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THE CAUC ASIAN
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ONKYEAK,
BIX MONTHS.
(Entered at the I'o-ifflire at (olliboro. N
C. m second clais mail matter J
VANCE AT THE FA R
We uIixh in full thii week
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State Fair.
HiH j-eeh kIjow that b i -t heart i
ri(fht aii'l that he properly umler
tanl the evil that are oppreirii;
the people, yet hi effort lakn 1-rei-tnens
ael point. This is beeaiiM
he baa not yet male up hi- mind" to
break with the machine aril taii'l
with the people. He telN the people
in one breath that they are oppo se. 1
hikI robbed by ba.l li ixlatiii 1
terel by monopoly ami rintfs, yet he
in the next breath warns them not to
take any bold xtatnl for relief. The
people, niiiht wituply paa renolutivfis
and wait, for the "broad, liberal
men" in the political parties to have
Kytnpathy for them. To paraphrase
one of hi own remaids, his heart is
with the people but his stom'ich is
with the machine.
He knows the people cannot 'ct re
lief or justice through a party owned
and controlled by the gold power and
the monopolies, yet he is opposed to
them trying to get relief through
any other source, His position i
like the Jews' religion. They don't
want to go to Hell, they want to go
Heaven, yet they refuse to accept the
only plan of salvation whereby men
can be saved.
Senator Vance tells the people to
organize, but warns them not to
form a political party. Now what
is a political party and what are its
uses?
1st. A political party is nothing
more nor less than men with mutual
interests organized, to influence and
control legislation.
2nd. The history of the country
has shown that a political party is
the most effective organization for
influencing legislation.
Now every man, to have any influ
ence on legislation, must be a mem
ber of or act with some political par
ty. Hut would a man not be a fool
to act with a party that is controlled
by men who are against his inter
ests? If he helps such a party to win,
he then puts a knife in his enemies
hands to cut his own throat.
Senrtor Vance admits that the Na
tional Democratic party is controlled
by the enemies of the people, but
says that your State government has
been largely in your interests. This
statement we challenge, if the last
legislature is to be the criterion, but
let us admit it for argument sake.
Then we ask (lov, Vance what the
State legislature, if it was wholly
with the people, could do to relieve
them of the very burdens that he
says are oppressing them? We an
swer nothing, and he is bound to an
swer the same. Then is not every
man voting against his interests when
he helps to put the National Demo
cratic party or the National Repub
lican party in power? To get relief,
the people South, West and every
where must combine under a banner
and in a patty that is not controlled
by the gold combine and the monop
olists. That party is the Populist
party. The people must through this
party elect a President and a con
gress before they will ever get relief.
This Senator Vance knows and the
manly thing for him to do is leave
the monopoly-ridden party which will
never give the people relief and to
join the Populist party ad take np
the people's banner and fight in the
ranks of his friends.
While Senator Vance assures that
what is the matter with congress, is
that they (the farmers) are not legis
lating there, and that in the State
legislature where they have figured
there are the best laws, yet he tells
the farmers in the next breath that
he does hot want or expect them to
take an active hand in these matters.
"We look to you to resist, to help to
preserve rather than to mark out and
create," is his language. To resist
only is to be negative. The farmer
has now almost exhausted himself
resisting, while his enemies gradual
ly push him to the wall. If the
farmer does not at once commence
an active and aggressive fight for his
rights, it is only a matter of time
for him to become a pauer resist
ing, when he can no longer resist.
Again the Senator says that he has
been anxiously waiting and hoping
to hear from the farmers on the
great financial question, but that he
has not heard a word. Has Senator
Vance forgotten the Legislature of
1891? Did he not then hear from
the people? Did he not receive his
commission and his instructions
from the people then? They want
now wnat tnev wanted then. When
he secures the financial reforms then
asked for and now needed more than
ever, the people will let him hear
from them again.
The Senator, while advising the
people not to form a new party,
urged them to support the party
that represented their interests. This
they will do. They have known for
some time that the Republican party
aid not, tney now see that the Deni
ocratic party does not, hence they
are nocking to trie standards of the
People's party the party of the peo
ple, for the people, and by the peo
pie, and if Senator Vance wants to
be with the people and with the people
stand, he too must follow his own
advice and join the party that repre
sents the interests of the people.
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The
Dcmo-rnt have signed an agree
ment to vote for the uneon Optional
repeal of the Sherman law. After
weeks of blunter and bluff the South
ern free Hilver MTiatotn have surrend
ered to Wall htrect. To s.ty that it
is a shamef ul nuneuder of all prin
ciple involved in the Mruggie to ei
tablish the free coinage of silver i
too apparent to rejuir assertion.
The terms of agreement are as fol
lows: 1. The repeal of the purchasing
clause of the Sherman act to take ef
fect Oct. 1, lb!4.
L The coinage of all the silver
bullion purchased between now and
the time the law expires, together
with the seigniorage on that purchase
and the seigniorage now in the Treas
ury. ;. The withdrawal from circula
tion ef all greenbacks and Treasury
notes of denominations under $10.
