The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-09-30
Tux TRUE MOTIVE PIDDEN BEHIND
FAI<E PLEA.

road and monopoly organs on the
"white supremacy" question, their
frantic and piteon- Efforts 10 arouse
race prejudice, their refusal to discuss
any issue bur the digger" their weep
ing Of sad weep' over ,he departed
greatness Of the STATE, their touching
and soul-stirring references to the
Jarvis, Scales, FowI-, Holt and Carr
administrations, are all so suggestive
Of n concerted plan Of action on the
part Of the railroad and monopoly press
that they arouse a suspicion Of the true
motives behind all this bypccriticsl
cant, and lead to the conviction that
this deceptive and Seductive plea" Of
white supremacy is being used for a
different and Interior purpose, which
can only be accomplished by playing
upon tn. prejudices Of the people. In
their anxiety to do this they are so
plainly revealing their true purposes,
by their persistent refusal to discuss
the great questions OF much needed re-
forms, and by their continual harping
upon this, the only subject they are
permitted TO discuss, that they threat
en- to Overst.p the bounds of prudence
and to thus defeat the very aims they
have in view. We expected nothing
better of the Charlotte Observer and
the other little monopoly and railroad
organs than that they would pursue
these tactics, but we confess that the
use Of the same by the News and Oh.
server, our late and able ally in the
fight for the overthrow Of corporation
rule and the re-establishment Of good
government, has moved US with regret
and pty-regret because we feel we
have lost a friend, pity because that
friend has lost its independence. No
more Is It's voice raised in defence Of
the peoples rights and against the sg-
Eressions of corporate power; it has
made a bargain and sale Of its COL
umns, and now says what it is told to
say. IL dares not now, as it but a
short time since did, defend the peO-
pies cause.
A gigantic and heartless corpora
ton, ameDable to no moral law and
for this reason conscienceless, by the
exercise OF mysterious influence, de-
bases the high office OF Chief Executive
OF State, and persuades the holder
thereof with his co-directors Of a valu-
able piece Of State property to enter
into a contract, executed under the
the terms OF which tins corporation re-
.ceives great pecuniary benefit and the
State aud taxpayer corresponding det-
riment but the News and Observer
whose columns were once filed with
language of just condemnation against
this nprecedented and brazen outrage
upon the rights of a people which ii
justly stigmatized as the crime of the
year, now wraps itself in silence and
says never a word more about this
shady transaction, yet the Southern
Railway has not in the least receded
from its arrogant position, nor are the
evil effects of its undue influence upon
State officials in anywise mitigated
the present Governor Of the State
takes steps to prevent the consumma-
ton OF this midnight deal, but 10! the
corporation in question, bloated with a
sense of the security of power, steps in
and orders one of its tools and puppets
"A Federal judge-to forbid the States
Governor from taking action to secure
justice to the people of the State he
governs, which is cody done by way of
injunction, but the News and Observer
90 indignant at the time over this act
Of colossal cheek, now strives to mini
mize the Importance of checking this
evil though its dangerous growth is in
creasing every day; again, the Govern
or of the State is now considering the
removal from positions of trust two
railway commissioners for the reason
that they have not acted fairly between
this railway corporation and the peO-
pie for which reason they were but a
short time since so justly centured by
the News and Observer, but that same
journal since the Governor has taken
tn, action which it itself suggested,
now sees fit to pass over without COM
mendation, ignoring almost entirely,
Or If to notice at all, to express dubious
opinions about his action, though the
Governor needs and is entitled to all of
the encouragement possible in per-
forming his patriotic duty great ques-
lions are pendent upon the settleme mt
of which depends the financial pros
perity OF the people of the State and
the freedom of their children from Do
litical and industrial serfdom; a battle
is being fought between greed and
avarice on the one hand aud justice and
fairness to the great majority of the
people on the other. but the News and
Observer, once so eloquent on the side
Of the people, now pursues q course
which is expressly intended to divide
the people on these great issues, that
greed and avarice may win.
Now Why does the News and OBJ
server abandon the cause it but lately so
ably cbampioned! The change is great
and there must certainly be a cause.
We know that the News and Observer
pleads rs its excuse that il desires good
government and white supremacy, but
that this is q hypocritIcal declaration
is too apparent for controversy, because
the course that the News and Observer
i,now pursuing is purposely intended
to divide the forces in North Carolina
who are in favor Of good government.
And IL 1t is white supremacy the News
aud Observer 10 so interested about, we
have pointed out to that paper how
white supremacy and good government
can both be secured By fighting for the