The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-09-17

them in war and peace, and / have
done so without stopping to count the
cost of that contribution. They have
honored me perhaps thousand-fold
more than / deserved, but they rave
never yet put me in office upon conduct
on NV part which would create the be-
lief or impression that have ever stated
one fact 10 the people of this State that
did not meet the appreciation of my
Judgment and conscience, iappause.
and they never will put ME in Office II
l have to pay as its price the auV'cal,
ing, the sustaining or maintaining OF
any proposition which my Judgment OF
my conscience will not approve.
TOO STUPID FOR AMENDMENT.
Nv friend rather rebuked me because
I had not amended the sub-lreasury
| bill. Why, fellow-citiZens, have those
two bills here and | will submit them
to the candid judgment Of any lntelll-
| gent and impartial man III TINS stare
| and let him say whether or not in that
| form they were susceptible OF amend
| meut. l might as well have tried TO
| amend a proposition to pontoon the
Atlantic Ocean or to build bridge to
the moon. Laughter and applause
| The bills were introduced by Governor
| Vance, and they went through the
| usual course, being referred TO the COM
mittee on agriculture and they We're
| buried in the tomb Of the .Capulets. |
had no opportunity of amending them
| if they were not susceptible OF amend
ment. So, then. | have been reproached
| because | did not amend the bill, and
| T am asked to discuss the sub-treasury
plan. If nv friend will pardon nle l
would he under the profoundest obllga-
tions to him if he will only tell me
what that plan Is. I have not heard It,
and he spoke for an hour and half by
the watch. He talked about the battle
of Lucknow, about the Encyclopaedia
Britannica. He talked about the re-
! forms of England, about the Duke OF
WELLINGTON and the Duke Of Newcastle,
I about the ahject poverty we were all
in, and leading up to that particular
| flight of his eloquence, from which we
would have thought that every man,
woman and child in this audience was
crawling on his knees in abiect poverty
| with not even the white meat of which
he talks to satisfy their hunger.
EDGEFIELD NOT STARVING.
Well, T see before me about as heal
thy and well-dlessed an audience as l
have seen in a long while. The ladies
seem to be reasonably well attired. If
they will pardon me for referring to
that, and the men are not entirely
ragged. I expect if they would go
home they would find sweet potato
| or a bit of bacon, although not so white
as he talks about; a little dust of meal
! home made, to the manner born and
uot imported from Tennesse or Georgia.
Laughter and applause. But my
friend studiously, conspicuously avoid
ed discuss the very plan which he
saws I did not discuss, and when he
had finished 1 was inclined to jump
up, clap nv hands and say that the
political Millennium had come.
Laughter and applause. And | say
| it without iTeverence that the political
| Messiah had come. Laughter and APP
plause, and hurrah for Butler!J | vas
about to eXclaim, with folded hands,
that this generation and day of our
! Lord had brought us the electric tele-
graph. the Transatlantic cable, the
| flying machine, the electric light, the
telephone, the phonograph,
THE GRAPHoPHoNE AND TOM WAT
son.
Great laughter and applause a
voice: "Hurrah for Watson"
Gen. Butler: And I say. so, too. He
is new man, laughter, just come to
life. He is going to Congress, and ne
is not only going to pass the sub.treas-
ury and put money on these trees,
where you all can get it by shaking
them, [laughter,] but he is going to
smash the national banks, get pay for
our darkeys, get return Of the cotton
tax, and-well, if that is not enough for
one man to do do not know what it
| is, 1great laughter and applause, and
when be goes in for all that he will
find me with him. He jumped on the
national banks and he destroyed them,
| but I do not think he was correct in his
statement of the history Of the banks.
Col. Watson: In what particular?
Gen. Butler: You said that they did
not buy the currency, that they got,
say one thousand dollars, deposited
them in the treasury and got ninety
thousand in currency.
Col. Watson: But who gets the in
terest?
Gen. Butler: Why the national bank
people, of course. just as a man must
| pay interest on his note. Where would
you get bonds if you did not buy
! them?
Col. Watson: But where do the bonds
come from?
Gen. Butler: I said they were bought
from the Government. But let me
point out your Inconsistency. When |
say that we desire to repeal the bill
laying a tax of 10 per cent on the State
banks in order to paralyZe the national
banks, he says oh no.;that will not do.
Col. Watson: I did not say that, for
I understood you to sly that you ob-
ject to it as remedy. What is your
bill.
Gen. Butler: My plan would he to
repeal the tax on State banks. But |
need not discuss the bill. I am to
furnish the plan and you the bill, for
that is your logic. Laughter and ap-
plauSe.
Col. Watson: That is all right, but l
will make this trade. I will come in on
the State banks if you come in on the
suh-treasury.
! Gen. Butler: Well, that is fair
proposition, gentlemen, and ] will do it.
but on this condition, that I will tell
! him what my bill is if he will tell me
what his bill is, and I tell him now
that the bill, which I tried twice to have
passed, is to remove the 10 per cent tax
on State banks.
Col. Watson: What is your plan?
Gen. Butler: Just keep quiet now;
have patience, and ! will tell you. l
waited on you. L would say to the far
mers Of this ccuntry-go to the Legls'a-
ture and apply for charter to 60 into
the banking business, deposita hundred
thousand or fifty thousand dollars, as
we did before the war, when the banks
of Columbia and Hamburg enjoyed a
very high credit.
Gen. Butler here explained the me-
| thod of DrocaGura before the war of