The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-09-16
men put on the com m;.tea os ,h,
versary party and then csntu-s ~. I
men selected. 'He

.he Chicago convention Committed
the party to "such restrictions and
guarantee In the control of railroad :
as Will protect the people fromfoI
berry and OPPRESSION aud again =,
the absorption IF wealth by the few
the consolidation Of our leading rail,
road systems and the formation of
trusts and p,ols.r u
III we would carry out the letter or
spirit OF the platform the dntv rasts
upon the Democratic party of North
Carolina to select as candidates. fo~
the legislature none but men who will
see that the people divide the profits
with the railroads by receiving in en-
hanced prices of the products of their
farms portion of the money now ex.
torted from them by enormous freight
charges. Faithful legislators can helm
to remove these burdens from ,be
shoulders of the Producers directly
by suitable legislation regulating
charges, and indirectly by passing
an act providing for the election Of
railroad commissioners by the peo-
pie and the election of United States
Senators, who will not be controlled
by the railroad companies. Oar
candidates for Congress must like
wise be pledged in the IN ost uneauiv-
ocal way to the support of more
stringent act regulating intersta te
commerce, and Of such measures as
will secure the services of faithful
commissioners. The farmers of
North Carolina are losing more by
the elimination in the prices of the
products of their farms caused bv
the exhorbltant freight charges than
has ever been extorted, from them
by the highest protective tariff, op-
pressive though the duties imposed
by it may Lave been. There must
be something radically wrong in the
system, which exacts for carrying
our wheat and corn from one town
to another IN our own State, as much
as it costs per bushel to transport
the same articles from the North
west almost across the continent.
No wonder, too. that tie wages of
laborers in our mills are low, when
our manufacturers are compelled to
pay as much to transport cotton
from the nearest towns in South
Carolina, as it costs the New Eng
land mili-Owner to move his supply
from the shores of the Gulf of Mex
leo. This is a contest, in which it
behooves the operatives in the
mills to make common cause with
the farmer against the greed and
power of monopolists, in order that
they may receive in wages a share
of the enormous fund now expended
by their employers in the extort .on-
ate freight charges.
GOVERNMENT BY INJUNCTION.
The Chicago platform denounces
"the arbitrary interference of the
Federal authorities in local affairs
as violation of the constitution Of
the United States and crime
against free'institutions,'' and enters
the oh. ections of the party to "gov-
ernment by ipj anction as new and
highly dangerous form of oppres
sion by which Federal judges in
contempt of the laws of the
States and of the rights of citi-
zens, become at once legislators and
executiOners."
The monopolists in their des perate
greed have packed the United States
courts with Federalist and have pre-
cipitated upon the country the dan
gerous judicial legislation and usur-
patton, against which Thomas JEFF
ferson, the founder of democracy,
warned all lovers Of liberty in the
land.
Since this ringing declaration was
incorporated in the platform at the
instance of William Jennings Bry-
an, the antimonopoly Democrats
have been defeated or defraud-
ed at the polls. The result has
proven the signal all along the lines
for a concerted movement of the
powers of me II opoly, through the ju-
dicial as we'll as legislative and ex-
ecutive departments of the Federal
government to destroy self govern
ment and personal liberty and to in
augura.e the arbitrary rule of a
moneyed aristocrscy. Federal judges
have perverted the powers entrusted
20 them, as courts of conscience, not
only by granting ipjunctions to pre-
vent the executive officers of the
States from protecting the people
against the greed of monopoiies. but
by forbidding the poor working men
from walking along the highways,
because they were suspected of COM
bining to force their princely op-
pressors to pay better wages. The
descendants of the men, who fought
for the right of trial by jury Of the
vicinage from Bunker Hill to King s
Mountain, must determine, whether
they will submit to the m ockery of
justice in the very temple which
their forefathers erected as its last
stronghold.
A protective tariff is passed which
1T is claimed, will raise the price of
coal. The starving operatives, re
mem beriug the promises Of their en-
ployers, demand a division Of the in
creased profits in the shape of wages,
and on re fusal leave the mines. Com
bined capital can always fl nd a j1dge
who will stretch his authority to fur
ther its designs. When the poor mi
ner, who cannot aft ord horse, starts
out on foot to consult with his com
rades, he is halted on the highway by
armed men. When Pierpont Nor
gan, the prince of monopollsts, or
ders out his palace car to instruct his
subordinates how to control States
legislatures and courts, the mandate
flashes along the lines, that travers'
a continent, to sidetrack all trains
till the prince passes by. What mat
ters it to HIM, that such delays bring
heartaches to the afflicted or loss tt
the little men of business. This is {