The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-09-08

ANs@8 EFoTa A14S@Ez la al 8EAk &15 tEI
cents per poand carrying Il to Boa
Ton. Mas. there manufacturing IL
iuto aiga-slasa cutlery. and the
pound Of stsei wheu returned 10 II
in these hign-grads articles will %
worth from forty 10 one hnndr@d
dollar1- Thus are see that in one
pounds of Alabama ktsei we hare
1880 worth Of Republican skilled
labor and only Toe worth Of Demo
cratic raw material
Take the ordinary toothpIck- The
timber Is cut along the Cape Fear
and Yadkin Valley Railroad and Is
worth 81 per cord in the round
sticks 1t Ia sent TO Connecticut.
manufactured by high-grade machin-
cry and skilled labor and finally re-
turned 10 Us in the shape OF tooth
picks and sold at the rate OF 50 .0oc
cord. Thus you see there are So
ssg worth of Republican skilled la
Dor and 81 worth OF Democratic raw
material
The South, and especially North
Carolina, possesses peculiar advant-
age over many otherp ortions of the
country. We have the raw material.
We have the climate. waterpower,
and, above all. we have a high class
or intelligent citizenship that can be
educated up TO the highest state of
civilization. But We have been cursed
by the dominating power of South
ern aristocracy built up upon the ba-
sis OF slavery. 1t taught that a man
to be a gentleman ought to live in
idleness and off OF somebody else's
labor, and 1t never lost an opportun-
ity to impress upon the public that TO
work was degrading and that idle
ness was elevating until the whole
atmosphere was permeated with this
sentiment, and our people feeling
this condition naturally did not seek
to rise as they would have under
different conditions. This condition
was natural, for when the slave per-
formed his task with chains on his
wrists and the lash upon his back the
white man, when he performed SIM
liar labor, was necessarily degraded.
; But We are getting out Of this now
and are more than forty years from
this condition Of slavery. We have
not fully recovered, but as fast as
we do the country turns to the Re-
publican party as indicated by the
wonderful growth in the number Of
: white Republicans added to the Re-
! publican column within the last ten
years and the wonderful falling off
and decrease in the Democratic vote.
Josephus Daniels said we only had
thirty thousand white votes in North
i. Carolina in 1896. Twelve years there
after we polled for Mr.. Taft IL 1000,
with a constant increase during that
period. With the same decrease in
the Democratic vote we will soon
find the Republican party largely in
the majority and the Democratic par
ty as hopelessly in the minority as it
is in the State of Pennsylvania.
Our Democratic Representatives
from North Carolina, all except Mr..
Kitchin, voted for the tariff schedule
, on lumber, when their vote to the
contrary would have changed the re-
suit and placed lumber On the free
list. Thus they repudiated the ex-
press declaration in their Democratic
platform when it come to question
of principle involved where their
constituents were interested. For
this betrayal they are entitled to
credit, if credit can raise from be-
trayal.
Again, I call your attention to the
improved condition of our people un-
: der the administration of the Repub-
lican tariff laws. In 1870 the cen
sus showed our country was worth in
assessed valuation Of property sox-
teen billion of dollars; she now ex-
: ceeds the sum of one hundred and
twenty-five billion. The condition
of the people through the entire
United States has been constantly
improving, the South has made won
l derful strides Notwithstanding her
> opposition to this great policy, and ii
2 she had had the fore-thought to have
= thrown off the sentimental idea
e which had seized the people Of The
Y South through the institution of slaV-
D cry we to-day would be the most
i prosperous people in the United
4 States. Notwithstanding this. we
= have reason to rejoice that our con
r ditions have been bettered. A trib
s ute to Republican legislation, while
d not so declared, is contained in al
o editorial of the Charlotte Observes
5, (Democratic) Of April 20, 1910
S which is a speech within itself, and
/ tells the whole story: 1t is as fol
lows:
e within the period of fifteen Il
s twenty years the conditions sur
l. rounding the white working maj
e. have totally changed. A very larg
II proportion have left the farms AM
le are now working in cotton mills, ma
l. chine shops, factories, coal mines
< iron and steel works, and similar de
roOnl9