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7" 1 THE CAUCASIAN. IF YOU.WOULD LIKE i C AU C ASI Af !H!,I-"'KU EVERY THURSDAY, To communicate with about Uo MARION BUTLER, Editor and Proprietor. thousand of the beat country people in thii mcUob of Not th Carolina then do it through the SUBSCRIBE! Show this Paper to your neigh bor and advise Mm to subscribe. 'uro Demoomor ea.xa.cl Wlxlto Suprmo7a colnmni of The Cai chus. No other paper in the Third Cn-grt-Mional District haa at a circulation: .Subscription ilnce$1.00 Per Year, in Advance. VOL. X. ; CLINTON, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1892. No. 43. i it 4 ; f y . 1 1 Alliance Directory. NATI0N1L FARMERS INDUSTRIAL President H. L. ALLIANCE AND UNION. Loucks, Huron, So i tli Dakota. VVe-lVcsident II. II Clover, Cam- Vr. !,'!, Kanwas. Secretary and Treasurer J. II. Turn er, Georgia. Address. 239 JJorth Capi to' Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. Lecturer I. II. Willetts, Kan as. KXKCUTIVK BOARD. c. W. Macune, Washington, P. C. AIdu.o Wardall, Huron, South Dakota. .1. F. Tilluiao, Palmetto, Tennessee. JUDICIARY. A. A. Cole, Michigan. U. W. Beck, Alabama. M. D. Daic, Kentucky. NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL' The Presidents ef all the State organ izations with L. L. Polk cx-ofiicio Chair man. NORTH CAROLINA FARMERS STATE ALLIANCE. I 'resident Marion Butler, Clinton, North Carolina. Vit'f-I'r(idcnt T. B. Long, Ashe- ville, X. C. Secretary-Treasurer W. S. Barnes, Raleigh, . C. Lecturer J. S. Bell,Brasstowa, N. C. Steward C. C. Wriirht, Glass, N. C. ( hiioliihi ltev. Erskine Popo, Chalk Level. N. C. Door-Keeoer W. II. Toml'- "n, Fay- etteville. N. C. Assistant Door-Keeper 11. E. King, Peanut. 3f. C. STgeant-al-Arma J. S. Holt, Chalk Level. N. C. State Business A''ent W. II. Worth, Hah-ili, NT. C. Truntee Buinehs Agency Fund W A Graham, Maehpelah, N. C. v.xw:irriVK COMMITTEE OF THE NORTH CAROLINA FARMERS STATE ALLfANCE. S. B. Alexander, Charlotte, N. C Chairman; .1. M. Mewbome, Kinston, N.C.; .1. S. Johnson, ItutHn, IN. C. STATE ALLIANCE JUD iCTARY COM MITT EE. Elias Carr, A. Leaser, N. M. Culbreth, M. tt. Gregory, Wm. C. Conuell HTATE ALLIANCE LEGISLATIVE COM MITTEE. K. .1. Powell. Balci-jh, N. C. ; N. C English .Trinity College; J. J.Youu", Polenta; H. A Forney, Newton, X.C. NORTH CAROLINA REFORM FRESS ASSOCIATION. Officers J. L. Kamscyv President Marion Butlei, Vice-President; W. S. Haines, Secretary. PAPERS. The Caucasian, Clinton; Fro gresHive Farmer, Raleigh ; Rural Home, Wilson ; Farmer's Advocate, Tarboro: Salisbury Watchman, Sal isbury ; Alliance Sentinel, Gokls Jt.t.ro; Hickory Mercury, Hickory; The Rattler, Whitakers; Country Life, Trinity College; Mointain Homo Journal, Ashevillp; Agricul tural Bee Ooldsboro; Columbus News, Whiteville, 1 . C; The Busi ness Agent, Raleigh, N. C. Capt. A. S. reace, editor of Alli ance Department, Oxford, N. C. Each of the above-named papers are requested to keep the list standing on the first page aud add other?1, provided they are duly elected. Any papir fail ing to advocate the Ocala platfoi n will he dropped from the list promptly. Our people can now see what papers are pub lished In their interest. PROFESSIONAL COLUMN. n 1 M. LEE, J ATTORNEY-AT-LW, Clinton, N. C Office on Mam Street, opposite Ocurt Honse: mch!7 tf W. R. ALLEN. W. T. DORTCIf. A LLEN & DORTCH, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, Goldsboro, N. C. Will practice iu Sampson connty. fol27 tf M. LEE, M. D. I'll Y3ICIAN.SU KG EON AND DENTIST, Mice in Leo's Drug Store, je 7-lyr E. FAISON, Attorney and Counsell or at Law. Office on Main Street, Dractice in courts of Sampson and ining counties. Also in Supreme t. All business intrusted to his will receive prompt and caref ul tion. je7-iyr W KERR, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Office on WallStreet. Will practice in Sampson, Bladen, lender, Harnett ana uupnu vuuu tiaa Alan in Suoreme Court. Prompt personal attention will be given to all legal pusiness. ie -j.yr Tt. CHAS. S. BOYETTE, DENTIST, )ffers his services to the puDiic. mi prat r and work euaran tfeled I lTTlfn HI: 1 SI a JL lv Vv stalnd mv28-tf ;DR. D. S. HARMON, The usslan Opthalmtc Optician 4 Inventor ooms 2 and 3, Mien Building, Priacl as Street WILMINGTON, N. U. Nio char le for examination ot eyS iT2Stf .NK BOYETTE, D.D.S. DentisTrt Office Ln Main street, Offers 4j3 services to the people of ClintorA an(i vicinity. Everything la the lrne 0f Dentistry done in the pest sty w, Hatisfaction guaranteea HaTAJ tArms are strictly cash A 5 dil CoiAr pon't ane to vary from this rule EDITOR'S CHAIR. HOW THINGS LOOK FROM OUR STAND POINT. The Ooinlon of The Editor and the Opinion; of Others which we Can Endorse on the Yarious Topics of the Da. Don't forget to attend your Alli ance lodge. It Is the great educator that should