OUR MOTTO r s ;;RBASONABIiEf r EATIONAL RADICAL, BIGOT.
UR MOTTO t :;BEASONABIiE, ? EATIONAL, BADlOAt BIGOT. C ' '
MORAVIAN FALLS, N. C., JANUARY, 1915.
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muzzled it. He has laid his palsy-4-
ing hand upon isjur academies and
4uniVersities. He has long held
undisputed sway in business. And
in many cases )e has even' dared
Jehovah. He nas pocketed
churches And put halters on1 min
isters. . , .
":It- is scarcely necessary to say
that, the , THREATENING " TY
RANT is Plutocracy. " Our very
government is "being undermined
and in a short- time ,V7e shajltc
a. Republic .in" name onlyk'irTlie
Jorms remain. The'piop'le are
suii( permiea ; 10 ,:n,5minaie meir
- officials and WijtMeir platforms.
, But,it is an idleajld empty cere
, onyv The constitutional govern
l bnent 19 only ar glove, into which
' Plutocracy has.' thrust his iron
, hand. 'Money runs and runs the
nfition, s I"raud,- chicanery, cor
'': miiXxnxy and all
, ' sorts of commercial infamy taint
, .ihe. Very ,air. -What one of the
- leading, thinkers of America calls
-i the eminently' respectable and
r ' " .deadly, sin of scovetousness" is
J: ,k -vabuit; uur. m.t: uuu. . xl is a. cauvcn
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U'.- ,';J'I 'mil IF fc-'lT - V fk IfAA -VMM tMAMT HTinTtn
jV'-U' Kpent laws to' compel factory dwners
J i P' to protect their employees -from
V 'k "A! - dangerous machineryt Men wq-
1 VV& ' t' l' V among wheels shafts and spindles
ViTo.J i irthatHhreaten tHeif-life daily arid
. 't,;hpurly, Iiaws are fought .when
vn f ccred for fascage andv evaded
if Manhood.
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tramples upon, all we hold dear.
He hitches up his juggernaut, and
drives it over the frail and em
aciated bodies of the workers,
who fall prostrate in his path.
The railroads of the country kill
annually more people than any
recent and all because Pluto
cracy refuses to make use of pro
tective devices for coupling cars.
and moving his business. The
necessaries of life are cornered on
the market; prices are sent sky
ward, but not until the farm pro
ducts have left the hands of the
producers, and gone to the mid
die-men. They reap a harvest
m)re golden, than any that ever
blushed and ripened on a Mon-
laiia prairie ur in a missuuo wiu
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Uld. '
v (Jorn or cotton, apples or
oranges, ixon or oats, it makes not
what, the Threatening Tyrant
stands by and watches the toilers
as" they sweaf "and grmdT" he
smiles while he waits ; he chuckles
with fiendish satissf action ; he is
robed like the tyifont -of old in
purple lau4' linen and fares
. njy'.- "?
sumpjruiy every aay. ne
wa "andv waits : and when the
f -slaves who cringe before
iiimThave ripened their crops and
refined the product of their mines,
.he. pounces down .upoa them, and
mites xroiu juexr grasp au uui a
miserabW 'pittance. He leaves
them just enough to keep soul
and body together ; to multiply
and reproduce their own kind.
He sets his mark; upon the brow
of the new-born babe, and hustles
off the carcass; of the old man to
the boneyardjdead from slav
ish and unpaid toil..
The Threatehiig Tyrant? He
is rather a Reigning Tyrant. Por
where is there place free from
the slime of his". trial T Brutes
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writ Iv a m 4n :lt-; wam aIivmam nn)
wiiw:-,waxKa.ux.,,ix xx cuivuiacor
vilegesi do not hesitate to employ
the most devilish methods to get
what they - want. v . And they
promise ;their tools and cats-paws,
that if arrested and' indicted, they
will o 'free;-x Or it they suffer
atUhe' hands of 1 faithful public
prosecutors, .they;,' will .riot suffer
t Innffi " iv :'- will I 1a tairdoned:
bauch; Ministers' tmouths are
muzzled. The press is purchased!
