The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-06-20
The Memphis
Convention
Continued from fir, page J

CRY Or "sIGGER" AND sECTlosALlsx.
While it has lived in this way it has
deserted the principles of Jackson aud
jefferson. The party that lives IN
future may live on sectionalism. but it
will be the sectionalism of the honest
yeOmanry and wealth producer, from
every section OF country against
grasping greed, grinding monopoly
and the idle but absorbing holders Of
wealth. A this time the Democratic
party could not do any thing. Ii makes
no d difference
WHAT II MAY PROMISE.
1t could not carry a single western state
1t has no organization there. Nothing
can come through or by il. This Is
much for Democrat to say. But they
call me Populist. The official direc-
tory of the United States puts me down
as Populist. l want to say 1 am a
Democrat of the straightest sect. But
am not the kind of Democrat that is
exemplified by the actions and teach
ings of Cleveland and Carlisle. 1t is no
disgrace to be called a Populist. While
do not agree with some things the
Populists demand, the living truth is
that they have gathered and declared
for the very best principles which can
be advocated.
"Oh they charge me with being
new firebrand, preaching sectiOnallsm,
because | mentioned the south and
west against the east and middle anu
New England States. If there is sec
tiOnalism i'm that it is the sectiOnalism
of poverty and wrong on one side
against
ROBBERY AND RAsCALITY
on the other, and day is going to
come very soon, for come 1t must, when
you can't stand this much longer when
there will be day of reckoning with
these men. We will have constitutional
amendments enough to give us an in
come tax, and it will be graduated
income tax such as will not only tax the
! income above certain amount, q
reasonable per cent on it, but as it goes
up, the tax itself will go up, aud when
ever man gets above certain amount
wEwIL TAKE ALL OF IT.
(Applause.)
Socialism, they will cry. Hear that
| socialist from South Carolina; hear
that anarchist, that agrarian. 1t is
simply the damming up of the water Of
Indignation and when it breaks loose it
will wash things beyond all reasonable
bounds.
"There is going to be
NEW MASON AND DIxON's LINE
drawn next year. 1t will start in the
mouth of the Chesapeake bay and run
to Chicago by way of Cincinnati. Every
Republican and sO-called Democrat
northeast of that line is going to vote
for gold bug, and Republican, Demo-
GRAFT and Populist south of it and west
of it are going to vote for somebody who
is an honest friend of the people, let him
be from whatever party he may" CAP
plause.)
Z THE SPEECH OF MR.. JOSEPH SIBLEY
of Pennsylvania bristled with strong
! points. He said:
r Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen of the
COnventiOn-Ith has been we'll said tina
all men seek the truth, but God alone
!: knows who finds it. We come here to-
night to search for the truth. We thinl
we know where it lies, and we are go
ing to try to find it.
ave have had for two years in thi
country gold recommendation, and w
= insist that those who have been bene
f flied by this system, and their name i
: legion, shall stand by their system.
suppose they will stand by it, for
. have heard that the great high tariff
;, priest, Mckinley,
:. THREATENS TO LEAVE HIS PARTY
Z if they put free silver plank in thei
platform. Down in the eastern pOr
ton of my State there lives Mr.. Nc
i Clure, who is just as earnest an advO
u cate of free trade as Mr.. Mckinley
l. of high tariff. Mr.. Mcclure says
|. will leave the Democratic party if the
y put free silver plank IN their plat
form,
"In 1896 we shall insist that the gOl
mOnometallists stand by their system
There will be no Republican or Dem
ocratic party then; it will be the gol
monometallist on the one hand agains
l. the majesty of the American people @
the other.
- "This is not the first time the gol
standard has been set up. Aaron set
up and it was crushed. NebuchaG
nezzar set it up and it came to grie
and now they want to set it up in tn
country. Shadrach, Meshach an
Abednego refused to bow down
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS golden image, an
they were
CAST INTO A FIERY FURNACE.
n The gold mOnometallists may set u
their images and heat their furnace
seven times hotter than Nebuchat
nezzar did, but there will be more tina
re three who will not bow down to
er There will be three times 5000, 900 WI
lv will not.
u "GOld recommendation can never
~ effective in this country unless We g
De an expurgated volume of the Bib
% 81 N<,r, IN
ments. We will have to repeal 'Tht
:, shalt not steal and Thou shalt not Il
Il, and Thou shalt love thy neighbor
III myself
of ave have got the logic and the mo
of ais on our side. We have not got tn
te sOPHIsTRIEs AND WINDY THEORIES,
IN nor will these hold with the thou
ands of homeless laborers who a
-, wandering with empty stomachs ov
H. this country today.
Y" 81 don't want to quote that porto
1is of the distinguished Secretary Ca
az isles speech of '7S, which tells of
" the miseries that would come up
'c- this country if we had gold monom,
we allism. 1t is useless to quote this,
90 all the calamities that he foretold ha
\. come to pass. He was then Carlis
u.s. the plebeian; now he is G.
at i;sIo tho natrician. He made tn,
IN statements before his clear eye b
been bedazzled and blinded
les BY THE GLITTER OF PLUTUs' PALACE
DIS. Instead of being a lawyer, Mr.. CARL
Nd should write down his occupation
wv that of money-changer.
cit has been said by high author
uit that if the volume of money '
,et- doubled prices would be doubled. FIR
mo this | have deducted four pOliti
axioms:
81. Double the volume of money 1
on. you double prices.
Ra- 80. Divide the volume of money
ntv you divide prices.
nJ 80. Double the volume of money
yer you divide the debts.
For ~. Divide the volume of money
ton you double the debts.
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