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HE PE09EEBBIVD FABEIOB : JULY 26, 1898 2 mi fSDSBESSIYE FARI1ER. mi, L.POLK, - - - Proprietor. I I umil Editor. CLARENCE FOS, - Assocuts Editor. J. W, DENMARK, - - Sums K'g'r. BaleigtL, CD. SUBSCRIPTION -Carle SabwrlbeT. One Year...... S l-JS Six Month............ .75 Jive 8atcrlberi, OaeYer..., kj tin " OaeYear t 10-00 One copy ont year fre,to the one wading Club 22 Ten. Ccuh Invariable in Advants. Honey at our risk. If ient by registered letter ts money order. FIai don't incS tamp. Advartittn Kt3i Quoted on application. To Corr$tvondsnti : TFrlts all communications, designed for pub .Ssatlon. on one side of the paper only. We want Intelligent correspondents In every jountyln the State. We want fact of value, raaults accomplished of value, experiences of ralue, plainly and briefly told. One solid, demonstrated faeU la worth a thousand theories. The editor is not responsible for the views of correspondents. RALEIGH, N. O., JULY 26. 1898 The Prosresolre Fanner is the Official 5fM of the N. C FEnae' State Alliance r-7-The date on your label tells vou yhen your tJme ia out and serves as a receipt for all money sent us 44 1 am standing note just behind the certain, and in full glow of the coining mnset. Behind me are the shadows on the track, before me lies the dark valley end the river. WJien J mingle tcith its Cark waters I want to cast one linger ing look upon a country whose govern ment is of the people, tot me peopte, and by the people, Lu Lu Folk, July ih, 1S90. N. R. P. A. EDITORIAL NOTES. . If 8pain ever secures another navy ahe doubtle33 will buy eu marine boats mostly. The latest report is that what re mains of the Spanish navy, under Ad miral Oamara, is coming to Ceuta. If th9 Amsrican 11 eet ever gets in range of it Camara will never Ceuta. It is said that in the excitement of the hot Santiago fight, Gen. Wheeler forgot that the Civil War was over and shouted as he led his men on, "Give it to the Yankees, boys." The Spaniards relate that the Virgin once granted various boons to Spain at the prayer of Santiago, but refused the boon of good government lest then the angels forsake heaven and prefer Spain to paradise. General Garcia says he is not going to play with General Shatter any more. To quote the languageof ex Governor Jarvis, the appearance of the Ameri can Army in Cuba must have lowered the aspirations'7 of the Cubans. The disease which has seized upon about the whole force of ex honorables of the Democratic stripe since their exit from the pie kitchen, has been diagnosed and pronounced "pie hun ger." And the latest information from their headquarters to Joe Daniels ia that they are ex-pie ring. Certain papers and persona have been asserting tkat Governor Ruesell has no friends in the Republican party. The flattering resolutions adopted by the Republican State Convention last week so heartily commending the State administration, must have knocked the props from under those fellows. Four of the best Spanish cruisers de stroyed by the American fleet at San tiago cost about 13,000,000 each. Pos sibly one or more of them can be r&isod and repaired. Warships are expensive machines. Oir navy is q iite good, but we can use a few more good crufs era, and we hope the Spanish ships can be saved. , The German government should either keep its warships outside cf Manila harbor or it should furnish the seamen with an extra supply of lire preservers. When Dewey notified the German Admiral that he should be -careful and not allow his warships to get between the American warships and the Spanish fortifications, the joke was so plain that the average English man smiled in less than two days after he read it. The Biblical Recorder does not often go very far wrong. We shall look for a full and complete answer to our questions ia its issue of this week a diicuieion of principles, rather than men, for the question of plutocratic control of our colleges overshadows Kilgo, overshadows Clark. We regret that the Racorder does not stend with the people in thia fight against wrong but believe it will eventually see tbe error of its way, and take a stand with us in the fight for Chriatiau education and against the un Christian instruc tion of monopoly. THE FARliER AS A CITIZEN. Almost every week, even at the risk of being told that it is getting monot oncus, we reiterate that eternal truth: 4 'In union there is strength." Almost every week, atthe risk of being abused j both by the farmer, because he is in I dff rent, and his enemies, because they fear some good may come of it, wa insist that if the farmers wish jus tice they must have the manhood to demand it. Hoard's Dairyman, the leading dairy paper of the country, is not edited by a socialist, nor even a "calamity howl ing Populist." But the editor has for years made a study of farming and dairying and also of farmers and dairy men. In a recent issue of his paper he says: 4,Ihe farmers of the nation, who possess great political inflaence with the law making power and the courts, are careless and indifferent. If an or ganiz .tion is started, like the National Dairy Union, to secure the passage and enforcement of laws against adul teration, they allow it to languish