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a r "1 4i ADVOCATE. v VOL. 2.---NO. 25 STATE NEWS. THE DOINGS OP OUR PEOPLE BRIEFLY AND PLAINLY TOLD. Happenings of THE DZKSED. Week Cow W. E. Jeffrey is the proudest man ia tobacco town. It is a girl and a nine ponuder at that. Ex. '.; Taylor & Cuthrells elegant new stored are nearinc: completion, they are an omameut to the town. Ex. John II. Williamson, Secretary, savs the colored State fair will bs held at Raleigh on the 22nd inst Ex. ' ; -; ;; Another large concern ii arrang ing to come to Rocky Mount to en- iratre iu the leaf tobacco business. Ex. - Raleigh will have a ja bike celebration to-day in honor of Democratic success Other towns hare also celebrated Ex. A new uress wire will at once be put up between Raleigh and Richmond a the present service is inadequate to the demanda upon it. Ex. The Railroad Commission has ruled that railroads hare a right to charge storage. for baereraee and an action based oh this regulation waf dismissed. Ear. . A f colored man in Brunswick county who voted the Democratic ticket" h;n been so persecuted by hi race that he had to leave the county. Er.. The saw, box and fertilizer mills of Hack burn and Willett, near New . Hern,-were burned last week. The lew is estimated at $5,000 with' no insurance. Ex. A few clays ago the plug and smok ing tobacco factory of J. W. Fancett at Durham was burned. The loss is said to be $.r0,000. with $25,000 ia surauce. Ex A number of our eitizena went dowu to'the big glorification at Tar- boro on Tuesday. Thev report an immense time, and all the Democrats happy. Ex. '. " ) - ' Senator Rarisoin has entirely re- coverud, f com the attack of neuralgia of the heart from, which lie suffered severely during the last days of the campaign. Ez. The Wistdon Chamber of Com merce has adopted resolutions asking the Legislature and Congress to establish a National park in the wes tern part of tha State. Ex Mis Kathaliue - Ellinerton andT Mis Anna Bailey Roone; who hail from Keidsville,. the home of all that's attractive aud lovely; are , vis itisg Mrs. W. C. Woodard. Ex. Thomas Settle will contest the election ot A. If. A. Williams to ('ougreasriu the 5th district on the ground that boxes in Stokes county wers illegally throwu out. jRz. Two mora fifteen per cent, divi dends will be declared from the as set of the defunct first national bauk of W.ilmingt'qn but it is not kuowu when they will be paid- Ex. Letter are pouring in, asking as to when Rocky Mount will have her - new . hotel. P"n fortunately they : could .not be answered definitelv. But, it's coming stilt for V that' Ex. ' . '. f A joint stock cohipany has been organized, with a capital stock to pur ckw the Cleveland Spnutrf property .The ITniversity team beat Trin ity at foot ball last woek......A por tion of ampsom county is threaten ed with a w:iter famine .A new and thorough system of water works will be, put down in Tarboro. Scot laud Nfck 'Democrat. The new hotel at Brysou City, on the Murphy branch of tha Western N. C.liailroad. w:u i burned last week It v valued at $12,000 and was iurtured for $o,000. .Governor INlthad ordered a special term of the Superior court for Washington county lo be held on DeceuiW 12, for the trial of civil causes, Judgo Ilok to preside. A..,fRaiu is ueeded very much in JolinitO" comity. The river is Tower than i.t has been in many years and the small streams are almost dry. It is almost impossible to plough. A Roman Catholic Caurch aud school will soon be es tablished at Koeky Mouut, aud build iugi erected for people of that faith wko intended to make tha place thoir home...... .At Goldsboro because a negro voted the Democratic ticket his wife and other negro women at- tacked him and beat him nearly to death. Thev were arrested and fined eighteen dolfars each The annual conff reuce of the A. M. K Z. Church will convene on the 22ud nut, at Kiuaton. At this session of the con ference will be; divided and this is its !t hesioti as now constituted. ......The Monticello Wine Company of Charlottesville, this State, this year made the largest vintage in its kittorv. Its product was '6S;000 gal lons agaiust 30,000 the largest in any meeeding year....... The Richmond & Danville railroad had furnished State (jtnriogiat.IIoluies with a special en gim imd car to enable him to tako pboiographa of the mining industries 9brth Caroli'ua for illustration at the World's fair..... ..As far as'cau be afictf tained th(ienefal Assembly will stand about as follows: Iu the Sen ate 44 Democrats, People's party 1 Republicau and 3 in doubt. Iu the House J3 Dsmocaats, 11 People's party, 12 Republicans and 4 in doubt. Roanoke Sietc WEAYIR OK HONH EXTRACT FROM ONE OF HIS GRAND CAMPAIGN SPEECHES A Clxab ExplakItioit pi raw Rbasoks pok Reinstating Sil ver AU A. Mo VET MA.TEBIAI- THE Whole Bekepit Would Comb to the People Generally. For the benefl of those who! donot understand the free silver Question and the import of this measure as a part of the People' party platform the following extract from the great speech of General Weaver an "Terra Hau Le, Ind., ia commended for care ful reading and consideration i ce Drsc siep 10 oe. uixen iaa con' servative step. No man who! under stands to-day the cramped tton of our ecomical affairs