Newspapers / The Caucasian (Clinton, N.C.) / July 20, 1892, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Caucasian (Clinton, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
VOL. 2. NO. 15. TARBOIlO N. C, WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, t832. PRICE,- FIVE CENTS . BRIEF OPINIONS: ALL of the troubles that are dis turbing the cial and industrial systems of. this country can be v ad ju ted by resorting to tin ballot; : . .? T.HERX is no reason; why there should be any clash between labor and capital. They are both interdepend ent. When capitalist use their wn(T to oppress laljior u estrange ment is iaevitable... 'I-'.', ; ;:." -- -l. f ' CARS KOI it has the ? government contract to- aupply steel fori tbe World'sFair. lle'will make mill ions of dollars probably out of the enterprise, but his workmen must nffer a reduction of their wares; Mix talk nbout'a G'Jc dollar, a 70c dollar, and a "dishonest" dollar, when yon could not get one of their utandard silver 'dollar j from jhem for a fraction - less than J 00 cenjs, even, if you offered theni gold r6n seusieal balderdash ia one' thm business another. j '.This conntry Is now on the yerge of a political and industrial rcvolu t ion. 'An observant -person j who read aright the signs, of "the jtjmes cannot f ail r to pereeitei this. We trust that all of the great questions at isms may be, settled with satisfac tion to all classes and .conditions of men. r I For the .lauuary terni of court in Philips county, KnnHSivthe .records show 100 mortgage ;5 foreclosure eaten. The amount of jtlTigments token was $57,oiil. Ti'here were 15 sheriffs safes eonGimfdreprertenting judgments to the amou nt of $30,280 in which the lands sold for $10,824 the Mortgaged were released but judgment remained against the former owners of the farms for l9.4.'ft. Another evidence of the y wave of prosperity." for. the moil tT shark. j; , : f OakKUIE thinkrt hcj is bettering the condition of humanity- when he makes n liberal donation to a public library, yet at the same time he "greeds the face" of the hard worked laborers in hit employ and reduces their wages thirty per cent. Suli hypority should reccivo p;wner con ciliation at the bauds!! of all fair- iindel people. That "the laborer is worthy of his hie"-thji,pln.tocrtt8 " r ' " rt- .knnl.l 1 force to recoenize. loo much protection is, alT.irded capital t the eipense of labor. - STKltlW among ;niiors sections are of re the Dorted in tarioiu eonntry. I Idaho a lody of min eri went on a strike lat. week, and insisted that non-union men shonjd not be empUyed in theuplacrs. The ren1t was a clattbetween union nd non-union stri ers. Six men -were killed iu the tight. The Jov rB1tt of the SUtc was j appealed -to, ia order to quell- .the The troubles among disturbance tho"'hvbrking class are becoming piitot K,rtu.- ;nul UrM thorouirh ' iaiiTostigation ti,u. an not. to be Ulamcil vl len 11. j mm t ' - - their wages nre reduc. d. of tt II E N llir iiiuufiiwii i" y this country formulated and adopted certain principles, it ws their p.rin object that they should be accept e'l by nome party ami law? t-acted .n conformity to them, jjf e did not i mistake them they werj- in earnest in. their declarations: anil they still .' maintain ait MiaitrahFcj adherence t their principles. AVe do j not hep lievethey arc iTipij lo acri:;fe them. 1 1 K n.-tiiu:ut into taw .measures containing vnt-c o-' ,v,"jvvn! loou irom The ; exceec Til that afflict the country will be remedied, then the niasses should , , " , Undbythein. i Und by 4 I am hot iHililicJ," is an ex fression often heanL This is , a wrong idea. It is the duty of every man and wonian to In- a politician in the tme wnse, of that term hav lar an interest in and; working for the best iosnible form of goTernmenti for the whole people. rhi?;is a duty jre owe each other in' the great structure of governnMit. T'he study f economic . principh's and their adaption to our wantsy.r.our- ulfae and our happiness -a ai nation, is not inly privilege Toujchcd-saved to - etery citizen, but a. duty imposed on eery patriot. THE investigation of The l'l'nkvr to system witl reveal; a few things ' that will open the eyes of the Ameri can people. A binly of thirty thon aaud of the hired assarions is now in existence, and their chief work is to quell riots and strikes anou3 la- boring eople. They ' ;. are employed" bv Ihe plutocrat. aijd act as- 'a .,.; eretpoliceto compel;' subjection :v ; '"aoco tirm i thep.rt .of of the work rug clalm. hl s J CVngres atiou Id leave iv.i stone uii turned to have the matter inyesli rated and the proper remedv appluil tatimidate labr is a hlot on o.ir en - ilization. 