The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-08-31
A BANNING RECORD.

Hith' Win " AttE lhth nave ever lACC II
afflicted.
BANNING RECORD.
The record Of the American Con
gress for the last twenty FIVE years
has been one inlmIcal to the interest
OF the mass of the people. The acts
spoken OF completed the internal
machinery by which the none. pow
er Is crushing out the lives of the
people to wage slavery more adiect
and heartless than any chattel sa-
very that ever cursed Gods green
earth. These acts are still upon the
statute book; this Legislation is still
III operation.
FokBEARAN'E OF TIL PEOPLE.
The people have been quiet too
long. They have stayed quietly rt
home, trusting to their Representa-
uves at Washington TO do the nice
thing for them. every once in a while
sending up to ask them. What of
the nlght." and the good gentlemen
here, these great bushy y-headed
statesmen, fattening and fcasting on
the best of the land laughter would
reply: "All Is we'll. Plow on BOYS:
We Will be down again in the fall: we
will want the votes and the fried
chickens as usual" Great laug !
WHERE THE FARMER COMES IN.
Ihls Is the way the people have
been treated; this is the way | have
been treated. have met these gen
tlemen on the stump. and | have
thrown this in their teeth again and
AGAIN and they could not deny it. |
stand here, sir, as a humble repre-
sentative Of my people. and 4 intend
10 represent their interests as
promised to do. Every other class
can get what they want. The manu-
facturers can get what they want.
The railroads can get what they
want. The bankers can get what
they want. But as soon as the far
merS, the laboring people of the
world, the people who make that
which feeds and clothes the world.
and who ale growing poorer and
poorer every day Of their hives. as
soon as they send up little peti-
ton here these big statesmen sit up
and look as wise as owls and saw, at
cannot be done. 1t is unconstitu-
tional" This was said in a very
sarcastic and humorous manner,
causing renewed laughter
THE PERIL AHEAD.
Who does not tremble for the
safety of our civilization? The re-
suits of Legislation are being unIver-
sally realized, and fears may be
justly entertained that we have al
ready passed the point beyond which
our steps may be retraced and our
liberties retrieved.
But God forbid, Although our
country Is hanging over the brink of
an abyss that blinds and dazzles NOR
tai eye, yet believe that there is a
force at work which will neutralize
and stop these destructive influences,
that finally the great God who rules
the destlnies of nations will bend
down in mercy and in love, and that
Equal rights for ALL special privi-
legeS for none" will again be the
motto of our country.
PLUTOCRACY VS.. THE PEOPLE.
Now sir, look at some of the fur
ther evils of the contraction which
the striking down of silver has pro
duce in this country.
There Is no man of reasonable in
telhgence to-day who has noticed the
enroachment of the money power on
the rights Of the individual, but who
is forced to the CONJUNCTION that the
issue is an open one between pluto.
cracy and the people. Why, such
pillngs up of enormous wealth as are
every day seen in this country i:
even more than the human mind
can conceive. Aladdin's lamp be
comes dim and Monte Cristo but I
tritling, common place tale wher
compared TO the magicians of fin
ance in their financial transactio n,
under this system, and not under th'
Sherman law at all.
PLOw BOYS ARGUMENT.
AS they contract the currency i
causes shrinkage in the values o.
the products of labor, and so it ha
caused shrinkage Of three times in
the value of the wheat, the corr
and cotton. so that will take thre
times as much Of those products t,
make this payment as it would hav,
taken in 1866, and this kind of sys
TEN bears very heartily upon tn
boys who follow the plow on no
July day.
| haved followed it many h day
and | expect my friend from Colo
RADIO, Mr.. Pence quitting his han,
upon the shoulder Of the gentlemal
who was sitting near him), has fol
lowed the plow and knows how it is
1t takes three times the labo
to pay tha. debt, and this sam
rule will apply in the case of privat
debt. A man having a mortgage o.
his farm may have paid it over twice
! leaving a small balance, which it wi
now be three times as hard to pa
as if he had paid it all at first. S
that this system of contractio
amounts to confiscating the labor G
American workingmen and makes u
hewers Of wood and drawers Of water
: unless it is checked, nothing NOR
and nothing less.
THE REMEDY
So, then, in our distress we hav
had the Bland-Allison bill of 1917
/ which gives temporary relief, an
, Fthen the Sherman act of 1890. whic
} also improved the country to SON
t extent, but only temporarily Whs
, we want is permanent cure. LIZ
: as have lasting one, and to get it
: an undertaking as formidable, {
: patriotic and as heroic as its aceon
4 plishment will be grand and glo
{ ious. \ noted writer has sal,
The great money powers, as the
0 think, safely intrenched within the
t citadel, look out over their countle
e ramparts of money bags and S,
0 their blood-red flag defantly wa,
i, ing on the parapet where it h;
a waved for more than a quarter of
It century, and adopting as their ra