The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-05-09
GOOD INTENTIONS VS.. BAD PRE-
MENTIONS.
TREAD Lightly on the Ashes of Those
Who Sleep"

- II Il "a Nm Elk
that many citizens are pouring out
their viols of mighty wrath upon the
late lamented legislature, now de
ceased. Sam Hanker appears upon the
stage Of action with pen in hand and a
paper shield by his side in it's dire de-
Tense. To cut the matter short, their
Intentions, he claims, were good; only
their ~preventions bad. Did thew not
start to save from SO, 900 to SIS, 600 a
year on public printing by letting it out
to the lowest bidder9 Certainly they
did. But here comes in the I'VE
ton. The party official organs must
be paid, and who is going to pay them
half so well as the Democratic admin
istratiOn. 1t must take care of it's own
organs. The man who does not take
care of his own household is worse
than a heather Or infidel. You may
call this spending the peoples money
for partizan purposes if you choose,
but we assure such niggardIy scamps
who begrudgo a little mite for party
services that it is a heap easter than
running your hand in your own pocket
aud pulling it out.
There come to pass a bad prevention
to the anti trust bill also. The trust
fellows, known and unknown, came
numbering in from all quarters. Quoth
one and ali this bill will ruin the
farmers: - SO out Of love for the farm
ers it died.
No doubt the intention of the legisla
tUre was good when it repealed the
school law. 1t thought it was fighting
a charter for an Incorporation. But on
seeingits error, it promptly came to the
rescue and went on to appropriate near
a million dollars worth Of Z cent cot
ton and 1 cent tobacco to show their
progressive spiritand ntenseliberality.
Every one said we want more money.
So it came believing to the rescue and
fixed State banks ready, willing and
waiting for the 10 per cent. tax to be
repealed 40 years ahead If time. Out
Of due Difference to the call of the PEG
pie for more money it stuck its dagger
in the heart of old Democracy and
foreswore it wasnot opposed to national
banks, but would gladly introduce the
system in every State. The prevention
comes in here, the 10 per cent. is not
repealed.
Sam Hanker is not going to allow
the acts Of the last legislature to be so
severely criticized without puttingina
word, Now a great complaint is raised
that this same legislature which lived
and died amid frost and now ere the
piping and towering time of spring
came around, did repeal the Alliance
charter in the House in ten minutes
time. They thought this good politics.
But the Senate brought arouni a kind
of prevention, saying: Let not our
hands be stained with the blood of the
Alliance. Give it stricbnine and opium
and let it die an easy DEATH" So the
legislature took out It's syringe and
commenced to inject into its body cor
pOrate the mortal seeds Of death; and |
many friends of the farmers stood not
a far way off and laughed,
All day long with Susie,
All day long with Susie, |
And Just before night she said a little somc-
And just before the legislature got
through its epidermatic work on the
Alliance it paused and said q little
something. This is what it said: eff
the salaries of any of the officers Of the
Alliance shall be increased the same
shall work a forfeiture of the charter,n
or something like it. Now the great
est constitutional lawyers in the legis
lature were on the judiciary commit
tee, which recommended that this bill
pass for it was good politics. It is
good politics to prescribe or circum-
scribe the salaries OF the officers Of one
corporation to show we have the right
to circumscribe the salaries of all other
corporations. Look out, ye high-priced
officials, banks and trusts. Sam Hank
9r's legislature, with its fine constitu-
5lonal lawyt RS, have set a precedent. I
The State has a right to pre-
scribe the official salaries of i~ncorpora-
ions. Yes, sir, it's constitutional, its
aw. Ifnot, the constitutional lawyers s
would not have dared to risk their j
equation by injecting it into the
Lmended Alliance charter. You may
ak about the 'rossum legislature, (
sam Tanker contends it had some !
as well as politics, after all.
What did Sampson say when he pro I
'osed a riddle to the PhiIlistines?
'omething about sweet coming out of l
he bitter, was it not? {