THE CAUCASIAN.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY.
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If there ia a better pajer in the
State than The Caucasian for one
dollai, then take it if iiot then tak.
The Caucasian.
N .,tW m,, m North Carolina j BEFOBR PBESS
FCSTSCRPTS.
ku cur ihcreaaed in circulation aaj
rapid jr ad The Caucasian has for the!
last four months. There ii a caue
for it What id it? It i because
the pajr is utUring the truth and
turning on the light, ikcause it is
making a brave and buid fiht for
the jxrople.
Hereafter we will publish
larlya firt claa continued
See the first chapter of a line
in next week's iiine.
rt-cu-
rtory,
fitorv
A great many papr cu3 and
abuse The Caucasian, but why don t
some of them thow that what we cay
is untrue?
Cleveland hm appointed Mr. Hcruy
Thurber of Detroit, Mich., as hU pri
vate Secretary. Mr. Thurber U a law
Mariner of Mr. Don. Dickcrson. who
was in Cleveland's cabinet before.
"My Lady Tongue," an in teres ting
continued fctorv by the charming
Atnelie Iiivcro, w ill be commenced in
the next i.ue of The Caucasian. See
pros pectus of fctorv in another col
umn.
A subscriber in Western Carolina
writing ua a letter a few days since
said, "we reformers up here aie very
fortunate. If it id a boy we name it
Marion, if it id a irirl we name it
Maryann."
Do you want a paper that strikes
straight from the shoulder and tells
the truth (that the majority of the
papers would not dare to tell)
which can not be contradicted? Of
course you do. Then The Caucasian
is the paper you want.
A lady writes to know if the editor
gets up the "Voman's Sphere" and
"Children's Corner" Well, it U hard
to tell, sometimes it is done by the
editor, then again it is done by ".Miss
Mary Ann." We are contemplating
putting her in full charge.
We will send a bundle of sample
copies to any Postmaster or subscriber
who will send us a postal card asking
for them. Let the people see The
Caucasian and read one copy and
they will take it. Everybody wants
some newspaper. The Caucasian
is willing to stand or fall on its
merits.
We suppose now some of the par
tisans will be drawiug their money
from the Business Agency Fund.
Well let them do it and a "gentle
riddance" to them we say. They
can't cripple the Business Agfhcy,
for every dollar they draw out will
he supplied by another dollar, placed
there by a true reformer.
Wre haven't the space or the time
this week to give you an account of
our Washington trip. In another
column you will find a clipping from
the Washington Post about the "Sil
ver League." In our Washington
Letter, from our regular correspon
dent, you will find something about
the Reform Tress Association etc.
Reports of hew Alliance h!g?5
organix-d and of new members initi
ated in old lodges are coming in f rom
many quarter. This U good, it is
gratifying, l'ueh the Alliance work
everywhere. Ix-t us show a blind
partisan legislation that the organi
zation w ill grow and propter in spite
of its cowardly attempt of assume i na
tion.
See in another column an account
of the final action of the legislature
with reference to the Alliance char
ter. They were afraid to rejw.-a! the
charter after we had offered to do
all thev asked, but the animus be
hind the matter was shown in the
kind ot amendments they passed to
the present charter. The amend
ments are published in full in an
. rm i mi
other column, l he people win umi
endorse any one who is guilty of
mean act.
There is nothing little about The
Caucasian. It will give the pub
lie the news straight as it is, without
any dodging or warping, without re
gard to what party it helps or hurts,
We tote fair with all parties and
give them full credit for all they do
that is right. We challenge any
man to show that we do not do this.
In short we challenge any man or
any newspaper to show that any state
ment we make is not true. WTe are
all liable to make mistakes, but if
we make one, we have enough man
hood and honesty to say so and cor
rect it. We are simply fighting for
truth and justice and will not com
promise on less.
.fcK iation- Kxrmrjt mikkm a v
JlOM) HIIKME HIIX - UK-
Poor campaign
ta riff.
wbvrv art
thou!
With tariif laid on the backbelf
Our reader will remember that a j w tkc l U Ir 1
THE SES'ATE FO'JSO ITSELF N A HOLE
AND D.D SOT DARE TO ScFEAK
CHARTEL,
THE TKUE PIIEACIIEH
ries. ckrk hire, nrej
I
1 Con tinned from fjh pgr.
few weeks sinee Senator Sherman in- j ties.''
trod need a bill to repeal the present
silver law. He did this at the request
of (irover Cleveland. Senator Stew
art and other iker aenntors fought
thi bill which would have contracted
the currency and brought the country
down to a gold basis. We published
Sherman's peech in full. The bill
was defeated. Hut the gold bugs
nothing daunted at once put another
scheme n foot and got Sherman j
to champion it also. When the ap-
Wuu-ler how the Democrats now
like the man who is hi
party?
The Alliance corpse
terrible nightmare to
legislature.
