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11 t.ntnlW Till: CAUCASIAN PUBLISH KI EVERY TH L'Khl'AT. 31 A HI O.N IILTLKK. Editor k Vror. suwt.iitjo kati. ONE YKAK, 8IX MONTHS. Enteral at Hie I'oat Ofti at OoMaboro'. N. '.. m Mvmi'l-clan ruall fiisitr. J There are ple among us ho contend that the South Lj not inter ested in fn silver because we have no silver mines ; and that it is cla-s legislation to allow free coinage of the metal because it will enhance its price. They do not take into con sideration the fact that gold U ad mitted to free coinage and the own ers of the yellow metal are enjoying clans legislation according to their own argument. There is no force or een.se in the argument that it would be cla8 legislation to restore to sil ver to its ancient position as a money metal. If all of the si her and gold were owned by one man, the fact that our constitution says that these metals sua 1 1, isk money makes it incumbent on the government to iitse them. And the restoration of silver will mean higher prices for farm products and enhancement of the value of farm lands. The silver miner are interested to the extent of about 20 million dollars whilo the Southern and Western farmers are interested to the extent of about 1"0 million dollars, because the price of their products is regulated by the price of silver. Kngland with a gold dollar buys $ 1.127 worth of our silver which she coi.is into Indian rupees and then purchases products from the Indian farmer, making 37 certs by the transaction. She uses India as a competitor against the ITniteo States, and our fanners are compelled to accept prices regulated by the Indian products, whereas if we restored silver by free and un limited coinage its value would be enhanced and Kngland could not make any such profit by sending over here for it. The bullion value ot our silver would then be about 'JO or 05 cents and Kngland could not make any profit by buying silver then from us. A gentleman said to us a few days ago "does it not seem that the capi talist of this country already have enough wealth to satisfy them? They have more money than they can use. Does it not seem that they would be happier' to stop money getting, and enjoy what they have ?" It is not the greed for more money so much, as the thirsting for more power. Money means power. The '51,000 men who now own over half of the wealth of this great rich na tion, with GG,000,000 of people, and 00,000 millions of dollars of "proper ty, have as much wealth as they want for their enjoyment and profit. Hut their desire now is, to get the masses of the people so poor that they can be easily controlled. They want to get the majority of the peo ple iu debt to them, so that they can make them slaves. They want to make the people suffer enough pov erty to rob them of their manhood. Then they can force the people to vote their way, or else they will have the votes counted the way they de sire, without any fear it will be re sented. They want to get the in convenient multitude under servile control ; then they will have a per petual lease of power. Freemen awake to the danger! Eternal vigi lance is the price of liberty ! Everybody, and every paper we see is now talking hard times. People are suffering, thousands are out of employment. What does it mean ? Has there been a famine? Has providence denied ns sunshine aud showers so that the earth could not bring forth its increase ? No. Have the people grown indolent aud stop ped work, refusing to utilize the agencies that has been put before us out of which to increase wealth? No. The people have been economi cal, they have been industrious, they have been blessed with the help of nature, the earth has yielded with abundance, and the country is teem ing with wealth, yet we have hard times. How is it ? It is not God's fault, it is not the fault of the peo ple who create wealth by the sweat of their brow. Then whose fault is it? If the representatives now in congress have not enough sense to see the trouble, and enough honesty and manhood to apply the true reme dy, then the people will seek other representatives, when they get an other chance at the ballot box. "John Sherman a patriot." New York World Money is scarce very scarce but the people cannot afford to be with out a newspaper no matter how scarce money is. The Caucasian is laboring to show the cause of this trouble and to fasten the responsi bility where it belongs. Those now in power can and should relieve the situation. The Caucasian is giving the people the facts and stands ready to condemn or approve according to their merits or demerits. The peo ple will sustaiu The Caucasian and they see the importance of doing it How in spite of the scarcity of money AN EV L THAT MA PROVE A BLESS A gmthman (who is a Ibmocra whom e bad not wtn for sometime! asked in a few days since, what wej now thought of the financial eitna-' " " ri 't lion and th rem-dy for it. We answers! him, that we thought : now ii.it wt uiuuih 2 vs " ; tit- -vils then, aim : si .,.,.,,trv the Alliance offered to t he demand asi a remedy, evils exist now simply Th f same intensified, and the Alliance is still doing busi- j ..,. ........ r.hl chin.l anil offer- ,of 111 !V5 UL I 1 1 v -j - the same rt-rnet! I v. ing Hut he auswerel that at that time, . there had been no janic, and that j the situation was different now. We answered him. that he was mistaken, j , . 