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Tbo Projjrcssivb Fannor, November 12. 1901. Published Weekly at Raleigh, N.C. I. . DEIMAXK. ..PrapritltraiiBitliiilMnilir. SUBSCRIPTION Single Subscription One Year. . .$1.00 Six Months... .50 Three Months. .25 ii 'The Industrial, and .uducation .l Interests of our People Para mount TO ALL. OTHER CONSIDERATIONS or State Policy,' is the motto of The Progressive Farmer, and upon this platform it shall rise or fall. Serving ao master, raled by no faction, cir aumsdribed 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 irue to the instincts, traditions and Mstory of the Anglo-Saxon race. On 11 matters relating specially to the reat interests it represents, it will ipeak with no uncertain voice, but will fearlessly the right defend and Impartially the wrong condemn." From Col. Polk's Salutatory, Feb. 10. 188fi 86 sure to give both old and new addresses in jrderlng change of postofflee. RENEWALS The date oppogite your name an your paper, or wrapper, shows to what time your subscription is paid. Thus 1 Jan. 'CM), hows that payment nas been received up to Ifan. L, 1900; 1 Jan. 0l, to Jan. 1, 1901, and so on. Two weeks are required after money is re wived before date, which answers tor a receipt, can be changed. If not properly changed within two weeks after money is sent notify us THE 0000 R0&DS MOVEMENT. ' The Good Roads Congress held in Winston Salem a few days ago sterns tb have been successful. The ohje t lessons in go d road making that were given alone would hive retaid those who attended. And the organ ization of a "Northwestern God Roads Association of N rth Caro lina" will doubtless result in g od Its annual meetings are to be hld in Winston Siloin on the sec -nd Taeday after the first Mondiy in November of each year, and the as sociation will cover the counties of Forsyth, Gailford, Davidson, Ytd kin, Davie, Rockingham, Sroke, Surry, Wilke?, A-he and Al'eghanv The following "fncer were elu ted: President, P. H. Hane ; Secretary and Treasurer, O. B. Bton ; Vice Presidents: Forsyth, oountv, J S Spnca ; Guilford, -T. Van L'n l ev; Yadkin, N. G. William-; Divie, C G. Bailey; R okingham, Tnomt' R Pratt ; Stoke, Dr. Etias Fulo ; S rry, A. Chatham; Wilkes, E. S. BUir ; Alleghanv, Hon R. A. Dou.rrit.n; Ashe, Dr. CYdvcrd. The Association will endeavor to secure m re satisfactory and uni form laws for road building, and will ask that the State Highway Commi sion be authorized to employ comj) tent engineers to aid counties inter ested in highway improvement Of muoh greater fignifionce, in our opinion, was this declaration b Senator F. M. Simmons: "The State government of North Cor lina ougnt io q lit trying to farm an 1 devote all the energies and labor of its ooaviots to the betterment of the public roaan Of the Stite, this work to be supple mented by the aid of cities, o unti, township, communities and mli viduals." Thin seems to have hud 'the enthusiastic approval of the Congress, judging by the applan-e it elicited, and we regret that a resolu tion endorsing the idea was not passed. The plan has ben 1 ng ad YooAted in The Progressive Farmer, both edit )rially and by corretp nd-ents,-andit should be discussed and agitated everywhere until adopted fcy;the Legislature. Th&good roads train went from ,W:nston-Slem to Asheville, where another -successful good roads oon mention was held. Permanent or ganization was also effected to cover nineteen western counties and 10 be known as the 44 Appalachian G od Roads Association." Frank Lough . nin was elected President, nnd George S. Powell, Secretary. The following are the Vice President : A. Cannon, of Henderson county, Samuel Burgin, of Linooln; R. L. Leatherwood, of Swain; J. J Miner, of Transylvania, W. P. E ldleman, of Ga-ton ; J. M. Hyatt, of Haywood ; C. A. Nichols, of Graham, and others to be selected later. It is probable that a State Good Roads Convention will be held in Raleigh next February, and we hope that plans will be laid for bringing pressure to bear upon the Legisla ture for batter road laws. In spite Of the efforts of Senator S. B. Alex ander and a few others, prao&ioallv no progressive steps were tken by the General Assembly of 1901. And among other plans for carrying for ward the good roads movement, let it not be forgotten that the State ought to quit trying to farm and put her law breakers on the publio roads. THE ELECTIONS LAST TUESDAY. The one overshadowing feature of last week's elections was, of course, the complete defeat of tbo corrupt Tammany organization in Ne w York City. In the four counties of greater New York City every city, oounty and borough candidate of the anti Tammany forces was eleoted. Seth Low's mhjority exceeds 30,000, whereof we are glad. A valuable leeson has been taught not only the depraved Tammany machine, bat the baser sort of political leaders every where When New York City de clares for clean politics, good citizen generally should thank God and take courage. On the other hand, it is to be re gretted that the attempt to defeat the Republican olique that has plun dered Pniladelphia muoh as Tarn