willing to hurU into jcircul large amount of money , sp; call to forestall the business country, to bankrupt men hurry the thine- ?into confus man who understands hi wishing for the welfare of th try would desire to do a thin; that kiud. We believe the fifst servative steo is to reinstate Eilv con- Eilver as the handmaiden of irold bv free and unlimited coinage and the present ratio of 16 to 1. I hold in mv hands tables dhow- inerthe ratio of the relative Value of the two metals: From 1600 . C. down to.the , demonetization ; ver by (Jermany and the 61 sil- United States in 1870 and 1873 was there a time wheii silver was not a prem of 16 to a prem was de ium over gold on the ratio 1. Not a year. It was at ium of 3 per cent, when it monetized in 1873 and 1874 in this country. It was never made the shi or creed of any political bboletb party, great or small, prior to the time it was don. The intention to demon- etize it was concealed from the Ainer- icau neoirle. and the manner in which it was done and the influences at work at the time are not credita ble to the history of American statesmanship, and the declaration made bv the Bankers' Journal in 1873, an extract from I which I have 8 worn here, has corroborated by the affidavit of a gentleman of t nques- tiouable business integrity, now liv- iaz at Denver, who perpoually con- versed with the man who came to this country from the Bauk o land for the purpose of arranging for its demonetization. But ) imme diately upon its demonetization by German v and the United I States silver began to decline. Wiy? Its decline has not boen caused by an? iacreasem the production of the precious metal. The increase of the production has not kepij pace with the demand for it. It is lets than the demand, and that its tacliu has been the result of unfriendly leg islation aud hostile, demonstration, l both in Eurone and iu America, is the fact btyond a questiouoi "But." says one, '-if ; you doubt ere to r, fhe silver i Give have the free coinage of eilv free aud unlimited coinage o what do vou mean bv ! that?" hit the same rights in the mmcs or the United States that is accorded the gold bullion of today, J j If I own gold bullion I can take ic to the mints of the United States unar,tne law of this couutry the government is compelled to coin it free of charge and hand it to me. I j That was the position thai silver ocjeupied prior to the time that it was stricken down in this country. "Well, but," says the objector, you will drive geld out of the couutry." 5 That is Gresham's law. ; Not Judgo Greaham; he ia i a fa vor of it. , "Gold will leave th couu try and siiver will take the place of it. Europe will duinpall of ber sU ver over h'?re." When" a man said that to me the other day whei I was standing on the platform at. Port land, Or., addressing an audiejnee of 5,000 people, I said roveni y, "O Lord, let Europe; begin to dump." What will they dump it oviir here for? give nt to us? I guesi not They have not a penuy's weight tney can spare, l ney are ou vne i irctcu for more. If thoy briug it here at all they will exebange it for our commodities, won't they? J They wouldu't hurt you, farmers, if you could sell your wheat and. corn and oats for a normal price whei you would realize a small margi i over and above what you spend in the producing of your crops. I "Oh, well, but thoy will oxchange , it for our gold," says the objectof. By tho wav, and" gentlemeu, do you own gold, auy of you? No.hWho tines own" it? These sharp shrewd Yankee bankers own it? aud gbld is more valuable thau silver? Yes, and they are going to exchange for thin? worth less than; gold. some ,Why. ye to. "Qh, well, but Europe will i give enough to make it a temptat onas you kuow. Suppose this is so Who is hurt if there is nothing but silver metal money here? Have yoa ever any of you, beeu exposed ser ously, dangerously, to receiving too much silver?. ' 1 They want us to legislate foi gen: tlemeu who waut to go i abroad, and what are we going to do when sil ver is worth seveuty cents bullion on theldolUr, and when it is no lobger a dollar, and as bullion is wort! only seveuty cents? What are we going to do when we go. abroad, andj want eichange? What are we going to do? Your gold is not money when it reaches thtf bid world; it is bulhou Your ail ver i ot money when it reaches the old world; it is bhllion. Your nation can only maae knoney for it own people, and as Senator tho Seuato of the i cooui- f wbnld be ation a WUlCKil- of the land to ion. No mself or 4 couu- United Stakes: The trouble with the American dollar ia that' you cannot get rid of it If you pay it out it comes right . back to you." That ia the kind of a dollar for me; exactly. What we want ia a dollar worth less as bullion thaa it is as money; then -it will stay at home. , We want to make raoney for Aaierican people, and not for Asia and for Europe. At one yeriod in our history, back about the time I was bcru, 1834, our gold was overweight, our gold coins, and thii country, the Congress of the United States, real izing the, fact that it was worth more as bullion in the old : world, than here as coin, they parsed a law re ducing the rate of our gold dollar, or our gold coin, so it would remain at home. We want silver" coins that will