The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1897-06-22

cans over mere w no are not lost to a.
sense Of shame and decency and pa
; LrlOttsm, to put the farmer on som
busts, however small, on an euualit
with the balance of the country an
you can not be accused of having de
serted 20 'r party policy or your part,
platform or anything else if you try +
amend the bill so as to do Justice I,
your own State, to your own constitu
cnts, and to the farmers throughou
the country. without regard to polite
or section.
You can not get around tho proposi
tion that If it is robbery to take it away
II would be honcsty and patriotism anC
Democracy to restore it. 1t is not
question of party policy. 1t is not
question Of whether you would favo
oountles per Sc as party policy if yol
had the framing OF the bill, but it /,
simply question as to whether yol
Will endeavor to amend this bill in 1
way to do Justice to your people.
This may be "a hcw Democracy
which seeks to lead some OF us into the
camp of tho enemy" as the Senator
from Texas twitted us with Yesterday
~ may be "a new evangel OF Democra
| cy TO ask you to amend this iniuuitous
tariff measure or vote to amend 1t so as
to restore to your people that which you
say they have been rObb Il Of but &c
| my T. Ind 1T Is the essence OF DcmoCra
cy to proclaim equality, the cardinal
doctrine OF our party, rather than to
I Oner your constituents the dry husk
and the Sodom apples Of party plat
IormS Tor revenue only"
1T is rot question OF how you are
going to get the money. The money is
there. they proc lain that they expect a
surp us; they are proclaiming that they
"a MT tA h., 4
| $l0O, QUO, so as to absorb some of this
prospective surplus. They have pro-
claimed desire to retire the green
backs by locking up this money in the
| treasury. You have the opportunity
10 force them to show their hands by
voting to pay out SIC, 900, 600 to the
farmers who make wheat and cotton.
who have been robbed in every saned-
ule OF this bill, and you say, No; will
not do 1T because it is not ID Democratic :;
1t is not for revenue only Great God
such Democracy They ask you for
bread aud you offer them u stone they
ask you for an adherence to your prin-
cipl 5 and you put up "a mummy label
cd Iarlll Tor revenue only" The
question Is with you gentlemen. No
doubt you will vote in accordance with
what you believe is your duty.
say this as q farmer who has felt
the iron enter his soul by reason of the
injustice and iniquities practiced by
the protective tariff and in the name
ol the cotton and the wheat growers, |
say herc that II 1T Is not Democratic to
vote Tor this, then | am no Democrat
You have got the telescope with the
big end close to your eye, the little end
away OIL 'yonder, and at the other end
you see, "Tariif for revenue only.n
Iuru 1T around. and you will see Equal
ity' rs the cardinal doctrine of Dem
ocracy; "Equai rights, for ali, special
privileges to none :" The greatest
goC TO the greatest number These
arc jhe fundamental principles of Dem
ocracy as understand the word, and
propose to stand by them. You will
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. Well, cX.
plain 1T ii you can when you comr TO
lac" your constituents.
For my part, believe in getting
everything out Of this tariff business
that we can get, for il the policy OF the
Government is to be one OF robbery or
10 bu one oi special classes anu privi-
icees, while know it is impossible for
tnc Southern States to get anything
like their share, then when can put
anything into the bill which will give
Us only small proportion of what is
our Que, snail vote to put it there. a
tariii tax on C tton will do us no good.
There are very few planters out OF the
millions who raise cotton who grow
sea island or long-staplc cotton or any
thing uf that kind. The tax on whea.,
the tax on corn, will do the Western
farmers no good, and you know it. Do
| lt, IL s.ls
you can cram that down our thrOats
and get Us to vote with you on the p"o-
position? DO You not know that this
country can not absorb our surplus and
that we have got to export it? Do you
Eot know that the surplus is lowered
in price by reason OF the destruction of
one OF the money metals Of the world :?
Do you not know the only way in
which you can raise the price OF agri-
cultural exports is TO restore silver and
thereby increase the volume of the
money Of the world?
You do know it, and yet you say,
I'VE can not relieve the American
farmer because we must n ve interna-
tional bimctallism." You erect bar
rier between us aud Europe, your tariff,
and tlen you say, I'VE can not allow
Elg Iish free traders TO dictate our
tariff policy" but "" allow tho English
bondholdcrs to come in and buy our
Government and control our Senate
and dictate our policy in everything to
keep these men down as though they
were under the uastard,y heel OF the
Spanish butcher, Weylcr. You do
these things, and yet you stand here
claiming that you are the apostles Of
Lincoln, when you are unworthy to un-
tie the shoe latchets Of that great man.
| if he were living and you, my Demo-
cratic friends, stand here and proclaim
that you are the followers of Jefferson,
when you refuse to undo this iniquity
so far as you can, to restore to the peo-
pla small proportion that you say this
bills rObs them Of
For my par, take my stand for
'eq 'ity Of benefit and equality of
burden as the highest and noblest
principle of Democracy, and will fight
for it here and elsewhere as long az
have breath. may be alone now, but
the time will come speedily when that
principle will triumph in this Govern
ment or lib rty will cease to claim
America rs her home.
GENERAL JAMES LONCSTREET
a Northern Writer'S Opinion OF the