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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-26

ample. to learn that North Carolina
has twice as many colonies of bees as
California has. We hope that Mr..
Womble's articles will induce our
readers to give the subject more at
tention and to abandon the antiquated
methods now in vogue for those more
progressive and profitable.
"The Use of Your Tongue" is an
eminently practical topic, for all of
us have tongues, and of all the mem
bers of our anatomy, this seems to be
least subject to the attacks to the an
cient and popular disease of laziness.
The subject is somewhat hackneyed,
to be sure, and it is surprising to see
in what a bright, original and sugges-
tive manner Mrs. Farley treats it.
She was writing especially for girls,
but people of all ages and both X
will find her article worth reading and
thinking about.
There are several other good things
on pages 4 and "a bit of encourage
ment for the farm boy which we have
clipped from Country Life in Ameri-
ca; two or three Iaugh-provoking
Jokes; some good Jeffersonian doc
trine for Democrats and Republicans
alike; an article addressed especially
to middle-aged women, Gag End OF
Climax; one of the best sermons that
we have recently come across printed
in the Christian Life Column, and DR..
Wallace's description of a wife-saving
device that the good women should
insist on having.
Over in the Correspondence Depart
ment our valued contributor, Harry
Farmer, presents some opinions about
which we shall have something to say
in the next issue or two, and Arachel
and J. T. B. send short and readable
letters. But we reserve special en-
phasis for the article of Nh. George
A. Mozart of Corydon, Iowa. A week
or two ago we wrote DR.. Henry Wal
lace, of Wallace's Farmer, for some
information about the rural telephone
in the West. He referred us to Mr..
Mozart, and the upshot of the subse-
quent proceedings is that we have an
article that will be of value to all
that contemplate installing telephone
service. And we say again that any
inquiries from interested readers will
be cheerfully answered.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-26
A THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK.

If your money is not clean; if there
is a dirty dollar in your fortune, you
have not succeeded. Remember that
a question will be asked you some time
which you cannot evade, the right an
swer to which VIII fix your destiny
forever: GLOW did you get that for
tune" Are other mems lives in it;
are others hope and happiness buried
In it; are others comforts sacrificed
to it; are others rights buried in it;
are others opportunities smOthered
in it; others chances s~trangled by it;
has their growth been stunted by it;
their characters stained by it; have
others a smaller loaf, a meaner home?
If so, you have failed; millions cannot
save you from the curse, ''thOu hast
been weighed in the balance and found
wanting."-Orison SWEET Marden in
"Architects of Fate"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-26
SUGGESTIONS FOR VOTERS.

When a public officers proves to ba
efficient, trustworthy and obliging, in
short just the man for the place, do
not vote him out at the dictation Of
some party-boss who wants the place
for a henchman or just because he be-.
longs to the opposite party. Merit
should stand above party. have seen
good men voted out of Office simply
because they paid more attention to
their duties than to booming the par
ty or playing into the hands Of the
bosses. To be sure, the voters were
to blame, but they we're misIed or
frightened into voting as they did by
self-constituted bosses, whose serfs
they allowed themselves to be.
Do not be a political serf. Be indie.
pendent of bosses, and vote for the
best men and the best interests of the
community. You will note that the
men who most loudly denounce the in
dependent voter are always ready to
make a dicker with the bosses of the
opposition, if by so doing they can
gain any personal advantage. To
them the man who insists on doing his
own thinking and voting is a mug
wump, turncoat or topper. Political
dickers, trades and alliances are their
exclusive prerogative which the com
mon voter must not question. But if
the common voter declines to do their
bidding and vote as they dictate he is
blacklisted. The farmer should be the
most independent voter in the world,
because the boss has no power to harm
him in the least, as he can the small
merchant or the working-man.-Fred
Grundy, in Farm and Fireside.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-26
A DANGEROUS DOCTRINE.

