The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-03-07
ANOTHER RICHMOND.
THE ANTI's ROASTED TO A TURN
.GREAT IS REFORM.

The second speaker needs no Introduction
to the people Of South Carolina. His name
Is associated with many OF the most impor-
tant reforms enacted by the present adminis-
tratlon. Senator Evans Of Aiken, Will now
address you.
Mr.. President and Fellow Citizens:
II is with much pleasure. commingleo WIN
some mbarrassmenL, that have accepted tne
Invitation OF your committee TO address you
upon the National and State issues whlch 10
day confront our people.
am pleased for the reason that feel When
look Into your honest and SO many familiar
faces that I have you: sympathy In the grand
cause for which / am d. Ehtiny, and It's success
will be grand victory for tile people.
lam em mbarrassed from the act That speak
TO sclons Of the constituency of Calhoun anu
McDuffie. and 10 q people who have always
led ID ali great reforms, moral and POLITICAL
and so YOU continue to-day my own country
men. The doctrines OF Calhoun are us i've
and dear to You to-day as when ne uttereu
them from the red hills OF old Abbeville nfy
It has been truly said that the life OF re.
public depends upon the VII tue of the people.
that Of a monarchy upon the Ignorance OF
Under our form Of government the people
alone are sovereign, aud their rulers are SIM
ply their servants. 1t Is evident then that 70
instil virtue Into their omcers IL ID Tue rrsus as
meeting, and the duty OF the servant TO aP-
pear before them, give an accoun OF bis stew
aIdship and receive from the people good ano
wholesome instruction, and he VINO ialls 10 re-
spond TO the call Of the people cannot De cali.
ed faithful, nor even entitled 10 the name oi
The time is past In South Carolina when
any man or set OF men can dictate W ner peo-
II Is boasted In the North OF Abraham Lin.
coin, and OF Peter the Great In hussla'
that With one stroke the shackels were strlcK-
Nhn
in South Carolina will say that the Reform
movement and Ben Tillman removed 10 one
year the shackels from 100000 white political
slaves, and we meet to-day upon the levei Oh
equal rights TO all and special privileges 10
none. Our National and State politics nave
become 80 interviewer that 1t will be impossl,
BILE to discuss the one without tue otnel, auu
IL is well that 1t should be, Tor our greatesI OPP
do not propose to discuss National Affairs
from any but Southern standpoint. Our
country IL 100 large and our lnterests 700 ah-
tagonistic to think of iegisiaung lor @ Ihe
whole without inJuring Que oil It's parts. Ihe
rule should be to enact such laws as oppress
the fewest number OF citizens, but the reverse
has been the case with our Congress since the
Civil War.
and the West has robbed us almost OF our pat
rlmony. Congress has legislaied for the TOP.
Der bsrOns TO such an extent that now loVoo
people OF our sixty five million own over one
dred and twenty families In the North own
over one-tweIfth of the wealth OF our country,
all obtained by q financial system OF govern h
ment kept up for the express purpose Oh roo'
When the Roman republic was destroyed
1900 people owned all Of her wealth. Ihis
state of affairs was sought TO Do perPetuatsu
by the government issuing free corn 10 tne
farmers who bore the burdens OF taxatlon,
whenever they threatened 10 overthrow II.
A like condition exists In our country tooay.
New York city Is feeding lOOOOO unempi0yeu,
Chicago a like number, and nearly every large
city In the North is compelled TO Ieeo lts
starving laborers 10 keep down revolution
Shall we not profit by the history OF past
nations?
I thank God that such condition does not
exist In the South to-day. II Is not because
the government has not: Invited IL, however.
We are blessed with country anu cil.
and dig living out Of the ground, and OF this
no one can rob uS.
During the late panic visited Northern
city, and I was asked II we had panic doWn
South. asked what they meant oy panic.
and was told inability to get money. MY
reply was that we had seen no such thing Tor
many years and had learned TO get along
Without IT, Al we needed WIN r VnEse nTney Tas soI.
dIera We killed during the v ar and 10 keep
Jay Gould and the millionares from starving
and having their notes protested In Ne"
York.
It is wonderful to notice the growth OF these
dead Yanke ees whom we planted during tne
teeth, In iS7O there were 1886 on the rolls,
and they cost us s27,7sO. .sll.sl. Last year there
were 6Ol2, and they cost ns sl5s. 5o, ,5i25l. Of
this the South pays one.third and gets noth.
Ing In return. We have paid since the war
enough pensions to buy s. iate three times as
rich az the State OF South Carolina and ceded
II to the North and the ball has Just com.
menced. This would not be so bad should IL
stop here, We are being robbed more syste.
matically by the present flnanc ial policy OF
Grover Cleveland than We were by Harrison
or the blacklist Republican living. we were
hooted at by the Democrats OF the Nation TOT