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The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-02-15
Az OPEN LETTER TO j. eTERLI>G
MORTON.

Hos. J. STERLING MoRToN,
Washington, b. c.
Dear Sir Your pamphlet con
tanning two addresses delivered at
Chicago with some comments and
resolutions duly received. Noting
that you had missed my comment
IN The Dakota Rurali.t Nov. 2nd, |
hasten to forward you another copy
which | hspe you will insert in your
next revised edition. | had been
anxious to see correct copy of the
first speech particularly that portion
''inaudibie owing to the loud APP
pIause." The sentence reading thus,
but the alchemist and the sorcerer
aEd the astrologist long since passed
away, and it has been left for the
modern advocates Of many fallacles
TO evoke by the magic Of their wand,
from the vacuaus viscera of moth
ipgness, vast volumes.n | note Si1
that all this vulgar effusion together
with that part which the. reporters
were ashamed to give the public, and
in kindly charity covered up your
naudlin vapOurings with loud APP
plause' does not appear in your
pamphlet. | am pleased Sir that in
your sober senses you have enough
shame left to revise that out of your
speech. Do not imagine for a mo-
mont that tho farmers can be fooled
that way in the future.
You will notice by u careful read
ing Of your speech as reported by
the daily papers at the time that you
have omitted several more of your
most offensive and exceedingly fool
ish illusions. | would suggest that
the next time you try to speak off
cialiy for the farmers that you re-
wise your speech IN advance. 1t may
save you writing pamphlet.
regret that so many farmers Or
carnations are wasting good time
and resolutions on you. AS the ag-
ricuItural mouth-piece Of the present
administration | take it that you
voiced the sentiments of President
Cleveland. His retaining you in
Office confirms that view. The quiet
approval of your sentiments by the
democratic press and statesmen
make the party responsible for your
gross and uncalled for insult, hence
the proper way to resent it will be at
the ballot box. This | feel assured
all self respecting farmers will feel
called upon to do.
For myself I was not at all sur
prisod, for a political party obtain
ing power by suppression and per-
version Of the ballot could not be ex-
Pected to show any respect for peo-
pie who will tolerate it.
However, the day of reckoning
will soon be here. When farmers
respect themselves at the ballot box
we wiz have a secretary of agricul-
ture who will respect them. Ia
arousing their indignation you are
doing better than you intended.
Yours, ETC.,
/
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-02-15
.BIME7 Ail!sM AND
liIyyN5ME! Aii.sM
BY
ARCHBISHOP WALSH.
OF
III RT IN IpET AMI
DUBLIN, IRELAND.

Owing to the great demand for
Archbishop Walsh's pamphlet on
monometallism and its ruinous effects
on the land TENANTRY of IRE
LAND we have reproduced it on cle-
giant book paper, neatly bound con
tanning 80 pages. 1t is one of the
most logical, practical, illustrative
and convincing arguments in favor
of BlMETALLISM that has ever
been published. This pamphlet Is
having a wide circulation and should
be read by every citizen of the Uni
ted States. 1t has attracted the a.
tentlon Of Europe and America. ana
IS one Of the most scholarly writing
eXtant on TIN subject of Bimetallism.
Mailed postpaid to any address on
receipt Of . cents. Special terms to
agents. Address COIN PUBLISH
ING CO., ll5 Monroe St., Chicago,
Illinois
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-02-15

The rules and regulations for gov
erning the organization of the Peo-
pies Party Club are as follows:
First, There shall be neither fees,
dues, signs, grips, pass words, or OBJ
legation in Il Club.
Second, Clubs may be started in
any locality by any reputable person,
and organize with five or more mem
bers.
Third, The meetings of the clubs
shall be public Those who are not
members should be invited to attend.
Those who attend should be urged to
join.
Fourth, The conditions of member
ship shall be opposition to the fl
nanclal policy of Grover Cleveland
and the Democratic party and a
promise to vote with the Peoples
Party to secure legislature next
fall that will give the people a free
ballot and fair count.
Fifth, Each club shall have Pres
ldent, Vice President. Secretary and
Treasurer. In all other matters each
club may make its own rules and
regulations.
Sixth, AS soon as a club is organ
lied the Secretary should fill out the
following blank and send at once to
Marion Butler, GoIdsboro, n. C.
PEOPLES PARTY CLUB.
County,. ........... .............
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-02-15
ANSWERS

Daniel was in the lions den one
night. Hannah was hanged on the
gaIlows he had prepared for Morde-
cal. George Williams.
The Sahara Is the largest desert in
the world; it is noted for its date
palm and oil palm. 1t is in Africa.
Adam bit the apple because he had
no knife to cut it with.
Floyd Taylor.
Philadelphia was founded by the
Quakers in 1861; the name means
"brOtherly love-"
George Washington died at Mount
Vernon.
J. +. West.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-02-15
{ If
ALLIANCE BUSINESS MEETING.

