The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-04-25
Friends, citizens. fellow couutrymeu
eyerywhere-do you remember?

| the Hich AaD = Fame IN 1875, do
you remember how bankers. money
lenders. spectators. gamblers, and
shylocks everywhere raised n cry
Of hard times and dis'ressf Do you
r"memb Der that they poured petl'lop
on petition {uot on CONGRESS IN ses
SION bat on the President 10 CALL
AN EXTRA SESSION OF CONGRESS Il
give them reI,eff Were they told
| that legislation edHnot hsip your Were
| they told to go back home; WORK
| HARpER, MAKE MORE and KEEP OUT
| OF POLITICS. Friends and fellow
citiz ms do you
REMEMBER WHAT WAS DONEg
Listen \ spectai sessio1. of Congress
was called. a Democratic President
called Democratic Congr ss to
| oether to give relief to the banks
DC. Was ever such Il thing done for
the hard working wealih-l PRODUCING
people of the United STATE :. Are ycu
thinking about these things now Lis
| ten, That Congress-that President
sqnarely, unoquivocaliy aud as ths
people thought, honestly pledged 1T"
the coinage of both golh and silve,
without discrimination against meta
or charge for mintage deliberately
| openly and brazenly struck from
silver all the little lite they found IL
1t, and left this country financial,
speaking. on a contracted gold basis,
the results of which, during the past
two years ought to convince any sane
man that. if per listed in, will reduce
he masses Of the people to poverty
then beggary-then slavery. Do you
see lt9 Are you studying and think
ing of these matters9 Are you a
man? DO you want to be a freeman?
Think, think, oh men Of Carolina:
for Gods sake-for humanity's sake :,
thluk-and then if you are man.
ACT. There can come time when
it will be too late to think or act.
ONCE MORE REMEMBER.
That Grover Cleveland sold 562,-
600, 900 Of four per cent thirty-year
bonds for $9,OO0,00O less than they
were worth in the market. That he
sold these bonds to English shylocks
through the agency of Francis Lynde
Stetson, his former laso partner. He
made the sale by a secret deal with
out consulting Congress or the coun-
try. By this secret dicker made by
Cleveland and his cretary. C"rllsle,
the country was robbed of $9, 900, 900
To say that Cleveland and his secre-
tary received no part of the stolen
money is the same as to charge them
both with being idiots; but they are
not idiots, and therefore must have
each received lib raj part of the
money which was stolen. These high
officials stand before the honest, in
teligent world as thieves, and there
Is no word of milder meaning that is
at all adequate to express the char
acter of their crime.
THE KEYNOTE FOR 60
The goidbug press, both Demo
cratic and Republican have taker
Claveland's letter az the ''key-note'
for the campaign Of 1896. The Phila
delphia Times says:
Disguise it as we may. the line of battl,
is drawn between the forces of safe cuIrenc,
and those of silver mono metaliiSm" Tha
sentence in the Presidents Chicago letter i
regarded by political leaders as d campag
Keynote for 1896 and as a warning to tn,
rabd, populistic free silver element which i
endeavoring to dominate and destroy tn
) Democratic party. The President and tn
sound money wing of the DemOcracti
T party intend to soffer no sop to the silve
men this year, next year, or at any othe
time.
The New York Times says:
Of ho~
friends of sound money in Chicago is con
tanned in these two paragraphs:
Il hope, however, the event will mark tn
. beginning of an aggressive effort to dissent
nate among the people safe and pruden
/ financial ideas. Nothing more important ca
5 engage the attention of patriotic citizens, be
Z cause nothing Is SO vital tot welfare of on
1 fellow cOunttyman and to the strength
a prosperity. and honor of our nation
= The situation we are confronting de
: mands that those who appreciate the i'm
portance- of this subject. aud those VIII
e ought to be the first to see impending daI
Y ger, should no longer remain Indifferent c
oyercontdent
e In confronting an enemy so numerOu
r and alert. overcontidence would be an III
n pardOnable breach of the rules of pruden(
, and safe tactics.
l. Mr. Cleveland has spoken the needed wore
a For two years at least, unless a Republica
t Congress can muster a tWO-thirds vote fC
{. the silver standard, a Democratic PreSidel
will shield US from commercial disaster an
national dishonor.
y And this is what man does
lS94-95, when he was pledged to a
v exactly opposite policy in lS92-an
r was elected on that expressed polio,
: SOME ANSWERS TO THE LETTER.
It The goldbug demagogy in Clev,
d lands letter has not gone uncha
lenged or unanswered:
w II. Harvey, author of "Coin
Financial School," says in reply:
&c You call the attention of farmers al
$ wageealners to the fact that the risil
t. prices, while enabling them to sell their pr
, ducts and labor at higher price, will al
)> cause them to pay equally more for VIII
= they may purchase, but you neglect to s.
that your statement IS not applicable
debts. With prices coming down regular
III and steadily since the demon netization of S
yer, our merchants, manufacturers al
" ~ people generally have been doing busint
M '.i on falling market, SO that the time int,
~, vening between the purchase of their MT
u chandiSe or raw material and placing
~ months after on the market has remov
nc the margin they would have otherwise mac
III This shrinkage in values. added to tie or
M a. nary risk and expense of business. brs Led
ar an ever-increasing volume of debt. to
,Ss' S money lending PERIOD until it has -hcreas
&C. all told, public and private, to about 81
s 0o0. 900, 900, or'about two thirds of the TO
,re ne value of all the property in the United Stat
w. We have constantly pointed the people
ID! M the ever-increasing interchangeable value
M i' the creditors dollar and to the reason W
AZ AZ it was increasing, bat the influence of tn
'e creditors have DOMINATED your administ
ton, and YOU insist on such a currency
| q al
- 1t means the CoNFIsCATIoN of the property
ne the people by the sale of property un
nd MORTGAGES, judgments and EXECUT oss.
re means that fixed incomes will wipe out
interest Of hundreds in our railroads 8
corporations.
}. If ii Is an injustice to restore prices so t
-, people can exchange their property 70
dF sufficient number of dollars to pay ii
So debts and bring happiness and prosperity
ars our land again. it was a greater in justic
,y destroy the value OF property and enha
~ the value oe money by the demonetizat
as of silver and the establishment OF a sir