The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-12-18
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WHAI IHEl REALLY DAlD'
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must hunt natural alliances with those
people whose interests are identical
with our own and identify ourselves
with them and endeavor to bring back
the conditions that will give us q fair
chance, so that our farmers can re-
eeive some compensation for their
labor besides bare existence. ....
"But to carry out the thought which
I have just touched. How many mil
lions has the North invested in the
South9 Coming here for their own
selfish purposes to get large returns
for their investments, would make
an even guess that it does not exceed
81, 900, 100000. Thereof, when you
talk about Northern capital and brains
coming down here. say that they are
only sending back to us Southern capi-
tai which they have taken from us as
pension tribute, and that we have not
received in all as much as we have
sent away; and I will elaborate that
further by adding that if at the close
ofthe war there had been the quality
there had been before the war and the
reasonable treatment Of the Southern
people; if the iniquitous tariff had not
been contrived to rob the farmers;
| if all the money had moi been concen-
trated into the hands ol. a few ma
tiona.l banks; if the war on silver had
not come up by which Georgia has
lost at least fifty or sixty or seventy
five millions in the last three years.
just say to you that if we had had
equal showing with our Northern
bretheren; if we had had an nopportun.
lity to keep our money at home-what
kind of an exposition could we have
tgiven9 We are not alIhamed of what
we have done and what we are doing.
1--WE glory in it. We stand up andsay
| to the world that we are the most
glorious country on the face of the
earth, and we prove it by these fixed
facts and figures; and despite this pen
sion robbery, this alien landlordship,
this tariff ROBBERY. this financial de-
pletion-if we had fair chance we
could have an exposition in Atlanta
that would have eclipsed the Chicago
one. This may appear to some as
buncombe; bur the tribute we have
paid as pension has been a mere
Ebagatelle to what we have paid as
tariff and financial tribute in the way
of interest and in other ways by which
they have depleted our country for
lthe benefit of national banks. 1t
Icould be proven that with reason
able tariff and with a just distribution
Of the banking capital OF this country
the South would have moved forward
more rapidly than any other section
of the Union, because if we didn't
have the country we have, what other
section could have withstood this drsin
and today presented the evidence of
progress, the building of railroads,
the building of factories, the increase
| of wealth that we see around lls2
Who will deny it9 AL the good goes
North and stays there. Itdoes not
return to irrigate and beautify the
South. They are enriching them
selves at our expense, and when you
90 there and see their palaces and
their wealth and their luxury, such as
no Romanemperor ever dreamt OF, re-
fleet that it is not their country that
produces it, but that it is, the tribute
which theSSouth has paid for being
conquered lApplause;) II wonld pc
improper tnls Is NOT tne oeeaslon or
tine tlme-to follow OUT tne tnougnt ~
regard 70 tne 1uI1re Poncy ol .tne
country. Inat W1nId % enlrsacnLs oh
Epoiltcs, ana pohucs, Ee1cept lncidea
tally, shoula not lntruoe tnemseiVes
on an occasion OF tn1s Gnaracter.
will simply say to you, fellow cltlzens,
come from what State you nay, Inat
winch the negro problem ~ Inc oousn,
with the !mmlgranon Pronlem 10 tne
North, WITH the great nuroen OF lgno''
RANT ana eeDasea toIelgnes Mno sss y
up tneree e. LYING IN the very aoiSes VI
degTeda1on AUG anolignorance anu anar-
cnlsm ara comln9nis.n, .a3i anl ~ az Usnuf ls,.u
ls.as taa. ~ w Pnti uoMI ;,i VIZ $50 ~,
menS, tnat tne ume VIII =, eons "nen
the Soutnern farmers WIZ De lhe sas-
ing salt tnat VIII Keep tnls rePuDhc
from topping over ana becoming
military oespousmn.
Those Southern farmers and South
ern merchants and bankers whose In.
terests are incidental though some OF
those bankers don't seem to realize
that the man who drives the plow is
the man who runs this country, they
have stayed in their banking houses
and read Northern subsidized newspa-