It provides for the absolute cessa
tion of silver purchases and aban
bons, unconditionally, the Democra
tic doctrine of free coinage. These
are the essential points in the con
troversy. The compromise takes the
position that it is possible to deceive
the people with a "makeshift" of
this kind until they are educated to
the point of abandoning a bimetallic
currency entirely. By the terms of
this agreement the Democratic party
is irrevocably committed to the Wall
street theory of finance which means
the destruction of silver as a curren
cy, and what that means to the farm
ers is too well understood by them to
need elucidation or suggestion.
Bland of Missouri, states the situa
tion exactly: "I wont vote for it,"
said Mr. Bland. "It is worse than
anything I expected, and I do not
see how men who are for the free
coinage of silver can support it."
But what free silver Democrats
will do in the face of what the Dem
ocratic Senators have done, in sign
ing this agreement, need not sur
prise anybody. "Die-in-their-tracks"
Senators have humbly and penitent
ly appended their names to the com
promise agreement. With the jubi
lation of a ratification meeting the
House passed the Wilson uncondi
tional repeal bill, and with the same
brand of fermented enthusiasm they
will agree to the Administration com
promise. THE ON'LY QUESTION ASKED
Will be: Does the Administeation
approve of it? As yet the President's
attitude is a matter of speculation.
Positive assertions aie not lacking
that the compromise has the unequn -ocal
endorsement of tne President,
This is the prevalent opinion and
there are good reasons to sustain its
accuracy. But what a spectacle it
makes of Mr. Cleveland! How di
rectly and absolutely it gives the lie
to the senseless panic clamor started
by the Administration for the pur
pose of coercing the repeal of the
Sherman law. What a commentary
upon the honesty and integrity of the
Chief Executive of a great nation
How can honest, truth-loving people
respect a party leadership that re
sorts to such shameless subterfuges?
AN ADMINISTRATION VICTORY.
Yet so far as the silver men are
concerned ' it is an Administration
triumph. Mr. Cleveland's acquies
ence in the compromise is a gross in
consistency. It properly subjects
his motives to unanswerable censure
and animadversion, but to the silver
men it means a cowardly surrender
cowardly, because the surrender
was made in the face of assured vic
tory.
BLUFFED AND STAMPEDED.
Reasons" and " explanations"
will soon be given out to account
for the silver men's snrrender. "Par
ty harmony" will be made responsi
ble for it, but the honest truth about
it is, they were bluffed at their own
game and stampeded by fear of Re
publican intervention. John Sher
man precipitated the catastrophe
when, shaking his long, boney hand
in the face of the Democrats, he
thundered out the declaration: "If
yon cannot settle this question and
will retire from the Senate chamber
we will fix it on this side of the cham
ber and do the best we can with our
silver friends who belong to us and
who are blood of our blood and bone
of our bone."
This speech, bold, defiant and ag
gressive, carried consternation to the
divided Democracy, and the effect is
realized in the steering committees
plan of settlement. What of re
proach and stultification is involved
in this compromise is obvious. What
theory, compatible with principle
and conviction, will be offered to ex
plain away what must seem' to the
people an indefensible position, can
hardly be surmised. It is clearly to
assume that they were frightened by
Republican threats and that they
have been stampeded into a position
which means their political doom.
Jonathan Edwards.
Show your paper to your neighbor.
When he reads one copy he will see
that he can not do without it
ERA OF TRANSITION
t'utiitia-l from firt age.
their uoc-j.
The ivmr of tb poor U in like rnn- ;
! uer increinjc to th difrw t starf-
tion from day to day. j
While athoojuuid men in tiii cityti- ;
mate their wealth t over $!.!W.0. it'
ran I wifely aid that tber are 100.
000 per.j.le in thU city whoar hnnjrry
for bread every day in the rar. Tb )
nunit-r -f people who aieep on lxrda, ,
and who drift from hunt wilb nowbera
to ideep. approximate t,ouo daily. The :
hil-lre of thin generation of pauper
in to tncreAiie with greater rapidity :
baa the nornvtl rate of the im reaae of
be average j-opul.'ition .f the world. j
While th? e il el uient of lifj have
thus leeu i;it-n"fied, wi- take ho foin !
th fart that the letter element of life i
are alho being intensified. The heroism 1
f this life wi itcrym wants, it needs,
i as brilliant in its individual examples
h at any tirue in the history of the
world. While criiu and corruption and .
lebanchery have increased in the city, i
hs anny of nelf aacriliciiiic men and
women who are willing to give their ,
lives for the letttnnent of mankind ,
duilv increases.
We have the mean t in n iu New
York in the world perbaps.
We also I
have HOine of the le8t men and women
in New York in the world. The intensi
fication of life in this cei.tury 1ms intro
duced a new element just here in our de
velopment of civilization which must in
the immediate future t :1 as it has not
in the pant.
WOMEN WOI'.KNW.
