Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-09-05
TlLLHAA TALKS,
SOUTH CARDINALS GOVERNOR
NOE AFRAID
To Confront the situation ana Meet
the Dcmand-Hc Would Resort to
Fiat Money Prediction OF a Crisis
In National Affairs.

COLUMBIA, S. O., Sept. 4.-Goycrnor
Tinman tonight gave to a reporter
most sensational interview concerning
the tendency OF financial lesisls,iop in
congress.
After threatening. n the money panic
gets worse, that be will call the leeisla.
ture in extra session to enact stay
law, he says
Ny Judgment is that the repeal Of
the Sherman law, IL done at the demand
Of Wall street. cannot and is not going
10 restore confidence and produce any
thing like prosperity. So far, the South
has suffered but little. In the Northwest,
where | have been. they are In the
thr0es OF financial dissolution almost. l
have not thought much about the proper
method OF restoring ccnhienec. Our
people are all satisfied with the currency
Us It is-rold silver and paper currency,
as they are now-and they wish 10 keep
the three together The condition OF
things only shows the yiciousncss OF the
financial policy adopied by the Republic
cans and now being perpetnAtei by the
Democrats The currency OF the country
will have TO be drcenualized. aud put
out Of the control Of a few hundred
capitalists ard bankers In Boston, New
York and Philadelphia, with power 10
contract or expand the currency at viii,
The only way sec 10 accomplish this
Is by using fiat money, ~ called, They
are now fighting TO reduce the metallic
currency by one-half, by making u gold
standard. II Is the most gigantic scheme
OF robbery ever attempted and the people
IN PIa LA ~
a stop to H. hanging some of the mon
who are causing II all, II necessary.
The cry is that we are entitled 20
as good curuncy as anybody esc, Well.
M currency Is pnod at NIL times that
is not based upon one c0ln. They de
stroy the deht-pNying power Of the one
half coin for the benefit Of the debt,
holders. bondholdcrs and capitalists and
then tell the bankuptcd people. who
contracted these obligations under tliu
bimeallic standard. that dis country
Is entitled 70 as much money rs any other
country. The panic crisis Is serious and
/ cannot fop.tell the future"
In conclusion, the governor, after a
brief reflection, made use Of the follow,
ing language:
They object to grocnhacks as fat
money; they object TO silver as dis
honest dollar tlicy demand gold to lc
come the standard Of the country, Ql
though It means 50-cent wheat and u
cent cotton and the loss OF the titles
10 their homes 10y millions of American
farmers. ! told the RUG In this state
In lhSS II was damming up the water
whom the demand for reform was re-
fused In the state convention / now
make the prediction that similar crisis
ia approaching In national affairs. ana
the tloodrntes OF .hc peoples wrath will
he fwert from the lace Of the earth Ia
the next presidential election. The far
mers viii no, be paupcnzcd 10 satisfy
the greed Of the Wall street shylocks
without exercising the ballot to redress
their wrongs. There Ia lots Of drifNyuod
iNycd tle people In the fight against
silver will yet learn that the people are
moi such fools as they think they are