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fte. " J- V THE UCASTAN it RALEIGH. N: C, THURSDAY, APRIL S. 1897. VOL. XV. NO. '21 OA h i br. if h GIFT TO THE RAILROADS. ,,;ia of Dollars Voted as a Free lift By CongreBS-Wbat ia The IERI0DS INFLUENCE? l.rr ir i ..hiiurt ( Ikt Kallroad In Th ' oaten Th Katltirad Th of Kmplojtaa ! K"lorl I' .f . Whlla at The Nam Tim In- lug tli Fay f Thalr Official lha Kallral West Into PolHIra h. War Ilia Maat Powarfiil Alllea of il.l Trnat Whi Thia itaaaiae of tha Penpla'a Haatf I llalp Campaign rami T-Muma ....... t -( n.l riiraraa. !,n. 1 from last wffk-l'irt I K('ll. K At I I.ITI K8. has appropriated each tioDR outstanding, sold At judicial destroy business confidence, and i Miner r '"' If. :!t , e tr ' r I..' J I li' i iV'-h( i r.'priitioriH, lut a each Con ,rH.4 , mii proper to follow the ac- ... . I 'lltl If PUaJ tit I I,.' H('l I' ,il.!e t i hp i ml tlie lt twenty years a , t , i for the fat mail scr ew Kngland ami New Hifhern State", reaching a n New Orleans. Tlie total , the current year is I!;,- i,t been a difference of lutli necessity for making the to vs In ! not recommending ('nation, ha thought it ad apply the fund for the pur-ated. Mn. I: ti.ek. There is no answer, in .' ingress has insisted and per-,t-, in voting it, the Postmaster u iiil s.iys be can interpret it in otiirr way tuan that they mean ..1 : TV. at ia akit If llllll I" I ACU Aura " H .vh lnuiselt in his report. Ibat the fkst report. They have given . ir .irL'inuent time and again, un- I they tft tired of it, and now ,stn!.tter Jeneral refers you ie nr'iuuent. He Miys he does not know what !,. to do when Congress insists upon otllr It WUeil 11 IS uoi ueiBBSoij. i . : : t iU,. iin must mean iu kio it i iuo m.l. Hud lie ?ives it. There is the It is said ly some who oppose the ulil trust, yet who favor this sub idv, that we cannot afford U fight knythiu,'. They may be true in oiLt rtfpects, but l suomii inai ev ry lutin who opposes the gold stand nl, and who sincerely favors fioan ,l rtd'orin. if onlv to the extent of rte stiver, must, if bo is honest and mit re, tight any and all the allitd .trees that combined and concen- m .1 l rated their powers ror me SDyiocss ml against the interests of the peo- last campaign. Any man cerelv for the free coinage and puts that question and e interacts ot tne people aoove ms nale for the small cum of $i:$,000,00() The entire Southern system, except the Reabosrd line, has been owned. by the llotcbscbildit for several vears. Xne hahoard line has now been tken in by that great syndi cate within the last few date Why is it that tbii vast European combi nation is perfecting ital'ttleto Amer ican railroads jatt at tnis time: It is well known that they own rail roads to wreck them; that it is their policy after a road has been wrecked and bought for a pittance to rebond and restock it, run it for dividends until the bonds and stocks can be old, and then renreck it and go through the same process. The ac tivity in wrecking railroads during the present campaign that the Uotbscbild think it probable that Bryan will be elected, in wbicb event they could stock and bond tbeir railroads and fell them at a vast profit. Incase. however. Uryan should be defeated they have another recourse. They will cut down wages to the starva tion point. Such cnts would be ftl lowed by labor strikes, which woul be put down by the strong arm of the Federal (iovernment. and thus the form of our Government would be changed. There is no doubt that is the cheer- ished poliey""of every huropean monarch, as well a? of the great Rothschild money combination, to consolidate the Federal Government on the tnited Mates and make it a despotism. It . is hard to find a money dealer on either side of the Atlantic who will not tell you that what is wanted is a strong govern ment to make the people behave. If Bryan is elected, hundreds of mil lions will be made in these railroad deals in the next few years of gen eral prosperity. If he is defeated wages will be reduced, dividends will be made, and the stocks and bonds will be sold all the same, and mil lions will How into the coffers of the gold combination. We ask the people to waeh these errand railroad deals and see what connection they have with the raid ing of the Treasury by the Cleveland Rothschild combination, which has continued from that time until now. They will appreciate why it was that thissrreat money combination de sired to wreck railroads and depress prices:. it was that they might gather in, as they have gathered in, the railroads of the country ancl control transportation as well as finance. This explains the pernicious ac tivity of the railroad paralvte industry! Still, whatever the cause, why was it done? Why were so many made homel and destitute, or nearly sot Wby was other labor, already suffering from contracted busine s because of con tracted currency, made lo feel the weight of this added competition for employment in other branches of in dustry T Why, if retrenchment was imperative, was not the fifty seven and a half millions taken pro .rata, and with reference to amount of compensation received, from all classes of employees and officers, instead of depriving nearly 100,000 men of their customary livelihood? When during the single-year was the number of general and other officers . i 1 - 1 I m. ,t Rilh is evidence I empioyeu "j grrauy iucibcu, nunc combination I the number of subordinate em ployees was so largely decreased! Why was it that during mis oegm mng year or the panie more --ulcers'' were required for a co greatly diminished industrail army? Bat besides the dismissals from the ranks of railway employees. there were reductions in the pay of the less than nine-tenths who were retained How much these cuts amounted, to is not indicated by merely noting the lower average daily pay stated in the table above set foith, but the aggregate is easily calculated. Mr. President, 1 have here another very interesting table. Id this computation we only include tlinee classes from which the dismis ses above mentioned were made: Station men (not agents)... hnginemen Firemen Condnctors Trainmen Machinists Carpenters bbopmen Sertion loremen l'racknien Switchmen, flagmen, watchmen Telegraph operators and paU'her OthT employees Lost per day ivnd $l,423,f0 1. tt:5..kj !iy2.!2 3.ftO!.50 a.2iiJ 52 5 Wit 54 i,ii;.40 li H28.41 2, HiO.!5 SSo 80 4,313 SO 32,186.00 ami agains lie iu the 1 Jiu is sine (if silver a against Bryan and silver and tor McKinley and gold. In short, the gold trust is for McKinley; every railroad in the United States is for McKinley; the banks of Europe and America are for McKinley: every monarchical government in Europe is for McKinley; the sugar trust is for McKinley; the coal trust is for McKinley; the Standard oil trust ia for McKinley; John Sherman is Loss for the year n,7410!i 00 During the identical year (ending June 30, 1S94) when this vast sum of nearlv eleven and three-fourths millions was secured by paring down Ihe wages of subordinate employees from I to 12 cents a day, the aggr gate n-nount I'Jiid to general and other ofiiaersrwati, upon the average stated, increased by the sum of 447J9S 0."; that is to say, nearly one thiid of the eleven and three-fouiths millions taken from subordinate em corporations nlovees was added to the salary ac count of the officers This includes the salaries paid to the additional officers employed in that yiar. The loss to the subordinate classes aris ing from dismissals and reduced wages amounted, as above shown, to $G0, 201,004. 30. After allowing for all errors resulting from the use of average rates of pay, the compen sation paid to subordinate railway employees in 1894 as compared with vote for a subsidy to railroad mnanies. that were the most ac- ve and effective agents of the gold iimblers in the last campaign. If he railroads had not gone into pol- if, and coerced and intimidated vrn personal interests can not afford I for McKinley; Mark Hanna is for the fiscal year 1S93 was aprar .MCJviniey ; rierponx iuorgau is, iur emij uiuumsueu imi; tuu,otu,wu McKinley. We defy any man to show The paternal solicitude manifest a trust or unlawful combination; manipulator of the currency, in triguer with Rothschild's combina tion, gold gambler, stock jobber or at nniv th emnlovees but shippers money chaneer who is not for Mc- ud the public generally, William J. Kinley. No man of them who is for v a haudsome majority. Shall we I vance the wages of labor or to ben- ; . . . . , Irt. ., f A 1 A ote subsidies to tnosa wno are now ent ine masses, ua me contrary, dacing the pay of their employees every goldite in the country is tor . . . jaI, ji i & : ii order to raise a campaign runa io low wages anu uaru nuic. eln the shylockh and monopolists Therefore, it is not only to the in. . . I . m ..1 1 a m A BT terest, but tne duty, oi every pain otic American citizen to vote against McKinley and this infamous combi nation of trusts and monopolies be hind him. Mr. Nelson. Will the Senator efeat the will of the people again iK'.' Those who are honestly gainst the gold standard can not lake terms with the railroads with- ut betravini? the people and the tuse ot hnancial rerorm. ine ae on of these railroads in the last . m hturaign has made it necessary tor very patriot to deal with them just we must deal with the bankers. mdhoUlers. and the gold trust. a this connection I will embody my rtumks a leaflet sent out by campaign committee of the reo- e I'artv showing wny xne rau- atli are in politics: N. HV TU E RAILROADS ARE IK POLITICS TUB ROTHSCHILDS WRECKING AND BUMS', ft THE RAILROADS IN OR ed by very many managing railway officials for the welfare of the sub ordinate railway employee during the campaign just closed, the fears they expressed that he would not vote on the side of the "sound money" ' which he had been re ceiving in such unstinted portions, and the earnest aDd often success ful efforts of those managers to de lude the employee into believing that his prosperous lot would ba changed into a condition of starvation on half pay, all become really ludicrous in the light furnished by a study of the figures above given. Not less than $00,000,000 was taken from the I great mass of railway employees in allow me to a single year, and beyond question a very large proportion of this sum from North Carolina tV him a nnestionf Mr. Rhtlir. Certainly. was again -aved" in IS95 and 1S9G Mr. Nilson. What objection is The men who pilot the train.who gov to sabsidix the corporations ut of the public Treasury to enabV tbem to contribute more text time to the goldbug campaign. Mr. President, I am sorry that I did not have these stitistic in tb last campaign. I hav prepared them sine'. They would have an swered all of the demagogy and hnmbuggery that the railroad used to fool tbeir employees and to help to fool the country. In spit of their power and the money that they now wring from uh in their lolls and fares and that we vote to tbem ia sub sidies, we hope to get the truth to the people before the next election, and te redeem the country in rpite of them and their power thrown againet the interest of bnmacity. Mu. Tillman. Mr. President, I shall detain tfce Senate but a mo ment, but I-feel constrained, as a representative, of one of the Suuth fern States, to explain why I, who am percaps as radical a man in my views en the question of sidieaand Of the rule of corpora tions and the influence and control they exert in legislation, which was dicussed by the distinguished Sena tor from North Carolina, think it absolutely jast ana proper mat tne motion to strike out should not pre vail, and that the subsidy proposed shodld be continued in the appropri ation bill. Oar mail facilities iu the South are none too good. It is well known that the policy of the Government in distributing mail through the country is to reach into the remotest sections without regaid toco.t. iou send the star routes into the back woods if there