The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-08-26


plough the fields, IL you Are nos organ
ed you amount TO no more in force and
power than On many serfs and peasants
under foreign monarchs.
POWER OF coRroKAIioxs.
Look and ace what has been done in |
your State within the last few daya.
Your Railroad Commissioners have \
passed an order declaring that tele-
graph rates shall be reduced from % |
cents to IL cents for every ten worda |
There never WIS N vthipg more Just |
than that. The St.te has . right TO |
say that their rates shall be reasonable. |
to then, q fair income on |
the amount they have invested. They
have been charging Is cents for every |
ten words, and cents for every addi- |
tional word. They are taxing the peo- |
pie OF this country for everything cent
by telegraph. You are Gouged and |
plundered BY that crowd. They say to |
you, stand aud deliver" every time
you want to send . message. You
give them seventy-fve cents or . dol |
lar to send telegram to New York,
when you can send one all over Eng
land, Scotland and Wales for about
fourteen cents.
Vic Vi yOuI ocu0tOIs, u8TlOu nut.
Ter, has introduced q bill to establish
postal telegraphs for this country and
has 1t before . committee and thinks
he will get it passed BY the Senate, but
when the agents of the money power
you will find that il will drop into the
tomb. The people OF this country
can't be strong enough to send repre-
sentatives to establish a postal tele-
graph until they are organized. There
is no reason for it except that it is de-
creed by the money power that it shall
not be done. Ii you were organized
you might be in a position to say that
it should be done. II the men who
pay the taxes-if they could get to-
gether and organize-they could
stand up and say, 1--WE have been plum
dered enough by you" Here the
Railroad Commissioners have done
this, but why have they not cut rail-
road rates? 1t cannot be explained.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany appeal, get it into the courts, and
in the meantime get an injunction
from a Federal judge to prevent the
Commission from carrying its order
into effect-all of which amounts to
their walking up to Federal Judge and
saying: "Stop this" and he stops it.
Away they go to get their injunc-
tiOns and big lawyers, ex-GOvernOrs,
and secretaries and ex-judges and all
before these Federal courts to show
that this Western Union Telegraph
Company is too poor to stand the cut.
Who represents you? Where is your
Western Union has got it all except
ia n vHso pf m
iture they need and need bad, and that
is Governor. (Applause.) Twill try
to see to it that your side is heard.
This 10 one time they have not got the
Governor.
YOU MUST KEEP QUIET.
YetyO must not say anyhing. Don't
kick. II you kick, you are q greasy,
long-eared, long haired anarchist
(Laughter.)
Now, my friends, this has got to be
stopped, or this government is fail
ure. Look at it: The other day q
Judge actually issued an injunction
preventing free assemblies; and there
he sits-this little monarch OF West
Virginia--and sends United States
m arshals to shoot down free born
len who are exercising their consti-
ti0nal privilege of free assemblage.
(Applause.)
ARE THEY IN FOR LIFE.
One Of the corporation newspapers
said the other day that the Governor
had shocked the State of North Caro-
lima by making . "brutal attack" upon
the Federal judges. You must not
criticise them. The King can do no
HARM"
These Federal judges think they are
in for life. Judge Shirss. of the United
States 6uprem court, who voted first fOT
the income tax when they were trying
to force these money kings to pay rev.
enue to run this country, is another
1 one of them. He decided for the in.
come tax and then changed his
mind" and said "the tax was uncon.
stituti0nal," and vast millions were
lost to the country and the burden fell
upon you and such IS you.
Now say here what said when
shocked" the State, that these Fedora
judges think they are in for life, are
Independent Of the people, with sal
aries of 5000 or $1,000, and thinl
their salaries will get larger As th'
years roll BY, the dollar rising undel
} the gold standard. Now ] want t
|
Adams in 1901 appointed lot Of Fed
eral judges for life to keep down tn
Republican, Afterwards Democratic
party. He appointed them, they wer
sworn in and took their offices. Blu
, Jefferson as soon as he was sworn in
in March, 1901, took those judges b!
the nape of their necks and flung then
: into the ditch. (Laughter.) He 60
|, his Senate and House Of Representa-
! tives to repeal that law and they dit
it. And Adams judges had n0thin,
left but q funeral! And il the peOpl
get possession of this government the,
,, may take the judges who stand in Wit
corporate wealth against popula
rights and throw them into the gsrb
age gutter:
. "brutaiity will Coon" (Applause
They say that they don't show tn
! proper respect for these judges. Vel
I'm not brimfull of respect for tina
> crowd anyhow.
T, Yes, talk about millionairee. In
y willing for . man to be . millionaire
5 but want him to be an honest ont
Some Of them are good people, an
= some are the worst class Of people
, There are idle ones living in idlenes
! and debauchefy-they are not entitle
: to the respect of respectable people
l have the greatest respect for tn
daughters of this people on thes
green hillsides in the county Of Wal
who do the work and spend their tim
!. in daily toll for father and mother IN
brother and sister, 60 to church o
y Sunday, and pursue the paths Of pea<
and virtue. l say have more respe,
q for them than have for al the i'd
Z daughters Of society that the world ev'
d saw. And want them to have Fespe'
for themselves, and to know that the
are just - good - the daughters
any millionaire or queen that ev'
wore . di8dem.
/. am glad that . man like Geori
l. Vanderbilt buys our lands and pa.
d our people biz prices and lays O