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si THE CAUCASIA! a I a 4 n VOL. XII. EDITOR'S CHAIH. - -,y , ON OF THE EDITOR ON THE ": " SSUES OF THE DAY. r v rv congressman who claims to ;n f.tvor of free coinage, but at' t' a compromise wnn me goiu which provides for the stoppage .j- Kjii.r coinage at a future date jixn! in the hill, makes a complete urrciider. Me surrenders me pnn fur which he had been contcud ;cg lb- agrees for silver to be sen IHl t i! to death and. the day of exe catinn to W fixed. W hen a man has n -.-ritenccd to death and the day hv.-d f-r the hanging that man id no unn,. i4 citizen, before the law he is jrtt.i. St is true the Sherman law is j ni t'-.' shift," but it is a living mak-'ift and the day for ite death ; not tixed. If it is not murdered hv the friends of silver it will eou tiD!'' ' hvc until a full free coinage la siipt-rceeds it- Keep your eye on thf t'i;:i hu will compromise with tfie t in inies of the people and give up the little that we have. Whfi. you swap horses get a better one or don't swap at all. The I'.irniingham Age Herald in a hi.lii)-: editorial on last Friday eaid : 'Is it possible that a coalition is funned, and is it true that the car of tvniiiny is to be pulled by the pie bald u-;un of Cleveland and G res ham, oorhees and Sherman, Hill and Lodge, and Mills and Hoar over and crush the life out ot the sacred rights of a majority of the Demo cratic Senators, and of the Demo cratic party in the Senate 'i Are we railed upon to condemn and sneer at the lin n who have always been loyal ana urave ana true, because tnev have dai"d to do what they believed to he nht '? "Where are we drifting ? Is it not time to halt, and ask are we Democrats ?" The Democratic party has sold out to the gold bugs and left all true Democrats. If you are really a Dem ocrat you are not with the party. Nr w what are you going to do about it? Will you give up your convic tions and follow along as a tail to the gold bug kite, or will you join the people under the banner of the Populist party and fight for the right ''. The leaders of the national Demon-uric party in congress and the big dailies say that if the Democratic party now in power can not pass the bill to strike down silver "that it will show itself nnworthy of the confi dence reposed in it by the American people." This is demagoguery. If these congressmen and papers would tell the truth they should rather say that the party will show itself un worthy of the "confidence" reposed '.n it by the gold trust and monopo lies who put up the money to elect Cleveland. Whenever a monopolist has a scheme on foot he always ad vocates it in the name of the Ameri can people. This is forgery and should be condemned by the people at the ballot box. Senator Allen, of Nebraska, made & speech at Alexandra, Va., a few flays since, he said : "You can't tell the difference be tween a Democrat and a Republican id the Senate now unless you've got a marK on them, said he. "Senatoi Sherman and his gang are for gold, ad Senator Yoorhees and his fol- 0t rs are for the same "There never was a stronger or fiercer tight in the Senate than now," he added. "The friends of silver are wing held up to scorn as obstruc tionists and lilhbusters, but I never rejoiced in such a title more than o-night, for I am fillibustering on half of the farmers, the laboring jn, and never, so help me God, so UJg as strength is given me, will I rreuder to this insolent money Mer which tries to control the des tuu of the Nation." ur readers will remember our cnI'iamt against the Richmond & Danville R. R. for taking off the finger accommodation on the 5 u clock afternoon train from Golds- We are glad to state that they ha ve reconsidered their action and PQt the passenger coach on again. TE DEMO.REPU3L1CANS IN KANSAS. The Democratic and Republican Politicians in Kansas are joining hands ainst the people. They held Jiut convention in Seward county tfnuuv und nominated a fusion '.'liirikt Vs TVTn 1 iaf Tint thisjs rrf..l.. -..1 1 ...1 , r'itviiy natural nucu we ecx; Sherman, the leader of the Yv.i r f v i ti nnn rrrocj u nrf JeV(i returning thanks tr TJa- P'liean congressmeu for their loval ttort" ucn things are opening es of honest Democrats and ,,.Dest tepublicaua in the South and It U srettin or time for the lple who JiTf nnruL-l Iria villa ?oll combine and the monop- - V. J get together. n e sum...,, ii . . in? K i w w W mucil now. We nev- OUR Tit I P. THE REFORM PRESS ASSOCIATION, CHICAGO AND THE WORLD'S FA R. MttKHm Full, Watkln. Ul.in, BM1 Ibr National Capital. No. 2. (THE FAIU CONTINUKD.) We closed our article by saying that there were over four hundred buildings on the