4 IT WAGE-SLAVES In Tie DentSs- of Helplessness - And Hopeless . - "Am I ray Brother's Keeper!" Has Long BeenAnswered by 7ash ana Hanacltr-"ln the Sweat-r thy Brow Shalt The Eat Bread" ?.. has Long Justified tbeTTsnop use m Marviug the Uelplesl - Chicairo Aire, of Ijilwr much men unuenaKc to enslave their -fellow-men, it. is nece arv that'tbxbiws of the country be in voked' to their asirftanw ami the rules of the church be. constcued- to furnish moral, support these ;.arl the jwunu iiiciora wnica aretcor. stantly arrayed on the side iof the strong vfor the oppression of 1 f the weak. When the negro ;sla;c L -gan to.queatiou the right of hurm ter he was: answered .w ith strong. ript iiral' arguments from the leading pulpita.of the lairtL rWhert ho Would break hU fetterdand escape' v toid bondage, he was ' checked by (the strong arm of the aww ! The g ave owner had but tsk of thalrtate, and lie 'was . granted the rigL t to hwh, mutilate and ? murder, The but had to appeal to the church an 1 his conscience wWf nrhished a slav ; for such infamy, Ami I my , bi-ot iers keepeif'I.haa loqg been answere h by lash and maftacle.' "Ju the swei't of thy face shalt thou eat bread." (has long jir stilled the-luonopoliet in the .starvation of the helpless. : j i It id "not necodSHry to become a ''ca lamity howler" in order to show the tendency of. the timet. t When L-api-talists in those iStates where Jul or is 'most oppressed ask for an increase on art already strong malitia,' ;-wha ; can itJinean t?aye that the wish "a sti Ong er hand to rule their slaves We ul k of the dignity of labor, but it i. as one would descrilje a precious :an- tiue or the outlines of ti, pictnwyet l,tobt painted it has wo -exis'tewlce in reality. I Iabor ;:. hits, made abject slaves of tliousauds. and the- present tendency ot the masses who Vet themselves iudejendent is tovrarl the depths j 'that- their brother! have reached und nt toward I the he iff hts to Trhioh visionaries are' poiiiting. All tnoiorces ot our boasted c vili- zation arc pushing tliem downward. J nereis no exaggeration in the re cent statement of a. labor stamciuu v ho said: "Show me a place in lius- sin where the people are misea-ablc and starnwg'aud 1 wul matclL l?erinaylvatiia. Show me a confc it in htj in KuroDe-where the;'tkor 1 i . .11 tL.... .J 1 i;lit conitnuu- have lost alLfeope and are only wajtiu for death toieleave them from theiisuf fcringa, and I will match it in Pen n sylvania. -Venfteyl rania now more soldiers. ' i ? , "Comfort," "happiness," wants n de bit ti pendenee," these-are the bright tertwes mat lut-Tjeiore me eyes s of the wjir-kThg people, and they" will noTsee that'thvy are encourage the ''Capitalists' to struggle aa; ainst each other iw the effort to catch Ihem, keepTng their eyes on the uimtnaiua- ble while teir feet are swiftly car. I hill y are till wept rying them down the stee where misery lies m wait. L da.zied by. false lights, Led by tors and utilized by the craft all . power of self bus been from them. It is more than folly to" clos our .eyes. to truths. Ii is time to ttir skepticism wath which we lisle i the r to hyv- tales of vae-siaerv towar ti theJ ! ocnfs wlio promise po' iiuic'vlv khe:i otes are wanted and lora ft s J f-asilv- when 1 1 lie eanitalist s irkl is .... . . '...... i . "offered. .. - . .... i Those who doubt the existence of slavery in this free country,, we coin - luena lh ioilowiiiir, the. 'tac , ol rec- ' which were taken from otliciaL onls: . -.. "'' , , Twntv-live working men of u'delphiu answer d an dveitisJ tor w rk in a, j hojdiati. mi South Carolina, upon therepre enta- ti.ou that thev would earn $1.3 0 per ihi v. .'r Tht mco h:ul to niviviild their in"ly JW.ali '.wages' paid them ar 1 To. cents per day. Tho con one - Salvatoio. sn Italian, k ; - L.:" i ,i averksrinff icroiyi ps, a ! store in the vicinijiy ' and all p ovis- ions had to be oou;nit of himafr e.v m,n ceedinglv high prices. The were allowed 25 cents'per cubi I foot of phosphate' mined by them. iVhen thev went to work audi when .they returned thearmed guard accoihpan led thehi. Ihev were ; watched as .though.- thev were criminals The men declining to work on Su u'davs were tald that thev won hi be s iot if thev were nersisted in their re if u sill. When finally the treatment o the inert' lecatne such that fhey coi fd no longer stand it, they packetl ud their basfs and started to 'march awav. :Tbe jrnards lrove them back a the Points of their rifles and revoflvers. Two nien escaped, and, after screral 'trials.- succeeded in reaching New York." ; ; ' ' : I '. . ' .Only a few'-weeks ago the ccuntrv was shocketl by the tale of suf 'etiug and tyranny told by men emj loyed in the construction of a certain' rail' ?oad through, the Adirondack!; aud who were tired upon' bv armed pick-fi-om ets-when edeavoriiicr to fsrarw iiulcociibable privations! )ne more instance fromthe 'hich the daily papjers are fu nany ruish- -'oliareO firiii in Sif 1 jJiiic iif all the nion plov tor lib. reas n ex - .jccpt - .. w;on npplv tluir nla. with! o,, aim vto worked cieajcr tlf.it is, ! sllul wcr '""ro tractablel tli 1 re'siwiidtiitrece'ntly Mated v been a cor- I i.Jl . l: .. " i hasi rv... wiraic to civiliztion and a source of danger to that grow ing class whose : necessities - force them to labor there. Each efoloye is furnished with a card of aamis tiou which must be presented at 7 a. m. harp, of.thennlncky employees is refuCHl admission: if fire minutes .late, his day's work is lost From 7 a. m. to C p. m; the doors are barred as effectually aa if the employees were convicts and sentenced for some hid eous crime. An employee desiring to stay away mut have the consent of the foreman. " Without this previous consent he loses his place whatever the reason fqr his adsence may .have beep. It happened that two em ployees stayed away on one occasion, one to bury his father, another her mother, and were told when they returned that they wcire not wanted; while a third who had the