The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-05-06

Populists of the State were present.
Senator Butler was the invited guest
and delivered the principle speech of
the evening. We gather from the
Boston papers the following extracts
from his speech:
81 live on cotton plantation IN
the South. We raise one of the great
est agricultural staples of the world.
We produce raw material. We are
the purchasers and consumers of man.
ufactnred products. Those who live
on the broad wheat fields of the West
occupy q similar position. | BRING
from the people Of those two great
sections, comprising three-fOurths of
the Union, a message to the manu-
facturers and to the labor employed in
manufacturing in the East. The in
terests of your people and the inter
ests OF our people are common. For a
quarter OF century it has been to the
interest of politicians to keep us di-
vided into hostile camps. Great Ma
tional campaigns have been fought
based upon the idea that the interests
OF the farmer and manufacturer were
divergent and antagonistic. | come
to New England to say to the manu-
facturers that the economic policy that
will make the wheat and cotton farmer
prosperous will make the manufact-
urer prosperous. When we can pur-
chase and consume your goods,
then your mills will run at
full time; your labor will be
employed at good wages, and
the producers and consumers of b. tn
sections will prosper. The mills TO-
day that are closed down, the manu-
featuring labor that to- day is idle. is
not due to the fact that the consumers
OF. the country are buying foreign
goods. The truth is they are not buy.
ing any. Consumption has been fall.
ing OIL, though our population has in
creased, and our desires and necessi-
ties have increased.
The manufacturers of this section
are expecting great prosperity to fol-
low the enactment - tie p.uuiox
tssfiff law. VIII it come? If the pres,
ent tariff law willincrease the capacity
Of the people to purchase and
consume manufactured goods, even
up. TO their absolute neces-
>it'es, then this measure will
rev We business. II the present
tariff law does not increase the capacity
OF the cotton and wheat farmers to
purchase and consume, then your mills
will close down, your labor will be
thrown out of employment, and un-
sold goods will pile up in your ware
houses.
Look at this illustration. To-day
the shoe drummer, the hat drummer,
the clothing drummer, and, in fact,
the drummer in every line of business,
is approaching the country storekeep-
er to place an order for goods. The
storekeeper tells the drummer that he
either is not ready to place another
order or that he must place a smaller
order than formerly. He explains
that part of the goods bought in the
last order are unsold, and that his
customers are unable to purchase; and
thus the jobber and wholesale man are
constantly receiving smaller orders
from their drummers on the road
This information reaches the factory,
the factory closes down, or, at best,
runs on short time. This tells the
whole story; here lies the root of the
trouble. How can it be remedied? 1t
can be remedied when the manufact-
urer and the farmer joins hands in
enactlng legislation that will protect
the farmer and the MANUFACTURED alike
The nine million labOrers who are
at work on the cotton fields of the
South and the wheat fields of the
west must be protected against for
eign pauper labor, just the same as
four million laborers who are employ
ed in manufacturing. This must be
done, or you will have no Customers
for your goods. We need a true Amer
lean system for American labor and
American industry. Neither the Dem
OcratIc nor Republican parties have
offered us this. They both offer reme-
dies that are contradictory. The god
standard and free trade 90 logically
together, hand in hand. l say to Won
tonight, that the Republican marty
must either give up the gold standard
or it must and will come to the nolicv
of free trade. If the masses of the
people of this country have to live
under the gold standard, then the
will welcome frt
trade, because they will be forced to
seek markets in foreign countries for
their manufacture products. We
must increase the capacity of our peo-
pie 20 consume, equal with your ca
paclty to produce Therefore, the
farmers and manufacturers of this
country should join hands on at least
1wo great economic qu.stions.. They
should stand solidiy for an American
laoor. ibis Is the position of the Peo-
pies Party. 1t is the only logical and
Ene only true American position.
:, In dlscussin g the question of trusts
Senator Butler said.
Ihe politicians of both the erest
oid parties have agreed with the peO-
PIE That trusts are great evil in our
oooy poHtlc. President Cleveland in
one VI nus last messages toCongress.
gre" eioquenI In denouncipg trusts.
IL SAID that Congress was not CONNIE
tent 10 correct the evil, that il n,nst
oe aealt with by the legislatures of
inc various States.
Inc LexoW Committee, in its re-
cant report to the legislature of New
I ork. vas equally severe in it's d.
nunciaeion OF trusts, but took the !, o.
sitlon mat state legislatures were not
competent to deal with the evil. that
II was the province of Congress,
PRESIDENT Mckinley in his inaue-
uIa' aaoress was equally vigorous and
eioquent In his denunciation of trusts,
out onere9 no remedy, and held out
no hope of relief, either through tho
state legislatures or through Congress-
lis strange that it has never oc-
CURED TO any of these Statesmen to
LOOK Tor the causes that produce trusts
.nu 20 polnt out to the people these
causes and to look for a means to re-
move the causes. 1t must be- nsten.
% even An elementary student of NO.
itlcat economy, or to even any ordi.
larJ ciear-headed aud obseryant man
'I business that trusts are the direct
mo n., logical result Of a monopoly Of the
OF commerce. Who ever
beard OF a trust sprin9ipr I'm and
1oorishing except when prices were
aiIing. When the people are Able to
'onsnme; when there is a demand for
me produce Of the field and fsctnrv.
.nen there is encouragement TO men
u smaH means to join their canital