The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-06-29
he PRESENTS An ABLE AND COMPLETE STATEMENT OF THE
DEMOCRATIC SIDE.
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Hypoc isy, a witty Frenchman
tells us, is the homage vice pays to
virtue. 1t il also the mask behind
which pretended virtue seeks to palm
off her pinch back jewels. 1t is the
limited and criminal classes then
here, there and everywhere, in the
church setting up for phllanthro-
pists; in society setting up for wo-
men of fashion; in the board of
trade setting up for miracles of ac
tivity and energy. Which of us
have not had our fingers burned by
the corner lots in cities that never
were and never will be, in the
name of enterprise and develope-
ment; which of us have not been
invited as an act of special friendly
favor to come in on the ground
floor of financial ediflce, having
three or four cellars beneath it, and
laid at the bottom in a cave of
wind. Laughter.) Which of us
does not recall that genius with an
infinite knowledge of horse flesh, who
is willing to give the infalible tip
as to the sure winner in the coming
race.
Hazlitt tells us only honest hy-
pocrits are the play actors, who ap-
pear in the robes of the king today
and the rags Of the beggar to-mor-
row. But there are hypocrits whose
hypocracy is SO deep that it goes
marching through the world masque-
rading itself, and so surrounding the
person that they never find it out.
There is a hypocracy that springs
from inward taste rather than fraud.
How many have been led to deceit
who might have TOLD the truth and
have gone about their busi-
ness.
In the great Credit Mobilier sean
dals it was not so much the owner
ship of the stock as the denial of
of it has brought disgrace, but
every age has it's idiosyncracy. We
speak of the golden age, the sill
yer aye, and the brazen age,
etc. Every country has its virtues
and its vices; its crown of glory
and its crown of thorns. Find out
a nation's sin, and you shall know
that nations danger. And it is a
question that should interest us ex-
ceedlngly; interest us as workmen:
interest us as Republicans, as Demo
Gratis, as Populists. We know about
Europe, Asia and Africa, but what
is the matter with America All
of us are interested in a millionaire
just as much as pauper; we are
all Americans. When you come to
investigate really the dangers that
beset us as a nation and as peo-
pie, what is it then? What is the
matter with America Is it the
failure of our municipal methods
and processes to bring an efficient
and honest government to our great
cities. That is certainly a great
menace to our centers of population
| hardly think it broad enough Oh
deep enough to bode national ruin
Is it the race question at the
south? That too, is great men
ace and a peril to the people who
live there. 1t is a problem the
solution Of which the wisest have
not been able to compass and the
end of which the most sagaciou
cannot scan. For my own part
know so much abuot it, that lons
ago ceased to have any theories a
all. For great while, and still
have looked with hope towards tn
education and elevation of both ra
ces, but at last | am bound to con
fess that I am thrown back upol
a simple childlike faith in God
who can raise up as he can cas-
down and who doeth all thing
, we'll. (Applause.) Is it the labo
question about which we are calle'
together to have SO much conten
? tion, and about which we seen
to be having so little? Is it th
social question :? A question OF FIRE
and fair election | think not
organically, in great democratl
: republic like ours, where all thing
, are opened to all men, there ca
: never be any general motive for
resort to violent explosive an
t revolutionary agencies. After a
our quack nostrums, after all tn
7 devices which A, B. e and d ma
prescribe, after all the years of tn
, past with this party appearing wit
its remedy, put out by that part
0 with its remedy, it seems to me ths
r these questions must come to sett
: themselves. We are not fence
t about by bonds, the source of whic
! means blood and terror, we are NJ
, slaves of any artificial convention
u which are growing obsolete, whic
f can only be anlhilated by dyn'
!, mite. The poorest babe who stea
:, timidly into the world by the hac
door, has as much of chance
y becoming the president of Il
y United States as the richest WI
d takes his millionaire grandfath
II by the whiskers. applause
o. Agrarianism has no place he
. and .anarchy, that great leveler an
friend of ineendiaryism may safe
II be committed under God to tn
1T silence under the laws that conser
D freedom, nobility, political organic
tion, with our ceaseless conscientlo