The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-06-24

with the help OF o lew h6puDucans over
here who are not lost TO all sense OF
shame and decency and patriotism, TO
put the farmer on some basis, however
small, on an equality with the balance
of the country; and you can not be ac-
sused of having deserted your party
policy or your party platform or any
thing else If you try to amend the bill
so as to do justice to your own State, 70
your own constituents, and to the faf-
mers throughout the country, without
regard to politics or section.
"You can not get around the PROPOSE
ton that if it is robbery to take it away,
it would be honest and patriotism and
Democracy to restore it. 1t is not Q
question of party policy. 1t IL not Q
question of whether you would favor
bounties per Sc as party policy If you
had the framing OF the bill, but it is.
simply question as to whether you
will endesvor to amend this bill In q
way to do justice to your people.
This may be a new Democracy,
which seeks to lead some Of as into the
camp of the enemy as the Senator
from Texas twitted us with yesterday.
1t may be q new evangel CT Democracy
to ask YOU to amend this iniquitous
tariff measure or vote to amend it so as
to restore to your people that which
you say they have been robbed of; but
to my mind it is the essence of Demo
cracy to proclaim equality, the cardi-
mol doctrine of our party, rather than
to offer your constituents the dry husk
and the Sodom apples of party plat
forms for revenue only
lit is not q question Of how you are
going to get the money. The money
is there. They proclaim that they OK
pect a surplus; they are proclaiming
that they want to increase the gold re-
serve to $3.50, 900, 600, so as to absorb
some of this prospective surplus. They
have proclaimed desire to retire the
greenbacks by locking up this money
in the treasury. You have the oppor-
tunity to force them to show their hands
by voting to pay out $40, 600, 900 to the
farmers who make wheat and cotton,
who have been robbed in every schodnle
of this bill, and you say, no; / viii
not do it because it is not Democratic;
it is not for revenue only Great God,
such Democracy They ask You for
bread and you offer them Q stone; they
ask you for an adherence to your prfn
ciples and you put up mummy LABEL
ed tariff for revenue only. The ques-
ton is with you gentlemen.
sYou have got the telescope with the
big end close to your eye, the little end
sway off yonder, and at the other end
you see, Tariff for revenue only.
Turn it around and you viii zee
Equality as the cardinal doctrine OF,
Democracy; Equal rights for all, spe-
cial privileges for none;' The greatsst
good for the greatest number. These
are the fundamental principles OF De-
mocracy as understand the word. and
I propose to stand by them. You vllIs
not accept it, you will not support it
you will not vote for it because you put
party platforms above party principles
and party policy above the principles
of Jefferson and of jackson.
"For my part, I believe in getting
everything out Of this tariff business
that we can get, for if the policy OF the
government is to be one OF robbery or
to be one of special classes or T9iv-
ileges, while I know il is impossible for \
the Southern States to get anything
like their share, then when ] can put
ANYTHING into the bill which viii gIyo
us only small proportion OF Whist =
our due, I shall vote to put It tbera
A tariff tax ON cotton VIII 90
us no good. There are very lew
planters out of the millions who raise
cotton who grow eea-iafand or long
staple cotton or anything Of that kind
The tax on wheat the tax on corns v1l
do the Western farmers no good. ana
you know it Do You think that we
are idiots and fools that you can cram
down our throats and get us TO vote:
with you on that proposition ? Do you
not know that this country cannot ab-
sorb our surplus and that we have got
to export il? Do you not know thAt I
the surplus is lowered in price By resa-
on of the destruction of one OF the
money metals Of the world !? Do you :
not know the only way you can RAISE
the price ofagricultural exports Is to Ie.
store silver and thereby increase the
volume of the money Of the world 3
"I take my stand for equality Of benz
eft and equality OF burden as the high
est and noblest principle Of Democra-
CIV, and will fight for il here and elise
where as long as I have breath. 1may
be alone now, but the time VIII come
speedily when that principle VIII III.
umph in this government or liberty wiN
cease to claim America as her home
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