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VOIi. XIII.
KDITORIAL.
aw nearly one hundred
, ,,'t'i jK-ople out on strikes- In
i.'li hhnd more than nine
- factory hamis have no em
. i.. n and hiunlrMh of thiiaand3
ill wh-n-. Notwithstanding
litctf1, tiorii mill are prrclaim
tiiat tli'V are advancing wage.
il you aaic, thea; Mlowa will
i i v t liing to fool you. liy mak
,i ittK- raie for the few people
, liavi' ut work, they hope to cre-ii.-
mi .reaaiori that tjood tiniea
i i tiling hack. All right If
,wi.- fooled, it will be your own
'ill
folks wh'atle to keep up
The Oernocrata have actu-
'one
lu-k to the twaddle that
ili.-in ia l)ing out. Tliey said
aIi'Mi the Populists were just
lining tht-ir organization. They
it, when the Populists last over
million vot for Weaver. They
it wh'ii the iV'pulists cist nearly
million votes in IH'Ji. They
:iing it n-w when" everything
i hp
okiuir Li the
i l .
Populists for na
J uat let them keep
they'll sweep this
Ml;. i
cifii v at ion.
:i "living, am
ciiintrv in
'1MJ.
Hoke Smith, like all of Cleveland's
"llice holder?, i a gold bug. In a
irrent interview he declares flatfoot
nlly iigaiiist the free coinage of silver
r any linancial reform. Mr. Jose
phus Daniels, who wan given a &rrmll
piece of government pie by CK-velard
; 1 1 I lleke Smith, h;n come out in
In.- puper f"i lloke f- r President
lint at the name tin e th editor of
tt;" N't w Mid Observer kivs tl at he
i-i in favor f the free Ciinege of ail
m i" i.inl lieum ifl ri form. Ilo v dis
the News aid Observer reconcile
these Miiall iiieor.sHtar.cet.?
The con ti try is being sown down
will) gold bug liteiatnie. It is being
sent out free to those who get it.
The gold bugs can afford to puy for
give it n way. Say, you old
e.py
iinkhend! Doi
n't
you
8eei
w lu!.
hey
ire after. A c you going
i'i lie fooled
ld parties
null iug too
.i''tit the
and hoodwinked by the
agaii? If so there's
bud for iou; but
howipf
misery and oppression
W !'i
i umr support of the old gangs
A ili hi ing to other people? Are you
1 1-in king?
h logins to look as though the
;lil bugs will make a bluff on the
financial question by inaugurating
another international conference
. ( home There have been several of
thesi- conferences, and no sensible
man on earth can think of them with
any other t niotior s thiin those of
icule or disgust.
When the old partyitrs and pluto
crats can't, meet anything with argu
ment, they resort to abuse. They
have failed to make an impression
on "(Join's Financial School," by
argument, although they have writ
ten a dozen replies to it. Now, thy
l ave he?un to "cvm it - ut." That's
nil t n v can do.
We told our readers some time
Sl'M"
that the Reform Clubs,"
'dLti'tft Mnify Leagues" &c won Id
huy up the old Demo-Uepnblican pp.
rs, and have them sending cut ''gold
h'ii,r" lirnture. About one thou?
: ii.l of these papers have b.-en fixed
You will begin to see them in. this
Stat
roon.
ut of 729 delegates to the C"ok
lenity Democratic convention in
llli'iM, only 23 voted af ainat silver
Yt, we'll bet that there will be a big
'iijht in the National Democratic
convention between he gold bug:
and ,-ilveritep, with chances in favor
"f t
Z' Id hugs.
'Wl', it, h nuce fnr tbe goose
I?
.Niuet it r the yaruvr is r.r.t a pro-
Inch finds favor with old
uio's !uex Democrats neither in
'North Curclirw, nor South Carolina.
If tiny can not rule and -gobble up
trie .spoil;?, tht y would like to destroy
hue the old gangs ae split all
m puces on the financial question,
tne Populists are moving along uni
. .ii.. I, ... . .
"'uyatui narmomously. I hey are
gaining recruits every day, and if
t veiy nun will do only half duty, the
country is theirs in '96.
i lie total amount of eold in the
""i "i amounts to ahont z.o wr
h.-ad
Ji.,r
f'T the world's population
'i i ! of this, ard you'll begin
u h.-re the gold bugs (who now
l.iiVt
i' i) want to put thev people.
f
i'Mi if won la truh th'i cor
' t pnju lie from their eyes.
th.
li s, fro'n e' en's now oc
' I ;
. ; i't. it e
e) is
r ly
t llioe
priLtipie
II
holding
and
I '-tr lt'iiaev" is the nw term
..p.. , . .
" ,! t i a goui t,ugu for tne great
"'a1 sn,,.: Uir,g bi ver movement. They
turi't argue aeaiuat iL Therefore
ll'ty abuse it. See?
turmoil in
southjarolim:
Big Democrats Who Were Elected
Under Certain Laws Say
They Are Wrong, When
Defeated.
WHITE MEN MUST CONTROL
Hays the Governor in Hinging Add
The Ktate Con'roaUd by a Crils-1he
lilark Nc-heme of Defeated UemocrsU
What Is Good to Pat Ibem Id Is Not
Good to Put Them Oat.