11 pi...,.' there has been no panic at all. 1 here ; was an attempt to get up a panic, but it has miseiably failed. Flur ried like the one we had recently are! liable to occur at anv tune, as Joni'i as Uie p.t:..b i 1 tinned, but let tins be rcmembemJ, that these flurries are never the di rect work of the worst financial sys tem, but are incidental to such a sys tem. In the past when efforts have been made to create a panic, the success of the speculators and goldbugs have been very pronounced. They would suddenly draw in the currency and wreck a number of banks and busi ness houses, and manufacture a lot of clap trap dispatches to be published in their hired partisan papers. I5y the time this was done the business men in tow ns and cities were stamp eded, and when they lost their heads, then the whole country (who had been in the habit of looking up to them for financial guidance and wis dom,) also lost their heads. While this effort to create a panic has been an unusually big one, and has entailed terrible losses on thous ands upon thousands of business men, yet it has signally failed to stampede the remainder of the coun try. There is a reason for this, and the goldbugs no doubt to-day (in their disappointment and chagrin) are searching for that reason. If it will be any comfort to them we don't hesitate to give them the secret. For the last few years the rank and file of the people have been studying financial questions from first princi ples down to the present condition, as no people have ever done before since creation's dawn. The masses were so well informed as to what is a true financial system, and as to the serious defects in the present one that they were prepared to expect just such a thing as has happened-. They could be pardoned for saying "we told you so." So when the stampede commenced this time, it didn't spread to the masses of the people. Most of them had done 'their bustiug" several years ago, and sat quietly looking on the situa tion as a direful prophecy being ful filled. This fact has attracted the attention of business men and thous ands of others who were inclined to pay but little attention, or give but ittle heed to the principles, warn- ngs, demands, and teachings of the lliance. "It is an ill wind that blows no body good." And while the great masses of the business men of the country, and the rank and file of the people have suffered from this ill wind, yet we are inclined to believe, in fact feel assured, that it is a bless ing in disguise. It will arouse the business men of the country, and cause them to do some thinking and investigating. Some of the finest talents among us have been using their influence to uphold this evil financial system, not because they were dishonest or unpatriotic, but simply because, that as long as their business fared well, they were wholly absorbed with its details and never stopped to give any investigation to the mattei. It was absolutely neces sary for this class of men to learn just what the farmers have been learning for the last few years, and to corporate with them for legisla tive reforms sooner or later. And since conditions under the present financial system are bound to grow worse, it is better that this crash has come this soon. From the present x outlook, with the Democratic party hopelessly divided, it seems almost impossible for the remedy to be ap plied by them, as the party ia now organized. Therefore there will and must soon coma a realignment of parties, with the speculators and monopolies on one side, with the great majority of business men and wealth producers on the other. May a CJod of justice and mercy hasten the day I SUPPRESSING TIIK TRUTH. There appeared in the columns of the Chronicle of June the 27th piece headed "a word to the wise" concerning the constitution that was false. I replied to the piece and sent to that paper to publish, with returned postage enclosed, and ask ed for its return in case its columns being filled without it. The piece did not appear in print. I wrote and asked for its return: no answer came I wrote and asked for its return the second time, and I have never heard from him. He kept my 4 cents and manuscript too, thereby cheating me out of 4 cents and the public out of information that would of uncovered and showed the falsity of his asser tions, aud of showed the fork in that tongue hid behind those poisonous fangs. T. C HA8KIMS HUE EMU GOES FORTH ! Contimw! froui f,rt jf. J an( Trarr lvir and HariT IK m (.riitiu The amendment providing for free j grlDrr to 6tnke down half theiuoa ver coinage at a ratio of 17 to 1 L.v tht-re" reject! by a vote oi luu u z r that for free coin age at ratio of I t; 1 l.t bv a vote of 102 to aiJ(j tfjat for r-e coinage at a ra- tioof U to 1 was defeated bv a vote 10. ea navs. J he vote on the and last ratio proied, 20 to : 1, UJ yea to 223 nays, 105 of the ' ; - t . n-rmb:icius and 1 1 7 by iMnocaats and I'opuliats. With a maj. rity of 103 against them on the highest ratio offered, the free coinage men nut in a euiic ui ur- , - - j the last onset, the attempt to resur rect the Bland law of 17. A ma- joritv of the Democrats aud I'opu lists siipjxjrteit this anienument, wnicn, nowever, was rejecu-u oy a voU; of m vett to jg nay s, a ma- I joritv of 77. The affirmative votes wert ca-'t bv 15 Kepublicaus and 121 Democrats and l'opulists, and the negative votes by 110 Kepublicans and 103 Democrats. The vote on the passage of the bil' to repral the purchasing pro vision of the existing silver law re sulted in a majority of 130 for re peal, the yeas being 240 and the nays 110. Of the former 101 were cast by lienublicaus and 139 by Dem ocrats, and of the latter twenty-four were cast by IJepublicans and SO by Democrats and I'opulists. No less than 33 Democrats who had voted for free coinage at one or more of the j)rojKsed ratios or for there-enactment of t'ie Bland law voted in the affirmative, and 17 lie publicans who had voted for free coinage at one or more of the ratios or for the ressurrection of the Bland law voted iu the negative. ECHOKM t'KOM THE SILVEII DEBATE. Who was hit? when the adminis tration champion, Tracy, scornfully said, looking southward: Ihe Norfolk and Western has many millions of bonds, nearly all payable iu efold; the Richmond and Danville, the Savannah and Western the Alabama roads, the Columbia and Greenville, the East Tennessee and Ohio, have millions of gold bonus. i.ne cnesapeaKe