The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-08-29
LETTERS FROM
THE PEOPLE,
A Ringing Warning and Call From
The East--Plutocrats Fear
Votes More Than Strikes.
pops ARE GAINING GROUND.

eating Right for Is96-Ths Caucasian
o,vht to Have 90 900 New subscribers-
=, Turns on the Light AN Old Pop
so,disr's Psnsion-"A strange Look
,,v Head on his shouId<rs."
ARing,ng Call From The East.
For the Caucasian.l
HoBuCKEN, N. c., Aug. 26.-Shout
the glad tidlngs; proclaim the good
news. Shout until mountain and
vale shall reverberate with the joyful
intelligence. Let it ring from the
rice fields of northern Maine to the
orange groves Of topical Florida that
prosperity has returned"
Let the great, glad news be caught
on the waves of the storMy Allan
ne. and be conveyed to the placid
bosom of the sleeping Pacific that
America is once again blossoming as
the rose; that her sons and daugh-
ters are happy and contented!!
This is the news one may read from
the great dailies. This is what is
being fed to the people to lull them
TO sleep that they may be the more
easily led in the great fight for indus
trial freedom in 1896.
Prosperity has returned!w
Let every farmer and mechanic
every latoring man who has to gain
his daily bread by the scriptursl in
junction, ask himself If this is the
case.
Watterson, in the great quadrang-
ular debate, he being the champion
of Democracy Cd defined what la
boring man was, saying that the
banker clipping his coupons until he
calloused his fingers, was laboring
man. leave it with the sturdy sons
Of toll to say what laboring man
is. And it is to these sons of toll,
TO those who must from earliest dawn
to the setting of the sun work to exc
out scanty subsistence that this
great cry of returning prosperity is
addressed. Addressed to you to lull
to sleep that inward monitor, which
is telling you that something il
wrong, that you may be duped in
boosting into Office again set OF
men who will press you harder and
harder until your spirit will be brok.
en- and you give up in despair. Then
will they establish government
in which the money lords Of to-day
will be dukes and nobleman, and you
laboring men serfs and slaves-hew
ers of wood and drawers of water
You to-day are almost to that road
which leads to a mOnarchical gov
eminent, and nothing but the com
bined effort of the yeOmany of Oul
land can avert the fall of what was
once the grandest government or
the globe.
Like causes, produce like effects
and the causes which were instru
mental in producing the fall o.
other governments will, if not avert
ed causes the fall of ours. The la
boring man must assert his manhood
know his rights and then dare main
tain them.
Evarts SAID "The laborer mus
cease to be a mere laborer, that h'
must cease to be a machine, and b,
man; that is he must become a par
Of our free government"
What is the condition of the labor
sr to-day' The condition is sucl
that they must toll from early mOrl
till dewy eve, for the bare neces
saries Of life without time for any
self culture, or mental Improvement
Lassalle says: "You believe per
haps, fellow laborers and citizen
that you are human beings; that yo'
are men speaking from the stand
point Of political economy. Yo'
make q terrible mistake; you ar
nothing but commodity"
If you will only take the time t
read you will see where they tina
must labor are drifting. Read wha
the plutocratic press has to say.
you are so unfortunate as to be com
PEELED to travel in search of wor
please listen to what Scribner
Monthly is reported as saying; III
has no rights but those which soc
ETY. sees fit to bestow. He has n
more rights than the SOW that wa
lows in the gutter, or the lost do
that hovers around the city square.
Comforting language indeed ft
him whose necessities compel him
60 in search of employment. b,
let US go a little farther and see wins
Is proposed by them who woul
make you slaves. worse than tt
serfs of of Russia (where the Car
word is absolate) or the galley slav'
OF France.
Senator Sharon said that "v
need stronger government. II
wealth of this country demands pr
tectlon. Its rights are as sacred
the rights of the paupers who q
continually prating Of the encroac
ments of capital. Without bloc
and rivers of it, there will be no p
lltical change Of adminstratio
Toavert fearful bloodshed, . strol
central government should be
hblished as soon IS possible"
Think of it, ye sons of patriot
nres. Let your mind 60 back to =
when your sires, barefoot, leavi
their tracks in blood upon t
ground followed the flag, that tn
might give to you the priceless he
tage Of civil and religious libert
1.-THE spirits of the departed G
view from yonder world of shat
the scenes of earth, they must vi
With contempt their ofsprir
groaning under the lash of politi
vrants, without manhood enough
fise and assert their rights. Is
spirit which acuated our sires de.
Were the lives lost at Bunker's I
and Brandywine lost in vainf v
the bloody war for American II
dom from under Briton's iron b.
eut fsrcei If not, ye Sons OF An
ica arise, awake throw off your IL
ngy and resolve once more to
Tree. Lay aside prejudice and p
asan hate; band yourselves togeth
LOT IN union there is strength,
remember that plutocracy d.
oread strikes as much as votes. V
tor no man who does not believe
lnAA.