The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-11-16
to circulate and raise prices.

they force the people to sell wher
prices are low the few are enabled
to grow immensely rich while tn,
great common people are kept poor
The last census yerities this state
: ment by showing that one man in
every two thousand is richer than the
other nineteen hundred and ninety.
nine, that less than third of one
. million men own One-half Of all the
wealth in the United States.
1t was the bankers who were fight
ing the Sherman law. They fight
every financial law by which money
gets into circulation without passing
through their hands. Our recent
panic has been made more severe than
usual by the efforts Of the bankers to
fool the people into repeating the
one law that provides for real gov
ernment money. For the same rea-
son the bankers are opposed to green
backs or money through the sub
treasury. And they will never agree
to State banks unless they are under
their control. Mark this
Because the great common people
have neglected their political duties,
because they have voted as their
fathers did instead of interesting
themselves in the great questions of
the relation of man to property,
property to government, and govern
ment to mankind, because men whose
onl Y motive is personal gain have
taken advantage of peoples neglect
and gained control of the great tool
of eXchange-money, we are having
hard times. This is not the only
cause of hard times. For the other
causes, read the Alliance Demands.
Hard times will never disappear till
the causes of hard times are removed.
Congress is the only body that can
remove these causes. The Democra-
tic party now has charge of congress.
Instead of removing the causes pro-
duced by Republican legislation, the
Democratic party has turned traitor
to the people, and is adding more
causes to produce more hard times.
The Democrats commenced, where
the Republicans stopped. They are
IN cOpartnership with the bankers
and monopolists, and are helping to
rob and oppress the people. The
Populist party is pledged to remove
these very causes and give the people
who will work a chance to prosper.
The Populist party is the Nations 5
Star OF hope and patriots everywhere
are rallying to its standard. Of
course every banker and monopolist
is fighting the Populist party. Then
can the party win? Yes. For there
are fifty people who are suffering
from the bad legislation of the Re-
publican and Democratic parties
where one is being benefited. Then
let the people who are suffering from
hard times simply stand together
and elect a Populist President and a
Populist congress and the victory is
won. Then the Democracy of JEFF
ferson and Jackson will again con-
troll our government and We wi III en-
joy the liberty and justice for which
our ancestors fought. On with the
fight. We must stand together.
TRYING TO FOOL THE PEOPLE AGAIN
During the last campaign we told
the people that the Chicago platform
was a cowardly make-shift, and was
written to deceive the people. This
was Indignantly denied by the Demo
cratic speakers and politicians, but
now every Democratic paper i'll the
State Except one) is making the
same charge. But the people must
watch these papers, they are not
making this confession because they
have undergone any change Of
heart, they are doing it to try to
hold the confidence OF the people so
they can fool them again. They
know that the people are IN open re-
volt against the goldbug policy of
the administration, and that they
themselves are losing their hold up
on the people. The Democratic
politicians and editors haye caucused
over the situation and decided that
in as much as the next campaign
will not be d national one, that
probably they can hold the people
to the machine by claiming that
Cleveland has fooled them also.
They want to hold the next legisla-
ture, and are willing to denounce
Cleveland in order to, gain that point.
They think if they can keep the col
lar of the machine on the people two
years longer. that when the next
national campaign comes around
that they can whip up the people to
support the next nominee of the
Democratic party, even if another
goldbug in disguise is nominated on
another platform of double meaning.
Watch the State machine, it fooled
you last year and is now a husing