PEOSBIISSIVE FABOHB: JULY 11 1899
HE PROGRESSIVE FARIIER.
RS. L. L. POLK, . . Proprietor.
CLARENCE H. POE, . . Editor.
J.W.DENMARK, . Business M'g'r
Raleigh, N. O.
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EDITORIAL NOTES.
Ada of the best schools are found on
page 6. Consider their merits before
you decide to send elsewhere.
The trust is in hot pursuit of ye
editor. The paper trust, the ink trust,
and type tru3t are calliDg on him to
pay tribute. We therefore trust that
those whom we have trusted will pay
up promptly. Otherwise the trusts
may not trust us.
The editor expscts to attend the
meeting of the State Press Association
at Carolina Beach this week, and will,
as the editor of the Henderson Gold
Leaf puts it, "leave the editorial block
at home and let the next issue take
chances of being hotter that usual and
coming out ahead of time."
An item from the L'.ncoln Journal,
stating that under an act of tholes';
legislature farmers selling fresh meats
are required to pay an annual license
tax of 16, is going the rounds of the
presp and appeared in our State News
department some weeks ago. We learn
that in this statement the Journal is
in error. The Revenue act does im
pose taxe3 ranging from $3 to $7 50
upon dealejs in fresh meats, but a
proviso attached adds that "nothing
in this section shall apply to farmers
vending their own products and with
out a regular place of business."
Oar crusade against the American
Cotton Company has aroused the farm
era of the 8tate and now the cylindri
cal bale is almost as friendless as the
famous Jackson Limbless Cotton be
came after we exposed it a year ago.
A few weeks ago we were practically
alone in our eight against the cylindri
cal bale, but now most of the papers
which accepted the American Cotton
Company's eharp advertising propesi
tion, have discontinued the publication
of the ready made editorials and have
joined us in opposing the cylindrical
trust. And while the lamp holds out
to burn the vilest sinner may return."
We are glad of your help, gentlemn,
even though you came in at the
eleventh hour.
We learn from a Wilmington dii
patch July 7.h, that L W. Bath, a
horse dealer of that city, has instituted
euit for damages against the publishers
of the Horning 8tar on acc3unt of an
article that appeared in the paper the
previous mornicg. In a report of an
embezzlement ca3e the name of L W.
Bath app?ared as defendant instead of
L. W. Carter, who is also a horse
dealer of that city. Bath pays he will
claim damages not less than five thou
sand dollars. Yet the error in the
S:ar was an oversight of the proof
reader, and the paper made full cor
rection in its nexc issue, apologizing
for the mistake. Only a few months
ago a Darham editor got into trouble
in the same manner. The State's libel
laws should be changed so as to make
corrections and explanations more
weighty than at present.
In our i33ue of last week we gave an
article from the pen of Mr. J. W. Las
eiter, in which he took us and one of
our correspondents to task for certain
allusions to Dr. Kilgo. It will be no
ticed that Mr. Lifter's case rests en
tirely upon but two points. In the
first place, he thinks Dr. Kilgo did not
intend to defend oppressive trusts and
monopolies In this we would be glad
to believe Mr. Laseiter right, but to us
it is clear that the general trend of Dr.
Kilgo's entire speech flatly and clearly
contradicts this view. We believe
that every one who reads the entire
speech will agree with U3 in this. Dr.
Kilgo excused the extortion of trusts
by saying it is the operation of "the
by divine talent to accumulate" and
alao went out of his way lo sneer at
labor organizations. What better do
fense docs a trust want? Mr. Lateiter's
pecond point is that we attacked Dr.
K'lgo because of his attitude toward
fcitate aid to huher education. Lt us
say occe fo? all, with all due respect to
Bro La&siter, that such statements are
without the slightest shadow of fcun
dation. On tho other hand we have to
a certain degree admired Dr. Kilgo's
masterly jleas for what he calls Chrir
tian education. It was in no spirit of
irreverence that our editorial wa3
written, but for the purpose of show
ing that in his 0 iccalaureate address at
leaet, Dr. Kilgo advocated a form of
education which to us seema anything
but Christian.
ALLIANCE NOTES.