be kept alive. The or der must be kept ntrong. The ad vises from over the State indicates a revival in the order. Lodges that have been behind are coming up and defunct lodges are being re vived. All over this whole country mort gages are being taken with a gold clause in them. This is a mammoth conspiracy by the gold bugs to get the debtors of this county by the throat. When this is done they will threaten to close down on every man who savs he Is in favor of the free coinage of silver. Let the peo nle beware. Their liberties are at A stake. How will the democratic party re duce the tfriff In the face of an empty treasury and a heavy increase of appropriations. Tariff is the only means they provide for raising any revenue to support the government and it Is a problem that no democrat has ever solved yet, how to reduce it under the present existing cir cumstances. The reformers offer the only solution to the vexed tariff uuestion. an income tax. Southern M. Farmer. On vnu owe anv money. Is not the debt harder to pay now than it would have been ten years ago ? Do you not have to do more work, strike more licks of labor to get a dollar to put on that debt now than then ? Then is the present dollar an hon er.t one. Is it not robbing you? Then let us vote for a change, let us vote for an honest dollar. Let us vote against the national bank ing system. Let us vote for the lree coinage of silver, let us vote tor and a flexible volume of currency. Let us vote for the Sub- Treasury at.d Iiand loan plan. J,'JL Senator Carlisle made a tariff speech in Congress last Friday.- The following is the report given by the Press dispatches: The drift of Mr. Carlisle's speech was tnai me Aiuxv-iuiey uum uau nnt. r within the twentv-seven months ho tovercu oj me lUTcouniiuu v sub-committee), reduced the prices of commodities or increased the wa- ges of labor, but had, on the contra- ry, interferred withanaoDstructeai the operation of natural laws gov- nminrr ha filimwt. HP inSlflnCRU l. . 1 t&AVS J fifteen general occupations in unpro tected industries, where the average rate of wages had gone up, and fif teen othei trades in highly protected industries where wages had gone down. The present congress is about to adjouru. It was elected, pledged to remonetize silver and to repeal the McKinley bill. It has done neither, and here is a Senator up wasting lime making another stump speech on the tariff. We have had enough speaking. It takes voting to pass or repeal legislature. The present Congress must be as infamous as the McKinley bill for it has failed to improve it. Will anv man vote for his own poverty? No. Politics is not a matter of sentiment, it is business. This is why the laborers and wealth nrodncers will not vote for the n nancial system favored by the Chi caou and Minneapolis platforms. It ia owainst their interest. For the 0 iL . l. A same reason tno luuuupvucn the money power favor and will vote for the financial system of these two platforms. The righteous in dignation of the people wm soon drive the plutocrats and monopolists of both the Democratic and Repub lican parties together. Dr. Kings bury has already suggested this to fhpm The auicker they do this the better, for then good nonesi -i k Aoiv ao it meawuumuuu.,. is now. there is a large class or men am thnroutrhlv honest, who are suffering from present conditions, . vet who will this year, by their vendorsethethlevmgfloaocial avstem of the money power. Yes, o,n roiii vnte not only asrainst tne interest of the great mass of our people but agamsx iu uwu .uvcx- . . . . .. est. Let us descrme some oi inese m an xrnn will reeoemize them : - rpv. rvnoinsBa man. whnsfl nros - l auq io.t.. " .MAnAnvi. nnmthA nroineritv Dcuvj wk -i mt - - and all laborers. The ' man whose k..nina tnJlav in at a stand-still, if UUSiUQoa w--- not going ' down hill or already KQtori hpcanso the people got low prices lor their products and money is scarce. III this man vote for the present financial sys tem? Yes. Why? Foronoofthe following reasons : (a) This man owes Home money. The bank or some big northern firm is running him. lie is afraid to vote asrainst monev. (b) Or he has some rich frier-ds or relatives in some largo city. He wants to keep on good terms with them, lie wants to be "hail fellow well met" with them. lie votes the way they vote. (c) Or he has been reading only one side of the great economic ques tion. In short it is either ignor ance or prejudice or fear. 2. The professional man. This man is what is known as the edu cated man, the college bred man. But his training has not broadened him, it has narrowed him in as much as it has taken the individual ity out of him. It has put him into a stereotype mould. His training tarns his attention fromjtho rights of the masses to the privileges of the classes. His desire is to be one of the