The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1894-05-08
Coxeyism.

hen Tilmanism made it's advent
four years ago or more O prOmi-
hf citizen Of South Carolina declared
duman q symptom. Made at SO early
.juncture 1T was q happy hit. 1t will
be remembered hat the Governor had
nothing to suggest as q remedy for the
evils that beset and threatened us but
an agricultural college Of which he
wanted to be trustee. The matter was
strenuously urged, tagged and was
about dead when old man Clemson died
willing about four thousand annually
for such q college, which vivisectcd
Tillman's idea and the thing took form
have it now with five hundred boys in
uniform and studying chemistry and
the useful arts and notably agriculture.
AT the same time overheard into the
tumbling pillows the a~ristocratic in
stitutions Of South Carolina, of two
centuries growth with its circumam-
~bulating- rings, were buried. Since
that time we have had three years of
good government. Now, honestly and
squarely look at the situation. South
Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Texas,
and every state beyond the Mississippi
where agriculture is the predominant
interest sends up u discontinued wall
in chorus with the Edgefield cry. The
trans-Mississippi farmer feeds his swine
and ilocks upon wheat and cries aloud
for a market for his surplus and over
plus and furnishes his thousands of re-
cruits for the vagabond army of Coxey,
whose cry is on to Washington instead
Of on to Richmond as in 1S62-63. The
unrest, the discontent-the cause of
that discomfort appertains to the
,--L--s1and una9not to the small domain
Of South Carolina where the Columbia
Club dominated. Hogg, Waite and
Kolb L a thousand miles from us,
vociferOus in their distress and refuse
to be comforted. The wheat growers
OF the West, the swine growers of the
West, the beef producers Of the West
have failed to find a market and they
are in the soup; they have no money tt
buy Il fine spun cotton fabrics; cottor
drugs on the worlds markets and W,
are in the soup: we are unable to blu,
the products of the great manufacture
ing establishments; they are in tn
soup. and hence and thence strikes
shutdowns, armies of unemployed
CoXey, unrest, tramps, q Of conf
dence, and the absence Of p~rosperit,
that emphasizes the signs of the times
SO if we are right, the advent of Bel
Tillman was truly described as a symr
tom, but symptom Of u disease no
confined to this little district of Soutl
Carolina. 1t is everywhere. eth
times are out of joint" No one MAJ
will find out the remedy. No dozel
nor ten thousand men will discover a.
antidote. The cause or causes tina
work social disturbances move silentl
and darkly as vegetation grow
and are unobserved; the causes tina
restore I.ealth and life and q norma
condition work in like n unseel
and are not recognized until in anothe,
era the historian and philosopheI
come along dispassionately t o dag
nose them.-
- Let as therefore be calm and dispas
s~ionate; be patient and wait results
We are not going to get out of the
woods except by putting money in oul
purses; we are not going to put money
in our purses except we find people in
the world who want Our products and
who are able to give good prices fol
them. We are not going to be better
of by abusing II another. So let lis
be at peace and bide events. The
South is probably better off to-day
than any other section of the United
States. She furnishes not a man oil
the ragged army that the West and
North are called upon to feed to-day.
No mar o set of men in South Caro-
lima can help the cause in this State,
except as he can help the Democratic
party to stand strongly upon it's legs
to uphold Democratic principles, a
low tariff and an economic administr a.
ton Of the government.