The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-07-07
WHERE HE STANDS.
EXTRACTS FROM EX-PRESI-
DENT CARR'S ANNUAL
ADDRESSES TO THE
STATE ALLIANCE.
How They Interpret the Gener-
alities, Enlarge the Meaning
of the Platform Adopted
at the Recent State
Convention.

convention.
In the last issue Of THF CAucA,
SIAN we said that the msn nomina.
ted and the views held by him meant
more always than the wording OF
the platform he stood on, and that
therefore the nomination of Hon
Elias Carr for Governor meant more
for the cause of reform than the
strongest platform could if the nom.
inee were opposed to "equal rights
to all and special privileges to none,"
We have frequently asked in what
way the platform was interpreted
and enlarged by the nomination OF
Mr.. Carr. We answer these ques.
tions by quoting from his two annu.
al addresses to the North Carolina
Farmers State Alliance. From his
address delivered at the fourth an.
nual meeting, which convened al
Asheville, we make the following
extracts:
Perhaps the most important meet
ing ever held in this country has
been the assembling of the farmer
and labor organizations in st. Louis
ia December last (1SS9) the necessity
for which was foreshadowed by that
eminent statesman and jurist, the
late Judge David Davis, when he
said, as long ago as 1866; "The rapid
growth Of the corporate power and
the malign influence which il exerts
by combination on the National and
Stated legislatures is well grounded
cause of alarm. A struggle is pend
ing in the near future between the
overgrown power, with its vast RAM
ifications all over the Union, and q
hard or p On much of the political
machinery on the one hand, and the
people in an unorganized condition
on the other, for the control of the
government. 1t will be watched by
every patriot with intense anxiety"
Never more prophetic words fell
from the lips of man! The people,
though slow to admit it, had at last
been convinced, and three millions
of people sent their representatives
there to form an alliance against this
monstrous iniquity. The unanmity
with which the demands set forth
| by that body were adopted, and the
universal endorsement by all the
| States and Territories after mature
deliberation and discussion, should
and / belive, will convince our legis
lators Of our honesty of purpose and
| determination to accomplish oul
edds This meeting, national in
character as in name, was magnifi'
cent success in obliterating the old
lines of sectionalism-a matter de-
voutly to be wished, and of first i'm
portance in securing the necessary
national legislation.
What means these labor organ liza
tions? This: That the people see by
combination alcne can they live
Under e pure system of government
forty years ago these organizations
were unknown, and there was he
cessity for them. but to day how
different! Every branch of trade ha
been compelled to organise to saw
itself from absolute annihilation
and is to be wondered at when W.
become to learn that the pr. sent in
iquitous tariff laws, the passage o
which was purchased by few thou
sand rich manufacturers, have rob
bed the people and ut into the pock
cts of these same manufacturers NJ
less than nine millions of dollars
Hence it is, that at our city of Wash
ington the protest of a millionair
will override the petitions of mil
lions of working men.
|
The acts of Congress in aid of az
riculture for the last twenty-fiv
wears have been few indeed, com
/ pared with those of our rich manu-
tacturers, and the tariff is so maniI
ulated that they lthe few thousand
reap the entire benefits. We al
know but too we'll the result of thi
reign of selfish greed. The sma
land owners are being pushed to th
wall, the larger ones are no lcnge
, able to make both erds meet; farm
in the North, South, East and Wes
and especially the West, that t" er
ty-fve years ago, during the perio
of the greatest initiation, paid a fal
percentage on valuation OF $50
$40, are aow being foreclosed o
mortgages for half that amount Al.
the former owners seeking new field
of employment for livelihood.
1t is sad commentary on h,
manity, bur nevertheless true, thi
with an unequal distribution {
wealth there is an unequal distribl
ton of social power. The infiuent
ofthe middle class the man of moo
crate means-is no longer felt in til
legislative halls of the Capitol; he
being swept away. Wealth is RAJ
idly concentrating, and ont of ii
consequent corruption but two ella
ses are forming-the lordiy rich all
the beggarly poor. While free
admit that the iniquitous proteeti'
tariff has brought about the presses
depressed state of agriculture {
stripping the poor of three fourtl
of their natural savings and conce
trating majority of the wealth
the country in the hands of infinite
! simally small part of the peopl
{ composed Of manufacturers, trust
pools and combines, a repeal aiol
) of this unjust measure would not T
: Ueye the present distress. 1t wo1
/ not lift a single mortgage. The o.
IS thing needful in the present fina
s cial condition of the people, is
Gebt-paying system OF finance,