The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1889-07-18
DIREFUI. ANARCHY CANNOT BE AR
RESTED SAVE BY RADICAL RE-
FORM-THE EFFECTIVE
AND ONLY REMEDY.

AND ONLY REMEDY.
On last Friday, the 18th inst,
according to appointment, Col.
Harry Tracy, of Texas, the Ma
tional Lecturer of the Farmers
Alliance, spoke at this place.
A goodly audience of our most
intelligent citizens were out to
hear him, not members of the
Farmers Alliance only, buta also
lawyers, doctors, ministers, mer-
chants and members of nearly
every other profession in the
county, all of whom gave the
speaker close and thoughtful
attention.
Col. Tracy, after being intro
duced by the editor Of The
CAUCASIAN, arose and commence
ed by saying he wished to open
the eyes Of his brethren aud
others with with common in
terest to our deplorable condi-
tion to-day, and the cause of
this condition. Next he would
discuss the principles of the
Alliance, and hoped thereby to
convince all intelligent listeners
that this organization was the
most powerful means and the
only effective remedy for cor
Iecting the evils that exist, for
wrestling the power of oppres-
sion from slick-tongned dema-
gogues, unprincipled lobbyists,
grinding monopolies and heart
less combines, (who now misrule
the country, and thereby save
our government from anarchial
destruction, by restoring it to
its prestine purity of equal citi-
zenship under Just and equal
laws, as advocated, planned,
and established by patriotic
Patrick Henry and pure and
democratic Thomas Jefferson.
Is this to-day government OF
the people, for the people and
by the people? No, it is gov
ernment of the monopolist, for
the monopolist and by the mo
nopoIist! Lo! what a change
the Republic OF Washington and
Jefferson has been transformed
into a. despotism more grinding
than that Of the Russian Empire
The money kings rule, the peo-
pie are their slaves. This is nc
longer a Republic, for no gov
eminent can be a Republic that
grants special privileges to any
of its citizens. The special priv.
ileges that our corrupted law
makers have granted to the ia
vored few have made them I'M
mensely wealthy at the expense
of the many. Col. Tracy illus
trated how few men organized
had been able to bring about
such a result by describing the
: formation and growth of the
coal oil trust. 1t commenced
, by these few men getting Con
5 gress, by buying the votes o1
l of members, to grant them spe
1 cial privileges, under the decep
2 tive name of protective tariff
= which cut off foreign competi
: ton and made it possibl6 fo
4 the coal oil men to raise tn
: price, that's make us pay NOR
for the oil than it was worth
: After awhile these greedy Goa
;, oil men decided that they wer
e not getting rich Cast enough, 81
e they met together and talke'
:, the matter over and at last de
e cided to bind themselves int
e an agreement, called a trust, t
/ make us all pay even more fo
!, the coal oil than they were abl
g to charge us under the specia
privileges Congress had give
Il them, so up goes the price of oi
agaic. We pay the money
e grumble about hard times an
q don't know what is the matte
/ The coal oil men get the none!
= get rich and laugh at us poe
o fools for our ignorance an
l. helplessness.
Is this trust the only one !? n