The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1899-09-21
TILLMAN IN NEW ENGLAND.
THE MAN WITH THE HOE"

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mont or tho Negro In tho North i
Hypocritical.
In his speech at Providence, II I.
to the Bimetallic League, Senate
Tillmau said somo very plain things tt
his hearers, to which they wore not &C
customed. He said the PHILIPPINE wa
was disgrace to the United States
and he severely condemned impe ria
lism. He also criticised New ENGLAND
capitalists, anC charged them with
being q party to slave conditions in
the Hawaiion Islands on sugar planta
tions.
| In describing tho speech the CORE
spondent to the Boston Post said:
In language emphatic and sarcasm
| most biting, with his index finger
! pointed at the audience, he handled
the topics Of the day in q fashion now
to the experience Of New England an.
diences, and for time the people
looked amazed. The audience soon
became accustomed to his manner of
presenting his argument, so that when
he had finished they cried for More.
moro. Go on" and applauded SO long
that tho Senator was obliged to bow
his acknowledgements several times,
Lynching In tho South he upheld tho
right OF the negro to the ballot w it'll
out the educational qualification he
condemned, and he regarded the treat
ment OF tho negro in the North as
hypocritical.
Senator Tillman said among other
things: "Thc warmth OF your well
como leads me to remark that it has
not been SO long ago that man from
the south and from South Carolina
who would have come to Now England
to discuss national issues would have
met with very different treatment.
(Laughter and applause) | take it,
my friends, rs augury Of better days
for the republic that the Spanish war,
II it has done nothing else, is worth ali
that it cost in tho fact it has proved
that the South will fight for the Stars
and Stripes as readily as you will. cloud
applause.)
I'VE have been Ia existence as a ma
tion not quite l25 years, and we have
been in the habit Of boasLiDg that we
have the greatest nation On tho globe,
the freCst nation, the land OF the free
and the home Of the brave the asv-
lum for the oppressed. But, NV
friends, | tell you that as far as | can
sec We are approaching a crisis when
we will have TO change the policies of
this government or VIC will witness
the destruction Of the republic and the
for it Of d government of
the few rich people controlling and op-
pressing and robblng tho masses.
(Loud appiause.)
You New Eng have som.
which, to my mind. are
most admirable. You have some insti-
tutiOns among you that are not equal
ed elsewhere in the United States, and !
at heart you are as clean and honor
able and high-toned and patriotic
rs l have ever met. But,
my countrymen, | want to have you to
recollect this one hhing-that South OF
the Potomac and West OF the Missis
are in New England and in all the
country outside Of those limits. Zap
plausc.) The people south OF the OHIO
and Potomac and west OF the Mtssis-
sippi can elect q President without
your help and in spite of you. Zap
plausc aud cries of Hear, hcar.')
' Therefore it is we'll for you to have
it recalled to your minds that this is d
great country, and that it kas more
interests than center around New Eng.
land or New York or the Middle
States: that these interests are now
being neglected that one-half of the
ptpHlt pl ILLS crnhfIy AtS HctnH CD
pressed, and that it is being done by
your consent and through your votes.
( (Applause.)
You have seen nothing in your
except sophistrics and
fnlsehoOds, therefore how could you
understand the subject? How could
you be made to know that all this rot
and twaudic that you have read WAS
being bought by the capitalists who
sought to throw dust in your eyes to
enable them TO get your votes in their
schemes to oppress the rest OF the
country and oppress you along with us?
{ Loud applause.l
'Now you have had an eloquent allu-
sion to the poem Of Edward Markham,
The Man With the Hoe, and to Mil
lais' great painting. | represent the
man with the hue. | am known as
Farmer Tillman in the United States
Senate (laughterl and there are 30
OOO, 600 Of them in this country, ana
rs | am the only farmer,
you can not blame me if present to
you the aspects Of public questions as
they appear to the farmers and as they
affect them.
" You people in New England no |
longer have the agriculturc. You arc |
segregated in towns and villages On |
gagged in manufacturing, and therefore |
you know nothlng about conditions |
which exist elsewhere, where men
nave TO toll and sweat from morning
until night in pursuit of those avoca.
tions OF the farmer whore they dig out
OF the soil the support Of themselves
ana their familics-tne Man With q
hoe who takes 10000, 600 bales Of cot
ton from tho ground, who raises the
wheat, who raises the corn, the oats,
tho peel, tho pork, the brendstuirs, tho
, cheese, the butter, and all the other
agriculturai products, which constitute
S.oo'ooo,ooo Of your exports. Over
.hrcc quarters OF it Is dlscriminatcd
against in Washington, is ignored nnI
t his rights and interests are no moro
II considered there than if he did not
It oHlst' lApplausc.) Class legislation
n ior the oenctit OF the classes, class IL =.