The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-08-17
EDITOR'S CHAIR.
.a.-. OF THE EDITOR ON THE
sSUES OF The DAY.

- g ~. DF TlL LC'h Wv Wv l'lI
ssyES OF THE DAY.
ii, not noticeable that the news
..~. and the men who harp about
= Contributors Of the State Busi-
,y.ncv not getting back the
I'll .,u,uut contributed, should be
....gt about the depositors Of
...t. that have broken, and who
t.r. r,-t heavily. The men who in
.,.l in the State Business Agency
iii -o not as an investment to pay
o..h dividends, but to pay dividends
IN the -hape Of improved trade ar
4 n,.,nruts. In fact the cOntribu-
..r. Instructed the State Business
i.,.nrv not to run the business for
,r.n, but at cost. so as TO save as
much ar possible for the rank aud
IN. eff the people. No man contrib
gtEar expected the return Of the
money. He gave it as free gift.
THE men who deposited or invested
their hard earnings in banks did so
4 for the security and interest or cash
4 dividends. They have lost all and
.rrnrrd no benefits in the meantime.
8 If these partisan papers continue
their wing Misrepresentation, they
need not be surprised if meE even
Of their own party lose confidence in
them.
" heard politician say the 9TH
8 rr day that if Vance had to write
] letter he might have addressed it to
some body Of business men. That
i the venerable Senator addressed his |
i letter to a County Alliance is no
i doubt IN the eyes of the machine no
] small grievance. And worse than
all that in the same letter he should |
be guilty of the high treason of COM
! mrnding the Alliance for going into
politics to correct evil and Oppres-
Il siyc legislation as well as to demand
Il just legislation.
4 When the machine does not deny
& the correctness of the views of Sena-
4 tor Vance nor dare to question his
n democracy, yet express great fears
u that the expression of such sound
& pure democracy will help the Peo-
pies party, it is strong admission
that the Peoples party is right or at
least contains more democracy than
Il the Democratic party.
If Vance is right and the express
Il sion of his views helps the Peoples
party, then the Peoples party must
be right; if his positive views ex-
pressed hurt the Democratic party
then the party must be wrong.
AS strong and emphatic as Sena
ter Vance's two letters on silver are,
let the people take notice that there
is one important point on which he
did not express himself. He says he
is in favor of the free coinage of sill
Yer. but he does not say at what
ratio. If this point had been raised
We believe he would have spoken out
q frankly and said he was in favor of
the honest and constitutional ratio
of l6 to /
The n. Y. Times says that the de-
positors who have foolishly made
runs on banks are beginning to learn
some sense. 1t is needless to say
that the Times belongs to that class
of papers that sneers at the people
and serves monopoly. We have
some of them i'll this State. We sup
pose the Times would be happy if
the people would quietly sit down
and allow a bank to embezzle all
their money.
Let the people remember that
there ale other Alliance Demands
besides the free coinage of silver at
be ratio of 16 to l, and that the
people will never get justice till they
700 are enacted into law. We are
ufering from other painful evils be-
fideS that brought on by the hostile
legislation against silver.
MAKE NO COMPROMISE.
The gold men ale now beginning
70 fear that they can not completely
Flemonetize silver, so they are begin
ping to talk of compromise. They
'rc beginning to talk about the coin
age of silver on a ratio of 20, % or
to l. Machine goldbug papers
Ike the Charlotte Observer express
heir pleasant surprise that Alliance
pemOcratic congressman should so
feadily agree TO 5his- MonopoIro,d