Before leaving home for your County
Alliance, please call on your neighbors
for subscriptions and renewals for The
Progressive Farmer and for" orders for
Btate Business Agent Parker. Please
do not forget this.
Catawba County Alliance, which
meets at Hickory, July 14th and 15 :h,
has a most interesting program pre
pared and tho meeting will no doubt
be both instructive and entertaining.
We learn from tha Mercury that the
work of re organizing dead Subs, in
Catawba is making regress. Ln tho
gocd work go on.
Many county secretaries and officers
have, we are glad to see, responded
promptly to our request for notices of
county meetings. Now let some bother
in each county furnish U3 with a re
port of the work of his county meet
ing as early after the meeting as possi
ble. Toe secretary should do this, but
if he neglects it, send a report yourself.
Do not fail to attend your County
Allianc3 meeting. The January meet
ings were poorly attended becauso of
the severe cold weather which pre
vailed throughout the State at that
time. The late season also kept many
from attending the April meetings.
Too necc33ity for a full attendance at
the July meetings is therefore in
creased. Get a list of new subscribers
and renewals for The Progref s've Far
mer and send them up by your tub
delegate if you cannot attend.
Bro. Robert Cooper, President of
Franklin County Alliance, made us a
pleasant call when in Raleigh last
week. He tells us that the Alliance in
Franklin is in better shape than for
many months, and is making good,
substantial growth We are inclined
to believe that he gave away tho se
cret of this increased interest in the
statement that tho ladies the farmei s'
wives nd daughters are taking more
interest in the Order. This is a hint
which the brethren and siste: s through
out the Ssate should take to heart.
Franklin County Alliance meets Thurs
day, 13th.
JUSTICE FIRST, CHARITY NEXT.
Andrew Carnegie announces that he
has retired from the great iron works
whioh he. founded at Homestead, Pa.,
and will distribute during the remain
der'of his life the 1100,000,000 which he
has managed to accumulate. This lat
ter resolution of Mr. Canegie'a we
shall not criticise, bus we are inclined
to agee with tho London Daily Chron
icle, which thinks Carnegie means to
cheat the devil by turning pious at the
end of h s days," and fears no amount
of philanthropy can make good the
harm he has done.
Mr. Carnfgio would s:and much
higher in the estimation of thinking
people did he revere charity loss and
jus:ic3 more. O ; y a few s lcrt years
ago this phildnthrooi3t(?) ordered a
cut in the already low wages of the
laborers at tne H osi .etead wcrks. Tney
went on a strikj and lor months
Philanthropist Can?gie keji the
works shut clown and fcrt:i:d, guarded
by Piakerton thugs, umii finally he
broke up the Steel Workers Uion a d
crowded out his decent wcrk ra for
degraded Poles and Hiugariaas.
Greater and nobler than charity is
j ostice.
Had Mr. Carnegie been just to his
laborers, we would now have more
confidenca in his good intentions in
founding libraries and colleges.
It is now announced that Bible stu
dents will hereafter have to pay more
for tho Oxford Edition of the Bible. A
trust has been formed by the publish
era and an advance in prices has been
ordered. What will the truats seizo
next,?
AT THE A &M COLLEGE.
At a meeting of the Board of Trus
tees of the Collego in this city last
week, Dr. G:orge T. Winston, form-irly
President of the University of North
Carolina, but now at the head of the
University of Texas, was elected Presi
dent of our Agricultural and Mechani
cal College to succeed Col. A Q Holla
day. Dr. Winston i3 well known in
North Carolina Being an energetic
mn "vho never does things by
halves " we tru3t he maks the College
more successful than it ha3 yet been.
D:. Winaton has made some mi3take?,
but we believe he :s brainy enougn to
larn lessons from triem, and it s , his
success is assured.
Toe Board also phased tho following
resolution:
"Resolved. That the North Carolina
Colhgc ol Agriculture and M-chacic
Art?, ia all its dopartn.in;s, including
lectures, study and teaching, to open
to women."
This is a n2w departure, tbo wisdom
of which can, we suppose, bo determ
ined only by practical test.