The State Alliance Business Agen-
cy will be represented at the follow
ing times and places by Bro. S. Ohio
Wilson. He will carry samples, and
talk to the brethren about how to
buy their guano and other supplies,
and how to sell their products, in
Guiding the best way to make money
out of the poultry yard:
Dunn Thursday, Feb. Is, II
am.
Wilson Friday, Feb. Is IL am.
Smithteld Saturday, Feb. II, II
am.
Lewisburg Monday, Feb. 10, 1
Warrenton Tuesday, Feb, 20, 1 80
pm.
Henderson Wednesday, Feb. p,
II m.
Oxford Thursday, Feb. %, -
M.
Roxboro Friday, Feb. %, Il an.
Hillsboro Saturday Feb. "a II N.
Brother Wilson will give you d.
rections how to pack and ship eggs,
dress and ship poultry, and other in
formation about our industry that
our brethren everywhere should hear
and heed.
Every member of the Alliance that
can do so, should be present at one
of these meetings.
W. II. WORTH, S. B. A.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-02-15
QUESTIONS.

When was the first copper money
coined and who by?
Dora Wilson.
Riddle-How was it that Peter
Nesser was brother to his own grand
father? Johnnie Dash.
Who discovered the mouth of the
Mississippi river? When was the
first gold found in n. c.?
Addie Smith.
How many times does the word
"Reyerend" occur in the Bible?
Who was Gains wife?
Riddle-What is it which occurs
twice in a moment, once in minute
and not once in thousand years ?
Floyd Taylor.
What do the seven stars represent?
Fannie Herring.
How old was Moses when he died?
Whose vineyard did Ahab coyet?
Daisy V. Grow.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-02-15
Faisons. n. G., Feb. 5. g I.

Mr.. Editor-I would like to Join
the chiIdreu's column. This is my
first Letter and ! viii make it short
for fear Of the waste basket. | viii
answer AImira Bakers questions:
Methusaleh was the oldest man, he
was 800 yeats old hen he died.
Katie Wilkins.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-02-15

The subscribers TO THE CAUCAs-
IAN read every advertisement in it.
Business men advertise in The eau
cAsIAN because it pays them to do
so, and not out of sympathy for the
success Of the paper. Always tell
onr advertisers where you saw their
advertisement. IF.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-02-15
Who CHEAPENED OIL 4?
WALKS AND TALKS WITH THk
PEOPLh- a.
BIZ &. b. MATTHEWS.



Those who had the pleasure Of at
tending the National Council OF the
Farmers Alliance last lear at Mem
ubis. Tenn. will remember the very
interesting and instructive report
gwen by the subcommittee on OIL.
Farmer Dean, of the National Exec
utive Board, by his wide knowledge
ia the petroleum industry, gave
many figures and facts Of value re-
garding the cost Of Illuminating oil
to the people. Very few realize what
autonomous amount OF money Is IN
volved in the raising of the price OF
this household necessity of the In
dustrial classes OF this country. IN
advance Of only one per cent. I. T
gallon would amount annually t
over ST, 200, 900. While it Is pretty
geL orally admitted that
OUR YOUNG REPUBLIC
is governed largely be corporations,
trust. and monopolies, 1t IS believed
/ by some that the effect and policy
even Of trusts is to cheaper the cost
- oil, sugar, lead, etc, TO the PEG
: pie. We notice in this connection
sn article from the Prairie Farmer
| After extolling President Roe efel
| Ter for his munifcence IN bestowlnl
! so much (of what many people con
slider his own rightfuD money to the
Chicago University. 1t goes on tt
| say:
1--WE are glad to see the growing
desire among millionaIres of to-da!
to give money during their lives t
educational and other seneticen
purposes. Mr.. Rockefeller is a New
| York City man. He is the bushes,
| head of the Standard Oil Company
who furnish the kerosene burned IL
| the lamps all over the country, bu
of course especially in the Mississlp
pi valley, because in this great re
gion far more coal oil is used than IL
all other regions of the United States
Mr.. Rockefeller has made his vas
fortune by utilizing the products o
coal Gil usually thrown away. Thi
being the case, his company ha
been enabled to reduce the price o
kerosene from year to year, 50 tina
now oil, for lamps, is cheaper in ev
cry country district than any othe
Illuminating material, including ga
IN our cities.
"Certainly no sensible person
would bsgrudgs the vast fortune h'
has made when he is giving ava.
untold millions yearl y, during hi
lifetime"
.wI do not quote this bungling an
for the most part untrae Statement
Of the Prairie Farmer for the purpos
of explaining it or snlightening tn
the deluded author of such stuff, bu
only to give a sample of the man
daily publications that are thrust W
on the public by
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-02-15
S20.O4I,l2O -

