The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-09-24
ATTACKING THE LEADERS.
The Campaign of Ca!umny which
In Being Pursued.

Inc AlllSIlCc men Oi iIlio o1dtc 1iiu
of the United States have futy to
perform which they owe to them
selves and to their Leaders in the
work of reform, to defend valiantly
the leadership from the accusation
Of its enemies. Just now the plan
of campaign adopted by the opposi-
tcon press and the politicials il to
denounce, SANDER, traduce and in
jure the regulations Of men foremost
in the leadership of the reform
movement. This is true Of the
leaders of the national Alliance
work, and is true Of the leaders in
every state and in every county.
The plan is destroy your confidence
in your own leaders, if you are
foolish enough to DO taken in by
their SANDER and falseho0ds; but the
chiefpurpose they have in view is
to prejudice the minds of the people
who are yet uniformed on public
questions, and in this way coun-
teract the influence Of those who
are sent among them to teach the
gospel of industrial emancipation.
If these partisan newspapers and
politicians can succeed in keeping
people bound tightly in the thrOes
of ignorance or blinded by Il mad,
unreasoning prejudice, they will
then have succeeded in delaying to
that extent the time Of the final
contamination of the measures we
seek to establish.
Ignorance and superstition are
our greatest obstacles. Prejudice is
easily erected upon such foundations.
Men don't need to know anything
they do.'t even need TO have any
brains in order to entertain a pre-
judice for or against men who have
been lied about or measures of which
they know nothing. Understanding
this fact, the plutocratIc newspapers
who do obedience to Wall street
have begun systematic campaign
of falsehOOd and utilization against
the Alliance leaders north and south.
There Is a syndicate OF corporal on
newspapers in the South and North
controlling the associated press dis
patches, and it is noticeable that
every new talsehoOd and every
fresh attack upon the Alliance lea
dership appears simultaneously in
the Republican dailiesO of New York
Chicago, Cincinnati, Omaha and st.
Paul, and the Democratic paper!
employ a syndicate lie factory il
connection with their so called news
bureau, and that from this bureau
emanateS the SANDER and falsehoo(
which are expected to be taken III
and heraided over the rural pre-
cincts by the iittlejohn newspape
editors who take their inspiration
from the bureau.
When you see these things il
f print or are confronted with then
in discussio denounce and den
! them, for you can safely do so. I
you have corrupt men III You
4 leadership you can put them GU
/ and get rid of them effectuall
= through the regular methods pre-
vided i'll your organization. WheI
y Il gang pounces upon your leader
, ship like a lot of hungry wolves at
o ter prey, stand it off, at least till yo
Y AStFS iANtNa OpROAldiiit " lhNCSbl
f gate the charges they make. Figh
!. as valiantly for your LEADERS, as the
/ fight for you, and the systemati
:, SANDER and abuse of your leader wi
soon give place TO different method:
y Without a leadership your caus
! is as hopeless as an army without
y commander. A leadership is NOR
IS essential to the cause than the la
s membership is to the leaders. Whe
your leaders are attacked defen
4 them. and remember that as yO
J value your own interes's and h0l
! them sacred you must defend III
y rear of those who are in the advant
J. guard from the attacks of the polit
" cal bush whacker5 who undertake
q defeat your cause by creating Ill
70 trust of the braye men whom the
lr dare not meet in open conflict.