The number of women that have our-
ed their lives into the current stream of
active endeavor has been, within the laat
20 years, increasing as never before in
the history of the human race. Accord
ing to the report of tin- census of 1880,
there were in America among women
who earned their daily bread outside of
domestio service the following numbers
in different professions: 110 lawyers, 165
m
isters, 820 authors, .V,H journalists,
2,061 artists, 2,13(5 architects, chemists,
pharmactets, 2,100 stock raisers and
ranchers, 5,145 government clerks, 2,438
jhysicians and surgeons, 13.182 profes
sional musicians, G6,W)0 farmers and
planters, 21,071 clerks and bookkeepers,
14.4C5 heads of commercial houses, 155,-
000 public school teachers.
This was by the census of 18H0, but by
the report of the last census of lS'JO there
is received the remarkable fact that in
these 10 years the army of women who
earn their daily bread outside of their
homes now reaches the enormous total
of 2,700,000.
For the first time in the history of
economics woman has cute red as an ac
tive factor. Her influence in develop
ing the history of the next generation
can bot be marvelous. Her influence in
molding and fashioning the life of socie
to when thus brought in active contact
with its working force cannot be le68
than it has been in other spheres where
woman's influence has been felt when
woman's position is recognized as it
should be in the world of economics.
We Btand upon the threshold of an
economic evolution, of a new spcial
order. It means, sooner or later, that
woman will be emancipated from the
slavery in which she has labored In the
past, in an unequal struggle with man,
and that society in its woi king force will
be elevated and refined ami humanized
by her touch, her sympathies and her
life.
POLITICAL EQUALITY OF Tliii COMMON PEO
PLE.
Third The rise of the common people
to political equality in government with
the traditional ruling classes has been
accomplished within this century and
is but the beginning of a revolution that
is not yet accomplished. Robert Mac
kenzie says: "Siity years ago Europe
was an aggregate of despotic powers,
disposing at their own pleasure of the
lives and property of their subjects. To
day the men of western Europe govern
themselves. Popular sufrrage, more or
es3 closely approaching universal,
chooses the governing power, and by
methods more or lens (.u-.ctive dictates
ts policy.
One hundred and eighty million Euro
peans have risen from ;i degraded and
ever dissatisfied vassalage to the rank of
free and self govtri.ing men. This has
been an accomplishment which has sim
ply put into the hands of the common
people the weapons with which they will
fight their battles in the twentieth cen
tury. The battles are yet to be fought;
the revolution is yet to be accomplished.
They have simply been given the ballot,
and the consciousness of their power has
only begun to dawn upon them.
In the early part of the twentieth cen
tury we may surely look for a sufficient
diffusion of intelligence to bring this tre
mendous mass into the aggressive asser-
ion of the fullest rights of manhood.
Hitherto they have been dominated by
bosses, by tricky politicians, and they
have followed skillful leaders blindly.
AN EXPLOSION IMMINENT.
So intense are becoming these elements
of corruption that it cannot continue
longer without an explosion. The lamp
has been lit, and it has been left burning.
A woman in a western home during the
war sent a servant into the cellar with a
lighted candle to look for some object.
The servant returned without the candle.
The housewife asked where she had left
it. She said that she had left it in a bfj
rel of sand in the cellar. The housewife
remembered that there was a barrel cf
powder Btanding open in the cellar.
Without a moment's hesitation she
rushed below and found that the igno
rant girl bad thrust the candle down into
the loose powder and left it burning. She
lifted it carefully and extinguished it.
The movement for universal suffrage
in this century has placed the candle of
knowledge, without a candlestick, m the
loose powder of the common neonle.
This light of knowledge is burnine closer
and closer, and the heat is becoming
more and more intense with each mo
ment. There is no power on earth, un
der the earth or above the earth that
can remove that candle from its Dosi
tion. Bf a law as sure as the law of
gravitation, the flame is approaching
the powder, nearer and nearer every
aay. wnen it reaches the end that is.
the point of actual, conscious contact
with their mind there will be an explo
sion that will unsettle thrones and tra
ditions, whether occupied by the czar of
Russia or Richard Croker I of New
York.
INFLUENCE OF EDUCATION,
Fourth The universality of education
is a factor in the closing of the nineteenth
century which must make a new world
in the twentieth.
We have now entered rupon the democ
racy of letters. Hitherto in the history
of mankind knowledge was coafined to
t!9 few. The higher professions were
o :-n only to the sons of distinguished
i-, n. Now they are opened to the child
of the state born and reared in obscurity
and disgrace and poverty. There is no
limitation to the possibilities of human
endeavor, because education has been
brought within the reach of alb In
America we have 13,000,000 children in
our public schools. Tins means that the
next generation will be a new peonle.
With this wide diffusion of knowledge
nas come tne scientific spirit of inauirv.
New blood has been brought into our
wwUl of "ciroc. oar wuri4 of j.hiWo
Ifa j. Mea im loiyrer r.o& br the ta4
rl of Anti.e and Plti. Thj Jo
tot k whl Lm in uuht by tfce
great xaeo cf tL it atd Ujp tber.
Thr7 r.h f,r .j, f tr Tser
refa to l bound by th- tra liti'jn cf
tb tst, Th tim w when kcowl
ede u cotifln! to a t -ntn chqu in
HM-iety. Tby hd their ix-tiliar id.
