Pure Democracy and White Supremacy.
"Vol. XI.
CLINTON, N. C. THURSDAY, DECKMBER 15, 1892.
No. 10.
EDITOR'S CHAIR.
One of the newspapers
says in praise ui j aj
that "he never stooped to hy
ocracy." Neither does a
highway robber.
I You remember what we
said two weeks since about the
'Press telegrams and the gam
bling in futures. A few days
lince the Wilmington Star had
an editorial rather apologizing
for gambling in cotton, and
half ridiculing the necessity
for the r.nti-option bill. Re-
inen.ber our prediction, and
Watch the papers from now on,
fvhile Congress is in session.
t
,The campaign is over, but
Another is coming. Many good
men of the ranks of the Repub
lican party have lost faith in
their party, before another cam
paign many good men who vo
ted the Democratic ticket will
be disgusted with their party.
riie brave young party which
go gallantly fought both the
fabuses of the party that won
Jand the crimes of the party
Ithat lost, stands ready to wel
fcome to its ranks the good men
tof all parties who are sincerely
desirous of bringing about what
may be truthfully called a gov
ernment of the people.
J Some of the partisan pa
pers, the self-constituted or
gans of the Alliance, are call
in cr fnr Hi a resiirnation of Ma-
"
rion Rutler as President of the
State Alliance, because he vo
ted for the nominees of the
People's party. Now, who
will they make President?
Vill they look up a man who
did not vote at all 1 Or do they
consider that a man who voted
the Republican or Democratic
licket is a non-partisan ? These
officious and silly papers don't
know the meaning of non
partisanship. The President
6f the State Alliance stands
Jeady to support in the next
lection any party that will
apport the demands of the
Alliance; he is so thoroughly
non-partisan that he will not
support any party that fights
the demands of the organiza
iion. Will those papers that
ire claiming to be such good
friends to the Alliance prom
ise to do the same thing Un
til they do, they have no right
.o speak for the organization.
The New York World is
low severely criticising tne
irnel and oppressive method
f legalized robbery resorted
to by Mr. Gould to amass his
inillians. This is rather late
tnd cowardly in the World. It
puld have served humanity to
vave exposed and condemned
iese methods while the spec
tator and gambler was busy
t it. John D. Rockefeller,
e Standard Oil trust tyrant
d robber, is still living, and
it; let the Word try " its
knd on him. Of the two we
ave i more respect for Mr.
ould. He was a gambler on
Jie products of other men's
bor, and made no pretentions
bout it, but Mr. Rockefeller
Hes to pose behind the livery
t heaven, while his business
3 equally as illegal, immoral
nd unjust. He gives part of
lis ill-gotten wealth to churches
nd schools, to corrupt the
I : lL
seats of learning where the f u- What u tn Matter with Them?
ture statesman is to be trained, The St. Louis Globe Demo
to subsidize the religious pa- crat is out in fine editorial de
pers, and to hire the preachers claring the McKInley bill the
to prostitute the pulpit to speak worst blunder ever committed
words of praise about his char- by any parly since the crime
ity, benevolence and goodness. f secession. It demands that
There is no way he could de it, and all who support it, shall
moralize the world worse and be relegated to the rear. Ilere
serve the devil better than by we have a complete fulfillment
putting his blood monsy into of the mission of every thick
the churches and the schools, and thin party newspaper. The
In how many churches built by Globe-Democrat supported the
his money will the minister obnoxious bill and declared it
preach the practical religion the sum of perfection until af
that would condemn the Stan- ter election and then tells the
dard Oil trust 1 In how many truth about it. Of what value
schools endowed by mm will
the professor of political econ-1
omy point out how the natural
laws of business are perverted til the one after election. . Un
by greed and thrift, and then der such conditions the press,
use the Standard Oil trust as
an illustration 1
"Mr. Astor's income is
said to be $7,38 a minute, but he
can't eat more than three square
meals a day. Wilmington Star
Now is the Star in favor of an
iucome tax that would require
Mr. Astor, who now pays almost
no tax, to pay only ten cents of
that $7.18 to support the govern-
ment. If this were done, which
would tax the incomes of all the
millionaire nrrnrHintrlv. the tax-
es of the people who are now
nnvintr nparlv all the tax could
r j e J
be reduced more than half. Is
the Star in favor of such a tax.
