THE CAUCASIAN.
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VOL. XT.
KDlTOirS CHAIR.
T-r - . ON OF THE EDITOR CN THE
SSUES OF THE DAY.
- N. V. World, the greatest
,!,.;,.. -r;itii- daily, in an editorial on
I j,,, Miernian's speech of August
.-aid, '-It is strong in its sirn
r .,- a!iil in the wisdom and pa
ir: ,t ' -in that mark his conclusions.'"
v,,f. arguing for the uncondition
a; r, j iil of ihe Sherman actof 1800,
ii h' -aid was parried to prevent
t. ja.-i-uge. of a free coinage bill;
which r. .. ;tl will leave the country
a. ti -ilw-r jiirtt where the Democrats
f.,i twt-ntv years hare denounced the
j;, ,n!i!i an.", under the lead of Sher
niiiii. f"!" putting it in 1873. Sher
,ii.Ui continued and pleaded with the
S n,'it- and the 1'resideut "to avoid
,jii, anything that may endanger
tl,. interests of the country or stop
;uiv industry that is now profitably
(tn!;i( ted. If you pursue a lino of
policy tl.at will have that effect, by
jt""-ing a new tariff, you will only
involve yourselves in the same trou-
and in the same kind of defeat
thiit we were involved in at the last
rleitioii." Sherman is very solicit
ous that the Democrats shall not
nu' involve themstlves in defeat by
tariff legislation. The World then
ppM -ils with another editorial suy
int", "The extraordinary session' was
nut called to take up the tariff ques
tion ur to undertake general legisla
tion. It was convened solely to re
peal the Silver-Purchase act. That
;uvomilishod, congress should ad
journ and give the country a rest
It needs time to breathe and to take
it hearings." In the light of such
us this, what is the difference be
tween these parties on the questions
f taxation and finance, and what
rospect of relief ?
In a coin dollar at the present
ratio there are 4124 grains of silver,
for 1-10 as many grains of gold. How i
f it that this given number of grains
f gold is always "worth a dollar?"
Because the law says so, and no man,
therefore, will sell 25 8-10 grains of
gold for less than he can have it
coined into. Under like conditions.
! grains of silver would always
worth a dollar. Just as free and
ii limited coinage of gold wipes out
ie difference between the bullion
ai tie ana ine coinaere value or croiu.
Til i 11
also it would do away with the
illVrence between the bullion value
id the coinage value of silver. And
is is true at the present ratio as
11 as at any other.
The increase in the number of re-
vfuits into the regular army and in
ie number of applications at all the
"muting stations is attributed to
"Sianl times." To the same source
: iay lie attributed the unseemly
ramble for official pie. Because of
creasing poverty, many are seeking
me dirty little office under this
" ministration which they would
ive been ashamed to ask for a few
ars ago. Some are bartering their
nhood and the welfare of the na-
a for a mere smell of pottage.
verty, self-seeking, separation, and
n destruction of the common
sihh.
'he II eniocrats are charging the
"try's disastrous condition to the
I'liblicans, and the Republicans
blaming the Democrats One or
other or both are to blame. They
,e have had the power. But, in
present crisis, the question is not
uth who struck Billy Patterson,
who will heal Billy's wounds.
f even if the Republicans did do
striking, their day is past and
the Democrats alone have the
'r to heal the wounds; and if
fail in this they'll be convicted
x- numler of the commonwealth.
!r- W. (J. Burkhead, last year
"lent of the great Interdenomi
I 'lutl State Sunday School Con
jion, was not present to preside
5 recent meeting in Greensboro.
ud just been in Washington try
ito secure a position as reading
A, which, however, he failed to
1 He would have made a better
;: ng clerk than S. S. president
- 2ntw president will hardly seek
-!:er office.
"Itpwly Moses, Dim.ia -
, - - j iwii at
xoliey a wroiting with a pen, and
'i Awkward he is, to be shure!"
a are spaking the thruth, ra
k ; but it 7s the awkwardness of
tuiuiuiycrais a naudJing thei
ice that tapes me eye." "
here i 1 tlmpa aa rvi,,l. i
1- muuu oiiver
silver dollar as there is gold in
Id doliar. This is what is meant
ie present ratio of 16 to 1.
Jring the last campaign the
fieiuns said that they were for
VLrevenue only. The people
j earning that they were
Sjfor revenue only.
FLUCTUATING PATRIOTS ?
The recent change of tune among
the monopoly serving organs of the
State, is a little remarkable. But
let no one be deceived by it. We
fear that it is done for a purrtose,
and not from an honest change of
heart We regret to believe this, but
we have sufficient cause for doing so.