many has plundered New York, met with a failure almost as complete as the viotory that the reformers won in New York The State eleotions were not of so muoh interest as these city elections. Massachusetts, Iowa, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ohio, of course, went Republican, as everybody ex pected, and it is equally unnecessary to say that Virginia and Miasisippi went Democratic. Maryland is cloe, but the Democrats, it seerrs c-rtain at this writing, will control the Legislature and return G -rman to the Senate. (It is said, by the way, that Gorman aspires to the Demo cratic Presidential nomination in 1904 ) Kentucky also goes De no cratio by an increased majority. And in spite of the effort of Mr. Bryan and the Democrat c-Populist oombi nation, Nebraska gives an increased Reoublican majority. On the whole, honors are about even, both parties merely holding their own. FAEM ARTICLES THIS WEEK. All stock feeds are now bringing high prices, and the title of Dr Bur kite's article, -'Roughage Fned for Horses," will doubfciess attract many readers. His rep rt of his New Hampshire experiments is of special inreret, and the sentence in which he Hums uj the conclusions retched ought to be printed in caps : 44 The corn stover proved of equal value to timothy nay and was furnished at but a fourth the cost.'' Dr. Kilgore'e figures regarding the value of the corn plant, uIhj printed on pge 1, admirably supplement Dr Burkett's article. Ii any tarmer till ho.'ds to the old fashioned idea that the ear is aboat ah (if the corn plant that i worth saving, let him read these to articles and paste Dr Kilgore's fig ures in his hat fur occasional refer ence Last wek we promised an unusu a'iy interesting letter lrom Harry Farmer ftr this number, and wo think that our friends will not be disappointed. Next veefc he will giv some valuable hints on fatten in? hogs. A very entertaining series of let ters from a Tar Heel soldier in the Pnilipuine Islands were published in The Progressive Farmer two or taree years ago, as most f our read ers doubtless re nember. Tne author was Mr. Rindall H Fustell. He has sine- returned home and we have a letter from him this week report ng farm conditions in Duplin o unty. Thw new Daptin way or C'-niuering "General Green" is uniquw but sen sible, and we commend it to graes tig iters in all parts of the Sfcat. "Araohel" is a oharmin writer, as well as a th mghfcfu' und progre-s ive man, and we are glad to number him am ng our correspondents. He, too, o riiments ujon the increased quantity of hay harvested t tits year. It is well. Ever fatnur out;ht to regard the importing of hay intotiis State as a di-grace to North C-trolina agriculture, and we hope that this year's tendency to sve enough at home will be permanent His defence of an Eaplish svstem of hoeing and his description of a better plan for setting strawberry plants, are among the m st note worthy features of Chapter 3 of Mr. A. H. Craig's "A Plan for the Boys." "The Value of Hothoues" is the subject discussdd by Mr S W. Chambers, and we call attention to it be ause the hothouse is sorely negleoted in North Carolina. We doubt whether there are one tenth as many as there should be. Once tested, their value becomes ap parent and they are likely to be regarded as indispenable there after. And a very simple plan for making a hothouse was desoribed in "A Plan for the B ys" on page 8 of last week's Progressive Farmer. Look it up. CLEAHSE THE MIDWAY. When our editorial condemning the 8tate Fair's indecent M'.dway "attractions" was written, no f.rtiole of the same tenor had appeared in any newspaper From articles ap pearing since that time, however, we find that many other editors think as we do in regard to this mat ter, notably the edit rs of the Ral- eih Christian Advooate, Eipn Col leg Sun, News and Observer, Car thage Blade, Biblical Reoorder, Greenville Reflector, Warrenton Reoord, Smithfleld Herald, Chatham Reoord, Sanford Epres-, Winston Sentinel, Charity tn i Children, L t- tleton Reporter, Scotland Nenk Com monwealtn, Fremont Visitor and Statesville Landmark. None of these have stated the case more ably than the Chatham Reoord in its refreshingly vigorous com ment: 44 We congratulate the offi cers of the Fair upon the great suo- es that crowned their efforts, and regret that they should have allowed so many indecent side shows and gambling tables to disgrace the oo oasion. If such ate permitted again then decent and respectable people should not attend the Fair. No respectable lady could walk in the most pubdo places at this Fair with out being shocked at the s ghtof bra Zt ntaced and scantily dressod women, both white and colored, exhi iting themsalves in the most indecent manner. Su h disgusting scenes a ere a disgrace to the Fair officials and an insult to all respectable visi- tors The opinions of most of the other newsppeis are beat expressed by two sentences from the Sanford Ex reus and Statesville Landmark. Tne Express says : "If the Fair cann-.t be made a success with ut the taklr and side show the quicker it is abolish d the better it will be