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THE CAUCASIAN. CAUCAS IF YOU.WOULD LIKE To comrannicita with about to -tMIMi" Kit EVERY THURSDAY, ! MARION BUTLER, hoQ53iid of the beit country people la this wctlon of North Carolina then do it through the E l. lor and Proprietor. JL NO SUBSCRIBEI Show 1 uis Paper to your neigh bor and advise hi in to subscribe. 3Eur X3omooroy axicI Will to 0upremby. coin tans of Thk Cavcaii jut. No other paper in the Thlnl Cn gressorial DiMrW ha as Urpi VOL. X. Subscription iJrjce$1.00 Per Year, in Advance. CLINTON, N. 0., THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1892. No. 41. a circulation. THE A : a i : zzz i Alliance Directory. NATIONAL I'AKMKHS' AMJANCE ANP I-C8TKrAT UNION. j'ri s-irlciitH. h. Lmcks, Huron, So-ith Dikota. c-I'rf:!,i'knt 15. II. Clover, Cara- lii'il.'f, Kansas. S.-.-rcliiry and Treasurer I. II.Turn . r. (.( or.'i.i. Address. 23: North Capi tol Mn t t, S. W., Washington, D. C. I , ,.(,, , J. H. WiUetts, Kansas. l.Xf.CCTIVK HOARD, r. V. Mjjeunc, Washington, D. C. ,,u. Wanlall, Huron, South Dakota. .1. I'. Tillman, Palmetto, Tennessee. JUDICIARY. A. A. Cole, Michigan. I! W buck, Alabama. M. D Uavio, Kentucky. NATinN A I. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL Tlie Presidents of all the State organ iz .lions with L. L. 1'olk ex-oilicio Chair- N..:TH CAROLINA FARMERS' 8TATK ALLIANCE. i'rr i.l. nt Marion IJutler, Clinton, Nor i i. 'arolina. Vi c-lVcritlcnt T. 15. Long, Ashe- v i ! :-, . n . -Hilary-Treasurer W. 8V Barnes, l.'airi-li, . C. I. c -hirer J. S. P.ell,15rasstowa,N. C. Mr.vard C. C. Wright, (ilass, N C. ( Imi.la'ii Ilcv. Erskine Pop's, Chalk Levi. X. C. I ooi-KtA',.fr W. II. Toinh- .nj Fay Llrvillc, N. '. Assistant Door-Keeper II. K. King, IYallllt. X. C. S rcaii t-at-Arms J. S. Holt, Chalk Level, N Mate liusinesa Agent W. II. Worth, Ual.i-li, X. C. Trustee Easiness Aaency Fund W. A Craham, Machpelah, X. C. kxi'.i trnvE committee of the NORTH CAROLINA FARMERS STATE ALLIANCE. S. Ji. Alexander, Charlotte, N. C, hairm in ; J. M. Mew home, Kinston, X. .; J. S. Johnson, Kutlin, N. C. STATE ALLIANCE JUDICIARY COM MITTEE. Klias (Jarr, A. Leazer, X. M. Culhreth, M. .. (Jrcgory, Win. C. Council. HI' ATE ALLIANCE LEGISLATIVE CO.MM TITLE. II. J. Powell, HaU-igh, N. C. ; X. C. Liiulish, Trinity College ; J. J . Young,' Pnleiitu; II. A. Forney, Xcvton, X. C. NORTH CAROLINA REFORM TRESS ASSOCIATION. Oflicers J. L. Ramsey. President; Marion llutlcr, Vice-President; W. S. Raines, Secretary. PAPERS. The Caucasian, Clinton; Pro gressive Farmer, Raleigh ; Rural 1 Ionic, Wilson ; Farmer's Advocate, Tarboro; Salisbury Watchman, Sal isbury; Alliance Sentinel, Golds boro; Hickory Mercury, Hickory; 'The Rattler, Whitakers; Country Life, Trinity College; Mountain Home Journal, Asheville; Agricul tural Bee Goldsboro; Columbus News, Whiteville, 1 . C; The Busi ness Agent, Raleigh, N. C. Capt. A. S. I'cace, editor of Alli ance Department, Oxford, N. C. Fach of the above-named papers are n (inested to keep the list standing on the first page and add other?, provided they are duly elected. Any paper fail-in-' to advocate the Ucala platform will be. dropped from the list promptly. Our people can now see what papers are pub lished In their interest. PROFESSIONAL COLUMN. DR. CIIAS. S. BOYETTE, DENTIST, Offers his services to the public. Charges moderate and work guaran teed. Office at Dr. Flowers' old stand. my 28 tf T. M. LEE, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, : Clinton, N. C Office on Main Street, opposite Court Douse: mcblv tl UVT. R. ALLEN. ' W. T. DOKTCK. A LtL)E & DUKTUli, - -J ATTORN EYS-AT-LAW, Goldsboro, N. (J. Will practice in Sampson county. feb27 tf A M. LEE, M. D. Pl-f Y3ICI AN,SlJ ROEON AND DENTIST, OtHee in Lee's Drugbtore. je 7-lyr HE. FAISON, $ Attorney and Counsell or at Law. Office on Main Street, ,itl practice in courts of Sampson and adjoining counties. Also in Supreme Court. All business intrusted to his are will receive prompt and careful Mention. je 7-lyr ft! W. KERR, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Office on Wall Street. Will practice in Sampson, Bladen, Vender, Haraett and Duplin Coun ties. Also in Supreme Court. Prompt personal attention will be given to all legal business, ie 7-lyr T7IRANK BOYETTE, D.E.S. I Dentistry O&fie on Main street, Offers his services to the people of Clinton and vicinity. Everything in the line of Dentistry done in the best style. Satisfaction guaranteed. jgy- My terms are strictly cash. Don't ask me to vary from this rule. L. J. ME1UUMAN, . 