The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-01-29
"What's The News?"
The Weeks Happenings.
By CLARENCE H. POE.

M unlike the members of our American Con-
| gress, not all elected the same day.
but the polling continues in different districts
through about a fortnight. While the result of
the first days elections therefore, indicated a
sweeping Liberal victory and the consequent tri-
umph of the Lloyd-George budget with its in
creased taxes on lands and incomes, the later
elections have gone strongly in favor of the
| Unionists or Conservatives. At this time there
fore, it seems certain that the Nationalist or
| Irish members will hold the balance of power in
the House of Commons. and while they will prob
ably favor the more important features of the
Lloyd-George budget, it is likely that they will
oppose the increased tax on beer. Moreover the
result of the election being so indecisve it is al
most certain that another election will be held
within year or two when the issue of free trade
or protective tariff will be definitely fought out
The popular vote to date gives the Unionists
2.566,e27, Liberals 2.324.315. Laborites 3s5,155,
or total majority of only 153,SO3 for the united
| Liberal-Labor parties.
f., The high price Of meat has become not only
one Of the most interesting but for the people
in the cities. one of the most serious Of recent
news matters. In many Northern cities boycott
on meat has been begun the members becoming
temporary vegetarians in the hope Of reducing
meat prices. There are not enough people on
the farms raising food and too many people are
going to the cities to be fed" is the laconc ex-
PLANTATION given by Secretary Wilson, and he goes
on to point out that three-quarters of a million
people are coming to America annually from Eu-
rope. and all of these go to the towns to increase
hiphD
| For these and other reasons, the high price of
meat Eat least compared with other COM
modites) is likely to continue, and all this means
of course, big profits for the farmers who grow
the meat. There has never been better time for
starting general crusade in behalf of stock rails
| ing in the Southern States.
| 1t begins to look as IL the South is to have
some compensation for the losses it has suffered
through our terrible problem. The presence
of the negro has kept from us the great food of
immigration from Southern Europe-Italians
Poles, and Hungarians, etc.,-which has crowded
| the Northern cities and overlooked their slums
and, instead of this immigration, the South is now
to gain strength by the coming into our borders
OF progressive, wide-awake Western farmers of
our own blood, tongue, and ideals-sons and
srandsons, many Of them, Of the very men who
went West from the South itself in other days:
men who are of the finest type of American cit-
zenship and will play large part in the great
agricultural revolution in the South Upon their
coming, moreover, the negro problem will become
less acute for the proportion of the white popua-
ton will become larger. In fact it seems not un-
likely that as Southern States become as
thickly populated as some of the Northern Statas
the proportion of negro population to white in