The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1896-04-09

| the national banks. ~ turning th8 re
| derIption fund into the treasury, and j
added over $40, 600 O01 ~ Legal tender
retc- necessarily r.Geeuah.e N gcH
/. while il divorced an equal an knit 81
pnblic revenue 70 the purchase ot Pr
silver at GrIble - real value 10 ~
stacked ~ tue tree: .Urv var Is Iae I'D,
Democratic COZ y-ea-. althgagh the Dom
ccratic party had pronounced t-ef al
strongly ~ words would allow III favor
If the uucon.tituiieuality # -peci1.
egi,Iaticn for the benefit Cf the tcW and
- impose burdens upon the many neV-
crJhcIess passed 4 tariff bill winch con
tlnued the sugar trust and OtIfr trusts
! il power. The present coner- was
opened bv the PRAYER # tho chaplain &c
tie eject that The Lord would make u
quick 10 resent insults He has con
t1nued his praying by asking the Al.
mighty for additional protection tC
American manufacturers, 20 that they
aht put an end to the prIvatlons Of
tho American worklngmen. And It
now appears that ne ought to cIeso the
sessi IN with the general confession
We have done those things we ought
not to have done: We have # unCOnc
those things which we ought 10 have
done Spare Us, good Lord, miserable
sinners
But The worst feature Of the whole
situation IS that our people rightfulIy
conceive the idea that their rulers are
dabbllng III unclean things and The cor
ruptian If the people themselves Is
bound to follow this belief, for they
will reason thar, if purity IN office does
not pay, then purity at the ballot box
does not ky either, and every citizen
may rs well sell his vote for what It viii
bring
Out Of these conditions have como q
cIaes- Of public servants who do not com
maud respect because they ale not re-
spectacle, who do not command CONT
dence because they are neither honest
nor intelligent Il was only the other
day that the Hon. Julius Caesar Bur
rows, who represents the state Of Mich
igan III the United States senate, actu
ally Intr0ln ced bill to restore to the
duz liable list the articles that We're taxa
bic under tho Mckinley law. but which
had been pla ced on the free list by the
tariff act Of 1894 Ho did this in lguO-
ri4lse OF the fact that the c;nGtltutlOn
expressly prov dies that all bi is for rails
ing revenue shall originate in the house
of representatives A few days later
Senator Tilllnan Of South CaOllna, III
an ont bre; K Ct pulmonary eloqLonce and
noisy defamation, So ylllticd President
Cleveland and Secretary Carlisle hat
even the sensational newspapers did l'Ot
repeat his language. 1t was while view
ing til = senate that 4 traveller from 9TH
CT chimes has recently said that if the
American people can stand that they
can stand anything.
With these humiliati1g spectacles be /
fore Us, it is not strange that there is a
general dim.nurlon Of attachment and
reverence among the people for a pc
litical sys,eEi which betrays SO many
grounds q iuArmity and disappoints SC /
many Of our fatterin9 hopes. /
Plight WILL TEIINPiI At LAST
Although the outlook is dark, | be- |
lieye III the ability Of the American
peoCle when they are face to face with /
these evils and recognize III them a I
great danger to our free government to .
remedy them. We must, however. ap-
preciate the fact that every law passed
for the ber. eft of few men or of q cCu-
poration, that al species Of special leg
slation are G@lGerous and destructive
to honesty amt purity III public legis
lat0rs. We must step out OF cur mac
ION and do cur duty fearlesely if we
would avert the danger. Courage, abne-
CATION, virtue ans! patriotism made our
;orntrv, ana these qualities Will alone
preserve it. III fact, before a remedy s
'ffected, we must heco,ne conscious that
W have been recraaut TO our public
iuty in these days Of money making,
nj solennly vow TO atone for such
et reancy.
The spirit which will redeem the
leople in the breast Of q fow courageous
nen 1nus5 be thai which Otway, ia his
Venice Preserved gives to Pierre
Pierre-Yet Jatlar. for al this l am a vii
.Iaf.ier-A villain2
IIerre-Yes, most notorious villain.
% see the sufferings Of my fellow creatures
I'D own myself lnatl; T. see our senators
heat the deuded people with q show
u liberty, which set they nccr must taste Of
'hey say BY them our hands are free from
ct whom they please they place in hasest
bonds.
'ring whom they please to nfa1ny and sorrow '
Drive Us, like wrecks, down the sough tide Of
mist no hold is left to save rs from ,lest-ac-
ton.
~ that bear this are villains, and l one
lot to rouse up at the great call Of nature
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