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

Gov. TiIlman 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 1892, his change OF
views in this respect within p few
months is suggestive. He 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 troors necessary in six
or eight states to hold strikers in
check? Why is the army of the un-
employed reaching into the million?
1t will take too long to anewer, ex-
cept in the briefest possible way.
Condensed to a sentence it is; Re.
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, starvei. Wheat and cotton.
our two stape 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
I the products of the artisans and
manufacturers. and these are idle in
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 makes this possible;
the war on silver; the blind greed of
the multimillionaires to wiring more
lll-gotten gains from the masses; the
laying tribute on agriculture fer the
benefit of the manufacturers, and then
muzz ing the OK which treadeth out
the corn by an indequake supply of
currency-these are the causes for our
present condition.
THE politicians and newspapers
OF both the democratic and re.
publican parties are equally re-.
sponsible. What Harrison and the
repu blicans could not do, Cleveland,
with a com binaGiOn of mugwumps So
called democrats and republicans, has
brought about Coxey's army, like
the march of the fish wives on Yer
| sailles, excites only ridcule and con-
tempt But it is sad to think that
the most conservative force in our
country to-day-its backbone in war
and its greatest reliance now-the
agricultural masses, sympathize fully
with Coxey's i'll clad, half starved,
battered trAmps.
Whence will relief come? It 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
warand 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 and the
western republicans, populists and
democrats can not and will not remain
long apart under existing conditions.
The word of cheer" which | send to
/ you Is tSat these farmers are doing
some desperate. hard thinking. Thew
Will vote later to redress their
wrongs. and even up with the thieves
/ VINO now control congress and pre-
I vent any measure of relief. .Whom
the gods would destroy they fir.t
make mad" If the REPRESENTATIVE in
congress from the middle and easts-n
states are not mad, then I am verv
ohnd. Inc pendulum has swung far
TO enc side Let pluto .racy beware
when 1T swings the other wav.
Newspapers at the south have almost
lost ali Influence ever the agricultural
masses When the northern peonIe
lose their faith in their respective
party organs. the masses will vote to-
/ gether. and the day of retribution
viii come with a new dawn of free
( dom
b. P. TLLNAN, Goyernor
Executive Hep. Columbia, S. c."