The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-05-16
Medlcus" Gives the Plans of two
Great Spoliation Schemes
Prophecies of Lincoln and
Greely.
PEOPLE BEGGED TO AWAKE!
Ringing Letters From Men Who Think
some Thoughts for the Digestion of
the Dougiassasses--One Million Cauca-
SLAMS Seeded-i he Light BEING Turned

| III Florida few years ago stopped
at meeting house and heard a hymn
sung which ended In this way:
De road am wide, and hell is deep
| Oh, man, your days is mum bered'
That Is d. song the American peo-
| pie want to learn and sing, for if
they do not wake up 10 realization
TO their true condition, and that, too.
| IN the near future, their days Of
| civil liberty are numbered.
This financial condition that is so
rapidly absorbing the wraith Of the
| word Is not the result Of day 1t
| Is not the result Of conspiracy
hatched up in Lom bard aud Wall
| streets few years ago, when the
Hazard letter was written. 1t goes
back of that. This thing began
away back in 1920, when Great
Britain did that philanth ropic act
that poets and orators have lauded
TO the skies, when she liberated the
African slaves within her borders
Then 1t wa that a contest began be-
| tween two systems of spoliation.
One may be denOminated as the
British system, and the other the
Spanish system.
The Spanish system contemplate
ID the spoliation of labor simply
by owning the slaves and assuming
the responsibility of their care.
| The British system inaug-
urated then in connection
with the fiscal policy OF
Great Britain perpetual debt and
gold standard) contemplated the
wage system with all that it implies.
There was 30 more philan-
thropy about Great Britain
IN emancipating her slaves
than there was in her shoot
ng down Cinnamon to make them
nuy her opium. Then again the
contest between these two systems
began in the United States, pre-
NOTED by the dollar worshippers of
New England ON the one hand,
where a factory system similar TO thai
Of Great Britain had been esta biished
and the Spanish system on the other.
And that contest went on. The Brit
ish idea naturally gained force and
strength, until 1861, when the con
test began, which was to end in
landing the entire christian civil
zation of the world under the Eng
lish system of spoliation instead OF
the Spanish.
Let us hear what Il. G.. Balwin
"a Union soldier, had to say IN d
speech on this subject about two
years ago:
|
Think Of the noble fellows in their gar
ments OF blue, listening TO the strains O
john browns pouy We marched to th
heights of Fredericksburg and onwards t.
AppOmattox. thought we were fight
ing Tor human freedom. We were made t.
. think that, but that contest, gentlemen, wa
nothing but a contest between two riva
systems, each one of which had for its oh
ject the spoliation of labor. And whel
that conflict was at its height, in London
T was seen conclusively that the British sys
) TEN was to go to the front and the Spanisl
syste Ii 90 to the wall. England had learned
that The British policy OF hiring labor an
then controlling prices by controlling tn
j volume Of money. was cheaper and NOR
profitable to capital; that it was cheaper t
g., lire labor than 1t was to own it. Then
was that the Hazard circular was sent to ap
peal to the greed of the manufacturers VIII
t had become bankers in New England an
: New York and Pennsylvania. Then it wa
|
inausurated to establish a syster
: of finance which is fast reducing th
: whole people to the condition of del
slaves
Y Horace Greely saw very clearl
5 that the blishment Of the Brit
J. ish system meant slavery not onl
i to the blacks, but the whites alst
: and these were the words for whic
s the money power drove him frol
d the office Of the Tribune with
If broken heart to the grave. He sal,
II I'VE boast of having liberated 10000
r. of slaves, True, We have stricken Il
shackles from the former bondsmen al
'o brought all iabOrers TO common leyt
K but not 50 much by eeyating the form
9 slaves as by practically re,iuci Z the who
IN working population to a state of serfdon
While bOasting of our noble deeds we a
careful to conceal the ugly fact that
our lniqultOus monetary system We ha'
nationaIized system of oppression more I
,e fined, but none the less cruel than the o
ct system of chatiel slavery"
,e The great martyr President wi,
x prophetic eye, as the war clot
Ie cleared away, saw these terrible co
90 ditions coming, and to friend
10 Illinois, Mr.. Lincoln wrote as fo
H. lows:
* eyes, we all may congratulate oursel,
An that this cruel war is nearing its clcse
oI has cost vast amount of treasure a
q, blood. The best blood of the flower
lu American youth has been fir
l; y Offered tae tho upon nsion our p;,,ht eounff
1t has been indeed a trying hour for
" republic but see in the near future, a cri
se approach ng that unnerves me and causes
of to tremble for the safety of my country.
he q result of the war, corporations have be
enthroned and an era of corruption in hi
places will follow, and the money power
.al reign by working upon the pr JUDGES
the people until all wealth is segregated
'o a few hands. and the republic is destroy
,ro | feel at this moment more anxiety for
of safety of my country than eyer beft
even in the midst of war. God grant t
my suspicious may prove groundless."
of Let US pause here and glance
lit the history of other people. Histt
mr. records the downfall of no nat
rec that did not die of its own sins. Egg,
xo- owed her downfall to the conc
as tration Of wealth in the hands of
t it few. Just before her downfall tn
sti per cent of the people owned nine
NO- seven per CcHt' VI hci "oniiA' w
hat at the hight of her glory, had
ons population of land owners. At
.lso zenith of her real greatness
power, eighty-fve per. cent. of
population held titles in land,
cultivated their own. Then
on people were happy, prosper
ven hardy and brave; her legions v
ere invlncjb]e. Then her currency v
put in volume, one thousand eight b
'ns, dred millions. When Rome perlsl
her lands and wealth were in