for want of both funds and friendship." Continuing, he makes a statement strongly but every one who has studied the case will agree not too strongly put. Read it: 4 'There is no other class in American society who lie down so supinely be fore wrong and oppression; who can be so easily divided against themselves by sharp politicians in the pay of some fraud; who suffer millions of loss through fraud, yet haggle over a few dollars of expense to put down the fraud. In view of the prosperity of all these frauds, we are tempted, oft times, to ask: 4 Are we, as farmers, He subjects of American citizenship, or worthy defenders of the American sys tem of representative government?'" This is a startling question. Yet, we regret to say, we believe the facts war rant Mr. Hoard in asking the question. The farmer as a citizen is honest so honest, in fact, that he seems to con sider every one else honest and there fore makes little effort to defend his own interests. And here he fails in his duty as a citizen. We hope a number of our farmer friends will give us their opinion of Mr. Hoard's statements. Wallace's Farmer also gives a sea sonable hint which may not be out of place here: i4The time is fast approaching when, if the farmers are to hold an even end with other classes they must make farming interests a factor in politics. We do not believe in farmers forming political parties. We believe that every man should use his political in fluence for the benefit of his farm and that that can be used to the best ad vantage in the party with which he has identified himself and the politi cal idea3 of which he firmly believes. We believe that in this party he should use his inflaence in order to protect his own interests by seeing to it that the candidates are pledged to the enact ment of laws taat will protect the farmer and advance hi? interests, and that candiiates for trUces, euch as railroad cimmieaioner, which directly bear upon his interests should be filled with men who will be fair and just as between him and other iuterens with which he has to contend. If his party nominates men that are hostile to his interests, we believe that his allegiance to the farming interests and his own home should outweigh his allegiance to his party, If farmers of the various parties will work to this end even a little bit, there is but little danger of their interests suffering at the hands of legislation. Wnenever the farmers make the farming interests a factor in politics, the politicians will see that everything is fixed to the satisfaction of the farmer; if not, the effices that bear directly upon the farmers' inter ests will be mere trading stock. Thi3 is the way of politics and the way of human nature. If farmers are eufli ciently awake to their interests they can easily secure any law upon which they will agree, by pledging candidates in advance to the enactment of these laws." A NICK ROOSTER TO BE CROWING FOR POPULIST VOTES. In 1892 the Democratic returning board of Brunswick county threw out the entire Populist vote of the county on the pretense that the paper on which the ticket wa3 printed was not white enough for them. Tne Populist ticket nad abcut eleven hundred votes and the Democratic ticket baa six or seven niiDdred. Every man on the Populist ticket was elected by a rnr j rity cf some four or fie hundred. The re turtibg gang got together and 9tole every Populist vote in the county and disfranchised every Populist and tvery other man in the county who did not Deiong to the Democratic party. One John D. Bellamy, a lawjer in Wil mingtcn, waa the principal promoter of this villiany. He went to 8outhport, the county seat of Brunswick, and managed the returning board gang. And this is the kind of person that is put up by the Democratic convt ntioD, and Populists are asked to vote for him. He pretends to be for free silver but the gold bug organ at Charlotte is mighty well satis ri m! with him. He is no more for free silver than he is for f ,-ee ballot. But oh! won't he get the Populist votes 44 in the neck." The Populist tickets voted through out the State in 1892 were printed on identically the same paper, which was about the grade and color of that upon which The Progressive Farmer is printed, and was called white every where except in the county of Bruns wick, where Bellamy's band of bull dozers held the polls and counted the ballots, as stated above. Theso are facts of record. The Populists did the voting, but these Democratic poll holders cared not how the vote teas cast when the first counting was left to himfespecially when the counting and the ins were of his stripe. Pious? Yesl Pie us, is the cry of this expiring ex pie ring. We insist that if the Spaniards don't mind what they are doing they will effmd the Americans and will get whipped some more. AS TO YOUR UNCLE JARVIS Your unsle Thos. J. Jarvis, that ripe old political granny who has spent many years piously endeavoring to de ceive the people as when, with a fee in his pocket, or the promise of one, as attorney for the Coast Line, he at tempted before a legislative committee the role of 4ia disinterested friend of the State" until the mask was rudely torn from him, is around making a few speeches. In one of