The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-05-16
AN EDITOR INsULTED.
He Could Not Stand The Pressure

He Could Not Stand The Pressure.
MR. EDITOR: Below l hand you a
communication which was offered to
the Biblical Recorder and declined by
the editor OF account, as he said, of it's
being insulting insulting to himself.
[ suppose his very refined sensibilities
are not unlike those of most of us
that he dislikes to be reminded of his
errors. Perhaps his conscience is prick
ing him because of the imposition on
his readers Of such advertising notices
as that to which mine is reply, or
perhaps he is sour because he over
looked his opportunity and failed to
charge That polite editor did not,
however, get eff the old saw that a re
ligious paper is no place to discuss po-
litjcal questions. He actually said that
he was a Democrat, though he could
not vote the entire ticket last ear be
cause Elias Carr is a jackass." " Nor
could he, as he sold, have voted for
prohibition, because an idiot, J. M.
Templeton, headed the ticket in North
Carolina
Neither of these estimable gentlemen
will care an iota for the elegantly ex
pressed opinion Of the cultured editor,
and simply mention it to show that
he may deceive himself as to the fine
ness of the fabrics that compose his
own texture. If the editor of the Re
cOrder has sold his birthright for a
mess of pottage-his influence to the
liquor interests of the cOuntry-and is
determined to stife all discussion on
the subject except such as conforms to
his own views, then do not see that
his paper is a whit better than any
other liquor journal except that it
wears the garb of responsibility, which
fact, however, would make it favor
ite with the liquor men.
Nor do l believe that any reform
movement that ignores the great liquor
question of to-day will ever succeed to
any very great extent. And for a
church to have tippling membership
is sacrilege, but morally no worse than
placing, directly or Indirectly, license
into the hands of another by which he,
in small doses, distributes the soul
destroyer.
This is the article to which DR.. Bailey
takes exception:
DEAR BRO. BAILEY:-I have just
read with much interest. in May Sd
issue Of the Recorder, your very excel
lent advertisement of the Greensboro
Kelley Institute. Indeed you make it
such an easy, pleasant and respectable
thing to be cured of drunkenness, one
is almost tempted to make the expe-
riment in order to have the pleasure
of being treated at DR.. Keeley's noble
institution. Your advertisement reads
like a novel, is fascinating, and should
be priced by that able doctor and his
corps of managers. But wonder why
a religious journal of the character and
influence of the Biblical Recorder
should handle thus lightly a subject the
very life of which depends upon the
existence of the most pernicious evil in
the land. wonder why you did not
tell your readers, in your usually fore
ible and logical style, that the way to
cure drunkards is to prevent them
the way to dispose of the result is to re-
move the cause. Your argument is like
an individual fondling a deadly poison
GUS serpent with the belief that if you
should pinch off his tail he would not
bite you, or, if he should bite, just
pinch his tail and be cured. Attending
Kelley Institute is like pinching the
tail of the serpent. He may have had
you in his dreadful coil for years. You
may have beaten out the brains of your
wife and children or starved them by a
slower process, having robbed them OF
every happiness and comfort to which
they were entitled. You may have
dived into the slums of debauchery and