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THE WATO'HHAH;
Published every Thursday by The
VXtCHMAN PUBLISHING Co.
- Editor.
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Subscription r l.OO-a year, in advance
Entered: at the potoffice at Salis
bury. N. C as second class matter.
Salisbury, N. C Aug., 8, 1895
SOME POINTERS.
: Wlieu Grover Cleveland first en-
tered the presidents chair- he issued
orders to his office hoMers not to
y take an active part in politics but
low thfr edict has gone forth to his
army -of office holders to defend the
administration and it is made with
the threat that said officials rcay lose
their jobs, if they don't do it, and
now yoq can hardly find an office
holder that gets as much as $2o per
month, that is not a "sound money"
man. Strong arid brave men would
pay iio attention to King Grover's
threats, but the fact that his band of
"pie" eaters bow to his dictates shows
;Xwhat a weak set of pigmies are the
fellowsin the South who have been
holding on to the tail end of Democ
racy. As a rule they are m selfish,
blind set thatcan't see two- inches
f rpm their nose, and know nothing
except to bow to the will of their
'masters.' '
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'The fellows who are looking for
free silver "inside the Democratic
party" are meeting with wonderful
(encouragement. Kentucky recently
held a convention and endorsed the
two leading free silver statesmen of
the country r Grover Cleveland and
John G. Carlisle. The Indiana edi
tors met and had orders from anoth
er great free silver advocate, Dan
Voorhees, to say nothing about silver.
' The Charlotte Observer, the; leading
Democratic paper of IhelState, hands
out the following cheering informa
tion:
"That the coinage question will be
a conspicuous issue m the next cam
paign becomes less and less probable.
. Ihe ropulists will beat the air about
it and make the welkin ring with it,
but no other party is at all likely to
treat it seriously.
Thus silver goes marching on in
the "dear old party.",.
,f The printers must have their pay
tor getting out that history" of- the
Legislature." They can't afford to
lose their money. It .was printed by
order of the Democratic executive
committee and the "patriotic ( ?)
Democrats" all over the State should
come to the relief of the committee.
They really thought thcbookl would
sell like hot cakes. They were sim
ply mistaken. It was an "error 'of
the head and not of the heart." Had
they known that they could not sell
- nor give away the books they would
not have gone to the expense of hav
ing it printed. Now we appeal to
our Democratic "brethren" to come
to the relief of the committee. Help
them out with your cash. The wri
ters of the' book jutlt made a little
'mistake which was fatal to the sale of
the book. Instead of sprinkling a
few falsehoods along with the truth,
they sprinkled just a little truth with
the falsehoods. It hasn't enough
truth in it to make it sell. This mis
take was not discovered until after
the book was printed, otherwise it
would have been, different. Now,
dear "brethren," go down in your
, pockets and fetch out the cash and
: help us pay f cr the book. The print
ers are : needing their mon
fey; Be liberal, be patriotic, aud
j we will reciprocate the favor as soon i
as we redeem the State from the Fu- i
sionists. Let us hear from you by
return mail. Selah!
The dear Democratic patriots who
expected to "capture" the national
Democratic convention, for free sil
ver have 'swunk" up' wonderfully
within the past few weeks. Since
the events of the last month have
demonstrated the utter fallacy of
such a notion, these Democrat silver
men are talking silver"mighty easy."
After peeing that $hey would not
amount to a row of pins in the Na
tional Democratic convention, they
are now concluding that the silver
v,i: " 1 p ,
nucauuu is nut or very mncn impor
tance anyway. They are afraid it,
will "splUPthe party" and are now,
trying to5 turn loose the "darned
thing," which shows how much sin
cerity there is in the ayerage free sil
ver politician.
The Democratic editors who tried
to stop the growth ol the Populist
party by their method of abu?e and
Tidicule ought to go off now into
some dark-dungeon and kick them
selves tor Tiemg so foolish. If thev
gad studied, their Dibles asdiligenUyj
as they had served their part J bosses,
they would have known thaa cause
that is just and right cold fnot be
put down by methods that are "promp
ted by the devil. Right wilt ; prevail
in the end. . in , Hi
- Democratic Injustice.
