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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-07-12

one than present conditions promise, it will be
easier cared for Let there be county and State
meetings held in every cotton-growing section,
and take definite action. One of the States larg-
est cotton farmers told me short while since that
he felt the cotton growers meetings last year
did great deal toward advancing prices. At the
State meetings, arrangements should be made for
an Interstate meeting so as to have unity of ac-
tion all along the line. Much can be accomplish
in this way
Arrangements for storing cotton and securing
advances the same can be effected. By this
means cotton need not be put on the market faster
than the trade demands it.
/ see from the Manufacturers Record that
$4,000 900 Cotton Handling Company" has been
formed at St. Louis, with Sully president
That may mean very much for the cotton farmers
There be many similar companies, though of
much smaller capital, formed. These warehouses
for the storage of cotton can be made the key to
the situation.
The cotton farmers need have no fear If they
will together with determination
with genuine Southern fevor and 1unconquerable
will. The time for action is now at hand.
T. B. PARKER,
Secretary North Carolina Farmers State AL
lance.
Raleigh, n c., July 5, 1904.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-07-12
ORGANIZATION OF COTTON GROWERS.
This is the Only Way to Prevent Too Rapid Market
ing and the Consequent Decline In Prices-Now is
the Time for Action.

the Time for Action.
Editors Progressive Farmer:
The question that was uppermost in the minds
of many business men this morning What
will be the Governments cotton report to-day2
Very much to them depended on that report-the
making by some and the losing by others amount
ing in the aggregate to millions of dollors. Spec
ulationl Gamblingl
Finally the report came in. "The most bear
ish' ever known" remarked one of Raleighs lead
ing business men. Eighty-eight announced
as the average condition for cotton against a ten
year average of s4.s and thirty-two million crop
planted. This means if present conditions con-
tinue the largest crop ever grown. This is what
the clears" prophesy. They do not reckon any
disaster set back scarcity of labor to gather
the crop, nor the bon-weevil, nor any of dozen
other things that may befal the crop before it is
finally harvested-and the price continues to go
down.
A few months ago cotton was worth In New
York fifteen to seventeen cents per pound. To
day spot cotton is worth 1885, and December cot
ton is quoted at nine and one-half cents per
pound. The decline in price is based entirely Oh
prospects and expectancy-prospects of a large
crop and expecting the farmer to rush it on the
market as fast as he can get it i'll marketable
condition.
The hue and cry that the high prices of cotton
during the past year have wrought great loss to
the manufacturers of Germany, and have thrown
thousands out of employment in England, and
as further consequence the cotton mills all over
the world are either idle or running on short
time-this is talked by spectators of the crocodile
tear variety who would rather see low-priced cot
ton, bringing to them large profits if poverty
and want stalk boldly all over the cotton-growing
States, than to see cotton bring good prices and
the farmers prosnerous and happy, if such a con-
dition would lessen their profits.
The Manufacturers Record and the Southern
Farm Magazine state the situation nicely when
they say these "bear" spectators fail to explain
that the mills are idle for lack of cotton to work,
that to run on full time would work up all the
cotton in sight before the crop will come on
the market. The efforts of these and other papers
to keep the price of cotton up by exposing the
humbuggery connected with much of the "bear"
movement should be appreciated by the farmers of
the South, and I have no doubt will be.
We can readily see how foreigners and persons
who have no interest in the welfare of the people
of the South can engage in pulling down our
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-07-12
Come to the State Farmers Convention.