If a stranger were to hapjKMi in this
State, and were to pick up mich pa
pers as The News & Observer, The
vi ;i
i.iiiin-iajm -Messenger, anu j ne
Charlotte Observer, (which by the
way aspires to be the chief devil of
the gang) he migtit be fooled (not
knowing their past record) into be
lieving that they were genuine re
form papers. They are howling
against goldbugs and monopolies, as
if they were the original reformers
and had a patent on the business.
These are the Bame papers that tried
to apologize for the goldbugs and
monopolies, when it was to their in
terest to do so. They knew what
was right then, as well as they know
now. If they had acted from prin
ciples or conscience, that is, unless
they plead the (baby act, and say
that they did not know any better)
they would have condemned these
evils last year and the year before,
instead of condemning and ridicul
ing those who did. So we give a
note of warning tot the people to
watch these papers, they have some
object in view. It may be that there
is no campaign boodle coming to
them now, and funds are getting
short, and they see it is necessary to
try to gain the conGdence of the peo
ple and get subscribers. Then too
the amount of boodle they will get
when the next campaign opens, will
depend upon how many readers they
have been able to hold. -Or it may
be that they see that the people can't
be fooled any longer, In fact that
they have carried the game a little
too far, and that it is now necessary
to cuss out the administration, or
shut up shop and quit business.
Then too you know, that there is no
National campaign on hand next
year, and that the great desire and
object of the machine, and the rail
road men who own the machine is to
control State politics in the next
campaign. If Cleveland and the
National administration grows un
popular, (as it is very probable) these
papers are willing to serve the inter
est of their masters here in the State
by denouncing Cleveland and all the
Northern and Eastern Democrats as
goldbugs and plutocrats in general,
if by doing so, they can fool enough
people to again follow their leader
ship in the State. In fact it would
not surprise us to see these hypocrits
getting up indignation meetings to
denounce the Northern Democracy,
and to try to regain their hold upon
you by getting you out to their meet
ings, and having torch light pro
cessions, etc. '
We regret to have to write this,
but believe that it is 6ur duty to warn
the people. A man showed us an
editorial in the "Wilmington Messen
ger a few days since, and asked us if
we did not believe it showed an hon
est change of heart in Dr. Kings
berry. We were forced to tell him
no, because a man who will use the
columns of hia paper as long as he
has to 'help monopoly oppress the
people, can't now be honest in his
latter profession of interest in the
rights of the people, unless forsooth
he has gotten religion again, and
joined another church. It is hard
for us to believe in the purity of
motive of a man, who will not only
help to place the interest of monopoly
over the interest of the whole State,
but who even in a contest between
the people and monopoly in his own
town, took the side of a large corpo
ration, trying to shield them from
paying honest taxes, when by doing
so he was placing a heavier burden
of taxes upon the poor of his own
town. We are willing to admit that
if he had been a free man, and not
the hired writer of a corporation, he
might have written differently. And
if he is now expressing his honest
convictions, it is because it suits the
interest of 'the W. & W. JL 11. for
him to do so. Unless we have been
sadly misinformed, he must simply
be a mouth Deace for them, or set
A ' '
down and out. But we have written
more than we intended. We started
out to give the people a warning
against the general tendencies of
these papers, and when their hidden
purpose develops, we will then pub
lish the facts.
THE REMEDY THE ALLIANCE DEMANDS.
When The Caucasian gets 20,-
000 subscribers some of our present
subscribers will say "I was one of its
early friends. I helped double its
circulation by sending in a club of
new subscribers." (tf.)
"John Sherman a patriot"
New York World.
SIMON P. D, JONES,
WHITES AGAIN AND ADMITS THAT HE
:S BECOMNG SHAKY
t
iiiCHLAXiws, x c. Aug. 2th
lyj.MR. Bltler. Dk vuSik. You
must excuse me for botherin vou so
much, thrnira are eo'badly stirred up
uuu nere i uont know what to do,
seems like things are turning out
lust like you said when vou mad
i that speech down here for us that
time. Hell sir I never saw such
Jomgs in my life, things have just
got mixeu up so, J have jam nigh
quit talking. While I was down to
Lncle Agnose's I thought evervthin
was alright except I heard 'em quarl-
ing aoout the school committee, the
I party fellows said they had turned
out every third party school commit
tee in the county both black and
white, and one fellow said he had
heard they had put Mr. Jno. Brock
a white man there about Kichlands
on the colored committee, and he
asked me if it were not so, I had to
fess up, but I mortally hated to, as
soon as I heard that, it hurt my feel
ings, for I thought our fellows had
gone too far, the third party fellows
said the Republicans with all their
meanness never got that low, and
they said they could further prove,
that some of our fellows around
Richlands had been heard to say,
that nobody but Democrat school
teachers should be hired, and he said
if my party demanded the proof he
could give the man. Now Mr. But
ler you know how we felt just after
the election, we had gained the vic
tory, and we cared no more about
your civil service reform then, cause
we were in power and did not need
it, so we wanted to crush every fel
low that did nt agree with us, but
that hiring of Democratic school
teachers was going too far, the men
we specially wanted to crush was
them sort that spoke and talked so
much about linauce, that was about
all you could hear when
you got in reach of one, he
talked silver all the time and said
there was bad times ahead for we
poor farmers and laborers. I felt
right shamed for one poor third
partv fellow one evening, he asked
Mr. Ed Chambers Smith why he did
not tell the people the truth about
this here financial trouble, and Mr.
