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THE PBCGHlJOIVI PABEIEB : FEBRUARY 21 1899 fHS PH0GEE3SIY1 FARI1ER ilRS. L. L. POLE, . J.L. RAMSEY. . CLARENCE El. POE, , Proprietor. Editor Asso. Editor. J. W. DENLXARK, . Business M'g'r. Raleigh, N. 0. SUBSCRIPTION flngle 3abCTlb7, G.e Year S 1.00 " Six Eolith 60 One copy c. yvrlie,U any oaa tendlnj cat N. B. P. A, CASE OF TH2 "TWO WILSONS.' As will bo seen from our Legislative proceedings this week, the committee appointed to investigate the ca39, re commend that Mi J W. Wilson aLd Mr. S. Olho Wilson be re instated as Railroad Commissioners and ealary paid them. The Legislature has not, at the time of going to press, either rejected or ac cepted the report. We do not know what will be done in that matter, but one thing ia certain: The people want their effi-era to be above the appear ance of evil above suspicion. Our Riilroad Commissioners should not be led into tempation and if the R ilroad Commission act at present does not prohibit Railroad Commissioners from courting and hugging temptation as the two Wilsons did, then it ia a cow ardly makeshift and the legislators will bring down the wrath of the peo pie on their heads if they do not amend the act bo aa to makeRmni Knob jugglery, etc , impossible m the future. We do not say that the two Wilsons yielded to the temptation; we do not eay that they favored the Railroads be cause the Railroads favored them. But we do eay that they were exposed to temptations to which some men would yield and did not object aa strongly aa they might to the com pany of said temptations. And, we repeat, if the present Lgia lature ia true to the people, it will so amend the Railroad Commission act as to prohibit future Railroad Commia eioners from wandering so near the pitfalls of railroad in fljence. THE AMENDMENT. The first eight sections of the pro posed constitutional amendment were correctly printed in Too Progressive Farmer last week. The ninth sec -ion was incorrectly printed. It and the remaining sections are as follows: 8ection 9. That all of the provisions of the Constitution relating toeuffage, registration and elections, as contained in this act, amending the Constitu tion, shall go into c ff act on the first day of July, 19C2. if a majority of the q lal ified voters of the S:ato eo declare at the next general election. Section 10. Tnis amendment shall be submitted at the next general election to the qualified voters of theStiie, in the same manner aud under the earne rules and regulations as is pro vided in the law regulating gen eral elections in this State, and in force May lt, 189; and at said election those persons desiring to vote for such amendment shall ca-:t a written or printed ballot with the words ' F r Suffrage Amendment" thereon: and those with a contrary opinion shall cast a written or printed ballot with the words ''Against Suffrage Amend ment" thereon. Section 11 The aid election sha 1 be held and the votes returnad, compared, counted and canvassed, and ihe resu.t announced, under the same rules and regulations as are in force for return ing, comparing, counting and canvass ing the votes for members o( the Gen eral Assembly, May 1st, 1899 and if a m& j jrity of the votea cast are in favor of the said amendment, it snail be the duty of the G jvernor of the 8tate to certify eaid amendment under the seal of the 8 late to the Secretary of 8tate, who ehall enroll the said amendment so certified among the permanent re cords of his cfiice. Section 12 This act shall be in force f ram and after its ratification. The bi ennial report of Superinten dent of Public Instruction C. H. Met) ane is just out, and i3 an interesting and comprehensive history of the cause of public education in North Carolina Bit it does not deal with tne past alone. Mr. Mebane, having carefully studied this history as well as the history of the cause of education in other 8tate3, is prepared to point out the weak places in North Carolina's present system. This he does, his recommendations to the legis lature being wise and timely. The reports of most of our public eervanta are dull and of interest only to legislators and other officers and woulu-be enters. Mr. Mebane, how- 1 ever, naa Bucceeaea in making a re- j port which the plain citizsn will find instructive and entertaining. IT IS A LAW. The bill providing that at the next regular election an amendment to the 