232 Washington Street, N. Y., COMMISSION MERCHANT In Vegetables, Produce, Fruits, Berriep, ' No Traveling Agents employed. Shipments solicited. mchlT tf B-p BROWN'S. IRON BITTERS Cures Indigestion, Biliousness, Dyspepsia, Mala ria, Nervousness, and General Debility. w Physi cians recommend it. All dealers sell it. Genuine bM trade mark aad crossed red lines on wrapper. EDUOKS UIIAIK. HOW THINGS LOOK FROM OUR STAND POINT. The Ooinion of The Editor and the Opinion of Others which we Can Endorse on the Various Topics of the Day. The last great contest between the people and monopoly was in Con gress on Wednesday of last week. The friends of the gold-bug and the friends of the people met In a migh ty contest over the silver question. The gold-bug won. The people had a majority when the battle com menced, but the enemy captured part of their men. The Railroad Commissions have been in session at Raleigh for sever al days. As time rolls by the use fulness, and we might say, indis pensibleness of the commission be comes more and more apparent. It has secured the listing of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property that has heretofore gone scot free of all taxation whatever, and in various ways has benefitted the people, the State and the travel ling public. The Commission has shown itself to be a necessity and works no injustice whatever against either corporation or private indi vidual. The Chairmanship of the Nation al Republican Executive Co mmittee has gone a-begging for some time, and i3 still beseeching some one to take it. It begins to look as if no body wants the commandership of the Harrison force?. The Presi dent's treatment of Mr. Quay and Mr. Dudley and others of his former hard and unrewarded workers and wire pullers is tnought to have something to do with it. Mr. Har rison is either guilty of ingratitude, or his memory is so poor that he seldom remembers those who rolled up their sleeves the highest and waded into the fight the deepest for him, when the time for expressions of suitable thanks comes around. The New York Sun says: "There are larger and more portentous ques tions pressing to be disposed of. Let silver slide !" So says the bondhold er, so says the gold-bug, so says the banker, so says every monopo list, so says eyery machine politi cian, but not so, says the people Before the Chicago convention, they said in Congress wait and see what the party does in its platfojm. Now they say to Congress you cannot af ford to do anything for that would interpret the .silver plank. As it is, it is a fine straddle that you can in terpret North one way and South another. Another New York paper commenting on the silver vote says "let the great business interests of the country rejoice that this mis chievous and dangerous measure has been killed for good." Now if the great business interests have made by it, who has lost by it ? The peo ple will answer. In another column will be found a call from Chairman, M. M. Kiliett, for a convention of the People's Party for Sampson to nominate a county ticket, etc. We regret to see this, tor in our opinion it is a mis take. As we said last week, it will divide our people and we fear put the next Legislature in the hands of the enemies of the people. We trust that the delegates to the State convention will be instructed not to put out a State ticket. There is no thing to be gained by defeating the present ticket. Thousands of re formers took part in nominating that ticket headed by Elias Carr, thousands ai e satisfied with it and thousands will vote for it. Then to put out another ticket would be sui eidal. The editer of this paper has nothing personal at stake. He is simply interested, as every other citizen should be, In what he consid ers to be for the beet interest of his State. The Caucasian is for the present State ticket and will advo cate it and vote for it under any and ail circumstances. Mr. Whitney has declined the chairmanship of the National Dem ocratic .Executive Committee. He has this to say in connection with his declination in regard to the wan t of proper organization of the co mittee heretofore : "The national committee has nev er been properly organized on our side. The organization has never been broad enough for the work. One man has always undertaken too much. Senator Gorman in 1884 and Senator Brice in 1888 did each the work of a dozen men. As the day of election approaches the work be- comei overwhelming, and necessari ly gets neglected. This year It ought to be different. I am ready to take my share, but, unfortunately, I have to work in; my 'own way in. order to be of any service. I know toy lim itations and short-comings better than anybody else, and I don't pro pose to have anythinsr done with mv consent that I consider to the disad vantage of this campaign.' Mr. WhltBeyis perhaps the best qualified man in the Democratic par lor the position he has refused, but whoever fills the important place will be welcome to his advice and assistance which will be of no little value. Mr. Ilarrity, of Pennsylva nia, is now spoken of for the posl- tion. TRIFLING WITH THE PEOPLE. Congress is about to adjourn. What has it done, and what h as it refused to do? There has never been since the formation of this government, a time when the peo ple expected more from that body. During the last Congress the Demo crats made fierce attacks upon the Republican