The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1904-10-13
MIR, wATsON's ACCEPTASCE.
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ilege to profit by supply ing : ne coun-
try with paper currency. Instead Of
u-ing its own credit for the equal
nrnrtit of all the people, the govern
,,,aut lends this credit To the nation
n banker to be used for the benefit
of he banker. Thus, the national
banker becomes the beneficiary or
.rrcial privileges; and, basing his
notes upon the credit Of the govern
,urut, charges his fellow citizens for
The use Of them. He, the privileg
ID. tatIen5 upon uSury at the tx
,ru-s of the unprivileged. There
,r.tOw about i've thousand nation
II bauk-, which keep III circulation
more than four hundred million
dollars Of their notes. At 50 per
cent. this represents yearly profit
If more thar thirty million dollars,
which they derive from the special
privilege of using the pu plic credit
tnr their private benefit. Clothed
With the sovereign power OF Great
ing what il practically legal tender
currency, they can contract ii or ex-
uand it il g" henever they please;
and. If they decide to give the c0un-
try taste Of their deapotic power,
- IN 1893. there is no power
which can protect the victim. No
eiu-s of citizens should be clothed by
law with such terrible advantages
] over their fellows.
TRANSPORTATION
Another example of class lrgis-
i Isfiun is found in study Ct our
4 transportation systems.
ave have given to the various
corporatiuns which control our teie-
graph, telephone, express and rail
road business such enormous power
that the government itself is dwarf
among these giants. Their revenues
are greater than those of the gov.
4 eminent Their p,wer to tax falls
not only upon the pubic, but upon
q the government Itself. In the late
conflict with Spain, the manner III
which they preyed upon the govern
meut was something frighttul III its
capacity, and the constant practice
thew have OF charging the govern
ment for the annual use OF posta
& ear. greater sum than the cost o.
car, is but the evidence of the I'm
disputed fact that the government
n "
They almost openly use the crank
of members of Congress to add t
the weight OF mail matter durln!
that annual period, when the mai
is weighed to adjust the average,
Hundreds OF tons Of junk are thu
handled during those few days, anC
npon this fraudulent mail MATE
the average for the entire year !
basel. The tax payers have to pay
The congressman who lend them
selves to this swlndle get free p .sses
and other good things. In expires
charges, freight charges, telephOn
and telegraph tariffs, the public
plundered every day in the yea
and the manner in which they sui
nit to il Is one of The marvels OF tn
age No other people among clVl
led nations are so cursed with co
poration tyrrany as ourselves; an
we never seem to think that an
remedy is possible. Half dOze
corporation kings can meet in til
Office of j. z. Morgan, and can ia
the life out of any town or city
the United States. By squirt I
the pen, they can add hundreds
millions of dollars to the burdens
the people They enable the trus
to oIay its rivals by granting rebate
or special rates, which make cor
petition impossible. They dehau'
public morals by their methods
gaining what they want from GO
ernors, legislatures, judges, editor
politicians and members of Go
gress.
GREAT FORTUNES.
"NapOle, II once rose from stu'
of interest tables with the remar
"Whe [ consider the deadly pr
ciple which lies hidden in these
bes, | marvel that it has not
voured the human race" III
deadly principle does devOur p
ton of the human race every We
The big fortune, by the law OF
nature, tends TO grow bigger. Ia
colossal accumulation represe
what one victor gained and
thousand victims lost. For, Il
fortune of hundred millions, tn
eau be no such thing as fair rew'
for productive labor. Such tOrtu
OF anything like it, represents,
rule, the spoil of the successful
RAIDERS in the fields where 9th
had tOiled Such a man Is
booter; and his board often costs
losers more lives, more tears, III
broken hearts and ruined hol
than are to be found in the tract
actual war. When those Stand
Oil knaves robbed the people
S36 10000 in one day, they felt
titled to the admiration OF the b
ness world. On the same day,
haps, hungry women stole bread
hungry children, and went to pr
for il p Morgan Andrew