Smith he turned to him he did and
said that's yer howl money, money,
and he turned to us fellows and said,
boys 1 11 tell you where your trouble
is, it is the tariff on that old wool hat
you've got on, and as sure as you
reckon, we fellows made the welkin
ring, and he said vote for that great
and grand man C rover Cleveland
and the tariff would be reformed as
soou as he got in offije, for it was
robbing us millions every month,
said trust it all to him for he was
greater than his party and would
save the country. So we did, and I
expected by this time we would have
had the tariff off of all our stuff, and
we would have had them or State
Banks what were in our platform.
So that spring I wrote to you about
one we wanted at Richlands but we
never got it, and next thing I heard
the Banks were all er bustin and
everything going to pieces and I
asked one of our fellows where Mr.
Cleveland was. WThy did not some
of 'em tell him so he could reform
the tariff and give us them State
Banks, and they said hush, you must
not say anything the President was
gone to catch he and Mrs. Cleveland
some hsh to eat er mornin s for
breakfast, so I kept quiet, but when
I come from down the river, 1 heard
some of our fellows say Old Zeb
Vance had wrote a letter to one of
the Alliances of the State, and said
he was in favor of free silver, and
our fellows was scared near bout to
death, they thought Old Zeb had
gone to the third party, and we did
not know what to do, but bout that
time he wrote another in reply to
some of our paper men who had got
after him with a sharp stick, and he
said he was standing on the Demo
cratic silver platform and them that
did not see it like he did were either
traitors or fools, so as soon as he
said it was Democracy we squalled
hurrah for Old Zeb, he is always
right What made us so particular,
the I party fellows had said our plat
form was two sided and we thought
if there wern't but one side to it
Vance was surely wrong, cause we
wanted a dollars worth of silver in a
dollar, and Old Zeb was 'er standing
along with the party on 16 to 1,
and we had to go mighty slow.
But bless yer life as it stands now its
just like the J party said there is
two sides to it, for Vance and a lot
more of our fellows are just a chop
ping on one side and Cleveland and
the gold bugs are choppin on the
other side, our leaders says the Pres
ident ha8 gone back on us, and I be
he has. the third party seem to
know more about him than we did
and its iiist like the i party fellow
told Mr. Smith that day, its finances.
the President did not say a
word about State Banks and just did
mention tariff what our side talked
so much about last fall when he
called Congress together, but said it
vm the silver bill that neeciea atten
tion, and it did hurt me when he
said that for 1 knowed me j party
f Allows would erive us gass just like
they are doing. Some of our fellows
say they were wright and if our side
don't do sometnmg pretty qun.,
thfiv are eo'ms: to so with 'em. It
rlopa make me so sorrv for our Post
Master and his father-in-law, they
do seem to hate it so bad that the
.rtv did tell the truth. Now I
hpar one man has introduced' a bill
to repeal the tax on State Banks for
six months, now how is that? Don't
he know it is in our platform and
U7A tiopd mnnPT longer than six
GOLDSBORO, X. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER
months, that aint no
we
meant it when we nut it in th
ph
latfortn. why not iiasa it for all
tn
me? Are thev scared of our on
I'
cl
I
latform? The err was Vire a
ance" and now c have L'ot it. and
for one say pas everything thats
i them, and if vou cau't do it we
in
have lied to the in-onle. so uuit and
come home and let somelxidy go that
W'l
ll do something, for we have got
to
have relief and that ri ht awav.
