The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-08-28

party to which can point them and
say: This party, in all its principles
and ways, is able to do exceeding
abundantly above all you can ask or
think. I am prohibitionist, because
believe that party is the purest party
IN the world to day. I am going to
have the best -four, the best meat, the
best coffee, and the best of everything,
whenever and wherever find it on the
market and I have got the money to
pay for it. In the political world and
in the ecclesiastical world I shall use
the same common sense and the same
right of choice that do when go to
the butcher shop or the provision store.
/ sometimes think it is best not to do
all your trading at one place, or at
least if you do, not to have it under
stood that you do. Let every merchant
stand on his own merits; let every art
icle he sells stand on it's own merits.
Give me as an American citizen the
same rights in the political, ecclesias-
tical and commercial world; then can
level up things to suit myself and will
not have left on hand at the end of life
a lot of commodities that I must take
to judgment with me and answer to
God for my connection with and par
ticipation in, and receive my reward
accordingly. 1t has always been a
profound mystery to me why the
members of rings and cliques who were
the known members of rings and
cliques were loudest in their disavowal
of rings and cliques and the last to ad-
NIT that if there were such things or
that they were members and parties
to them.
Norfolk, Va, has just gone through
a political campaign where the ring
and clique suffered an overwhelming
defeat, and dare say that there is
hardly a city in America to day but
that the same thing would be repeated
if intelligent speakers would expose
their rascality and uncover their in
fanny. do not say that the new Off
cials who have been inducted into Office
would not robe in rascality the same
way if perpetuated in Office long. The
temptations to do wrong when tie
power to do wrong is given are stronger
than the average man is able to with
stand. do not say that if were to
enter political life and run with the
ring and clique for ten or twenty years.
but what 1 might be heading the pro-
cession in the round of a rascal and
reveling in riches unjustly gained. 1t
is long lane that never turns, as the
old adage goes, and as certainly as
Boss Tweed and his gang went down,
rascality will rot everywhere and right
will triumph. If the forces of good
were as persistent and Uniform as the
forces of evil, right would always tri
umph; but the rascal reminds me of
the incident where a son was Dragging
on his father as a surgeon, and said
that "a neighbor came to his house one
morning who had suffered the loss of
one of his eyes by accident" He said,
Ibis father took the big old tom cat,
took one of the eyes from the cats head
and put it in the fellows head, and it
just fit," he said. He was asked the
question: "How did the cats eye do;
could he see out of it9" "Oh, yes" he
replied, could see out of it just as good
as the other, but" said he, ''the only
difference was when his own eye was
asleep the cats eye was awake watch
ing for rats" The fellow who has been
in official position long sleeps with but
one eye, the other eye is always open
watching for chances that come his
way, and the ducats that may be taken
in. With the thirst and greed for
Office comes along the disposition to
acquire wealth; and when avarice and
greed for office combine the fellow
turns toward tricks with mind and
soul, like the fellow whose mouth was
but little puckered hole on one side
of his face, and when a neighbor was
asked IF that fellow was born that
way :" mo" said his friend his mouth
was all right up to about two years
ago. He had been a great drunkard
and quit drinking short off In few
days after he quit drinking he took the
earache and sent for a doctor. The
doctor poured a little brandy in his
ear and he just got to reaching around
with his mouth for the brandy, and his
mouth had never been straight since
If a fellow held Office in his ear, every
old politician in this country would
wear his mouth on the side of his face,
and if he had been in Office long he never
could get it straight any more. But in
spite Of all, right is right, and will ulti-
mately triumph because it is right
Wrong is wrong, and will ultimately