these he is re ported to have said that the defeat of the Democratic party in North Caro lina "had lowered the aspirations of the people." The News and Observer spun upon this statement a character istic editorial. We were disposed to call the truth of the statement in ques tion until we called to mind the names of two Democrats in North Carolina who recently sought, almost withtearc, official position with negro volunteers. They both live in Jarvis' corner of the State; and one of them went to Wash ington seeking to be me j -r of a negro battalion, while the other asked the Governor to make him captain of a ne gro company under Jim Young at Port Mt c jn. These, we confess, were low aspira tions. But they were Democratic. HE SHOULD EXPLAIN. The following pieca of malicious misrepresentation appeared in nearly all, at least a great number, of the leading dailies throughout the country last Thursday : "Washington, D. C, July 19 In order to show the progress of recruit ing under the second call a statement has besn prepared in the cflieof the Adjutant Gdneral of the Army based on the latest returns. It shows the following enlistments: North Carolina number required 784; number enlisted 55 Virginia number required 930, num ber enlisted 294. Georgia number required 704 ; num ber enlisted 255. Indiana, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, Rhode Island, West Virginia and Wisconsin have exceeded their quota, but all the others are behind in their supply of troops. The worst de lirquent is North Carolina, which has furnished only 55 soldiers to meet its quota of 783 " This statement will be generally ac cepted as truth because it comes, or is said to coma, direct from Adjutant Ganeral H. C. Corbin. With Bagley as the firsS martyr to the cause of Cuban liberty, with Blue and Hobaon of North Carolina families, and many other sons of the Old North 8 sate fearing nothing when duty calls, North Carolina has secured her share of military glory. Even if she has had no sons in high positions, manhood and bravery, as well as murder, will out, will show itself, and her less hon ;ored eons have proven themselves worthy of the high positions occupied by unworthy youngsters whose fathers 4 had a pull. " If Corbin has attempted, to defame a State which has thus so nobly done its duty, he should be made to suffer for i;. He says: 4,North Carolina number required, 784; number eniited, 55 The truth of the matter is North Carolina was called upon to furnish 1 551 men under the second call, and we understand that about 1450 have enlisted. Corbin should be made to explain. It is bad enough to slander one man only, but it is almost a crime to blander a great State of 1.700 000 in habitants. Every man knows some other fellow who is a bigger fool than he is, but sometimes he cannot make the public believe it Er. GALLANT WAIN WRIGHT. The thrilling incidents on the south ern coast of Cuba during the last fort ni ,ht will make the pages of the future histories of the Spanish war read like ' a romance. The blind and bloody iIEUTENANT-COMMANDER WAINWRIGHT fighting on the Santiago hills, the gal lantry of Hobson and his men, Cer vera's despairing dash to almost cer tain destruction no more sensational or dramatic events than these could well be imagined Among the many picturesque incidents connected with the destruction of the Spanish fleet, the heroic work performed by Lieutenant Commander Wainwright will long be remembered. Wainwright was execu tive officer of the Maine on that tragic night in the harbor of Havana, and he was recently placed in command of Mr. J. P. Morgan's yacht Corsair, con verted to a fighting boat and renamed Gloucester. When Cervera's dreaded torpedo boat destroyers came in sight at Santiago, on July 3, the Gloucester made for them at full speed and whip ped them both, although the little American boat was at the same time under the fire of the shore batteries and the guns of the Vizcaya. The culmination of Wainwright's astonish ing fearlessness was reached when he actually engaged the big Spanish cruis er, and maintained the action until supported by our men of-war. A fuller account of his adventure may be found in our issue of July 12, under head 44Sweet Revenge." A portrait of Lieu tenant Commander Wainwright and a picture of his fchip are contained in the issue of Harper's Weekly for July 9 LATEST WAR NEWS Fighting in Porco Rico is expected socn. The expedition, under command of Gen. Miles, got in sight of the island Sunday. Li ut. Hobson is in Washington, D. C. He says some of Cer vera's ships can be raised and 1 sed in our own navy. THE CIGARETTE EVIL. This paper has always been ready to throw a ray of light upon the ravages of the death dealing cigarette, but since it has been stated (ind no one has at tempted to deny it) that more than 50 per cent, of the volunteers rejected be cause of physical disability were cig arette usuers, it is harder than ever for us to see how any man who loves his country or his God can refuse to join the leading scientists of the country in fighting this instrument of death. We wrote of Mr. Duke's gift at the time as a 4 'glorious surprise to Trinity's friends." But since thinking of it as money acquired by the