The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-01-14
THE SILVER BILII--- OTHER
NEWS AND VIEWS.
Editorial Corrc-p1ndence.l

lcnts of the Farmer Alliance and In
dustrial Union conv nj ere On last
Thursday. The mee'i"T opoued at II
NJ, and was presided over by Natio1al
President Polk. OF course they viewed
and considered the po.ii9n and condi-
ton of the Order and tie whole field Of
Alliance work and the leans aad meth
DDS of pushing the Gtea reforms The
only part Of the proceedings the meet
ing decided to give to tlc public at pre-
sent is a resolution def = 7g the position
of the order with reference 70 political
parties and memorial to Cor gress, both
Of which are published ia another col
umn of this iesue. The Ineeting vas
v.ry harmonious and satisfactory one.
We had hoped TO soe something of
Congress while here, bu that body haa
been in session only one dry Ii adjourn
I'd last Thursday to meet again to day,
Monday. Bat there were three little in-
cidents that occurred the day they were
Sc ZION. First, Goyernor-Se2ator Hill,
of New York, appeared at the bar Of the
Senate to be sworn in. That Gignifed
body made some what of an co over the
matter, and quite number of people
gathered into the galleries to see the lit
til, smart man that has been so much
talked about.
Se-ond, Congressman Springer, who is
chairman OF the Way aud Means Com
mittec, introduced wool tariff bill I,e
attempts to take his cue from the InGi-
annapolis meeting of the Alliance, when
it put itself on record for taking bulls
eye shot at one tariff enormity at time
and to make sure Of its complete death
before dealing with other game. Only
the Farmers Alliance asked Congress to
level its guns with deadly shot on cotton
tax first instead OF wool. Congressman
Springer has caught one part Of the Ali
ance idea alright, bat he s all wrong On
his principle. He is not trying to reduce
the price of manufactured wooilsn goods
so much as to reduce the price of the
raw material, which will help only the
manufacturer and rally damage the
producer. Is this q government of the
people or is it a government Of the mo-
nopolies?
Third. There was little sputteriDg
and sentimental sponting over bill IT,
trodueed to appropriate 100000 to send
food to starving Russia. This, whether
right or wrong certainly was not polit-
zeal question. But as soon as it appeared
that the leading Democrats would oppose
the bill the Republicans came together
and voted solidly for il, this solidified
the Democrats, they voted almost selidly
against it. Dos partisan politicians
make man so blind and little that he
cannot see right outside of his party or
wrong inside it ? Eow little and narrow
are even the men who control the desti
MES of a great nation!
Since here we have met and talked
with only three Of the congressman from
North Carolina, VIZ: Messrs Grady, AL
exander and Branch. They are all look
ing we'll and hope to be able with the as.
sistance of other Alliance Congressman
and those friendly to the Order to get
some reform legislation before this Con-
gress. Alexander and Livingston OF Geor-
gia were with the State Presideu'5 IN their
deliberations on several occasions.
By the way Capt. Alexander told us 4
few nights since that lie was astonished
at the numbers of requests he had re-
ceived for regular copies of the Congress
SIGNAL Record. He said that the great
majority of these requests come from
his friends in the country-men who had
never before read or cared anything
about the proceedings of Congress. He
.said that it showed that our plain, hard
working people were becoming to be po
litical students of a high order. They
were not satisfied to take the reports OF
the partizan newspapers, but wished TO
see for themselves. He said that ever
so far that he had had demands for four
times the number of Records allotted to
one Congressman.
On last Saturday evening We had
business up at the Department of State,
as We passed grounds of the White
HOUSE, we noticed that more carriages
were passing to and fro than usual and
that a stream of people wee pouring in
at the west gate and out at the east.
We glanced toward the building and
took in the situation, it was Ole of the
Presidents public receptions We pass
ed on, an hour Afterwards we returned
and there stood those peop.e, line of
them at least several hundred yards
long who were still standing there,
pressing on each others heele, waiting
for the procession to gradually move up
and through and their time to come
We stopped and looked at that toadying,
seryil mass of humanity, standing in
the cold wet for hours waiting for their
time to come to simply stake the hand
of the little ducklegged Benny Qhough
President of these United States and
much msgnifed by the cffice), a poor
ordinary piece OF mortal clay, and then
too to think how Harrison with tired
and aching arm after it is all over will
think in contempt and disgust of the
servil rabble that would quit their homes
and business to see him when he would
rather they had stayed away. But we
will not nritcisa thaza roanla e. 49,