The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-18
Expl ms Dang 10 common
People From Mckinley.
A CASE OF LAND IN lRE0ELL
How Judge Furches is Benefit
ted by the Gold Standard.
BASIS OF ENGLISH FsUoALis@
Republican Pot-t+u tiers Sold Their
Party's Principles For Pie The Old
Party Leader Calls the Pre-
sent Outfit Mean.

To the Editor of the Landmark: The
effect of the single gold standard is
against government of the people,
for the reason that the amount of mon
ey circulation is not sufficient to main
tain the general intelligence-the sense
and information necessary for self
government. In a government like
ours, a very large proportion of the
people must be educated or well in
formed. TO keep this up-to maintain
intelligence and an independent man-
hood among the people from genera
tion to generation sufficient for their
self-government, the people themselves
must be hndowners-the land MUST be
divided among them, and at all times
in reach of any who strive to possess it.
Such is the case now in this coun-
try. The people own the land, and
have owned it since the formation of
the government a hundred years ago.
Not a special or preferred class own
it, but all classes. The great majority
of the lowliest cottages, the common
huts that dot the earth i'm all this broad
country. stand on the land owned 10y
the families who sleep inside of them.
SO long as this continues the republic
Will stand.
The single gold standard which has
been in vogue under Cleyeland's adj
ministratson since the Sherman lava
Democratic policy 50 popular with the
leaders of the Republican party that
they forced it into the Republican plat
form at st. Louis-IS AGAINST THIS
CONTINUATION OF LANDOWNER
SHIP BY THE PEOPLE.
In the year 1916 a number of bank
els, merchants and spectators in Eng
land had come into the possession of
large sums of money-England having
taken the start of the balance of the ma
tons in manufacturing and shipping
All those engaged in such enterprises
grew greatly rich. They made London
| the naoney centre of the world and
went on the gold standard. In 30 years
three-fifths of the landowners of the
country lost their lands, which were
added to the domain of the nobility.
| The descendants of those who
lost their lands are now the
| tenants of the goldbugs, who
own farms as big as coun-
ties. The owners sit. in their castles
on the hills and take a money rent per
acre on such of the lands as they al
| low to be cultivated. Large sections of
these estates are left in forests filed
| with herds of wild deer and other game
for the use and pleasure of the owners.
! Other sections are left in fine parks,
| with miles of smooth roads and drives
| for these gentry to revel over, They
| have no necessity to move q foot on
| hand except for comfort or pleasure.
| The veriest hog born among them,
| ever so destitute of heart or conscience.
| if he be the oldest son on one of these
| estates, becomes the owner. Such is
| the law. The land can never be
| touched for debt or anything else. Ii
/ goes entniled from father to son, or
nearest of kin, one of a family, down
| the tide of time.
! The conditions of the tenantry re-
| main as Interchangeable as the titles to
| the lands. The ratio of money to labor
| is so stringently adjusted that no head
way can be made in laying up money.
| In fact, any change is not expected by
| the tenants, and indeed never thought
| of except by a few Now and then,
through the fortunes of affinity, an in
tellect is produced among them which
| sees outside of it's surroundings, but
| the possessor has to turn his back ON
the land of his birth and the graves
of his ancestors to CRAFTY his ambition
to own a home.
The gold standard, under the opera
ton now at work in our country, will
rapidly deprive majority of the people
of their homes. IL a farm and the
stock on it is all man owns, and what
Il, =
| below the cost of production. as is the
case now, the time viii come when he
must part with his home. If he and
! his family remain in good health and
there are no accidents calling for am
extra outlay of cash, the time may
! be prolonged. But with any such acct
dent, the time will be short.
+ Prices have been steadily falling for
! eight years. Since the repeal of the
Sherman law, which was the only leg
islation left friendly to silver, prices
! have sunken rapidly.
The fight is on for a change of this
gold standard policy. The way to
change it is to restore the free coinage
| of silver. A few months ago the advo-
Gates of the gold standard were almost
quite confined in this State to the Dem
ocrats. The free silver leaders Of the
! Republican party were all for silver,
/ and swore they would vote for no gold
| standard man. There was not in Ire
! dell county one dozen gold standard
Republicans. Why were these silver
/ Republicans for free silver? Surely
because they knew the people were in
trouble for the want of money, and
they knew that the free coinage of sill
YER would increase the amount of mon
ey. These Republicans knew that if
there should be an increase of money,
that prices OF produce and all property
would rise.
They said the Republican party was
the friend of the people and would
COVE us free silver. They said McKin-
lev was a free silver man; that he knew
the farmer was not getting what it cost
him for his produce, and chat Mckin-
lev. was friend to the farmer and the
laboring man; that the bankers could
rldt control him; that the Republican
platform would be friendly to silver.