The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-01-25
STEvEHSO, AID DOLP1 MADE
SPEECHES.
At the ANIMAL Meeting of the y. y. Bar
As.aciation.---.on4 Significant state
tnent-.

alton last Thursday we're Vice
'---It,a. S-r.rusnH and Senator
ts.aq # 0r-a.n. We make the fol-
,4irg extract from the Vice Presl-
leut's address:
FUTURE DANGER or THE COUNTRY.
"The future danger is not from IA
foreign foe, as during the first two
decades, nor along the sectional
lines, as at later period of our hist
0rv. But, with the multiplication |
and increase Of Individual fortunes
/ thus emphasizing the distance that
separates their possessors from the
/ tOIling millions with the rapidly |
augmenting power of aggregated
wealth, and the murmurlngs and
rest that follow AS the night the |
day: : with the influx and the growth |
Of the element whose principle IN
action is the destruction of the safe
guards of laws and constitutions
with the rapid increase in every field
Of endeayor of appliances which
merciessIy dispense with the labor
If human hands, and with popula-
zion pressing upon the means Of sub
sIstence-who can doubt that from
all these may spring dangers TO So
cIety, to the state, unknown to the
first century Of the republic :"
Mr.. Stevenson very truly and right
Iy says that the causes that are pill
ing up immense fortunes IN the
hands Of a few is one of the greatest
dangers threatening the country.
But he should have been more def
mite and told through what channels
the largest fortunes and the greatest
number Of miIlionaires are being
produced. lie should have classified
these millionaires and shown that
the largest number of them is pro-
duced by the present un Just financial
system. If he had doue this he
=. would have shown that these are
greater evils than the tariff. He
t would have shown that for every one
who has made a million dollars
through the r0bber tariff there are 20
millionaires produced by other causes,
other bad legislation that neither
the Democratic nor Republican par
ties dare to change.
SENATOR DOLPH'S SPEECH.
: We make the following extract:
/. "All reforms, through whatever
agencies wrought, must begin with
and be inspired by the people. The
fountain cannot rise higher than its
source. The jurisprudence of a coun-
/ try will keep pace with the general
| progress Of society, and largely rep
resent the moral and intellectual con-
, dition of the community. Like as
waters do take tinctures and tastes
from the soils through which they
1 run, so do laws vary according to the
) regions and governments where they
I are planted So said the philosoph-
zeal Bacon. Horace Mann once said !:
Let but the public mind become
E once thoroughly corrupt, and all at
y tempts to secure property, liberty, or
life by mere force of laws written on
, parchment will be as vain as to put
up printed notices in an orchard to
; keep off the canker worms
E If legislators lack the necessary
l qualifications for their positions, the
f people who elected them have no
cause for complaint. If it be de-
sirable that every man in the COM
) munity shall be entitled to partici-
e pate in the political privileges en-
| joyed by his fellow-citizens, which Is
the case under our political system,
if the people will not give the neces-
sary attention to political affairs to
secure intelligent and virtuous rep
resentation in their legislative assem-
blles, there appears to be no remedy
e for the evil"
Read the last paragraph of the
) above again. 1t contains a whole
/ volume of truth and wisdom. If the
. men III congress are not doing their
t duty, the people are themselves to
J blame, for there are men who would
( vote for honest laws and the people
5 should have sent such men to con-
gre5s. We believe they will next
/ fail. But good men should not be
put in bad company. Evil assoCia-
5 tons corrupt good Manners Then
t don't send d congressman to Wash
4 iugton with an old party label on
t him. Send him with the Peoples
party banner in his hands, then ev-
cry man he associates with will be a
friend Of the people and good govern
5 ment. 1t every voter who wants
c good government does not use his
5 vote and influence to accomplish
this, then he has no one to blame but
5 himself. A mans first duty to his
wife and children is to use his best
, efforts to see that good and just laws
are passed for them to live and work
q under. When this is done then
those who work can prosper and en-
1 Joy the fruits of their labors.
KEEP UP THE STEAM.
T