are but a dozen peo ple there, although it may cost forty on fifty or a thousand times more thaii the revenue derived f'm the cancellation of stamps. Why do you do it? Because people in those remote settlements have some rights. Now, when you consider the fact that by reasen of its dense popula tion and wealth and the amount and rapidity of travel on the trains which accommodate the travel be tween the Eastern and Western sec tions of this country north of the Ohio and then compare it with the sparse settlements in the South and the inability of the railroad to furnish fas', trains and pay expenses, you 3ee at onse the analogy between supplying the remote settlements with star routes without regard to cost and the case we are now con sidering. If you deny tho Southern people and those cities mentioned in the amendment this fast train, you delay the mails from twelve to four teen hours to the great injury of ten or twelve States. Mr. Boiler, it will bring noth ing to the Southern people; every dollar of this subsidy will go into the pockets of the railroads. You say it will add to the railway facili ties. I df ny it. Where is your iea- timonv and vour evidence t snow a particle. Mr. Tillman. ' It is not a que? tion of testimony or evidence. It is a question simply wun ine rosi master-Genera'. If he does not think it is right and proper, he is allowed under the statute not to spend this money. If he will not do his duty, it is not our fault. Mr. Butler. How would the die tinguished Senator Mr. Daniel. I call tho attention of the Senator from South Carolina to the fact that he is required not to spend it unless he believes in his own judgment that it be necessary Mr. Tillman. You mean to sad dle the responsiVility on us, because it is in an appropiiation bill and you want the Postmas er General to say because we put it there he must spend it. Mr. Butler. He has the courage to advise you not to do it, and that is as much courage as it would take to vote against a subsidy if he were a member of this body. And when he has had the courage to do that THE CRUSIDE OF THE AGES.! Mel Turk t rigii have a prior claii sade. hut in tb A RIKGIkG, THRILLING AO0RESS BY A YOUNG WAKE FOREST STUDENT. t.l4ce Ibat Oal Ma Arm Tenia Ka ta Ml tte.rat fra. taa-A HvlWrihM thaMptrtt af Jaatlra llvta Will rravalt. On February .'2nd. Mr. Kottrt X. Simm. a student of Wse ForetCol-i lege, delit-red an oniv-rary oration th subject bting, "The trtiaCV of the Ages. It w as follows : I.aimks am i.Ksti f MKw : When my Jriend. .-in mnuuucii k hit ub?or. mentioned ihe nsm rrusdi, yourj mitd. of course, instantly revrrtfd to liat are known in biflory a th cru ade. Those ma jfMncrm movement of conwimtiou men againt th ii.H- na'ed, and therefore im .ipun, i le nam cru- he nine hum red years tuj. t intervening inc- that timr, f tie name na b-en given to many a niov, ana sometime.4, alis! ha teen dbAred A world-wide movement for political liberty wan a crusade; io wa I lio move ment for the purification if th one city of New York, led "bv " our Tom." of course, and incidentally. Dr. I'ark hurst! The bluster in behalf of the imaginary right of woiiuii t In1 i-o better than man, and to paddle with him in the mud-puddle of politic!, was railed a crusade: while the heaven- born movement againat human slavery received but the same name. Of the many movement that have been thus called, some have ended badly, others have had noble results. Ihe accom plishments range all of the way from the realization of human liberty dovn, down to the creation of the new wo man" that thing that belongs neither to the heavens above nor to the earth beneath remainder, waters under the earth; that is, of neither the mascu line, the feminine, nor yet the neuter genderhaving neither the gentleness of a woman, .ror the manliness of a man, and being utterly devoid of the passivity of a neuter; that is neverthe less so ( pardon the word and let me use it) devilish worldly-wis.Mhit.knowing the advantage which a good name gives, it has seized upon and appropri ated to its besmirched self that name wbich, when not thus denied, tokens what is pnrest and noblest in OodV creation the name woman. 1 believe it was Abraham I.inrolu who once said that God must love the common people; that he was sure that God loved the common people, because He made so many of them. Now I am not sure that it was Lincoln who said that, but it doesn't matter as to that fact now. The logic of the statement is invincible, and so tonight I am go ing to spas to you of those great com mon people whom God loves. Those of us who are young men now have to face the coming of a mighty crisis. We shall have to live the lives of men amid conditions to which our fathers were never subjected. And I might add, that those who are young women now will have to take a very vital part in this same crisis. The time s now upon us wnen women, n tney would fill the sphere which their Cre ator has ordained they should, even rtirton r but oc of tb ! ttaii.t wf r crvat orrml met -niit a rkotrmrrl f tb grrtt rami utoa propU ia vindirat'oa f tbnr aotrrvif n rift.1. !ede4. tb rmad for lb lvain of It rcotn-oa popl find tt w.kitc b. Itrbirt far tr and ripraaion ia uao.lra labvr orjraonatiut. ; and tLa ore aouttloB. if I mUtakf not, ara lb muiUr ground of an army a t-ur and patri otic in it n.tie, and bavinc sob' a raua. a did rrr that m bicb followed Whioirtn. or ia iur i.t n Uma, tb patriot Macro. n rrwarkah' thing about tb la bor orfamrttion movement was U. part taken there) a by the farmer, rwring the adtsntsg wbkb combina tion give, t bey r me t(elber IbtO tb nrgauization nrt of the Orange ad then of the Karate r Alliance. Tbia i indeed a inot ignili -ant fact. When tb rural part of ( population became aroued a nation may well scrutinize its condition. Tb farmer, slow to wrath, ia the tery genius of avenging dent rod ion when one hi passion, is aroused. What baa b don in thepat Tbre time whea literty demanded it has he captured and