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ffiife'iii mmmt VOL. VI. LINCOLNTON, N. C, FRIDAY, SEPT. 30, 1892. NO. 22 1 ! Li . Ill Professional Cards. (Sosttur, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Offers his professional serviceto the citizens of Lincointon and urroun dlog couucry. Office at his reai deuce adjoining Lincoln ton Hotel All culls promptly attended to. Aug. 7, 1891 ly J. WSA1N,M. D., lias located at Lincointon aud of fers hie services as physician to the citizens ct Lincointon and surround ing country. Will be toand at uight at the res idence of B. U. Wood March 17, 1891 ly Bartlett Shipp, ATTORN KY AT LAW, LINCOLNTON, N. C. Jan. 9, 1891. ly. Finley &. Wetmore, ATTY3. AT LAW, LINCOLNTON, N. C. Will practice in Lincoln and eurrounding counties. All business put into our hands will be promptly atten ded to. April 18, 1890. ly. Dr. W. A. PRESSLEY, SURGEON DENTIST. Terms uASB. OFFICE IN COBB BUILDING, MAIN ST., LINCOLNTON, N. C July 11, 1890. ly DENTIST. LINCOLNTON, N. C. Cocaine used for painless ex tracting teeth. 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ADHI 12. 8TEIE.V SOX IS CUARLOT1K, rancid Exposition ot ttie Tar itr Heckle and Prodigal Legislation of the FlUy-Firai CougreM-Tue Carpet Wag Governmcnti or the South Tlie Force lilll aud Its ISe sults. Ladies and gentlemen : I am pro foundly grateful to the distinguish ed ohairinao of your Deiaocratic club for the exceedingly courteous terms in which he has been pleased to preseut me to this audience. I am more than grateful for this kind welcome to the historic old couDty of Meckleubnrg ; indeed, I may say lhat Iroin the momeot I croa-ed the Tennessee line to enter the Old North State I have kuowu nothing bnt welcomes; in the beautiful city of Asheville, at Hickory, iu the cap ital of your State, iu that other towu destined to be a commercial ceutre aud in this hostotic city of Charlotte, I have found a succession of good old 2?orth Carolina weK comes ; and let me say to you, Mr. President, that, standing here to day, 1 do not feel that J am a stran ger cr tiiat 1 am looking upon strati gere. I am of the same blood aud the same kindred with yourselves; the memories and traditions of the Old North Hiate are as dear to me as to jou, for I, too, as well as your selves, know something of the his tory of this historic old city, and it thrills me to reflect that I am stand' ing so near to the spot where was promulgated that document which made sure the independence of the colonies. I cannot forget that my ancestors and yours promulgated the proud historic document that underlies the principles of our gov ernment. I thank you for 5 our welcome given to me as I come back to the home of my fathers, and let me eay to you that when I return to my own home, a thousand miles to the West, I shall bear with me cherished memories of the kindi ly greetings received in Charlotte and Mecklenburg county. I accepted with great pleasure the invitation of the committee of your State to address the citizens of North Carolina upon some of the questions involved in the present campaign. I desire very briefly to set before you some of the reasons why the interests of yourselves and the whole country would be subserved by the election of G rover Cleveland and the installing of the Democrat ic party in power I mean the in terests of all the people, for we are but one people in it ana should know no east, no west, no north nor no south. I need hardly tell you that the administration of Qrover Cleveland was honest, and the people prosper ous under it ; the breath of scandal did not assail it, the appointments to office had the approval of the people, maturing bonds were paid at maturity out of current income, there was no trenching upon the reserved funds, nor was the gold re serve ever threatened by invasion to meet the expenses of the govern ment ; you may remember that dur- ing the last two years of Cleveland's administration the question was : What shall be done with the sur plus f There is no question now of what shall be done with the sarplus. The trouble is rather how to keep 1 he treasury from becoming bank rupt ; after three and a halt years of Kepabliean administration the Sec retary of the Treasury estimates thtt the drficit for the present fis e:l var wilt amount to $2,000,000 and tnic, too, m addition to a des fauit cf 11,000,000 last year in fail ing to provide fiat amount fur the sinking fu d, iu oih.