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The Progressive Farmer, July 10, 1900. " V. Published Weekly at Raleigh, N. C. Mrs. L. L. Polk, - - Proprietor Clarence H. Poe, - - Editor. Benjamin Irby, ) Corresponding Frank E.Emery, ( Editors. J. W. Denmark, Business Manager. SUBSCRIPTION Single Subscription One Year $1.00 Six Months. . . .50 Three Months , .25 " 'The Industrial and Education al Interests of our People Para mount TO ALL OTIIER CONSIDERATIONS of State Policy, is the motto of The Progressive Farmer, and upon this platform it shall rise or fall. Serving no master, ruled by no faction, cir cumscribed by no selfish or narrow policy, its aim will be to foster and promote the best interests of the whole people of the State. It will be true to the instincts, traditionsumd history of the Anglo-Saxon race. On all matters relating specially to the great interests it represents, it will speak with no uncertain voice, but will fearlessly the right defend and Impartially the wrong condemn." From Col. Polk's Salutatory, Feb: 10, 18S6. RENEWALS-Tlie date opposite your name oa your paper, or wrapper, shows to what time your subscription is paid. Thus 1 Jan. '00, show that payment has been received up to Jan. 1. UXK, 1 Jan. '01, to Jan. 1, 1!H)1, and so on. Two weeks are required after money is re ceived before date, which answers lor a receipt, can be ciiamrt d. If not properly chained within two weeks after money is sent notify us. DISCONTI N V A N CKS Responsible subseri ! ers will continue to receive this journal until the publishers are notified by letter to discon tinue, when all arrearages must be paid. If you do not wish the journal continued for another i ire.ur sifter vnnr suhserintion has expired, you , should then notify us to discontinue it. , TV" . '. ! Address ail nasi Mess corresjonueiiee u sum mukfl money orders payable to "Tiik Pkokks- ' i-1- v t. ii v i I'miiMi V I ' ;i ii il not To :m v i individual connected with the paper. lie .sure to trive loth old and new addre.-st orJering change of iostomce. in Tub Pkogrkssi ye Fakmkk Is the Ofiicial Ortran-of the North Carolina Farmers' .State Alliance. ' . , When spndinjr your renewal, be sure to srive exactly the name on label and postoltiee to which' the copy ot paper you receive is sent. We invite corresiondence, news items, suir etions and criticisms on the subjects of am i- uiMire, poultry raisins, stock breed in sr. dairy -ins:, horticulture and card ins:; woman's work, literature, or any subject of interest to our lady readers, yoimc people, or the family generally; public matters, current events. ilitical oues tionsand principles, etc.. in short, any subject discussed in an all-round farm and family news paper. Communications should be free irotn If rtnaliticM and party abuse. t Editorial. EDIT0EIAL NOTES. The July Bulletin of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture will contain a very valuable, read able and instructive address on ap ple growing by Mr. Geo. E. Boggs, of Haywood county, the "apple king" of North Carolina, and one of our most valued correspondents. We advise every render interested in ap ple growing to send for a copy of the bulletin containing Mr. Boggs' paper an 1 to do so at once. This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation that we clip from one of our exchanges: "We do not want capital in North Carolina if its oming will muzzle free speech. In some places men are accorded power and influence in municipal affairs in proportion to the money they invest in the community. Such a senti ment is wholly wrong. Men are worth more than money, and we pray that in North Carolina this may ever be true. It. is a poor place to live where money is worth more than men." Would that every news paper and every North Carolinian had manliness enough to sa 7 I ,-Amen"! i Among the striking and original exhibits at the Paris Exposition of ; l'M)0 few have occasioned more favor able comment than the great mai of .the United States, exhibited by the well-known advertising agency of Lord & Thomas, Chicago and New York. This map is constructed to show at a glance the various details concerning State areas and popula- j Tion, number of publications in each, circulation ht issue, percentage of circulation to population, value of publishing plants, number of em ployees, average hours of labor, aver- age wages paid and average cost per inch for yearly advertising. We re- j gret to note the very poor showing made by North Carolina on this map. Taking the United States as a whole," the papers of the country send out 12s copies per issue for each 100. men, women and children. The papers of Maine circulate 880 copies per issue for each 100 inhab itants ; New York, 402 for each 100 ; Massachusetts, 23G for each 100. Only two States, Mississippi and South Carolina, make a worse show- mg tnan Aorth Carolina. The per , cent, of circulation per issue to pop-' ulation in this state is 1G.2, while in ; Mississippi it is 12.2, South Carolina i I-. ; Tennessee, 61.6 ; Virginia, 19.7. j W lie1,le mu-st rcl more. TIMELY QUESTIONS. Whatever the fate of the pending Constitutional Amendment, we feel that its discussion in the press, on the stump, and