The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-02-18

underrate the necessity for tariff reduction.
When our boasted equality before the
law IS 50 far overthrown by statute law,
that every 500 citizens are forced bu tdlC to
pay servlle tribute TO each one thousandtn
citizen, IL is mockery to talk of the 'free-
dom OF the American citizen" But, when,
by tariff taxes; by Punishment of
silver coin; by monopoly in
banKing by constant diminution OF
circulation, notwithstanding our rapid
increase Of 20 pulation and of business; by
combinations in trusts TO destroy competi-
ton, 70 wreck railroads and bankrupt
minority holders, by depressing prices 60
buy, aud initiating prices 10 sell: by produc.
ing financial panics at will aud spreading
ruin over the sonth and west-when, by
such denominations the few, who are not
one thousanth part of our Stipulation, have
acquired more than bali Of our total wealth
and hold 65, 0O0. 600 people in abject depend
ence on them for money enough to make
bare living it requires no prophet TO see
We are approaching the brink of that social
degradation where poverty surrenders in
suppliance and broken SPIRIT or rises in
wrath to destroy. 20.
1t is not the tariff that has wrought 90
much feeling 10 the producers Of the wealth
of this country. It is the pangs of MONEY
FAMINE! The Democr alto party in the
south and both political parties in the west
are on the verge OF disintegration. The
tariff alone will not drive one democrat
or republican into a third party, but none
tAry famine will drive hundreds of thou
sands. The great issue is more cur
rency. The one of the two great
political parties that gives the
demanded relief will triumph. II the
Democratic party should not give, or try,
at least. to give, relief from the oppression
of Wall street, third party is inevitable,
ana our defeat is certain. The plan of
making tariff reform the sole or main issue
OF this campaign is an emanation from the
money power. 1t is a sop to Cerberus-
a tub thrown to the whole, cunningly de-
vised decoy. 1t is to strangle the currency
question, of which free silver is but a
fractional part.
The country is on the eve Of revolt. New
England, New York, Pennsylvania and
New Jersey-democrats and republicans
are united against free silver and more cur
rency. The south and part of the west -
democrats and northumberland free
silver and more currency. The eastern
states threaten to bolt from the democracy
if free silver is on our platform. The
farmers, south and west, threaten to
revolt if financial relief shall
not be given by this
congress. 1t is an lrrepressible conflict be-
tween the east-the cormorant creditor, the
millionaires, the luxurious, the non-pro-
pus--and the south and west-the debtors,
the needy, the famine-strlcken aud wealth.
producing vassals Of the east. We will soon
see whether money and the minority shall
continue their oppressive rule over manhood
and the majority.
In this financial crisis, SO distressing to
the south especially-where nearly every
man and woman, for more than year has
felt what money famine is-it is the duty
of every citizen to contribute all he can to
some plan for speedy and permanent re-
demption from our financial slavery. In
this spirit and for this object my address
to the legislature was made aud
this communication is written. Let
no man, because he is above
want, or Is at the head of bank, cry out:
THE plant is impracttcabe, 1t would initiate
values" etc. Rather let him debate the
proposed system, point out its defects, and
give us a better. safer one, if he can.
We need some imitation. All our suffer
ing is from compression. We had the
kind and degree of imitation after the war,
when greenbacks were plentiful, that made
business active and people cheerful, but
gradual compression has been squeezing the
south and west for twenty years until they
must either throw of the weights or sink
from exhaustion. l believe they will strike
for freedom in the near future, and that the
Democratic party will receive the blow.
II M NORWOOD