The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-09-01

seA edisoriai based on my question. s.Is IL
IPorsnons against the peoplei" That SEN
scoes WIZ bear republicafion .~A H.. :. =.
we are ell. from the lowest servant TO the
-. % essry house or family. working for
espitai-mohey-end there is not one ~
those patriotic, self sacrificing lovers Of the
Gear, depressed, down trodden people Who
would not jump at an opportunity 10 make
NW thousend dollars out Of these same dear
Door people, and invest il in econ. wi.i.S,
oppressive, plutoerdt.e; Incorporated iastitu-
tion, and sis In his easy chair and draw the
biggest Kind Of dividends as complacently
and with as broad grin at the poor devils
ne had duped as IL he was drinking a half
pint OF South Carolina trade mark whisksy."
v, say, Colonel, you begin this sentence with
'.re are all" Do you mean zoe all the way
through it, devious meanderiugs? | know
we oil work for money. but is it true that
Eve have no higher motive? Is there not
patriotism that will work against self-interest
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 for many, many years with their
howdy-do's, their barbecue dinners, their
cigars, their watermelon and cider treats.
They fooled the people and then smiled COM
placenily. and with broad grin, and drep
large salaries. The latter part of this SEN
tence also fits some Of our Reformers, So
called, who have gone over to the enemies
sapp In search OF toaves and fishes don't
know anything about what kind Of SMILE
"South Carolina trademark whiskey" pro-
duces, but reckon 1t can produce ss broad a
emile as the rotten poisonous stuff that some
people are 80 anxious to see come again from
open 6aTooms. l can't conceive why you
used the sentence above quoted in On article
Of which o question from me was the subject.
Please tell me who have duped or tried to
dupe. Then when did l develop into m
anarchist" or "agrarisnp" But wish
specially to disavow any intention to question
your reraeity in what l said last week.
don't think what l said could be twisted
into any such construction. Will also say
that you will have hard time to prove me
an 'ansrchisr' or "agrarianist," 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 {
they can help it. There is too much power-
fu! truth to be said along that line to suit
those who claim monopoly Of wisdom and
brains. The people are not against "corpo-
rato industries" nor do those who voice Re-
form try to turn them against corporate
industries" What true keformers wish is
to warn the people against encroachments of
the Money Po,oer on their rights and iber-
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 s'clap trap 10
warn the people Of this factf What is the
reason that there is no,o no money to move
the cotton crop? What is the reason that
private banking institutions are going down
Factories are all closing DOWN. 1t is be-
cause the money power has gobbled up all
our circulating medium and are determined
to hold it until they can fore, legislation in
their interest and against the interest of the
people.
l agree with you that the interest of cor
porate industries is parallel with the interest
Of the people, and the wonder is that then
do not take this view Of it Themselves and Join
with the present efforts OF the people to re-
sist the eucroachments of the mon ey power.
That corporate industries have arrayed
themselves on the side of the money power
is too potent 10 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 it 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 so
are the farmers, and so are the laborers. And
why? Because the money power is squeezing
them until it hurts. But the farmers and
the laborers, and some merchants and some
professional men, and even some corporate
INDUSTRIES" and some private banks that are
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 tuggipg away
at the trousers of the people, barking at and
trying TO bite them. They just will not 60
with the people and their own interest to
down that oppressor; they do so lore to fol-
low in the wake of that old brindle dog
the Money Power. What l call corporate
tapestries" are all classes of manufacturers.
In our view of it the real interest Of the
national banks is with the money power,
aad so is the interest of the Railroads and
the !-.s. combines. These arc oil iut crested
in defeating the will Of the masses Of the
and professional men Of all the honorable
professions are really interested i'll 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
cra:s, against the interest Of the people and
thar own 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 WiW come. When
the money power has swallowed up the
laborers and the farmers he will then "gulp
down" the merchants, the manufacturers and
the men in professional life and even the
lille country press. This is the rule, the big
fish eat the little ones aud, at last devour
their o,cn progeny. We have it from tbs
Bible that avariee is as incapable of being sat-
isfed as the grave. We have bnilt up thirty
thousand muiti-miHionaires in thirty years,
and the cry is "slill they come" The path
illogical rule is that in local inflam nation the
blood tends TO the infamed part, and if con-