Thus far we must say ths ne w B jard
of Trustees has made a splendid rec
ord, evincing a broad and liberal dis
position. The R3-organization Com
mittee has, we think made some un
wiee euggestions, but these have in
most inatancea, b99n rejected. At its
next meeting the Board will consider
some other important matters, and if
these are discussed and settled with
the view of promoting the best inter
ests of the State and College rather
than those of any party or clique, all
will be well.
FORAGE CROPS FOR COWS.
The article by Mr. O. C. Moore on
pages 1 and 8 was reprintei from a
Concord paper. Since printing it on
these page a we have received from Mr.
Moore a corrected manuscript copy of
th9 article. Among a number of cor
rections we notice that, speaking of
sorghum, he saye:
"We plant in rows 3i feet apart,
using about one peck seed per acre.
We give clean culture and begin feed
ing when 4 feet high. When 30 or 40
rows are cut off, we plow the stubs,
hoe out weeds or grass two or three
times and usually cut nearly as much
forage from suckers as we had at first
cut."
Again, Mr. Moore says:
4 'Wo seed crimson clover with oats;
sow in August or September 1 peck
clover, 1 bushel oate per acre. If land
is moist at time of sowing we always
get good results.
4 -We also sow clover crimson with
rye in August. Rye is cut about April 1
to 10 :h, then in May the clover is cut.
We also so w with millet last of July or
early in August, make hay of millet
when in bloom.
443ow with sorghum in August, clover
seed 1 peck, sorghum seed half bushel,
cut sorghum for hay just before frost."
4 Unless a farmer has more forage
than he can haul to barn or stack, by
all means he should save the entire
corn plant. When fodder is ready to
take, cut the stalk cl033 to ground,
shock on a tripod, leave in field until
cured s jffi :icnt to crib tho corn, husk
corn off and feed stalk long if no con
venient way can be made to cut into
inch length. We use a Milwaukee
corn hueker and cutter combined; this
machine to the corn crop ia as the
wheat thresher is to the wheat crop,
and every township where corn is
grown should have such a machine.
The cut stover we fi ad to be a valuable
rough food, it is fed in winter with
silage or mixed damp with bran and
meal or as dry forage it is good any
way.
"Any farmer who has not used corn
stover will be surprised to see cattle,
sheep and horees pick at a stack or
loose corn stover for hours at a time
after having had a full feed in barn."
TWO ABLE MAGAZINES.
The July Arena is an educational
number educational in more than a
technical sense. The reform confer
enco at Buffalo, in which politic U and
social reformers are vitally interested,
divides attention with the annual meet
ing of the National Educational Asso
ciation at Los Angeles, and the general
contents are diversified enough to at
tract readers of various tastes and
leanings.
B.rjimin Fay Mills ia again to the
front with a stirring article caiculated
to arouse the highest feeling of one
who reads it B3tween the Animals
and the Angela." That stirring poem,
which has really created an epoch in
Amrioan poesy, "Tho Man with the
Hoe," by Edwin Markham, is givon,
with an illustration of the famous
painting which inspired, while follow
ing it is a mo3t interesting resume of
the discussion, hostile and sympathetic,
provoked by ttn publication of the
poem in San Franci&co. It is entitled
-The II Man on Trial," at d is the
work of E Iward B. Payne. That vital
subject direct legislation 13 brought
forward in articles by A. A. Brown and
Eltweed Pomoroy articles showing
the growth of the direct legislation
movement, likely to be astonishing to
many people.
Tha Juiy Coming Age opens the sec
ond volume of this vigorous and able
Boston review. Toe frontispiece is an
admirable full page portrait of the Rev.
Hebor Newton, and the eminent Epis
copalian divine contrioutes a conversa
tion of exceptional interest on "The
Progress of the Past Fifty Years."
Tne editorial-? in Toe Coming Age
are able aud courageous. We deplore
its tendency to socialise, but other
wise it is undoubtedly true that Tha
Coming Age ha taken a frcnt rank
among the able reviews of present day
thought. It is optirnistic'and construc
tive in character, and aims to educate
and ?t,:m;e the moral as well ao iatel
lectual eide of life. The department
devoted to Health Tarough Rational
Living is a featuro of real value and
very essential to thoio who appreciate
the fact that the body, brain atd soul
each req lire consideration.
