The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-06-20

ling to the fact that We of the Soutt
are the true modern representatives o1
the beroes Of the revolution; that the
population of the North, in large meas
ufe foreigniZsd, or else rendered urh'
for responsible and beneficial govern
ment by tie abasement of individuality
consequent upon the modern trend OF
the politics Of great municipalities
may be willing to submit to the rule OF
their favored few, 5nt that we are no;
of the stuff to submit to being longer
made their slaves by the Suoverslan OF
the general govern ment. We should
welcome the assistance of the West
and OF the bold spirited and uGcor
rupted, though somewhat ignorant OF
erratic primitive classes Of ali sections
in a righteous fight to settle the ques
ton.
"Upon what meat doth this, oul
Cesar, feed that he is grown 50 great: ::
Alat! does not truth compel the re-
coenition of this as very much the po
sition Of great organization Of the
agricultural masses of the last few
years? We saw no justification for
their position when they took it, 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 preJudiced
against them; we shall never ind 1t
easy to say that they were right and
We were wrong, or even that they were
partly right and we partly wrong. It
is human nature: Can anything good
come out of Nazareth?
Honesty compels the folio wing COZ
cession to those to whom We least eX-
pected ever to concede anything:
N) 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 Il
naucial laws as bringing US to the verge
of wreck. Yetlittle heed was paid till
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 our
secsior-the depression of business en-
terprise? It 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 of US knew the relation Of
money" to commodities and to gold
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
ernment 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 Its free coin
age? If robbing must be done there
would be less cruelty in tnhictlng 1t
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 fellows"
change places with them. In their jnst
and desperate determination to get
themselves out they are excusaole Tor
not first devising absolute safeguards
against employing means that might
get them out st the expense OF others,
esoecialiy when they believe those 9TH
ers have put them in the hole.
(2) Who of US thought of the income
tax until brought to the front by those
people? If 1T and certnin other ap-
proved new demands were heartily car
ried out by the Democrats, our party
would have gotten all the credit (the
Door pioneers being lost sight otD 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.
f3) These who have charged that
dealing in futures causes combination
of capital to fix prices and iDjure the
producer and is also a means OF cor
ruptlpg legislation, and that the money
power C'Wall streeL') does consciously
and Systematically machinate against
the people in insidicus ways are no lon
ger to be regarded as "fools" charging
"absurdities." We now approve these
sentiments coming from other lips.
~ The warning against Cleveland as
"the tool of Wall street" though at the
time Indignantly resented by us al! as
not only a slander but gratuitous in
suit to a noble man, has been justified
hy time; and, though We may not en-
dorse the lnsinuation 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
quslms of conscience, some humllia,
alton of our pride of intellect, some
generous impulseto fellowship in IN
lon for common cause. In fact the
agricultural uprising Qittle as We real
iZed it at 6rst is Gow seen to have IN
augurated a revolution. at the close
of century its undercurrents OF
thought are forced to the front. Flrile
thought is now ripe in cur country.
Struggling, rebelllous ideas are clash.
ing with those tha: reign. Change
more or less radical is upon us. For
revolution there is always cause;
When the binding confusion Of the
storm has passed a Godsent, man de.
yeloped truth is seen to have been en-.
throned Dy it. The wrong that in its
evolution accompanied it is for the
most part left behind-the world has
taken step.
The stouter the resistance to the rev
olution by those who wickediV or from
want of sympathetic appreciation op-
pose the change its success involves the