The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-09-20

ana WOOL ana nQQQfeas OF Smaller IN
dustries for thousands of laborers out.
side of those engaged in these various
callings. They must be fed by the
farmer, SO land has gone up, the far
mers are getting rich and the laborers
doing well. How do you know this !
The laboring men in the north have
absolutely, by the census, more money
deposited in their savings banks than
there is in the great South.
By this diversified industry in its
employment of SO many people they
are enabled to save money and invest
it where it can be called for on a rainy
day. What else? What does the
South do? Mr.. Clay was Southern
man, born in Virginia, lived and died
and matured that magnificent fame
which will always be his, Southern
man and slave holder; he begged
the people of the South to adopt his
principles. So long as you make a
speciality of cotton and tobacco moth
ing will save you from being poor, for
no people purely agricultural will be
rich. Then says Mr.. Clay, you have
the water power here all over the
land, murmuring and gurgling and
complaining that man will not take
hold of it. Turn it into a money
making machine for yourselves and
your country. What was the result
Slavery is dead, and, by the eternal,
let free trade go with it.
You have great country down
South. This is my native otate, as
well as yours, and We want to see our
people build up and prosper and old
North Carolina take foremost place
as she did among the original 13
States that broke the shackles of the
mother country.
Take Admission, Birmingham, Chat
tanooga and dozen places in your
own State, and the hum of industry is
heard from almost every hill top.
am opposed to interfering with it.
But the gentleman then goes into
the internal revenue system. Well, il
I occupied his position and had prom.
ised as much as his party has, I think
/ would 60 'possum hunting before
would talk of internal revenue.
Laughter.
After all, the special thing the Dem.
ocrats should be ashamed of is the tax
on tobacco and whiskey. Vance went
around here with his red-legged
grasshopper-"Put US in power and
these red legged grasshoppers shall
CO." You put them in power. Where
is your brandy tax? Echo from way
back in the backwoods "hollers'
where? Where is it? 1t is here.
Perfectly satisfied now, it should be
here and stay here SO long as the red
legged grasshoppers have the keys
that unlock these things. Laughter
and applause.1 That is the difference.
Now let us 90 on and see what sort
of a record this party presents !; see
where they stand and let me ask you
to follow me as closely as you can and
see if | cannot show you that they
have not redeemed one single promise
they have made. Now, they say, we
have passed the Mills bill, put us back
into power. Put them back into
power and it will be 81 Grover
Cleveland have a beautiful young
wife and 1 am getting immensely fat
on 1925 q day, and you tobacco ras
calls down in Forsyth help yourselves
the best you can" ELaughter.1
Now where do they stand ? My
friends, the platform is all right they
have had it for twenty years it only
me that a man of his weight,
(25O or 26O pounds) should dare to
stand ON it, it will break before he
can crook his finger. [Laughter.l
Now listen here, / am going to show
you some blossomicg. The tree may
blossom, parties may promise; but the
question is, what have they done I?
That is the way to put it to an intelli-
gent people. Listen here. The plat
form on which my friend was nomi-
mated at Raleigh: eve favor and
will never cease to demand the aboli-
ton of the internal revenue system as
a war tax not to be justified in times
of peace, as a grievous burden and a
source of annoyance to our people"
There is where they have been stand
ing for 20 years. My friend stands
there, but let me ask you what power
has the Legislature of North Carolina
over the State? The Legislature of
North Carolina did not tax your to-
bacco. Congress. way up yonder at
Washington, is where this thing is
done, and if it is repealed at all you
have got to have it repealed by the
same body that passed it. What pow
or, ask, then, has the Legislature !?
IF my opponent is elected he has no
more power than a cat has over a
pulpit. [Laughter.l
/ said it before and l say it again,
The Democratic party in their Nation
al platform adopted at st. Louis have
lodged the whole issue, they have
gone clear back on the people and
what else have they done? Bless
your soul! He talks about leaving
put the old party and his party march
ing up like Trojans to the fray |!
.Laughter.1 What have they done
They have nominated him for Presi-
Dent of the United States of Do-noth-
ing fame. Oh, Lordy, what a big
splinter Hannah has got in her leg!
My opponent stands on the plank
IN the State platform which says re-
peal the whole thing. Cleveland says
t shall not be done, Oh. my friend
wishes it was otherwise, but he cannot
help it. [Laughter.1 What else, oh
Lordy, what else? Let US. see what
Cleveland says in his letter of accept
ance on the 9Th of September. Talk
about repeating by the Democratic
party! "The cost of the government
must continue ooh yes, Mr.. Cleve-