The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-08-16
Mk. BYLAWS SAYINGS. CONTRAST


ED WITH DEMOCRATIC PRAC.
TICEs IN NORTH CARO-
We were more than surprised to
find in heSews and Observer of
Aug. 18th, under the head B-yan's
Sentences, which he utter
ed In his recent speech of acceptance
at indianapolis.
All these sayings appear TO Ike good
and some of them are so at variance
with Democratic practices in North
Carolina, we think it timely to con-
trast them and let the readers try to
reconcile them:
glove, not force, was the weapon
of the Nazarene."
That was not considered in our re-
cent campaign when church men,
bers would arm themselves with
guns, when preachers would see and
hear of good men of their own
church being rotten egged, and put
back On the trains by force and 9TH
erwise beaten and maltreated, and
yet opened not their mouths.
"FOrce can defend a right, but
force has never yet created a right"
The Democrats in the last cam
paign boosted that they were going
to carry the State if they had to
make grave yard" of it. They
did not claim it was to "defend the
right" They were asked to discuss
this feature, and they ran from it.
Hence, they used force in order to
''create" what they called "a right"
viz; their possession of the offices.
"Property rights are most secure
when human rights are respected"
The above is true. In the last
campaign in this State, the Demo-
Gratis trampled under their feet "hu-
man rights in order to get in, and
now they will disregard property
rights to stay in.
"Militarism turns our young men
from the arts of peace to the science
of war" = s~-
So does the .:red shirt" organiza-
ton by the Democratic party in
North Carolina. Neither is civiIiza-
ton, much less christianity.
cit was God himself who placed
in every human heart the love of
liberty"
Yes, and it was the devil himself
who tried to crush this Glove of lib
erty" out of white, christian mems
hearts in North Carolina in the last
campaign; by the use Of force, fraud
and intimidation under the auspices
of Mr.. Bryan's would-be-called-dem-
Ocratic friends.
awe cannot repudiate the princi-
pie of self-government in the Phil
ipines without weakening that prin-
tteiPle-at-hOme."
| Neither can Mr.. Simmons and the
News and Observer ''repudiate the
principles Of solf-government" in
North Carolina, without s'weaken'
ing" their claims for "selfgovern
ment in the PHILIPPINES"
"The growth Of the principle o
self-government, planted on Ameri
can soil, has been the overshadOwins
political fact of the nineteenth cen
tury." ------ ----------~------~--~------
If Mr.. Bryan had been in thi
State during the recent campaign
land had seen what his committee
man, Mr.. Daniels, advocated, hi
would have excepted North Carolin
in making his statement.
of true Christianity consists il
carrying out in our daily lives tn
teachings of Christ, who will sa
THAT we are commanded to civiliz
with dynamite and proselyte wit
. the sword"
81 Neither can they say in Christia
{ North Carolina, it is right to prose
! lyte to the Democratic party b
@ Winchester rifles, drunken rough
= and the threats to life and propert
n and ostracism from society.
u We could quote more of such n
: BILE sentiments, but. have quote
n enough to show that Mr.. Bryan,
his views on these lines, is in accol
@ with the Populists everywhere, al
just the opposite to his pretendt
= Democratic friends in the Old Nor
l. State.
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mens at Raleigh, August 22nd,
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