The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-08-24
THE PEOPLE MUST
SUFFER MORE.
10 WAKE T-Eu -UsBLY SUBMIT.
President LotCk~ WHITES TINE
~ LETTER
DoN'T GIVE WALL STREET
CHANCE To C>E FogCF.
The People sre Watching the satn".--Let
Ever. Iseforuer do his " hole Duty.
To THE y. +. 4. & LII.

. We are rapidly approaching a crisis
on the result of which the future oi
our republic depends. Try 70 dis,
guise it as they may, the financial
crash which has been barely averted
/ for three successive years is upon lis.
The failures thus FAR are simply the
slight shocks preceding the earth
quake. each shock growing IA little
lCuder and lasting Il little longer.
The crash of 1893 will differ from
preceding ones in two respects. First,
in each preceding crisis the national
administrations made some effort
towards restoring confidence. The
whole effort of the present admins
tration Is directed towards intensity
| ing the stringency. | know of no
parallel in the annals of history. As
an example of extreme heartless
cruelty it is recorded that "Nero
fiddled while Rome burned" 1t is
a mOoted question whether Nero
started the fire or encouraged the m
cendiarles in their awful work. He,
however, fiddled or amused himself
and cOurtesans, while his chief city
vas being destroyed. Our chief
magistrate realizes that our nation is
in peril. Our business interests are
paralyzed. The great Shylock jug
gernaut is rolling his merciless
wheels over every industry of the
nation. He has almost unlimited
power-at least equal to that of
Nero. The people cry for relief.
His answer in effect is, your spirits
are not yet sufficiently broken. You
must learn to be content to occupy
the place for which you were intend
ed. There must always be the serv-
ants to wait upon the masters. |
could bring you relief through the
special session of congress, but when
You have suffered more you Will be
easier handled. | will delay that
relief until you have been
taught lesson through financial
distress; and he stolidly goes a fish
ing, while the nation rushes to de-
struction. There is no question as
to his completely. At the proper
time Gar Rothschilds cracks his
whip. The Indian council strikes
the blow that is to stampede us, and
then his factotum, Grover Cleveland.
acts, The special session of con-
gress is called, and with whip and
spur the gold standard must be fast
ened upon us. No autocrat ever
used his power more relentlesslv.
Even the appointment to a vacancy
on the supreme bench is counted as
good for two votes in the senate. A
more humiliating spectacle than was
that of Caligula in electing his horse
to the Roman council, is this. Our
chief magistrate is prostituting con-
gress to crush the people. Caligula,
to show his contempt for the Roman
consuls, made his horse a consul.
But he never tried to bring the con-
tempt Of the people on the horse by
bnbing, through peddling public
patronage. In history, Nero will be
considered as much superior to Clev>
land as Pizarro is now to John Sher
man. The second difference is, that
III previous crisis there was ethe
great vest to which unfortunates
might flee when they had lost all in
the east. This is no longer so. The
fight of the administration on the
great industry of the far west, silver,
is practically destroying that indust-
ry. In Colorado alone it is estimated
that 10000 men are already out of
employment. For want of postal
savings banks, their savings of years
are swallowed up in national bank
failures. They are suddenly swept
from comfort to penury. In this
dilemma Grover can go fishing, but
these poor victims of his .1esson"
must leave their homes or starve.
There is no west for them to move
on to. With stern, sad faces they
must once more look with what little
hope they can muster, to the already
over-crowded east, where daily, man
are closing down and
turning thousands upon the streets.
AS they start east to look for work,
instead of the fertile, virgin prairie,
or the rich veins of undeveloped I
mineral which greeted them on their
former flight, they are met by the ,,
chief of police, as in Kansas City, to
prevent them entering that CITY: or
as in Aberdeen, where they lock them (
up IN the calaboose or chain them TO
the sidewalk.
The Immediate danger threaten !
ing us is from the over-crowdipg of (
our large cities with these unem-
ployed, and treating them as crimi-
nails. Without home or hope, it will ,
take but spark to ignite a flame
mat Will destroy and spare not. Any {
disaster Of this kind will be taken
advantage of by the plutocracy to
tasten standing army upon us to
forge our letters more strongly than /
ever. This, if possible, must be ,
averted. The farmers of Nebraska
nave shown a commendable spirit in !
meeting and feeding the Colorado
miners passing through their state. /
Ihe farmers of the Dakotas, Mime ]
sofa, Iowa, Wisconsin, Kansas and ,
Nebraska can ana will employ MANY .
'f them. Special effort should be /
made to do this, and to induce them
to remain with us until free COINAGE !
u silver permits them to return to : :
'helr mines again. lam fully aware
hat On 40-cent wheat there is not
much room tor charity. But a gen. i