held with his horny band againat every at tack of baron, lord, and peer tb capi tal city of Kngland. It was th farmers of France who. Waving th country where they were subject to unequal taxaiion, and flocking into th fetr ing cities, brought about the great French Revolution. It was a body of American farmers who, with heelt tarred down in liberty and rigbt, drafted at old Mecklenburg th Oral declaration of American independ ence. The farmer 'a heart ia th horn of freedom. He will te the throttled bond-servant of no man. 11 ha never known servile obedience lo earthly po tentate or power. ilneas th revolt' ing and triumphant farmer of Kng land, France, and the American colo nies pledging their live, their for tunes, and their most aacred honor to the quebt of tleeing Freedom's trail Wittiest now, if you will, live million embattled farmers, banded brothers in a common cause, against an odious in dustrial oppression And now need 1 ak why the farmers have united? Why, fur that matter, have all other laboring peoples united? lid they have no reaon la their action devoid of a valid cause Jut as much without a cause as were the men of the Netherlands who re volted against th iniquitous oppres sion Of Spain; just as much without i cause as were the barutis of Kngland who wrested from tyrannical old King John the great charter of Knglinh lib erty : in :t as much without a cause as were the peasants of Franc who raised their bowed barks Ironi their seu'ile toil and. catching into their hearts the sunlight of liberty, went forth to wreak upon their oppressors the accumulated wrath of centuries; just as much without a cause as were those men who, braving perils by land and eea, set foot upon the American shore and fired at the tyrannical moo arch of Kngland that shot whose echoes, heard round the world, made the thrones of kings to tremble and proclaimed tbe death-warrant of every monarch ; lust as much without a cause as are the patriots of Cuna to-day who are dying tbe death of martyrs in re bell ion against such oppression as wise men would not give and brave men will not bear. Tbe labor organizations bwrat fad a la) IK wegr ' IK Kepstblcaa rarty m fee a tblia4 saaaoVd lbrbasf wbtrb it wrwwgbt MM pint tfeat baa eve ba4 aad glow la tft bart ml Aagt. ax pftj tad rriea fa librrtt fcr death. Aa,tbry th rrvlit I'srtj will it. Ay, aad ao It sasy. Hat If It dor It will b braa If aaesab bat forgot1a tb can f itatsrtb. born of rblli0a agaiat party ruptioa and partiaaaabtp. it ga it owa datb-warraat vba It raad. eetOi to acraaabi for apotl. rwrs t voir baraaait raua. it . sad ought to die, wba It roa 1 u more than a ultiag-atoa fr aaibt oua men. 1H Yea. tb reaat 1'opulUt Party s&ay 4i. oaybava now is djing; but if it 4ov or ea If it lives and fall to reform. Mthiag la tout b fortbcMitDg to fil tb p'ac which it started ot to fill. A peopla party I bere tnaat ever be! en. me recent political rimi'i'f was but another mamfeatalmn eftbl aaui general tnonat el which I peak. Now. I am ant goiag torfi cuaa tb queatioo of Itntore. I abal! certainty not ay t oi tht th ya- trtn of tboa ntn wb- riy ii triumphant ia tb very beat tfctag nor nation could ha. And, on lb other hand, right eoua indlgain forbid that I ahould ay anything in behalf of that theory which tieei no hrtur de're thau ii opponent were un able to answer ii arguairtt', and bad lo resort to th contemptible auti'rr- tug of branding it believer an arrbiata and repudiation .. H I do mean to ay i thi : that I b rerei.t political campaign meant -( liirg far mor than bi-melaluui. II iaui hav bee a a superficial haerr. in deed, who failed to mark b-neatb tb surface of lb movement aaometbiog grea'er than a 'juration of mere na tional finance. Th gold-tatdard men said that their opponent, if i. torious, would pot b roiifent with a mere change in our coinage yiem and they were right! Thepsriy whirh haaauttrrrd a lmporary defea: wa tb xpreion of tb need of the great laboring rlaa, and. if victoru n. wuuld not hav re-ted abort of I he irmm p iihment of industrial Iretil o. Nat. mr; it ,tl .., res' bort of that ti gb aim, fr while, as tb gold met, awi. the free ro;nage of a'lver may not te th battle-cry in I'.aai. the aometbing el that wa in thi movement v, ill t there lo meet their mony-tag-or-rounded boat, and. like truth, tin something knows no Waterloo. Ah, they talk about free America. They say that it's good enough a it i. r POPULISTS MID TARIFP. A Sutctfil InofJ Bj lU Tro pin Tirtj Caucus K0 TARIFF LHJ.SLAT10X thnnirh thov h nf tho hlpaspd tvn of " . . ; I i i... r . . . -.. home women, must know something at Br" uur luc i""'" least nf the no tica . the Social, and oi oppression. x.very taour urK.... the economic conditions which eur round tbem. North Carolina has not produced, and will not produce, a Belvy I.ockwood, or a Mrs. Lease and I am glad of it; but the time ever has been, and now is, when her women dared do all that doth become their kind, when they were content with no smaller spherebecause they recognize that there is no greater, noble one than that of being helps meet for men in their struggle for the right. At every period of her history all of the way from the time of those noble wo men of Edenton who pledged them selves to drink no more of England's tea, whose buying made their husbands slaves, down to the times of the heroic ness of tbe Revolutionary and Civil Wars, who, even though they stayed by the firesides (where, alas ! there was so often no fire to burn), suffered yet far more at tbe homesteads than did tbe men upon the fields of gore North Carolina has ever bad daughters in ber quiet homes who were ready and ab e to bold up tne nanas ot ner sons in every nooie wora. Ana mis, dv tne .. . t iUA Ua train vKn carra tin a tmiri; mere uuw ivwuuk f; , V mnt and vote it and tell him way. is the reason she has given more amendment immediately! It is now almost Sunday morning. Can we not take a vote before the Sabbath comes in! Mr. Butler, If I thought it would have a very beneficial effect upon the Senate in the interest of track safe for the train, who repair the train, who. in fact, operate the road, and compose an army of pro tection and safety to hundreds of millions of passengers and billions of dollars' worth of moving proper- to spend it, ana he- explains in nis report that he throws it away be- cause you votea it in spue or nis recommendation to the contrary The distinguished Senator from Wisconsin, who has been Pcstmas- A V, EI.'