circulate in America, and if there is anything to pay in the shape of ballances it must be paid with bul lion; if not, with 'commodities. T rade is not carried on between nations with money s a means of circulating medium at alL Get that forever out of your head. Trade iirnever carried on between nations by means of a circulating medium, but always by an exchange of commodities. Always And it matters not whether that commodity is pork or beef, or wheat or rye, or silk or gold, or silver, 1 it. is commodities; and we produce enough of bullion in our mines that if we need bullion to settle the balances of trade we produce if here. God, away back m the councils of eternicv locked up in the great safe of the uui verse, and put the time lock on it. gold aud silver enough in the moun tains of America to furnish the American people with the means pf increasing the prosperity and civili zation of this great thriving nation, and when you come to make money you want to make it for the Ameri can people, and you don't to make money to take wings and fly away or silontly fold its tent,' like the Arab, aud be off to another country. What is the constitveion? Your fathers, when they framed that wonderful instrument, were inspired to believe that this nation should be a savior ou which should be fought the great battle of liberty, and they understood that congress should have the power to regulate the value of money aud keep it in the, hand 3 of the people instead of being put iuto the haudi of speculators and money changers and manipulators of Wall street. ;. The constitution says that con gress shall regulate its value. It is regulated today by the money char gers of Europe and America, and this regulation is that the value of the silver dollar shall be taken away from the people of the United States and put into the hands of the money obangers of the world. What we want in this country and what I be. lieve tho conservative men of all par ties waut iu this country is tho 412 grains that met with the approval of Goorge Washington, James Madison, Monroe, the Adamses, Andrew Jack son and Abraham Lincoln. For whose interests were they asking it? We have not gold onough to carry on the business of this country, and there is no law regulating the amount of the production of gold, is there? It is a mero matter of chance whether the eart will continue to produce gold enough to maintain even its present inadequate attitude toward the busi ness of the world. It's a mere mat tor of chance. We doa't know whether it is in our mountains or not, but the law governing the in crease of the human family of the population is the fixed" law, and you can calculate the increase; of our population with almost absolute cer tainty. That is not a matter ot, chance, but the production of the precious metals, and gold in partic ular, is purely a matter of chance, and yet currency must be based upon gold, and if guild is a matter of chance, and your success in business -is a matter of chance. Thus you j waut to subject our mighty conflict j in civilization to the power of acci-! dent and chance, and then jwonderj that that there should be anything like Dolitical discontent or upheval in-thuVreatcouotrv of ours. Let us thea have the unlimited coinage ' of silver at its present ratio. What you want is a sum of money that will enable you to conduct your affairs upon a cash basis. There is not a lady or gentleman listening to mo here to-day but dreads in his or her heart to go forth and purchase the neceosities of life on credit You don't like to do it hy? Because your sense of business propriety tells you it ia wrong to mortgage the fu ture. The good book has said to us and all generations, "Owe no man anvthing." That is sound busiuess advice. It says again that the borrowers are servants of the lender and the rich ruling over the poor, and when your Bible tells you to owe no man, any thing, you had better take the ad vice. Remember, my brother, that you are liviml under an economical system here today where 92 per cent is carried on credit and 8 per cent cash, and I hare the authority of the statistics of the currency in Washing ton, and the, analysis made of it by President Whitntr. of the naniers Mjociation of California, ho lives at Los Augeles, and he aajs i if the banks were called upon to day to what thev owe to depositors, and are confined to pay gold exclusitelyJ that they could not pay two cents o the dollar; ana ii wiey pm ailver they could not pay over three cents on the dollar, and if they pay in currency old and silver, they could not pay over ten cents on tne dollar, and that ia eractly true ac cording to the statistics here. And if the banks were called upon today, there U not enough in actual circula tion t aaable too people to pay what TARBOROYN. (p., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER they owe the banks alone ten cents on the dollar. Yet we are afraid. Oh, well, but if the bullion owner ia going to make the difference between the bullion value on the do I la?, and the coi n value on theidollar, that is a conces sion then on the part, of the legisla tion that they are to blame. . It has been legislated down to seventy ceats on the dollar basis, and what does that enable England to do? It enables England ' to take vou r seventy cent dollar as bullion, and it is worth in India a. hundred cents, and on every cargo of wheat that they buy iu India with your, money they realize! in London and Liver pool .the difference, 'mid that comes out of the wheat rakers in this coun - try. It brings the wheat raiser of India in competition with the wheat raiser of this country, and has the same effect I on cottou. liut my friends, the bullion owner would not realize the profit that you ihink he would. j r Let me show you. The' very mo ment you haTC free and unrestricted coing of silver in this country it is trtte that the jcoin value and bullion value will be about equal. If I tike it and have it coined and owu the bullioju, then I own the dollar. Then an increase m the circulating medium of this country to the extent of the coin would be realised. That puts that much j money in circulation. What effect does that-bave? Walker, oue of the best 'authorities in this country, iys this in: his book ou po- . auce of ibe tiU.-e interested in silver, litical economy, "That other things I the United .States is perfectly able to being equal the average' price of all ' maintain the coinage of both motda commodities j iti regulated by the ! at the old established ratio of 16 to I. amount of money i'ii circulation, aud To our mind it is not clear how our this is an iuVariabJe ap auy- other law Goverument can change the stand in nature." I I urd established bj. the fathers ' with-. If I throw a ball iu" the air as soon j out impairing the obligatiou f. all as the force that propelled it is lost it outstanding contracts with: or with will come down to the earth. He j out the concurrence of other nations, says that this 'is as invariable S3 that ' A dollar rteaus graius of law. Suppose 1 have that coined up. : tandaid silver duly corned and The bullion that is shipped there even though jit should reach here (there ia not a pennyweight that can come here), the very moment -that it ie coined up yourmouey is iucreased to that extent! that it brings up'the price of yourlday labor, your corn, your beef, your hay, your pork and your farm Then if I come aud try to bnv your wheat at the price we have before the unlimited' coinage of silver you would laugh at me aud say, 'It is not sixtv-eight cents now;' it's a dollar a. bushel." Who makes j the profit, the man that eold the ; wheat or the pian that had lhe bul - liou? This profit will be distributed among the wbole people. Tho pro ducers of wea tb iu this country will get it. And of wealth -iu who are the producers this country? Those w no toil iu workshops, in mines, in the fields; those of you who are listening-to me heje today, who feed the open, hungry mouths of the world; who feed an(l clothe and shelter the world; you are the men who produce the wealth of jthe country, and the free coinage of ilver will fall into your pockets lusilesd of the nieu who own the silver, bullion. Now my brother says- Germany is opposed to the free coinage of silver. Who' rules Germany? The laboring people of Germany? Is the financial 6ysteni of Germany' constructed with reference to the wealth of the pro ducers of wealth of that country or to the welfare! of thts nobility aha of the moneyed interests of that country I need not answer that, for you ail know the answer. Is the financial system of England adapted to their monarchy and aristocracy? Certain ly it works to it like a charm to the advantage of the nobility, ,It doe not work to the advantag of the la boring peoplei And yet we huve iu this country the exact English sya- item of firfance the. mongrels::;! sys tem at fin a nee iu a republic the devil inside of .v bf:dv of saint The Stiver Itazc, Cincinnati Enuiivr , Dunn g tbie the Enquirer S;:-j. dev'cts-d scription or the shun-iv ae:i:ie.i is sues between tl-e't'vo gr -Hi jarties It has said but little on i hi- f ree com-1 aire of silver. I Itiis.ist not be i'nfer- i edthat tiie tiaqairtr has or mo!ificd ita views ou that taut subject! Free coinage hanged sil- ver has been held in ad van w, await ing the result of the discussions on the Tariff and the Federal elections bill. As both parties in their con ventions left the silver quesiion se verely alone, jt would have been a profitless tmdertikiug on our part to have attempted to force it to the front Becautea of tia silence of the friends' of "silvc-i ' coinage the gold worshippers take it for granted that what they are pleased to call the silver craze" has died out They will find themselves greatly' mistaken It will be advocated and persisted iu . more stronglyj than ever. There is j a very large majorif y in the west and j OOUinin OOtu pa. is w uy a.e .u .a,o, Ut . vuv av-' - ot both gold and silver, and a re spectable minority in the East vho entertain the same opinion. Because of the divided! sentiment in each of Uhe parties, with -great wisdom and prui'ence incT urn not liiue it an afticleof party taith. ine senti ment is there nevertheless, aud it will manifest jitsclf 'when the occa sion calls for it WeJSepe and be lieve that we will bsy silver with out drawing party fines, and that the sentiment will be strong-, enough to secure the object without the sanction of a ('President The gold monometallism are in the minority in both