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CA CAS Pure Democracy and White Supremacy. CLINTON, N. C. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1892. No. 9. IAN. v oi. XI. a I 9 I: EDITOR'S CHAIR. f,,. I ulilic ollice is ;i public :ivit," Grover Cleveland. 1 This is true, but the people ft- anxious to know w ho are the 1st trustees. The Republicans hive had a chance, the Demo-'-ifat.s now have a chance, and Je People's party will have a cancc, it" the Democrats don't ' Istle. What lias become of the nd ring liars and scoundrels to were a little while since barging that every reformer ( o was put on the stump by people to defend their fuse) was canvassing in the iterest of the Republican Jrty, and was paid by Repub Can money to do it I Why n't they continue to make 1 fese charges and prove them? Tib; this was simply done for impaign effect it was done I fool and prejudice as many jOple as possible. These same impaign liars will bob up lain two years from now. 1 "Mr. Astor's income is Id to be $7,38 a minute, but he Tt eat more than three square als a day. "Wilmington Star. Now is the Star in favor of an ome ta'x that would require . Astor, who now pays almost no tax, to pay only ten cents of thai $7.38 to support the govern ment. If this were done, " which rrdbld tax the incomes of all the jiionaires accordingly, the tax- p the people who are now I Ving nearly all the tax could I freduced more than half. Is I Star in favor of such a tax. U the Democrats, now that ' 3y have a chance, pass it ? "atch them.and see. 1 During the recent cam gn when a reformer would 1 lak of the necessity for more : ney and a just distribution i" ver an honest system, the D;rdocratic speakers would say tL i they favored more money r'J would point to that plank their platform about State iks and say that was the ; aedy. Now since the election over they talk differently. Vatclip the following from the IT. Y. World: "State bank notes are not 1 aey. They have no legal ten- 'jqualityand nobody propo t o give them such quality. '. 3y are nothing more or less 1 h negotiable notes, and the 2 at to issue negotiable note3 fongs to every person. The . t preventing State banks L in issuing them is the vio-1-'" in of this right." I course the ten per centi t- - pn State bank issue ought I repealed. We voted in ast Seuate to instruct our tors and Representatives in Jess to vote for its repeal, no sane man thinks that action alone will give the m in finance that the peo aeed. The World admits Jtate bank issue would not f Co re L oney, but simply a note cr, idence of debt, a piece of p - t that will not pay a debt u: j: t is the man you owe is wil- to take it. This means if armers and laborers want i I money they must take I notes instead of money, r good 1 iwfiil legal tender money. Under thi State bank system would there be no national money? Yes, but the favored few must have that while the people must take something that the government would not recognize a3 money, something that you can't pay your taxes to the government with. The plain people are entitled to as good money as anybody else and they '.rill have it yet. Let everybody start a State bank ofs issue, who can, but the people will never stop the fight for fi- nancial reform till the whole monetary system is changed so as to give the people a national currency, safe, sound and flexi ble, issued direct to the people at a low rate of interest. Low and Contemptible. We understand that the ma chine Democracy, in a number of the towns in the State, have followed the disgraceful ex ample of Wilmington in go ing through the ceremony of bnrying Marion Butler. We have just seen that in Augusta, Ga., the machine Democrats put Tom Watson's coffin in a torch-light procession; that two men sat on the coffin drink ing whiskey and playing cards as the procession passed down the street. Those who take part in encouraging such low, contemptible and sacriligious conduct, place themselves be neath the respect of good citi zens and honest people. Let Congress Meet as Soon as Possible. The people have just elected a newr Congress. Lower taxes and more money is what has been promised the people. There is great need for prompt action. But according to cus tom this Congress will not meet till December, 1893, a year from now. This is wTrong, it is undemocratic, it is unre publican. Congress should meet soon after an election, and legislate upon the ques tions at issue. The Constitu tion does not (as may be sup posed) fix the time; Congress does it itself. Then wThy fol low this senseless and hurtful custom any longer? There can never be any considerable re form on any line without breaking precedents. But we fear nothing will be done. For in our opinion the regular ses sion of Congress will come be fore the Democrats want it to. They have premised more than they intend to do. Already Cleveland and many promi nent Democrats are saying that we must go slow. Go slow in deed! If the people are suf fering from the McKinley bill as much as you said they were during the campaign, why should you wait fifteen montns to give them relief ? With all of your talk and study on the tariff, if you don' t know how to commence reforming it at once, then you were not fit to be placed in power. Then, too, you must hurry up, so you can give the people relief on the money question. It really seems that the Democrats don't want "a chance" after it has been given to them. Our Sentiments Kxactly. The following from the pen of the talented editor of the Hickory Mercury is so timely and appropriate that we copy it. "Editors destitute of brains and character are very envious, and devote most of their space to vil lving and abusing the personal characters of their betters, Sen sible people detect and condemn this. But fools well, thev are not "in it" and are to be pitied, that's all." Buying Votes. T V Tl 1.1! 