The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-03
Why Should this Tail Wag
the Dog?
Continued from Page Nine.)

slaves, and working to maintain their
power and position by the ignorant ne
gro voters, to turn their attention to
getting the tariff repealed on the single
item of steel so 1 can buy steel rails at
$40 per ton same as the American Steel
Trust sells them for in London. instead
of having to pay $3S per ton for them
mere In America, | will cause to be built
more miles of railroad in North Carolina
in the next five years than have been
built in the past fifteen, and promise
these gentlemen they will convert more
men to the business side of their stand
ard than by anything they have yet
done in their political history. This i.
issue. enough for the South tnat wants
thousands of miles of railroad, that can
we'll afford to pay $40 per ton for rails,
tools and all steel equipment, but cannot
afford to pay $3S per ton.
The final solution of the Hill and
Cleveland kind of Democracy can be
measured this way. Carnegie is at the
mead or the steel trust. His income is SO
great that he cannot find practical way
to give 1T away fast enough for fear it
viii block his way to the right end of
eternity. Mr.. Hill and Mr.. Cleveland.
who build in the gold standard Demo.
cracy, oppose toxing Mr. Carnegie's in
come, yet he invites them to do so, and
says he is willing and would be glad
to pay an income tax. but he
is one of the few wealthy that is willing
TO help bear the burden of the country
after this manner. So man that pro-
fesses Democratic religion and imposes an
income tax on incomes derived from the
steel sold in London at 80 cents per hun
dred manufactured in America and Am
orleans compelled by tariff to pay 81 IS
per hundred for the same article manu-
featured in America by the same con-
Germ. is not the kind of Democrat to
either harmonic or re-organize the
party were it not already organized. or
repeal a tariff if it affected the great
National Bank system that furnishes the
money to run these steel trusts that
creates such great incomes they brighten
the men that receive them free from
taxation to the extend that they give
1t away by the millions, so as not to die
SO dlsgraceful1y rich as to be curse in
the memory of the millions of toiling
men who on less than three hundred
dollars per year wages have to live, edu-
cate and support large families while
creating these vast millions that are be-
ing given to libraries, that about one
laborlng man in each one hundred may
possibly have one day in one year that
he can afford to visit them. The Libraries
are all right, Carnegie is all right, but
patriotism of the Cleveland stripe is
measured by commercialism and dollars
and cents, and that party or nation that
places commercialism above the proper
disposition of the resources and utilities
of a nation among the greatest masses
of the people will go down as Rome
went, as Babylon went, and all other
nations and people go that create laws
that make it possible for the wealthy to
combine by law and force out of bust
ness, not by honest competition, but by
legal sanction the smaller competitors
the patriotism of the Cleveland stripe is
in trade Democrats will again resume
charge of the reins of this government by
such an overwhelming vote of the peo-
pie that there will be no question as to
what the people want.
| would rather take my chances to win
10000 honest mems votes that are vot-
ing in the. ranks of the Republican party
today to Democracy, because they see
nothing better offered for their relief by
the Cleveland and Hill Democracy and
that class of Democrats than they have
in their own party, than waste twenty
columns in a true Democratic paper of
the country trying to prove to 100000
men who claim the right to desert their
party in the time Of battle and to deny
the right of six and one-half million men
to determine what they think is best for
themselves. / have said before, and say
now, | have no apology to make for
being one of the six and half million
men that voted for Bryan, neither the
first nor the second time. / would have
cast that same vote for Hill or Cieve-
land had they worn Bryans shoes, and
had them put on by the great National
Democratic party, for l voted for my
party's principles, not the particular
man, and when the party elects the man,
except he be a Cleveland or HILL it will
expect him to maintain the party creed.
Neither Clevelandnor Hill are sorry that
they knitted the party and caused it's de-
feat in two campaigns, and it is unjust
to place Bryan in the cart with them
, as back number While he is unjustly
made unavailable as a candidate for the
Presidency this time, he is entitled to be
, heard and respected and honored, be-
cause he stood by the party in the days
, of its darkest struggle, and when Cleve-
! land left it in condition that none OF
| the old leaders were willing to assume
| command, he stands by it today and i:
in harmony with the harmony wing o.
| the party.
Will North Carolina show a solid ranl
in the harmony column when the ties
comes? / believe she will.