8tate constitution regulating suffrage be submitted to the people ia now a law. It passed third reading in the House Friday, aa will be seen from our E'gielativa proceedings. Saturday evening it passed its three readinga in the Sanate. The vote was 42 to 6. Those voting "no" were: Senators Campbell. Crisp, Franks Fuller, Goodwin and Nwsom G All other Senators voted for it except Bteck and Cooley who were absent. All Republicans a.dGoIin (Pop.), voted against the amendment. All Democrats and Harris (Pop), voted for ii, IC2 text of bill in an other column. WHAT CONGRESS IS DOING. In the Senate, February 13 h, Mr. Hale, chairman of the Naval Com mittee, favorably reported a bill creat ing an Admiral of the Navy, which was passed The biil reads - "That the President ia hereby au thoriz 3d to appoint, by selection and promotion, an Admiral of the Navy, who ehall not be placed upon the re tifed list except upon hia own applica tion; and when ver eucheffics shall be vacated by death or otherwise the office shall cease to exist." Tne bill, it ia weil understood, is made to fit Riar Admiral Dewey ad it ia expected taat wnen the bill be comes a law, he will ba nominated by the President for the effi :e. The Agricultural Appropriation bill wa8 then takea up. Toe appropria tion for vegetable pathological iovesti gationa was increased from $22 500 to $32 500, provided that $5 000 sauutd be used for the investigation of the dis ease known aa "Little Peach." Mr. Tiliman effred an amendment appropriating $7 500 for "investig tion and experimentation with ferti lizsra and fungicides, on the causes of blight in eea island cotton and in water melons and the remedies for tne same " The amendment was agreed to. Mr. Tilman also cff.red tie follow ing amendment, which was agreed to: To enable the Secretary of Agncul ture to investigate and report on ttu cost of making tea and the best meth ods of cultivating and preparing the same for market, so aa to demonstrate whether it ia practicable to introduce its culture in the Southern States as a profitable industry, $5 000." Tne bill was then passed. Tne Senate Tues Jay took up the Ba con amendment to the MoEnery reso lution, which is as follows: "Taat the U aitei States hereby dis claim any disposition or intention to exercise permanent sovereign-y, juris diccion or control over said island, and assert their determination, wnen 1 a staoie ana mapen joue government shall nave oeea erects d therein enti tied in the jidgaent of the govern ment of the Uaited S,u'.e to recjgui- cion as 8ioa, to traut-rr to said gov ernment, upon terms which snail Dt reasonable und jdt, all nma decured under the Cession by Spj.m, aud tu thereupon lewe the government una conirol of the lelauds co their puple " Tne vote was 29 co 29 a tie. Vice-PrcS-denc Habere then vjted nay, Killing the Am.adment. Senator But ler did not vote. Pritchard voted nay. Immediately atter the McEery resolution was adopted by a vote ot 26 to 22. It reals as follows: "Tnat by tne ratification of the treaty of peace with Spam it is not intended to coerca the inhabitants ot tne Philippines into citizenship of the United States, nor is it intended to prematurely annex said islands as an integral part ot the territory ot tne United States; but it is the intention of the United States to estabusa on said islands a government suitaole to prepare them for local self-government and in due time to make euca ai.p.si tion of said islands aa will beat pro mote the interests of the citizens of toe United States and the inhabitants of said islands " The Progressive Firmer a few weeks ago rtfened to the gool wort done by one of Tennessee's Democratic repre sentatives in having tne House 01 Rep resentatives 8 in Re out ot the post .ffije appropriation bU tne section appro priating $171,000 for sptc.ai mail facil ities between New Yjr& and Naw OrleaLS, known us th "fast man sub sidy." Pojtf-i.e authorities say that this is virtually a gut to the railroads asit has nerer been ot any oenefi, what' ever in tne way or securi rosier muila. tut the bill went to th-j Senate, and there thia item waa rc-:n8.rted by a vote of 42 to 10 Ic notv goes back to the Hou-e, where we hope it will be killed. Among the namts of the ten who had the courage to oppose tnis outrageous measure, we fiud that of Senator Butler. The others were: Bate, Berry, Hoar, Jonea of .r; an sae, Lodge, Pettigrew, Piatt