The Progressive Farmer again calls attention
to the second annual Farmers Convention for
North Carolina to be held at the A. & M. College,
Raleigh, N. c., Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday,
August 1-3, 1904. 1t is unusually fine program
which has been prepared on subjects of a practi-
cal nature, all dealing with North Carolina agri-
culture. Tickets will be sold on Monday, August
1, only, fare plus twenty-five cents for the
round trip; tickets good returning until August
room will be furnished at the college for fifty
cents per day.
Remember the place and the date. Bring your
wives with you and let all enjoy pleasant and
profitable outing.
Further information can be obtained by address
ing the secretary, G. W. Burkett, West Raleigh,
N. G.
[ have been obliged to board in town for the
last two months, and know my landlady has had
to prepare meals for fifteen to forty persons per
day. and is able to keep but girl. When the
bills and rent are paid, she will have two cents
profit from each boarder ~er day, providing some
rascal does not "beat the board bill" potatoes
go no higher. Not a minute of time to herself;
steady work all day for the barest kind of living
A farmers wife is queen, living queens life,
in contrast. The hardest-worked farmers wife
I know of is taking it easy beside this "town
lady."-C. E. Chapman.
A Farmers Institute announced In last
weeks Progressive Farmer for "Ashpole, Ran
dolph County" 1t should have been Ashboro.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-07-12

chief industry, cotton, so as to buy it at lower
price; but it is hard to understand how own
people, people whose every interest is here in the
South, can engage in fight on the price of cotton
that will rob the Southern farmer of half it's
value. And yet we have just such people in our
midst. The "bear" at home does us more damage
than two clears" abroad can do, for he is sup
posed to have an insight into the true situation;
therefore is regarded authority and sets the
pace for his colleague, our foreign enemy beyond
the seas, and also to those occupying the ''pit"
in New York.
But Notwithstanding the efforts of our friends
CO here at home who are against us in prices, and
their allies in New York, Liverpool and else
where, there is remedy in the hands of the
farmers themselves if they will only use it. The
remedy lies in organization and determination
not to sell at less than fair price.
Already it is begging stated that cotton will sell
for less than eight cents per pound this fall. So
it may, if the producers have say in regard to
the price, but leave that entirely to the purchaser
who will buy at the very lowest price he can.
Early in the season last summer there
prospect of short cotton crop, Notwithstanding
the acreage the largest planted. The
farmers met in convention and resolved not to
sell for less price than ten cents per pound
Daniel Sully, the cotton farmers friend was then
in the market. Through the determination of the
farmers not to sell for less than ten cents per
pound, and not to sell at all except as the trade
demanded the cotton, and Sully's presence in the
"pit," the crop of approximately ten million bales
has sold for about $500 900, or twice as much
as the crop of 1898, which was nearly two mil
lion bales larger than the crop just disposed of.
This fact should put the farmers of the South
to thinking, and them to take some definite
action. The farmers of the South cannot afford
to lose third or half the price of a cotton crop;
and to slang phrase, "They don't have to-"
There has never been time when the farmers
could command the situation well as they can
now. The scare-crow of two million bales
nually brought over and exhibited as the over
production bogy has vanished and the season will
open with bare market The world has been
educated to cotton goods and must have them.
There is nowhere to get them except from South
ern grown cotton. The South grows three-fourths
of the worlds supply of cotton, and can be master
of the situation The clears" tell us cotton will
be grown in Africa, in India and in many other
places but the truth of the matter is, it is grown
in the South, and we need not let the "will be"
argument cause us any uneasiness for some years,
and certainly need not let it affect the price Of
the coming crop, whether that crop be large or
small. We cannot tell the size of the crop yet.
The rains, the drought, nor the boll-weevn,
nor the pickers have sent in their reports, SO we
cannot tell just the effect they will have on the
size of the crop.
However there is no time to lose. Prepare for
big crop and if it should prove to be smaller
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-07-12

A Farmers Institute announced In last
weeks Progressive Farmer for "Asnpole, Ran
dolph County" 1t should have been Ashboro.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-06-13
sANTo DOMINGO.