On June 9th 1895 Ren j0. Al
derman preached a sermon at Con
cord fronvthis text: VThus saifh
the Lord, Keep ye iudg merit and do
justice. j; i t "
He reviewed the action of the
Democratic magistrates of Cabarrus
in abolishing Mr. ; Rentier's office
from the report of which we'clip the
following: r . ,
We might instance various ca?es
of bold faced injustice pr.ictiaed upon
an opponent. This we might find
in either party.. But I choose to in
stance one practiced by my oyvn par
ty, so far as i have a party; and prac
ticed against a man for whom I did
not vote but for whose hyaj I did
vote. But justice is justice. It is
justice not only when iii ; my favor,
but also when in favor oil my oppo
nent. Aud so long as jpbr politics
and government are permeated ami
controlled by such princjple3 now
hold high carnival,we shall lib ground
in the? miil of cruel wrong und in
justice. . -
Lt the Christian spea1er, the
Christian editor, the Christijfn voter,
the Christian magistrate, db justice
eTenjn politics- l '
But to the C&e of which j spoke.
In a certain Qounty of North Caro
lina at the last election a nan was
lawfully elected County Treasurer.
Ha was required, but not according
to any law, to give twice as; large a
boud sis his predecessor, w ho was of
the other party. Upon the face of
this was written, in unmistakable
letters, the spiteful purbose of de-
frauding him of the office given him
by the people. Bnt to their surprise
he gave this enormous bond. Then
they began to devise means to rob
him of the office. A law; enacted
some eighteen years ag ws used as
a pretext for abolishin , the office.
Forthwith the magistrates abolished
the office, to take effect! inlmediately
an office that they repsd to abol
ish sa long as their party filled it
Had they abolished it to tike effect
at the n'ext regular election, there
would have been no rooTm for a
charge of injustice. Then jit might
hars been the result of hcjiest con
viction, of honest principle. But
even no shadow of excuse was left
them, Jor the cause wa3 assigned.
"That special man must bedowned,"
He was not of their political faith.
He had outvoted' them, lie ' would
not do just as they demanded. He
had dared to vote for a colored man
in a colored ward as a school com
missioner over a colore! graded
school. He had voted this vote that
was damnable. He had thereby com
mitted an unpardonable?!. siu. He
was black, oh, so black!. I fear nine
oat of every ten of tb?sef , partisan
Christians will despise ahdj abandon
heaven because, forsooth, God has
adjudged some of the negro race
worthy to enter its cbfts. They
will not so disgrace theihstlves as to
walk the golden streets,! after those
streets have been defiled: by some; ne
gro's step.'i
This Treasury had been elected to
an office by the people, f 'that office
had been so necessary before that
these same magistrates hd refused
to abolish it. But immediately upon
the election of this man at became
necessary to abolish this office in or
der to abolish this man,-: hiai own
brethren iu nis own churah partici-
pating in the robbery. Tjjey can eat
vith, him at God s table, Ivet ! can't
tolerate the idea of bis; cashing ac
counts for them . A nd ofi forty jus
tices of the peace that votdd to steal
from him, thirty-four, and probably
more, were professing Christians,
professing to do to others as they
would have others do to them. Nor
was this all. Many men nd women
applauded the action and tejoiced in
the robbery. . . J f .
Such is some of the justice : meted
out by men called ju&tices of the
peace. Such is the practical doing
to others as these professing . Chris
tians would have others to; do them.
Thev possibly thought! iit'.'a ; smart
trick to frustrate the wiJllbjE the peo
ple aud rob a man because they could
vent their spite under 'cver of law.
But a day will come whenlthere shall
be a reckoning with the unjust and
wicked. "Vengeance is mine; I will
repay, saith the Lord." . '
gA great big ableb)die& Populist
boom is rising, while in I intense
gloom settles over the political hori
zon of the old plutocratic twins
Seven, million Popqlistf votes uext
year is a very conservative estimate
of party strength.
