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

! - the ~llNtf wen moose IhsIT stand
.,rd H.arcr--Ih. G"Idit.. Likewise
the Monopoly Hosts of the Past aud
>"rth Line up, aud let the Masses Fac.
Them.
senator VIM. w. Stewart has writ
ten 20 letter to Hon. Joseph {. Hendrix
Hho recently made u speech at the
Manufacturers Banquet ia behalf Of
the gold standard. Ey courtesy OF the
senator the letter T., here produced
I>riEp STATES SENhrE,
W,-m>GroN. March 10th, 1898.
U.o J,,,ph =. HrDd,.,,, Pr.s,j,m Va
uouoi tDioo Eoot, N,,r lo,t C,ty,
W.:
DENR SIR: Tn" many ilattcring no
tprc- of an address delivered by you IA
few weeks ago at the Manufacturers
Banquet in Brooklyn attracted my at
tcutiou, ANA led me tO procure the ad-
dress which | found published in the
iruaucicr ui February -, 1885. !
have carefully read the published re-
port of your address, and congratulate
yuu ON the frank and outspOkcn man
urr in which you present the issue.
ou say:
a, We have fooled with schemes and
accepted compromises We hayc gone from
hud rO worse, and we now, in the absence of
international settlement must take Il ste nd
for final and decisive battle IN this cOun-
trv Lincoln said that this country could
mot remain half slave and half free. Free
dom or slavery had to 90 Nor can it re
main M doubt ~ to its ultimate standard
pl value. GOLD or silver will have to win
the contest. Secession and slavery fought
Ou tine same lines. They are buried beyond
the reach of the resurrection trump. Silver
belongs to both of them as an issue in
American politics. IT there is to bc battle
oi the standards fought out at the next
PRESIDENTIAL election, we of the New Eng
land and middle StatcS and of the area
ul the great rivers, are ready to throw off all
party trdppIngs and meet the issue in the
common interest of our republic and have
done with it, No more Janus faced plat
fOrms, no more Good LOrdtiOOd Devil
leadership, no more shifting dudging,
trimming or time serving among Pr 81
dental candidates Let the silver men
choose of their number. Let the single
standard men choose of their number and
zen let the American people decide
! hail the bold language which you
npIOy. rcioice that your position
endorsed by the bankers and gold
res of New York. | am glad that
hO~" for whom you speak are at last
Wiling to abandon their tactics OF
raud and cunning aud do battle for
b. classes in the open field. If your
Mu %tlage had been employed in IS1:
thcrr would have been no battle of the
-. L.. a a 4. "A L..
pie of the I'nited states twenty-five
years ago last February, that you
would destroy onr-half of the world's
money by excluding silver from tn,
mrntS for the purpose of enhancing
the value of the other half, and dOub-
ling the obligations of contracts, II,
man i'm either house of Congress would
have dared to have been Il party to de-
rclylng the American people by
SMUGGLING PROVISION
in IA codilication law, demonetizing
silver. Every step you have taken t.
enhance the value of money and de.
prrciate the price of property, by tn,
destruction of silver, has been accom-.
pll-hcd toy the methods which yo,
now condemn.
IT may be that the gold combination
which you represent is strong enough
to throw Oft all disguise and appro
pirate the earnings of the masses
HY FORCE WITHOUT STRATEGY.
have Hnown, for many years, of tn,
combinations of the mOnarchs of tn,
old world with the gold trust on bot
sides ul the Atlantic to destroy DemoC
racy throughout the civilized world
10y monopoliLing the circulatin!
medium, creating falling prices, wan
and dependency. | have been awar,
of the union bet tween hereditary ariS
tocracy and gold monopoly to reduce
the masses To subsection
TuROUGu MISERY AND WANT.
I had not supposed that the cumbinc'
forces of monarchy and goldocrac,
were sufficiently confident in thei
power To- crush the people, to proclaim
their purpose, and throw off the mask
did not know that their contemp
tor American manhood had made thcr
~o arragant as To suppose the peopl
of this country would submit withou
Struggle, or that the people wer
i sufficiently impoverished to make re
,iotance To the gold power impossibl,
You have great advantages. Ever
\ monarchy and every money change
ot Europe is in your combination
ou have on your side the allied bank
Of Europe and America, the press ,telt
graph, and the railroads
CONTROLIED BY THE BANKS.
You have two great partes-on
called Republican, and the othe
Democratic, and you control the ma
chinery of both. Io have prestiG
power, money, and influence. Io
have the accumulations of Sevent
millions of people, inhabiting Il cour
try of boundlcss resources. Io,
class have every means o >misleadin
the people, and you have been for tt
last twenty years masquerading ;
their friends and as friends of bimeta
hsm; and by your deception and cuI
ming, you have impoverished II
masses and sent want and misery
every household in the land.
But you overestimate the power
gold monopoly, which on the surfa'
seems omnipotent. You own ever,
thing but the people of the tnIt'
states. You have impoverished the
10y decciving them, but
YOU Do NOT OWN THEM.
Your opca declaration that you W
make them slaves will put them
their guard. Your declaration of W
Will be accepted. The gauge of bait
which you have thrown down will
taken up, and the question will
settled in the campaign of 1896.
You, in effect, predict, there will
Hlrayrd on one side the arstOcra
And money powers of Europe al
AheriGa, and ON the other, the Amer
car people, born to be free, whom y
would make slaves. Under new de
Inration of independence against mo
my and money, the fight will
hde 10y =, liherty-loying people W
i've for more than a hundred yea
cceeded in every contest
AGAINST WRONG AND OPPRESSION.
II is natural for you to feel strong
bur Surroundings. Iou know I
Romblnation of money and the pow
of nri - iLa ~ Lia.L n