The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-12-27
ROYAL MosEr.
rbstFr~sens Financial system of The
United States N od~ied After The Idea
of The Divine Right of Kings.

rb<sFrs.en. Fin.nsi.i system of The
United states N od~ied After The Idea
afThs Divine Right. of Kings.
The writer is not q partisan, q po-
lificsl extremist. or q fanatic. His
noli'i"al disabilities. acquired by an
humble part in the Rebellion, havir z
been removed by Gov. ID. Witt SEN
ter. he voted the straight Democrat
&c ticket down TO the last national
Election, waen duty TO genuine
Democratic principles uttered its
protest, and induced him TO vote
against Mr.. Cleveland. 1t is not
necessary 10 state that the change
IN his political action cost a severe
struggle, and even now be would
take OF his hat and Ike obeisance
TO ali fashioned Democratic
flag pole, and under az old time
Democratic banner, would utter a
shout so loud and so long that no
one would suspect that he was de-
scended from an old whig ancestry.
Although no drop cf secession blood
ever cOursed his views, he has 10
apology to make for the humble
part he took in behalf of the
Southern cause, nor does he ask one,
of those who stood in the opposing
ranks. That fratricidal struggle
WAS simply an unfortunate affair in
which both of the hostile sections
gained nothing-but lost those
principles of free government be-
| queathed them by their Revolution
airy sires. National demorlization,
political intrigue, and sectional
malice, engendered by that unhap-
Ply strife, opened the way for the as
tendency of loyal principles that
had not dared intrude into our leg
islative councils since the days of
Andrew jackson. He who repell.
loyal bayOnets at New Orleans, gave
the Bill to re-charter the old FEEDER
al Bank, which thrust all good
Democrats hoped would foever set
tie the question of National Bank
ing corporations.
From the days of Thomas Jeffer-
son, the father of genuine Republic
canism, that party of which he was
the honored sire, that party that
! had antagonized the centralizing
idea of government entertained by
the Federalists, that party that had
choked to death the Alien and Sedi-
ton laws of the aristocratic John
Adams, that party, evolving the
Democratic party, declared against
banking corporations, declared that
they were in deadly hostility to free
government. And right here my
dear Democratic readers, note a
fact, veritable fact in the history
of that grand old historic party
namely. that, from the days of the
immortal Jefferson down to the year
1860, in neatly every national plat
form, is found this declaration
congress has no power to charter 6
National Bank; such an institution
is in deadly hostility to the best in
terests of this country, dangerous t6
Republican institutions, and calcu
lated to place the business of the
country within the control of con
centrated money power, and above
the laws and the will of the people,
Now, my readers. will YOU believe
me when | state that the above con
stituted plank in the Democratic
national platform in 1856, and thai
from that good honest day, June
9th, 1856, Democracy has been 81
lent on the subject of banking cor
poratiors7 Many of US waited long
patiently for rehearsal of those
Jeffersonian and Jacksonian utter
apces, but down to this late hour
silence has grown more profound
Not one such sentence or syllable
has been placed in its national form
ula, but it has said much about
"parlty," "honest money!" ratios
tariff" Federal interference, "etc.
all of which are foreign to the spirit
that gave Democracy birth. Truth
will develop in politics as we'll as
in science, and thus it has develop
ed that both the old dog fall politi
cal parties are wholly committed tt
that old royal abominatlon, il
lOathesome to ante bellum DemoC.
racy. Republlcanism developed the
royal monster from the royal egg
i. e. royal gold, and when it wa:
Matched, it SO fascinated Democracy
that it fondled and handled the ROY
al youngester lest some mishaE
might befall it, believing too, &C
cording to its past declaration, tha
the hydra-headed thing was danger
Gus to our common liberties.
Royal gold was about the only
relic of monarchical despotism lief
US after jackson had exploded thu
old Federal Bank. 1t bad beer
handed down through all the pas
generations, as hereditary insignia
of "divine right" to sway the scep
ter of tyranny over the Old World
and from Mother England, it de
s"ended to the young republic as +,
souvenir of regal majesty, and thu
we have money basis in keeping
with that "divine right" that de
throned the gods; basis that ha
, perpetuated human servitude be
yond the waters, and is forging ant
fastening letters for our enslave
ment. Even the social castles ex
listing under the monarchies ant
despotisms of Europe, and through
out the eastern world, is fast becom
ing our heritage by reason of tina
intrinsic value of gold bequeathet
us by royal parentage.
Look at the nobility and peasan.
try of England, indeed of all tn,
European governments of to-day
and see the effects of that roya
agent, intrinsic gold. Now, tina
same agent has been at work in thi
government for thirty years. Bank
ing corporations have been created
by law; the dominant political partie
have directly, or Indirectly, declared
them fixed or permanent institutions
money is no longer creature of Law
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