Not the least commendable of its
traits is its endeavor to raise the moral
standard of the country, without
which no lasting good can come.
WOODARD AGAIN.
Speaking of the horsewhipping of
Mr. Woodard, of Warsaw, to which
we referred last week, the Charlotte
Observer remarks that persons have
been lynched on evidence as frail and
insufficient as that against Mr. Wood
ard. The Monroe Journal also puts
the matter in tha right light when it
says:
44Supposo the crowd had started cut
with the notion in their heads that
somebody should be hanged instead of
hors3whipped; hanged Mr. Woodard
would have been. And does any one
suppess that in such a case his inno
cence could ever have been established?
Would not the lady have forever re
mained firm in her first declaration
that he was the man, and her friends
would have never allowed it to be
questioned, and to Mr. Woodard's
misfortune of continuing to be hanged,
would have been added the unutter
able disgrace attached to his name as
that of a guilty man justly punised for
his crime and the horrible cloud there
by resting upon his family and his
children's children."
The Journal might have scored
another good point by adding that in
such a case, the guilty person would
have gone on, undiscovered and un
punished. That is one of the greatest
evils of mob violence. Let us have
law and order.
TRUSTS AND TRUSTS.
Now that every one is talking of
trusts, ic U well to emphasiza the fact
that all trusts are not of the same
kind that not all have the peculiar
advantages and special privilegesof, for
instance, the Spaniard Oil Company.
Farmers1 Voice refers to the matter in
this way:
44A contemporary points out that the
era of 4 'trustification" is near an end,
basing its presumption largely upon
the fact that there is a tendency on
the part of the people and coneerva
tive moneyed men to discourage their
formation, and in proof of this c ills at
tention to the fact that the people of
the Pacific coast havo refused to havo
anything to do with tho Pacific Coast
Biscuit trust.
44Before we felicitate ourselves over
much upon this assumed changed as
pect of affairs, let us consider for a
moment some of tho important facts
connected with thia trust business. We
desire toemphas z 3 anew what so often
has bsen said in theee column?, namely,
that there are trusts and trusts What
monopoly has a cracker company? No
one cares for stccks and bonds of that
kind, for the cracker manufacturer is
subject to the law of supply and do
mand, to that law of competition
wh ch will work out perfectly if noob
structions ore placed in the way.
"Bat would the Pacific coast people
turn their backs upon a proposition to
enter a trust for the control of all of
the street railway systems in the cities
of California, for instance? Not at all ;
they would jump at the chance of con
trolling a monopoly which had power
to levy tribute upon all the people aid
which was absolutely free from the
law of competition made eoby grants
from the people themselves!
"We must keep clearly in mind these
distinctions if we would understand
the operation of the trust, its possible
future and the rights of the people to
deal with it. And let us not forget
that the people can deal at once with
any trust whose dependence is upon
special privilege. IC it be in the form
of a protective tariff revoke it; if it be
through patent rights amend the la ws
governing patent rights so that all the
people shall share in the blessings of
inventions; if it be through great oil
fields, B9 in the case of the Standard
Oil trust, tax the full value of the oil
fields; if it be in a public franchise, en
act a Ford bill in every State and tax
the franchise to the full extent possible.
Attorney General Monnett, of Ohio,
estimates the prcfi:s of the Standard
Company in Ohio alone at $120 000,000
a year. It ought not to be difficult to
find the value of the natural resources
from which this vast sum is drawn,
yet the trust pays a pittance in the
way of taxes.
"With any trust not thus sustained
the public has nothing to do so long as
it trespasses not upon tha equal rights
of any other. That may seem a sweep
in etatt'mnt, but the fact remains
that Amrian citizens have a right to
amalgamate interests and run private
enterprise to puit themselves so long as
they do not interfere with anyono else
in an illegal manner. B it this iaeq ially
true-: American citizons also huve a
right to engage in tho same lines, and
will do so whenever it is for their in
tprest to do so. Therefore, if a trust!
which baa no monopoly, like tbe
cracker trust, for instance, raises
prices too high there will at once be
caoital at hand to establish a competi
tive business, and thus the trust will
ba defeated and broken up
"We hear much about what the
parties will do against the trust. When
they destroy the private monopoly
which lias behind the only trusts that
can live in the face of the natural en
terprise of the people, we shall believe
the parties are sincere, but not before."
