The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1895-12-05

further by adding that If at the close
of the war there had been the quality
there was before the war and the
reasonable treatment OF the Southern
people II the ubiquitous tariff had not
been coptrived to rob tho farmers; If
; all the money had not been concentrat-
ed into the hands Of few national
} banks; If the war on silver had not
come up by which Georgia has lost at
least fifty, or sixty or seventyfive mil
ions in the last three years-I just say
to you that If we had had an equal
showing with our Northern brethern
If we had had an opportunity to keep
our money at home, what kind Of an
exposition could we have given? We
are not ashamed Of what we have done
and Of what we are doing. We stand
up and say to the world that we have
the most glorious country on the top
of the earth and we prove it by these
fixed facts and figures, and despite
this pension robbery, this financial de-
pletion, if we had had fair chance
we could have had an exposition in At
lanta that would have eclipsed Chi
cago. This may appear to some bun
combe but the tribute we have paid as
pensions has been a mere bagatclle to
what we have paid as tariff and finan-
cial tribute in the way of interest and
in other ways by which they have
depleted our country for the benefit Of
national banks. 1t could be proven
that with reasonable tariff and just
distribution of the banking capital this
country of the South would have
moved forward more rapidly than any
other section Of the union, because
what other section could have with
stood this drain and to-day presented
the evidences of progress; the building
of railroads the building of factories !;
the Increase OF wealth that we see
around us? Who will deny it? All
the gold goes North aud stays there.
1t does not return to beautify and adorn
the South. They are enriching them
selves at our expense and when you go
there and SOC their palaces and their
wealth and their luxury, such as no
Roman emperor ever dreamt Of reflect
that 1t IS not tn ~ country that has
produced it, butSUiiat it is the price
which the South has paid for being
conquered. 1t would be improper
this is not the occasion or the time
to follow out the thought in regard to
the future policy of the country. That
would be trenching on politics,
which should not intrude themselves
on occasions of this character. |
will simply say to you, fellow citizens,
come from what State you may, that
with the negro problem in the South
with the immigration problem Of tn,
North with the great burden of ignor-
ant and debased foreigners who are up
there living in the very dregs OF de-
gredation and ignorance and anarch-
ism and communism and all the other
isms that go to pull down; that the
| time will come when the Southern
| farmers will be the saving salt that
will keep this republic from topping
over and becoming military despot-
| ism.
Those Southern farmers and NOR
chants and bankers-though some Of
those bankers don't seem to realize
that the man who drives. the rlow is
the man who runs the country-they
have come to believe that Wall street
knows all there is about finance and
nobody can teach them anything, and
they must say Me, too, every time
TIE New York World and Grover
Cleveland grunts. If your governor
hadn't alluded to old Grover | would
have not said anything about him,
aud l am not going to say anything
about him here, because [ will have
d better opportunity to use my pitch
fork upon him when get to Washing.
ton. But it does my soul good to hear
your governor say that two little
bobtail Reformers from South Caro-.
lima have attracted more attention, tha 2;
caused more applause than the pres
dent of the United States. 1t is u,
, least a confirmation OF the though,
that prophet is not without honol
save in his own country. | have this
rcalization, and | thank yM,-all OF
you-who have come from South Caro-
| m n RI =
and myself. In regard to those calum.
MES which have been heapcd upon
me by such papers as The Atlanta
journal, Macon Telegraph and Savan.
nah News, | wish to say that they
nave gone from me like water from a
ducks back because tho people OF
South Carolina have in two elections
put me in the governors Office, and by
uneXampled majority, and that last
year !! !tcr the diaDensary law was even
passed they elected me +" the United
States Senate by ~ vuto OF III to II in
The General Assembly. Pardon nc
for this personal allllsiUn know you
want to get something to cat and &C
and sec the fair. so will just thank
you for this meeting. Those of YOU
who are going back to South Carolina
will bear with a better aud ~ happier
recollection of this day If do not
dctain you any longer. will say to the
governor OF Georgia, and tho whole OF
the United States, that we, the people
81 South Carolina. are and intend to be
ahead OF anybody in the field of ma
ferial progress. Thanking YOU and
his exccllcncy for this opportunity tc
meet you face to face and say what [
have had to say, | will now close"
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THE BAPTISTS IN GRGENVILLE