-r uords, the Treasury ot the United States is contiouied wnh bankruptcy. This alarming cjuditiou of the treasur.v arhes first from the epilations of the McKtnley tariff law, and second ly from the lavish and unnecessaiy appropriations of the Fitty-tirst Congress, knowu as the "Billion Dollar Congress,' which far ex ceeded that of any of its Democrat, ic predecessors. The large appropriations of the first session of the present Congress are dae, in a large measure, to the reckless legislation of the precediug Congress which made these appro priations necessary, in pursuance of enactments of the Republican Con gress which preceded it. In this connection it must not be forgotten that the present Republican Senate added over 832,000,000 to the ap propriation bids passed by the Democratic Ilouse of Representa tives. This reckless expenditure of I uidio money, by appropriations which were not needed, merits the condemnation of the people. For the twenty-four years imme diately preceding the iuauguratiou of President Cleveland all depart ments ot tbe government were, in the main, under the control ot the Republicau party ; and it was dur ing that period that the greater portion ot the legislation which has burdened the people with debt and taxation was enacted. Tbe Demo cratic minority iu Congress resisted that legislation The Treasury of tbe United States has ever found its tnoMt faithful guardians 111 the Democratic party. The tariff is not the most impor tant issue ot the campaign, though it is oue of tbe important questions to the people of this couutry. The tariff bill of 1840 was passed under Democratic administration and was approved by a President born in Meckleuburg county. It is known in history as the Walker bill and the principles of it are : 1st, that no more impositions should be laid than were necessary for the eco nomical conduct of the government. 2nd, That iu laying taxes tbe burt den should chiefly rest upon tbe luxuries or tbe rich and iu a less degree upou the necessities of the poor. 3rd, That the tariff law shall Lie administered equally and jostly to all classes and it is good Demo cratic doctrine to-day. From 1846 wbeu the Democratic measure was passed, to the breaking out of the war, is kuown as tbe "golden peris od.'' During the time I have men tioned tbe farmer and mechanic thrived and tbe cost of living was reduced to a minimum, the average tariff tax being only nineteen per cent. The Mornll tariff bill, passed in 1861 at the timo the govtrnment was in the throes of civil war aud needed large sums of money, great ly increased the tariff on imports ; wrapped up as tbe people were in the prosecutiou of the war, they were little regaidful of the fact that the duties imposed were highly pro lective to the manufacturers; but burdensome to the people. Suc ceeding enactments by the Repubs lican Congresses laised the average dutiable rate to lorty-seven per cent, and this was the rate when the McKinley bill was passed. But this was not all. The pro tected classes growing stronger and more powerful by means ot the pro tection afforded them, made de mand of the ''Billion Dollar Con. gress" for yet higher duties. At first, as "infant industries' they were satisfied with tbe moderate protection of the Walker bill ; later they required tlie higher duties of the Morill tariff and subsequent congresses ; until in 1890, grown insolent by feeding, the advocates of protection demanded a more stringent measure and the Fifty first Cougress passed the McKinley bill which is virtually prohibitory. The declared purpose of the bill was to check importation, to so in crease the rate of duties as to ex clude absoluteh many foreign goods and by thus cutting off competition, enable tbe home manufacturer to fix the price ot his productions without let or hindrance ; in a word, the Mc Kinley bill, by its prohibitory feat ures gave its benificianes a practi cal monopoly aud euabled them, iu iaet, to levy an additional tax upou the consumer to the extent of the increase! duty. Was this legislation iu the inter est ot the people ? Was it demand ed by them ' Was it not class legi lsiatiou of the most odious kind legislation that enriches the lew at tbe expense of the many ? The American people have unmistaka bly set thtir seal of condemnation upon the bill. It is worse than idle to speak of the benefits of the McKinley bill to the Ameiican taruaer. What be de mands ie both a home and a foreign market tor the product of his farm. It is mockery to tell him he ia pro tected against the corn and wheat products of the old world. Some thing you may have beard iu North Carolina about high protection be ing beneficial to farmers ; that a tax of 15 cents pr bushel on corn and 25 cents per bnshel on wheat is im posed on all imported into this couutry, but who ever heard ot the impoitatiou iuto this country ot grain from Iudia, Egypt, the Black Sea and other grain growing coun tries ? I need not tell those who till the soil that tor their products there ia no protection ; they mast be sold openly in competition with all the world, and tor wheat they get in return they are compelled to pay 40, 00, 100 per cent, and more on original cost and of this not more thau one-fifth goes to the gov eminent; the other four-filths goes to the privileged olabses. In the mechanic aud laboier no less than to the farmer protection has proved a delusion and a snare ; iu no instance has it opened an ad ditional market, for a pound of meat, or a bushel of grain, lias it in a single instance given to mechanic or laborer increased wages ? The present. hU' h tariff adds largely to the cost of living of the wage earner. ! Recent events connected with the most highly protec ed industries of this country sadly attest the fact that a high protective taiiff affords no protection t those who labor for their