THE THINKERS.
TAXATION.
A low estimate of the appropria
tions made by the Fifty-fifth Congress
pus the amount at $1,500 000 000, or
$750,000,000 a year. All this money is
collected in tax 28 from the people, and
North Carolina will pay not less than
$30,000,000 of it, $15 000,000 annually.
For the pension fund alone North
Carolina pays $3 000,000 annually. To
the army and navy we pay more than
$2 000,000. Our part of the Spanish
indemnity for the Philippines is not
less than $400,000, and the future alone
can reveal our part of the cost of con
quering this brave people. When Con
gress unanimously voted $50 000,000
for the immediate increase of the navy,
our representatives voted a tax of
$1,000,000 on the people of North Caro
lina, and we all applauded.
The sum total of taxes paid for all
purposes in North Carolina for State,
county, city and school purposes does
not exceed $3,000,000 Less than the
amount paid to the Federal govern
ment for the one item of pensions.
The amount paid for schools is about
$1,000,000. Could the money paid for
pensions be turned into the school
fund, it would then be sufficient to
sustain a good ten months school in
every district, and give $10,000 a year
to each county for high schools. Oir
part of the increased cost of the army
and nayy ( ikely to be permanent)
would more than double our school
fund.
For every $3 which the North Caro
lina taxpayer pays for all Scate, ooun
ty, and city purposes, including
schools, he pays $15 to the Federal
government. The first is for his direct
bonefifi, the latter returns to him only
indirectly. Is it good economy to
stint every local enterprise, refuse to
impove our roads, and to supply the
mcst necessary conveniences in order
to save a few cents out of the $3,
while, ignorantly and without protest,
we add to the $15?
Of $18 paid to county, State and
Nation, $1 is for the education of the
children. To reduce bv one half the
amount pail for education would re
dues the entire amount of taxes by one
thirty sixth. To double the amount
paid for education would increase the
entire amount by only one eighteenth.
Which course will the wise father and
patriotic statesman, pursue? Will he
decrease or increase that small part of
his large tax bill which goes to educate
his children? N C. Journal of Eiu
cation.
MR. CARNSGI&'S RETIREMENT.
Andrew Carnegie's retirement from
the great iron works which he founded
at H )mestead. Pa., with $100,000 000 is
the most interesting item of news for a
long time. H a proposes to distribute
this sum during the remainder of his
life and die a comparatively poor man,
as he says it is a disgrace for any man
to die worth a million of dollars. Here
Mr. Carnegia's troubles will begin. It
has been easy for him to accumulate
money, but when he wants to distribute
it to altogether worthy obj sets he will
not go far without meeting difficulties.
Already be has been obliged to instruct
his secretary to keep from him all beg
ging letters. He wants to distribute
the money to suit his own ideas rather
than these of anybody elso. He will
probably wish before he dies tha he
had kept on in business and making
money rather than retiring. While
he was in business he could probably
make his money do more good than he
can now.
It would have baen better for Mr.
Carnegie, as he probably sees now, if
he had not accumulated so much.
Then he would have had lees trouble in
distributing money to worthy obj cts
that he is unable to use himself. Once
in the early history of Rochester, N.
Y , a question arose among the direc
tors of the savings bank what to do
with the surplus, which was rapidly
growiDg. This money really,belonged
to the depositors, but 6ome of the direc
tors thought it miht be used to erect
an imposing bank building, in which
would be many effices that could ba
rented. making;further nrofits to the
bank. At last Harvey E y, a veteran
Rochester miller, rose in thedirectoa,
meeting and suggested that the best
way to dispose of a surplus was not to
collect it, to either give more interest
to depositors or ex .csl-?8sj interest from
borrowers. H irvey E y'a philosophy
was a good one, End we commend its
moral to Mr. Carnegie. American
Cultivator.
MOHEY AND MANHOOD.
Money was never eo powerful as it ia
today. We are being coramercia'.iz d
in the South at an alarming rate.
Capital and capitalists are being in
vited, and they are coming. Oar ciJif;s
are growing rapidly in wealth and
population. It is not at all improbable
that the next census report will show
one, if not two. North Carolina towns
with a population of thirty thousand.