C9"
than his
ha, btvti a
tlw prewiit
If the people rule, then the rulers
f
lis countrv av poorer than
tb-ir servants.
Show this paper to your neighbor,
no matter what his politics is. If he
is a Democrat or Republican all the
more important is it for him to see it.
If we are telling thetruth,then he is
wrong and ought to know the truth;
if we are wrong then he ought to
see what we say, so he can tell us
where and how we are wrong. You
and your neighbor ought to agree
and vote together, for your interests
are the same. When we see the mo
nopolists pulling together and legis
lating in their own interests, how
sad it is to see those of us, who are
bled by them, pulling against each
It is a scheme to make
weep. Come let us reason
other.
angels
together.
Within the next few months rare
developments will take place in the
political world. The Caucasian
will keep you posted. We will hit
some hard licks, but they will be in
the interest of truth and justice. If
we are wrong let those who are deal-
mg in abuse, expose us. We
willing to stand by the record.
are
Probably the most important mem
ber of Mr. Cleveland's cabinet is Mrs.
Cleveland, whose official position
will be "Queen of the W hite House."
After next Saturday she will be "the
first lady of the land" for four years,
so we place Iber picture this week in
the centre of the group of cabinet
officers. But we have decided to
suppress baby Ruth.''
A bill has been introduced in the
Legislature to amend the election
law. If the bill prevents stealing
votes, stuffing, ballot boxes and
throwing out votes hy the whole
township, then it is safe to say that
this Legislature will not favor it
How could they do it consistently
when many of them hold their
seats procured by such methods?
"The best paper in the State."
"The best paper I ever saw." "The
Caucasian is a hummer." You
are publishing a paper of which
any man or any State might feel
proud." The best reform paper in
the South." Such are some of the
expressions in the hundreds of letters
we have received during the last few
weeks. We greatly appreciate these
kind words. No other paper has
ever had more kind things said ahout
it by its friends, and more mean
things by its enemies. But praise
will not tiirn our head any more
than will abuse dampen our ardor or
discourage us. We shall keep in the
middle of the road, and do what we
think is our duty to God aud man,
and let the consequences be what they
may. WTe deserve no credit for do
ing what we think to be our duty
and all the depths of wrath and
abuse cannot drive us from the path
of duty as we see it. We are in the
fight for justice and for humauity
and we will never give up the fight
or turn back till victory is won. Let
every man do his dnty and justice
shall prevail.
ARE YOU
If not then
free gift to
See the mat-
A few weeks since, we said that
The Caucasian must have five thous
and subscribers. We got them and
are now hearing ten thousand. For
the last eight weeks we have put on
our books from 100 to 200 new sub
scribers each week. Last week we
broke the record. We put on over
300 new subscribers. Now listen!
Before the end of the year we must
have 20,000 subscribers. Let every
body help and it can be done.
The letters we have secured from
the boys, girls, women and men for
the last month saying how much
they value and enjoy The Cauca
sian would fill more than four
pages of the paper in solid type,
we are striving to do our duty and
to give the, people a first class all
round complete - family newspaper,
and it is highly gratifying to know
that we are succeeding and meeting
the approval of the people. .
A subscriber?
this copy is a
you. Read it
ter that it contains and the
truths that it tells. If you
want to be an intelligent
voter, you cannot dD with
out it The Caucasian be
longs to no clique or fac
tion. It swings a free lance.
It turns on the light and
tells the truth, no matter
if it hits the biggest man
or the least Send us one
dollar and read it for a year,
and at the end of that time
if you will write as and say
that you have not gotten
more than a dollar's worth
of truths and facts we will
return you your money.
THE ARE AIX DEAD.
(Cor. Hickory Mercury.)
Are there no good men, or wise,
except dead men? I have read in
Democratic papers for twenty years
that Blaine was one of the meanest
men that ever lived. From the
obituary notices in all the papers,
I infer he was, in reality, a good and
great statesman, one of the most
brilliant men of the century.
We notice that several of the
Democratic papers say that he
should have been President-of the
United States, yet these same papers
vilified and abused him as corrupt,
dishonest and unworthy of confi
dence when ho was a candidate. Ed.
nronriat ion bill was ur before the!
a -
senate lait week, Sherman offered
"a little amendment in the interest
of economy and hoped there would be
no objection to it." Theainendmen
passed the senate before anyone kne
what it meant. It slipped through
like the bill to demonetize silver in
lh7;5. The National Reform Press
Association was in session in Wash
ington at the time and immediately
appointed a committee to investigate
the nature and effW-t of the amend
ment. The following is the
COMMITTERS ItKl'ORT.