The Caucasian, last week, referred
to t-e condition ol affairs in South
Carolina. They are beginning to
asume a serious aspect, if the utter
ances of the Governor of that State
may be taken as expressing tbe senti
ment of any number of its people. -
It will be remembered that the
laws governing the election in South
Carolina-are of such a character as
to disfranchise the negroes and a
considerable number of white men.
Under these laws, such men as Sena
tor M. C. Butler, of that State, and
other "old liners" have been elected
to their offices. More recently these
"old lineis" were defeated for office
under thee very same laws, end then
they begun to cry "fraud!" Accord
ing to the Governor's opinion these
men went to work with the courts,
and had the courts to declare tbe laws
"unconstitutional;" though this was
something they never thought of as
long as they were getting in.
The Governor's ire is up against
the courts and the men who, he inti
mates, practically manipulated the
courts, and he talks about them with
the "bark on," He seems to be not
the least, afraid of them, and in fact
! shows a thorough contempt for them.
Governor Evans is the representa
tive head of what is called the "Re
form movement," which threw out
I of office such old fossils as Wade
Hampton and M. C. Butler, and put
such men as Irby and Tillman in
their places in the United States
Senate. Both factions claim lobe
Democrats.
In an
nnen nildmaa to ttitt nfnnl
the State Gov. Evans reviews the
istory of negro and "carpet bag"
rule, aud the days of reconstruction.
hen coming to later dates he says:
The Reform movement had noth
ing to do with the election and regis
tration laws. We received them as
a legacy from the administration of
882. We have have upheld them
as the acts of the people, and as con
stitutional means of self-preservation.
Some of these men who are
responsible for and who have en
joyed the benefits and honors of office
under these laws have turned upon
their State since their retirement.
By an appeal to one of the bitterest
enemies ol ooutnern civilization a
politician who disgraces the judicial
ermine of the United States court
and masquerading as a judge, they
have succeeded in having the regis
tration law declared unconstitu-
ional, null and void. The chief
argument made before him was the
defamation of your state, and insult,
f insult could come from such a
souree, to your State officers. Under
this decree the doors have been
thrown opfn and the "ballot again
placed in the hands of every man,
white or black, of the age of 21 years.
The abuse and slander heaped upon
the State by the counsel for the
laintiffs was only surpassed by that
of the judge in his document styled
a decree in equity.
JUDGE SIMONTON SCORED.
But the pity of it, the humiliation.
an x the shame of it is yet to be told.
Besides this Jefferies, on the bench
sat an old man, wnose Head was
grey, who had fought on the field of
battle for State's rights, who had
been Speaker of the Heuse of Repre
sentatfves of South Carolina and in
whose hand-writing part of your
registration laws exist n our ar
chives. There he sat wearing alike
the judicial ermine, Hearing his State
defamed, his comrades in arms de
nounced as rebels, and his own
handiworklad judged as a crime. If the
law ws acrirae,was he not the crim
inal! Should his head have not been
beat and his eyes moist with tears of
humiliation? Alas, they were not
With a Mephistophelean grin on his
writ kled face he nodded assent to
the most infamous document ever
emanating from a court in equity,
while the black audience exclaimed
"A Daniel has come to judgment;
yea, a Daniel."
BUTLEH RECEIVES A ROAST.
The ex-Senator who has been hold-
inr caucuses in Columbia at private
houses, having the ar of the court
and holding "the loot or the chan
cellor," returned to his home, teei
intr that his movements had not been
detected; but the responsibility snai
rest where it belongs. Iet the peo
ple not blame the poor, lean and hun
gry counsel, who are DarKing merely
for a bone, out visu me Bin upon me
hpads of the arch conspirators.
A crisis confronts us, and has been
throat nron us without our will or
consent at a time when peace washov
print? over the State. South Carolina
iaeniovintr an era of industrial im
provement, factories are being built
in greater number than elsewhere in
the South. The credit of the State
ranks hurher than ever in its history
our bonds not being purchasable at
a di- mium of less than ten per cent
The march of progress is about to be
stopped; the black pall of negro
domination hovers over us; we must
meet the issue like South Carolin
ians. Tue're are only two flags, the
white and the black, under which
wiU von enlist T The one, the white
peaceful flag of Anglo-Saxon civili-
Continued on Fourth Page.1
ANOTHER DEMOCRATIC DEAL
Tbe ilor'da IecfIatare to Look lata m
Tranaactiun of s-Govcrnor Uloxbam.
Tallahassee, Fla , May 12. It is
said here tonight that the legislature
now in session will investigate the
deal by which four million acres of
Florida land were tranferred to Ham
ilton Dinston, of Philadelphia. At
the time of tbe transfer several years
ago, W. D. Bloxham, now comptrol
ler, was governor and it has alwafg
teen charged by his political oppo
nents that the part he played in the
transaction was unfair both to Diss
tr-n and the people. Disston pur
chased four million acres for $1,000,
000, with the understanding that he
would pay in Florida internal im
provement bonds, then worth about
ten cents on the dollar. When Diss
ton sought to purchase tbe bonds he
found they had been cornered by a
syndicate, of which Governor Blox
ham was a member, and wore held at
about par. Disston refused to boy
the bonds and paid cash for the land,
which was used to redeem tbe bonds
at par that -cost the syndicate only
ten cents on the dollar. It is alleged
that Bloxham and his friends made
several hundred thousand dollars on
the transaction.
