The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-08-13
HERE ARE SOME ILLUSTRATIONS
WHICH WILL GIVE FOOD FOR THOUGHT
HOW OUTSIDERS CONTROL NOME
PRODUCERS.

A state H.. Sovereign Power i" Declare g
wh, shall Cantroi Property within c
IL. nora.r.-Iet The states DO so-Apd
Wall street and Trust. VIII Vanish.
The Greensboro Record.l
There isa well managed farm in 7
North Carolina, containing 2,ooo r
acres, on which are employed 10 ia :
borers, the salary OF whom ls IS Il r
month and find. The owner Of this :
farm lives in Baltimore, Md. AT ,
the end Of the year, after the wages
have been paid and all outstanding i
accounts settled, there Is net gain :
Of 81 900. This amount is sent to .
the owner in Baltimore. The cost ,
of the maintenance OF this farm, IN
cluding the taxes, has been produced
in North Carolina, and in like man
ner expended in North Carolina. Ih"
only real gain III wealth, as IS ap-
parent without argument, Is the
81 900, which has found Judgement
in another State.
While }. Gould was alive, by connlv-
ance in Wall street, he secured the
Iron Mountain (MlssourD railroad.
Now there appears IN the schedule
Of property belonging to his estate,
Sc, 900 600 in bonds invested IN this
road, from which investment, we
will say, an annual dividend is paid
of 1850, 900, or $50, 600 "a month. This
amountswhich represents the wealth
produced by part of the State OF
Missouri, finds Judgement In another
State.
Before J. Gould died. like many
} multi millionaires of these times, he
appointed by his will self-perpetu-
ating board Of trustees to control
his c-tates. By this very act he
! gaze direction to the wealth pro-
: dueed by the Missourians for the
L. next hundred years. Is 1t safe Tor
D man who is not even cluzen OF
3 Missouri to be able to dictate such
e policy to great Stateq Did the
i charter under which this road is op-
= perated in the State imply such
:. condition!
t From the railroad commissions
C report for 1894, learn that the net
earnings of all the railroads in this
u State was 1927, ,537, (see pages
u 1866 and that the dividends paid
C. on capital stock and funded debt
amounted to about 81, 100000. This
y 81 100000 represents possibly more
l. than the net wealth produced by the
70 State during that year, the difference
ID being made up 10y mortgages on the
IA homes of the people. 1t is within
t. bounds of safety to say tha. l,oOO,-
IN 900 of the $l,SO0,OOO found lodge
lis ment in other States. Look at the
ty little farm with it's 81 900 gone; iooh
ne at the Missourians with their $500, ,OO(
'io gone; look at the North Carollnian:
with their 81 100000 gone.
Is it any wonder that we hear /
n said time and again that the labor
!, ers, the men who till the farms IL
Il" g.. this broad land, the men who pro
id duee the wealth, were not getting
of lust proportion of their earnings
It'll that the homes Of the people were
,ed in some insidious way, being threat
co ened; that the rich were becomlp
lot richer and the poor poorer; that thes
aann' conditions were greatly augmente
D,n by the decentralization of silver, etc
etc. And the question to-day l
en- every body's mind in North Caroline
en- whether il has been SO expressed l
m words or not, IS, will the restoratio
of silver change the environment {
rse these forty laborers, or the gres
for e ,ohorors uh, in Nilsson
'sS- 'n produced the 1860, 900, Or the entil
the labor of North Carolina who pr
ion duced the $l,SOO,OOO9
The restoration Of silver will,
IIeo fully believe, ease up some OF Il
disadvantages against which tt
.on workingman has to contend, but
nee will not touch the principle unde
tics living the above conditions, the |
red tie farm, and railroad in Nilsson
, Of the net earnings Of all the railroa
pass in North Carolina. AS the illustr
late, ton of this farm is so simple IN
Wiii self as to be within easy grasp
onr 1.n the average citizen, and as the &C
:, T in nection between the $4,000,
Shall $3.50, 900, and the 81, 500, 900 requi
car no stretch of the imagination
pers comprehend, let US consider the 81
mum alton of the forty men. That these
atlon borers are slaves no one will de
Or Yet they vote as we do, and help
.aoHa .,oh directly to make our laws. In G.
'aSkd
the or lnsurrectlon tney e'"n" 1o"u1
n. take their lives in their hands in
der to defend this farm, or any OF
r, property in the State, for the +
ntinn lection of society. The man in F
timore would be simply an interes
Louis spectator, not an actor. There
ul ges no law, so far as l am informed,
nd which you could compel this maj
aries. do citizsn's duty in the st
OoA Viewed from any standpoint, it II
y sa be admitted that State grants
= A man great and peculiar privile
oulist, Now ii this man should appoir
silver self -perpetuating board of rustee
q can operate this farm, he absolutely
or the rects the wealth producing powe
hopes these men, as we'll as that of theil
'e Ills crease for generations yet unt
Apply this simple illustration, W
all can understand, to the 6
Demo railroad and the people in Miss
ml.tee Apply this same principle to the
hr . nc roads in North Carolina and the
a ayrsaS ple's relation to these roads.
Ssed by prospect appears to be appal
gree to What is the States r1gnt IN
,r dele matter7
utually We, State in which indepe1
IS shall and surname authority is yeste,
islative ~.rr,;+t;ro non-ros,dents to fa
divided oe o,r ,ower tn
duee wealth, and yea, more.
To say that tive have not the
e State or r;obt to change ANYTHING
rty was tondS +o destroy the liberties {
t Curry 49,, o,,Id ~ aT.af,+.+;on ~
hartman peopise' W" sr. ~ 49, ~ D
nd resO- Inc Danger Is III centfaiiz
The re- Why should not eacn otate
st. Louis Union say who shall contr
the st. property within its borders. an
lg Bryan the right shall be granted O