parties, and the masses have been educated on this subject as they have been on the. tariff,! thosel wno intent on malting money scarce and high will be foiled in their wicked purpose. If the Populists had made silver coinage their rally- ing cry iney wouia nave drawn from . both the old. parties a largo number f who believed that free silver -woo thai subject of supreme importance. Their oun- treasury scheme, tnerr rroiio - anion to uare ine ooveir.mant ioq money at 2 per cent on farm mort- gages, and taeir declaration that tha: Fed-ral ) Government should own I and operate railroads, eSps offlces &c. in other words their proraiJ i 'tion to make ours a paternal govern- to cliiJg i ment influenced thousands to th,e old parties, who Upuu the; Eilver and currency question vere in sympathy with the Weaver party. It must not be inferred that, tho i'opuhets represented the exUnt, - ! of the "fcilver crazs,v aud that it ul relegated to a companionship with ' tne deoa teeues of toe past.. Ibtfj ? international Monetary Conference at Brussels may arrive at coucl unions which will bring the silver question to'the front very soon aud very prominently. wo think . it very certain that adverse- action on the part of the conference will net be accepted by the South American. Republics, the Latin Union and the United States. It is highly proba- : o?e mat sorjje agreement win te r 1 rived at by these Governments as to ; the money use of both gold aud sil j ver a certain ratio. If they do agree ! Kugland and (Jermany will be forced ! to recognize it or loee a large rkrt of f j Uieir vuluaoie traae. if the coU- i their valuable trade. If ' ff reuce breaku up without any Hl!l- I stamped, anq it siguines notciog j tlse. To eu large or lessen the dollar which, was decreed to be the nieas j uring unit of all values, including ! '0 would be an act of bad faith to either the creditor or debtor. The silver dollar being tne measuring urging unit, everything measuring by it may change iu t its relative value, but it'remains fixed and uuab terable. If gold or any other metal j is ueed as money it -may appreciate . -- -or depreciate in value, measured by the silver dollar. It is not just to say that the silver dollar is at a dis- 1 count and only worth seventy-five cents. It is always worth 100 cents. Twenty-Sve and eight-tenths grains of gold may be worth as a commod ity $1,35 or ven $2, or it may be worth less than $1 as it wau iu 1852, wheu tke creditor class sought to demouetiae it It is a misuse of language to say that a silver . dollar is worth only severity, eighty or niuety cents. Gold. doe6 not measure the money value of silver, because silvr dollar has made the measure by which all values are' determined. Those who are intent upon driving silver out of circula tion will ' learn to their discomfort that its free and unlimited coinage is not dip)oed of. ' BOODLE. Aiaericai Siflrue. Sapping POLITICAL BRIBERY AS SUMES A BOASTFUL PR ID 3. TarsiteilBf Tkt fattre kwk Hay of Tke ioaatry. pecjftl DipJktoh tb the Bnioirar Bkooklajtd, Novamber 6. Rev ir. Talmage to-day selected for his i sermon a subject sumeientjy sppro prifttefor these times, when, tbrough- i out the United States, great politi- cal -questions axe being ditcuaaed j and the nation is aboctto go to the j ballot box and decid who shall rule I in nierbborho(L t)ni citT and Va- f '"-Thtf b?- ! il0u- The text'ehosen was.'Beyela i . L i "ftions xviii. 10 "Alas, alas, that j great ciij, raoyioo, inavmigaiy eiiy, for iu come.' one hour is thy judgement Modern scientists are doing a splendid work in eicravstirg thej tomb of a dead empire holding in its arms a dead city, mother and child of the same same baby Ion. The ancient mound invites the spades and shovels and crowbars, while the unwashed natirM look on in surprise. Thcce scientists find yellow bricks etill impressed with the nam? of Kebuchadnesxar, and they go down into tb sarcophagus of a monarchy buried more than 2,000 cars ago. May the explorations of Rawlinson atd Layard and Cbera lier and Opperto and Loft us and ; Chesney be eclipoed by the present 1 archaeological uncovering. ! i But is it possible this is all that remains of Babylon o city once five times larger than London and , j w York? Walls 373 feet hich and 93 fwt thick. Tweuty-five burnished gates on each eide, with etreets ruuuing clear through to corret ponding gates on the other side. Six hundred aud tweuty-five squares. . More pomp aud WEALTH AKD ePLHJUK). And ein than could be found ia auy Jive modern cities combined. A city of palace. and temples. A. "city hav ing within it a garden on au artifi cial hill 400 feet high, the sides of the mountain terraced. All this to keep the King's wife, Anaytis from becoming homesick for the ' moub tainous region in which sho had gpent her eirl hood. The waters of Euphrates spouted np to irrigate fruit and this great attitude iuto flowers and arborescence unimagina- ble, A great nver running trom ?3, 1892. acr;b to south cluir through taoj ;it-, bridged over it- tunnels ancer it, La.t4 u It. . Atf. . ..t ud uf market i pi .c-. jum rr aroiuHtica audi i xr. -atj u.:i l-ix'b-wettlfd hortsw i vriii zzo jtc-. u.id '"1 .'T At "on If, ul tbrtie c..n e rrco, ai.d ... . -u. tr.rk' 1. - uv.;; fr- .T . tcrr.