The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-03
FINALLY, BRETHREN.


that campaign historic.
The question Of white slavery, as evil
denced by the unprecedented methods to
coerce and intimidate employees by their
employers, has made this campaign as
snme shape of the masses against the
classes.
This issue was not raised by those who
are employed. They seek nothing except
fair chance, the right to own their
own sonls. and to control their own votes
In many instances, (some even here in
North Carolina) their employers have
taken the bread out of their mouths
because they were unwilling to sell their
manhood with their brain and muscle.
The men who labor with their hands
feel that the gold standard is RESPONSE
BILE for the enforced idleness that drives
honest willing men into idleness, and
brings want and loss of comforts into
many homes. They feel that the Trusts,
every one Of which is spending money
by the barrel to elect Mckinley, has in
creased the price of the prime necessities
of life, decreased the price of the raw
material. put an end to competition, and
thereby made their lots harder, employ
ment more difficult, and wages lower They
feel that many of the great railroad
corporations, unwilling to settle disputes
by arbitration, are working for McKin-
ley in order to continue trial by injunc-
tion--a method of trial which is always
invoked in behalf of the road and never
in behalf of organized labor.
They do not THINK these evils. They
FEEL, they KNOW them, and they
have the conviction that if McKinley's
managers elect him by the method en-
ployed, coercion and intimidation viii
be permanently enthroned, and that they
viii be slaves and not free men.
Industry languishes; trade is dull;
work is scarce; wages are low. The
man who has naught but his strong right
arm asks: what is the remedyY The
advocates of Mckinley reply: Increase
the taxes and decrease the supply of
money Bryan proclaims that the RENE
| dy lies in an increased volume Of stand
ard money, in preventing extortions by
the trusts and combines, in decreasing
| taxation, in driving the money changers
out of the temple which they have pol
the bond-holders and the gold-specula
| tors.
| A vote for Mckinley is a vote to ap-
| prove bond issues in time of peace, to
| continue the trusts, to make the gold
| standard permanent, and to increase tax
alton. 1t is to give us four years more
of Cleyelandism with McKinleyism add
ed. One is bad enough; combined, they
will carry us almost toward that mon
archy which Gen. Palmer says he
would prefer to the real government by
| the people.
| This to be a government of the people,
by the people, for the people, and their
ballots to-day viii thunder an indignant
rebuke to those who believe that money
can buy the people to vote for their
/ own undoing and enslavement.
William Jennings Bryan is the ideal
| candidate of those who labor in the sweat
Of their face, and pray that the industrial
slavery which many employers have
sought to enforce in this campaign snail
be bu.ied forever in the grave with
African slavery. Nobler or more inspir-
ing wor Is never fell from the lips OF man
| than those spoken by him on Saturday.
He said:
'"They have accused me Of being n
| young man and ] have not attempted
to deny it. But, my friends, as q
young man I know something of the
feeling of young men and / know what
it is to have a condition in our political
society that makes it difficult for a
young man to rise in life UNLESS
He BECOMES A FAVORITE OBJ
/ SOME GREAT CORPORATION.
Il want it so that the children Of the
humblest citizen in the land can aspire
to any position in the political or BUSH
ness world to which his merits en-
title him.
~ want it so that if he enter poll
tics he viii not find arrayed against
him all those great financial inf1u-
ences of society unless he is willing
to join them and conspire against the
welfare of the people as a whole.
IF he enters into business, / want
him to be able to stand upon his own
merits and not always stand in fear
that some great trust viii run him out
of business"
Tt is a privilege and an honor to vote
for a man who believes these truths, and
his election to the Presidency to-day viii
come like the Inauguration of new
Jefferson.
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