The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-07-02

Eet Every Man Speak Ont.

Eet Every Man Speak Ont.
Ex-Governor R. L. Taylor, of Tonnes
see, one of the shrewdest politicians of
the country, has been moved to discuss
the sub-treasury scheme, and in letter
to friend, says:
"The civilized world has never witness.
ed such general upheaval 10 politics.
In almost every city. town and hamlet in
the Union there are labor unions, trade
unions, and every conceivable sort of
club and lodge of workiDgmen, who hold
their regular meetings for the discussion
of economic questions, and public and
social politics and almost every school
house in the land closes its doors at stated
periods upon the farmers and farm hands,
securely and secretly ahut within the
walls; and there the knights of the plow
and the hoe debate and plan, while the
politicians and trusts and monopolies are
trembling for their safety. All this rapid
organization, all these labor unions ard
Farmers Alliances, in my judgment,
mean more than most of US have dream.
ed of. They are, on the one hand, the
evidences of the advanced enlightenment
and the increased intelligence of the great
mass of the people who are the producers
of wealth, and, on the other hand. they
are the direct and logical results of Re
publican class legislation, which has
cursed this country for more than guar.
ter of q century.
"The workingmen of the nation ought
not to be blamed for organizing for their
own mutual benefit and protection. The
tillers of the soil should not be condemn
ed for allyiDg themselves together for the
purpose of Influencing public policy and
forcing better prices for the product OF
their sweat and toll; because the capital
that buys their products and hires their
labor is thoroughly organized. But all
this stir and commotion, and sill this
combination and solidiGcation of the pro.
ducers will right no wrong, nor will it
achieve ultimate success, unless these
movem ents are properly directed. 1t
would be like an unorganized army,
without either arms or ammunition, or
plan of battle, rushing blindly into the
conflict, without any possibility OF trl-
umph.
''1here is only one banner under which
the workingmen can ever hope to WIN
success in this great struggle for their
rights and liberties.
"Upon its ample folds are written, in
letters which have only grown brighter in
the struggles of a hundred years: Equal
rights to all, special privileges to none.
The right of every citizen to trade any
where in this wide world, and, under
certain just conditions, to have the prigi'
lege to sell where he can sell for the
highest price, and buy where he can buy
the cheapest; taxation to pay the e1pen.
ses of the Government alone, and all it's
legitimate obligations, no more, no lesS,
and the burdens of this taxation to rest
heaviest upon the rich and lightest
upon the poor; free coinage of
silver, the peoples money, the poor mans
friend; local self-government of the
States, free from force bills and bayonets
protection of labor and capital alike, the
encouragement of agriculture, not by tar
fling it to death, but by the regulation of
transportation by land, and opening the
blockades upon the high seas, giving it
the right to exchange its products with
every nation in the world the encourage.
ment of all the industries, with partiality
to none the enlightenment of the people,
and the distribution of the blessings of
liberty and good government for the
happiness of all, making every home the
castle and palace of prince, aud every
citizen sovereign-this is the Demo
cratic creed.
"Now, what does the Alliance propose
to do2 What are the labor unions going
to do? What flag do they propose 10 fol-
low to reach the end which they SO eager
ly desire, and which they seem SO deter
mined 10 achieve9 Will they divide up
into factions and each faction have it's
own separate party? Will the farmers Of
America hoist new flag, and can they
hope to carry the country with the sub
treasury battle-cry2 Let them remember
the history of the past. They are not wi.
ser than Jefferson. The grand principles
laid down by him are the moBt practical
bic and the best. The sub treasury
scheme is q serpent in the basket of flow.
ers, which will sting and destroy this
great Alliance movement. It is attractive
and beautiful, but there is deadly poison
lying concealed and coiled within. 1t is
undemocratic. 1t is unwise. 1t is wrong
wrong in policy and wrong In princi-
pie. The Government cannot be both
merchant and banker for the people. 1t
can only protect them with wholesome
laws. It can only shield them from
overtaxation and tyranny. But it can
never go into partnership with them or
become general mortgage of lands, ten.
ements, hereditaments, pumpkins aud
iackasaes. Our Government has no mon.
ey to loan.
"It ought not to have dollar for that
purpose, for every golden eagle in it's
treasury which is surplus above the
amount necessary to spend in the pay
ment of its debts, and to defray it's ex-
penses, and reasonably provide for con-
tingenoies, represents that much of over
taxation of the people. Let the Solomons
give US policy that will get the farmers
out of debt, instead of their sub-treasury
policy, the logical result of which would
be to plunge them deeper in debt. Let
the stalwart Alliance men and labor
union men fall into the ranks of pemoc.
racy and help us cut the tariff to reve-
nue. basis, and increase the volume of our
currency, and force free coinage of silver,
and curtail extravagant expenditures of