ana Uhio has a very large number of gold bonds out standing. The Pensylvania many millions, and also the Jacksonville and Tampa, and many others. A silver basis will bring sure ruin to many of them, but that may be no reason foi influencing the members who, 1 suppose, do not like corpora tions." Somebody was hard hit, and they winced under the lasmng. Unwit tingly it let out the secret of the railroad lobby in Washington. Wonder how Hansom relished this unsavory suggestion? The onlv neerroin Concrress Mur ray of South Carolina uttered a sen timent that puts to the blush the dodgers, hypocrits, and straddle bugs. He said and it will do for a scrap-book: "I shall vote for the free and un limited coinag of silver, because I am for the betterment of the misera ble condition of my countrymen, and for America first and all the world af terwards." Hatch, a farmer and an earnest advocate of free coinage sent up the wail, but it was in vain. Evidently the Lord has very limited jurisdic tion over this congress. "What we want is more sand. O Lord, give it to the Democratic members of the House of Represent atives. Applause and laughter. Give us sand enough, O Lord, to hold us on to the Democratic plat form and to our pledges to the peo ple in 1892. Applause. The answer shows that there is no sand in the Democratic gizzard. It is a gizzard for reveue only. And this is not "a bank panic eh?" Vance didn't tell the trnth when he said so, eh? Hold your breath, in readikg this item from the New xork bun, quoted in the de bate last week: President Cleveland's advisers have told him that the only way to induce the Western and Southwts tern Senators and Congressmen to onsent to the repeal of the Sherman law, is to demonstrate to their con stituents that they are losing money every day that this law is in opera tion. 1 he missionary work in that direction has been started by a num ber of the banks in the solid commu nities of the East They &re daily refusing credits to the South, South west and West, fearing the effects of the Sherman law. Now read the following in the same connection, in the light of what has occurred in the way of bank resumptions since the Wilson repeal bill passed the House: "The bank p esidents, replying to Secretary Carlisle, cordially inform ed him that they would be ready at all times to co-operate with him in the successful administration of the financial policy of the government Everybody shook hands, and there was harmony all round." And the "bank presidents" have kept the faith. They have co-operated with Carlisle. And they have established the damnable conspira cy to rob the people. North Carolina cut the same fig ure both in the debate and in the voting on the Sherman bill in the House. Settle, Republican, was consistent He voted against free coinage and athe fool ratios and for uncondi tional repeal. He advocated that policy on the stump. Everybody knew where he stood. Speeches were made by Grady, Branch, Alexander and Crawford. Grady's speech was replete with scriptural quotations, Roman h s tory, Mythology and mule stories. It was funny and provoked much mer riment At the last, he said, "the repeal of the Sherman law, to him, was monstrous.? Alexanders speech was a master piece of the kind. A quotation from it would be disastrous tosymetry. It must be read as a whole. Branch flatly contradicted the Secretary of the Treasury in Baying that what the people wanted was J'more money. What Crawford aid and talk! like a man was only tlw truth. He taid: j "The people bad need fur more 11 oitey. 3!ortgge are piled upon j mortgages all over the country, with ; no bope of relief, nothing in sighr, aud the Democratic party and the ! lit-uublican imrtv are iurzline to- Settle applied vinegar to the. raw places on the I)-nncratic carcai?. lie said and no man from North Caro lina deuied it: 'Something has bevu said on this floor in the course of this d lute about financial "evolution." I Utieve there is no State in this I'uiou whoee citizens have felt the eff-cu of that "evolution" inert- than have the ix-ople of North Carolina. In the recent eouU-at the Dt-mocratie party formed its line of battle ou this subiect with two dietiuct ut terances in its State platform, the first of which waa that We especially favor the free coin age of silver and au increase of the. currency. Not content with the enuncipation of their position theid mide, further on in the platform we find the state ment that We demand the free and unlimited coinage of silver. Every Democratic orau 111 the state of North Carolina and advo cated that financial policy through out the campaign. Every distinguish ed speaker of that party w ho en lightened his audiences on the sub ject of finance, committed himself and party, State and national, 111 un equivocal terms to the advocacy of the free and uuliniued coinage of silver. , Iu less thau four months after the inaugration, the Democratic press of North Carolina, almost without exception, certainly without impor tant exception, had reversed their machinery, repudiated the doctrine of the free coinage of silver, said that it was unsound finance, and that they were opposed to it. Near v everv sneaker that h:i! nartici pated in that campaign, in conver sation aud in public utterance said that it was unwise and that he was opposed to it," Henderson, the father of the dele gation, said not a word, but voted in the affirmative on all the ratios. He voted against the unconditional repeal" because his conscience was stronger than his ambition for the cheap glorv of being known as a straddlebuff. That distinction was left to Benjamin Bunn. Bunn is a straddlebug for Revenue. Now, watch the postoffice appointments in the Raleigh district. But Cleveland doesn't take much stock in death-bed convictions. South Carolina had two fearless and eloquent champions in the de bate. 1 he speeches of Talbert and McLaurin does honor aud credit to the