The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-10-30
GIVE THE FARMER A CHANCE.
They Should Mt Least DO GIvon nm Rven
Start with Nonopolios.

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tlVator and Dixie Farmer. There is q
great deal of force in what Mr.. Wright
says, and, sooner or later the evils com
plalned OF must be rcmedicd or there
Will DO revolution. That this govern
ment Is now run In the interest Of the
gigantic monopolics scattered through
out the lana, not only to the detrimrnt
oil the farmer but to every man in it
VINO has to labor for his bread, no
thoughttul man will deny. The farm
! erS can remedy tho evil If they will
arise In their power, north, east, west
aud south, and sec to 1T that no man
goes to Congress- who is in favor OF
these monopOlics. Here is what Mr..
! Wright says:
IT is false assertion that the farm
crS say, NO man shall hold Office cx-
| ccpt farmers" false rs hell!" Dcrla-
g"gucS, sly usurcrS, who desire to keep
up the present system, all "liars, who
shall have their portions with hy 90
cTlleS ana unbclieVcrs," say it--nobod"
, else.
Farmers say, and their true friends
say, no man shall hereafter hold Office
or they can help iU who does not pay
more respect to their rights and the
rights OF the working classes than has
ocril pald TO them since the war.
hcF say that monopolicS created hy
tho power OF the money class through
tne government, has manifcStlv gOtt On
all or their honest toll and other labor
rT3, III the last quarter Of n century.
nat, while they are not starving, as
they are IN Europe, yet they have few
comforts and fewer luxurips; that while
Ihcy ought TO have surplus, their
r,I Dl
10 hondhOlding uSurerS at Tuinous rat cs
! or interest; that while statistics show
inc profits of labor do not exceed three
per cent, they pay from eight to twenty
10 keep OIL the officers Of the law.
Ihcy Say-thcir brother lab0rers
Nay-"this thing shall have an end; that
Irath IS preferable TO the degraded Efc
capital proposes labor" Labor does
not force the issue, capital forces it.
Let II come, and God grant victory to
the right!
The farmers would not ask loans
from the government If the govern
mrnt was not engaged in the business
OF lending, and has been for more than
a quarter Of u century. Without in
tcrest. And to whom docs it lend? 70
the rich only. "IIcar. oh heaven, give
ear, oh earth?' TO the rich only. And
what for? TO lend to the working
classes at rates of interest tho devil
would blush to own. Money never
olusheS. 1T wants more. Tho farmers
want TO borrow money to pay their
deDlS. These rich fellows want it to
shave with. Oh. but those rich fellows
can secure their debts by depositinc
ahclr bonds with the government.
me worrying classes have not got any
bonds. True, hut what gives credit to
the bonds? Who pays the interest on
the bonds? Who pays the bonds them
serves finally? no not the sons Of toll ?
government lends to the rich class to
iehd again. Why not lend to the work.
ing class to pay their debts-ycs. to
save from the hammer their home
SteadS, around which cluster all the
NOBLE emotions of wife and children
and home. Are bonds more secure at
nearly. whole value, than homcsteads
at half value?
1t is nonsense to talk about the
greater security of the bonds. Why
not loan on real estate, and why not
give to its owners tho right to bank
also? No man living can givo a reason
except that 1T would cheaper the rate
OF interest and stop the enormous
profits OF this oppressive and detcstahlc
monopoly, which has already pretty
well absorbed the wealth OF the whole
country.
The government not only lends to the
rich only, but 1t eXempts their property
0he bonds) from taxation. Bonds
create no wealth; lands are tho founda,
ton Of all wealth. Bonds in their in
tcrest quality, weigh like lead upon the
whole people. If anything ought to be
exempt from taxation 1T is land en-
gagged in productive industry. Give
farmers, as a class, the same rights
which are given to bOndholding bank
crS, and, instead OF mourning and want
and woe, our beloved land from Maine
TO Louisiana, and from the Atlantic TO
the Pacific, would surpaSs Eden i'm
plenty, beauty and glory.
Goa has given to us beautiful
world, and to the Americans the love
llcst OF all lands, and the frccst OF all
governments.
CoVctOuSncSS, controlling govern
mcnt, if not arrested, will make it, as
1T has in Europe, the charnel house Of
misery and the graveyard of labor.
More anon (whcn the true Democracy
gets out its candidatcS) Of the question
to whom to lend money and who should
make the whiskey ? if any is made, and
on bountics to beet roots, and sugar
cane, and pensions to second widows
OF soldiers who "fought, bled and died
to save the country"