-;';ia va&k -t 4l ti of coetly . ..rt p irples e i-!-i,t: oo the Me l i.d rarevt -carlfts ' tai. iron? W:liiiit J ' l .-r" biou t ins-et in Spa n from stu-cessf il ulerbant hu?K i:t iudia. audi di.- inf. u co- -dfb irinrtee to ! tb -a." frWrcss w;:h;it forms. -u.:iI niij; ;aboT ciubattl aicat Gre;t capital of the ages! B it une nUrbt when, while houeet oit;- j zens were asleep, bat all the saloo is or saturnalia were in full blast ar d j t tho King's castle they had filled tho fankards for the tenth time, at.d rttrling and guffawing and hiccongi isg aronnd the state table were the ruler of the land, General Cyrus cr ,r ., . - - : j HIS BB8IBOINQ ABMT, . To take shovels and spades, and thjj. diverted the river from its usuil channel into another direction tht the forsaken bed of the river be came the path on which tho besier- fing army entered. When the mor i- ing dairned the conquerors were it Bidethe outside trenches. Bahyhn had fallen, and hence the sublime threnody of the text r "AbiS, alss, thttt great city Babylon, that migb y city, for in oac hour is thy jngme it come." But do nations die? Oa, yee, there is great moral itv anior g anarchies aud republics. They are like individuals in the fact that they are bom, they have a middle life, they have a decease, they . have a cra dle and a grave. Some of them- are udfassinated, some destroyed by their own hand let me call some of the dead civilizations and some of the dead cities and let some ope answer for them. Egyptian civilization, stand up. "Dead!" answer the ruins of Kar nak and Luxor, and from seventy ;paymidsou the eastside , of the Mile there comes up'a great chorus, cry ing, "Dead, dead! Assyrian Empire, stand up and answer, "Dead!" cried the charred ruins of Nineveh.- Aftcj 600 years of magnificent opportunity dead, Israelitish, Kingdom, stand up. After 250 years of divine interposi tion, and of miraculous vicissitude, and of heroic behavior, and of ap pauling jdepravity, dead.,' Phoenicia, stand up and answer.- After invent ing the alphabet and giving it to the world, and sending out her merchant caravans iu one direction to Central Aisia, aud sending out her navigators to the Atlantic Ocean in another di rection dead. ; Pillars of Hercules ' and rocks on which the Tyrau fishermen dried their nets all answer, "Dead Phoe nicia." Athens, after Phidias, after Demosthenes, after Miltiades, dead. Sparta, after Leoni das, after Eurybiades, after Salamis, after5 Thermopylie: dead. Boman Empire, stand up and answer. Em pire ouce bounded by the British Channel on the north, . by the Eu phrates on the east, by' the great Sahara Desert in Africa on the south, bv the Atlantic Ocean on the west Home of three great civilizations, owning the then discovered world that was worth owning Borne Em pire answer, Gibbon, in his "Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire," says "Dead," and the forfaken seats of the ruined coliseem, 'and the skel eton of the aqueducts, and THB ICIJlSHa of THB OAXPAIOX. And the fragments of tho marble baths, and the nseless piers of the Bridge Triumphalis, aud the MamVr tine prison, holding no more Apos tolic prisoners, and the silent Forum and Basilica of Constantinople, and the arch of Titus, aod the Pantheon come iu with great chorus, crying: "Dead dead!" ! After Horace, Virgil after Tactus, after Cicero, dead. Af ter Horatius on the bridge, and. Cin cinnatus, the farmer- oligarch, after Pompey, after Scipio, after Cassias, m.f Am pAjfonflno tffa Pania faoi The waf e of R flew hi h it was blinded; by the inn and came whirliag down thronifh the heavens, and the owl of desolation and dark ness built its nest in the forsaken eyrie. Mexican: Empire, dead. French Empire, dead. You 6ee, my friends, it is no in usual thiug for a government to perish, and in jthe same necrology of dead Nations, and in the same grave yard of expired Governments will go the Unittd States of America unless there be 6ome potent voice to call a halt unless God in his mercy 'inter feres, an through a purified ballot box add a wide-spread public Chris tian sentiment the catastrophe bo averted. This nation is about to go to the ballot box to exercise the right of tuffrage, and I propose to set be fore you the evils that threaten to do stroy'the American Government and to snnihilate American insti tution, and if God will help me I will show you before I get through tbe mode 4n which each and every oue may io something to arrest that appalling calamity. And I shall plow up the whole field. - Tbe first evil that threatene ths annihilation of our American insti tutious is tbe fact that political bn bery, w hich once was , j coxsipebed a caiana. Has by many come to be consid ered s tolerable virtse, There is legitimate use of money in elections, in ths printing of political tracts, and in ths hiring of public halls and in tbe obtaining of campaign oratory; but is there any homuncolus who supposes that this vast amount of money now being raised by tho polit cal parties m goiag in a legitimate di rection? The vast majority of it will go to jbny to. Hundrtvta and thousands of men will hare set before them so much taonev for Republican rote, and so ranch wnn or for Democratic varnd the I superior financial inducetneiit !il dtriue the action. jsi ra at to i