The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1894-05-24

Y good deal about the sentiment an
tho business and earnings of til
| common people, and will say wha
/ have before stated, that 1 beliov,
tho great majority Of our Congress
mon who have run this govern
mont for the last 25 years will bt
looked on as u groat set of fools
or rascals. They seom to think
the continent lies east and north
of Washington city. Would it not
be wise to require Congress to con-
vono in the far west and south oc-
casionally, SO rs to learn that thcrc
arc othor people and interests to
care for, and it would be moro ac-
cessible to the people, when they
wish to 60 to petition legislation.
Look how inconvenient for Coxey.
We may all have to go and de-
mand roformatory laws. 1t may
be a great part Of the fault is with
us commoners. We may bo cap
tious, ignorant, unreasonable, and
all such things, but there is some
thing wrong. Put up your groat
and wise men that has travelled the
world round by the highways, riv-
er routes, otc., and toach us bettor.
! Wo have lost confidence, next
comes disrosrect, thon hatred.
This latter point has boon reached
by many, a very great many.
venture the assertion there are
many thousands, If not tens of
thousands, who do not care to see
many of our statesmen, nor evon q
president. There must be cause
| think it comes from what the
people believe, (and justly too,
the wild and fanatical financial 10.
gislation, as dictated by the two
Englands, old and Low. Let III
submit to the laws as long as they
were on the books, but we, ! think
should be in a very great hurry tt
have thom amended.
Do not forgot wo have the righ
to voto left us yet, and wo arc re
sponsible for our laws, as we cleo
tho men who make them. Itsoom
we will have to teach our officer
in many instances, that we arc no
children, and they dare not go bacl
on us, or if SO, they had bette
never make another track with tn
too pointing our way. RcmombrI
you arc men, do not stoop to tn
low and contomptihlc tricks O
tax-dodging, swjndling your ncigl,
bors, and ull such things to kcc
:, from starving, but assert you
: rights as frocmen, and 500 that tn
0 government gives you as fair
= chance to mako a living as an
= other class Of men.
= "Bccathcs there man with soul 80 dead
, Who never to himself hath said,
This il my own, my native land"
V Then up and be doing, all tn
J aro mon.
:" l think we havo mistaKon vo
~ greatly in cutting pattern f
Il. our statesmen. Tho building Ct
u capitol) and salaries too gro
VI making it look like the wo-toddli
, with his "daddies" coat on.
- We, it scoms, havo Quit growi
W Jofforsons, Madisons and Hickc
Nv Jacksons. 1t secms to mo We "
" have to kill half our people or dc
~ bio tho volume Of money, to
~ w. tho proportions properly adjust
~ | bolievo that we had a few shro
80 onos in our late war who und
- stood this thing; it was just
oxcuso to koop tho commonor o
y: ployod, and his numbers roduc
" | 80 said at tho time. Look sha
u" elso thoy will have us all at
again.
w ~ Some Of Our preachers have
30 ways advised us to pay no attt
y ton to politics, but wc had bot
~ not Nindly follow oithor proacl
> nor politician-wo havo dono
~ much blind following of tho par
w zans and other P's.
y, | will say as | did in reforor
to$uur State affairs in 1874; W
M not somo ablcr hand tako up t
% pom, "that mighty instrument
littla mnn - and vio11 II unfn cD