Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-06-20


cal they have got in, and can new
from the South hold their hand with
them? Suppose the Georgia farmers
turn out Crisp and Blount and Turner
and Clements and all the rest, and
put IN a new set who don't under
stand log rolling rascalitv, will we
ever get another appropriation
10 clean out a branch or build d
post office? Of course nobody ex-
poets anybody 10 vote for the sub
treasury scheme, but it is right
good horse to ride in on. though l
think our aspiring Office seekers
aught to do the clean thing and say
they want to 90 just because they
want to 90, and because the inns
have been in long enough. That is
reason enough. Why give a wrong
reason for wrong thing, there is
no good sense in the farmeas trying
TO make martyrs of Themselves.
Some oil their organs talk like they
were ali penned up in . stoGkade and
:Ae rest Of mankind we're outside
pegging away at them like a passed.
OF COm0nchee Indians. II anybody
has done anything to the farmer
more than to other people [ don t
know it. | tarmed for eleven years
and nobody done me any harm that
| know of. | moOved to town for
schools or | would have been farming
vet. It is the most honest and in
dependent business upon EARTH
that is if man owns his farm and
has cot q little outside income for an
aspiring family. That is all the trOu
bic | fDunu. 1t was the aspiring
family trying to keep open house
like we used to in days "when Mig
gers were" and the chickens and
ducks and turkeys meanuered III
drove all aronnd the premises I
know more farmers who have got bet
ter Of in the last ten years than any
other profession. | see that the
sheriff Of Sumter county has been
! examineing the tax books and took
list at random Of 80 farmers and
within eight wears their property has
increased $3.50, 900, and not one OF
them has suffered decrease. Some
men Will accumulate at anything and
will fail at anything. There is more
in the man than in the farm. Some
are shifty and some unshifty aud
unthrif5v. Things are not going to
| be even all around in this world, 1t
takes two worlds 20 strike balance
sheet between Dives and Lazarus,
and even then Lazerus got the best
OF it Some folks have hard luck
and hard time, but if | WAS going
TO hunt for class of people who
had harder time than any other
class, | wouldn't pick out the far
mers. Some times away in the
dead of q cold winter night | hear
the freight train rolling by, and |
know there are men at the brakes
and firemen at the tender, and they
are exposed to rain and the storm,
while | am warm and comfortable in
pleasant home and it makes me sad
and sorrowfuI. And just SO when |
ruminate over the thousands of pale
face girls working in the cotton fac
tories for a bare living, and thous-
ands of working women who
are bending over needle and thread
making the skirts that I wear for three
cents apiece. Oh, the pity of it, the
pity of it, hat can we do for them:
But this alliance business is the most
harmless upheaval we have ever had In
politics. There is no anarchy or
communisom in it. They Just want
TO run the machine awhile and [ think
we ought to let them run it. Maybe
they will clean up the mOnOpOlis and
| trusts when they getto congress. May
be they will stop the corners on meat
! and bread. We see the book men have
just formed big trust in schooIbooks