. AS FIN ANCE la h'j :; when the Kothscbild dom ination was raiding the Treasury f gold for their gigantic Austrian leeuUtiou. at which time it was e duty of the Administration to iy (ioveruuiect obligations in sil . the scope of the entire scheme V not developed. The Austrian hi was changed f rom $2,400,000,000 routis tiayaoiein suver to r- ouu,- ,000 bonds payable in gold. It serted, and it is probably true, mor than $200,000,000 was !') that single transaction. It'. a sl8 robbed and her debt tieallv doubled. The United was betraved. its Treasury ifced. and a name inaugurated der the nressure of which the only nailer the statute book recog- ic silver as money was swept lJ- It is estimated that during veiand s administration four thou m ilions of railroad and other ir.tits have gone to the bad and H Potest investors have lost that Ti- was net all of the cieantic n in which tha Adminstration of trident Cleveland slaved and is 'living so conspicuous a part, -r'y all of the railroads of the u.-ry were wrecked. It is stated t' e public areas that that same 'ttiacliild combination, acting rough their aeents. Morgan and fin-. out, as they have done in the .'"."-',iw dodq ueaia uuouk 'veland's Administration, have ab- "bed all tbe railroad transporta 'U east of the Mississippi river, -ept tbe Pennsylvania and the JhQ'ltrbilt lines, and that they have ongingeye for the Pensylvama, itu is in danger ot toiiowiog in ' same path that all tbe other ljat railroads have gone. The pst surprising fact in all these gl u iic ooerations is tuat iiuce wij s rominatiou's at Chicago and Louis tbe absorotion by porch- P under ladicial sale of railroads e been enormour. The Keaa- costing 250.000.000. and only debt $43,000,000. sold for the pal sum of i20.500.000. The North raeific, with between two and e bnndred millions of oblira in tne interest uietuuu- ,K0..cti,flint noni,r.l cvnUinpfl todav how it in the interest of not throwing ,J. . , .u I ua prtctmft0f0e.fiT,ori interest of have all talked men to uie tne nooie soiaier s ueaiu than any other State in the Union. The question now is, Mow win ner women respond today? Strarge forces axe at wora arounu us. ours is a perioa ot intense unresi perbaps tbe unrest of coming dawu, but certainly tne unrest ot an imme diate storm. -What is there beneath it mv. in tne interest ui uui iuwmug v. -- -- t r. ... . - t. fi-0t i .,,0l0io(.im,, ;n the I oi uuiuwwu ciiuuiuoi.ouv.cij. .y,aa ' - ; . . I There is the ereat movement Of i E : Tim ONTRoL TRASSrORTATION 3 r?, It. r other hand, those' who manipulate was placed in an awKwara situation m.aa i,m,nit" ,frB. , hpttpP ... me ecuuuujv iuoi. - . u .1 ! : 4. nn ih. l.w ' : . . ' . . . tne company s uuaucoe, who ucic i m aucuijjuuj; "- ' -tate. mat is tne crusaae ages-oia, ana schemes by which this or that large or do his duty when he ' had to con js tne one 0f which I speak. Men have shipment is secured at any sacrifice tend single-handed without the help termed it at times the crusade of pov- c.r,na who establish a tariff of of Cineress asramst these combined erty against wealth, ana to tne super t,- r,w t hrenlr t. who often monorolits who have such a hold ficial observer the name has perhaps .,a .kIa tn "stand on the erroundluoon our country and its interests niv vw - o i floor" in little tion upon tlie face of tbe earth to-day stands as a monument testifying to the existence of human woe. Some one has well said that tbe people will as soon rise in revolt without oppression as the ocean will heave in billows without tbe wfnd. And so far are thee organizations from being harbingers of ill, that they give us the best ground for hop for the future of America, and therefore for the world. The dark hour lor the American people will be when they have become ro sunk in the scale of manly vigor that they will not organize and will nut rebel. The labor unions are omens of good, and speak hope to tbe human race, for they are the tan gible proofs of to-day that we are the sons of those men who, by seven long years of such bravery as tbe riches of history cannot show, wrested from tbe band of a tvrannisal monarch those liberties wbicb tbe Creator hadugiven for man, who established this republic carved it from the wilderness, con iuered it from tbe Indian, wrested it irom Kngland, and at last, stilling tbeir own tumult, consecrated it for ever as tbe home of liberty-loving men and tbe theatre of their transcending achievements, "while startled kings and emperors gazed and marvelled that from the rude loucn or this baudiui cast on a bleak and unknown shore should have come tbe embodied genia I of human government. th perfect model of human liberty. And it is economy for to day if I thoncrht that it would cause sena tors to be influenced more by thein terests of the people than by the in terest of the corporations, I should say, let us take the vote on tha eve of Sunday morning,. Mr. Nelson. Lit us try the ex periment. TUr. Ri-tlir. Mr. President, the Senator almost persuades me. II shall ask permission, since I have partially covered this matter, to put into the Record, at the proper place I "f"" "J . . I V, mnnl. h.a riianlareil it. ,, l i . l - ..i , u c fw i li .n. I a mo rnn a v innv inn niiiinni-i v-rf . - " -" - ... ... I.. . r I sen. IU U money geltmg which operate to tne ties tie naa to meeiwnu irubiiuas- f thg humble poorer clas?, in an at seemed justifiable. Oftenestin its his- jveme self, to the ci3ual observer, on the part ny- wmarki. without detaining of men employed