by the firesides in North Carolina will do much good. For it has set the people to thinking upon some very weighty subjects. First, it has made the people think as never before of the importance of public education and the proper sup port of our public schools. Never before has North Carolina been so aroused upon this question. Now is a good time to see that your candidate for the Legislature gets right as to the matter. See that he pledges him self , as wo have said, to do every thing short of bankrupting the State, to make our public school system a credit to the people. No question cf greater importance has ever been before our voters and if the Constitutional Amendment is to be adopted, it. is even more essential that our public school system be made of greater efficiency. Proof conclusive of the great need for im Xirovement is found the fact that in onlv one State in our Union is the percentage of illiterate whites greater than in North Carolina. In the second place this amend ment discussion has brought promi nentlv forward the question of the State's duty to the citizen and the citizen's duty to the State and to his fvnmv Htiens uu w ' This question has far too little attention. The illl- j nortance of the ballot ml the re- ! sponsibilitv of the voter have A been ' greatly unueresnmarea. uany u voter of ordinarv intelligence has never realized that it is a duty he owes to his fellow-citizens to study the political questions of the day carefully and in an unbiased manner and to vote as judgment then dictates. Yet the American citizen with his ballot accomplishes results no less fur-reaching than the Ameri can soldier with his bullet and the result of a contest of ballots at one of our elections is of greater im- j portance than the result of a bloody battle. If the man who causes an- ! sas, Kentucky, Maine, Massacliu other suffering, and. pain by a care- setts, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, less or wicked use of a gunn or other ! New Hampshire, North Dakota, Or- weapon is condemned, shall we hold blameless the voter who by his bal lot elects corrupt lawmakers, fastens unjust and oppressive laws upon our people, enriching the few at the ex pense of the many, bringing pain and sorrow to hundreds of homes, and j lsiami, Maryland, Michigan, 3linne corrupting public morals? Shall we ! sota, Mississippi, New Jersey, New send a man to the penitentiary who j York, North Carolina, Ohio, Penn- appropriates to his own use money committed to his care, while we at the same time recommend as a good citizen and a good Christian the man who for reward or the hope of reward corruptly ues the great privilege of choosing our laws and law makers, I upon whose honesty and fairness in j a great degree depends the weal or j woe of many people:' Shall we laugh j at the folly of ' the man who refuses to use any of the modern improve ments but dresses and -lives a hun dred vears behind the times, while we consider the man sensible who votes a certain ticket for no better reason than that it is "the way his daddy voted?" Shall we boast of our independence, our freedom, and lament the horrors of slavery and never think that a more contempti ble creature is the voluntary slave who does the bidding of the bosses j i unquestiomngly, rejoicing m his dog-like servility and boasting that .lie "never scratches a ticket?" Lastly, should we excuse a man for failing to alleviate human suffering and do good to his neighbor on the plea that he might soil his hands, and yet have no thought of the ! meanness or carelessness or the Pharisee who sees the corruption in political affairs, but holds aloof on the ground that politics is too dirty i for a good nlan, not realizing that j President McKinley and Col. Bryan this true only because our good men j differ widely, in these points Roose and Christians are careless in voting, I Velt and Brvan hem- mnnh dominated by prejudice, or taking j no part in politics whatever a con- dition of affairs that makes it the more necessary that all hooest men study public questions and vote for the best candidates before the people. These are a few questions that present themselves for considera tion worthy of further study, we think. If they arouse some careless voter to his responsibility, cause ; some hide-bound partisan to see the folly of prejudice, or make some Pharisaic noncombatant see the error of his way, they will have served a good purpose. Those who take most interest in the Alliance generally take most in the farm, the home and the school BRYAN AND STEVENSON. For President William Jennings Bryan,' of Nebraska. For Vice-President Adlai E. Ste venson, of Illinois. This is ihe ticket named by the Na tional Democratic Convention at Kansas City last week. Mr. Bryan's nomination was, of course, a fore gone conclusion. So fully has he re tained the confidence and admiration of his party that for two years few have doubted his renomination. As to the Vice-Presidency, the Con vention was at first no less at sea than was the Republican Convention upon assembling at Philadelphia, June 19th. A week ago Stevenson's name was not mentioned in connec tion with the Vice -Presidency, or if mentioned at all, by no means prom inently. But the Stevenson boom started, and by Friday his nomina tion was considered certain. Friday afternoon the balloting began. Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois, David B. Hill of New York, Charles A. Towne of Minnesota, Julian S. Carr of North Carolina, and J. Walter Smith of Maryland were placed in nomination. Hill begged that his name be with drawn, earnestly protesting that un der no circumstances could he make the race, but he nevertheless received 200 votes on the first ballot. The other candidates received as follows : Stevenson, 5 ; Towne, 8d ; Carr, 24 ; Smith, 17. The nomina tion of Stevenson was then made unanimous. The fight over the platf orm was quite spirited. A large number of ; the delegates favored a reaffirmation ! of the Chicago platform, without speciiic endorsement of the 10 to 1 j idea in the new platform. This sen- j timent Mr. Bryan fought earnestly, i even declaring, we believe, that lie j could not run on such a platform, j He had his way, but by a very small j majority. On motion to substitute j tlie silver plank given elsewhere for j a reaffirmation of the Chicago plat form the vote was as follows : Yeas Alabama, Arkansas, Colo- rado, , Delaware, Idaho, Iowa, Kan- egon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Washington, Wyoming, Arizona, Oklahoma, Indian Territo ry, New Mexico, Hawaii 2G. Nays California, Connecticut,Flo rida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Lou- sylvania, Rhode Island, South Dako ta, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Vir ginia, Wisconsin, Alaska J1- Montana and District of Columbia did not vote. The silver plank, while clear placed in the back and bold, wa ground, and imperialism declared to be the leading issue. That silver was so boldly championed, however, was a victory for Bryan ; and the Gold Democrats, (whose strength, by the way, was strikingly exhibited in the vote for Hill), who had hoped and worked ijor a simple reaffirmation of the Chicago platform are feeling quite sore over the result. Some of them assert that Bryan dominates the Democratic party even more com pletely than Mark Hanna the Repub lican. The Richmond Times, gold Democratic, says : "The wishes of William ,1. Bryan controlled that Convention, and the delegates bowed down before him. No Senate of degenerate Rome ever more obediently recorded the rescript of Caligula than did this Convention of Americans accept the doctrine of their 'peerless leader.' The motto seemed to be, 'The voice of Bryan is the voice of the Convention.' " Whether or not The Times is cor rect, certain it is that in temnera- ment and general characteristics. A. while Stevenson and McKinley have much in common. Miv MeKinlev . believes a President or candidate for President should serve his party ; Mr. Bryan believes that he should lead and dominate it. Mr. McKinley confers with party leaders, and with representatives chosen by the , masses of the party and follows quite closelv the policy they mark out ; Mr. Bryan, as the Washington Post well says, "does not consult or seek advice or lean upon another, but is a captain, a commander, a law unto himself." When Mr. McKinley sends a message to Congress it represents the general sentiment of Republican leaders; when Mr. Bryan speaks, you hear pure and unadulterated Bryanism, regardless of what the leaders or his" audience think. In the points mentioned Col. Roose velt much resembles Mr. Bryan, though not fully so independent. As Governor of New York he forced the legislature, against the wishes of the Republican bosses of that State, to pass the Ford franchise tax bill, under which street railway and other corporations holding valuable and lucrative franchises are required to pay taxes on the value of such franchises, and he paid fully as little attention to the threats of the lead ers when he felt it his duty to re move corrurjt Lou Payne from office. On the other hand, Mr. Stevenson is less independent and outspoken than Col. Roosevelt or Mr. Bryan. He was elected Vice-President with Mr. Cleveland as President in 1892 and served four years. He is by no meant a rampant silverite, and his nomination was doubtless intended as a sop to the defeated elements of the party a procedure by no means unusual in National conventions. COUNTY MEETINGS AGAIN. So much depends upon the wTork of the county meetings to be held this week that no delegate can afford to let anything but a life and death mat ter keep him from attending, and all Alliancemen, whether delegates or not, who can possibly do so should attend and help the good work by their presence and such suggestions and advice as they can give. When we went to xress last week we had not heard from all the mem bers of the State Alliance Executive Committee, but a majority of those heard from were in favor of postpon ing the State meeting. At a full at atendance at a meeting in Hillsboro last week, bower, the majority op posed a proposition to recommend such a course to county Alliances. So that unless the idea is taken up j and endorsed by a majority of the i county meetings this week, the State meeting will be held at the usual time, August 14th. Secretaries