The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-08-10

the best distributed money the c"un
try has ever known-for il was paid
Ia the private soldiers i'll the arm
and they sent II home to their fami
lies, aud il went into every schoo
district and had the widest and bss'
possible circulation. You say, no"
much had we. have the author
ties with me; / have the statements
which cannot be contradIcted-the
statements of John Jay Knox, comp
troller after the war, and he says
that in the various kinds of money
then in circulation among the peo'
ple-twenty-tive millions OF people
i'm the north there were over TWO
billions of dollars of all kinds to-
pether. Now | stand ready to de
fend that statement and you may
take it down. | have the authorl'
ties to back that up, that there were
two billions of dollars among the
twenty-five millions of people, IN va
rious kinds of money. Well, that Is
over eighty dollars head. Now, II
you recollect my brother, you vii.
remember the good times we had
when the war closed. How the rur'
al people were out out of dedt; no"
they were paying cash as they went;
how all kinds of produce ruled high
in the market; how the boy rode side
WAYS when he went to the field in the
morning to pillow the corn, and could
whistle like lark because of the
value of the growing crop of corn
and what a rugged independence
and freedom from debt you enjoyed
Now how many people have you to-
day using the money in circulationV
| wish | had that power of the old
prophet while | am talking to you.
| pray that you may open your eyes
to the fact that the air is filed with
shadowy feet-bone of youl bone
flesh of your fiesh-who will alight
upon this continent within the next
twenty years, according to the pres
ent ratio of increase in population,
and we will then have hundred
million of people living under our
flag and using our money.
What preparation are we making
for the coming of our posterity?
Even the lowest of Gods animal ere
alton make preparation for the com
ing of their young; but we have be-
come set of business cannlbals and
seem bent upon eating each other
up. How many people have we sir
now here living and using the money?
We have sixty-five millions. How
many were using it when the war
closedg Twenty-Five millions. Well,
twenty-five millions from sixty-fve
millions leaves forty millions. Has
it ever dawned on your mind, my
business friend, that there has been
forty millions of people added to our
money using population since the
war closed, since the bugle sounded
the truce which called both armies
to peacee Forty millions-and now
don't go away and say that l said
there had been forty millions increase
in the population-I say there has
been a forty millions increase of
money using population, and that is
over one hundred and fifty per cent.
increase in our money using popula-
ton. Well, that calls for more
it not true? There has
been an enormous increase in the de-
mand for all the appliances Of civil
lied life, for food, for clothing, for
homes, for everything necessary for
comfort. Now suppose that you had
ten thousand soldiers in Philadelphia,
and had just ammunition enouph and
rations enough for that number, and
you were to increase that number of
to twenty-five thousand men,
but did not increase the rations, or
the ammunition, but should under
take to take that army into battle in
that condition. Well, if the COM
mander got off without being shot in
the first round, he would do well but
here you have forty millions more
people using the money, and don't
you suppose that there is an in
creased demand for money! But
have we not as much money as we
had when the war closed9 Suppose
that we had only as much food now
as we had then9 But you may ask,
have we not more money? That is
not the proper question. Don't speak
until you can use the queens Eng
fish and understand yourself-you
mean to ask have we not protionate-
ly more?-that would be the proper
question. Well, l will answer your
question. Now l don't want you to
take my word for it. have leafet
here, sent out by the secretary, Mr..
Foster, in July last, like the leaves
OF the tree of life for the healing of
the nation-what does he say about
it, He says: "We have in the
whole territory, outside of the treas
ury, iii round numbers, sixteen hun
dred millions of money!" Whate
Well, that is four hundred millions
less money and forty millions more
people using it, and yet you want me
to come all the way to PENNSYLVANIA
to take part in this discussion and
interpret the troublous situation and
tell you what's the matter. Please
put your hands in your pockets and
feel what is the matter! applause
1t is an empty pocket-that is all.
(Applause)
saw In one of your papers yester-
day, that the workingmen, the train
hands, and the section men on one of
your roads, had struck; they were on
a strike for the increase of their
wages from one dollar to dollar
and a quarter day!
To DE- rnNTr>r-Dn
Is HE A TRAITOR: