The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-05-07

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has been here for some time and rs
here to STAY as long as the Liberties
and property of the poor and ioWly
| are to be defended against the tyranny
and ayarice of the rich and selfish
ferr When a man swallows lamb he
don't turn to sheep. The lamb be-
comes man. | don't mentloh idll1o
10 suggest that Senator Butler has
proven to be altogether as harmless
to Democracy as MARY $, historic
net but [ do claim that ii DEMOCRACY
swallows his $4,000 votes we VIII not
become Populist, but they Will sInply
be coming back home, and we shoula
welcome the prodigals, it they are the
friends of 'sthe white lady" as they
call silver in the West.
Take the history of recent fusion IN
North Carolina. The stronger party
survives. and is a greater menace To-
dav to the State than ever before, I'M
less the Populists go with us and heip
us split the negro vote in the East.
CONDITION OF THE WAGE GARNER
A negro ordinarily viii not vote a
straight Democratic ticket, but under
existing conditions, hundreds and
thousands of them will vote our ticket
when they find the independent white
element supporting it. Since the Re
nublfcans have had the State Legisla-
tare. and under a gold standard, these
negroes are getting rs and 80 cents
day for work for which they formerly
got so and rs cents. Their shoe soles
are gone. some of them have worn
straw hats all winter, the chicken sup
nlv is about exhausted, wa'termelons
not put in an appearance, and blacKpef-
ries are not ripe, it is some time until
Iocusts and may-pops come IN, ana per
simmons and 'possum are IN the dls-
tant future. They are mad, hungry
desperate; and the Democratic policy
and party alone can bring them relief,
through expansion of the currency ana
consequent revival of languishlng an
dustries and increased demand for la
Dor and higher wages. Never before
have there been such incentives to vote
for Democracy and free silver as In TINS
year of grace, the twenty-third year
Of gold experiment, that fatal craze,
which never afflicted the world, nor
brought the wage Garner to the depbhs
of industrial slavery until the present
century. 1t is political "fad" that
was born during the same century that
gave us the bicycle and bioomer. When
Napoleon had crushed Europe, and put
nearly every member of his family,
except the cook, on some throne; when
England had given millions upon NIL
lions Of subsidies to raise levies for the
great struggle toea close at Waterloo;
when she was the creditor nation of the
world; when Italy, Spain, Autria,
Prussia and Russia all owed her; when
her manufactures had the world; when
f,er navy swept and ruled every sea;
when Napoleon was crushed ana sale
an ST. Helena. she drew long breath
of relief. looked about and saw that she
owned 1.-THE earth, and the fullness
thereof; that If she demanded pay
ment in am appreciated coin (Whlcn Uhe
debtor had never agreed to-, that IN ad-
dition to the agreed interest she Wouad
get am unearned increment in the en-
hancement Of the purchasing power OF
gold: in this saddest day in the calendar
of the wage Garner and agricultural,
she adopted the gold standard, and
from that hour dates the labor trou-
bles in England. 1T has been the house
of panics, discontinued labor and
trades-union strikes, and from 1873, IN
this country, dates the greatest rift
between the classes, by. reason OF dis
rarity in wealth. We had had the pro-
tective tariff morrill, law for twelve
wears. with but few millionaires, and
no tramps. Now nfllionaires are as
thick as primroses in May, and every
day. in our great cities las here few
DAYS ago in Judge Kimball's COURT,
men ask to be arrested and sent TO
prison. in order to be fed and housed.
The army of unemployed in this
country alone is larger, perhaps, than
the standing armies of the world.
What a victory for the gold expert
ment!
But we have not highlands reason
for adopting the gold standard, for we
are not a creditor nation, but have re.
Gently borrowed money at the rate OF
more than one million dollars per day
for every day in this year, so far.
The Theban sphynx destroyed the
traveller who could not solve its
riddle
We have not yet solved the sphynx
riddle of our government, the peaceful
and contented relationship Of labor
and capital.
The ground on which we stand is vol
eanic. All around seems peaceful and
quiet. but there ia intensest suffering
end danger all about US. Are we safe
A towering palm may grow upon
the sunny slopes Of a crater, but is It
safe?
LINNEY, PEARSON AN SETTLE.
The way to defeat these silver hypo-
critics ia to poll the solid silver vote
against them. DIR. Mott said last night
they were for silver, and yet they sup
10 be beaten; that they told the people
they were for liver, and yet they sup
port men for the highest offices, who
are the declared enemies of silver.
Now if DR.. Mott and silver Republi-
cans, and Senator Butler, and the Pop
ulists, want to vote and act with Dem
ocrats, thereby giving North Carolina
a Democratic Governor, for posterity's
sake, for the good name and welfare of
our State, let us lay aside our personal
feeling or objections we may have to