1 1 xiitj ivepuuiiuuns nave ueeu 1 outdone in the vote buying bus iness this year. The Democrats by making certain promises and pledges got their hands in to thn money barrels of the bankers, railroad kings and other monopolists for this cam paign. In the first place four hundred thousand dollars was sent South last spring to have Cleveland boomed in the news papers; the Syracuse anti-snappers convention cost over $200, 000; the Cleveland headquar ters at the Chicago convention spent over 300,000. It took this much to get him nomina ted. Then it took nearly 4,000, 000 to elect him. What corpo rations furnished this money? How will Cleveland pay them back ? We give below a partial list of the amounts of boodle sent out from the national Demo cratic headquarters during the last few days of the campaign. Over a million dollars were used for buying votes during the last few days before the election; a part of it was dis tributed as follows : New York State, New York city, 300,000 100,000 140,000 50,000 15,000 35,000 75,000 Indiana, Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia, Connecticut, North Carolina, 40,000 Ycu know we told you just after the election about Chair man Simmons going to New York after the boodle, one thousand dollars of this forty thousand dollars was sent to Sampson county. Now how are these corporations that fur nished this money to be paid back? They do not want the money paid back, but they want special legislation which will give them a chance to steal fif ty times as much from the peo pie. What will our representa tives in Congress and the State Legislature do about it ? We will watch their votes and tell you. What Is Democracy Now V We have believed for some time that the money power o this country was gradually deserting the Republican party. Not because the Re publican party was not willing to serve the money Devil, but it had gotten unpopular with the masses. The money power must dn its work through a party that can throw enough taffy to the laboring people and the farmers to catch their rotes. In short, the money Devil hav ing used the Republican party ns Inner as it could, has now J taken charge of the Democratic party, to make a tool of it We see new evidences of this every day. Only last Satur day, the day after Jay Gould's death, the New York Tribune says: "It is the impression that Mr. Gould's political sympa thies during the recent presi dential campaign were- largely with the Democrats. While he is said to have sent a small c&Aipaign contribution to the Republican fund, the Demo crats wrere the recipients of a vastly greater sum, as a result of Mr. Gould's generosity. Some well-informed politicians place the amount which Mr. Gould had given to aid in the election of Mr. Cleveland at $250,000." What ! Jay Gould paying a quarter of a million dollars to elect Cleveland! How is his railroad schemes and his gam bling in AVall street to be ben efittel and made more profita ble by the election of Cleve land Not a single fibre of Gould's nature was in sympa thy with Democratic princi ples. It was his boast that with him politics was business. Then if it was to the interest of Jay Gould to join the Dem ocratic party it is because there is no Democracy in it. There is fun ahead. You will see it when the Democratic party tries to serve the money Devil and the people at the same time. This is probably what Watterson meant when he said that the Democratic party was between the Devil and the deep blue sea. That Monetary Conference. What is that international mon etary conference which is in ses sion in Europe at Brussells do ing ? Is it discussing the advisa bility of the free and unlimited coinage of silver ? No, if there is a single delegate who is in fa vor of it he has not yet dared to open his mouth. All during the campaign when the Democrats and Republicans were pressed fore the people about free silver, they would dodge by saying that they expected that monetary con ference to agree on something that would be satisfactory and would benefit the people. Now what are they doing ? The con ference does not seem to be do ing anything, but Baron Roth- childs, the London banker, who furnished the money to lobby through our Congress, the bill to demonetize silver, is at present running the meeting. He advis es America to continue doing iust as she is now under the ml Sherman act of 1890, but asks us to agree to stop the coining of silver entirely if there should be any danger of silver going to par with gold. What do you suppose the delegates from America said to this ? We quote from the Bal timore Sun to show you. "As for the United States, it ought, according to the Baron, to be satisfied, seeing that the plan proposes the continuation of our present polic' for five years. If we think the act of 1890 wise, we cannot object to its being in corporated as an essential part of an international scheme. The American delegates, in fact, ap pear to be pleased with the Roth child plan and have authorized the statement that they are "thor oughlv satisfied with the turn of events." utu no uie American