Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1893-01-12

but they have the same rights ant
privileges of the rich They ar,
not Disseminated against on thai
account; whenever they have de-
yeloped merit il has been recog
nized at once. Most of our greal
men have sprung from that class
As examples | point you to a Clay
Jackson, n Johnson and a Steph
ems, as men who have swayed the
destiny of the nation. / know o
| no hopeless class of scrubs" ex
cept what have been produced
by a system of education that ex.
cludes the bible and adopts in it'
stead history and infdelity.
thank God that we have produced
no Paynes, no Ingersolls, that have
spent their lives in searching foI
the mistakes Moses never made,
and in trying to wipe out the bible
and carry the world back to heath.
enish darkness and idolatry, but
that for every monstrosity of that
kind we have sent forth hundred
thousand Christian ministers who
have proclaimed the truth OF
Christianity and told the story of
Jesus with pathos and beauty
that has converted millions who
have returned and come to Zion
with song and everlasting JOY upon
their heads
Again, we are told 'our history
for the last thirty years shows
that intellectual leadership belongs
to the states which have not bril-
liant leaders like Kentucky, but
to the states who have wise ma.
jority of voting citizens; an edu.
Gated commonality, an educated
proletariat; educated scrubs, if you
please, are the antidote for the
political follies which mean polit-
ical suicide" Well, we have been
taking the antidote as admins.
tered to us by educated scrubs
who were not brilliant leaders, and
what has been the result2 With
one stroke of the imperial pen
they robbed us of billion dollars
and turned loose upon US three
million ignorant slaves. clothed
with all the rights of citizenship,
while our land was covered with
black, smoking ruin that showed
their work of desolation upon
every hand. They fastened upon
us a public debt OF three billion
dollars which has been paid over
and over again, and still the debt
is hanging over us as menace to
our credit and prosperity. And
in the meme of a restored union
they sent among us military gov
ernors to complete the work OF
robbery and spoliation and take
from us the plttance that was left
us as relics of the war. In addi-
tion to this they fastened upon us
upon us that old British system
of finance that had robbed and en-
shaved the kingdoms of Europe
ever since the Napoleonic war and
placed them under tribute to the
Rothchilds. They gave to us a
protective tariff and a national
bank system OF issuing the money
of the country as a war measure.
They were the products of the war,
backed by the bayonet; we had no
choice but to accept them, right OF
wrong. This was the financial
system recommended by Alexander
Hamilton in his celebrated report.
Hamilton was the open and the
avowed friend of strong govern.
ment in the convention that fran.
ed the Constitution of the United
States in 1857. He advocated the
election of the president and SEN
ate for life, and offered a plan for
this purpose, but failing in this he
proposed to accomplish secretly
and by stealth what he had failed
to accomplish openly, and hence
he recommended protective tar
iff for revenue with view of pro-
tecting our manufacturing indus
tries and a national bank as the
fiscal agent Of the government. No
man knew better than he that these
institutions were inimical to Tree
government and that they con
tanned the secret, silent monster VI
oppression that would over-ruu
and destroy free government ano
establish on it ruin aud anarchy
1t was for these reasons that oul
southern statesmen so strenuously
opposed these measures, but still
they were interviewer into our leg
islation at different periods of ouI
history. A protective tariff in
creased the price of what we haC
to buy and decreased the price o
our agricultural staples in the sam,
proportion, and hence our opposi
tion. We believed them to b,
inimical to our republican form o
| government. We knew they wer,
inimlcal to our interests, and W,
believed them to be unconstitu
tional, and hence they were op
posed with all the ability the soutl
could command, but in 1892 con
gress enacted a high protective
tariff against the repeated protests
of the south. The law created 9
great excitement throughout the
south but more particularly il
South Carolina; under the leader
ship Of John g. Calhoun who fore
saw its results more clearly thar
any other man, it was promptly
nullifed, and but for the frmnesl
of Andrew Jackson and the pacific
lpiut of Henry Clay the war o.
the rebellion would have beer
fought thirty years before it was
over the tariff issue instead o.
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