grounds. We went through most of them, but cannot even undertake to describe those that w did examine. There is one build ing, however, and its exhibit that de serves considerable attention, that is, THE TttANSKORTATIOX BUILDING. This exhibit is not only interest ing for what is on exhibition, but also tor the mighty issues that it suggests for settlement in the near future. You cannot walk through it and look at the mighty agencies of modern civilization there on exhi bition without being impressed with the great transportation juestion that it is destined to play an import ant part in future political cam paigns. There is an article in the September number of The Cosmo politan Magazine, that not only dis cusses and describes this buildiug and exhibit as well, or better, than we can do it, but also expresses our sen timents on the necessity for nation alizing the highways of the country. 1 he ablest thinkers of the country who are not party servers, are begin ning to ralizeand to have the man hood to say, that a monopoly thac effects the interest of everybody, should not be used by private indi viduals for private gain, but by the public for public good. We clip the following article from The Cosmo politan Magazine: "At the left of the superb arch which gives entrance on the lagoon to the HaTl of Transportation is a relief which shows an ox-cart, its cumbrous wheels dragging slowly along through the heavy sand, and on its seats the most uncomfortable of travelers, who look upon the journey as an crdeal, a forcible pic ture of the discomforts of travel in ages gone by. On the opposite side of the porch, in strongest coutrast, is a luxurious section of a palace car, its occupants reading or looking out through the plate-glass windows, an attentive porter serving their lunch eon in a word, travel made a pleas ure and a delight. "Higher up on the archway are two inscriptions, one from Macaulay: 'Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing-press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge dis tance have done the most for civili zation and one from Lord Bacon: There are three things which make a nation great and prosperous, a fer tile soil, busy workshops and easy conveyance for men and goods from blace to place.' Standing in the mas sive doorway beneath the inscriptions, between these pictures of past and present, one catches a glimpse of the development of transportation from the ox-cart to the palace car in teu thousand exhibits. He is impressed with the idea that just at the present time this question of transportation is probably the most important of all others to the people of the United States. Neither Bacon or Macaulay thought that methods would so soon be invented which would surpass the wildest dreams of their days and gen erations, which would be replete with possibilities for human happiness, but which, under the peculiar sys tem of the times, would be used to enslave commerce and almost threat en the existence of free government. They saw only seeds of invention from which, would spring great plants of beauty and riches, but containing within the kernel of the fully ripen ed fruit a worm which, if not de stroyed, will consume plant end flow er." What a wide world the word trans portation has been made to cover un der one roof. A great section of the hull of one of the modern steam ships rises up sixty or seventy feet into the air,significant in the strength and perfection of engineering, in the splendor of its furnishings, and in skill shown in the construction of its parts, of every modern art. Every thing has been brought into play for the comfort and safety of the ocean traveler, every device, from the moat complicated of triple expansion powers down to the tiny electric cars. A little beyond this stands the ex hibit of another kind of transporta tion, the transportation of energy through a mighty forge hammer from one of the great steel works, which have sprung up in response to the needs of naval construction. Near by, a specimen of the work which it forges, a giant shaft, made to carry the power from the ship's great engines to the mammoth pro peller. Oh, the etrength of it! The mightiness of it! And yet, the little ness of it all ! The story is told by this piece of crepe on the mainmast of this beautiful model of the great est of modern battleships, this model which has in place its turrets and armor seemingly sc inienefcrable, its huge guns, tetween decks, light d up with tiny electric lamps, tilled with tiny figures of its complement of six hundred sailors; the Exposition gal lery overlooking it is crowded with spectators; they wear solemn faces and speak in low