Your committee, to whom was re
f erred the matter of the further is
sue of bonds, beg leave to report
the following:
Whereas. The following amend
ment to the sundrycivil appropriation
bill has passed the Senate, to enable
the Secretary of the Treasury to pro
vide for and to maintain the redernp
tion of United States notes accord
ing to the provisions or the act ap
proved January 15, 18o, entitled
"An act to provide for the resump
tion of specie payments." $50,000,
and at the discretion of the Secre
tary he is authorized to issue, sell,
and dispose of, at not less than paf
in coin, either of the description or
bonds authorized in said act; or bonds
of the United States bearing not to
exceed 3 per cent, interest, payable
semi-annually and redeemable at the
pleasure of the United States after
five years from their date, with like
qualities, privileges, and exemptions
provided in said act tor the bonds
therein authorized, to the extent
necessary to carry said resumption
into effect.
And whereas this amendment is
not only ambiguous and subject to a
forced construction in addition to the
plain preposition of a further issue
of bonds and a consequent increase
in the burdens of taxation.
And whereas there is in the Treas
ury of the United States at the pres
ent time $108,000,000 in gold and
about $190,000,000 of silver, the en
tire aggregate of which can be law
fully and justly applied to the re
demption of United States notes.
And whereas this position is sus
tained by the following eminent
authority, to wit:
Hon. Ld wards Pierrepont, Attor
ney General of the United States
and minister to England, in a letter
to the New York Times of April 18,
1884 says:
ihere is not an outstanding bond
coupon or greenback issued by the
United btates which may not be law
fully paid in silver. Not one of them
on its face or back, or in the statute
authorizing the issue, or m declara
tion, or in resolution of Coaerress.
has any provisio that they shall be
pain in gold. And the act of Feb
ruary 28, 1888, directing the coinage
of silver dollars, declared that such
dollars shall be a legal tender at their
nominal value for all debts and dues,
public and private, except where
otherwise expressly stipulated in the
contract.
And whereas, this position is furth
er strengthened by the following
resolution passed by the United
States Senate, January 25, 1878, and
the House of Representatives Janu
ary 28, 1878, by a vote of 42 to 20 in
the Senate and 189 to 79 in the
House:
"That all the bonds of the United
States issued or authorized to be is
sued under the said acts of Congress
hereinbefore recited are payable,
principal and interest, at thw option
of the Government of the United
States, in silver dollars of the coin
age of the United States, containing
412J grains each of standard silver;
and that to restore to its coinage
such silver coins as a legal tender in
payment of said bonds, principal
and interest, is not in violation of
the public faith nor in derogation
of the rights of the publio creditor."
And whereas the amount of bonds
authorized by the refunding act have
been exhausted and there is no law
authorizing a further issue;
Th
u""! icsuivcu, oy me iveiorm
j Will somebody name a legislature
the present one?
bLr'er farce than
Persecution will not kill the Alli
ance. It will prosper in spite of
discriminating legislation.
Where is the "disinterested, vis-
statesmau?" IIa3 he fallen
into "innocuous desuetude?"
ltlllg
Q. In what country are the
ants" richer and more
than the rulers." A. United Srates.
serv-
iniiueiitial
IT SEFUSE3 TO ACCEPT Ot K AiIEXI
JJEKTS TO PRESENT CHARTED.
HIT rAMk. SOMKOK IV OWN 1 MA t
SHOW Tin; MKA AND cou.ikhi.y
AMMIS UKHINUTHi- 'IHLK
.rr.wu.
Tl t"fin-r Klnglml Out l"u.oal aad
la I L-llatlou llrv i-U at Their
published hist week the bill
the House parsed n-jvaling
in t!
two
lance.
unit nd-
I i. hiii it-r, wiiieh we
W
len
Cleveland
dbui
t;
1 1 j in . tv
f 1
mugwump, goluoug party lonueu,
where will the southern aud western
Democrats be at?
How much better is the infamous
national banking system when you
simply change the name and call it
a State banking system?
Will any of Xorth Carolina's con
gressmen desert free silver and bow
their necks to Cleveland to get the
distribution of patronage?
Mr. Cleveland should remember
that while he holds the patronage of
this administration that the people
hold the ballots for the next.
The
LegislMure
found that the
Alliance was a live . corpse that re
fused to be buried. The corpse will
now bury the would-be undertaker.
Wrhat have the politicians done with
that "good country road'' racket?
lias it served its purpose and fallen
into "innocuous dessuetude"' already?
When Cleveland and Harrison ride
down Pennsylvania Avenue together
on next Saturdav, Wall street will
be even prouder of the latter than
he former.
We
which
the charter f the S;.u
We also pubiis
nieiitc to the ol
Oilered the Senate, that Covered every
complain, that had been made, even
by the unknown cowards who are
behind this attack upon the Alliance.
