The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-07-11
DEADLY COILS.
The serpsnt Of Greed winding Aro m
and Crushing the Body Polite.

Tn. Serpent of Greed winding Ar..sd
and Crushing the Body Polite.
About forty years age / read
q hunters encounter with a snake
that illustrates Uncle Sans with
the Great Red dragon, the money
power.
Two men went out to hunt ducks.
One of them shot a duck and went
to pick it up in the tall grass, and
as he took it up ne felt something
wrap around his ankle. He looked
around and saw that a big black
snake seven or eight feet long had
wrapped its tail around his ankle,
and was in the act of clearing itself
from the tangled grass.
He said, he being a: very strong
man was not frightened at all, but
thought he was going to have some
fun.
1t raised itself up gracefully in
front of him, and he grabbed it
around its neck, thinking he could
hold it easily. But quick as a flash
it jerked itself out of his band and
wrapped around his leg above his
knee, and darted its head at his face
as if to get it in his mouth. He said
he now saw that it was going to be
serious business, instead of fun. The
next move it made it sprang up and
wrapped around his waist. He de-
termined to put forth al. his strength
and take it off. But he said he might
as we'll have undertaken to break
a steamboat cable. It made another
quick move and wrapped around his
waist the second time. Then it be-
gan to tighten up. His breath be-
gan to grow short. Eve, ything be-
gan to look blue. He thought of his
knife for the first time, but he could
not get his knife in his pocket. By
a tremendous effort he tore hole in
his pocket and barely had sense
enough by this time to open the
sharpest blade and cut the serpent
and fell to the ground unconscious.
When he came to his senses his
companion who had heard his call
for help was standing over him. All
was the work of few minutes. He
said it was months before he fully
recovered from the effects of that
hugging.
When the exceptions were placed
on the greenbacks the great Red
dragon got his tail around Uncle
Sans ankle. When tho national
banks were chartered it got its coils
around his hind leg. When the re-
sumption fraud Of specie payments
was entered upon, it twisted itself
around his waist; and in 1873 it took
a second twist, and since then it has
begun to shut off his wind, and
shorten his breath, and things look
very blue. Now the question is:
How is this serpent going to be re-
movedi Will it have to be cut loose7
Everything in the political firma-
mont now reminds us Of 1860. His
tory Is repeating itself fast. In 1860
Mr.. Douglass divided the Democratic
party. That elected Mr.. Lincoln.
Now both old parties are being di-
vided by the silver question. It
looks as if this confusion in the
old parties would make the Popu-
lists successful in 1896. If SO are
we to have repetition of 1902 We
had Dred Scott decision that the
negro had no rights that a white
man was bound to respect. Now We
virtually have decision from the
same gowned authentic court, that a
poor man has no rights that the rich
High Priests of Mammon are bound
to respect. Will they respect the
results of the election if the poor
mans party wins7 This same court
. can issue an Injunction prohibiting
the Populist candidate from taking
, the seat if elected. See! Why not
, send him to Jail instead of inaugu-
; rate him as PRESIDENT They are
: trying the injunction plan to see
, how the people will stand it, and ed
ucating the people to stand it. The
policy of the slaveocracy was te
, rule or ruin, and the policy OF
, the Plutocracyi is: the same. We
, have no Republic now, only in
, name. We are a Plutocracy and
, King Monopoly reigns in our boast
ed ''land Of the free and home oi
3 the brave"
| That serpent encroaches on oul
3 liberties little by little. The people
are educated to stand one measure
= of iniquity before another is foisted
on them. Becoming used to, or ia
, miliar with one, then another is in
) troduced. First the serpent fasten!
, on the leg; then the body. The peo
: : pie will now endure what they would
= have rebelled under fifty years ago
e The stamp act that precipitated thu
: war Of l776 was not drop in tn
: bucket compared to the usurpation
$ levied on the people now. King
e Monopoly levies six cents a gallo,
r on every gallon of coal oil used b.
5 70 millions Of people, and by a strok'
o of the pen filches millions of dollar
1t from the people; but they stand it
And there will be no let up, no
o limit to the exactions of our Kin|
K Monopoly, but the absolute erhaus
e e tim of the people. Greed knows n
b bounds. The expressions will in
le crease until the masses are mad
:. ! desperate, them the pendulum wi
n swing to the other extreme.-Rev
it D. Oglesby, in Sentinel.
4 The Waste Of Labor.
Il Of all the waste, The greatest vast
! that you can commit is the waste 9
t. labor. You. perhaps
Ie think to waste the labor of men
n not to kill them. Is it not? | shoul
70 like to know how you could XII
y them more utterly-kill them wit
second deaths? 1t is the slighte'