tor the people of the State " And this is the Lndmark's opinion: "If the State Fair cannot attract a crowd without becoming a hewer for fi th tue sooner it goes out of business the better." But from the Biblical Recorder cine the most defiant and unmerci ful criticism of the Fair managers Pmhp" it is just; at any rate, its th ers have no right to expect bet ter thiugs vve quote: 4'A8, the reader loves his State, respects him self, caies tor his cnild, honois re ligion, reveres woman, we pleid with him to do all that tie can to prevent a repetition of this carnival of shame in our land. .sas cial institution, as tin educational institution, as an itdustri A institution, as an agricul tural instituti n, we would uphold thw Fair. Bat it is defiantly, shame lessly, flagrantly an institution of vi -e, of indecency, of lust, of bestial ity. Jn the tear of God, and without any fear whatever of the men who made this prostitution of our State possible and who now carry the price of it in their pockets, and with full knowledge of the meaning of our words, we declare that as an institution of vice, of shame, of all uucleannes-s, as an agenoy for the degradation of women and the de 6iuotion of men, the Fair last week utterly obliterated the good purposes in which it was founded. We charge Secretary Pogue with responsibility for tbis ; we charge Piesident Cox; and we ouarge the Executive Com mittee." We n ight give further extracts but the foregoing show plainly the drift of public opinion. The Midway must be purged of its vileness or the dtcent people of the State will give the Fair over to the bas r element", to whom it has so boldly pandered. And if this year's high carnival of tilth was necessary to arouse the people, then good has come out of evil. The writer is not pers nail? ac quaiaTed with the new President, Mr. L Banks Holt, bufc a g ntleman who knovs him well assures u&rh.t hH rili undoubtedly throw his who'e influence, against the features that disrao-d this year's Midway and humiliated nine tenths of those that visited tne Fair. Tne Midway must be made de cent. The North Carolina rural sohool library plan is an unqualified sue cess The State has already aided in the establishment of than 200 of these libraries, and it is predicted that the entire appropriation will be exhausted within a few months. Last week Superintendent Toon was asked to send a copy of the law to a promi nent Georgia eduoator, who thinks that the Legislature of his State will put the system in operation there. EDITORIAL NOTES. Alliance re-organization is being actively pushed in the Palmetto 8tate. We notice in the Charlotte Observer that the organization in Spartan burg count v is again at work, with some of that section's best farmers in the lead. While we regret to lose Prof. J. M. Johnson from North Carolina, we congratulate him upon his election as Professor of Dairying in the Uni versitv of Georgia. It is nnneces sary to say that he has made an ex cellent record at our A. and M. Col lege, and will doubtless fill his new position most worthily. The long winter evenings are nar at hand, and thy should not be wasted. A supply of good book", not new ones of uncertain worth, but those that bavo stood the test of years, h uld be purchased as early as possible. Everv farmer should set a-ide a few dollars each year for the improvement of his library. For our ootton growing readers at leat, tbis number of The Progress ive Farmer contain nothing of more interest; than Secretary P trker's re ply to Mr Martin V Calvin's ootton seed letter, and ve hope that no one with cotton seed to sell will fail to read it. . There is nothing dull ab nit it. W had ourselves exoeoted to replv to some features of Mr. Cal vin's article, but Bro ParVer leave nothing to be said. And we think that Mr. Calvin must admit, as we then suggested, that he was sadly misinformed in more than one par ticular We ask attention to the appeal of Business Manager Denmark for prompter settlemntrf subscriptions. Wo know that crops are very short this vear, and that farmers are not so afflioted with unwonted prosper ity as tbey have been in other years, but we hope that each reader will remember that The Progressive Farmer is paying out money eaoh wek to keep the paper going to him, and that prompt repayment is ex pected If you cannot now settle in full, remember that part payment, showing that you appreciate the paper and wish to sustain it, will be gladly received. A recent number of the Kinston Free Press contains this news item : 44 Mr. Roy Cox was before Mayor Webb Wednesday charged with pointing a pistol at Mr. J. D. Griffin. The evidence of all the witnesses showed that Mr. C.x had pointed the pistol without serious intent, but pointing a pistol c ou in fun is a transgression of 1,M 'aw, so Mayor Webb recognized -;o defendant for his appearance ate "nt" Tne Mayor aoted wisely. If reckless handling of deadly weapons wore uot so often allowed to go nnj.mhed, we should not read of ne' y so many deaths by the disclmrge of 44unloadcd"(?) firo arms. A hundred thousand of North Ca:olina's best oitizens would