The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-04-23
Tle Fight to The Death.
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were shot down with Winches-
ters in the hands of hired assas-
sins who were experts at the
business and liked the pastime.
They tell us that these men were
destroy ing property and doing
much damage, and yet when the
smoke of the battle clears away
we find that the only serious
damage 60 ne is in the broken
heads, broken legs and riddled
bodies Of the mel shot to pieces
! by those so-called guards. 1t
was q sad day for the owners of
lines in America when the
command was given to fire at
Norwood. 1t well be a long,
long while before the echo of
those guns will die away. The
Central Lacor Federation at its
meeting at No 3S5 Bowery on
last Sunday, i'll issuing its call
for a mass meeting in Cooper
Union, speaks as follows:
FELLOW ToILERs-These are
critical times. All public means
of protection have been turned
into agencies Of oppressi 1n;con-
stitution. law and humanity are
trampled under foot in the very
halls of justice. Crimes against
the life and liberty of working
men are repeate 1ly committed,
not only by rnffians in the pay
Of plutocrats, but by the judges
the people have elected. Labor
is on the verge of complete en-
slavem mt. Shall our crimina
plutocracv be stopped short in
its mad career or shall ii be
permitted to tear down the Re-
public? This Is the question that
you must consider here and now
Let your voice be heard. Let
the millions unite against the
milionaires. Let them proclaim
their unconquerable determine
ton to live or die free men.
THIS language is not the raw
ing OF a fool. There is a. ring
of earnestness aud sullen deter
mination, an accent of bitter
ness aud of despair that BODIES
no good to the peace of indus
trial world
3. This problem has already
become the great moral pr ,blem
Of the age. 1t has been tran s.
ferred FROM the realm of tie
purely economic and secular tC
} the moral, The Pope at Rome
cannot issue an enCyclical and
not give large space to the ques.
ton. It has alieuated millions
Of working people from the
| church, so that in Protestant
churches to-day organized CAPT.
tai and organized labyr cannot
dwell beneath the same roof
The churches Of the rich are be
: coming more and more excessive
ly social clubs. The laborina
men are therefore cursing the
r whole church and FORMING
churches outside the chuA CHI
4. The masses of the peopl.
are becoming more and more
restless, disconnected, aud oper
to new and combined economi
and social propaganda. The two
, great historic political partie
, Of America are apparently 0,
! the eve of distintegration.
No man can forecast the result
+ Of the next national contest. |
!, seems impossible that few
n months of our political histor,
f could have brought US to sucl
q condition Of chaos. Yet it i
so. The cause Of this is not fa1
!, to seek. It is the confusion in
n cident to the marshalling of t b
! hosts for the battle with privat,
O corporate powers. A new po,it
= ical party is to be organized a
, Cincinnati IN May that is al
@ most sure to throw the election
r Of the next President iuto til
p House of Representatives l
r high political circles this seem
n now foregone conclusion. On
4 year ago who would have dream
v ed of the possibility of such
d thing? The next President viii
J. be taken fcom one of the oil
n parties. But after him-th
n food! WFo will survive? It
n among the things possible tina
~ the man who is now Presi der
n of the National Farmer Allianc
and Industrial Union may b
President of the United State
in 1896. Old economic maxim
&. theories. traditions and super
stitions seem to be suddenly q
ing to pieces. The people, til
in great, ignorant masses of til
it people, are thinkin, as never b.
h fore in the history of the worl,
to Many of their cries are il
n consist ant and absurd. Many {
N them know not wha. they wal
1t nor do they know their ow
le friends. They blunder. The
N stumble. But they are sti
.r moving forward. They are b
,g ing swept forward by the tic
Id of an age movement of tt
ID masses upward. 1t can not
b. stayed, 1t may ue 1mpeded f,
=. O. timo. IF so it will halt on
10 as the flood halts in the mario