The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-12-06
He Takes Issue with capt. Lloyd on WHAT
the General Assembly should aud She Md

He Takes Issue with capt. Lloyd on vhat
the General Assembly Should aud She Md
not do.
HENDERSON, n. c., Nov. 10, "a.
EDITOR The CArCASIAN, Dear Sir
| notice your editorial calling atten-
ton to Mr.. Lloyd's letter, asking
the members of the Legislature TO
be conservative in what they did now
that they We're elected. | hope that
he did not mean that the members
OF the Legislature were not to try to
enact as much of our platform into
law as can be done by them. ! live
at the birthplace of tho Peoples
party in Vance county, AMI this cour :
ty forced the nomination of a State
ticket two years ago. We have been
in the thickest of the fight all the
time, and we want no let up until
our platform is enacted into law as
near as possible. One of the first
laws we want is a per cent interest
law, until times are better and pro-
duce sells tO1 its value and a stay
law on debts secured by real estate
with d statutory iein on the crops to
pay the interest, so that both sides
may be protected. We want a law
to kill the American Tobacco Trust
in this State unless it can be forced
to do fair bout our Tobacco, buy
ing from US at 5 to cents per pound,
and selling at i 50 per pound. They
are starving the tobacco raisers now
and if we have to starve let us get
rid of them by some means. Tie
next law we want is cutting down
tahaccO warehouse charges to rot
more than D per cent on gross sales.
Our platform calls for a settlement
of the land question. This will have
to be done by the Legislature.
have seen and read Of many plans to
settle the ownership Of land, it is d
burning question, and will in the
near future have to be settled, and
III my humble opinion the sooner We
start about it IN reasonable way
the easier it will be to settle. | am
opposed to taxing mans land away
from him, as the single taxes wish
to do, but for this State | believe
a better way will be to let every body
hNNP ibt lhO navy, Dut pass ~ Id "
that will prevent any one voter CT
single family from acquiring more
than 100 acres of land IN this State
| IN the future with proviso that a
man holding mortgage on piece
Of lard may buy it, but force him to
sell 1t for what it cost him 70 the first
one offering him the cash for it.
those having large estates will soon
b ave to divide them up between
their children, and in generation
or two the entire land will be in small
farms and nobody hurt. Let any one
Put all the improvements he pleases
on his land, and the peope in towns
might be treated in the same way by
allowing them to own lot to live on
and one to do business on. CA law Of
this kind will be the end of land spec =
uIatiOn.)
Let the proper laws be drawn that
gestiors with full safeguards SO that
everybody can understand them.
With the county government SO ar
ranged that we can get an absolutely
fair election, with nobody ruled out
on technicalities, and so arranged
that an uneducated man can vote,
With the State Institution overhaul
ed and arranged to be run on as lit
| tie money as they can, but treat them
justly without Gripping them. If
these things are done, 50 far as the
next campaign concerned, we will
have a complete walk over, and it
will be soon when the Legislature
adJOuns.
There is nothing called for IN this
article that our platform does not
plainly warrent, and it is not neces-
sary to go beyond the principles laid
down in our platform, but if we fail
to do that much we will be over
whelmed just as the Democrats are.
Let nobody in our ranks call a hault
until we do what the people elected
us to do. Yours truly,
D. II. GILL.