brave people of that plucky State. McLaurin hit straisrht from the shoulder, and every lick was death-blow to traitors, flunkies and hypocrits. He said and the gal leries shook with applause: "Let us be brave; let us be honest The message of the President is a bitter disappointment a complete surrender to Wall street. The issue is plainly and sharply drawn. It is well that it is so. Necessity will force the West and South to unite, and then the domination of the East in national affairs is gone forever. The people can not be again deceived with catch-words and glittering gen eralities. Eor thirty years we have tacked our car to Eastern Democracy; but this straw will break the camel s back, and you will force ua to the great West, whose soul is fashioned in the likeness of her boundless prai ries and mighty mountains not con fined within the narrow rim of a gold dollar." THE SUPPOSED COMPROMISE. Indications point to the ten per cent tax on State banks as the Dem ocratic compromise for the uncon ditional repeal of the Shermau law It can be effected only by making it a party measure and thus forcing it through congress under the whips o: the administration. The Eastern and Western Democrats in the main are opposed to the revival of of State bank notes, and it is only necessarv to throw the chairman of the com mitteeon banking and currency in the House Into convulsions to intimate such a castrophe. There seems to be a strong Democratic opposition to the measure, notwithstanding the explicit declaration of the uationa Democratic platform on the subject. But the opposition nesd not signify anything. Cleveland owns congress, If he wants the ten per cent tax re moved or suspended it will be done. Such a proposition from the hite House will be eagerly accepted, and the Democrats who voted against "unconditional repeal will be only two happy to "flop again with the ad ministration goldbug wing of the party. Then all will be lovely, and the "goose will hang way out o sight. Under those auspicious Icondition Ransom would no doubt be inclined to give Vance "another lift" in the way of a few "minor appointm?nts We are optomistic enough to be lieve that Democratic desperation and iubecilitv will not go so far as re-establish wild-cat banks in the States. In the interest of the peo ple and sound currency we sincerely hope not Actuated solely by a de sire to see the Democratic party complete to its own destruction we might be resigned to the ca'amity that would follow such reckless leg lslation. But existing as it does on false principles, winning its victories upon raise pretense "subservient tool o: the money power" as it is, an early and ignominious death, from natur al causes, is certain. We would spare it "the deep damnation of its taking off" by suicide. Jouothax Edwards THE REMEDYTHE ALLIANCE DEMANDS We suppose the tariff is not rob bing the people much now. We nev er hear anything about it tf. DONNELLVHOHOT. He Estimates the Condition:; of Life In 1993. TOUTIfAL AND SOCIAL REFORMS. tWr Art e rj tm rrfct tfc R a Immh th Sam f HaMa !!!-WM-Sraalor Callom on Itrtl C w- Itnma. rCopTttfhU l American Fe AoeI lioa- Who can peak with any poitivrori of anything in the time to comer WT can Look Into the aceda of timm And mt whu-h icnun will grow and which will not? Thre are hw1j to wfiieh dMnity to girt especial and prodiglona fructrfira tlon. and otbT which. eTea a ther sprout grrrn and abuudaut. wither aod disappear from the affair of men. bo coma nr fon-eii son years ago that the iittle wl of ilrt-rty would expand inlo uc4arat or t and till the world, ortEat theimmene btiiifirwtof religious intolerance which then ilase.1 in all laud, with th blood trickling . 1 ..1.1 1.. ; 1 out from anioii xne aucs wuuu "uuir 11 to h few eniU-rs. fpiUin;; npitefiu siwrfcH whiU kicked aside, by the loot oi intern nce And there may le obsenre eeu mnotiK iih today whone Krowth 100 year mrii now vlial! emlower the nations. The tcrtsHtest event which has happened 11 tlie historical period to man ou eartn wit the iivery of America. V e have iin iiikuii OI esliniaiinK lis irrruiu.ii nejueiiceH. which will spread down the at-H u.r ten thuunand years, constantly ex IMindiiiK. intermingling with each otrer anu creating a million unexpecieu wmuuw tioiiH. It means the transierence 01 me hiKl'"! civilization and the greatest race of men o a continental arena oetier xnieu than any other on the globe for their an nul t-d development. l-'ir-t we had a strip of settlement along the ctKiMt nearest to the parent source; then hii outbreak Krowingout of abundant food. high spirits and a semiwild hunter condl tion. theu the creation of a nation, a copy, to a large extent, of the institutions of the country which gave us our language and iHWh. then all the fountains wez-o openeu together, and every land in Europe poured confluent streams of population into the vat stomach of the woods and prairies, and we are digesting it all and creating a race t 1.1 .i 11 1. ... and a people uniiKe anyimng maw una ex isted before in the history of the world. Our civil war was but a temporary Inci dent growing out of local and temporary causes, which stirred up the mental ac tivity ot the population to a high pitch and made manifest, on both sides, the war like and heroic characteristics of a mighty race. Everything that Is past ts, however, in significant compared with that which is to come. When we have 600,000,000 inhab itants, our civil war will be little more than Jack Cade's rebellion Ls to the Englishmen of today. Of one thing we may be sure that ours will lie a vast world, whether existing un der one uovernment or many. Jiidmuna Burke said that men "breedvbythe moutn," signifying that the population of a cotintry will lie in proiwrtion to Its food supply. A nd as we have the greatest agricultural area in the world.it follows that we will have a tremendous population unless every thing is swept away by