They elueai m ih-ir own j-
i-clutr nchof!. They th-n,ht in ret.
Their mind never trvel-d l-youd -r-taan
well defined hniitati. 'in. and in ojc
neqnence thr traveled in a circle con
tinuotnly. A GENERAL fcEAPJVKTMENT.
With th universal d:ffnjou of knowl
edge and the introduction of new spirit
in the field of investigation, all this has
been chan-d. Nothing it now nettled
mv that which ii titled upon the b.ucs
of proved fact. Every trieliuon, ery
theory, every creed, must tand tint Ut
of IhU investigation. Ev ry theory of
state, every notion of nx-iety. every
theory of religion, must 1- resubmitted
to thin court of last adjustment the
truth, the whole truth, nothing but the
truth.
For the first time in the history of the
world this spirit dominate ih educated
mind. Hitherto we have simply clung
to the past with pa-ionate and blind de-
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vouun Kiner xvy.iu tn espresse ima
ancient laeai:
Yr&'. Men will tlhiir.
With a love to the lata.
Ami wildly fling
Their anntt rouml thi-ir twist
As the vine thm i iiiig to the i.ik t hut fall.
. the ivy tut lies rouml tin i ruiiul- .1 vllg;
i'nT the dust of the jmst wjin- hi-urls higher
priie
Than the stars that fitt.-.Ii out frw ihe fntore'a
bright skit-d.
HE VISION OF THE ;iKKDH.
This was in the old days. Now all
things are being made new. All things
are being brought in question. Nothing
is accepted as authoritative lecause it is
ancient. The creeds of Christendom are
all undergoing radical revision. The
traditionalists may resist with all their
power they fight against thy btara.
The creeds of the world within the
next generation will be fixed on facts,
not fancies. Superstition and tradition
are being destroyed with a rapidity that
will give the world a new religion with
in the next 20 years, juid that religion
will be the Christianity of Jesus Christ
in its simplicity as Jcmi lived it and
preached it. It will be the religion, in
other words, of the spirit, not the letter.
The barriers of national lines and
prejudice have all been broker, down.
The heathen world is now in vital con
tact with the Christian world and the
Christian world's civilization.
A hundred years ago Japan was utter
ly isolated from the rest of mankind.
There was a law in force providing that
"no ship or native of Japan should quit
the country under pain of forfeiture and
death; that any Japanese returning
from a foreign country should be put to
death; that no nobleman or soldier
should be suffered to purchase anything
from a foreigner; that aiy person bring
ing a letter rupm aoroau snouia cue to
gether with all his family and any who
might presume to intercede for him."
CHRISTIANITY IN JAPAN AND CHINA.
Every heathen nation liaslnjen opened
to Christian influences and to the ad
vance of the civilization of Christian na
tions. Not only this, but they have of
necessity been compelled to study mod
ern science. Japan stands totlay prac
tically within the pale of modern civi
lization. I took my seat in the Johns
Hopkins university around the fceminary
table, in the study of Rlitical and social
sc ience, with young Japanese students
from the capital of Japan. China is
studj-ing the methods of the modern
world and introducing of necessity mod
ern inventions. The whole human race
a thus of necessity being brought into
vital contact and this for the first time
hi the history of mankind.
POPTJLAR DISCONTENT.
Thus the universal spread of education
among all peoples ushers us immediately
upon a new era in the history of man
kind. We are not satisfied with the
present attainment. The workingman'8
child who receives the same education
as the millionaire will not be content to
be his slave in the next generation, and
there is no power of church or Btate or
society that can hold him so, for there
are no traditions that can bind him.
President Andrews of Brown univer
sity says: "If anything has been made
certain by the economic revolution of
the last 23 years, it is that society ca-inot
much longer get on upon the old liber
tarian, competitive, go-as-you-please sys
tem to which so many sensible persons
seem addicted. The population of the
great nations is becoming too condensed
for that."
Bishop Westcott of Cambridge uni
versity says: "On every side imperious
voices trouble the epose which our b
dolence would wish to keep undisturbed.
We can no longer dwell apart in secure
isolation. The main interests of men
are once again passing through a great
change. They are most surely turning
from the individual to the society.
The author of "God In His World"
says: "We are now approaching such a
crisis. No human wisdom can predict
its shaping any more than it can prevent
the issue. The air is full of auguries,
and even our fiction has become very
precisely apocalyptic. It is theoretic
prophecy, anticipating the realization of
perfect scientific and social economics
the paradise of outward comfortable
ness."
William T. Stead sayst "Everywhere
the old order is changing and giving
place unto the new. The human race is
now at one of the crucial periods in its
history when the fountains of the ereat
deep are broken up, and the flood of
change submerges all the old established
institutions and conventions in the midst
of which proceeding generations have
lived and died."
CONSCIOCSNESS OF POWR.
It is impossible to educate the human
race, without at the same time lifting
the human race into the consciousness
of the resistless power of numbers. We
are now about to enfer upon the period
of activity which will be the result of
this universal consciousness of the in
herent power of manhood. Who can
foretell its results?
