The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1904-07-21
ANOTHER VIEW.
Communicated.

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1t would be difficult matter to pro-
duce any great degree Of enthusiasm in
| the breast OF an unbribed Southerner for
the grand and glorious achievements
of the present incumbent at our national
capital We cannot even dance to the
piping Of the learned delegate to the Ma
tional Convention when the tune is ''riTe
le ROOsepehf'
duct may be that we all may not have
returned to sanity yet The Republican
party has done some good to the coun-
try, in that it has furnished an object
lesson OF Misrepresentation, greed. filth
and sin that would deter any one who
has not sold himself soul and body to
| King Avarice, from following in it's foot
steps.
We are indebted to the brother for Il
| new idea. We had thought that every
| conceivable abOmination this side of the
| pit had been rehearsed for tie benefit ca
of the masses. We can but applaud his
| ingenuity when he charges divine wisdom
| with McKinley's assassination. Such a
| pity the authorities did not accept this
rendering and let the assassin live. 1t is
| hard for ordinary minds to reconcile this
act with Gods usual justice and mercy
to think that OmnipOtence had no other
expedient than to kill Mckinley the
great. pure, true, sanity Christian that
had done so much for the elevation of
the masses, just to make room for
Roosevelt.
One of the hardest things one ever has
to reconcile to common sense and reason
is the fact that men who are lauding
Roosevelt are the same ones who are
forever Haunting the Constitution in the
faces of the general public that are not
OF like persuasion, when they know that
he is occupying the place that was once
the highest seat of honor in the nation,
by direct infraction of one OF the first
rules of that honored document, j. e.,
'There shall be no bribery or ccrrup-
ton"
We will go back a little way to speak
OF a matter that we would do well to
forget were it not necessary to recall the
incident to elucidate some facts. When
the President dined Booker Washington
he had twO-fold purpose inview. First.
he thought to turn the Negroes head so
that he would stop doing Il work that
Teddy didn't want done. l. e., teaching
his students that they could only rise to
success and great achievements by indi-
ing-that the only way to honest wealth
was honest toll. The other purpose was
| to create friction between the races. and
| not one word has ever been spoken by
him or one of his tools but had this dire
purpose in view for not one of them
from Roosevelt to his lowest servant,
| wants the whole South to turn Republi-
| can, that indeed would upset all their
plans. All of this fiendish literature that
is scattered all over this Southland is
| only to incite some poor, ignorant
| darkey to commit some crime for which
| he will be lynched, and that will furnish
| them the campaign capital they would
| give anything but life to obtain
1t is not an innate love for the brother
i'll black, or a great desire for his prefer
ment that causes this periodical distress
in the minds of Republicans for the way
the negro is prevented from injuring
Others as well as himself by selling his
vote to unprincipled office seekers Ii
some spirit should whisper in their ears.
1.-The Africans are all going to vote and
vote Democratic it would make your
head swim to see them turn and declare
that negro was never fit to vote at all.
This social equality cant is rot pure ct
simple. When it is necessary to demon
strate their beliefs along that line, they
make cat IS paw of some man less known
to fame than the average negro-hence a
| little OF it goes a long way with the
brother in black, and leaves him not SO
much in love with social equality.
| Even Roosevelt, ''the immaculate, I'M
| eGualled, grand, God-raised President
has not dined a single negro around
| Washington, and surely there are as
worthy ones around there as there are in
any Southern State. Don't need them,
you see, and they are the last class OF
| people to waste ammunition.
| Now friends, it is a mOnstrous insult
we grant you. to be denominated idiots,
but it had better be true than for us to
be knave, and it is an old adage that
ones enemies are his best friends for
they make him more careful to live sans
reproach. II we can possess our souls in
patience and pray every day as Stephen
did of old. Lord lay not this sin to their
charge. November will soon be here and
it will be spectacle for nations to see
how quick these thorns in the flesh will
settle back to enjoy their ill gotten gains
and let us rest We may spend the time
in chickering's and retaliative speeches.
We can even out Herod Herod in bring
ing up disgraceful acts to fiaunt in the
faces OF our common enemy, but what
will it amount to? We will do well to
leave the whole thing in the hands OF
Omnipotent Wisdom, and endeavor to
keep our individual hands clean. and our
souls unspotted from the world and SO
sure as the sun shines in the bending
heavens, God will vindicate His own. II
we are not His own we ought not to be
indicated
1t behooves us to follow the teaching
of Holy Writ when it says: "Ephriam is
Joined to his idols-let him alone
1t is a cruel thing to make men believe
who have not had the chance to study
the subject in all it's bearings that any
set of law makers or act of government
can materially affect their success Or en-.
joyment. There is only on road to sue.
cess, that is by faithful. honest toll, in
some vocation of life This course, mixed
with economy, frugality and an exercise
OF Judgment to take advantage of all in.
noeent means Of increasing ones posses
siOns will just as surely bring prosperity
as that the Bible is true
There will be a grand thanksgiving day
when the general public understands that
individuals make their own success, that
poverty and want is no inheritance from
God, and that no civil law or set of law.
makers can materially affect ones pros
perity. R.F.
Manson, \. c.
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