misfortune of lowing a child and was absent that day was al lowed ' to keair his place only after the cruel remark t that he could return, to work pro- rided he had ho more children like ly to die, ' . V Are not the instances sufficient to K4nt the tendency- of capSahstic power? Are they not terrible enough to- arouse the workingman ' from ' his lethargy and stimulate him to do all in his power to stem the tide 'ere' it sweeps him, too, dowa to, the depths of helplessness . and " bopelessness which others have reached. The Vol ome off urrf scy. . A. DUNNING. The" difficulties which surround im attempt to investigate - the finan cial statement of theltreasury is- giv en by the. United Etars treasurer on paged of 'hi last report 1889. lie says: ' ' '..: . '. -, " . -p In connection with the foregoing it may be not amiss to point out little more particularly that the bus iness of this office, so far as it re lates to the custody, of the public moueys, deals5 with thre kinds of funds. First of thfcse are the rexe nues, which upon' their collection are. corered into the treasury bv war rant ,and held; ' f Or , .disbursement upon appropriations.. . Second "are gold and .'silver' coin and United States notes received in exchange for certificates of deposit These mon eys also are coyered by warrant, and charged to. the treasarer in general account, the certificates issued being treated as part of the public debt. Lastly come the deposit accounts, conlisting of. the banknote redemp tionfunds and . moneys set apart f ronvthe public , funds or receired f roift other sources' for specific pur poses, j They are not covered ly war rant, ahtT their amount is ihaddition to the cash iii the treasuryof which the treasurer alone takes account. The moneys received from these sev eral sources are thrown together, but.gold coin, standard eilve dob lars. and United States notes equiv alent to the respective; amounts bf certificates outstanding, must always be bnhand. The methods of handling the several funrh'in the treasury makes it necessary in the statement of asssets and liabiltiea to include as resources all the items of cash and credit, there being no way of setting apart particular kinds of money against the classes of liabilities, ex cept in the case of outstanding cer tificates of deposit, as has been notic ed.: . 1" In considering the amount of coin I it i& proper to state that the original estimate which has been made the basis of alj subsequent calculations was made by Director Lindermau in 1872. He placed the amount of gold coin in the country on July 1, 1873, at $135,000,000. .Something over $08,000,000 was shown by official re ports to haye been i,n the banks and j public treasuries, $20,000,000 was es- j tunated as being in circulation on the Pacific coast, with an allowance of about $10,000,000 -in ; banks not i'hil-J rerWrtin Since this estimate Di nient. rectors ltirchard and Kimball have in ! made three divisions each of which j reduced. the amount as snown Dy j btatistics. In 1885 Director Kim- ball aeilucted $30,000,000 "as a i, moderate estimate for the amouit i of gold consumed in the arts." In 18S0 a further reduction' of $15,089,- 981 was made, and also one of $4,- 604.714, in all $50,354,095. I shall u ndertake to show thtf becesaity of a still further reductk4 in order to meet the demands of accuracy or common sense. Ou page 56 of his report for 1889, On the production of the precious metals, Director Leech says: Since that date ihe official tables presented from - year to year have been compiled by adding to the act ual stock June 30, 1872 ; the annal coinage of our mints less the amount of our own coins melted down for recoinage, and the gain (or loss) by import and export of our gold coin, with an annual' allowance for melt ing of United States cn for use in the arts and industries. So far as tHe coinage of the mints is concerned and the amount melted or recoinage the figures : employed are beyond question. How accurate the record at the custom houses of the move ment of our coins, by way of import or exnurt. has been, it is difficult to sav, but it is believed that, for recent years at least, the movements of coin have been so carefully recorded that no error of .any considerable magni tude cnu have crept in. The ele ments of uncertainty iu these offi- fcial tables have been" first, the actual - 1 -consumption of coin in ' the indus- trial arts, and second, tiie amonntoi t coin w hich finds it way out of the 'country without being recorded, s ; This uncertainty in regaru to me ; amount of gold in the J country . is made more apparent by the follow ing statement taken from the report of Director Kimball on the produc tion of gold and silver for 1888, pages 42 and 43. He . quotes from the Commercial and Financial chron icle of February 9, 1889, which he roaches for as being correct. 