tones. '-How was it possible?" is the question they ask of each other. The model at which they are looking is that of the Victo ria, sent here as the pride of the British navy, the perfection of me chanical skill, the, greatest work of the greatebi naval artisans of the world, a floating fort, which seemed almost beyond the reach of injury, yet by an experiment which sud denly has placed the powers of the ram infinitely beyond all other mod ers destructive powers sent to the bottom of the sea within a short quarter of an hour. What a curious transposition of inventions. This model, sent to convince the world of England's naval power, now that the original lies bottom upward beneath the waters of the Mediterranean, serves as an object lesson before which the officers of all navies come to pouder and determine that the de velopment of naval construction has been brought to a reductio ad absur dum. Under the head of "Transporta tion" we find in one corner an exhi bit of rapid-firing guns, and in un happy juxtaposition, the complement of this a magnificent vehicle for the transportation of bodies, gorg eously carved in ebony, splendidly panelled, funerally draped with wav ing plumes. Near by, an exhibit for the transportation of pleasure, a Russian sleigh, supported oh dol phins .which are exquisite produc tions of ceramic art, in appearance too beautiful and too fragile to trust beyond the drawing room. Still an other exhibit combines both pleasure and usefulness; these are long gal leries devoted to the highway-pervading bicycle, the workingman's pleasure vehicle, the most recent step in the progress towards putting the poor man upon an equality with the rich man. And, by the way, it is worth while reflecting, as a train on the most modern of electric roads rumbles by, that there is a steady advance in this levelling of distinctions between the poor and rich. Long before his death, Mr. Jay Gould had seen the day when he could no longer ride in his carriage from his home on Fifth avenue to his office on lower Broad way. Invention, utilized by his hand, had levelled the distinction in carri age between himself and the poorest laborer of New York. He could hot afford to spend an hour in rattling over the rough paving-stones of Broadway, when with a minute's walk to an elevated station he would be able to save two-thirds of his time, to him so precious. And, while on thi3 subject, I must allow myself to be diverted by anoth er thought The electric railway which traverses the length of the Exposition grounds, is one of the orrP!iffcst i!flicrhhs nf flip pntirp V.xnrk- o o r sitious. Without smoke or cinders, without the discomfort of closed wiudows in hot weather, it swiftly glides over a well-constructed road bed, the breeze fanning the passenger into comfort in the warmest weather, and the ride one of absolute pleasure. It will be incomprehensible if Mr. George (ion Id, after visiting the Ex position, and seeing the perfect and almost noiseless working of this ele vated road, shall not immediately discard the use of engines upon the elevated roads in New York, no mat ter how many millions may be tied up in them. It is such a question of comfort to the community that its consideration should not be delayed. Two-thirds of the nuisance of the elevated road would be removed for those living along its route, A ride in an open car from Harlem to the Battery would be preferable to a car riage ride in Central Park, and the cars, which now travel without pas sengers for many hours of the even ing, would be filled as completely as are the top seats of the Fifth avenue omnibuses on a very hot summer eight. Another interesting exhibit of transportation power, though not so distinctly in evidence as the elevated railway, is an operating model of an electric car, with a cone-shaped, elec tric motor at either end, resting be tween wheels which are ten feet in diameter and steadied by pairs of horizontal wheels pressing against third or fourth rails for the sake of GOLDSBOItO, X. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER ' security. This car is intended to j cover distance at the rate of from one hundred to one hundred and fif- ty ni'les per hour. It may be merely i a dream of the inventor at the pres ent, but unless some superior method takes it place, it will U an actuality within a very few years. Inasmuch as the jiostal service is growing more exacting in its de mands for rapid traiifjKjrtation, a bill will probably intrtKluced into the next congress, providing fur tbt construction oi an electric service between New and Chicago. St Louis, Cincinnati, Pittsburg, Washington and Philadelphia, providing for the construction of an electric railway, to be used exclusively by the postal service, upon which the mails may be sent through at the rate cf at least one hundred miles an feour, Should it pass, the execution oij the plau will be an object lesson in the governmental control of public high ways. Should it not pass, then in quiries will be made in the course of time as to its fate. The people al ways wake up and ask these questions in the course of time. Side by side on the beautiful ca nals and lagoons, which give access to every portion of the Exposition grounds, are two classes of bouts, which represent almost the oldest and the newest form of transporta tion. Here the Venetian gondolier, standing in the high stern of his craft, a boatman trained by the cen turies, picturesque in costume, with the graciousness of a hundred gener ations of public service. But as he moves his oar in long graceful sweeps through the water, there glides past him the most modern of conveyan ces, noiseless, with apparent power, with no evidence of steam, no evi dence of any human agency, swift, graceful, cleaving the water in lines that are scientifically calculated for least resistance. It is the boat par excellence of the coming race. Whence conies its motion? It is ob tained at night, when it has been put in the dock. A copper wire is at tached to the boat, through which, during the hours of darkness, energy has been transfused in the space around its seats and beneath its deck, as subtly as hypodermically injected morphine spreads through the vic tim's veins. Storage batteries hnve taken up the energy which has come from this living wire, and with day light it is ready for man's use. Sev enty miles of transport at fifteen miles per hour is put away in these invisible interstices. When day comes the engineer, sitting in the bow, puts one hand on a lever, which a child might operate, so simple is its work ing, and another on a little pilot wheel, the invisible propeller turns rapidly upon its axis and the boat is in motiou, forging ahead, slowly backing, turning to the right and left, with a very minimum expendi ture of human energy. From the point of interest rather than usefulness, the object which at tracts the greatest crowd in the Transportation building are the lo comotives of the earliest periods of railroading. They stand side by side with the most magnificent engines of modern building, which tower with their seven-foot driving wheels above the originals like giauts. Here are the locomotives of Stephenson, the locomotives used on the Baltimore & Ohio in the early days, with their driving shafts not much larger than one of the bolS used in the modern locomotive; but the passenger cars, which were nothing but stage-coar li es built on iron wheels, and which by the way, might be a very pleasant form of a car in these days of eec trical locomotion. Step by step you trace the whole history of the loco motive and railroad train from their inception through all their rapid de velopment up to the present houi. And when the mind has fully grasp ed the meaning of this development, the thought suddenly comes that this is the last exhibition that will ever be made, in all human probability, of the locomotive as a mode of pro pulsion for passenger traffic. At this exhibition we see the most imperfect locomotive in its almost tea-kettle form, and we also see the most per fect locomotive that will ever be built the beginning and the end of steam railway traffic. Next year, or the year after, or at most in eight or ten years, steam power appMed directly to passenger trains will be a thing of the past And, while in this mood of proph esy, why not hazard the conjecture that this exhibition will also be tie last at which the public highways, so logically belonging to the State, will be found in the control of indi viduals, using them for private ag grandizement? The railroad upon which the happiness and prosperity of so many depend, which is such a factor in the public safety and com- u in me irou union oi wealth. will, b?fore this country see another j exhibition, pass where the control rightfully belongs. It U a govern mental function just us truly as is the function of taking charge of. preparing and distributing mail. We may not have, at the present time, at civil service equal to such require- j ments, but that is because our civil service has been of no great matter to the public in one way or the other. Such functions of the government as have In-en exercised by the civil service have been comparatively un important. Hut if we have a neces sity for a thoroughly organized and well-appointed civil service, we will find the way to organize