The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-02-27

The moral difference between pure
burglary and pure business has grown to
be slight. 1t is Il difference, also, in no
sort 10 favor the victim. Lockwood. he
fore the Industrial Commission asked 4
fair question mot as yet replied 1nj
when he said: What is the material
difference between being robbed by a
foot pad with a pistol and being robbed
by Standard Oil with Il railrold!' No.
truly. business is greed. And Greed,
which each day lowers moral standards,
finds that expression In the slavery Of
every one too weak to resist. You end :
YOU government does-with the strong
rev masters and the weak many as sprfs.
In this money age, when money is pow
CT, and poverty limp and sick, one will
not Wend far afield to find ones ruler.
Vet it need not be that money should
conquer freedom. II Freedom would
but grid up the loins of her courage,
face Money and fight for her right to
live, her triumph would be easy and
swift. But therein lies the trouble.
Americanism coming to our own sad
apathetic case, would seem as a spirit
30 be paralyzed. Look at the outra ges
Of the Hanna government! They crowd
one another III Il very lock-step of corrup-
NiCAA CIV LII az d1IIItiIS NdS. t.
sentment burns slow and cold. There
would appear to be no more fire in the
public breast than might be found in the
bosom of a wet bath towel, and public
courage shows Water-logged and sodden.
1t is a wrong figure, however, to speak
Of the public as dogs. Rather are they
sheep to be driven. On their way to the
shedrlng sheds, in charge of those WHO
fleece them, it now and then falls odt
that the ante ignominies of some under
shepherd of an Alger or a Gage, or it
may be an Eagan, alarm the flock.
They bunch UP and stand at dubious
gaze. ThereupOn the Hanna at the
head of all casts out this disquieting
shepherd. The flock at once forgets and
goes forward. The fleeing proceeds;
the shearing goes OH the same.
Surely it would seem,' continued this
Philosopher, THAT given OF the part OF
the people one spark of that former
spirit which, kindled at Concord, burned
through u Valley Forge to blaze in vic
tory at a final Yorktown, Mckinley will.
this year, be beaten from his place. Yet
50 certain are such as Hanna of the dull
ana stupid tameneSs of the American
voter, that they today wager one TWO 70
one Oh Mckinley's success. He should
OF 4 verify. be beaten. Conditions have
changed III four years. The fsht of 1896
was p%erforce a battle Of promises and
platforms. Both sides, Bryan and Nc
Nlnlcy, were out, while Cleveland held
the Nhlte House. Neither Bryan nor Nc
NluIey had Il record to cOnider and the
contest was rather one of hope and fear,
BASED Oh the professions of candidates
ana platforms. TO this situation Of
course one must add the 19-million cor
raption fund of Hanna, and which
l9uGht and fought on the side of Repub-
Aeanism. This years warfare is not one
81 promise. There has been in the black
A-olt case Of Mckinley some four years
81 performance. The Canton cipher has
Il record. He has been tagged on to more
IMAM one, yes, more than one hundred
numerals of Villainy and Greed to mark
me measure of public crime. Today Nc
hInley has a record. And thereby de-
pehds much. That record will be put
before every voter of the land. How
one Of common honesty or common
L1pught on reading It. can vote for Nc
hInley, is more than one may see. Nc
NlAley Of a verify! should be beaten; not
20 much by a Bryan promise as a Nc
hInley past.
Kun rapidly over the years since
March Of 1897. How is such wrong to
eScape the lash? The Maine is killed
ana droWned with 266 OF her people.
NISSpeeS dispatch, The Spaniards sunk
'"H ny treachery, is suppressed by Long.
I'M ii new one covering the Spanish afro
.-| IS forged and put in its place. Hanna
says II was the carelesSnass of the
IN" and not the Spaniards that sunk