social convulsions. It is one of the astonishing puzzles or the past that the Indian race, flanked on the south and southwest by a comparatively hiuh civilisation, setting up their tents amid the ruins of the race that built the mounds and forts of the Ohio valley, and dwelling on the most productive soil on earth, nevertheless wete arrestfed In num bers and development, so that after -tfiou sands of years of occupancy the land was almost utiiuhabited. It would certainly seem as if some extra mundane power bad held the red man In check and reserved the continent for the use of the white man. The government will grow more com plex. All development is away from sim nl w it v toward complexity. Man has more organs than the oyster. Nature began with a single cell and expanded Into human cm li.ation The first government was probably the simple and gentle patriarchal system. When the grandfather ruled, by the ties of love and duty, the group of his posterity assem bled around his central tent. The ancient kingly government gave nothing in ex change for the plunder it took from the people save protection from foreign hos tility. Kvery step in the march of develop ment made government more complex. The rights of the multitude had U0 bS pro tected against the rights of the tyrant; hence customs, parliaments, laws, courts, police, etc Men object to paternalism' in government, and yet they themselves share in the fatherly intervention of the state iu a hundred particulars. Government is simply the aggregated in di vidua Is protecting the individual. It not only enforces taxes from him as In the old time; it lights his streets, carries his letters. protects his person, watches over his prop erty, securely keeps the title deeds to his real estate, furnishes him with water and light in his bouse, erects bis schools, edu cates his children, builds his highways. assists him to move by rapid means of lo comotiou, protects him on the ocean, looks, after him in foreign countries, excludes contagions diseases from his shores or stamp:ttiem out if they secure a footing, inoculates him against pestilences, estab lishes parks for his entertainment in the great cities, creates botanical and zoologica gardens, hires musicians to delight his. ears with pleasant sounds, secures him in the possession of liberty, counts his votes, pun ishes those vho wrong or injur him, helps Dim to collect trie money due him, and, in short, watches orer him as no fat be ia the world ever watched over his sons. And there is uot one of these particular aids to at the citizen would vote to relin quish. He would as soon think of stripping off his clothes ou a winter day as give up these advantages aud comforts. Hence when nieu talk against "paternalism in government" or echo that threadbare soph ism. "That country is governed best which is governed least," they prag against civi Kzation aud would turn the shadow back on the dial of time. In other words, that progress to increased enjoyments for the many which uas been the marked feature Of these later ages has built up a multitude of new rights of which our barbarous an cestors knew nothing, and every one of these rights has to be protected by law against the brutality and rapacity of onr fellow men, and hence with every increase of human happiness there has got to be a further reaching out of human government. Many of the evils of which we complain today are simply due to the fact that man's ingenuity has invented new forma of injus tice, for which as yet no remedy has been devised by government. You can recon struot the history of the race oat of the statute book. Read the laws against mur der, aid they bring before you that ancient day wheu manslaughter was honorable and the highest accomplishment of the leading citizens of the community consisted in expeditiously dispatching their fellow creatures. Read the law against larceny, and you recall the time when all property was In common. Read the law against adultery, and it carries you back to the era before the establishment of the institution of marriage. Read the bill of rights, and When it speaks of the separation of church and 6tate the whole history of Europe for a thousand years passes before you like a terrible panorama of cruelty and bloodshed. Strip the people of all these enactment, and you have nothing left but barbarian. And in the future this process of state in tervention will continue until the aggre gate man, called government, reaches into the affairs of all the citizens and protects every right and secures es-ery blessing which our material limitations will permit as to enjoy during this strange, earthly career, in which, like the swallow In the old Saxon story, we dart out of the darkness, flash through the light and disappear into the darkness beyond after one momentary speck and fragment of life. "Is it likely that the railroads and tele graphs will be owned or managed bv the stater" . The world 50 years from now will laugh of thU rra--6e--'Vr,;itnH-t ----- ro,, hellion. lopwroni w tick tt-lr TOh-taooB. . 1 . .ininlr a hijEnway. Iil- to build it. The tat can tke P erty for rmbUc u It eann. ' property for i-mi- th. n.-i.l.4inul for lr,.owrr. U - uiu.. tar Lcrthtrdn the cr h- lb rMic r,-d- 7 prruiitV-d l' I" Who would advocate tudy rli-iug Hr ! " """ '.J , cnm,U a company or w-h. ibo. 1 .... " 1 . . ... a.. It i. rerr rvidrol that the time - dUt-nt when tl pri'e 'IT"" ,T hr-.of ;l.eir.m biKh-aj". "JU T .... ... . i .t. A- it t Uiday, tbe nuinxui -ori'ori.i'u. n. a-M kl I tl.eir "v.. -t.it. I "-r rombii'al.' - rti..d prvi t conip thin. nr. t...v.; to interfere iu fc.litlcs dic tate the l.-vl f governors. Ot.gTVi men and Mu x-u.t..- corrupt lei.-Mt ir.-(.:Hi J-icV oUl th judges of our .... . . f,.Ml.ni,.nf Allff cuilrt- 1 Ucm- 1 rattier. j detrtructivr of revrweutatlve government, and le:wl iuerltabiy to universal rotteiiness, out of which mu-t come armed revolution as a Inst desperat.