The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-07-12
kITIHIN At CLINTON.
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TO Euglaud's king Of gold'
These are pertinent questions that
We must answer one hundr 4 and
eighteen wears after our ems nclpa-
ton. liberation and separation from
old England. Are We not more com-
pleteIv to-day the slaves Of New In
gland aud her allies, than We were 81
old England in l11o!
when Washington, Franklin. Hen
~. Marshall, and All the slZners OF
the Declaration Of Independence
lived. with less than three millions
on this continent, they did not ask
permission OF England. Germany or
France 10 declare our ludepend-
cnce and establish our liberty. We
separated Of our OWN accord from
England. and without her permission
or consent, and against her will, and
in defiance of both her army and
navy. We established political.
commercial, industrial and financial
policy OF our own. And for more
than 50 years We followed that poil-
ry. From an infant, without advice
or consultation, or permission from
others, with our own policies, We
grew with our growth, strengthened
with our strength, prospered with
our own prosperity until we became
one Of the most civilized and power
ful nations Of the earth, with our
ships covering the seas. with our flag
respected by every nation. with a
population Of more than sixty NIL
lions. with a wealth of more than fiji
~ billions, and an annual internal
commerce of more than forty billions.
And vet with shame and Illumination
be it said, with these billions of
wealth. these millions of people, with
natural resources for further accu-
mutations Of wealth and increase of
population far superior 10 that OF
any other nation upon the earth We
surrendered our glory, prosperity and
financial and commercial policies to
England, Germany and France at
the solicitation and dictation Of their
financial institutions and their mon
led kings.
And from the day we surrendered
into the hands Of England and Ger
many, our honor, independence and
financial and commercial policies,
American commerce, transportation,
industries, business Of every kind eX~
cept the traffic in gold and gold
bonds began to show signs of dIsIn-
tegration and decentralization.
England failed in 1876, under the
leadership Of CORVALLIS, to conquer
America at the mouth of the can
non, and at the point of the oayOnet,
but in 1873 and 1898, she conquered
and captured seventy millions Amer
leans without the drawing of a sword
or the booming of a cannon, and this
under the gallant leadership Of John
Sherman of the Republican party,
and Grover Cleveland Of the Demo-
cratic party. To these two traitors
of the American people and plant
tools of Wall street and their cola
oorers in Europe and England the
world is chiefly indebted for seven
tenths of all the financial disturb
ances, business panlcs, labor demon
al Zation: strikes and lOckouts, de
precautions and shrinkage in values
throughout the nation which have
brought more misery, suffering, tri~
ais, fluctuations, poverty, nakedness,
hunger, want and starvation upon
our people in the last twenty years
than all the wars, famlnes and
plaques for the last one hundred
years.
There is but one power in the land
that can make or create and put
money in circulation, and that power
by the organized law of the land is
vested in Congress. Congress has
rejected and repudiated silver as
money. The national banks by Con
gress are empowered to increase OF
decrease the volume of money. When
it is to their advantage to initiate or
contract as may serve their purpose
they do SO. They brought on the
panic with the help of Grover Cleve-
land. They could have stopped the
panic in II hours, but that would
not have served their purposei the
fight was on silver until the end. The
people begged for bread, to them {
stone was given; they begged fol
meat. to them serpent was given
They begged for water, to them {
gall of bitterness was given. The!
begged for more money and were IN
formed they already had too much
My fellow citizens, while | speal
to you to-day, yea, this very moment
there is at Washington a Democrat,
President and a Democratic Con
gress. They have the power TO Civ,
Us relief if they would. We cry un
to them in our distress, yet they turf
deaf ear to the petitions of tn
people. They asked for a chanc
and we gave it them. Why Shout
they ask or expect support from tn
oppressed and downtrOdden longer
They have all the power that a part
can have-the President and bot
houses of Congress. If they inten
to act, why not act nowa Now is tn
accepted time. If the Democrat
party would come to the rescue c
: the people and give the relief whic
the people demand, and which they
. as a party, lave the power to dc
they could sweep every other part
off the face of the earth. But the
will not do it, and why trust thel
longer? The democratic party ha
gone over horse, foot ard dragon
to the money power that corrupte
the Republican power and there
no hope of relief coming throug
that organization as it now stand
; There is but one chance for the PEI
pie left. The great West and Sout
e. must unite against the monied int
ests of the East. We must lay pre-
Y udice aside and come together, r
e CARELESS of party or color, and mai
one common fight for our commC
interest. | appeal to you to-day,
y the name of God, to come to orr su
port and help us out of this DISTRESS
condition while there is yet chan
to unite with the great West. II
Western Repuhlicans are clamOrO,