The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-06

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work they do in their profes-
sion, yet there are those who
"pick one tooth while you pick
the other" He used the illus
tratio.lof the two neighbors who
disputed the ownership of-a
COW and went to a lawyer with
their grievance; and. while one
Hay hold of each end of the COW
the lawyer MIXED her for all
she was worth. The merchants,
and these other classes, ca mot
ldo without us, nor can we do
without them.
THERE'S also some objection
to us ON the part Of political
partisans. We are not partisan
politics. Politics sthe science
OF government and in SO far we
are politicians. We want to see
good government. Nothing af-
fects the farmer or any other
class W thout true politics.
We have not kept pace with
other organizations because of
lack of education The farmer
needs education as well as any.
professional man. He needs
| specially to understand science,
chemistry and botany. He used
an illustration of a man who
had little education but by good
fortune had accumulated much
wealth, yet did not give his
children an education because
he thought his boys were en-
titled to no better chance for
getting along in the world than
he had. This was a mistaken
idea. We ought to give our
children every opportunity pos
sible to get an education; it will
be of more benefit than any
thing else that could be done
for them. The best men and
leaders in our land often come
from between the plow handles.
Farmers are principally own
ers Of land They are tillers of
the soil and should own the soil
they till. To own the land
makes them take deeper inter
est in what is going on around
them. Forty years ago no land
in our country was owned by
foreigners and corporations,
inow they own more than half
| The mortg ige system is gradu-
ally moving the people out Of
their homes. Let us be lovers
of home and children and corr
rect this.
In passing he said the farmers
pay more iaxes toward main
tanning any other class, yet t.ey
have the smallest representation
in the government councils.
" hen he reached the sub
treasury he said that is the
point we ate fought SO much on
now. There should be no OBJ
i lection to this. 1t has been in.
stigated by the best men of our
order and even by many outside
Some charge that it is uncon-
stitutional. / am not much of
a lawyer, but it seems TO me
that il a majority of the Ameri-
lean people want q thing they
have the power to make il con-
stitutional; they have the right
TO change the constitution to
meet their requirements. Be-
cause the constitution has stood
as it is for 100 years is no rea-
son why il should not be chang
ed. If the majority want it
changed they have the right TO
| do il.
/ Not everybody outside of the
Alliance are against us in our
views. There are many people
whose avocations renders them
| ineligible to membership W til
us, yet they are with us in SEN
timent and wish US God speed
in the good purposes for which
we are organized. The Alliance
| Is q wonderful educating organ
lization. Already many bene-
| fits have been derived from it.
Many men have been led 70
think for themselves and be-
come more int, lligent. The
brethren should not be discour-
aged, but 20 forward with vigor
III the work before them.
In the above tile Reflector
gives only a brief synopsis oi
lis speech, which was of little
more than an hours length.
There was no marked eloquence
or ability about the speaker and
nc made no pretentions TO ora
tory, being as he stated in tile
outset only q plain, practical
man, but he said man good
Things and gave his hearers
something TO think about. His
speech here was free from any
spirit Of bragadocio or fore,
THAT wanted 70 crush down ey,
erybudy whose ideas didnot ex
actly accord with his. He wal
fair to all classes.
Good Pr res l:.,ok,d For.