Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-09-22
Speaker Crisp Reviews the Situation.

speaker OIlSp NdS III -NC" YIN AS-N'S
week, and while in that city he was in
terviewed by reporter for the World.
In answer to the question: ''To what do
you attribute the following of the Peo-
pies Party?" he answered:
s.It arose from the scarcity of money,
the low price of cotton and general
misconception of the cause. The price
of cotton is made in Liverpool. The cot
ton planters are forced to buy in pro-
tected market and to sell in free trade
market. Cotton farming has ceased to be
profitable. The most of US think the
financial troubles were brought about by
a high tariff, and that a reduction of it
would afford relief.
.If we could reduce the tariff and en-
large our market, buy at cheaper rate
md sell for moro we should have more
money in our pockets. think the DEM
ocrats have shown the fallacy of the pro-
lection scheme, AID it hasn't as many
followers as it had. The Democrats are
not asking for free trade. We must have
a revenue, and it will have to come from
the tariff We stand where we did when
the Mills bill was passed-in favor of a
a reduction and an enlargement of the
free list. This policy can be brought
about without doing any harm and 1t
would benefit every industry.
'sThe South owes Sc much to the Dem
ocratic party that a Thoughtful man would
see the necessity of adhering to it. 1t
has preserved for US local self-govern-
ment; it has given us in all the Southern
States an economical and a just admins
tration, and we feel that Republican
triumph now would fasten upon us the
unjust laws of which we complain and
deprive us of the privilege of fair and
free elections. Taking the Lodge bill as
a type of the election laws which the Re-
publicans want to pass, our people see
that the real purpose is to defeat and not
to promote the purity of elections.
.'We are very mnch grat;eed to find
surh harmony among the Democrats of
New York. We fully realize the neces-
sity of carrying this State, and l think
if our friends here will hold together and
keep New York in line tilt the South
will be at this election, as it has been
for twc.ty years past, solidly Democratic.
So long as we are threatened as we are
now, by the Republican party, We can
not afford to divide. The Democrats of
the South are enthusiastically Tor Mr..
Cleveland, and any divisions that might
have existed among them as to the choice
of candidates are healed.
The charge that the Congress just
adjourned was eXtravagant is un1ounded
and unjust In comparing the expendi-
lures with those of the Fifty-frst Con-
gress we are entitled to a credit of Sc.
100000, which the laws Of ~slle rnty-first
Congress required us to appropriate.
Giving us this credit, we appropriated
about $50, o,000,o 600 less than the first ses-
sion of the Fifty-frst and over S100,o0o,-
coo less than the second session of the
Fifty-frst.
eve endeavored to relieve the people
from some of the odious features Of the
Mckinley bill. The House passed bill
TO put wool on the free list, greatly re-
ducing burdens on manufacturers of wool,
and we also passed bill reducing the
duty on tin and provided for putting it
on the free list at an early day. These
two measures. if they had become laws,
would have furnished substantial relief
to the people. The Republican Senate
did not even consider either one, so that
practically the issue now is what it was
two years ago-the Mckinley tariff bill
and the force bill. More than million
majority of the people at tile election
two years ago voted against both, and it
does not occur to me that anything has
happened since to change the situation ,