The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-07-21
LETTER FROM BEAUFORT
COUNTY.

correspondence or the Progressive Farmer"
After a long silence, I have again,
this beautiful morning, mustered up
courage enough to give you a few dots
from this part of the State. To say
that crops are fine fails to express it,
for it is nothing unusual to hear the
oldest citizens say they have never seen
anything like it. I believe, and l have
heard others say the same, that there
has been o cotton blossoms in this
neighborhood the 46h of July this year
than the 4th of August last year, max
ing cotton at least n month in ad-
vance of last year, and if, as my father
used to say, that when our country
was righteously governed we generally
had fine crops, if 90, and the prospects
continue, it is almost enough to inspire
us to think there is going to be a great
fore another harvest, which is the
earnest prayers of your humble ser
want. For how a farmer can work for
a good crop under the goldbug theory
/ I'll i've pLOOuCULOA IS WOLA01luI w Ill.,
The truth is there is only one set of
farmers to day that are prosperous:
!. e. those who farm the farmers from
the outside of the fence. There is not
q single farmer in this section that is
able to decently provide for his family
and educate his children and keep up
his farm. Now, brothers, this is a
broad assertion but 1 will go further
than this: 1 don't believe there is a
single laboring man in this nation who
is able to do it, if there is / would be
glad to correspond with him and
humbly ask him to make it known to
suffering humanity how he does. I
don't mean that there are not plenty
or at least a great many families who
do not have enough to eat such as it is
and clothes enough at times to hide
their nakedness, but I don't think that
ought to satisfy the ones who produce
all the good things we eat and yea l
see in the Silver Knight-W Waterman Of
July I'd, 1896, IF any two or more per-
sons Conspire to injure, Cypress,
threaten or intimidate any citizen in
the free exercise or enjoyment of any
right or privilege granted to him by
the constitution or laws of the United
States, or because Of his having so ex-
ercised the same, they shall be fined
not more than s., LOCO and imprisoned
not more than ten years, and shall
moreover be thereafter ineligible to any
Office, place Of honor, profit or trust
created by the Constitution or laws of
the United States. Sec. 55Q8, Revised
Statutes of the Uaited States"
TIE Waterman in commenting on
the above says that if any of US know
| of any such violation of the law it is
our duty to go to some good lawyer
and prosecute such offenders. l regret
very much to say that I don't believe
there g a single lawyer IN this county
that could be engaged to prosecute
such a case, for it is against their faith
to prosecute the violations In that re
spect in this section. II they were On
the side Of just government we would
never have been in the fix we are in. II
we could have the above law carried
into effect there would be lots Of men
who are now considered the best men
IN the State that would be wearing
striped pants, for l don't suppose there
is hardly a neighborhood in North
| Carolina but what is affected with just
such men, the most of whom are low
holding Office. 1t is sad to me to have
to record any thing like this, but the
proof is abundant. know it would be
| right difficult to get, but when it is
driven out as this is by abuse it will
come and don't you forget it, There
is lots of honey and sugar being used,
so to speak," too many have been
| sWamped to be again caught. I glory
in the warming given in the last issue
| Of The PROGRESSIVE FARMER, while
| there are lots of US who need no such
warming. 1t is we'll enough to keep
such things before the people The
| very word fusion ought to stinck in the
| nostrils Of any honest man. Look at
the action of the National Republican
| Convention. Does that platform sui5
any Allianceman and Peoples party
man or any reform man2 Then look
at the present administration. Does
that suit any honest mana II not
! why can't all patriots get together IN
the only party that il pledged IN
every State, county, township and
precinct to give US n necessary reliet