Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-07-06

would very soon be awarded forty acres
and mule. Ee waited until patience
ceased to be virtue, whom he visited q
young lawyer, soliciting him to prepare
his papers for tho Same. The lawyer
demanded the usual flve dollar fee. The
darkey didn't have but three and q half,
but he willingly surrendered that. The
lawyer prepared his papers and he in
vaded his masters field. The owler
finding him stalking off his land de-
manded his right to do 30. The darkey
drew his papers which read as follows
"As Moses lifted UP tho serpent in tho
wilderness, 80 have lifted this darnod
darkey out Of three and a half dollars"
1t has boon said all over this State that
the Alliance was great political organi-
cation for designing politicians to ride
into office on. All rotl l dofy any ono
to point out any man who has gone into
Office through tho Alliance who was not
worthy of their principles. Tho poll
ticians have not ridden the Alliance to
death; but it is tho credit systom that
has effected it. No living man can toll
the Influence t;.., Alliance has oxertsti in
this great country. According to thoir
demand the income. tax law was passed.
Tho olect!cn Of Senators by direct voto
passed the House and only failod in the
Sonste. The anti-option law passed. tho
House to meot tho same defoat in tho
ScDate. What Ia our condition to day ?
AS Lincoln said it would DO, wisely said,
just at tho close of tho last war, corpo-
ratio wealth and trusts IRE ruling this
country and will continue to do so until
organized effort on tho part of tho many
shall checkmate them.
The speaker advised his farmer hearers
to diversity thoir crops; plant their waste
lands in grasses for pasture and intro
duce tho industry of stock raising. Ho
assured thom tho Government would
furnish tho seeds.
And next comes tho Hon. w. j. Tol-
bert. He said that hc folt ut q loss to
know what to say. All his distinguished
friends had boon given their subjects,
but ho was launched without ono. uo
would tako for his subject "Woman"
but for tho fact that ho had learned that
womon arc sovereign and not subject
Howcvor, ho was like tho old darkey
when he went to preach. Hc said that
ho had not determined upon subject,
but they would find it in tho Bible be-
tween Generation and Resolution; that
thoy ought to read their Biblo anyway,
and if they would study it, thoy would
find the subject. Tho speaker said they
would find his subject between Genera
tion and Resolution.
Mr.. Tolbcrt addressed the people at
some longth and his address was filed
with humorous anecdotes, wit and irony,
as wcll as somo good hard sonso and
reason. The weary crowd was livoncd
up and listoncd to tho speaker with much
interest. This country, Ii, said, belonged
to no man or set of mon, but belonged to
us all.
The noxt and last speaker was Senator
Is. Z. Tillman. IIo arose and compla-
comfy viewed tho crowd, and all atten-
tion seomcd to DO concentrated on him.
The crowds began to gather in until
there was hardly standing room for n
hundred foot around tho platform. His
subject was 'Tho Condition Of tho Coun-
try and the Tendencies Thereof" Ho
began by saying that this is our national
Ebirthday-Ono that wo should DO proud
of. A hundred and twonty- three years
ago this government that wo all love so
we'll was established and organized. 1t
should bo protected by lis, for us and our
descendants, if it cost tho last drop of
blood in our veins. IIo congratulated
tho people upon tho good order mani
tested, notwithstanding tho fact that
mountain dow was so plentiful. Our
forcfathors bequoathcd to us liberty and
a love of liberty; but wo arc now no
longer free people. Wo arc bondsmon
"Who made us soP' asked somo ono in
tho crowd. "Tho follows who voted to
put sco'lndrels in Office, who represented
corporations and wealth and not tho
people," retortcd tho speakor. Tho
crowd began to draw Dcarcr around tho
stand. The speaker sai': ''I have boon
running round all over tho States of this
Union to SEQ, if could, why our serious
condition oxistod. I fine Congressman
in numerous conventions bought and
sold like 80 many cattle, both in tho
Northern and Western States. / told
these people that they would never rom
cdy the affairs of this governments; that
they woro n mOngi race and impotont
to save us. At this they jerred mo to
tho echo"
If this country is ever saved it must bo
through the influence of tho Southern
people, who ruled the first seventy fivo
years of our existence. If wo are to
recover, tho South must again be in tho
saddle. Tho God of Destiny is shaping
our ond, and will shape it, rough huo it
as we may. Wo are to-day shooting
down human beings, the Fnipinos-for
whatp Because, forsooth, they love and
ask for freedom, as wo did ono hundred
and twonty-threo years ago. 1t scoms to
mo that God has made tho Republicans
mad that thoy may destroy themselves.
| fcol to-day that their conduct in tho
Philippines will bury them and land our
honored hero, w. j. Bryan, in tho White
House in the fall of 1900 loud choor-
ing.]
Tho speaker condemned in unmoasurcd
terms the administration for undertake
ing to subjugato tho Philippines, saying
that If that was tho way wo had of