I
am getting tiretl of this foolislu W?,
tht
ey rerniud me of a pack of hounds
I
ve heard before now. ScatteiM
all over the woods one wav up one
ay barking gold! gold! and another
ay down the other way barking
LVEtt! SILVER! and flrr" thinw vnn
know they come trotting backwith
thi
eir tongues out and havn t done
a
cussed thing. Now Mr. Butler,
e fellows have eot to have some re-
w
1
f
ief and that ri?ht awav. Them
fellows what's drawing their pay at
Wj
asmngton don t know how hard it
is
to live down here, and we are tired
of
their foolishness. Peonle neri.-h-
in
I i
IT to death in the towns and up
farmers can't fret nothing for our
stuff. If no relief comes soon, from
then on I shall be for the party that
tells the truth, for I had honed that
the party I belong to and had trusted
so faithfully would erive us the much
needed relief, and that the crv for
-. . . - V
ed that is heard on everv side in
our land to day, might soon be
usneu, anu on the wasted plains
lierht be seen a?ain beautiful fields
u 'O
of waving grain, aud where thorns
and tnistles now grow nursed by the
gentle hand of the farmer girl beau
tiful flowers might bloom, and if not
mine, the party that gives this relief
111! 1 I .-mm
w
in ue loved and respected forever.
r . . . .
i ours uutil death,
Simon 1. 1). Jones.
CONFISCATION!
We desire to print here for the in
formation of our leaders an edito
rial article that recently appeared in
the Boston (ilobe, the only demo
cratic newspaper of large circulation
or influence in the east The state
ments made -are conservative, and
they cover the most important phase
of the situation:
The gravity of the silver crisis
ies in the fact that the question of
demonetization must soon pass from
the phase of a finaucial problem in
to a burning social issue, which, if
it cannot be adjusted, must precip
itate some catastrophe.
1 he difficulty is self-evident Any
thing which causes the alteration of
the ratio which the standard of val
ue bears to other property must inev
itably confiscate the property of one
man for the benefit of another.
Thus, for example, the action of
England and other countries has
caused so great a fall in pi ice of sil
ver that debts paid in silver dollars
would be scaled down more thau
one-half, and the leuder would suffer
proportionally. But supposing to
go out oi circulation, the supply of
of gold would be so much less than
the demand that its price would rise
relatively to other commodities, with
the result of confiscating the proper
ty of the debtor tor the benefit of
the creditor, and it is this great fact,
and not the j rapacity of the rich sil
ver miners, which makes the bitter
ness and the danger of the present
struggle. The silver kings could be
handled easily enough, but it is the
southern and western farmers, who
see the progressive shrinkage in the
price of a bushel of wheat of a pound
of cotton who are desperate and who
will be heard.
Nor is this movement confined to
the United States; it extends over
the whole world, and it was a sug
gestive fact that the demand for a
single standard, which has tended
and must tend to enhance the rela
tive value of gold, originated with
England, which is the great capital
istic nation, and whose direct inter
est it is to confiscate the property of
all to whom she has lent money.
There can be no question that for
the moment the commercial people
have no alternative but to do like
wise, since in no other maner is it
possible to protest themselves; but it
is equally certain that such action
will not be a solution of the difficul
ty. The stubborn fact remains that
a single standard, it persisted m,
must end in enhancing the relative
value of gold, and by so doing it will
have the effect of taking a portion
of the debtor s property and giv
ing it to the creditor. It also seems
certain that such an alteration in
values can not fail to produce wide
spread distress, if not general bank
ruptcy, and that such a calamity af
fecting principally small property
holders, would seriously endanger
the stability of existing institutions.
It could not fail, for example, to
cause an enormous extension or soci
alism. It is not all impossible, there
fore, that silver maybe the test ques
tion upon which the relative strength
of the capitalistic and the debtor
classes may hnally be tried all over
the civilized world.
Strange to say, this article, just as
it is reproduced, without comment,
on the editorial page of the New
York world, which is a hot and
thirstv advocate of Wall street views,
and yet it knocks the bottom out of
argument that the money power ever
has or ever will mase in iavor ui
the single gold standard.
Confiscation! That is the meau
;n(T nf flip destruction of silver as
the monev of final payment m this
conntrv. Confiscation of the debt
or's property! Confiscation of the
tru eras nf labor! Confiscation of the
nrnfits of the farmer! Confiscation
rjinf the merchants and
hnsinPHS men!
Tkaf la tli a Rfiheme oil foot! That
J Xit w aw
ia the rtroeramme of England. How
is it to be . done? By the combina
of a few eastern democrats with the
republican agents of the money power
A FEW SHOTS
FROM HAYSIiCin HOCi-RC
He Hit Th- Hull". I)r rry Khot.
Well isn't it muiii ihough to
how Democrats are abusing each
other and finding fault with their
I'risidentf
Before the election the Democrat ie
papers and speakers spoke of Cleve
land as the great, immaculate- 0 rover
the man who was bigger than hi
party. .Now they say that they were
uceeivea in rover. Hurrah boy!
I'd swear you are daisies.
Nine months niro. anvlioJv who
u ln t vote for Cleveland was an
anarchist, and enemy to law and
good governmect. What do you ex
treme democratic brethren, who are
now so severely criticising (irover
say!