sale of cigar ettes, we confess we have changed our opinion. In the Biblical Recorder of last week we find the following letter from Mrs. John W. 8tarnes. of Asheville : 44A QUESTION RAISED " 4 'In reading the Recorder of June 15 this headline flashed across my eye: '$100,000 FOR TRINITY COLLEGE.' "In commentir g on Mr. Duke's gift you eay: 'Thankful for his munifi cence, we are more thankful for his Christianity, which makes the gift beautiful, holy and blessed.' May I ask where is the Christianity that will allow a man to manufacture the deadly cigarette that destroys the will power, the manhood of onr boys and gradu ally slays them? Where is the beauty of this gift? Lxk at our boys and say if there is any beauty in their vitality being destroyed. Look at our volunteers. Sonfe of them have left home proud with the thought that they are going at the call of their country. In a few days they are back with drjcted countenances. Why? R j ;cted, because of the cigarette. Is there anything beautiful in the disap pointed faces cf these young men? Holy snd blessed ' Ask that mother who s( cod in the doorway and kissed her manly boy goodbye as she started him eff to college hi3 form erect, his complexion clear, his eyes shining brightly. How she anticipates his re turn, with mind and body more fully develoyed. She is proud of him no but then, her j oy will be complete, But while he was there this deadly serpent crept across his path, his face paled, his eyes grew dim; now his hand trembles, his whole being is exhausted, and hi3 poisoned breath strikes his mother in the face and sinks deep into her heart. Is there anything 4holy and blessed' in destroying this boy and breaking his mother's heart! 44 Again you say: May God spa e him to enjoy the realization of some t f tie blessings which his benevolent e s'lall produce.' I do not know how many blessings this gift may bestow, but may God forgive him for the many lives of usefulness his cigarettes have destroyed 1 4 'The cigarette goes hand in hand with the whiskey habit. The one is almost sure to lead to the other. Why bless one and curse the other? Why bless the man that made his fortune manufacturing cigarettes, though he does pay toll to immortalize his name, and curse the 1 one. that manufactures strong drink? They both lead to ruin, and their' manufacturers are equally responsible for the souls destroyed by them. How many thousands given to Trinity College will pay for one boy killed by cigarettes? 4 'Please answer, Mr. Bailey." We will publish Mr. Bailey's reply in full. . He says: "This good woman would be entitled to her opinion if it were reasonable." Let us see. Does the Recorder mean to say that it is not reasonable to say that cigarettes are poisonous and are slaying hundreds of America's young men every year? If so, we will eay that when it refutes the arguments of America's most eminent physicians and scientists (they declare the cigar ette poisonous) we will gladly accept its statement. "But," it continues, 4'it is not reason able to charge all the stooping efco: -dered, shallow faced, hang headed youths you see to the account of cigai ettes." This is a dodge. It answers none of Mrs. Starnes' questions. Neither she nor anyone else has attempted to charge 4aZZ ths Ballow-faced youths to the ac count of cigarettes." But if they in jure a great many shall we defend them because forsooth they do not in jure all? As well refuse to fight Satan because he does not carry all men to hell. Again : 4We wish it were decent to name another and a worse cause. And if it were reasonable, it is unreasonable to charge them to the account of Mr Duke. The farmer who raises tobacco is in this reasoning just as account able." In the language of Shakespeare : "O wonderful, wonderful, and most won derful wonderful 1 and yet again won derful, and after that out of all whoop ing !" Neo t we $hall expect to hear the Recorder say: "It is unreasonab e 0 charge the lives wrecked by whiskey to the account of the salcon keeper or distiller. The farmer who raises the corn, rye or grapes is just as account able ! ' The Recorder concludes in the following language: 4 'The most accountable persons are the mothers and fathers of these youths. Nor ?s it reasonable to garble the words of our editorial, as this earnest sister does. We said Christianity prompted the gift; we said Christianity made it beautiful, holy and blessed. We took Mr. Duke at his word; we also believe in the Bible, which teaches us that God blesses gifts given in Hid name, and warns us not to judge. We did not endorse the means by which Mr. Duke has become able to give tne money; but we maybe pardoned for being thankful that if the means of ac quiring have led to the unmaking cf some, the bestowal of it will go to wards the making of others." Certainly you may be pardoned, Bro. Bailey. And in the same way you may be pardoned for defending the saloon keeper because the money paid for his license goes to the public school fund and 4 'while unmaking some will go towards the making of others." Finally the Recorder says: "Bat this sister, if we may r.doot her reasoning, would have Mr. Duke use his money for the enlargemsnt of his cigarette plant." And thia, we wish to say, is