The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-04-30

believe, and right here will prove it..
When tried to show some Of tho no.
iarious actions being perpetuated in
South Carolina when | was Governor,
every daily and four-fifths of the week
lies In tho state rose up to down my
voice which was lifted in tho right,
but | have an organ of my own. (Thc
speaker put his finger to his tongue.
challenge my opponents to meet mo
on tho stump before tho people who
are the powcr Of the natiOn--the COM
mon people, and decide upon the qucs-
tion with the ballot. That is all that
we need now. Have tho honest mon
go before tho people and tell them
what is being done to enslave them.
But whore, oh where are there enough
honest men to before 10000, 900 Of peo-
pie, when the leaders Of tho different
parties previously agree what policy is
to be carried out on the matter at
stake before they appear beforo the
people? 1t is a noticeable thing in
every city that the Doodle aldermen
have sold this or that franchise to
some corporation; that this legislature
has been bribed to pass that bill. Our
politics have got to be cesspool, and
We deserve to be brought TO the bar Of
our own conscienccs for the low and
despicable condition in which we find
ourselves. We are responsible for it,
source, and II the people arc idiots
they'deserve what they are getting.
But why should | be for silver ?
There was never pound produced in
South Carolina, and there are more
silver men in that State than there are
IN Kansas, at the door Of d silver-prO-
ducing State. A few men In the Sen
ate and the goldbugs in New York
keep agitating the money question
and say it is only the people out here
who want bimetalism, because their
chief production is silver. This con-
splracy has been entered into with
england by these mon who have BAN
bonzled the people with that PROPOSE
ton. These powers who constitute
the privileged and money classes have
| reduced the standard one-half, and it
lies In the sense OF any man that If you
have cut off one-half Of the money or
ultimate redemption the other half
must fill the vacuum. II there is too
much money it becomes cheap. If
there IS too little it becomes dear.
This ts truism. But there arc q
great number of people in this country
who vote for their party under the
proposition that it is greater than the
| country.
Let me illustrate the double stand
ard by farming. The simile is simple.
Let US present two plates of butter,
one yellow and one white, and let
every man in this audience have q
biscuit apiece. On the plates there is
enough for all. But around comes
John sherman and Grover Cleveland.
Cleveland smells the butter on ono
plate and says that's not good. Con-
gressmen must condemn that butter {;
smells 1t again don't think it sound.
Now If any fellow will say he got as
much butter for his biscuit as II the
two plates had been used, he is fool.
What is fiat money? The Latin
word means $50 be it," 1t means law.
Take gold and hammer it into fat
piece and it Is not money. You cannot
force your creditor to take it, but a
gold dollar is ~ gold dollar by reason of
the law !; SO is q silver dollar dollar {:
so is a greenback. They are all fat
Yet Carlisle and Cleveland and every
other scoundrel who claims to be a
fool only for the purpose of making
tools OF you, says you cannot affect the
values OF the metals by legislation.
Carlisle said SO in Memphis, and so saw
all of his ilk. Take So and place thenl
side by side--a gold dollar, silver dol
lar and paper dollar. The paper dol
lar is a dollar because it is redeemable
by coin. The silver dollar used to be
q lar because it was q dollar. 1t is
now only a 50-cent dollar. Let us burn
| them to see. The paper dollar goes up
in smoke, tho silver dollar melts and
becomes bullion, the gold dollar melts
and Is bullion, too. The gold is the
favorite metal in Congress and it can
go to tho mint and get a new dress.
The silver is turned out in the cold be-
cause 1T is 50.cent dollar, and vet
these men say that law does not affect
the value of the metal They bam-
boozle the people Of this nation, and
we must submit the matter to interna-
| tiOnal agreement. We must submit to
the money-makers and the monarchs
| OF Europe. If we must, why did we
mako the declaration Of independence
We whipped the British and the To-
ries, both, in that revolution when we
had only 5000, 900. We whipped Great
Britain in 1872 with only 100000.
| When the war Of secession was ended
England clustered, but when the ulti-
matum was sent in she admitted to az
bitration and paid the bill. And now,
IN our zenith Of power, whom VIC arc
to-day the most powerful nation on the
BlODe, we are asked to lall at England g
feet and ask permission to adopt ccr-
tain monetary policy.
| Senator Tillman read some extracts
from London paper Of recent issue,
IN which it was stated that owing to its
condition this country was never better
able to stand an increase in tax cs, that
the people in general were well salts
fled and well paid, and commenting
upon the utterance Of the chancellor
OF the exchcquer, he said
And yet we are told by the admi MIS-
tration that we are to go to these pco-
ple for our policy. The productions Of
America are carried to England at
nall their value to enrich that people
and to the impoverishment of our own.
l. saw it stated in ST. Louis paper
that Senator Teller said he would stand
by the nominee Of the Republican par
ty at the st. Louis convention Let me
remark right here an elaboration OF
that idea. If we had any statesman.
ship in conducting our affairs, if VIC
had any patriotism, If we had any in.
sight which took in this whole vast
country and sought to DrOtect IT, curc.