The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-02-20
WE NEED
A LEADER. p"
Hot Talk From Ex-Congressman
Joe. B. Cheadle-A Promi-
nent Republican.
FIGHT FOR PRINCIPLE,

A FIGHT FOR PRINCIPLE.
is Demands From Barri.os. Mckinley
aud Reed Their Views on tn. Money
Question No DodginE wHi ss AL
Iowsd-Th. Tarir Chestnut L. Played
Out-Ths Issue This Year is To lie
Financs-n tho so-cAIied Leaders Try
10 Dodge ~ They wiu us Pushed Aside.
10 tho Republican voters of lndi-
ana:
Tho issues before the country now
are tho finance and tariff taxation.
think tho case is stated fairly when
say that, by all means, the most
uprrtant question is
THE MONEY QUESTION,
because money is to individual and
national prosperity exactly what
blood is to the human body-its life.
The tariff question is one of rates of
duty only and the articles on which
,.r. are to be levied. The Presi-
dent has rendered an issue on the
money question by his recommends
lion that all the national paper
money be retired and destroyed, and
that the nation be put permanently
ON tho single gold standard. To aid
bis cause and force the issue, he is,
u. President,
nyoRrNG THE CONSTITUTIONAL
MONEY
y4tcm by refusing to redeem the
| national paper money, when pre-
| sented in SILVER, a right he has both
by law and the letter of the contract
upon which the national paper money
| was issued.
have u silver dollar, coined by
the government in 1875, more than
Il century ago. 1t is coined and
tamped by the sovereign authority
of the nation. On reading the words
stamped on it these facts are made
clear; first, that it is q dollar-not
promise to be paid by dollar, but
the dollar itself; second, that it is
Zone dollar or unit" Unit of whatY
By reference to the act of Congress
of April >, 1902, l find that it is the
| unit of the
AMERICAN MONEY SYSTEM.
Third, | find that it is not only zone
| dollar or unit" but that the govern
ment says it is "one hundred cents"
read the act of April ., 1892,
| again, and find that every silver,
gold and copper coin authorized to
be coined into money was measured
in and coined by the "dollar or
! unit Therefore, it follows that
this silver dollar OF 371t grains of
pure silver is our hundred cent dol
lar" and must be an honest dollar
and a sound dollar. And as it was
made p legal tender in payment of
debts, and as there are more than
four hundred millions of these silver
dollars in our money system, | have
wondered, as many others have,
why the officers of the government,
our public servants, who have sworn
to protect our interests, are, in the
face of the constitution, the law OF
the contract, and the reserved
RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE,
refusing to pay ont these silver dol
lars.
The President says that gold and
gold only is money of ultimate re-
demption in payment of the nations
Obligations. To enforce this view he
recommends that five hundred mil
lions of gold bonds be issued and
sold for gold, and that with this gold
all the national paper money be re-
deemed and destroyed. This is an
issue SO PLAIN that no one need be
mised. 1t is the single gold stand
ard of England VS.. the silver and
gold standard of the United States
The Republican party is pledged in
FAVOR OF BIMETALLIsM-
which means the use of both silver
and gold as standard money in the
American money system.
When the President rendered this
issue what answer did the Repub
lean House make, whose speaker
Mr.. Reed, is an active candidate fol
the Presidency 1t made no answer
lodged the issue clear; passed in in
decent haste q bill to increase ma
tional taxes forty million dollars {
year, just as if that could be tor
tured into an answer to the golt
standard proposed by the President
and then for party "taffy" enacted
coin bond bill, that neither the Pres
ident
NOR ANY ONE ELSE ASKED FOR.
Thus are the people misled by tn
so-called leaders.
That they have been misled,
proved by the elections of 1888, 1S9
1902 and 1894. The people hav
been so misled that they have j
turn driven both Republican an
Democratic parties out of powe
We did not keep our party pledg'
made in 1883 and the people dro1
US out in 1890 and in 1892. TT
Democratic party has not kept on
pledge made in the platform of 1S9
and the people drove it out of pow'
in 1904.
WHO WILL BE DRIVEN OUT IN 1S9t
The President makes the gol
standard an issue. The silver men
Republicans, Democrats and Pop,
lists--in answer demand that silv'
be restored to it's place in the Amer
can money system, showing that
1t is, there can be no need of the r
tirement of one dollar of the n
tional paper money. I repeat, VIII
answer do the so-called Republics
leaders make to the living issuef
this issue that will not down; tn
can not down uptil II 10
FINALLY AND PERMANENTLY SETTLE
Gan it be an answer as to wheth
we shah obey the plain comman
OF the Constitution in the use
both silver and gold-to increa
tarltf duties? Can it be an answer
The Presidents clean-cut issue to i
crease the interest-bearing deb
DOeS any Sana man think that A hr