The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-10-12
THE FARMERS PERIL.
ontinuesi fruuI first TAars. !

( peal Of the sherman Law. He va
an ardent advocate OF Mr.. Cleye
lands nomination at Chicago. H.
Was nominated by the Virginia Dem
/ ocratlc State convention on Il plat
/ form that reIteFates and endorses Ia.
/ silver plank in the Chicago platform
/ Cleveland CONSTITUTES that platform 4
mean gold monometalism. or inter
/ national bImetalism which l. alb
surdIy and preposterously impossible
Secretary Manning. in the repor
quoted, said: at is perfectly appar
ent that Ii line of action ia regard I,
our currency can not wisely be set
tied upon or persisted ia without
considering the attitude on the sub
Ject Of other countries with whom ".
MAINTAIN intercourse through com
merce, trade and travel. An ack
nOwledgement Of this fact is found
in the act by virtue of which our sill.
yer IS cOmpulsorily coined. 1t pro-
vldes that the President shall invite
the governments of the countries
posing the Latin Union, so called
and of such other European nations
as he may deem advisa BILE, to Join
the United States in conference to
adopt common ratio between gold
and silver for the purpose Of estab-
fishing internationally the use of Oh
metallic money and securing fixity of
relative value between these metals.
This conference absolutely failed
and similar fate has awaited all
subsequent efforts liz the same direc-
ton"
The reduction is logically irresist-
able that the administrations finan-
cial policy does not contemplate the
use of SILVER in any form-eithel as
a commodity or money, and the at
tempt to wi pc out the Sherman law
is a scheme to eliminate, emasculate
and annihilate silver, now and for
ever.
The proposition admits of no seri-
Gus contention. So under which
king, is no fippant question when
addressed to the Democratic voters
in the Southern States. The decision
involqed in the answer deeply con-
Germs every farmer who raises
bushel of wheat or pound of cot
ton. 1t vitality concerns every wage
Garner in the land. 1t radically con-
Germs every voter who boasts of JEFF
fersonian Democracy. Mr.. Cleve-
and has departed from fine we'll es-
tablished lines of democratic tradi |
ion and democratic principle as
,aught by Jefferson and jackson and
entertained by the people so long, in
he denunciation of financial policy
'elentlessly at war with the agricul-
ural and industrial interests of the
great wealth producing sections of
he country. With a suddenness that
PARA Yves and dislocates existing po-
ltlcal conditions we have:
The one attention is to repudiate
he political faith of a century's
growth and follow Mr.. Cleveland
whose face is turned to the empire of
he Eastern money power. 1t needs
lot that the issue should be further
confused. 1t would be an insult to
he commonest intelligence to init
nate that the issue IS so clearly made
Us not to escape the densest compre
tension. 1t rests with Virginia to
blaze the way. From the home of
Jefferson must come the first remon-
trance. Nirginla's protest will
sound the battle-cry of the coming
political revolution.
THE DUTY OF SELF-PRESERyATION
A moments reflection will convince
he farmer what the imperative duty
II self.p1 reservation demands at his
lands. The repeal of the Sherman
aw means the triumph of the Wall
treet system of robbery-known as
dr. Cleveland's financial policy. 1t
las been indisputably established by
proof as strong as holy writ itself"
hat the price of silver and the price
II wheat and cotton are inseparately
elated. When silver falls in price
otton and wheat fall in price. This
the lndisputed history of commerce
1nce the crime of demonetizing sill
'er IN 1873. The fact does not rest
lpon the mere assertion or declama-
ion. Two royal commissions-the
commission on the depression of trade
nd the commission on the changes
n the relative value of gold and sill
Ter, after hearing hundreds of ex-
'erts-after the most exhaustive ex-
- unanimously agreed
hat the principle decline in the sta
lie commodities was the unmistaka-
lie result of the characterization of
liver and the consequent apprecia-
ion of gold. Eloquence, research,
istory, criticism, statistics denunci-
ton have been exhausted in the
discussion, but no one has
o wildly and cogently presented
his phase of the great contention az
enator Power of Montana.
UNANSWERABLE ARGUMENT, ,
1.-The projectors of the Sherman
epeal BILL" said Mr.. Power, "the
onspirators who impregnated the