The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-08-08
The Observers
Observed.

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put of the toiling people to the
AMOUNT Of 500 1884, SOC. or, and are |
now collecting 81, 93S. 1885, inter
est accrued and not paid, instead of |
collecting it from the railroads; and |
N 1891 there were imported SILL |
OLE, $40 worth of farm products, while |
products of the same class rotted on |
western farms on account of the |
high freight charges on these roads
THE PEOPLE HAVE PAID
for the building of the roads, and
paid one and half times the amount;
and still owe the $64. 900 600, while
this great Democratic party, soaked
in beer and whiskey, is struggling to
place the country upon q single gold
standard money basis, so that Grover
Cleveland, John Sherman and John
G. Carlisle may have another chance
to make q contract, through ii
Cleveland's law partner, for the
sale of gold bonds that they NAV
pocket another SIP 100000.
Popnlism denounces all this and
demands that it cease. and that these
cut-throats plumber the people no
longer. Whereapon the Charlotte
Observer declares that "Populism
should be summed as leprosy;" and
the little. big man at 'Fayette" says
all this deviltry is ''better tnan Popu-
lism."
These Democratic leaders, whom
these political teachers are trying lo
defend before the people, entered
into conspiracy with such men as
Whitelaw Reid, John Sherman, Dan.
Voorhees,, German and Lodge; passed
an act of Congress June %, 1878,
which allowed the lumber trust to
steal all the timber in California,
| Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah
and Arizona, and under its terms,
the settler on the public domain
pays tribute to that trust, in which.
! like the sugar trust, some Of these
| seoundrels are stockholders. And
WHAT IS STILL WORSE,
if anything could be worse, they gave
two-thirds Of all the coal lands in
the west to the railways, by which
these roads now claim the mineral
lands of Montana, Idaho and Wash
ingtoh. These political free-booters
are largely in! crested in these roads
the controlling interest of which is
owned by the Morgan Vanderbilt
families. They have extended Mexi-
can grants in the great State of
California by falss surveys, to enable
these politicians to secure farm lands
of 200, 900 acres each, and refuse to
right this wrong; but they still con-
tlnus to levy tribute upon productive
labor to swell campaign funds, and
purchase votes, and call upon the
grand Mogul to furnish an army of
toughs to shoot starving working
men. And while pretending to ex-
clude the leprous Chinaman, they
legislated in the interest of the six
companies engaged in importing
them, looted the public treasury to
accommodate themselves and few
bankers, passed tariff bill that
DIsCRIMIFATEs AGAINST THE FARMER
and laborer, and which caused de-
felt of $4,000, 900 in revenue re-
"eipts in order to furnish a pretsxt
for issuing gold bonds. They have
passed an antitrust law that pro
tects monopoly and trusts, and
reaches importers only, and while
pretending to favor an income tax
law; they assisted in having it de-
clared unconstitutional. While pre-
tending to serve the people as repre-
ssntatlves, they absented themselves
from their posts of duty in order to
PREVENT ANY LEGISLATION
in the interest of the people of the
United States, and pretending to
favor an increase of the currency of
the country, they have voted against
every bill looking to that end for
the last forty years, 50 that to-day
there is not one dollar in circula-
ton in the United States, the issue
of which is by unanimous consent of
Democratic leaders. They arrested
and punished Coxey for demanding
relief for perishing laborers, but
wined and dined Croker who asked
protection for the sugar trust, which
taxes the breakfast table of every
toiler who uses sugar. They de-
nounce the Popullsts for introduce
ing and favoring an issue of green
back paper money for the relief of
suffering people; but issued $780,
600, 900 in paper bonds
TO BELIEVE CLEVELAND, SHERMAN
RosTHCHILDS 6 co.
Populism, with Washington, JEFF
ferson, Jackson, Benton, Webster,
Calhoun, Marion Butler and Jeter
Pritchard and host of honest states
men whose names this nation is
proud to honor, denounces such
high-handed wickedness, vile hypoc-
ricy and deceit, as a disgrace to
American craftsmanship, an insult
to common deeency, and an ugly
cartoon on the very name of civil1za-
tion; Whereupon the Charlotte OBJ
server who never heard, or read of
HALF THE DARK DEEDS
of his own party says "Populism is
a bligh worse than DEATH" and the
other little big Observer virtually
says all these dark deeds and crook
ed ways are "better than Populism. )"
Can it be because Populism favors
honesty and sobriety in it's repre-
sentatives; because it favors equal
laws for all and special privileges to
none. Is it because its members re-
fuse to bow down like crouchipe
pointer dogs to lick the filthy feet of a
set of dishonest poltroons who have
enslaved owe. forty millions of
American freemen.
Look Out Now.
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