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JIMISON IS ■: ~ TOPSY-TURVY POLITICKLY (Continued from Page One.) have giv^n a Ut|le ^id^nd com fort a * P^bjblican, thinjpig that if I ever got^irust out*’6f the party of r)fty fppbears I would not be among total strangers. But now I am a man without a party. I have no po litical home and no-one for whom I can vote. It was all caused from reading the papers. Sometimes I wish that I had remained in the Hay wood hills and° never learned to read. I would have been satisfied now, I could have voted ’er straight with none,to molest nor make pae afraid. But alas and alack! I can’t do. it now. Each party is divided against itself, and we have it from the^JVIaster of earth and: sky that such a house is bound to fall. If I align my self with either party I become a citizen jivith divided allegiance and fluctuating - loyalties. If I am to be an untrammelled Democrat I have to line up With John William Davis for the child labor amendment and the aboli tion of the injunction, must de nounce the Ku Klux Klan and pro claim myself a liberal with -bells on. I must denounce La Follette ' for his-wat record and then hob nob with Jim Reed. I must de nounce Morris Hilquit and then line ujp with Clarence Darrow. I must talk white supremacy in a low voice and then shout from the housetops to get the negro vote. 1 .must serve notice on the drys that L am fer 'em tooth and nail and then take A1 Smith and all * his following to my heaving bosom. But if I am to belong to'the » unterrified democracy of North Carolina I must be against the child labor amendment as an en croachment upon the sovereign rights of the states. I must cry it down, with Lee -• Overman and David Clark. I must be on good t0rm|i with Jhe fcu 'Klux Klan. I must’ be in favor of calling out the troops in labor disputes in order to protect the sacred rights o£. property, regardless of any rights which starving women and children and oppressed men may have. - But if I turn to the Republicans I find small comfort. If I am to join the XL O. P. in its national campaign I must be silent as the tomb, like Calvin Coolidjeje, on the Ku Klux issue, or ‘‘praise it with faint damns,” like Jigadier Brendle Dawes. I must subscribe to a platform which7 premises much to the working people and then get out and denounce them -as reds and radicals. However, if I turn to the Re publicans in the state I must be a " progressive without brakes. I must promise the working people the world with a fence around it to get their votes, must be against injunctions, which the -national organization fosters, and must cry out for the ‘ other fellow to- up and ’spress himself without letting any one know where I stand. I had made up my mind to have done with the whole shebang and go out and whoop it up for Bob La Follette, and now comes alo.ig the Rev. G. W. Fink, a man whose economic erudition is altitudinous and comprehensive, whose politi cal sagacity is unquestioned, a man than v/hom there is none than whomer, and spoils all my plans, lays waste my hopes, thwarts all my ambitions, dis quiets all my aspirations and my dreams by making it impossible for me to support La Follette. In my ignorance and in my de spair I had turned to the Wis consin man without asking any questions. I did not know that he was not a member of the church U|htil Brother *Fink wrote it in The Herald. That informa tion should be broadcasted until Bob La Follette joins the church or leaves the country. What could have possessed the man to have had the temerity to offer for an office in such a dilapidated condition spiritually I am unable to comprehend, A man who does not belong to the church has no business asking for the suffrage of the saints. It is true that Cal vin Coolidge did not “jine” until he ■^h^'presidency, and then- i&id -it by *tefbplifene, but that is a gray horse of another complexion. Cal is' a Republican. It is true aho that Dawes’ chief elaim to fame in his profanity, but then he is a member of the chujrch. 'i Lincoln never joined a church, but that was in the days before Billy Sunday got to roaming over the land.- Abe made a fair presi dent in his day, but them days is gone, and were he alive now, he would have to get religion accord ing to. the modern custom and join some church. 'Tis true that honest old Abe believed, in the fatherhood of God and practised the brotherhood of man; *tis true that he had a heart of gold and exemplified nobly.the spirit of the Carpenter of Nazareth. • But he belonged to no church and con sequently should never have been 'elected. Then Brother Fink calls atten tion to the fact thab “Battling Bob” is feninst the Kb. Klux Klan. It is true that he ^said he as opposed to it, bdt made haste to declare that it as not a politi cal issue. Would Brother Fink make it? one? ’Tis true also that some one had asked the Wiscon sin man what his attitude was on the klan. Should he have de nounced it as Davis? Should he have “Praised it with faint damns” like Dawes? Or should he have kept silent like Coolidge? r The fact that he expressed himself at* all is evidence to the Mooresville minister that he was making a bid for the vote of Catholics and [Jews. I Then Brother Fink allows that the platform is un-American. Whose Americanism is he talking about? Does he mean the Amer icanism of the