Thursday, May 23, 1912.]
THE CAROLINA UNION FARMER
Page Fifteen
local i>oings from kinstox.
Mr. Editor:—It takes heroic effort
to rise from the underside of things.
The farmer has allowed this state of
affairs to develop around him in the
last forty years. It puts him on the
defensive—a bad position from which
to win.
Twenty-five years ago the cry went
up all over the country, “This is the
young man’s age! This is the young
man’s age!’’ Practically a revolution
took place, and the producers of
wealth went to turning out million
aires by the score. The “interests”
took charge of business and legisla
tion and fixed themselves almost to
the producers undoing. The govern
ment has had to intervene to help the
farmer so as to prevent distress, and
the high cost of living. These tre
mendous influences can be counter
acted only by the way you think and
the way you farm. The Farmers’
Union is pursuing the right course.
Hold your meetings regularly, study
the conditions, stand by your guns
and keep in line. Work without ceas
ing to establish the cash basis by fill
ing your barns with corn, your lots
with stock, your smoke-houses with
meat, and placing the latest improv
ed labor-saving farm machinery in
your fields. Then, and not till then,
can we stand abreast with the lines
of progress now going forward.
Good schools must be provided and
the boys and girls educated and given
College training; good roads must be
established and maintained, improv
ed methods of marketing executed to
Secure the means. We must turn
from the old drudgery way of doing
things and get rid of tne sorry, trif-
ling farm hand, and let his work be
done by the mule and gasoline en
gine.
“Eternal vigilance” is necessary to
I'e-establish liberty and independence
pn the farm again. Stand by the prin
ciples of the Union like men and fos
ter the leadership of “men to match
“Men to match our mountains.
Men to match our plains.
Men with visions in their purpose.
Men with empires in theirbrains.’
Wm. J. B. DALE.
National recognitiox of ay-
cock.
The Youth’s Companion of Boston,
Perhaps the most influential general
family weekly in the world, publishes
its editorial page a striking pic-
ture of ex-Governor Aycock and
''’rites of him as follows:
“Rarely does a man’s dfeath fit his
Ife so well as that of the late Charles
• Aycock, once Governor of North
^rolina. No wonder the manner of
^is dying touched the dramatic sense
®f the people of his State, and indeed,
® the whole South.
‘Aycock’s life-work was a long and
becessful fight for more and better
bblic schools for his people. He was
bn of unusual parts and equipment,
cepiy interested in many public
bestions. But when, a decade or
biore
I’emarkable orator, and a public
hi
ago, he was chosen Governor of
him
® State, he determined to devote
Pj. fb what he felt to be the su-
^ ®bie need of his people at that time,
lin ^ ^ time when North Caro-
'Vas’ other Southern States,
ert emerging from the pov-
'Var (impression that followed the
b period during which it had
to k impossible for the South
\yjt, pace in educational progress
fhe rest of the country.
Hqj. ° ^he young and brilliant Gover-
fhem P'bde education the constant
^ his oratory. He preached
the o*! ^‘^hools from every platform in
iitinoi fought for them in po
‘Cal
kixoT* conventions. He became
and wide as ‘the Educa-
‘bnai n —
Governor.’ And he won his
The people responded to his
eloquence with an enthusiasm that
to this day remains effective and un-
diminished.
“He died as he had lived, for the
end came while he was addressing
a great audience at Birmingham,
Ala. His subject was ‘Universal Ed
ucation,’ and it is said that ‘educa
tion’ was the very last word he spoke
before he threw up his arms, reeled
backward, and fell down dead before
the thousands who had just been ap
plauding him. All parties and all
races in North Carolina began at
once to contribute to a marble monu
ment to his memory. But he has al
ready monuments by the thousand;
every school-house in the Old North
State is one of them.”
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