The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1891-07-11
GRENADA MISS, SATURDAY. JULY H. 1881

at all the meetings Of the Committee
on Demands at St. Louis and knows he
could not be mistaken and that this is
sue was sprung after the committee
had completed it's demands on Con-
gress. That it was concocted in q Re-
publican camp Of five men," No Dem
ocratic Alliance man was in it; and
why? Because they knew oil Demo
Gratis were opposed to class legislation,
and all forms of taxation for protection.
1t was n firebrand intended to disrupt
the Democratic party, and ! believe
will seriously injul'e the order.
A great meeting is already set to
come off at Fort Worth, Texas, in op-
position to it, and its advocates are SO
intolerant a. to disrupt the order here.
Your ranks here and elsewhere are
being depleted now by it, anc your
LEADERS, seem blinded by past victories.
Those whom the gods wish to destroy
they first run mad. Your safe war
horse in South Carolina secs the dam
ger signal ahead and cries halt; but
YOU are needless of conservative ap-
peals and rush rladly on to ruin.
Your brethren in Missouri and else
where have declared unalterable and
eternal opposition to 1t.
Talk not to me of sub-treasuries for
farmers, free coinage Of silver or any
other form of Legislation giving us an
increase in money circulation. while
you let remain upon our statutes Il
thieving tariff system, which robs us
out of 500 in every $3.50 we Use in trade
in the purchase of the necessities and
comforts of life we are forced to have
to feed and clothe our families with.
1t is demagogical, hypocritical and
political nonsense of the lowest kind to
preach 1t whilst our tariff legislation
remains unrepealed.
Our protective tariff stands between
you and an abundant money circulation,
as a chinese wall, mountain high, MAX
ing it an utter impossibility for labor
ers and farmers ever to enjoy an album
dant currency until it is demolished.
Its foundation stones are laid in ce-
mented greed and its walls are black
encd and spattered and reeking with
filthy lucre, wrongfully drawn from q
tax-ridden and tax-groaning and bleed
ing yeomanry, which cries aloud to the
God of heaven for its overthrow and
annihilation. I say God speed the day
when an enlightened political revolu-
ton will set in, showing to you, my
countrymen, that all your financial
wees have been bred from the last thir-
ty years of class legislation like this
you are madly and blindly asked to
saddle upon this country.
We do not need additional class leg
islation of the sub-treasury kind to
swell the grfey0us taxes we are already
burdened with to build warehouses and
maintain them with another hundred
thousand fat offices for greedy officials
and speculators' benefit and for oppres
sion Of the masses.
Inaugurate this system and you
make it possible to electa king, whose
army of avaricious officials you will
never be able to dethrone, unless you
do so at the fearful cost of the best
blood Of America.
When secession was first being agi-
tated I told my countrymen that 1t
meant war, and that would rather
surrender my interest in slaves than to
90 to war to preserve them, that near
" all mankind was opposed to slavery,
and a war would abolish it; and l tell
YOU to-day if this sub-treasury scheme
! Is successful it will ruin our present
fair prospects for financial reform.
The Secessionists said / WAS young
and an alarmist; that secession would
be accomplished peacefully, and some
men said 7 was an enemy Of the South,
and q coward and traitor to her cause
and interest, and one man told me mere
in Fairmount, after asking me 10 run
for the Captaincy of the first volunteer
co1npany that was raised here, that he
was going to the front and whip the
ID Abolitionists and then he would
come back and kill the cowardly slave
owners who wouldn't 60 to war to fight
for their slaves. He went to the front,
but deserted and was killed near
here for desertion, and to-day there
are some hot-headed men here and else
where abusing, traducing and slander'
ling me because oppose this foolish
|scheme Of ruinous legislation: The
Southern Alliance Farmer Of May Il
saws am merchant and want to make
slaves of farmers. A man who hasn't
got sense enough to know that the
merchants prosperity is dependent up
on the success Of the farmer Is misera
bly deficient in common sense, anc
ought to have guardian for himself
instead of being appointed guardian
for Alliance men and Others.
4. It says, isn't his miserable little
steel cultivator protected ?"
! His ignorance and inclination to mis-
represent and slander ME crops out 81
MAINLY here that all men OF good com
mon sense can see it in this assertion.
No manufacturer Of agricultural tool
ia or can be protected unless he own
. and runs the mines that iron and stee
. are manufactured from to make then
ont OF: and his whole column and
half is filed to the brim and running
. over with such falsehoods and misrep
reservations, which everyone know
are intended to gull, deceive and mis-
. lead the public and Alliance men.
People living in glass houses shoul'
never Hing stones. Some Alliance mel
here to bolster up the sub-treasury
, and help the Southern Alliance Farm
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