Editors are intimidated. The de ,
ienaers oi numan ngnts are cow
e&.,
yRead the tragedies of inven
tions. Men. of superior mental
pwer have studied out great in
ventions to lighten labor. They
liare-had faith in themselves, and
hv the machines they worked up
on. They have toiled "on for
weary years, taxing their splen
did powers to the limit. They
have endangered their health, or
sacrificed it. They have been 're
duced to direst poverty. They
and. their families have suffered.
And finally, whenafter so much
toil and hardship, hat the story
almost taxes belief, they have suc
ceeded. And when they have pa
tiently perfected their process or
their invention, the Threatening
Tyrant, who has stood by all the
time, waiting and watching,
laughs demonishly, and stoops
down and tears it away from
ther nerveless fingers. Capital
comes in and rojbs the inventor,
and casts him out like a bunch of
has been squeezed. Again and
again has this tragedy been. acted
out. Shame rests upon the sys
tem that gives this Tyrant his
power.
Hear Them Snarl ! !
Already, the curs of greed who
fear the sharp swat of the LASH
have began to snarl their disap
proval. ' 1
j It has been intimated to us that
jit would not be "policy "to antag
onize the " business interests" for
fear they would withhold their ad
vertisig patronage.
We want to state . right, here
that this Paper will not have any
"policy " as we propose to be just'
as nonest as we snow now to De,
and a newspaper that has "poli
cy."' in its make-up. is a ar as
often as it tells the truth.
We are not running this Journal;
to antagonize any one's business
but if a man's business is not run
on Honorable . principles it has no
right, to exist and we don't want
the advertisement of an individual
orifirmT.who is'a.thi'et;
:NOW;AljISTEN ONCEAfe
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ALIi. .: Those wno do. not, like tne
.Viiashfv-dorit have to''xA' it
who 'think moreof honor 4han v) t
aollaro.' and if fthis fitsTOUyou
ate the lad we are talking 'about, " ' y.
4 We expect aooui Two-imros-pi
the :eity' papers to villify,us ami' "
.make "faces "at usi and call us
names ana , ieii tneir reaaers we
are! coarse and vulgar, arid"we1al
so,, expect some of ourv so-called ,
religious Journals to harpoon us
but w$ Vould regret fd think that-,
we had shot volley aster volley of v
grape and canistter into the flanks
of the'Devii and never made him
flinch.- k
Right here we want to state-to
Mr. Who-ever-he-may-be. that
he does iiot want to give, us his
advertisement simply because w
tell the truth, that .'we don't car,'
a continental, 'and the chances are,
we would not accept it if he. was
to offer it, as the"LASH" does
not want any business farnished
it by a rogue,.
Now we have tried to make you
understand just how much i we
care for what our enemies say
about us. so in the future we do
not want any "nosing;' into the
affairs of the "LASH" - unless it
is by a" friend and then we "will ,
stop ther maehmery stock still to
listen, but as far as what: we cars
for what the Golden icalf wbr
shippers" think of us will never
DimK s sieep, ana we -: are -. :nmKs:$frir?w?.
readv f or vou to start vonr "Ca&i&-FrmMm.
-Ten little dimes make a doMar,7r
but ten million great-:big dollars
can t make a man. ' v , f
Lots of bad whiskey would hate
The girl who will make a lovLj y v
wife" and mherly mother iineVcr"VTVi?'''i' .
ashamed- of big feet 1 ' v'.Vif T '" :h "v
as great a sale as Peruna if, it vnss? . 't-J
advertised as much,- " ' "v; -.v 4 ;'
: 'If official rottenness, was a sign t, - fi
MX riguieuusuesss, we wuiuu iiaye u v
lot of officials ripe for Heaven. rJH '
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