It seems that we heard Democrat
ic speakers aud editors tell tho peo
ple last fall that Cleveland and the
Democratic party were in favor of
free silver. We thought we heard it,
I guess we were mistaken. We re
gret very much that we get things so
tangled in our minds.
liemember voters, that the Legis
lature of 18U3 that tried to repeal the
All ianee charter only cost the people
of the State a little more than $311.
000, more than did the Legislature
of 1891 that was controled by the
Alliance.
Some democrats now say that such
democrats as Vance, Bland ami
Bryan will organize the Jth party.
Did you know that the ltaluigu
correspondent, of the Wilmington
and Weldon Railroad Messenger
some time since, was lamenting or
rather wondering that while the
Populist Party is rallying its forces
that they never hear anything of Mr.
John Ii. Eayes. I guess he thinks
that the Democratic party is getting
in a rather close place and lie wants
this Republican leader to help them
out again.
We were asked the other day if we
knew any politicians who make
money at it. Of course we do, Josie
Daniels and Chairman George Her
ring (col.) make money by dabbling
in politics.
We hear numbers of democrats
say now that they are Vance Demo
crats., That's right boys, but you
will tiud that you will have to give
up the name "dkmockat" before you
can ever get that policy carried out.
Democrats said just before the
election that Cleveland was defeated
four years ago, because ho was too
honest. Democrats, why are you
abusing him now? Is he too honest
for youf
Some democrats say that if Vance
were to come to us that they can
beat us in the next election. They
say that they bought the negroes be
fore and can do it again. We think
that there are some colored folk who
are too honest to sell their votes and
too wise to be fooled again.
Josie Daniels the little pie nibbler
at Washington, who edits the Wall
Street North Carolinian at Raleigh,
says the issue sheet of Aug. 11th:
"A man who favors a gold standard
may be a good democrat if he has
imbibed the true principles of democ
racy." Josie, please tell us what the
true principles of democracy are
Our speakers and editors told us last
fall that to be a true democrat you
must favor the free coinage of both
gold and silver and a reduction of
the tariff.
Hello Dr. Thompson! do you evei
hear how Jim and Ed are having
their little parrot to sing iu their
little sheets these troublous times
since Vance has taken a stand and
Cleveland and a majority of the
democracy deserted tho Democratic
platform!
Well don't the democrats let their
Gideon's Band lie low these times?
It seems to sleep with the tariff is
sue. We met a democrat the other day
and he said that the reason we Third
Party people were crying hard times
and wanted more money is that we
had gotten behind and wanted to
pay out of debt. We went on a lit
tle further and met a democrat who
was also complaining of hard times
and said he couldn't sell his tobacco.
We thought democrats all had money
in great abundance.
The democrats have become to be
a band of calamity howlers. Stop
it, democrats don't you know there
is plenty of money in circulation
It is overproduction that causes all
these hard times.
Do you think of joining the 1th
partyt We think that sensible peo
pie will stop at the fcrd party.
Listen how democrats are now
indorsing Vance for his position on
the bheiman Law. lney say ne is
correct. Whv do thev say sof The
people are with him You remem
ber how they abused him at first and
said that he was out of line with his
partv. Oh! consistency, thou art a
jewel.
Look my friends, and see what
party is advocating the thing you
want. Is it not the Peoples Party
Fellow citizens; how many of you
voted the Democratic ticket last fall
because the bosses came round and
told you you must voteit because your
dadies" were democrats.- Did your
"dadies ever vote for such democ
racy as Cleveland & Co. deal out to
you nowT - ,
We have been asked by democrats
if we thought that Gen. Weaver was
the 'proper man for the Populist
Party to have put out for President
last fall. Democrats, do vou think
that Groyer Cleveland was the prop
14, 1893.
r thj IfcrtatvrraTir party to
! hrt pat out!
Well dHat tfa i riJrDt tue
make Her. V1. Dr. Kmrbarr
LL. I. of th Wilmington and W--don
Railroad Micrner fuirm and
errin and ra for ftitur of the
Ieru-rmtic party?
How atut Mr.
icls, of the Wail
Pie-fed Joi Dan
Stie t North C ra-
linian. Democrat, Albancrtuan or
what ever ele the Igi slat are tuav
happen to be. Isn't he a honey in
trying to defend Mr. Cleveland?
Eau o!d His birthrir 'it for a me
of pottage, but it Mem that Josie
j hum uis lor a mers oi p;e, or
rather a clerkship. Puff Jonie, your
gas will amount to nothing. The
people are thinking for themselves.
Do you lemember how democratic
paper ridiculed the idea last fall
that Wall Street contolled the prices
of products. Listen how they talk
on this line now.
