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PROGRESSIVE FABMEB AND COTTON PLANT.
Thursday, December 14
1905.
TH6 Progressive farmer
. Entered at Raleigh, N. C, as second class mall matter.
CLARENCB H. POE,
B. W. KILQORB 1
C. W. BURKBTT,
Editor and Manager.
Agricultural Editors.
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to the rescue of the Nation, and proclaims very
grandly the truth that financial powers have lost
their hold in this quarter of the land. The South
will stand conspicuous in this battle for the Republic."
"Out, out. brief cannM f
Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the st
And then is heard no more; it is a tale
Told by. an idiot, full of sound and f ii rv
Signifying nothing."
CURRENT EVENTS : THE TREND OF THINGS
AS WE SEE IT.
Owing to the brevity of human life, we have
not read all of President Roosevelt's Annual Mes
an editor for as the every-day citizen will not
read the Message, it is assumed that the editor
must go through all of it so as to properly inform
the aforesaid citizen. It is a pity that a man of
President Roosevelt's literary gifts has not learn
ed that in writing brevity ip not only the so.ul of
wit but also of effectiveness.
Dding One Thing at a Time.
The President understands that the one great
If funeral orations were only truthful,
moral for a money-mad age micrht not our So
tors draw from the tragic end of their dio1.
n 1 u graced
colleague!
Other Features of the President's Message.
One of the most gratifying features of the
President's Message to us 'is the fact that he
seems to have recovered from his former assump
tion that wfi must, hnvfi n narv "hiir pnoncn to link I The Shalre-iin in "EnorHuh Pn11ia
not read all of President Roosevelt's Annual Mes- . . - . , , T, , ttt 1 1 i A -v.
. , .,. -l . j. ,. all creation single-handed. We have thought VromipT Balfour flq wna fiA , .
snge to Congress, though this yearly infliction is . . , , . .. . . ? .rremier .Daiiour, as was foreshadowed in flc
1 . , - " , u. for sometime that the big navy idea was being wf.Pica Progressive Farmer ;a a ,
supposed to be one of the natural penalties of , . t , we.eKs .rrogressive warmer, is down and out
,io ili r ' UVC1UW1C- owxctaxjr, unapaiuo xum tnouerh ol course we meant tn siiv tW pi... i
mends that we do not try to enlarge the fighting lain WOuld probably succeed him as Conervaf
force but merely substitute five new battleships not ag Liberal; leader. And although Sir HeTT'
and two armored cruisersfor worn-out vessels of Campbell-Bannerman has been asked to form'7
the same type. Liberal cabinet, the Conservatives have had the'3
Another praiseworthy feature Is Mr. Roosevelt's hopes suddenly rallied by disagreements in th
recommendation in regard to political corruption. ranks of their opponents. Irish Home Rule
He argues for "a law providing for severe penal- the bone of contention. The Baltimore Sun also
ties against any one who gives or receives a bribe; observes, as we suggested last week, that the "ma
for publication of all campaign expenditures ; jority of the Conservatives, under the leadershi"
ano for 'tho nrnliit-itirm Vsf oil rmt -riKnirma Vir e - r VyI t .1 "
. . . r : , . . . 1 01 iir. LfnamDenam, seem to be drifting m
mifistinn to come heforo CJoncrress at this Sfissinn I j.: .r i -i ... j . . 111 ine
' T.T i i r r . x V 1 vvmu ior pumicai purposes, wnemer usea direction of a protective tariff, although on tH
Federal regulation of railway rates a task of in popular elections or in legislative lobbies." issue they have been beaten in nearly every b
such magnitude as to make it achievement enough Mr. Roosevelt has disappointed a great many good portant by-election in the last eighteen monTh "
for any sesson; and so it is we can forgive him people in not making greater evident effort to re- Ultimately however we exnect to . r
for failing to stress tariff reform at this time. In tnrn the monfiv wrnnlv nmiriKnt lw lifo ?- ..t. i . . ! 'lr
r i . j , . " .. - " wiamDenam s proiecuve larm poiicv endorspd
v, 1 .v. i..u ouim., yjx. surance companies to last years Kepublican cam
some of our suddenly and frantically zealous tariff fund. But if he has not made atonement
reformers. Just as Uncle Sam rolls up his sleeves f or the past sin for which, it must be confessed,
and settles down to the task of straightening up he was not directly responsible he has at least
the railway fences, they get in a frenzied excite- outlined a plan which would prevent a repetition
ment to call him away to the gap in the tarifi Qf that sin.
President Roosevelt also urges more stringent
regulation of immigration; the improvement of
our naturalization and copyright laws; the pro
hibition of inter-State traffic in adulterated foods;
reduction of the Philippine tariff, and the admis
sion of Porto Ricans to American citizenship. As to
(niinh
vx vxixii, u.x uvij xix.v in. jl i may no i COIH6 m
five years or ten, but in the end England will be
forced to turn either to it or to some form of
reciprocity.
fence over yonder. Now the tariff gap needs fix
ing, too no doubt in the world about that but a
man must do one thing at a time, and the Presi
dent sees a possibility now of carrying rate regu
lation, but not of carrying tariff reform. So he
drops the distant thing for the immediately prac
tical and we endorse his stand in this matter;
Minor Matters.
The turmoil in Russia continues, and it is still
a question as to whether the present system of
government, even with diminished powers, will be
able to weather the storm: Last week General
Sakharoff, former Minister of War, was murdered
by a woman and this is but an examnle nf tta
the much discussed question of Statehood for the general hatred of the ruling classes
though we promise to aid in any castigation if, Territories, he favors the admission of Oklahoma
having carried rate regulation, he then shuts his
eyes to the outrages of our tariff robbers.
