The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-11-12

Who reads his, read 2 second tive
and think,
MAKING $l,GG0,000 y nay.
The daily papers Of New York
are telling that abou: now the farm
ers are receiving an average Of ST.
C0O,00 day from the sale of grain.
Yes, and they have been year pro-
ducing it. Meanwhile, the last Cow
gress laid a tax of Sl08, ,000,0 upon
the farmers and other wealth produ-
GERS to b. paid the coming yea. This
is more than S3,O00,000 per day the
| farmers and othe' will have to pay
in taxes, but nothing is said about
this mercileSs steal to which people
submit, then, like idiots, wonder
why they are not all making more
A PERMANENT NATIONAL. DEBT
is permanent drag, curse, menace,
and robbery to every taxpayer in
the country. It is hell-cOnceived
scheme to act sucking machine to
every COW, clipping machine to
every sheep, threshing machine to
every wheat field, digging machine
to every potato field, drag machine
to every industry. In this country
| there is no need tor a National debt,
and no excuse for its continuance, as
our Government under its constitu--
ton has the power to create enough
| legal tender money, full legal tender,
| to pay all it owes at once. As one Of
the sovereig> citizens Of This cOun-
| try, we demand the repeal Of all law.
creating and sustaining ~ national
debt, that the people may be fee
end may work for themselves, rather
than for dead heads. .--POmeroy's
Advance Thought.
When you hear man say 81
know the Alliance will win if they
will only stick together" ask him il
he will stick.
Labor creates about 81, 500, 900, ,O09
a year. SO we lack over 81 800, 900,
600 each year of paying the interest
on our debts.
British capitalists have about $40,
|
they bleed us to they extent of 81,
000, 200, 900 year.
Ihe Understanding debts of this
nation amount to nearly SO, 600, ,000,-
600. The interest on this at eight
per cent. is 50, 200, 100000.
Farmers owned 65 per cent. of our
wealth in 1860, and it was not mort
gagged. Now they own % per cent.
and most Of that is under mortgage.
| One half Of the wealth o. this
country is owned by seventy fami-
lies. And they have mortgage on
the rest Of the country and intend
to f0reclOSe soon.
Laboring men stand by your
friends. They will be assailei and
, ridlculed by the poor deluGed dema.
gogues and hired hessians Of the plu.
) tocracy. Pay No attention to THEN
ridicuic but stand by your friends
Peoples Tribune.
Routed in every discussion, and dis.
, mayed at the onward march of TIE
> laboring men, the little yaWper5 try
} to prejudice the minds of tie people
| aga nst their leaders who have refus
ed to play into the hands of the plu
tOcracy. Peoples Tribune.
: An agricultural paper that doe:
, not stand up for the rights Of the
farmer and advocate the election O.
: honest, respectable farmers to repre-
: sent their class in official positions
: Of honor and trust, is not true to the
; Interest it pretends to represent
. Pennsylvania Farmer.
: The farmers are right. If there
9 is to be Il large profit made on oul
Y great cereal yield, they are entitled
4 to the benefits instead Of the idl;
+ schemers who howl on the produc;
! exchanges and raise grain only witt
: their mouths. If Europe has to pa.
: q big price for our grain let the farm
4 er and not the specu!ator be the gain
t er.-Llncoln Call.
| An exchange asks: "If taking tht
duty off of sugar makes it cheaper
why not take it off of a number o
= othOr articles of general consump
tion ?'' Simply because our legisla
tors would then have no billion dol
t lars to squander away on champaign
+ sappers and hundred thousand dol
b lar t'unerals.-St. Louis Monitor.
n It is the duty of the young to bea
It it in mind that nothing is more re
:. spectacle or dignified than the life c
: the indepe.. dent farmer. and the ,iu
0 ty Of those who have it in their pow
y er to "raise a laugh" in the publ
e prints to remcmber that they no les
n than serious writers, have a respor
IS sibility to truth and justice. Youth
& Companion.
I can see the people Of our West
ern States, who Sre producers, re
duced almost to serfs (mark tn
= word) to pay State, county and otf
It er public and p ivate debts, to East
l. ern money lenders John a. 14e
gan.
p The Western settler watches mas
nifcently equipped and gorgeou
n train roll by his mortgaged home
$, He is without means to feed h
le family and he is crushed TO cart
A. with poverty. The railroad passt
a. over his land aud makes none
money from his fellow farmers. ]
p is the emblem of prosperity AZ
wealth. He realizes that he is
:, factor in the wealth of the road, yt
}. he is practically starving for breat
r. John ]. Ingalls,, in Truth.
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q. When you eat too much,
J. When you drink too much,
e, When you smoke too much,