detriment of the road, but to tne ter General, ana it maae me tremme Uck on th09e wno possessed much betterment of their own pockets, for the Government to see a man wealth. But to him who studies with raise their wages, when hard times with his firmness and courage stand J heart as well as bead, it must ever have 1- .a;nva" nrnlnrei hv Kin hare and acknowledge and admit I been evident that all of this tumoil shaving down the pay -ot suoor- the dijneumes mat a oioinBi umcer dinates or diminishing the number! has in cartying out and doing his duty unless uongress wiu,eome to his back and prevent the railroads These stirtling figures almost per suade one to believe in the existence of a "trust'' in railway pay as there is hr sugar, meat, iron, coal, oil, lumber, leather, coffins, shrouds, and combined trusts and lies from centering" their upon mm. Mr TILLMAX. in the Senate bv reading it, some other matter which 1 have prepared, it is a statement pertinent to the discus sion to some extent, but of course it V.-.-. onrl i a in tpnrl F1 to show, the position of the railroads in the la and practically everything we campaign; and it cans attention w w u ' tKa fa.t that we stand to-day in a Nearlv a hundred thousand different relation as a Senate to turned from work on railways in a them to what we have stood before, single yeai! Sixty million dollars The time has come to deal with taken from subordinate railway em them as business -corporations and ployees in a single year! Millions not as a matter of sentiment and fa- Qf dollars added to the salaries of vnr. especially when they go into railway officials m the. same year. politics, as tney aia in.ma -m- now easy it. is w f"'" xu ZT- would be, if my great question dividing the country, happened before the issnes of the Mr. President, when I was inter- national campaigu were framed, runted a few moments ago by the- but the conditions were continued U.?.-V" iT-,... r,nthe throughout that struggle and are Question ornrqno "til f " question wj. uv h , What vns done with that six- ....... vnA m m i.ii r. iiik l .-hi. la ruw.a - ' - CUSBlUK v - J 1 - ... tv,na ichn worn iismissaa irom 1 1 v uiimvua a. ii ujd monopo-pressure When there are so has not been caused by a mere straggle between the more fortunate and the less favored followers of Mammon. Down beneath it all, and mingled with it all, there has been tne myriad- tongued voice of human suffering; and behind it all, and urging it all on, there has been, on the side of humanity, in response to its cry of distress, the great I . . - - aL!- V.:I1 n I L...-.,4 r.f IT.rv. v.-Vi. in nnt KA I Kltnil InlalliaTinfl neeal L t .1. s-ether with Mammon. I circumstances w many iniqumf a " " t notice two or three of tbe mm- bein bad passed ment tor tne uansportauou i ;ftation9 of thia movement in our and were loved J , . i u .uin.inn nf Am- I lions "saved" in of t no rail road s. I h ave a operating expenses of railways must about mails which the Senator pointed out, and T am Tinwiilinc. with all the villainies in this appropriation bill, to vote against this one for my own section --f the country to give it raoid mail facilities. Mr. BctleIi l our argument son steals, then condemn him. Mr. "Tillman. I am tired of so much sentimentality-in the South and no practicability. I think if we have got to have these iniquities we should have our share of the benefits Mr Butler. erame. i nave when spoilsmen say "What are we l,n 4Vi. Knt ti- iha cnrkilif" F.aeh that be reserved for anotner cnapter. , . . d let the The purpose of the regog w d take hindm03t. Mr. Tillma". The South always i , much of own land, in order best to eaten its central truth. I need not elaborate to you tbe causes of the birth of our labor organ izations. ou know how our great in dustries began to fall into the clutch of that demon-born thing, monopoly. well that the sons of those men should be found to-day in organizations re echoing the troth that bathed old Bunker Hill in glory and consecrated tbe American soil, that power will as soon slumber beneath the spark as will Anglo-Saxon men beneath oppression Well, anarcbietn, socialism, nihilism, commuuisin, are all but varied mani festations of this same general move ment misdirected manifestations, in- deed, but manifestations none tbe less. 11 en are restless ana groping, and their hands fall upon these things in tbe darkness, to which t bey after wards cling in tbe hope that some way out of them can come relief. I spoke of tbe rarmers Alliance a moment ago Out of that organization sprang a arreat political party. Tbe times were crying loudly for some one to espouse tbe caese of truth. Two old ptrtiee had long since ceased to wean any thing vital, and stood for naught save wun a nam, i ne bicb called them into away, and they lived but a relics of glorious battles fought and won. Their plat forms were ntught but auccessions of sonorous platitudes. The victory of either meant tbe solution of no vital question, and ' every one knew it. Meanwhile the world was living ages in a few short year f.reat problems nd that w ar the freest of the ire s .nierua really ire o long a tl.e reat majority of ber population i uttering I ruin industrial bondage la industry free Trad ia tbroTid in tbe grasp of monopoly. Commerr i fettered by so-called protection. Pro tection to whom and what Protec tion to such extortion a the world baa never seen; protection to tho who would subvert th government that gives them a bom: protection lot bo who wuuld transmute Una land of th free into a hell of political and indus trial slaves. Industrial freedom, iu deed! Merciful Ood ! Wa there ever more pitiable travesty of word- Our forefathers fought for political free dom. We ar called upon todoeveii mor. They fought for th ballot-box. We roust fight for th bom. Men of North i'arolina, how will you arquit yourselves? A: but you say, the issue Is not yl upon x. i.aoor organization i uoi yet strong, nor needed to be strong, amid us. We hav a