know! which will carry tho dojtfn : States dar aftor tomorrow? I 'wil tell you. "he party that spendi the moot monoy; This tnoraeut whita Speak, the peddler carrying gold fro as Wall street, gld fmw 1 brd street, rold from State street, and gold from tho Brew-rs Asoc;att9n are in all too political headquarters of the doabttiil btate,' dealing out tho infamous inducenar.it Thera tsed to be briber, but it held its head in sham, it was ua aer the utmost eareey tcM many years ago a railroad oompxay- bought op the Wisconsin Legislature aud taay other omcialt in that State. The Governor of tho State at that time receiered fC,W0 for,hfssgna- . -. fi'1. ' . . . J sure, i .His private occreiary recejvea t5,00. Thirteen members,, of tho enate 'roooivod flTS.OQO asaoag them ia bonds. - Sixty membora of the other He an received from 5,000 to $10,000 each. The Lieutenant Governor received $10,000." The olerks of the ! House . received from $5,000 to $10,000 each. The Bank Comotrollsr receivtd 110.000. Two hundred and tiftv thousand dollars were divided, among the! lobbysta. Ton see tho railroad, oaiapauy was cry ceneroua. Bat all that woo hidden, and only through ? THI fTiftTMT BCaCTIITT. Qn the. part of a legislature com-f mittee was this iniquity displayed. Now, political bribery deflieo you, ii arrogant, aod will probably de cide the election next Tuesday Unless this diabolism ceases in thrs country-, j Bart boldi's statue on Bedloes Island, with uplifted torch to light other; nations into the har bor, had bettor be changed, ! and the torch dropped as a symbol of univer sal incendiarism .. K Unless this purchase and sole of suffrage shall j ooaeo, , the American Qovernment will eifyre, and . you' might as well be getting ready the monument for another dead notion, and let my text inscribe upon it those words: "AltsI alaa! for Babylon, that great city, that mighty city, for one hour is thy juds-iaeutj come." Mv friends, if you haw uot Noticed that political bribory is one of tbe ghastly orimes of this day. you have not kept your eyes open. j !' i Another evil tnrbatenmf tho doa- tructiou of Amarieaa iuatitotions is the solidifying of tho actions Ajrit each other. A solid North. 1 A tolil South. If this goes ou wo thai", af ter a while, haw a solid East againit a solid West, Iwt shall have- solid Middle Siatoj aajainst solid Northeu States, we shall have a solid fc New York asramst a solid Pooaavlvania, and a solid Ohio against a solid Ken tucky. It is twenty-seven years sine the. war elood, sad yet at every s a - . a ' J rrrsiaennaj eircuon inoom anmgo- nism is i, aroused. Wbea uarneia died and alii the SUtef eathared around his easktt in sympathy and ia tear, and as ftoarty telegrams of coudoltnce cams from JTew Orleans ana xrom unarieocon as iron dmivd abd Chicago, I oaid to myself: "I thiak ooctTonilism, is deadJ" Bat alas! no. Th4 difficulty will never bo ended antil eaoh SUte of THB YA.T10H IS SPLIT UT ' Iuto twq or three great political par ties. This country can not exist un less it exists as one body the Nat ional Capital the heart, sending out, through all the arteries of communi cation, warmth and life to the very extremities. . This' nation can not exist unless it exists as one family, , and you might as well have solid brothers against solid sisters, and a solid bread-tray against a solid era? die, and a solid nursery against a solid dining room; aod you might as: well have solid ears acainst solid eyes, and solid head against solid foot What is tke intetest of Georgia is h interest of Mastachusetta? wit is the interest of New YoA . is the interest of South Carolina. Eoes the Ohio River change its politics below Louisville? It is hen it gets not possible for these sectional autosjonirmS to continue for a great many i yearf without permaseni oompmind frac ture. I '.'. 1 .Another evil threaUuins tho dos- tructioa of our Ameriean institution is the low state of public morals. What killed Babylon of my text? What killed Phoenicia? What killed Rome? Thelfowa depravity; and the fraud and! the drunkenness and the lechery whioh kavs destroyed other nations will destroy oars - un less a merciful God prevent To show you the morals I bars low state -of public to call your attention to the fact that HA XT MB STOMIJf ATBD For offices in different States at dif ferent times are entirely unfit for ths position for which they have been nominated, i They have no mors qualification for them than wolf has qualifica tion to be professor of pastoral tbr- olewv in a flock of sheep, or .a blind mote has quauneauoa to leciure a . 1 ' a. elsos of oaglos on optica; or a vulture has quahlcataon to oasperon a ojto. The more pronunciation of some sf their naaos makes a demand xoa car bolic acid aad fumisatiool Yet Christian men will follow right oa irnder the political standards. 