Aggregations of capital for m
opment of our resources are
quickly formed, and great corporat-lD8
undertaking immense financial J
prises are springing up everywher
Our business life is undergoing etra
transformations tliat are changin ,g9
very habits of thought as well ag T
mode of living. Ur
Money is m the air. It
ia oa evft
heart and tongue. It is the insb
worn by the new found royalty, a J
the onen crate wav to nrv.ini
" RltVJQ jvl
favor. Our very centres of hfQ aQjj
powerhave been stormed andc3pture(j
We are now gravely told that it ia
impossible to run a college on
fashioned business principles, it ttllB
have an endowment or go down, nfl
having an endowment too often means
that it has a dictator, who hag paid for
tbe privilege of directing its policy1
Bitter have no college at all than that
it should do the bidding of any one
man, whether he is a eaint or a sinner
People are throwing up their hats be
cause of the advent of thi3 new day
Maybe they are right and we wrong
but we are for the old South with its
mule and its nigger; with its provin
cialiam and simplicity that have fur
nished fun to the cartoonists for many
a day; with its small towns that tried
to put on city airs, and failed ; with ita
railroads that ran twomixsd trains a
day and broke at thatl Tne South
with all these disadvantages, did not
do the bidding of a lot of nabobs and
money mongers ! There are some things
in this world, brethren that are better
than money; one of these things is
manhood. Charity and Children
(Relig) aiait
THIS IS IMPORTANT.
It is time now for each school to cast
about and decide among themsg
whom they will have for locilcem
mitteemen. The township committee
will have the appointment of these, but
we feel sure they will endeavor to
please the patrons of the school. B3
sure and look well to whom ycu have
appointed, as the suc3CS9 or failure
depends moro or les3 on these men.
You need men that will do their duty
to your school and select teachers be
cause they are good ones and have the
tact to teach, and not bscaue they are
good clever people and you would like
to see them teaching. Think of the
great responsibility resting upoa you,
and do your duty fearleesly. In ap
pointing the three district or township
committeemen the county board will
endeavor to keep the old ones, because
they are already into the work
wili have this advantage.- K cg'a
Mountain Reformer.
A POPULIST VIEW.
There seems to be a division in all
three of the political parties as to the
proposed constitutional amendment.
We believe the Populists would be
generally for it, if they were assured
that it would, when enacted, elimioe
the negro question from politics v.ith
out disfranchising white voters If
this q lestion i3 eliminated, Populiptj
wouIq have an opportunity to d if cuss
the great State and National iajuea
without being called "black hearud."
The negro voters have never been air
benefit to the People's party. Thpy
are, especially in towns end cine,
purchasable voters as aruleaictbe
negro "leaders" of the towns andcitiB
nearly always work for and vote the
local Democratic ticket. Another
reason why we are inclined to favor
the amendment is that the elimination
of the negro question from politics
would take all tne wind out of tha sails
of the cheap 3 hn Democratic editors
that are continually yelling "nier
at their superiors. Oar Home, (Pop)
Marahvxlle, N. C
The trusts can stand any amount of
denunciation if no bite is to follow the
bark; indeed, far from being diequieted
or disturbed by such denunciation,
trust profilers may well welcome it as
supplying a needed vent for the blow
ing off, in harmless way, cf the worked
up feelings of an injured people, for it
some escape be not offered the pressure
of the bottled up feelings must finally
become so groat as to blow thj foun
dations from beneath the trusts.
so those politicial notables who play
for the money contributions of the
trusts and tbe support of the people
are publicly loud in their denunciation
of the trusts, secretly fervent in their
assurances that no bite shall follow the
bark, whereupon they are lreiy for
given by the trust managers who, wicb
Va sour and angry face to the public but
witn a knowing wink to tnesatu-"--pat
them on the back and bid tfiern t0
go on with their bitter but purpo
misdirected denunciation, feeling fu
well that through such denuncia
tion their interests can best be a. rvea.
Philadelphia American.
The shortest and eurest way to y
with honor in the world i-3 t3b9'
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all humn virtues increase &
strengthen themselves by the pra1
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