During the fiscal year
1865 4.24 $40 Il
Total So, O47, l20 -
a tax Of Al 90 per barrel Of not
more than II gallons was imposed on
crude petrol um by act OF March },
1868. and was repealed by act Of
July -, IsGG. The amount OF rev
enue collected under this act was
S2.4l5, G97.31, making the total rev
enue received on crude and refined
oil So. 4G2 COS p.
Now If the government would
carefully invest in necessary pipe
lines and tankage the revenue col
lected from the oil tax ahoye men
toned. il would, with government
railroads demolish the Standard m
nopolv and save the American peo-
Die hundreds of millions Of dollars
annually in the price Of oil, and then
the government could issue plpe line
certificates and loan the oil produc-
ers in the principal fields money on
certificate oil, thereby furnishing an
increase of currency and making
both the producers and consumers Of
oil throughout our land
PROSPEROUS AND INDEPENDENT,
and relieve the young republic OF
the first, greatest and wickedest
trust that curses our land.
| Under present conditions, the
Standards determination to destroy
competition carries prices below cost
! of manufacture in localities where
competition exists, while In large
areas where their sway is undIsput-
ed, the hapless consumer must pay
from 20 to 80 cents per gallon for re-
fined oil. We ask every one that has
imbibed the idea that the Standard
has reduced prices or invented some
thing useful, to name s. single valu-
able process, apparatus or product
invented by any of the great Stand
ard trust magnates.
Bonham in ''Railvay Secrecy and
Trusts says that the STANDARD oil
company capitalized their ability to
prevent their competitors in business
from using the railroads." | shall
be much pleased if any one will give
a more concise or truthful definition
of the Standard idea than Mr.. Bon
ham has given. Let no one suppose
that in patronizing the Standard
trust, the Chicago meat combine OF
the Minneapolis flour ring, they are
sustaining their friends or securing
better prices for farmers or produc-
ers or lower prices to consumers
The time has not and never will come
when the American people can safely
rely on the goodness of trusts and
combines to absolutely regulate the
prices paid to producers and by con
sumers for the necessaries Of life.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-02-15
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
The subscription rates of TEE
in the future will be

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Six months. 80
Three months. ,................ 50
That is, sing one for six months
will be SO cents. But if the sub
scriptions are sent in llub of as
many as four, We will sent it for 80
cents. That is, for $500 sent at one
time We will send four copies for six
months each. In clubs of at least
six we will send the paper for rs
cents. That is, for $3.50 we will
send six copies for three months
each.
You will readily see the necessity
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for a subscriber for year. A num-
Der who subscribed for the paper for
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for year. Let every subscriber try
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better for US and the subscriber TOO.
ff\
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-02-15
PUBLIC SPEAKINGS!

AND JOB WORK.
Notices Of Public Speakings, Ali
ance Rallies and Picnics, Tax No
tees, or any kind of Poster Work.
size q u Inches on Colored or
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The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-02-15

We will publish in this column
each week the contributions sent in.
In addition to our contribution OF
$40, we VIII out of every club Of ten
cash subscribers sent in at one tune.
we will place one dollar to this fund
and give the sender of the club cred
1t for same. [tf.l
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-02-15
IGNORANT OR VENAL

newspapers. We are told by Stand
ard Solicitor Dodd, who is in posi-
ton to make the best possible claim
for the Standard company, which be-
gun opera tons on a large scale in
1872, that at that time refined oil was
worth 23.5 per gallon, whereas in
1890, after II years of the Standard
company's existence, refined oil was
worth 7.3 per gallon. This decline
in price, We are told by Mr.. Dodd, is
due to the energy, capacity and un
selfish enterprise of the Standard Oil
company and trust. Of course, soil
citor Dodd or Mr.. Gunton, or any
other paid advocate Of the Standard
monopoly would never even suggest
as one Of the causes of the decline in
the price of refined oil is the fact that
crude petroleum is produced in large
quantities in six or eight different
States and has become
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-02-15
THREEFOLD DECLARATION.

