The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-12-08
NoRrs, SOUTH AND WEST.


Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.
The New York gening Post, from
the clipping referred to by MI. Peele,
In a recent issue of your paper, claims
that the great civiIizing, and dominat'
ing forces of the nation which make
for intelligence and righteousness as
against the barbarian bred by slavery
in the South and the reckless mining
camps of the West, are massed in a
solid body in the large cities, such as
New York and Chicago. This is cheek,
pharisaical and sublime, egotistical and
disgusting.
Toe best large city daily papers are
hardly fs to bs received in a decent
home among the farmers of the SOUTH
and West where there is a wife and
daughters. They meet with all sorts
of filth from the cutters and slums
and police courts and tenement
houses, divorce courts and theatres,
beer gardens, drinking saloons and all
sorts Of infamous dens too numerous
and shocking to mention. The indie
cent cuts and pictures are almost
enough to make one Of Russells ''eav
ages" blush. May God protect the
plain and virtuous wives and daugh-
ters of our ''barbarous" Southern and
RECKLESS" Western men from the con
terminating and leprous touch of a
large portion of the Inhabitants of these
cities, where preachers preach politics,
coercion and bribery, and buying votes
is a regular trade; where betting and
gambling in futures is a legaliz9d bust
ness; where women and children work
at starvation prices and, in many in
stances, after making every
effort to gain an honest living; whore
dogs are washed and combed, d~elicately
fed and carried put to ride arreyed
with gold chains about their necks, etc
while little children that the Saviour
said suffer them to come unto Ne,
for of such is the kingdom of heaven"
and women are suffering for the bare
necessities Of life where suicides,
murders, robbery. burglary, clipping,
kidnapping, divorce suits and every
sphere of crime and corruption is the
the daily food di5hed out to the readers
of these papers. land these cities
went for sound money I" Hardly hon
est votes. Then how did Chicago cast
fifty thousand more votes than New
York. Did it vote too many, or did
intimidation, or something else, pre-
vent New York from voting enough.
The most of RIssells ''savages" like.
wise voted Mckinley and sound money.
Was it on account of their great civil
cation, intelligence and righteousness
that this solid body voted that Way7
Why did the ignorant Italian and
and other foreigners-Why did Her
Most, Bob Ingersall and the sweet
scented Breckenridge, etc, vote for
Mckinley and sound moneys Was it
righteousness or New York civiliza-
ton. Why did the millionaire, the
banker, Wall Street gambler, the
trusts, combines and all great corpo
rations generally vote for McKlnley9
I admit their intelligence and their too
much New York civiiiz stion, but de
ny the righteousness, for corporations
have no souls, and they nearly all be-
long to corporations. If slavery bred
Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Mon
roe, Patrick Henry, Marshall, Yancy,
Clay, Calhoun, Jackson, why should
their descendants, without slavery be
such relics of barbarism9 Did not the
above named compare favorably with
the best Northern soldiers and states
men-not to mention Benedict Arnold,
Price, Charles L9e, Gates, Hull, Tweed,
Calico, Ames, Ben Butler, etc.,
New York, Philadelphia and Boston
were full of Tories during the Revo-
lutionary War, and many opposed the
country in 1912. and to day they are
more English than American, and they
would still be Tories in a war with
England. May the good Lord deliver
us from the too much civilization and
Intelligence, and the too little righteous
ness and honesty of great s 1dom's
and GomorrahsI g. WILLIS.
RULE OR RUIN POLITICIANS.