and aj)jMint that service. If I were a holder of a great rail road property to day, I would be more anxious that the government should purchase that property than the people could possibly be to have sell it. It is an hour ot change. No one can exactly predict what the fu ture contains, and railroad projerties, which are now very valuable, which cross zigzag iu many directions, w hich have rolling-stock worth many mil lions, may become almost useless un der the demands of new engineering, under the conditions of a new inven tion, under the possibilities of a !iew science. We will finish with the Fair in our next article. Ed. j (To be continued.) A LOOKING GLASS. Take u I'eeii anl See Vo.i i-sel vm Otlierx See You. National Reformer, Hardy, Ark. Can a man be in favor of free sil ver and be a Democrat ? Yes. Can a man be opposed to free sil ver and be a I emocrat ? Yes. Can he be in favor of high (ariff and be a Democrat ? Yes. Can he be opposed to a high laritt and be a Democrat ? Yes. Can he be in favor of national banks and be a Democrat ? Yes. Can he be opposed to national banks and be a Democrat ? Yes. Can he be in favor of trusts and be a Democrat ? I Yes. Can he be opposed to trusts and be a Democrat ? Yes. Can he be in favor of more money and be a Democrat ? Yes. Can he be opposed to more money and be a Democrat ? Yes. Can he favor economy and be a Democrat ? Yes. Can he favor extravagance and be a Democrat ? Yes. Can he favor an income tax and be a Democrat ? Yes. Can he oppose an income tax and be a Democrat ? Yes. Can he vote against the nominee of the party machine and be a Dem ocrat? No. What then, constitutes a Demo crat, his principles oi his vote? His vote. Principles don't count. DO YOU WANT $..oo IN CASH ? To contribute to the Polk Monu ment fund? Send us a club of ten subscribers for one year each and we will give you $1.00 to place to the Polk Monument fund. In this way you can contribute to honor the memory of our late beloved Presi dent, and at the same time help to push on the great work for which he gave his life by extending the circu lation of The Caxxasiax. You can aid iu both of these great objects without it costing you a cent. You can do it by simply following in the hue of duty marked out by the la mented Polk. By giving The Cau casian 10,000 more subscribers you will pile up a fund of $1,000 for the monument In short the friends of The Caucasian can build the monument in this way alone. Let every one put the ball in motion and the work will be done. By the time the monument is built the great principles for which Col. Polk gave his life blood will b, ready to sweep North Carolina, if not the whole country. tf. RENEW. Don't let your subscription expire. Kenew before your time is out It saves us trouble and insures you not to miss a single copy. Often we can not furnish back copies. Advertise in The Caucasian' if yoa want to sell your goods. . 183.5. GREAT m THE KEY NOT" THE POPUL Si CM. PA:GN REFORMS VUST COVE FROM T -E C0MVON P0PLE l' Itl ! I.TT.l H T Ml -T HE N - tion i in -i h: rt u i t: mii oun mi oruiATi thi: ri i- I.H IIK.IIM . s. We Mr t Have National Stkm or Fixanck not a Hank Sv tem. The Next Uovr.NoK ok Iowa Talkkuk the I'eoplr n.l Mrlki- Viuir Itrat.v lllon.xt the 01l Partlr. Fellow Citizens: Kvery man oupht to tte able to give a reason for the faith that is within him. I'nder our form of government, retxusilility for irood or bad individu.tl. Hi duty to hi.- eountry is a persona du ty. No organization of any kind may rightfully keep Lis eonseiein e or dictate his acts. Fifty years airo Mr. Webster iu the leat constitu tional debate called attention to this primary duty of the citizen. .Said he, "This is not a confederation of states nor a government of parties. The people have ordained this con constitution, not in any collective apacity, but as individual citizens." A progressive people are constantly confronted with new problems, new jiiestions, new adjustment of rights, duties and properties, and the very essence of republican government is this; that each citizen shall make his vote reflect his own personal judgement and conscience and not that of any orther person. Each succeeding question that arises ought to witness a division of votes on the merits of the question, and not on mere party lines as we have fallen into the habit of doing. Un der the present method of collecting public opinion at the ballot box a few leaders put a party brand upon a question and then expect all who voted that brand on the old questions to so vote on the new. Voting the brand becomes a habit, and the peo ple are divided into contending trac tions regardless of common sense, and good conscience. Thus it comes about, the brightest jewel in the crowp of popular government is trodden iu the mire of mere partisan ship. THE MISSION OF PARTIES. A party is only an instrument to be used by the voteis, it should never be an instrument to control him. As an instrument it should be cast aside whenever it failes t do the work required. Parties d o what they are compell ed to do when the voters control them and no more, but when the party machine controls the voters the machine is kept in good repair 1 - - - " --t- ...... - .