The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-09-14
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fear that it is done for a purpose
and not from an honest change Of
heart. We regret to believe this. but
we have sufficient cause for doing so.
IL a stranger were to happen in this
State, aud were to pick up such pa
pers as The News & Observer, The
Wilmington Messenger, and The
Charlotte Observer, (Which by the
way aspires to be the chief devil of
the gang he might be fooled mot
knowing their past record) into be-
lleying that they were genuine re-
form papers. They are bowling
against goldbugs and monopolies, as
II they were the original reformers
and had patent on the business.
These are the same papers that tried
to apologize for the goldbugs and
monopolies, when it was to their i'll
terest to do SO. They knew what
was right then, as well as they know
now. If they had acted from prin-
clples or conscience, that is, unless
they plead the (baby act, and say
that they did not know any better)
they would have condemned these
evils last year and the year before,
instead of condemning and ridicul-
ing those who did. So we give a
note of warning to the people to
watch these papers, they have some
object in view. 1t may be that there
Is no campaign Doodle coming to
them now, and funds are getting
short, and they see it is necessary to
try to gain the confidence of the peo-
pie and get subscribers. Then too
the amount of Doodle they will get
when the next campaign opens, will
depend upon how many readers they
have been able to hold. Or it may
be that they see that the people can't
be fooled any longer, in fact that
they have carried the game a little
too far, and that it is now necessary
to cuss out the administration, or
shut up shop and quit business.
Then too you know, that there Is no
National campaign on hand next
year, and that the great desire and
object of the machine, and the rail-
road men who own the machine is to
control State politics in the next
campaign. If Cleveland and the
National administration grows I'M
popular, Gas it is very probably these
papers are willing to serve the inter-
est Of their masters here in the State
by denouncing Cleveland and all the
Northern and Eastern Democrats as
goldbugs and plutocrats in general,
if by doing so, they can fool enough
people to again follow their leader
ship in the State. In fact it would
not surprise us to see these hypocrits
getting up Indignation meetings to
denounce the Northern Democracy,
and to try to regain their hold upon
you by getting you out to their meet
ings, and having torch light pro-
cessions, etc.
We regret to have to write this,
but believe that it is our duty to warn
the people. A man showed us an
editorial in the Wilmington Messenv
ger a few days since, and asked us if
we did not believe it showed an hon
est change of heart in DR.. Kings
berry. We were forced to tell him
no. because man who will use the
columns of his paper as long as he
has to help monopoly oppress the
people, can't now be honest in his
latter profession of interest in the
rights of the people. unless forsooth
he has gotten religion again, and
Joined another church. 1t is hard
for us to believe in the purity of
motive of a man, who will not only
help to place the interest Of monopoly
over the interest of the whole State,
but who even in a contest between
the people and monopoly in his own
town, took the side of large corpo-
ration, trying to shield them from
paying honest taxes, when by doing
so he was placing a heavier burden
of taxes upon the poor of his own
town. We are willing to admit that
if he had been free man, and not
the hired writer of a corporation, he
might have written differently. And
If he is now expressing his honest
convictions, 1t is because it suits the
interest of the W. & W. r. R. for
him to do so. Unless we have been
sadly misinfOrmed, he must simply
be mouth peace for them, or get
down and out. But we have written
more than we intended. We started
out to give the people warning
against the general tendencies of
these papers, and when their hidden
purpose develops, we will then pub
lish the facts.
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