The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-12-24
HOW LONG WILL
NE Be FOOLED.
TINS Is 4 QUESTION ASKED ~
A FARMER or MS fellow
FARMERS.

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For The Ca1casian.i
/ hKHrkEE, NC, Dec. Isl am. N
most OF my fellow farmers. not high
up IN book-learninE. not able TO write
what might be called scholarly let
Ter Tor the press, though can tel.
the toiling masses truly. that we ARE
being imposed upon very badly by
those who rule US, and who are now
/ ruling US with 40 iron rod. They have
| now gotten what they so earnestly
and SO corruptIy iabored fora single
gold standard. Bot watch them fell
low farmers and laborers: lust keen
your eyes skinned. and on them. and
| II you have got . speck Of common
sense Will soon be convinced that the
prosperity you have been hearing them
talk so much about was not meant for
voc. Oh no. And it will do you
good when you get any of it. They>
tne money gamblers, will get all
That. 1t is true, they may open up\
their mills, and let loose some OF their
money, but they will see to it, that you
get barely enough to keep yon from
starving while they will fatten on you
as tney nave done, and always will, -
long As you give them the power to do
so.
Is not our government in a pretty
Fix indeed, when it has to get on its
knees to few moneyed lords, and
pray to them to grant it favors? Should
tney not ask privileges rather of
the government: Why should they
OBJECT to the government issuing
money and regulating the value there.
OF as the constitution directsp What
do we care about intrinsic value in our
money, when it will buy what we want
and pay our debts? And as to Eng
land or any other nation talking Il.
we must be big fools not to know that
rich nation like ours can issue her
notes and those notes will be lust as
SOUND as the government itself. Yes
Just as sound as those bonds Mr.. Cleye-
land issued not long since-so sound
they brought, l think, $l.I7 in gold to
the loO cents. How IS that fer sound, |
Ihose bonds had no intrinsic value
not even as much as the bullion in that
chap silver dollar. Though that so
cent silver dollar is now all right I be-
lieve, yet the bullion value remains t
about fifty cents. How long, oh Lord
Will we be fools, and let our masters
XIII US all day long. Shame on US Amer |
lcan people, whose fOrefathers poured
out their blood on the battle field for
our llberty!! And we, their unworthy
sons, have not the manhood and cOur- |
age even to assert our rights at the |
ballot box, but tamely submit to the
CALLING yoke of bondage being placed
on our necks by set of plumbers,
who seem to violate every law of God,
and desecrate every sacred right of
man.
Even some of the preachers who pre-
tend to serve God whose mission is to
watch over, and look after the Door
and down-trOdden, took sides with the
oppress0rs of the poor in the recent
campaign. A fine lot of 'sRedeemers,"
as the Rev. Mr.. Passmore terms them.
Such lot as redeemed Babylon, Tyre
and Rome just before they fell.
But just watch them fellow farmers,
and ye tOllers in every avOcati0n of
life in this great, rich country; watch
them for the next four years if you
have never done so before. How they
will take the hide off Of You and n t tb6
same time tell teftyUu that they are YOUR
best friends, and that we have the /
best government Uu EARTH, anu 0i.0tt
happIest and most prosperous people |
in the world. What I say to one say
to all, Democrats, Republicans, POpu-
lists, and those of every other name po-
litically or religiously, see if you are
any better off. And if not you should
still demand change for the better.
Yours for reform,
THOMAS MEADs.