The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-06-07

|"N AN~ANS ~ AAtHhiHu ufSE AISlE up
JIessors who base dared 10 throttle
his government, destroy the prices
+ farm products and grind down
ne weak and disabled with the
mighty heel of gold.
Al first, the farmers movement
vas ridIculed by the politicians 10
furnish reading matter for a certain
class who take the dailies, and when
The intelligent farmer received his
eekly he was greeted with lot of
political rot that was both disgust
ing and insulting To refined mind.
But just witness the change that has
taken p ace. \ good many politl-
Gals have found out all of sudden
hat 1t Is TO their interest to be very
conservative and make amends to the
people for what they have said and
done IN the past.
1t was said at one time that the
farmers could never do anything to
better their condition on account of
not being able to organize thorough
~. As heat applied to iron of all
shapes and sizes causes It TO melt and
unite into one solid mass, so has a
bitter experience driven them into
with permanent found
atlons that will live as long as this
exists. These organize
tons make it their special work to
educate and enllghten their members
upon all matters bearing upon their
interests, and from this cause they
have been able to achieve the victo-
rles IN the past and upon II depends
their future success.
Now as to the party in power at
the present time it is evident to every
fair-minded man that it is dismal
failure in every respect that tends
the improvement of the work
ing classes, and as the voters will
stand no trifling, this party, whose
leaders repeatedly refuse to redeem
Its pledges, will be asked to step
down and out in 1896 by a disap-
pointed and determined majority.
Their cry has always been "Giye US
a show, give us a show" They got
the show, animals and all, and their
performances at Washington bid fair
to out-rival "Barnum's biggest show
on earth"
The argument has been made that
the Peoples party having cast only
one million or about one-twelfth of
all the votes cast should not be grant
ed its demands because eleven
twelfths were against them. That
is just as reasonable as to say that
the Bible is an imaginery story from
to end on account the
larger part of mankind knowing no.
thing aboutlt. The trouble is Wall
street has controlled the election ma
chinery of the eleven-twelfths and
by means of all the tricks known to
the trade have compelled the repre-
sentatives of the people to enact laws
for the special benefit Of capitalists,
leaving out the interests of the work
ing man entirely. The last census
shows that the farmers own sixteen
billions or one-fourth of the entire
wealth of the nation, and this togeth-
er with the fact that they are in the
majority should entitle them to a
reasonable amount of control of pub
lie affairs.
| defy any man to prove that silver
was demonetized for any other pur-
pose than for the benefit of the rich
bond holders. If this country pros
pered under a double standard from
its beginning until 1878, for what
other purpose was the gold standard
adopted if it wasn't for their inter
ests?
Paper money issued by a govern
ment is promise to pay on demand
without interest certain amount.
A gold bond is a promise to pay on
a certain date so much money draw
ing interest at a given percent. Now
look at the difference. If you own
paper money or any other kind you
pay tax on it. If you own gold
bonds you pay no tax, but remember
only favored few can own bonds,
while every laboring man handles
paper money and silver money every
day, and by this means it circulates
among all the people and does the
greatest good. Now, all this being
true, why did not the present Con-
gress issue $20O,OOO,0OO in paper
money instead of forcing the govern
ment to issue the same amount of
gold bonds? 1t is a self-evident
fact that one can be redeemed as we'll
as the other according to our view
because we have faith in this govern
ment to pay its obligations of every
kind.
Patiently, though, all through the
years the laboring men have borne
the burdens of class legislation, but
silently and surely as the sun rises
in the East there is spirit of re-
sentiment that is showing itself in
more ways than one, gathering force
at every turn, and the day is soon
approaching when, not by means of
the sword, but by the power of the
ballot, the people will rise In their
might and wrest the reins of govern
ment from those whose only object
is to crush money out of the down
trodden masses. God speed the day
HOwITzER.