While our sympathies as a party
of reform are naturally upon the
side of every proposition which will
tend to make men intelligent. vir.
tuous and temperate, we neverthe-
less regard these questions impor-
tant as they are, as secondary to the
great issue now pressing for solution,
and upon which not only our indi-
vidual prosperity but the very eX-
istence Of tree institutions depend,
and we ask all men to first help US
to determine whether we are to have
a republic to administer before we
differ as to the conditions upon which
it is to be administered, believing
that the forces of reform this day
will never cease to move
forward until every remdied and
zeal rights and equal deivileges Sc
curely established for all the men
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-02-15

LET EVERY RETORNER CONTRIBUTE
TO BUILD 1T.
Take Up Collections at Every Meeting

THE CAUCAsIAN's fund for the mon
um, Mt now stands as follows:
Collected at State meeting, 1898,
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-02-15
DO YOU WANT TWO PAPERSe

We will send you for one year The
CAUCASIAN and any of the following
pRpers for the amount nnnnsite.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-02-15
THR WAR IS OVER.

We assert our purposes to be
Identical with the purposes of the
national conStitution-'TO form q
more perfect union, establish justice,
insur domestic tranquility, provide
for the common defense, promote
the general welfare and secure the
blessings of liberty for ourselves
and our posterity." We declare that
this republic can only endure as a
free government while built upon
the love of the whole people for
each other and for the nation: that
| it cannot be pinned together by bay
onets; that the civil war is over, and
that every passion and resentment
which grew out Of it must die with
it, and that we must be in fact, as
we are IN name, one united brother
hood Of freemen.
Our country finds itself confronted
by conditions for which there is no
precedent il the history Of the
world-our annual agricultural pro
auctions amount to billions of dol
lars in value, which must within a
few weeks or months be exchanged
Tor billions OF dollars of commodities
consumed in their productions; the
existing currency supply is wholly
Inadequate to make this exchange:
the results are falling prices, the
formation of combines and rings
and the Impoverished Of the pro.
ducing classes. We pledge ourselves
that if given power we will labor to
correct these evils by wise and reas-
enable legislation in accordance
with the terms of our platform.
We believe that the power of gov
ernment-in other Eords. of the peo-
ple-should be expanded las in thg
case the postal service) as rapidly as
far as the good sense of an intelh-
gent people and the teachings of ex-
perience shall justify, 10 the end that
oppression, injustice and poverty
shall eventually cease in the land.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-02-15
so CHEAP

that crude oil is to-day a leading
competitor with coal for fuel pur-
poses. Clark Waggoner says in the
November number of the American
Journal of Politics that 1.-The Stand
ard managers are in the oil business
to get all the profit possible for them
selves and they are entitled to no
more credit for lower prices in oil
than the leaders Of the Southern re-
bellioR were entitled to for the wal
that freed the slaves and improved
the condition of the whites. The i'm
proved condition resulted from the
war, and not the plans of the Confed-
crate leaders," But should any one
feel impressed favorably with Mr..
Dodd's differences regarding the
Standards having reduced the price
of refined oil from 1872 to the present
time, we ask such to tell us who re-
duced the price before 1872, when
Standard influence was unknown.
In 1860, refined oil sold at $1.O0 per
gallon, and in 1923 considerable
quantities were sold at so cents per
gallon. Let some trusty Standard
logician tell us why refined
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-02-15
OIL FELL IN PRICE

765 without the aid of the Standard,
when it fell only 1872 in the same
length of time, during the Standard
epoch. This brings US to a phase of
this question that will be of much in
terest to the Farmers Alliance and
those who believe in the sub-treas-
ury warehouse plan. 1t evidently
should be applied to oil and the pub
lie should own necessary transporta-
ton and storage facilities. When
refined oil was selling at high figures,
let US remember that we were sup
porting the government instead of
the Standard "oligarchy."
We find by consulting the United
States internal revenue department
that tax of 10 cents per gallon was
levied on oil distilled from crude pc
troleum by act Of July, 1862. This
rate was increased to 20 cents per
gallon, by act of June 80, 1864. The
rate of 20 cents per gallon was re-
dueed to 10 cents per gallon by act
of July -, 1866, and then reduced to
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-02-15