Another revolution says a Washing
ton dispatch, has broken out IN Santo
Domingo. Three days after peace had
been concluded and the trouble settled,
Il new outbreak occurred Is It not al
most time for some power to interfere
and establish settled conditions in that
little republic?
Santo Domingo has singular his
tory revolving largely about the man
agement Of the national debt, and reyo-
lutlons. For instance, up 10 1852, the
greater part OF the foreign debt was
known as the Hartmont loan OF S3676.-
600 OF this sum, negotiated with the
Rothschllds in 1858 it is claimed that
only tS5, 600 actually reached the treas
ury Of the republic. Ulysses Houreaux
seized the presidency in 1882, lie raised
loan OF tg.SbOOoO In Hamburg, AM
sterdam and Brussels in 1855, and add
ed to this another loan OF $4,000 900 In
Amsterdam, in 1890, for railroad con-
struction. An American syndicate
known as the Santo Domingo Improve
ment company OF New York, assumed
these loans. In this operation the SYM
dictate received ll,25O,O0O for gunboats
that cost $1,000 N,5OOoOo for paying
French indemnity OF 100000, and
$3.50 900 Tor paying 100000 that had
been advanced by French bank, These
sums we're nll In 1 per cent bonds, and
It IS stated that of the sum realized by
the government, not one-twentieth was
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-06-13
JAPAN'S NEW EXPLOSIVE.

We read about the patriotism, the
valor, the Victories, the glory" that
so to make up war, and we are apt
70 forget the misery the horrors, the
savagery that form the reserve OF the
picture
But We are reminded Of the latter
hy a report OF DR. Wada, stan surgeon
ON "a Russian ship, on the effects % the
explosive used by the Japanese. He
describes how on decks made slippery
with blood he saw small bits Of flesh
and bone scattered everywhere. The
doctor umbled over an arm here and
leg there lie saw men with their
abdomen carried away and the flesh
torn Oft their bodies. Two sailors
he says stood on the bridge with
capt Rudinen, Count Nirod and h
petty officer. one OK tie shells struck
the petty officer. The shells are pro-
yided with fuses and take effect not
only on contact with water but with
parts OF rigging living men, even
'luAuilA ll lH'N w lNIfNii wv l'NlHl-
ance is sufficient to alter the speed ever
so little. The shell referred to eX-
ploded and blew the petty officer TO
atoms. There was absolutely nothing
found OF him ofterward Count Nirod,
Who was standing next to him. was
also blown TO pieces, only one arm be-
Ing found aftcrward The two sailors
stood q little way on The explosion
tore all the flesh from the lower parts
Of their legs which had to be ampu-
tated afterward. Captain Rudineff
was stll little further on and es-
capped with slight wounds IN the head"
The explosive used Is called Shlmose
1ts composition Is n secret It seems
but its effects are before the world. The
Russians, as far as known had no
new invention for this conflict with
Japan. They go to the front with
faith placed in their sacred images
blessed by their priests And that ex-
plains, partly, their defeat.
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properly expended for public purposes,
The debt was secured by lien on Gus
toms which We're collected by the New
York company until 1900.
This president did all IN his power
to remove the financial troubles OF
the people, but he was finally killed,
and the vice president, Figuereo, be-
came president until Juan Jimne2 was
elected IN 1899 Horacio Vasquez was
Vice president
In June, 1902. Vasquez busted Jim
ines, but he kept the Office only until
March, 1908 when Wos y Gil stirred
up a revolution and put Vasquez to
flight. wos y CHS rule continued I'M
III November when Gen. Morales
headed revolutionary movement pre-
sumably In the interest Of Jiminez,
This resulted In sending Wos y GIL TO
Porto Rico refugee. But Morales,
being In authority In the capital city
made himself provisional presidential
fact which seemed to justify another
revolutionary movement Of Jiminez
against him Wos y GU was about TO
head revolution against them both,
and movement to restore Nasquez
was also reported. Then, the Difficult
Ties seemed to have been adjusted, but
report now has II that another reYolu-
ton has been commenced,
General Grant dreamed Of annexing
the country TO the United states. but
his plan was defeated. TO the loss OF
the little republic, but probably for the
gain Of this country. santo Domingo
occupies the eastern portion OF the ls-
land Of Haiti About 40 per cent OF It's
100000 inhabitants arc blacks, about 30
per cent mulattoes and the rest whites.
Spanish Is the native language, while
French Is spoken IN the adjacent re-
public OF Haiti Education is supposed
to be compulsory, but only about 10000
children are In school, whereas at least
100000 are OF school age. According
to the constitution the government is
by a congress and a president elected
for four years. But It Is plain that
there is more autocracy than de-
mocracy In that country The reyolts
are the results OF personal ambition,
The country needs to come under the
control Of strong hand that can hold
personal ambition In check Under
such a government it would become
prosperous and happy. The exports
are, In times Of peace, worth S6O0O,OOO q
year and this Ia much moro than the
value OF the imports 80 that there
should be a large surplus.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-06-13
WAR ON DISEASE.

