Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-05-30
THAT SET OF RESOLUTIONS.
Means Entitled to Gratitud,

Means Entitled to Gratitude.
Cor. Charlotte Observer.
Is the good old Democratic
party always to be the step-lad-
der of place-hunting politicians
and the victim of its fool
friends, as we'll as the target for
the assaults of it's natural enem-
les? 1t would seem that such is
the logical result of the foolish
action Of d minority Of the Dem
ocratic executive committee, in
star chamber session at Raleigh
the other night. It is hard to
conceive by what process of
reasoning any number Of intelli-
gent, grown men, could reach
the conclusion that such action
as passing that set Of remarkable
resolutions, binding the whole
Democratic party of North Caro-
lima unconditionoUy to any given
financial policy more than a year
before that party "a declare it
self in the one legitimate, fair and
honest way, is possible, It is
poor principle, and it is worse
policy.
That the free silver sentiment
predominates in North Carolina
now, no one can deny. But that
it will do SO one year from now
there is good reason to doubt.
The interest in free silver in
Mouth Coro1,o Woo Douor xrarr,
potent until the advent Of the
panic in 1898. The times were
hard, money scarce, products
low and the average man was
looking for a cause for his indi-
vidual stringency foreign to his
own making. The free silver
advocates saw their chance and
with unseLfsh aUisdom named gold
as the poison and silver as the
panacea. The hard-up gentry,
and their nameWas legion, swa l.
lowed the silver hook baited with
rose-tinted promises and weight
ed with %glittering generalities.
They were told that nothing but
dire distress could obtain until
they were saved by the great,
free silver panacea. In the mean
time d Democratic Congress had
redeemed a Democratic pledge
by slaughtering some of the ins
CAPABILITIES and iniquities Of the
Mckinley high tariff act. AL.
most Immediately languishine
industries began to revive, com.
mercial activity began and slowly
but surely there began to appear
on the sullen horizon of depres-
sion riffs in the clouds that hao
threatened. Banking responded
to the signs Of returning pros
? perity first, manufacturing sec
ond. commerce third, agriculture
f fourth and real estate last. bu'
always the surest, because the
| most sluggish. With money
cheap, manufactured products
, active but low in price, and farm
products higher without ex
, ception and still no free and I'm,
/ limited coinage of silver, the
stringent gentry aforesaid be.
/ gan to suspect that somebody
had told a lie and they have Sc
f about to look into the whole mat
: ter and decide for themselve.
without the help of politica
, dodgers, place-hunters and time
servers, and, having nothing t,
influence them save the wish tt
be honest and fair and above all
/ right, who can say that they vii
not reverse their erroneous opin
ions of the past and repudiat
S their false teachers2 A Populis
leader admitted to the writer tn
other day that with z cents or
S cent cotton this fall free silve
was gone to the devil in tn
0ISouth."
i It may be true, as Barnun
r once said, that the America;
S people love to be humbugged
But there is something else the
. love still more, and that is t
kick the fellow who humbugge
S them. This may seem paradox