Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-03-10

is all find in them that coulo COM
mend, for the reading matter is VI
cious, and a detriment to ~ per cent
of the people of North Carolina.
Some weeks ago Frank T.. Can
nett, newspaper publisher ana Dig
republican of Rochester, N. \. sent
letters to all the publishers In our
country asking them to do their pest
| to defeat our President in his eftorts
to keep five old men who are on the
| Supreme Court bench from undolng
all he tried to do for the farmers and
workers. Judging by your magazine
of Feb. II, you have received your
letter faithfully carrying out Mr.. Can
nett's wish to further the cause of the
Republican party, and destroy Frank
lin D. Roosevelt who has shown him.
self to be Americas best friend
| Of all the bad, liberty destroying
articles in the papers you sent me the
one by Bruce Cotton, headed Thunder
over Dixie" on the first page of the
issue of Feb. II, is the worst. He must
be very old man, for he could not
have the old slave driving sense he
seems to have, had he not been one
of them. He is more bitterly opposed
having a decent living than any man
l have known since George w. Free
man rector of Christ church in Ra-
| leigh preached sermon In that
church Nov. 81, 1886 in which he said
| it was right to own human beings as
, slaves. Cotton in this articles speaks
in praise of Harry Byrd and Carter
Glass, Senators from Virginia, and
Josiah Bailey, Senator from North
Carolina, for their stand against our
noble President, and in that connec-
ton speaks of the traditional back
ground of the South. That background
where a few owned all the land be-
sides nearly all the human beings.
These few rich lived in idle splendor
and as licentious as are the idle rich
Of our day. They had fine homes,
| line liquors, the best of food, fine
horses and carriages, all bought by
the sweat and often the blood of their
slaves. In those times the poor white
! men who did not own slave and land
| were treated worse than the negro
| slaves, for he had no value for the
| rich men, and it was not uncommon
j for these poor whites to be horse
whipped by these big rich men or
heir slave drivers. Since the civil war
former slave owner in one of our
eastern counties had the prewar hab
Il OF whipping any of the poor whites
who did not do to suit him. I have
| Deen told he did not hesitate when
he met one in the road whom he
wished to flog to get out of his car
rage and take the horse whip from
his driver and ware him out.
| That is the traditional back ground
| of the old South to which M Cotton
! wishes to take us back to. May God
forbid it ever though He has to rain
all the fire and birthstone in that
| lether world on this.
/ Slur after slur is cast at Mr.. Roose-
Welt throughout your paper. Nearly
| every sentence in it screams with hat
! red of any effort to save America
from the greedy nav of organized
wealth.. You seem to be completely
lmbuded with the old poison idea of
/ the slave owners: that If a man is
| poor he is a chattel and that the rich
can hanole them as they would any
other property or goods. I know your
idea is well reflected by your Cover
nor and all the Democratic State Ma
chine, but let me tell you there were
I 2l4,OOO voters in this State last No
yember who do not agree with you,
and next year believe there will be
a great many more God grant it.
90 on, Mr. Goerch, and sell YOUR
papers to the ignorant masses and
their exploiters, if you can be so
| neartless as to publish such stuff, but
/, please remember no we'll informed
man or woman who has to. work for
"a living will read it except to curse
you.
Respectfully yours,
JAS: H., WRIGHT