The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-01-24
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Ne scy that member of the purse
proud abolition firm of 4. Inrritlari
~ %. of New York. has b.,en tofore
he congressional committee to protest
against any reduction ol tile tobacco
tax. lie was imrudent enough t.
throw in slie-rcmark that the gov
ernment ought 10 cast is weight In
favor II large New York houses, like
theirs, rather than 70 smaller manufa..
turers IN the States, becaus. il would
be safer. ~ small dealers were more
likely - swindle than big houses lik.
his, and IL il easer ca collect taxes from
one than from many. We trust ther.
is not merchant in Raleigh, or else
where in the South, who buys tobacco
or snuff. from the Lorrillards, THIS,
Is the house, remember, that some
years ago, grossly insultea the clergy
man who called upon them for sub
scription 10 Gen. Lees monument.
Lee, they declared, was traitorous
old villain, who ought 10 bc hanged.
like dog, by the neck And as fos
your beggarly Southern trade, cried
thcv, We don't want ii :" This was
when the South seemed crushed ano
ifeless Things are different now;
and. we trust no southerner will have
any dealings with the contemplate
ours When YOU 60 10 buy tobacco
ask whence il came. and il from them
throw ii back, and go elsewhere FOR
your supply
4 word TO our Democratic friends
in regard to the negroes. Many facts
go to show that If the race is dying
out, II IS SO slowly nc to make il hardly
likely We shall observe marked
diniEution during the present genera
ton. Having, therefore, tins eieineh'
III our midst, we must make the best
OF him train him TO bc sclf-susiaih-
ing. honest and coutcnted. 10 TINS
end. we suggest that every influential
Southcrner try to encourage thoee
freedmen with whom he comes III con
tact. To save his earnings and buy
little homestead. Whenever negro
becomes ambitious in this direction,
lie rapidly acquires good reputation
Again. we think il would be well IT
the white people should make il a rule
10 praise their servants, or others,
whenever they show disposition tn
behave well. The poor African, by
nature, Is greatly impressed ~ the
opinions OF those whom he has been
whose superiority, even as man 10
man, H. Is bound to admit. 50 kind
word Of approval may confirm good
habit or shame a secretly bad one.
DR. Willard Parker, the eminent
authority on such matters, estimates
that from 40 10 ~ per cent. that -
nearly one L1lf Of all the LONAIlC9
in this country are made - BY the use
Of liquor and that one out of every
two IDIOTS il the child Of intemper.
ate parents and tha. eight out oi
evcrv ten CRIMINALS we're brought to
crime bv the use Of liquor
Yet there are mothers, professediy
christians, who Viii be only too gla.l
10 marry their lovely daughters 10 an
habitual drinkcr caring little for his
habits or his idiotic, epsleptic children
If only lie have money. And there
are fathers who know that they have
bequcathed to their SONS love oi IL
quOr from their own veins yet IN
stead OF setting the boy an example OF
temperance, and of the thirst that
Viii one day come t. him, actually al
low him freedom. which the boy T.-
CARDS - almost encouragement -
drink
Great Heavens when the veil of
mortality shall fall from our eyes re
vealiDg all the follies Of earth what a
spectacle will not most Of our lives
present