'i - r In years paet we have often insis ted that there must be an error it the item, because the most industri ous' inquiry failed to bring to light a, very considerable portion of it. At present there are at least $275, 000,000 of the total that can oot be accounted for. Since the New York banks turned their gold inta the treasury and obtained gold certifi cates for it, tbe government gross holdings of, gold haye become large. On January 1, 1887, it held gross $324,773,677; it had outstanding of gold certificates issnedj against it $120,888,4.48,; hence its' het holdings were $203,885,219, as we i them in the above table.; B en . xit-tese certificates afloat its Impossible' to trace more tban seventy-six and one fonrth millions in all and of ,the gold not in the treasury only about one hundred millions can he "found. So whichever method he i n restiga tor may adopt whether by count ing the gross gold in the treasury, or by taking the course we have, pur sued the result reached will b the same. As to the golcbia active cir culation, whatever there is' of it must be iu the Pacific States, for in the Eastern, Western and Southern States, not one individual; in every hundred receives in ordinary business transactions a gold certificate or a gold coin once in twelTe months. Contrast that fact with the, other, that on the 1st , of January, 1889, there were 00,799,391 Silver dollars in circulation in .the-United?; States, the remainder of the 307,000,000 being in theform'of silver certidt cates. Ofj that 601 million silver dollars we venture to say that '..every inhabitant who during the last year has tendered" a $5 bill in payuu-nt of some small purchase maou has nine out of ten times had offered to him one or more in change. Such n?igtii ty iu the case of G0J million of silver dollars proves clearly enough that if there was even a little gold coin passing "from hand to hand it would be often met with. Still, in the following statement, locating the gold in the United States, we hare made a Tery liberal allowance for circulation, so that the reader may he satisfied that the anion tit hoarded is understated rather than overstated. In treasury, gold and bullion, less certificates outetand- ' ....... .tog. ,..203,8",219 In national banks: . Gold ,-....$70,82581, . .Gold certjli-- ' cates. ... ..... .75,334,42!) ; -; Gold, t cleaan-u- . ..house certili;. . cat. -V. T . , . . . 7 ,S!J.UU0 ir3,r)58,fl()7 In State banks, Goid...........27,015,a51 Gold c e r t i li - v cates 037,710 27,053,561 40,000,000 In actual circulatiou, gold and silver certificates .... Total in night and estimated in circulation : ..S425.307.487 Total in country.... .. . .. .. 704,608,109 Total hoarded Jan, 1. 1889 . . $279.210.48t In the above it will be. seen that we al lot $40,000,000 to circu lation , and vet even with that deducted there are still left $279,210,682 unaccoutrtl ed for. . " - From these facts the conclusion is unavoidable that either there are to dav at least $275,000,000 'in gold hoarded by the people of the. United States or else, that the government figures are extremely erroneous. Here" is a frank admission that more than $279,000,000 of gold coin can not be accounted for. , It admits that it is not in the treasury, of the banks, and is' not seen in circulatiou among the people. This statement allows $40,000,000 in gohl as being in circulation ou tside the banks and among the people, being two-thirds as much as the silver giveu for.the same purpose. Besides this the di rector of the mint acknowledges, on page 128 that the amount, given as held by banks other than national, aggregating $46,811,663, is simply an estimate, lit. view ot all tins l deem it justifiable to make a large deduction from the amount - of gold estimated as being iu circulation. ; The amount of silver in the coun try is estimated at $33,502,050 in the standard dollars, ! and $76,601, 836 !in subsidiary coin, or a total of $41p104,406 in silver coin. The entire amount of silver coinage since the foundation of the -goTernmen't is: i - Silver dollars .i . . J. Silver one-half dollars Silver one-quarter dollars. Silver twenty-cent pieces. . Silver dimes .............. Silver one-half dimes Silver three-cent piece!.;. . . Total.......... ... .34l..33,88.S.-00 .121,822,414.50 . . .38.831,202.93 271,000,00 ...21.704'516.10 ....4,880,219.40 ...1.282.087.20 ...531 325 327 45 This does not include the trade dollar coinage, as that hasleencalled in. There has been coined since 1878 $$33,502,049 in standard sil ver dollars, $768,925.50 in half dol lars. 184,500,75 in quarter dollars, $271,000 in twenty-cent pieces, $4, 859.038.80. iu dimes. Total sub sidiary coinage, $7,183,465.05. Gov ernment statistics ask us to believe that eveiv silrer dollar coined, since 1878 still remains in this country, either in the bauks, treasuries or among the people. We are also i askedto believe that all the subsidi ary coin that has been minted since 1R7S "and $68,418,371, a i considera ble ftoirtion of which was coined pre vious to the war, is still iu use as currency. t Senator Sherman declares that the entire silver circulation wears out and isrenewed oike in thirty years. The whole amonnt of subsidiary coin minted since 1793 is $189,791 439 and e are? asked to believe that over 40 jer cent of this entire amount is st4U in use in this country. TfilSSrcHTATlSX Eclar a Pytr Htzi Cittrr " tie La- tin Citfitttis Clsis T B. (X, Bay 12 BY MISS DTU, OmXl&y Bail roads are the hixhways of the nation. They are the great artieries of the bod j politic thnf k: sr&Sek coarse the tide of tnfSc, the pnlse of thtraaineas world, aa4 the trsaa portation of hasnanitj itsrlL rAfe civilization advancs modet of rapid communication become imperatively necessary between tiot oulj sermrat ed indiTHuals, bat as a swarea