The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1894-01-18

would call mo lunatic and 9TH
ers q fool. The robber barons
would rear back OH their launches
and howl. 1t would look for a
while as though holl had broke
loose for certain. That would not
phase me particle. 1 have heard
the wind whistle through the rig
ging many time, and lived to
toll the talo on dry land and in
dry garments. would stand by
my guns and fight for my faith,
and in the end ! would get more
votes for my bill! than 1 fear can
bo got for the Wilson bill, as orig
inally reported. If passed, we
should have something worth hay"
ing, and, if it should fail, as it
probably would we could go to the
people with square issue-a plain
issue--an issue separating the
lambs from the kids, sending the
towards to tho roar and tho wolves
in sleeps clothing back into the
Republican party whore they be-
long-and bringing tho wholc
question to tho finality, whether
wo arc to 1.-Two under Il protective,
or rovonue system.
FROM THE FEW TO THE MANY.
Iappoal from the solishncss and
timidity of tho politicians to the
common honesty and common
sense of the people. Iappeul from
the rapacity of the American aris-
tocrut, rolling in luxury and
wealth, to simple and homoly &C.
MUS Of that Americanism which
won tho Revolutionary battle for
liberty and mado tho Constitutions.
I do not confuse the issue. an.
not the slave of a single idea. |
know that theory is ono thing and
practice is another thing, and that
craftsmanship is practical sci
once. But he is no statesman who
does not hitch tho stceds of action
to the hackney coach of theory.
and oven thon-as ho stands with
tho re,ns in his hands-ho must
look fur before, seeing not only
with tho Dyes in his head, but out
of those eyes Of the mind that
reach much further.
1 believe in the integrity and
courage of Grover Cleveland.
believe in the patriotism and gen.
ius of John G. Carlisle. If we
could put the two into one jackson
would 1.-Two again. I am giving tho
Administration the most earnest
and dlsinterested support, because
| beliovo it is trying to do right
and because, IN tho main, my judg-
mont approves the fruits Of it's IN
tontion. My Indignant does not
approve tho Wilson bill either in
method OF in detail, but if it is tho
best that can be got out Of Con-
gross SO be it. l shall say nothing,
do nothing, to make it's transit
harder. 1t is, at least, some de-
groos botter than tho Mckinley
bill, since it proceeds upon tho
lower and not upon tho higher
scale, and faces in tho right direc-
ton.
But 1T is far, worry far, from a
measure that can DO truthfnlly do
scribed as embodying the idoa Of
"a tariff for revenue only" 1t is
moroly better than tho Mckinley
bill in dogroo, not in kind, and if
protoctionlsm ls ever to be dislodg-
cd, I doubt tho Trojan-horse STRAIT
ogy to which it seoms to inclino.
We 1.-Two in tho ago Of tho Carnogies
and tho Goulds, not in that of Pri-
am and HInoas.
TIE WIIYs AND WHEREFOREs.
Tho cry of tho poor goes up to
God for work But thoro is no
work. Why7 Because we can pro-
duco IN nine months moro than
we consume in twelve. The rom
edy2 More consumers; wider mar
kots; freedom of trado with all
mankind. Let us out of this black
holo of protectionism, where, with
banks bursting with money and
millionaires multiplying by hun