The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1898-04-07
SOME HUMAN
NATURE
Evinces Itself in the Voter and
he Will Ask Questions Of
Old Party Leaders

he Will Ask Questions Of
Old Party Leaders
WILL THEY ANSWER THEM
| The Politician Resort. to Deception To
Seeing Through the c.m~--Ho~ Lons
VIII This be Kept ap On the Eve Of q
| Fun Expose ~ tn. Old rar,i@. Hypoc-
| ri>y.
| There is some human nature in
almost every man. We are there
fore not at liberty to sup
pose that the Republican dispen-
sor of ''Rreat moral ideas" is so
far lifted above ordinary people
that he is in no degree influence ,by
ordinary human motives. We may
suppose that the Republican leaders
idea of what is best for the country
is in some degree determined by
whether the advocacy of those prin-
ciples would give him G iii :e. There
fore, We may suppose that when the
Republican party gets into trouble
which threatens Its existence, the Re.
publican leader is not altogether hap
py. Perhaps he would prefer some
sort of compromise between what is
best for the people and what is best
for the Republican party, which
would leave him in possession of his
present office and which promises him
better things in the future. 1t is
we'll for the Republican voter to keep
in mind this little bit of human ma
ture IN his Republican leaders, and
to suspect that the Republican lead
ers' woes may not always be the Re-
publican voters woe.
The bother with Republican lead
ers just now is that the voter is be-
ginning to ask questions and think
thunks. OF course the Republican
party has no trouble with the classes
for which It legislates-the money
lender, creditor, manufacturer, great
commercial and transportation cor
porations and will not have so long
as 1t gives them the desired class leg
islation and does nothing to inter
fere with trusts as political resu Its.
The trouble comes in from those at
whose expense the thing is done, and
the Republican leader wonders why
the devil these people 60 on voting
the ticket as they have been doing,
what business have they to be asking
questions and thinking thunks, sure
ly the rally, after the victory is won,
is enough for them, and with it they
should be satisfied. Nevertheless
thinking thunks and asking ques-
tions is becoming epidemic and is
contagious. That sort of thing orig
mated with the Alliance and Popu-
lists some years ago and is spread
ing and won down.
These Republicans who were once
Alliancemen are asking whether the
party which legislates exclusively
for the 'exploiters'' and middlemsn n
is exactly the party for them, even
if it is what was once the q. o. P.
Those who are opposed to monop-
olies and trusts are beginning to re-
alizs that the party which is itself a
gigantic trust, formed by creditors,
usurers, manufacturers and great
commercial and transportation bod
les to secure class legislation for
themselves, will not antagonize the
banking trust contemplated in the
Gage bill, nor any of the thousand
and one manufacturing, commercial
and transportation trusts. AS these
trusts are but carrying out Republi-
can legislation to practical results, il
would be very inconsistent to oppose
them and altogether obnoxious to
the classes forming the Republican
trust or party. 1t t,would get the Re-
publican politician into trouble with
his trust, thing he can't afford
Hence, while the Republican politi
clan talks about international bi-
metalism' as opposed to the banking
and land trust, and perhaps passes
antitrust and fool laws, to placate
the voter, these ideas and legislation
will not be carried out. To do sc
would "bust" the Republican trust by
offending its members, and leave the
politician without following. The
"human nature" of the Republican
politician would not tolerate a thine
like that Hence he resorts to de
ception, and as he can't, and has NJ
disposition to deceive the member
of his trust he attempts to deceiv,
, the barbarian, or those outside tn.
t trust. Bat luckily the voter is hs
. ginning to ask questions and thunl
> thinks.
;. Even operative labor in factorie
and on railroads who are supposed t.
! be benefited by tariff, trusts an,
: pools, in common with the owners
. finds that the Encouragement AM
: fostering care Of Republican legisla
8 ton is sidetracked by the stock hold
: or and fails to reach the laborer
!, Dividends are declared, but wage
, are cut. And if he strikes he find
the whole Republican battery-Con
gress, the executive, the courts an
newspaperdom is turned loose O
e him and his own guns spiked. Opel
e ative labor is therefore beginning t
d realizs that Republican legislation
o for the owners of factories and raj
: roads, and not for the operative, an
that the policy of the Republica
f politician is to deceive the operativ
h because he can't deceive the owner
e The operative is therefore beginnin
e to realizs that the defense he need
It is against those who employ him an
r Republican courts. The operative
II in factories is also beginning to &C
- that tariff for revenue only coul
- not be much lower than a tariff for
deficit. The operative is also b.
ginning to slowly awake to the fa'
that unless farmers and other col
sumers have good prices for the pr
;, ducts of their labor they can't bu
y goods and the operative can't ha,
o steady employment, nor living vi
II ges. The gold standard means 10
wages all aronnd. and the subscri,