The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-03-25
POLITICS, CROPS, ETC.
News From the Entire United
States
Reported BY the Hon. Eli Perkins,
Philosopher and
Lecturer.

N. Y. CIry.--On the Erie train last
night was Eli Perkins, Just arrived from
an extensive trip down through the
Southern States
Yes, he said to a Sun reporter, az
am just from Texas and Missouri, via
Charleston, Savannah, Atlanta, Birming-
ham, Vicksburg, San Antonia, Galveston,
the staked Plains of Texas, Arkansas,
tho Last Do@s 7:s:....s Sap Gixq ,yay
States. What do you want to kuowf"
Well. how are the cropsr
1.-The immense cotton crop is swamp
ing the entire South. They raised o.
| 600, 900 bales, aud million bales moro
than tho world wants. The price has
fallen from 10 cents to 81 in Texas, and
the surplus is piled up around the sta
tions with no one to buy it,"
"Who is hurt by the low prcc2"
| "The cotton merchant. Many farm.
ers s'ld Mt eight ,euls. but ruin starps
| the Southern merchant in the face. The
entire South is suppressed. and they cry
out to the North for sympathy saw
80, 900 bales piled up in Fort Smith.
| The Red and Brazos rivers arc lined with
it. The farmers corn bin is empty, and
the merchants who have not failed are
no. able to carry him through another
crop. Meetings are being held all over
the South recommending the restriction
of tho crop this year"
How do they expect to restrict it7"
-sBy putting In mora sugar. -riaa and
corn. The price dropped too late for
wheat crop. They arc in trouble in the
sugar country in Texas and Louisiana,
because just rs they want to plant more
sugar MIR Brcckinridgc of Kentucky
jumps up in Washington and offers a
resolution to take the two. cent bonus of
OF sugr. This would destroy the sugar
industry md throw million more bales
Of cotton upon tic market. Then South
Caroline, which used to make coo, 900
barrel, of rice, and Louisiana, which
made 900, 600 barrels of rice, want tariff
against cheap Chinese rice, which has
about broken up American rice planting"
What argument do they use in speak
ing of tariff on Chinese rice and Egyp-
tiam cotton2"
They say: you Yankees put tar
III on tobacco and wheat to help your
farmer, and why can't VIC have tariff
on Chinese riccr"
''liow is the winter wheat crop9"
'l bring good news about wheat, )" said
Mr. Perkins. 1T is simply superb
everywhere. bavc mot seen such stand
q e. wheat Ia sixteen years. The last
Carolina to the Staked Plains n Texas,
and every kernel sowcd has como up.
IL could not be better in Kentucky and
Tennessee, and the farmers in Texas, Ar
kansas, Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, In
diana and Ohio have told me within four
days that they never had such a prospect.
The wheat is short. 1t hugs the ground,
but it is even, and looks just as they want
il to look for a splendid crop. Along
the Atchsou and Missouri Pacific roads,
clear into Colorado, the ground is soaked
with long, warm rain.
"Did you see any political changes2"
eyes: the Farmers Alliance is peter
ing out like the old Grecnback party.
They have all come out for free silver,
and Weaver, the old Grecnback candi-
date, is their man for the Presidency.
The Farmers Alliance in Texas lepislat
ed against aliens holding property in the
State, and millions Of dollars were driven
out of Texas. The Texans blame Gov
crnor Hogg, the Alliance Governor for all
the depression in Texas. Clarke, who is
nov running against Hogg will bc tri-
umphantly elected Governor. He says:
'uogg drove out the Scotch and English
4
the Yankees at four per cent and the
Yankee comes down and lets it to the
Texan at 10 per cent The Alliance fell
lows in Kansas have so ruined the State
by talking repudiation and free silver
that almSet all mortgages in Kansas are
now written payable in gold. ,"
"What about the old Southern Demo.
crat2"
1.-The old cast iron Democrat has given
ND Cleveland. The Stuffed Prophet
never cnthuscd them, and pow that he
has spoken free silver the Democrats have
dropped him They have also began to
talk about German. They say German
can carry the solid South and all the sill
yer States because he traded his silver in.
Gucuce with Wolcott for votes against
the Election bill"
"Did you SEQ anything funny in the
South?"
II found the Texan is given to making
fun Of the Arkansan. The Rev. DIR.
Pritchett, President of the Normal Col
lege at Huntsville told me that he ask
ed passenger on the Texas Pacific
where he came from.
"'Whar'd KUN fromT repeated the
man, 'why, you're the twentieth man
that's asked that today. kun from Ar
kansaw Now, dog on you, laugh"'
"At Texarkana, where they burned the
negro at the stake" continued Eli, 81
saw a little Texas boy in the depot.
Patting him on the head, asked inquir'
ingly:
"tAre you good little boyr"
"'You bet ! am,' lie said proudly.
I'm the best boy in Texas; you ask m!
father and mother
"'Do you say your prayers every dayT
continued.
"'No. not every day, he said thought
fully. Il didn't say 'em yesterday, and
l havn't said 'em today and-if get
along pretty well span't say ',m emmy
more U ALL
"'Why notr"