of Con necticut, Li 3sa and woicotc. This ia th rnll nf hnnri On thfl Othfir lint wa find th rrnm nf flnnfttor Pritnh ard, who, dispatches say, not only taAfnit. Hiit: "Ai armA nm'afc nnrf effective work for the fast mail among Ssnatora, and was active on the fl ior in keeping Senators present, that their absence might not defeat it.' Let this not be forgotten. Judge Norwood resigned as Judge of the Superior Court of the Twelfth Judi cial District in time to save himself from impeaebme nt. II. ia said to be a iud:e of no ordinary ability, when not under the influence of liquor, and the people of the whole 8tato regret that he did not keep his good resolu- ciona made two years ago. uut tne Stato must be saved from drunken judges, and ever since the nameless lady centuries ago appealed "from PhiliD drunk to Philip sober" the movment for a sober judiciary has been gaining pr.und. And 'tis well. AT LAST. At last an Attorney-General has been found who has backbone enough to tackle a trust. Tne rare man ia At tornev General Crow, of the 8tate of Missouri, and he has brought suit ito cest the constitutionality of the com bine known as the American Tobacco Company. The Marshal of the Mia souri Supreme Court has sarved notice on the firms composing the trust (the Contiaental Tobacco Company, James G. Bitler Tobacco Company, Gitlin Tobacco Company, D ummond Tobac co Company, Brown B others Tobacco Company, and the Wright Brothers Tobacco Company, etc.) and the caee will be tried soon. POSTAL SWINGS BANKS MOVE MENT GAINS GROUND. The Senate Committee on Postoffices and Post Roads has at last reported a bill providing for the establishment of I Postal 8avin28 Banks The report I contains not only the arguments in favor of the Postal Savings Banks system, but a condensed statement of the experiece of other countries, ex tracts from the opinion of every Post master .General since 1871. who has commented on the subj ct, a tabulated statement of the various bills intro duced in Cjngrees during that time providing for such a system, and other I valuable information. The Commie8ionera whom the Prr si dent sent to Hawaii to report a suita ble form of government for thoje is lands, havr, in their report, recom mended the abolishment of Postal Savings Banks now in eucceseful oper ation in that country. Tne fight in the Senate may come up against that part of the Commission before the Postal Savings Bank bill can be gotten up for consideration. With this in vi9w the laws of Hawaii relating to Postal Sav ings Banks are published in this re J port and how that only a slight modi fication of tha fxiting laws there is necessary to make the system conform . 1 - to the one proposed by tne Dill now before the Senate. The report shows chat the advocates of the system have been persistent and untiring in their fff jrta to have it adopted: that it numbers among its advocates many of America's wisest and best men, and that the system has been tested in so many ways in so many countries and for eo many years that there is no longer any reaon to doubt the desirability or practicabil ity of the system A careful perusal of the report will stun any old moss back who thinks that the establish ment ot Postal Savings Banks finds advocates only among socialists and calamity howlers. Surely Congress I can no longer refuse to heed the de mand of the people in this matter. GOVERNOR PIN GLEE'S SAGE. LIES- The most radical message sent to the Legislature of any State came from Governor Pingree, of Michigan. The Governor declares that just railroad rates for all citiz3na can be obtained only by government ownership. Re f erring to the recent action of Sitz erland, Governor Pingree says: Government ownerBeip in 8witz?r iana ia puouc ownership in ract as well as in name, for the people own and control their government through I the initiative and referendum. In my I opinion, it is high time for Michigan to I imitate the example of Switzerland. I most earnestly recommend that this I I leeri&lature inaugurate a mliov tonkin? I t0 the ultimate purchase by the 8tate of ail railroads within its limits." I All the surviving captains of Span- ih warships destroyed in the naval battles off Santiago de Cuba and in Manila Bay by the American flseta will be court martialed, says a Madrid dispatch. I President McKinley has signed the Peace Treaty. I THE LATEST NEWS. A dispatch from Charleaton, S C