quiet, secluded. conservativ state. Hold! Ar you sure of that? ut of tb Farmer.' Al liance, a labor organization, prang a great political party, and North Caro lina is one of its stronghold. Hut more than that, th other kind of labor organization is ciming. Manufactur ers are beginning lo recognize th im mense advantage which North e aro Una ran give. Her mighty reourcea are being investigated. Factories ar springing up bere and there. Our ov ulation is becoming tinged with iiiat of the factory kind. ur old, secluded, conservative state is goo, or gomr. and in its place will b fo'ind on Oil d th all of the currrnt social and in dustrial problems and tb radicalism which human sutTenog breed. TI question is curs. How will we meet i'F It behooves each one of us to s'udy tbe great movement underlying thee various manifestations. Therein life or death for us in the task, while it is but filicide to evade it To thia duty there is abundant call,' so that tb statesman who nglcts it is a charla tan, tbe philanthropist who shirk it is a hypocrite, the christian man who passes it by i a traitor to bis find. Shall it be said that North Carolina's women and men ar, for the first time in all of their history, l ath to answer stern duty's call? Lo k with m at that mighty temp' once as white a tn oriven snow it illars seem strong as if founded in Will SUWa rmMf 1W S VMb la frtt tauil a V raef - It fa las a mm aMt,M taa a ttmm m It At. mt tmm -!( mm Sual m4 Sal -Ma4 VI aa ! Wf ( a4 mimmrnm aa4 W mmmmmtf Umtm. WAbt..T... l. i. klarvk il A Joint raarws wf tb l'palit aa lrs of th Saal aal llasas bU Monday aveaiag tadiarasa tk roorv of that faHy trwar4 lb tat S bill. As a ralt tha fvllowiag at art a was isawad "Tb tat iff baa -n tb l.t U dmr arl hutt'ek -f 4ilir fMf Bralbana tuodraj yr. aa4 its Deal ttUanat is sar ri.Uk than shta b oB fwiti-y Iwgaa. lluring tktia ptil rwaatty La lperierd at d tferrat ti both .ruy bJ Lard tse. act under a HgL latiff bat ! aa'r a low lar.fi. bat it basalwavs ipti enred baid tin s wbe lbr was a eoQifsrtiua of th toav .-!, no matter whether tb tan high T 1 tar. "When tb C2VelabJ UrpuUxaa combioa'iuo ralrl lb parrba itg rlsua of lb hbertaian tt Sfoi lM-d tb lue if new w oliet. tli Ctah raQi ; tiaitbatat1iag tb MrKmloy tar ff remaiaI ia frr a year and a Lalt there-! u r. ai d w Iba lltwocraiir WiUa bill Iwam a law tbe.,1. . roalrae(.. not miligalt by I', bat I a rontlt-U-A t gtoar arortr Wab no faith in itar a U-abUraii r a llrumrtiHr tarifl a a temey ft.r tb (Vila fib RlJ a'stdaid atJ monopdy tale. W rerogn'C tb faey tl a'l former tarff legialatioti, aa weil a tb prooad naui. baa wiaoy ut'jost 1im riBiioaiioD. a ad works batcabifa maay mduattie ai.J UQreaaooablv ttel oJr. Tobief Kepuldirao rt-mplsiut agaiot tb WiUon bill, Lowar, is that it doe not ptixluc u!7i-e.t fUUe for lh SUppOtt tflhe guV ernment. Tbr lark f ivtu- i Hot t be r tilt -f defee'a IO ll bill s it was pasHl by i'm greaa, bat te- sulttd from a diiop of lb Hi -I rem Court, wbirh le.lare.l the tncon. tr.a unroca'it ant)al Ta ar raanv to sanplf tb JL Hc ency wihot rebiog tb tatif! agitation. Tb mot dirt and t feetiv tuetbod would b lfe. lrer stid increase lb eitculsttor meliutu ao as to restore tb level, f price which ens'aJ r.or toil a demonetization of that taal. I' that could bo don, lb 1 1 wtuX tariff law, with the money drnved frou. tb other ourc. woald rrt surplus atd not a deficiency. If law mony powers are strong enough to postpoo relief lo that way, amp! justice, its arches kla tne very hia. its portals are wide nogn tor in foot aor throng of humanity to ntr nto its air of peace. Ah: surely, I-ih- erty mnst walk tho rorrtdora. Art must adorn tho wai'a. Kiigton must fill tboa aisle with ince. Yr, for there lsmblszood upon i' front, in letter if glittering gld. large enough for th farthest iu , and brirht enough tn shed in'o th hetrt wf tbe humblest slav the very sunlight of freedom, the simple wort Ht waKiTY. sglow with-ine nuignt splendor of baven. But no! what is that I hatf There comes, born upon tb gntle breezrihat seems aham4 to bear it. the pitiful rry of suffering mn. A I'd do I see it? 'i e; titer. Within thos sacred precincts, are tbe table f th mny-cbaeger, lh clinking of wbo cursed coin kp tim to the com tan t wa'lmg. And there, off to cine side. taoda tbe Got?, dess of Libert?, the star upon ber for bead dartiag ray of living nr as n n lints with ber sword toward her - . ..... . . . footed and Droelittttea Dome, a no i know not bow you may feel about it, hut a tor m I dsir no arr eater ilege than t answer to ber call for men by kneeling down numuij at ner revenue could te derived from a tai on a fw articles which would pro duce revenue; or wbat might be still lxttr, a redaction of ndla t petditaus, such ss sxtravagaBt a propriatiotsof money for rivers and hsib'TS. not r aired bv tb eIa of com mere, and the lik. "We do not regard tbo Iiisgley bill aa a revenue measure. Itis ttetnely doubtful if it will prod arc as much revenue as tbe Wilson bill. Nor is it a tarff for protection is any jast sense. It is aoba'ialiy a tariff for agitation. Th diseria ina'ioa and in quality of tie bill will ereate great dissat sfartioq. It seems lo as designed by lb Kpt lican party to etea'e aueb a tar ff airitation at will divert tb attentive of thecj.!e fr-m tbe misery tbey uffr from a eontraetiow of sbbw and th rul of monopolies. Tariff agitators who ar usually either ig norantly or kaowieg'y tbe tools f moDopolisU and tbe money trust, bav ssccdid for tbe last twenty years in dludiog many voters into tbe beli-f tbatthe saiaety tbey en dure resui's wholly from tb wiek-l- nets of tb- tar ff propoaed or passed by lb wp;oita prty. Tb l ob-j-ct of ib gold Republicans to l to engsg tb Im'eratie party id tb old ebrouie tarff war. and thrt.y idtrack all other qieftiooe r irsoaa wbieb tbey fear to meet, abd wbieb alon can briag general prsjerry. rbeae aa oiher Iik eoosdra-i'tfls haeo ia daed tb- P.tpul'sts in tbe tw boas of Onr" ? lum Ut ti9 tbe