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

ried wants husband. Its 'agin natur
Tor woman to do anything else, and
they say and say for him that If, by
reason OF his unworthiness, he has
been unable thus far to induce any OF
our talr daughters to take him and try
to cultivate those little locks of hair
tnat are growing so thin, that he
ought TO do like | did. | came into
your State when [ was q boy before
was twenty-one years of age and in
duced one of your best women who has
been my blessing and my pride ever
since to join hands with me. If he
can't induce any Of our own daughters
to take him, then l am sure that If he
will como to Atlanta some time in tho
future that some of these Georgia la
dies will-well, think he might per-
suade them. l am sort Of half
Georgian, anyhow, for as soon as I got
out from under my mother | got under
my wife, who has controlled me ever
since, and / am glad of it. If have
made anything of name for mysel f
and have come to be anything and
considering the amount OF cussing I
get, think l must be q pretty good
sort OF a fellow, l attribute to the fact
that tho women have had charge of
mo all my life.
come to extend to you brotherly
greeting. While my friend claims
that Georgia is the daughter of South
Carolina, l rather look upon her as q
great, big, handsome sister. Double
us in area, nearly double us in popula-
tion and more than double us in taxa
BILE property.
"But go into any county in Georgia
you may; go into any county in any
| nf hn h ,,ixyn f<>
the Rio Grande and you will find South
Carolinians, or the sons and daughters
of South Carolinians ; and never have
seen ono OF them who was not proud
to ackno ledge the relationship and
to send back the greeting that we love
our mother, and are proud Of her.
| Mr.. President. | have had no op-
portunity as yet to look at your expo
sition. | have been only able to get o
| glimpse around the grounds in driving
through them in o carriage, and in
coming in on the train yesterday after
noon, and to read the account Of the
papers aud hear from my friends who
have been here and looked at this
grand collection of the resources and
manufactures of the Southern peo pie,
which you have here. The most
| natural thing for person who visited
| the Chicago Worlds Fair is to make a
comparison between the two, and | say
| to you, sir, that from what have been
| able to see of what you have done that
you have come up to their magnificent
and most glorious exposition /; and
say here again that no city except the
Chicago of the South could have done
it. TO whom is credit due: Your
Governor says that Southern men did
it, Southern genius and Southern cap
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we'll, [ won't say that he has not given
due credit to some outside help from
| those men who have come from the
North and cast their fortunes with
you, and are today as good Southern
ers as l am; and l want to cali your
attention to one thought and then
shall stop. 1t is this: We hear and
we read a great deal nowadays about
bringing Northern capital and induc-
ing Northern brains to come among us
and develop our waste places. The
newspapers harp on this in the South,
and Northern newspapers twit us with
our Incompetence and lack of progress,
| and lazincss and too many Southern
papers have become the echoes of this
unworthy thought. But pause and an
alyzc the conditions which have ex-
listed here since the war and consider
| for moment, to enlarge upon the
thought which my friend, the Cover
nor OF South Carolina has just touched
upon, tho pension tribute which we
pay and you will see that We have not
received back from that source or
| from any other source than IL tithe Of
the money chat the Southern people
have dug from the earth and sent
| northward to remain there. Now | will
give you a few figures and this is the
only thing | took the trouble to look
up to tell you about. The entire
amount paid by the United States gov.
ernment since 1861 for pensions has
been 81, 1861 100000. OF that sum the
amount paid to the veterans of the
| war of 1872 and the war of Mexico and
the Indian wars, 500, ,000, 900, so that
the Union soldiers have received ST,
800 1000, 600 from tide United States gov
ernment. The number of pensioners
I in tho South all told, ! mean the cot
ton States, is $4,000. The number in
the United Stat $ is $50 900. :, you sec
that less than 0nn-s'X.eerth Of nia
money comes back to til, South. How
much do we pay? Stati tics viii prove
that these eleven cotton Stnles count
it in amy shape yol please. and ,nca-
sure 1T by any yard stick ynu want,
| pay not less than one fourth AMI nearly Y
| one-third Of it. If YOU deduct n roa.
sonable amount for the ,um paid back
to the Southern pensioners, and tue
most Of that is pad in th, States OF
Arkansas, Virginia AMI T"nnrssno, ]
say to you that the total SUN that j.
| coming to the S0ut, since the war
from pensions from any source has not
exceeded $4,000 600: that will leave
$l $50, ,000,0 900 that uas been paid tn
the Northern sOldi rs and you have
paid One-fourth Of that, which amounts
to more than $4,000 900 Of tribute to
our conquerers.
a n getting up new revolution in
talking about this Not at all.
| know full we'll that the Southern poo
pie as u people vii never govern this
union any more. We only want to hold
the balance Of power betwecn.the giant
West and the greedy North that are
now marshaliing their forces for the
control of this country on the tariil
and financial issues, and we must look
to natural alliances to those whose
interests are Identical with our own
and Identity ourselves with them and
endeavOr to bring back the conditions