The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-12-06
A CLEAR VIEW OF THE CASE,
A Close Observer and Veteran ReformeI
Sums up the Situation.


The republican party is once more
in the saddle. The money power
will control every branch of the
government for the next two years;
for Mr.. Cleveland is as much its
willing tool as will be the judicial or
legislative branch. Bat at the end
of that two years, what? The torns-
do which has swept the democratic
party out of existence will be as ali
evenlning breeze to the cyclone that
viii strike the republican party in
1896. The republican party in
power with Mr.. Cleveland president
means the continuation of the gold
standard. Prices will continue to
fall, unless every economist in the
world is wrong. In 1896 with the
factories closed, with a million more
men out of employment, with wheat
at 80 cents, cotton at 3 cents, the
mortgages forcelosed and our western
and mid lie state farmers turned into
tenants to foreign landlords, the
republican party will have to face a
situation much graver than that
which confronted the democrats last
Tuesday. Will the people then fly
back to the democratic party for
help?
The only way for prices to rise
under republican rule is to issue two
or three hundred millions of gold
bonds and initiate the currency with
a large issue Of national bank notes.
Without doubt it is the intention of
the leaders of both parties to enact
such legislation this winter. That
would give time enough to issue
sufficient bank notss and get them n
circulation SO as to somewhat raise
prices in 1896 and on that Whit of
prosperity republican president a. d
congress could be elected. More
bonds means more taxes. More hank
notes means more interest, and pay
day for both interest and taxes must
me. What then? Bond slavery
and American peasants and tenant
farmers.
Is there any line of defence that
can be thrown up by the few patri-
otic American citizens who under
stand political economy that can stop
;he al vance of such conditions upon
us? | think there is,
As strange as it may seem to some
the citadal Of our strength is the
United States senate. A battle
must be fought there this winter as
fierce and prolonged as any recorded
III history. Bonds aud bank notes
must be killed in the United States
senate. Our little band of Populists
must be prepared to talk, not only
fifteen but fifty hours, even if they
drop dead in their tracks. Posteri.
ty will bear them in grateful remem
brance.
As an assistant force every Pop
ulist must PUT on the full armor OF
God, go ont and fight all the com
ing winter f n his home, his wife and
his little ones as he never fought
before. Talk to his neighhors.
,read scientific economic literature
but most of all extend the circula-
ton of reform papers. A weekl.,
paper makes more votes and creates
more public opinion than anything
Else.
If we can prevent the issue OF
bonds and bank notes the republicaa
party will be hurled into perdition it
1896, and the people will regain
their lost heritage.
In regard to the recent election
there is everything in the result IL
cheer and nothing to discourage
The Populist vote has been every.
where enorm usly increased, save ii
the famine stricken states of Kansas
Nebraska, Colorado and South Da
kota. Not less than $4,000 votes
have been driven out of these states
in the last few months, as the hot
winds and drouth left no food il
them on which these voter could
subsist.
Ten thousand voters left Kem'.
district and more than that numbel
Jerry Simpsons. And yet KEN il
reelected The bankers poured none!
into these and other districts, where
helpless men, surrounded by starving
women and children, fell before III,
alternative to take money for tn i
votes or see their dear ones starve
Even under this awful pressure, tn
total straight Populist vote was re
f, duced but slightly in only one state
The men who thus stood firm in tn
Valley Forge of contest, will not b
forgotten by the historian.
On the other hand there are i'm
mense gains in all other states AM
especially in the south.
J The men who have enlisted in thi
war will win the battle or die in th
trenches. TIL TIBBLEs
The National Watchman and TH
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