This put the Senate in hole. It did
not dare to iepeal the charter after
we had offered to do all that was ask
ed. IJut our amendments were not
accepted. uhvr because it was
not justice that was sought, but
mean and partisan desire to slab the
Alliance w;t.s the inothe power be-
hind the whole business. N), alter
a weeks delay, the Senate, on last Sat
urday, passed the following amend
meats o the present charter:
carrvinir on said
rent.. txe. wilarit
Sec. 6. It thall be unlawful fori
the sid trustee or any office!, ant '
r employe of the aUi basinet
arencvor State Alliance or -county,
or uallianee to uo or permit to ,
W ued any part of wild fond or an
i i t t .;.! r(nfV.
coanty oi .oUisnee directly or in- j on the inform SlT
directly for any purpose not em rim or CupUst or Mcthodwt preacher.
Wed in Mid aet oPf 10, or in .hi He did
act j cession. Ho beheveJ In that wider, truer
Sec. 7. Any violation of any pn-! church univerwL 11U oul waa truly
vision of thi Act by the .aid Trus- great roul.and for that nh"i"
tee or Busines Agent, or any em- capame oi ema "f""-
t TnuiM nr liusiness ouHt of man
. .. . .
narvxnent. It ptruiBed toward the Lwt.
bat it did hold him.
IT ?u rath econsh to believe In the
broad b?i of fraternity of spirit and
of heart, and it did not ahoc Mm 10 mi
with man. of church
Agent iha 1 work a forfeiture ot the ; again cuun u.m - --
1 1 1 n. ajT&lU&l JUtW U" Bitvumuv v.
charter of the State Alliance.
Sec. S- It shall be the duty of
the Atorney General, upon satisfae
tory proof of a violation of any pro
vision of this act to bring an action
in Wake Superior Court to enforce
the forfeiture of said charter. All
law or elf. uses of laws in conflict
with this .t are hereby lepealed.
This act shall be in force from and
after its ratification.
By reading the above enactments
ainan
chine. For t hat reason wnall men neTcr
liked him. Small men. whose oula felt
secure Riap!y within form, never agreed
with his i-oiicieu or hU principle or with
bis methods of enforcing hi thought or
his life work.
TUK TKIXY ORKAT BOCL.
Great souls are never capable of small
thoughts. You remember when Jenny
Lind gave an entertainment in Leipsic,
On one occasion Mendelssohn was i res
ent, and they w ere given a great ovation.
for tbc suteaiett tUt tCT
ered a remark!!., u. .
till.!!.. ,
lion ef music.
rt tr nf
intruetion t f "''r'c,
third tW.aailtu,
music from uat runofej
the audience mtt h. Z
a hole through each
took a
woouen rl
8I
and amendments to charter, you will Th(J great thundered its applause
It may be interesting to the ma
chine politicians to know that "the
aw of supply and demand" is gov
erning the rapidly increasing circu-
ation of The Caucasian.
Press Association
1st. That we consider this amend
ment as a covert attempt to obtain
authority under the false plea of
economy.
2nd. That we look upon the pas
sage of this amendment as a crime
against the people of this country,
an attempt to fasten the shackles of
industrial slavery more firmly, and
an open challenge of money against
manhood..
3rd- That we urgeutly request our
Senators and liepresentatives in
Congress to do all in their power and
resort to every means known to legis
lative obstruction to defeat the en
actment into law of this monstrous
piece of financial villainy.
4th. That a copy of this report be
sent to each Congressman and Sena
tor. N. A. Dunking, Chairman.
J. H. McDowell,
Marion Butlee.
The bill is now before the House.
The reformers and friends of the peo
ple are fighting it. If it fails to pass
the Reform Press Association will
deserve the credit for sounding the
alarm.
OUR ILLUSTRATIONS,
On the first page we give you the
pictures of all the Presidents of the
united fetates, with a short sketch
i i . ,
uuuer eacu; on me tnira page we
give you the pictures of Cleveland's
Cabinet officers. The Caucasian
is a live and progressive paper and
will not be surpassed by any other
paper in the State. While The
Caucasian is centering its energies
and forces on the great reform fight,
it is not blind to everything else. The
Caucasian shall stand in the lead as
a complete family newspaper.'
The Legislature has tried to de
stroy the Alliance by passing some
mean and cowardly amendments to
its charter. On Avhich side of this
question did Gov. ltailroad Carr
stand?
The honest campaign speaker,
who swore that Cleveland was for
free coinage, and who has enough
seuse to now see that he was fooled,
should lose no time in purging him
self. Not a free silver man in Cleve
land's Cabinet. Where are the
Democratic speakers who talked to
you about free silver in the late
campaign? Were
were they lying?
thev fooled or
Wrhat is "me too" Carr doing for
the people in whom h claimed to
be interested, when President of the
State Alliance? The railroads should
not have all of his tender attentions.
Has he forgotten the motto "equal
justice to all" &c.
The subscription urice of The
Caucasian is very low, but it may be
news to the partisan democrat to
know that it is not caused either by
"overproduction" or "underconsump
tion." But strange to say the
supply is hardly equal to the demand.
