The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-01-30
JUDGE CLARK
IN MEXICO.
A Letter in Which Facts With
The Power Of Great Thunder
bolts are Presented.
AN INVINCIBLE ARGUMENT

AN lNVINCIBLE ARGUMENT
In Favor Of silver IL shown ny Oar sistss
Republic The InJastics of q old bag Rsb-
cry The Magnitude Of The Fiasdsr-
Over Two Hundred Ailiions Loss On Get
ton Aions-Oar People are P.tisss. Bss
We Will Not Go Down.
Associate Justice Walter Clark, of
the North Carolina Supreme Court,
who is spending some time in Mex
leo, has written a vividly plain and
instructive letter to the News and
Observer in which he says:
1.-THE climate is nearly perfect.
Strawber, les are ripe, and flowers Of
all kinds brings ten cents q basket.
They say it is no warmer here in
Summer, and never sultry, as these
table lands, embracing 500 900 square
miles-two-thirds of Mexico-aver.
age 1000 feet above sea level, over
three times as high as Asheville,
and the snow on the taller mountains
never melts.
This country is developing more
rapidly probably than any other on
the planet, and could not help being
prosperous as matters stand. The
dollar is exactly the same value it
was ten or fifteen years ago, not
having
BEEN ART1FICALLY DOUBLED
in value by legislation, as has been
the case with US. Consequently cot
ton is still l3 cents per pound and
wheat ST. per bushel, while fixed
charges, as taxes, passenger and
freight rates, public and private
debts etc., remain actually Gas we'll
as nominally) the same. With us
in the United States, by virtue of
the legislation in favor of the bond
holders, these fixed charges, while
nOminally the same are, in fact,
doubled, as it takes
TWICE THE AMOUNT
of cotton, corn, wheat, ETC., to pay
them. One does not get full idea
of the enormity of this transaction
till he gets here and sees the pros
perity of this country and sees the
very capitalists who, by securing
this legislation, have doubled the
value of their United States bonds
investing the principal and interest
of their enhanced value in this coun-
try at old prices, thus securing So of
property here for ST. loaned the
United States Government-that is,
they will sell $1,000 United States
bond for gold, buy $1,000 of silver,
which remains at the old value, and
invest in s., 200 of property here.
The looting of Rome by Genseric
and the Vandals, Of India by Hast
ings and Give, Of this very Mexico
by Cortez and the Spandards, or of
Peru by Pizarro. all pale into insig-
nifcance, compared with the mag
nitude and
INJUSTICE OF THIS ROBBERY
practiced upon the seventy-five mil
lions of the American people in the
interest and by the procurement OF
the half million of millionaires and
their agents and dependents, through
the simple device of so controlling
legislation, that every dollar of Ma
tional, State city and individual in.
debtedness is doubled by doubling
the value of the dollar. Genseric
Give, Cortez, Pizarro, risked thei1
lives and had brave men behind
them, and they at least pillagad for
eign nations. But this crime ha,
been the manipulation of the tool,
of the bond-holders; there has beer
nothing heroic and the only great
ness in it has been in the
MAGNITUDE OF THE PLUMBER
which surpasses all that has ever ye
fallen to a conqnering army in th'
wealthiest country.
There was no excuse for it, sine,
silver, when demonetized, was wortt
more than gold, and there has beer
nothing since to depreciate it. Tha,
silver, in fact, has not deprecated
, in the least may be seen right her,
in Mexico, and throughout the so,
, OOO, 900 of people living on this hem
isphere, south of the Rio Graude
in all which countries the silver dol
lar will pay for
ASMUCH TAXEs,
as much railroad freight and pas
senger fare, as much public and pri
vate Indebtedness as formerly-an,
farm products and land bring .
: much as ever. Neither has silve
deprecated with US, but is the gol'
dollar which has been doubled il
value; hence debts, lublic and pri
vate, taxes, railroad rates, ETC., ar
3 actually though not nominally douh
! led while the
!, PRODUCE HAS TO BE SOLD AT HAL
: PRICE
to pay them. Every farmer VIII
l. sold q pound of cotton in the Unite
States last year was in effect take
It 6 cents a pound, or $50 q bale, an
: SO cents in the bushel on wheat. Th
o robbery perpetrated on the farmer
c of the South by this legislation pr,
IS cured by the Vaccinations of th
3 combined capital Of London an
10 New York, on the cotton crop alon
D. of 7,0OO, 900 bales at $50 per bale,
ct $2lO, ,OOO, 900 for
d, THE ONE YEAR OF 1895 ALONE.
" The profits reaped by the capita
y lists by the legislation which b.
~ doubled the values of their claiu
"a against the public, and inividuals,
G G practically beyond computation.
70 "fatigues the imagination" to Co
OF slider it. The wonder is not tn
IT there is widespread and incurah
y depression, but that we can contin
s. to exist under such . state of thing
TO Were we not the wealthiest q
OF most energetic and most patient pc
OF pie on the face of the globe, ,
would sink under it.
of It is by no means certain that !
n shall continue always
ny TO BE THE MOST PATIENT.
nd Those who have thus pillaged Us, .