We hear that in some sections of
North Carolina, politicians are giving
out the impression, if not saying in
so many words, that that part of the
Constitutional Amendment which re
quires that every white boy who be-
comes of age after 1908 must be able
to read and write in order to register,
is a dead letter, a bluff. These p%oliti-
clans wink knowingly and say that it
is not necessary to be raising such a
furore over the education of the white
boys; that their names will get on the
registration books without much trou-
bic.
Let no one be deceived by these
men. The Constitution of North Car
Dina says in terms too plain to be
misunderstood that every person be-
coming of age after 1908 must be able
to read and write any section of the
Constitution, in order to vote. There
are no exceptions. In the eyes of the
law neither municipalities nor powers,
nor riches nor poverty, nor race nor
color, a avail anything in behalf of
the boy who neglccts the opportuni-
ties to fit himself for citizenship.
In the face of this plain mandate
of the law, to say that a way of escape
is to be found for the white boy who
fails to learn to read and write, is to
say that the officers of the law are to
go down into the mire and slime of
perjury and trickery, and that the
State is to be pulled into degradation
hardly less shameful than carpet bag
government itself.
To adopt such a policy, moreover,
would be a crime against the white
race. 1t would hold out to the ne
groes an incentive to education, while
Withholding from white boys the same
spur to effort. It would be doing much
to cause the negro boys to forge
ahead of the whites in educational
matters, and in time become the bet
ter educated of the two races.
The law must be fairly and impair
italy executed, and that law says
and registrars will be sworn to sup
port it-that if the son of your negro
tenant learns to read and write, he
must vote; that if your boy, however
white he may be, neglects his educa-
tional advantages and does not learn
to read and write, he shall be disfran-
chised.
To say that any other course will
be pursued is to SANDER u State and
deceive her children; to adopt any
other course would bring pollution to
u political life and disaster to our
AoOe' .- '--S ~c~ .-srs
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-26
OFFICE MOVED.

The editorial and business Offices
of The Progressive Farmer were
moved last week from 1872 Fayette-
vile Street, to JOG West Martin
Street, upstairs, where we shall be
glad to see our friends. And let US
say just here that our latchstring al
ways hangs on the outside, and read
ers of the paper are invited to call
whenever in Raleigh. Our new Offices
can be easily found, being two blocks
from Union Depot, one block from the
postofice, and directly opposite the
Academy of Music.
The new printing press and typeset-
ting machine, to which we have before
referred, are now running beautifully,
and within the next two or three
weeks the old Progressive Farmer
which has been published as an eight
page paper since it's beginning, will
appear in the neater and more mod
ern sixteen-page form.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-26
aTbe Industrial and Educational

"The Industrial and Educational
Interests of our People Paramount to
ali other considerations of State Pol
lew Is the motto of The Progressive
Farmer, and upon this platform 1t
Thal rise or fall. Serving no master,
ruled by no faction, circumscribed by
no selfish or narrow policy, its aim
will be to foster and promote the best
interests of the whole people OF the
State. II will be true to the Instincts
traditions and history of the Anglo
Saxon race. On all matters relating
specially to the great Interests 1T rep
resents, it will speak with no uncer-
tain voice, but will fearlessly the right
defend and impartially the wrong con-
demn."-From Col. Folks Salutatory,
February 10. 1885.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-26

ducement for local taxation, it viii
decidedly help. VIII
This must come before you incroo..
teachers salaries. For forty dono
teachers in $4,000 cabins do not na
well together.
Better free school-houses mr.4
come next. Every man to this canso
now! If special appropriations mnst
be made, let us demand them, IT,
free school cause is paramount, IF
bonds must be issued, let us issno
them. The cause is supreme.-Rib
lical Recorder.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-26
THIS WEEKS PAPER-soME RANDOM
COMMENT.

Whenever you see an article in The
Progressive Farmer that you think is
calculated to leave an i'm
preston on the minds of readers,
write us and give plainly and clearly
your reasons for differing with the
author of the article in question. This
advice we have often given, and it is
always a pleasure to see it acted on,
as is done by DR.. Sanders this week,
for instance. 1t is unfortunate, but
it is true, that there are about a hun
dred men who will abuse an editor for
publishing an article with which they
disagree to every one man who will
avail himself of the ever-present OPP
portunity to tell why he thinks the
article erroneous.
Mr.. McNair's article on alfalfa will
be read with some surprise by that
considerable class of people who think
the crop adapted only to the plains
and prairies of the West. Mr.. Nc
Nair is doing excellent work as super
intendent of the Southern Pines Ex-
pertinent Farm, and we hope that he
will let Progressive Farmer readers
hear from him often.
If Jack johnson is farming just as
his father did before him, then there
is no escape from the conclusion that
Jack was wise enough to choose a
more than ordinarily progressive sire.
The article about the combination
> of Louisiana cotton farmers is based
on a New Orleans press dispatch of a
few days ago, but we fear that the
organization is not so strong and
complete as the dispatch indicated.
We don't know how many Progress
sive Farmer readers embarked in the
silk growing industry last spring;
those who did will be interested in
Prof. McCarthy's announcement on
page 1.
An unusually large number of help
full and well-prepared articles appear
on pages I and 8 this week, but per
haps none is of greater Importance
than Mr.. W. L. Womble's GLOW to
Make Bees Pay" No doubt the ma
5ority of our readers will share u
surprise at some of the facts he sets
forth. 1t is astonishing to us, for ex-
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-26