The Legislature should not ad
journ till it has amended the charter
of every railroad and corporation by
providing that their, cnarters shall
be forfeited if any officer fails to do
ms uuiy. ji mis is wrong, then it
is wrong; if this is right, then it is
right.
The House boldly slapped tha Al
"""- iaue imuKing it was
dead. This was the act of a bully
and a coward. The Senate finding
out that it was not dead slipped up
under cover and gave it a stab in the
back. This was the act of a dema
gogue, and a sneak.
"jm-uiuc democratic papc-rs
are too hard on Mr. Cleveland. We
are sure he would have selected
Democrat for Secretary of State if
he could bave found a man in the
party who was honest and compe-
iuu " i resident ought to get the
best men for important offices3 if he
has to go out of the "Dear old Party
to do it Cleveland must have felt
sure that Gresham did not help steal
votes at the late election.
FniKNDS OF
THE CAUCASIAN
TRIBUTE.
CON-
WAKE COUNTY.
J. Penny
ROCKINGHAM COUNTY.
Town Creek Alliance.
$1.00-
H.00.
Subscribe to The Caucasian $1 .00
per year.
A BILL TO HE ENTITLED AX ACT TO
AMEND CHAPTER 10."), PRIVATE LAWS
OF 1SSU, ENTITLED AN ACT TO 1N
COKPORATE THE FARMERS' STATE
ALLIANCE OF NORTH CAROLINA AND
SU11-ALL1AXCES.
The General Assembly of Xorth Car
oliua do enact :
Sec. 1. That chapter loj, private
laws 1SS9, be amended by adding at
the end of section 2 of said Act, the
following: Provided, that no indi
vidual stockholder in the Business
Agency Fund of the Farmers' State
Alliance of North Carolina or in any
other business enterprises conducted
or in any way controled bv the said
State Alliance or by any County or
Sub-Alliance; and no member of such
Alliance or Alliances who is not a
stockholder in siid fund or enter
prise shall be individually. liable for
any debt or obligation contracted by
the Alliance or Alliances, or by any
officer, manager, agent or employee
thereof.
Sec. 2. That section 3 of said Act
of 18S9 be amended by adding to the
end thereof.the following: Provided
that the amount of salary paid to any
officer or employee of the Farmers'
State Alliance or any County or Sub
Alliance shall not at any time be in
creased from and after the ratifica
tion of this act; and any amendment
to an Alliance constitution or by-law
passed hereafter foi the purpose of
increasing any such salary shall
work a forfeiture of the charter of
the State Alliance, County Alliance
or Sub-Alliance passing the same.
Sec- 3. That section 4 of said act
of 18S9 be amended by adding to the
end thereof the following: Provided
that from and after the ratification
of this act any person who shall
hereafter contribute or has contribu
ted any amount to a fund raised by
the said Farmers State Alliance of
North Carolina for the purpose of
carrying on a State Business Agency
or any other business enterprise shall
have the power to withdraw from
such fund the amount so paid or
contributed to such fund, whether
such amount can be proven by certi
ficate or not. provided that the per
son holding a certificate shall for
ward the said certificate to the trus
tee of the business agency fund or to
any person having charge of paid
fund before recovering the amount
paid into said fund; and any person
not holding a certificate shall before
recovering the amount paid by him
send to said trustee an affidavit made
before a justice of the peace stating
the said amount, and that said certi
ficate has not been transferred and
has been lost. Upon receiving the
said certificate or affidavit it shall be
the duty of said trustee of said busi
ness agency fund or othei person
having charge of said fund to send
by mail to the person sending such cer
tificate or affidavit the amount contri
buted by said person, less the postage
required to send said amount. That
any person who has contributed or
hereafter shall contribute any
amount to any county Alliance or
sub-Alliance, and said county Alli
ance or sub-Alliance has paid or shall
hereafter pay any sum into the said
business agency f und shall have a
right to demand of said trustee
his proportionate part of the sura so
paid by said county Alliance or sub
Alliance. The proportionate part of
said sum due such person shall h
ascertained by dividing the sum so
paid by said county Alliance or sub
Alliance, by the number of members
of said county or sub-Alliance at tv,
date of payment of such sum into the
said fund. The affidavit of any such
applicant stating the number of
members of such county or sub-Alliance
at the time of such payment
and that he was a member thereof
accompanied by the certificates of
two members in good standing of the
Alliance for the county where the
applicant resides, of the truthfulness
of such affidavit shall be sufficient
proof of sch membership and of the
number of members of said county
or sub-Alliance at the time of such
payment
Sec. 4, If the said trustee shall
for the period of sixty days after the
application of any person und at-
act for repayment fail to pay said per-'
ouj hub oy virtue of this
act, the said failure to pay shall
work a forfeiture of the charter of
the said State Alliance. The busi
ness agent and the said trustee of
the business agency fund shall each
give a bond for the faithful per
formance of his duty, payable to the
armers State Alliance with two or
more sureties. The bond of said
business agent shall be for the sum
thirty thousand dollars and the bond
of the said tiustee shall be for fifty
thousand dollars. The sureties of
said bonds shall be justified as re
quired by law as the sureties on the
bonds of an administrator and shall
be deposited in the office of the Clerk
of the Superior Court of the County
where the safd business agent co
trustee respectively resides.
