The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-11-29

to dislOdge the professional politicians
and demagogues from their stronghold.
The recent elections all over the
{ South show that fewer men are elected
lndOrsing our principles than were
elected two years ago. Is this because
vote their convictions, or plurOcracy,
realizing its danger, used greater effort
and more means to combine all anti
reform clements against us; and
further, to pervert the ballot by the
IN any, sharp practices known to pOiCi
clans? Be this as il may. the West
and Northwest have made great prog
ress, while the South apparently has
not. These sections must stand to
gether.
Education or devotion to our pTin
cipleS will be useless unless those prin
cIples can be record, in the ballot box
and counted as recorded. The Alliance
has been a great educational factor in
promulgating the demands of organ
lied labor III uniting labor in the field,
shop and mine in wipiDg out sectional
lines and removing prejudice. We
must now devote our energies to The
solution Of the new problem, which re
tar0s further progress 1t cannot be
CLOSED over IL cannot be explained
;sway.
The difficulty is local confined to
certain portions of the South. Ia my
| ju jgment it must be solved from with
IN. Il cannot be from without. The
| Moth and West must learn the truth
that they may not be altogether dis
c0uraged in the conflict. We are pay
log the penalty for mistakes Of the
past The first, being that Of human
slavery for which the North as we'll as
| South IS responsible and fOr which ali
| have paid the terrible penalty Inflicted
| by the civil war. It was hoped by
many that the fearful sacrifcial atone
menU Of blood and wealth thirty years
ago the penalty had been paid, but 1t
has proven TO be only the beginning
The civil war, the outcome of the agI-
taJiOn 10 prevent the ex eheiJn of
slavery, abolished chattel slavery of
the negro, and in doing SO permitted
the morey power of Europe TO fasten
upon us their financial policy of Con-
rolling labor by controlling money,
which i'll the end, if continued, will
make the condition of so called free
labor, white and black, infinitely
worse than that of chattel slavery.
The second mistake was in enfran-
chisIng the ex slave without an edUca-
Clolal preparation fitting them for an
Intelligent participation in the duties
Of citizenship. Those living in the
North can have but faint conception
of the trials of our brethren III the
South during the reconstruction period
of unScrupulOus carpet bag rule. 1t Is
Ell Dugh TO know that the recOllt CtlOn
of il sJtll haunts their memory to such
an extent that the fear of repetition
causes them to shudder still. ResJOra-
tiOn of white supremacy became the
OatUle cry. All other issues were lost
sight of, and this became paramount.
Here another grave mistake was
made that comes III now to check fur
ther progress in the emancipation Of
labor and from which we musE suffer,
North as well as South. [ mean the
suppression of free ballot an a fair
count, and which is now turned on our
| friends in the South. This must make
reform by the ballot exceedingly slow
IN the States where the negro vote is
an important factor. Having secured
control Of the government in all the
ex slave States, the white citizens be
gan the discussion of the economic
pro 0lems pressing for solution and
were paving the way for a new align
ment of political parties on live ma
tlonal issues, when the Republican
party made grave mistake III trying
to correct from without that which
can only be corrected from within by
the passage of what will pass into hls-
tory as the force bill, " giving the
plutOcratic machine another chance to
renew its lease of power by appealing
to the fears of the white people Of
negro supremacy and Federal inter
ference, and repetition Of the recon
structlOn period, and an excuse to
count out the white mans ballot a.
we'll as the Olack, In this the Demo
cratic party are making their great
mistake. Our white brethren in the
South will not long stand being counted
out No political party can hope to
continue III power in a free republic on
such foundation. In this connection
there is one though wish to press