The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-12-18
WHAT THEY REALLY SAID.
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lust hunt natural alliances with those

must hunt natural alliances with those
people whose interests are Identical
with our own and identity ourselves
with them and endeavor to bring back
the conditions that will give US fair
chance, so that our farmers can re-
ceive some compensation for their
labor besides a bare existence.
But TO carry out the thought which
I have just touched. How many mil
lions has the North invested in the
South2 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, 600, 0C0, 600: Thereof, when you
talk about Northern capital aud brains
coming down here. ! say that they are
onl, sending back to us Southern caDl-
til 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 l will elaborate that
further by adding that if at the close
of the war there had been the quality
there had been before the war and the
reasonable treatment Of the Southern
people; ii the iniquitous tariff had not
been contrived to rob the farmers;
if all the money had not been concen-
trated into the hands of a few ma
tional 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 opportun
ity to keep our money at ome-what
kind of an exposition could we have
given2 We are not ashamed Of what
we have done and what we are doing.
We glory in it. We stand up andsay
to the world that we are the most
glorious country on tie 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 a fair chance we
could have an exposition in Atlanta
that would have eclipsed the Chicago
one. This may appear to some as
buncombe; but the tribute we have
paid as pension has been a mere
bagatelle to what we have paid as
tariff and financial tribute in ;he way
Of interest and in other ways by which
they have depleted our country for
the benefit of national banks. II
could be proven that with a reason,
able tariff and with 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 drain
and to-day presented the evidence 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 good goes
North and stays there. II does MOI
return to irrigate and beautify the
South. They are enriching them
selves at our expense, and when you
60 there and see their palaces and
their wealth and their luxury, such as
no Roman emperor ever dreamt of, re
fleet that it is not their country thai
produces it, but that it is the tribute
which the South has paid for being
conquered. (Applause.) 1t would be
improper-this is not the occasion OF
the time-to follow out the thought in
regard to the future policy of the
country. That would be entrenching on
politics, and politics, except inciden
tally, should not intrude themselves
on an occasion of this character.
will simply say to you, fellow. ltizens
come from what State you may, thai
which the negro problem in the South,
with the immigration problem in the
North, with the great burden of igno'
rant and debased foreigners who are
up there living in the very dregs OF
degradation and ignorance, and anar.
chism and communism. and all other
isms that 60 to pull down the govern
ment, that the time will come when
the Southern farmers will be the saw.
ing salt that will keep this republic
from topping over and becoming a
military despotism.
Those Southern farmers and Sout :
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-
pers until they have come to believe
that Wall Street knows all there Is
about finance and nobody can teach
them anything, and they say Me,
too" every time the New York World
and Grover Cleveland grunts. If
your Governor had not alluded to old
Grover, I would not have said any:
thing about him, and am not going
to say anything about him here, be-
cause will have better opportunity
to use my pitchfork on him when l
get to Washington. (Applause) But
it does my soul good to hear yovr Gov
ernor say that two little bobtail re-
formers from South Carolina have at
tracted more attention and caused
more applause than the President of
the United States. 1t is at least a con-
frmation of the thought that "A
prophet is not without honor except
in his own county," have this re-
alization. and thank you--all OF you
who have come from South Carroll
ma to do this honor to the Governor
and myself. In regard to those cal;
| umnies which have been heaped upon
me by such papers as the Atlanta
Journal, Macon Telegraph and Savan-
nah Morning News, l wish to say that
they have poured from me like water
from ducks back, because the people
Of South Carolina have in two cleo
| tons put me in the Governors Office,
and by an unexample' ma jority, and
that last year even after the Dispen-
sary Law was passed, they elected me
to the United States senate by vote
of 121 to u in the General Assembly.
Pardon me for this personal allusion.
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