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

holders fell down and ~wosshipped-
&c; for the Bible tells Us that the ONCE
holders Of Baby Ion bowed down NJ the
kings command.
But there were three men who held
ofsice Who would not bow down To the
golden image set Up by the king.
They were Shadrach, Neshach and
Abeonego. NebuchadnexIar then BE-
came full Of fury. He ordered that the
and commanded the most mighty mea
that Here in his army To bind the three
men who would not obey his command,
when this Was done they walked in the
furnace. and one like unto the image
Of the Son Of God walked with them.
have read Of the breath Of the hot
simeon, which, sweeping across the
desert sands, destroys all in its path.
l have read of the black plague, which.
stalking through . nation, claimed
thousands for its victims. I hsve.frsA
fOf the scourges Of the yellow fever in
our own land, which brought terror to
To the hearts VI millions and death In
the homes Of Thousands. But, sir, i
have never been told that these scour-
ges
WE'RE INVITED GCEsro.
Tyrants and monstrosities Of cruelty
have in ages past wreaked Unsuitable
VIOLENCE upon defenseless subjects, but
nowhere in the pages OF history have
! found recorded people who willing
y and ch~erfully submitted. Sum up
| the whole list Of human ills, inventory
all the plaques and plaguers, and their
curses are rs trifies compared with the
curses which follow falling prices.
You may set up your golden images;
you may heat your furnaces seven
times hotter; you may pour out on the
heads OF the suffering people all the
Walls OF your wrath not yet emptied.
but there will be not only three, but
three times three millions of men
| who will
REFUSE To BOW DOWN
and worship the golden god. lap
plause.
do not want to be personal. / do
not want to be invidious. In this great
earth, in the providence Of almighty
God, Our Heavenly Father, all things
will come right in the end.
| Carry then the story Of Nebuchad-
nezzer q little further. He got to his
level in time. Did he not for seven
years eat grass with the other beasts Of
the field? (Applause.)
| Now, then, 1 believe all things will
come right in time. We have been dis
couraged for . long time, but God
Almighty Is on our side. Truth that
seems to be at the bottom will he ut the
top. The ladder upward is all right
you cannot see the top of il. The bot
tom is on earth: the top il obscured by
the clouds. But
HUMANITY 10 CLIMBING HIGHER,
and that 10 why you cannot do homa &c
to the gold mOnometallists. You car
accomplish an apparent victory over
| truth and even bury il, but after three
days there will be q resurrection and
an ascension and an eternal enthrone-
ment: We are going TO win this fight
Applause -because mo question was
ever settled till il was settled right.
We are going to win IL because 10
continue to make gold more oppressive,
and still believe in The will OF God
Almighty, We have got to repeal three
OF the commandments shalt
not lie," "Thou shalt not steal and
another greater anl Rrander than all
OF these, 'Thou shalt love thy neighbor
as thy self" And this world in its on
ward progress grows better.
Never in all the worlds history was
there . greater struggle than that be-
tween Truth and Error; but when
you next look you do not find humanity
down, but marching forward.
Now, my friends of the south, i'm
GLIDING agriculturalists, we suffer up
north as you do here, because some
thing seems to be universally wrong.
You are raising cotton here i'm COM
petition with nations which receive a
bonus OF 100 per cent for producing IT,.
Ihat Is the system which is against
you and which has confronted you for
the past few years. IL do not make
this proposition plain, hope you will
question me till you see il. III fail to
make it appreciative and some better
legislator does not make il plain. will
take the other side of this controversy
and see il have been i'm error.
want to ask you what you got for
your cotton last Year,
| [ everal persons answered: az to
cents."l
What made the price SO low. What
reason did you year advanced for the
decline in price?
| IA NOiCc. oScrprOOuct1On.I
What do you get for cotton nowY
Answers: "7ss cepts."l
Have you raised any cotton sine.
last year! daughter.
You have not made a crop since ther,
have you! OverprOduction!
All the wheat was to be had last wear
at from Is to 35 cents in the State of
1 Washington, 40 cents in the west and
% cents in Pennsylvania. What il n
now!Ie was an enormous crop Of wheat.
| Misrepresentation! They would make
you believe, IL they could, that you had
THREE CROPS WEEK
Tor the whole year. Overproduction
AS q matter Of fact, I want to say,
Standing here in this southland, that
whenever they seek to control the pro-
ducts OF honest labor by depressing
prices, when they put the sickle in ten
thousand fields in which they have NOT
sown and snatch their wealth from
youthful hands and from the hands OF
all ages and try to control IL, they CRY
"overproduction."
We produced less cotton In 1888 tha n
IN isSS-not much less, but LEss. This
statement 10 based on fi9ures Of an
thority-the figures of J.W. Labouissr
president Of the New Orleans Cotton
Exchange. You produced four hundred
thousand less bales Of cotton in 1888
than In 1888; still less in 1894 and Vet
IL. 1894 you got little more thau half the
price you got in 1891, when you got 10
cents for export prices, against 8 cents
export prices for 1888. The production
OF cotton the world over has only held
us level 1t best, yet the price has sui.
Tered diminution year after year. Cot
ton and wheat have both zone nm =