The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-10-23

gather and assert the sovereignty OF me
people in the management Of pubic ar
fairs by hurting Mckinley and Marx Han
mas bencnmen and satellites from power,
this Republic is doomed for Destruction
But the McKinleyites seek TO cover up
their sinister designs with the cry u
EXPANSION, ExpanSion,i And they VIII
ask me and you, amt you in favor OF
Expansion? % l answer yes, II 1t Is eA-
pansion such as Mr. Jefferson secured by
the Louisiana purchase, and Mr.. seward
secured by the purchase of Alaska; but
am not in favor Of the expansion ideas
of McKinley's administration as SHOWN
bv the course now being pursued in Porto
Rico and the Philippine Islands. | am not
in favor of imposing an unconstitutional
tariff tax upon the people OF Porto RICO.
will tell you what kind OF expansion
| am in favor if. | am in favor OF bulld-
ing the Nicaragua Canal and therepy
placing the cotton fields of the South and
orr Southern seaboard cities in their
trade relations eleven thousand miles
nearer Japan and China than they are
now. l would rather see the cotton and
tobacco goods of North Carolina and the
South shipped to the Philippine ISLANDS
and to Asia. than to see our soldiers
SnlDDGO There III olouShtCl ~hHd ~
Kansas City platform pledges Mr.. Bryan
to this very course Of action if he is
elected. Now don't make any mistake
about this expansion business. Aesop
tells us in one of his old fables that
once a bullfrog sitting on the bank OF a
pond. saw an OK come down to the pond
to get a drink of water and while the OK
was Thinking the frog admirlng the great
size of the OK concluded he would "eX-
pand' himself to be as big as the OK.
Result, frogs skin busted, dead frog.
Too much Mckinley expansion will kill
this Republic, or any other republic
which tries it in that way.
2. Now let me talk to you some abGur
trusts and mOnOpolies. This involves
| something we people of North Carolina
| are more familiar with. But Mark Hanna
saws 'sthere are no trusts" Yes, Bob
Ingersoll used to say: There is no Hell;
but he never could get Christian people
| to believe him. | think you might sooner
believe Bob Ingersoll's theories about
hell than Hanna's assertions about trusts.
For in the one case there are no living
witnesses whom you could call to testify
from personal experience as to lngerSOll S
theories about hell to contradict him; but
there are millions of living witnesses
who can contradict Mark Hanna'S as
s~ertions about trusts, and who can tes-
tify from their own experience as to trust
oppression andin iquity.
| may say in passing, that the devil
himself never yet has invented a better
scheme to Cypress the American people
than that of trusts and monopolies in
articles Of trade and commerce.
Go and read and re-read the Kansas
City platform of the Democratic party.
~, ;f W., - CO b1ipdpd nv nartiSan
prejudice that you don't want to read
what any Democrat has written, get the
Code of North Carolina and read sec
| ton 81 of Article [ of the Constitution Of
| North Carolina, which you and every vo-
ter and every office-holder in North Car
Dina, State and county, has solemnly
sworn to support. That section of our
State Constitution reads as follows:
Sec. 81. Perpetuities and MONOPO-
LIES are contrary to the genius of a free
State, and ought not to be allowed
This provision or declaration of q fun
damental principle of government was
Incorporated into the Constitution of
| North Carolina by the Republican party
in 1868. But it was nothing new then,
nor are the u]tterances of the Demo-
| cratic Kansas City platform, the an
| ouncement of any new principle of gov
ernment-only a modern application of
old principles applied to the great evils
of trusts and monopolies in our own
times. That is all. Before North Car
DINA ever had a constitutional form Of
| government this principle of government
in opposition to monopolies, was declared
by the Convention of Delegates who met
at Halifax in 1916 to frame the first
State Constitution for North Carolina.
read to you from the Revised Statutes
CT North Carolina section 90 Of the old
Declaration of Rights adopted De-
cember 18th, 1875, at Halifax, and it is
word for word exactyl the same Ian
guage ass section 81, article l, Of our
present State Constitution, and reads as
follows:
"Sec. %. That perpetuities and monop-
olies are contrary to the genius of a
free State, and ought not to be allowed. ;
Even before the United States govern
ment had any existence, the freemen OF
North Carolina had declared all trade
'monopolies contrary to the genius Of
a free State"
What would those old patriots say
think you, if they could rise from their
graves and see the present state OF
things, not only in North Carolina, but
in every State and Territory of this I'm
ion? Almost everything you produce
use, eat or wear, controlled by a trus1
monopoly, and men who have solemnly
sworn to support the constitution, ano
know from experience and observation
that trusts and m~onopolies are destroying
the very foundations of government anC
cOrrupting its administrator are COINS
to lay aside their oathS on election da,
and vote to continue Mckinley, Mari
Hanna and such plant tools of trus
monopoly in office. Will you do it?
MIR. Cameron Makes a Prediction,