The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-08-19

80 VI eHe same DISH with the same
spoon.
Ever since the war the two old par
YES nave been fighting sham battles.
democratic politicians told the people
mat the cause OF hard times WA the
Republican tariff. Republican poIi,i-
clans told their crowd that the cause
OF bard times was the Democratic
tafin. This was the same old racket
your grand-daddies heard: yet wear
after year under Democratic tariff and
under Republican tariff the people
nave grown poorer and poorer. Dem
ocratic politicians had followed .ni9-
ger in the woodpile"
Ihey said the great danger to the
country was thas poor, ignorant, help
less old negro over there. 1.-THE white
people OF the State were divided into
| three different parties and the ne1roes
wers to ell vote together in a fourth
party. they could not elect their ticket.
because there IS not enough negroes
| in the State. No man believed more
firmly than he in q white mans gov
eminent. The white men were en-
titled to rule because they were a su-
perlor race. yet no man was more ia
vorabie to treating the negro right
than he was. But he will not allow
| them to make the negro an issue in or
der to side-track the real issues. The
nrst man who hollows 'nigger" is the
| first man to buy or steal the ''nigger'sn
vote. The Democratic politicians are
getting ready to fight another sham
battle over the negro; but every man
shall know the truth.
These politicians are doing this be-
cause they are ordered to do it by the
mOnoplies and trusts, who have prom
ised them big campaign fund. If
the true issues that effect the welfare
OF the people are fought out squarely
in the next campaign, the people will
win. The Southern Railroad (Which
is owned by the ROthschilds) know
this; the trusts know this; gold
gamblers know this the machine pol
iticians know this. This is why they
are trying to smother up the true is
sues and fool the people into making
another sham and false fight over Mig
ger and tariff. In every campaign in
which the politicians have been able
to get the people TO fight over the
"taritf and Niger" the monopolies
and trusts have gotten t..eir agents
and tools IN power and the people
have been betrayed and robbed.
| Senator Butler next took up and dis
cussed at some length the great ques-
ton of trusts. He said that every body
claims to be against trusts. Every Dem
ocrat and Republican politician will
denOunce them in the next campaign,
but they won't remedy the evil. Both
parties had tried to fool the people
about trusts. Both parties had offered
false and ineffective remedies. Grover
| Cleveland denounced trusts as one of
the most insidious curses of the age
Mckinley in his inaugural address,
evil on the body polite. Yet the trusts
what they want with him. The Re-
publican legislature of New York ap-
pointed a committee to investigate
trusts. That committee declared that
State legislatures can't kill the trusts.
Grover Cleveland says the State legIs-
lature possesses the only power to
kill them. Republicans and Demo-
4 Gratis accuse each other Of fostering
trusts, both have been supplied with
funds by trusts Both have had the
power to abolish the trusts. they have
passed sO-called anti-trusts laws; yet
trusts are growing all the time and
sapping the fat of the land, and the
antitrust bills these old parties have
passed are as harmless as dead Mig
ger" There is only one way to kill
trusts, that is to remove the causes
that produce trust--dig up the roots
that cause trusts. Every line of bust
ness is in the hands of trusts. The
great body polite is sick nigh unto
death; the nation is suffering with mo-
, nOpoly blood poison. What causes
trusts? The gold standard and monop-
oily in transportation. Scarce money
breeds trusts. 1t is only when prices
, are falling, business stagnant and
J every man buying little that the
} trusts have an opportunity to get
, fOothOld. The railroads have cheaper
. rates for the trusts than for anybody
else. They control both the railroads
and the government. Trusts will con
tinue to grow richer and ths
!. people poorer until ethe cause
is removed. Trusts Cannot b,
; killed until the currency of the people
is restored to them and transportation
controlled by the government in th'
> interest of the people. What we con
: tend for IS an equal opportunity fol
2 every man to earn an honest living
t Wealth has been increased in the q a
] ton, yet the people who made tn
r wealth are poorer now than they wer
: fifteen years ago. What caused thi
! condition.? The government has al
= lowed the great instruments of com
merce-money and transportation
to 20 into the hands of few clique
= and syncicates.
Y We must continue to be bled an
robbed, we must submit to the dOmi
s nation of trusts or we must apply tn
= remedy that Will kill trusts and restOr
prosperity. The Peoples Party wa
J, the only one that offers remedy 70
3 trusts
: The Charlotte Observer, gold an
: monopoly paper pretends to be Oppos
o ed to trusts, but its professions ar
e just about as sincere as Cover Cleve
o lands when he pretends to be agains
i trusts. There was not a trust in thi
Y country till half of the peoples none
e was taken from them by burning U
r the greenbacks and demonetizing 81
s ver-there never was q trust until tt
t gold syndicate bought up our railroad
o broke up competition and organize
them into one great transportatlo
% trust. The gold trust and the tran
y portation trust are the twin parents
j. all other trusts.
e The man who favors the gold stant
e ard and the monopoly rule is either
1t knave or a fool-we challenge II
e Charlotte Observer (the organ of M
% kinley and Cleveland) to answer tn
.e logic.
= Next Senator Butler discussed in
:. vigorous manner the railroad lea
D. question and the other great reform
ID for which the forty Populist membe
y of the last legislature so brave
fought.
y He said one great question in tt
i, State was whether the people can ele
in legislature that railroads can't buy,
y, whether they will surrender the Sta
W wholly to the railroads and their TOO
d. the machine politicians. He said
# was not anxious to please either SUI
Ill Republican or Democratic politician
I'D Neither are to be trusted. They ha
[r. fattened in office on favOrs from
ct CORPORATIONS while they neglected a.