classes. That is his ideal. Not one out of a hundred escapes this fate. We do not oppose educa tion but we oppose the system. As a rule the colleges are not with the people. Thus the professional man is the victim of a wrong system of education at school, and of associa tions and reading in after life. The railroads and other monopolies and class interests are always ready to do the professional man x favor, and to put him under obligations to them. 3. The newspaper man. He is surely always poor, as a rule. He must be the tool, the mouth-piece of the money interest of the railroads and the classes generally or close up business. He Is in debt, somebody else owns the paper. He is allowed to edit it as long as he will talk right. There is not one newspaper man in ten who dares to utter a word not endorsed by those who own or have money in the paper. And if he should own his paper, those who advertise can combine against him and cripple him or drive him to the wall. It is not to the interest of either the town or the county for them to fight each other, but if the fight comes it will be because the town forces it oa the county. The Caucasiax depends entirely upon the people for support. The rity of our advertisers have majo- with- drawn their patronage, but the mouth of this paper can't be shut. It will stand or fall fighting for the cause of the people. It will stand or fall advocating what it believes to be right. 4. In addition to the above there ig here and there a farmer who will t . ina.aca vuw luia r aerainst his own interest. He is I - your neighbor you know why. There are still others we might mention 8ucll the politician, the n(ivpr -- " VUIC3 1UI UUUVIMIC. I - selfish interest. But all these men will be with the people before long. The latter class when they find that the people are in earnest, the others when they see the real solution and their dutv to themselves and their country. CLEVELANDr THE DODGER. "Cleveland, the bold," is what the Cleveland papers and politicians say, What does his record say ? The first three years of his administration! passed and he had not learned that there was anything the matter with the tariff. In the meantime he was urging Congress to carry on the Re publican policy of contracting thej currency by burning the remainder of the greenbacks. Thi3 made the monev power, the bondholders and all other gold bugs solid for him. So daring the la-it years of his term be wanted to do something to make him popular with the people to in sure his re-election. He made a bold dash for tariff reform. He soon foarori h had mA1p a mistake, think- ing that ine manuiacimrers cuum do more for him in the election than ..... .... . . i the nlain people. So he tried to take it back, but his. friends would not let him. Twice since he has f ripd tn dodsre the tariff issue. At the convention in 1885 and at Chica I . . - .. . . . . go in ii uub uc mireu nma onrf fhpn nroftAPded to talk . r . lot oi stun aooui iarm reiuriu, uu . . mm t - a-ama I he is determined that the raanutac- I. 11 s Al 4. E.a Set riAf turers snaii snow mat ic against them.' He selected Mr. nar- rity, of PcnMylvanU, forchairmaa of the National committee, wno opposed to atarin ior revenue vuij, who voted aril worked at the Chica- l i tk. F otrarlil KO wuv . u pians. xie vyo-Jiu not iv. wb1 I come to a sauare test vote on silver, ...... .. 1 toranaA Ka wint at! tn dodsre tne ques- i 'v " - finn in the tamoaiffn. He is trying i t 1 o - ing issue, so he can dodge all ques- Itinna of economic reform.' Answer : . I these questions ; I is Mr. Cleveland for an income Itax.'eo that tariff for revenue only will mean a good reduction In the tariff? No. Is he for more money? No. Then Is he Tor the people ? No Should the people be for him? No. The peop e will not vote for Cleve land, the dodger. STATEMENT FROM CHAIR MAN SIMMONS In Regard to W hat He Stated to Mr. Manor Ifutler. The editor of the News and Ob server last night received the -101 lowing telegram : Washington, D. C, July 30- Referring to the article in The Caucasian of the 28th you can state that I said to Mr. Butler in effett that while there was no disposilion to apply tests to those who claimed to be Democrats, those who weDt into our primaries and conventions should do so with the understanding that the convention would only nominate men who intended to sup port the entire ticket, t-tateand Na tional, and it was hoped and believ ed no one who could not agree on this would insist upon participating in these party meetings. There was no suggestions of a bolt because it was assured that there would be no attempt to violate this clear princi ple of political ethics. b . M. SIMMONS. We clip the above from tho News and Observer. We can't ses how it differs from what wo reported Mr. Simmon.3 03 saying. Editor Cauca sian. LIST OF DELEGATUS Tot