The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-10
" What's The News?"
I N THE NEWSPAPERS Mr. Roosevelt cor
tinues to hold the most rraminent nlace I

TN THE NEWSPAPERS Mr. Roosevelt con-
tinues to hold the most prominent place In
- MS western speeches he has allied himself
thoroughly with the insurgents, or the progress
sives,' as he prefers to call them. Mr.. Bryan's
speeches were never radical than those with
which he has enthused Kansas and Nebraska. In
them he has attacked the decisions of the Supreme
Court, favored an income and an inheritance tax
publicity of campaign contributions before cleo
ton, and other measures which the Republican
Party was vigorously condemning when Mr..
Roosevelt was President At Kansas City and
again in Nebraska he was cheered as the next
President; when asked about this matter his COM
ment was: THAT is matter can not discuss
new
The death of William James, for many years
Professor of Psychology at Harvard University
removes one of the really great men of our time
HE made science interesting as a novel;" was
a comment on his writings, and their influence on
thinking men and women all over the country Is
not easily over-estimated. 1t is not too much to
say that he foremost scientist; and with
it great writer and man of unusual breadth
of vision and wonderful depth of insight. He is
likely to be remembered when most of the names
that now fill the newspapers are forgotten
1t is now announced that the germ of leprosy
has been isolated and grown in cultures. This
means that it will be possible to prepare a serum
like the ant-toxin used against diphtheria-and
control the disease That this scourge Of the race
that has gone on unchecked through the centuries
should at last be mastered, is one of the great
triumphs of modern science
Returns from the South Carolina primary in
dictate that the second race for Governor will be-
between c. c. Featherstone, prohibitionist, and
S. L. Bease, local optionst. c. A. Smith is nomi-
mated for Lieutenant Governor. and ]. f. Lyon for
Attorney-General. All the present Congressman
will probably be re-nominated.
Over In Spain-and to less degree in Por
tugal,-the old war between Church and State
goes on. Premier Canalejas has brought forward
a bill placing other churches on practically the
same footing the Roman Catholic, and the
Clericals are fighting it furiously. The outcome
Is yet uncertain.
The Department Of Agriculture, estimates that
the average condition of the cotton crop on Au-
pared with 75.5 August 25, 1909, and 1871
the average Of the past ten years on August Is.
80
The population of New York City is now 1885,
$50, an increase of 1877 per cent; on the other
hand it is reported that the State of Vermont has
actually decreased in population in the last de-
cade.
In the Republican campaign Handbook Presi-
dent Taft again defends the Payne-Aldrich Tariff
Bill, but also emphasizes the necessity of q tariff
commission and more scientific methods Of tariff
making.
Governor Sanders, of Louisiana, has declined
to serve as United States Senator, preferring to
hold his present Office till the end of his term
and then become candidate for the Senate AS