The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-04-18


IS looking after fat places for hi,
relations and friends, if his hear
longs for the smiles of aristot rac )
| and the fawning of sycophants. be
has only to be the willing tool q
plutocracy and all these things are
| within his easy grasp. If thus ht
chooses. his future pathway i
strewn with flowers, and for hin
there is the purple and fine linen OF
Dives.
On the other hand, if he cham,
plons the cause of the people, and
stands up for the Nations toilers and
antago zes. Shvlo ks who are en-
Shaving the honest yeomenry of the
country,
HE WILL BE CALLED CRANK,
an agitator and an Anarchist.
He viii be scorned by society. ma
ligned, abused and ridicu'ed by the
plutocratic press aud treated dis
courteously and snubbcd by those
in power, and given to uud rstand
that he has no influence with the ad-
ministration.
This condition confronts every
man who is chosen to represent tn,
people, and he must become an ally
of the aristocracy of wealth, apd de-
sert the people, or stand up for the
rights of the people and be
HATED BYTHE MONEY POWER.
Surrounded by lobbyists and cor
ruptionlsts, with unlimited money to
purchase votes, with avenue afte,
avenue to luxury ard ease contin
ually open to the mental vision, sur
rounded by vice and profligacy, is i,
to be wondered at that so many Of
our public men fall victims to the
temptation, and forget the poor
tollers who labor in the mines and
factories, the vineyards and the
fields, and who are looking to thei,
leaders in such intense, fearful sus
pense2 Here lies the great danger
This is the very root of the evil, the
source of all our ills.
SO long as the trusts and monopo
lies mold such unlimited power, just
so long will our legislation become
MORE CORRUPT AND VICIOUS.
The greedy, unserupulous, graspipg
trusts have entered the halls of
Congress and they have polluted the
men whom the people have trusted,
and instead OF a government by the
people, it is a government by a
money oligarchy, The capital city
of our nation is reeking with rotten
ess; corruption and bribery stalk
hand in hand with luxury and Ii
centiousness. The man who sells
his vote loses his honor and becomes
the prey of vicious habits Once
started on the downward road there
is no stopping, and he becomes the
easy tool of the money power. Thus,
it has come to pass that the Con-
gress of the United States is ever
ready to
FOSTER THE ROBBER TRUSTS
while the people are starving. We
talk of reform along certain lines;
We hold mon ter meetings and pc
tition Congress for the passage of
certain laws in the interest of the
people, and we wait and fondly hope
for good. wholesome legislation,
when the very men who are to pass
the laws have sold themselves to the
money changers. We must break
the hold which the money power has
upon this nation ere we can hope for
reform. We must scourge the Shy
locks from the capital even as Christ
scourged the money changers from
the temple, and we must turn out the
urfaithful servants, and with them
the corruptionists, the lobbyists, the
rogues and prostitutes who make of
the great capitol building at Wash
ing on
VERITABLE DEN OF THIEVES.
Il we would have the stream pure we
must purify the hee d waters, SO if we
would have just laws, passed in the
interest of the men and women who
have produced the wealth of this ma
ton, we must work a reformation
among those who give us the laws.
With an earnest desire to reveal to
the American people this most shock
ING oldCO VI dhdII D ,duu W SuOW lutLu
the source of the great danger which
menaces US, l wrote my book eff
Christ Came to Congress-" The PIE
lures there drawn are no doubt vivid
and startling, but this is because
they are true-taken from real life.
The plutocratic press all over the
country is heaping abuse and vitu-
pera,ion on me for drawing aside
the veil so that the voters of this
country might look upon this
SHOCKING SCENE OF CORRUPTION,
shame and debauchery, and l have
been threatened with ostracism by
Washington society and expulsion
from Congress because Of ths reve-
lations and~exposures | have made;
but in spite of all this, propose to
WELD my pen and raise my voice ip
behalf of the honest toilers who have
elected me to Congress, and to "cry
aloud and spare not" until every man
in the land shall be acquainted with
the true situation and stirred to &C
ton.
Let me conclude with picture of
the closing scenes Of the session of
Congress which expired March 4'h
1t was the holy Sabbath day, and
the church bells were ringin mer-
rily over the city In the capitol,
CHAMPAGNE FLOWED LIKE WATER.
Committee rooms became temporary
brothels. Women of i'll repute
swarmed the corridors and sang
songs in the public restaurants with
inebriated Con ressmen. II have
seventy five dozen glasses OUT said
Tom Murray, the disgusted catere,
of the House restaurant. "That
tells the story of the committee
rooms better than any words | couIt
utter"
In front OF the main door IS per-
feet cloud OF gentlemen interested in
legislation. Some of tha faces are
familiar and have been seen here fol
| tho lost