The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-10-04

ton, it will be hard to arouse public interest in
this subject.
Russia and Japan Preparing forIHeavier Fighting.
Russia has finally discovered that she has un-
dertaken no small task in her effort to conquer
little Japan, and the Associated Press dispatches
announce that ga second Russian army is to be
created, under command of General Grippenberg,
a veteran of many wars, and it is expected that
within a comparatively short time there will be
armies aggregating six hundred thousand to
seven hundred thousand men ready to take the
aggressive against the Japanese"
But neither has Japan yet exhausted her re-
sources. She, too, is preparing to enlarge her
army, and it is said that her new CONSUMPTION
regulations will add 100000 men to her fighting
force. She can also raise more money as well as
men. Her people are prospecting, and three years
government income would pay her national debt,
while as a writer in the October Review of Re-
views points out: France has a national loan
more than eight times the annual revenue of that
country; Italy has a national loan equivalent to
seven years of it's revenue; in the case of Eng
land, the national loan represents about five years
of the governments income; and with the United
States, nearly four times the total revenue equals
the amount of the national loan"
we are likely to see very much more severe
lighting before the war ends. Russia has tremen-
dous resources, but the fighting is far from her
headquarters. The japanese are fred with a
f~anatical patriotism that will keep them in the
struggle as long as the nation can muster an army.
Prices of Cotton Yarns to be Advanced.
1t has seemed to us Tor some time that the
cotton mill men were pursuing a foolish policy
IN the effort to make their business profitable.
Instead OF admitting that the general higher
level of prices for other products justifes an in
creased price for cotton, they have persistently
sought to create the impression that ten to twelve
cent cotton is unnatural, artificial and temporary.
The result has been that buyers of cotton goods
have waited for the expected drop in prices, and
the mills have not been able to market all their
output. At last, however, instead of trying to
'depress prices of raw cotton, the mill men have
resolved to act together and raise prices of their
own goods. At a meeting held in Charlotte last
week representing 100000 ~spindles, a higher
fo51eh;nn of 1perriaG1esfor yarns was fixed, and I the
solved, that we, each for ourselves and for the
mills we represent, do approve of the schedule
of selling prices for yarns as this day adopted,
and hereby bind ourselves and the mills we repre-
sent to govern ourselves accordingly in making
sales and not to accept any orders at less than
said prices, until we are advised of change by
the advisory committee"
The Death of Senator Hoar.
Senator George Frisbie Hoar, of Massachusetts,,
who died last Friday is a type of public man
becoming all too rare, one is almost forced to
hlnk. For in spite of our optimism-and we are an
believing with Bishop Fitzgerald that
only an atheist can logically be a pessimist; that
he movement of humanity under the rule of all
wise. a1-gracious, almighty God must be for
ward, not backward"-in spite of our optimism.
We repeat, it must be admitted that men now care
more for wealth than they did fifty years ago, and
hat the United States Senate especially has be-
ONE a club of successful money-makers instead
f disinterested public servants. Among the in