- remedy. t'oiimiutiicatJo: by electricity w aimpij an improvement upon coiiinumicnuou vy mounted court ern, stagecoaciiea auu ... . ..I. I ... 1 .... u Afilr u Mttlittti- cars. 1 lie AJOrse nipnatiev in mt.- fur the common aiplialet. If the state tilled in lukitiK charge of the tr.au, . - ifc. 1.. ...I.;.... ..I.u ... r .f II j t-ilialiy J'.lM.!i:ni iu v.. 6- - thLHaeri.il communication carried on the wings of the lightning Concerning our monetary system I would imply make a su;gestiou or two. We Imast that we nave paaseu ucjuuu the hMrlmrotis system ot oaner iuitu the KsUmos and other rude races still re main This is a mistake. The whole tnon aturr ytutom of the civilized world w still based on the barter of Lo metals goia aim j . . . . . silver which have come down to us as pre Cious metals trom prruiiuuv wn"! which thev were sacred metals, dedicated to the worship of the sun aud moon. Whvn England ships gold to the U uiten btaies, - ; . . 1 ....... V. a or vice versa, me nation &impij n-jiroia ut swantiimz" of that metal for commodities which the Phoenicians carried on along the Mediterranean coasts &.000 years ago. or which Columbus practiced 400 years ago with the Indians of Central America. The use of gold and silver as the basis of the world's commerce is not, therefore, the result of the wise selection of a congress of highly civilized nations, but simply the per petiiatio'n into the cultured present of "a barlmrous clistom drawu from the remote past. Aud the money classes of the world are now trying to discontinue the use of one of these prehistoric mediums of exchange aud rest the whole businessof a rapidly ex panding civilization upon a metal of which there is in the world about enough to form a cube 24 feet square, and which is being ab sorlx d in the arts in Europe alone at the rate of SM.0tX).(K0 per annum. I'ati lines Finite one way lx iulinite the other? , Can mankind advance chained to this clog Can the population, wealth and busi ness of the world expand indefinitely in ev ery direction while that which regulates prices is steadily decreasing in quantity and dragging down values, preventing pros perity, crippling enterprise and creating in numeralile paupers? Can the fate of all mankind depend upon a 24-foot cube of an accidental metal? Is not such a condition unworthy of the high civilization into which we are advancing? What is the remedy? An International paper money which all the wealth of the world would buck up and sustain legal tender among ali nations, and that would be Increased in precise ratio to the increase in population or wealth of the world. Are not the financial troubles of today due largely to the conflict- between the neoessi tie of a vast development and the limita tions of an ancient superstition? And is not this conflict likely to make the close of this century as revolutionary and bloody as the close of t he last century? KiNATIUS DONNELLY Ileprvaetitatlve Uryan'a Prediction. The ttoverunittut will tfrow more com d lex perhaps in its 'letail as increased numbers, greater area and larger interests require more machinery, but it will grow more simple in purpose. Instead of seeking to perform the work of the individual it will content itself with "restraining men from Injuring oue another" and will "leave them otherwise free to carry on their own pur suits of industry and improvement," so far as they do not interfere with the equal rights of others. Changed conditions will compel the (fovernment to more carefully guard the weak from the aggressions of the strong. Free competition is not what it used CD be. Trusts aud combinations left uncoo trolled have both the small dealer and the consumer at their mercy. The government must furnish a sure protection to the Inter ests of all of the people from the cupidity or some of the people. Much of the in creasiuK inequnlity Is wealth is due to laws absolutely unjust and to the absence of necessary restraining laws. We may not be able to debtroy the natural disparity be tween men, but we must avoid exattgerat ing it by legislation. Political equality cannot exist long In the midst of great so cial and pecuniary inequality. There is an evident and , growing desire to bring the government nearer to the people. General education among the masses and Improved iaciuues for spreading informa tion have prepared the people for more com plete participation in the work of self gov ernment. We have outerown the nrepn. method of electing senators by legislatures. ana tne selection of those who are to repre sent us in our highest legislative body wil oon oe tajieu out or the bands of statu representatives and placed in the hands of me people, where it belongs. The elotiioi of president by an electoral eollege, whic! often turns the contest on a few pivotii states ana sometimes thwarts the will of tne people, ls destined to be replaced by a more direct nethod of ascertaining th bo,Aiiar wilL W. J. BRYAN. Senator Cullom on Railways and Tele graphs. IFrom Our Washington Correstondent.1 Senator Cullom, the author and special vuauiiou 01 ine interstate commerce law, was asked to give his opinion in t.b m- ter of proposed government ownership of railways and telegraphs. He replied: "In my judgment, ov;rnment ownership of raiways ana telegraphs would be the most serious blunder that this country could make. It would bring about a condition of things which would menace the peac and the very life of th republic. Govern ment should regulate but not own rail ways and telegraphs and other concern 1 with which the commerce and prosperity ofte VPle 80 Intimately connected. Take the railways of the country alone, and you wi find that they employ more than a mil ion men. This means not a Sn, C1tSens merel million voters, for these railway employees are no: women or children, but men of voting aee men stalwart, alert, capable, skillful. You' fn that compact body of am