party. They arraigned them for their extravagance, and for their utter disregard of the in terests of the people. The Demo crats condemned the large appro priations and made a gallant fight for free coinage of silver against the bondholder and gold-bug Congress. Every Democrat in Congress except 17 voted for free and unlimited coinage of silver. The people thought these men were in earnest. So at the next election they swept the Republican party into a hope less minority, and put the House of Representatives in the hands of Democrats by a tremendous majori ty. The people had been told that the unjust and burdensome taxation and the corrupt and thieving finan cial system had been put on them by the Republicans. Then the peo pie had a right, at least, to expect a Democratic House to repeal and wipe out the crimes of the Republi cans. Has it been done ? No. Con gress, a Demoeratic congress, is about to adjourn, and it has done almost nothing . Where is the great tariff reform ? Ihe odious and rob bing McKinley bill has not been re pealed and but slightly improved, In fact the small tariff legislation on wool we believe will be more to the Interests of the manufacturers than to the people. Where is the silver bill that the Democrats prom ited to pass? It is dead, and dead at the hands of its friends. When the Congressmen met in Washing ton, fresh from the people, there w;is a large majority for free and u-limited coinage. But they have melted away. Wall Street has got ten in its work, the gold-bug has made the representative? of the people repent of their honest intentions to do their duty by their suffering people. The first plea of those Congressmen who were trifling with the people was that there was no use for a Dem ocratic House to pass a free coinage bill, for a Republican Senate would kill it. This was dishonest on its face, for if they wanted to pass the measure they would have done so and dared the Senate to kill it. But to still further show their insinceri ty, the Senate took up the silver bill and passed it. Then the minions of plutocracy falsely labeled "Dem ocrats" were forced to show their hands and serve their masters. They voted against the people. Even the bill against gambling in futures has failed to pass. On the other hand the appropriations have been extrav agant, In short this Congress has played the fool, it has trifled with the people, it has been a disgrace to Democracy and to the country. All this is not the fault of Dem ocracy. There is nothing wrong in Democratic principles. The trouble is with the scoundrels and hypocrites who have betrayed the people, who have perverted and misrepresented Democracy. Our representatives from this State are not among the number. They have stood by the peopie. And on the silver question, every Congressman from this (inclu ding the negro, the only one in Con gress) voted for the bill. North Carolina has done her duty. The Congressmen from many other States having the same Interests have not stood by her. SENATOR VANCE'S HEALTH All North Carolinians and South erners In general will be gratified to learn of the continued improvement of Senator Vance's health. His so journ at the Island Beach Hotel, at the Hammocks, has greatly benefit ted him, and yesterday, lor the first time since his arrival at the hotel, he went down to the dining room to his dinner. He was affectionately greet ed by the guests and was warmly congratulated upon his almost com plete, restoration to health Wii- miugton Messenger. "Hw U Care all Skin Diseases.!' Simply apply "Swayne's Oint ment." No internal medicine re quired. Cures tetter, cezema, itch, all eruptions on the face, hands, nose. Ac, leave the skin clear, white and healthy. Its great healing and cur ative ; powers are possessed by no other remedy. Ask your druggist for Hwaywb's Ointment. MR. CULBERSON, OF TEXAS, MAKES A SPEECH ON FREE COINAGE. Some Sharp and Logical Utter ance!. During the consideration of the Free Coinage Bill in the House last week, Judge Culberson, of Texas. one of the ablest members and best awyers in the present Conrss. made the following brief but logical speech, which received and deserved Immense applause : Mr. Speaker, I am somewhat op pressed by the interest which this occasion provokes. What means this excitement to day? Whv are the galleries so crowded? Why are "the printers" out in such force? We have no tariff debate on hand. This vast crowd has been attracted here to wituess a great battle of the common people against the hosts of monopoly, f Cheers and applause. 1 Do not take away my time by ap plause. Laughter. Disguise it as you may, cover it as you please with the glamour of eloquence, but at last it is a battle between the inter ests of the plain people and the money power of this country. Great applause. 