- v ' V H . ' 1 l U 4 I questions that should be considered are ignored, evaded and compromised away. Political parties make no discoveries, either of las, institu tions, or reforms there is not an instance in all the wwrld these things spring from the people. Do the voters control the old par ties to-day, or does the great ma chine control the voters? Do either of the great parties this year in this state propose to collect- the judg ment of the people on either of the three great questions affecting every man, woman and chile in Iowa? The question of transpoiation. of mony and of regulating the liquor traffic? The questiou of transportation is ignored utterly, the two old parties say by their attitude, the contention of the past twenty years is settled and ended nothing remains to be done; both have surrendered to the corporations. On the question of silver coinage they make no issue; both have sur rendered to the goldite and credit seller of Europe and America. They have stacked arms and gone into camp together. Gov. Boies says, and says truly, "there is no reason why any republican should go to the Democrats or any Democrat to the Republicans on this question.'" On the question of regulating the liquor traffic, the Republican party has surrendered the position held for ten years and "crawled up" on the Democratic platform- There is no issue between them. Thus on three great questions that above all others affect the intrests of Iowa, the two party machines, rely ing on their power to control the people are substantially agreed. They say practically, the people shall not have even an oportunity to show by their votes how they stand on these questions. We maintain that these questions are issues most vital and pressing for the attention, not only in Iowa, but throughout the length and breadth of the land. And further, it is not only the right of every citizen to have an opportu nity to express his opinion by his vote, but it is bis duty as a good citizen to perform himself so that his vote may be the reflection of his personal judgment and not a mere mark on a tally sheet with a party brand, that this year at least stands for no principle and has no signifi cance. THE POPULIST I'O.SITIOX. The people's party has declared for tLe nationalization of tha trans portation and financial systems, for the restoration of silver to its old place in our monetary system, and state control of the liquor traffic. Briefly then, allow me to lay before you the reasons we have for the faith that is within us. Asa foundation for my argument I wish to lay before you some facts, gathered from Poore's Manual, the reports of the Interstate Commerce commission, and of Ex-Gov. Larra bee's new work on the railroad ques tion, relating to the magnitude, the manner of construction, the present status of this great system of high ways, and the rights of the people. There are now 170,000 miles of rail way in the United States. Enough to reach nearly seven times around the world. This system is composed of 1,700 separate corporations. It re quires an army of 800,000 men to run it and keep it in repair. It is wholly the woik of this country and j mainly of the pt forty y-.r : the jrienN-M example of th i -f peniux and indutrv i hiurv of mankind. nitrel with ( jlttheeVeD wonders vf the wurld i i . .. i. i Mii k into utter iiiMiriiiticar.ee. hvrry ! man, woman and child ha aide! m it conMructioo and ha an iuterr.t in it! management. In it natu'v it is a public instruction, the succor of the public ro.id; it is itelf a pubii. highway. Its magnitude and ttmc-niticau.-e make it national, in the office it perform. It i a public in stitutron. the revenue whertof fall into private hand. It i subject ! public control. both t-tateand nation- al. nuch i it Matu in the theory of the law. From the tandpuut of! ecouoniie it i him ply an enormous industrial machine, managed by a creature not made in the image of t.'od. but invented by mau and nam ed a corjioratioii. Thi creaure ; from necessity destitude of li'mtii sympathy or companion. It ack ! 