The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-08-15
WHITTIER ARE WE DR1FTING1
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He declared a great Bible truth, He
might have said that it was a jewel of
great price. The price, at least, is SO
enormous that some of the ministers
of the gospel and religious editors III
North Car Dina have failed to obtain
it, unless a failure to practice what
they preach can be construed as con-
sistency. l allude to those ministers
and editors who denounce the liquor
traffic in unmeasured terms and then
support the Democratic party, a party
that uses barrels and tons of whiskey
on election day to bribe and i~ntoxicate
the weak and the faltering. We have
sat in the sacred sanctuary and listened
to the minister as he would declare the
saloon to be the greatest curse Of mod
ern civilization; that thousands Of u
bravest boys were going down to
drunkards' graves every year; that
noble wives are made widows and pen
niless and lovely children homeless
and fatherless.
THE CURTAIN DROPS.
We return home from the sacred
sanctuary. We take up the religious
journal and scene the second begins.
We turn to the editorial column and
begin to read, and 10! the editor writes
like the minister talks. His language
is pathetic in denunciation Of the liquor
traffic. I complete the editorial. My
mind is. filed with pity and amaze
ment when I remember but a short
time ago their ballots were cast for a
party whose manipulators used whis
key as freely as water to help carry
the election, by bribing and making
drunk the manhood OF the voter.
Verify consistency thou art a jewel.
Nor is that all OF the corruption prac
ticed by the Democratic machine.
Aye, the corruption practiced in the
recent election is enough to make an
angel weep.
There are but two ways men can
speak to the government. One is by
the ballot, the other by revolution.
Rob him of one and you invariably
. e the door for the other. It has
been demonstrated beyond q shadow
OF doubt that gigantic frauds were per
petrated on the ballot in this country.
One man eighty years Of age, who re
sides in Warren county, writes under
his own signature in THE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER and declares that one hundred
and thirty-nine men were d~isfranchised
in one township. Whole townships
have been thrown out in various pOr-
tions of the State. Thousands were in
Inundated and improperly registered.
Any method of taking the liberties Of
the people is absolutely unjustifiable.
They may call it shrewd politics or
wise manipulation, but it is nothing
more nor less than a direct violation
of the divine injunction as %thundered
forth from Mount Sinai, Thou shalt
not steal" Read below an extrrCt
from a sermon preached by Rev. Thos.
Dixon in the City Of New York, June
18th, 1898:
Every voter on the American CONT
nent Git matters not what party he has
been afIiliating with in the pasD ought
to read this extract. Mr.. Dixon is one
of the greatest pulpit orators in the
world, and his sermons, although he is
only about thirty years of age, would
do credit to a Talmage or Spurgeon.
He has a host of admirers in North
Carolina. When he is to preach in
New York thousands are turned away
for want of standing room. Hear hin
as he shows to the world the corTup-
ton of Tammany Hail.. which is the
Democratic machine of New York. Mr..
Dixon said:
Tammany Hall is the most powerful
coterie of organized criminals that ever
dominated the life of any people. It
makes and unmakes judges and iuries,
feeds and breeds on vice and crime.
With iron heel it brushes the weak. in,
timidates the half hearted and defes
the strong. 1t is a whitening curse to
the city's life, damning with hot breath
of corruption every ramifcation of the
body polite. Like ia cancer it has lit.
orally eaten the heart out of the honor
of the young manhood of our day. And
though it is such an organization it
lives and thrives and continues it's reign
with supreme impudence. have said
many emphatic things about this gang
in the past. Ihave never had occasion
to regret NJ %utterance, to take back
one sentence. The more Ihave studied
them, the longer I have lived among
them, the better I know them, the
more utterly impossible it becomes to
find language sufficiently emphatic to
give any adequate notion of the actual
facts. Glance for a moment to day at
u government and test it's character,
We behold on the judges bench a nan
who is about to be arrested for rascal.