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

wealth of the nation pay $40 of the
cost for the support of the govern
ment; and allowing the Ito to use the
entire machinery of the government.
to the detriment of the $40.
The ten principal cities are New
York, Chicago, Philadelphia, st. Louis.
Boston, Baltimore. Cleveland, Buffalo
ana san francisco, carrying a popuIa-
ton of little over nine and one
third million. We now believe we.
have close to so million population.
There are 20 more cities that RIM
about 100000. So we will give them
million. Here we then have the
ludicrous condition of IA millions Of
people domineeri1g over rs millions.
for the villages AID towns under 100
600 population are called rural and
country villages by the larger and
older cities. New York. Chicago ana
Philadelphia are the only three cities
that pass the million notch and each
of them has a population in its
makeup equal to Is of shiftless and
idle people, another is of tenants
barely ekeing out an existence. an
other Is of unnaturalized people who
are rObblng honest Americans of
work by taking Dauper wages in order
to hoard up a few dollars to return 20
their native land. The other SIS is
the power behind the throne. that util-
yes the 3-S in whatever way it can
best handle them in helping to die
tate to the great rural population that
till the soil, work the mines and mills.
what prices they shall have for the
product of their labor. The cities are
all right, thew are essential to the
manipulation of the great business OF
this great industrial country: but not
right because they are cities. to have
absolute dictation of the policies of
ha 4 -
times more dependent on the country
than the country is on them, and 1t IS
only through unjust and favored legls-
lation by the Republican party that
the great unjust advantages have been
given to the cities because of their
capitalistic population. The salvation
of this count and the hope of res
culng 1T from forty years of submls-
sion because of the echoes of the
war, to the greatest system of spoil
ism in the name of the law known
to the world, lay in the owners and
the tillers of the soil that labor in
the mines and in the manufacturing
industries that have not yet been
crushed out by the system of RepuD-
lican laws that promote trusts an
combines. These rural so-cailed citi-
ZenS represent safely so out of the 30
million population, and safely it can
be asserted that so million of them
own their own homes and their in
dustrial enterprises. and, as Lincoln
said, they hire no one and hire to no
one, but perform the work within
their own families and consume the
larger portion of the product of their
labor and energy. This element is
naturally Democratic and when they
wake up to the wrong and the danger.
they will act and the time certainly
is here for them to begin to wake up
to the unjust condition of their sur
roundings. and when they do they
will act. Not a Granger. not Far
mers' Alliance, nor a Populist. nor a
Prohibitionist nor a Radical or Re-
publican. but as the great Democratic
free people they were before the war.
and place at the head of the nation
man full of the spiri4 of Democracy
and love of equal rights and Justice
to all. How few men study the cost
of the support of each state. save
his own locally. and then what each
state contributes to the support of
the nati""al government. They will
never be familiar with this expense
that is the very artery blood of the
nation, over which all serious con-
tentions arise. that amount to any
thing, until they have passed laws
that compel every school in the land
to teach the children the foundation
standpoint of its finances by honest
statistics and to begin at the founda-
ton of the government, trace each
state from it's colonial foundation by
it's financial history up to date, and
its cost for local government. Denn-
ing clearly every resource from which
by taxation these contributions come.
Then compare fifty years management
of the national government before the
war in the hands of Democracy and
nearly forty years or Republican man
agement since the .tWar. giving every
detail in connection. with the manage
ment. and the expenditure of the
money. for the war and the process
of procuring it, and the process of the
cancellation of the war debt since the
war. 1t will be found that all of this
concentration of power and wealth
into a few hands with the rapidity
with which it has been done is prin-
cipally attributable to the outcome of
the first eight years of the ascend
ency of the know-nothing party in
power at the close of the war then
called the Republican party. making
laws on the money and the war debt
question. Laws that are still in force
and being fortified every year to
maintain the radical party in power
no matter at what cost.
A careful consideration of the con-
dition of this country to-day from this
standpoint by men hunting for the
real truth will not leave 100000 truly
American men (when they have
thoroughly got the real truth of the
first s years of law making Repub-
leans in Congress) who have not
grown rich or expect to grow rich
by laws that have given them unjust
advantage over labor or their fellow
competitors in business. Will be
found voting the Republican ticket,
and the next generation of children
that come out of schools that have
been made honestly and truly famil.
lar with the entire financial history OF
this country from governmental
money statistical standpoint. Will as
fast as they reach the age OF respon-
sibility be found marching IN the
ranks of Jeffersonian Democracy.
Respectfully,
S. A. JONES.
Waynesville, N. c., Sept. 26. 1904.
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