The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-09-07
A Long Editorial Life-Impoftant Facts
The New England Mania.
By DR.. T. B. Kingsbury.

! sought. With tha and the conscious
ness Of honesty Of with a
sincere understanding and a serene
conviction that the signal act OF duty
is altogether an act Of faith l have
striven to pursue the even tenor Of my
way unaWed and unseduced. There is
always q sufficiency of reward in the
good opinion of our fellow men en-
dowed with principles of honor.
When very nearly eighty-one years
of age I can truthfully affirm that I
have never desired to be struck by the
pone of official bread, or to have my
patriotism and true democracy meas
ured by the surprises Of Of
flee and the hope of a better
place. 1t is surely honor enough to be
faithful in the place in which one is
called under Providence. "Act well
your part is the best incentive, and
the consciousness of fidelity and zeal
for the right is the reward. h
Waterman on the overs Of Liberty
and Constitutional gOvernment-the
faithful men Of the American Press
with sleepless vigils-are still on
guard, watching a~nxiously the devour-
ing enemies of the people, bravely
holding up the great fundamentals of
genuine Democracy, and advocating
~staunchly, unf1aggingly all wise
measures that .ook to the betterment
VI NI1NA1 IStIo" I1SIl Al NlAC pI ~,
safety. perpetuity of the State. Long
may they continue fixed and reso1ute
with unyielding front and unfaltering
devotion.
Let Us Have a Few Facts.
Facts and truth are forever impor-
tant. They must exist or there is no
safety, no ~perpetuity Of free institu-
tons. OF liberty itself. Taxes are a
necessity, but it is easy to make them
a curse. 1t was stated by Senator
Overman, a well-equipped, reliabl
member Of the u. S. Senate, in a
capital speech he delivered before
that body recently. that there were
more than 100000 Of people in our
country engaged in the five chief
groups Of occupations at this time.
OF these there are but 243, O0O-think
Of that-that are officers and manu-
facturers, and of these not more than
10000 are to be classed as really
manufacturers beggarly number
indeed when compared with the grand
total Of more than 10000, 900. And
yet this country is debauched, and
p~lundered and bankrupted for the
benefit of the insignificant small
number, while the almost countless
millions Of the working people are
ruined, ~despoiled, plucked, sucked,
The able Senator said that in de
Quoting this privileged and protected
Glass from the grand total we have
more than q 5000, 900 of our country
men who are directly affected by this
legislation, upon whose backs and ap-
petites is to fall the burden Of this
indirect taxation"
The Congress is now engaged in the
very diSgraceful business of increasing
the tax burdens upon the people that
the few plutocrats and money %grabbers
may increase their huge piles and con
tinue their needless robberies and per
%secutions. In 1846 the Democratic
tariff averaged but 16 per cent In
1909. the Republican tariff robbery
averages 44.88 per cent. It is believed
that the Republican ~plunderers, aided
by Taft, the bold promiser, will keep
up the vast robbing scheme without
much diminution or surrender. When
ever Succor, remedy or relief shall
come to the people it must be by other
means and other power than that af-
forded in the Reign Of Radicalism that
has 10 conscience and no safety.
The Interference of New England
upon the nation at large has been long
deplOred and thoroughly understood. 1t
has seriously effected our religious
thought, our literature, our morals
and our politics. 1t has indeed shed
a baleful influence upOn our whole
and in many ways, and it has
entailed sorrows and tribulatiOns and
upon millions of unhappy
and unfortunate victims of it's mad
ness, fanaticism and aggressiveness.
to any people who draw from
such a muddy and infected fountain,
either their political philosophy 81
religious belief. 1t has worked mis-
thief and entailed sorrow and blasted
it has been able to persuade
or control or teach. Wherever it has
extended its power, invaded thought
or dominated policy it has been hurt
saddening, vitiating. Some writer,
[ believe English, many years ago
that whenever Puritanism had
our thought and descended
among our institutions it was like the
nurky gloom of a November fog. COM
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