February 14 says: 'The published taDieS BnOWWg tne .emperuiuro of Charleston from 1738 to to-day, the oldest on this continent, prove that the record of this morning 6 3 degreea above zro, ia the lowest ever known here. The ineffectiveness of Mauser ri fles in the bands of Filipinos has nob been better illustrated than last Thurs day morning when for five hours a large force df insurgents, who had ad vanced in the niht from Pateros upon the position of King's bridge, kept peppering away without hitting a sin- glo American. The enemy had evi- dently mistaken the withdrawal of our troops to their formal position for retreat. During the fight 22 Americans were overcome bv heat. And thia while moat Americans over here were r overcome by cold. The funeral procession of General Garcia last week was marred by a row between General Brooke and the Cuban assembly. The assembly claimed the right to march in the pro cession after Brooke, but ahead of hi. staff and escort. Brooke, after gome wrwngling, refused to allow thia, whereupon the Assembly compelled General Rodriguez to withdraw his men from the procession. The popu laca became excited and began shout ing "Cuba L bre," "Out with Yan keea" "Vi Aguinaldo," and the like. The assembly considered their pride had been wounded and refused to take part in the ceremonies. Jus tice Lanuzi, who had intended to de liver an oration over the body at the c.motery, alao withdrew from tho ceremony. The building known as No. 28 at the Brooklyn N. Y. Navy Yards, occupied by the steam engineering department, was destroyed by fire February 15;h, together with its contents, which in ciudea mucn valuable machinery. The loss to Uuclo Sam ia estimated at one million five hundred thousand dol lars. Many valuable models and patterns of warships were destroyed, including those of the Newark, Raleigh, New Orleans and Atlanta. A coincidence cf the fire was that a model of the oattlesmp Maine, whica went down in Havana harbor a year ago to day was also destryed. It was especially val ued at this time aa it waa to be used in the construction of the new Maine, referred to ia last week's Progressive Farmer. Foiix Ifaure, six .h President of the third Frenca Republic, died suddenly from apoplexy ut Paris, last Tnursday night. Ha had been slightly indis posed for a day or two, out did not consider himself really ill. News of Faure'a death did not reach the public lor more than au hour atter it occurred it is impossible to he scribe the first effect upon cue public mind. The announcement that Faure was dead was received with incradu lity. Confirmation followed swiftly and dicbeiief ave way to excitement almoet terror for the puonc leapad to the conclus'on that the President was the victim o an assassin, and a ma jonty believed that the dreaded coup de etat had fallen. But the truth oi the matter soon be came known, and the question then on every Frencaman'a lipa was, "Who seems will succeed Fturef" It now that it will oe Senator Rousseau. President Faure waa elected to the Presidency January 17, 1895, and was 58 years of age at the time of hia death. Tne report of the commission ap- pointed by the President to investigate the conduct of the War Department in the war with Spain has been made public and waa a complete review of the operation of the army. The report finds nothing against Alger, but adds: ' There was lacking in the general ad mmiBtration of the department that complete grasp of the situation which was esssontial the highest efficiency and discipline of the army." This is putting it mildly. The re port takea up General Miles' allega tions regarding army beef, and severely criticieea him and Dr. Daly for not re porting their belief or suspicion that meat dangerous to troopa waa being issued when their alleged discovery was made Considerable attention ia given to the medical department. Ita unpre paredncss. lack of sanitary inspection. failure to meet all demanda in the care of the sickanl wounded, being at tributed largely to the hurry and con fusion incident to the assembing of an untrained army for which no prepara tl0a nad been made r could be made. There were many manifest errors of omission rather than commission. Many recommendations are made largely looking to the decrease of red tape and greater freedom of action in prociring medicines and supplic s ZE'KE DILKIIIS, EI. A, if m Nature The Present Legislature Very