llion picked men from sJlwalks f life in this country, representing the flower and prune of our manhood. It would, iu my judgment, be monstrous to torn thes. wbnS,?1Ui!puUfeiwn of theVutidans whoimght chance to be In power in the government. If these men will made va! als of the dominant party, there need never be a change of adXTnistratiot! The political party that could not maintain iu self in power with this mighty engine at its command would be weaker thin any political party we have ever yet had in con trol of the nation. "In addition to the men there are the con tract, for supplies, for constmcSn toTl he requirements of the vast raUwhnS the money value thereof J-V 7 . figures beside which 23 gmment are as a irreS Itfl- Knlitie are they now are, and the rJlf !ln Us satisfied, toly opinTonPHhl,leVer the hands of the sow rauwayin ! t-n.U ing ' . , . r a - aadaini El 1 a. a II U Bill -, lor-, hi country ebocw . -1 . -1. hiarlmi railways tfr rite ni.Hiieov '" . . - . ,rWr,,b line, lo tbe.owthip.nd eot.trw I of the govrrnnietiV. wl lit HM .. .w- .1,..- that. Lb scroll waHim nd "A- D have been un- furled the popuUr "llJ "Tll . . :.,-. ,.fih.awna material wbich rlil demand lo X:: our KTPar-iU balf a u other word, fcbakler ai.d ague o.c1o of the ??J illl for want of tioi.al melodrama," iU he palawmy. toicether with the luoongraoas mixture of .u.trville, fare and toegro tnturfreUy tw kno u aa fare comedy. It ia uot to bessppc-ed, bowrrt one cUs. of entertainment will suffice for C L-grandcUreo. While mo o.' thn will iucli.M, to tb. JJ" there will still be ruaoy who will want a different aort ol amusement The UT " the people will be supnUed ty America dramas, with the comedy and tragic l utsboth Mrong. TU-. plays vrUl in a ,at measure deal with the peculiarities of life In different sections of the country and will I faithful picture, for they will be written by residents of the various loosbr tie. The lighter form of theatrical enter tainment will be fare, with songs which are germane to the story. Music in America will have advanced marveloualy. lu HV3 there will be hun dreds of person with as fine voices and at excellent- methods as Adelina Patti no oHStse, but they will not be considers marvels and will be glad to receive a much per month a that favored lady Is paid per night Muaic of about the quality of Tmiiitnr." with dialoime Instead of rs- citat ire, will be the vogue. Concert will h .i.Imu a will also what ww call "comki nwr." r ... , 1 1 In music and toe urama uw auwua ui th. onlitisrr nerformers will be smaller than now, ownig to tb increased purcnas in tr imvwht of iDoney. hot the few. pondbW less than a doxen in the whole worfcl. wti may succeed in eclipsing ali oompetfton will receive incomes which would dajatlj Sarah Bernhardt and cause Adelina PaU.1 to have convulsions. The money which Is now expended for elaborate scenery and gaudy costume will be devoted to increas ing the membership and efiiciency of the company. America will during the next century produce worthy rivals of Beetho ven, Moaart and Verdi, while In the dram sliej-iibin and Goldsmith will be surpasser. ShaU-soeare's eoual simply a a writer of dramatic latiiniage will never live. Theaters for the better class of perform ances will be few in number for the reason that each reasonably well to do man and there will le lots of them lo IW will have a telenhote'in his residence, by means of which the entertainment at any place of amusement in that city may be seen well as heard. AU theaters will bare volvinii stain, so that there will not be more that 10 seconds' waft between afcts This will of course do away with the rile orchestras which now torture us. The chairs will not be arranged in rows, but will be divided off into little stalls, with an aisle on each side. Attached to each chatr will be a call bell, an opera glass which may be used vvitlout the formality ot drop ping a dime in the slot, a faucet (com which ice water may be drawn, and a tum bler lrot r.' Wr ' "-drVik 'JLm cooling bever age. Theaters will be Illuminated from the outside, virrcrs bringing the light tn soft ened auu even form Into the building. The footlights will be small oakinms of dlff st ent colors. Performances will begin at 10 o'clock eui r-d at midnight. CuloagTwiU be the eastern headquarters of the toeatrlo al taorld. and San Francisco the western, Actors aud singers of ordinary aepuke will be received Into the very best society, while hose of particularly great reputation will be eagerly sought after by fashion's lead ers. Stock com Dailies will have disap peared altogether, and no posters 00 the dead walls will there be in OCTAVUS COHEN. Senator Voorheea Thinaa w Mare Hose nog fhe Golden Mean. From Our Washington Correspondent. "In my Judgment," said Senator Voor- hees, of Indiana, "the next 100 years will show but slight changes In the form of our government. A century hence should expect to see, were I upon earth, the American republic governed very much as it is at the present day. Some minor changes are altogether probable, Among these I should think quite likely a limit ef the presidential term to six years and no re-election and a change in the manner of choosing the president and vice n resident. But these are subsidiary merely and will not arxect tne structure of onr government. "I take it that the American people de- cuieu m toe recent election against any 1 unner centralisation or power in this coun try, nor instance, I believe they hare' de cided there shall be no federal control of elections within the states. This decision, if I am right in assuming the election means that, has greater significance n most people attach to it. "The significance is that the limita of our teaerai powers are now pretty well defined; that the people do not wish them to be either circumscribed or greatly enlarged. For this reason I believe the government win go through another oenturr substan