The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-02-02


tion,' over-production,' 'over-pro-
duction.' The logic of the Demo
cratic position was that the only rem
edy for low prices and hard times
was that each laborer should work
a half day instead of a whole day,
and that each farmer should make a
half bale OF cotton instead of a
whole bale, etc. What a magnificent
ship,
Since that fateful period the vot-
ers Of this country have been most
careful that the great, progressive
Republican party, no matter what
its faults, should be kept in power,
to guide faithfully upward and on
ward the great ship of State. With
the restoration OF the Republican
party to power, with it's great con-
lstructive, progressive policies, there
has been since no nightmare of
panic and hard times, and no cry of
| 'over-production.' Every laborer
an5 wealth producer ahas~been@ en-
couraged each year to add every
thing within his power to the wealth
of the country from every source,
and those who have created wealth
have been those who have most
largely benefited and prospered by
such wealth-production.
A DR.. Jekyl and Mr.. Hyde Argument.
I'm this year of 1910, when there
are more people employed, more
smoke stacks belching forth the evi-
dence of busy hive of industry,
when mother earth has yielded up
more bountiful increase than ever
before, all under the benign, pro-
gressive, and constructive policies of
the great Republican party, what
position do we find our Democratic
opponents taking?
Because labor is not only en-
ployed, but employed at an increase
in wages, and because the farmers
and other wealth producers are re-
ceiving a higher price for their pro-
ducts than ever before. we find the
Democratic speakers and campaign
managers forced to make two-faced
DIR. Jekyl and Mr.. Hyde argument.
To the clerk or other citizen who is
today living upon a fixed salary,
which may or may not have been in
creased during the last. five or ten
years, they point to the fact that the
necessaries OF life have increased in.
price and that he can not buy as
much today with his forty, fifty or
sixty-dollar salary as he could under
Democratic low prices and hard
times.
This argument will fool thous-
ands and tens of thousands of peo-
pie in this State, and In every State
in the Union, because the Democratic
speakers and campaign managers
will not call to their attention the
fact that under the Democratic ad-
ministrtion of low prices and hard
times that this class OF people, to-
gether with all others who desired
honest work, were seeking employ
ment under Cleveland's administra-
tion and could not find 1t.
while this speeious argument Is
being made to one class OF our peo-
pie, just the opposite argument is
being made to the farmers and
certain class of other wealth pro-
ducers. To them the Democratic
speakers and campaign literature
say, 1T is true that you are receiv-
ing higher prices for your products
and labor than ever before, but you |
overlook the fact that you are re-
quired to pay more for what you
buy than ever before. and that the
trusts and combines are robbing you /
Of part OF your honest earned toll
This is not all. They are adding |
the further false argument that even |
Of what you produce to sell brings /
higher prices now than ever before,
and that You are thereby more pros
porous than ever before, that you do
not owe any allegiance or credit to
the Republican party for bringing
this about, for that this condition
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