regard the Fair as more worthy of their own and of the State's support should its managers endorse tue f ollowing ir am CA. F. A. Olds : 44 Talking yester day vith a fellow-member of the executive committee of ihe State Fair your correspondent expressed the purpose to make a motion at the next meeting of the committee to bar foreve- from the fair grounds all hooohee koochee shows, and also the snake eaters ; the f . rmer s im moral in the extreme and the latter as disgusting. It is a pleasure to see i ho publio taking ground against this class of shows. No doubt they will be barred from this and other fairs. Tnis year marks the time ot their downfall " At ter glanviug over a long list of State exchanges that have been de laded into supporting Tammany be oause that organiz .tixn claims to be Democratic, it in refreshing to find the Concord Times declaring tha famm-tny rule "was corrupt from its smallest to its greatest depart ment and vice and crime were pro tected so fully by a. iys?en of black mail that there was absolutely n hope fr relief so long as it power was unbroken." The Times con tinues : 44 Any disinterested man who is at all familiar with the situation in New York must admit that the corruption from the highest to the lowest official was the worst possible to imagine. All who wi-hed to prac tioe vice and commit crime needed only to pay for protection,' and there were never molested Such a state of aff-irs there is at an end, for a while at least. It in hoped that the reform will be true and genuine, and that it will last." GOV. AYCOCX'S GOOD ADVICE TO HEGEOES In his address opening the recent colored SUte -Fair in Raleigh, fcoV Avnnnt. disouseing 'certain phases of the race problem, made some re marks that should be of interest to most of our white people, and may be su tied with profit by the negroes As one paper said : 4The , colored people will find more to their ad vantage in studying Governor Ay oook's advice than in cogitating and felicitating upon President Roose velt's example." As to the uisouss ion of 4'sooial equality" revived by this Booker Washington inoident, Gov. Ayoook said : "It may not be inappropriate for me to express to you tne hope that reoent events occurring in the nation may not unduly excite you and that you will still remember that your best friends are those who live m your State. What you wish, what you need more than recognition by the President or other people in au thorny, is the establishment among yourselves of a society founded upon culture, intelligence and virtue, and in no wise dependent upon those of a different raje. The law which separates jou from tne white people in the State socially always has been and always will be inexorable, and it need not concern vou nor me whether that law is violated else wneze: it will never be violated in the South. Its violation would be to your. destruction as well as to the injury of the whites. No thought ful, conservative and upright South erner has for your race augut bat tne kindest feeling and we are all willing and anxious to see you grow into the highest citizenship of wmon you are capable and we are willing to give our energies anu best thought to aid you in the great work neces sary to make you what you aie capable ot, and to assise you in that eievation of oharaoter and of virtue which tends to the strengthening of the State. But to do this it is abso lutely necessary that each race snould remain distinct and have a sooiety of its own. Inside of your own race you can grow as large and broad and high as Gjd permits, with tne aid, the sympathy, and the en couragement of your white neigh bors. If you can equal the white race in achievement, in scholarship, in literature, in art, in industry, and commerce you will find no generous minded white man who will stand in your way. But all of them in the South will insist tnat yoa s iaii ao oompiish tdis high end vvithjut social intermingling and tbis is well for you ; it is well for us ; it is neces sary lor tue peaoe of pur section, it is essential to the education of your children that there should be no misunderstanding upon this p int. I am sure that you agree witu me in what I have said and in the spirit of one who is the Governor of the waoie people wsthout regard to raoe I bid you God's speed in the great work oi upbuilding our State, of multiplying her industries, of increasing her commerce, of educating ad her ohil daen. I find no little on jouragement in the friendly co-operation of the men and-women of your race in the j task which we have undertaken to do, that of educating all the ohtl dren, and I pray you that in this great wurk we shall not bo retarded by misunderstandings." THE LATE J0SIAH TURNER Mr Jos. A. Harris, editor of The Orange County Observer, who was a compositor on The Raleigh Sen tinel when the late Jotdah Turner was its editor, writes us that Mr. Turner would have been 80 years old had he lived until the 22d of Decern ber next. He died of typhoid fever, having been sick only a few days. The funeral was held on Sunday morning from St Matthew's Episoo pal Church of Hillsboro. As