The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-08-22
vided the money and the debts have
been heaped doubly high on the

on these Two metAl1-8OI0 ana Silver.
The values Of the world, amounting to |
S45O, 10000 rest like . pyramid on
these narrow foundations. Now then |
divide this basis; that il to say, take
away one Of the foundations-remove |
half Of the basis and by mathematical
law familiar to you all, II 10 clear that
the pyramid Of wealth will not be sus- |
tanned and upheld rs firmly and safely
rs it rested on the former basis, and
therefore the pyramid Of wealth must
be dwarfed and shrivaled to ACCOM-
mOdate itself to that narrow base.
There has been a decline in all hu-
man industries, and SO in the indus
try you may safely believe and know
that the foundation Of values has been
partially destroyed. / think there is
not gold man here that will make a
prediction when the time will come
when this decrease in the price of all
products will cease.
twenty-five years ago about thirty
millions Of people were on a single
gold standard and the volume Of gold
now is but slightly increased over W hat
it was then. To-day the thirty mil
lions are three hundred and sixty mil
lion people and all this vast multitude,
a seeking to place themselves Oh a gold
basis, have caused a
STRUGGLE FOR THAT METAL
which has been fierce and disastrous.
Debtor nation after debtor nation has
been bidding for the gold of the world,
| willing to give up all their products
| for the small volume Of that metal.
Is this nation willing to give up the
burden Of human industry for the in
terest that gold demandsp Shall we
allow any nation to dictate to rs and
tell US that we must do it? tell you,
you may come to the conditions which
prevailed at one time in old Eng
land. You
CAN ENsLAvE ANY NATION
on the globe il you will impoverish
them sufficiently. Turn to the second
volume Of Green's History of the Eng
lish people, and you will read how
they were held as slaves by the Lords
of the manor. Take from the farmer
and labOrer their right to ownership in
the lands, and il they still till the soil,
nearly all the products of their toll,
the fruits Of their labor must 20 to the
land owner as interest, and when this
oppressive system causes the producer
OF wealth to cry QUITO protest-to
condemn this system of starving hu-
man life, he is driven away and becomes
a vagabOnd in search Of food.
AS was indicated on this platform
this morning concerning prices, what
avails it for you to know that food is
cheap when you
HAVE NO MONEY
to purchase with.
At time when beef could lie bought
for two shillings head and wheat was
three pence bushel, more people
starved to death in England than ever
before or since.
While we mouth the prayer, "Give
us this day or daily bread" and then
find that we have asked of Divine
Father that Of which he has already
given us too much, against that prayer
we hear from men on earth the CRY of
"OverprOductiOn." And such a cOndi-
ton cOnfrOnts the American people
today. Too much wheat! More people
starved to death last year than at any
time in our history.
YET WE HAD "ovERPRODUCrIoN."
Cotton was never so low, and vet there
were more rags lining our bea ten paths
than ever before known. People went
hungry-ln rags and tatters-because
they could not buy sufficient of the
staff of life nor the covering made
from that cotton.
There are some nations that are short
on these articles, and though they want
them they do not buy from us. Then
my gOldbug friends, tell us when this
condition will cease.
saw 1t quoted in yesterdays New
York paper that the "geld reserve"
WAS BEING DRAWN UPON
to pay obligations abrOad-tO pay in
terest on bonds which are held by those
VINO produce not, but who wiring from
those who do produce, the tribute to
gold bond interest. This and other
causes for drawing on the reserve will
continue from time to time, until the
reserve shall go below the customary
amount. Then will there be another
cry of "lack of confidence" in the ability
OF the government to meet it oblipa-
tiOns; and in view of these obligations
upon the people, more of the same
nature will be put upon them in the
interest of and maintenance for this
gold standard. We have had it now in
operation for more than two wears: set
on us by those from whom we had a
right to expect broader and better and
more humane civilizing policies.
nave my doubts Senator( addressing
Mr.. Butler) If any man that you have
ever seen gathered grapes from thOrns
or ngs from thlstles. Arthur Pue Cor
man said at Saratoga this week that he
favored the issue Of more bonds. And
yet see some sOutherners advocate
MIN for President, and these are free
silver men, too. Rather expect to
gather grapes from thorns and figs
from thistles than to expect
TO GET WHAT YOU WANT
by electing candidate who holds diff
ierent views and different principles
from your own. The trouble today in
this nation comes from those who do
not mold consistency in conscientious
conviction as a true factor i'm nolitics
In speech in Congress August 18th.
two years ago, l spoke of the terrible
ravages of the chinch-bug and other
bugs among the farmers.
You of the south have had the cotton
bug. You of the west have had the
chlnch bug. We of the north have had
the potato bug, and scattered around
pr0mlscuOusly has been the bedbup.
but indigenous to Lombard and wall
streets, thrives and fattens another
pug. they even break their way into
the capitol at times, and these bugs
goldbugs-have bitten and ANNOYED
more people than all the bedbug tribe.
ana their ravages in your fertile fields
| exceed In damage in a single year the
damage wrought by the combined
efforts Of all other bugs for a century
We have found antidotes for ali Of
them, including the goldbug. But the
bug l am most afraid of now
Is THE sTRADDLE BUG,
who is on one side one day and on the
other the next. The politician is the
political tumble bug-the straddle bug
tnat VIII ouzz for silver or for gold ac-
personal political ends and aspirations
You are not going to get reform
from these parties, my friends, and Won
can't point me to one reform that ever