1 edges no responsibility to God. 1 yields only to physical force. T. build this system of highway the people have contributed more th m two hundred million acre of Uti I. enough to in, ike four htafes a Urg as Iowa, enough to make a qu.tti i Aection home foi everv voter in Iowa. This immense ysfem of highways is , substantially owned by less than oip million of denote. m i in Iv iv l..c!aldv 1 l cm ; 1 1 -d to- than one thousand, it is con t m! I, . by less than one hundred. In tlx construction the neonle have ttrovi ded both the material and l.tb.-i : That is. all the real capital; the or-j poration has furnished the manage-' . ... .... ! ment, nothing moie. the romm u opiuion that corporations have turn- ' ished enormous sums of capital i- w nouy a ieiusion. i he process oi construction is very simple. The corporations provide a form of credits, .-tocks and bond; with these j instruments, materials and labor am 1 1 ,, ,, , brought together; the corporation lias paid ft r nothinir, it has simply agr I j to pay at a future time. All lifts i been done with credit. The credit ; ot 1 .. . . 1 is nominally based upon the road it- I self, but really upon tne public who ; use the road. The public is the ul- , iimaie paymaster. rue road win never be paid for iu fact until the public contribute the funds to re deem the stocks and bonds. So in the last analysis the total cost of con struction is transferred to the niilibr , The corporation has contributed n- maieiiai, periormeu uo latior, paid ; 110 bills. It ban simply confiscated the public credit, moulded it into securities, sold them for what they would fetch and invested the pro ceeeds iu the construction of the railway. The boasted investment of capital is a fictiou and a fraud. There is no such investment as a matter of fact and never has been since the stock and bond system was institut ed. Just here the people have lost the road; capital and credit are pur- posely confounded. Her iu the fog the people have been beatiug about for a whole generation, looking for a safe harbor, ilert right rt) thrown overboard and wrongs are taken on If all these stocks and bonds were sunk iu the sea the capital would re main. These paper instrument are mere tools of distribution and evi dences of rights as between makers and holders, hut they are not evi dences of any public obligation whatever WATERED VALVE AXP KEAI. VAU'E. Bringing together the whole sys tem into one colossal aggregation, we Hnd the nominal capital to be eleven biliious of dollars a sixth part of the total welth of the nation. This sum is nearly equally diided into stocks aud bonds. The stocks stand as the title and the bonds as a mortgage against the system. To gether they amount to $o.,000 for every mile of main line, branch and stub. Railroad expeits, testifying before courts, commissions and boards of assessors, as well a the standard authorities, but the actual valve below .f 2.3,000 per mile. Thus it is proven the total value of the syttem falls below five billion dol lars, leaving six billion dollars, more than one-half, totally fictitious an enormous credit having no redmp tion fund whatever, taking from in dustry more than oue hundred mill ion dollars annually as revenues, without any returning benefit. Here is a debt twice as great as the debt of this nation when Le surrendered at Appmoattox, wholly fictitious, un just and unnecessary. Here is a burden upon labor, a t ix upon in dustry, as purely a tribute a ever a military despot wrung from a con quered people. Hundreds of millions of these fictitious securities are owned by foreigners. The products of our fields and mines that justly suouiu oe aisirimted among our own people, are taken abroad to swell the fortunes of a foreign aristocracy. The wrack rents of Ireland that have driven to hopeless poverty that most industrious and generous race, was no more a trespass upon the rights of that people than are the exactions of railroad corpoations up on the people of this country. Ex Coveiior Larrabee says; "The railroads of the United States collect from our people in round numbers a .transportation tax of eleven hundred million annually. This tax is equal to a levy of $17 per head, or $80 per family: it is about as large as all our othter taxes com bined. In the State of Iowa, it amounts to abont .f22 per head, or $110 per family, and is two and one half times as large as all the state, county, school and no unci pal taxes collected within her border."' Just here the supreme question arises. Is it the policy of railways to pay off this debt, r is it the policy to make it perpetual! It increases as the revenues increase. The bet ter the roads pay, the greater the bonded debt, this is the lesson of their own reports. REFORMS