he Anual Meeting of the State Alliance. The State Alliance will be in ses sion in Greensboro nex, week. The session will open on Tuesday, au gust the 9th. The following are the names of delegates by counties re- ceived up to date: Ashe W. T. Col vard, Delegate. Bertie James Bond. Beaufort H. E. Hodges. Bladen W. J. Sutton. Brunswick W. W. Drew. Burke C. Murchiuson. Columbus -J. H. Williamson, Caswell N. T. Rainey, Cumberland John C. Bain. Chowan M. II. Hughes. Caldwell S. J. Sherrill. -Cherokee J. A. Kinsey. Davie K. C. Smith. Davidson R. S. Green, Jr. Duplin O. W. Sutton. Forsythe-J. W. Spears. ( Franklin F. Ashton. Gates Riddick Holier. Granville A. S. Peaco. Guilford -J. B. Smith. Hertford Alva W, Cordon. Iredell M. W. White. Jones A. T. Barrow. Johnston I. W. Hocutt. Lenoir E. F. Houser. McDowell M. G. Pendergrass. Martin T. E. McCaskey. Mecklenburg T. L. Vail. Montgomery R. T. Rush. Moore S. B. Worthy. Northampton W. J. Rogers. Orange Eugene Wilson. Pamlico Dudley Paul. Pasquotank II. M. Pritchard. Pitt E. A. Moye. Richmond M. H. McBryde. Robeson Iu R. Hamer. Rockingham J. A. Walker. Ruthertord W. O. Baber. Stanley W. A. Moody. Sampson R. M. Crumpler Tyrrell-T. W. Swain. Vance J. H. Gilbreath. Wake A. C. Green. Warren L. C. Perkinson. Washington A. C. Wentz. Wilkes J. M. Wellborn. Wilson J. T. B. Hoover. Yadkin 8. T, Hinshaw. DUPLIN COUNTY. Family Re-UmonCrop Pros pects Not Good A Fight, &. Special to The Caucasian. Mr. Editor It was the good for tune of this writer to be present at a family re-unlon at the residence of Mr. Gibson S. Carr. of island Creek. township on the 22nd day of J cly, given in honor of Mrs. Carr's 71st birth dav. His children, grand children and great-grand children, numbering forty souls, were all pre senteleven children, twenty-six grand children and three great-grand children, and a few invited guests. It was truly a day of enjoyment. After doing ample insuce to a din ner good enough for a king, the even- ins was stent In social converse, in tespersod with music, after which all returned to their homes, satisfied that they had spent one among the most pleasant days ot their lives. A noteworthy incident ot tne oc casion was the presence of Mr. J. J. Ward, of Rocknsh, born on the same day, i. e. the 22nd day of July, and Mr. J. Wells Taylor, of Magno Ha township, born in the same year hot a few months earlier. Crop prospects not nattering, corn I . Tk-r-i promises aiwumu mcugoviu. .. a so with cotton. The cotton crop is . 1 rrh imwnpet not man than i aiiv r r -- t ---- - If D lln may a fair samnie the cry of ovei-proauuuuu. wm uvi . J l Z : 1 1 V. a! H tltlQ year. fSrt.y ia is H Wallace's field last week. Alderman strucK w imams on iuc head with a weeding hoe, inflicting A ft aaoueruus, i uub a ldeaQ fled and has not been ar rotAd Miss rnllie Kin?, of .Clinton, and t : - -.r. ".it miss Maesrie eiis. oi i.iXKuoiu, l - . - - . .. are Aisitmg Iriends and relatives in i ... ..:i:4... Typhoid fever is rasing m community. No deaths so far, but several obstinate eases. w. Sabscribe to Thk Caucasian. 01 yn Ul.03 per year, , t A SPEECH FOR REFORM DELIVERED BY MR. J. DUR HAM IN THE INTER-COLLEGIATE CONTEST, DURING THE TEACHERS' ASSEM BLY AT MOREHlUD CITY. THE WINDING SPEECH. Hie following fpeech which we print in this issue was the prize speech in the Inter-Collegiate Con test at Morehead Citv this summer, during the Teachers' Assembly. Mr. Durham spoke as follows : Ladies and Gentlemen- Coming to an occasion that doubtless prefers the ornate, speaking in a day that demands direct truth and argument. we stand this morning in perplexion and bewilderment. The broad, busy day, instinct with vital issue iu eve ry hour, and the present occasion, full of pleasure and of leisure, make their demands in conflict, and to re concile them this morning we are brought to the task. We shall en deavor to follow out of the difficulty, however, behind our own Joseph E. Johnson God's blessing be in the inspiration of that name! who re conciled his fame as a fighter vith what appeared to many his clean running before Sherman by saying that - under the circumstances to re treat was war; and it was. We shall trust that in his day hurrying, busy, convulsive plain fact and argument wul be esteemed ornate. For three decades, we have lived amid the benignities of peaee; and under its contentment and its bless ing, the genius of the American has wrought a marvellous and a prosper ous industry. It has capped each hill top with the emblematic spire. It has filled each home with a learn ing and an impulse to higher life. It has stocked our barns with their garnered fruits. It has set our lag ging industry to the quickening mu sic of the loom, and the spindle hums alond a larger liberty in indus trial life and a greater prosperity and promise. It has probed the still heart of the