The child of the hod carrier today is
better trained than kings and princes in
the not very far past. All the dishes
placed on the table of Louis XIV were
tasted in the presence of the king before
he would touch them, and each guest
was supplied with a spoon for the pur
pose of helping himself from a common
dish. Anne of Austria, the queen who
was celebrated for her beautiful hands.
it is said once gave a piece of meat to her
neighbor, which she had just taken from
her plate with her fingers, and allowed
him (and this was the point which the
historian recorded) as a special favor to
uck off what remained on the hand.
The child of the commonest working-
man that attends our public school is
more cultured in all the essentials of
real civilization than were kings and
queens and princes in the eighteenth
century. When the common herd are
thus lifted to the position of kin ire. ther
will not be long in fitting themselves
witn a crown.
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1 know there ha leen a grrat deal
f trouble in tbi rountry, Mlow j
itizens. and not unf rrqaently I am
appealed to for Itod'n sake to do :
notnelhing. Let unconditional i- !
j-! pass in order that thi crisis j
may put off. and time pet little ;
Wlter Fellow citizens, if 1 were to;
io so even at th entreaty of every j
man in North Carolina. I would 1j a ;
traitor to the men I serve, o deep is j
my eonvietion that it is better to en-I
dure these ilin, which are for a mo- '
inent, for the sake of the more far'
reaching remedy. lout!e standard;
of money is. I think, the remedy. ,
nd 1 feel that I must stand by it.
It cannot lx for long.
.Now us for this panio. When it
comes down to the ultimate analysis.
what produced it: At first every
thing was attributed to the Sherman
aw. They sav the Sherman law
takes the gold out of the country,
while in a short time the gold com
mences coming back. Then was the
Nheiruau law responsible for its go
ing out ami coming back both? Was
it a trap like the old negro's trap
for varmints, that "kotch "em going
and koteh 'em coming!" Why, when
we come to iuquire into that thing,
we find that the gold that went out,
Mr, President, went out neither ac
cording to the law of supply and de
mand, nor according to the Sherman
law. It was sent out purely on spec
ulation by bankers in New York,
and in many cases that gold was
shipped abroad, my countrymen, at
a loss, because it is known to all
those who know anything about ex
ehonge that there is no money to be
made shipping gold across the ocean
when the exchange is 487$ and up
wards, and a vast quantity of this
money had left this country within
the last twelve months, the leaving
of which was attributed to the Sher
man law, was absolutely sent over
to London at a loss to th men who
shipped it. The Sherman law was
in the way of the Speculators, and
they wanted to attribute the leaving
of that gold to the operations of the
Sherman law, and ever ship-load of
gold that left the port of New York
disturbed stocks and lowered them,
and these speculators bought in all
the stocks at a low price and shipped
toe gold right straight back from
Liverpool, a great quantity of it
coming back in the unbroken pack
ages in which it was shipped. The
Sherman law purchased 4,5u0,000
ounces of sillver every month, and it
was paid tor in Treasury notes,
which were put in circulation at the
rate ot $48,000,000 $30,000,000 every
year; and then they complained that
the scarcity or money was the cause
of hard times. Then they attributed
on the other hand, the hard times to
the law which increased the curren
cy $48,000,000 a year. Still, that
would not do. Then what? Then
they said it all came from the want
of confidence. Well how is it with
the New York bankers What is the
want of confidence! Well, they said,
we are afrid gold will go out of the
country by the operation of the
Sherman law, and gradually the
government of the United States
will return to a sillver basis and all
the obligations that are now out
shall be paid in silver. Well, who
says that f Do you say so, Mt. New
York banker? Well, when he was
pressed, then he would say no? Well,
they said the bankers in London and
the French and the German bankers
have not any confidence. What the
devil excuse my French if you
please what has the want of con
fidence of the English and German
bankers to do with this country?
Well, the truth is we borrow money,
say the New York brokers fiom the
English bankers, and we have to
give security, and unless the Sher
man law is repealed and we return
to a gold standard right at once, we
cannot borrow any more money
from them. Now that is the situation.
A delegation that was in Washing
ton from Baltimore the other day
called upon me and talked about this
want ofconfidence. And when he
came down to the last resort he said
he had confidence, the gentlman wno
was talking to me, that all Ameri
cans had confidence, but the Euro
pean bankers had not. I said: "so
you have come here to ask me, an
Americrn Senator and the represen
tative of a sovereign State, to legis
late at the dictation of a foreign
banker because he has not
confidenc. He is a liar when he
says it. He knows we can buy his
little island out whenever we feel
like it."
Now that is positively the situa
tion. We are called upon to legis
late in the interests of and at the
dictation of foreign bankers and
capitalists, and the penalty we are
to suffer is they will not send us any
more money unless we discard silyer
and come to an absolute gold stand
ard. They have no confidence. I
have confidence in the American
people. I nave confidence in the
fact that every dollar owing by
the American . people will be paid
not only in such money as is prom
ised, but in better money. For there
is no outstanding obligation of the
United States now payable in gold;
not one, and there is not an obliga
tion outstanding of the United
States of any kind that has not been
redeemed in gold whenever ask for.