Sec. 5--It shall hA tWi
the State business agent to pay in
the months of May and November
of each year to the said timet
4.L n . . . " an
the profits ansing from the opera
tions as such business
paying- all necessary' expenses of
see that the object is to cripple the
Alliance and to rind some excuse to
destroy the Business Agency.
Kead section 2 carefully. Look
over all the laws on the statute looks
of this State and see if there is any
such provision in the chartei of any
railroad or other corporation. There
is no danger that the Alliance will,
or is there any desire to pay anv of
the officers of the Alliance a larger
salary, because we are opposed to
larger salaries, but the meanness of
the thing is what we refer to. Why
not amend the charter of the Wil-
mingtou & Weldon railroad by put
ting in the same provision?
liead section 4. Does the char
ter of anv railroad, after setting out
the duties of any oflicer of the road,
say that if said officer shall fail to do
anv of his duties that the charter
shall be void? WThy do the Trustee
and State Business Agent of the Al
liance give a bond? If thev fail to
do their duty their bouds are liable.
It is outrageous, and unheard of be
fore, to pass a law that the charter of
the whole organization shall be for
feited, when the bond is amply suffi
cient to protect everybody eoncerned.
Why not amend the charter of the
Wilmington & Weldon railroad by
saying that if any couductor'fails to
make any connection or to put pas
sengers to a given place on schedule
time that the charter of the whole
railroad shall be forfeited? We
havn't time now to comment on all
the sections of the bill that are full
of subtile meanness aud cowardice.
The Legislature wanted to repeal our
charter outright and crush the Alli
ance, it uiun t have the courage to
go on rtcord, and has passed a bill
under which they hope to be able to
trump up some pretext to have the
Attorney General and the courts to
do what they did not dare to do. If
these amendments are just and right
then let every charter in the State
be amended the same way. If we
had been in the Legislature we would
have fought these amendments to the
last and have dared that body to do
its worst. We challenge the Legis
lature, or any one, to show that the
Alliance has ever violated, in the
least, a single clause of its charter.
Uur organization believes in "Equal
rights to all. and special privileges
to none,' and so does a majority of
the voters of the State, but the Leg
islature does not,
Men who hold their positions by
means of corruption and fraud, are
mortally afraid that the Alliance
will prevent them doing the same
thing again. Here is the secret, The
majority of the people can be trusted
when they see a thing plainly. They
are in favor of fair play. They do
and will not endure the action of the
legislature. If the Alliance-
dead, thousands who voted for mem
oers oi me present Jjesrislature. would
T .1 . . o . '
couuenin the action of the body.
A QUESTION.
Will you kindly' exnlain roitip
things that puzzle me? I am country-
ored, consequently I am to the mar.
row of my . bones in favor of the
irarmers Alliance. If farmers and
laborers do not know what legisla
tion they need to render their lives
less burdensome and their labor
profitable, who does know? Hickory
Mercury.
The Caucasian would also like
to hear this question answered. You
can all ans wer at once if you want
to.
"AS OTHERS SEE US.'
KIXI WORDS FROM OUR
KDITOUS.
BROTH EH
Brimful of of Solid Matter.
Hon. Marion Bntler, President of
the State Alliance of North
has moved his paper, the Caucasian,
to Goldsboro in that State. Bro.
Butler ha3 enlarged the paper and"
is sending it out brimfull of solid
matter. If that paper fails to wake
up the nou-partisau element in that
State we are mistaken. It is the
duty of the reformers of Xorth Car
olina and elsewhere to give the
Caucasian a liberal support; it is
worthy of it National Watchman.
Haye lou XoticedT
Have you noticed how the days
have lengthened out now, and that
the dark mornings and early sun
downs are things of the past! Now
it is broad daylight at 7 A. M. and
light until nearly that Jiour in the
evening. Now that Lent is here and
after next month comes April with
its Spring showers, we are rapidly
approaching that blissful period so
doted upon by the long-haired idiots,
who write alleged poetry for the
newspapers-the glad springtime.
Baltimore Critic.
and continued until Mendelssohn Raid to
Jenny Lind that die must go forth and
say sometliinK to the people. She said
the would if he would go and make the
tpeoch. So Hiia in arm there two ?reat
musicians came before the pcopla WLen
the tempest of applause which greeted
their appcarani-o had snlwided, MendeU
Fohn in the most graceful way paid the
highest and most delicate compliment to
the great siuer and proposed that the
cheers of all Leipnio should be given to
her. Then, while the building echoed
with one of Mendelssohn's nongs, they
went back to the room behind the ros
trum. There was no jealousy between
two such bouIs. A great many small
musicians that play the second fiddle,
that just know how to wrape a little, are
mighty in jealousy, but great souls are
never jealous.
