The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-10-10
banning Sin And Treaehe!y
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the same time rob the poor, strug
Cling bond millionaire Let them,
at the same time, show why they
favor the enrichment Of the
GOLD MINE OWNER,
but 30 bitterly oppose that Of the
silver NINE ownerf Doubtless Will
son and Gorman could tell US, be-
cause they and their Democratic
confreres have given the raw mate
rial. the product OF labor, TO the
robber barons of manufacture at the
lowest prices ever known, while Civ
ing to these same law-created mil
Iionaires such ample protection that
every hurting shaft Of competition
falls harmless from their impenetra-
BILE armor. Doubtless that model
Democrat, the Chief Justice OF the
United States, could tell us. who de-
parted so far from the cautious Ian
guaQe of judicial opinion TO lecture
the anarchists OF America upon
their growing hatred of men Of
wealth, because these anarchists
naturally desired that these law
created kings of wealth should bear
equally with the toiiine masses the
burdens Of our present
ENORMOUS AND UNEQUAL TAXATION.
Again: They say that free coin
age will open the sluice gates and
flood this country with European
silver, needless of the fact that in
every European country an ounce of
silver will buy more gold than it will
in the United States. But what man
OF reason would object to the foodi
Who would not rejoice if these with
cred streams and shrunken rivers of
trade and finance flowed again as
full and free as the bounding ocean
tidesf Why, the rag money Of the
Confederacy was better medium of
exchange than this accused stand
ard OF gold. There was no boarding
then; there was no wretchejne or
want, which money could relieve. /
saw men during the war wearing five
hundred dollar French calf boots,
who to-day are
WEARING THE COARsEsT BROGANs,
the raw hide in which, it is plain to
be seen, IL duty free. How this land
arose in SO from the ruin and the
ashes of war through the benefceHt
agency of volume of money,
sound, cheap and abundant, and
fully sufficient for all business ne
cessities. No gold, and but little
silver, but
LEGAL TENDER TREASURY NOTE,
for the redemption of which every
dollar OF the inconceivable wealth
OF this great country was pledged,
and behind which were the CLEAN
ing bayonets of millions of fearless
soldiers. No boarding then In treas
ury vaults or coffeis of banks of
great cities; a ready market for
every product of the soil at paying
prices; lucrative and steady employ
mentfor every worker in shop or
field or nine. No false and lying
cry OF tariff reform affronted the
wandering and plying angels of the
air. No cry of overproduction, be-
meath whose Upas tree millions sat,
PLEADING FOR WORK, BEGGING FOR
FOOD,
repulsive in rags! No children pres
sed their naked and bleeding feet
upon the frozen bosom Of the pity
ing earth that the despotism of gold
might be established in sight of Val
ley Forge! Away with the fear of
the silver hood Let it come-a
mighty, roaring, resistless deluge
that will sweep away forever the
false sophistries of these selfish doc
trinaires.
But Carlisle says the wage-earner
wants sound dollar of undimin-
ished purchasing power. SO he may,
but he hardly wants one so sound or
so large that he will starye while
waiting to earn it. Do these feather
brain Solons never realize that their
labor has not fallen in proportion to
its productsf That the farmers, who
employ such
A VAST ARMY OF THEM
have done so at an actual loss, hop
ing always for a change that has
never comet That the time is now
here when these laborers will have
to accept gold prices for their work
or else lose employment and home
and drift upon the town as naturally
as the tides flow to the seat Have
the towns employment for themf
Have they bread to give them or
houses to shelter themP 1t requires
no spirit of prophecy to eonjure up
the appalling. ruin, which will then
CONFRONT A HOPELESS LAND!
the farm over-grown with weeds.
where the harvest waved in glitter
ing glory: the town over-run with
hungry hordes demanding bread:
war and famine and pestilence unit
ing their dread and awful forces
with the destruction Of one-half the
worlds supply of metallic money,
for WHAT In the name of God L
ask for what, save that the few NAV
OWN AND CONTROL THE EARTH.
Let Carlisle ask the gaunt and
shivering thousands who stood In
line, in the great cities, in the dis
NAL winter of '93, stalwart men
ashamed to beg, women crazed with
want, children crying with hunger,
il they want this impossible dollar
and they would spurn him with
scorn: let him ask the million tramps.
who are vainly seeking employment
in every nook of this vast land, who
are without home and hope and
they would curse his name with
eternal infamy. No! the American
laborer is too intelligent to shackle
himself with the bonds of this insati-
ate monster and despite the cunning
of these selfish pleaders,
HE WILL ARISE IN '96
panoplied with freeman's glorious
power, the chains of political bond
age snapped forever, bearing his in
cense no longer to the vile affairs of
party but to the sacred shrines of