The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-29

are zoo many graves now marked IN
reality with this inscription and | call
on you living men to think, to act.
Things al be changed. You, poor
toller as you are, can help; yea, you
can change things for the better. 1t
don't require a Bacon, a Burke or a
Webster to know that if the laboring
men would stick together they could
get ali their wrongs righted, al their
demands needed. ANY fool knows this,
and yet / really am ashamed to say it,
we see these very men upholding the
hands of men who are binding them in
bondage every day. Would to God
that I or some n else could so present
this matter that people would take
warning and come over on their own
side. We cry hard times and then go
and make hard times president. We
cry for work and go and slay the only
medium through which work could be
obtained. We pray to God for help
ourselves with the means we have at
hand. We pray "Give us this day our
daily bread, and turn around and vote
a ticket which means mo work, no
bread" If you are a rich man, for
your own interest, I say vote for the
two old parties, for they are standing
up for you nobly; but if you are a poor
mar and ever expect to get out of debt,
and out of slavery, for Heavens sake
vote for the peoples cause, which day
night is pleading and begging and
bowling for your good. Don't kill your
best friend. Take the best that is in
the field. If a better political friend
comes along than this one, take it.
Take anything that will benefit your
self. We ought to be a prosperous
nation, but we r not. We ought to
be a happy nation, but we are not. We
can be a prosperous and happy nation
if the laboring men will stand together.
Will you do it7
Hear me, you who are crying for
work, are you going to be a fool any
louger7 If SO, a few more years will
tell the tale. If SO, @ few more years
will you borne on a straw litter to some
potter's field and above the hand which
voted for twenty, for thirty years
against yourself will be placed "only a
fool"
If you are not longer going to serve
a few masters for their good and against
your W interests a different fate
awaits you. A happy home stands
ready for you to enter the day the
laboring men know their duty and do
it. A well-filled purse, a horse and
carriage-all of life's comforts are
yours if you will only stand up for
your own interests. And if you do
this, when life's lamp grows dim and
you hear the angel voices chanting
near, they'll lay you in a marble tomb
and over it will be inscribed, GA Wise
Man"
Shall I say that the time is near when
men will do their duty9 No, I can't
tell. Maybe the gray dawn of the 9th
of November. 1895, can tell the story,
maybe not. There's nothing true but
Heaven" and faith, hope and love"
(Applause.)
Some one has said that orators are
born, not made. His grafton was re-
ceived with a great eclat, considering
him to be only a tramp. If Burke
Cochran or Richard Razor had believed
the same words, of course the effect
would have been more startling. A
speakers reputation is usually worth
more than his speech. Some one has
said that ''oratory is vehement SIM
plicity." According to this definition
Joe Jackson thinks his eff~rt not alto
gether in vain from a tremp's stand
point.
Webster says that politics is the
science Of government. Joe Jackson
says that modern politics is the science
of keeping in Office. He who can hold
the Offices the longest is considered the
best politician of the day, by many
people. 1t makes no difference by
what means he accomplishes this re-
suit go long as he does 1t. Politicians
put a great deal more time in studying
how to please their constituents than
they do in endeavoring to aid the coun-
try by wise legislation. The science of
government, the principles of justice,
etc, do not give them very much
trouble.
Parties are originated for the pur-
pose of expressing certain principles
and with a hope that those principles
may be enacted into law. The winning