The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-03-03
SAN JONES ON POLITICS.
The Noted Georgia Evancelis!
Scores the Stat smen.
The Devil VIII Havs a Devil of n TimG
When the Politicians Reach
Their Final Abode.
lCOPYRTGHT, Isq4I

diSCuSSlOH OF lIc pOIlLlCdI cOuulllOn o.
our country.
Whatever may be it's moral, social
and industrial condition, the politica!
condition of this country is the worst
condition of all. There never was a
day in American history when we
needed wise, brave, self-sacrifcing mer
in congress like we need them to-day.
There are some problems which must
be settled by the political parties OF
this country soon. or they will never be
settled right. doubt if the courage
and manhood in congress will be forth.
coming. We need stringent emigra.
tion law which, not only, will not ad.
nit to our shores but which will not
admit to citizenship, any foreigner
who cannot read and write and speak
the English language.
Some one has said that the dynamite
bomb in the hands of the anarchist is
not SO much to be dreaded, is not SC
dangerous to the happiness and per.
petuity Of our institutions, as the bal.
lot in the hands of the ignorant and
vicious citizen.
Already municipalities and vast
states are almost IN the hands of the
mob. 1t is a fact that both the great
parties Of this country see these evils
and know they threaten the very over.
throw of our institutions and both
know that such emigration laws
ought % be passed, yet, like two dogs
in the back yard with bone at equal
distance from each, they both look on,
both wanting it, and each afraid the
minute that either jumps for the bone
the other will jump for him.
Oh, the perfdy and infamy of politi-
cal parties! If the republican party
should advocate such law, the demo-
Gratis would jump on them with both
feet and make campaign capital out
of it, and thus pander to the vote of the
vicious and the franchise Of the ignO-
rant. Anything to get there. 1t is
equally true that if the democratic
party should declare in favor of such
law the republican party would jump
on them likewise and announce their
manhood thus:
The greatest country the sun ever
shined upon is the home of the Op-
pressed, the friend Of humanity, our
gates are thrown wide open, the world,
the flesh and the devil and the dun
COW come in and enjoy our hospitality
and vote with our party"
Again, we need brave, wise men, III
congress to adjust the great question
of bimetalism which will give silver. its
right place in the mOneyed circles Of the
world. Our money as it is, is too good.
Everybody wants to keep what they
have. Maybe if it was less good they
would rather have something else than
money and thus keep it a-going.
Another question to be settled sooner
or later is the pension question. If
these times should continue, the pen
sion list should be overhauled, it should
be revised and cut down. 1t looks
sometimes, when the roll Of eight hun
drcd thousand pensioners is being
called, that, if the war had lasted
twelve months longer, every soldier
who wore the blue would have been
crippled and every citizen disabled.
am clad the war closed when it did and
ONLY beQueathed to US about million
worthy objects on which to bestow the
nations charity.
It would do the world good to trace
the history of the old cOnfederates
who came back to their desOlate
homes. amid the wreck of fortune,
| homeless, clotheless almost, to see how
they, in the last two decades, have
prOspcred without pensions and rallied
without riches. They get along we'll
without pensions, I reckon, because,
in the first place, they are not used to
~ -, Y11n
have made provisions to live without
them. | never heard a southern man
say he was opposed to pension laws
| nor liberality to those who were
manned in the actual service of their
/ country, or to the wives and little chill
dren of the soldiers buried on the field.
/ But these questions will hardly be
settled. Already, politicians have been
/ burned in efigy who dared to inter
/ fcre with the raid upon the treasury.
Again, we need brave. wise men in
I congress to sever the copartnership OF
/ this government with the brewers and
I distillers Of this country. No nation
/ will prosper permanently which is IN
. league with a traffic which devastatcs
/ her citizens and ruins her homes In
ternal revenue laws on whisky ma sc
the darkest pages on the congression-
al record and the most damnlng sins
/ in our statute laws, but with two sa-
! looms in full blast, one for the senate
and one for the house, under the roof
where laws are made. there Is little
hope. for the repeal of the internal rev
enue laws on whisky.
/ Again. we need brave, wise men n
congress to call halt in the Interest
of the working thousands on the rail
roads and everywhere for one day's resi-
in seven.
These are some of the problems
which must be settled in the next twc
decades or they Will become too big t
handle and too mighty 10 conquer
OF course our brother IN biac'i
holds "a ther an anomalous relation Z
the state Of things, being weaker rae,
seemingly, settled down amidst
stronger one. The survival OF the nj
test will settle that question sooner %
later. II is impossible TO ship our col
ored population to Africa, but grad