Eeven the silver certificates issued
if any of you happen to have one
in your pocket, I have not, I am
sorry to say you will find that one
silver dollar or ten silver dollars, as
the case may be, has been deposited
in the Treasury payable on demand.
Now every lawyer on the earth will
tell you that is redeemable in silver,
and every one of these certificates
when presented has been paid not
only in the money that we promised,
but better money than we promised,
in gold; and yet these fellow say
that they have not confidences, and
we are to destroy the constitutional
money of our farmers and lower the
price of every pound of cotton and
of every bushel of wheat, until it
comes down to the starvation and
the ruin that everywhere marked the
demonetization of money in order to
give confidence to those fellows over
there. If I do it I haye quit swear
ing and am trying to be a better
man well, I will just say simply I
will not do it. Let that be sufficient,
and let some of those fellows who do
not mind a little profanity get be
hind the house and do the cursing
for me.
The appeal is often made, fellow
citizens, and justly and properly
made to Senators, who are standing
in the breach against this demone
tization of silver, that there are so
many interests that Are actually suf
fering on account of this protracted
ifB v.tul it 'Uld '
r-. -. t. irivr away.
: i a . uy of th- Hk una
itbrir fnni rrompary rhi pp
! with a threat and mv "if vu d "
give away, we w.ii giv anotet iurn
to the rrew i.!,d we .ill bring ou
the hard ttrur agair and increase
them.
The.-declarations, feilow-itneas
are proof positive that tbey pro
duced lb other panic, and when
they reiterate thee threats the dis
position of strong independent men
is to resist them. But it is hard to
resist the claim that the mouey in
terests are suffering beyond any
other. The trouble is. fellow-citi-zens,
that the bankers and the bic
kers and that kind f men make the
iuot noise when they ar- hurt and
you hear of it The" farmers suffer
in silence. And they tell you, and tell
you truly, that the whole community
ought to prosper together: that if the
bankers and the brokers prosper the
country will proser, or rather the
country is prosjeriug; that the bank
ers and brokers and money dealer
prospering is evidence that the coun
try is prospering. Well, there is
something in that. And let me tell
you another great fact to bt consid
ered in this oouuectiou. There nev-j
er w- you never heard of a con
dition iu your life, where the banks,
and the railroads and the manufac
tures or any other mstitutiou suffer
ed if the f aimers wet prosperous.
You never heard it in yur life If
the farmer's products find a ready
sale at good prices, -very other in
stitution in the laud is prosperous,
because the farmer is the foundation.
Now if a house needs repair and the
foundation is giving away, and the
roof is becoming rotten, and the
weather boarding is coming off, and
the doors and windows rattle in the
wind, and you come along with a
carpenter and you tell him your
house needs repair and he must re
pair the roof first and if he repaiis
the roof the foundation will lie all
right; and if he makes the doors
close tightly and the windows cease
to rattle, that the foundation is
bound to be all right, if the roof
and the windows and the doors pros
per, that is not exactly according to
the common sense that characterize
the people of this country. You can
get the commonest mechanic in
Wake county, or in North Carolina,
a rellow who will mash his thumb
and lose religion every time he
drives a nail, and he will tell you to
fix the foundation first; the roof is
bad, it is true, and the doors and
the windows needs fixing, but my
dear sir, if we fix them ever so good,
and the foundation gives .way, the
whole concern sinks. Is not that so?
Now, the farmer's interest is the
first iu this greiit land. The farmer's
interest is the foundation of all
other interests. Without the cotton
and the wheat and the beef and the
hog products which grow in the
South and upon the Western plains,
the sails of everey sliip in our har
bors would flap idly against the
masts; every railroad would cease to
run a freight train; every manufact
ory in the cauntry would discharge
half of its hands, if it did not shut
up altogether, if it wore not for the
products of the farmer, but when
ever they are abundant and a ready
sale at a fair price, they furnish life
and vitality and energy like the
circulation of the blood into the re
motest fibres of the whole social
structure, and all flourish together.
Therefore, in selecting the remedy
for the haid times, and in providing
against the recurrence of them I
say, we should consider the needs of
the agriculturl classes of the com
munity first and when they are se
cured, all other good things will fol
low. If they continue to languish,
if the farms continue to be
covered with mortgages, if the
homestead continues to dwindle in
means and prosperity, then every
thing else will languish also, except
the auctioneer, and his business will
become enlarged and wax greatly.
Those aro the ideas I have of these
things.
Fellow citizens, I know you have
got too much sense to suppose that I
came here to talk to you about ag
riculture. I don't know anything
WHAT DID YOU SAY?
THE GREENVILLE WAREHOUSE,
Where you will find FORBES & EVANS, the two Leading Warehouse-
OLwS&wn- We"kn7 rehouse - w open for tZon
aud OLD MAN GUSS is still conducting the sales. The prices of Tobac
co have advanced a great deal for the past two weeks and having a strong
corps of buyers we can guarantee as much for the weed as vou cm possi
bly obtain on any other market As proof we will quote you a few prices
11 L. GRIFFIN.
Pounds. Price. Arat Average.
