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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1897
Page
2
N R P A editorial notes discuss bolters and public sentiment, postal savings banks, and legislative timing. It condemns Wall Street influence, laments tariff and election-law disputes, and notes telephone rates in Winston and legislators seeking free passes for Railroad Commissioners.
The article notes farmers will buy large quantities of commercial fertilizers again, boosting cotton tobacco and truck yields but questions if they can afford it. It argues for reducing money crops, ploughing deeper, planting peas, terracing hills, and turning under green crops to improve soil so less guano is needed.
In North Carolina the Eastolling Clerk's office runs up costs from 50 to 70 dollars a day as Reynolds and Mewbcorme take charge and party politics push for more clerical hires. Speakers, caucuses, and appointments raise daily expenses, prompting expected voter retribution at the next election.
A one vote margin split marked both houses as lawmakers divided over a bill to cut railroad passenger and freight charges and telegraph and telephone rates. The House failed 55 to 54, Senate 24 against 23 for relief, while fights over railroad salaries and influence by rail interests dominated. The piece notes Roll calls to be preserved for campaign use and cites steel market shifts since the 1875 Steel Rail Association dissolution with a $5,000,000 transaction.
The piece argues New York faces decline as grain shipments move to the Gulf via routes from Mississippi states to New Orleans and Galveston. Rival ports such as Norfolk, New Berne, Wilmington, Charleston, and Savannah gain prominence as railroads redirect commerce away from New York. It warns against investing in New York amid predicted downfall.
The bill passed the house Tuesday by 60 to 54 and heads to the Senate next Friday for a close vote. The outcome could affect control of state assets including the Southern Railway Company’s potential deed and the Raleigh Tribune plant, pending voter reconsideration.
In Harlem New York a man named Lange faced a theft charge after taking two loaves from a bread wagon. Policeman Hawkins testified he caught Lange in the act. Lange claimed long unemployment and hunger, and bakery owner Feltman withdrew charges. Judge Wentworth dismissed the case, Lange left empty handed and breadless. The narrative notes Harlem's large currency reserves.
Co F Cooper of Raleigh writes to critique North Carolina legislature for favoring mill owners over workers. He urges passing a ten hour limit, banning child labor under 14, and empowering lawmakers to protect operatives from starv ing wages and long hours. The letter condemns petitions against reform and calls for humanity over profits.
A collage of editorial quips from reform papers and party rants. It parodies plutocracy rhetoric and political alliances while noting rallies, reform measures in Cuba, and a $250000 New York society ball as symbols of inequality.
In a backroom exchange the Major voices plans to obtain a charter for a Raleigh Tribune Railway Company with a car catcher and smokestack. A humorous riff on politics follows, noting rival parties and the imagined railway running long after the Tribunes, with remarks on Republican and Rothschild lines and economic schemes.
Lyman J. Gage confessed that his bank loaned $800000 to Yellow Poplar Lumber Co in direct violation of a law limiting loans to ten percent of capital stock. To hide the breach $500000 was charged off as bad debt though Gage claimed the borrower was strong and would not default.
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