The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-08-22
Sibley and Silver.


fCootinued from Ath paee)
times do not believe in free silver, be-
cause BY such . course - this you are
lending Aid and comfort to the gold
bugs and are the worst Of traitors TO
the cause. l announce TO every man
who 10 . member Of the gold party that
they are committing . crime, and that
IL 10 the most stupendous crime ever
committed BY going into party whose
the race. Go on with the play and when
the curtain rings up for the last act
will be there TO see you take your part.
Why do you not tell your men from
the southland to say to those of the
north: We have united with YOU and
stood with you and reasoned together
until now-until the gold standard Is
placed upon US. We have been true to
you but you have not done
YOUR DUTY By Us.
We have lost every time-you have
made every gain. II you want the
lOavos and fishes to be awarded the
Democratic party, stand by that prin-
ciple which Is the true and sacred one
and We wili..help you get them. But il
you betray US, you do it at your peril.
We must head off the traitors. We
must not act 50 as to make them think
| no matter what they do, We are going
to be with them and give them conf
dence to 60 on in their designs. They
know that If they do not
TAXI CARE OF THE GoLDBUGs
of the north, those goldbugs will not
vote with their party; but they think
the farmers and producers of the ma
ton are easily lead by politicians THAT
they will follow constantly and do
| whatever the leaders bid them without
regard to understanding or claims.
1 What have your politicians done for
you? Have they Increased your hap
piness or welfare, or have they set
themselves up as autOcrats? Have you
not hired them
AS YOUR sRRvANTsY
When they chose to violate theirpledges
to yOu-when promises were broken
and policies which they wer einstructed
to follow were ignored, you did not
dare in your majesty to rebuke them.
A Snowman had dog. He took a
piece of meat from his pocket and said
to the dog, stand up. The dog stood
up. He told him to lie 0Own. The dog
lay down. He told him to speak. The
dog barked. He told him to rOl! over.
The dog rolled over. All this time the
Snowman held the meat Just above the
dogs nose and the dog did everything
he was told to do. Then the Snowman
putting the meat back into his pocket,
said: Il will save this for some other
day; you perform well enough without
| any meat" (Cheers.)
That is the way the politicians have
done. They have always been keeping
the meat for another time. You have
performed well enough without any in
the past, and they presume your future
course will be along the same lines and
lie in the same direction. cloud an.
plause.)
A noted German patriot in warning
Germany of the evils that would come
from mOnOmetallism, said it would de.
crease all the values of property and
prices Of labor, and breed strife and
promote strikes; and when that time
came the cause would be attributed ia
strikes, disturbances and Overpro.
ductiOn which are the effects of this
single standard and to every
CAUSE EXCEPT THE ONE TRUE CAUSE.
Twenty years ago we had warning
OF what might come from q prominent
member OF the English parliament. II
was the policy of the English
standard. The English Statesman
declared that America was the
great wheat and cotton PRODUCING
country and that England was the
great customer and consumer of these
crops. By controlling the money
Through the gold standard the English
people could control prices, and by
depressing them the tendency would
be to destroy America as the cotton
and wheat producer of the globe and
substitute their own colony India. in its
stead. The force and truth of this pre-
sentation is borne out by President
Garheld, who, speaking of monetary
systems said: "WhOever controls the
volume OF money in any country is
absolutely master of all Industry and
commerce."
! Anu tnen comes a warning from q
| man nigh in the councils of this cOun-
try and nation, and whose course and
action affects the interest of eyery
man here to-day.
As plebeian standing in the tenn
pie pleading for liberty he
T. COULD SPEAK LIKE ARcHANor1
but when high priest in the temple
OF Mammon he has fallen to a lower
plane. l refer to John G. Carlisle,
from whom drank in my Democra-
10y. He is to-day sent out to nullify
the doctrines of Jefferson and Jackson.
II Jefferson and Jackson were Demo-
Gratis, Cleveland and Carlisle are not.
Thomas Jefferson said that in this ma
ton a moneyed Democracy could
never be established, but at some time
there.miRht be a moneyed aristoc-
racy. Grover Cleveland is trying to
prove this.
rms same Carlisle, who is 30 afraid
OF being misquOted, and who fears to
De quoted at all, once expressed his be-
me1 as to what the consequences Of
the demonstration of silver
would be-, and predicted with
prophetic accuracy the evils and
distress and disaster which would
come upon the people with the
destruction of about one-half of the
common peoples money. STANDING
there in the halls of congress in 1874
surrounded by men who listened with
lntense interest and earnestness he
salo: read direct from the record
20 as not to misquote him.
Il know that the worlds stock of pre-
cious metals Is none too large, and l see no
reason 10 apprehend that it will ever he IN
Mankind Will be fortunate indeed If The
annual production of gold and silver coin
shall keep pace with the annual increase Of
population, commerce. and industry. A.
.oording to my views of the subject. the con.
spinacy which seems to have been formed
hsreaad in Europe to destroy BY.
LEGISLATION AND orHERw1sr
from three ssvenths to one-half of the ma.
t:llic money Of the world is the most gigan.
summation Of such : scheme would ulti-
mately entail more misery upon the hu-
man race than all the wars. pestilences.
of the world.
The absolute and instantaneous destruc.
ton OF half the entire movable property Of
the word. including houses. ships, nail