The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-09-15
GOD SPEED PRINCIPLE
CAN YOU TELL WHY IoUARE
4 REPUBLICAN OR WHY
YOU ARE 4 DEMOCRAT?
True American Citizens Think
For Yourselves and Act
Accordingly.

The right of scli-preservation has |
often been said to be the first law of |
nature and acting upon this princi- |
pie, the patriots of the revolution |
charged The king Of Great Britain |
with refusing his assent to laws, the |
most wholesome and necessary for
the public good. They further ac-
cused him Of erecting a multitude
of new offices and of sending hither
swarms Of officers to harass the peo.
pie, eat out their substance, and cut
off their trade with all parts Of the
world and Of transporting large
armies of foreign merccnaries 10
complete the works of death, desc
lation and tyranny already begun.
and they condemned the prince,
whose character is thus marked by
every act which may define Il tyrdnt,
as unfit TO be the ruler of free peo-
pie.
No intelligent person can read
their Declaration of Independence
containing this indictment of the
English Crown, but who must adj
mt that the same abuses, uSurpa-
tiOns and inyasions Of the rights Of
the people are now accomplished by
money gambling despot>, wholly
disbenorable, and who through the
So called Democratic organization
which nominated Clev Gland, land the
mock Republican party that named
| Harrison control the Legislative,
executive and judicial powers of the
country, making them colossal en-
gines OF tyrannical misrule and
whereby they govern our people
| regardless Of natural rights, decency
| or shame. These despots subsidize
the lying press. and retain the mi
quitous politicians of both parties
who blind the people with the vaga-
ries Of false doctrines while despotic
sWindlers not only invade the com
mon rights of freemen, but plunder
the public treasury and mortgage
the natural rights of mankind TO
provide booty for the thievilg,
swindling few.
I For a lying press, for the iniqult-
Gus politicians, for gambling legis-
lation, for thiGving of their common
rights, for the knaveries of the
schen,ing capitalist, the grinding of
monopolists and the swindiings of
corporations the people haYe only
themselves to blame because these
enormities exist only on the suffer
ance Of the people; but while the
b..
i turned TO the past, who cannot tell
why they are Republicans or why
1 they are Democrats, who are still
eieeting Lincoln and voting foi
4 jackson and who refuse toethink f0I
themselves, but believe implicitly
4 in the falsehoodS published by {
tlying press and cOnfide i'll the meth
DDS Of the iniquitous politician ant
because he be Il so-caued Democra
+ or an alleged Republican advocate
). his platform aingeniously prepared
to mean all things to all men, tha
, Tong the laborer, struggling to feet
/ / and clothe, iais- loved ones, will Suffe
, an d pay. a high per capita tax gupol
) their right to live while the none,
igan1f3let escapes with his exemptet
f millions j. atslOng the free ,coinag
Of silver will be delayed and gol'
,teagles made containing metal, far il
excess of their normal value, there
| by to induce the expectation Of GU
d. gold stock and bankrupt the dehto
: class, who have contracted to max
= their payments in gold that lon
the high tariff tax upon the right t
live will be forced upon the peOpl
by the corrupt tariff for revenu
advocate and the greedy tariff spoil
ator both secretly working togethe
with the direct purpose of impovel
isbing our industries, cutting off ou
trade with all parts of the world
). thus aiding the money gambler t
It complete his work of desolation a
a ready begun and establish his absC
e lutte tyranny over the producin
It classes that long the legislativ
J. mills in the nation will grind OF
l. offices, and breed swarms Of Officer
: to eat out the substance and drin
k up the life blood of the people.
n The thirteen Colonies, by the
ce Declaration of independence, dc
re clared that sail men are create
8 equal that they are endowed
J. their Creator with certain inalien
Y BILE rights; that among these, a
7. life, Liberty and the pursuit of ha
st piuess. That TO secure these rig h
1t governments are instituted amor
he men deriving their just powers fro
e. the consent OF the governed; tn
It whenever any form Of governme
le becomes destructive of these end
v. it is the right Of the people to alt
IS or abolish it, and to institute a ne
y government, laying its foundati,
IL. on such principles, and Organizil
its powers in such form, as to the
shall seem most likely to effect tn.
en- safety and happiness" Mankil
are more disposed to suffer, VIII
rs. evils are sufferable. than to rig
is themselves by aboli hing the foi
of government to which they q
OF accustomed and fortunately for t
ng American people there is no nee
sity for a change in many of t
zee rudimentary principles of their &c
tn ernment, but their own safety a
ey happiness absolutely demands {
thronement of the money gamble
for the restoration Of the citizen SOW
or eign to his normal rights and pc
wd ers and to solve this question I
Der patriots and thinkers of this {
Is. must use all the mental and infiu
tial powers at their command.
cannot be truthfully denied that
in.- two political organizations VIII
P. nominated Cleveland and Harris
ing have become destructive of the al
+. for which they were establish
Isl Their names are synonyms, b
signifying a Cover n.eCt of the 7
pie by the people and for the peol