The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-08-14

and thereby upon the "ae~ south" as
well. in the follow ing parazr rhS
when a moral issue IA beet d.
cidei Alright AMI CEASED &" be- III i-
sue. ali the politicians who were ~ The
immoral side have been Inferred
with It.
Secession Is Z dead issue. y ever.
politician who advocated il is dead also
for all national purposes"
With the ease Of its wide iuforHa
tion ana the celebrity with which IL
IS inclined Ia administer a relsake L"
the occasional recrudesceuce II $50
tional u-tterances tending to tnj.re the
south. the Washington Post suslnarlIv
diSposes If the false statement that ex-
/ Confelerates are politically lid. Il "a
mains only 10 point out that tho ven"r
Of the paper when has sucn positive
convictions on the subject OF moral
issues" is the same man Whes- bank
last year afforded i STIR
ring ~corrolary to the insurance expo
sures; ana the ann John K. Walsh
who, a Democrat in 1896. was impcllcd
to change his political fai,a on &C
: count Of the Immoral character" OF
William Jennings Bryan, z CORPSE
who is returning 10 the greatest re
ception accorded any American. in 4
generation.
1t may be remarked in passing that
issues upon which this country caa
seriously divide are of sufficient in
trinsic merit on either side - be be
yond the power Of man to certify that
they are moral or immoral. Greae is
-.-- 1890. ,.oo1--ov;1,- l., l1a+j.J .n,
it IS evidence of the political tempo:
Of the people of this county and of
their devotion to their conviction that
in each instance when the bait'e is
joined there is q large leme} Wlllc!.
sees morality as we'll as sound political
policy involved in the result. y 2rca1
cause cannot be immoral except as It
reflects the intent with which il is
supported. Much as they may differ,
the American people are not Yet come
to the point where any considerable
portion of them would lend counter
ance to a movement which is immoral
in itself. John r. Walsh and many
others held-others With bettec claim
at this day to sincerity-that Tee sill
yer was an immoral issue. Thousands
of others saw in that doctrine nothing
but righteousness. The issue was set
tied. Have those who advocated it, and
those to whom the Chronicle evidently
vet intends it's highly moral obserVa-
tons to apply. been "interred?'
With the same intent and scarcely
less Extensively, The Kennebec Journal
later remarked:
The new South has been a fruitful
theme for writer's and speakers during
the past generation, and yet every lit
tie while there has been. and
unwelcOme evidence that the old South
has by no means passed away. The
South needs more capital, more labor,
more enterprise, less demagOgGery, less
race prejudice, and less political stu
pidity; but in spite of it's heavy handi-
caps it has shared to no small degree
in the bountiful prosperity which the
whole country has been enjoying III re
cent years.
Which moves the Washington Post
to exclaim:
'"Thank God, the old South has not
passed away: that While she has in
recent years, been accommodating
wealth, there has been no ~decadence
of her manhood; that her Democratic
representation in Congress-, in both
and House. has, in a large de-
gree. been distinguished by the best
of the oId-time American characterls-
tics; that among the scores OF eX-
Confederate statesmen and soldiers,
men who served in the Confederate
& and in the arlny of the Con-
federacy, the CRATER has been conspic-
by reason Of his absence. the
of the F~ifty-ninth Congress
furnishes many illustrations of what
the OLD South was and the new South
is. Compare the venerable eX-Con-
federates Morgan and PettuS, of Ala
bama, with the representation IN that
body of the Empire state. and you
will not need to go further in the in
V~eSti2atiOn.'
The old South" is in more Waysi
han one the parent of the New. The
old south was rich. was given to the
graces, made of craftsmanship and of
an elegant profession. But it
was the men of the old South who |
furnished the exalted courage ana the
indomitable pride of race which found !
ed the new. They We're men Who
proved the sterling worth Of principle
as it has never before been eHampled.
And it is their heritage which still
keeps the South 4 section which has :
not been led astray. which in the MAX =
of money has not been dazZled into ,
false perceptions of honor, which holds
old-faShioned notion Of the sacred
ness OF the home, which is free from !
graft and still furnishes ability COM I
bif1ed with poverty in public men. The :
country. as well as the Post, may Well :
remark, '"Thank God the old South
has not passed away
But it SO happens that there remains $
an opinion written by a former editor .
Of the Journal, which shows /
a different view from that INDUCED by !
the present administration of that pa
per. In his Twenty Years in Con- ,
sfess' Mr.. James G.. Blaine says of &.
the southern statesmen: i;
throughout the long period OF their :
ioiiiflidtlon the southern leaders
: udfded the Treasury with rigid and
increasing vigilance against every at
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