Will the Democrats, now that
Watch them and see.
The papers are still spec-
ulating about Jay Gould's wealth,
The guesses range all the way
from $60,000,000 to $100,000,000
It is said that he himself did not
know how much he was worth.
This immense wealth has been
accumulated (not made) in less
than thirty years, while the prop
erty and happiness of thousands
have been wrecked. We often
hear people speak of a million
or a hundred million dollars, but
the amount is so vast that it is
almost beyond our conception.
Dear reader, let us take an illus
tration and see if we can grasp
it. If you had been born on the
same day that Christ was and
you were still living today, you
would be one thousand eight
hundred and ninety-two years
old. Now if yourhad worked ev
ery day including Sunday, du
ring that time, from your birth
up to now and had made $1.00
a day clear of all expenses and
had sared every dollar of it, how
much would you have now?
Would you have as much as one
mniion Hollars as a result of vour
toil and economy for all that
time ? Let us see. Multiply 365
days by 1092 years and we
have the number of dollars you
would have. It is $690,580, but
little over a half a million. Let
us suppose that Adam was still
living in the garden of Eden and
had earned one dollar clear each
day during these six thousand
vears. he would today have little
- nno nnn. Vet Mr. Gould
has forty of fifty times thisuch.
i ... . .... .
money irom toning mimons m a
short life time. It is terrible, yet
we call this the home of the free. The price to the wholsale deal
W An nt Mam. Afr. frmilri sis ers has been raised since last
c a th lw mslrprJ
. , , .
oi me coumry wno nave pcrnm-
ted and helped to make such
things possible. Cannot the
covernment protect the weak?
, . .
y m me democratic party, try r
Bcctr-t wise of cBtm for fmi dueo.
to ine people are sucu newspa-
pers ? They tell lies for their
party every day in the year un
instead of being the friend and
defender of the people becomes
its deadliest foe. The truth is,
that all of the old party press
is notning more than a dog with
a collar arouna necv that
barks as it master
Nonconformist.
bids it.
A New Paper.
We welcome to our table the
first C0Py of "Our Home,"
new Alliance paper published
in .Union county. The editor is
Bro- J- z- Green, the energetic
and sterling lecturer
for that
county. The paper is
well ed
ited and has the right ring. I
wish we had a hundred such pa
pers in the State. The follow
ing is one of the leading edito
rials:
STAND FIRM.
"The enemies of the Alliance
have sought from the beginning
to cause dissensions and strife
among its members. The latest
scheme is to try to identify the
order with some political party.
The Alliance does not, has not
nor never will officially endorse
any political party, for in so
doing it would convert itself
into a party machine and hence
descend from the hii?h plane
which it occupies and its use
fulness as an organization would
be destroyed. The mission of
the Alliance is educational.
There is no compulsory obliga
tion to be taken, each member
being free to go the way his
conscience leads him. In the
late election members of the
Alliance voted with all the ex
i sting political parties, thus
demonstrating that the obliga
tion of the order does not in.
terfere with "religious or polit
ical views" of its members
True, one of the existing polit
ical parties has endorsed the
demands made by the Alliance,
but it does not follow that they
are the same organization
Those papers that are now try-
ing to class the Alliance as
political party, are the very
samePaPers tLat have fought
the Alliance and its leaders all
alone, ji ney are deadly en
emies to reform and would re
joice to see the Alliance die.
Members of the order who
have labored so faithfully ' for
its success should make a note
of this and keep the camp fires
burning."
What Is Government For ?
