The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-09-30

by your circular you must go to
"Yurup."
know your crowd. | have studied
your thoughts and assumptions and
ambitions by personal contact. lit
has come to this, that You are to rule
this country by greedy, relentless
avarice OF we are to have shakeup
and commence again, I am for the
shakeup. I am only telling what
would be done were you to attempt
to carry out your threat-you and
your crowd. But you will not 90 1t.
You are the biggest towards on earth.
You may talk wisely of the finances
of this country which means how you
can make most and raise a lot OF
money, millions to corrupt and buy
up vour fellow citizens, but I and
others will tell the people to take your
illeotten funds and vote you down
and you will go down and count your
loss and loan your gold and take in
Daddy Dollars and gold dollars as in
terest and serve the purposes for
which you were created-you and
your crowd-which is not to rule this
country. I was not intending now to
write you a letter, Mr.. Editor, for
publication, but I have been prompt
ed to try this much by the following
circumstances. Two days ago a law
yer friend in Chicago who, like NY
self, has become Bimetallist recently,
sent me some of your papers, in one
which has Henry Clews' circular.
I am farmer and want some new
mich COWS. Yesterday I went to a
dealer who said he had none to suit
me, but that most any of the farmers
would sell me their best COWS. |
asked him how that was, since we
have so much feed which we can sell
for hardly anything. He replied that
the farmers are very poor and will
sell anything to get little money.
This morning my next nelghbor
came to me and said he wanted me
to talk to him about this money ques-
ton. He is hard working, intelli-
gent mana republican-owns his
farm and lives as closely as any man
should. He said he had looked over
his assets and finds he has not so
much as he had five years ago, and
was beginning to think something
must be wrong. He said all the farm
ers were thinking the same way.
Many of them have told me the same
thing. Then I thought how for many
years the tillers OF the soil and other
workers have toiled and lived on less
and less and have been getting poor
er and poorer. No wonder they are
getting suspicious of their gold
standard hired newspapers and want
information. Then I saw in the pa
pers that the great Hanna had in
Union League Club, New York, or
ganized that famous S500,000,000
finance committee
These farmers say this is good
country and as a whole must make
money Where does it all 60. We
who own our farms and live close are
getting poorer all the time
The gold standard. men are organ
izing clubs (pretty little bits of men
most of them) to educate the people.
I get their weeklies. I can say to
you, Mr.. Editor, that if education
goes on, and there is time enough,
Mckinley will not carry a congress
ional district, much less State, and
there are people in Chicago who
know I have been something of a
politician. They better look out for
Lake county. Several of the most
prominent republicans are pronounc-
ed for Bryan and I know others are
leaning that way. think I can truth
fully say that l know tlispeople from
the Atlantic to lie Pacific as we'll as
any living man and will, in closing,
advise Henry Clews and his crowd to
go little slow.--C. c. COPELAND in
National Bimetal!ist.