The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-09-30
TWO GREAT PARTIES-BEHOLD
THE DIFFERENCE.

now JuSL where II udS SCoOu SiAOO doou1
the time of it's formation. It stands
openly for a gradual absorption OF the
states into a grand, consolidated, Ma
ton, the obliteration of state lines and
state rights and local self-government;
the increase of the army to a great
standing army a menace to the people;
the robber system Of huge taxation un-
der the forms of law known as a high
tariff by which sixty-fve millions are
taxed and robbed for the benefit of a
few millions; the single gold standard
for the currency of this country there
by rejecting and destroying as money
the silver currency that is coeval with
the beginning of our government and
was favored by Washington, Jefferson
and the great nation builders in the
past; the most Infamous, the most IN
just, the most grinding, the most SOUL
less and Internal system Of oppression
and rascallity ever deyised by men un-
der satanic inspiration-the great,
grinding destroying, trusts and mOnop-
olies that We're conceived in a spirit of
injustice, robbery and persecution and
have been worked out systematically,
deliberately, mallciously, devouringly
in the destruction of the products of
farmers and the general injury of peo-
pie at large-these are some only of
the outrageous and dangerous things
favored and employed by the republi-
can party in the affairs of the people
in all the states.
Blackness and light are not more I'M
k than this rotten, corrupt party of
Hanna and the plutocrats and the
great democratic party of the present,
the letigimate offspring of Thomas
Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, John c..
Calhoun and Jefferson Davis. This
lean in almost every particular, but
1t antagOnizes it with a determined
energy that means fight to the death.
1t is the only party that truly, sim
1cerely, consistently, aggresssively
stands for home rule, state rights, a
pure, economic, equal, just govern
ment, with no class favorites for which
TO levy taxes upon all for their special
benefit; that opposes a great standing
army in a republic in which the people
govern and not kings or satraps, to eat
up the substance o fthe people. It
stands for a low tariff tax, not to pro-
etect and make richer pampered favo-
rites. but to raise constitutional reve-
nnes for the support of the government
economically administered, the tax to
be put on %luxuries rather than upon the
commodities and necessaries of the
people. 1t is the party that is fighting
heroically for a return to the money
of the constitution, and fol- placing
silver where the republican despoilers
and Oppressors found it in 1873, before
they laid their destructive hands upon
it. 1t opposes at every turn, at every
point the abominable, sinful, remorse-
less, constituencies trusts of all names,
compilations and appliances. 1t op-
poses taxing the great body Of bread
winners and toilers all over the land
Ito pay a million of people nearly thir-
Hty-fve years after the wal a pension
that is more drastic, i~nexcusable and
oppressive han n known in the his
yTnru CQnnro1c Grant onA Garfield
,(both northern soldiers) declared that
under no conditions or circumstances
should the pensions ever exceed $751;
600, 900. Now it is not far below $780,
600, 900, and has been as high as $780,
900, 900 or more, we think. The pension
law, a bid for all name of frauds,
should be heroically dealt with and
pensions should be cut down to not
more than one third of the present
huge sum-.
In the politics of the union the DEM !
ocratic party is the only party that
promises economy, lower taxes, the
preservation of the constitution, the
safety and restoration of local self |
government, and a sound, constitutional
al currency such as the organic law |
of the land permits. |
The men who in North Carolina |
shall vote for a White Mans govern
ment against Negro Rule for all, will
also nave the satisfaction of knowing |
tina he votes for men who stand for
the constitution, for liberty, for the
unabridged and uninvaded rights of
sovereign commemorative, for a low
system of taxation, for a reduction of
expenditures, for a government of the
country by the White Man in all de-
.partments. !