will please furnish us without delay reports of all county meetings, giving list of newly elected officers and delegates to the State meeting. The past week has been one of in action in South Africa. The dis patches make very tame reading. A NEW PEINTER. The last issue of the Laurinburg Exchange contains the following item, which we reproduce verbatim : "We ask onr readers to excuse allty bogaphical, gramatical aud all other errors in this issuelt is our first at tempt attype setting. At present we tire decidedly fresh at th pusi ness." Tennessee is not ready yet for fem ine lawyers. The Supreme Court, by a vote of 3 to 2, has put itself on record as forbidding women to prac tice law in that State. NOETH CAROLINA FARMING, The Southern Tobacco Journal as serts that the "State Agricultural Department under-estimates the cut in the tobacco acreage of North Car olina when it places it at only twelve per cent." But the Southern Tobacco nist of Richmond, Va., says this State has yet a good prospect, and the yield in pounds at least may far outweigh the loss in planting. "The present prospects would indicate a heavier tobacco crop than for several years past, and is likely to develop more rich wrappers, with a loss in cutters and smokers, the latter two grades being the lighter part of the bright crop, that unfortunately has sold to little profit for the planter, as the prices for these kinds were set by the tobacco trust, and, largely predomi nating, were easy in keeping down prices." This complaint comes from the Newton Enterprise reports: "Far mers are having a hard fight the grass. v They can only work be tween the showers, and the grass conies right behind the hoes as fast as it is cut out." Prof. S. W. Hall, of Stokes countv, writes us regarding crops there : "Wheat is now being threshed ; it is 1 fine, the best crop for years. Tobac co is looking well. Oats sorry, but better than expected." A note from Bro. R. C. Whitener, of Burke county, regarding crops there, has been mislaid. We hope Bro. Whitener will excuse our care lessness, and let us hear from him again. ' THE AMENDMENT NOT THE ONLY IM PORTANT POLITICAL QUESTION. The Constitutional Amendment is a momentous question and ought to be carefully considered by every vo ter . To use a slang phrase, however, it is not "the only pebble on the beach." There are other political matters that deserve the attention of voters5. It should be borne in mind that the Amendment question will be settled on the same day that members of the Legislature are elec ted, and that candidates for the Leg islature should be made to speak out on other public . questions; a few of which are referred to in The Pro gressive Farmer's State platform. For instance, we favor the passage of a law prohibiting the employment of children under fourteen years of age in the cotton mills in this State. We believe that the mental, moral and physical good of the children, as well as the best interests of the State of which these children are to be citizens, demand the passage of such a law. Speaking of this matter the Columbia, S. C, State says : "All the people need is to have the abuses of the child-labor system laid bare to them. They will find the 'widowed mothers' so tenderly re ferred to in legislative debates metamorphosed into lazy and loaf ing fathers, living in ease on the pro ceeds of their little ones' labor. They will find that these children are often victims of a system as odious as the 'padrone' system and more un natural. They will discover on re flection that if parental discretion is to be allowed these unfortunates must labor for others in mental darkness from 12 to 15 years before they can labor or learn for them selves. They will be shown that so far from crippling the cotton manu facturing industry of England the abolition of child labor in that coun ty has improved and strengthened it, so that although 3,000 miles from the cotton fields England is employ ing 25 times as many spindles as South Carolina. They will be in formed that the abolition of the system in New England has had no bad result, but on the contrary, by permitting the education of the hands, has imxroved the intelligence of the labor and the excellence of its product." Our Question Box. Inquiries regardinj? any farming subject tuily answered ly competent and experienced au thorities. Address all queries to The Progres sive Fanner, Raleigh, N. C. LOVE VINE OR DODDER. Correspondence of The Progressive Farmer. For the last two years I have been bothered by having love vine on some of my clover fields, and in places riding down and killing out the clover. Dry weather seems to suit it almost as well as wet, and now it is over some of .my fields thickly. What is the best' thing to do for it to destroy it? I notice it seems to have seed pods and appar ently produces seed. U. G. Joiinston. Gaston Co., N. C. (Answered by Corresponding Editor Emery.) This love vine or dodder is one of the worst pests of clover fields. It gets a start usually ' in a wet spell of weather and spreads rapidly'. It does form seed, and when these have fallen on the ground it wTill be hard to keep in check in future years on the fields thus stocked with