The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-06-16


sreecb delivered by Hon. 4. f. Hol-
Ton ~ winston, at the Republican
C.cry.ntion of Cleveland County, was
o,e of the best and most instructive
erecches 70 which they ever listened.
NJ H0ItOn showed how the country
ras prospered under Republican pol
.-.ee and Why North Carolina should
70, into the Republican column.
Mr.. HoIton's Speech.
-- +. Holton spoke for more
.,.- a. hour and three quarters.
lie ..l.a on the tariff question and
....attOn Of the laboring people
-... the Republican party sprang in
.. existence upon the election OF
..raham Lincoln with the one idea
- ,,no-.t.on to human slavery. This
.lrfiUcu. seized the North because
.,ev believed that God had implant-
E. fl 1000. 900 negroes a spark of
humanity. and to enforce this idea
.hev sacrificed hundreds of thousands
u the lives Of the best young men
md wound up with a debt of over
no billion dollars.
The Democratic party sprang into
existence as it now exists, upon their
opposition to this. They believed in
he perpetuation of human slavery,
and for this the South sacrificed hun
l-eds Of thousands of lives and spent
billions in money.
When the war closed the Republi-
ans Of the North, under the leader
nip Of men representing the spirit
# Abraham Lincoln, naturally de-
sired to elevate their own kith and
kin, and to do this they enacted the
protective tariff law with the avowed
purpose of increasing wages of the
laboring people.
Since that time every Republican
National Convention has declared for
this, and every Republican Congress
that has attempted to deal with the
tariff question, has levied taxes with
the avOwed purpose of the increas-
ing wages and the condition of the
labOring people. The Democratic
party, true to its instinct to enslave
took the opposite from this, and de
dared for free trade and sought tC
protect only the consumer. Every
democratic act of Congress, LOOKING
to the Ievying of taxes, has been up
Oh the idea of free trade.
The same people who elected Abra-
nam Lincoln and the Republican Sen
ators and congressman, with a view
I ri c
sor benefit of the laboring people
would naturally seek to better the
surroundings Of the common class by
the enactment of local legislation and
the advance of local interest, and to-
Gay nearly every Republican State
las from 80 to 800 pages of legisla-
ton enacted solely for the purpose OF
elevating this class; while, on the
other hand, the States south of the
Mason end Dixon line have passed no
laws looking to this end. But, tC
The contrary. have passed laws cal
culated to work to their injury and
detriment
In the Republican States. the
wages are from so to 100 per cent
higher than in the Democratic States
That in free trade England the car
penter averaged $3.50 per day, while
III the Republican States this same
class of wOrkmen receive from so tC
20 cents per hour, while in the South
ern States, controlled by Democracy
their wages are from 25 to 80 cents
per hour.
From reports of the Department OF
Commerce and Labor we learn that
The common laborer in Massachusetts
receives q cents per hour. in Rich
mon IS cents per hour, in North Car
DINA II cents per hour, in South
Carolina and other Southern Stae:
and cents per hour. The higher
IL the Republican States, the higher
the wages, the lower in Democrat,
States, the lower the wages. It in
creases wages to live even near
republican State. This condition wa
brought about by slavery which de
graded labor. While. in the South
ne ariStOcracy of the country foster
cd sentiment that a man to be
Sentleman must live in idIeness from
ne results of some one else'S labor
his is not SO in the Northern State
where labor is creditable. 1t ha
cached the point that nearly go pc
cent of the clothes we wear are mad
North of the Mason and Dixon lin
by high-class skilled labor receiving
rom $500 to 500 per day, Will
We work it out here from 800 t
$50 per day.
Under Cleveland's administrator
the country was in the throes Of dis
reSs. Men out of employment
Coxey's army marching on the capi
tai Of the nation and want and dis
tress on every side.
That under the low tariff of 1857
during Buchanan's administration
ne wrote almost identically the sam
message to Congress that Clevelan