The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-14

know if man gets sick he sends FOR
his family physician, if he gets no bet
ter his physician tries another treatmert
and the man still has confidence in him.
But if he tries enc treatment and that
fails. and he has no other, the man n
once looks up another physician. SO i
is in politics. If people suffer from Il
thing they turn to their party for relief
and if the party fails to furnish the
needed relief, then the people turn 10
some other party. We have the right
to chooses party at every election.
THE Republicans have not found the
cause OF the disease hence they cannot
affect a cure. The trouble with the Re
publican party is that it has but ols
remedy. no matter what the i'll. They
have been treating Us for IN overloaded!
stomach, when we've been suffering from
hunger.
1T reminds me of Il medical student
who found himself near recitation TINE
in bad shape for recitation. lie tried a
drink, but when he got to the school
room he was only more stupid. Soon the
professor asked him what he would do
III certain case.
The fellow reused up and replied
Bleed him.
But after that. said the professor. il
he gets no better what would you do?
Bleed him again. replied the student.
"'!And then if he got no betterT
prop him up and bleed him again.
That's the only remedy the Republi-
can party has for the people. Bleed,
bleed all the time. Make the poor man
nay more than his share and the rich
man less. 1t is a good thing for the
man who has money but bad thing
fo1 the man who hasn't it. They want
n gold standard. which will require of
every man To pay his debts in gold. and
If he hasn't the gold he will have to get
it, And not satisfied with that they de-
sire to form Il paper money trust and
turn the people over to the banks. They
want an elastic currency but they want
the bankers to hold both ends Of the
elastic. They want currency which the
bankers can expand or contract when
they want it expanded or contracted.
The result is that the rest of the people
have to toll just a little harder.
This, | observe. is an agricultural dis
trict. The time has come when no
farmer can afford to he Republican.
When a man becomes farmer he has TO
run the risk OF flood and drought. of
worms and pests, Of storm and accident.
After he gets through with that he has
to pass between bulls and bears. The
bears bite him, the bulls horn him and
outside the gold bug waits for him.
THE Republican party begins to form
society at the wrong end. Building II
house on their principle YOU would build
the roof first and hang the house TO at.
1t is a false principle. but the Repubh-
cans go on it. thinking that they can
legislate for the wel-to-dO. and that
their prosperity will leak through on the
man below. There can be no. permanent
prosperity where the poorer classes are
ignored. When you legislatc so as to
give the poor man prosperity then yoll
legislate to make all classes PROSPEROUS
There are some people who do not
seem able TO understand the money ques-
ton. If YOU do not think about the mon
CIV question You will have to think about
the trust question. But if you VIII eX-
anime into il You will find that even back
OF the trust. is the money question. \
banker in Illinois gave out an interview
the other day in which he said that IN
the long run trusts do no harm. hal
consolation is that TO short wlIdeu
man? 4 man need not stand back ana
EXPECT for the trusts TO die of heart DIS
ease Applying that principle to every :
day life YOU would counsel the fellow
who goes out 10 Kill another man with u
revolver not to interfere: that perhaps
he might die of natural causes.
'aT'he Republicans have amended the
commandments to read Thou shalt not
steal ON a small scale We can punish
petty larceny. hut we find 1t difficult to
punish grand larceny.
wherever the government touches the
individual. or the individual the govern
mellt all men shall stand alike together.
But if we can't see what is being
done at ahone by this Republican policy
we can see what is being done abroad.
The people who wanted TO take care oi
the rich these same people now say the
dollar of trade rs more important than
rhe blood of the nation. wouldp
place one American boy on the block
and sell him for the trade of the world.
let the men who want to PURCHASE trade
with blood 90 out and purchase ut with
their own blood You do not find them
sending out their own sons lnto the
iungles TO die of fever. | believe IN the
extension Of commerce by every peaceflI
means The expense OF this war Is
being paid by the people and !he proht
lis TO be reaped by the syndicatcs organ
lied to exploit the new possessions. II
there is a Republican here let him re-,
member that he has tried for thirty years
to apply the principles of the declaration
Of independence to the black man. Let
him DOW apply them to the brown man.
The Republican party boasted that IT
took out of the Constitution an exception
clause and now they are trying to make
another one.
The people of Henderson covered
themselves all over with glory by the
handsome reception they gave the alty.
An elegant dinner was served 10 the el-
tire reception party of thirty or forty
members, and a finer dinner YOU could
find nowhere than Mine Host Massenburg
served. The Henderson committee looked
after every comfort. and showed that il
knows how to entertain on scale thai
is equal to its progress and enterprise.
AT WAKE FOREST COLLEGE.
The Trusts Have Cut Off the Chances