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

an extensive trip down through the
Southern States
Yes" he said to a Sun reporter, 81
am just from Texas and Missouri. via
Charleston, Savannah, Atlanta, Birmins-
ham. Vicksburg, San Antonia, Galveston,
the staked Plains of Texas Arkansas,
the last news sSs..s SAP ss aixS SaH
States. What do you want to know?"
We'll, how are the cropsl"
"lhc immense cotton crop is swamp
ing the entire South. They raised g.
600, 600 bales, aud n million bales more
than the 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 pricc1"
The cotton merchant. Many farm.
ers s1ld at eight cents. but ruin stares
| the Southern merchant in the face. The
entire South is suppressed, and they cry
out to the North for sympathy saw
1000 bales piled up in Fort Smith.
The Red and Brazos rivers are lined with
1T. 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
oi Tue crop tnlS year.
"How do they expect TO restrict it2"
Bs pntting in more sugar, rice and
corn. The price dropped too late for
wheat crop. They arc in trouble in the
sugar country in Texas and Louisiana.
because Just as they want to plant more
sugar Mr.. Breckenridge of Kentucky
Jumps up in Washington and offers
resolution to take the two.cent bonus off
n Il
Industry and throw a million more bales
of cotton upon tic market. Then South
Caroline, which used to make coo, 900
barrels of rice, and Louisiana, which
made 900, 900 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.
tiaT cotton:"
They say: You Yankees put tar
i'll on toblcco and wheat to help your
farmer, and why can't we have a tariff
on Chinese ricc?"
How is the winter wheat crop?"
81 bring good news about wheat, " said
Mr.. Perkins. 1T is simply superb
everywhere. have not seen such stand
o. e. wheat in sixteen years. The last
Carolina to the Staked Plains in Texas,
and every kernel sowcd has come 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 prospect.
The wheat is short. 1t hugs the ground,
but it is even, and looks just as they want
it to look for splendid crop. Along
the Atchison and Missouri Pacific roads,
clear into Colorado, the ground is soaked
with long, warm rain.
Ibid 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 Greenback candi-
date, is their man for the Presidency.
The Farmers Alliance in Texas legislat-
ed against aliens holding property in the
State, and millions Of dollars were driven
out of Texas. The Texans blame Gov
ernor Hogg, the Alliance Governor, for all
the depression in Texas: Clarke, who is
4noy running against Hogg will be tri
'Hogg drove out the Scotch and English
aliens, and they now let their money to
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 almost all mortgages in Kansas are
now written payable in gold.'"
| 'What about the old Southern Demo.
crat2"
The old cast-ron Democrat has given
up Cleveland The Stuffed Prophet
never cnthuscd them, and now 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 iu-
hucnce with Wolcott for votes against
the Election bill"
---..Did yon seq anything funny in the
South2"
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 a passenger on the Texas Pacific
where he came from.
Wizard KUN fromT repeated the
man, 'why, you're the twentieth man
that's asked that today. KUN from Ar.
kansaw Now, dog on you, laughn"
"At Texarkana, where they burned the
negro at the stake" continued Eli, 81
saw little Texas boy in the depot
Patting him on the head, asked inquir.
ingly:
"'Are you good little boyr"
"'You bet l aw,' he said proudly
Pm the best boy in Texas; you ask m!
father and mother
"Do you say your prayers every dayl
continued.
"'No. not every day, he said thought
fully. Il didn't say 'em yesterday, and
havn't said 'em today-and-if l get
along pretty we'll l shan't say '.m emmy
more u ALL
"'Why notr"
40, caus' paw and nav IS goin' 10
live up in Arkansaw.'"