And some of you assert that you
will continue to vote the democratic
ticket even if congress does nothing
for the relief of the people. All
right; go ahead, there are reason
able people enough to control thin
country.
And behold Robert, the would-be-
destroyer t omes back to the Alliance
aud exhorts the brethren not to with-
lraw their money from tho State
Business Agency. That is ritrht
Robert. We thought vou would
learn that you were not as b
the State Alliance.
"Oh Joseph! Oh Joseph is so de-
ceiviu till the people won't believe
him! oh Joseph."
Well, how about Jimmie Bell, the
Gideonite? And Cleveland wouldn't
appoint him a member of his cabi
net. W hat a pity that such an in
tellect and such a character "should
waste its sweetness on the desert
air."
Say Messrs. democratic editors if
you want to know the cause of some
Alliance stores failing, just fire aw ay
with your questions. Look out some
of you non-partisan Alliancetuen!
Some of you didn't cover up your
tracks quite as well as you thought
you did.
Democrats, you said ritrht atter
the election that Clevelands election
put up the price of cotton. I guess
it is keeping it up is it not!
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And "Tobie" Stevens built up the
Alliance in his community by coming
out of it. The neighbors know a
good man and know that traitors
and bad men will drag down a good
cause. Where is "Tobie" of tho
Jim Bell stripe?
We know some democrats who
say they would not vote the Repub-
lcan ticket if they positively beyond
doubt knew that the Republican was
right- oome of these are "non-partisan"
Alliancemeu who have sworn
to vote the democratic ticket let
come what may.
Wonder who is furnishing Jimmie
Bell in surplus this summer? The
Alliance used to furnish him, but he
wouldn t pay for his goods. We do
sincerely hope that he will not treat
his local merchant as he did tho Al-
iance.
The boss democrats tell Congress
to repeal the Sherman Act and go
home; there is money plenty in cir
culation and the tariff is not hurting
a bit.
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Isn't that wave of nrosneritv that
the democrats last fall told us was
coming delightful?
Democratic editors and sneakers
told the people last fall that the tariff
was responsible for the low prices of
cotton and if the people would elect
them they would repeal the tarifi.
Ihe cotton is almost ready to market
and there is nothing done nor said
about the taiiff. Say voters, are vou
going to let them fool you again?
The policy of the democratic Paity
is to promise, everything and do noth
ing. Watch and see if we are not a
prophet.
Notice: It was in 1873 that the
wily Matt W. Ransom voted in Con
gress to raise his own salary $2,500
a year. They Ray he is a typical
patriotic democrat.
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Are you a democrat for prineiple
or for revenue? You say you are one
for principle. What constitutes the
principle of a party?. It is the stand
the majority of that party take. It
seems that Mr. Cleveland and a ma
jority of that party are in favor of
a gold standard, i ou expect to re
main a democrat? If so, why?
Are you howling over free coinage?
You are getting the principle of your
party.
Say, democrat, stop that calamity
howling, you blatant, open-mouth
fools, don t you know that it is over
production that causes all these hard
times?
Isn't it strange that we sometimes
dream of things that used to be hut
are not now? Why we drempt the
other night that the tariff was rob
bing the people.
Sav has Congress repealed the
tariff? It must have done so for we
never hear anything of it these times,
Rev. Col. Dr. Kingsbury, LL. D
of tLe Wilmington and Weldon Rail
road Jlessenger saia last summer
that democrats would have to join
with the "blacks and tans" to save
the country, now he says that the
Republicans have ruined the coun
try. The divine should be more con
sistent in his statements.
The democratic papers" and speak
ers said last fall that we had more
than $23 per capita in circulation
Now they say we have less than $G
per capita. Well hasn't it 'swank?''
Th SBia I-m-nral nl
'?
j Usd iu that etry (dank lit
I oie party platform ric-ft
psan on nnate na urajrru. I
the iHtraocrat riaun that tb
income
tat plaak that it (the Democrat i a
riatuarou for a hort bf! inc
bdecTdf it -i;m that a
rd action of th tariff plank by th
upplemeatmg of th rmoc th
an income trx idead? If m, e
think the iH-mocrat in nmtalcn.
The Democrat further a that Con
gress can legiitlate the People' Party i
out of exttance. The Immortal i
correct thu far, but it wdl hav to
give relief to the pKp!e and not try
to t-ruah, or Luh their cry by Riving
them a utone when they ak for bread
a did the last legislature of X. t.,
nor will democratic plan of (xriirru
tion a in the cae of S. Otbu iliuin
stop the clamor of the people for re
lief.
Let's all. Democrat.. Popu!it, aud
nepublicans watch tongre impar
tially and in the next election vote
for the interest of our country and
families regardle of party.
Kol-EKU'K.
