The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-09-01
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To EDiTon OF UNION TINES viii YOU nj
low me space to call attention to that wonder
ful sentence with which you CLOSE your last
weeks editorial based on my question, "Is il
corporations against the peopleH' That sem
tenee will bear republication, and here il is:
we are ell, from the lowest servant to the
heau OF every house or family, working for
those patriotic, selfsacrificing lovers of the
dear, depressed, down trodden people who
would not jump ut an opportunity 10 make
Iew Thousand dollars out Of these same dear
poor people, and invest ID, in soss.-ws.L.I,
$ oppressive, Piafocrdt!c, incorporated institu-
tion, and sit in his easy chair and draw the
biggest Kind Of dividends as complacently
and with as broad a grin at the poor devils
he had duped as If he was drinking half
pint of South Carolina trade mark whisksy."
o, say, Colonel. you begin this sentence with
""e are all" Do you mean zoe all the way
through its devious meanderugs? l know
call work for money, but is it true that
Eve" have no higher motive7 Is there not
patriotism that will work against self-int crest
Tor the universal good? am sure you
would claim this much for yourself. The
= latter part Of this sentence fits exactly the
old regime in our State. They duped the
people Tor many, many years with their
howdy-dos, their barbecue dinners, their
oigars, their watermelon and cider treats.
They fooled the people and then smiled COM
placently and with broad grin, and drev
large salaries The latter part Of this SEN
tence also fits some Of our Reformers, So
called, who have gone over to the enemies
camp In search of ioapes and fishes. don't
know anything about what kind of SMILE
"South Carolina trademark whiskey' pro-
duces, but reckon 1t can produce ss broad q
smile as the rotten poisonous stuff that some
n Y inna a,
open 6drrooms. l can't conceive why YOU
used the sentence above quoted in an article
OF which question from me was the subject
Please tell me who have duped or tried to
dupe. Then when did l develop into nm
"anarchist'' or "agrarisn?'' But 1 wish
specially to dsavow any intention to question
your peraeity in what 1 said last week.
don't think what 1 said could be twisted
into any such construction. Will also say
that you will have hard time to prove me
an "ansrchist' or "sgrarianist, and yet
make bold to soy that corporations, as a rule,
set then selves squarely against the demands
OF the people as made through the leaders of
the Reform or Farmers Movement, and don't
want to hear any speaking along that line If
they can help 1t. There Is too much po,oer-
fuI truth to be said along that line to suit
those who claim monopoly Of wisdom and
brains. The people are not against "corpo-
rate industries" NOR do those who voice Re-
form try to turn them against corporate
industries" What true kefsrmers wish is
to warn the people against cncroachments of
the Honey Power on their rights and liber-
ties, whether these encroachments are
attempted to be made through the gigantic
Railroad combines, the trust combines or
national bank combinations. That the
money power is against the people is a
proposition which the editor of the UNION
TINES will hardly have the assurance to deny.
And why should it be called "clap trap 10
warn the people of this fact2 What is the
reason that there is now no money to move
the cotton crop? What is the reason that
private banking institutions are going down
oil over the countryf Why is il that our
Factories are all closing DOWN. 1t is be-
cause the money power has gobbled up all
our circulating medium and are determined
to hold II until they can fore, legislation in
their interest and against the interest of the
people.
] agree With you tha! the interest of cor
porate Industries is parallel with the interest
Of the people, and the wonder is that they
do not take this view Of it Menaselves and join
with the present efforts Of the people to re-
sist the encroachments of the mon ey power.
That corporate Industries have arrayed
themselves on tho aide Of the money power
is too potent to be called in question. Why
they should thus array themselves against
their own interest is more than can under
stand. unless it be that they are under the
hallucination that the money power has
them bound hand and foot in its grasp. Or
is 1t that they just naturally want to 60 with
the Big Dog and shade themselves under the
"towering cedar of Lebanon" in their con-
tempt for the "biaek jacks?" The banks are
squealing now, and so are the corporate in.
dustries," and so are the merchants and 80
are the farmers, and so are the laborers. And
why? because the money power is squeezing
them until 1t hurts. But the farmers and
the laborers, and some merchants and some
professional men, and even some corporate
indpGtries' and some private banks that are
Z not tied to the Big Dogs tail are fighting
the money power, while, as q rule, the "oor-
porate industries the banks, the profes.
sional men, the merchants. are tugging away
at the trousers of the people, barking at aud
trying TO bite them. They just will not 60
down that oppressor; they do so love to fol-
low in the wake Of that old brindle dog
the Money Power. What / call corporate
tapestries are all classes of manufacturers.
In our view Of IL the real interest of the
national banks is with the money power,
aud so Is the interest Of the Railroads aud
the trust combines These are oil int crested
In defeating the will Of the masses Of the
people. But private banks aud merchants
and professional men Of all the honorable
professions are really interested in carrying
into effect the demands of the people as
voiced by the great Reform movement now
going on, and yet strange to say, they are
going with the national banks, the Railroad
corporations, the trust combines, the pluto.
era.s, against the interest Of the people and
their oOn interest, and frown ominously at
everything that impedes their progress. The
corporate industries" the merchants and
the professional men, and the conntry press,
may now bark around for the Big Dog, the
Money Power, but their dag ,oH come. When
the money power has swallowed up the
laborers and the formers he will then "gulp
down" the merchants, the manufacturers and
the men in professional life and even the
iltie country press. This is the rule, the big
fish cot the little ones aud, at last devour
their oVn progeny. We have it from the
Bible that apayice is as incapable of being sat-