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

Continued from Is
One of the Democratic Paramounts.
When the people of the United
States unfortunately placed the DEM
ocratic prty in full power, with a
Democratic President, a Democratic
Senate, and Democratic House, a
panic unparalleled in the history of
this country began to brew as soon
as the election returns were flashed
from one end of the country to the
other. 1t was not necessary for the
Democratic party to carry out it's
threats of un-American policies to
start a panic. The very fact that they
were placed in power and were given
an opportunity to do what they had
declared they would do caused a
stagnation and started a depression
that was nationwide in its disas-
trous effects.
mills were closed down and labor
turned out of employment, to march
the streets of every Industrial CEN
ter in the nation, looking and beg
ging for work. In sight of the silent
smoke stacks of the former great
bee hives of industry, which were
paralyzed and made silent by the
threat of Democratic and English
free trade, there were established
soup houses to relieve the bodily
suffering of those who desired work
to support their families-men who
were not looking for aims or charity
The great army of unemployed,
thus deprived of an opportunity to
create wealth by their labor, and
who at the same time were unable
to buy the products of the farmer
and other wealth producers, increas-
ed the number of unemployed and
caused produce of all kinds to fall
rapidly in price. Every thing was
cheap, and very cheap, but no mat
ter how cheap cotton or manufact-
buy. The merchant stopped giving
orders to the factories and stood be-
hind his counter idle. with no pur-
chaser.
The nation was thus brought face
to face with most dire calamity.
There was suffering, hard times and
stagnation staring us in the face from
every quarter Of every State in the
Union. The farmers, laborers and
other wealth producers were not
responsible for this catastrophe; they
had carried out the Divine injunc-
tion to make two blades of grass
where one grew before. They had
created more wealth than ever be-
fore in any year in the hisory of
this great country. In short, the
country was teeming with the wealth
OF products of every kind of human
labor and human ingenuity, and yet
the national body polite was sick
nigh unto death.
The 'Over-production" Paramount.
What answer did the Democratic
leaders make to the honest, indus
trious and progressive people of this
great country in that hour of un-
paralleled national distress? They
invented and raised as the Demo-
cratic paramount, in answer to their
incompetence and folly, the cry that
they were not responsible for con-
ditions. because the root of the evil
was 'over-production.' Thus we see
that the incompetent party OF mega
ton, having wrought such havoc to
national progress and prosperity, at
tempted to charge the people them
selves with being responsible for the !
hard times. by saying that the wealth |
producers were criminaly responsible |
because they had produced SO much
wealth that it had made them and |
he nation poor.
Every person in this audience
will remember distinctly that every |
Democratic politician and every Dem
,cratic newspaper from ocean to
,cean kept up for month after month
he continuous cry Of .oVer-produc-