Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-10-16
The Fasiaers Aliiancs.

[From the southern Cuitiyator and Dixie
Ftarsnef.lI
EIll;farss Tie liant, q hast,t fng Ills 3 prey,
When wealth acenmnlatea and men decay
IT is false assertion that the far
mers say, enc mar @ashaall iaeeld 5oflcs
except farmers &fiaalse . hlellHtl'ss
sI1selalsgogpes Sly Insurers, sho desire
to keep up the present system, all
!%aliars, who shall havestheir portions.
with hyppcrites snd HnbelieYers,s
say -nobodye else. & "
Farmers say, and their true friends
nay, no man shall hereafter hold
office ((iif they can help III who does
not pay, more respect to their rights,
and the rights of the working ~classes
than has been paid 70 them sincetthe
war. Il
They say that monopoliess created
by the power Of the money class,
through the government, has mani
testify gotten all of their honest toll
and other laborers, in the last quarter
q century. That, while they are
not starving, as they are in Europe,
yet they have few comforts and fewer
Inquiries; that while they ought to
have d surplus, their lands are almost
universally mortgsgedt to bondholding
nsH:seessss at ruinons rates. Of interest;
that while statistics show tho profits
of labor do not exceed three per'
cent, they pay from eight to twenty
to keep off the officers Of the law.
They say-their brother laborers.
this thing shall have an end;
that death is preferable to, the
degraded; life capital proposes labor"
Labor does not force the issue, oapi-
tai forces It. Let it come, and God
grant victory to the right
The farmers would not ask loans
from the government if the govern,
ment was, not engaged in the bust
ness of lending, and has been for
more than a quarter of a century,
without interest. And to whom
docs it lend ? To the rich only.
"Hear, oh,heaven, give ear, oh earth ?"
To the rich only. And what for?
To lend to the working Glasses at
rates of .intereat- the das;i s csd4l
blush to own. Money never bushes
It wants more. The farmers want
to borrow money to pay their debts
These rich fellows want it to shave
with. OH but these rich fellows
can secure their debts by depositing
their bonds with the government
The working classes have not got any
bonds. True, but what gives credit
to the bonds? Who pays the inter.
est on, the bonds? Who pays the
bonds themselves finally 4? Do not
the sons of toilp Government lends
'c the rich class to lend again. Why
not lend to the working classes to
pay their d~ebts--yes, to save, from
the hammer their homestead around
which cluster all the noble emotions
of wife and children and home. arr
bonds more secure at nearly whole
value, than homesteads at half yalnef
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 the right to bank
also ? No man living can give d
reason except that 1t would cheapen
the rate of interest and stop tho
enormous profits of this oppres-
sive and detestable monopoly, which
has already pretty we'll absorbed the
wealth Of the whole country.
The government not only lends to
the rich only, but it exempts their
property (tho bonds) from taxation.
Bonds create no wealth; lands are
the foundation of all wealth. Bonds,
in their interest quality, weigh like
lead upon the whole people. If
anything ought to he exempt from
taxation it is land engaged in pro.
ductive industry. Give farmers, as
a class, the same rights which are
given to bondholding bankers, and,
instead of mourning end want and
woe, our beloved land from Maine
to Loui"iana, and from the Atlantic
to the Pacific, would surpass Eden
in plenty beauty and glory.
God has given to us beautiful
world, and to the Americans the
~loveliest of ali lands, and tho freest
Of oil governments.
Covetousness, controlling govern
ment, if not arrested, viii make IL,
as it has in Europe, the oharnel
house of misery and the graveyard
&c 1o1o.a ~. .r.. .--aH- E-NtEGf