Just before Bloxham's term as
governor expired it is said that he
deeded to Disston 2,000,000 acres ad
ditional, for which the State never
received a dollar. Disston afterwards
deeded this laud back because of the
criticism evoked. The matter is very
greatly involved and Bloxham has
been very severely criticised. A
resolution to investigate will be in
troduced this week. It is claimed
that very damaging evidence against
Bloxham will be adduced.
DEBT AND SLAVERY.
uterest.theGreat6nt Curse
to Iumanity.
Nat. Reformer.
"Debt" is a little word of
four let-
ters, but its significance is
awful,
sense,
slave
to his
Debt, in its broad and literal
means slavery. The chattel
owes all over a bare livmer
master. The debt blave can
hardly
be said to owe less to his creditor.
who therefore becomes his master.
So destructive is usury (interest,
that Napoleon, while studying a
compound interest table, remarked
that "it was a wonder it had not de
stroyed the world." So great was
the sin of usury or interest that it
was strictly forbidden in the Mosaic
iw, and is nowhere countenanced
in the Bible. For thirty years he
usurer has been stealthily spreading
his net of debt over the people of
this country. All this has been ac
complished under the plea of "an
onest dollar" and the rights of
property."
In vain have a few men lifted up
their voices in behalf or the rights of
human beings. Flesh and blood have
become cheaper than poperty. The
sacred rif tits ot property" now is
as potent as the cry of "the divine
right of kings" during the dark
ages.
Under the specious plea of pro
tecting the rights of creditors and
maintaining the "public faith" the
most outrageous wrongs have
been committed against the people
Money arid all forms of indebted-
t i i i
ness have more man aouoid in
value, while a corresponding decline
in all classes of productive property
and of labor has taken place. Meii's
equities in property have been
squeezed into the mortgage and
thousands of homes thus been lost.
While our crops for years have been
abundant, the people have been
sinking deeper into debt, until it can
almost truthfully be said we are a
nation r f slaves. An able writer re
cently summed up the situation in
this country as follows:
What has been the result of our
worship at the shrine of usury and
inveighing against public ownership
and operation of the instruments of
production and distribution as soci
alistic? The United States experts
tersely tell it as follows:
"Nine per cent, of the people of
this nation own 71 per cent of the
nation wealth! This is the pluto
cracy, or the very rich the bond-
holding class.
"Twenty-one per cent, of the pop
ulation owns 20 per cent, of the
wealth! This is the burgeois, or
the middle class rich manufactur
ing and commercial class.
"Seventy per cent of the popula
tion owns only 9 per cent, of the na
tion's wealth! This is the proleta
rian population, or the producing
class the producers of all the
wealth!
Here is another view of the situ
ation. It is the bonded indebtedness
of the people, upon which interest
is exacted:
Private mortgage debts $19,700,000.00
If, . - ' - m i 1 . nn a . .-. . ,
western union leiegrapn... izi.iw suo.sra
New York Mutual Telegraph. 2,500,000 00
American Rapid Telegraph . . . 4,000.000.00
Postal Telegraph 12.500.000.00
American lien ana suo. Tele
phone Com pany 80 jOOO.OOO.OO
Long DistanceTelephone 5,000,000.00
National Bank- 3,141.500,000.00
Savings Banks 1,854,519,069,00
Twenty-two states 4,547,000,000 00
(558, Municipalities 745.949,798.00
Several counties 145,693,850.60
.National. Donaea ana float
ing 1.555. G30.878.00
School Districts 36.701,948.00
Railroads 11,443,883.891.00
bv Fire insurance companies. . 51,oo7.85.60
141, Miscellaneous compan
ies 1.547,813,957,80
56, Trusts 333,945,852.00
Appalling Total $45,339,988,704.00
"This monstrous debt draws an
average annual interest of about I
per cent., making about $3,000,000,
000 of tribute to the dragon of usury.
The bonds are mainly held by the
plutocracy, or the 9 per cent, of the
population previously referred to
The payment falls entirely upon the
proletarian population the YU per
cent, mentioned. The middle-class
rich, which apparently pays some o
it, shifts it over on the producing
class. This $3,000,(500,000 annua
usury account, understand, is the un
mixed stealing tbe dividends and
enormous salaries to figureheads are
t-not included neither are the mill
ions paid to the attorneys, Un ted
States Senators, representatives and
State legislatures and the nation a
commit'ess of both old parties, which
is given as 'operating expenses' in
their reports.
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WEEKLY CAUCASIAN. IT WILL TELL
A LOT OF PLAIN TALK THIS YEAR.
RALEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY, MAY 23,
THEY WENT FOR THE STUFF.
Chicago's . luffed Pay-Kail I atler De.
craUe AilHrlalaH-alioa.