earth, and has touched to living organism, its iron muscle and its liquid essence and its electric nerve, and has set them to man's bidding tho slave. It has set the seas with our myriad iails, and in creases our wonder while it cleaves the air; and has gorded the earth with our commerce and our civiliza tion. Withal, it has touched both land and sea all over with a beauty and a thrill that has given increased vorth and broader significance to life. failure amid surrounding sue CESS. But this activity and success is not as broad as our people. There is a class anp that class i3 our stay and our hope that has not shared in such blessing. It has failed amid surrounding success. It has fainted among amid encircling strength. The light that has lit the day, that has made proverbial American thrift and in theesteem of the world, made blessed and benign the privileges of American citizenship, has but 1 It una ed a near abysm, to which, pray God ! m?y they never come, and made hopeless a toiling life in the certainty of impending failure at its close, when its supreme efforts have been expended and its vital energies have been exhausted, l- tell you that in this broad nation to-day and in this state that we love, there are multiplied thousands of living, breathing freemen, your peer and mine in intellect and inessential na ture, upon whom the light oi success has never dawned, and, whose very meridian is to dig; and this lot, una voidable and adverse, is not their by their choicer responsibility, but bv force of social organizatiou. The yeomaniy of our land are suffering a3 a class an adversity aud a poverty that the uninitiative can never know. Want is their companion in the cot tage, and gaunt Poverty stalks be hind the lagging plough. EDUCATION DOES NOT MEET THE DEMAND. As I can attest it here to-day by au observation extending mrougn one hundred miles by private travel through Piedmont North Carolina, in thirty per cent, of the families, the mother and the daughter were in the field with the father and the hireling, and before God the home was repulsive, with no joy to enliven it and no hope to illume it, and Iroin the exhaustion of a bitter and fruit less toil, they have asked you for help, and you have said "educate them." They have brought their children, starving and tattered, and have begged you for aid, and you have answered "educate them." Let the despairing wail of ten mil lions of living, but tanning, lree men declare to day that that policy has faikd. Let it declare that edu cation, in all the fullness of its ben eficence Las not metthedemand.and let the hoarse throat 3 of hungering thousands obtrude upon the concord of our pe.ice tfee dissonance of a de pression that is without parallel in the annals of our people, the charge of failure upon our policy and the portent of our probable doom ! "GIVE US BELIEF, FOB WE ABE SINKING." We have tried education and we have succeeded, and yet the cry rises hoarser and louder, and in en- lishtenment to-day they are suffer iner a despondency that was not known in ignorance. Not as a re suit of education, but of conditions of co-temporary and parallel devel opment ; and from - all over out broad land, that seems overflowing with sunshine and tlenty this beau tiful day, comes one universal cry too deep to have sprung from tne mind of demagogue, too earnest to i nave come irom nis neari uui ucw ine the pathos and power of the citizen, resolute in his cousclous right, just, reasonable, and intense ly, vitally in earnest, "uive us re lief f we are sinking" a cry and a tone that could originate nowhere beneath the shining sun but in the fainting heart. It is fraught with a bitter p.'eiding. It speak an earn est prajvr. It U janniount iu it inijHrtiUice and in iu comprehen sion. It Is confined to uo section, owns no state. But wherever farm, er or mechanic, in ail our union, ekes out a daily bread, there the complaint follows the running plough or is beaten from the ring ing drill. Broad as our nation, deep as human suffering can give it tone, it U stamped all over with an earnestness that feigned aud lormal petition could not bear, and phall find no equal iu its pathos and its suasion, until, iu similar phrase, j again fehall human destiny haug upon human speech. THEKK IS U BOUND FOR THE CRY. We know whether there Is ground for the cry. We have seen the home in its desolation. We have seen the rising sun. divinelv ap pointed to bring only Its blessing and its cheer to men, rise high in the heavens but to look down upon declining fortune and desolation growing with the passing day. We have seen It as, in meridian splen dor, it has illumined thestunendous error and the vital shame that -the hardest, most earnest, consuming toil that man ever expended upon the er.rth has yet refused to yield eveu the bread lor the workman or the essential