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


vestigate the question six months
ago. Then I was on the fence until
the bankers began to "draw in their
funds" and the Henry Clews and the
Slaughter circulars came out. Now
I am wiring apd talking to free my
country from the consequences of the
gold wrong of ,73 and the danger
threatened it by the money power.
Theseself-constituted paternalistshava
tricked and hoodwinked this ingeni-
Gus people and filed their Golfers off
their hard earnings so long that they
really seem to consider US their pc
ons, their serfs, their slaves. That
this United States is theirs and that
we, the tillers of the soil, the miners
and the mechanics, are now allowed
to work here for poorer and poorer
living and that the rest Of the earth
belongs to them to luxuriate and
feast and drink and revel in. I did
not think their greed and presump-
ton would lead them this far I
have known how~matters were drift
ing but did not think their greed and
presumption would lead them this
far. Will I sit here at my ease while
my people are being plundered and
pillaged and sold out to England by
lot OF greedy, selfish, cruel, narrow
minded money sharks and tories :?
On, no! I can tell Henry Clews and
the likes of him and Chauncey De-
pew and the likes of him-all the
money-bags and their CONSCIOUSNESS
hired men, that they have gone too
far. There is patriotism left in this
country. They have aroused thou
sands and tens of thousands of IN
telligent men of independent fortune,
men of the West and South and East
who will not let England by the aid
of her American allies bring this in
genious sovereign people to the con-
dition of her starving, fawning mil
lions. The fight is on and, we are in
it to the finish, whatever that finish
may be. I can See and hear and feel
that tall Virginian delivering the
Declaration of Independence. Ihave
letters from men of the West aud
East who think as / think and feel
81 feel The great fnanciers OF
London and Wall Street have been
forging chains for this people for
these many years, but they shall not
put them on. If Boss Hanna's COM
mittee on finance were worth FIVE
thousand times FIVE hundred millions
they should not put them on. We
will drive them from his temple Of
liberty first. Money is a mighty
power, but it has reached its might
lest Enightiness. What! this people
to be ruled by an oligarohy OF gold? :?
Oh. no! This blessed land of War
~Hs fra6kIyn and Henry and Paine
and Washington and Paul Jones and
lincoln shall be ruled by, tens OF
millions of patriots. They propose
to elect by their ballots incorruptible
servants to the presidency. and to the
house of representatives and to the
senate who will undo the unconstitu-
tional trickery Of '73 and make just
Jaws for the whole people. They will
first give US the money of the consti-
tuition, the money that whipped Eng
land, the money that helped the ma
ton and the people to prosper.
What will you do, Mr.. Henry Clews? ?
would sit at the scanty board Of the
yeouan who is clearing away the
forest or breaking the prairie sod, or
the mechanic who is pounding at the
forge while the sweat drips from his
honorable brow to provide a home
for his wife and children and feel
honored, while I would look upon
you and your gold and its power
with disdain and contempt since you
sent out that inhuman, unchristian
circular. Was it the likes of you who
gave US our independence from Eng
land, ever the enemy of my country,
or who whipped her in 1872? No!
but it was your crowd and the six or
seven in Congress with Sherman at
their head who gave US single gold
standard, which has enabled her to
whip US terribly for twenty-three
years and to very nearly ruin this
nation and people and now when
they desire to undo your mischief
you would say, "too late, Your chains
are forged, if you squirm or try to
hold up your heads and do not now
submit we Will ssarve and ruin you
and the nation itself by the power OF
the wealth which we have wrung from
you by means of the law of '73. +"
You have nearly ruined the best plant
that was ever set up, set up by the
wisest and best body ofmen that has
assembled on this earth to form a
civil government. You have plumber
Ell it and would now bankrupt and
starve its workman. You shall be
stopped IL your mad career for gold
and power.
You have fattered and intoxicated
and eutrapped and corrupted our
secretaries Of the treasury at your
dinners IN New York. You shall do
it no more-you and your crowd.
We have champion clean and pure
and wise and incorruptible as Lin
coin whom your wine will never in
toxicate nor your fattery nor your
gold corrupt, who will save US from
your uuholy trickery. You can force
repudialion on most honorable
debt-paNiug, law abiding people and