f snpplj to collective nicssmticr ad to meet exigencies arising; from pw Uleuoe or war. i While ve grant a species of ad mi ration. t ihe pnmaoters of rirantitf engineerings ami electnal oncer-1 takings, minds which nare spanned space and made autocratic nature subversive, we pause upon the thresh old of adulation confronted bjj an unlovely . specter. We 5 realize that in these immeasurable- mercantile' undertakings, the incentive war caU culative gain and thej motive deep rooted and unconscionable greed. To create, to own, to hold, not subvers ive to public .weal, but in defiance of it, layiug dogmatic tribute. even Uun the creatures which serve to give be ing, and holding plutocratic sway over vast Stretches of Territory, ana vaster interests of commercial '.ex change. . i The courts of the country - have rendered decisions ad verse to govern ' ment registration of freight scbed ult s. The way out is the last : re- source of enslaved iudiyiduatishr by corporate feudalism. Control saeans an attempt bj- Congress or legisla tures to create commissions empow ered to fix rates and tells. It is dif ferent tor reconcile the' nsoninal ad mission of ownership made by this application of discipline, with the arbitrary action of practically r tak ing the reins and driving the teed. If A charges too high, far apples, shall a city municipality Step iu and declare "yon own this fruit, hut we will dispose of it for you at' our judgment of value." Both parties would be wrone; one bv abuse of privilege, the other by usurping an authority: over the legal holdings of a citizen. Hut if A should be cre ating widespread hardship by his ex orbitant sales, the government being greater -than: the individual - or ! mu nicipality, should lay on. him its cnan date: "Take the pricsv a fair sad etiuitableone, for your possession and go in peace. And tbat govern ment, truly paternal and fostering, culd vise ways mhI means to cure out of its purchase the greatest good to the greatest number. I our forn of government- the ! final refuge of mouopolT is- in the -court. Legal quibbles are evoked, the pomp ana circumstances of specious argu ment and oratory, brilhaat debaters aud even politics to mould decisions. And the courts have emphatically de cided that neither Cenrrees nor the States, by legislation ar commission. can provide for or put in operation any schedule of ratus to bind a rail way which cannot be restrained by injunction,; and declared void by either a State or United States court, if upon! hearing such court deems it unreasonable. The courts claim tbat if the schedules fixed by toe power of law or not; in tbe opinion of th court, reasonable, then it amounts to a taking of private property for pub lic Use .without - just compensation (the sarcasm of the last three words is unsurpassed, by anything ever written by the author of the famous "Junius letters,") and is forbidden by the Constitution of the .United States, r This has been decided ; by the Supreane Court of the United States vs. the Farmers Company-lamd in Dow vs. Beidleman,' also ui tfntted States circnit coort; and by jdscis- lous of the courts of last resort in many States, where it was held thstt even where the Constitution emponr- ered a board. to fix rates absolutely, it couiu oe restraiueu oy sne court ix it thought higher (aud other) iraftca p roper. - The final absolute decision oz courts, therefore, is that the poer to fix rates is in the courts, and cstn not j be placed elsewhere. What, then, is the rule adopted by t be courts? It is this. Tjhat the j ratte must pay first, the interest on the railway debts; second, all its operat ing expenses; .third, a fair dividend on its capital stock as fixed- or jn-: creased; fourth, the general outlaw as shown by the books ef the com pany because no one is permitted to disprove the books even if falsely kept or subscribed to by auditors or others. This amounts, therefore, to allowing the company to fix its own rates-despite any attempt to restrain or regulate. So if the Farmers? Al liance was in possession of every branch of the government it would be helpless to control railways. Every law or commission would ba immediately stayed or crippled in its operation" by injunction of a court. This was done when Judge Brewrer bv inianction, forbade the Stata of Iowa to put its schedule of ratea into operation at the suit of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company It was done when the supreme court of California prohibited the city of irm . .1 I oan t rancisoo rrom uuwjhk ui kiku nip nf water rates into operation - and that such it to be the 'course whenever control is attempted, is sanarelv asserted by C i. Hunting don in an interview published in the Examiner at San Francisco on; April 4, 1892 When be was asked ; what would be done if aay political action should be taken by the Merchtants Traffic Association to compel a re duction of rates, his answer wase I will say, that the 'Association, stay, or ma? not, draw the company into politic I think not; but if the lejrisUtnr of the State pajimrs acts tending to destroy the valaebf our propertryy we shall call - for nrotee-': tion upon the judical r arm of the government" Ave "calL" lie did not evert paliate his sentence by use of the ward "appeaL .; .! Tnis proves tbat henceforth tne above doctrine