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Saturday, February 12, 1910-3 , PROGRESSIVE FAItiin. Alii) GATITTTE. (13) 129 and "put their rrc '".ct.cn tho market for what It really Is, there vrc.ild. never have teen an oleo margarine question. Y.'ith perfect falmcc3 It may' b'e positively Elated that oleomargarine" taa "not been placed on the. market on a legitimate basis. It has hot tc:n c-cred to the consuming public as oleomargarine, tut has been, made In lmttatlonof butter jmd larcely.eol as such. . : So notorious was. this fraud jupon, the public that extraordinary measures were necessary and Justified, to prevent that, fraud.;: It vis a, well es tablished principle in such matters that ' extraor dlnary measures are Justified, In vorder to prevent great frauds, hence ,'the . tax on colored oleo. lf All thematerlal and moral Interests of theSouth, Including the oil mill Interests, are wholly on the side of the dairymen In their efforts to force oleomargarine to be sold for what It actually is, TheVfeek's Happening: EWS FROM Washington theza days la of a Very' unexciting aature. . President Taft's i ... corporation license bill has been Introduced by Senator Clark, of Wyoming. It provides that any corporation engaged in interstate commerce may take out a Federal charter, under the pro visions of the act, which providesfor full publicity of accounts and Governmental supervision, and forbids the purchase of stock in one corporation by another except with the permission of the Comml3 sloner of Coporations. Senator Rayner, of Mary land, has made a sharp attack on the postal sav- much evldcnca cf ye!ht bavins yet been prc-ucJ on either side. It teems likely that the lav ::tl na tion will leave things Just about r.3 they aro r 3 ,; the Secretary will be acquitted of any vlcl'tlcn of the laws, but will be generally considered t.z bav ins had too Intimate relations with laad-crbb:rs of shady reputation to the proper pcrzon to. manage our rapidly decreasing public domain The appointment of a man who has to explain thlng3 to cuch a responsible position 13 always a thins to t3 regretted by those who wish to CC3 the public service cn a high plane. H . a i ' A -A v MnEs bank bill, basing his opposition on Constitu- uuuai gruunus. mere seems uiue aouoi uiai me I have; a right to buy, oleomargarine if 1 ;want to, but no man has a right to sell me oleomargarine or butterine as real butter. This the oleo- measure will pass The ship subsidy bill has been favorably reported to the House over, the vigorous protests cf : the Democratic ; and two Republican margarine people persist in doing until extraor- w - . u , . i - - - - , J members of the committee. Senator Heyburn, of ainary measures, are uecessary aau , jusimea to prevent the continuance of the fraud. i ; The amount of cottonseed oil used in the manu facture of oleomargarine ' is Insignificant, while the Interest of? the South in building? up a live stock' industry .is 'monumental. The building up of a dairy industry in the South is of such vital and far-reaching Importance to our agricultural dtvAlAnmont . that in : arravlnv thatnoalvaa nn rha ' " '. .. ' ; . 1 '. 5 . ... .- ... v j . ' . :. . side of oleomargarine against the dairy and hon est food interests, the newspapers of the' South, our Congressmen, the commercial organizations of our cities and cotton oil men are accepting the. shadow , for. the substance and doing the agri cultural and commercial Interests, of the South a vast and far-reaching Injury. i ipS 1 reunion at Mobile next April. to; Senator. Hey burn," and at,: the. close of hls out- Considerable interest has been attracted by the fight against the cotton xchange3. Hearings are now being held before the Houso Committed on Agriculture, and a Washington dispatch says: M "The very determined campaign of the Farmers' Union for .the elimination of.ex-; change gambling In agricultural products, the ' cordial reception given the proposal in .Con- gress and the strong arguments furnished by . the damaging report of the Commissioner of y Corporation, who has recently investigated ex- . ; ' changes, have created serious apprehension" - and alarm among the friends of the exchange. The exchanges have decided to make a deter- . , mined stand in their owndef ense." - .1 'ii 'St- Don't Buy Quack "Formulas'l jl1 1 B WISH to again , warn our readers against proposals have been time and again the purchase of secret or mysterious for- untli thefe is reform in other brancl Idaho, got in the limelight again llonday by mak ing a speech against lending United States Army tents to the Confederate soldiers for their annual Nn rnl v was made The sudden death at Baltimore last Monday o'C, break every other vote was cast in favor of the former Chief Justice James B. Shepherd, of North proposition. ? President Taft's conservation pro- Carolina, occasioned ? deep regret . all over the pbsals evidently have hard! sledding ahead Speak- State. , Judge Shepherd was sixty-one years of er ' Cnnbn? naa always opposed t such ; legislation ; age, and f had long been recognized as ; one of the the chairman of the House Committee on Public leaders- in his profession 4 in. North Carolina Lands, Mbndell, of Wyoming, Is a bitter foe of all ; ' : ' - . " ' 4 effective measures of the kind, and a small-group Wade H ,Ellls' Assistant to the United States of Senators, led by Heyburn may be counted on Attorney-General, has resigned to become the to do all they can agalnstlthe President's policies' manager of the Republican campaign ,in -Ohio -u .' i ; . ' - ' 4.