The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1893-08-31

satisfaction, if could kindle in vour
minds a resolve to know more II thcee
OF whom / speak from the higher
plane OF thought and culture in which
you live. And have heard them
called by so many names the masses
by social writer's and political econo-
mists, labor by capital, the producer
by commerce, the people by polite
lans and statesmen, and that which
makes us all akin, imlnortals bv
religion. For the purposes Of this
hour. / will designate them bya name
which. though given hecause OF the
fall, has the merit Of antiquity: I'm
the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat
| bread"
Their hopes, their aspirations. their
conditions, their difficulties, their
hardships, their despair
| And yet here is the same world for
us all the light that comes and
| blesses makes no distinction, and it
| is written that dying Savior, with
healing in His tender words, forgave
and saved a thief
1t is the duty of college graduate
| to kaoW the people, to understand their
| thoughts and to know their lives. Do
not understand me as taking the posi-
| ton that he should know them after
the manner of the average demagOgue
who makes frantic appeals at stated
intervals for the apparent purpose Of
preventing the ruin of the country,
but he should know them in order
to benefit them, in order to do good
to those with whom he comes in
touch he should know that he NAV
make an effort to improve their con-
dition, to elevate their ideas, to give
them the true idea Of an education
which has failed in its object if it
makes man anything but worker
Unfortunately for those who are called
educated, they are regarded and judg-
eel by this class - prepared and equip
ped 10 make their living and build
themselves upon their Drawn and
their muscle and their lives worn out
in ceaseless toll, and that. too, with
out manifest exertion.
There is widespread distruot exis-
ting and we may as we'll face the ques-
ton | will have to confess my in
ability to explain the CAUSES; there
are many plausible and ingenious
reasons given and supported by strong
argument. If you have ever attended
a political discussion YOU have heard
them set forth by all manners and
kinds and measures of statesmen
But we may accept this fact as true,
and these results have brought about
this feeling of distrust that the people
feel for each other. that those who
have made a study of economic ques-
tions have satisfactorily proved that
in the past ten Or twenty years there
have been great changes and distur-
Dances. One portion of the people
has become poorer, while another has
become richer the purchasing power
Of one class, who, because of the sim
plici:y Of their wants. ought to be in
dependent, has become less and less,
their economy more stlnted and more
stinted, until now it is not question
of economy, but it has reached the
point where it becomes almost a strug-
Gle for sustenance, for existence. This
is true, and it is true in North Caro-
lima. and | am not oyerdrawing the
picture. | do not intend to detail to
YOU the horrors of a tenement in some
crowded city, where large families are
huddled together and where children
are growing in squalid vice, breathing
a hatred for order. maturing at last in
to a menace to our institutions, but
| am telling YOU as to men who ought
to know and who doubtless have OBJ
served, who, having received the ben
efits of a more enlightened system.
should prepare for these problems.
And l do state that this feeling Of dis
trust and unrest is showing and mani
testing itself right here in North Caro-