Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 191?-19??, 1914-10-22
GoLDsBoRo, N THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 22 1914
WHAT IS DEMOCRACY?

with courage of Democracy in its
heart, to call a hault upon our So
called Democratic representatives and
senators in Congress in their whim-
perings for paternal legislation and
their violation of every Democratic
principle in their proposed enactments
in behalf of the cotton farmers.
The Argus is a Democratic news
paper as we understand Democracy.
and we thoroughly agree with Presi-
dent Wilson in his History of the
American People"-in which, speak
| ing of Alexander Hamilton, he says
it had been Hamilton's work and eff
fort "at every turn of policy in which
he had any part to make the Federal
| Government virtually master of the
affairs of the nation, fortified with an
overwhelming strength against every
force, whether of the States or of in
dividuals that might antagonize lit.
1t was as protest against this ten
dency and this line of policy that Gen
eral Jackson was elected President of
the United States in 1923, and that
the Government passed into the hands
of the Democratic party, processing
doctrines of strict construction and
purposes of moderate action in the
use of constitutional authority"
While our sympathies are, of course
with our home people-the cotton far
mers-in their stressful ordeal Incl
dent to their over production of cotton,
their failure to diversity their crops
and the World-dwarfing of business by
reason of the widespread European
war, still the people-the American
people, regardless to whether they be
cotton farmers, tobacco farmers, wheat
farmers, corn farmers, cattle raisers,
mine operators, merchants, mechanics
professional men, or whatever their
avocation in life-should not allow
themselves to be fooled by the clap
trap talk of mere politicians, of which
there are, alas, too many in public
life today, and who are attempting
to push to dangerous lengths of au-
thority our central government. This.
too, is strangely out of harmony with
our party principles as enunciated by
President Wilson himself-"a scrupu-
1ous limitation of the powers of the
Federal Government, a studious re-
gard for the separate powers of the
several States, a democratic diffusion
of power throughout the body polite. -
There is, of course, no gainsaying
that the cotton farmer and the mer-
chant who has advanced on cotton
and the wholesale houses who advanc-
ed the merchant are in somewhat of a
panicky state, and, that the average
southern congressman is adding to it
by holding out hope to them that the
! government will do something radical
in their favor.
These enthusiastic statesmen (O are
crying for a government loan direct to
the cotton farmer, or for the govern
ment to more or less take over the
cotton crop. These congressman know
full we'll that the northern and west
ern congressman will stand for no
such legislation. If they did, next year
or the year after the southern con-
gressmen would have to vote for the
government taking over the wheat
crop of the west, the tobacco crop, or
the pig iron production of the coun-
try, or the boot and shoe products OF
the New England manufacturers. In
; other words, there would be no end
to this form of paternal legislation.
Now, it is true that this European
war has created an intensely Sembar-
RAISING situation in the southern cot
ton states.
: Regardless of the quoted price al
Liverpool the cotton buyer in the
south does not know today what to
: pay for cotton, because he does moi
II Wh in "a
quantities.
The farmer, the country merchan
and the banker can we'll profit by The
t moral of one of Aesop's fables en-
D titled, f'The Old Lark and the Youns
= Ones"
: In brief, the young larks in the nes
in wheat field overheard the farme
and his two sons talking about cut
ting the wheat. They heard them sa.
l. that they were waiting on their neigh
L bors to come in and help them cut tn
= wheat and as soon as the neighbor
). came they would cut it. The youn'
i larks wanted the mother lark to re
l. move them She declined and state
: to her young ones that she would re
move them in ample time. Simila
: conversations were overheard D0LW0G
the farmer and his sons for severa
consecutive days. They were waitin
on the neighbors to help them cut tn
: wheat. Finally, after weeks tall
, the old farmer said to his sons: "Ou
le neighbors are not going to help u
~ cut this wheat. Now, you two boy
le and I will start in and cut it oul
selves tomorrow
When this conversation was repea1
= ed by the young larks to the old on
y she promptly replied: "It is time no
for us to move" and she moved then
The condition affecting cotton in tt
southern states is similar The cotto
farmer, the country merchant and II
banker need not expect paternal lei
a. islation from their political neighbo1
re to aid them. They can and should ar
ut will cut themselves out of the pre-
ent ENHANCEMENT
t. They can only do it by thoroue
Recommendation in holding hack the ma