1 hurl back to the gentleman from Maine Mr. Reed the charge that the Democratic parly is in favor of debasing the currency of the coun try. The charge is gratuitous and unfornded. From the organization of the party, now more than one hundred years ago, until the present time it has been the steady advocate and earnest defender of, sound cur rency applause, and I challenge contradiction of this statement. We do not intend to debase the curren cy, but I will inform you what we seek to accomplish. Do you remember that in 1873 '74 a Republican Congress, inspired by domestic and foreign bonaholders, destroyed silver, and thus enabledl the money power here and abroad to rob the taxpayers of the United States of one billion dollars ? When silver was struck down the indivi dual obligations of every man in the country, which might have been discharged in coin, were required to be paid in gold, and the . immense bonded debt of the United States, held here and abroad, which might have been discharged In cuirency or coin, had lobe paid in gold. You have not forgotten, I suppose, that when this great outrage was per petrated upon the people of this- country silver bullion was worth! relatively 3 per cent more in the market than gold bullion. From 1873 to 1878 the representa tives of the Democratic party in Congress struggled as men never struggled before in any legislative assembly to overthrow this accursed financial despotism which the Re publican party had inflicted upon the people. Loud applause In 1878 we accomplished the object. We passed through the House a free-coinage bill; it went to the Senate and was disagreed to. The Senate forced us to accept a com promise, and under that compro mise the Government has coined over four hundred millions of silver dollars. They are for the most part in circulation to-day among the people, either in silver dollars or silver certificates. Are they de based? Have they depreciated? Are they not the equal of gold? And I may say, Mr. Speaker, that but for the Democratic party we would have been struggling along now with about $800,000,000 of cir culation, whereas there are in circu lation over $1,600,000,000. Loud applause. We are told that it is a bad thing to coin a silver dollar from bullion worth 67 cents in the open market. If that were true the statement would challenge consideration. Why is silver bullion worth only 67 cents in gold? Because in order to rob the plain people of this country of the just rewards of their toil, for the purpose of exalting gold, and in order to establish an arbitrary meas ure by which the value of labor and its products is to be determined, silver has been discredited by un friendly legislation. It can not be denied that an unholy warfare was commenced and has been waged for thirteen years upon the money of the people. Can anyone doubt that if silver were restored to its full monetary capacity silver bullion at the present ratio would be equal to that of gold ? Lift the oppressive hand of the law from off the money of the people aad let it perform its ancient offices. lLoud applause.! Mr. Speaker, we can not, of course, undo the wrongs which were inflicted upon the people by the act to strengthen th& public credit. We can never restore to them the losses which they sustained by the de monetization of silver.- We have no power to compensate them tor tne unjust exactions wuicu sutracu ed the conversion of currency into eold bonds ; but, speaking in the in terest of the people, I solemnly de clare that they Intend to obtain the right to use the money of the Con stitution and to abolish tnat nnan cial policy which has' impoverished them, rcheers ana great appiausb.j Gentlemen inquire why we want to coin more silver. I arwer, not because J"ree coinage would swell the volume of circulation to a tor rential flood, as some of the advo cates of gold pretend to believe. The capacity of the mines of the earth is not sufficient to alarm any one who is devoted to the best fl nancial interests of the people. The great and controlling reason for the free coinage of silver Is to enable the Government to form a solid metal-money basis sufficiently broad upon which to rear a superstructure of paper currency convertible into oin on demand, and adequate to meet all the demands of business. Cheers and loud applause. And, Mr. Speaker, when this re sult shall have been accomplished we can enlarge our volume of circu lation with safe and constitutional money, untainted by fiatism. This is what the people need. It will secure for labor proper recompense, and our farmers will rejoice In liber al prices for their products. Why insist on a gold standard? Is nt the object to increase the purchasing power of money and decrease other values? Go to New York, go to Memphis laughter, go to Mobile f laighier, go U) Boston laughter and cheers, and behold locked up in the vaults of the banks the money of the coun try, awaiting a favorable opportuni ty to reap a golden harvest from an oppressed people. Is not that the secret of all this warfare on silver? Mr. Speaker, reference has been made to the Democratic platform adopted at Chicago. What is the silver