32 $30.00 $ 9.60
250 20.50 51.25
282 $G0.85 21. GO
HARDY & TUCKER.
Pounds. Price. AmL Average.
46 $ 6.80 $ 3.12
80 22.00 17.60
50 , 7.80 3.90
65 16.25 10.56
137 30.00 41.10
378 $76.28 20.00
AmL Average.
$ 3.40
29.20
29 75
25.80
$88.15 33.77
IRBER.
AmL Average.
$ 7.81
12.00
1.35
8.94
14.50
4.83
$49.43 19.00
JROOKS.
Amt. Average.
$12.25
15.00
3.90
5.40
22.50
29.40
25.61
$114.06 23.25
evekCCYoAN eye0penCT
nZnUL QCan Dtaff0rdto
Pounds. Price.
17 $20.00
73 40.00
85 35.00
86 30.00
261
J. S. B
Pounds. Price.
22 $35.50
50 24.00
23 5.90
73 12.28
50 29.00
43 11.25
261
SIMON
Pounds. Price,
86 $14.25
50 30.00
15 26.00
12 45.00
45 50.00
84 35.00
197 13.00
$489
abo.t it. MTV ttu mux ointr
uf oM.u.t) iutr.hceure. foi.oweU
tbe mn Wit " f
. J..v it Mr observation of ag
riculture were l Ukrn ,hM
ouUid of the fen-e t a f ditance. (
Hot. mr friends, if there is any man
in North Carolina, or in the I nttU j
States of America, that na oeen
der obligations to his peopl for j
repeated, undeserved kindn a ad
fouSdriice, am that man. And
tth all strength of mind and wul
that I possess, I have studied those
questions that affect you. It is not
out of place. I conceive, to speak to
vou of this silver matter, althguu at
an agricultural fair, for it is not a
partisan question. The great lemo
cratic partv is split wide in two on
this question of silver. The Repub
lican partv. while not so absolutely
divided, is very much divided upou
the subject of silver, and, therefore.
I say it is not inappropriate, or out
of taste, for me to speak to you at a
strictly agricultural meeting on this
question, this great question of fi
nance, which so greatly iuterests
you. I have done so to the best of
my ability. I wish you all prosper
ity and happiness.
1 do trust that in some inmgs ju
will think I am competent to advise
you. I advise you to do nothing
rash. I advise you to continue your
conseivative methods, and I do pray
that you will take means to eoiubiue
aud organize and make your strength
felt in the affairs of the natoin as it
has been felt in the affairs of your
State with such beneficial results. I
trust earnestly that you will do it,
and my word for it, you will never
regret it.
One of the happiest things to me
that has occuried in the past several
years is the fact tnat you have as a
farming class determined that ypu
had other duties to perform liefides
makiug your daily bread and mine,
and your people, with great unani
mity, like little children going to,
school, have been seeking informa
tion and learning of those questions
of finance which so much affect you.
Keep on at it. The day will come
when power will be held by those
who have a majority, aud you have
the majority in this great land of
ours. The only question is that when
that power comes into your hands,
whether you will abuse it. Let us
pray God that you will not. It is
natural when men have been op
pressed and wrong has Wen done to
them for so treat a while, that when
their hour of powei comes they can't
stop at the line of moderation. The
horrors of the French revolution
were just in proportion to the injury
which had been heaped upon the
people there for centuries. It was
begun bj' the Girondists, who at
tempted to equalize all the taxes of
France as the remedy for the old
feudal privileges. The barons paid
no taxes to support the government
whatever, and the proposition was
made in the first general assembly
of the French people for the equal
ization of taxes, to make a noble
man pay taxes as common men, just
as the peasant did. It was adopted
and made with universal approba
tion. And the authors having found
out that they could redress one
wrong so easily, advanced a little
further, and thinking that they could
go along as they had begun, advuee
ed beyound the bounds with visible
ferocity and bloothirsty cruelty, and
the first man at the guillotine was
this mad man who began the Gri'iu
dists. So with the farmers of Aruer-
ie-a, who have submitted so long to
this legislation which has robbed
them. High taiiffs, which prevent
the coming in of foreign products
and prevent the foreigners from
buying their products, and at the
same stroke of the pen, compelled
them to buy all their supplies at the
highest market in the world and sell
everything they had to sell at the
cheapest market in the world. Then
came the national banking laws, by
which the State banking institutions
were swept out of existence, aud
power was given to the national
bank to control the currency, to con
tract it whenever they thought there
was too much, and to inflate it when
they thougnt there was too little.
After these things then comes the
ARTHUR FORBES.
A verage.
15.20
Average.
595
$69.80
12.00
IVEY SMITH.
Price.
$11.00
14.25
AmL Average.
$ 5.28
7.55
18.48
9.43
20.91
31.05
8.00
33.00
41.00
20.50
23.00
12.50
$100.70 21.00
These are a sample of the Sales
we have made. We publish some of
the lowest as well as some of the
highest Give us a trial and we will
try to hold your patronage.