daily bread. It waa never in tended to benefit them. Long e nough has the wage-earner been deluded by the cry that high tariff means high wages. Tariff have no effect upon wages Out to diminish their purchasing power. Wages are governed by the great law ot supply and demand. If it were true that tbe tariff con trolled wages, how is it that in Cal ifornia, Colorado aud other places wages are higher than in many oihi er localities iu this country? and why are there constant reductions of wages in the moot highly pro tected e-tablishments iu the laud I In 1846 the tariff averaged 19 per cent. Under Republican rule it has grown to 60, 80, 100 and 200 per cent. I ask every in m laboiiug for his daily bread, have your wages gone up in proportion ? Let me give you an illustration of the effect of the reduction of the tariff. When I was in Congress a bill was brought iu to take the duty off quinine. Powers & Weightmau, wbo made the drug, opposed tne re moval of the import duty, saying it would ruin them. I cared more for the poor consumer than the rich manufacturer. Tbe tax was repeal ed aud now you cau buy &ix times as much quinine for a dollar as be fore the tax was taxen off, aud I never heard that Powers & Weight man were driven to the poor house. No farmer in Mecklenburg county makes as much as they do; no, nor any leu iarmere. The tariff, I kuow, is not an at tractive subject to listen to or speak upon, but it i a questiou of pro lound interest to you and to your children. I have shown that in stead of a surplus of a little less than 6100,000,000, left by the Cleve land admiuistration, the Treasury is now confronted by bankruptcy, the result of the reckless extravagauce of a Republican Congress and the McKinley bill. By hat bill tbe Tieasury lost 150,000,000 of revenne by repealing the sugar tax, hot to compensate the sugar grower for the loss of "protection" given him $10,000,000 annually for fifteen years are to be paid hiui out of tbe United Stales Treasury as a bounty. In North Carolina, ai in other places, you have no doubt heaid of cheap sugar. This is what you aie pac ing for it. The pretence that a tar iff tax is not paid by the consumer will have to be abandoned. The ad vocates of the aicKiuley bill now concede the tax upon suar to have been paid by the con&umer. The Democratic paity wages no warfare on any busineeB tmerpnse. We believe that the burdens of tax atiou should be equally distributed. and we oppose all legislation that tends to enrich the few by taxing the many. Anotnei question the force bill und it ia ot deep, terrible couceru to all the people of this section. It would be impossible to overstate the nnj oi tance of the pending po litical con test, especially to the peo ple of the Southern States. With tnern it is not merely a question ot who snail be the next President of the United States or what shall be his policy aud that ot his party up ou questions ot taxation. The question is of deeper import and of more far reaching consequences, ohall they have peace aud proteo tiou ot lite and pit. pel ty aud that prosperity whicb results from stable government, government by their owu people, or shall tbe evils with whicn they are threatened by Re pulbican success be a repetition ot the reconstruction period I repeat, the issue involved in the pending struggle for political su premacy are of great importance to all the people of this country, but to the people of the Southern States the issues are of terrible moment. ' The present contest is between the Republican and Dem ocratic parties. One or the other of those great organizations will be successful and will control the policy of this government for the next four years ; which shall it be? If you desire the enactment of the force bill with all its trains of evil cast your vote for the Republican candidates, but if you desire the peace that comes from good gov ernment, then let me say to you, your only place is in the ranks of the Democratic party. Sometimes when we have es caped great evils we are apt to forget them. Let me call to your mind some of tlie evils through which the people of the South have passed during what is known as the reconstruction period. Some of you young men do not know it, but the elder men know whereof I speak when I refer to that era of carpBt-bag domination and Republican misrule. The first State I will mention is Alabama. From 1SGS to 1S74 the Republican party hatl complete control in Alabama. The best citizens were disfranchised ; they had no voice in public alfairs ; they were utterly powerless to protect themselves against those who, under the firms of law, rob bed them. All departments of the State government were in the hands of those who postituted legislature and courts of justice to their own selfish purposes. They were delivered to the spoiler. The result was that t he people already impoverished by war lit erally became the prey of men who under Republican domina tion, were set to rule them. Dur ing this saturnalia of misirovcrn ment, the plunderers of the ieo ple were the men, who, in many instances held high places among them. During the period exteuding from 