis.
10. Farm Products in the Markets of
the World-O. p. Austin, chief bureau
statistics, Washington, D. c..
1.-THE Labor Problem from the Farm
er's Standpoint-John M. Stahl, Chicago,
Illinois.
How Can We Best Build Up Our Mer-
chant Misunderstanding Subsidy, f. B.
Thurber, New York City, opposing subsi-
dy, Hon. Oliver Wilson, Magnolia, Ills
Macon proposes to Guido all other
places at which the Congress has been
held in the way of entertainment. There
has been a large sum of money raised to
collect a complete display of Southern
products which will be placed in tent
for inspection, that Northern delegates
can learn of what is being done in the
South. This feature alone will be great
one.
One interesting thing to visitors from
the North will be field of cotton in full
growth. Near Macon a field has been
left untouched, and when the Congress
meets it will be white for the harvest"
There will be an excursion through
parts of Georgia and into Florida, and
on this the delegates and their friends
will be taken without cent of expense,
and this it Will give a delightful view of
the orchards farms and mills of the sec
ton. The farmers of all that section of
Georgia will be present and will make
the Congress an eventful one.
The business sessions of the Congress
will be held on October Z, 8. 8 and 10.
Immediately after this the excursion will
start and five DAYS will be consumed in
the trip which will be taken through a
most beautiful section.
This is the twenty second annual ses-
sion of the Congress, and its present Off
GERS are President, Geo. L. Flanders, AL
bany, n. Y; First Vice President, Harvie
Jordan, Monticello, Ga; Second Vice
President, Benehan Cameron, Stagville,
n. c.. Treasurer, j. II. Reynolds, Adrian,
Mich; Secretary, John NJ .Stahl. 1925
Langley Avenue, Chicago, ILL.,; Assistant
Secretaries, E. A. Callahan, Albany. N.
Y; Geo. NJ. Whitaker, Boston, Mass;
Joel NJ Roberts, Waco. Neb. Executive
Committee, B. f. Clayton, Indianola, Ia
E. w. Mickey, Ocean Springs, Miss; w.
l.. Ames. Oregon, Wis. Ex-Officio, Geo.
l.. Flanders, Albany, N. Y; John M.
Stahl, Chicago Ills.
In going to Macon visitors who pass
through Atlanta will have an opportunity
of attending the great State Fair which
will be in session there at that time.
There will be sold tickets at remarkably
low rates, and stop overs in Atlanta can
be arranged. Parties who desire full in
formation should write to the Secretary,
and Col. Beneham Cameron at Stagville,
will be glad to give information also.
Governor Aycock has appointed delegates
from North Carolina and there will be
a large attendance from this State, as
well as from the other States of the
Union
An editorial in Chicago Inter- Ocean on
the meeting of the Farmers National
Congress, October IA, 1901, has the fol-
lowing:
The resolutions adopted indicate as
foTcibly as any expression or event of
recent years the progressive spirit of the
intelligent American agriculturist. 3
They do not set forth any of the day
dreams of six or seven years ago. :
They do not endorse phantoms. They
are such resolutions as would have done
credit to a representative gathering of
the foremost thinkers and business men
of the country. They do not de-
plore the condition of the farming class.
They do not view anything with alarm
They do not see in the present expansive
commercial tendency of the country any
thing like a menace to the welfare of
the man who tills the soil. The
resolutions discover no shades of gloom
in the outlook and carefully avoid any
fearful contemplation of the past. They
are in line with the advanced thought of
the nation on all questions of Importance.
They favor liberal appropriations for the
Improvement of rivers and harbors, and
immediate steps toward the construction
of the Nicaragua Canal, which facts prov
that the farmers of the country are not
frightened by reasonable governmental
expenditures of taxation. They favor
reciprocity and the extension of rural
free delivery They suggest that agri-
culture be taught in the public schools,
and that protection be afforded dairy
farmers against artificial butter.
A confident tone and optimistic spirit per-
wade these resolutions throughout. No
thoughtful person can read them without
feeling that the farmer has turned COM
pletely aside from the narrow path of