The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-08-04

~ @ARNshn1 at
est prayer. Ii Is paramount in Its
importance and in its comprehen-
sion. Ii il confined to no section,
owns no state. But wherever farm
er or mechanic, in all our union,
ekes out daily bread, there the
complaint follows the running
plough or is beaten from the ring
fng drill. Broad as our nation,
deep rs human suffering can give il
tone, it Is stamped all over with al
earnestness that feigned and formal
petition could not bear, and shall
find no equal in its pathos and its
suasion. until, in similar phrase,
again shall human destiny hang
upon human speech.
THERE is GROUND FOR THE CRY.
We know whether there is sground
for the cry. We have seen the
home in its desolatlon. We have
seen the rising sun, divinely ap-
pointed to bring only Its blessing
and lis cheer 10 men, rise high in
the heavens but to look down upon
declining fortune and desolation
growing with the passing day. We
have seen it as, i'm meridian splen-
dor, it has illumined the stusendous
error and the vital shame that the
hardest, most earnest, consuming
toll that man ever expended upon
the earth has yet refused to yield
eveh the bread for the workman or
the essential comfort for the home;
and we have seen it ds it has set
over homes, cheerless, desolate,
hopeless, without having added the
blessing of the day or brought the
contentment and comfort of the
evening; and we have listened with
growing appal, as day by day the
stock report has rung over the coun-
try the knell of a peoples hope.
THIS Is THE COUNTRY OF THE COM
MONER.
We know this depression. We
have felt it vitality; and we know
more. We know that this people is
the purest element in our citizen
ship to-day. ihat untaught in So
cial custom Or association, they
shrine in their simple hearthstone
their uttermost joy and that in the
home, dearer than all the earth be
sides, is centered ali that please or
ennOble humankind. We know
that there is centered the essential
element that tOttered chivalry in
England and made it the country of
the cCmmoner and the pride Of the
earth,-that wrought our own revo-
luton, and gave to our inStitut ions
their surety and their strength, that
bore the sufferings of Valley Forge,
was chastened in Brandywine and
Trenton, and in the victory of York
town wrought the transcendent
climax of revolution in the estab-
lishment of rational liberty and the
birth of national life; and when all
else shall fail and the republic shall
cry aloud for aid, it shall find its
hel p alone in the arm that gave 1t
life, in the integrity and stability of
its yeOmanry and in proportion as
it has proved blessing III their
homes. The success of this people
and the continued prosperity of this
republic are bound in an abiding
mutually. They cannot be disso-
ciated in dependence, and no human
force can ALLEVIATE or divorce them.
Not as the individual, but as the
class and avOcation they represent,
they are eminently the foundation
and the strength of nation. To
preserve our society, we must con-
serve their strength. Our self-pre,
servation demands it.
And not only SO. But this en-
lightened day and this civilization
vocal with the chime of the church
and respondent i'm the light Of the
cross, forbid such condition to IA. s
unrelieved. Our humanity and oul
charity forbid it. Our justice and
our judgment do not require it
Not our principle nor our policy
approve it. But they all lay upor
us the unmistakable obligation tC
exhaust all human and honorable
effort at redemption and amid th'
di apasOn of the resulting Industry
the stale Cry of class prefermen
would be drowned beneath shorts
Of applause, and the Christian worlt
would echo "Well done, well done.
DO NOT OPPOSE MERELY BECAUsl
THE FARMER ORIGINATES.
What then? What remedy d
we offer? Society, conscien' an,
intelligent, pledged TO their relic
in its self-preservatiOn, pledged t
their relief in its responsibility 70
their condition, pledged in mora
obligation, what trecompense shoul
} it bring to this people?
First, it should evince at least
fraternal care for their condition
and careful sympathy and activit.
in their relief. 1t should cease +
, oppose all measures Of reform mere
. ly because they originate with tn
farmer, ipso factO. 1t should re
member that such Is the history 0
) reform. 1t should remember tina
the light that illumined this civil
Zation and that adds its lustre ant
: is beauty to our principle and t
: our republic to o-day, was first kindie'
> to human esteem in the home OF tn
| English commOner, and thrOug
. long centuries of oppression burne'
feebly but purely upon its humbl
: altar, uatil finally bursting forth
/ has illumined the world in glory
. 1t has given it its liberty and il
, light; and in our own nation
thrilling to-day with its spirit, an
enjoying its unspeakrble blessing
sooner or later the commoner mus
be relieved.
HE ASKS SIMPLY FORrAN EQUALITY
He asks no charity; on okly de
mands his right. He wishes n
> exaItation he simply seeks a
equality. Equality priviles
!. and power OF industry. Equality
the comforts and necessaries OF Lii
and in the value of his toll, all
|, equality at the bar of opportunity
: and the tire, 5of the ages, the simp
spirit of the cross, and the spoI
ta,ao.,- acf.l Aim nf gv,ttrat hiZif