THE FEW AJSiD THE MAJSiV.
rolitldu Bui About "I-nfma" Wktto
THrjr Umlft u4 lUb Ijtbor.
Tha rich are Upcoming richer and the
poor imurer. The few revel In wealth
tieyond the dream of ambition, and th
many "toil and moil' for a bare ubnitt
cuce. Monopoly rule, and the mtmm
suffer from corporate gree-L The umall
storekeeper ha Xmtm swallowed np by eo
called syndicate!), aud the army of wag
earneri i becoming larger every day.
ITogre! i tho latest iiarrot cry of the
ugtv, and in it name labor Li made to
Huff r.
We are lelalmrel with tJatitul
atnnit progree" and tho interet of
commerce. Une term surely. Did they
not ffteal the bread from the children ot
toil and add thousands to the tinmen
army of the unemployed wno walk our
streets in thojuunful apathy of enforced
idlenesM, while thu dear onee at home are
In need of tho necoHHJirio f llft
I-rogress la a gigantic and holk-w aham,
which has raised cheating and Bwindlin
and lying to tm dignity of art. The la
borer w ho helM to elect a man to office
and that man u hi position to hurt
labor is cheated by the pJislied hypocrite
who wields his power to injure those who
gave it to him.
Society in our large citios 1 divided
into throe classes the rich, tho politi
cian and tho workingman. The two for
mer have entered into an unholy alliance
to crush the spirit of tiio hitter and make
him feel that it is by their forbearanr
he is permitted to live a free man. In no
civilized country is there les sympathy
between tho rich and the ioor.
The capitalist is a tyrant and the
lalxrer an unwilling slavo. The former,
conscious of the purchahin jwwer of
money, asks siecial legislation to make
him richer. He knows tho most power
ful argument to convince a politician
ox convert an editor to his lew, and he
uses it effectually. Having convinced
the politician that the lalxrer doea Ttot
know whut is lest for him, the pamper
ed omceiioMer arms lilmseir with the
logic of " progress" and stoutly main
tains that the good of the community
demands that further facilities be given
to railroad monojxilies to liecome richer.
That Htylo of reasoning may soothe the
conscience, but it never can convince
tho mind. The profijx'rity of the people
cannot be separated from the good of the
masses. '
Tho advocates of "progres" have done
well, if not for the laborer, at least
for the capitalists, and tho working
classes will not forget it. The power
of labor is in tho franchise, and by an
independent and judicious use of it the
minions of capital can be driven from
place and representatives of the people
elected to the offices which are to-day
disgraced by hirelings. Many of the
working classes are Irishmen or the sons
of Irishmen who left their native land
to seek here employment and a home.
But the condition of the workingman in
America is little better than in Ireland.
On them falls the weight of taxation,
which they pay in the increased rents of
their miserable tenements and thad
vanced charges which the storekeepers
are obliged to charge. The many will
have to assert their rights at tho polls
and make the few recognize the fact
that they are not masters but stewards
of the riches they posseea, Catholic Her
ald. The Duke I Kiwi.
The progress of socialism Is, we aee.
making the Duke of Cambridge a sadder
it could not, of course, make him a
wiser man. "It was very sad, he said
at a charity dinner last night, "to think
that the maases were led to believe that
they could lieiiefit themselves by pullinf
down tho claaes.
"In this world," continued bis royal
highness, "of course it was impossible
for all of as to be on a level, for If all
were made comd one day some would
be superior on the morrow. Renewed
applause. Fortunately the world was
governed and ought to e governed by
common sense, and he hoped it would
always continue to be." Hear! hear!
But the duke forgets two things: The
first is that it is quite possible to imagine
a new order of society under which those
who "would be superior pn the morrow"
would be so in virtue of merit and not
of birth. And the second is that under
the existing order of society, though
proved capacity can often ascend, ne ef
fective means as .Professor Huxley
somewhere laments have yet been found
for making proved incapacity descend.
Westminster Gazette.
Municipal Venraa Prlvat Contract.
An inquiry directed to 29 small cities
from Maine to Texas, having their elec
tric street lamps provided and main
tained by private corporations, shows
that the average annual cost per lamp to
the cities Is $106.01. A similar Inquiry
directed to 23 small cities that own and
run their own electric street lamps shows
that the average annual cost per lamp to
tbose cities is 163.04. Jn the latter case
several of the cities obtain considerable
income from lamps supplied to private
persona.
Where's the Prophet
When Cleveland waa elected, cotton
was worth 9 cents per pound. Since his
Inauguration it has not been worth over
7 cents end keeps right on zoinz lower.
Where are those flannel mouthed proph
ets that said if Cleveland was elected
timea would be ' better and prices of
produce higher? We presume they died
in scrambling for the offices or retired
f isgruntied on pocketug their salaries,
anyhow the people got left all the same.
