The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-03-02
why Doesn't the Legislature do some
thing for the Common People.

thing for the Common People.
Editor caucasian:-I want 10 tell
you that still appreciate your good
"a per. the Caucasian. ion still hi
ssuare from the shoulder. the naked
truth and bare exposure Of the
working OF our good Democratic
Legislature should be told AMI ex-
posed. But many Of our Demo
cratic friends, especially these who
helped 10 elect and put them in Of
flee don't want TO hear and know of
tn, ir bad work. IL was we'll said
by somebody that the Stale would
do well 10 pay them their full sal
aries aud let them 60 home before
they did any more bad legislating
The most they have done is to raise
the salaries Of the Office. holders and
harangue over whiskey, and to pro.
mote the interests Of corporations,
etc. Why don't they do something
for the common people Of the State
besides taxing them to death by
appropriations for monuments and
many other useless things that will
never do the people a cents worth
Of good No use to waste the PEG.
Pies money in such an extrava-
CANT way as they are doing But it
all goes to show where We are drift
ing. Many Of our good competent
men of the old North State would
be willing TO fill these offices even
at reduced salary. The way things
are going now, it won't be long be
fore we shall be deprived Of the
liberties our furefathers bequeathed
to us by their blood. Yes, they
are being taken from US little by
little. year by year, and felr be-
fore long If these bosses are allowed
to have their way we shall have to
ask them what We shall eat, how We
shall worship or vote as we'll as
what we shall drink, etc. Liberty
counts for but little nova days in
our State, except that kind that
upholds the Democratic party and
the schemes Of its bosses. Our
preachers and politicians seem to
have fallen into the same ditch
concerning whiskey. They seem
to think that just now the world is
about to be destroyed with whiskey
and that the Lord will be entirely
defeated in its salvation if they
don't put their heads together right
quick and come to his rescue by
stopping the manufacturing and Gale
Of whiskey. Dear me, how they
do strain at gnats and swallow whop
ping big things.
Well, I will send you good
comment On Port Arthur and the
Russians, by the editor Of the Lib
eral Review, published in Chicago,
Ill. Here it is:
"Port Arthur-Let US show these
heathens that God is on our side,
said General Stoessel to his soldiers,
at the commencement of hostilities
nearly year ago.
To-day Port Arthur has fallen,
and we would be curious to know
whether the brave Russian General
is as sure as ever that God prefers
Cossacks to Japs. Religions have
only helped to divide marking, and
to make each race fancy itself as
the chosen of heaven. No doubt
the Russians went into the War
with utmost confidence that God
would deliver up his yellow chill
dren, body and soul and goods to
his pets, the Russians. The Span.
ish Archbishop, too, assured his
countrymen that no hereto fire
could harm the Catholic colder
carrying on his breast the image of
the Virgin Mother Of God. Who
could prevail against so powerful a
feminine intercessol? When the
Turks fight the misbelievers, which
is their name for all Europeans, they
are inspired with the belief that
Allah himself sharpens their scimi-
tars and directs the bullets from
their firearms.
"What prevents the consolidation
Of humanity-the brotherhood of
man? 1t is not commerce; it is
not science; it is revelation. God
has spoken differently to each na-
tion, according to what the priests
cay, and that is why they cannot
unite into one glorious aud rational
humanity. As long as there are
priests there will be divisions"
The above, Mr.. Editor, Is an ex-
PLANTATION Of the strife and bicker-
ipgs that's are going on in the new
world today, as we'll as the old
world. And our preachers are just as
capable Of making these divisions
as the priests.
Shall we ever be free from such
divisions? Echo apswews no!
THOS. MEADS.
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