Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-05-08

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Previous thereto, however, his
friend, Senator Woodward, stated
that he had just heard rumor that
Col. Youmans had been paid $50, 900
to canvass the State against Mr..
Tillman. If it was 50 they wanted
to know it.
Col. Youmans said If you will
patiently listen to me l will not only
convince you in whose interest l am,
but | will also convince you what is
the matter with the farmers of South
Carolina.
When after the war l came back
to the ashes of what had been my
home, for the next year served an
apprenticeship at the hoe handle.
The next year l was promoted to tho
plow handle, and l have been far
mer ever since. know how to set
a plow and do it now. l can lily
spare the timc away from my crop
now, but | am here to do Just what
my friend says he wants--to have a
full and fair discussion of the issue
now tcnding. belong to the rogu-
lar Democracy of South Carolina,
am that means the white people of
South Carolina. belong there. It
is pleasant to meet the people of
Fairfield, and it's adds TO the pleas
ure that am not here to plead in
my own interest. ! am not here in
the interest of any man or set of
mon. | am here to represent those
people of South Carolina who love
her, and who stand above her altar,
as every son should, to defend her
fair fame from foul aspersions, and
ISLANDERS so foul that they have not
even been heard from the mouths of
our sclf-respccting foes.
l ask your attention, az n boy who
stacked his gun ut Appomattox with
an unhealed wound in his thigh.
am here in the interest of the people
Of South Carolina.
My friend quoted General Nc
Grady. What did General McCrady
say9 lie said something was wrong
with the farmers and that my friend
was not the cause of that trouble,
but the symptom. I agree with
General McCrady; my friend has
not caused this trouble, he is caused
to be what he is by it. I will tell
you what is the matter with the
farmers. On page SO of w. G.
Summers book on American cur
rency he says no desperately indebted
people can long endure regular,
sober government.
That is the rcason-our people are
desperately indebted. We arc all in
debt. We arc mortgagcd to our
eyebrows.
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| AT this point the noisy adhercnts
of Captain Tillman in the crowd,
who had from the opening of Co.
lionel Youmans's address persisted in
cheering for their candidate, and in
tcrrupting the speaker by side re-
marks, became so obstrcperous that
Captain Tillman, himself, rose and
plead that fair-play be given his
opponent,
On rcsuming his remarks Colonel
Ioumans said the cause of the unrest
i'll the State was that the people
were in debt. 1t was like any one
with bad case of collie; they were
in pain, along comes quack and
promises relief if you put on a plas-
ter here, or take this or that remedy,
and the people naturally are taken
in. lie didn't blame those who fol-
lowed Tillman for doing so. He
Duld do the same himself if he
didn't know better.
There was always a cause, he said,
when one class were found poor and
another class rich and growing richer.
This point the speaker elaborated in
Il beautiful way, but evidently was
far above the heads of his hearers in
his historical illustrations, which, be-
ginning in Holy Writ, came down
through the times of the Greeks and
Romans to the present day, showing
the present condition of affairs in
South Carolina to be nothing new,
but the same experience as that of
peoples in the most ancient and in
all times.
THE RULING GLASSES.
Colonel Youmans said that this
country formerly was controlled by
the farmers. lie quoted from Adam
Smith to show how, while the con-
troll of the government by the land
holding class was safe, the control of
the mercantile and manufacturing
classes was not apt to be, rs their
interests were opposed to those of
the public at large. Up to 1861 the
farmers controlled this country, for
the slave-holding aristocracy of the
South were the ruling spirits in our
government. Since that time the
mercantile and manufacturing classes,
especially Of the Northeast, had
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