The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-09-23

ID, that the people oil the wof'o are VI
vided of into classes By their Cses,or
and that one class 10 To 81 wayss~rvean and
wait for the other class Will. the lat
TER IL always without work itself 10
rule the former one TO reap all the re-
wards Of labor.
10 this year Of grace you can hear
the goldbag, every where rejoicing
over the bount.ful crops Of the season;
and pstting on the head be ser'cnltur
ist, he tells him that he never more
wants to hear q omplaint from him.
that he will make . plenty OF every
thing to supply bis necessities and
that he must take care OF what he has
made, and above ali things, to let poll
tics alone for they have nFarly been
his ruin in the past. He tells the farm
ers that to make . plenty to live on,
to stay 1t home in peace and to let
public matters alone is his only safety
for such q lot is manifestly bis desti
ny. He assures him that government
or any part of it 10 not for him to in
terfere with. but is . matter which must
be left entirely to the learned, the edu-
Gated and the experienced; that the
interests Of the business men, the bank
ers and the manufacturers are identi-
cal with his and that they will be sure
to look after the financial affairs Of the
country; and, finally, that prosperity
is already here and that all who express
doubt of the statement are anarchists
and calamity bowlers.
These creeds belong to the mOuldy
and dead past. The presentage dis
cards such religious teaching and as
blasphemous and proDonnces such po-
l tical twaddle wicked. The mechanic
who makes the Pullman car and who
is compelled, through poverty,
to ride only in the caboose
or second class car is learning
that the division of the profits between
himself and the manufacturer: is un-
fair. The agriculturist. who by his Ia
Dor supplies the world its food and raj
ment is beginning to understand that
there is . conspiracy against him and
his PRODUCTS by the capitalists and the
manufacturer. The latter named gen
tIemen put the price of provisions at
the cost Of production barely, and
thereby they reduce the wages of the
mechanic. They say to the skilled Ia
borer, "your wages ought to be re-
duced, for your cost of living is 80 much
less than it has ever BEEN" Both the
farmer and the mechanic-the pr0duc-
ers are made to destroy each other by
the unlawful combination of capital.
The result il, tenement houses or
cabins, poverty and humiliation for
the laboring GLASSES, and millions X
travagance and oppression on the
part Of the money grab' rs. This de-
lectable set Of personal scOundrels and
public plunderers ella IN to own all the
virtue and intelligence of the country.
They own the churches to great ex-
tent and the government, and the
whole of the daily new-;s r"rdum, and
0.ke their hired lawyer judges in the
land.
The men who work the farmers and
the farm laborers especially, not only
are not going to be deceived longer
about these matters, but they are going
to rectify these abuses and right Their
wrongs. 1t is high time for the gold
bugs to understand that the farmers
and mechanics are It going longer tc
be satisfied with bare living, to give
all the food and clothing, and all the
luxuries and delicacies which they
alone produce to the rich and idle, re.
serving to themselves only the plain
est die ID the simplest clothing fol
the mere boon ofliving. The farmers
and mechanics, (the men who have pro
duced the wealth which has made tn,
country rich) want for their wives ant
children something better in exchang,
for his products and his labor thar
poor meats and poor breads aud shoc-
dy clothing. He wants, for he> earn
them, his part of the rich things O.
life, including educational advantages
| decent and healthful homes and thei]
proper accompaniment, and he is &C.
ing to demand them. 1t is an insult
to tell the farmers to be satisfied will
his present surrou ndings, and that his
this years crop will keep him from
want. He wants progress, and he
wishes his fair share of the good thing
of life, and he intends to have them b,
seeing hereafter that the power of tn,
trusts and the corporations should b,
broken and that every man shall hav,
equal opportunity to make and EMO,
wealth and equal justice and protec
ton before the law, that no man or Sc,
of men shall enj y exclusive privileges
confirmed by laws and that what il
called the system of finance shall MOI
be the policy of the National Banker
and foreign Jew,.'
1t is we'll, therefore, for the gold
bug to understand that he cannot di
vert the farmer, mechanic, laborin}
| man and honest business man from
this determination by an attempt I,
arouse his prejudice against the negr,
race. The punishment of negroes wht
commit crime by due process of tn,
law no sensihla man can onnosa anf
all desire, and the working people
while they see. that this shall be done
will nevertheless see that there shall
be currency reform, monopoly reform
and fair division of the profits be
tween capital and labor; and that tn,
farmers products shall not be takel
from him by unlawful and wicket
combinations Of the money power an,
their offsprings, the trusts.
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