The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-01-30

and half Of pol;cy rs deliberate
and a. carefully planasd - OF the
noaopoliss aud the money poser OF
the Unitsd States to day, came to
own absolutely ons-third Of ali the
property in this country. and con-
troilsd the balance The masses
we're kept in Ignorance and the lead
srs and intelligence Of the country
ISTINIDArgD on bor6HT.
But there comes An end 10 such
things. In 1889 the property Of the
church WAS confiscatsd. The church
party called in the English. the Span
ish and the French, aud the latter
gave them an Emperor. But the
French have been driven oat, the
Emperor has been shot and to-day
throughout this grext country, four
times - large ~ France or Germany,
the Catholic church does not own .
foot Of soil or . dollar Of money.
The very church buildings, hoaty,
some Of them, with nearly four cen
turies Of use,
BELoNe TO THE GOVERNMENT
and services are conducted in them
only by permission Of the authori-
ties elected by the people. Not .
priest can walk the streets in his Of
fetal robes. Mexico remains Roman
Catholic in her religion, but when
the alternative was presented,
whether the church should own the
country or the country should own
the church, Mexico in spite Of cen-
turies of veneration for religiouEau-
thority and the influence Of consoli-
dated wealth and the ignorance
and poverty of her masses, was able
to vindicate tho
RIGHTS OF HEB PEOPLE.
What this priestly monopoly was to
Mexico, the money power is to the
United States. The multi-miliion-
aires. the bond holders, the trust and
monopolles already own over one
third Of the properry of our country
and are reaching out for the rest.
Many leaders they nominate and
elect to Office, others they intimidate
or corrupt. But our people, while
patient, are not ignorant, and if the
course of the monopolies and com.
binations continues unchecked, they
will wake up some morning to find
as the Catholic church did here, that
the
SOVEREIGN PEOPLE OWN THE COUNRTl
and all that in it is. The Catholics
here venerated the church fully Al
much as we ever did the rights Of
individual ownership of any specie:
Of property, but the welfare of the
people is the highest law, and wher
that becomes imperiled, as it was in
Mexico by the money power in the
shape of the church, and as it is il
the United States by the same dead
ly enemy in the guise of multi-mil
lionaires and monopolies. the man
hood and the brains and the honesty
of the people will assert themselves
and
WE SHALL NOT 60 DOWN
under the same enemy that destroy
ed Rome, and 80 many other Ma
tons in the past. The world is Oldel
and wiser.
The gold dollar in the Unite,
States may we'll be called a myth
cal dollar. Not one man in a hun
dred over secs one. 1t is not uset
to buy corn, or wheat, or -four
or railroad tickets, or drygoods. l
is only for the sacred use of the idl,
rich when they wish to measure
by . high standard, double IN valu'
the
PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST OF BONDS
which, on their face. by the contract
are payable in coin-i. 9. in eithe
| gold or silver.
In drawing these lessons from tn
past experience and the presen
prosperity of Mexico, there are thos
who will say Mexico is inferior
United States in education, in civil
xation, and in many other respects
And 80 it is-and so much the wors
for the objectors. For if Mexico
Notwithstanding
| AA44 %A*00D DAHAD nv AU 0a1
is prosperous and going forward
leaps and bounds by keeping he
standard Of values at the sam
level, SO much the greater is th
condemnation for the men who,
spite of our great and manifest 8,
periority, have brought the ours
and blight of a long enduring d.
presslon upon 10 by
RoBBING THE WEALTH PRODUCERS
in the interest of the wealth-consuu
: ers, through the device of doublin,
by crooked legislation, tho value {
the dollar. And if Mexico with 3;
years of priestly rule, 800 of whic
were also under . foreign yoke, an
, so more passed amid information,
|, dissentions, could assert themselvt
and throttle the gigantic none
power which oppressed them, VIII,
, cannot, and what will not, Is mi
lions of the
FOREMOST PEOPLE OF THE EARTH
be able to do when satisfied tn,
they oVe it to themselves and the
F prosperity to break the yoke whie
gals them. xp
n Much more might be said, ar
4 more forcibly.
i WALTER CLARK.
Al City of Mexico, Jan. Is, '95.
eI ONO LAWMAKERS INDICTED.
. Three Legislators CHARGED with Aecop
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