The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-07-19

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plovs detectives and IA secret service
force 10 enforce this law. This ia
right. But everybody must have
this thing and the only way they can
get ii is 10 exchange their labor 0.
thelr products for IT.
a; follows then that the thing
which the government makes il nee
essary for every body TO have, and
prevents everyone from making.
should be made by the government,
and IN such quantity as TO enable
anyone to exchange their labor and
! products for it readily, and on easy
and equitable terms. But instead of
this @e have permitted that class of
men who control large amounts of
money to control the financial policy
Of ou- government.
at Is but natural that they should
90 on a strike ant endeayor to make
thei, money bring them lbs much as
+. possible Of the things other people
are compelled to exchange for it.
THE ONLY EFFECTIVE E WAY
To make their strike successful when
they had not the power of numbers
WAS to procure the passage of laws by
which they could control the supply
of money-the only thing everybody
must have.
This could best be done by strik-
ing down silver, one of the metals
the people had a constitutional right
to have coined into money.
"Thie would enable them, through
the assistance of other class laws in
their interest, to make money scarce
and hard to get. 1t was done and
now We see the result. Their corner
on cash and financial strike is a great
aud growing success Organized la
Dor and organized employers of labor
are trying to offset the evil effects of
it by counter strikes of their own,
but nothing more than temporary
success can obtain on either side.
The men who control the money
control the situation, because money
is th9 one thing that everybody is
compelled to have. When the free
coinage of silver is restored, and a
sufficient supply of legal tender paper
money prepared by the government
and paid out for its general expenses
IN lea Of taxation, then strikes will
cease, consumption will increase and
keep pace with production. ana the
over production crank will be un-
heard of.
"For twenty years past the labor
ing man has been Systematically de-
ceiyed. Nearly every law has been
passed in his name and in pretense
of benefting him Yet he has found
his chances for gaining a competency
growing less and less each
year. nd more of his class unable to
obtain employment. He has been
constantly advised to keep his labor
organizations out of politics, and
this was equivalent to bidding him
hope that his strength Of organiza-
ton would enable him to gain his
point and reach the goal of his am
bltion through the power of numbers.
He now seems to be
NAMING A DESPERATE EFFORT
To realize on this hope. If he vio-
IateS the law it is not because his
heart is bad, but because he finds he
has been deceived and mislead. But
he should not violate the law even
though our executive and law. max
ing power has offered him very bad
example.
''The place organized labor should
strike at is the ballot box, and there
organized employers who wish to see
our republic endure, our land pros
porous and filled with happy homes,
should join him and remove the cause
of our country's distress.
''AIen who claim to favor a pro
tective tariff to prevent us of buying
of foreign countries ought to be
ashamed to plead in the same breath
for a single gold standard on the
ground that it will better enable u:
to buy in foreign countries.
"Ihe laborer strikes under grave
disadvantages under present condi
tons. His wealth is in his labor
and he cannot save it except by ex
pending that labor.
every day he is idle that much
wealth is lost, both to him and to the
nation, forever. On the other hand
organized capital, by controlling th'
money of the country, can lock it uE
, in strong bank vaults, and every da,
} it becomes more valuable by forcing
down the value of labor and its pro
duets.
"In the past twenty-five year
money has been doubled in value b,
that process, and the work still goe
merrily on. Reducing the value 0
the products of labor necessarily re
duces the value Of labor itself an,
enhances the value of money an,
bonds payable in money.
"Don't you think it time to try
, strike at the ballot box for what yo
want"
J Sixth District Congregational CoEYentio
Called.
BY order Of the Ex. Com. of th
Peoples party of the 9th Congres
!. slonal District, | hereby call cor
yention to meet at Rockingham tn
20th day of August, at 10 o'clock, t
nominate candidate to represent L
= in the next congress.
e Respectfully,
t Y. G. Morton.