Chicago's new Commissioner of
fnbhc Works for a new Commis
sioner was one of tbe results ot the
political revolution at Chicago's last
Mayorality election has bei in
vestigating tbe pay-rolls of bis de
partment dnring the past year with
someastonishiog results. He found
dead men and men credited with re
siding upon vacant lots carried on
th rolls. From one pay-roll there
were 638 names dropped after the
election, the remaining 100 men
finding no difficulty in doing the
Becessary work. In the water pipe
bureau, the latter half of March,
2906 names were on the pay-roll.
During the first half -of April 530
were sufficient. In one case four la
borers were found with five inspec
tors oyer them. In another instance
eight men were inspected by four,
in another one laborer was under the
surveillance of one inspector.
Commissioner Kent estimates that
the city was cheated out ..of a mill
ion a year by stuffed pay-rolls, and
promises that nothing but a whole
sale emigration of professional polit
ical heelers who shared in this plun
der of the city will prevent a lot of
criminal prosecutions. It is proba
ble that the emigration will take
place if Commissioner Kent firmly
insists upon the prosecution alterna
tive. THE CAUSE OF CRIME-
Result of tbe Present Fiendish Struggle
For Existence.
Peninsular Farmer.
There is no religious work to which
man may apply himself, more prom
ising of great results for the king
dom of God than that of abolishing
poverty through the substitution of a
fraternal Co-operative Political and
Industrial System for the present
fiendish competitive struggle. Nine
tenths of present ignorance and vice
and crime could be abolished in a
very few years if grinding poverty
did not drag men down on one hand,
and excessive luxury debauch them
on the other. The very rich and
those possessed of the low ideals of
mere ease and luxury and pride, to
gether with the very poor, those be
reft of education-of hope and ordi
nary decencies of life, are the classes
that furnish the most demoralizing
elements of society. So far as the
production of life's necessities are
concerned man has passed beyond the
fear of want. But alas, the przes
of civilization are all owned and con
trolled by the few who for the most
part use them to grind the faces of
the producers that themselves may
revel in luxury. In the face of uni
versal plenty we - see famine and
starvation haunting the lives of mill
ions of onr most hard workine citi
zens. On account of the monopoly
of all the leading industries of life,
it is fast becoming impossible for a
young man or woman without wealth
or influence to get a start in life at
all. The desperation and hopeless
ness that this condition breeds is the
parent of most of our immorality.
With the ballot in the hands of the
people, there.is the popular responsi
bility for the nature of government,
and christian citizers have here a
religious duty that cannot be shirked
with impunity. The abolition of in
voluntary poverty can be attained by
the abolition ot the old parties and
the putting into place and power of
of the new paty of the people that
has for its objective point the aboli
tion poverty. For this, study and
vote.
Did You Know This?
The New York Evening World
uses the following strong language
regarding the working people: To
reduce wages is to cripple the farm
er's market for his products, while
to- reduce the price which the farm
ers receive for their products is to
cripple the market for the product
of industrial labor. - The prosperity
of the one means the prosperity of
the other, and therefore it is natural
that they should move hand in hand
tor the social reforms now demanded.
Excessive rent is eating the life out
of the business men and laborers
wherever civilization extends. The
percentage of our people living in
tenement-houses is yearly increasing,
The mortgaged foreclosures are daily
wrenching rrom hard-working, hon
est farmers the homes in which they
were born. There are over 1.500.-
000 tenant farmers in the United
States, and yet some people say
there is no cause for alarm!"
The Depth of Seiashness.
Houston Post.
T a 1 ill 1 i a a
it nas at last Deen determined up
in New York City- that the Goulds
must pay a tax on $10,000,000 out of
a $75,000,000 fortune, although the
members of the family fought nobly
to put themselves outside of the tax-
gatherers limit.
ine young men ot the iamiiy ap
peared from the examination to be
practically homeless, while the older
one would seem to be laorine to
keep the wolf from the door. Mrs
Hetty Green was more succesful,
and succeeded in proving that her
home was in Vermont, where she
spends as many as six weeks in the
year. Other notable discoveries
were made by th,e tax-gatherers,
touching the homeless condition aad
poverty of some of the alleged mill
aires of the great citv. Every
where, with but a few exceptions,
there was a bitter struggle, wor-by
of a better cause, to dodge taxation
Yet when a petiod f disorder comes,
when a riot is abroad, when the
wheels of commerce are being block
ed, the tax dodgers come jumping
from their retreats and demanding
the whole costly machinery of the
tnillitary and judicial systems of the
State to protect mterests which they
f asily then show are vast and com
plicated.
Is it any wonder that a prejudice
has- been rapidly growing in this
country against great fortunes, that
demands have been heard from other
than socialists, that limits should be
placed to the acquisition of wealth
which while it is disposed to oppress
the, masses, absolutely . resorts to
fraud and false swearing to escape
even the common burden of govern
ment which the smallest of home
steaders have to share! Not only
this it even refuses to pay Jor any
proportion of the extra' protection
which it frequently has to demand.
LETTERS FROM
THE PEOPLE.
Some Startling FactsShowing
How the People are Descend
ing into Serfdom.
