The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-10-30

oOO, the school property became almos,
worthless, and but a small proportion o.
the children were in attendance upon
school.
Since the Democratic party came into
control, in 1876, IA years) that party
has not expended less per anaum. i'm the
cause OF education, than $780, CO and
that too without any increase in taxa
ton.
And now schoolh houses dot almost every
mil and hundreds of happy children OF
both races trudge to school there to nut
on the intellectual armor in which to
fight the battle of hfc-children i'm whose
Joyous laughter and increased hopes and
better chances of success, we see the
beneficence and grandeur Of the Demo-
cratic party
The Blair Educational bill passed by
the Democratic House of Representative
would have distributed thousands. ave
millions, throughout our sunny land to
advance the cause of education. but n
Republican Senate stabbed that bill to
death, notwithstanding the tears and
prayers of our children for more Light.
and standing above its dead BODY the
fathers OF the North and South white
and black ought to curse and damn the
Republican party.
The Democratic party and that party.
alone, has realized and put into oper-
alton the beauty and truth of Words
worth's lines:
oh for the coming Of that glorious time,
when priZing knowledge as her noblest
wealth
And best protection, this imperial realm
While she exacts allegiance, shall admit
An obligation on her part, to teach
. who IN nj t,a,
Binding herself by statute, to secure
For all the children whom her soil MAIN
tains
The rudiments of letters, and to inform
Inc MIND with moral and religious truth,
Both understood and practiced, so that
However destitute, be left to droop and to
drudge
Through weary life, without the aid
or intellectual implements and TOOLS"
The speaker then discussed at length
and with great force and eloquence the
Tariff, the Force bill, Sectionalism, the
Fraudulent Census, &C., and made a
strong plea for Democratic organization
to rebuke and checkmate these high
handed outrages AZ practiced by the
party in power. His arrangement OF the
Republican party for it's abuses OF the
public confidence and the burdens of OK
cessive taxation placed upon the masses
was scathing and terrific.
SENATOR VANCE AND THE FARMERs' AL
LANCE.
Mr.. Henry then paid high tribute to
Senator Vance and the Farmers Al
lance. He said:
In the gigantic struggle in the Senate
| OF the United States against the passage
OF the Mckinley Tariff Bill, the passage
OF the Infamous Force bill and the enact
ment of all other legislation that has
threatened the welfare of our institutions,
and the autonomy OF our Government,
the hosts of Democracy have been led by
champion who is admitted to be one of
the greatest statesmen that this country
has yet produced, even though the voices
OF intellectual giants have reverberated
and still reverberate along those halls; a
champion whose name is respected and
feared by thousands at the North and
loved and venerated at the South; who
is as pure as Calhoun, as profound as
Jefferson, and as patriotic as Washing
ton. One whose unselfshness and love for
his people have been exemplified by thirty
years, unfagging toll in their behalf, and
accentuated and made sublime by his
labOring for their interests, until nature
herself revolted at his sacrifice, and he
was almost deprived of his sight, and of
the blessed right of looking upon the
bright sun, the beauties Of earth, his
loved ones, and his native land.
Truly indeed may he exclaim
'Oh. my country
For thee-thee only, is toll my
familiar.
No pulse in my ambition,
Whose beatings were not measured
from thy heart,
With thee, have entwined my
passions and my fate,
My virtues and my life"
Is there q mind so ignorant, heart 40
cold, a nature 80 devoid OF gratitude, as
not to know that allude to that born
leader of men
"Of piercing wit and pregnant thought.
Endowed by nature. and by learning
TO move assemblies"
Our own Zebulon b. Vance?-God bless
him.
We read that the great Pyramid OF
Gizeh is composed oflayers of masonary,
should the bottom layers become injured
the capstone, two hundred feet above,
would be thrown out Gifts perpendicular,
q crack would extend through the whole
mighty mass and soon it would lie upon
the plain heap of ruins.
Soifagriculture, the foundation becomes
injured, the whole superstructure COM
in life must necessarily suffer.
GnlI H.,
said
"Ill fares the land to fastening ills a
prey,
Where wealth accumulates and me-.
Princes and lords may flourish Of may
fade,
A breath can make them as breath has
But bold people their country's pride
When once destroyed can never be sup
piled
1t cannot be denied that the agricultu-
ralists of North North Carolina, have
been laborlng under many burdens, and
against many grievous hardships. the
principal one being the Tariff, and ],
for one, am glad that they have like other
professions and vacations in life, organ
lied themselves into n body which can
make it's influence, lis intelligence and it's
power felt in the halls of Legislation.
But God forbid that | should ever See
cause to believe that this grand organi-
cation will eyer attempt or desire to To-
ment class distinctions, or will lend itself
! to any movement which might result in
sweeping the white man out Of office and
| the negro into power.
| Tell me not that the farmers OF North
| Carolina will defeat, or endeavor to de-
feat Zebulon b. Vance Such statement
| deem an insult to their intelligence, to
their gratitude, to their justice, and to
/ their manhood.
To do so would be to imperil the Dem
ocratic party, in which is all their hope,
/ the education. Happiness and honor OF their
children and the glory and ue.are OF the
! State.
| No, they will not thus prove untrue to
the principles that were instilled with
/ their mothers milk.