The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-10-18
THE MONEY OF THE POOR.

THE MONEY OF THE POOR.
Silver is the money of the poor: gold
is robber, and has always been the
money of The rich. They talk about re.
storing confidence! These patriots that
are so solieicious that confidence shall
be restored by the repeal Of the Sher'
man law! Do they care anything
about restoring confidence to you and
and the millions of American freemen
whom they claim to represent?
A Voice-No.
By the gracius permission Of Eng
land they will do it: otherwise we are
not to I've considered. And then the
humbuggery which they express in
their speeches in Congress! 1--WE are
friends of silver within certain limita-
tions.n Old DR.. Abernathy, a cele,
brated English physician, used to say
the first thing to do in treating man
was to get him to acknowledge that he
was sick. Well, I think the most
hopeful sign that have seen in many
8 month, because come from section
where the sun of hope does not shine
brightly, is that the men OF the West
realize at last that they are sick
Laughter and applause,] But these
Bi-metallists, these friends of silver,
their remedy for the trouble of silver is
to lay the poor thing in it's coffin and
prescribe death as a remedy. That is 9
new kind of medicine. Laughter and
applause Let US repeal the Sherman
law, demonetize silver, and then We
will take into consideration a remedy
always, understand, with the consent
of England. [Applause.
Doesn't every man in Congress who
has pretended to deceive himself with
that delusion know that they can
never legislate after they have repealed
that law? Does he not know that
Cleveland will vetos everything they
do? If they pretend they are bimetal-
lists and friends OF silver they simply
lie. lGreat applause. I told you !
would speak plainly and bluntly.
A Voice-That is what we want.
Governor Tillman-I speak the Ian.
guage of the Bible, the plain Anglo
Saxon. Why, for the conditions they
are offering US, the remedy reminds me
of the old doggerel:
Mother, may go out to swim?
Oh, yes, my darling daughter:
Hang your clothes on hickory limb,
But don't go near the water"
Laughter
Don't you 60 near the mint with
your silver bullion; don't keep in that
direction. We want you asa commod,
ity, not az money; make you slave OF
gold, not its equal; we will redeem you
in gold, and therefore, destroy you as
money of final redemption. And they
tell you they are bimetallists! lap
plause. ......
TIE soUTH's SITUATION.
Gentlemen, 80 much by way of gene
ralities. T am not trying to convert
auy Of you to birnetallism. 1t is USE
less to talk Of that 10 you. | came
here for another purpose, and | want
now to proceed to fulfill it. l want
you to understand, once for all, and
fully, the situation in the South. The
talk which we hear from some of these
timid patriots-patriots! God forbid
that I should so desecrate the word
politicians, these timid politiciansfWho no
have refused to participate ih this meet
ing, who have sent no delegates here,
or who have not taken any painsto be-
come acquainted and get in touch with
one another-thesef fellows who feel one
side with gentle touch to see how the
popular feeling is going to be-they say
that this is sectional movement; that
toll VI
The Giob-Democrat, one of the morn
ing dailles of this city, had in 1t this
morning little squio:
"Those who are proposing to array
the South and West against the East
should read some sentences OF Web
s;er's speech in reply to Hsyne."
Well, gentlemen, we may disguise it
as we will, try to disguise it, try topre-
teDd this, that or the other, but have
always noticed that in this Union the
sections voted as their interests die
tated. They have always voted, and
will continue to vote, and it is their
duty TO vote, for what they regard as
the interests of their constituents. 1
mean representatives of different Sec
tious in Congress should vote for what
they regard as the interests of their
constituents, and it is not sectionalism
at all within reasonable bounds. This
is great country, and it is 80 great
that the extremities of it know nothing
Of each other. The papers Of cur State
do not circulate in another. We never
see in South Carolina any papers from
up here, and you see no papers from
our State.
A COMMON MEETING GROUND.
The only place where the people of
this grand country can meet upon a
common ground is in the halls of Con-
gress, and here I wish to suggest an
idea that has caused me great uneasi-
ness for the perpetuity Of our institu-
tions and the continuance of the Union
as it is-that is the great diversity of
interests and that partisan adherence
to party which makes men forget that
other men have rights. [Applause.
That makes them forget that some
classes which they are legislating
against may be absolutely ruined by
the passage of a certain law, and I an
nounce to-day that any man who is not
broad enough and patriotic enough to
consider the whole nation, consider the
interests of every State in this Union,
is-not fit to represent any State in any
Legislature anywhere. Great ap-
plause.l
Talk about sectionalism! When the
fat went forth from the leaders of the
Republican party that the fourteenth
and fifteenth amendments must be
passed in order to humiliateand punish
the Southern people, they lacked one
vote of the necessary two-thirds ma
jority to carry it. What did they do?
Nevada, at that time, was mining
camp. The discovery of the Comstock
lode had filled her with adventures
from all parts of the earth, and she had
a floating population of 100000 or l50,-
00o. They admitted Nevada into the
Union; solely with g view to get that
one vote that was necessary. Now
what are they proposing to do with
Nevada? Laughter. Now they pro-
pose to obliterate as, far. as they may