OUU PEOPLE DEFENDED,
When ex-speaker Charles F. Crisp
was asked Ju New York the other .
d
ay, about the political situation m
he South, he said: aThere is not
th
much going on in Georgia or any
place iu the South, in fact of a po
litic nature. The farmers and cot
ton growers are busy with their crops,
and they fre not saying much about
politics." Commeuiing upon which
the Philadelphia Record says: ''It is
a hopeful sign when the people oft be
Sou iti forsake politics to attend to
business, for tne average Southerner
pwouUL raiher discuss current ?sues
than eat or dunk, buch a conUi-ti'.-n
of diligence iu business is bright
with premise along all the lines of
material progress." Thi mild re
buke is not unueserood. Pontics h; s
for generations been the curse of the
Soutli. Now a great part of our"
population has come to believe that!
it is the duty of the g(vernment to
take care of them by "issuing money
uirect 10 ine peup.e, a uu n vn-
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non us men imbibe una mea
their
thrift declines. To take a proper in
terest in politic is the duty of every
good citizen but there is al.vays dan
ger of its being over-done. Char
lotte Observer.
For more than a quarter of a cen
tury the South has had absolutely no
control of congress. The policy of
tlie-government has been dictated by
the .Northern, demagogues who are
servants of the money power. It is
not surprising then that such a mo
nopoly serving paper as the Philadel
phia Record would say that it "is a
hopeful sign to see t"he people of the
South forsake politics." It would
like to see both the South and West,
let politics alone and leave the gov
ernment for the Northern trusts and
combines to run as their own
sweet will would dictate. But the
Record bases its "hope" on false in
formation. Speaker Crisp was sim
ply "off" when he belched out the in
formation that little is being done in
the South of a political nature. There
never ha? b en as much interest mani
fested ip politics among the rank and
file of the people of the South iu an
off year as there hiis within the lat
four months. Politics has been and
is the theme of the farmers,
the merchants, the lawyers, the doc
tors, and in fact evcty class of citi
zens. It is the talk in the fields, in
the homes, on the road and every
where, and the interest . is still in
creasing and will continue to in
crease until the Rothchild influence
is crushed iu this country and a true
independent American system of gov
ernment established.
As we have already intimated ffe
can readily understand why th Phila
delphia Record would advise the
Southern people to let politics alone
and hence become the slaves of North
ern and English plutocracy, but we
fail to understand how a papr like
the Observer can make the statement
that "polities has for generations
been the curse of the South," and
then advise the Southern people to
have Jtss to do with politics. This
simply means that it is best for them
to let the. Northern shy locks attend
to the running of this government.
,- . . i il- 1. 1.
Sneh a sentiment as this cannot be
endorsed by the brave yeomanry of
the South and West for they never
will rest until this government is res
cued from the hand of plutocracy
and restored to the people to whom
it belongs.
The monopoly serving sheets of the
North can with some degree of con
sistency insult and misrepresent the
people whom they nre seeking to
ruin, but it comes with exceedingly
poor grace for a Southern paper to
oin,, hands with the hired tools of the
English and American oligarchy by
misrepresenting its owu people and
ts own neighbors with the state
ment that "a great part of our popi--
ation" has become o thriftless as to
think the government ought to take
care of them. For the last five years
we have mingled constantly with
that element of our people who have
realized that there can be no popular
government unless its constituents
study the problems of government
and vote intelligently- tha element
that are takinsr the most interest in
politics, namely the producing class-
es, and we have not yet found a siu-j
gleman who thought that the gov
ernment ought to "take care of him'
n the sense that the Observer uses
that term. The people are not ask
ing for special favors but are demand
ing simple justice and if we read the
signs of the times correctly they will
be satisfied with nothing less.
Through the corrupt influence of the
money power this republic has been
so perverted that it has taken care of
ihe men who were most able to take
care of themselves. Instead of using
its constitutional right to issue mon
ey, it has made pets of national bank
ers and delegated this power to them.
lthas taken care of the gamblers in
making it pos-
sible for them to contract or expand
the currency at will. It has taken
jcare of the railroads and qombiues.by
granting nearly every fav they a,kj
It nas taKen care or tne crpaitor ciass.
es by adding to, value or Mieir casn.