Much Like Preceding Ones Think ing Ucder Difficulties. B "Hello! Mr. Editor." R "Hello! Major. The present ia a good time to sit by a good log fire and read and think." B. "That jz fxictly whut I'm a doin', or rather tryin' fcer do. A mar ried man can't think with much euc cesa fer more than two minits. Batsy keepa me busy carryin'in wood, feedin' the chickens an' lookin' after the stock in general. . B at I've bin readin' an1 thinkin' a gude deal erbout the legia lature, an makin' comparisons. Legis latures are not whut they uster be. But they seem ter be purty much the same awl over the country The cor perations an1 the trusts don't git much hurt in any ov them. Tney get their friends elected in a gude many coun ties, an' then if it cums ter a pinch they buy up a few numbers either with cash or with cfli ;e an' in the general roundup they don't git much hurt. This legislator aint goin' ter ba an' ex septahun. It he z gude men in it, an' sum are not much gude; sum ov 'em are very wise an' prudent, but many oy them are not. I hear that they have been quarlin' a gude deal over whut they are try in' ter do, makm' faces an' sayin' ugly things. In sum respects they are doin' jist whut they condemned the last two legislatures fer doin'. The last two legislatures were charged with eum things they were not guilty of, but they made mistakes enough, and did enough wrong. Oae charge erg mat the last two legislatures wuz that ov extravagant appropria tions. In many instances the charge wuz not true. But if the last two were guilty ov any wrong in that direck- shun - the present legislature will be more guilty for it has started out to make bigger appropriations than nave ever been made before. B ic, these ap propriations, like those ov the last two legislatures, are for schools and char liable institutions, and, so far aa they go in the proper direckshua they should not be condemned. The charges ov the dymakrat papers two years ago were not just, an' so 1 don't think 11 fair to condemn the preaent legislature for dom' like the f usion legislature, but the dymakrat papers ortercumuut an' admit that they misrepresented the fusion legislatures an' fooled the peo pie, or else they should bo consistent eouff ter condemn our o tn legii? lature. Another charge againsc the last two legtsiaiurers wuz that they could work more hours an' run faster after me than any body that evrr assembled. L'he papers had the folks worked up ter a high pitci an' we thought the fusion ists gorged themselves ith periitical pie at least a dozn times a day. I nev it strate that the present legisla ture can eit up at lease three hour, longer every nite talkin' an' skeemin' fer pie, an' can chase a small piece ov pie further an faster , than anything heretofore on record So, takui' awl these things into coneidt ration I've cum ter the conclusion that human nature ermong legislators iz purty mujh the same awl over the wurid, an' in North Carolina in particular. Gudebye." Later At the request of Mr. J. B. Hoiman the L egislature agreed to re codaider appropriations voted. NO NEGRO StiALL HOLD OFFICE Or Exercise Jurisdiction Over The White Race In North Carolina, i-orresponaence of the Progressive i armer, This was the verdict rendered at the polla at our last election. Tnia ques tion has been settled for some years in the other Southern States. We also find that the white raca cf the North are fully as much averse to a negro holding office amoDg themselves as the people ot the South. A number o prominent Republicans in the Northern Spates have admitted that endowing the negro with unqualified suffrage was a great mistake. H jneat Republi cans in the South admit the same. I have heard Northern people who travelled much in the South remark, that if they lived here they would vote Democratic in our S ate elections and Republican in the National ehc tions. I have often told my coloreed friends that th ia a white man's coun try and the white men will govern it. It ia said that Senator Butler wag 0 posed to bestowing thf N uional patron age upon the negroes, while Senate, Pritchard, Hon. Harry Skinner many leading Republicans in North Carolina favored it Niw behold the results: Race prejudice has been greatly intensified, and many apsert that unoffending citizens have been massacred. Njw in the face of all theee things will it not be better for the negroe, ag a race, to curb their prurient