So of this preacher. Small thoughts
were impossible to him. lie saw the good
in all churches, and he saw good outside
all churches. lie was a high priest of
the race. lie saw good even in these low,
evangelical churches that, from the high
church point of view, are very low. Phil
lips Brooks even held old fashioned re
vivals in Trinity church. He preached
about a church outside the church, and
the most eloquent, most powerful pres
entation of that church outside I ever
heard from mortal man came from his
great heart. He was the bishop of this
great church universal.
Third Not alone to his catholicity,
but also because of his proplutic power,
his success is due.
The true preacher of God is a propliet,
not a priest. It was his peculiar func
tion to prophesy. I do not mean to predict
future events. The work of the prophet
of old was to give new views of God and
of truth. The Aaronie priesthood ended
with the Christ, and from the Christ
went forth the line of those who should
prophesy, and who in his name should
unfold new views of God and of truth
New theology? Yes, his theology was
not only new: it was the newest theology.
And to get from him a sermon was to
get from God's own life a new breath, a
new revelation, a new view of truth.
HE FORESAW TUK BETTER TIME.
He was a prophet in the true and hhrh
sense of the word, and therefore he was
progressive. He did not 6tand still or
bow down to dogmas. He would not
limit himself to ecclesiastical conclusions
of councils or great men in the nast.
With his great heart fixed upon the
spiritual realities of truth, he pressed
forward, onward ever, from day to day,
never pausing in that upward march to
ward the summit of truth, toward the
full revelation of God. If you want to
mow what a preacher m the 20th cen
tury will preach, study the life of such a
man.
Fourth His success rested on another
thing his tremendous earnestness. No
body went to sleep while he preached.
Mis intensity of soul was such that it
rwept him along outside of himself. The
human tongue could not utter what his
heart felt fast enough.
I have 6at before hira and watched the
play of divine passion cross his face.
flushed with the tumult of great thoughts
struggling tor utterance! Words could
not be born fast enough. And through
those great eyes, as through the windows
of his soul, I could see the beatinjr. of
angels wings against the prison bars of
language!
He was in dead earnest, and only that
kind of men can move the world. Martin
L.uther was a man of tremendous ear
nestness. Ignatius Loyela, who led the
Church of Home against Luther, was a
man of tremendous earnestness, and such
was his power even on Catholicism that
Jesuitism at last absorbed Romanism it
self. Savonarola swept Florence with
resistless power because of that mag
netic, indefinable power that displayed
itself in his earnestness. Beecher was a
man of power, an epoch shaping man, a
man who made and unmade theologies,
because of that divine spark of charac
ter. Earnest men in politics, in religion,
in history, are the men who make his
tory. In a man like Blaine, who could
impress himself upon his generation and
have so enthusiastic a following through
the years, there slumbered the inherent
powers of a great personal earnestness
and enthusiasm.
Fifth Phillips Brooks' success, too,
rested on another thing namely, that
he had faith in and love for his fellow
man.
THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN.
He loved his fellow man, and any man
that loves his fellow man is going to
make enemies. There never was a sweet
er soul than Brooks' tender, earnest,
kind, loving. Yet how many little ec
clesiastics in all this big world hated the
sound of his name and would go posi
tively into ecclesiastical jimjams when
his name was mentioned! He really
so intensely loved M .
mmmm VUV TT "-T1 1 1
from the nudia- Uh ,IjH
there was pivrn , i
music on the riar.o U-uZ 5 4
above could War t'..... "
by that l i ve i.f W(Xki , i
could not heir It. TVo .r"
violmon una tUt j iw 1
instantly t!mt buly cr-. VI
of thf Huao K-rl.iw ...
perfectly. thtt tU k-."!
every note. Thry f
the same rvsulu.
Then are great mmU
ty seems to iuv the
he very throb of , l T t
k - 1 I
tfc.t 1,1 .
ana inai along
that, whether it clashed with ecclesiastt
cism or not, he t poke out of the great
love of his heart what God had put
there. Think of a man of that charac
ter, that temper, being hounded by here
sy hunters! Yet it is true. For years
before he died the ecclesiastics even
within his "liberal" church had out their
sleuthhounds hunting through every
forest hunting through Ma great ser
mons nosing, here, there, yonder, get
ting together everything that might pos
sibly bear on the question as to whether
or not he were walking along the way
that their fathers walked in the past.