5I hare to tell yoa what you know already, that I American politics has sunken to such a low depth that there is nothinr beneath: What wa in some directions wo see in nearly all dirsotiona. Ths speculation and knavery uurlod to the surface by the explosion of j banks and business firms are only specimens of great Ootopaxis and Stosnbolis of wiokod PRIjCE, FIVE CENTS ocss that boil and roar and surge Dcaettij, hut hay, uot ytt reii-urvM tairu - loe-snriaoe. When the heaven4daBcrnd?d Democratic partv esacteditht wesJ rascality io seemed to eclipse everytbiiig: but after a while tho heavtn-dcoJed Hepubli can pory outwitted pandemonium with thfKStar Ilouto inUmv. My friend we have iu this coun try jeole who say tb marriage in stitutioa aruvuots to nothing. They Col at It Ws bavs people walling iu politi parlors in our. day wl. are uot gooi enough to be scavengers in Sodom! I went orer to San Frau- i . . .... " nt c:cote or dfun year asro that beautiful citv. that vneen of the Pa cific. May the blessings of Ood corns d.wn npon her great ehurchca aod hMr- coble men and women! Whan I eot into the city of San Francisco th Mavor of the city and th Pretidwnt i-fpu Board of ifealth called oo me aod iasisted that I go and i TXB THB ClllVSSa QUABTtR, , Nodomht so thai on my return to ths AUaatio CxNMt I might tell what drsadful people the Chinese are. But on tfve ;st mzht of my stay in San Kranaifl'tv before thousand nf tua- pie in tbfir great Opera-bouse, I said: "Would Ivou like mo to tll vou juit what I think, plainly aud honestly?" Thoy esiil; "Yos, yr. Tes!" I said: i'Do vou think yon can staad it alir Thsv'saijl: Yes, ys, yet!- "Then," I aaid, f'My opiuian ia that tho curse of Han Francisco is not your Chlaase Quarter, but yoar million aire noertioea. Aud tlrac of therW,sat right before xue ft it and Dnmilla ' Aud so it is in all the cities. I " sever swear, but whea Imi man go anwhipped of iustic, laughing oter his shams and calliug his damnable doed ral- aatry and peccadillo, I am tempted to hurl rod-botanathtma aud to con- elude thst if, according to some peo ple s theology, there is no bell, thsro ourht to be! 1 boro is enough out-aud-out been to bringdown upon them the wrath of thst God who, on the 34th of August, 79, buried Hrculaneura and Pom 11 so djrep in ashes that te JB13 ubstqnsnt year! have not boos abl to complete the exhuma lion. ere. are m some of ths citise to-day whole blocks which the authorities know America of boa to W infamous, audi vet bv Durchaso Unsy ars. silenced, by hush money, so thst eocrj places are as much under the defense of goversmcnt as public ibraries sod ay la uns- of mercy. Thte ulcers on tbe body Kli tic BLBBIl Alt) OAHORINE AWiT Ths life bf the nation, and publio authority. in many of tbo cities looks tbe other way; You oau not curs sueh wounds ss these ; with a silken bandage. You will have to curs tbem by puttior drop' iu tho lancet of moral surgery, aod burning them out with tbe. caustic of holy wrath and with pioat decisive amputation, cutting olf the scabrous aud putre fying fMepiittations. As the Romans were after, ths Celts, aad as the for- mans were af dfcr the Britons, so there are evils aftor this nation which will attend itsj obsequies unless we first attend theirs. Superstitioa Ulls of a marine rep tile,, tbo j cophaloptera, which eu- oldod aoi crushod a ship of wan but it is dot subonttitiou when I tellv yoa that ths hutorvof many of tbe dead nation proclaim to us the fact that our ship of state is in danger of being cruihed by thecvpbaloytcra of national ileprarity. Where is the lercules to slay this hydra? Is It not time to speak by pon, by tontfne, by ballot-hox, bv tbe rolling of tbo prison door, by hangman's hulter, by rnest priysr, bybmaitic detona tion? A A son of Ring lrosui is said to bate been uumb and to have never uttered a word nnfcff he aw his fath- erleing but to death. Theu he broke the fhaokles of silence, and cried oatJ "Kill not my father. OroosssH i When I tee the choatery arid tho wan ton nets and the manifold crime of this oonotrr attempting to commit patricide yea. i . -KATKicia won ooa ISSTITUTET, t tsemr to me that lips that hereto fore have been dumb ought to break the silence - with canerous tones of err protest, I want to pot all of the matter be fore yon, sh that svery honest man and woman wilt know just how mat ters standiand what they ought to do f they vote, and what they ought to do if they pray. This nation is not going to peris s. aisxanucr, wnen be heard of ths wealth of tbe Indies, divided Ilacedosia among his sol diers. Borne one aaked him what he had kept or hincuelf, and be it-plied: -"I am keeping hope!. And that ewel I keep bright and shining in my soul, whatever else I shall surren der, Hopcfthou io Ood. He will set back thess oceanic tides of moral de vastation. Do yoo-knsw what is the prize for rbich contention is made to-day? It is the prize of this couti- nent IN ever i ace. according to John Milton, whea "Satan was hurl- ed besdlofcg flaming from the ether eal skies in bedious rsio and combus tion dowri" bars tbe powers ot dark ness been so determined to win tbia continent as tbey are now. What a jewel it iaa jewel carved io relief, this csmeo or this planet Un one side of oiUbo Atlantic ocean, divid ing us from the worn-out govern ments of Jo a rope, on the other sido the PaciGp ocean dividing us from ths superstitions of Asia, ou ths north of as tbe Arttij; ea, which is the gymnasium in which he srxpixaita ajtd variQATObs px , I , c YBL0P -Their courage. A continent 10,0OJ L p Tl 4 sea I v I
The Caucasian (Clinton, N.C.)
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Nov. 23, 1892, edition 1
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