The Robesonian., 1897-10-06
TO THE FARMERS o. poDHsoN COUNTY

you see the name siGncd 10 thl% ar
ticle, "Caa anything good ONE
out Gf Nazareth? IL he no! = Ma i
nrene, an attorrey at law? Can
any good advice about farming
come from HIM to us?"
Yes, he isan attorney at law, and
belongs to that same profession
that Joseph Of Animation belong
ed to who, when tho very disciples
of Christ had deserted him went
to Pontiu5 Plate and requested
the body of Christ, took it from
The cross, washed it, bought tiro
linen wrapped it i'll it with spices
and laid it in his newly made
tomb.
Perhaps l can advise better
than / can practice so, like the
old preacher, / will say, "Do as /
tell you to do and not as | do"
and SEQ if good will not come of
it.
1t is certain that something
must be done for the Republican
party, with their aider5 and
abettors, with their high tariff
and gold standard have put up
wheat to one dollar II bushel, SO
they shy, and they have advanced
flour two or three dollars a bar
rel, sugar one cent pound and
everything that the South has tc
purchase has advanced in some in
stances more than forty Per cent
since their party came into power
Cotton ties for the South taxed
binding twine for the West free
Cotton, .the main money crop o
the South, is selling for but littl
over five cents a pound and goin!
down, down. Now if the Repub
lican party, with their aiders anC
abettors, can put up wheat to on
dollar bushel, why can they no
put up cotton to twelve ard on
half cents to the pound? If the
can and will not do it what d
you in all justice think Of them
Oh, how they must hate this SoutE
land of ours
How about the TIE lalorer? O
they were for high tariff and III
gold standard because it woul
increase the laborer's wages an
they would be paid in honest nor
ey. What do we see? Thousand
upon thousands on q strike bt
cause they do not receive sufficier
wages to sustain that life whic
their God has given them, an
they attempt to use thg
part of their senses which distir
guishes them from the brute peace
fully to argue with their fello
worlmen to prove to them tn;
they should not work for wag
that Will not decently susta
life their oppressors call to a
the law which was formerly know
as q pure court of equity, the cou
that could not soil its hands wi
an impure thing, and that cou
enjoins them and says that th
shall not assemble and peacefl
ly argue and counsel with the
fellowmen for their general goo
And after that when they attem
it, the court seeks the protect
of the strong arm of the law to c
force their DEGREES and two hu
dred and five deputy sheriffs, ar
ed with most deadly weapo
known to science, shoot down a
kill in cold blood twenty defen
less men and wound forty mo
The military of the State was
dered to the scene by thousar
and when warrants were issued
The civil courts for the arrest
the murderers they seek the p
lection of these troops and
there protected from arrest, a
when the civil officers armed W
the full power of the law 60 to
rest them these officers are imp
oned by the military. The co
of equity used the military to |
vent the mandates of the law
protect life and punish the gui
from being carried out. Tyral
has put on the garb of injuncti
The court of equity, a court cr'
ed to hew off the sharp corr
of the law to give justice and eql
in cases where the stern rule.
the law can not give relief, to
lieve man from fraud, error,
ceit and undue influence, g
put on the livery of heaven
serve the devil in" by depri0
him of his liberty and his su
nances and other most cheris
rights guaranteed to him by
constitution.
Onward rolls the McKil
wave of prosperity CARRYING ,
it despotism, poverty, and dist
and sprinkled with the he