seed, since weed seedlio dormant until conditions are favorable for growth, when the seeds germinate and a new growth wastes the crop. This is called an atrial plant because it seems to thrive without roots. Soon after twining its tendrils on a host plant rootlets enter the tissues of its host and it sucks its sustenance from it. Then the stem from the seed in the ground decays and it becomes a par asite On the plant it has selected to live on. In this stage it blooms and produces seed. The seed are small and shining black. In buying clover seed great care should be exercised to avoid all weed seeds, and espe cially the seed of this parasite. To destroy it effectually, we know of but one way to gather and burn the infested crop, and to do this the field should be looked over, sickle in hand, before the crop is badly cov ered or seed has been formed. Cut out all infested spots clean and burn the cuttings. Thank God every morning that you have something to do that day which must be done whether you like it or not. Being forced to work and to do your best will breed in you a hun dred virtues which the idle never know. Charles Kingsley. The Thinkers. - HOW IT IS DONE. Say five years ago was organized. j car li i-A company finds that after l, the penses, interest and reasonable ri dends on paid-up stock, tlier eisstm M. I IIIIU Illl IlfL I HID T HII I II III The general manager shows th board that this was one of the y 6 when "America has been wearU Tipr nlrl elntbes " tluif faliA,..:. s ' "vu iviitjMXlI VP... rx uuuv - " uj. iu turns ; fw toi-x. i;eu.trs xa xeaauuuoie interest one dollar ; that prosperity alV follows degression ? tli;i l ,.,W)UI ci-m-v r i try 4-1 14- 1 that our plant has increased in real Xroductive value in the sum of f 500,000, and should be capitalize' that additional amount. This -duly effected, a dividend of six cent, declared on this new isu3 books correctly balanced, and the company tells the world of its pPos perity, and necessary increase 0f capital to meet a growing trade. Here we have a model corporation but the $1,500,000, which cost noth ing, is not all. This capitalization, productive, paying six per cent, divil dend in depressed times and promis. ing more in better times, forms9 selling and perhaps legal basis for I bond issue of another million dollar and allows an increase of the ness without the investment of a dollar. In fact, they receive in cash for taking the l.:,no,X)0j5 stock and the $1,000,000 in bonds With many companies doing this for years, it is no wonder capital has passed into the hands of tin- few. range to have sufficient capital stock issued to avoid any troublesome question of method of increase. The? can protect the real investor by pre ferred stock and can usually make the protection ample. Then thev can make an outlet for surplus ear: ings in common stock, but the sum; principle governs. Every six cons of net earnings shall be a dollar in their hands. Now the public is inquiring if this method is just, if this stock should be of the value of money. They do not see any individual manipulating funds in this way. The laborer thinks his influence in producing that $90, 000 was very direct, and not crj liberally paid, and perhaps that this $1,500,000 of stock dollars, if it is dol lars, should be his, and then lie could have a factory or mine or store and bond it for $1,000,000, and do business. He says the capital drew its dividend, the officers good sal aries, the bondholders their interest, and only his own wage was small, yet that it is so arranged now that he must continue to earn this annuity for all time, and that the grasping of this dollar by the stockholders is an unjust and oppressive scheme. But the masses of the people, n being in direct contact with the plant like the laborer, are beginnin to see the influence of these stoc dollars, and to learn their source, and to think their base is taken from them in unnecessitry profits. They argue much the same, that the capital, dividend, interest, salaries and wages are fully paid, and that they have furnished the net profits out of which this dollar in stock i maintained ; that it is in the hands of moneyed men who will make it interest or dividend a perpettu1 annuity that the public must pay Besides this kind of capitalization, the public has furnished the nw'B contributions for many plants ; bond have completed the expenditures: and the public pays dividends on the stock which cost nothing. If the $1,500,000 stock mentioned above and all like profits are to maintained asf dollars in value, then every employee in proportion to -effectiveness should be a recipient o his share with the capitalist. I D. in Saturday Evening Post. ALLIANCE N0TE3. You" cannot expect tlie niem who is always growling but nf reads an Alliance paper to help -cause much. Men. who are afraid t- 4u!llJ. for their rights for fear of "eD party. managers are an injury Alliance. &e Men who fully realize wI,iat Order has accomplished for furlQt are the ones who are alway P1 at Alliance meetings. Working for the political more than for the Alliance cause. hurt Mention The Progressive when writing advertisers.
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