Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-08-22
THE HARD TINES,

Gov. Tiiiman of South Carolina Out
lines Their Cause and Cure.
Among the views of governors of
different states on the future of our
country, published in the New York
Press, is one from Gov. Till.nan of
South Carolina. Elected as a demo-
crat, most pronounced opponent of
any new party in 1S93, his change Of
views in this respect within few
months is suggestive. lie is an earn
est, aggressive fighter, and will do
his share towards uniting the south
and west. He says:
why should this be time of ma
tional loss and encouragement? The
crops of the country were never more
bounteouS, the harvest more plenti-
full Why are troops necessary in six
or eight states to hold strikers in
check? Why is the army of the I'M
employed reaching into the million?
1t will take too long to anewer, ex-
cept in the briefest possible way.
Condensed to sepSssnce it is: Be-
cause the American farmer is prac-
tically in the poorhouse. And the
coveted home market around which
Chinese wall has been raised by the
protective tariff, is virtually de-
stroyed, starved. Wheat and cotton,
our two staple crops of export, are at
or below the cost of production. There
is not enough money in the country
to move the wheel of commerce, or it
is so unequally distributed that bust
ness is stagnated. The farmer has
nothing left with which to purchase
the products of the artisSns and
manufacturers. and these are idle i'll
consequence.
THE congestion of the money what
there is in the country-at a few
centers in the east and the system of
banking which N ikes this possible:
the war on silver; the blind greed of
the multi millionaires to wiring more
ill-gotten gains from the masses; the
laying tribute on agriculture fer the
benefit of the manufacturers and then
muzzing the OK which treadeth out
the corn" by an indequake supply of
currency-these are the causes for our
present condition.
Whence will relief come? 1t will
come when the people of the agricult-
ural states, driven TO desperation by
the imbecility, treachery. debauchery
now rife among our public men at
Washington, forget the differences of
war and the quarrel over black slaves
vote together to emancipate the white
/ slaves, of which we have many mil
lions-slaves of money.
The southern democrats aE,l the
western republicans. populists and
| democrats can not and will not rem ain
/ long apart under existing conditions.
The word of cheer" which send to
you is that these farmers are doing
| some desperate, hard thinking. They
will vote later to redress their
wrongs, and even up with the thieves
who now control congress and pre-
vent any measure of relief. Whom
the gods would destroy they first
make mad" II the representatives in
I congress from the middle and eastern
! states are not mad, then l am very
I blind. The pendulum has swung far
to one side. Let plutocracy beware
! when it swings the other way.
Newspapers at the south have almost
lost all influence ever the agricultural
masses. When the northern people
lose their faith in their respective
party organs. the masses will vote to.
gether, and the day of reiribution
will come with q new dawn of free.
dom
b p. TILLNAN, Governor.
Executive Dep. Columbia. S. c."