The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-03-17
Irish History, Theology.
Politics and Literature.
Continued from First Pagc)

N0CAANiAIoNd - 4 1 &6't
Stone. of Wake Forest. y. {. He IS a
Democrat of the old school, the very
best school. He is a son of the once well
known farmer and democratic politician.
Jonathan NJ. Stone, of Granville county. i
man of considerable natural vigoT Of
mind. an adroit politician and canVasser,
a man of sterling integrity and high per
sOnal bravery, who represented the then
noble OLD county With fidelity and use
fulness. He had SIX sons in the War
Between the States. Ny correspondent
writes, and he is one OF the real heroes
| who helped to reflect SO much homer upoa
the South ard North Carolina.
Il and Brother Rufus were wounded at
Gettysburg. Brother Rufus had a mimic
hall shot centrally through his body, is
living yet, but the hole on the front
rever closed up: is open now. l was
shot in both legs and the left was ampu-
tated; manned through life with a
family. I was married in 1859
He had five brothers in the great war
fol- second independence.
He says: 4 always read all your ar
ticles l find. You are a gifted writer.
You always use such good English, and
the thoughts are so Well presented. |
hope, dear sir, you may live a long time
yet, to brighten the pathway OF your
many readers with your bright pen.
There is so much vicious, dangerous
legislation that is now attempted, and il
is not all confined to the Federal Con-
gress-a most dar~erous body indeed
that it behooves the thoughtful citizen
and patriot to watch every movement.
The trend is to centralized power. 20
usurpation, and to the most astounding
extravaganza in appropriations, IN gov
ernmental expenditures. There is 4 ten
! dency in this direction among legislators
of all parties, and the Democrats are
drifting with the current that leads 20
a wide and wasteful sea of w~rong-doipg
and oppression. In the Congress just
ended there was a movement that is alike
~d;sreputablc, dangerous and destructive.
! refer to the bill to protect the life of
the President. | do not know what be-
came Of the bill, but the dcfunct Con-
gross was none too wise or interviewing
to kill such a monster Of ~iniquity and
Gnspotism. It is foolish beyond parallel
and unWise beyond experience. ! copy as
follows from a ringing editorial in the
| Norfolk Firginia-Pilot
We have not seen the text Of the bill
But it is not necessary to 20 beyond the
provision that any one who teaches that
an officer Of the government Of any civ
ilized nation should be u%nlawfully killed
becomes liable to a fine of s., 900 and i'm
prisormert for 90 years.
Thus the bill not only creates an of
fetal class in this country but it under
takes to throw the protecting arm Of
American law around every tyrant in
| the civilized world. It puts. look you, a
higher value upon the life Of the Sultan
of Turkey than it does upcn the life Ct
the American citizen and extends to TIE
Sultan protection denied TO the citizen.
If you should read Of cruel Outrages
perpetrated by the Sultan or a Russian
| Tsar then you must pay a fine OF 5000
and be also imprisoned for twenty years
If you should dare TO say that the Sultan
| deserved to be shot. It is indeed mar
vellous that such a bill could be intro
duced into 2 thing called an American
| Congress. TIE fools flourish here and
the enemies OF free speech and American
liberty are in the Congress. The Virgin
ian-Pilot asks:
.Vher did it become a cardinal prin-
cirle of this democracy to undertake 10
maintain the tyrants Of foreign countries
upon their thrones and to set their pre-
cious hides above the liberties OF Amefi-
can citizens? Apparently when the Re
publican party threw over American ira
ditions and set out to put an uncroWned
monarch in the seat Of Washington and
Jefferson"
1t is astonishing what traitors and
asses are found among men who are
voted for and elected TO seats IN the
United states Congress. The people are
far too careless in the men they send
to the Legislatures and the Congress: =
reform here is imperative. The tendency
IN this country IS to great extravaganza
in public expenditures. The Republicans
have carried the expenditures with such
a high hand and outstretched arm, as