The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-11-30

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a. r5itog:-I would like 10 ask
ne~oCrat!c friends. as well as
her friends. through your good
for | suppose q good many OF
re-7ocratic friends are now read
Tho Caucasian. II they are satia-
18th the situation prevailing At
80. IN our State regarding our
-. Government carried on By our
~.-ocra,lc good government crowd.
-,s-5 is becoming so burdensome TO
80 O. us farmers especially? Did
=, notice when the Democratic
.,,rsc Of Congress got In power the
I-s. thing they went about, when
.s.v assembled, was 10 monkey with
go ,arif, and did pass two or three
.-es ,rade bills through effecting the
-,sres OF our cotton right away, and
her things. But President Taft did
.se country a great favor BY vetoing
nose bills, yet the prospects OF these
..re bills being again taken up By
ar Democratic friends when Con-
g,sss convenes in the near future
and put through, as laws OF the land,
mr. business men are intimidated or
.s-ajd to invest too heavily Ia the
ranufacture of cotton and other
goods. fearing just like any other
.ersible men would, that these free
trade laws will let in from other
countries such things as they are now
making and selling only at a living
U-oft. at a much cheaper rate, knock
ing the prices of their products to
starvation figures, as we have seen
IN Cleveland times; and it will effect
rs farmers and all others laborers in
the same way as the manufacturers,
or far worse, for they are able to grin
and bear it, for they, as rule, have
something laid up d head, but the
farmers and other workers would not
bic able to grin and bear but a very
short while before they would be as
thin in flesh as a hickory shad and
as naked as d moulted hen in the fall
of the year. You need not take my
word alone for evidence, but take
what you have seen and known be-
fore, and the naked facts of the his
tory Of the Democratic party for the
past fifty years, or for that matter,
the history of our North Carolina
Democracy for the last several years,
should be amply sufficient for any
one with a very small intellect to
convince them that our Democratic
party's policies, as carried on now, is
menace and sham, and shame to
liberty-loVing people. They have in
creased heavily our taxes without
benefiting us a cent to enrich Office
holders and to build costly mansions
that will never really do the masses a
cents worth OF good. They have
corrupted our free school system by
selling out to book trusts the privi-
lege Of selecting every two or three
years new school books for our poor
children who have to throw away
good books used in prior sessions and
buy new ones, or not be privileged
to go to school at all.
They have made laws every year
to take from us the true American
liberties given to us through the
blood of our Revolutionary fathers.
Now, will you, my friends, who have
been helping them to heap these bur-
denS upon ourselves, our wives and
children-Will you, | repeat, continue
to refuse to see, refuse to use your
own senses in the matter and con-
tinue to help them to tie US, hand
and foot, as it were, and to rob the
needy and to pour their hard earn
ings into the laps of the rich? These
politicians love us only for our votes;
they will soon come around now and
tell us how much they love the farm
er and how you ought to support the
grand old Democratic party for what
it has done for us, ETC., tee, and that
II the Republican party gets control
everything will go to the dogs, the
negroes will take charge of the State,
when you ought to know, as we'll as
they do, that such talk is all rot and
made to fool you and to try to keep
you from voting the Republican tick
ct, which would result in putting
them out of Office This is too plain
for you to not understand.
Now, let us muster up courage,
fellow-farmers and fellow-laborers
and enter a protest in November.
1912, by casting our ballots for a
change. Let us bring out good men
70 the election next November in the
State from Governor down to dog
catches. That stands for Republican
lsm-the party of progress is the Re-
publican party. It offers you bread
instead of stone. It offers you free
dom instead of slavery. It offers
You freedom instead of slavery. 1t
offers you the privilege to govern
yourselves by just laws made by a
free ballot and a fair count called
local self-government. It is opposed
to DISTINGUISHING a poor white man