established bv courts' is to be the aaft-stiard and the shield of monopoly. .Thev- can' increase stock and honds at pleasure, so that sk incame, however large, but that they could assert, it required to pay ooerattng expense and dividends. They tiave the United State com mittee ta this doctrine and - decision And the Jndges of that august body bold office for lif1 1 1 4 The produoer must have railroads more and more of them, of the great est emeatey run at the leant possible cost. It is justly a function of gov ernment to own and control all pub lic highway. Corporations , which' own railroads can not be trustees for the people, for they seek only indi vidual profits. It js idle to say you favor ownership by the government if control fails, because all efforts to control: have, and if necessity must fail,' until tbe people gain absolute mastery. How can vou ex pect to join two sneh utter inconsistencies as private ownerskip and public con trol? The right to fix rates, or val ues, is the very essence of ownership. lie who can not control, cn not of necessity own property. If he seeks by boards, commissions, legislature, Congress, or courts to frame methods and sources to control railroads, the inevitable law of : self interest will immediately iaduce the owners 1 to "own these boards of manipulation And only too often have we shame- faoedlv acknowledged such bodies elected, Iacked, and owned by such monopolies. To that they may say. as did Louis XI V of France, in the supremacy of his despotism, MI am tbe State. f They are tbe government becaakei they must control it or per ish. It is a matter of self, preserva- tion. . Lincoln said, we oould not live half slaves and half free. r we caa not survive and control lioaor- able government, unless we remove the incentive of railroads to control that government, and there is but j One waY to do this we mustowa tbe I railroads, or be owned by them! There lis - no middle (tenan table) ground! in mjr mind, though I should be glad to have any lady so assume and prove. lam ; frank to confess no affiliation with nationalism and j socialism. X believe in individuality, it obligations, iUmponsibiliUes, its ambitions; tmt t have no manner of paUeacWwith it either when it drifts Uato anarchy, and in vilianous abuse ox power misuses iu omcc sou at fronts or afflicts its. fellows. You will readily perceive that I do not gointo all the issues of this ques tion.: It is too great a one. I am perfectly aware of the provisions of the Constitution. : Let it rest as the corner-stone of our economic' and so cial government, but upon it rear a structure commensurate, with' the march of the- nation, its demands and its requirements We - have amended it before -it caa be done again. ' It is the work of men, and by men can be added to. We, of all people, are the last to invoke the past to bow to precedent, to be shackeled with a tradition. You will tell me that if the government usurps the functions of vested wealth, t she de- E rives us of our arbiter. Monopolies ave deprived us of the government and at present we have no -arbiter. But to return to specifications and figures . ... t The tendency to consolidation is so great that in a short time our rail roads will be very few, .and finally one company. Imagine the political despotism, not to mention the com mercial autocracy of such a syndi cate. At present, although there are on per over 17,000 companies. yet 41 companies operate 77,872 miles, and 74 companies receive : 80 per cent, of the amount p-id ferser- vive. C r. Huntingdon nas an nounced his desire to see all the rail roads lb the United States under one eradicate. Thus they could more easily escape every attempt at con tral; and to evade the last vestage ox any law which, might street them . . ..- i IUY win soon oe uuuer one uhui ment. Nowi if the government were to . , j . , i - ii pay xjmai,uuu,uuu to oouun iu railroads, at least $1,000,000,000 would br paid in currency issued fer that nnroose. Personally I amop- nosed to bonds: but if the remainder. $4,000,000000, drew interest at. 2 per cant the interest charge: would be anly $80,0 Off.OOO, against $S26,000,- 000 paid notr by tbe roads, wmcn would save 3146,000,000 yearly in interest, and znake a total savinr to the people C five hundred and twen tv-five millioo ot dollars per year. ISefore closing tnis argnmenu i desire to make one admission.? Jo amount of logic or protestation will convince a thinJcer that a rarment is food, if he percerves a flaw in tbe flnodiL 1 1 nercehre that flaw. As at present administered and applied by the political parties' controlling f unc tions of rovenunent. I adm it readi- lv Jthat anv laceer conference of pew ers would work more injury than rood, lit wonld unquestionably be nwdbv the reieninr political fac tion in self perpetuating rule- High er standarda of responsibility and conscience must pref aiL and the seoce of cinl service reform oe ap- nlied. i Let no one sneer at civil serr ir ivform. m it ana tnroura it alone will partisanship.be dethroned and merit and worth rewarded prop erly antil it is correctly "appreciated and correctly administered, we can hope for a little or ho purification in -politics ot fficvi- .i : liet u trust tbat a mightier pow er than we uftimescrvdit, i work lag ut for us and future renerathms the ills wv rnfft-r