The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-06-10

putting ONNtN6 /
me the great temptation to- Law 10
ore you a formula for the healing |
u the nation, and steering far froro |
nose high zones. traversed by the |
oIatorlcal aviator. l am Just going !
" gossip with you a little while in |
..aannnuly fashion, about the folks
down home"
n entire family. regardless Of
age. sex, race, color or preyious CON
dltion of s%ervitude, send loving praat
ing to the boys. We all feel that
you are our big brothers who haxa
Stoou the acid test of this metropolis
and have proved pure gold. Frankly.
we are a bit proud of you and don't
care who knows it.
Conspiracy Against Us.
indeed there seems to be on foot a
conspiracy to rob us of the virtue that
mas made us famous-our HUMILITY.
ana the head and front of this con
Splfacy seems to be the President OF
the United States. Why. ne came
down home and found an editor who
IS so modest that sometimes his very
paper bushes. and made him the first
Lord of the Admiralty. This imposed
an awful tax on Our humility. Well,
l Will observe in passing. tina If that
editor ever k a notion to get out
"a ~pokeberry edition of ethe United
NDc AN"N tlIC dtIOI III lNe pIIIn
Will sit up and take notice.
And then he went out to Missouri.
ana found q mar born in the same
county as Andy Jackson and myself,
and placed him at the head Of the
Department hat is doing more for
the physical and financial salvation
of the folks than any agency Of
the Government. Our humility creak-
ed and groaned under this added
l STRAIN. Blt when he "a a an. hara
and took a former president Of this
society and made him ambaSsador
from the greatest republic to the
greatest throne, our humility went to
smithereens; there was q volcanic
eruption Of pride and Gath and
ASkelOn heard us shout for joy
Kelley VS.. MOOnshiner.
But the most unique appointment
made by this administration was tha'
of Col. w. H. Osborne, of Greens
IbOrO, as commissioner OF Interna
revenue. The foresight, the Sagaciiy
of that appointment was downright
uncanHy. Talk about the Webb bill
And it has brought On some talk
But in the cause of prohibition il !;
as IN little finger to the lein com
pared with making the head Of
Kelley Institute the official foe Of tn
mOOnShiner. This appointment is
shrewd embodiment of Mr.. Wilson
great doctrine that the surgeon
knife is used to hea and not to de
stroy. Colonel Osborne will neve
be content with catching the moon
! sinner. His mission will be to cur
him. And I have ne doubt that h
has already issued orders to all nj
: deputies that as soon as they clap TIA
: bracelets on a m~OOnShiner to at ono
~innoculate him with chloride of Sols
!. thereby completely shifting his al
. i E~o ~oirf 11nrAn - - -
shakes.
And this is not all. bat piling Peiie
on Ossa we have Furneyfoid N. Sim
mons leading the United States Ser
! ate, Claude Kitchin, the best roug
and tumble debater in the House {
Representatives. and Locke Crail
who. having vainly endeavored
to be a Christian. is now preparin
o to teach them that the wages Of sin
death.
And, although the Did State has
10 generously contributed to filing tt
seats Of the mighty. there still remai
9 within our borders some score or mo
of modest men who are waiting. | INA
say. strenuously waiting. for the ma
q in authority to a Friend, come ,
higher"
But 1 believe that it is the goth
May and it may not be inappropria
for me to say that | was born
le Union county. and in the days Of Il
"signers' Union was a part Of Nee
lenburg; hence I have. from n
n youth up. imbibed an abiding fai
in the n perseverance, OF the Uni'
county 'possum, the birthplace
Andy Jackson. and The Mecklenbu
IN Declaration Of independence. Al
now the skeptic. with cold 81
clammy hand, would rob me Of Z
inheritance. Well. there be tho
es who count it scholarship to maints
that Shakespeare never dreamed
Hamlet: that Deiilah never made
fool of Samson: that Achilles new
slew Hector on the plains OF win
Troy; and Horatius never kept t
q bridge in h brave days OF cid. A
Ise I doubt not that when 0 Caldw
shall have been dead twenty-five yes
Of some high-brow will come along a
break into the limeliSht Tor an ho
by attempting to Prev that Il
of Peterson nexer wrote he inHaoF
II couDlet