The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-02-18
WHO WILL CON-
TROL THE SENATE?
The Senatorial Contest Nov Be-
ing Wsdged in South Dakota
Will Probably Determine
1.-THE Arbitration
Treaty.
DANGEROUS MEASURE

try Press-Ths Loud nan . Fart es the
Same Mesopoiy sehsss-why n..sssg
70. Hsd the House 10 Defeat the yssd-
isg BiIi- Nsv Dedgs seKeb the Cove sss- |
meat es ESQ. .oOo. 900 ~ Ysssri sssss asa
sass-Ths biggest steal Yet IN the WAsss
Infamous Iansaction Of the Pseine
Railroads.
For The Caucasian.
WARRINGTON, u. G., Feb. 18th. 1897.
The battle over the arbitration
treaty continues behind closed doors
in the Senate. The chances for de-
feating this infamous and dangerous
British trap have improved. IL the
doors Of the Senate could be thrown
open and the true intent aud purpose
OF this arbitration treaty exposed In
open session the sentiment of all pa
triotic American citizens would rap
idly crystalline against il. There
is located somewhere a secret tory
bureau, sending out circulars TO the
preachers, Quakers, women and chill
dren, urging the Senate to ratify this
treaty. These circulars simply pre-
sent the abstract question: Do you |
favor settling differences between ma
tiOns by war or by arbitration? or
course, IN answer to this abstract
que ,tOn, every body says: in favor Of
arbitration. Then the British tory
circular suggests that if you favor ar
bitratiOn, petition the Senate to ratify
the treaty now before it, and thus
thousands Of good people who have
never read the treaty and know pOthc
ing of its provisions and ultimate puk
pose, are moved by sentiment to petit
| tiOn the Senate to vote for something
| which none of them would favor il
they understood it's real purpurt. Ii
is no doubt the Williams Street Re-
form Club located on Wall Street, n.
~, which sends out gold literature
and furnished gold "patent outsides"
free to newspapers, that is busily en-
gagged working up this sentiment, but
the light will soon be turned on and
the people will sustain those who fight
the treaty to death.
MARK HANNA's LATAsT MONOPOLY
SCHEME.
Mark Hanna and the gold syndi-
Gates, trusts and mOnOpOlists behind
him have begun to realize that they
have won their last victory unless they
can devise some scheme for cutting of
all the avenues of information and
truth to the people. They Owr
the telegraph wires and control the
:, Associated Press dispatches, and have
nearly all of the great metropolitan
: newspapers subsidized, and thus
through these powerful channels they
3 keep the truth from the people and
? pervert and poison the matter dishet
t up to the public through the daily
3 press each morning. But they ar'
alarmed for fear the people will ye,
!, learn the truth through the countr!
newspapers, and through such reform
books as Coins Financial School
:. President John Smith, a Genera
Freight and Passenger Post, and Othe
= such works which now pass throug
the mails as second class mat
i ter. Therefore they have lai,
q two schemes to cut off thi
sourse of information. g One O
their schemes is through the Lou
y postal bill, which has passed tn
House, and which they are now max
K ing desperate efforts to pass thrOug
q the Senate Committee on Post Office
J. and Post Roads. They made an effOI
to get a favorable report on this bi
last Friday. Falling, they have Lad
special meeting of the committee call
ed for to-day (Monday), whe
= another effort will be made I
get favorable report. They are d.
% termined to rush the bill through ,
1t this session of Congress if possible.
E. Their second plan, which Mark Hal
of ma has taken charge of personally,
te to subsidize the'country weekly new
10 papers. Mr.. Hanna is planning to CO
n. respond with every editor of coul
h. try weekly that he thinks he can NAL
business arrangement with. III
editor is to agree to run so much go
es stuff in his paper each week in retuI
e. for a consideration of some natul
iy that Mr.. Hanna will try to make agre
as able to him. Let the people be on {
be lookout and watch for each one
ed these country weeklies that flop to Ha
n. mas position.
The enemies of the people and go
government know that they cannot
strOy this government and enslave
people except by keeping the true q
correct information away from the
Hence these two schemes.
THE CAT IN THE MEAL TUB.
A number of good people who ha
been shocked at the gigantic steal
II the Pacific railroads we're deligh,
when Huntington's Funding Bill ia
ed to pass the House. 1t now dev
1io obs, however, that Huntington q
his crowd were simply hedging
MS make a new deal to further rob
OILS people and the government. 1t
be been generally understood that Hu
FL lington could command q majority
~ the House and pass his FUND.-
Bill. but that he would have q rO'
ee road to travel before passing
lis. tbieving measure through the Sen.
we It now seems clear that it was par
OF Huntlngton scheme to have the HO
dy. to defeat the bill in order to prev
old the Peoples Party Senators from m
for ing q fight when the measure came
for in that body to have the governmel
ia.. mortgage foreclosed and the COVE
.1oo mept to take charge of the roads
tno run in the interests of the people.
seems that Huntington and the RI
Z. ganization Committee of the Pa
railroads had reached an understa
ing, il not a deal with Cleveland to
effect that if the House would
The down the Funding Bill and thus
Il to the matthr out of Congress that Cl
the land would at once proceed to I
pre- close and sell these roads at prit
vOrs suit Huntington and his confedera
he'd, and if we are to credit the staten
TORS which purports to come from the
ives torney- General, it seems that Cl
nent land has already agreed to sell I
more roads at about fifty millions OF
,ffice lars less than they are worth.
; un- the Government is to be robbed OF
!. I much money for the benefit Of
to be tain railroad syndicates and ais
tors. prevent the people from deman
g de- that the government take charS
nner' these roads and operate them At .
there in the interests of the people
les to the end that q fair test Of govern
.torv. ownePshin and opeFatiOn Of q