tarffissoo as a prpr sobj-et to divid panis outil tb saaia issa of tb money qtsin and ba rale ot oonopolia is set'led. Tbey rw- fos--to eounteasB' ay sehesse wbieb will k-p ap th ebrosie Cfbt over tb tarff o en We tbe asy . . .. ... i trnat to avoid a deeiia on to rami aud vitsl tsns btwD tb peopi and oneBtrd weal-h. Wbtl- tb P. ao all ia ibe'r ro er ia Mb li r C egr-s t r-m-dy tb Biti'srt dv feis in b WIw -ill and to m I ear to frm-rs and labxrecs sneh rroeeion shall e-wrpod vita and various other mil- saved" in recent years from nlovees of the railroad few more words to say matter. , I .;,la ctn nanHnnc This amount, -tji , .a.u.uv, .. w . -r - . . ;r i . S-V.W1 from tho earn- and to point out to railway em.pi.uj- , m m ii i. in wv-a. - - - - . . . . . . intra of subordinate railway You know how the srreat staples and necessaries of life found themselves j people cried out for some one to help caueht in itsall-embracinsrerasp. Y'ou I tbem: but as no one came, they finally know how it ever widened the reacn oi aeciuea to ao tott oesi oi an ididk? its power until it bad la'dits hand! to help themselves To that end tbey upon everything that God had placed I organized a political party and es in the world to minister to human I Doused tbe cause of many needed re- want. And then you know how capi-1 forms. Tbey accomplished some things That is a nice grab tal went on. with its aggressions and, and the way seemed open lor more. i..t Kofnre havingprostituted our judiciary, ban- The future seemed full of promise for Wkl I dicapped our politTcat system, and them. But alas ! at that very moment wrearl.0rdea.din1taoliO..Tbe 'i beln I --.- - i ana me tiiw wh r sB.W-;-;;.T; alone, and pm m, :iaQ,jlM,fc. ,.rde.f as- VrJ?.ZlZ'.Z..r;:Y; snow-wniie crasi si s rra- , .affieient em- another chapter is t( sham, y ei a .V L 1" a eea and tne puonc nuw iSSUi r.li rt by aM ais- ban bw. - o oi 117 neraons. nearly ail euro w '"""' rr . ; iuiooai wa I r has taken the hindmost. Mr. Bctler. The Senator from South Carolina will be ioining the tariff baron? here in a few days and saying, onow me now 1. 1 l i DtlBUUB, u"". I " . . . . i j I RHV1DP. "OnOW IUB IlOW i V.kU ' . l.i. ' .i. ;mool a nkihlA under me Diessea souna ' . . x n.on nn vtinm oonDues. mice ixii. i i - .... , . n i thn pnnntrr T nr nnnio t .a.ruiiua. uVliumbTr w, mmim tor -?" support. Fifty-seven and a naii wj u w Me Tillman x beg yonr par million dollars suddenly taken Iron M7ars. i,n don, but I will join with the repre- fully 300.000 persons at the close or. ow, v.- " sentatives of the tariff barons m the nineteenth centnry by dismissal oppose the gold "J?J giviag ths country all tbe'tariff frtm a hitherto reliable and steady tnrn over the money Kd from J J it eau be gagged and .mninvment because our financial ststem permitted bankers to inangnrate tne made, by its bribery, our national leg islature a thing of. mockery for tbe world, it "entrenched itself behind the deepening powers and privileges which government gave it, and the countless ramparts of its money-bags, and opposed to the vague but earnest onset oi tbe people, tne power ot tne trained phalanx and toe conscienceless strength of tbe mercenary, forgetting thy fell beneath tbe odious sway of the demagogue, and their movement has received a blight. But is it dead, therefore? Is it dead Not unless truth itself can die! 1 am do Populist, as tbe term is now used. I am not speaking for the Populist Party as ft now is, but for it as it start ed out to be; for it as it was in its in- . a. . m ciDiener. wnen it voieea tne ctaims oi ..de,nottorpiureaDempT7-ep.wT . . f ' aa:,-Wv dis- rw.n hiirniasr Htrian sara. du k i !"" -- ... mr-rww rw T B a a a. .SIS. a.. aai jaa '. .nrf MnniMratc as tbe I triba'e m owo" '"'i .w.a;- Ar ail that ia eood. the I oeh a tariff, vet tf tbey refrain yet ....t i.mi.u of huminitt'i eauie. I ; r e aeVnat tb DingleT bill ... ai.i .k.1 ou us naaa pasiag. jmm rawtal Bill. Daer a It Will be to avoid even the appear aace ot pr -ticc tha eoatiaaaaee or tbe tana Can lOOt I -K.t anma Amv tha. . mit A mruin I eternal truth, and nledfed ItSeli tO Win hoart. hnrstine-with rirDteans wrath, ttte umt. adq l am. speaaiDsr iw would tear down every barrier which I as it, or something very nee it, isy it mieht hmtd and c.hallens it with I e-oinsT to be: for I declare to yoo boldly the voice of the peopIe,whicb is then that the spirit of Populism is inunor the voice of God. And the people snf-ul-Wbj? Because it is tbe same feeoft ami orosr ctrnnr nntil fi aall r. I snirit that stirred ID the hearts of when forbearance bad ceased to be a I those men Sector Butler deserve, great itmVtMM . - t. i . i . a v . sir m m mn nwBemnmnuwKHK v. tmm . v w w. 1 .... :,t n itva taat aeaaioB of the I etal sad monODOlV refOT aVDd a4g 5..t- w dunk believe it coald 1 mmA snviaar eoaataaaaea to tha 0Sia-e " - - . - I vw a-w aa mm , ..- have been passed anyway, ooi MBteahOB tut any tana wrzisiaws, ' . X. . I . . . efforts prevenvea it irwiai irKumt " bovi'cf WIM SM Uif sosw rtawvs vote and inus preciuuau an i It may come up again tins session, aui in the meantime tne people are get ting onto it and public opinion win scarcely permit its passage. If our friends will aid aa ia our efforts, we will endeavor to aep b brrthtblleabip them posted on eounty, district and ... a . . m a Aid ns by aendinf ut 4 !5h1J ivSitS P" that it caube Fsged and Aid n. 1 wretched the ' PP110. tne,ffaDJ Senator torwd to ukr down- Tht " V'" f"" in mi" mftT aarTinat wlals party of their timethe match- "T ' - -Aic7' doitnnles hl ifrighf t Continned on 4th page t oppressicu. Andthnthe labor or-1 less Democratic; the same spirit that lelnb. at one. -a a a existing BO' rvj """ Iaddraas ia aigBad by aU Ua Populist Senators and Bapraatnta- tiTea- CLTtXL OUR CXtf tZZX CfTCR C3I I 7 1. . -e it - - Z' . s -
The Caucasian (Clinton, N.C.)
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April 8, 1897, edition 1
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