Ku Klu'x, the Cath olics, the Germans, the Jews, Da vis, Dawes or Fink? But all three candidates seem bent on appointing negroes to of fice provided they are “fitten.” That leaves * both Brother Fink and this scribe ’ otit in the cold. We cannot vote for men who will do that. Of course negroes are citizens of America.1 They live under the same flag with the rest of us, and thejr have baptized every battlefield over which it has floated with their blood! • They are .guaranteed the' same rights under the constitution as the rest of us. . They pay taxes and wear the uniform. Every President since the. Civil War has appointed some of them to office. Tl>e Bible declares that “God has made of one blood all the nations of the earth.” The church to which Brother Fink and I belong teach es that the negro is our brother and a fellow-heir to the promises and to. eternal redemption. But we don’t give a whoopee. They are^ all wrong. The black man is no American. He ought to be driven into the sea. If the presi dent o£ this great country should appoint a negro to be tiiinister to Swat, an envoy-to the Scandehu vians, or a consul at ^Nowhere, I would be in favor of starting1 a j rebellion. Down with the negro! | Down with the. whole kit and bilin’ of ’em. Now let all the. people say, Amen. So, Brethren, you see I am in a fix. . I cannot vote the way I thought I could. Pollyticks are about to upset my equilibrium, and stop my corporosity from segashiating on my invergigity as it use ter was. I hereby nominate Fink for the presidency and leave it to the true and tried friends of liberty to name a running mate. I wflll support the ticket with my pen, my tongue, my treasure and my blood. If we cannot enter prise something of that sort I am a goner. Woe is me! 0 Mores! O Mamma! O Shucks! Philadelphia leads the world in the manufacture of leather. . ' Business Men Urged To Use U. S. Vessels Washington, Sept. IS. —- The United States shipping board's appeal to business men to cease using foreign ships and patronize American vessels reveals the in sincerity of these ^ alleged friends oi an American merchant marine. It is stated that in the last’ien years the seagoing trade of the United States amounted to $70, 000,000, most of which has been carried * by foreigners while American ships are rotting at their anchorage. While deploring the decline of America’s merchant marine, these business men patronize foreign companies in which they are often interested. To cloak their unpatriotic acts they denounce mourn for a return of the days when the American boy»will re turn to the sea. These interests do not want the American boy. This is proven by conditions in the coastwise trade where American ships have a mo nopoly. This trade is protected for American business men, but not for American seamen. In many instances the latter have been driven out of the coastwise trade by the cheapest labor in the world. Here the American busi ness man does not face competi the La Follette tion. He has a clear field to pay wages that will attract the Ameri can boy, but this he does not do. During the late war, when con siderations other than cheapness determined the manning of Amer ica’s merchants fleet on the seven seas, there was no difficulty in finding American boys. When the war ended the native .drifted bath to -’the farm. The ship' owners’ tactics are - responsible Tor this change. With them, nativity and nationality-of their crew was not considered. They wanted cheap crews and it made no difference whether the ~ color was yellow, black or white. - $2,163,639 PROFIT. J New York, Sept. 18.—-The Kan sas City Povrer and Light Com pany reports a net profit last year of $2,163,639 after interest, taxes,, amortization and depreciation have been met. With dividends paid, the surplus amounts to ne,ar ly fialf a million-aoifers. KUV.I-' -r; ■w-'-i ' ' Every - employer; of - labor shall allow every person employed by him twenty-four hours of rest in every seven consecutive days. This is the essence of a new law drafted by the Commissioners on Uniform State Laws in New York. i DANGER The toil of a life time probably in your home. It shelters your possessions—is your castle—the loved spot. It is menaced every hour—day and night—by FIRE. Fire—Ashes—Nothing' In such an event are you insured? Who would help you on your feet again? Have you, thought of THAT? ' ALEXANDERS F. D.—Thos. L. Pay Money) lor Ashes of Home. An Ad In the Herald Brings Results One Has • Only To Investigate to bo assumed of the fact that the modern laundry handles its Work in a most pleas ing and sanitary way, and that the wash woman does just the reverse. The condi tions prevailing where many of these washwoman do their work are almost unbelievable. And to think of fastidious people sending their intimate garments, their table linen, and other such items to be exposed to almost every possible con tamination! ; Take advantage of the sanitary, careful, economical services offered by these laun dries.v We invite you to inspect our plants at any time, and see just w'hat precautions we take with our Work. ,' And remember that \ye have a wide variety of services, doing all or only the part of.the work that you wlish us to. do, and leaving the rest to be done in the home, under your super vision.
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