The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-10-19

I'D f,,t,t~r1. ~ - ~+.ua" ~HAne'
u ltvirg on Gost's ,sr'h: cor u the
An. rsran constitution means aay
hing by ..<yruflug life. abe Tiy, And
the pnr-rs, "f hspp' NESS g. III" p''"'
pie. u means that every human hT
ing under allegiance to cur fiag she II,
a, least. have an opportunity t.
agh, narration wiih honest labor
Yet Mr.. Cleveland says III his mess
age that "wh,ie II IL III. duty ST tbs
people 10 support the government. Il
j. not the duty Of the government {.
take care of the people. When the
president at the United States hold
sentiments like that. j. II any won
der se are in the hands Of the Shy
locks and the country going down
grade Ia the dewitt
The tollers Of thus nation fought,
BLEED and died 60 save the nation :
life and free the slave of the south,
but now behold n scene TO make the
fallen veterans uneasy in their
with sympathy aud sorrow TO behold
their children. north and south. east
aud west, struggling beneath the
calling yoke of bondage even
worse than chattel slavery; Il bond,
age of injustice, wrong and Cypress
ion; bondage of masters without
sympathy aud corporations, with
out souls. Yet they tell US this H. a
Christian government, hasking in
the sunlight OF the kingdom of hea-
Ven" And 10 cap the climax aud
make the kingdom complete. some
of our very Jealous brethren want
God in the constitutions Supreme
Ruler of our glorious christian repub-
lic-head boss of the corporations,
the national banking system and the
great Independent order of tramps.
not want the position. And for one.
| have too much respect and revcr-
ance for the Almighty, as God OF
purity and upriShtness, to favor His
nomination for the office until after
cleaning up IN 1896.
No, this republic of ours is far from
the kindom of heaven, and unless "A
change takes place speedily the out
look is perilous. Talk about the
dangerous classes, Who are thevt
The strikersP The anarchists. | tell
you nay. The dangerous calsses in
this republic to-day are the rich
manufacturers, the railway kings,
coal barons oil monoplies; they are
the wheat and pork manipulators
and land syndicates; they are the
men and the corporations whose
money power exploits the wage sla-
yes III gangs at the polls, and yields
our legislatures and congress and
presidential campaigns in the inter
est of plutocracy; it is this damnable
aristocracy of overgrown wealth.
wrung from the sweat and blood of
the toilers, amusing itself half mil
hon dollar fancy stables, and twenty
thousand nollar fancy kennels, and
twelve thousand dollars for diamond
crnamentation and maintenance of
a pug dog-while the land is filled
with starving men, women and chill
dren; blasphemy against humanity
and humanity's God. These are the
dangerous classes in this republic,
and they are threatening the over
throw of our free institutions thou
sand times more perlously than all
the anarchists that ever dreamed of
dynamite or headed mob.
And, now, as the mighty hosts of
industrial refol mers march on to the
overthrow of plutocracy and eman-
clpatlon of the great common people
from its despotic rule, let them sing
the new era version of the "Star
Bangled Banner.
On, say have you seen in the day.
lights full glare,
The blot which has risen to tranish
our glory2
Yes, the blot of oppression to the
millions who toll,
The greed of the Shylock- same,
same old glory.
Rouse ye people, to-day, no longer
delay,
Too long we have loitered make
haste now we pray,
or the star bangled banner no longer
shall wave
Ger the land of the free, but the
home of the slave.