COME FROM THE PEOPLE. Fellow citizens, it is the history of the human race in all ages, reforms start with the common people, never with those in high places; we shall wait in vain for the leaders of great parties to take the initiative, they are the beneficiaries of the system. It was the common people who, af ter years of agitation, forced the re cognition of the right of public con trol. That right administered as it Continued on second page. NO. 2. TMry ercer . r ' imt he uSE A JQHT DiS , . eT ! H-.UTcV VA SCUSSON AT TWO KIM. IN IHi: tXl:OU HT V VKION 111 TI.EKOE MOUTH CAKOMXA M'Kk4 TO THK tAUVITK AM" t.A KoREK w mi . o amm. am r:tR i tih iiii Kt HiMM. hiii l . . in in . HMrr llrrw MJaHlv of tit t'r4 II rri(nnlllir lfcrinmrraMe trVfrO HIMM-rUv !! ttrk l?Mlm 1 " lreUn. mm4 tr rrll ! 'k. If tr,l ny ol.f la IiWvimI TkrM iKtul i 1 hm.I lf llr.l tmr Mvrry mm titer ""' ' Tdf rll- Vtlllt arrt Mall- 11" i ll to Tlir I '.UK nian 1 llol sToN, V., HcL i'X Vil 'Ill- ian ii- :e .Miid voii gri-t-tjiia. The t "Hi-- of t he people hj lievn ablv 'lei ;il- d to-d tv by Vour editor- i 11 - li irf , 1 1 . hi. Marion ltutb-r. Our eoiiotv omul met to-dav but all bini- 'hjetid.Hl and t he dy giv - en politic. Senator .?. W. Panic) , , i . ,, , i and e-goveiiior l.ee were pim'iit to 1 repie-enl the I l..m.Hiits .wo of the bi -ge-t ttit-ii of their iwtrtv III the r Matt. Our f ri nd were delighted when tlu.v found that t he farmers of North 1 . .i-,., v , i, .1 . I arouna, our r-i.-ter Mate, felt thai ' sympathy in our muse to mud one of her vo.ni and gifted sous into our . 1", :. ,i - 1 t . mid-t in his hour of our country s J peril. In order that all the tropic might hear the living issues discusa- ed and decide 011 the 7th of Novem Ikt iii lb-- calm light of judgment and r aon, we challenged the Dem ocrats to a joint discussion with a a'r division of time, which waa jtoa- uively declined. Two meetings were then held. The Democrats ujton one side of the court green and the Pop ulists njKiti the other. Mr. .?. II. Storall introduced Mr. llutler to the vast throng. When he referrd to Ur ties that bind Virginia and North Carolina, and our interests and hearts as one, and presented Mr. Hut? K-r to uur jwople the applause waa , f 1, .1 . , Hutler 8 fame a8 an rator had preeeeded him and well l?Si he" aiiRtnin it. Tlo latent nf the hour of writing you makes it im- j possible to give you more than a syn opsis of his arguments. His telling points aud irresistable logic carried the crowd by storm. The Democrats made the most, jierliajia, of defend ing a bad cause and soon found that they had made a mistake in not di viding time since the jieople wanted to know the cause of our financial distress and the remedy to be applied. They do not yet know how Senator Daniel could make so able a speech for the money of the jieople and stand up here to-day and tell them to vote for Cleveland's gold basis standard by voting for O'Ferrel whose election would go out to the world as triumph for Cleveland's jtolicy. Mr. Butler arraisned the Democra tic party for its hypocrisy and brok en promises in a bold and fearless manner that sent a thrill of enthus iasm and determination through his audience. He quoted Senator Dan iel's speech to prove that the gold trust of England was trying to strike down che people's money through the repeal of the Sherman law, and then asked the audience who were the agents of the gold trust in Amer ica and Virginia. When he an swered the question by calling the names of G rover Cleveland and Charles T. O'Ferrel 1 the audience went wild with applause; He then aeked Senator Daniel why he was giving aid and comfort to this gold trust by asking the peo ple to endorse Cleveland and O'Fer rell. At this joint a man in the audience cried out: "He can't answer this question and that is why they are opposed to dividing time." As soon as the applause follow iug this hit died away a democrat who had come over to listen cried out we will carry the county anyway." Mr. 15 u tier retorted instantly "if you do you will have to steal it, and that you had better not dare to attempt. " This timely retort brought the ap plause of the audience to high water mark. Mr. Butler U doing a great service in our State. Ixng may he lire to serve the people. Yours etc., C. T. 15. THE OLD AND THE NEW. The old Democracy was opposed to National Banks and internal Rev enue, and demanded the free coinage of silver. Modern Democracy is owned by the Banks, has fastened Internal Revenue npon the country permanently, and has declareo fcr gold monometalism. Virginia Sun. (tf)
The Caucasian (Clinton, N.C.)
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