-Southern Mercurv.
NO. 17.
MB TIIIIERBOLIS.
GtAT INifM a
G0 OR 4 TO
TM 'tO-U-a CAUSl
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urn Tom.- Til t
ttn latiotRuu run i
t. or t ! in in irirAi.
lit. it.K I'hK hik Pf Vik uuii-
l.itt;u 1;ub,. Hum
l'l. n tit ru hie ppuir.
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WaMU.ITiX, SrpL lt.
auce poke airaiiut an cjuu.oiial
storm to-duv, bat the nntiouttrtturiit
of 111
ietvu -wrked the galleries
aud filled ttry chair on the Dvnio-
cratice Side of the S nalc c lunula r.
He pokeaaitt the utiroudiuotial
rvjH-ui of the rnuu law and the
lc.d, r.- anions the unconditional rr
ul DciiHK-rata were, coiupictiottt by
their alci,ec. Th,. few that remain
ed, (Jiriiiaii among them, took the
medicine like little .men. tiurinan
enjH-cH-d that Vance would iajwmir
thing entertaining and original
about the administration mj tv
not iu the leat diaajMiiuUiL
Senator ('-ol.juitl a rolled into the
ChainUr in an invalid crmtr and
lioU-ned with great interest U the
tsjM-ec'j. The House hL its ijuoruni
through the alwnce of uicinUr
who neni over to the Nnatf by the
doAtlS. The Mxi h commun.!.-!
he clowst attention throughout tin
lour and forty minutes of iU deliv
ery. .Senator Kanxoin um u
"TV
ntcrrsted listener. The tuany hti-
inoreet side remarks, with which it
abounded, and which at time con
vulsed the grave and solemn looking
Senators was cast on lLuiiHom T
was not a smile on hia face that in-
licated in the remotest way the
slightest feeling of hilarity, and it
was noticed that lie was one of the
few Senator who did not offer anv
congratulations al the close of the
pevch. It was a candid and eiirnif-
icant admission that Vances loeitio?i
had neither hissvmnathv or Hnrmiv.
He was evidently seriously dis
turbed by some of its sharpest ut
terances, wnen criticising the ad
ministration, aud showed dreadful
suspense and anxious exjM-ctatiou of
some u e c 1 a r a 1 1 o u of o
litical independence of the Demo
cratic "machine" Little
for Vance's voice thundered when
be characterized the Democratic
party "as the tool of wjmbined cap-
tal. Again was Kansom startled
when he vehemently said that the
National Democratic platform wn
lie from invocation to its doxology"
if it didn't mean the free coinnge
of filter. Vance was in snlendid
trim. His voice was clear and
strong and had the ring of the old
days iu it, when the people hung
with bated breath on ever? word
that fell from his lips, lie wan
dressed in a confederate irrav suit
with a red flower decorating the
latel of his coat. At the conclu
sion of the eicccb Senators fnrmit
their dignity Jong enongh to crowd
around him and extend their earn
est felicitations.
WrAT lIIK HKI'KAI. UP Tliv uuiMf-
- - mm '
MAX LAW MEANS.
Starting out with the declaration
that silver constituted one-half the
metal ic money of the world, he said
f coinage is stopped silver ceases to
live throughout the commercial na
tions of the earth, and drops out of
sight The reieal of the Sherman
law, without any substitute provid
ing for the continued coinage of sil
ver, is the end of silver money for
this generation, unless a great revo
lution of the people should restore
it, as was done after the ftaudulent
demonetization of 1873.
THE KUIN THAT FOLLOW.
Then the trouble of the defense-
less begins; the glory of the capital
ist is exaiteu; tue latuessof the usur
er waxeth, an woe be unto him who
is in debt! () ue-half of the monev
f the world's productions among it
iU habitant devolves upon the other
half the price of the remaining
money, gold, goes up that i to say
the price of every product and every
day's work goes down. It no man
doubt that thi movement is the re
sult of a conspiracy, a combination
among the money-holder of the
WOTld.
WHV THE PANIC WA8 ST A KTKI).
The iiifnt of this combination,
he said, is to increase the value of
the gold in the hands of those who
hold it, and to increase the values
of all s-curitie", personal and gov
ernmental, by making them paya
ble, which are likewise held by these
conspirators. The method of attack
on this last remaining stronghold
of silver was by the creation of a
panic.
Never, he declared, was there a
more seuseless clamor or a more
criminal disturbance of public con
fidence THE TRULII A BOLT IT.
We are told that although the
amount of gold produced from the
earth was not increasing, that there
was an extraordinary amouut of it
held in private bands in Europe and
America. That tells the whole sto-
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