FORBES & EVANS,
GREENVILLE, N. C.
Oc 12-4t.
It is War t.h hanVa arwl
ohea against the people. Which side
are you on ?
Pounde. Price. AmL
116 $ 9.00 $10.44
81 23.50 19.03
15 40.00 6.00
25 25.00 C.25
80 8.00 G.40
317 $48.12
WARREN TUCKE1
Pounds. Price. AmL
17 $21.00 $ 3.57
125 7.10 8 87
21 21.50 4.51
12.25 5.26
51 15.00 7.65
124 15.25 18.91
84 11.50 9.66
130 8.75 H.37
Pounds.
48
53
56
23
102
135
64
481
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wire and .
ni evry j. .
down. I -ay !r
been plun l.-r 1 ,
ed lo?.
should i,t ...
bands you . ;
loo far. I hv. ...
manifested in S",,
le us hop.- that
into porr. h. i.
send to W,!,., k.,
to represent J on ,
:3
jonty. that 0!. M
and moderate n ,
that will nu-et v ,
your cuntr tu !,. . ,
rluetiee ill iff., A.
til it Iteconit". a v
which it is d . t ,
you will not i,. , ,
revengeful, that , . '
advantage and t .;
class against rl.tx,
a
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of the induotria! . .... ,
another, but thti v.
that broadni v w !,,,'
tO you When he
your fields aud ;;,
fellow citizeux, 1 t,.v
attention. I am , rr
greater number pr. -..
self, for I cannot
but on account o? xi
hoie to-iuorrow m,,i
aud the next da v. ;u.
4
the week Will
crowds and crowd ,.j :
pie of Noith Carol,-., ..""I'
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be kept up. 1 am , i . ..
for your kiud att lit,,.!,.
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Dr. Cyrus '1 l.onq,.,, .
iA-ctuivr of North r.ir;
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lion, iiiirry .kinim, .
ii ii i . i
me puoiie hi the com! !,..!, t,
cordon Wednesday, Noi,.,,.
at 10 a. in. and J::;u p. ni
KverylsHly is ini:.(! iv
Thompson ili.scns ih, j.rii,,-,
the Alliance, ami ih, 1!,,.
Skinner on the ifMn of thrdi
IteuK'inher the date, N.v. 1,
come uml brin' jour m-ihW.
it i i hum mm.
There will ! a -niu.1 ra!ifli
Grange, X. ('., of the fn.-mhV
form, on Saturday, N.n. pj
Everybody is cordially umw
i i i . . i .
4 I t I . . 1 1
uonic iiui auu near oi. UnrrfV
uer, the champion of l;. form, c
the issues of the hour, other
crs are expected to ! jir. M iit. u
everybody and let n lut? i -time.
There is more catanli iu tl ,
tion of the country thn !)
diseases put togetliet, h1 ut'u.
last few years was supM.tjto
curable. For a gn at ihut
doctors pronounced it a Im fdi
and presc ribed local n -nit-Jin. i
by constantly failing to mr;
local treatment, pronotwi k a
curable, oeienee has pruvnwv
to be a constitutional !im- if
therefore requires innstli&E
treatment. Hall's atarrhc un.lt
ufactured by F. .1. cbeney ft n
loledo, Ohio, is the only mutf
tional cure on the market. It
ken internally in doses f n.tulOH
to a teasnoonf ul. It act dirtt
i on the blood and mucous surf
I the system. Tiiev offer w LuH
idollais for auv case it fail tod
, Send for circulars and t 'stim'H
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yearn, niueli of that time v-ry "4rlaZI
live yearn I wm treated by one I't'l1
ilnuously. I van In biuine. I'"' tTi
retire on account of my tiefclth- J
'tin umu my rnenan trim i rui j ,
nuinWi. My feet and ilnitw " ;'
ten, a;. ! I wmh lnded In a m H.iuh 0
leu a iM-ritlemaa dire-rd mr
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had been cured by the n uAMJ
ii train a ktronjr, healthy woman. '
a Imi tie of the Heart Cure, and
an hour after taking the rt Lp
feel a decided Improvement In i'1"
of my blood. When I had takm tf
could move my ankles, wmiethlni Zl
done for montha.and my llm" rZ
leii i mHoiik that tbey aeemed alaor" u
Hef.re I had taken one bottte ZA
neri i tire the nwelllnir baa '
and f ':im tin nm.ti htfjp ttiut 1 1
work. n my rerommendatlon fjJ
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W. Harrl-ou SUChloairo, III
Dr.
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eminent MiecialUt In heart A-":.A
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ur. allien Medical M..r-' Lt
receipt of prlee. tl per bot lie. 'x,?fi
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A complete school in every rj
lar. Students first year fro feJ
South. Special rates for Octo,
November. Car fa be
Send for circulars.
M. M. LEMMOXD, Pi
OcL 12-4L
Teacher Wnnte
A ladv teaebpr wanted fot-J
borhood scbnnl in a moral i
community. Will be eJT
teacu aoout 20 pupils. -"wiV
aretireSSsss
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