The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1894-10-18

charged mr 11 r'-. ! nave not gain
ii -y c'-.. but / have ..~t + ci~ But
suppose the price of bag.Iug aHd
ties was reduced Iu c's. a. be- say:
y,~i-rd - sold bale Of cottor and
got .xa, Ills - 90 less for j. than |
.,ut Tor "a bale last year at ex-rtly
lie $50 rle Wright and grade. :" Il
s. nat a-- -as> I~ trle au - i - -
Hrr-" of Oh every bale oi cotton
t"r1It SAYS me 30 cts they hN II "a
lie mouey powers rob me ri SO
Does n MT prove what told Won b,.-
torc. that the tariff = Il small thing
compared Ia this infamous financial
system! Does anybody III TINS al
d.ence wautany NOR" reforms Ink"
thI~' Their reform reminds me % a
story ot a frog that va, trying 1"
jump out Of a we'll; he Jumptu NJ
two feet and fell back three. II,
Jumped up two feet again and tell
back three more tctt. lou have all
heard of the Ittle boy who wa, put
to figuring 10 see how lor =
It would take TINS frog 10 get cat al
5he we'll. After figuring five hours
and covering every slate and every
piece OF paper with figures, the hoy
called out for another sheet OF pa
per san my. thar he had that frog IN
naIf mile of hell. and be would he
there IN ten minutes. And this Is
the way the Democratic reform J.
saving you IOcts on a bale OF cotton
and rubbing you Of - 90 at the same
rlme which makes you $50 poorer,
and $40 nearer the frogs purgatory.
A for that knife that he said he
bought Of Mr.. Hop Smith, want 10
say my friends according to his own
admission, it will take seven pounds
Of cotton to pay for that knife.
Is that knife worth seven pounds OF
your cotton! When cotton was sell
ing at ID cts a pound y"u could have
bought two knives Just like II fOI
seven pounds of cotton. In short
my friends had rather pay the tar
If under the Mckinley bill with plen
ty of money III circulation, than to
pay the tariff under the Democratic
blll on single gold standard. ! had
rather pay the tariff under the Nc
kniy iii with plenty Of money in
circulation than TO pay a ten per
cent. tariff which would he % cts.
lower than the present Democratic
tariff with gold standard mona
AIRY system. In short my friends,
| had rather pay the tariff under the
IA w All t..t. IL,
than to live under free trade, with
no tariff at all, with the present in
famous gold standard financial sys-
tenn
What you want to know is not
how to spend you money, but how
10 get II. Ii there Is no money IN
circulation you can't get any
thing for what you have got to sell
you can't get any money. Ii you are
IN debt, you can't get the money to
pay it. You want to educate your
children and can't do it. Your tax
IS are to pay and you have got moth
ing to pay with. When you are in
this fix what good is tariff juggelling
going to do you?' My friends let Us
lOOh Tic " uCSIIoI III the lace.
The great all absorbing and over
shadowing issue in National politics
today is more money. There never
can be any better times, tariff or no
tariff until the money changers and
ShylOckS are driven out of your Ma
tiOnal Halls of legislation. Until
such men as Grover Cleveland, Matt
Ransom and even Simmons are driy-
eli from power and the people once
more take charge Of their govern
ment; defy the London gold-bugs
and set up an honest financial sys-
N of their our own. Will you do it!
I Yes, yes, from hundred voices in
the audlence.)
Mr.. Sin mons says he is in favc1
half hearted way and not because
ne meant it, bat because he thought
ne had to do 1t to keep from being
condemned by you all. You notice
that he tried to dodge the money
question by saying that while we
| might need more money, vet thai
the greatest trouble was that what
money We had was now concentl ated
IN certain ccnters; and then he dOdy
es the question still further by tell
ing you the tariff was the cause OF
money concentrating III certain cen
| tiers, He knows that this is not So
and if he didn't know it before TO
day, | have just taught him that.
| Applause. Didn't | ask him to
name one Millionaire that had made
million out of the tariff, and
would name two that had made il
out Of this financial system. Voices
IN the audience yes. yesuD No
| Ar. Simmons is not IN favor of more
money, he is in favor of Matt Ran
SONS going back to the United
| States Senate, and it was Matt Ran
som who co-Operated with Join
Sherman and the other goldbugs t.
pass the National Banking act OF
1922, which has done more to con
| centrate money in certain centers,
| 10 make money scarce, and to make
times harder than all of the tariff
bills ever passed put together. Mr.,
Simmons knows this, yet he lodges
the issue and tries to deceive YOU
with the old cry of tariff
Mr.. Simmons told you that be was
IN favor of free silver. My friends
this Is not true, and | can prove it
to you by his own words. In his
speech, after telling you he was for
free silver, he then proceeds to use
the fOllwing language:
II denOunce the decentralization of
silver, if what has been done can he
called decentralization of silver. II
England and Germany and other
countries would agree to it, we could
have free coinage again right away.
but the time Is not ripe now for free
coinage of silver. If it had not have
been for the panic | believe that
the Democrats In the last Congress
would have at least commenced mi.
tiatory steps towards coming of sil.
YER"
My friends what do you think OF