The argus., 1896-02-13

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the war; to carry his policy into
effect, he did not call an extra ses-
sion to give tariff reform to the peo-
pie, but instead called congress to-
gether to stop the coinage of silver"
Again, referring to the president,
he said: eff he was honest at the
start land 1 am willing to grant that
much), his association with Wall
street and his connection with veal
thy men have debauched his con-
science and destroyed all sympathy
with the masses"
Further on, in discussing the gold
question, he said: "Rothschild and
his American agents graciously con-
descend to come to the help of the
United States treasury in maintain
ing the gold standard which has
wrought the ruin, and only charges
small commission of ten million
dollars or so. Great God, that this
proud Government, the richest most
powerful on the globe, should have
been brought to so low pass that
London capitalist should have been
appointed receiver and presume to
patronize us.
''The responsibility of providing
revenue and looking after the SOL
vency of the treasury, which rests
with Congress, has been usurped by
the president. Why is he not i'm
peached9
The encroachments of the Feder-
al judiciary and the supineness and
venality-corruption, I may say-of
the representative branches of the
Government are causes of deep con-
Germ to all thinking and patriotic
men. We are fast drifting into a gov
ernment by injunction in the inter
est of monopolies and corporations,
and the supreme Court, by one cor
rupt vote, annuls an Act of Congress
looking to the taxation of the rich.
The struggles from 1861 to 1865
which drenched this fair land in
blood was to emancipate 100000
black slaves. We are fast approach
ing a condition which will place the
collar of industrial bondage around
the necks of ten times that many
white slaves, A day of reckoning
will come unless there is no longer a
Just God in heaven, and when it does
come, woe be unto those who have
been among the oppressors OF the
people. The present struggle is, un-
fortunately too, like that which pre-
ceded the late civil war, inasmuch as
it is sectional. The creditor and the
manufacturing States of the North
and East have grown inordinately
wealthy at the expense of the pro-
ducing classes of the South and West,
and are urging this policy with the
besoted blindness of Belshazzar."
1t is easy to see, the senator said,
in conclusion, that the struggle for
the new emancipation had been be-
gun. There were millions now on
the march, and they tramp, tramp,
tramp, tramp sidewalks hunting
work and the highways begging
bread, and unless relief comes they
will some day take a notion to come
to Washinton with rifles in their
hands to regain the liberties stolen
them or which their representatives
have sold.
During Tillman's bitter criticism
of the President he put down his
notes and put the Senators and gal
leries in roars of laughter by telling
how, as Governor of South Carolina,
he had come here to inaugurate the
President, had stayed four hours out
in the snow and sleet until he was
nearly frozen to death to honor this
President. "And," concluded the
Senator, 81 ask God to forgive me
for doing it."
The Senator closed at O'Clock.
The members of the House from
South Carolina and many others con-
graduated him.
On Feb. Sth the ballot for Senator
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