the contribution of modern civiliza-
ton to the welfare of children, we are
forced to admit that the development
of the commercial spirit of the nine
teenth century-the greed of capital
lists on the n hand and the economic
distress of the ~wage-class on the 9th
er-have led to a sacrifice of the
child's welfare in a way that is about
as brutal and savage as anything that
we find in the past. When a child
five or seven years of age is put to
work in a factory and it's life sacri-
feed in the interest of the parent or
the capitalist, is that in principle any
better than selling it into slavery or
eating it? Is it not a refined form
of cannibalism?
IF a farmer were to hitch his
young colts to a plough and plough
and work them eight hours a day, his
neighbors would denounce him as a
brute. What sort of horses would
such colts come to be? Can we afford
to be less humane in the treatment of
children than in the treatment of
colts? The testimony of medical
science and of statistics is that child
labor in factories shortens life about
one-half and stunts both the mind and
the body.
"This inhumanity to children has so
outraged the feelings of civilized peo-
pie, that there is not now a manufac-
turing country in the civilized world,
except a few States in the South,
where children without age limit are
allowed to work in factories. Even
Russia and Japan throw the protect
ing arm of the law around these inno-
cent and helpless human beings. There
are about $4,000 children in the
Southern States working in factories
under IA years of age, and many of
these are under 10 years. This is the
greatest blot upon Southern civiliza-
ton. Last winter the manufacturers
of North Carolina agreed among
themselves not to employ children I'M
der twelve, but the agreement en-
braced SO many exceptions and condi-
tions, that it left a gap to do as he
pleased about carrying out the agree
ment. The agreement was a farce
and has not at all been observed.
"There is nothing in the world that
can be said as an excuse for child
labor, either in behalf of the parent,
the manufacturer, or the public. There
is no kind of outcome of the non-em-
pIoyment of children that is not bet
ter for all concerned than the grind
ing up of the children in factories"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-26
The Thinkers.
MANUFACTURING CRIMINALS.

But there can be no doubt that an
institution having for it's object the
saving of the youth of the State and
the segregation of juvenile offenders
from the hardened criminals is most
desperately needed.
We are unconsciously training and
educating a large criminal element
among our citizenship. It is a shame
and a disgrace that unfortunate boys
and girls, too, for that matter, whom
the cruelty of fate has deprived of
healthful, moral home restraints and
influences, and who possibly have been
set adrift without father or mother,
in a sea of crime, should be permitted
to live and mature into manhood and
womanhood in the very atmosphere OF
wickedness and sin.
It is criminal, too, on the part of
the State to assign a hayward youth
who has made his first step in crime
to a life of association with hardened
criminals. It is a stout heart and a
strong individuality that can don the
stripes of infamy and be associated
with murderers, burglars and villains
of all classes in a penal colony and
emerge with a ray of future hope.
Such an unfortunate must, after serv-
ing his term, whether it be long or
short, return to the world hardened
and more sinful, broken in spirit and
callous to the gibes and criticisms of
his fellows.
After all, it is frequently the case
that environment makes saint or sin
ner of us. A poor devil who has never
known truth and who has been taught
that virtue is a pretty sentiment for
picture books and fairy stories, is en-
titled to our most sincere commisera-
ton, pity and sympathy. He may be
a youth in his teens who never knew
a mothers prayers or a fathers bene-
dictions, yet he is lined up with MUIR
derers and cut-throats, striped with
infamy and placed in the chain-gang.
It is horrible to contemplate. We
do not believe in feather-beds and
table delicacies for criminals. We
are opposed to every form Of maudlin
sentiment for felons. But there
ought to be intelligent and just dis
elimination, and there ought to be
supreme effort to save the youth of
the land from disgrace and ruin.
There are to-day about 300 youths
in the State prison. Of these TWEEN
ty-fve or thirty are white boys. We
regard these 800 as lost beyond recall.
But there are scores and hundreds of
both colors whose inevitable destiny
is the p~enitentiary, who may be saved
from disgrace and made worthy good
citizens. A graded reformatory in
stitution by whatever name it may
be called, where proper restraints are
enforced and wholesome instruction
given and useful trade taught, would
do more to save souls, spare suffering
and prevent crime than anything we
could suggest, just now.-The Monroe
(La.) Star.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-26
A~NTI.LYNCHING GOVERNORS.

