The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-06-28

THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER
the National Convention meets in st. Louis July
9Th therefore the situation will be as follows: I'm
instructed, 400; for Parker, 27O; for Hearst, ia;
for Cockrell, Sc by Missouri; for Olney, 80 by
Massachusetts; for Wall, 2e, by Wisconsin; for
Gray, 6, by Delaware. Total, 994. Necessary to
nominate, 663; necessary to defeat a nomination.,
332.
VIM. J. Bryan made a speech in New York City
last week severely denouncing Judge Parker. He
declared that while the New York iurist has re-
fused to make his views known to the people, he
has informed Belmont and the Wall Street in
terests, and they are satisfied. "No wonder Mr..
Cleveland speaks highly of Judge Parker" said
Mr.. Bryan. "He is on the inside, and knows that
Mr.. Parker is satisfactory to Morgan and Bel
mont and the other financial magnates who ran
the Cleveland administration, and yet while it is
as plain as day that the Parker boom finds its
source in Wall Street, there are many Democrats
who are trying to argue themselves into believing
that Judge Parker would be a good man to harmo-
nize on. He has the same environment that Mr..
Cleveland had, and it can be set down as a GER
tainty that Wall Street always finds out a mans
views before it supports him, however much those
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The RussoJapanese War.
Engagements between Russian and Japanese
forces are continually reported, but to most of
us the situation is muddled by reason of our
vague knowledge of Oriental geography and a
mental tendency to confuse the unspeakable
names of the opposing commanders. At the great
hattie of VafonUOw uonk hnforo Loot thousands
of losses on each side were reported, but the result
was favorable to the japanese.
The conviction grows that Japan will be the vic
tor, and the conviction is also growing that Japan
will then be the teacher of China and awaken that
nation into an industrial activity hitherto I'M
dreamed of. Last week we quoted the naturally
exaggerated opinion of the Russian ambassador,
Count Cassini. DR.. Henry Wallace, of Wallace's
Farmer, is not a statesman or diplomat, but he is
one of our most level-headed observers of current
events, and his view of the outcome is by no means
uninteresting:
"The after consequences will be of the great
est Importance to the world. japan will, become
the leader in the Orient, will be the tutor of China
in the great awakening that is inevitable, and in
the course of fifty or one hundred years this
Oriental race of Japan and China will become
the great manufacturers and merchants of the
world. The greatest drawback Japan has is the
lack of thoroughgoing honesty in her merchants
which is accounted for by this fact that until
the awakening of Japan began fifty years ago
merchandising was regarded as a business fit only
for the lowest caste. The merchant stood lower
than the laborer in public esteem; hence, with the
Jap everything is fair in trade. The word of
the Chinese merchant, on the other hand, is as
good as gold. He is the most honest of all traders,
| heather or Christian. Undue him with the pro-
| gressiye spirit of the jap and he will be the mas