The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-10-22

Of them belong TO this class. but near
" all. There are some that ! can't
put in for | can't tell who they are,
There are some il the great cities VINO
own and their names are
never known to the people. We do
know that some of the newspapers
are not run as business enterprises, as
newspaper enterprises, but as a
scheme Of the owners TO deceive the
people through the employment
OF brilliant editors. while the
real owners pick the pock-
Of newspapers is one Of the great
curses If today. They are always
against the interests of the common
people where their rights are con
cerned. / am glad his is not true
Of all the newspapers, even some or
the metropolitan newspapers, for an
editor who is true to the common
people is a servant to all the people
throughout our land The weekly
newspaper, edited by : man of char
acter and n conscience is one of the
strongholds of liberty of the common
people. ! am going to put the week
ly newspapers and their editors in
smaller cities in his lass. There is
one editor in this State that have
watched carefully for a long time. and
| am going to put him in this class,
my friend Daniels.
All Common Folks Together.
II am going to put the teachers in.
They belong there. l am going to
put the preachers in, for they belong
there. There may be a few preach
ers in the cities filling high
priced pulpits who would not
like to be there among the com
mon people. And now l am going to
open the door, and let anybody else
come in who wants to. / have had
railroad men ask me if they might
come in. Yes, they are a part of us
and thew are so faithful in the dis
charge Of their duty that we go to
sleep on the train with as much of
the feeling of security as if we were
at home. I had a hotel keeper come
up one day and ask me if he might
come in. l said, Yes you, are a part
of the common people too. | have
had some bankers ask permission to
join, and told them they might come
in. Not all of them have come in.
Some of them think it is more i'm
portant to keep on the side of their
New. York correspondent thar to keep
on the side of the common people. I
think some of them have learned a
great deal since, 1896. Then we had
quite a scattering among them
and some of them had i'm
pressed pOn their minds that
they belonged to this class.
Opening a Bankers Eyes.
l knew one fellow IN Nebraska. a
banker who got an idea that he did
not belong to this class. He attempt
ed to dictate to his depositors. One
day a SWede came in and the banker
tried to scare him by telling him hat
if he voted for Mr.. Bryan his dollar
would be worth only one-half. Then
this 6nn0Sitnr wont ont on1 +ho,Irht
over it and he came back and asked
for all of his deposit in the bank.
He went out and told another Swede
what the banker had told him that
if he voted for Mr.. Bryan his dollars
would only be worth half as much
and this man came in and asked for
all of his one $1.400 at one time.
Then there was a run on the bank.
The banker TOLD the Swede to go
bac and tell his friend that he did
not mean what he said about MI.
Bryan being elected. that he had lied
to him. There is no reason why the
bankers should not be with this class.
1t IS not a question of fortune. but
a question of sympathy. Thomas JEFF
ferson was a rich man for his time.
but he was the first great leader of
the common people. He was educated
for his time but his sympathies were
with the common people and he strug-
gled with them for their rights.
NOW, my rlenQS, L Lnlnk 1t safe
to say that 95 per cen of our people
belong to the common class. This is
a numerous class. Is it not a respec-
class? Aren't YOU glad to be-
long to it? ] am. [ would not care
belond to any other class of so
classes that l could not get in even
if [ tried. They have a particular
class in New York that no one can
get into, unless he can show for at
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self that no ancestor of his did any
honest work. My grand father
was a Virginia farmer and
my father was born there
the farm. His parents died when
was young and he had to work his
way. He worked on the farm to
make something to go to school a
He was twenty-seven when he
graduated and ~twenty-nine when he
to practice law.
Heritage of Labor.
am proud of every drop of pers-
that fell from his brow and
1 would rather have his blood run
ming through my veins than the blood
of any nobleman in Few York. He
Dor. I have orked upon the farm.
and when / was in the law school
wanted to add something to my in
to relieve the family so far as I
COUl0 ana | maze " a week CI6anlng
up an office, sweeping it out every
night and morning and securing the
loo every Saturday night, and
made a dollar that | was more
nroud of than | am of those. I have
to teach my children to respect
and since l left home / have re-
a letter from my wife telling
me that my only son. now in college.
had spent Saturday afternoon after
left helping a man put the alfalfa
crop in the barn. ! want my children
to be proud to belong to his class.
friends, this country will be what
the common people make it and this
country's progress will be measured
by the refinement and wealth of
a few. but by the ideals of the great
common people of the land.
Radicals ard Conservatives.
Submit to the average man two
of government and he will take
which gives to the common people
the largest control. In the beginning
of our national history. we had two E.