desire s to hold cfiice and prtsa themselves for. ward into prominence among the white racs? Would it not be better for thf a aa a race to bend all their energies acquire property, improve their minds their physical and moral condiuc0! and thus better fit themsslves to ig! charge the duties of citizenship, in freest, happiest and greatest nati a 0f either ancient or modern timet? who know the race well, must confess that the great mass of them do not well discern the difference between liberty and license. Their unfitness for the ezercise of the ballot has often been exemplified by their voting for corrupt men and often against meas urea that would greatly benefit them, and the coercion of those of their own race who dared cast a vote differing from their party leaders. Their views and opinions upon the subject of free dom seem to be more in accordance with those of the Latin races, rather than those of the Anglo Saxon that is giving light and liberty to the world. The negro is incapable of graspicg the idea of liberty as advocated and held by the Anglo Saxon race in the United Spates, who are the descendants the Angles, 8axous Celts and Gaelic races, now welded into a homogeneous mass constituting the noblest race cf people on earth the descenders of tribes and nations that the R man Empire with all its power waa never able to thoroughly cotquer. it took ages for the Anglo Sixon race to attain its present high state of civilization, to wrest from Feudal barens, lords and kings the great charter of liberty ad establish it on a solid basis. It should not be expected that a race of people steeped in the darkness of heathen superstition for thousands of ears should suddenly emerge from a state of ignorance and slavery into the full civilization, light and freedom of the Anglo Saxon race and be able to a 13 charge the duties of cit zensbip. God's chosen people Israel, when they emerged from a bondage of 400 years duration, frcm among the most en lightened people of that age, were found to be unfit for freedom and, in stead of being put into the ownership of land, were compelled to diag out forty years of marching and counter maiching in the wilderness, where the oodles of all, with two exceptions from twenty years old and upward were ouried in the desert sanas while the survivors under the miiuiary ir.&truc tions of Moses were taught obedieLce to law and crder, and under Aaron txe distinction between clean and uuclraa, noly and unholy, and were tt-us pre pared ucder the thunders of Smai bad the awful manifestations of G a'a power and wrath for the exerciof freedom Historians tell ua that the rise and progress, of learning and the arts was slow and followed in the channels of trade and commerce that civilization first appeared in the far east that 1 Egypt was far in advance of most of the ancient nations of the earth m civi.izAtion but its south ward Dree- rees was checked by the Libj an aud Sahara Deserts, that all bejond was unknown land. Ia this unknown latd dwelt the negro rtc shut out from the civilizing i.fl.enc a of trade, com merce and intercourse with the other nations of the earth, and ins tea. of emerging from, rather sunk deeper into ignorance and barbarity, where they remained for thousands of years. Now all Chriatian peoplp will admit that God in His Almighty power could have endowed this people with all Knowledge but this is not the D vine method in dealing with the humifl race In the advancement of ic, G-d in H a providence uses human agen cies ine negro race, shut out cy natural barriers from the channels of commerce and its accompaniment of civilization, had to be civi ized and elevated by other methods. Tnemetn- od choaen or parmitted in Divine Provi dence, w aa slaver v. Tnua a race of I people split up into saaall cln8 or inbea all speaking diff erent langu gea, j amr re j .rgon or giobariaH; a hjraflf of naked or clouted savages, steeped io I the lowest forma of idolatry and wicb : ut the knowledge of the simplest artf and conveniences of life, were trass ferred frcm one state of slavery &Di set down among the most highly re- f fined and cultivated people of tnaM day They were still slaves, tuj surely at the very outset their condi tion waa much improved. They rfl( clothed, taught to cultivate the soiU and in time were apprenticed totrad smithing, carpentering, spinnio&j
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