The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1890-10-11
SOME PLAIN TALK.
UuKcIe George TillnEam Tears UTb
The SRlD.TreaSEarys.

Z have been chosen during most
trying times. We have just come
off a war. We have been plundered
ever since we are conquered, but all
conquered people must suffer Unfortu,
nately We havea and nnfornates race
IN our midst, whom our enemies have
sought TO laise to our standard, or
rather level US to theirs. / am sorry
to- say you are o conquered people
and your enemies are trying to see
how far negroes can be made into
winter men, how far a people can be
taxed and pay tribute to the con-
querer and survive. The harder
the agricultural class works. the
more, self denial they practice, the
poorer they get. The reason of it
is the higher taxes you must pay to
go ont in pensions, High taxes don't
impoverish a people provided they
are spent among the people who pay
them, hut when they are paid out
to, another people the one who. re.
ceives grows richer. So as Ireland
is impoverished to- enrich Engla6d
yor are being impoverished to
enrich the North, but the taxes they
pay they git back in appropriations
and pensions. You pay between
forty and fifty millions a year taxes
simply because you were or the
kWrong side. Your children must
continue to pay these taxes and your
grand children. Neither The sub
treasury nor any other device can
stop it. There is too. much taxation
and too little money 10 circulation
to- meet the taxes. You ought to do
all you. can to have an income tax to
the rich men of the North, Hhe
East owns the West and South.
They own all the railroads. There
are 81 chartered roa DIS ia. South
Carolina and The citizens Of Tile State
do not Own a majority of the stock
in any and the tracks all go one way.
By the time you meet The interest
and your debts and pay your taxes
and fixed charges there is not enough
money left to bring fair prices on
your products. You want an income
ta1, and you waOt to abolish the
tax on whisky and tobacco, / do not
mean to have free whisky and
tobacco, q see one friend shake His
head over threel bnt to get ria Of
the horde of official vermin who go
around and smell your bottles and
nose around your tobacco and who.
as much, as say. help %yoursely, If you
dare. Let the State and the counties
and cities get the benefit of the
whisky and tobacco tax.
z am: sorry T can not go. into a
long speech on the ~sub-treasury and
give you something better than that
bill. You ought to issue more
money. If you do not the North
will own you body and soul. They
own the West too, but the West is
more bitter against the South than
the North is. They put a tax on
Southern cotton seed oil so that it
will be fit for nothing but manure.
Where were your Western sub
treasury friends when Congress tax
ed your cotton seed Gil; when it
added 300 per cent, on your cotton
ties. when, that infamous force bill
was passed, and when the West
refused to vote for free silver.
It is sickening to zee the South
talk about forming a political
alliance with the West. It is not
worth while to go into details abont
the sub treasury.
McCune is the originator of that
bill. He is a reformed Republican
who failed al dentistry in Indiana,
aoated about California for a while
and finally went down to Texas,
where he manipulated Alliance
money.
Is there any justice in taxing other
industries 10 build warehouse for the
products of the farmers. The AL.
lance professor equal justice to all
and special favors to none. If that
amt special favor what is it?
Two Republicans framed that bill