tially as it is at the present flav. Wa parently have reached that roiden maan between two possible extremes, and to me the lesson of the election is that the people will jealously watch every .effort mad to snin tne oaiance in one ditsction or the otner. . "A hundred years hence this country will probably have a system of customs taxa tion that will approximate as closely to am aaytning woico the world now Knows. I believe we shall always uniAjiu uinua ana inax tner will al ways oe tanrxs lor them to collect. But a century hence I should be prised to return to earth and find such a spt-m of taxation as we now bare. We uau approacn our ultimate approximation Jo free trade very slowly and cautiously and tn such manner a tn mnaa n, ii , " wwuiiuua- tice to any Interest. "Within the life of the man now crown the changes may be considerable, but they will not be revolutionary. Within the present generation I look to see a consid erable part of the money needed Cm- pvernment raised by means of an lnooma tax. I believe the day Is fast approaching to which our neonle will frurfa 1J4 L " th. Pperity oftbi WUU"J in necessities." CLIMBING UP! CLIMBING UP! I The circulation of The Uauca vumuuifi UF uany. uut -ne want it to climb faster and hiirher still. Now is the time to work. Let every reformer consider it his duty eip get tne paper into th hand. of the people. Get up clubs. Everv one can help. DEAFNESS CANNOT BE fiUMin by local applications, as they cannot rfr u'rBBBU ponion or the ear. ta18 constitutional remedies. Deaf nn so i. inflamed condition 7 TCT " lining of th v -ut r mtt8 v.;- i.i.; 1" uiaa iUDe- When ge innamed yon have a rumbling sound or impe?fect hla nfa'f Ddw-heit is enti"ly closed e fnflaJ" C r68ult' tne inflammation mt w .i . eondltlon, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases nnf f causrd by catarrh, which is-nothine out an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will cire On TTnn.lnui nn tor any case of Deafneas Osu ,. catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catorrh' Cure. Send for eir culars, free. ' . The Ne rvou i R of Lif AfH aa' fc. Wond 7: , 6 hum.. It . .... 1 i .. : all tn4 4 of the imt"',-.'V!:TuIo1 . b . ..... . draaTf.l the nre BUM anr ai... ar.:: w, onl o.rd will r.., . . ei.i.. .1 . p.otd b, ,1,,. l,-aC th dermn-nxia ,.f ""tlbr deraUtnn.;, .5 " n UtDafir tf... t,r.:t) JnJ tpestins llier iu u ., K . 11. ...... J a ClalUUhaa pM.f.mi.vl , iu'TJ over 30 yeara. aiaeo tbera llacovvrlva tu .-,,. -, u,', J betn beln tl- r.v.u ,-, ".'J tateiiK-rt. auU ltia, xhK J d trvattnent are ariM ,; . fcj . - U- it iB ' mania. hUu.u.Jt 11., Vitus dam-e. el. varl'' matter how csum,1 tu, . S 'r. aura IM-.li rm 1 ,. V.,, M( 1H. MIl.KM ur..HATir V.."M 11 drua-lkfa ..n . , ," """iJ lnd on recelp, f pVJ bottle for S etprs. pfJ aeltheroDlateanord.Lnl.' tl fl lit .11. oom uy aii I'niinU. 15 n:Li i ... . . n cn anns hiph ,, w tOr... C! ....... Hichlands a lieuhbtl of 200 inhabit;.!,!- Sale of intoxicating den. Four t hun h. j in.i, uoaru .ik t4 ys.it.1. t.. l will be taught. For ulars addri'riH T.T. JAM KS,A.li, fi aug. 24-lm--Ji.) llahk For Salts 915 jj I wish to sell hit BurkW l 1-4 miles iron-, (iolbon on the South id.- of X It contains 500 ant tlfv suited for evt rv kind of corn and cotton, fruit .aid It contains uleo 41.1 sera; land with evt rv kind of ta, cept pine, with tirnt-tlw & any kind of txk mir cieareu lami rtiuinrs md and only fence enou'b i the wood land from tlitca will sell tlie w hole, or a tracts to suit jum hatm i at low prices and on v partlv on reattialtlr tint to " W. T. FAIlSll Ouldikr July 24, '".:$. juhi FREE AS fllBj j urs, speedy auJpTiiIu7nir hi tlon, Irapala, BIIUiwJ Haaaarbr, 4'onallnallaa. S tlsm. Nervous Drblllir iaH tlon. Wrilo to-day It will bravi postpaid. Addreag, E()VrTlA! It Box T & Put 1" Mention The Caucasus. iunel-3muw': Alliance Farmers' En Tha National Alliw duatrlal I nbin, th IrpJ tlon of Karmera in tha W'M m auiuuinr r.n an. f inr. -"j ns, Lancnatr anil 1t.baaaiCaat . . . . . . . .... i TiAiraaf a ilsau A a tut i, by railroad free. M A daily; the most inominest i in America on afrioulturtiij Four large assembly hall seating capacity, over merous bands and other m cellent entertainmenU dJ ning. Hundreds of cottr grounds, boarding st Io Old-Fashionkk Fabum'' fast, Dinner or Si mR,-' moth display of aprimltt ments (100,000 square W forms), also arrieu!turl t Two hundred dollars far ance exhibit, $Hl wjcob4 third best. Liberal pi best butter, bonie-madeb pies, canned fruits and pe'ition free to all fr sons or daughters. Sd4 mium list. Immense bwj displays of the househo for live stock; liberal pre' While the park of 5,W' superb, with ample shadP ter, beautiful lake, eompP age, and attraction there will be frequent exi1 other points of interest, the Cornwall ore hilM Suaquehannah river, sylvania, and the battle-M tysburg, the round tnp " plaee to be less than F- I RtY. T. D. Witt iw'J of Brooklyn, N. ., n trained choristers. e5 conduct the religious 30i p. m., Sunday v tilt o m. a -a : V1CT1 Col. James Young, MiddlJ non M. v uavie, ie"-... C. B. Matthews, Buffalo.' . others. Advisory Hoard, f farm or from nfarlv evrj' Territory. Encampm' j -- m " - - - . . iee, .national r " - : Mi Tann PsL'e. Br81-, Honeoy Y., and Henry c. S S M TTsSrwtoValiriT 1 8 pleased to give any fu'lber1 tion desired. Kinsey Female m a ta: - i.iool for" .a uuaiuiu( ' vnnvn t a rTP"S. FULL CORPS OK TEil1 iiiterarj, Art na 7- Stenography, Type wntijU keepine ing taugui LOCATION HEA mem. 8Ute Chemist in exaS r aiiv-- ler says : 1 navo y amined a better samp raTFor catalogue gT' ticulars write to y inrrnu if NVhl. V' . nteu . . . I .,,.uP OI P. J. CHENEY & CO., -o , , . ' Toledo, O: lSold by Druggists, 75c. dies nnispiDK . 1 ut 1
The Caucasian (Clinton, N.C.)
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Sept. 7, 1893, edition 1
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