The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-02-05

Great Godl That this proud gov
ernment, the richest, most powerful
on the globe, should have been brought
to so low q base that a London Jew
should have been appointed its re-
ceiver and presumes to patronlze us.
"The responsibility of providing
revenue and looking after the solven-
cy of the Treasury, which rests with
Congress, has been usurped by the
President. Why is he not impeacheda
Because he is carrying out Republican
policies and the majority in the House
of Representatives feel safe and be-
lieve that they are certain to elect the
next President and obtain control OF
the government. They are willing to
load down the incompetent or dishon-
est Democracy, say the incompetent
and dishonest Democracy, with the
odium of misgovernment to lend their
help by acquiescence in wrong-doing.
The policy is to do nothing-to pre-
serve q mastery inactivity-and only
obstruct where relief can be given.
1.-THE encroachments of the Federal
judiciary, and the supineness and We
nality-corruption may say-of the
representative branches of the govern
ment, are causes of deep concern to
all thinking and patriotic men. We
are fast drifting into government by
injunction in the interest of monopo-
lies and corporations, and the Supreme
Court, by one corrupt vote, annuls an
Act of Congress looking to the taxa
tions of the rich.
"The struggle from 1861 to 1865,
which drenched this fair land in blood,
was to emancipate 100000 black
slaves. We are fast approaching a
condition which will place the collar
of industrial bondage around the necks
of ten times that many white slaves.
I would not predict revolution or war
if did not feel that relief must come
either by the ballot, or that an effort
will be made in few years to obtain
it by bullets. You may look upon me
as an enthusiast, as an alarmist, or as
an anarchist, but with the sober con-
victiens of common sense I tell you
that the teaching of all history is be-
lied and we must surrender the be-
lief that like causes produce like ef-
fects if men expect that the millions
now out of employment and the other
millions who are working out hope
less existence of toll year in and year
out, the women stitching in poverty,
hunger and dirt, the men bearing their
hopeless burdens of debt, all directly
traceable to bad government, will not
some day have reckoning"
In concluding the Senator said: "a
day of reckoning will come, unless
there is no longer just God in heav-
en-, and when it does come, woe be
unto those who have been among the
oppressors of the people. The present
struggle is unfortunately too like that
which preceded the late civil war, in
asmuch as it is sectional. The cred
itor and the manufacturing States of
the North and East, those which have
grown inordinately wealthy at the ex-
pense of the producing classes of the
South and West, are urging this policy
with the besotted blindness of Bel
shazzar. The old shareholders of the
South were not more arrogant or more
determined.
"The sordid desrotism of wealth, to
use the apt phrase of Justice Brown,
is already felt throughout the land.
"You have already been told in
glowing language by the eloquent
Senator from Missouri that the con-
fict is 'irrepressible' and it is easy to
see from the temper and feeling of the
equally distinguished Senator from
Colorado and other Western Senators
that the struggle for the new emanci.
patton has begun. And the new Ma
son and Dixon's line, which is drawn
not by the surveyor but by the denial
of the. natural and alienable right to
life, liberty and the pursuit of happi-
ness to a large majority of citizens,
will sooner or later bring together in
the bonds of union the toiling and
now downtrodden masses of the cities
and the equally desperate masses of
the country; agrarianism and COM
munism will join hands. There are
millions now on the march and they
tramp, tramp, tramp the sidewalks
hunting work, and tramp the high.
ways begging bread. Unless relief
comes, they will some day take no.
ton to tramp to Washington with ri
fes in their hands to regain the liber-
ties which have been stolen from
them, or which the representatives
have sold, and the hitherto conserva-
tive force of the republic-the well-to-
do agricultural class-wiu lift no
hand to stay the march, but join it.
God grant that our country may be
spared the enactment of such scenes as
were witnessed in Paris in 1889. But
the fair flower of liberty planted by
Jefferson in the immortal declaration
of the Fourth of July, 1776, watered
by the blood of our Revolutionary
sires under Washington, cannot be
lprooted or smothered by the noxious
weeds of monopoly and class privilege
without bloodshed.
Senator Tillman closed at 4 o'clock.
With sarcastic irony he thanked his
colleagues for not having adjourned
and left him to deliver his speech to
any empty hall. At the close Of his
remarks the members of the House
from South Carolina and many others
crowded around him and congratu-
lated him.
"Pay as You Co."
The farmer cannot succeed until he