The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-02-17
of Georgia origin. We may expect
some milk for our coffee, and small
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of Georgia origin. We may expect
some milk for our coffee, and small |
quantity of butter.
And we continue to founder in the
mud over poor roads hauling five
cent cotton to the railway station,
deplOre our poverty when
over nine million dollars worth of
food is annually supplied to the
capitol of Georgia by other statesl"
OF course, this condition prevails
to a greater extent in some localities
than in others, but it is apparent
that it prevails altogether too large
ly in every part of the South and
more largely, perhaps, than many of
our own people suspect.
Ifyou would put the matter to a
test in our own locality, make out a
list of the articles used upon your
table and then visit the places where
food supplies are sold and inquire
how many of these articles offered for
sale at these places we're grown or
manufactured, as the case may be, in
this immediate section or even in
this State. The probability is that
you will find that a very large per
centage were brought here from
other States and this, too, when the
most OF them can be produced right
here at home.
There is food for thought along
this line and ii our people can sue
coed in digesting it an era of prosper
ity hitherto unexplcred will open up
before us, bringing a far more COM
Portable situation to the people of
both country and town. who are in
terdependent and who get along best
when pursuing policies that make
for the advancement of both.
The farmers should raise food sup
plies sufficient for their own use and
to supply the adjacent markets and
then the home markets should give
preference to the home product.
This would be long step towards
the material progress of our section.
THINKING.
There are thousands and thous-
ands of Republicans in various sec
tions of the country who were, pre-
vious to the last election, opposed to
the single gold standard, but who
were deceived into a support of that
standard by the International
bimetallic dodge manufactured at
the st Louis Convention.
In this immediate section, so
strong was the free coinage senti
ment that it was estimated that
nine-tenths of the white voting popu
lation, regardless of party utilization,
was honestly in favor of bimetallism,
until the Republicans were hood
winked by the chicanery of Hanna
and other tricksters into supporting
the effort to fasten the gold stand
ard and it's attendant evils upon the
country for at least four years
longer.
Some whp were thus fooled are
beginning to real;z, the true situa-
ton and it is not improbable that
there will be considerable detection in
Republican ranks on account of the
currency question in the next cam
paign, because those who think must
see that the present condition is not
punishment to Democrats only. but
also to Republicans who are outside
the pie counter and are not mum
bered among the benefciaries of the
| trusts.
Now and then there crops out an
indication that this sort of thinking
is going on. Among the latest is a
letter to the Goldsboro Argus from
Curtis Fl. Brogden, who was elected
Lieutenant Governor upon the Re-
publican ticket and succeeded to the
Governorship upon the death OF
Governor Caldwell, and who also was
a Republican member of Congress
from an Eastern district. Mr.. Brog-
den says:
"The Teller Matthews resolution
was killed by the Republicans in The
House by a large majority The
resolution asserted nothing but the
naked truth, that all the bonds
issued by the Government are pay
able in "coin," principal and interest.
And Notwithstanding this plain and
unequivocal declaration, two of the
North Carolina delegation voted
against the resolution, Pearson and
White, the negro. They represented
the bondholder, and declared by
their votes that the bonds should be
paid in gold. At the next election
their fate will be like that of Con-
gresham Tom Settle who voted
against the silver bill They will go
where the woodbine twineth.'"
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