The Rate Regulation Idea Fairly Stated.
The gist of. President Roosevelt's rate regula
The big life insurance companies are at last be
ginning to "turn the rascals out." Old McCurdy
who, so generously offered to cut his own salary
as President of the Mutual Life from $150,000 to
$75,000 a year, now has no salary at all; and
Ohauncey M. Depew has resigned as director of
the Equitable without a word of explanation not
even quoting a hoary chestnut to illustrate his
case.
At Wake Forest College last week Dr. W. L.
and Indian Territory as one State and of Arizona
and iNew Mexico as one State. Federal regula
tion of insurance is suggested, the Monroe Doc
trine strenuously upheld, and a liberal appropri
ation for the Jamestown Exposition recom-
tion idea as given in his Message is so well stated mened.
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by the New York Outlook of December 9th that
we reprint its outline herewith in lieu of anv Congress at Work.
summary of our own: Congress is again hard at work nnd. wns
I - -. 7 - i ' j- ui uoii vuuckc lasii wc
uur crreat railroad cornnMtmns nw nnt nnHor l peciea, peaxer cannon has been re-elfintpd TFhii Pnfoof moa 0mi. x;j a
faW CZTT StSte haS "? CnsJtitu: Joto Sharp Williams is at the head of the Demo- and scholar, Dr. Poteat is also one of the best-
S&KSJSi Te'reUraroT tsZt T'" lD Grma"- rUnJed m6n in SUthem eduction. . free fr
exercised the power which it possesses. They thus J .?SG PrestlSe has been so much shattered by his narrowness and over-conservatism on one hand as
'occjipy the position of subjects without a sov- failure in the recent Maryland election, may give he is from the freakish and innoclastic spirit on
?tpa T?rins u?der t16 sovereignty of way to Bailey, of Texas, as Democratic leader, the other; and the Baptist State Convention in
SSSSr 'SSL" TiiSlan5 SqUarl? by 6 did to -t itself to raise $150,000 ,
' itil icguiauua, ueciaring aowment ior tne collesre.
A notable decision of the United States Su
preme Court last week was that holding that
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of all combinations, but 'such adecmate suDer- Uiat " was a -Democratic policy long before Mr.
Viainn on1 romil n 4-1 . I r OnSfTrfIf r o n o -m o ir. I l l ' .
uwmut no uiusi uuxisjjicuuus cnampioii.
vision and regulation as will crevent. anv rpstn'o
tion of competition from being to the detriment
6f the public. Eventually the National Govern
ment should obtain such control over the big cor
porations engaged in inter-State commerce as
will enable it to prevent various abuses, chief of
which is over-capitalization. But the first thing
to do is 'to secure such supervision and regula
tion of the rates charged by the railroads of the
country engaged in inter-State traffic as shall sum
marily and effectively prevent the imposition of
unjust or unreasonable rates.' This Hops nnt
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volve power to initiate rates generally, but, upon
complaint and after investigation, to regulate a
rate already fixed by the road."
In this connection, too, a paragraph from the
last issue of a well-known religious journal comes
Senator Tillman is also a vigorous suDDorter of
the President; and in North Carolina there is
some surprise that Senator Simmons has not
joined Senator Overman in declaring himself on
the side of the people. But we expect him to
do this.
South Carolina dispensaries must pay the Federal
liquor license tax. The Court savs that the State
may regulate the liquor traffic as it may see fit
but not in such a way as to escape the payment
of the usual fees to the National Government.
Do you remember the plan for "A $50,00,000
Cotton Trust" oc sot f'h in TVm Progressive
A Tragedy in High Life. v 11 it mav de-
velop into a eriarantic realitv. Mr. J. A. Brown,
pitiable tragedy of last Saturday in the death of of Chadbourn, one of the two North Carolina
Senator Mitchell, of Oregon. For the larger part
of thirty years a member of the greatest lpp-isl.
tive body in the world, and in age past his three
score years and ten, he died in sh, ioo
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to mind-a just tribute to the moral soundness of ZlL h at. las
Southern ideals of which every Southerner may in VorZ.A n , i Twnen wrlter wk3
well be proud : . "The House is with the President forSStv , itchelPs trial
But the Senate is in doubt. So manv of tn T ' 9omPei y m the famous land frauds was in
publican Senators are trust and railroad men as J,1?88' the result was a conviction. Fallen ciaed Press dispatch goes on to say, "is t
Depew, Aldrich, Piatt etc etc that the VmiLn u lrom hls hlgh state for the Senator at last nation of a gigantic corporation with su
fit etc., etc., tnat ttie President there was nrh rlie .u . , , canital to hn M wnrphmM nt. the cotton
members of RontTiPTn Potton Asanniation's Execu
tive Committee, is earnestly championing the
idea, and in Charlotte Saturday he held a confer
ence with; representative of the American Hanu
facturers Association, to consider the advisability
of organizing the corporations "It is said that
the scheme which is being talked of," an Asso
eiateo" Prfisa rlisTiaoV! n-noo nn tn anv. "is the iOr'
fficient
n s, rod on the Southern Democrats to save death to end the shame oi 7 -T of' this country and Europe, and then buy W
bis.caUse. This brings the cleanness of the South unta he came to 1 M T' n8-shaPen enough of the yearly crop to hold the balance of
unmne came to say with Macbeth: , m'vi .nl.te values."
capital to build warehouses at the cotton centres
power n the market and regulate values.