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

to bim like the old man of the sea. Az
tor he has paid his taxes and the fixed
charges on his farm, that mortgage is
growing larger, or If tho mortgage has
boon forecloscd, he is IL tramp.
Lot us suppose we have the free
coninago OF silver, and that our dollar
would bo worth ono hundred ccnts.
Wheat would sell for GO cents bushcl,
or double the price. That is simply q
question OF political economy. Tho
Nebraska farmer will carry his wheat
to London and gets out of it 30 cents d
bushel. He would bring that amount
nome and pay double the amount on
MS mortgage that he does now. SO
would say to the debtors, and [ know
you are not in so overwhelming q ma.
jority that the other follows are OF in
1T, If you do throw that burden or, YOU
should take up the question and vote
honestly.
Whom the bill for free coinage was
being agitated in Congsoss In 1890 sill
yer won't up TO l02. How long will it
take to bring it to 16 toll? They saw
If this happens We will have Il panic.
Let 1t como. | say that, because |
would not have torture deferred. Let
us have the agony over. Let thom
foreclose If they dare.
And here | shall say to the owners of
mortgages, those who arc present, YOU
are laying the foundation which will
carry the wealth up in smoke some duy
ana will carry you to u lamp post with
rope around your necks. | say this
IN tho light OF history, because the abb
sorption OF woalth has been tho ruin Of
every empire, Persia, Assyria, Rome,
Greece, and you cannot change the law
winch makes empires grow and then
rot and die. Thoy have not made you
all slaves.
If you are 80 lost to tho aspirations
OF freemen that you can continue to
press onward with those lenders who
arc going to pcrdition and bringing
you With them, you are putting the
last straw on tho camel's back and it
will stand no longer. Where will this
new French revolution break out IA
voicc-"New York :" another-"South
Carolina" No, sir, thank God, we
tried revolution once in South Carroll
ma. and wo got dose. But whenever
you and enough Americans in this
country are ready you will find South
Carolina will respond. We arc ready
now to respond with votes, and we
hope that you have the sensc to do like
wise. If you don't, at some future day
this anarchistic and cOmmunistic Gle
ment which is in our cities by the mil
lion, driven to desperation, will arise,
the modern bastilo will be captured,
the army taken and the millionaire fu-
gltlves done like tho mobiles of Franco
in 17S9-9l. This does not come from q
disordered brain. History must repeat
itself.
One OF tho class words which roll un-
der the tongue Of fmOnOmetalists is over
production. If we raise too much why
are there so many starving, ill-clad
people? The over-production which
ls running this county is the over
production of rascals in Office and
the fools who put them there. The
conditions which exist to-day arc
these: The northwestern States have
given up in the production of stable
crops. They devote themselves to tho
products which can be sold near in tho
clty-buttcr, fruit, eggs, etc.
And they arc meeting the competi-
tion OF the west by standing by their
farms which are worth only half of
what they were. There are millions
or farmers In tho west who are flooding
a great big, old COW, big enough to
have her head on the Pacific coast and
reaching all around the sea coast towns
to the Atlantic. Inc farmers are haul
ing their products to put into this COW.
Where does the milk go? That cows
bag hangs over New York city and
there are India rubber tubes reaching
into the national banks and over the
sea to England. Pierpont Morgan,
whom Carlisle gave another teat u
short time ago, Jay Gould and a few
Ofhnr fp oil h~
New York and see how they live, you
benighted, blind, ignorant workers.
The cows milk goes into tho palatial
residences and stately yachts which
have made Manhattan Island, bought
from tho Indians for $40, richer than
the greatest State in the wcst--it could
buy you. They have already bought
IRON you Congress and the supreme
court-and they stand by the party and
you stand by the party.
Along como the Eopulists with their
platform, in which there is one gcnu-
inc piece of good, the income tax, a tax
which appeals to the sense of Justice,
OF any man in this country, England
has it, France is going to lcvy it. They
passed the income tax bill, sickly lit
tie thing that wouldn't hurt anybody,
lcvying $50, 900, 900 to holp support the
government which protects their prop
crty. Thcy set to work to put tho
thing In motion, but it did not work.
They took anothcr COW with its head
at Manhattan and the bag over Wash
ington. A few Populists tried to milk
into the treasury, but the fellows in
Now York kept feeding the COW cou-
pons till they choked her to death.
They have sold themselves to tho rail
roads, so that they get injunctions
whenever strike comes on under the
construction of tho law sustained by
the supreme court. We have seen q
man committed to prison for no crime
whatever, simply because that man put
into force q true and just principle.
(Shouts Of Debs, Debs.)
They purchased the President and
the income tax and gave moro millions
to the rich and moro poverty to the
poor, and yet you vote their ticket.
You did 1T yourselves, don't grumblc
over your physic. Now, gentlemen, |
think | have said enough. Shouts of
go on, go on.") Well, / suppose
will. | am like the wild man from
Bornco, and you have good circus.
will close by paraphraso by one
Of the most distinguished men Of the
| country and an aDOstlc Df liharty yuhp