The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-08-09

CURRENT EVENTS: THE DRIFT OF THINGS AS
WE SEE 1T.

news review in this issue. Just on the other side
of the earth the Japs and Russians are having a
death grapple at Port Arthur-fghting fearful
and bloody battles, with the thermometer above
100 degrees, hundreds dying from the heat and
thousands from the bullets. Seventeen thousand
Japanese have fallen before Port Arthur, and in
the three days fighting ending August ], Russians
and Japanese forces lost 1000 each. The japanese
have now captured all but one of the Russians
outposts, but it may be a month before the final
assault is made. The Russians are badly demon
allied by their continued defeats.
The meat packers strike continues, but the
strikers seem to have little chance of success.
"The real secret of the difficulty" as an exchange
says, "is in the constantly recruited mass of i'm
migrant laborers and the low wages they are
willing to accept. This very thing promises to
defeat the strikers. They have not a monopoly
of the kind of labor which the packers are obliged
to employ, and for that reason will be unable to
force them to terms. Their only prospect of sue
cess is in such a disturbance to industrial condi-
tions by reason of the sympathetic strikes as will
force the public to bring pressure to bear on the
packers in favor of a settlement. Men who make
only $40 a week can scarcely be blamed for
wishing to improve their condition, but when
there is a Jhrong of immigrants-Poles, Lith-
uanians, and the like-standing ready to take the
same work at less than seven dollars, a strike is
most illadvised."
Thomas Taggart, chairman of the Democratic
National Committee, has announced the following
officers of the Democratic National Committee
and the following members of the National Exec |
utive Committee:
Delaney Nicol, vice-chairman, New York.
George Foster Peabody, treasurer, New York.
Executive Committee.-W. F. Sheehan, chair |
man, New York; August Belmont, New York;
John r. Mclean, Ohio; United States Senator |
Thomas S. Martin, Virginia; Col. j. M. Guffey.
Pennsylvania; former United States Senator
James Smith, Jr, New Jersey; Timothy E. Ryan. |
Wisconsin.
The selection of Mr.. Peabody as treasurer is
one of the most gratifying of recent political
events. He is a man of high character, broad
patriotism, and marked ability. A native of Geor-
gia, but long a resident of New York, his heart |
is still in the South, and as a member of the
General Education Board he has given large sums
to promote the educational campaign in the Cot
ton States. With such men as Mr.. Peabody on
the Democratic Committee, and a Cortelyou in
stead of a Hanna as head of the Republican COM
mittee, there can be little doubt that there will
be far less corruption in National politics this
year than heretofore.
Mr.. Fairbanks was notified of his nomination
for Vice-President last week, and Judge Parker
who has now resigned as Chief Judge of the
New York Court of Appeals-has set tomorrow
as the date of his formal notification. His letter
of acceptance will follow speedily.
The scarcity of news last week is illustrated
by the large place given the Vardaman ~postoffce
incident-a mere tempest in a teapot. Vardaman
is the Governor of Mississippi-a long-haired.
extreme partisan leader-and it was proposed to