The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-11-03
DIR. J. J. MOTT TO MIR. J. DANIELS
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this State would vote against you if
they felt sure the Northern States
could not keep the tariff soaring.
But let me tell you farmers of
North Carolina, this State vote is to
be needed to help preserve a stand
pat protective tariff. The insurgent
Republicans of Iowa and the grain
and meat producing States of the
Central West say: We have no cot
ton and no cotton factories. 1t is not
our business to keep up the cotton
clothes we wear. Let the sections
which produce the cotton and cotton
goods do that if they can
These insurgents are not talking
Butler, Booze, Bonds and Doodle in
the Central West. The talk with
them is: Put down this protective
tariff in which we have no direct in
terest, for it keeps up the price of
cotton and cotton goods
II appeal to the people of the cot
ton States to line up in defense of
this protective principle, championed
by Henry Clay, and which was the
shibboleth of the Wing party, in
herited by the Republican party, and
| which has done more to make Amer
lea the America of to-day than any
principle of government ever inau-
gurated in this country.
! The Big Four business has moth
| ing to do with the tariff issue. It is
false alarm, a deception, scare
crow, and SO intended by the oppon-
ents Of protection to preserve the
Democratic organization which rests
for continued existence on the tariff
for revenue only plank-in all its
policies the only thing the Demo-
cratic party has never changed
Whenever this policy has prevail
ed under Democratic administration.
the people who actually plowed, hoed
and picked the cotton crop at cents
a pound did it of necessity, practi-
cally barefooted and in their shirt
tails.
These broadcloth liars, who are
} willing to hold Office under such con-
! ditions, know that it is no use to talk
to the farmer any longer against
protection with the price of eggs
chickens and farm products soaring
> and Champ Clark, the leader of theil
/ party in Congress, saying it is be
cause of a protective tariff. So your
Big Four is sound and fury, signi
: flying nothing.
Fab Busbee, of splendid memory
4 one OF the popular leading lawyers o
the State employed Mr.. Butler to al,
: him in collecting a just debt from
t the State. Hon. Kemp p. Battle. O
d Chapel Hill, says the debt was al
= honest debt. He was Treasurer whel
< the bonds were issued under a Demo
v cratic administration.
d IL Is only necessary to speak M,
= Battles name in North Carolina. 70
e he needs no eulogy at any man
e hands
, There is no treachery In any a,
z torney collecting an honest debt fro,
e his State. for 1t preserves the State
Ie credit II the credit of the State
le not upheld. it is not the fault of til
n State itself, but of the individual
Is who officially act for it at the tim,
( These individuals should be dishor
E. ored, and not any private citizen VIII
IS participated in making them sustaj
" their States credit. Nobody but
l. liar would call it traitors act.
n | am not a lawyer. but the sea
ty pet-bag bonds are the special ia
he bonds and this special tax featu1
III was a legislative provision again
es the Constitution. in that 1t provide
IN money to pay interest on these bonf