The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-02-01

boys, who remember the exceeding
gweeane9 OF Stolen WateEmelons; who
agree with the harlot, stolen waters
are sweet and bread eaten in secret b
pleasant. " and who vainly imagine that
they are strong enough 20 divide the
swag with the idle millions" advise
returning 70 the Aeshpots ind leeks of
Egypt and worshipping the golden
Eastern impression" Butthe thought
ful and cautious ray, mo" Have we
just come out OF Egypt Have We
not made bricks without straw3 Has
not the Eastern impression equee8ed
out cotton until we have TO nee specs to
sec the priCeI Have not those idle
millions" been here and sponged up u
railroads and all else Of our inheritance
except our brains and muscle and ct
mogphereG If they will come TO stay
and nOt TO pillage and ay away if they
will put back the word mot" in the
eighth and tenth commandments, we
say Welcome TO them. We are not
trying TO steal the whole world and
lose our own souls. Honor is better
than riches and the merchandise of
wisdom is better than the gain OF fine
gold" ''for riches profit not in the day
of wrath" which is near at hand.
will close with O personal reference
to the even apostles of the Eastern
impression"
Mr.. Fink, President Of the Norfolk
& Western Railway, from his palace
Car on q Southern railroad recently
cOnfiscated by Eastern idle millions,
rails at the South for attempting to
c~oniacate corporate capital.
MI Samuel Spencer, President of the
great Southern Railway of 5000 miles,
a Southerner by birth, education and
marriage, now an Fastener by employ
ment and salary, turns on his people
and gives them a TRADE on dishonesty.
Eastern idle millions, nosing around
for prey, seized the Richmond q Dan
vile system, threw all its pieces into q
Judicial hopper, ground them into
mince meat and rolled is out in one big
bologna sausage which Mr.. Spencer
now straddles and delivers lectures on
the dishonesty Of oOnhSCating railroads
The insurance president, name con
ceAlOd, with inhuman obsttnacy OF
6rmneaA leaves the entire South unin
gurod, VOWS he never will never grant
salvation 70 any man, woman or child
Ia the South. oaly because when he
launched his pl0W of aalV ton he went
20 kentucky and found IA old statute
which was diRAdvRneageouS to ''outsidO
compARjAs." but he believes the Law
was repealed He scraped dishonest
Kentuoky's mud OF his feet, and, like
Dr.. Foster, who ''WOnt to 6IosteF IN q
shower Of rain" he never went bach
again" Tor that reason, or want, OF
reason, thB professional logician
reaches the conclusion that the whole
South 10 kn&viah. He reasons as did
an Eoglish traveller, who affirmed that,
in O certain town in France, every in.
habitant had q big nose. When pressed
TO state how many people he had seen
In that town he admitted he saw one.
but he had no doubt that that one had
q big nose. While this insurance seraph
10 flying all around the South occurring
our people across the line many other
insurance companies r carttng mil
lions past him from the South every
month TO that unfortunate section Of
our country where wealth accumu
Atas and men decay"
We have next Mr.. n, Z. Thompson,
- native 9outherner," he says, who
has been campaigning to rescue the
South from demAgogues and to get
things fixed up generally for the eighth
advent of the South's Eastern saviour,
the idle millions" HIS only reward,
he says, 'is misplaced confidence and
destroyed usefulness" "What the
South needs il les of politics and more
of business" There is no politics East
it is all business. Yes; that is true.
Business and politics were welded there
q hundred years ago, and what New
Eogland then joined togesher no cmce
holder to this day has ever dared Il
put asunder.
Mr.. Thompson has been earnestly
working to turn emigrants from Penn
gylvania to the South, for which, as &
8outherner, / thank him. But, now.
he is inconsistent. He has been advis
ing good people to go and live among
bad people. That is wicked. That is
Satan's chief business, and, like the
East, Satan has no politics in his bust
ness. I beg leave e grant to Mr..
Thompson an indulgence" without