froni and v tbv evils we confront. When mouotolr shall reach its seaith of f TKrkMuaees an intrIhjfK-, ihh by !ir as tkt ha rill take it bytbesnati underUndit4j ris ia the tzxl ;of projrriiv dewloraeat revealed '-- jSo .he human taiod in tha darker aroused nation threat, - Crtlitltv Xi DeYtlstlst. j - : 1 n relaiMHk net wen cause and effect i so imperfectly understood ' by the great "Tnass of mankind that it is a very common error to mistake the one for 1 the : other effect - for i cause and cause for effect. Without eteriug into a elaborate discussion as to whctlwr evolution is a primary cau or iiniply the effect of a morr remote cause, t shall as- sunie, for the purpose f the present i articlo, that it is the manifest or , apparent oeratiou of .a priuciple in nature, through tin agwucy of which alt that we deuotuiuated change in the. material or physical world- is wrought,' and comprehends all thn operations of natural laws. It i ! forte, motion, life, eusrgv,. develo- j pmlecesors, in harmony with th re ment, progress- lis at the funda-j quirvments oflkeags ahich gave il tian, and is the cause of all change birtli, and is still another step ia ad in tbephysical, moral, material world vance of all others- graJ hirhtr all paeuomona. it is mat zorco oy which the myriads of worlds we I hold through Miacts in all. their re spleudaut bcanty and grandeur, re- J volving around as ana around caen other, were evolved from chaua. It. is that power which Revolved the myriads cf systems of suns, with their subordinats planets from nb ulae, or 'star dust, and sent them whirling aud dancing through illiia itable space, and assigned tof each its orbit and sphere of motion, its "star life and holds it there through the ages, which gave life and motion to the monad, aud -which, evolved through cycles of ages all- that of which we can ' take cognizance through the medium of our senses in the ' ascending (not descending, as Darwin and others would have us believe,) scale of life, or creation ami culmination in the evolution of man with all his marvelous and nod-like (?) attributes. devolution is a result of evolution; physical revolutions or phenomena-jnolve, are tke result of the operation of physical forces in motion; as an earthquake, cyclone, likewise a ihvu- key, a man; all are evolved front the iinniarv element we call matter, each after the order of its being, and in perfect harmony -with this universal principle. Political rvvolw&ons are no exceptions to this rule . or ' law. They, like phytic! revolutions, - are evolved, from pelitKal conditions hich precede, or are co-enstent ith them, and, as. there are ever present latent or passive forces slum- berinfir in physical nature which re quire but tbe addition of a single element to produce the grandest and most startling pnysicai phenomena, so in the political world there are ever present passive forces arhich re quire the addition of but a single element to set them in motion and evolve political revolution. AS in tne pnysioai woriu, an tue varied elements of which it is com posed constitute but "one stupendous hole so in the political world the great mass of mankind : constitutes but one whole, .and oauses which. under a riven condition move a twrt only, nuder other conditions would, with equal facility move the whole. The greats aggregate of mankind, though living, under many and di versified systems ofgoverameat, and reckoned - as different, are, in fact; tut one peopleand under like con ditions and circumstances are capa ble of acting, and will, other things equal, act as one whole. Different can ses have in d ifferen t ages cn spired to move people to revolation; to rise up as one man, actuated by one impftlse, inspired by one idea and revolutionize or overthrow the extstihe eovernmment and establish another in its stead more In harmony witn tne age in wuicu uj utoi. ; . - What that idea is or was, nas al ways been determined by the decree of intellectual advancement of those with whom is originated! In . one age, one idea; in another age, another but always a reflex,! tne degree oi intellectual dsveiepmest and prog ress of the several peoples with whom it had its birh. f Time rolls on, and these ideas nay ing, eacn in lis turn, serve im pur pose, are passed into history, leaving the world, however, one step io d- vanoe. one crrade hiehsr in tbe scale of proeress. We speak hers ot an idea, not of a vague, undenned some thing or nothinr, butof the chrysul ized conception of a grand principle or truth.' vitally affectine human right: as the right of trial by fury. which forced MaznaJtjnana irom Kin? John at Bunnvmede; "no tax i . -.1 t i..: rt u:.u avion wiinoat rvprcacnvavmu, u." inaugurated the Boston tea - party" and cost King Oeorge his American colon urt ana gave mnn to our. gwn ana repablic (JY. tbat "all men are born free and equal. which culmi nated in the freeinsr (?) sixteen mil lion Russian serfs and struck: tbe shackles from four millions of slaves in America. V - L '. : It is of sneh ideas as these that I speak. Such ideas are the result of evolution, and are never the growth of a day, nor are they the growth of a dav. nor are - thev the . crowtn ox individual conception. On the con trary, they are necessarily the prod uct of a slow, gradaal but unerring process of evolution initbe human mind, aad are as resistless as fate itself. Atfarst they appear upon tbe political horizon yuej and un defined, like "sK t" nebnlae acarcelv aercint Che ordinary vision, and whr . ,-Cvhiprebensi- ble totbenon-4 . 