The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-11
THE M'KINlEY WAVE
col. FRENCH SAYS IT IS ROLLING, CARRY
IN; WITH IT POVERTY AND DIS TRESS.
1--WE Are Walking on a Volcano and the
Crust is Thin, Exceedingly
Thin" s1rr

Col. w. +. French, or LumDertou,
who is attending the Supreme court,
saws that the stores rebuilt in the ire
district are among the handsomest brick
stores for a town Of the size Of Lum-
berton in the State.
Like all good Democrats, Col. French
takes much satisfaction from the results
Of the election last week. He is a Dem
ocrat who believes in the principles of
his party, and who finds little hope for
the Republic unless Democratic princi-
pies are applied. He recently published
an article in the Lumberton RobesOnian
that shows his convictions and contains
views that ought to be considered BY
all patriotic men. We quote:
1T il certain that something must Ike
done, for the Republican party, with
their aiders and abettors, with their high
tariff and gold standard have put UP
wheat to one dollar bushel, so they
say, and they have advanced -four two
or three dollars a barrel, sugar one cent
q pound and everything that the South
has to purchase has advanced in some in
stances more than forty per cent since
their party came into power. Cotton
ties for the South taxed, binding Irvine
for the West free. Cotton, the main
money crop Of the South, Is selling for
but little over FIVE ceTts pound and
going down, down. Now IL the Repub-
fican party, with their aiders and abet-
tors, can put up wheat to one dollar
bushel, why can they not put up cotton
to twelve and one half cents to the
pound? If they can and will not do it
what do you in all justice think OF
them? Oh, how they must hate this
Southland of ours!
"How about the laborer? Oh they
were for high tariff and the gold stand
ard because it would increase the labor
-er's wages and they would be paid in
honest money. What do we see? Thou
sands upon thousands on strike be-
cause they do not receive sufficient wages
TO sustain that life which their God
has given them, and when they attempt
to use that part of their senses which
distinguishes them from the brute peace
fully to argue with their fellow work
men to prove to them that they should
not work for wages that Will not decent
ly sustain life their oppressors call to all
the law which was formerly known as
a pure court of equity, the court that
could not soil it's hands with an impure
thing, and that court enjoins them and
peacefully argue and counsel with their
fellowmen for their general good. And
after that when they attemnt ii. the
court seeks the protection Of the stron.
arm of the law to enforce Their DEGREES
and two hundred and five deputy sheriffs.
armed with most deadly weapons known
to science. shoot down and kill in cod
blood twenty defense'ess men and wound
forty more. The military of the State
was ordered to the scene by thousands
and when warrants were issued by the
civil courts for the arrest Of the MUIR
derers they seek the protection Of these
troops and are there protected from ar
rest, and when the civil officers armed
with the full power of the law 20 to n
rest them these Officers are imprsoned
BY the military. The court Of equity us
ed the military to prevent the mandates
Of the law-to protect life and =nnnisa
the gnilty from being carried ont. Tyran-
ny has put on the garb Of Injunction.
The cOurt Of equity, a court created to
hew off the sharp corners Of the law
to give justice and equity in cases
where the stern rules of the law cannot
give relief. to relieve man from fraud,
error, deceit and undue influence, "has
put on the livery Of heaven to serve
the devil in" by depr:ving him of his
liberty and his snstenances and other
most cherished rights guaranteed to him
by the constitution.
"Onward rolls the Mckinley wave
Of prosperity carrying with it despotism.
poverty and distress and sprinkled with
the hearts blood of men,"
"Are we now sleeping the death sleep
Of American liberty. or is it the usual
calm before the hurricane. TIE cyclone
and the storm? In my. opinion we are
walking on volcano and the crust is
thin. exceedingly thin. II the patriots
OF seventeen seventy-six can view this
hand must they not weep in Heaven it,
self to see in this land which they died
to make free such despotism, such tyran-
nyY