The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-03-10

Referring 10 the tenant Who mar
ried the landlords lovely daughter.
he said 10 me In the presence OF nis
wife: Starting my pillow 60 i do
with the sun. / never stop 10 get
drink of water during the morning
or evening hours- II my wife In kind
enough to think Of me and bring or
send me some. / am always thankful
for IL. Breaking deep. a. do, every
inch OF the ground from end 10 END
of my burrows, and stirring my crop
early In the season In the same way.
Is the secret Of my success in grow
Ing the crops that / make. L never
20 over my crops On Sunday with
my friends and neighbors TO look al
them. II do. my mind Ia conferred
on these crops Of cotton and corn to
find out what / can best do next to
make them all / would have them 70
be, and | had as well be at work on
them as to be thinking In this way
of the work to be done. ! wish TO
keep the Sabbath day the best I know
how"
This man was brought up at work
and had no education. A At sub
ject to be imposed upon by unscrup-
ulous avaricious landlords. This writ
err belongs TO the class OF hereditary
landlords, having In his possession
title deeds, the torn remnants OF
which are almost illegible from the
hrvf
out the words coded to the Duke OF
Albemarle by his Majesty, the King
of Great Britain. and surely l can
have no prejudice against landlords
as a class. but 1.-The laborer L. worthy
of his hire" and his rights shall be
respected as far as in me lies. Think
of the Constitution abrogated, and
the laboring class given over into the
hands of officials no longer elected by
the people, and thus left with nc
means of securing the profits of their
toll.
Speaking of the people. the State
Democrat says: "a large number Of
the elective Offices have passed from
their control" In another place ht
says: 1.-The people are just waking
up to a realization of what has hap
peend to them"
| To remedy these evils, the State
| Democrat then endorses local self
t government as the slogan Of thu
party in the next campaign, and say
| it is what must come il the part.
T would hold its ascendency in tn
State. This cry is to put them t.
= sleep again while they are being rob
;, bed of the electrive franchise b.
s continued abrogation Of the funda
: mental law that should protect then
= I could give the details Of wors
: robbery under good government
:. than that of which 1 have Spoken
; The tenants fat hogs driven off tn
: range at the close of the day int
[. the landlords field and killed an
Z: sailed by his orders under cover
|. night; the tenant at work across tn
;. woods more than mile away an
J. knowing nothing of what was goin
l. on; years supply of meat for b
?, family gone from him in sing
night. The tax-collector under Kin
$, George I'LL, in the province of Mort
:; Carolina, has been known to take tt
I. new homespun dress off the wife II
., taxes when the husband was ava
W compelling her to put on an o.
=. WORKOUT one in its place.
8, Is it not worse with the tenal
r. now who must go in rags the ye;
< round, and his wife, too, when q
(; can be taken from him in meat al
> in cotton, and all this in the name
r, good government, now to be christie
3: ed with the name Of Local Sci
e. Government" A SOLDIER.