One thing for which Governor Mon
tague deserves especial commentator
is the resolute stand he has consiS-
tently taken for the enforcement of
the law at all hazards and the main
tenance of order at all costs. Partic-
ularly is he to be commended for the
courageous stand he has taken against
lynching, ordering out the militia
whenever necessary to protect a prlS-
oner from the mob.
In this respect Governor Montague
belongs to a group of Southern Gov
ernors who have honorably distln-
guished themselves by running coun'
ter to a sentiment that is undoubt'
edly strong among the people. Gov
ernor Montague of Virginia, Governor
Gambler of Georgia, Governor Aycock
of North Carolina, and Governor
Longino of Mississippi, have especial
ly distinguished themselves as anti
yuCQIu OOV0FuOrSo
And we repeat that it takes no lit
tie courage to oppose popular fury
when a certain class of crimes have
been committed, by negroes particu-
larly. The Governors we have men
toned have done so, however, and we
believe that they have been largely IN
strumental in inaugurating a new era
in the South in which an enlightened
sentiment that sees the enormlty OF
these mob-murders will find its reflex
in the prompt end courageous action
of chief executives in all Southern
States, when the supremacy of the
law is threatened.
We have observed this growing SEN
timent among the people and the St1t'
fened purpose to suppress lynch1nS
with extreme satisfaction. Conceding
the extreme provocation to which the
law-abiding citizen is subjected II
some cases, a p~rovocation that rouses
the elemental passions and appeals to
the tiger dormant in every man, it yet
remains that lynchings must brutaIne
a people and that the day of their ces;;
sation will be the day of a higher and
more wholesome civilization.
It is greatly to be desired, there
fore, that the number of anti-lyncn'
ing Southern Governors should II:
crease. The whole intelligent press Of
the South is a unit against lynchlngs
and if the executive officers Of the
States would take a thoroughly reso-
Lutte stand, even pushing prosecut1ons
against lynchers as Governor Aycoeh
recently did, it is within the bounc
of reasonable supposition that within
a decade lynchings would become z
ceedingly rare in the South. Certain
" within an equal length of time Jass
past we have e a great chang
come over public sentiment IN tm'
matter.-Norfolk Virginian-Plot'
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The good roads advocates have an
excellent ally in the rural free deliv-
cry mail system, for it is next to i'm
possible to secure a rural delivery
route in a neighborhood where the
people take but little interest in the
betterment of their highways. We
are reminded of this just now by the
following item from last weeks Chat
ham Citizen:
"Rural Free Delivery Inspector
Brown was here last Thursday look
ing over the proposed route from here
leading out by Moore's Mill on Haw
River, Johnson's on New Hope, and
Ebenezer to Ascend and by Trades
Hill on the return route. The inspec-
tor says that the roads are too rough
for such a route, so could not recon-
mend its establishment"
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Press dispatches fully bear out all
that is said on page 8 regarding the
big crops in the great Northwest
the granary of a large part of the
world. For four or five years now the
Western farmers have been enjoying
almost unparalleled prosperity. Mil
lions of dollars of mortgages have
been paid off, new farm buildings
worth millions have been erected, and
many farmers have become investors
in corporation stock. The improve
ment in the condition of Southern
agriculture has been marked, but not
nearly so much progress has been
made as in the West.
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-11-22
MONMOUTH rs PLAYING
WITH AUGUsTANA COLLEGE

Augustana and Monmouth college
are playing on the campus in this
city this afternoon. The Monmouth
team was accompanied here by a
large delegation of rooters.
The Rock Island Independents have
been chosen to play the Moline East
End Athletics at the Athletic park in
Moline tomorrow afternoon in place
of the Kewanee team which Cancelled
the engagement. The match will be
for the championship of the tri-cit-
les Early in the season the Athletics
defeated the Independents by a low
score, but regular practice since has
placed the Independents in fine form
and they hope to win. The Rock ISL
and team will line up as follows:
Center, Fowler or Bloomquist; right
guard, Wright; right tackle, Ohlweil-
er; right end, Swanson; left guard,
Ryan; left tackle, Harder; left end,
Battles; right half. O.. Oberg; left
half, Carse; quarterback, Stremmel;
full back, i. Oberg.
The Aledo high school football
team passed through the city this
morning on the way to play the Mo-
line high school in that city this af-
ternoon.