The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-01

RAB8LE NEEDS A LESSON

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RAB8LE NEEDS A LESSON
ha Anarch1stio I1tent Of the
Cod Bags Mace Plain.
pzNouNCGs T4a CONSTITUTION
EqualnY, Social or Political is a Farcy
FOR the Closet---Can be no
such Thing as Nation Of
Freemen
To the Editor of the Journal:
There is no man, however self-poised
and accustomed calmly to scorn UNI
popularity, who is insensible to pleas
urs when he finds that views which
have brought upon him the abuse of
the unthinking and vicious receive the
support of those who speak with high
authority. Not a few of my friends,
s.r, earnestly counseled me, for my
csyn sake and in the interest of eXpe-
diency, to lay down my pen during this
campaign and leave the literary burden
TO others more used to addressing the
masses. Among these advisers were
some VINO have the right TO speak for
the party Of intelligence, property and
aGt2.ic fidelity to the national honor.
TO .hem / yielddl, but the time has
nia,y come when ! feel that / can once
more obey my sense of duty and write
freely what / have always believed
should be written Tor the guidance
and warning of bhe multitude. Ii
persons recognized as public leaders
may without rebuke or disclaimer
| from the party chiefs indorse all have
said in my unpretentious if sincere
| communications to your paper, why
may not | resume my pen to rejoice at
| the rapid progress made in the right
| thinking and frank utterance among
| persons held in universal esteem by the
better classes?
You will recall, sir, the uproar that
was raised when | first publicly said,
| what everybody of sense knows to be
| true, that the labor'ing crowd is inca
! pdble of governing itself; that the
average workingman and farmer hay-
inc been given a vote it is imperative
~ necessary for the welfare of society
that he should be directed in it's use
| by his sllperio1,s. To this end it is, as
| / then maintained, obviously proper
| that when he has been SO infiamed by
dema gogues of the tongue and pen that
! he cannot he persuaded to vote as he
ought, he should be coerced 10y the
| knowledge that disobedience will be
! followed by loss of employment, which
commonly means to him close ac-
| quaintance with starvation. To argue
otherwise is to argue that out of
/ sentimental respect for a mere arti-
fetal political propriety on the sacred
ness of which civilization rests, shall
abandon its God-given right ito self
| protection. Only on the assumption
that the mob has the brains to vote
nationally, patriotically, conservative
ly can it be contended that it should
| Ibe left free to exercise the franchise
One of the decisions bequeatlhed to us
by the founders of the Republic, who
were pupils of the dreaming French
| philosophers whose dreams drenched
| France in blood, is that universal edu-
cation will render men universally in
telligent and qualified for suffrage
| Well, we have had our public schools
for more than a century, and what
is the demonstrated result. Simply
thateducaaion is good for person with
| brains and pernicious in it's effect upon
person who has not. Consider the
minds and morals of the American
protectionist to-day and judge of the
efficiency of our public schools as a
means for putting brains and virtue
| where's nature has decreed there shall
| be neither.
You will recall, sir, / repeat, the up
roar that was raised when | substan-
! TALLY wrote these things. Your
columns were flooded with furious and
abusive rejoinders from mudsills who,
accustomed to fattery from the press
and platform, could not hear the truth
when it was plainly told them. Now
Bishop Worthington is being reYiled in
like manner for speaking the truth
much as / spoke it. That king of the
mudsills, w. J. Bryan, who is career
my UDDUb J1e GOuIbtIy BICdC1LlilS VIlC
French Revolutionary gospel of
equality and fraternity amid delirious
plaudits of the mindless rabble, as
sails the same goNlly bishop with the
fire of his invective. BUT Bishop
Wortlhingtton, i fancy, can bear with
equanimity the disapproval of a Bryan
in the consciousness that he has the
approval of the better class every
where. To my mind, no words have
been uttered in this frantic, odious and
essentially vulgar campaign THAT pos
sess anything like the permanent value
of Bishop Worthington's when he said:
1.-THE trouble with the farmer, in my
Judgment, is that we have carried our
free educational system entirely toe
far. The farmers sons-a great many
of tihem-wiho have absolutely nc
aIbihty to rise, get taste of education
and follow it up They will never
amount to anything that is, many OF
them-and they become dissatisfied tc
follow in the walk of life that God in
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