The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-09-12

prominent democrats, which have left
them in every case, with all the symp-
toms of political paralysis:
SOME QUESTIONS.
First. After criminal delay, resulting
in the passage of an Inadequate and
undemOcratic tariff law, why did not a
Democratic Congress, as pledged by
the platform and promised by the rep
resentatives of the party, still further
reduce the tariff during the short ses-
sion of Congress?
End. Why did not a Democratic
Congress pass a free coinage bill as
promised by the platform of 1892?
3rd. Why did Democratic Presi-
dent veto the Bland seinorage bill,
which would have put in circulation
about $50 100000 in silver?
18th. Why did the Democratic Con-
gress fail to repeal the 10 per cent tax
on State banks TO which the party was
pledged?
9Th. Why did Democratic Chief
Justice Fuller, of the Federal Supreme
court, and Democratic Associate JUS
tice Field vote against the income tax
law, when either of their votes would
have saved it?
How do you justify the spectacle of
the Democratic Chief Justice writing
the opinion that
NULL1FIED THE INCOME TAX LAW,
while Republican Associate Justice
Harlan voted in its favor and declared
that he feared that the notification of
said law would prove the first step
towards the submergence of the liber-
ties of the people in a sOrdid depOtism
| If h hat hol do CO. 80 ~ 1S4 800
in this great case IS fraught with i'm
measurable danger to the future of the
country, and approaches the proper
while Republican Associate Justice
Brown voted for the law and said:
'This decision may we'll excite the gravest
apprehension. 1t strikes at the very founda-
ton of national authority in that it denies
to the general government power which
is or may at some time, in a great emer-
gency such as that of war, become vital to
the existence and preservation Of the
Union"
Said another great authority:
This decision is another victory of greed
over need. Great and rich corporations by
hiring the ablest lawyers in the land have
ing its just share towards the support of the
government that protects it. The people
| will not
ACCEPT THIS LAW AS JUSTICE
mo decision can make wrong right. It
is not right that the entire cost of the Fed
eral government shall rest upon the masses
1t is not right that wealth shall pay nc
more than poverty towards the support OF
the national administration. Democratic
principles are violated in the most fragrant
manner, when man worth $40, 90 5000 pays
no more in gross than the man who is
worth 500, ZOO. or when the man with an
income of 81 600 is called upon for substan-
income of 100000"
Mr.. Thos. G. Sherman, in the No
vember Forum, 1889, says that "the
one hundred Americans, cannot bt
less than 81 ,2OO,O 600 and probably ex.
ceeds 81 SOC, 600 per annum.
If one hundred working men coul(
earn each one thousand dollars q yeal
they would have to
> WORK 200 OR l 500 YEARS
to earn as much as the an
nual income of one of these on,
hundred richest Americans. Ant
if a working man, could earl
, $1,000 year, he would have to worl
until he was 547 years old and neve
take DAY OH before ne could earn q
: much as some Americans are worth.
If this be SO, and it has never been de
MED, how about the Western farme
with wheat at 60 cents and the South
ern planter with cent cotton.
+ The wealth of CrOesus was estimate
v at $4,000, 600. but there are 20 Ameri
. can estates that
AVERAGE $50, OOO,OOO EACH,
and there are l 400 millionaires in tn
two cities of New York and BrOOkly
whose fortunes range from one to tW
q hundred million dollars.
= Last winter in New York at tt
v Metropolitan Opera House was see
4 one of the most magnificent sigh
% ever presented on this continent. TT
4 fashionable women of those two citi,
under the blaze of electric lights, gil
tened and scintillated with the spark
and flash of 500, 100000 worth of di
y mOnds. And $2,5OO, 100000 were pc
it sessed by the men who owned ii
q grand tier of boxes
d Last winter fifty capitalists had