"CAN OPEN BLIND EYES."
Work Hut be laceaaant Ylgurou Volley
Against Office holder' S-hems 1 he
"Mary Ana" Club Stands by the Ir
maads The Kecsrd of the Book of
Zacbra.
Some Startling Facta.
For the Caucasian.
Tarboro, N. C, May 13, 9.". One
of the chief causes of depression and
distress in this country to-day, is
due to the unequal distribution, of
wealth. Those who toil the most,
under existing conditions, receive
the smallest reward for their labors.
"Whatsover a man sows that shall
he also reap" does not apply to the&e
who lalor and prWiv the wealth of
the country.
Conditions are certainly abnormal,
and laws of an extremely class na
ture, when those who do not toil reip
all of the profits of the masses who
toil and produce.
Thomas G. Sherman has presented
some startling figures, showing "the
owners of the wealth in this country.
According to his statement 182 000
rich families own $43,307,000,000 of
the total wealth-
I, 200,000 of the middle class own
$7,500,000,000.
II, 620,000 poor families own only
$11,215,000 of the entire wealth
which is estimated at sixty-two bill
ion dollars.
Just think of it; one seventieth of
of the people own seventy per cent,
of the wealth.
How was all of this vast wealth
accumulated? It was done by rob
bery under the form of law.
Jay Gould within his life time
amassed a fortune of one hundred mill
ion dollars.
If he had started with Adam in
the Garden of Eden, earning a ral
ary of fifty dollars a day, ($300
a week) and had worked continuously
from that day to the present time,
saving every dollar he earned, ht
would not have yet earned his hun
dred million.
Fifty dollars a day is a very hand
some salary, and yet a man earning
that amount, spending nothiDZ and
working uninterruptedly for nix thou
sand years could not have accu
mulated what Jay Gould did in
twenty years!
It is absurd to suppose that Gould
earned his vast fortune.
In the city of Pittsburg (Pa) there
are sixty-five men who, in the last
twenty years, have accumulated,
seven hundred million dollars.
Unless the masses in this country
vote right to change these alarming
conditions, we will yet have a terrh
ble realization or4 what John Locke,
(who wrote the first Constitution for
North Carolina) said: "Who' owns
the soil owns the people.", .
European noblemen now own over
twenty million acres of farm lands
and hold mortgages on one hundred
million acres in the United States.
What will be the result if wealth
continues to concentrate in the hands
of the few! There will be no more
freedom on this soil.
James B. Lloyd.
It Can Oped Blind Eyes.
For The Caucasian J.
GiiENMORE, N. C, May 21 '95. The
Smithfield Herald has been making
Douglass bubbles for some time: but
finds that it does not answer a. good
purpose; so now they are
trying something else organize
secret organization. 1 don t
Know what it is, out it if
something of that ' character. They
know we have got them rolling down
hill, and they will catch at any thing
if it is a straw
But I don't want them to stop un
til they get to the bottom of the
hill.
May the Caucasian live long and
keep doing the good work. It can
open blind eyes and raise the dead.
I canlt do without it.
W e redeemed the Old North State
from lies and corruption. If we can
gain in '96, we will be solid; but if
we lose, we will have to bend out
backs under bondage for - another
season. May God bless the Caucas
ian and, its efforts for good. J. B.J.
Mo. S Township "Mary Ann" Clab.
For the Caucasian.! j
Leggett's, N. C, May 2, '95.--Tlu
growth of monopoly with the cor
rupting tendencies produced thereby,
which gave birth to the People e
party, make it our duty as honest
followers of that party to see that its
principles shall not be destroyed by
the credulity of its friends or the in
triguing of its enemies.
Entering as we are upon the cam
paign of 1896 a campaign that maj
become noted in the world's history,
it behooves us to be ever on the alert
and guard well our trust. Believing
that every resource of monopoly.
press, pulpit and government, with
their millions of debauched follow
ers, will be employed to.disintegrate,
destroy or neutralize our national
platform, so that a complete annihi
lation will only be a question of time,
therefore be it
.Resolved 1st, That we hereby ex
press our unalterable taitn in tne
principles we set forth in the Omaha
piatiorm.
2, That we will neither give nor
aid or .countenance to any organiza
tion seeking to sidetrack our party
by the partial endorsement of our
principles.
3. That we regard -the favorable
notice given the bimetallic, alias de
funct Democratic party by some of
the reform press as being unwise
and, dangerous.
4, We hereby request the publica
tion of the preamble and .resolutions
as herinebefore set forth for the pur
pose of creating and sustaining a
spirit of opposition to all question
able schemes of coalition or deser
tion, in the Caucasian at Raleigh N.
C. C. H. Spivet,
President,
P. H. Lane,
. Secretary,
1895:
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Oar Work Mast hm Ur.it,
For tbe CatvmUn.
UtiKiBWAT.N. C, May 13,
feel and know that oar work mat b
inc-ant. I am doing all I ran in
edition out to get reform litera
ture in the bards of the people.