Notwithstanding the careful investi-
cations that have been made into the
conditions under which the plague
nourlshes in India, and in spite Of all
experiments In order to find a remedy.
that scourge continues, 1t II evident
that science has not yet mastered that
terrible problem.
At one time II was hoped that the
Hcourge could be averted by inoccula-
ton. Great faith was placed in that
remedy Between May and septem-
Der 1900, says the Boston Transcript,
nearly quarter OF a million people
were inoculated. The percentage Of
attacks among all such was 1872 as
compared with 3.69 among uninoculat-
ed persons. and the mortality In cases
OF the latter was SO .l5 per cent as
against so 60 among the inooulated. En-
couraged by these figures In l902-lOO3
the Punjab government undertook to
inoculate six millions Of people, prac-
tcally the whole population Of the thir-
teen districts most seriously affected
by previous epidomics This necessl-
tated a daily supply Of 10000 doses Of
prophyactc fluid which the Bombay
Research laboratory agreed to furnish
But a new preparation was then substl-
tuted, and the persons inoouated on a
certain day, all developed tetanus and
died. That practically settled inoc-
uation among the natives. II seems
that the only reliable remedies now are
sanitary precautions and quarantine.
our own government seems TO have
similar conditions 10 contend with IN
the Philippines. There cholera has
been raging for over a year.and deaths
10 the number OF 100000 have been re-
ported. According 10 one authority,
Manila was suffering last year from
an epidemic OF bubonic plague, sggre-
| eating 200 cases, II is believed by tho
| health authorities to have been deyel-
oped from some slight infection which
maintained Itself in the city, subsequent
20 the energetic repressIve measures
carried out In 1901, which resulted In the
development Of but nine cases OF tho
disease IN 1902 II Is not, however
certain that the disease was not import
ed from abroad, as It has existed all
along the neighborlng Asatlc coast
The germs of disease are always pres
emit It seems, no matter what tactics
Of warfare against them are adopted
Sanitation Is about the only sure pre-
yentive OF disease, but even that Is
not sufficient unless the system Is kept
IN healthml condition through a
temperate, natural moral living, That
fact IS now well established.
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DO THE PROPER THING.

II seems to the people OF this city that
there must be some Interior motive be-
hind the refusal of the majority Of the
city council, to provide the scaler Of
weights and measures with convey
ance 10 carry the apparatus required for
the proper performance Of his official
duties. The manner In which the pres
ent incumbent has taken hold Of the
work marked out by ordinance has rec.
commended him 90 the public and has
already accomplished much Tor tho
general benefit A great deal has yet
to be done, II ought TO he pursued on
the lines be has taken, and everything
reasonable TO further II ought 20 he fur
nished to him for that purpose,
As to the matter Of economy We
think the term is not aptly used when
applied 10 the cheese pairing policy ia
vored by most Of the city councllmen,
That the scales and weights and meas
ures used for testing are necessary s
proved by their provision The sealer
ought to he able 90 take them with
him on his visits, and II ls preposter-
Gus To- think he can do that on a street.
car, or 10 require him 20 hire a livery
conveyance each time IL is needful TO
carry them Why insist upon 20 pecu-
liar method and so parsImonious a
course? We thlnk,the Mayor was ex-
aoty right In vetoing the markeshft
adopted In regard 20 this matter.
we put II to the majority Of the
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-06-13

