The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-20
Comments Living Topics
(Archibald Johnson.)

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! (Archibald Johnson)
! We can now turn our attention 10
Port Arthur and hope for it's fall. We
are divided on many things but we are
pretty solidly against the Russians.
The Methodist politicians attend
! their church meetings better than the
Baptist We noticed the names OF
several congressman in Charlotte. and
although there are four Baptists out
of the ten in Washington they do not
attend the Convention. However, the
body has never missed them very
much.
We have it from good authority that
the News and Observer has declined
three thousand dollars worth of liquor
advertisements within the past four
months. This ought to bring to the
paper more than enough moral sup
port to make up the deficiency. But
whether it comes or not that paper
will adhere to it's purpose, and for
this it deserves all praise.
| Now brethren, the agony being over,
let us all get down to solid work.
There is no money in politics anyhow,
ana any amount of disappointment and
regret ALI O1 I'D iicIF0 AiAuSAA ~ NC
that is really worth doing and that
will bear rich fruit. The officeholders
are the only ones who gather the har-
vest from the field of politics.
| Our people were delighted with the
square and manly stand taken by MI
Glenn on the temperance question:
Indeed, it is a matter of rejoicing that
we have another Governor who fears
God and loves the people. The more
pronounced q Christian candidate is
the better the people of North caro-
lima like him, and Governor Glenn is
neither afraid nor ashamed to show
+ his colors
1t is to be hoped that politicians of
all parties have learned that it is not
healthy TO hedge on the temperance
question. The people of the State as
a whole are heartily in favor of tenn
perance and the effort to convince the
country people that the Watts law dis
eliminates against them was ludl-
crous failure. Country people are not
the fools some people take them to
be.
Nv We are really sorry for the
! man who wants a political office worse
than the people want to give it to him.
/ The man whom the office seeks is still
! the man the folks are after
A Good Year.
| Having covered much of the State
| within the past three months, we are
| glad to be able to say that our people
! are in excellent condition. The good
| crops and high prices have pulled our
! farmers out of trouble. We do not re-
I call the old cry of hard times we used
! to know SO well within a year or two.
/ The farmers are cheerful and admit
| that they are having pretty good
! time There are some notable eXcep-
! tiOnS In certain sections which nave
! been scourged by hail, the people
! are desolate indeed; but even here the
! general spirit of cheerfulness is not
wanting. Another thing we note with
| joy is that the people are using their
prosperity for a good purpose. More
| fine church houses are being built
right now, certainly among the Bap-
| lists, and we judge it is true of others,
! than we have ever known. Schools
! are overlooking and the improve
ment in the equipment of the farms,
! and the residences and the furnish
ings, is quite marked. All the signs
point to greater prosperity and more
real happiness than our people have
! ever enjoyed.
Passing of the Spellbinder.
The Charlotte News says 1.-The time
for the four-hour political orator has
passed and gone" We think this q,
true saying, and we rejoice. The quail
ity of the average political speech has
been poor-amazingly noor-the main
thing aimed at being the consumption
of time. We have rarely heard a
spellbinder who showed coherency and
clearness of ideas. The main thing
was the mastery of adjectives in the
abuse of the other party and the alb
normal and exaggerated prophecy of
evil II 1t got into power. The people
are getting above that drivel, and we
hope they will demand that there be
a little more thought and a little less
i wind in what the orators have to say.
| Thirty minutes is long enough for
most men to tell all they know on any
given subject; and the speaker who IS
able to pack solid thought into small
suace will be the speaker who will
draw in the future. The harangue
that lasted from two to five hours be-
longed to an age when time was not
so precious as it is now. The crowd
thus detained by a gas-bag feels ag-
grieved, and so far from being per-
suaded by it. will resent it as an out
rageous imposition. We have only one
man in North Carolina who can speak
profitably and effectively for two hours
on politics, but there are many others
who imagine they can do so. The
thirty minute speech is the coming