The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-03-02


carving on said business. snch rs
rents. taxes. salaries. clerk hire. hre
insurance, dc.
Sc. d. II shall be- unlawful Tor
the said trustee or any Officer. agrh'
ur employee of the said business
agency or State Alliance or county
or sub-aIlianee To use or permit I"
be used any part of said fund or any
fund belonging TO said agency
county Oh sub-alliauce directly or IN
directly for any purpose not em
braeed in said act Of 1889, or IN ih'S
act
SEC. Z. Any violation of any pro-
vision of this Act by the said Irus-
tee or Business Agent, or any EN-
plovee of said Trustee or business
Agent shall work forfeiture of the
charter of the State Alliance.
SEC. 5. 1t shall be the duty of
the Attorney General, upon satisfac
tory proof of violation of any pro
vision of this act 10 bring an action
in Wake Superior Court te enforce
the forfeiture of said charter. All
laws or clauses of laws IN conflict
with this ast are hereby repealed.
This act shall be in force from and
after ITS ratification.
BY reading the above enactments
and amendments to charter. you vii!
see that the object is to cripple the
Alliance and to find some excuse TO
destroy the Business Agency.
Read section 2 carefully. Look
over all the laws on the statute books
of this State and see if there is any
such provision in the charter of any
railroad or other corporation. There
is no danger that the Alliance will,
or is there any desire to pay any of
the officers of the Alliance larger
salary, because we are opposed to
larger salaries, but the meanness of
the thing is what we refer to. Why
not amend the charter of the Viii
mingtou & Weldon railroad by put
ting IN the same provision?
Read section 4. Does the char
ter of any railroad, after setting out
the duties of any officer of the road,
say that if said officer shall fail to do
anv of his duties that the charter
shall be void? Why do the Trustee
and State Business Agent of the AL
lance give bond? If they fail to
do their duty their bonds are liab
1t is outrageous, and unheard of be-
fore, to pass law that the charter of
the whole organization shall be for
felted, when the bond is amply suf1i-
cient to protect everybody concerned.
Why not amend the charter of the
& Weldon railroad by
saying that if any conductor fails TO
make any connection or to put pas
sengers to a given place on schedule
time that the charter Of the whole
railroad shall be forfeited? We
havn't time now to comment on all
the sections of the bill that are full
Of subtitle meanness and cowardice.
The Legislature wanted to repeal our
charter outright and crush the ALI
ance. 1t diun't have the courage to
go Oil record, and has passed a bill
under which they hope to be able to
trump up some pretext to have the
Attorney General and the courts to
do what they did not dare to do. If
these amendments are just and right
then let every charter in the State
be amended the same way. If we
had been in the Legislature we would
have fought these amendments to the
last and have dared that body to do
It's worst. We challenge the Legis-
ature, Or any one, to show that the
Alliance has ever violated, in the |
east, single clause of its charter.
Our organization believes in equal
tights to all. and special privileges
to none" and so does majority of
the voters of the State, but the Leg
stature does not.
Men who hold their positions by
means of corruption and fraud, are
nortally afraid that the Alliance
will prevent them doing the same
thing again. Here is the secret, The
of the people can be trusted
when they see thing plainly. They
ire in favor of fair play. They do
md will not endure the action of the
legislature. If the Alliance were
lead, thousands who voted for men,
'ers OF the present Legislature, would
condemn the action of the body.
A QUESTION.