the first time it has been hinted that it is un constitutional for Mr. Duke to use his money for anything else except to manufacture cigarettes. Taking it as a whole, we think the Jady's questions remain unanswered. Bat it is as hard to find a cigare te smoker who condemns cigarettes as to find a drunkard who con damns whis key. Our esteemed young friend, Spencer Blackburn, outdid himself in his soeech before the Republican State Convention the other day. Like a car tain beverage, he grows better as he grows o'der. His bit of doggerel (more truth than poetry) "The Populist wants his silver straight. The Republican wants his gold But the Democratic wants anything To pull him out of the hole" brought down the houee. We have received a copy of a splen did compaign document issued by the Populist 8tate Central Committee, en titled: "Is the Democratic Party Honest?" Populists should see that this pamphlet is placed in the hands of all honest voters. If you wish to aid in this work, as many of the pamphlets as you will pay postage on will be sent you free of charge. Address Dr. Cyrus Thompson, Chairman, Raleigh, N. C, or this cffi-30. R2PUBLICAN ct, TION.1 C0VEK, The Republican State (w tion met in this city la8t th tio11 The Convention was well 78iay' and harmonious. Hon Rr, en4 Lney, the "Bull of the 1 was made Chairman. The f composed the Committee cni tions: Q First district C. M. Bernard Second district H. E Haga Third district-O. J. Spearg Fourth district A G Eiton Fifth district James E 8h Sixfo district-G Z French Seventh district J. C. Dancy Eighth district J. C. Ray. Ninth district Richmond pea The resolutions and platform printed elsewhere in this iseus The following members of the 8t executive committee, chosen h trict meetings, were announce First district Starkey Hare Second district R J. Lowis Third district W. E Clarke. Fourth district C. T. Bailey. Fifth district J. A. Norwooi Six h district J. W. Mullen. Seventh district J. W. 0. Line Eighth district C G Bailey. Ninth district Thorn aa 8. Billing F)T the six additional member large the following were elected H. White, E. C. Duncan, R 8 Har kin?, J. C. Dancy, Tyre Glenn and Abe Middleton. m m REFORM WORKERS, ATTENTION The Progressive Farmer-will be tent to anyone from now till the election for only 25 cents, cash in advance The Progressive Farmer will ht sent to all new subscribers from now till March lt 1899 for only fifty cents cash in advance We make thia offer be cause we are willing to lose a little money rather than allow the people to go without the truth. No that we make this sacrifice we hope our read e a will see to it that the paper ia put into the hinds of every man who can r jad. Be sure to gt t up a club in your neighborhood. Offer No. 2 means that you will get a complete history of the war, all the campaign and election news and a com plete record of all the acts of the next legislature, besides our regular agricul tural, literary and State newateatures for only 50 cents. Dear reader, ice ex pect a club from your neighborhood we expect a club from you Lt uj have it at one j. ft A leading preacher of this State, warming up on his subj ct recently, stated that the death of a certain North Carolina soldier in the) Cuban war was m)re glorious than anything told of in tha Bible. Another preacher, a college president, says that a millionaire who gave to this preacher's college a email part of his immense fortune (made by selling poisonous cigarettes) ia the South's greatest philanthropist Theie gentlemen should at once become war correspondents of some yellow journal where "yarns" comm .nd good pricee. THE BATTLfi HYMN OF THE WRONGED. That able and popular novelist, Hamlin Garland, is also, we believe, a true reformer. The following poem from his pen breathes the spirit of the true reformer and true poet. w readers remember Mrs. Julia Ward j no we a oaine rxymu ui w r lie," published in theso columns a tew weeks ago. Mr." Garland baa chosen - . . . . nTka Rattle as a title ror nis poem Hymn of the Wronged." It reads as follows: We have seen the reaper toiling in the heat of summer san, We have seen his cmldren needy wneu harvesting was done, We have eeen a mignty army ayK hopeless one oy one While their flag went marching on. Oh, the army of the wretched, how they swarm the city street. We have eeen ttiem in the nignc wi Goths and vandals meet, We have shuddered in the derfcneta the noises of their feet But their causo goes marcm ,tr burnt n Our slaver's marts are empiy flh no mo e is eo.d r Where the dealers taxf old wakes the c.ink of r But the slavers of the present m lentless powers fcOid, biDg 0n. Though the world goed 1108X0 But no longer shall the children ben aoovo the wh:zz:ng wu frQm We will free the weary wow their bondage uu de r etee In the mines ana ia tne 1 i and nelptees man 1 a tp toilers in the Taen lilt your eyes. J w . and dreS'i . . Catch the cocl ".er'n vjico tame; brfc, ne 11 "Har; . the fountains an wiltbetherti 'I tne cream As we go marching on. . . . . inments.bftVt Recent political uc - they convinced the Democrats 1 Q cannot hope for success in o this year. This has resulted ering their a?piratioL8."
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