Mot of our prminf-nt men read and
talk onr rau to evry one, but
money is o tight, (in fact eanno be
had) that a great many that are
anxious to read cannot buy. All of
our people are encouraged an1 are
solid, notwithstanding tbe efforts of
onr political eremie to win them
back in some instauee by lieing
and other by persuasion; but you
turn on the light so effectually tint
their plans and efforts are without
effect. I have read tbe little book,
(Coins School of Finance.) It is a
stunner. I bavent it out to con
vince those that are careless and in
different, I have very many piomie
for subscribers, ltest assured I will
never miss an opportunity to circu
late your paper. Hoping soon to be
able to send a few subscribers, I am,
W.B. Flemin.j.
The Itook of Zarhra. Chapter .
For the Caucasian.
Lillixwtox, N. C, May 19. Now
in the one hundred and nineteenth
year after the fall of George III.
there rose up among the people many
"Ites" in the land to the west of
George's realm, in so much that the
people wrote their names in their
books, and they were railed Doug
lassites, Teamohites, O'Ferrallites.
Groverites, Eliasites and. many
others. And the people in tbe land,
which once was the land of milk and
honey, being much oppressed, did
many strange things. For in that
year the people of one of the thirteen
tribes, that would not bow to George,
came to their chief city to make laws,
and while they were yet in the assem
bly chamber, a messenger came and
sayeth to them: "Knoweth ye not
of the death of Douglass!" And they
sayetb, "Nay; yet if it be so let us
restrain ourselves from making laws
this day, for he hath many friends
in our land, and some of them are
in our midst," and it was so. And
when the assembly went not out, but
remaineth yet a little while, the
chief trumpeter of the Eliasites,
Josephus, who had lately come from
King Grover's treasury, and Samuel,
who had in former days .laid, "Crmt
unto me ye men of the order of th
great Alliance and I will lead you
from under the yoke of your oppres
sor;" and yet he doeth it not; and
the Doctor, who had slain many of
the enemies of his country !by his
valiant words of salvation, or per
adventure, damnation, blew long
and loud their trumpets, so that the
people were sore afraid and saith one
to another: "Who hath done this vile
thing?" And it came to their knowl
edge that their servants had done
this Douglass this great honor. And
while the people were yet much
troubled as to what would befall
them there came ' into their midst
certain men from the north, who
sayeth: "We be messengers from one
of tEe thirteen tribes," and are
peaceable. Now, one of these men
was called Teamoh, which, being in
terpreted, is Douglassite, and they
spake many good things to the peo
ple. And when they had journeyed
around about the country they de
parted into the land far to the south
Now, after they had seen that land
and said it is good, they fetched a
compass and landed at the chief
cityof the O'Ferrallites. While the
Governor of that land had not re
strained his trumpeters from, warn
ing his people of the vile thing that
had been done in the chief city of
the thirteen tribes, he was told of the
wise men, and how that Teamoh was
joined to them, ad that this Tea
moh was an Ethiopian. Now, he
forthwith began to set his house in
order, but while he was not yet ready
an iiniopian oi mat city joined bim
sdf to Teamoh, for he was a Tea
mohite, and it was known to the
Governor that he had done so Now,
when the Governor bad finished his
preparations he sayeth to his ser
vams: unng ine wise men to my
house for all things are now ready,"
and straightway they enter in with
the Ethiopians. Now, it was not meet
tor the O'Ferrallites and the Tea
mohitrs to sit togeher in hieh
places, so when they were come into
the great hall, one of the chief wo
men, was sorely perplexed and
in making her obeisance to the
Ethiopian she did bend her
back but "a little," so it is said by
some. Now when the wise men had
related many things of their journey
in the Southland and received mnch
kindness from the (governor,' he
sayeth to them all: "Before ye de
part into your own country it were
better for you to break bread with
me in order that ye may not faint bv
the.way." So the wise men, with the
Ethiopian, who had joined himself
to Teamoh, sat down to the great
teast ot the Governor, and it is said
by some that it was a rare feast and
that the Ethiopians being of a pecu
liar people did not eat but ''just a
little, and having small heads
(mentally) they sat at tbe little end
of the feast so they could nibble the
crumbs. But Teamoh, not yet satis
fied with his appreciation of the
Governors kindness, sayeth: "Ob
Governor, thy wines are of a goodly
kind and delightful to the throat of
an Ethiopian." When they had risen
up from the feast and said many
things to the Governor, they de
parted into their-own country and
wot not wnat they had done.
flow, on the third day after the
wise men had departed, it began to
dawn upon tbe people of the land of
the 'Eliasites that an enemy had
taken away the horns of Josephus
and Samuel, and the other tooters
so they could not any longer warn
tbe people'of their danger, and the
JSIiasites were sorely distressed. And
it was also told that the horns of
the O'Ferrallites had been taken and
no longer were heard in that land.
Therefore the people beran to say.
one to another, "What meanest
thisl" and one answereth one thing
and another answereth another
thing, but all. with one accord betran
to say thes; onr horn-blowers, are
tooi? - ana anowein not What or
when to blow; therefore we will no
longer harken to them. '
But before it was quite certain as
to what would befall tbe people, the
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WNAT ! BOtC BCXDSr
la4 4 to a tte4y to Hah Aa-
iWot Ui i m ray Carrvat r- i u
WiiT". VaT IV A rkhiia Jv
wtiocaUad upon the lYnaaWni ttwl A
ruM with hits the cutHiiUon of the In
or and the Mraaa.tr fur rmta.ti.1
of ma kind Within rery abort ttma.
