The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-06-19
SUMTER. S. c., WEDNESDAY. JUNE 10, 1895.

market and you get so cents for it
When the Indian or the farmer
from the Argeti,es takes his money
home, he has 100 cents Under the
present system you are simply foster
ing the industries of other countries.
This is run!ous competition for
you Mr.. Carlisle told yo1 when he
was here that the wages of every
body had increased under mono
metalism about 81 per cent is
not that way il, my country Fifty
thousand coal miners in Ohio and
Pennsylvania had 9 cents ton taken
off their wages about the day that
Mr.. Carlisle spoke to you here in
Memphis Why, they tell you that
wheat out of which they make bread
was lower than il ever was and yet
more people starved to death for the
lack of this low priced wheat than
ever did before They tell you cot
ton and wool are cheaper than they
ever were, yet there is greater
army of tramps walking up and
down our highways and our byways
to-day in rags for the lack of this
same cheap cotton and wool They
tell the farmer East that what he
needs to make times better is a
higher protective tariff. In certain
parts of the West they tell him what
he needs to prosperous is free trade.
You have to give this tariff question
as medicine according TO the local
ity. Now the fact Of the matter is
tariff has nothing to do with none
tary panics and it's about time the
people gave it long needed rest,
and | believe they are going to do it.
There were two monetary panlcs
under high tariff and two under a
low tariff and | think this shows the
tariff has nothing to do with this
"The President says he IS afraid
the silver dollar will depreciate, but
the only way the dollar caa depre-
ciate is for prices to rise This is
equivalent to an admission by the
President that he is afraid prices will
rise. If the President would divide
his anxieties more equally between
the persons who produce the wealth
of the country and the limited few
who absorb them, he would make a
better chief executive The magni-
fcent patriotism of Mr.. Rothschild,
who, although All alien, was willing
TO come to this country and save it
for the paltry sum of S9,000,G00
which the people of the United States
lost aud which he gained, is worthy
of note as is also the magnificent pa
triotism of Mr. Cleveland in thus
helping to save the country. But
if these two men could save the
country they could also ruin it
"With the mints open to the unlim
tied coinage Of silver and gold there
will be no more talk of a fifty cent
dollar. They say our shores would
be flooded with silver if the mints
were open to free coinage. Now that
is not true, and if it were true we
would simply give them something to
have rather than for something we
would rather have
"banker Cornwall, of Buffalo,
made speech in Chicago the other
night to lot of bankers and the
next day reporter showed me the
article and asked what | thought
of it. | told him if he would have a
number of copies printed and distri-
buted to all the voters in the United
States l would never make another
speech on the silver question, but
would rest my case on his argument.
He tells the bankers they must keep
their thumbs on their customers. We
have felt the thumbs of the bankers
heavily in the last few years.
We must win this fight in 1896
If we do not win it then it will be too
late There will be two avenues
open to the people after 1896. One
will be reputation and the other re-
volution-aud both dread If the
English were to land in New York
you would help to drive them out,
wouldn't you2 The English are in
New York; they have been there fer
years VIII you drive them out,
even if party lines Lave to be drop
ped:'
MEMPHIS. June 3.-Notwi,hstand-