The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-05-22
ARP GETS NEW LIGHT.
re HAS BEEN READING COIN AND HAS
LEARNED MUCH.

S5arvcy, its Author. is :, Southerner--Ht
Was IN the War and Lost Al Arm 1T For,
Donelson--No !AnS,ccr to Coin Has Yet
Appeared.
I have just finished reading Coins
>ast book Up to Date" If somebody
doesn' answer i and prove it lie ii
will shake this country from center tc
circumference. The bankers and spec.
ulators and money kings will be over,
thrown and the danger is that the
masses will 60 too far in revenging
their wrongs and. like Sampson, pull
down the temple and crush all alike.
When he shows up the inequalities OF
taxation and how the rich escape, it
makes the blood boil with Indignation.
AGide from the silver question he gives
a certificate of David Gore, the auditor
of public accounts for the State of Hi
nois, which shows that all that the
bankers and brokers of Chicago had
assessed for taxation was only S44, 900
of money, while farmers of that county
were assessed s54, 900 for agricultural
-syv'~.~'Ad- t., implements. Think of it
twice as much as all the money credits
and securities of all the banks, bank
ers and brokers of that great city. And
all diamonds and jewelry in Chicago
were assessed at ST, 7,75O, when it is
known that single families live there
who own diamonds and iewelry ten
times that sum in value The money
of these banks amounts to hundreds OF
millions, but through the manipula
ton of municipal politics the rich con,
troll the assessors and escape taxation.
Can this be true? If it is false why
doesn't Eli Perkins say so. / see that
he has taken the field against Coin,
but can't tell exactly from his last
piece whether he is lying or joking.
He closes It by sayingthat after he had
shown Coin his errors and fallacies
Coin gave it up and the tears rolled
down his cheeks and he dismissed his
school and declared he wasn't gwine
10 teach any more. l like Eli. I like
any lie that is funny and harmless.
used to like to read Baron Munchauser
and I like to read Eli now. l confess
that it strains my credulity 10 believe
what Coin writes about the Chicago
bankers tax, but there is the certificate
OF the State auditor. Surely there Is
some explanation of all this. We
know what Solomon and Paul and
the Saviour said about rich men, but ]
never believed that our rich men were
that bad. We poor folks whose in.
come was under the mark. believed
that to tax large incomes was the
right thing to do, but it seems that
we can't do it. We are taxed all the
time on the outgo through the opera
tons of the taritf-a tariff for revenue
only with incidental protection. Its
the incidental that gets US. An Amer
lean sewing machine or mower OF
reaper can be bought in London or
Brazil 80 per cent cheaper than we can
buy one here. There comes in the in
cidental. 1t is protected here from
foreign competition and the profit is
so great that Mr.. Singer or Mr. McCor-
mick can pay the freight across the
ocean and then sell it for less than he
will sell it to us. Isn't that funny;
Earper's Magazine sells all over this
country for 35 cents, but sells all over
England for 25 cents An American
cedar pencil Of the best quality sells
here for nicl,le, but you can buy the
very same in London for a copper.
And just so it is with hundreds of 9TH
er things that are made in this coun-
try. This incidental is not accidental
but was done on purpose at Washing
ton and our lawmakers say we must
stand it.
Boys, let's fight. No, I don't mean
that exactly, but let's meet and pass
some resoulutions-let'sd do something.
Now, the Chicago goldbugs have
called meeting to see if they can't
stop all this rumpus about silver, but
they might as well try TO stop lorna,
do. I wasn't taking so much stock in
these financial affairs, for I had read
so much on both sides thatit made my
head swim, and so when friend sent
me Coins first book I took it up with
prejudice against it for I supposed that
Mr.. Harvey was a Chicago yankee
and was paid by The Inter Ocean to
write on that side, and so fortified
myself against being seduced by his
book. l read it rather hurriedly,
.a,ching for traps and triggers, but |
didn't find them, and found so much
information that was news to me that
l read it more carefully the second
time. and I came to the conclusion
that Coin was very smart man, or l
was very great fool-one or the other.
His last book is better than the first,
and if these two little books are made
up of fallacies the goldbugs had bet
ter get somebody else besides Eli to
expose them-Eli's forte is fun, not f.
nance-though I'll bet dollar he was
opposed to the income tax.
But I received q very interesting
letter from lady Of West Virginia,
telling me that William Hope Harvey,
who writes these little books on finance
belongs to our side, and was born and
raised in Putnam County, not far
from her home; that his father resides
in Huntington, and wasa Confederate
soldier; that his elder brother, Thom-
as, was the Democratic candidate last
year for Congress, but was defeated
because of the blunders of the admin
that he, too, was in the war
a:,d lost an arm at Fort Donelson;
that the whole family are Democrats
and Southerners to the core and have
as good blood in their veins as any in
the Old Dominion, being related to the
Lees and to Stonewall Jackson. She
says we who know the Harveys are
proud of them and especially of Will
liam Hope, the author Of Coins
books.
That settles it with me- That kind
of a man can't be bought or bribed
and he believes what he writes, whe-
ther it is so or not. So let the ball roll
On. If the whole property of the ma