The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-03
Getting Cured Of Populism.


cradle prominence, who resides at
Topeka, Kan, stated in an interview in
Washington day or two ago, that the
Kansas people are getting cured of popu-
ism, and that the cure came through the
instrumentality of the cause. He said
that the eastern money lenders are re-
sponsible for populism. They became
greedy, grasping and arrogant, and the re-
suit was that the farmers became thor
oughlg aroused against them. In carry
ing out their purpose 10 resist them they
went much further than they at first in
tended. They adopted such aggressive
laws against capital that they frightened
the capitalists away.
What was the RESULT Money was so
scarce in the state that improvements of
all kinds stopped. No investments were
made in the state by outside capitalists.
No railroads were built, no hotels erected,
no mines developed and no irrigation i'm
provements made. The populists thought
at first that they had accomplished won
ders. Now they are beginning to realize
that they simply injured themselves and
their state. The most of them acknow-
ledge that they have learned what COM
mon sense ought is have taught them
before, that in order to develop a coun-
try there must be amicable relations be-
tween labor and capital, between debtor
and creditor.
There are not as many populists in
Kansas as there were, and those who still
claim to be populists will never again
howl themselves hoarse in behalf of
per cent. money schemes or demand that
the government shall own the railroads.
Gov. Tillman, of South Carolina, and
his friends, are making very nearly the
same mistake the populists of Kansas
made. They are pursuing course that
is keeping capital and immigrants out of
the state. They are making war upon
railroads and pursuing policy that is
forcing the people to give more attention
to politics than business and industrial
interests. The people will get tired of
them after awhile and when South
Carolina gets rid of them she will start
upon a new career of prosperity.
If the debate in the House on the tariff
bill proves anything, it proves that the
day of the former influence of oratory in
congress is well nigh, if not already
passed. The speeches of Crisp and Reed
on the last day of the debate would, fifty
years ago, have been counted mastery
and effective efforts. So would the
speeches of Bourke Cochran, and Bryan,
Of Nebraska. And their respective con-
stituents would have sounded admiring
praises of them for months and possibly
years to come. AS 1t is, however the
speeches will be read at home by a few
persons, commented on for few days at
most, possibly, and then forgotten. 1t
may be doubted that a single vote was
in the least influenced by the flood of ell
oquence poured out in the House. or that
even an opinion in the gallery was
changed by the oratory. On matters like
the tariff, opinions are made up before
the questions get into congress for
settlement, and, in these modern days. il
takes a more substantial consideration
than oratory to change them.
Gov. B. r. Tillman, of South Carolina.
is not seeking to make himself a war
record. He has one already In his sec
ond campaign it was charged by some
of his opponents that he had no such
record. He asserted that he had, and
called upon Gen. Ellison Capers, parti-
san of the opposition, to bear him out.
And Gen. Capers, in the presence of the
assembled multitude, at Colum bia, said
he had no hesitation in proclaiming that
Jim Tillman was the orifamme of nv
regiment" Jim" who was killed in the
war, at the front and in the thick of the
fight, was Brave Ben's" brother. The
Atlanta journal is, therefore, in error
when II asserts that the governors war
like demonstrations against Charleston
are for the purpose of acquiring record
he has one-his brothers..
George D. Bryan, who was Yesterday
nominated for collector OF the port of
Charleston, is true-blue democrat of the
old school. He was twice mayor of the
city, and for several terms chairman of
the county democracy He has war
record, too, having served with distinc-
ton in the confederate navy under Com
modore Ingraham.