people think of that ? We have believed all along that this conference was simply a dodge gotten up by the Democratic and Republican machines, but it now seems that they will have the check and knavery to attempt to make mat ters worse. The Democratic par ty has denounced the Sherman act and is pledged to repeal it, yet the very act is made the cor ner stone of the plan proposed bv the Uothchilds and agreed to by the American delegates. What will the Democaats do about it ? Baron Rothchilds in his speech or rather in his orders to the con ference said : "In England, a gold stan dard is the only possible one and if we consider that the whole commerce and a great part of that of other countries is carried on bv bills of exchange on Lon don, which are naturally paya ble in gold, it must be admitted that the world generally trans acts business on a gold basis, and that a double standard, with the exception of a very modified form, does not exist even in those countries professing to pay in either metal." Of cou-ise he wants this thing to continue, but the people of the United States do not. The Ba ron admits in his speech that free and unlimited coinage of silver would destroy England's position as the world's banker Then those w ho oppose free coin age in this country must be the tools of the Rothchilds and slaves to British gold. The' Democrats now have a chance, what will they do about it ? The people will watch the next Congress and render their verdict two vears from now according. What Vance Thinks Congress Should Do. Senator Vance was interview ed a few days since by one of the Raleigh papers. In reply to the inquiry as to what he thought the chief legislation which should be enacted by the next Congress, he said : "First, to repeal the law au thorizing the employment of United States marshals at elec tions and absolutely wipe out all vestiges of national intefer- ence with State elections. "Second. There is urgent need for restraining by all means the jurisdiction of federal courts un der which they now interfere with the police powers of the States. "lhird. Another important duty which Congress should dis charge is the enactment of laws for purifying the pension lists, and cutting off the abominable and scandalous frauds which now exists in the pension de partment. "Fourth. The most important, perhaps, of all the work to be done is the thorough and radical revision of the tariff. The duty should be greatly reduced on wool and woollens, and the me tals, with special referance to putting the very lowest duties consistent with revenue upon the necessaries of life. Many things on the free lists should be trans ferred to the dutiable list. A glance at the free list will show any one several hundred articles upon which there is no sort of reason why duties should not be levied, and compensation made by a reduction on articles of most common use." The only remarkable thing about the interview is what the Senator did not say. Not a word about that awful Republi can financial system not a word about increasing the value of money, yet two years ago Senator Vance was pledged by the Legislature of North Caro lina to the Ocala platform, with special emphasis put upon the increase of the currency and changing the financial system after the sub-treasury plan. That was considered of the most importance by the people who elected Senator Vance, yet he now considers it of so little im portance that he does not even refer to it. Is public office a public trust ? The Alliance and Parly Murhlnen. Certain newspapers and pol iticians are now trying to dam age the Alliance by charging that it is a party machine. This is false. The Alliance is above all parties, and is more impor tant to the farmers and labor ers of the country than any party. No party will ever give justice to any class of citizens who are not organized. This is a selfish world, and every man and every class of men must look out for themselves. Parties give justice to those only whom they fear. Parties do not fear a class of people who are not organized. They will fear and do more for COO men organized than they will for 1,000 unorganized. It is absolutely necessary for every class of citizens to be -organized for protection, and to get justice. The Democratic party is now in power. The farmer who voted the Democratic ticket never needed an organi zation more than now. His party is now in a position to do something for him, and other men with the same interests. He must be in a position to force his party to do what it should. Nothing will have more iniluence on the Demo cratic administration to give the people the needed relief than for the Alliance to grow and strengthen each day. Ev ery true Allianceman desires reform desires justice more than he does the success of any party, and will be satisfied if it comes through any source. If the People's party, which is pledged to every reform de manded by the Alliance, were in power, the Alliance would be just as needed then as now. The Alliance is necessary not only to purify politics and elevate-parties, but also to keep them pure and force them at all times to respect the rights and needs of the people. Al ready politicians in all parties fear the Alliance, and the mo nopolies fear the Alliance more than they do any or all parties combined. No, the Alliance is not a party machine, but it is a terror to all party ma chines, and to all corruptora of government.
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