The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-10-30
North Carolina Pays for
Others
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values of these twelve States in 1900,
when the last census was taken was
50, 28,245,0 100000. The Republican ora
tors say this campaign means business.
Remember in your prayers that this
three billion and over of value doesn't
linclude single town or city or bank
or q railroad or factory in these
twelve States. North Carolina was re-
ported in the census of 1900 for her
farm values at $233, S34.293. | have
left out the towns, the banks, the mer-
chants, the railroads and the factories
same as | have in the twelve States.
because this letter is to appeal to the
farmers who represent 80 per cent. of
the voters of America. Tell your
children that they may not forget it
that these twelve States sport 80
Congressman and "a Senators. and be-
cause you got rid of the ignorant ne
gro want to cut down your IL Con-
greSSmen. Tell your conscience that
these twelve States carry a population
of 7,753,737, while North Carolina car
rieS a population of only 1,S93,8lO.
! Whisper to the Good Master i'm your
prayers that these twelve States have
l2,701 people that drew pensions for
the year 1903 $15,713,S91.76. Think
of it. North Carolina for the same
year contributed $22S,71S.52 more to
make up these amounts than did the
twelve Radical States. / took twelve
because a dozen is an even number
that YOU won't forget. In the election
of 1900, they won 100 electoral votes
to fasten tariff on you of $500 per
head for your cloth and 33c on the
dollar for. every pound of iron and
steel that you use in addition to what
they collected through the internal
revenue office by the use of the ne
gro vote i'm thirteen Radical States.
.r11 .I.a,,
hard times, when every man that reads
knows they were on a year before
Cleveland was elected, and that he was
compelled to sell $3.50, 900, 600 Of bonds
TO save the country from the ruin that
had been brought on by Radical rule.
= The last Democratic four years of adj
miniStratiOn cost the American people
$1,245,677, 309.97. The following four
years Radicalsm cost the American
people $1,651,776, S45.90. Just $406,-
099. 1853 more than Democracy.
North Carolina contributed in 1908
for the support OF the National gov
eminent $4,24S,341.07. She had for
her own support $2,371,636. She puts
up a little less than 100000 more
than twelve Radical States. boast
ing of nearly 100000 of value
if you count every other interest ana
add it to their farming interest The
entire wealth of every class in North
lion dollar notch. Not hapnv with all
these riches, not happy with SO Con-
gressmen and "a Senators, they want
to take away part of your eleven. but
i do they promise vOu less taxes? No,
they say they stand pat on the question
of revenue and tariff for protection.
but thev promise the South negro rev
enue officers, negro postmasters, ne
gro custom collectors, negro mar
shals and judges, and promise to keep
$500 per head on you for your cloth
ing and 33 cents on the dollar for
every pound of iron and steel you use,
every dollar of which goes to the pock-
cts of the trusts and combines.
! They promise that the National Pow
(lnment shall continue to collect NOR
from you than from twelve of the
| States that help to keep them in pow
err, including the New England States
| that have been your enemies since
they sold your forefathers the ne
groes-nearly 100 years ago. They
/ have collected in thirty-five years
nearly three billion dollars in pensions
for the men that oVerpoWered and
devastated your Southland, and they
propose to keep it up for they still
have a million on the pension roll.
They have fastened a financial policy
on you that foreigners fix the price of
your corn, your cotton ana your
wheat, and they are sending annually
pensions to 4,619 people that are III
! foreign lands, in every nation under
! the canopy of Heaven; sending TO
them $64S,053.04 per annum. They
| made a law that the National banks
should not loan a farmer dollar on
his farm. He must compromise NM
self and ask his neighbor TO endorse
! his note instead of carrying ms own
paper on his own asset; that was con-
sidered the best asset the world had
prior to 1866.
They lie outright to you about Cleve-
land causing hard times. 1t was their
: own destructive, speculative manage
ment that swept them from power
Just before the crash reached llS
zenith. and Democracy stoou me
stigma. I hate a hynocrlte ABOVE an
liars that uses his own faliufeS 10 ue-
ceive the people. Lying nypocIlSS ~
the Radicals in power at the start anu
has kept them in power to date ana
their own books will show their sWlno-
i ling when if has sWindled the people
and a trial balance is struck; NOW tile
truth is about to be reVedleu ~ ms
American people, and their ledueL 60
try to win again stoops W Iit tn baS cot
negro equality So II pollllce n'S So So
to be strict business, Roosevelt sun
holds the negro sentiment win MN.
He doesn't care for vote III MOI III
Carolina or in the South. he rehes on
the Northern negroes, the non -I4ils Il9li
speaking foreigners, the pension office
the tariff protected trusts to beat YOU
And with these facts before you 1u open
to every man that will send to wash Nash
ington for them, good men III III NORM 9
Cvaro1i,,o are disposed to vote the Rad
icai tinLaf and array themselves with
a '' lot ct of men EN- appointed to office in
this State against the maJorlly VI tileiI
Who How long long will the tlIer Of the soil
be blinded to his rights. p df}aeu 10 10
his ability to elect every o,a oliit te III
I've 1ne '' anonob 70 take to your bosom
ioii oe elIou that fastens itself on he
ieeclt e 1 oi,nr country The Whole
south is the sufferer Just as North |
C,oroI;,o lie nv paying greater