The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-03-14
New Series-Vol. XIII. No. SO.

debts of the farmers and decrease the
value of our agricultural products. So
that to-day a dollar costs farmer in
the South over FIVE times as much as It
did when silver was good money. We
have nothing in the South to buy dollars
with save our cotton and agricultural
products, and it is to the interest of the
Northern Shylock to get as much cotton
as he can for just as little money, and
of course our inability to pay pensions
and tariff and other debts is aggravated
as be succeeds. Upon the heels of the
passage Of this bill Mr.. Carlisle, to
prove that Cleveland is tool of Wall
street, issued fifty millions Of United
States bonds for the ostensible purpose
of putting gold in the treasury to redeem
outstanding Indebtedness, but Mr..
Charlisle knows that under bis con-
struction as dictated by Cleveland and
Wall street Of the Resumption Act, this
fifty millions can be drawn out of the
treasury by New York bankers any
moment they see fit so to do. by simply
converting their bonds into greenbacks
and presenting the greeubacks to Mr..
Carlisle who is compelled to give gold
in exchange. 1t was done simply to
perpetuate National banks and the
corrupt financial policy of Wall street.
All Of these securities furnish the
millionaires with noH-taxable property
in which to invest their money, aud yet
when We ask for an income tax to make
them bear their share of the burdens
of government we find this great peo-
ple's man, Cleveland, opposed to it, aud
that millionaire's club, the United
States Senate, organizes to defeat it. If
We can succeed in taxing incomes it will
more than pay the pensions bearing SO
heavily upon our farmers, and yet I am
ashamed to say South Carolina was
represented by a Congressman who
joined with the Republicans in Congress
to defeat it. These meo call themselves
Cleveland Democrats
R. H. Hughes s-ClevelaDd is a hum
bug.
The Speaker-Yes; 1 believe the
whole country has about come to con-
clusion. He is such humbug that you
will never see another Democratic
President from the North. He is a
Republican in Democratic clothing, and
his followers know they cannot stand
upon the Democratic platform and
be consistent, so they qualify
their democracy by putting ears
upon it. They are not demo-
Gratis but mugwumps. but are ashamed
to use that term for fear Of being run
out of the democratic party. They are
mules who in order to show their pedi-
gree call themselves jack-ass horses.
The only true democrats in this State
are the keformers or Ocalities, as the
Mugwumps are wont TO call us. and right
here desire to say that l endorse every
plank of the Ocala demands. One only
salvation rests in their speedy enact
ment in law, and If We persevcre they
will be. The South and West must
come together, their interests are in
common and the democratic platform
suggested at Ocala and promulgated at
Chicago is broad enough for all of us.
We have heard a great deal said of the
Sub.Treasury plan and this is the
stumbling block and the Only one the
Mugwumps can find in the document.
If this idea with few changes we're
enacted into law, the result would be
that the South would Immediately
become the financial and agricultural
section for the world.
! It would destroy the power of Wall
Street and the North and make us the
most prosperous people on the face of
the earth. No Southern or Western
man can object to it. 1t is time We had
some class Legislation for our section.
God knows there has been enough for
the North. Our greatest need is more
money, and it is the duty of Congress
to give it whether from the sub-treasury
plan or something better; either will
do, so the end is accomplished
How are We to accomplish this. you
ask? My answer is through the
Farmers Alliance This organization
has accomplished more for the short
time of its existence than any similar
one since the formation of our govern
ment. It is founded on truth and JUS
tice, is bound to perpetuate its prin-
ciples. No good citizen can object to
this organization of an oppressed peo-
Pile, and l grieve when l see men of
my state, who are dependent upon agri-
culture alone for existence, opposing
our Alliance and enlistiug With the
enemy in this the greatest battle for
freedom and self-preservation that the