Tbe urhot harm rrarhed Lha Cftv ,;:!.
n mark with im mtDiMianin in ii u
felt that boo tp wotxll hare to ha urn
by the A Juattuat ration vrry mum.
The Imu4eat was aaa4 whether be
woukl call an extra i m If
that he voukl not, Sut that be vouL! k t
he bail done on other otauoei oJ an
nounce an iavue of bond.
Ala! We take the above Jesratrh
rom the New York K ecorder. DiJ
you read the Cavcaman of Ut week?
UiU yon notice that we foieeast
some such proceeding as thisT We
ave an article this week whieh
hows the immense debt under hih
the people are already struggling,
and yet tbe Democratic administra
tion u reported aa takins A
increase this immewae interest b.r.
ng debt Under such leaderahin
and government the condition of tbe
working people i irrowinr mnr
alarming and more desperate every
ay. A thinking man can plainlr
see what tbe end will be. Are too
thinker? Do you see it?
Cleveland has already issued one
undred and sixty two million dol
ars of bond, lie is increasing the
ational dbt ata rate that is awful
to contemplate, lie is a Democrat.
Ibis country may vet belong to
the people if they will tak control
of it. If they want to rive it into
the hands of sbyiocks and monev
sharks, these bbylocki Are will surely
ibko ii. v nat are vu comer to i
bout it? You have had Rennbli-
can raro many years. You have had
democratic rule for tbe past two
years. bat do you want next?
0 READ THEM OUT OF THE PARTY.
If Von Are la Illinois aad Area't aVra.
Coiner Ton Aren't la It Aa Mora.
Chicago, May 14. It is learned
from an auth' ritative source that the
eaders in the free coinage move
ment within tbe Democratic nartv of
llinois, who possess the machinery
n the State and Cook county, intend
to read out of the party evert man
who does- not subscribe to the doc
trine of free coinage of silver. The
plan is to be put in to execution as soon
as the State convention at Springfield
has adopted a free silver platform
and made it one of the cardinal
principles of the party. The State
and Cook county central committees
are to be reorganized on these lines.
his will be done to give tbe silver
Democrats exclusive control of the
organization which will dictate at
primaries and conventions in county,
city and State. It is proposed by
this means to make sure of sending
a solid free silver delegation to the
next national convention. The mem
bers of the Honest Money League
are to be declared outside tbe pale.
LOVE TRAGEDY IN GEORGIA.
A Young Man. Eloping With a Girl. Kills
Her rather Who Is Parsulac Theas.
Covington, Ga., May 13. A
tragedy occurred near Newton, in
this county, yesterday afternoon
that has woven into its startling plot
ove, romance, vengeance, murder
and marriage.
In Morgan couny, just over the
ine from Newton, there lives the
family of the rich and well known
planter, J. T. Estes. lie had a
daughter and she had a lover named
Green. The family f the youaa; lady
objected to the marriage oi the
young people ard they determined to
take matters in their own hands.
Yesterday afternoon Will Green
met Miss Lstes by appointment, and
the two proceeded in a buggy to the
residence oi nev. ur. Harwell, who
was to pei form the ceremony. Just
as the couple were getting from the
buggy they saw Mr. Estes and his
son coming rapidly towards them.
Green quickly pulled a revolver and
nred at Mr. Estes, the ball entering
near tbe heart, killing the latter in-
srant ly. Green then fired two shots
at young Estes, but without effect.
Leaving her father dead in tbe
road and shot to death by her lover,
and her brother bending oyer the in
animate foim, Miss Estes went on
with her lover to Broughtonville,
wbere they were married.
The sheriff of Newton county has
received a telegram statin r that a
reward of $2 GO has been offered for
tbe capture of Green.
Fall la or "Gel ttu"
Petersburg Index-AppeaL
Every one of the original Cleve
land men and prominent Democratic
atesmen of Nortn Carolina who
filed applications for tbe vacancy in
the collectorship of internal revenue
for the western district of the State.
was grievously disappointed, the ap
pointment going to a deputy who
had not been considered to be in the
race. It may now be stated that the
Democratic party of North Carolina
is overwhelmingly in favor of the
free and unlimited coinage of si!ver(?)
If ex-Congressman John 8. Hender
son had been of the President's way
of thinking on the currency issue he
would have received tbe appoint
ment. He had the strongest scrt of
endorsement. Bat be is. in tbe
President's opinion, unsound on the
currency question, and his failure to
secure the position may be accepted
as proof oi the fact that, whatever
qualifications a man may have for
omce, he must be a pronounced
"sound money" advocate, or else he
will not be allowed to enjoy tbe
spoils. Perhaps this is wise and
practical politics; perhaps it savors
of intimidation.
Which la
it?
I undertake to affirm.
without
fear of contradiction, that
a paper
issued by tbe government with tbe
simple-promise. to receive it for all
dues, wonld be . as uniform in its
value as the metals themselves'
John C. Calhoun.
