The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-04-18
GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE
rhe Editor are / OF responsible for the views
of g. rre-UOndents.
MR MOYR Opp S 5 TaE AMAND'
M6NT
Thinks 1t Will Accomplish little Good

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Correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
T, m. mIu0 this STATE u Nation
Sc. m Tn be passing through a most
d tRc IIt period in their history. Pa
tr,uUism il often praised and the heroes
IN bat lp are laudec to the skies feCPo
and petted. promoted and kissed, but
no fare those who are the real bona
fde defenders of the country as inJen
dtd o, he founders of this magnificent
republIc3
Trusts, moDopolies and illegal com
binarIon. If capital, their agents, at
torneys and sbet ors prosper, grow
fat ano drvour WIDOWS mites, pauper
il, it they can, all who Dare to raise a
warning voice against them Way Ii
this p~OssiOlef
AS CITIZENS NOT AS PARTIsANs
we should address ourselves TO this
question.
The reason these things are possible
il patent and plain to my cranky
mind. Toe people allow themsel Ives to
be diviced Over some sham, fImsy, or
extinct issue and become so pTeJudIced
that they will not listen to reason
Now / verify believe a great politi
cal battle-no, not battle, but onslaugh
-causep q revolution IN this SIa'e last
year upon the falsest Of false Issues
the race question.
One OF the battle cries was, 1--WE
will carry this election ~peaceably If
we can, forcibly il we u Was
ever such a principle triumphant and
the liberties OF the people preserved
for any length Of time9 Neverl never!
II the people had not already been
enslaved by their rae prejudice such
q party would have met with an over
Whelming defeat.
One phrase that aided materially in
accomplishing this dire result was that
1.-THE negro has already voted" This
was a ''clincher," q good point veil
taken, a legitimate argument. Ma
tionally let's see how this will
work. Nine Southern States by their
election laws have already voted for
the nominee of this party two years
In advance of his nomination. Do you
not realize that men IN the North are
moved by like passions as those
Of the South; this being so, no man
whom these states support can be
elected.
Some may say that Grover Cieve
land is q sufficient answer to the last
statement, but they forget that Grover
was not wanted by the people Of these
States and that he was elected for the
sole purpose Of aiding the trusts and
monopolies, and Incidentally to Kill the
Farmers Alliance because It was re
moving the scales Of prejudice from the
eyes of the farmers and they we're be
ginning to exhibit signs Of a determI
nation to vote as their interests dc
tated and not
BLINDLY FOLLOW THEIR ERsTwHnE Pc
LITICAL MASTERS
A great majority Of the thinking
people In North Carolina l verify b.
lieve, irrespective Of party. coInctde
with me 10 the views here expressed
but they differ greatly IS to Ene rem
edy to be applied to the disease, and
to be frank with you I do not nov see
any feasible plan by which these
wrongs can be righCed.
SOme-many-think manhood sui
frege a failure and that those who fan
90 vote intelligently, or at least the ig-
norant should be distranchlsed, and
that the wrongs would be speedily
righted.
Those patriots who passed the pro
posed constitutional amendmenT for
North Carolina evidently supposed
that al that was necessary vas Co dis
disfrsnchise the Ignorant negroes.
Alas alasl for SUCH human short
sightedness. I verify believe the
amendment will b a blessing to the
negroes IN the large negro counties-
such as E igscomOe, Halifax and New
Hanover, and that will be all tue ben
eft derived tnerefrom / think | may
put 1t down as a self evident truth that
no intelligent, self respecting negrc
will ever afterwards vote the ticket
OF a party that 81 dlsCriminates against
him.
Then there will be enough voting
negroes left in any close county tx
hold the balance of power. Then the
party with which he votes will still, il
the eyes Of the other party be d ne
gro party and every one who votes the
same ticket as the negro will be abused
illuminated, inundated and bull
dozed until his righteous soul will b
vexed from day to day as was Noah