The Monroe journal., 1919-06-24
OLD HICKORY APPEARS AGAIN
AND THE ARGUMENT Is ON
Believes Novus Homo Has Sixth
Sense. But His Prophecy ma This
Instance L. Ineorrect-Absurd 10
Think of Putting Our soldiers In
Competition With Cheap Labor In
Highway Construction.

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Correspondence of The Journal.
Brother Homo. here | am again.
Johnny on the spot" and accept. sir.
the renewed assurance of my highest
consideration. And lest | forget. per-
nit me to thank YOU Yer, gratefully
and sincerely for your reference to
my method of discussing the question
involved. And | infer from the CON
tents of your article that YOU frankly
and caniidly admit being somewhat
of a prophet. Very good. Allow me
TO congratulate YOU upon this fact.
And | am also aware of the fact that
your vision is not obseured and that
YOU are still able TO distinguish that
vainglorious character. Dat Negro in
de wood-pile." Now this Niger must
be induced to leave his dilapidated
domicile. or else We will take the mat
ter up with Judge Lemmond and have
him dispatch deputies Cliff Fowler
and Barnes Griffin of Marshville for
the said purpose of bringing him to
the tribunal of justice. and if he is
found guilty We will hang him in eff
gy right on the court house square.
But | am confident yours is only an
imaginary vision, but | am proud of
the fact that you are endowed with
supernatural gift or what our psy-
Geological sleuth hounds would char
acterize the sixth sense. viz: being
able TO accurately and definitely de
termine the trend of affairs in years
To come.
But, sir. you must not be flattered
by this assertion, for you must re-
member the United States has been
burdened or infected with a phophet-
ical class of visionary dreamers and
these infectious parasites that play
upon the body polite are nuisance
and menace to our welfare. In al
luding to these | am speaking of the
Bryan or the grape Juice" variety.
These men came to our good people
i'm the role of prince of peace" or
arbitrationist. They also pr0fessed
to see far into the future and preach
ed to an innocent and confident peo-
pie the doctrine that all future dis
putes between nationalities would be
settled by arbitrary adjustment In
/ that way We truGged to the very eve
/ OF the most sanguinary and inhuman
j conflict that the world has evel
i known. turning a deaf ear to Hobsor
and others advocating preparedness
/ Yes. we came to it absolutely anC
shamefully unprepared,
! But back to the question of the re-
clamation of arid swamp lands. | an
/ Just as much convinced as ever tina
the proposition is a sensible and prac
tical one. | believe you proposed t
eliminate the theory OF over-produc
ton, but you seem to be maliciousl.
afraid that if Uncle Sam formulate
and executes sane and just PROPOSE
tion that some unknown land specu
lators will enhance the scheme TO
their own personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
In a small sense this may be true. bu
we must remember that those hold
ing this comparatively insignifican
| amount of real estate is not all W
| have in the United States. AS proc
! of this. suppose you peruse the ia
! books of our own county and ho'
many men do you think you woul
find who owned five hundred or NOR
acres of land, and how many woul
you find who possessed none at all
Why the dffernece?
Who can limit or keep these me
from accumulating or assimilatin
] vast tracts of our domain? | answe
] in the affirmative. for they have tha
privilege by virtue of being an Amel
lean citizen. | do not mean to eve
] insinuate that this is right but nevel
theless it's a privilege and one S
complicated we dare not legislat
] against it, Now the men or specul;
] tors in controversy own this land an
! no one questions their right, and yo
! must admit it's the most fertile an
productive we possess. Now just b
! cause he owns it is that any busine!
! of ours or the governments? FL
: instance. suppose you owned a FAR
: of one thousand acres in reno
section of the country not traverse
by railway system. owing TO tn
disadvantage the same was worth t
dollars per acre. or ten thousand do
lars. Now suppose some interest Co
structs railway through your pro
erty and a station is erected upon
and it increases in value from ten
seventy-five, or from ten to sevent
five thousand dollars. Have | or an
one else a just right to say the roi
shall not be built. just because it
creases the valuation of your prope
ty? should say not Not only thi
but should Uncle Sam put into eX
cution his plan, he opens up for cr
tiyation some of the most fertile al
productive land in our domain. No
don't get the idea Uncle Sam is goil
to continuously plant it to one Gro
he is going to do some diversifi
farming Why should the boys n
raise cattle and quit looking to A
gentina for lot of them and 9th
things | could mention, which wou
only have a tendency to make I
high cost of living cheaper?
Then in regard to using this for
for the construction of nation
highways. would you or anyone e
dare put these heroes. the bulwark
nation, in competition with che
Negro labor? That's absurd.
But, see! | am not mad. Ma!
not expect you to come again?
Your dear old friend in iniquity
"Old Hickory"