The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-05-06
A LETTER FROM MARTIN
COUNTY,
How PoIiteness Paws,
DARDEN, n. G. Anril 100

lngs OF traternal love to the brethror
and sisters that read The PRoaproe,Tn
FARMER, let them be North or go,,+b
East or West, and it would gIaJIu w.
the same for every other man or
man belonging to the Alliance ~
Union in or over the wide world
were it possible to reach them
Brethren, so thoroughly identified
are we in sympathy, zeal and enthusi.
asm for the cause with those who
contribute to the columns of the best
paper in the South, that we cannot
refrain from giving vent to our feel
ings by saying, we are with you, soul
and body, and we would just like to
file our affdavits in support of the
assertion; and we are going to do so
before the year 1890 passes away, and
we claim your help. We are going
to file them securely in the archives
of paternal legislative halls, State and
National, not in the illegible hand
writing upon the walls so hard to be
understood; but in the most modern
hieroglyphics that the Sun and Herald
NAV study them and find by actual
| observation that there is really such a
thing in existence as the Farmers
| Alliance, and that the term hayseed
socialist might possibly have been
misapplied. 1t is of course difficult
for such men as the editors Of the
above papers to see contrary to their
own interests, habits and education.
They feel as representatives of the
wealthy that they have a right to
more than their proportionate share
of this worlds goods and privileges;
that they have a right to ~stigmatize
the labor movement and a right to
use their intelligence to so run their
business as to make profit to themsel-
yes and to increase their boarded
wealth, no matter who else may be
compelled by force of circumstances
to drag through life with few of its
comforts, if with all it's necessities,
even.
Brethren, let US render unto Caesar
the things that are Cas ar's, or all that
rightfully belong to him, but no
more. The great Triumoir, as you
} remember, had no right to cross the
Rubicon, yet he usurped the right.
| He was ambitious. He had carried
the Roman eagle from the summit of
the Caucasus to the hills of the Gale
dony, over the Bosphorous and the
. Rhine, the Alps and the Pyrinees, and
l he should have been contented, bUt
how like our illustrious, much-to-be-
S adored statesmen Of the present day
9 with some few exceptions). The
Rubicon and Constitution a smile
S offers a very slight barrier to am
bilious march OF Colds bright lumin-
GUS shine. Brethren, [ am no prophet,
a butt say the tide has turned, sectional
+ ism is to a great extent dead forever,
r and by it's death many governmental
f~allacies will die the death they have
1 long since deserved to die. Many an
e tiquated notions, grown old and obso-
lete, will give way for new and better
g ones; and now to insure victory, we
e must march arm and arm together to
n the drum-tap of every Alliance alarm;
be watchfuI of the political dema-
y gogues, for they are a caution and
will need watching. They remind
me of an anecdote about an old negro
down in Georgia. There was a circus
S going on in one of the towns, and in
a field some two miles distant were
P a lot of negroes at work. In the after
noon the circus had a balloon ascen-
n sion and the balloon came down IN
/ the field where the darkies were' at
is work, they having never seen a bal
,e loon, thought the Lord of Glory was
coming down to Judge the quick and
the dead. They all took to their heels
and ran off but one old darby who
was too lame and old to make his esq
" cape He endeavored to make the
best of it while mentally dim visions
of departed chickens fit across MS
memory he cast about for some ex-
cuse to serve him in the extremity and
:, settled upon what his old nanny had
" taught him from his youth up, viz:
IS Politeness goes further than money.
d So armed with so potent a charm TO
e propitiate the wrath Of the Just one;
10 he approached with hat in hand ana
~ made his patient bow and said: "Good
evening, Marse Jesus, how you leap
D. your pa? ,"
!! And so it is with many OF our
IS, sorehead politicians. They have come
is to the conclusion that politeness VIII
% Alliance men will 60 a long way, III
m getting him to vote right, and EHe9
IT never miss an opportunity of shaking ing
ca hands and asking how you I9l'
ad your pa. know how
,ss to fight trusts, rings or d m0aUP one to
h, take take AMID AMID 1osd d" TIE PnosHss5 11 .a FAR:
MET. oo WE to our little postOfice re-