The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-10-09

on the inside know that the lilo came
near getting into war among them
selves, as the same character of capi-
tai owned certain proportions of the
, MINES and roads that were involved,
and when they settled the question of
competition over which the contention
arose among themselves. the strike
cesed. The Standard Oil Company
was never able to control the price
of oil so it could freeze out the small
competitors, until it was able to con-
troll the transportation lines. so
there is but one way to check these
growing evils that are under a Re-
publican administration creating these
powerful combines and trusts. The
Northern Securities case only put them
on guard to use a different plan to
accomplish the same thing. and they
are already boasting that they have
done it. battle lost in a great war.
lis often the guideboard to a greater
and final victory. So unless the great
toiling agricultural masses rise up
and say that these industries that
create fortunes for single individuals.
because of special and favored legisla-
ton in less than forty years greater
than the entire available cash in this
entire nation forty years ago. shall be
| taxed on their bonds and stocks and
their entire property holdings. just in
proportion to their value, as every
acre of land and every house and
every piece of furniture: all jewelry
| and vehicles. and every interest draw
| ing note and all cash in bank. held
| by the individual in this country out
side of the cities. soon the great
masses of tillers of the soil will find
themselves held. though they repre-
sent $40 of the population of this ma
/ ton. by this lilo. that has principally
congregated in the cities-iust where
England has held Ireland all these
years. Far cheaper and safer would
| it be for the future of this country
for the so out of the 80 million peo-
pie to begin now to tax themselves
to get control of the great railroad
arteries. than wait even 10 years
longer under Republican rule and
Republican notions. that a tariff that
yields no revenue at the custom house
and that has put a flowing wealth in
forty years in the hands of less than
LILO of the population of this nation
equal in value as they interpret it.
to 7-10 of the entire staple. unmov-
able values of this country. Con which
the resources of the 9-10 is taxed to
yield dividends to make richer the
1-lO of the population), and the 1-1G
ciaims for this reason the right. be-
cause this wealth has been put in their
hands by radical legislation. that they
should absolutely rule. While paving.
If national statistics are true (and
they have been supplied for about 40
years by the Republican party) less
than lilo for the support of this ma
.tion. and yet claiming to own 7-10 Of
it's value. This is the great evil that
is so widespread. and so enormous
in its volume and magnitude that it
is hard for an ordinary business mind
TO solve. The Changers have tried to
solve it, the Farmers Alliance tried
TO solve it. the Populists have tried
to solve it. and all have failed. and it
is to Democracy alone that the nation
will have to look to solve it. Not
more than one man in 500 stops to
consider whittier it leads, much less
to believe it; yet it was deliberately
| planned and fixed in the first eight
years after the war by every act of q
| Radical Congress, carrying out the old
| Know-Nothng party's .oaths anI
| pledges in the name of the Republi-
can party. to control the future gov
errment of this country with money
and keep all offices in the party,
which they have practically done for
| forty years.
| Bryan truly said. DESTROY the city
and the country will rebuild it. De-
stroy the country and the people
both in the city and the country will
| perish" Lincoln said, Before capital
was labor. and without labor there
could be no capital" and he feare
to see capital placed above labor in
the structure of the government. for
when it was done the liberty of the
pec-le was gone. The reason for the
birth of Democracy, and the estab-
lishment of Republican institutions is
! found in these two utteranceS, for
they are the cardinal principles and
very foundation stone and the two
eternal truths from which Democracy
has been forming laws to prevent dis
eliminating legislation favoring the
few above the many. So when the
city forgets that every drop of blood
| that permeates it's body, from the
| smallest little vein to the greatest
artery, comes as absolutely from the
country as daylight comes from the
| sun. then begins war of contention
and injustice; when capitalists forget
/ that not one penny can be had hon
estly, except it be the result of the
| sweat of the brow of labor: then con-
| tentions arise and a reign of Injustice
| begins. The very first act of the
| IKnow-Nothing, or Republican party.
! when it got in power at the close Of
| the war. was to legislate the control
of the money capital into the hands
| of the few, and debar land as Il Sc
curity to a national bank to secure
their loans. So canitalistss with their
money have gathered in the cities
and demanding that the tillers of the
soil who are the salt OF the earth,
yield UP their SAVIOR for smaller
consideration than is just. Forty
years of Republican law-making has
reversed the spirit of Democracy and
Republican institutions. and thought;
has discarded the Declaration of In
dependence and trampied the Ameri-
con Constitution under foot It's sys-
tenn of legislation has destroyed the
security of the farmer and the tiller
of the soil. (Which prior to Radical
Iascendency was the soundest security
known to the world) and made the
Itiller of the soil dependent on his
| CITY endorser, whose wealth consists in
stocks and bonds. to get money from
the national banks, and placed the
great agricultural element. which had
been throughout the history of the
world the most independent of all
| people, in an attitude (though his
! farm was worth milions) to be COM
lpeIled to get an endorser to secure a
little loan from the immaculate ma
| tional bank; and thus radical legisIa-
| tion placed the city above the coun-
| try ard it has placed capital above
labor in the structure of the govern
ment Yet we may wine out every
city in America wipe off every rail-
road shut down every coal mine and
! iron mine. close every oil well and