The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-07-23

who had been for wears rlther pros
trate. As a specimen OF the tyranny.
and stupidity OF the Troy govern
ment. the same writer quoted from
above. states this.
Laws were passed at one session
at the suggestion Of one interest. onlS
TO be altered at a later session At the
suggestion Of another interest Par
lament enacted what machinery
should be used in manufacturing cloth
in the interest OF labor. and the
crown granted license or monopoly in
breaking the law for the renef or
the manufacturers"
In the United states We have con
ditions as 10 robbery under the huge
Tariff Tax Of which no other country
has had any such experience And
yet there are all through the South
today alleged Democrats who are as
Subservicnt to the Money Power. and
as favorable TO graft and greed. TO
robbery and rum by Tariff and
Trusts, by railroads and combinations.
as the most contumaciouS and raven
Gus Republicans in the land Woe bc IL
To any country When the people be
come subservient to power and sub
missive 70 wrong. The same writer. MIR.
Edward A. Bradford in an able paper
sees the dangers ahead, and writes
IN this wise strain.
THE Presidents first adviser has
Just warned Us that the Nation VIII
intervene to do what the states neg
lect to do in regulating trusts In inter
state commerce and parties divide at
the polls upon this topic. our fnaus-
tries are becoming nationalized. and
even internationalized. repeating the
experience in carly England"
l believe myself tina the most dan
gerous. devilish Standardization that
his country has had since the time
Of baleful JOIN Adams and Alexander
Hamilton. is that OF Roosevelt and
his tribe. We need ii great. brave
hearted leader az we have not needed
in a half century or nor The Dem
o~cratic party is in a bad FIX In the.
South il IS divided, and rather rotten
for safety. h Democracy really
means IS not understood or forgotten
or despised. a Of the
people and for the people and by the
people is well-nigh forgotten and
neglected. Hamilton had more than
one hundred years ago a great con
tempt and dislike for the peopIe. He
depised them and openly proclaimed
that they were not much above
brutes. and were 50 ignorant and In
competent as to be completely dis
qualified from the exercising Of power
in a republic. He favored q great
Strong Government in which the
Rich and the finely Educated Few
shout alone have power TO direct
and control as he affirmed. 50 ne
favored a President for life. a senate
for life and a Supreme Court for lfre
He succeeded most fortunately in
only securing the last named that
has become a menace 70 the liberties
II a free people.
l wish to present from 4 first rate
authority some Illuminating figures
Tell II not in Chicago or Pennsvlva-
mia. but it IL a fact that the gigantic
Tobber. The Steel Trust. in 1905. act
ually nad net earnings greater than
all Of the net earnings ~ all the agri-
cultural classes in the whole Ameri-
can Union for the ten years-from
1890 to 1900. The steel Trust had
last year $3.50 .000 pronts The
total net profits from all OF the farm
ers were but $132.0 900 600. Think II
that. There were from eight to ten
millions Of toalers engaged on the
farms that numbered millions what
that ~worshipped Steel Trust, Tnere
YOU are. You have here much 20
think over. Il j. a huge volcano Of
vice and destruction that is runbIlng
and roaring and throwing out IL
ashes. lava and FIRE The American
people are practically asleep and do
not know Of the great danger and
tremendous encroachinR powers that
are already curSing. blasting, absorb
ing. destroying
Before dosing his line n reflection
I viii refer briefly To an experience
our great mother country England.
had as late as the Crimeau war in
1856 think II vas. The greedy. con-
sceinceless cormorents at home pluck
ed and devoured. 3 hungry detoIr-
ers at home got government contracts
to supply the soldiers with food and
shoddy clothing. They got rich upon
their country's misfortunes The cor
ruptions and rascalitics rourished,
abounded. devoured. The soldiers en-
before SebastOpOl went bare
foot IN the snow, because the con
Of boots which were sent
ont to them were discovered 10 be
all for the left foot. They stand be-