The Charlotte Democrat., 1892-10-07

added to the 8 per cent. on the Dllls ne
issues makes 1851 or 1868 less than the
$4,000 that he would make with private
bank. The real advantage that banker
has in having the 100000 to start with.
Money is power. You can't seperate
power from money. If you do, it won't
be money. Folks won't want it, and will
cease to struggle for it. More of any
thing means cheaper of anything, less
value of anything. The next advantage
the bankn has is the power to return
money deposited in it on demand. This
makes almost everybody carry their
money and put it in the bank instead of
in your or my hands, and the bank know
ing by long experience how fast people
will call far it is enabled to lend out a
good interest two or three times as much
money as it owns and 80 it makes
money. Is not all this right and
honest2
s. Are times harder than the un.
democratic laws above cited make them
Before the war tobacco averaged about
cents, now it averages or 10 and has
averaged about Is for the last 20 years
Before the war brown sugar wa to 10
cents, now white sugar is 5 cotton cloth
was 10 cents, now il is 6; calico was 124
now it is 5, and everything else in pro-
portion. Any man can make q living in
the South and does by working from one
third to half the days, and but for the
euils above pointed out we need scarcely
work at all. Fifteen of the leading
Peoples party farmers in Vance county
have increased their wealth 12O per cent.
in the last ten years, as shown by the tax
lists, after supporting and educating their
families. We are not as "bad off" as the
"calamity bowler says we are. You
know it.
9. And then you, say, elevon thousand
millions must be paid to the Yankees.
who own them for the railroads. We
never could pay this. If we did it would
all 20 North and make 1000 more
miIlionaries. (There are only 5000 in
the United States now and one and a
| half millions more of Office holders, and
three millions more Office seekers, and
million cases in the federal courts.
| 10. You know that the Democratic
party has not been in power since the
war-once both houses-several times
the house and once the Presidency, and
that every time it has had either branch
it ha passed laws for the farmers and
Southern peoples benefit that we're de-
teated by the Republicans, that at it's
last session it passed free wool, free tin,
free binding twine, free bagging and ties
and reclaimed 81 million acres of the
public lands and a law prohibiting the
dealing in futures, every one which was
defeated or ignored by a Republican
Senate, and you know that in State
affairs the Democratic party has been all
that it ought to be, and that you and al
most every Peoples party man are bound
by having participated in its conventions
to vote for its candidates.
Can party live an have the blessin G
of God that has labor vs.. capital for it's
cardinal principle and inspires it followers
by appeals to their prejudices by trying
to arraign hand workers VS.. head work.
ers? We must not expect too much OF
government l think l have proved that
though times are in some sense hard the
Democratic party is not responsible for it
and is opposed to the things that caused
it. Then your duty is to vote that
ticket.
Yours truly,
| T. r. Hicks
| Henderson Gold Leaf