OF the reign of lawlessness which has
for long time prevailed in that state.
Tine perpetrator OF the crime should be
hunted down and dealt with In "A sum
mary manner The miners union has
promptly denounced the crime, and
while so far there appears TO be no
evidence that II was not the act OF an
individual It viii have tendency to
discredlt the union cause IN colorado.
such a result could but have been fore.
seen by any sane union man. and II
does not appear credible that such a
crime should have been countenanced
win remain, however, for that organi-
cation TO purge itself OF the suspicion
which VIII be cast upon Il by this
Crlmo.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-06-13
San Francisco Call

The elimination Of lawlessness IN
Colorado, In the 1endish murder OF non
union miners, has lts lesson FOR other
communities, This abhOrrent crime Is
committed IN a region where for years
the officers Of the Law have wnked at
all kinds OF minor transgresslons
against the rights OF persons and prop
erty. II is the region where President
Roosevelt was mObbed in 1900 while the
public authorities looked on and some
OF them Joined In the riot. Given I'M
munity I'm assaulting individuals, muir
derlng men by stealth, deporting them
from their homes and families. and In
taking iorcible possession Of mines
whose owners and superintendent they
had assassinated, these violators Of the
law naturally concluded that they We're
law unto themselves andhaye planned
and executed wholesale murder under
circumstances the most brutal and saw
age.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-06-13
Sacramento Bee.

The principles OF popular government
are at stake in Colorado aud the eyes
OF all the world are now on that COM
monwealth civil government In the
Cripple Greek district has virtually
failed, The authority Of the courts has
been superseded by that Of the mill tary,
and the rifle and the bayonet are relied
upon TO keep down violence Respect
for ciyil authority and civil rule no
longer exists on their side Such rem
nant Of civil law as remains IN Cripple
Creek is fractional. In the place OF q
miner elected as sheriff by union votes,
and VIGOROUSLY subservient 10 union in
fluences, there Is today a new sheriff
who is a member OF the citizens All
ance. And so with other civil offices.
There Is constant struggle for control
Of local affairs by the unionlsts on the
one hand and the non-unionists n'the
other.
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now pOWIE LErr CHICAGO.
sydney Bulletin.

Elijah DoNie's departure from de-
lade, South Australia was a strangely
scared ana subterranean business, In
stead Of going on board the Mongolia
from Largs Bay, like an ordinary hu-
man. he announced that his place Of
embarkatlon would he kept dark &C.
cret Then, while the crowd haunted
the iottes OF GlenIeg, Semaphore.
Largs, and even Henry beach, he sneak
ed down to out-ot-the-way sleepy
Brighton, where n launch waited. He
made the passage across In the stuffy
little launch cabin and declined to come
out until the crowd on the dock Of the
Mongolia had finished kissing It's de-
parting friends and gone ashore. At
the last moment the terrified prophet
fed up the Mongolias gangway as n
the - was behind him with a stinl<pot
and almost broke his neck getting into
the cabin out Of sight.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-06-13

The commission Of such a crime Is a
serious stain upon the good name OF the
state but II would be infinitely worse II
such a crime were permitted to go UNI
punished, 1t is not question Of politl-
cal parties. II IL not a question of un-
ionism or nou-unionism. II is not a
question of the constitutional power OF
the governor nor Of the powers Of the
courts, nor Of the rights of any indi-
vidual citizens. II Is a question Of
murder, Of assassination, possibly OF
deadly conspiracy And whatever
stands In the way OF the detection and
punishment Of the persons who com
mitted these crimes, or are responsible
for them. should he brushed aside by
every loyal and law abiding citizen.
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council whether II would not be better,
falrer more economical IN the end, and
more in accord with the public wishes
and demands 10 comply with the May
ors suggestion and the sealers' neces-
stiles, than to hold on 10 a proposition
that causes a smile Of derlslon from
the general public. Gentlemen, be rea-
sonable and do what is right, putting
aside all party and personal consider
ationsl