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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1902
Page
3
Reports to R G Dun show 1901 failures total 11 002 with 113 092 376 liabilities compared with 1900 10 833 and 174 113 236. Banking insolvencies were 74 totaling 15 018 774, plus 11 076 defaults and 131 111 150 liabilities overall.
An Illinois reader reports Admiral Sampson's mental condition as hopeless, citing a Mrs. Sampson’s letter from Washington dated December 23 1901. The letter defends Sampson amid controversy with Admiral Schley and notes his long life of duty and fatigue.
William Ellery Channing, last of Concords famous circle with Thoreau Hawthorne and Emerson, died aged 105. Born November 29 1818 in Boston he was an author of marked originality and poetic power.
The House approved a December 18 tariff bill by 163 to 128 to meet Supreme Court conditions. It enacts the Philippine Commission plan on imports, levies U S duties on Philippine and foreign imports, and channels revenue to the island treasury. Vessels from the Philippines face foreign-tonnage rules but receive a three year exemption from coastwise trade limits.
Census Bureau release details cotton industry growth with value of products at 336,977,992 dollars up 25 percent since 1490. 1,011 establishments. capital 67,240,157 dollars. salaries 4,996 4. total wages 90,384,532. wage earners 302,861. Grover Cleveland joins National Civic Federation industrial department to promote labor capital harmony.
A list of prominent recent deaths includes Sir Joseph Henry Gilbert in London at 74, celebrated for agriculture chemistry and physiology. Justice David McAdam of the New York Supreme Court at 63. Jennie C. Croly, famed writer and editor known as Jennie June, in New York at 72. Edward Onslow Ford the English sculptor died at 49. Sir James Laing, a renowned shipbuilder and naval architecture authority, passed at 78. Governor Gregory of Rhode Island died suddenly. Governor John R. Rogers of Washington died December 26 of pneumonia. Senator W. J. Sewell of New Jersey, born 1835 in Ireland, who led Republicans in New Jersey and served in the Senate during party majorities, died at his Camden home on the 27th.
The piece argues Boer defeats stem from population shortages and lack of armament, contrasting with Gomez in Cuba who used guerrilla tactics to exhaust Spain. It predicts a shift away from universal conscription as militarism wanes and stresses intelligent, individual military capability over old drills.
An exhibit of live stock at the Charleston Exposition will be the largest ever held in the South. It opens January 6 and runs to January 20 with 1000 entries from seventeen states. Premiums totaling 15000 dollars are on deposit at the Bank of Charleston for winners. George F. Weston of Vanderbilt's Biltmore stock farm chairs the live stock department.
The Schley Court findings spark fierce dispute in Congress and press. Admirals faces censure backlash while supporters urge legal redress. White House backs containment and quick resolution. public splits between naval profession and popular opinion over battle versus movements prior to June 1.
The Review of Reviews notes the two year civil war in Colombia has killed over fifty thousand, paralyzed business, and left the country impoverished. It describes Colombia’s clerical conservatism, Venezuela’s liberal yet dictatorial regime under Castro, and rising revolutionary plots threatening future bloodshed as both nations wrestle with internal revolutions.
The census shows the black population rose from 4.5 million in 1860 to about 9 million in 1900 while whites grew from 27 million to about 67 million. Net immigration boosted white growth more than blacks, with natural increases nearly equal. In 1880 to 1900 the white birth rate was about 33 percent and the black rate about 34 percent. Most blacks remained in the South with little migration, though northern cities saw modest increases. The piece notes likely faster future growth for blacks due to lower infant mortality and health awareness, while old sensational theories about black extinction or displacement are rejected. It also reports U.S. exports and a federal bounty payment to Admiral Schley and Admiral Sampson.
The piece notes new mayors in Bridgeport Connecticut and San Francisco. Dennis Mulvihill, a former factory stoker, is elected mayor of Bridgeport on a platform of honesty and character. Eugene Schmidt, a 33 year old former theater orchestra leader, is elected mayor of San Francisco, advocating a municipality where the people rule.
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