In fact, it has extended k helping
hand to nearly every big '.rust and
combine ti the 'expense and ruin of
the producing classes, liiiie farmers
are not asking to be takeNcare of l$
"'-'If' I .it' ;
any special invors rroin ine. govern-
ment4 but they do not only ask but
demand that legalized robbery b
stopped and whn this is
done.
ductive interests will
themselves.
tafee care of
The Observer m iy be nest in it
views, but it does seem tliat there i;
no excuse for misrepreseritation now.
on account of a lack of
proper
u li
the demanding of the purphke of
people in taking greater
: politics. The Observer
interest
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m;.de the wealth of this
nation.
How the 3Jijjhly Have Fallen J
Cleveland was elected
'resident iji
1884. We all reniembef the news-
; . i
his and the
pnper campaign made in
Democratic party's interests. Fttf
of us remember, and stillj
rower kuev
""sp3ech at a
remarkablie
of, editor John Swi:i ton 'i
press banquet in that
year.
As a refreshing rq fresher wp
reproduce what Mr. Swiipon said t
his brother editors on that occasion:
"There is no such thing in Ameri
ca as an independent preps, unless it
is in the country towns. You are
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all slaves! You know it: and I know
it. There is not one of you that
dares express an honest opinion. If
you express it you will know belore
hand that it will never appear in-
print; I am paid $150 (per week) for
keeping honest opinion out of the
naner I am connected with. O'hers
of yon are paid similar Salaries fdi
doing similar things. Ij! I should al
low honest opinions to be -printed in
one issue of my paper, like Oi hello,
before twenty-four hours, my occu
pation would be gone, heman who
would be so foolish as to Write hon
est opinions would be put on the
street hunting for another job. The
business of a New York journalist is
to distort the truth, to lie outright, o
pervert, to villify, to fawn at the feet
of mammon, and to selljhis country
aif his race for his daily j bread, pr
what, is about the same thing, hi
sataVy. You know thisjjaiid I know
t; and what foolery to ibe boasting
of an independent press.!' We are the
tools and vassals of richjimen behind
r
the scenes. We are juniping jacks:
they pill the string a in, we dmee.
Our time, our p ilen ts, ojir
lives, our possibilities, are all the
property of. other men. j We are Hi
tellectual prostitutes." ' ?
''Cuckoo" Defined.
One cf the regular "contributors
to Morgan's Buzz-Saw is "Tobe Spil
kins, of Boney Forks," who is adiUc
I i i i ,1 1 i !l l !
ted to the phonetic syem of or
thography. In the JulyJ number of
Buzz-Saw, Tobe gets "close in" after
the cuckoo as follows: . j
"A friend up in Arvzony wants to
know what kind of a burd a cuckoo
iz, and if he-iz good tr. ote. f
A cuckoo iz. a nu spes lies uv buH
and is supposed tu be a kross between
a koward aud a raskej. - He iz too
tuff tu ete unless you cood bile in hiel
about a thousand yeer3. ; lie iz mi
gratory iu hiz karakter ---migrates tu
Washington. Tha air the only burd
that seems tuforgit thair fazin.' Tha
don't hner neether thaijr father nor
thair muther, aud therefore thair
i j .
daze will not be Ions in the land
which the plutokrats air
steelin' frum
us. I forgot tu stait th
only had 2 laigs. He or
lit the cuckoo
1 tu hav tnoiar
fur he is alwuze pulling someboddy
elses laig. Thare ain'tenuy shema'e
cuckoos. God intended fur the
brede to run out az sune as the pres
ent suppii wuz eggsausted. Cuckoos
ware 1st introduced intti this kuntrv
bi Grover Cleveland, arjd the peepel
ort tu appoint a day uv prayer for
them to go out ov dait
when Grover
rrrwa nil f
4Kin a cue lidp fli?' ask8
my frend frum Aryzokiy. You bet.
Sum ov them air hi flit-rs when tha
git awa frum home ilshually with
sum uther man's wife or dorter. The
hiest flite recorded iz the one Billy
Brekenridge took with; Miss Pollard.
but thare iz sum private Sites, not on
rekord, that kan bete that. A cuck-
oo iz a short lived Jaui
ii. The strau
on the nurvis sistem i
I so grate it
I The cuckoo
sune brakes him doun
kums purty high, but
he iz sed tu be
a valuable burd tu thdm who
rjede
him.
