The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-06-20

than to submit to their authority and
learn at their feet, It is not only true
in literature, but in politics. 1t Is true
in the ministry, it is true in the bust
ness world. To talk about men being
equal anywhere at any time is not only
to DENY the divine order OF things, but
to ~perpetrate a dangerous falsehood.
mo man has a right to rule beyond
his powers. In a court room every
man may have a right to receive JUS
tice. At a penitential altar every man
have a right to rec9ive instruction, but
when it m to rule and reign in the
world. no man hos q right beyond the
potUeT 1Vhicb he possesses.
The great men OF Greece we're made
when Greece was most a~ristocratic in
its feelings.
II read a great deal these days about
a more equal distribution Of property.
What's the use to distributed The same
dtUine talent to accumulate property
would destroy the equality in less than
twenty four hours, and ten years
would reinssate the very condition
against which you legislated.
THE business genius is So much by
divine appointment as toe poetical
genius.
And the spirit that would bring
kings down TO the Level OF dogs ia or
der to give imperious feelings TO dogs
is a spirit that would proouca Il meGi-
ocrity in which there is death auG
ruin.
What saved Joseph from being q
calamity bowler was thai he IA real
dangers, and offered real solutions. If
yOu haze no solution for q trouble then
you hare o. djUipe coll to Keep yOur
mouth closed on the subject; and Ibope
you wiU obey the call No man has a
right to ncove a disease which he
cannot cure"
We do not obj ct to great men and
monumental characters, and if we
envy them we do wrong. We would
not ''heW them down" o do we be
lieve in "a dead level of mediocrity."
And far as it is from our purpose to de
tend communism and socialism. But
l do say that not until civiliz alton ret
rogrRdes to the dark days of the en-
pirss of the m ddie ages will the masses
Of the people have to look to an eli
garchio set of teachers, preachers and
rulers for their conception OF the noble
and beautiful and for their law and
government.
Nowaday g great fortunes are amassed
by men in combinations depressing the
laborer and grinding the poor and
the weak; By monopolies which crush
competition and rob the masses And
he who says this is a divine talent to
accumulate" and a business genius"
of divine appointment" holds a dan.
gerous doctrine born OF no love for
humanity and no sympathy for the
people. When we build great mel
and large fortunes on the PROSTATE
forms OF the weaker class, it seems to
me the price is too great. Independ
ent homes are more beautiful to noe
than al the riches Of Craosus. fame Of
C8 ar and glory of Napoleon.
Bu: Dr. Klgo. after going from. JIdea
to France, fortitying bis position with
history, does not fed his ideal qualities
until he reaches the negro race. He
does not find in the Anglo S,xonleb er
the disposition 30 be content with I'M
tRtipg his bosses The white man
also forms labor orSan zstions and at
tempts to throttle monopoly in its at
tempt to levy tribute on him. This
evidently displeaaes DE-. Kilgo-and
the Dukes. The learned Doctor then
takes up the race problem and after
speaking OF lis many difficulties and
embarraasments, he says Il et all not
discuss those phases. I will leave
them to men wiser Now here he
howled calmoity he "uncovered,a d 8
ease, " out he dared not offer q cure or
remedy. According to his own state
menF above he had a 'divine call to
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