The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-03-14


remember. Love to all and prosperity
to Our Social Chat and The Progress.
i've Farmer Ellen.
Dear AWnt Jennie:-I was somewhat
surprised and decidedly disappointed,
on looking owe the last Progressive
Farmer, not to see a single letter from
one of the Ohatterers and not sven q
line from Aunt jennie.
So thinking there is plenty of room,
I will pen a few thoughts that have
suggested themselves to my mind,
through my having perused the vari.
GUS letters addressed to, and published
by yourself.
One young lady suggests that some
one introduce a query and that you ap-
point some writer On the affirmative,
and others Of the negative. l cannot
see that this is necessary. There have
already been introduced several very
important subjects. The trouble is
discussing them. There is, for instance,
temperance. Now I think it is unrea-
sonRble and harmful to uphold the
wrong side of anything. II a thing is
hurttul let all decry it; if helpful, all
endorse it. If some think it wrong,
and others right, let each one have the
privilege of speaking as he or she may
think. Ny reason for this is that all
persons can SPEAK or write better il
they state what they believe to be the
truth.
And now, I have a word to the young
ladies. It is often said, and published
too, that the young ladies of the land
can exert their influence to such an <
tent that intoxication must stop. And
they are advised to insult every man
upon whose breath is the odor of the
Damon Alcohol. / wish to say that
this is quite impractible, not to say
impossible, for ladies either young or
old. For in a great many instances
the Incorporate man is either cousin,
brother, son, husband or father Of
some very estimable lady. Young
ladies, this is what I wish to say to
you: Do not let such stuff as the fore
going, lead you into the error of arro-
eating to yourselves the assumption
that you are responsible, in any nan
ner, for the drunkenness of any young
man; unless you drink with him, and
become intoxicated with him. OF
course it is the duty of every person to
use his or her il fuence for the good Of
mankind. But you have enough sins
of your own, without consuming your.
selves for those of the whole world,
and l have yet to see the man who can
be forced, by insults, into temperance
or anything else, either good or bad.
Ny experience is, that men must be
led, and not coerced, except when they
are driven by the strong hand of law,
with penalty attached.
Another lady, inadvertently, speaks
of women il fl fencing men Il vote. To
quote her W language, she says 20 q
lady writer for Social Chat: DO not
worry; some man will vote to please
your daughter
Now l was born in the f~orties, ''away
befo' de Wah," and 30 l suppose that I
am the Oldest person that has written
for the Chat corner. I suspect that I
am nearly, if not q1ite, as old al the
mother of Aunt J 5nnie. And not I'M
til this day have I ever, to my knoWI-
edge, heard of a man who voted to
please a woman. / have often known
men whose wives were exactly opposite
to them on questions that required of
the men the use of the ballot, and
they, the men, always voted to suit
themselves.
Another saying that is generally be-
lieved is that women do not wish to
vote d. not the women vote IN all
the States where they are permitted
So far as my experience goes, l have
always seen women vote on every
question, when they we're allowed to
do so And 1 would be glad to know
if there ia any Chstterer either male
or female who would not glaoly vote
for DIspensaries as against open
saloons.
Aunt Jennie, you must excuse my
long and rambling letter, and / will
ct o aside for those who q handle
the pen more ably. Yyurs truly
F,FEv ThPaa