The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-09-23

better give up the struggle to attain
our ends and be done with it.
If we regard the individual reputa-
ton of politicians with their pro
tracted hold upon Office, of more con,
S. oupnce than the consummation OF
The reforms which constitute the staple
of our principles, for all the good like
ly to be- accomplished thereby, our
Order had better cease to be and break
up into chaotic fragments at once.
While condoning the reprehensible
actions of politicians; submitting to a
blind infatuation that doggedly sd-
heres, without rhyme or reason, TO a
mere name, we. only make political
panderers and wretched demagogues
of ourselves. Thus, by our plant-like
resignation to the opposing powers
that be we have yielded, and still
yield, irresistibly, to the letters that
bind us with the most circumscribed
tethers, beyond which, it seems, we
care not to 60. We are, indeed, so
welded to habit, In this respect, that
we may we'll try to xcuse ourselves
like the character in the play who ex
claimed
IF damned custom h ave not brassed 1t so
That it is proof and bulwark against sense"
Now, as to this humiliating propen-
sity to apotheosize, or make a demi-
god of a fellow mortal. Let's devote
a few sentences to this razzle dazzling
subject. The day for hero-worship
has passed. The people now require
good reasons for opinions, whether
they emenate from prominent men or
not. Mere individual consideration,
at this time of day, is held to be too
insignificant, when it in the least INFER
feres with or threatens the public
veal. So far as the Alliance is con
cerned, politicians, by which is meant
those so called statesmen who regard
their own selfish aims of more conse
querce than the public welfare, should
be accommodated with an AnaLhema
to fit their recreaucy. We may not
entertain any personal dislike toward
such men in consequence of their
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antagonism against measures in which
we are deeply concerned should be
most emphatically engendered. Those
misrepresentation who show them
selves such slaves to caucuses and the
party lash as to disregard the inter
ests of their constituents, should be
made to step down and out, for we,
at this juncture, need statesmen and
not narrow politicians. At the very
time when we have the best reasons
in the world to make such step down
and out, we inspired with the desire
to turn right round, with a we'll braced
lift, to kindly and CONSIDERABLY re-
instate them, by a help, to sep up
and in
1t seems that serving a protracted
term in Congress makes a man so
smart and so great that some people
don't know how to gel beyond the in.
huence of such an impression. And
then, too, the politicians have. had full
swing so long in duping US that they
deem it one Of their prerogatives 20
have a mortga5 e upon popular gull.
b lity, and the v~eriest presumption
on the part Of thu "dear people y 10
criticise or gainsay their course.
There is one thing hat generally
takes with the people which we ought
carefully to guard against. We are
too pro- to be gulled by the apparent
frankness evinced by politicians when
they are called upon to avow their
opinions. This sc. called honesty in
speaking their exact sentiments in %
position to a popular measure may be
taken for what it S worth, but when
such a display of courage is made to
accord with party mandates instead of
sacred obligations to the people. we
must be excused if we fail to appre-
ciate such intrepid political bravery.
Shall we be so untrue to our ale
glance as to jeopardize the cause for
the sake of a mere Individual consid-
Grafton? All business men employ
only those who look faithfully after
their interests; corporations are c4re
full and rigid in exacting obedience of
employees and discharge them when
they fail in their duties; why should
not the people do likewise with their
servants and discard them when they
fall short in their services
How are we served with regard to
the Sub Treasury plan ? Here is a
scheme we have devised as possessing
a remedy which we think will amelio
rate our deplorable condition, and yet,
opposed by men whose records ex
hibit a glaring inconsistency with the
reasons they advance against it. They
advocated, when it suited them, meas,
ures more Objectionable, from a con
s%tituional and paternal stand point,
than the Sub Treasury bill, yet they
oppose, on this score, a plan more
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