The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-07-26

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rage at Russia's interference with English ship
ping. and it looked once as if actual war would
resultant war between England and Russia
would speedily have involved all Europe. Thurs
day Lloyd's rate of insurance against the out
break of this greater war was as high as the rate
three weeks prior to the outbreak of the Russo
japanese War. Saturdays reports, however, in
dictate that the Russian government will make
satisfactory concessions to England, and that the
incident will be closed without further excite
/ ment.
As to war news, the following dispatch from
Toxic, July 22d, sums about all that was accom-
plished last week: General Kuroki after a Sc
we're fight, occupied Kiao Tung on July 10. The
place had been fortified by the Russians, who de-
Tended it stoutly. In the fighting General Kuro-
kIs troops drove the Russians from their strong
ly fortified position on the Chi River which is
northwest of Molten Pass, and east of Auping.
i~nficting upon the enemy more serious losses
than they sustained themselves. The fight began
on the 18th and ended on the 10Th. The Japa-
nese lost 424 men in killed and wounded. The
Russian losses are estimated at 1000"
The Strength of Mr.. Bryan.
1t is strange, but undeniably true, that the
greatest leader in the recent Democratic National
Convention was William J. Bryan; strange, but
undeniably true, that the press and people of the
country these last three weeks have given no less
attention to Mr.. Bryan-than to the candidate of
the convention, Judge Parker. The whole coun-
try has come to see that it was not merely an
eloquent orator who swept the convention of 1896
off it's feet and won a Presidential nomination,
but a man of profound convictions, ~strictest in
tegrity, and almost fanaticaI faith in his princi-
pies. S"The St. Louis delegates would hear Bryan.
pledged against him as they we're, when they
would listen to no one else" a Raleigh delegate
tells us. "The whole interest of the convention
was centered not on Parker, the man who won
the Presidential nomination., but upon the strug-
Cling leader being dragged slowly, and yet with
irresistible power, down to defeat"
writes William Allen White in Golfers Weekly.
And Mr.. ii. E. @. Bryant writing to the Charlotte
Observer of his st. Louis trip, pays this tribute
to the Nebraska leader whom he opposes: Given
his enemies are compelled to hear him when he
speaks. He seems to be an earnest advocate, one
whose disciples would follow to death. IF Col.
Bryan had been a preacher, this country would
have a great revival like the one that swept from
West to East about 1900"
1t is an interesting pen picture which Will Allen
White, the Kansas Republican, has drawn of
Dryahs memorable speech as the all night ses-
sion ended and the gray dawn of Saturday morn
ing broke upon the convention:
cit must be considered one of the memorable
oratlons of this prosy unoratorical day. It has
been said that some words are so momentous that
they become deeds. Bryan's were such. AS he
talked, the purple shadows of the coming day
were seen through the windows, and before he
closed the dawn was gray about him. He stood
there surrendering his power, that had come to
in his youth so suddenly. HI had carried