comfort for the home; and we have seen it a3 it has set over homes, cheerless, desolate, hopeless, without having added the blessing of the day or brought the contentment and comfort of the ning ; and we have listened with growing appal, as day by day the stock report has rung over the coun try the knell of a people's hoie. THIS 19 THE COUNTRY OF THE COM MONER. We know this depression. We have felt it vitally ; and we know more. We know that this people is the purest element in our citizen ship to-day. ; hat untaught in so cial custom or association, they shrine in their simple hearthstone their uttermost joy ; and that in lh-j home, dearer than all the earth be sides, is centered ali that please or ennoble humankind. We know that there is centered the essential element that tottered chivalry in England and made it the country of the commoner and the pride of the earth, that wrought our own revo lution, and gave to our institutions their surety and their strength, that bore the sufferings of Valley Forge, was chastened in Brandy wine and Trenton, and in the victory of York town wrought the transcendent climax of revolution in the estab lishment of rational liberty and the birth of national life; and when all else shall fail and the republic shall cry aloud for aid, it shall rind its help alone in the arm that gave it life, in the integrity and stability of its yeomanry and in proportion as it has proved a Messing in their homes. The success of this people and the continued prosperity of this republic are bound in an abiding mutuality. They cannot be disso ciated iu dependence, and no human force can alienate or divorce them. Not as the individual, but as the class and avocation they represent, they are eminently tne foundation and the strength of a nation. To preserve our society, we must con serve their strength. Our self-preservation demands it. And not only so. But this en lightened day and this civilization, vocal with the chime f the church and resplendent in the light of the cross, forbid such condition to ftx n unrelieved. Our humanity and our charity forbid it. Our justice and our judgment do not require it. Not our principle nor our policy approve it. But they all lay upon us the unmistakable obligation to exhaust all human and honorable effort at redemption ; and amid the di apason of the resulting industry, the stale cry of class preferment would be drowned beneath shorts of app'ause, and the Christian world would echo "Well done, well done." DO NOT OPPOSE MERELY BECAUSE THE FARMER ORIGINATES. What then? "Vhat remedy do we oner? society, conscien an intellisrent, pledged to their relief n its self-ireservation, pledged v their relief in its responsibility for their condition, pledged in moral obligation, what recompense should it bring to this people ? First, it should evince at least a fraternal care for their condition and a careful sympathy and activity in their relief. It should cease to oppo-e all measures of reform mere ly because they originate w ith the farmer, ipso facto. It should re member that such is the history or reform. It should remember that the light that illumined this civili zation and that adds its lustre and s beauty to our principle and to our republic to day, w as first kindled to human esteem in the home ot tne Eiglish commoner, aud through long centuries of oppression burned feeblv but purely upon its humble altar, uatil finally bursting forth it has illumined the world in glory. It has given it its liberty and it light ; and in our own nation, thrilling to-day with its spirit, and enjoying its unspeakibie blessing, hOoner or liter ine commoner iuut be relieved. HE ASKS SIMPLY FORAN EQUALITY. II.! asks no charity; on o.ly de mands his right. He wishes no exaltation ; he simply seeks an equality. Kquality ,.Ve privilege and power ot industry, -uiuauty in th comforts and necessaries of life and in the value of his toil, and equality at the bar of opportunity ; and the trU; of the ages, the simple spirit of the cross, and the spon taneous acclaim of sympathizing millions, point steadily to the dawn ing day of his rsstitution and to the folly of its opposition.. AXD WE SHOULD AID HIM AS A hTATE. By its character abroad, our State can borrow money to-day at four per - r " - . - :.i - .. - . . cent. The farmer rat only borrow U t eight, and then with trvmrod ous, ronsumlng mortfig a iMvurl. ty. lt w civ to thu cUm what their integrity h won. It them enjoy the beueRt or the Institution that t h-lr energh have helped so in. t-raUy to construct; and let th hol low echo movk the mouth that ouU glv voice to the cry ofcUs cUm, class." our Slate ioau iti money it needs bo, at the artual eot of bor rowing ii, to our active farmem who are needy, on warily of their land at its taxable rate. Let it place iU convicts upon their roads. Ix?t It make