The progressive farmer., 1899-10-31
"RRFoRMa aR" WRITES AGAIN.


correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.
Ny letter in support Of the amend
ment published in your issue OF Sept.
19Gh, walked up the opponents Of the
amendment. 1 think you have pub
lished not less than a half dozen replies
to it, but &C far as can see, they have
disproved not single statement that
then made, although "Old Dan
promised to ''skin" me in your issue of
last week and used up nearly three
columns valuable space beating the air
and conradicting himself. Finally he,
luxe x Y z in your issue OF @ }tober
II n, SET ing that he had made miser
able failure other wise wound up with
great bugaboo. These two writers
see the amendment is growing more
and more popular, and that some new
scheme must be resorted to in order to
prevent the triumph OF education and
progress which means the triumph Of
he amendment. And so each Gays to
the people, 81 confess have no argu.
ment against the amendment just now,
out I've got some secret information.
[ can't tell it now, but it's just awful.
You just vote for the amendment and
rhis awful thing will surely happen"
Now did anybody ever hear Of more
puerile b ,hyiah scarecroW7 Do "Old
Dan" and X Y z think the people of
Ngrth CArolina are children to be
fooled with such shams and boyish
Ghreats9
Mr. Filyav says il we disfranchis9
the 80, 900 negroes we lessen the power
of the common people against the
money power. We do nothing OF the
Kind. They themselves have been the
Oest to Dis OF the money power in both
parties The money power in the R
publican party has used them and kept
them in liue for every thing wanted The
money power in the D ,mocratIc party
has used them es q great scarecrOw to
prevent the discussion OF real ISSUE
and to keep the easily terrified whites
In line or everything it. wanted. But
Mr.. Flllyaw says theee $4,000 voted for
better el ction laws in 1894 Even so,
but Mr. FiIlyaw entirely torgets that
but for the ''nigger" scarecrow more
than 80 900 whites would have stood
ready to condemn fraud and perjury
But o Dan" ia very much afraid
that the grandfather clause will fall
leaving tie other sections standing.
aud thus establish an educational
q ratification for voters, both white and
black. This scarRcrOw has been well
exploded by the editor Of The Progress
i've Farmer end If "Oid Dan" can tino
any flaw in our EDITORS reasoning C.
prove the impossib lity OF such thing.
let him point it out.
But "OId Dan" says it tue an end
ment did anything toward settling the |
negro question, be would support It
Very good, friend Dan, look at tn 8:
The negro voting population OF this
State at the last census was 1O9, 600 ut
Of total Of 343 OOO As, according TO
same census, three fourths of the ne
groes are illiterata as against oL G.
fourth OF the whites, an educ atiopsl |
fer both races would die
franchise eighty thousar d negroes al d |
sixty thousand whites, leaving tee
white voters in maj 1rity of six to cne. |
The amendment submitted, however.
proposes to disfrRnchise the eighty
thousand illiterate voters while permit
ting the sixty thouss nd illiterate whites
to vote, thus leaving the whites in a
majority Of fully ten to one. What
fool will howl white supremacy" or
negro rule under such conditicns |
The amendment will take the repro
question out of politics, it will encour
age education; it will disfrapchise no
white man; it will disfrapc1ise no
white boy unless he refuses to QUALITY
himself. Let us vote for it.
REFORMKR
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