plank in that platform? In my opinion it is an unqualified declaration in favor of bimetallism. I Loud applause. It commits the mocratic party absolutely to the principle of usiug b3th gold and silver, coined in such manneras will secure parity. I do not understand it to mean that both metals shall not be coined until Wall street and other enemies of silver shall fix the ratio of coinage, but I construe It to mean that Congress shall determine that ratio, and who can affirm that If Congress shall decide b the pas sage of the Senate bill to declare and maintain free coinage at the present ratio, silver bullion, freed from the hand of adverse legislation, will not. speedily reassert that parity with gold bullion which prevailed aforetime? Loud and continued applause.J TO YOUNG LADIES OF SAMPSON. The Normal and Industrial School of North Carolina, located at Greens boro, will be ready for the admis sion of students this fall. The pros pects for usefulness of this institu tion for the young ladies of this State are very flattering, and we hope and believe Sampson will be well represented The act estab lishing the Normal and Industrial School contains the following langu age : "Tho Board of Directors shall make such regulations about the ad mission of pupils as will not dis criminate against any county as to the number of pupils allowed it, iu case all applicants cannot be accom modated. Each county shall have representation in proportion to its white school population, if it de sires it ; and should any county fail to avail itself of its proportionate number, the Board of Directors may recognize applicants from counties which already have their propor tionate representation." The Catalogue of the school says : "So far as recitation-room and teaching force are concerned, the in stitution can accommodate three or four hundred students ; but the number it can accommodate with board in its dormitory buildings is limited to about one huDdred and twenty. (Board can be had in good tannines In Grtensboro at from $10 to $12 a month. Board is furnished in the dormitory buildings of the institution at $8 a month)." Of the one hundred and twenty scholarships, with the privilege of securing board at the reduced rates in the dormitory buildings, Samp son county is entitled to two, and we hope these places will be filled. For information address President Chas. D. Mclver, Greensboro, N. C. Application should be made by August 1st. POLITICS SEPARATES LO Elf S. There were two neoDle at the Minneapolis convention who seDa- rated to travel in opposite directions . a l the remainder oi tneir lives uniess thev shall hereafter recall their determination. One was a man from Ohio and tho other a woman from Colorado. They bad been lovers and sweethearts in other days, but on account of one of these estrange ments which intervene in the cur rent of affection they had drifted apart. The young woman was witn her father at Minneapolis wnen sne met 3 .old lover. He wore a Harr vV?e 8he a Blaine ribbon . The SiS ihat she converted him, and 4cfl, Z. promised to cast one vote o't3 when the State of Ohio shou5: oe called. She was with her father in the gallery wait ing to see the moment of her triumph, for on the fulfillment of the young man's agreement to cast a ballot for Blaine hung his destiny in the hands of the young woman from Colorado, The State of Ohio was called in its turn, and the only vote in the delegation that was not for McKinley was for Harrison, and that was cast by McKinley. On this announcement the young wo man and her father left the hall and that night they took the train for home, the young woman leaving a note charging the young Ohioan with cowardice. He confided the story to a friend in Chicago on his return from the convention. Chica go Tribune. ' . WHAT WE NEED, 1. Some financial legislation. 2. A reduction of the tariff on the necessities of life. 3. A defeat of that party, whose candidate for the Presidency openly and continually advocates a Force bill. - These three things must be accom plished, or the future of our 'country will be worse than the present. WHERE HE STANDS. EXTRACTS FROM EX-PRESL DENT CARR'S ANNUAL ADDRESSES TO THE STAT: ALLIANCE. IIowTltC3- Interpret the CJner alittPK, I.nlarge the 3leanlti;r of the Platform Adoptl nt the Recent State Convention. In the last issue of The Cauca sian we said that lite man nomina ted and the view's held by him meant more always than the wording of the platform ho stood on, and that therefore the nomination of Hon Ellas Carr for Governor meant more for the cause of reform than the strongest platform could if the nom inee were opposed to "equal rights to all and special privileges to none," We have frequently asked in what way the platform was Interpreted and enlarged by the nomination of Mr. Carr. We answer these ques tions by quoting from his two annu al addresses to the North Carolina Farmers' State Alliance. From his address delivered at the fourth an nual