H. L. LOUCKS
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-02-15

Daisy Y. Crow.
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1894-01-24

White Checked Muslin for
aprons and children's dresses,
10 different styles, that is all
different patterns. We could
get not Ioc as they ought to
be, but SC yard.
New fancy red, white, and
blue and white Table Covers,
warranted fast colors, good
quality, never sold less than
81 I-2c a yard; here the price
is 23c a yard.
Whole pieces of Outing
Flannel. You can get a
length from to so yards,
new fresh goods, at sc yard
instead Of &c.
10 dozen large, beautiful
Damask Towe.s, knotted
fringe, pure linen, size 4sx2oi
the description tallies with
the usual ran OF 2sc Towels,
at I4c each.
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1894-01-24
Ioelandic Simplicity.

A young Iceland friend, going across the
desert from Reykjavik TO Akuyera, met
man riding on a pony. Such meetings
are rare in those parts, and, like ships on
the sea, the two hailed and spoke, and
this was the manner and substance OF their
conversation;
"What's your name"
"Stefan."
"Whose soni"
"Thornsteinsson."
"Where are you goingi'
"To prison."
"What forf"
"Stealing a sheep"
"No one taking you'll"
"No. The sheriff was busy, so he gave
me my papers"-the warrant for his arrest
-"and sent me on by myself"
The men exchanged snuff and a kiss
and parted. A week later the younger Ice
lander was returning by Reykjavik, and
near the same spot he met the same man
"WhatW he cried-"Stefan Thornsteins-
soni Why, you said you were going to
prison"
$50 was, and went. but they would
not let me In"
"Why noti"
"Because had lost my papers, and the
sheriff said he could not take me without
q warrant"
$50 they won't have You In prisoni"
"No.n
"And You are going home againH
"Yes. ."--London Million.
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1894-01-24
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.

A furious blizzard is raging In Ne
braska.
King Alexander % servia has the In
fuenZa.
The Normannia returned 10 New Yorh
with q smashed deckhOuse.
There are church sttings In the United
States for 1900 90 Of people.
The Imperial porcelain and glass works
at ST. Petersburg were destroyed by fire.
Balfour, the Unionist leader. says Eng
land must rule the sea or bend the knee
Princess Victoria OF Coburg has arriv d
az DarmstsGt with her parents. To
grand duke was received with acclsma-
ton.
Edmund Regnier. who undertook the
mysterious al sbortive negotiations
with the Germans during the war Of ls7o,
died at Paris.
Mrs. y. T. Buckingam Of Vacavil
Cal, Is said 10 own the larges, orohai d
acreage Of any woman In the eountr
She has over 800 acres planted in fruit
trees, of which 80 acres are bearing.
1t Ia reported that the Presbyterian
boards are TO erect n million dollar build
ing, eleven stor.e- high, at the corner of
Fifth avenue and Twentieth street, New
York. A bequest from the late Mrs H.
= stuart furnishes the meanA
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1894-01-24
Chappy's Wit.

"Have you been vaccinated yet, old fel-
lowt" said one Pittsburg chappy to an
other.
"Not yet, deah boy"
al haven't either, doncher know, but
would II 1t wasn't faw one thing"
"What is that"
al cawn't decide whethaw TO take ether
or chloroform. Which is bettawf"
"Well, / should think chloroform was
good form. He, hel Good joke, chr"
First class. You aw wegular humow-
LIST, deah boyp'-Pittsburg Chronicle Te,e-
graph.
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1894-01-24
The King Meets His Match.


Henri Quatre was lover Of "les bons
mots" as well as Of "les bonnes files. "
Hating at a village one day to get some
dinner, he gave orders that whoever was
reputed to be the greatest wit should be
brought to amuse him during his repast.
On the appearance Of the rustic prodigy
he commanded him TO sit down on the
other side Of the table.
"What Is your name" inquired the
king.
"Sire, my name Is Gaillard."
"Hah, and what Is the difference be-
tween Gaillard and paillard-a lewd fel
lowt"
"Sire," twas the unexpected reply, there
s only the table between them"
"Ventre-saint-grisl" exclaimed Henry,
laughing, "he has me there. l never ex-
pected to find 10 much wit in 80 little
village. ."-All the Year Round.