Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1897-11-25
POLITICAL ETHICS.

JEFF NJ. jenkins Talks Like a Book on the
Times and Conditions in North Caro-
lima. and Holds UP Facts and High
Ideals to arrest the Publ Mind.
Fremont, N. c., Nov. %, '97.
There r more little big men
now than ever before. If the gas
and vanity were out of them,
there wouldn't be anything left
but the tongue, and that strung
on a wire would talk just as much
sense. We heard some people
last Saturday evening say But
Ter couldn't come. here and say
what he did at Rocky Mount and
get away whole.
Soma two or three years ago,
when cotton was selling at from
seven to eight cents per pound,
cotton yarn was selling at fifteen
cents; now cotton is gong at FIVE
cents and the yarn at eighteen
and twenty. That is the way
prosperity comes to the South,
by Radical and Populist legisla-
ton. Now, working people, which
party imposes on you the most.
and which party is your friend?
Which party has ruined and
wrecked the State when in pow
err, and which party has invari-
ably built 1t up? These are very
grave and important questions
foryou to think over, and consid-
er well, as we think every white
man in the State ought to have
the best interest of the State at
heart. Will some one please an
swer, and answer earnestly !?
Don't mislead the people any
longer; they should know every
official act of their servants, and
let them either stand or fall by
their record. No policy man, or
scheming politician for his own
personal advantage, is fit to lead
the people, pr a fit leader for the
people; they invariably lead them
to ruin, because they have not
the peoples interest at heart.
The sooner such men are drop
ped and relegated to oblivion, the
better it will be for the country
at large. The people should not
submit to, neither acknowledge
any bossism They are the
Sovereign and should rule, The
great men who maie this coun-
try, who fashioned and formed
the magma charta of this
republic, award that much to
the people. In that they were
right as statesmen: having the
interest of the people at heart.
they could not do otherwise.
The only way to have clean poll
tics is to pu0 up clean, honest
men; capable. intelligent and
worthy of the peoples conf
dence. Come hack, brother, if
you have left it, to the grand
old party Of principle, and in the
year of our Lord 1898, let's make
enc more grand, noble and glo :
rious fight for white supremacy,
and in the interest of the work
ing class. The white people of
this State should rule and gov
ern; it is to their interest and to
the interest of the colored peo>
pie.
We need a brotherhood of feel
ing, action and unity. making
one common interest, financially.
morally and politically, in raising
and elevating human nature. and
in building up the waste places
of our State; a fellow feeling, a
sense of kinship to practically
permeate our lives. enter our
places of business, our marts of
trade, our social and domestic
life. What the oppressed need,
more than money, is our hearts.
our heads and our hands atouch
with theirs, which shall relieve
their sufferings and develop their
possibilities.
White men of North Carolina
You should be proud of the pc.
sition your noble State has taken
on all patriotic matters concern
ing her interest, and the whole
country at large. Whether in
peace or war, you are descend.
ants of patriots, of warriors. O.
statesmen, whose names have
been immortalized in history ane
song. and whose memory should
be a beacon to guide you ir
the way they walked. Love your
land, your country as they loved
it, and as the Jew loves his
Speak to him of Mount Zion, anG
every fibre of Jew nature
thrills responsive, an unmistake
able something proclaims the
seed of Abraham. He canno
help it, the impulse was born il
him, and will only die with him
Have you ever noticed his devo.
ton to Palestine? His clinging
tenderness to the site of his tenn
pie and his passionate memory o
the traditions OF his race. are {
part of his religion. Patriotism
is his religion, and religiol
is his patriotism. Why can't W,
love our land and country as tn,
Jew loves his. and at the mention
of its honored name, thrill GU
natures responsive to tn
noble acts and heroic deeds O
our ancestors, making US bette
men, cleaner men in politics, an,
more determined that we sha]
have a State government. clear
honest, intelligent and impartial