jnat all pernicious and ficti tious dealing in their product. Let it foster the cultivation of a diversi ty oi crops, and thu regulate the impovetishing production of our staples. Let it equalize it burdens by a proportionate tax upri all right that it protects, whether property or In come, and discriminate to both. Let It extend wide its protection and Its preferment, and straight fam its great catholic heart, let ii give the neipmr hand-grasp to the faint ine ana tne laning however humble or low, and mounting with tho solrlt of the age, and kin Ming to tho ex panding brotherhood of millions, let it cone proudly into the Uit mi preme stage of human organization, when a guileless fraternity hull wrap the republic In It gaUierlng stjength. THE CITIZEN SUBJECT IS THE KINO, AND HUMANITY IS AN ESSENTIAL lillOTHEKIIOOD. mis improvement Internallv will add to our character abroad. Wo shall gain from the world moresym- pamy arm esteem, more credit and confidence in our endeavor to elevate and fraternize our society than if everp hill glittered with jrems and every field waved golden with abun dant harvest; for in the character au1 principle of a people Is Its ulti mate worth, we shall meet the de mands that havs fallen unequivocal uKn a brave and generous people. V e shall give a meaning and a pres tige t.i the name and nativity of a Caroliniai . We shall cement tho fraternity of our society by evincing an interest comnrehenslve. hu manein the welfare of Its unit: and thus shall we further the'irrand. gradual advancement of tho individ ual, the supreme work of the Amer ican heritage, and the crowning glo ry ot American principle. As we have broken allegiance to kingscraf t, we shall refuse blind loyalty to pol icy and precedent, and we shall pUce the citizen above the principle and proclaim that his welfare and his comfort are paramount tho sole source and criterian of whatever of virtue is in our policy. We shall give to all classes of our citizens the assurance and the comfort that in their fainting day. the strong arm or their brothers - their brothers in the essential turmoil of lite and in all that the future holds shall be about them to bear them up. and that they shall fail enly when our sympathizing hearts shall be stilled gcther. America has wrought the climax in thistxaltati m of the indi vidual and this enfrateruizing of so ciety, and as wo Jive to-day in the second centenary of her independ ence, thrilling with the inspiration that the citizen subjtct is the king and that humanity 13 an essentia brotherhood, broad, catholic, com prehensive, let us re;olvo that all our classes and our people, all united in a common progress and fraternal interest, shall In mutual, well-beseeming ranks, march all one way," inlo the dawning day of out indus try, and to its high noon resplendent. CUMBERLAND COUNT. A Firc-Sickness-Crop Prospects. ( special Correspondent.) Mr. Henry Dullard happened oJ Dau iuck tne night oi the 27t!vr At 9 o'clock P. M. two unknown men set fire to liis stables, burning up a fine mule and a great deal of corn, fod der, shucks and forty head of chick ens. After the stables were fired one of the unknown party ran off a little way and fired off a cuo. On last night Mr. Weathington and a negro was out on guard and a man came, they thought to flrethed well ing house, and M. Weathington 9hol the man, but h; escaped. This mak-s five burnings in Cumberland for the past nine month. Crops are suffering for the lack of rain in this section. Whooping cough and croup com bined is play ng h tvoc with the children about here. Mr. G. T. Simpson's little girl is veiy sick w ith malarial fever. A f 10,000 picture of John Sher man hangs iu the bank of England. Probably as a rememhtance of the Sherman financial legilation. John's victims (th"! Western farmers) wl 1 remember it without any pictures of hit Meghan. L-ni-m Banner. Congressman McKeign scored p iut iu Congress the other day whenhe said, just after the defeat f I he free coinage bill in tbellcusc: Mr. Chairman, If Wall street ha uo further use lor this Coneress move we now adjourn." We now have 50 per cent, more busi ness, more pe pie and more cr d- it than eighteen years ago and only half as much money. This is pros perity lor the usurer. -Texas Senti nel. Wai'tr 11 ilge, A'h'n'-, Ternea v-ite : 'F j- -ix year I b dbsentffi il a i h ru-n ugsore, and an enlar Xfnof-the bone ia my leg. I tried ve-i tbina I beard without any perm ntnt te .ffit until Bjtanic Blood Balm wss recomcaundei to me. After using aix bottles the sorts healed, and I am now ia batter bealtb than 1 have ever b en. I send this teatimcn'al uoeolicit ed, becausi I wnt o'hera to be te;fiu ea." , . w ci.i:i:lani At Heart eten ror Tariff lforn 4 Th who think ttuU Mr. CUv. ta-id h tha cntt living douMt trwi,M or "th tly rtprwroutiv or uriff reform," would