The New York World says
"Just on the edge of winter we
are treated to another rise in the
price of coaL When the advance
goes into effect, on Dec. 12th,
coal at retail will be fifty cents a
ton dearer than it was last Dec.
January $1.10 a ton. The blame
of the extortion rests on the con-
spirators composing the Reading
coai combine. They force up the
price; they limit production
Probably they have not ye
I reached the limit of their inten
ded oppression. How long must
it be endured ?"
The object of government is
to protect and see that there is
equal justice. The Democratic
party now has charge of and will
ran the government for a season.
This party has claimed to be the
jreat enemy of trusts, combines
and monopolies, and the great
Hend of the poor and helpless ;
now will the Democratic party
suppress not only this trust but
all others? If the Republican
pany was false to the people
when it granted the special priv
ileges to monopoly that have
made trusts and combines poss
ible with the Democratic party
show itself true to the people by
aking away all of their special
avors at once. What shall we
think of the next Congress if it
adjourns and leaves these trusts
with the power to continue to
bleed the people ? Is govern
ment instituted for monopolis and
office holders, or for the welfare
of the people ? The World asks
'How long must it be endured?"
If the Democratic party doen
not now right the great wrong
it must be endured till the peo
ple can take charge of their gov
ernment. 'To Delve Deep Into the Pockets of
- the People."
The NewYork World after
commenting on the Gould meth
od of railroad manipulation, says:
"The tendencies, however, is
not to an extension or repetition
of the Gould methods. He work
ed towards crushing roads. The
modern method is to the suppres
sion of rivalry by the absorption
of the rivals, one by another.
This is the era of trusts. It is
seen just as clearly now as Stew
art, or Gould, or the elder V an
derbilt saw it that the big fort
unes must be taken out ot the
pockets of the people, and the
modern combiners say mat tnat
pocket is biff and deep enough
to 21 ve a fortune to any one who
will delve deep enough into it."
The Alliance and Party Machines.
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 everv class of men
must look out for themselves.
Parties give justite 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 500
men organized than they will
for 1,000 unorganized. It is
absolutely necessary for every
class of citizens to be organ
ized for protection, and to get
justice. The Democratic party
is now in nower. 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 influence on the Demo
cratic administration to give
the people the needed relief
than for the Alliance to grow
n-nrl Ktrpmrt.hpn each dav. Ev-
- " o
ery true Allianceman desires
reform desires justice more
than he does the success of any
rartv ntirl will be satisfied if 1
Jf J J T .
comes through anv source. II
the People's party, which
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
oniy to puniy politics and ele
vate 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
nan 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 corrnptors of
government.
The Adrctes or Delay.
We observe a curious and sig
nificant concordance in the ar
guments of those who object to
an extra session of Congress for
purposes of tariff reform. With
out exception, the Democratic
leaders and newspapers that op
pose the immediate inauguration
of the work insists upon the ne
cessity for .deliberation. They
submit with great solemnity and
force that the revision of the
tariff laws is an undertaking
of prodigious moment: that it
should be approached with al
most prayerful caution ; that the
gravest consequences depend
upon the intelligence, the wis
dom, and the unselfish patriot
ism of those who have the mat
ter in charge. They laboriously
remind us that the enterprise is
one which cannot be achieved in
haste, and they dwell with elo
quence upon the danger of crude
and undigested measures.
And yet, it seems to us that
these arguments, put forward to
discourage an early assumption
of the labors oftariff reform are,
in reality, the very strongest pos
sible arguments in its favor.