meeting, which convened at Asheville, we make the following extracts : Perhaps the most important meet ing ever held in this country has been the assembling ot the farmer and laoor organizations in St. Louis in December last (1889) the necessity for which was foreshadowed by that eminent statesman and jurist, the late Judge David Davis, when he said, as long ago as 18G0; "The rapid growth of the corporate power and the malign influence which it exerla by combination on the National and Staled legislatures is well grounded cause of alarm. A struggle is pend ing in the near future between the overgrown power, with its vast ram ifications ali over the Union, and a i hard gr p oa much of the political machinery on the one hand, and the people in an unorganized condition on the other, for the control of the government. It will be watched by j every patriot with'intense anxiety." Never more prophetic words tell from the lips of man! The people, though slow to admit it, had at last been convinced, and three millions of people sent their representatives there to form an alliance against this monstrous iniquity. " The unmmity with which the demands set forth by that body were adopted, and the universal endarsement by all the States and Territories after mature deliberation and discussion, should, and I belive, will convince our legis lators of our honesty of purpose and determination to accomplish our euds. This meeting, national in character as in name, was a magnifi cent success in obliterating the old lines of sectionalism a matter de voutly to be wished, an1 of first im portance in securing the necessaiy national legislation. What means these labor organiza tions? This: That the people see by combination alone can they live. Under a pure system of government forty years ago these organizations were unknown, and there was ne cessity for them, but to day how different! Every branch of trade has been compelled to organise to save itself from absolute annihilation, and is to be wondered at when we beeomo to learn that the present In iquitous tariff laws, the passage of which was purchased by a few thou sand rich manutacturers, have rob bed the people and ut into the pock ets of these same manufacturers no less than nine millions of dollars. Hence it is, that at our city ot Wash ington the protest of a millionaire will override the petitions ot mil lions of working men. The acts of Congress in aid of ag riculture for the ltst twenty-five years have been few Indeed, coin pared with those of our rich manu facturers, and the tann is so manip ulated that they (the lew thousand) reap the entire benefits. We all know but too well the result of this reign of selfish greed. The small land owners are being pushed to the wall, the larger ones are no longer able to make both et.ds ipeet; farms in ths North, South, East and West and especially the West, that twen ty-five years ago, during the period of the greatest inflation, paid a fair percentage on a valuation of 520 to $10, are now being foreclosed on mortgages for halt that amount, and the former owners seeking new fields of employment for a livelihood. It is a sad commentary on hu manity, bur nevertheless true, thnt with an unequal distribution ol wealth there is an unequal distribu tion of social power. The influence of the middle class the man of mod erate means is no longer felt in the legislative halls of the Capitol; he is being swept away. Wealth is rap idly concentrating, and out of the consequent corruption but two clas ses are forming the lordly rich and the beggarly jKjor. While free to admit that the iniquitous protective tariff has brought about the present depressed state of agriculture oy stripping tho poor of three-fourths of their natural savings and concen trating a majority of the weabh of the country in the handset lnfluites simally small part of the people, compose! of manufacturers, trusts, pools and combines, a repeal, alone of this unjust measure would not re lieve the present distress. It would not lift a single moi tgage. The one thing needful In the prestmt finan cial condition of the people, is a debt-paying system of finance, in companion with hich all otbr iuc-m tons sink into utter iulirnia canoe. I have dwelt longer upon national HtTair. U lievlng that there, In the Capitol at Washington, have crlcl nated the farmer' wot, and from that source alone can como the rem edy. I! us continue to lntdt upon our national CongrcM giving iw this much ru edol relief. 1 li-tory tearh e that the with with which the rich bind the poor can be broken only by fire, sword or Moody rcvo lutU n. But we have a better meth od of overturning fraud ani corrup tion in high places. We have free wch aud free ballot, and when tho wisdom or tho acts of the national meeting, like leven, to begin woi V upon the masse of tho neonle. then. and not till then, tdtall we have a Ieaceful and happy soluticnof all ur trouble. EXTRACTS FROM AM)RKKSAT MOUE ItKAIJ. 