do wll In th Interna of truth ta Henry Wat Unon'a Matemeot, which haa vrf been denied, bccaoM It can not W. He had Mid in The Courier-Journal aouio Unto ago that In IK Mr. Gorman went tl th St. !uU eon. ventiou aa tho personal reprcaenU. five or Mr. Cleveland; that Mr. Gorman had taken with him oat of Mr. Cleveland' hands "a cul-nd. dried platform, Ignoring tho prwl dent' rncmag of December, ignoring tho Mill bill, ami reltrmt Inz and roarnrmlng the Urirt ntr-1-ule we hfeltnadeaiChlcago.nl&st.' For making thU statement, Mr. Watterron haj been aoverely criti cised by those who know nothing of democracy except In ao far aa it la embodied In the crsonality of Mr. Cloveland. Referring to thew cilt Iclsms, Mr. WutU rmm aay that of course, "ine niero hero- fcomhlppcr. wno navo mane an l.leal or Mr. Cleveland and fallen flat on their race Urore this Image of their owu lancy" began, to abuso him. but ho declares that he could have aumuY. n.ented what he nald w ith thotato. meut that Mr. Cleveland waa dlsti uj-tful of the iiu wtdch ho had precipitated ao aharply that within ten days after he sent hl irnut message to eongretts ho cau ait Interview to be prepared taking tho backbone out of it, and that thii waa withheld at tho earueat advice of friendn, w ho saw that it put hint in a rmicuioui and chlldUh attltudo before the- public. -At tho into Chi cago convention, Mr. Cleveland had Mr. Whitney, of tho Standard Oil Trust, to manage his fight and to look alter the platform. The tariff plank that met Mr. Clevelaud'a proval was a cowardly td ruddle, aud was a strong bid for 'the manufac tures notes and Influence (money) In the campalgu. And if it had uot been lor Wattersoii this straddle would have boon adopted. Walter :,on denounced the plank ln the convention, and wanted to know If he was In a Democratic or Republi can convention. Mr. Cleveland haa tri d to piaster over tho matter by having a great dual to say about tho tariff slnco the convention. With Cleveland holding audi view at heart, and with another Congresa at traitors to the eoplo aa tho Uwl, w hat relief can we exject even front I he tariff? The people must vote for men who will vote for their In terests, and they will do It. Merit Win. We denire to ay to our citizen, that for yvara we have been wiling Dr. King'a New Discovery for Coiuuniptiou, Dr. Kina New Ufc Pills, Uu kh n'a Arnica Halve and Electric Bit ten, and have never handled rcmeoiva that sell aa wiIJ, or that have given ftiu.h univcral aalia fuclion. We do tot hesitate to guaran tee them everv time, und we 6tal r any to refund the purchase price, if aatidfuc tory results io not follow their ue. Tho rctnndicH hava won their great popularity purely on their turrit. For alc by Dr. H. If. lloi.i.nu v, DrugUt, Clinton, aud Dr. J. it. Mitk, Mount Oiive. N. C. NEW .AqVKKrWEME.Vrd. TDK VIItlUE OF TUK AUrUOUI - ' ty ia tu vented aodar a decree of the Saperior Court of bampaoo ooaoiy, in tho case of Stewart & Uinea agaloat the heirs at lav of J. it Beamo, de ocaaed, wo aill cell, at public aale, to the highest bidder, oa Saturday, 1.1th day of August, 1892, at toe Court I loaae door in Clinton, the property lo aaid town, known as the AiMord St U taman Mill and Uln propirty. (. Tebms or Bale Oae fowlh cah, bre on credit of ix and' twelve Ay. ."'"""" ft f w.tr trtrum n. iv. iiuionu. W. II. BTEWAKT, Com'ra. Clintoa, N. C .Valy 21, 1892-4t. ST. JAMES HOTEL s now cn American and Earotaaa plaa kea!a aetved at all hour. Yon are re. tpjctfu ly invited to stop with us while m or puftiog through the city. Wa have a first c'asn cook, and are furnish ing tl4 best niaalf ever offered to the traveling public at this point. You have ou'y to give ua,a trial to ba convince 1 iht the abore aUtement ia true. P. S.Lurge damp'e-Booras fre to patron of tbe house. Peg Isaac, the porter, will meet you at tie train. Itoqwctfulh, EDWAltDS&U BIFFIN, Late of the Alhambra lteatauraot, jy2l tf Goldboro, N. C. Notice. , In addition to my Regular Slock of WATCH I2S AND CLOCKS, And my Rep 1 1 ring . Business and and agency for sewing Machines, I have accepted the agency for the Great Southern Music House of Lud In A Bates, of Savannah, Ga., for the saleef PIANOS AND ORGANS I sell the following well-known, and reliable makes: Mathusl ling. Mason &, Hamlin ering. . A sample Sterling Sterling Organ can be see bition at my place of Clinton. Call in and get ; Yours truly. Iy9-tf U. li.atuu' remova ' .1. T GREGORY Has removed his Tailoring Estab lishment from his old stand to his office on Sampson Street, net to the M. E. Church. - The great1 and orignal leader In low prices for men's clothes. Econ omy in cloth and money will force you to give him a call. tarLatest Fashion plates always tnhand.' Jane 7th. lyij PI V 1 Y .- X
The Caucasian (Clinton, N.C.)
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