The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1896-02-08
TILLMAN TALKS.

With the present session If Congress a
new man comes up from the New South
shat reminds us Of old days in tho "'Old
South" when Calhoun of South Carolina.
or Robert Toombs. of Georgia, Numbered
in the Senate chamber at Washington.
In Senator Tillman, of South Carolinaa,
~e behold the same fearless and unpur.
ehassLle character esticts that marked the
political course of the great nul!iHer.
Say what you will abont the Southern
statesman of the old days he was not IL
Washington for the money that vas in
it," No Credit Mobeler scandels have
been thrown in tho fase of the Southern
leaders. They may have often erred in
good judgment. but that judgment was
ho,. estiy formed.
we print the concluding portion of
Senator Tillman's late speech in the Sen
ate chamber on Cleveland's policy and
what will come from it {:
And again referring to the president, IF
he was hOnest at the start land I am will
ing t. graft that much) hls association
with wall street and his connection with
wealthy men had debauched his conscience
aud destroyed all sympathy with the
masses.
Further in discussing the gold question,
he said: ''Rothschild and his American
agent Rrsciously condescsnd to come to
che help Of the United States treasury in
maintaining the gold standard which has
wrought the ruin aud only chargesa small
commission of ten millions or 10. Great
God! that brOud government. the richest
most powerful on the globe, should have
been brought to SO low q pass that a
LOudOn Jew should have been appointed
its receiver and presumes to p~atronize US.
The responsibility of providing rev.
enue and locking after the selvency Of the
treasury which rests with congress, has
bsen usurpsd by the president. Why is
he not impsaohed!
The entertainments of the federal Judi.
ciary and the %supineness and venality--
corrupt / may saY--of the representative
branches Of tho government are causes of
deep conoern to oil thinking ard patriotic
mon. We are fast drifting into govern.
mont BY injunction in the interest Of mon
opoliss and .oorporstisns and the supreme
court, by one corrupt vote annuls an act
Of congress looking to the taxation Of the
rich.
Tho 'atruggle from 1861 to 1865 which
1eAnahA1 thin foie land IN hind UNA N
snsucipate four million black slaves. We
are fast approaching a condition which
will place the collar uf industrial bondage
white slaves. a. day of reckoning will
come unless there is no longer q just god
in heaven, end when it does come woe be
unto those Who have been among the OPP
pressOrs of the people"
The present struggle is unfortunately too
like that which preceded the cival war, in
aemuch as it ia sectional. The creditor
and the manufacturing states of the North
and East, which have grown inordinattly
wealthy at the expense of the producing
classes or tho South and West, are urging
this policy With the besotted blindness of
Belshazsar.
It vas sssy 10 ses, the senator said, in
o~onelusion, that the struggle for the new
emancipation had begun. There were
millions nov on the march. and they tramp
tramp, tramp-tramp, sidewalks hunting
work. and the highways Begging bE.nd,
and unless;tellef comes they will some day
tshe q notyon TO o0me to Washington with
rifles IN th6lr hands to regain the liberties
a3yt1bD from themr OF which their reprefen-
.ss,ses have sold.