.Jhe
him and know how tq 1 handel
I c
This iz about aul I know about
cuckoo."
Job Printing a specialty at The
Watchman effice.
FANATICS.;
A List of Mouoy Cranks.
(The cause of our depression is a
money famine andnothing else.
John A. L')gan. j
I Whoever controls the volume of
mpney in any country is absolute
master of all industry and commerce.
-Jnuies A. Garfield.
Liberty cannot long endure in nnv
country Where the teudency ot legis
lation is to concentrate wealth iu the
hands of a few. Daniel Webster.
Tliat prices will fall or rise as the
volume of money be increased or di
minished is a law that is as unaltera
ble as any Lw of nature. Prof.
Walker.
If tlie whole volume of money, in
circulation was doubled, prices would
double. It was increased one
fourth prices would rise one-fourth.
.John Stuart Mill.
if i i i -i. i
ir Vyonress nas ine ngiu under
the Constitution to issue paper mon
ey, it was given them to be used by
themselves, not to be delegated to
individuals or corporations. An
drew Jackson,
A decreasing volume of money and
falling prices have l.een and are now
more fruitful of human misery than
war, pestilence and famine. They
have wrought more injustice than all
the bad laws ever enacted. U. S.
Money Commission.
1 believe that banking institutions
are more dangerous to our liberties
than standing Armies. Already they
have raised up a money aristocracy
that has set the government at defi
ance. The issuing power should be
taken from the banks and restored to
the government and to the people to
whom it properly belongs. Let the
banks exist, but let them bank on
coin or treasury notes. Thomas
Jefferson.
The government ought not to dele
gate this power (of issuing money)
if it could. It is too great a power
tobe trusted to any banking, busi
ness whatever. The people are not
safe when such a company has such
a power. The temptation s too
great, the opportunity too easy, to
put up and put dowu prices, to bring
the whole community on its knees to
these Neptune's, who preside over the
flux and reflux of paper money.
Stocks are their playthings with
which they g-imble with as little se
crecy and less morality than common
gamblers. Thomas 11. Benton.
.LINCOLN.
Sayings of a Great Man.
Although we have struck the
chains, the fetters, from 4,000,000
hlacksxif the South, there is a mone
tary system growing up iu America
which will, sooner or later, fasten the
chains on all the American people.
A. Lincoln.
Again:
1 aflirm it as my conviction, that
class laws, placing capital above la-
bor, -are more dangerous to the re
public at this hour than was chattel
slavery iu its haughtiest supremacy.
-A. Lincoln.
Again :
; Labor is' the superior of capital,
and deserves much the higher con
sideration. A. Lincoln.
Again:
If a government enacted i debt
with a certain amount of money in
circulation and then contracted the
money volume before the debt was
naid. it is the most heinous crime a
government coulu .commit
against
the people. Abraham Lincoln.
Then again, on the money power:
We must congratulate ourselves
that this cruel war is coming to a
close, but I see in the distant future
a crisis approaching that unnerves
me and causes me to tremble for the
good, of our country. As a result of
the war, corporations have been en
throned, and an era of corruption
will follow, and the money power of
the country will endeavor to prolong
its reign by working upon the preju
dices of the people, until all wealth
is aggregated in the hands of a few,
and the republic is destroyed. 1 reel
at this moment, more anxiety tor me
.... . . , i
safety of my country than ever be
J . i -i l . i r.
fore, even in the midst of war. bod
grant that ray suspicions may prove
groundless. A. Lincoln.
A train, in his 1SG1 message, he
savs: "
Monarchy is hinted at as a ref uge
from the power of the people. In im
position I could scarcely be justified,
were I to omit raising a warning
voice against the approach of return
na desDOtism. There is one point
to which I ask brief attention. It
is the effort to place capital on an
equal footing. with, if not above la
bor in the structure of government
Let them beware of surrendering a
political power they already have,
and which, if surrendered, will sure
ly be used to close the door of ad
vancement against them, and fix new
disabilities and burdens upon them,
till all liberty shall be lost. A. Lincoln.
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