The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-01-21
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figures of ~tIlttarsoy for >, st:s' d,
race in several Of -. ne oo'os9
States In Alabsm,, p ..@ = sootbe@
, II the col red Oeope YER. pr M. cent
in 1890, and in 1900 tho .'' ~'.aterss
reduced to SO 5 per CENT Don's' W.
g1ni4' Director Merriam IN w.
the Reduction was appro p+ass, thai
little over IA per cent n " @
Mississippi it vas the so, That b
throughout the five soutba,s R&ae
containing the largest s'e'a
population the av, rage , 81
was about ID per cent. Tb isopoi@
deed a hopeful gain in the r. h.
of those who can read and vr Ioa'e
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DE- E Benjamin Andrew. 49,,
in The Cosmopolitan .s wing
strongly the practice Of nro., os'a
public school pupils with FREQ ~.
books, and shows that the mo-. ''''
Vanoed cities and States of the r,t ~
now regard this as an indisnan n-,e
principle. "Whenevpr tbi. '~'
CURED, the number of DDni1o W
tendance has increased, the ays,. ~
duration of pupils Attendance ~ +"
frightened, a greater numb.r 80, ra
proportion of pupils c~ontinpino tbd'
studies clear up to thu tioss1
grades, and the whole IF .iepoy ~
the schooling has improved -
MR. CLARKs PROPHECY
Mr.. John B Clark construct, !,
the January Atlantic, a obsnte, \
''ReoOlleotiOns of the Twentos
Century," and prints a paper mn,
porting to have been read at ii.
meeting of the New York Historical
Society at the opening of thetVep,
first century. Among the tbiDu
which his imagination finds arcbb
Il hundred years hence are riffs ami
cannon and warrhips, slums, and TIA
wasteful burning of coal to msh
steam. Manhattan Island has etsrsb
in several stories, the farmers OUt
side the city are filling the land WITH
gangs of rotary ploWs run by elN
trici6y obtained from the el8ottt
currents generated within the eaR
itself. But greater than these at
other material deyel ,pments of tA
twentieth century thu author con
siders the demoCratizlng of our H.
etitution of property. The mODopd!
problem was solved by the simpi
expedienoy of forcing the trusts h
sell at the same price TO everybJd!
If the great corporation, in orda
to cut prices in its seorlon Of t'
country we're compel ed to ci
them everywhere, it could not Keep
up the war longer than its rlVA
could." Hence, independent pro
duoers could not be crushed, add
monopoly was impossible
THE NEW POWER OF THE NAIlOSL
COMMITTEE
In the January Atlantic Mr. HAR
Ogden calls attention to the "NSs
Powers of the National Z mmlt'6'
He shows how the D1m0cratlo s'
Republican National Commute"
have quietly assumed authority HUI
time TO time, until they ale 'O'y
lute'y new institutions as compare
with those OF fifteen years ago. Nv
change began to be sharply mS'A'I
in 1884, owing to the ~ptrsonaII'5
the Democratic chairman 07H'".
German. After 1892, tn re- oAnS =
pause, and then, IN the p7I'o- -.
senator Hanna, the growth Oh NV
National Committee reached i'
minatlon. Not only did osD1'I w
Hanna have alb ut seven million W. y,
to disburse in 1895, and proo'.'
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