1 SOI. Officers and Delegate of the North Carolina Farmers' Alliance: Sinco lan addressing you, as Pres ident of the Mate Alliance, it h& been my gieat pKaurc to w.tch the healthy growth of our Order, and the rapid devclopoment of tho prin ciples wo have inculcated. The unprecedented political up heval of last November was the na tural outcome of thedoctrines taught by the Alliance, and despite the pro tests of our enemies, we can take unto ourselves the credit of that more than glorious onslaught. Tru ly, it was a gtvat work; and well may we reel honored, nineo it was a uif ht salutary lesson to tho greed of capital, tho rottenness of govern ment and the ravings of political demagogues. But, though tho fu ture seems bright, there U much yet to be done. Indeed, when I view the dangers which even at the pres ent time surround us, I think I may be pardoned lor saying that the work seems scarcely yet begun. We are assailed on every hand by dema gogues, chiefly those in office, whoso sole object is to perpetuate their power, and it matters little by what means they effect their purpose.Some times we see them masquerading as friends of the farmer, but In reality employed by soulless corporations to sow the seeds of discontent among us; and sometimes they are hirelings of the great trunk lines, which, like a gigantic octopus, are slowly but sur;ly absorb-ng and paralizing what little blood and energy Is now left unto us. We have nothing with which to fight this redoubtable combination save honest hearts, willing hands and that spirit of independence which has ever characterized the husbandman from the time of Cin cinnati even unto ciurown. I think. then, I do not miss the mark when I say that, us a class, wo are patient and willing, much abusol and never murmuring, yet when we are arous- d, as I now trust you all are, the ct bears more than cnilnary sigulfl ance. But what makes this our ast resort, if our energies be not united, if we bo not a unit in our actions? Shall wo profit by the ex perience of the past? The road to defeat, the road to victory lie equal ly plain before you. The choice is of vital importance somethi: e must bo done. Itisnolcngeramat- ter of condition relief must como Our condition is such that delay would be fatal among us, and th conscious opinion is that relief mus come through the legitimate and peaceful channels of legislation. Wo have held up to the scorn and con tempt of honest men the existence of trusts, combines and corporations; but of what benefit has this expo sure been to us? Tho work of rob bery still goes on. Why is this? Why have we accomplished so lit tle? The answer is an open secret - it is because the vast majority of the producing class are yet untaught, uneducated, deal to the appeal, 'of reason ai d experience, callous to the cry of those who preach, the im portance of thorough organization. Is it not 6trange that so many of our fellowmen utterly Ignore the very first law the law of self-preservation and the fact that a complete and thoiougu organization Is the only safe mean whereby we can be assured of our rights? On every hand we hear boasts of our great pro gress and our civilization, but since good government, "the government of the people, for the ieopIe and by the people," the secret of all happi ness has not kept pace with the oth er sciences, we see great reasons for asserting that this boasted civiliza tion is" not shared in by the work ingman who, here, as the world over, is the pith, the marrow, the back bone ot the country. And bow is he to share therein, haudicappd as he is in the race of life, in the severe struggle for existence? Handicap ped by his own ignorance, which he so unfortunately evinces when he assdts bis opposition to that bill, which now, in anything but a spirit of fair ess. Is . being discussed throughout the couutry I mean, of course.the Sub-Treasury and touch ing this I do not think It amiss to s y we are not wedded to the partic ular phraseology which now charac terizes the bill. We do not pray for tho passage oft his bill unaltered nd undicussed, for that would deprive us of the opinions and experiences of others; but we are attache-!, yea, even committed, tc the principles involved, and are convinced that only after a lull and free discussion cab we arrive at a satisfactory solu tion u the subject. There is prece dent sufficient of governments loan ing money to the citizen with and without security, andHhus is estab lished the power to loan, which is indeed all (sufficient. The kind of security does not enter into the case the government can select what it considers ample and best calculate! to relieve the wants of the people. It is unaccountable; indeed,! cannot understand bow a man dependent upon the sweat of his brow for his Continued on Second Page. pi'.nPLirs party nisvr.v. TIOX OP Ttt K Tlltltt) con. iltttON.L DISTRICT. We have received conflicting re port of the proeocOlnjTuof the Con r regional Convention of the Peo ple' Party at KaycttevUlo it