The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-04-28

lie intelligence by beaten bosses. nv mis-
leading leaders, by discounted dema-
sogues and by stranded cranks.
SOME ADMISSIONS.
"Whil at the confessional, let me adj
nit that with us the question of how
government shall be conducted on its bus
mess side outclasses the consideration
Of how it shall be conducted on tho lines
of its theories. The issue of clean and
honest, frugal and simple, responsible,
and punishable administration
with us overlays issues of purely fantastic
import. = x We would like to substi-
tute a bipartisan or non-partisan com
mission Of business men as q permanent
corps of experts on economic subjects
Tor a system OF competition responding
to the greed of contributing and ~recouping
monopolles, or to the intellectual indi-
gestion af anemic Missionaries. Our bust
ness laws should be a nodge-podge Meth
er of mysteries nor CT hypocrisy. The
dictionary is too small for the mind of a
child. The ramified needs, the multitudin-
Gus interests and the diversified resources
and activities of our people are too large
for settlement on party lines. = ( g
"Our politics had been better, our lives
had been sweeter, our friendships had
been finer, had we left such quarrel
words as Silver Craze, Gold Bugs. Coin
Clippers, Plutocrats, Rloated Bondholders
and Roaring Regulators out of the cor
tention. Take any other Of the subjects,
for instance, by which with wind and
tongue ~demagogucs have divided our peo-
Pie. Recur for a moment to the tariff.
The concern Of it must be revenue Tor
the government. An auxiliary considera-
ton of it must DC the wage of the peo-
pie. The first must be enough and the
second must not be reduced. 1t logically
follows that duties must conserve and
preserve rates. That rule followed ont
would produce a business tariff whicl;
it would be a satire to baptize with any
party name; as much of a satire as it
would be politically to christen a civil
or a criminal code.
"In the same way, take up Civil Ser
vice Reform. IT is based on the propo-
sition that public business is business,
and that it is not more or less with tho
word public put in front of it than with
that word left out. From this, it follows
that as foc all business competency, f6el-
ity and intelligence should be a ccndi-
ton Of appointment and a security OF
tenure. so in all business should merit,
experience, capacity and character dc
servo and obtain promotion. Should our
state Government and our National Gov
ernmeGts apply to their business the
sanity, the justice and the enterprise
which lowered into such Southern results
as The Atlanta, the Nashville, the Charles
ten, and the New Orleans Exposition.
making them splendid successes of art,
skill. labor and cooperation, mixed With
brains, we should almost reach the threS-
bold Of the golden age which is the de-
sire Of nation. y
NEED OF CANDOR AND LIBERALITE.
Il might run the gamut of all qucs-
tons by which, since tho war, South and
North have been at times divided, and
ty which they nave been divided within
parties as we'll as between them. My
object, however, Will have been, accom-
plished if / have suggested to the friends
with whom l came and to the friends
that We have made here, the fact that
we all really agree rather than actually
differ on matters of vivid and vital con-
Germ to our commemorative and to oar
republic. Too little of our argument ar
gucs. Too little of our debate debates.
Too much Of our contention is about
names rather than about things. TCo
much of our controversy is around terms
rather than around truth. Too much Of
cur CIlh IS IO1 Victory ldIHcI IudH y
veracity. Reform in these respects must
be inductivc rather than direct. 1t must
begin with the chief sinners, our states
men and our Journalists. We must in
jcct into our writings and into OH
81 echCS more of candor and less Of
assion. We must nal our words pur-
posely plain rather than deliberately am
biguous. 4 x + The people of both see
tons are tar better than those
who give to them a low NOR
81 rating. Their intelligence is
Ear greater than is that of those who
serve out to them the food on which fools
7 are fed. Readers better edit editors than
editors their papers when the latter put
into them anything which they know to
3c wholly false or only partially true
LEADERS EARNESTLY WANTED.
'sMy State, your State, our nation,
await the men of thought and the mon
f action to clear the way. At no time
was the heed of them greater or the
prospect of them more suspicious. None
Of the periods OF the politics Of mediOcri-
ty or of intellectual immortality in Am
| erica has been long. When one party has
seemed nearly destitute of statesmen and
when the other has seemed to be over
| stocked with partiSanS OF tho second
! rank, some THINKER or some nOIdllSL Hd-
risen or REQUIRED to view, to speak tho
| .ongcd-for and the desired word to TT
attentive ear and to the hoping heart
# d noble people. The example a.
well as decisions. the character as wei
rs The logic, the life as well as the learn
ing Of John Marshall are neither an eX-
tinct nor an o~utlawed inheritance among
his people. TIN genius and the faith Of
StonCwaH JACKSON viii ever DC a factor
among those whom be led and for whom
nc died. Tho greatness and the grandeur
he magnanimity and the modcsty, tn
consideration AMI the courage, the exam
ole and the incentive which Robert =
Lee presented on tho field Of war and II
lie still air of delightful studies in col
lcgiate shades viii be not only forever
\ bcrediction, but forever u transform
.nE Influence not only within Virginia, no
onlV within the South, not only through
ont the Republic, but across tho seas ant
around the world.
mo can any Now Yorker, nor can any
Virginian any more than any Georgian
nor can any American. especially can N