The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-01-27

$40. oeo. 600. in this enterprise AMI
thereby ~redeeming Ireland.-says Of
our farm tenancy system: 1T is the
worst OF which / have any knowledge
III any country"
But l do not mean Il discuss in any
detail the question Of farm enancy. 1t
is a symptom rather than q disease.
1 have dwell on it because it Is typical
OF many questions set for US to solve.
aco to the great fact tina.
K and many other seemingly material
questions are vitality related to every
higher aspect Of citizenship, and that
they are to be solved not merely by
the cooperation of farmers, but by
the cooperation OF all good citizens.
the banker, the lawyer, the teacher,
the preacher, the merchandise
Charlotte Club as we'll as the Farmers
Union.
l have the tenaerity to believe that
good citizenship IL solving them will
express itself here in some form more
constructive, StateSnan-like. and DEM
ocratic than great philanthropic gifts
70 alleviate human poverty and crime
True citizenship and philanthropy are
these that prevent poverty and crime
ratner than attempt to relieve them
after they have been created. -Asy-
lums. and jails are more often a sign
OF bad civic han Of deliber-
~ oAh o4Ao VI d 1OI4ldll XllOtIfS.
Education that goes with a plan of in
creased tax in one hand, should go
With a plan of increased ability to pay
In the other: Christian philanthropy
that goes with a plan OF salvation in
one hand should go with a liberal LAND
. lease and credit system in the other;
: politicians and public men who or
: election day view with alarm in
! iquitOus conditions in Wall Street
? should also look with studious care
g and sympathy on facts that every da1
!" are making or marring life On Trade
. Street and Pinevilie~ road. The rea
. fight for representative government il
: to be fought before conditions Of ordi
u nary living grown through neglect int
great evils.
: We need conferences on educatio!
by the school people, and on road
, by the roads people, conferences o.
= various special interests by labor PEG
u pie, bankers, and merchants: confer
u ences for the good Of the farmers an
= for h good of the city people; bu
u we nee comparison conferences b
Z all Of the people, for the commot
good Of all. We need Conference
y where we woul see our civic life fo
IS what it truly is: a single thing-ns
III made up Of separate antagonistic d
re visions but all members Of one bod,
~ - IN O1OON IL
"a mind and purifies the spirit and wheI
e it will be seen that there is no perms
N nent progress for any due II
gard for all Of the interests Of al.
= It may be objected that such c.
:. operation is not practical. But it il
~ There never was a time in our hi
tory when any class Of our people in
crisis failed to rise to a great civ
OF human e The great opportu1
ne ity Of our section is not for hero
service in the hour of disaster, but f
that daily civic service that proven
w q disaster and promotes general hal
piness.
We A few days ago the newspape
IL: pictured an incident that because
he certain sensational features OF int
est transixed the attention Of IL
II world. A ship loaded with hundre,
on of human souls was burned at sea in
ng terrific storm at night. The shell
m, wood in the grip or wind and wa
we and darkness, and the precious freig
it bore was a pitiable spectacle in
re apparently hopeless contest with tt
II omnipotent forces hat sought to q
1S- StrOy it. But the same Power tn
as rode in devastating violence upon t
er; storm a provided through the p
m tient and painful civilization of t
ses centuries the means Of salvation. TIE
ult rOr-Stricken instinct for ~Se1f-preserv
Ter ton was controlled by educated disci
Of line, and a d~isgraceful panic Of eac
'ck man-for-himself was changed to a c
we operative effort for the rescue of a
out the miraculous voice of the wireless
en- the result of the expenditure Of yea
he of labor and research and capt
nd called above the fury of wind a.
wave, and assembled the sympat
our and courage Of the citizenship Of t
sea; it reached through miles
darkness and storm and found a re
5 it resentative of perfectly organic
business eficiency-the oil ship. A
ing the warfare OF the most terrlnc
as natural forces was stilled into peace.
OF
ere Behind this divinely thrilling a
Mt; dramatic spectacle we can see in mi
10, allure the not less thrilling specta
of our civilization working out
III, Co1x-ofior fhro1CA +lo n ~ ororo;o-