Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-08-28

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calated what proportion of this fifty
million dollars will como out Of your
pockets The money in the United
States treasury represents the coined
sweat of the toiling millions. Every
dollar Of it comes almost directly
from you.
Now we will consider still another
phase Of the proposition. In the
event the warehouses arc established,
we will DO oycrrun by q horde OF
Federal officers as humorous as the
locusts in Egypt. There is no way
out of it except that these officers be
appointed by the administration.
the President or the heads Of the
departments. There is complaint
against Senator Vance for amend
ing his bill so as to provide forthe
appointment of these officers instead
of making them elective. It has
been said that he did this so MS to
make the bill obnoxious to the South
ern people, and right there the Sena-
tor is done a great injustice. The
constitution expressly provides that
all Federal officers be appointed by
the President. TO leave the election
provision in the bill, would render
the whole measure unconstitutional,
and he made the change so as to re-
move the defect. Now, tho Prcsi-
dent appoints tho mail agents, the
postmasters, the revenue officers, etc.
If it should happen to be a Republic
can administration, such as we have
now, you know the President would
not be at all particular whether his
appointces were agreeable to us or
not. In fact, a great many of them
would be q little off color, MS you
know a great many Of them now are.
We have had enough experience
with them in this State to know
that we cannot trust them. Thcv all
have a peculiar Suitability about
their fingers. They stole the Prcsi-
dency of the United States, and
they stole an old lame COW from the
Chester county poor house, and be-
tween these two extremes there is
nothing that they have not stolen.
am very much like the little boy
who was sent to mill for the first
time. lie was not quite large
enough to pillow, but You know boys
are large enough to 60 to mill before
they are large enough to do hardly
anything else. Well, this boy a r
ried his grist down to tho mill, and
the first thing the miller did was to
take his toll dish and put some Of
the corn into his own box. The boy
did not like this very much, but did
not say anything. The miller hadn't
got quite enough the first time, so he
took out another dish full of toll.
At this the boy began to grow I'M
easy. Finally, the miller picked up
the whole sack and cmpticd the corn
into the hopper. The boy could
stand it no longer. lie grabbed the
bag from tho mil.oi's hands and
boltcd out of the door. The miller
ran after him, and they had a hot
race for home, the boy getting
there first. The old man, out in the
yard, saw them coming, and cried
out, "Good gracious, son, what in the
devil is the mattcr2" The boy, COM
pletcly out Of breath, threw the bag
at the old man and said dad, that
old miller has stole every grain of
our corn, and he is giving mo q
most h--ll of q race for the bag"
Now, if these warehouses were es-
tablished, these Republican officials
would be absolute masters of the
business of every man who deposited
his produce with them, and I tel!
you they would not leave US even a
bag to hold. They would have the
option of saying what your cotton
was worth, and if you were a Repub-
lican, they could give you more for
it, and if you were n Democrat, they
would give yon less. You would
have no redress. You cannot sue
the government unless it gives it's
consent, and this tho government is
very slow about giving. If you do
get this consent, you have to sue in
a United States court, and even if
you were to get q judgment, you
would mover be able to got your
money. 1t would have to be paid by
q special act of Congress, and Con-
gress is mighty slow to pass bills Of
this kind, to say nothing Of there be-