The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-10-07
the last thirty years, except when
Bryan was nominated.
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the last thirty years, except when
Bryan was nominated.
The Peoples Party forced this
great and important truth before the
country and pushed the vital issues
to the front In the last national cam
paiEn. Bryan publicly declared that
he would leave the Democratic party
il these vital issues were not taken
up by that party. The Cleveland
tariff politicians are Of course mad.
The politicians of both Of the two
old parties, who were thus driven
from serving monopolies and the
gold standard (by keeping up be-
tween them a sham battle over the
tariff are of course anxious to side
track the overshadowing economic
questions and to again revive the
tariff, and of course they are uis-
pleased at the action taken by the
Populist Congressman and Senators
and the Silver Republican Congress
men and Senators in the last Con-
gress because that action disrupts
their scheme and preserve the Issue 8
for which Bryan contended in the
last campaign. OF course they are
also mad With Bryan and are &c.
cretly preparing to knife him, The
railroads are all for the gold stand
ard. They supported Mckinley in
the last campaign. They care moth
ing about the tariff. They would
support Cleveland free trader as
quick as they would Mckinley pro-
tectionist, just go he was goldbug
and a monopollst. And in every
State where the railroads can cap-
ture the legislature and the Demo-
cratic committees next election, they
will get delegation to oppose Bryan
in 1900. This scheme is now being
worked in North Carolina behind the
tariff aud niger racket
| Your insinuations that / took this
position ON the tariff question in
order to curry favor with the Repub
licans and to get their support to be
reelected to the Senate in 1900 shows
that you are very poorly informed or
else that you wilfullv intended to do
me an injustice. You must know
that most of the Populist Congress-
men and Senators were elected by
} the help Of Democratic votes, and
they took the same position that !
did. Now did Senator Allen refrain
/ from voting on the final passage OF
the tariff bill in order to curry favor
, with the Democrat In his State7 l,
would no doubt have pleased the
partisan and monopoly Democrats in
} Nebraska for Senator Allen to have
) sided with the Democrats of that
7 kind in the Senate in trying to side.
s tt ack greater que stions and making
D the tariff the leading issue. Bui
: Senator A lien did his duty. He knew
: that the Peoples party must take
: such action as would emphas 70 the
0 importance of the inaucial ant
r monopoly refoi ms ab W. all othel
!, questions; and he DID II regar lless O.
t the consequences. H. put the inter
r est of the people ard the whole coun
try above his own personal ambition
J. Besides, the Republicans would rath
Q er help elect free trader who wa
q for the gold stanard to the Senat
Il than a protectionist who was &c
| free silver sixteen to one, NOR
f gree nhacks, and against monopol
j. rule.
q l might also call the attention f
! the well known fact, but fact whicI
o you seem not to know, that ther
: was no chance of the defeat of tn
j. tariff bill no matter how the Populist
J. voted. The Republicans had secure
l. enough Democratic help pledged t
I vote with them to insure the final
q passage of the bill, no matter whs
d shape it was in. Our only hope wa
IF to improve the bill if possible whe
er the fight was being made by sections
10 This / and every Populist and Silve
le Republican did. We went furthe
le When the tariff bill was reporte
GO back to the Senate by the conferent
'e committee we went to the Democra
l and told them that we had assu
~ ances from one or two Republican
ir that they would help US to send Il
se tariff back to conference and keep
re there until certain changes at l. a
G. could be made in it if the Democra
would give US their solid ba ,king
as such a fight. A number of Democra
er favored doing this, but they cou
T. not get the united strengh Of the
u party, and therefore the eff ort was d
n feated. The state ment was made
e. some of the Democrats that if t
oh tariff bill was in the shape that the r
IS publicans wanted it then they want
he it to pass in that shape, no matt
ID. who bad it was. This was the ols
sh of Democrats who hoped that t
ny bill would be made bad enough to e
ay able them to sidetrack Bryan and t
u money and monopoly ISSUES a
IRE make tariff the leading issue in I
ID, next campaign. This kind of DEN
We crat and the Republicans were VOL
;ad irg for the same purpose.
- Trusts-the Cause and the Remedy
nd AS for trusts, every intellig'
sue man knows that trusts and combil
at thrlved and prospered and mu
9th Piled in number under the Democt
of ic Wilson tariff law as much as Il
it did under the Republican McKin
md tariff law. What is trustf It is sim
liti- a complete monopoly of any line
ion business. How is it possible for a
nee syndicate or set OF individuals to
no such a monopoly of any line of b
ard mess : Every intelligent man knc
stic that the only way that such tn
riff can be accomplished is for the s
the syndicate or set of individuals to
ms get control of the instruments
in commerce. Those who control
ing instruments of commerce COM
and commerce itself. Every intellig
into man knows that there are three
nd struments of commerce that Wit,
otte effect every line of business in
fort nation, namely: money, trauspol
we ton and the transmission of int,
uses gence. The constitution places
)0n- control of commerce and there1
thew these instruments of commerce