he vanishes from earthly vision a great many facts concerning him and imuressi on which he made come back t those who knew him personally or followed him in his paper during the years through which he so nercilessly lashed his enemies and the State's. Through uis must vitriolio editorials," i i whioh no singled men out by naa;e, charged them with their crimes and hurled away epithets at them, there ran a a thread of perfect amiability and they bubbled over with delicious Uumor. It is not now recalled that in the fiercest of them was there ever a suggestion of anger. He was him self absolutely imperturbable ; if the ground had opened at his feet in any moment he would not have changed countenance or moved a misole ; and his paper carried the air of i mm ova bility. It never betrayed en? ment, but went Btraight ahe-id, C(di in g men thieves, with pfrfpot'g humor, telling what they stole and offering to prove it if furnished with "a squire" with power to 8mnmon witnesses. " He was in no r$ newspaper man, and judged an newspaper standard there wa r.Pver such a newspaper writer. It, happened that the head'na: of Hn edi torial and the editorial itself borea0 sort of relation to eaoh other. fs v,c, was a , oomical sameness abont h.ig editorials, day after dav, and on 0ne occasion he rehashed all hi anong tions and arguments and beaded the article "The Old Editorial." There was never suh a man f0r naming people. 4Jav Bird J nes" was a Superior Court J-noe 4Greasy Sam Watts ' as another Saperior Court Judge; "Kildef Jag. si ter" was a Granville county who tried to sell the State nr. 0n whiohto build the penitentiary and for a farm Turner had said th an(j was so poor that the whole farm would not support a kildee ; "paj Carrow" was the United Sfaten Mar. shal f or the Eastern" District ; "Fat Jenkins" was. Aaron, son of the State Treasurer and Chief Clerk in his father's office ; 4 Chicken Stev. ens'' was a member of the Lgisla. ture from Caswell- afterwards hung oy men who were never detected, ia a lower room of the court houe at Yanoeyville while a political meet ing was in progress up stairs and Turner gavie him this name because he said he was a chicken thief ; Col. W. F. Henderson was 44WUdy Billy Henderson" because he talked go muoh ; Maj. W. A. Smith was "Blow Your Horn-Billy " because during the war he had hunted deserters with hounds, and 4 'S agar-Lips" was Dr. Geo W. Blacknall, proprietor of the Yarboro House. He oould ring the ohanges day in and day out on a word, a phrase or a sentence. John Nichols and John C German were large job printers in Raleigh and an influential firm. Thev had been Democrats and became Republicans. While taey were in the. transition stage Mr. Turner had heard that Governor Holden had confided to a party friend that 4tNiohols and Gor- man are with us." What reader of fhe Sentinel in those days but has had the sentence burned into hiai brain by daily seeing it? "XchoIsH and Gorman are with us.' Soma occasion could be found for rindne it into every editorial. Turner would write all around his subject if he happened to have any particular one -to make some reference to 44J-hn Nichols, of whom Holden said Nichols and Gorman are with us;'" or to 4'J hn Gorman, of whom Hol den said," etc. His accounts of his street fights were the funniest things in o ntem- ?oraneous literature. Judge W. A. Moore, Qf the Supreme Court, "laid" for hm one day, but in starting to assault him slipped and fell. Turner, greatly amused if he oould be amued at anything, for he never craoked a smile stood over him and punched him in the rihs with hit umbrella, and never got tired after wards writing about 4the man who fell down at us." Wm. H. Btd ey, tuen of Salisbury, challenged him to duel. Turner replied to the chal lenge through his paper, signing the name o? his office devil, a boy named Hall, to the letter. Hall was anp posed to take the difficulty off hii chiefs hands, and wrote frequent open lettt-rs to Mr. Bailny, inviting him to mortal oombat. Turner could take the most trivial incident of a man's life, or the slightest peculiar ity in his personal appearance, and make him a laughing stock. In the progress of years he turned gainst all politioal parties and against pretty nearly all established things Some twenty years go he ran as an independent candidate for the Lower House of the Legislature from Orange and was elected Be was so disobient of all rules and rul ings that it beeume necessary to ex pel him. When the resolution of ex pulsion was declared adopted be gathered up his belonging nd strolled out of the hall, pausing the door to let fiy this Parthian af ro v : "What do I care for being polled from a body like this? Eerf fellow in here is toting a pas !" But 44 Jo Turner" is not a proper t. n subject for a newspaper artic e; deserves a book. He was very rong about a great many things bat in tensely right about others, and 8 the man who in the days of recon struction cleaned out the Angea0 stables, he must have a high V&c0 in the history of his State.-' lotte Observer. . it
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