The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-07-30
4 Wall FROM WALL STREET.
q TALE or WOE ABOUT ANTICIPATED
EVILS " THE FREE SILVER
CRAZE" PREVAILS IN THE
COMING ELECTION.


sent out TO merchants under pre-
tense Of keeping them posted on
prices and intended only for their
eyes, fills up most Of it's available
space with tale of woe about an
ticipated evils which Will befall
"business interests (another name
for Wall street, if the free silver
craze" prevails ia this s'sctlon
| give below an extract out OF y
copy dated July 18th, 1896, sent to
RaleIgh merchant. The only com
ment / will promise upon Wall streets
wall is quotation from Revela-
tions, which may have some refer
enco to the corruption OF the great
cities OF these later times superln-
duced by bad laws and bad religion:
Babylon the Great is fallen and
IL become the habitation Of devils
and the hold of every foul spirit and
n cage of every unclean and hateful
bird"
"For all nations have drunk of
the wine of the wrath of her forni-
cation and the kings of the earth
have committed fOrnicatiOn with
her"
GA powerful portrait Of that class
of politicians, rulers and political
parties which sell ont the interests OF
the country people to the "influ
onces' C'foul spirits'D of the great
ctles) And the merchants and
shippers who traded also in "sfaves
and the souls Of men" Cor, in mod
orn parlance, used money to
debauch the ballot box and buy the
consciences of mem, took up the
vail, "Saying alas. alas! that great
city that was clothed in fine linen
and purple and scarlet and decked
with gold and precious stones and
pearls!" (Not bad description of
the vulgarity of fashionable dress
in tho great citiesD THAT great
city, wherein were made rich all
that had ships in the sea by reason
OF her costliness! for in one hour IL
she made desolate"
This Scripture is usually interpre-
ted to refer to the Roman Catholic
Church, and perhaps properly too
but | see no reason why 1T may not
include also general view of al
the corrupt influences, secular as
well as religious, which have their
"habitatiop," and "hold" in the
great cities.
1t is notorious that the great cit.
les, or rather the controlling intlu
ences in them stand as unit for in
creasing and centralizing the powers
of the general government to be
ned for private or sectional ad-
vantage, for controlling the cur
rency within such limits as that i
may be manipulated TO affect price
In the interests of monopoly, anC
lastly for the interlacing of American
with foreign interests for the ulti
mate purpose of using such zen
tangling alliances to quell the spiri
of civil liberty in this country if i
should ever resist unto blood the en
croachments of allied monopolies il
control of the general government
So it is the most comprehensiv
figure of speech in all rhetoric i
the divine revelator did intend b,
this great city Babylon" 10 pictur,
the mind and purpose which actu
y
unity of power, the oneness and til,
universally of the havoc and confu
sion which the selfshness of tn,
great cities has wrought in modern
civilization. 1t is no wonder tha
they feel some anxiety lest tn,
plaques that are written in this Bool
should come upon them; and Will
they are not yet casting any "dus
ON their heads there is an unmis
taxable plaint in this their Ian
guage:
THE NATIONAL DUTY OF OUR BUSHES
MEN.
For the second time in the histor
of this paper political crisis ha
been precipitated upon the country
which transcends all normal part
considerations, forbids the indu
genee of all party sympathies, an
summons every commercial paper
every trade journal and every bus
ness man to the rescue of our threa
ened financial integrity and con
mercial honor. 1t is challenge an
n defiance to the commercial SAINT
of the country. 1t raises more tha
party issue. 1t presents to ever
intelligent merchant and tradesms
a tremendous public peril and du
to be discharged with regard to
M 1t seems to us that the action
.F the so-called Democratic nation
convention at Chicago imposes
duty upon every business man N t
| United States to actively exert hi
self in defense of the threatened bl
mess interests. The finances of I
nation must not be thrown into d
order. Our honor as people W
have always paid their debts in f
in money that was worth its fs
value in every market place in
world, must not be sacrificed. o
vast foreign trade must not be dis
ganized and subjected to long .,
Rod of waste and loss, caused by
tluctuating currency changes. G
still vaster internal trade must 1
be thrown into the abyss of in fiati
that is always produced by the is
ing of debased currency and {
inevitable driving out of gold, whe
by all values and prices are f
forced upwards to fictitious fgu
which they cannot be maintain
with the result that when they dr.
as they must when the react
comes, disaster and ruin mark
path of the recoil from the deba,
of imitation throughout the Uni
All these things will come to pas
the reserve forces of the conser
tive business classes are not cal
into effective action to prevent th,
There are, it is true, crafty
signs that the cause of sound mo-
is already in a fair way to be VII
Gated in the pending contest. D.
ocrats who have stayed in their pa
ranks all their lives are coming
thousands to the direct support