week. Wd clip the fallow lug account from Uc FayettvUle Observer. Thee.ll. tor was pre?nt. If the following U not correct, our column are open t pubh-h a correction: Pursuant to adjournment the P.u p!e Party cotv ntlon for the Thlnl CongrePnl district re-a-wnubU! in the Court houto here TumUy, K. N. llobexou I u t ho cha I r . I n t he h- jt'nee of the 'jw-retarv. Mr. Wilco, .'loore, was lequeMou ui ari iu mai capacity After 8vne quibbling over the com mitteo on credential, Mr. J. McLuf. fid, of Cumberland, tuoved that all resolutions of the St, IouN demands adopted at the flrt mH?tlng, which bind every mcmlr of ths Alliance and Peoples' Party to vote for no man for any oftieo local, l-Hate or nationalwho will not wallow every demand of the St. Idoul pUt form, be stricken out, over which a prolonged dbcuwdon enmMl. Tho vote by counties w d.-nmnlol and finally pioci-edod with, the votu standing li for to 9 again t the reso lution. At ihb Juncture several of the delegates present, who were r!h aent Irom the first convention, gave most emphatic notice that had they been present wlun such nututlon as embodied lifwHtm-und :i, above referred to, were adopted, they would uever have voted for tho ratification of any kucIi proscrlptlvo methods and further, that If uch "gag" rulo bo forced down tlu lrthro.it against a strong aud bitter protot, without an opportnnity to participate In tbir enactiieut, thoy would wlthdjaw from tho convention, many of tho delegates putting on their bat. Jut ere confusion reigned u promo and a split was Inevitable, when muno of the delegates who had Ihvii acealou and enthusiastic In their upjort of the adoption of section '2 aud 8, moved, and It was seconded, that sections two be stricken out: and harmony wa once more restored. A motion first to adjourn to July 2sth, and then to August 2'M, was tho ne t order of bulnes and elicited a general discussion, the latter d.ito being more acceptable to the dele gates tho convention adjourned to meet In this city on Tuesday, Aug. 23rd, 1892, for the transaction ot all unfinished business of tho conven tion. Tho number of delegates In attendance was very liltlo if any larger than before, somo ef whom mado no conceal n out of their dcuhta as to tho wisdom or expediency of nominating a candidate lor Congress from this dint riot In this ctmpalgii, arguing that the Democrat at Clin ton on July 2oth, might nominate such a man as they could endorse or support. l.ATF.K. Subsequently nine of tho white delegates and two negroe bolted tho action of the convention aad nonii na'ed Frank Koonce, of Onslow, lor Congress, and J. W. Perry, of lll.w den, for Presidential electors. Those delegates who carried tho motion to adjourn to August 23rd, were open and emphatic in their re pudiation of the ticket, and dcclamd puhlicly that they voiced tho senti ments of their counties in tho ton ventlon and would theroforo Iks huh talned In tho course they had pur sued. A ?i IMPORTANT HILL. Special Correspondent. Wahuinoton, D. C, Jjkvl2th, IM2. lf?r1&ing for the election of U. Han. Senators by the people without dele gating to the Congress tho power to alter or amend State regulations or otherwise interfer with tho elec tions, wm discussed to-day, and, when the demand for tho "previou question" was made, Mcwrs. heed and Burrows and their radical sym pathizers commenced filibustering. The result wai that there was no vote on the bill ; and it is the com. mon i pinion among members that this bill will never bo icrmittcd by the Reed gang to become a law un less it be amended so that thoy can r glster tho voters, count the vote, and certify the result. During the debate some one was advocating tho passage of tho bill and commending the featuro which cuts off any Force bill meddling with the election of Senators, when Mr. Iteed was heard to say : "1 n them, we've let them go far enough. We have the game in our own hands." Yours very trulj', B. F. Ukadv. Deaf-ess Caa't De Cared by local application, as they cannot reacb the diseased portion of the ear. There Ls only one way to cure Deafness, and that is by constitution al remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the muctu lining of the Eustachian Tube. When thl tube gets inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it Is entirely clos ed Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh, which Is hothlng but an inflamed condition of the mu cus surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dol lars for any case of Deafness (caused by Catarrh) that we can not cure by. taking Hall's Catarrh Cure. Sent for circulars, free. The subscription to Thk Cauca sian has been radaced to 11.03. This will be a rery important campaign and (ery one ahoold take au interest in it. We aball keep up with it. Nov is the x&3 to MVjsriia. . J ( 'I i t V.
The Caucasian (Clinton, N.C.)
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July 21, 1892, edition 1
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