The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-10-03

S'e'eiano ana MS hirelings: that IL Il
20 LONGER THE SYNONYM
OF those principles TO which jefferson
pointed as to constellation. and u hich
the great Vance declared immortal.
That name - now but the lions skin that
covers the brayiDg ass Of mugwump-
cry and Clevelandism, or the whites,
sepulcher OF a rotting, intolerant. ty-
rannicai, monopoIistic plutocracy. Its
Difficult to uuder-tand how any honest
man. fully acquainted with economic
| conditions and political history. can
remain in the so-calied Democratic
| party.
Popular discomfort is widespread and
deep seated. In this great nxiion-tbe
strongest and richest on earth-it is
seen on every hand. Why: Because
the people have awaked to the fact that
they are not receiving their fair share
OF national wealth. 4 false system of
distribution, fostered by national laws,
has filled the
SOUTH AND WEST WITH MORTGAGES
and the northeast with millinnaires.
they see ,l0s millioncires in the two
cities OF New York and BROOKLYN.
They know that sonnet hing like equal
Ity OF taxation having been obtained
by an income tax, the same W as declared
unconstitutional by Democratic Judge
and a burden Of $40, OOO, 900 rIaced back
upon the shoulders OF the suffering
masses of America. They read the fol-
lowing about Democratic Senator'S
rampant gold bug recently endorsed
by the Democratic convention of Ohio !:
"Calvin s. Brice, the Democratic l.. S.
Senator representing Havemeyer, dur
ing the late fashionable season in
Washington paid out $4,000. or $l6,-
| $685. month, for swell dinners, great
social Outbursts, rainbow rackets, pal
ace car plunges, sideral musicales and
high kicking dances. He paid Melba
81 800 for two little trills, and De Reskes
81 600 for one baritone snort He al
lows his two daughters $4,000 year
each for pin money, and his sons
$4,000 each to maintain style. He has
social director, a fashion pilot whom
he pays $4,000 a year. This is the
Democratic L. S. Senator who repre-
sents trusts, syndicates, combin mes, pools,
Wall street, ROthschilds, and anything
and everything else connected with
the money power, and fairly represents
the general makeup of the nations
House of Lords. No wonder that the
|
They cry aloud: "What can the
plain people, the suffering, monopoly,
millionaire ridden masses of this coun-
try expect from the Democratic party?'
The people find themselves con-
frOnted by the greatest issue that has
ever presented itself in this country.
They are told that One-half of their
money OF redemption was stolen from
them by the " crime of 1873" They are
told that contraction of the currency
and single gold standard means the
ruin of the republic, and
ESPECIALLY OF THE AGRICULTURIsTs
They are told by such high authori-
ties as Senator Jones, Senator DAME!
and Senator Vance that wheat and cot
ton, the leading products of our soil,
have for twenty years been falling in
price in consequence of the demOneti-
cation of silver, and that they will con-
tinue to fall until silver is remOnetiZed.
They read from the greatest statesmen
and statisticians that:
"The extent of the fall in the gem
eral range of prices cannot be exactly
stated, but tables made at different
times by Soetb beer, Saurbeck, Palgrave
the London Economist, and variOusska-
bles in this country, brought down to
1898 show an average fall of prices of
from 33 to 45 per cent, which is equiv
alent to rise in the PURCHASE ing power
of gold of from so to so per cent.
"That as, on an acreage, three to three
and q half measures Of ererything, or three
to three and a holf days labor, must BE-
giren for the same quantity of gold Thich
tr0 measures or tUo days labor ,rould Or
tain before silrer ,ras demonetized."
Our people demand the free, unlim.
tied and independent coinage of silver
The republican party has always stOOC
against it. The Democratic party il
hOpelessly divided on the subject anC
helpless in the power of the Money
Bugs of the East and the tories of thu
. South and West.
Mr.. j. p. Caldwell editor of one OF
the principle Democratic papers il
North Carolina recently declared in al
editorial that cit is useless to try tt
fool the people; there is no hope O.
the freq coinage of silver
IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY"
. Many prominent Democrats in NORTH
Carolina would not hesitate to sacrific,
silver in order to preserve the Demo
cratic party. Indeed Mr.. Daniels an(
Mr.. CaldWell-One a silver man, tn,
other for gOld-have announced tina
they will stand on the National Demo
cratic platform, be it for silver or gold
Roger Q. Mills, one of the Democrat
, ic leaders of the Nation, says bold!
that he is against silver and declare
he is following the example and teach
ings of the principles of the Democratic
party, and its greatest leaders IN recen
years. And upon investigation it ap
, pears that Mr.. Mills is right about tin
Democratic record being against sill
yer. Here is the record:
"The Democratic party had the 49tl
Congress solid by forty DemOcrati
: ma jOrity, and right then and there j
killed the bill before it providing TO
; the free coinage of silver at the old
, time ratio of Is to l.
: "The SIND Congress wallowed alOn,
with it's l4S Democratic majority, an
when the free coinage bill came be
p fore it knocked it aside with grea
e hurrah at having taught the peOpl
who were in debt one more lesson, tina
q those in debt had no right to deman
any cheapening of money, but shout
be willing to pay their debts in tn
| dearest money they could, becaus
: they might at some time in the futur
| De mllI1OnalreS anu nave HO use ~
q cheap money.
; "In July, 1892, the Republican senat
:, passed free coinage bill, and tn
Democratic majority in the Lowe
House defeated it with great WHO'D
= and shouting for joy. The action c
the Democratic Congress caused grea
; rejoicing among the mOney-lenders j
r New York, who did not want to co
lect what was due them as principal
y they could only have interest and nor
n taxation for generations to come.
"On the 2sth of August, 1898, Cor
: gress turned its eighty Democrat
y majority head on against the amend
r ment to a bill calling for free cOinag
of silver, and grover Cleveland the
h wrote to banker in the city of Ne
Is York, saying that the Democrat
j. party machinery was planted ar
geared for eternal opposition to silv'