He not only loved his fellow man, but
he believed in man, made in the image
of God. That was one of the cardinal
principles of his life. In the lowest man,
the beggar in rags, the prisoner in stripes,
he saw the image of his Master; he saw a
child from his Father's house. -
Sixth Another reason why his success
and power were so great was that heiad
a vital grasp of spiritual truth. With
him "God is spirit,"
That was the theme that he voiced,
and therefore he found the inmost depth
of man's souL The peculiarity of his
preaching was that he seemed to tell you
with a spiritual intuition the things yon
had been thinking about. He believed
in the world of spirit as against the mat
ter, which is its mere shadow. -
He was a conductor of the divine spirit
on Irish to men. . Trodall is authority
spirit world!
Therefore faith to h:a
theme because he belicw,'
KliriA. All f,i... l1
that believeth" what
tenco from hU lii o-u v'
C . 1 . 1.. I T -
UTBl ISUUl III HOW tfcrt
openrti oeion nun wln a u
ptwsibl to hi?a that U-hwv .
preacher, no man wLo iha
tho heart of (Jod can & j.
Uevuig great thuipk that (
for man to do all thicks, J
spirit is the real thing, 4 ,
tho shadow.
FAITH WORKS W0XJtj
A vessel whs going alt.r.s t
the 2-lth of hut Dfcmlxr. i
countered fearful gales. LaJ
Jamaica, lound fur IVt
was loaded vith logwtxi
riblo storm the hip prnr t
and began to leuk. Tlw c
relieve her by working h,x
at last began to deKiwur.
American steamer approach
signals or distress. Tbe nv.
alongside, and the captaia t;
abandoned the ship. Tie tx
this steamer, looking on Ui
vessel, said to the captain. "IWj
Bhip can be saved and carrwi J
bor, and he atkcd jH-rmuttotc
tain to go alioard of her kI ,
men. Both captains triiJ t
him, but tho prize wmt pt,
ueved it could bo duuo. So J
cut away from the steamer, n
on her way. And workinjr i
and main they got those puE?
rect order and righted tbetl.
brought her before tho winded
bor of New York, where all kO
belonged to those three brsTt'
believed that from the hmW
ttxi iimv euip couia ue urovgii.
The man who believed it m
made it possible.
It was this great thought tk
of tho keynotes to his minkrj
lieved in man and had faith is i
this great theme of faith and x
power to transform and ffici
lift up was one of the uiightj'J
his great soul.
Such a man can never die. i
guisbed art critic said that be
ture once in an art gallery dpiti
misery in a faraway dewrtof Bat
realistic was tho picture that
through his whole life a thoraov
were made because of thai. E
see it reDroduced in even life if
ing that came before him; Et
uovji nun uveu buu ucub
had powers to think.
That is what a canvas ct i
world it can live and lira is
will we say of those spiritni
that the great artist painted ib
God, when he saw his eten
Kill that picture? Destroy tbtq
died? Impossible! He lint 4
lives orerer. So live those pi
God's revelation, of man'ideci
xou know the old story
Brahe, who in 1572 savrail
pear in a certain constellatx!
shone with such brilliancy, th
mer tells us, that it could k
day. They watched it with tf
hearts until they saw it s
month fade and at last disappi
star had been lost from the co&
of the heavens. So theprac
the point of view of the wort1
how great men of the worli?!
but such a man as this doc notf
Death for him is but the lit V
clouds that obscured the s'jr,s
ing away of the mists that
the earth, and when thn vsSi
the star gleams in thkjj
Master, "They shall thine
forever." When rflntnriet N
rolled by and your children'
shall teach their children, th j
gleam in tlte skv. and macf it
boy comine over the seas d i
catch its rays and find harba
man never dies. He lives
truth, in God's life.
LOOISHKI.
A Fatal Tragedy In Kuncom
ISpecial to Tub Caita
Last Tuesdav eveniDir, fc'
Februarv. about 3 d.
Brochus, U. S. Deputy
rested one John L. L-ua
Buncombe and Madison
on the Buncombe side.
Bauk's Place, ifor illicit I
of his cousins were preseo'-
Liuallen had surrendered t
ting on his clothes to go
ficers. when his father b
and some other narties.
there drinking, advised Tfj
1 - . XT , j a Va '
iea to resist, lie uiu bv
officer in the leir. think'
him off. but the officer ret
ft re, onH a Viattla hocrs.ll. &
than one minute twenty-fiw
shots were fired. The o
ed fourteen bullet-holes u1
coat and four balls in hi
was fatal and he died the 1
Youncr Lulllen received
c, . , V. 1
wounds one supposed w "J
the doctors. He was shot 1
ach. Old man Luallen ryj
shots, one through the
mustache shot off. Op' vi
VAiaivnJ a fatal Vk st ill
no chance for him to jt
at a house, where ne
The law can't hang
when a murderer is pot 1 1
tentiary the Governor VB rT
to get the political inflf
lawyers. The towns na. V
full of lawyers, and tioWJ
their meat and bread, bJ
blood. The election ia,
conducted by money sb?.
and the men who deal h?i ,
informed that they shouw
bothered and all went a
we see the re suit.
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