"Our government cannot make its
fiat equivalent to intrinsic value nor
t r - I .
aeep uuenor money uy its own inde
pendent efforts, nor is it justified in
permitting an exaggerating and nn
reasonable reliance on our T?'on1
strength and ability to jeopardize tbe
soundness of tbe people's money."
G rover uieveiand.
NO. 29.
THE UOML
SIDE OF IT.
The Single Ooli Sundird ii a
League With Dooa-MTht
Fiends Laugh is
Their GW
A GHASTLY MARCH TO DEATH
M- - -- " fin iam With Tl -a
a Kr441tr-TVe eatt im a4
ftho lit Have Boa the laee Ism
I tho M US ary of the Cvaetmeaeat.
Miawurt World )
Never before ia the history of this
country baa there be a ao at neb af.
fenng as within the past eighteen
months It is worthy to note also
that this Las occurred ia the two
yeais f snch wonderful prod act oa
of all that is calculated to make the
human family happy and prosper
ous, as to call forth the charge of
over-prod action as the only visible
cause ot batd times. No attempt has
ever been made to show just w by and
how, having too much of the neces
sities of life, a people should go ban
gry and uV?)othed. The public is et
pected to take the mete statement for
truth without questioning why or
how it can be. Any deposition to
doubt tbe trnth f such a statement
is regarded as evidence of lunacy,
and the doubter is at once held up by
the bind leg to public contempt by a
venal press, and all the vials of
wrath bottled from the expletives of
tbe English language are poured
out on bis innocent head. The one
cry that goes op all over this land is
for more money. Tbe merchant ran
not do business because the people
hare no money to buy goods. Th
manufacturer cannot run bis factory
for the same reaon, and thus thou
sands of hands are thrown out of em
ployment, wbo, in turn, cannot buy
the products of the farm, because
they are out of employment aud have
no money. Thus machinery is stop
ped, labor is idle, and want and mis
ery are increasing in the land, all
because tbe monetary system f this
onntry must rest on ultimate re
demption of tbe one thing that has
sent more souls to hell than all other
things combined gold. What else
could be expected from such a con
dition but an increase of crime? Men
and women will not starve as long as
there is plenty in tbe land, especially
when they feel that they are being
robbed of their natural and God
given opportunities.
"An idle brain is the devil's work
shop" is an old saying, tbe truth of
which cannot be denied. Add to this
idleness, which is enforced, hunger
and cold, and you hare a double
incentive for crime. "Self preserva
tion is the first law of nature. That
which increases poverty and enforce
idleness is a promoter of crime. No
eague with hell could more effectu
ally advance the cause of tbe devil
than the wicked adoption of a stand
ard of payment which robs tbe
debtor of his equity, enforces idle
ness, prostrates industry, starves tLe
innocent babes and drives men and
women to crime. Tbe ghastly march
to death is shown in tbe following
startling statistics:
The record for suicides is higher
for 1894 than previous years. They
run as follows:
ForlWtt 2.3
For 1 1,U
For 3,331
For 12 X,w
Korlta 4.U
Fori! ,m
The cause for nearly oue-bslf of
these is given as despondency. In
sane, liquor, 218; ill health, 270;
domestic in felicity, 21 1 ; disappointed
ove, MZ; business losses, 122; tbe
remainder, unknown. Tbe number
of murders shows a startling in
crease, reaching, for tbe year. K,&00.
The increase of murders has been
steady, from the number 3,5G7 in
1889 to 9,800 in 1894. Tbe number
of murders committed in 1894 is 20
percent more than in 1893, when
they numbered CC15. Adding tn-cr
murders to the suicides, the destruc
tion of life from these two cause
amounted, for the year 1894, in the
Lnited btates, to 14,712. This record
is the darkest in the history of the
united Mates and ought forever to
condemn the infamous system that
has caused it.
TITHING AGREED TO.
The Soatbara BaeUat roaveaUoa Aeoe
the S ye teas Sliest taaalaaa.y.
In the South rn Baptist conven
tion at Washington tbe report of tbe
committee on tithing was presented
by Dr. F. ii. Ellis, of New York. It
referred to the great financial em
ban assment of the Southern Bap
tist convention, and concluded as
follows. "Your committee recom
mend tbe adoption of tbe tithing
system, and that our several state
conventions, district associations.
pastors, charehes and missionary so
cieties give active co-operation in
their efforts to educate our people in
taymg systematically to Ood not
ess than one-tenth of their in cone."
The report was adopted.
The amajerity Cee tUeer. -
There are nine prominent nations
that use silver while only three use
the gold standard. The silver using
nations arc as follows:
Copulation.
Korwsyaad Bweeden
Beldam
,744, 409
0.030,041
o.ua
10H.7K7.244
SA21S.MS)
ft.U7,233
17.&MU1S
Italy
uecmarx
China.... .............
Bnnia......
France..
Japan.
Spain,.
Nations with a gold standard:
" PopulatJotr
Eiifaad....... . Z7.4W.SS4
United 8tates. i.OOM
Germany ... 441.4-1,084
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