The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1894-06-20

population of the North,i large meas
ufe forefgnized, or else rendered uDf
for responsible and beneficial govern
ment by the abasement OF individuality
consequent upon the modern trend OF
the politics of great municipalities
may be willing to submit to the rule 0:
their favored few, but that we are mo-
of the stuff to submit to being longer
made their slaves by the su0yerslan Of
the general government. We sdoulc
welcome the assistance Of the WeS'
and OF the bold spirited and uDcor
rupted, though somewhat ignorant OF
cratic primitive classes Of all sections
in righteous fight to settle the ques
tion.
Upon what meat doth this, oul
Cesar, feed that he is grown sogreas?'
Alatl does not truth compel the re
cognition of this as very much the po
sition of q great organization of the
agricultural masses of the last few
wears? We saw no justification fol
their position when they took 1t, we
saw much to condemn in the extremes
to which they seemed to be going; We
tried to suppress their "uncalled Tor
rebellion: we felt righteous disapproba
ton of them; We became preJudlceo
against them; we shall never ind II
easy to say that they were right and
we were wrong, or even that they Were
partly right and we partly wrong. Ii
is human nature: "Can anything gooC
come out of NazarethT
Honesty compels the following con
cession to those to whom we least ex
pected ever to concede anything:
(I We felt secure in the ship OF STATE
except TOR the tariff leakage, to which
alone were we aroused. The Farmers
Alliance movement first sounded the
alarm that called attention to our d
nancial laws as bringing US to the verge
of wreck. Yet little heed was paid TIL!
we were caught in the whirlpool, and
cries from all sides then so drowned
the first note Of warning that few gave
the credit of it to source so "unWor'
thy of recognition" Who of our fac
ton appreciated the need of more
money, of elastic money, Of local money
as bearing upon the prosperity OF ouI
section-the depression of business en-.
terprise? Il was all new to Us, we had
not studied 1t and we ridiculed those
who, though not as well educated as
we, prated of it so learnedly and conf
dently. Respectable" authorities are
everywhere now pressing these three
points.
Who O. US knew the relation OF
money" 10 commodities and to goio
and silver, the robbery Of debtors as
well as creditors that results from a
variation of these relations, the fact
that gold had appreciated as much as
silver had deprecated, that our gov
eminent had let "moneV" appreciate
with gold, and that hence with the gold
standard the debtors are being robbed
fully as much as they would rob
creditors if money" were deprecated
to the basis of silver by It's free coin
age? If robbing must be done there
would be less cruelty in tnfictlDg II
upon creditors. The masses Of debtors
who seemed to wish thus to retaliate
might be reasoned with and urged to
90 no further than securing justice, but
they should not have been goaded with
denial of the truth or their contention
that they are victims and with eplthets
for wishing to make the "other fello VS.
change places with them. Iothelr just
and desperate determination to get
themselves out they are excusable tor
not first devising absolute safeguards
against employing means that might
get them out at the expense OF others.
especially when they believe those 9th
ers have put them in the hole.
~ Who of US thought Of the income
tax until brought to the front by those
people? If it and certnin other ap
proved new demands were heartily car,
ried out by the Democrats, our party
would have gotten all the credit (the
poor pioneers being lost sight ofD and
proved itself the peoples party, leaving
no room for the peoples party" The
income tax has been shown by Mills to
be intrinsically just, but its happening
to bear chiefly upon certain sections
and classes renders 1t peculiarly right
at this time, to Offset In measure the
streams Of money that have flowed and
will flow from South to North by pen
sions, from poor to rich by protection
~ Those who have charged that
dealing in futures causes combination
of capital to fix prices and injure the
producer and is also means Of cor
ruptlng legislation, and that the money
power ("Wall stTeeL'O does consciously
and Systematically machinste against
the people in insidious ways are no Ion
ger to be regarded as "fools" charging
"absurdities." We now approve these
sentiments coming from other lips.
a. The warning against Cleveland as
"the tool of Wall street" though at the
time Indignantly resented by US all as
not only a slander but gratuitouS in
suit to noble man, has been Justified
by time; and, though we may not en-
dorse the 1nsinuation Of turpitude, We
owe recognition to the prophetic insight
and the courage OF those Infamous
resolutions"
(5) There is enough Of common
ground in our present views and the
views of the turbulent pioneers whom
We have denounced to give US some
qualms of conscience, some humilia
alton Of our pride Of intellect, some
generous impulseto fellowship in I'm
Ion for common cause. In fact tht
agricultural uprising Qittle as we real
iZed it at drst) is now seen to have in
augurated revolution. At the close
of a century its undercurrents ot
thought are forced to the front. Vlril;
thought is now ripe in our country
Struggling, rebelllous ideas are clash
ing with those that reign. Change
more or less radical is upon Us. Fol
revolution there is always cause
When the binding confusion OF The
storm has passed a God-sent, man de
veloped truth is seen to have been en-
throned by it. The wrong that in it:
evolution accompanied it is for tht
most part left behind-the world ha!
taken step.
The stouter the resistance to the rev
olutien by those who WickedlY or from
want of sympathetic appreciation op
pose the change its success involves thu
more is its human passion lashed, it!
flood tides Of wrath piled up, it's powel
to overcome increased by mutation o.
more delicate energies into the resist
less energy Of rude violence. Coult
the conscientious men who fight it a
every step until its spent force bursts
with destructive fury see the good II