1868 to 1874 ihe State of Alabama was, by Republican legislation, in creased from 8,000,000 to more than $25,000,600. A large part of this indebtedness was created by issu. ing bonds ro buiid railroads ; it is needless to say not a mile was built. In addition to this tl.e increase in municipal aud county indebtedness was enormous. By earnest effort, the State was redeemed by theDem cratic party in 1871 and the carpet bag misrule of plunder came to au end. What has been the result f Alabama fourteen years later, onder government of her people, has re duced her indebtedness oneTbalf and the taxable property iu the State has increased neaily one hundred millions ot dollars. Let me call attention to North Carolina. In North Carolina, nnder the reconstruction policy Republican carpet. bg mie was in 1868 substi tuted for tbe government of the otate by its own people. From tbe mountains to tbe sea the State was in the clutches of the plunderers During the first session ot the Leg islature, both blanches of which had large Republicau majorities, State bonds to tbe amouut of $25,350,000 were authorized to be issued ; of this enormous amount $14,000,000 for tbe avowed purpose of budding rail toads were actually issued and not a mile of track was laid. Is it pos sible that Ihe people ot North Car olina can have forgolteu how that Redublicau Legislature robbed them of their school fund ? For the edu cation of their children the State held bonds of Ihe Wilmington and Weldcn and Wilmington and Man chester Railroads to the amount of $420,000. This was a sacred trust and should have been sacredly guarded by those in power, Waa it so guarded t A Republicau State treasurer, in order to pay the ex panses of that Legislature and by its authority, sold those bonds for $158,000 bo that thei poor childred of the State were robbed of their school fuud by the meu wbo were solemnly pledged to its protection. These were but a part ot the schemes devieed by this Legislature to plunder the people. By the clo-o of the Legislature the debt ot tho State had been incitHid until u, exceeded oue-tbiid of ihe taxable property of the State. You need hardly be reminded that during the long night of honor the adminiairas tiou ot justice wbo was mockery. Ihe triumph of (tie Democratic party in 187C wrested the Old North ile from those who robbed the people of their heritage. The Hon. .Tere S. Blaok in the Louisiana case speaking of Republican misrule t-aid thene robbers had Vput their fingers in the month ot poster ily and stol e i Ihe inheritance of the unborn b ib.-." Will home one tell me when it was a Third party came to-the Old North State? Can $ ou lor get, gay headed men, how the Democ racy of the Old North State under Zeulon Vance rallied from the mountains to se,i and swept the robbers from their places of profit t (ctieeiH long and loud for Vance) Poasihly come Democrat a fioui South Carolina are iesuit and I wish to say something ol that State. During the eight ye;us of caq et- b rg rule, the State of South Caioli - n 1 was openly and ui.blushuigly plundered. Ai; 1 . . ... high-water mark. The State was lueially proptrate and the rohh, 1 . weie those who sat in high piac.es of power in legislative balls mid courts of justice. It was dui ing this era that a distinguished'' Republi can declared that the treasury of Sou h Carolina had been so littrally gutttd by the thieves who had Lith to had possession of the State gov rutntnt, that there was nothing le't to eteai. The burdens of Debt., county municipal and State, lett by the men who, without let or hindrance cpen ly permitted, under the forms of law and backed by Federal bayonets, to ro'j this people challenge belief. i will not detain you by rekrriug to Missouri, Mississippi, Louisiana and other Slates of the South. The history ot one is the history of all. Ii was to tbe people the daik night ot iuju&tice aud wrongs a? d outi ag es. Iu mauy instances illiterate aud corrupt men wrre the sworn minis ters of tbe Jaw. Tbe administration of justice was the merest mockery, not content with robbing tberx'oplcj of their substance, every attempt was made by those iu power to foment discord aod hatred between tbe two races, It is needless to say that during the eight years of carpet-bag domi nation, emigration avoided the South as it would the valley of death. From tho hour of its redemption from the carpetbay domination, which was bat another name for Republican misrule, the South. has entered upon a career of prosperity. Under Democratic rule the rights of property and people alike have beeu recognized and enforced. Dur ing the (our years of Democratic administration ot national govern ment, northern emigration and northern capital found their way to (he South to a degree unprecedent ed in our history. Under Democratic ascendecey, millions of dollars of Noitheru cap ital sought investment in the South. Its resources are beiUij developed and a career of prosperity it ha3 not known since tbe war is before it. Shall this continue f Let not tbe people of the South be unmindful of the danger they are menaced by the passage of the force Continued to last page.)