The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-08-13

is found in the history of the laws, the
history Of the bonds, the history of the
| national banks and the history Of the
demonltization Of silver. But a stronger
evidence yet is the present condition of
the working classes, who, as a rule the
world over, are patient and peaceable.
What means these labor organizations?
| This-that the people see by combi-
nation alone can they live. Under
purer system Of government forty
Years ago these organizations We're IN
known and there was no necessity fer
them, out today how different! Every
branch OF trade has been compelled to
organize to save itself from absolute an
! nllat1On, and is it to be wondered at
when we come to learn that the present
inlquitous tariff laws, the passage of
which was purchased by few thousand
rich manufacturers, have robbed the pee
| pie and put into the pockets Of these
same manufacturers no less than nine
billions Of dollars. Hence it is that at
our city Of Washington the protest Of a
millionaire will override the petitions
Of millions Of working men.
| 10 what course can such terrible state
Of affairs be attributed? It is due to the
apathy or the ignorance of the masses.
| We must conclude the latter and it be-
hooves the order and the stateTo EDUCATE
THE MASSES AND TEACH THEM TO THINK
| FOR THEMSELVES.
The acts of Congress in aid of agri-
culture for the last twenty-five wears
have been few indeed compared with
those Of our rich manufacturers, and the
tariff is SO manipulated that tbey-the
| foW thnucor bn
We all know but too we'll the result
of this reign Of selfish greed. The
small land owners are being pushed to
the WALL the larger ones are no longer
able to make both ends meet; farms in
especially West, that twenty-five years
ago, during the period Of greatest inaa-
ton, that paid q fair percentage on a
foreclosed on mortgages for half that
amount, and the former owners seeking
new fields Of employment for liveli-
hood
tits sad commentary on humanity, but
nevertheless true, that with an unequal
distribution Of wealth there is unequal
distribution Of social power. The intiu-
ence Of the middle class, the man of
moderate means, is no longer felt in the
legislative halls of the capitol, he is be-
ing swept away. Wealth is rapidly con-
centrating and out of the consequent
corruption but two classes are forming
the lordly rich and the beggarly poor.
9 While free to admit that the iniquitous
protective tariff has brought about the
present depressed state Of agriculture by
stripping the poor of three-fourths of
| their natural savings and concentrating
a a majority Of the wealth of the country
IN the hands of an enthusiastically small
: part Of the people, composed of manu-
: facturers, trusts, pools and combines,
5 repeal alone of this unj just measure
: would not relieve the present distress
t 1t would not lift a single mortgage. The
one thing needful in the present fnan-
l cial condition of the people is debt
: paying system of finance. In compari-
), son with which all other questions sink
! into utter insignifcance
e While looking after our National gov
: ernmental relations, we must not lose
sight of the education Of the masses.
: WITHOUT THIS WE CANNOT PROSPER AMI
u KEEP PACE INTELLECTUALLY OR MATERI-
/ ALLY WITH OTHER STATES MORE LIBERAL
u IN THIS MATTER. The country districts
/ are more dependent upon the public
q school system than the towns and cities
} hence we should be especially interested
l. in having better educational facilities
: We pay here in North Carolina only
6 forty cents for public instruction fol
e each man, woman and child, while ir
k the Southern States the figures run VI
) to eighty-nine cents. In other words
e we spend for education less than one
:, half the average Of other Southern
d States. Now, in view Of the fact THA7
le WITHOUT EDUCATION WE CANNOT PRESERVE
3 OUR CIVIL OR RELIGIOUS LIBERTIES, OR FEEL
IL OR APPRECIATE THE MEANING OF THAI
PRECIOUS HERITAGE, FREEDOM-AND REAL
g IzING THAT THERE Is NO SLAVERY SO GALL
le ING AS THE SLAVERY DUE TO IGNORANCE
r. | HEARTILY RECOMMEND THIS BODY t,
er LEND ITS AID AND ENCOURAGEMENT TO !
e. REVISION OF THE PRESENT PUBLIC school,
5, ed facilities for common education.
le further recommend the appointment
or of legislative committee whose duty
is shall be to look after the interest of tn
I'd order. Likewise that some adeeuat
I'd provision be made for the national pc
lg capita tax Of 5 cents; and that the Stat
IL | OoCIoUdIy U0 ulduo OCdIo ClOp OtctlSt
rs clan; the County Secretary. the Count
on Statistician, and the sub Secretary, tn
le sub-Statistician with adequate comper
IN sation for their services; and finally,
er view of the fact, that we were numer
n cally weak at the formation an
ry adoption Of our constitution an(
er since the order has wonderful
ps increased in strength and men
to bers, and the duties devolving upon l
d, being infinitely more onerous, I recon
cir mend a revision of the constitution to
ce special committee, if it need the appr
he val Of this body.
set | have dwelt longer upon national a
he fairs, believing that there, in the Capt.
les at Washington, have originated tt
on farmers woes and from that source aloI
we can come the remedy. Let US continl
IN to insist upon our National Congress gi
to ing US this much needed relief. Histo
lg, teaches that the withs with which Il
5 rich bind the poor can be broken on
he by fire, sword or bloody revolution. B
ie- we have better method of overturnil
or fraud and corruption in high place
lal We have free speech and free ballc
and when the wisdom Of the acts Of Il
rth national meeting, like leaven, begin
ut, work upon the masses of the people, tn
The and not till then shall we have