3 mino, unw thronrh the agency or scienUhc ap- pliaittv. th r r-- d- in ys teui'uf rvph-ndcnt cjas, S"4 are xh ia rvtealt-d in all thir b-aatv tl a'nuhr4 . mind. So are thesa HIitical suns trntlu, bUaa, ikrve ine agriM-vni iBlion an S4faaeed ages, fettered. eusUved bv kisj craft atnl priett rraft. sttel in igaraaa auu urTtita. and later dowa through the fni ami and modern C"9 iaw but tha glituwering in tatto rthetu, distant horwrou f tbsli'btef thene rrand " " idus w truths--ibe - "star duat' from which scWhoe tptugr, nml devirlofHnent war. i jwivolve new systems of pvliUcal riaa I Itut man to-day stands v a ti;t:r tplarie. - of tntellectnalitv, and istTva ening to a n aliutiou of the tsf VLtt tutheaiueteoiith ceutunr Is bora' a usw nlett. Another politicsn" ssa baa liren evolved' aud li rUisg poa th oliticl horizon, aud is Sttrsvt ing tbewarucstalteution of the srhela civiliisl world. Thi idea n nrwats ivntarits.of progress and, likfet Its in the scale of iatelleclNal progrsst 1 and evolutionary devrlopsneat.' As the chick return not to iusawll, aer tke statelv oak to the sewrn; so this idea will uevr return to tke won of time without fruiialiwn, bat as human intwtigciioo advances, the more readily will its meaning be tcra-prebendea--tke dveprr root will It take like lUuchks ghost, it will not down. Now what is this hSa? I answer, iu Kussia.it is aibilisMt'tn France it is red republicaaim-ro niunism; iu Ireland it u huatt rule; in Kn tiland, iuternatioaalista-soei- . alum; in America, agrariauisni, pat ernalism, labor unions, strikes, anti uibnojtolyisia and various other ismi In one form or auothwr it Is fcawwa and felt iu every civilised land to day, but, wherover it exists, bv whal ever name kuown, it means substan tially the same thing, more or Iocs modified by circumstances and eon ditions. And the dominant's i cea tral idea around which all others ra- no mattor how diijuised, or by what name known, ts tae tana It means eiiual ' rights, equal tiws, equal privileges for alL - No 1ciS uo titled nobility, as such, no ariito crats, no plutocrats, no tnobcpoty, no special priviUges; it oteavs r V to king-craft, priottrsfx, I 1 m : ' ileged classes, ia slurt ii t 7 liberty aud absolute potlUcsl eoI itv before the taw: jt twet si rgr- means Che right of every human be ing to free access to, aud an eqssl share in, all tbe natural lsments; earth, air, wood, water, and tksrizht of each individual to enjoy ths fruits " of his own labor. It is the realisation of ' this fact is to-day producing this . uaiversal unrest. The palpitatioa ox tie great human heart, its throbbing under a new and grander insptratioa which is oauslng tae wiur-free4 alarm visible among the kings, po t. tll.J 1 - ! - 1 1 f. vniiaicir anu pnviirgvu ctasavs tv-aay Well, let them cry aihilism, comma- ism agrsrinum, pateraalism, sad shout themselves; let them iavo the power of their mousy gold t their god; or appeal to that hither powerful argument of tyrants, sad robbers the sword which has so one served their purpose to rob and enslave mankind with impunity; it will avail them Bought m - tbe coming crista The days when such agencies "-eon- troied revolutions, thanks to science and intellectual progress, art num bered, j he people fear them not! they know their streng and are pro paring 10 use it; tuey see in tne near future the dawning of a new erazan era in which the just aipiratiscf of tne minions - 01 oown-troudea CP pressed humanity shall, be 'Ireahxed. and a new order of things bo iasog u rated 11 own tbe tmses of equality bo fore the law an era in which thesa who produo the wealth of the ceun- r y shall enjoy their just share of it. shall not go huntrrv. whilst tbesa who produce nothing roll ia wealth. ow, I am no alarmist; I oi.lv speak that which a cartful observa tion 01 current events and deduction from the' history of lbs past convince me the true rpndition of tbe civilis ed world today. I see in my mind's eye, not the 'ebadow' of the ceairj event, but tbe event itself. Ttt dawn of an era iu which tts twpli shall rule, an era of equal laws, equal rights, aad equal privileges for all, special privileges to none. Shall we not hail the dawning of such aa era? k It is tbe revolution of evola tion. trait ether raptrtfaj. Tbe Cincinnati Enqnirrr . aad Commercial, one Democratic aad the other Kepublican, each fights for the undying principles of its particular party, and they lad two equal hosts always against each other to, the ballot box. Each reader swears by tbe utterance of his oracle and one man, John McLean, owns both 'pa pers. Ilef takes their money aad gives them their choice of lies. Ce also distracts the people's attention while the money-power keeps en rob bing them. Farmer AUianre . To such base ends has the Ararri can press descended. Very few pa pers in this country are to-day noted for honest, fearless,' independent thought, as characterized tbe jours ais of Greely, the elder Bennett, Rsymood and editorial writers' of their day. .
The Caucasian (Clinton, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
July 20, 1892, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75