- r this year. The Republicans are. preparing to pu l&Vittentlon U being :glT4 to fte'propos'al-to hd "gainst Governor Harmon Increase the postage on magazines than to any nthpr if thn President's recommendations, and!.. ' - , ,, , , ,t " .'f '. - t- . - - - ... v . , ; T 1 irA M1 n. V... J ' ..111 f , ' , I ulu j U'UCUl 6" UUUfiCl, Will public sentiment here Is decidedly hostile ;. Such ... Wd tnat' . .It In England It seems to be conceded that the Lloyd-George budget, will pass In pretty nearly its some measure for the reformation ? of , the House of Lords Just whatj; no one seems to ;know will be adopted. rBoth- Labor and Nationalist parties, however, show a disposition to insist on concessions, and the Gov-! defeated, and branches of our pos- Jinulas for fertilisers, the treatment of dis- ul systeffl such a measure as this is not likely to I , r r" Hmmai!: or ijr ,"',rcluw ric1,,ullM meet with favor; 3- ' DUmosea. TJkewlsft hr.rnre nf tha fiacrftt methods I , r f .t5!' oficumvation, which are offered for,. a- price 'uvt Postofflce Department really wishes , to mm? ;8eema, t0. ,e between two Area. lurougu aoverussments in certain agricultural pa- become a self-supporting institution, mere are a pers. We are informed that numbersjof farmers great many things that ought to be done before eP 6triking testimony last Friday when the forty njy,.penj a tax on . knowledge ; and information is, levied ix members of the crew of the steamship Kentucky ver8ed as' a, new and mysterious "bunch'V method by . doubling the postage rate: on magazines and were' rescued by the Alamo.-which was ai 8avan-! of planting cotton, t That any one; would give , up newspapers:'- (iy The railroads are getting too nah, more than one hundred miles from the dis Jd J?oney m PIal "?ak?" f ,toouRhtto much jor carrying the' mails; (2) Congressmen a'bied vessel, when the message came In ; , j, . have ;beea known to be by any one, la astonishing andvGoyernment omciais frank countless tons of ; v ; . ji '.'ri;. We repeat: There are no secrets in agriculture, Government; documents; and It is unfair to make The deadlock In the Mississippi Senatorial con- and the mere;tact that any one :off era such tor the'2 newspapers make 'good ;the loss sustained test continues with no notable change,' MrT Alex sale U suQclcnt to" arouse .suspicion' and' Justify nere;' (3) It is notorious that exorbitant salaries ander i has withdrawn; from the race, and somo condemnation. Give up no money to any one for pald halMdle offlciab In many postbfflces where eight-or, ten of. his supporters have gone to ex any secret formula or method for the mixing of ka tt nnst Governor VardanAn - r furtin.... uf ',maMrtn m one-half the force could do the work if the post- governor vardaman. , ovi.. t JA i i.r. j - . i t.i I AAia mnra onnHnntpH pa n nrhfttA Ant.Rrnrise!&nd ;,BloucJB DOUIi WM.iuojew meroi iw iu v - Qne Qf mogt whole8ome glgn8of tne tlmes- b, oua juti as cenamiy is mere no secret mem- 141 as we nave oiieu earn, we paiww ywov . ... ' , . ' od of ,cltlTatlnS an,, crop, that to.; worth one L a money-makln8 part of the poital eystem." as the great Interest being .hown In all .ectlona of t mn,. s;.Tou . can getlall that- li known on thl. England and other European countrles. co" 'nthe training of country children for , subject by reading farm literature. . :u ;.".- ;. ' ., 1 -. . . . . . ., . farm, work.' Governor Mann, of Virginia, has an- m i I J Wa Mvtnr. nnmnonllMl , 1 . . .'".V t to 'those boys under eighteen years of age who make the best yields of corn In that State. r The appeal for a new trial for the Coopers, con- i The big; fact which 5 so many farmers overlook folly to surrender It to the express companies. when they first try the'weeder Is that it Is not in- l: v; . & tended to cultivate the gTas3 and weds, but to ; ; AU 0f this "must be said even If we are to as- wL?!n,befre tb.e7 fme UP irl?.jS! Bumethat the postofflce should be self-suppqrtlng. WeedS'ftnn trn: p-et 'rnnttA rnii mr n Ave to re- - ..7 , , . r . Bort j to expensive hand-hoeing . after! ail. The As , a matter ; of fact, the postofflce j is as much Ulcted of the murder of Senator- Carmack, was weeuer and harroW should always be used before an educational lnsutuuon as ine puduc Ecnoqis. neara oy me Tennessee supreme uoun last weeK. you think you need them, the object being to kill and we doubt whether, there Is any more reason A decision is not expected for some weeks. j the weeds and gras3 -while they are sprouting. If in requiring it to be profitable than there 13 In - ' j' you let them take root It 13 liko giving your enemy requiring a warship to make a profit for the Gov- .' Tho rolcano, Poas, in Costa Rica, Is In eruption- a big stick to hit you over the head with. The eminent. .Certainly there Is no parallel between and people are fleeing by the hundreds from the t vutjr-caie way. is to worn tne gras3 ueiore u guusia iow posiai rato, uio uucut ui wuau 6w w nu iwatu. I Dig-enough for you to cca it ' . ' c : , the people and promotes education ano cnngnten- ment as well as trade and commerce on the. one uiiu 1 in a i noimng pays met uuvLor u uijr nana ana a buuwu; ; ounruuuuim, 1- 'arm. than the good roads that I keepjUp-for my ions on the 'other hand and especially Is thi3 own" use," remarked a thoughtful farmer to us true, when we, might have American "ships simply the other day. A few hours' time with the split- by removing the tariff on ships and ship-building og drag at thb ecason of the year will do much materials .which now stands uv tno way. ror the roads either on one's farm or on the pub Uo 'roads' of tho neighborhood " ' ' J ; A Thought For the T7 cck. ? iiB goods of fortune we would possess Jl and would enjoy; those of virtue we long to receive the former from others, the latter we- ' The JBallinger jnyesiiaaiion aras muuj wimoui j wtuuo w.cyfcm,4v uo a .' w
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