The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-04-08

gsniEsiions Ar but OF. os tho mani.
i~.tatias. uf Ssr xrvsi E~n~rsl move
meta 'ossu-nt ~ the grvat cam
mon people IN yincicatton of tb~R
-uscr-ien rights. Indeed. the crusade
far the elevation Oft cumuo on people
nnds st. wasktng bss-. its chiefe.t fac
tor and oppression ia modem labor
organization; snc tL~.~ organizations,
IL | mistake not. are The muster
grounds of An army .. pure and patri-
otic in it, motives, and having ss noble
a cause. AZ did ever that which followed
WAshin gtnn. or IN cur DWn time, the
patriot Mace
one remarkable thing about the la
Dor organization movement was the
part taken therein by the farmers.
SEEING the advantage ~ ~hich combina-
tion aiv-., they csme together Into the
organization mr.. OF the Grapg-- ard
thin Of the Farmers' Alliance. This
is indeed . most .igniiicAnt fact
When the rural part Of ats population
became aroused q nation may we'll
scrutinize its condition. The farmer,
slow TO wIath, is the very genius Of
ayengiDg destruction when once his
passion Is aroused. what has he done
in the past: Thre. times when liberty
demanded II has he captured and held
with his horny hand against every at
tack OF baron, lord, aud peer the capi-
tai city Of England. 1t was the farmers
OF France who. leaving the country
where they were subject 10 unequal
taxation, and flocking into the f-st~r-
ing cities, brought about the great
French Revolution. II was = body Of
American farmers who, with heels
tarred down In liberty and right,
drafted at Old Mecklenburg the firsi
| declaration OF American ind-p-nd
| encs. The farmers heart is the home
of freedom. He will De the throtti-d
| bond-servAnt OF no man. He has never
known servlle obedience 10 earthly po-
tentate or power. Witness the revolt
ing and triumphant farmers of Eng
land, France, and the American colo
MES pledging their lives, their for
tunes, and their most sacred honor to
the quest Of fleeing Freedoms trail
Witness now, il you will, five million
embattled farmers, banded brothers IN
a common cause, against an odious in
dGstrial oppression.
And now need ask why these
farmers have united? Why, Tor that
matter. have all other laboriBg peoples
united. Did they have no reason? IL
their action devoid OF n valid cause: (:
Just rs much without q cause as were
the men Of the Netherlands who re-
vOlted against the iniquitOus oppres
sion Of Spain; just as much without q
cause as were tn. barans Of England
no wrested from tyrannical Old King
John the great charter of English lib
erty: just as much without q cause n
were the peasants OF France who
raised their bowed backs from their
seryile toll and. catching into their
hearts the sunlight of liberty. wen'
forth to wreak upon their oppressors
the accumulated wrath Of centuries
Just as much without q cause as w.r.
those men who, Drawing perils 10y lant
? and sea, set foot upon the American
, shore and fired at the tyrannical mon
; arch of England that shot whos'
r echoes. heard round the world, made
| che thrones of kings to tremble ant
= proclaimed the death-warrant OF ever!
' monarch; just as much without caus'
> as are the patriots of Cuba to- day wh'
: are dying the death of martyrs In re
: belliOn against such oppression rs wis
n men would not give and brave mel
f will not bear. The labor organization
1 are here because of the prior presenc
d of oppression. Every labor organize
: tiOn upon the face OF the earth tO-da
i stands as monument testifying TO tn
q existence of human woe. some on
q has we'll said that the people will a
$ soon rise in revolt without oppressio
n as the ocean will heave in bi,low
> without the wind.
ol And so far are these organization
q from being harbingers OF i'll, that the
give US the best ground for hope fO
n the future of America. and therefor
r for the world. The dark hour for tn
70 American people will be when the
J. have become SO sunk in the scale {
J. manly vigor that they will not organic
"a and will not rebel. The labor union
"a are omens of good, and speak hope
:. the human race, for they are the tar
il gible proofs of to- day that We are Ii
" sons of those men who, by seven Ion
IN years of such bravery as the riches
ar history cannot show, wrested from II
10 hand of a tyrannic cal monarch tho,
n liberties which the Creator had give
or for man, who established this republi
,o lcarved it from the wilderness, col
n auered it from the Indians, wrested
,e from England, and at last, stilIiE
70 their own tumuit, cOnsecrafed il TO
h ever as the home of liberty loving me
no and the theatre of their iranscendII
an achievements, while startled kim
and emperors gazed and marvelled tn
,d from the rude touch of this haudf,
cast on a bleak and unknown shoI
N should have come the embodied genil
o, Of human government. the perfe
!, model OF human liberty" And il
of we'll that the sons of those men sbOu
.s- be found to-day in organizations .
Iae 49,
va Bunker Hill in glory and cOnsecrat
w. the American soil, that power will
ar. soon slumber beneath the spark as "
ns Anglo-SaxOn men beneath OpDTessid
is Well, anarchism, socialism, EiEilis
it. communism, are all but varied maj
art fest tatiOns of this same general mo,
At -ment-misdirected manifestations,
ch deed, but manifestations none I
lth less. Men are restless and gfopli
I'VE and their hands fall upon these thin
oil in the darkness, TO which they ait
gle wards cling in the hope that some v
the out OF them can come RELIEF. 1 sp(
on. of the Farmers Alliance a nome
ith ago Out of that organization spra
ad- 4 great political party. The times "
ind crying loudly for some one to espO,
ere the cause Of truth. Two old part
in had long since ceased 10 " can n
eat thing vital, aud stood for naught 81
to- blind infatuatiOn with a name.
circumstances which called them j
sn- being had passed away, and they ii
our and were loved but n relics Of gIori
its battles fought and won. Their p
forms were Dsught but .uccessiOn
the sonOrous platftudes. The victory
an either meant the s0lution of no v
in question. and every one knew
Itch Meanwhile the world was living .
oily. in few short ears Great prObl
and were arising demanding solution.
Ives people cried out for some one {"
ou them: but as no one came, they lin
b of decided to do that best OF all thIni
and to help themselves TO that end {
ICED organized a political party and
man poused the cause Of many needed
api- forms. They accomplished some thi
! nd an<, the WAY seemed Open Tor IN