Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-06-23

as | would like to concur IN this
opinion, l believe the converse OF the
proposition to be true Before this
proposition can be established,
think the national Democratic party
must be reformed and then it can
reform the government and not until
then.
Those who favor the Peoples
Party are in it everywhere, South
Carolina not excepted, in my iudg-
ment. The people in this State rec
osnize that the abuses which not
only seem, but do exist, must be
corrected by the people, and that they
can accomplish this better through
existing parties in the State than by
forming new ones. The reason the
Georgia and North Carolina reform
ers abandoned the Democratic party
was because they had not the same
experience that we have had. Six
years ago wemade protest against
ring rule, though defeated then, and
in 'SS we were not conquered. We
remained all the time loyal Demo
Gratis, yielding obedience to the
dominant element" in the party un-
til the ground swell in go. Then
did not you hear something drop
We do not expect t. get all our de
mands at once. We can hardly ex-
pect to right all the wrongs ofgesty-
Ave years at one time. WF have
done what we could this time and
will accept the results at Chicago
with as good grace as the oztis will
the September convention.
Mr.. Cary asks; "What would be
the benefits to the South of free coin
age of silver % 1t would increase
the circulating medium % millions
per annum throughout the country
Would help to enhance the price OF
cotton and other farm products
Why was silver .surreptitiously de-
monetized in 1873 and .for. whose
benefit? 1t was done.for the bene-
fit of the gold-bugs OF Old and New
England in order that they might
control the volume OF currency, and
by that means control the price
of labor and the products OF
labor. Remonetize silver and
the evils resulting to labor from
the Act of '73 will be in large
measure remedied. Silver bull
lion under free coinage cannot fail
below the value at which it is declared
by law to have II all payments. 1t
cannot fall below that value which
the government gives.it at the mint,
because the mint is an open market
for all of it at fixed price. The
same may be said of gold. BY the
free coinage of silver il, is the bullion
that, in fact, would be legally none
tized, and silver, therefore, would
cease to be a commodity, and would
thus be restored to all OF It's consti-
tutional rights as money metal on
an equality with gold. When this
is done we will again have the "dol-
lar of our daddies" and the money Of
the constitution. My objections tc
State banks are that they are uncon-
stitutional; and, secondly, would not
furnish safe, sound, flexible and
national cauremcy for the business
transactions of the country.
Now, as to the government own,
ership of the means of public COM
munication and transportation, l hold
that they are per Sc monopolistic and
carry with them the power to levy
tribute at will, and, therefore, should
become functions to be exercised by
the general government and operated
for the general welfare. ! will sim,
ply quote from Mr.. AIacune in refer.
ence to the soldiers resolution that
so harrows the sou! of Mr.. Cary. Ht
says: cit was meant as an expression
OF sentiment on the part of those
present comprising many of the blue
and the gray that when the govern
ment, during the war, borrowed mel
aud money and changed the contract
making its debts for money borrowed
payable in gold, when it was at
high premium, that it should trea
the debt for men borrowed in thu
same way. 1t is not question o
practical politics or possible legisla
ton, but there is plenty of crude jus
tice in the suggestion" Mr.. Cary
heed have no fears so long as The
money power usurp the powers o
the government of anything of thi'
kind being done. That poeoer doe:
not operate on sympathy or charity
but grinds down and runs over th'
rights of the struggling, toiling masses
like car of Juggernaut. 1t is fo'
you, my countrymen, to say chow
long this tyranny shall last.
Respectfully yours,
c. r. D. BURNS.
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S.M. Inman, of Atlanta, the great
est cotton man of the South, perhaps
speaking of the present outlook, re
garding the size of the coming crop
- soo non l,1.,- chow