The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-12-05
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Burlington State Dispatch
81 believe with the Democratic
platform thar privately monopoly II
indefensible and tntolerabie. and IL /
become President OF the United
States ! will do everything Ia my
power TO destroy monopoly cannot
see how anyone can oppose privilege
and at the same time favor q protec-
tive tariff for protection il the pro-
life mother OF all privilege"
The above quotation viii be recog-
nizea as the much-zdvertised utter
ance OF DR.. Woodrow Wilson on the
tariff and monopoly. Ii will be re-
membered also that the News and
Observer carried this quotation in its
most conspicuous editorial column
for several weeks before the election
and IL was heralded forth through
out the State as genuine orthodox
Democratic doctrine fresh from head
quarters. But now. gentle reader. be-
hold the declarations OF our Cover
nor-eiect on November Is. just eleven
days after the election. and contrast
his enunciations with those OF the
man higher up" In the same party.
Mr.. Craig expressed his views on ta-
riff and trusts in the following words:
You cannot destroy these great
industrial enterprises-these mon
opolies. l would not disturb the
equilibrium Of business. | would not
impede the march of progress.
would not mar a single note in the
grand symphony OF the music OF in
dustry. | do not believe that the
abolition of the tariff would destroy
the trusts"
Now, Mr.. Democrat, whom will
you believe. DR.. Wilson or Mr.. Craig?
You voted for both of them. One
says he is going TO do all he can to
destroy the trusts; the other says he
does not want to destroy them
One says the tariff is the mother Of
all privilege, the other says the aboli-
tion of the tariff will not destroy the
trusts. These opinions are diametri-
cally opposed to each other. They
go to show the confusion of counsel
and the babel of tongues in the Dem
ocratic party; and We may look for
this confusion to become worse con-
founded as the days go by.
Nobody knows what 1t takes to
make a Democrat anyway. Some
Democrats do not want protective
tariff while others want it and vote
for it whenever the chance comes to
them. Some are against the trusts
and others are in favor of the trusts.
of Congress and opposed it with equal
energy. They are divided-hopeless-
/ ly divided-on these and many other
questions, and they seem to be to-
gether in only one particular and
that Is the pursuit of office. Lust for
Office is the one fraud cohesive force
| that holds the party as nearly togeth-
er as it is. Democrats have branded
Republicans and Progressives as Of
fice-seekers and they tried to make
the people believe that theirs was a
loftier type of patriotism; but the
Democratic pie-counter is to-day be-
ing fairly stampeded by office-seek-
ers. Some Democrats have even fol-
lowed the office-hunger craze so far
as to advertise in newspapers for ap-
pOintive offices. DR.. Wilson has fed
to the island of the sea to get rid OF
office-seekers and Speaker Champ
Clark has had to employ four extra
stenographers in order to answer
questions for office. But, after all,
what meaning has the word consist
ency among Democrats?