We may be dull of perception
and beyond the vivifying light
so freely shed for our infor
mation, but we remain of the
opinjon that just in propor
tion as any given work is se
rious and complicated, and de
pendent for its successful con
summation upon time and care
and thought, just so should its
inauguration be hastened, and
delay be avoided by those who
are responsible. That a recon
struction of the tariff laws upon
the lines clearly indicated by the
popular verdict at die polls will
involve enormous labor, and call
for the largest exercise of states
manship we do not doubt. On
the contrary, we believe that we
realize the fact as vividly as does
any one of the advocates of pro
crastination. But it has not yet
been explained to our satisfac
tion that a performance of ex
treme urgency should be neg
lected, or that a work requiring
the utmost deliberation will be
promoted by postponement. In
a word, we can see no good pur
pose that is likely to be gained by
delay. If the Democratic lead
ers propose to effect the reforms,
for the accomplishment of which
they haye been commissioned by
the people, why not set about it
prompdy? If the work be com
plex, laborious, delicate, calling
for the exercise of special ad
dress and intellect and investi
gation, is'there iiot every reason
why it should be begun as soon
as possible?
There maybe some fine points,
invisible to the uninspired spec
tator, in this extraordinary con
troversy, but, as we see, it, the
postponement of tariff reform to
the regular fession of December,
1893 is simply the wasteful sac-1 sometime before election. Roa
rifice of a year. The question nokeNews.
will be just as complicated, the
necessity for deliberation Quite
as imperaUve then as it will be
next March. The delav will
have lost nine or ten months and
the work will have to be done
after all. The attitude of the
gentlemen who beginning in
March is remarkable from everv
point of view. They are ask
ing us to contemplate z. party
which for ten years has been
Pressing us anxiety te relieve
the country of ruinous and gall,
ing burdens, and which, when it
is at last empowered to carry out
its cherished scheme, suddenly
finds another heart and asks to
be excused. We do not believe
that Mr. Cleveland shares thi
faint-hearted hesitation or is
open to this doubt, but there are
those wno undertake to speak
for the party, and who express
themselves as we have said. Just
to what extent they represent
the feeling and control the ac
tion of the Democracy will be
Detter known next March.
Washington Post
PLEA FOR BALLOT-BOX 8TTJF
FKU9. Urging the Pardon of Parol of th
imprisoned ntr Jersey Demo
erats.
Trenton, N. T. Nov. ao.
The court of pardons to-day lis
tened to a speecn irom Allan L.
McDermott, chairman of the
State Democratic committee, for
the pardon of parole of thirty
five ballot-box sniffers now serv- .
ing time in the State prison. lie
said they were nearly all prom
inent men and had suffered
enough. Only two tof them had
ever been arrested before, and
many would not have gone to
prison at all had they availed
themselves of their right of ap
peal. Mr. McDermott thought a pre
cedent had been established by
the punishment of these mem,
which would act as a deferent
from the crime of ballot-box stuf
fing in the future. He asked the
court to regard the petitions filed
in behalf ofthe men. They bore
the names of hundreds of the
best citizens of Hudson county.
Among the names were those of
several clergymen, lawyers, and
physicians. All the leading
Democrats of the county, includ
ing ex-Sheriff Davis and Dennis
McKughlin, were among the
signers.
The court said a decision
would be rendered on December
15 next. Before rising the court
pardoned fifteen other prisoners,
who were serving terms for vari
ous offenses, and paroled seven
mere.
"FarraeiV LtfUUtars."
The last Legislature, which
has been contemptuously termed
in some quarters the "Farmer
Legislature," passed an act ap
propriating twenty-five thousand
dollars for the State's exhibit at
the World's Fair and directing it
to be borrowed from the directax
money which had been refunded
to those who paid it through the
State. This was done at me sol
icitation of men who knew what
they were doing. Sometime
after the Legislature adjourned
Governor Holt decided that the
appropriation was not available
because the Legislature had no
right to dispose of the direct tax
fund in any way except t pay
it to the individuals from whom
it had been originally collected
by the Federal govern ment.
Now it is announced that &t
a conference in Raleigh last
week it was decided that the ap
propriation is available.
If the appropriation is available
now it was available when first
appropriated. If it was not avail
able then it is not available now.
Why then this change of opin
ion ? Was the first decision
made in order to bring reproach
on the "Farmers Legislature ?
Wejdo not know. The confer
ence ought to make public the
reasons for a change after -the
election, of opinion which existed