VOL. I
MORAVIAN FALLS. N. C, FEB., 1896.
NO. 0.
THE -YELLOW-JACKET,
Published Monthly.
15 cents per year in advance.
R. DON LAWS, - - EDITOR.
Entered, at Moravian Falls, IT. C. as 2nd
class mail matter.
As the Yellow Jacket is the
only publication in this part of
the country that denounces
Clevelandism, we presume- that
the Chronicle alluded to us as
one of the " Republican hire
lings'' who does, nothing but;
denounce ' ' gold-bug Cleveland
ism," etc. and occasionally "re-1
ceives favors from a Democratic !
Board of Commissioners."
We desire to inform the edi- j
tor of that "Great Cosmopoli-j
t
ton Weekly" through the col- j
umns of this little "Pe-ri-odical" j
that we are the "hireling" of no I
man nor party on earth. We !
. denounce Clevelandism, not for j
a partizan motive, but because j
it is so infernally corrupt that ;
it smells to high heaven.
It is true we received a favor
'"from a Democratic Board of i
The Wilkesboro Chronicle,
speaking of the bond bill, says :
The Democrats voted solidly
against the bill, as did some of
the Populists.
It, no doubt, was a source of
great satisfaction to the Chron
icle to be allowed the peculiar
pleasure of announcing to its
readers that the Democratic
party had gone on record as a
gainst bonds. But a man who
has only one eye can easily see
why they voted as they did. It
was not because they opposed
bonds, but because the bill did
not read "gold bonds" instead
of "coin bonds." Democrats
have become so devoted to Gro
ver's Gold Monometalism doc
trine that they would oppose a
shower of manna direct from
heaven, unless it had its name
prefixed with "gold"
The Populists voted solidly
against the bill, as the Chroni
cle will see by a little investiga
tion. They did so because they
beieived, as did tlie 47 Republi
cans who opposed it , in an undying-
hostility to an issue of
of peace, and
Can any one explain Cleve
land's impetuosity in virtually
declaring war against the great
est nation on earth, in a dispute
where the United States has ab
solutely nothing at stake?
A Kan. farmer, in Missouri
World, says : We are glad to
know that our money is "good
in Europe." We may want to
take our families and go over
and visit our English Cousins
after we get rid of our 17 cent
corn. Yours until humanity
is more account than dollors.
PciTYimioomnar'a " irv -fli n o to 11
. n . i bonds in time
oi printing ouiity iiminu ; i because it was a demand
statement, but we desire to in- j which came from the stock job
form the aforesaid editor of the j bers of Wall street, whom the
fact that we never solicited the ! title of "gambler" would digni
aforesaid "favor," but received ! insead 9 originating out of
it for the simple reason that the
Chairman of the Borad of Com
missioners of Wilkes County is
a man, who, unlike the average
Democrat, is opposed to ring
work and combination, and
therefore thought it best to get
the work done with the least
expense to the tax-payers of the
county, even if he did have to
go beyond the realms of a Dem
ocratic sanctum to find a man
who would do it.
Nine more months and the
necessity.
Hon
gainst
House.
R. Z. Liimey voted a
the bond bill in the
Nearly one-fourth of the 'Re
publican members of the House
went on record against the bond
bill.
Every one of the people's
hired men at Washington who
is in favor of retiring the green-
I backs, should be promptly re
tired by the voters of his district
next election. ,
Abraham Lincoln, if he was
All men that understand
the money question, even the
gold-bugs themselves, agree on
one thinsr, that is this : That
under free coinage of silver pri-
jces of almost everything, except
j bank stock, mortgages and mon
ey would advance.
If you wanted to shoot a
man it would be the height of
! absurdity to go to the man you
wanted to shoot to borrow mon
ey with which to buy a gun to
shoot him, would it not? And
yet that is what Cleveland pro-.'
poses we shall do with England
destroy our only fighting
weapon (the greenbacks) and
get gold from England with
which to fight England. Chi
cago Sentinel.
The best thing we have noti
ced in the' Republican camp was
the separate caucus of the 47
anti-bond Republican members
of the House. We hope that
the anti-bond Republicans will
continue to caucus .together,
and that this is the beginning
of a great movement in Repub
lican ranks to revive the princi
ples taught by Lincoln.
people can sing "Good by, old ! alive, would favor the freecoin-
A gold basis
basis.
is a starvation
Grpver, good by."
age of silver, no doubt.
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