The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-04-02
POINTED AND PERTINENT CUES
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See Senate and House reports. pages.
of March 10. 1856 e., Alexander r
county asks the Senate for permission
to sell its old county Jail and build
new one by special tax. Query: Why
should the people of Alexander county
be Obliged to obtain permission of Sem :
atOrs from other counties, all over the
State, to collect in it's own way it's own
local taxes for local expenditure in
erection of a Jail for its own crimi-
nals0
And the question of equity arises in my
mind as to Why Sampson county
should require State legislators per-
mission to provide for its own poor;
LeGkUille, in Rockingham county, to
issue town bonds; Wake county, to ap-
point it's cotton weighers; Graham
county, to build it's county court house,
and so on and so on through the eutire
proceedings of both Senate and House,
a hundred or more requests for permits
sion, in towns and counties, to do
their OoO1a business, from that of build
ing their own court house, down to
granting or refusing permission, to
sell beer in town, CT to catch their
own fish in their own streams.
Please tell ma "a benighted foreigner
to your good State) why the people of
Wake county mUs5 first obtain the
permission of Representatives from
Alexander, Craven, Cleveland, Ran
dolph, Rutherford, Hertford and all
other counties in your State, before
they can determine about the way and
time and means of catching fish in
Swift Pray tell me, if you can,
what equitable right have Jim and
Dick and Bob, from here and there
all over your State, to order the con-
duct OF fishing in SICGft creek which
they have probably never seen, in.
which they have no proper nor prop
erty rights, which has nothing to do
with the State revenue and is a busi-
ness into which it is an G1npertinence,
as well as harmful folly, for strangers
to the location and the needs of the
people, for the State government to
enter ard interfere.
Why co not the people of the towns
and the counties in your State, in,
their several localities and their dis
5inctly local interests, demand their
right of local option in local affairs2
The people of the State of New
York are learning that their local
rights are being regularly (0 used by
the State legislators as partisan politi-
Cal foot balls, to be kicked back and
forth By the party politicians, in corrupt
exchanges in reciprocal trade for cor
rupt iobbery and perniciOus legisZd-
tiOn We are demanding and vigor.
ously promoting home TWLe in all dis
tinctly local affairs. Does not that
question appeal to you, as an intelli-
gen one, and as in the direction of a.
w;s9 and needful reform7
Pardon my impertinent questioning
of your own affairs, but l carefully
read your paper, and as these peculiar
facts in your legislative reports, were
80 significant of an almost universal
tolerance of injustice, was tempted
to express to you the thoughts suggess
ted by them.
With much interest and kindly re-
gard am, Yours truly,
E. ETILLMAN DOUBLEDAY.
I'VE fully agree with our friend.
The PROGRESSIVE FARMER has pro-
tested against much of this time and
again, and will continue to do SO.
Every body with grievance sends it
to the legislature. Some of these local
laws are good ones, but frequently bills
are gotten through when they only
benefit one or a few individuals and
are detrimental to hundreds. The re-
cent Legislature passed more than 800
bills and defeated many others. The
fishing industry in Eastern Carolina is
a large one. Frequently syndicates-
obstruct the streams with traps and
nets, cutting off the passage of fish.
This makes legislation necessary. But
it is not always wise. The same can
be said of other local matters. We
will do all we can help remedy the
trouble EDITOR ]
The best shaped sweet potato tuberse
and the largest yield will result on
shallow ploughed land, in small ridges.
about SO inches apart, with the plants
eot IA inches apart in a row The aaorot