The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-08-06

rise to. The Senator's points were we'll
taken, and all accounts sayhe carried the
audience with him.
AS to some of the obnoxious elements
of the bill, let us quote q paragraph or
two from Senator Buffers speech:
Senator Butler then read sections 2, 3,
4 and 5 of the bill, and said, With refer
encs to the last section, that it gave the
manager the right to grade and classify
the amount and quality Of the product ;
that he (the manager) is the final arbiter.
What chance, said the Senator, has the
poor manor, for that matter, what
chance would a rich man have-if he
should excite the enmity or animosity OF
this lordly manager? He could grade
your cotton and corn down to nothing ;
could give it such quality as would pre-.
vent it from being sold, if yon should
make him mad: Where would you be
then, with your warehouse receipt in your
pockets
As to the warehouse receipt, ] can take
that receipt, and by writing my name
across it I can pass it to somebody else,
who can pass it to somebody else, and the
first thing you know away it has gone.
A voice-Hit him again
Section 6 was then discussed as to the
payment, etc. How paid Not in treas
ury notes, as my friend has suggested in
his discussion Of flexible currency, but in
lawful money of the United States. Talk
to me about flexible currency. What sea.
son of the year. do We want money most
Why, it is in the spring and summer, but
according to the provisions of this bill,
the money goes back to the treasurer OF
the United States, and is destroyed at the
very time ne need it,. 49,;
Ths manager is made the sole judge as
to the rejection of understandable pro-
duct. If be should happen to take some
dislike to me, I carry my cotton there to
get q merchsntable order, and he says,
mot merchantable," ," and declines to re-
ceive it. I am not:quite that much of q
baby to get to point where I have to go
ito Republican manager and let him
pass Judgment on my business. When ]
do this / want some friend to send me to
|. the lunatic asylum.
Another paragraph on national banks
will be interesting: =
Question by some one in the crowd
Do not the national banks get money
from the government at ] pei: cent?
Senator Butler-Thst, is q mistake.
They do not. I am opposed to national
banks, but not for the reason that per-
haps you would assign. The national
banks were the outgrowth of the war,
to aid in putting down the rebellion" !"
They were established about '62 or '6S.
Senator Butler then gave 8 history Of
the national banking system, and said
that q man could not be considered less
g patriot if he owned bank stock. / do
not oppose the national banks because
they are thieves or contract the currency
and extend it to suit spectators, because
they do not do this. you put your mon.
eyi in national bsnks az you would in
cotton or mules, .for the money that you
can make ont Of it.
The Senator demolished the sub.treas.
urys plsn,. and had the satisfaction of
knowing that he MAS carrying Alliance
men, With him, though they are all sup.
posed to have bended 80 absolutely to the
will Of the leaders that they dare not be
opponents Of the measure. The Senator
said the ocala platform was generally
: ~ - -
good democracy, excepting the sub
treasury and the governmental control
of railroads demands, neither of. which
his, conscience nor his judgment would
allow him to endorse.
As the GreenYille Nesos says, there is
not q section Of the sub-treasury bill
that cannot be knocked. higher than
Gilderoy's kite-which has never yet
come down-when the effort is made by
an ordinarily well Uniformed and intelli.
gent man. .