Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-12-25


cahsa NOT mixes mo False Is Any Mas.
!, ~, 600
49, SsU'
because they fesl and believe thss
the Alliance and Saympathixtng labor
organizations are N'of the people, for
the people and by the Peoplei iii
suohSa popular uprising good men
may at times be sacrificed and bad
men put forward; good measures
may be overheard and evil or futile
0fess adyocated. This ihstrte to-day
asst has1al%ays been true i'm syery
great reform movement. All that
| goes by The name is not neeasssfily
reform. N unseIdom It id hnrtfal
hnmbng and callow statesmanship.
IIhhat% is !, and that is almost bound
to be SO when ~unpraeticed handg
seize. the helm. SBnt the people ean-
not be deceived, and will not be
deceived, lnSonesgrest andover-rnling
msasureSo of reform that they have at
hear, that is quickening the, popular
pgleeI all over the wide land and that
is the rule of the people by the peo-
pie; or, in other words, self-g3Yern-
mont IN q plain, uneqniYocal, unqpali7
he'd sense OF the phrase as Jefferson
understood IT and the. fathers. of the
Democratic party preached from the
housetops. &
There may be those in control of
the Alliance and other populaf
organizations who re deludlng them
selves with being able to boss these
organizations and they may b tO-day
doing 1T to no inconsiderable5 extent.
But the day comes when these things
VIII be put to rights. The one great
thought, the M great feeling, the
one great hope, atthe heart Of these
organizations, is the assertion of the
PLAIN manhood OF the country and
Us nndying hostility. TO being kept
longer IN the leading strings of
potent political masters. This very
thought, this very feeling, will bring
fthings &c rights after awhile. 1T will
notzbe long before the great body Of
the people gathered in these, organi-
cations Will lind out the difference
between the men intent on serving
themselves and those honestly and
truly devoted to the service OF q
regenerated popular cause.
Al present 1t 10 hard to make the
average man believe that there is Q
man IN the country left who is not
intent on h!s own selfish ends. The
very Poiitlcai d~ebauohery through.
Whlch we have passed for over o
quarter OF Q century! has given us
despair Tor our inheritance and sec
tl9nal nate as q national sentiment.
~ resuitIot 1t allls thai the peo-
PIE OF the country have awakened TO
u themselves SOLD y TO n money
holders and monopolists who have
sclzed the government OF y COM
no country, ana VINO are tattening
On inc Hegreglous sPolls winch they
axe py federal enactment from the
grandest industries nat the hand OF
man M, eyer wro4gnt out:
ne people nave risen up TO ask
themselves WDat tney arc gong to
w aoouC H. me hrsC greag popular
wave mas passed over us, sweeping
away aouotiess many OF the oid
Ihere ~ those deiud-
nv !lenseiyes WIN inc thought that
ms ~ oniy q popular hurry ina IN
sl.ne WI! come 70 nothing. such
PeoRie hall every mistake nov made
oy .his pop.gar as mean
ny 1he speedy doWnIall OF ne great
PoPular organizations iney Zdescry
- osery l~nolscretlon ana illiperailty
s we iaial 9! 5nla nea"tfeh
son-iuie' az tney zee u. ? we 40
aos see Nv 80. Inc people OF th!s
oHGniiy naxe . niseory Whlch 10
P'alhly s"risten Inc capaGlty OF the
Mneaie"" uIso'han 70 take care 81
n,nise!; we sho9ld deceive our.
we mlstook me hoander or
Cne ei"ht VI Now cohultiohe Ior lncat
sion over g . the , whole civilized world:
master. and tho most far- aao;na