The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1900-04-05
antidOte for trusts.
MIR IlLLMAN. \ lOu mean the sugar


trust!
MIR. PERKINS. For the sugar trust
These beet.sugar factories are buying
irom South Carolina the cotton CLOTH
that Is manufactured from the cotton
grown in their fields. We are buy
ing those sacks in which to put the
sugar that we may seud 1t out to our
mechanics aud Our workingmeu. We
are paying from ST. 80 to - q day for
la Or in those factories, and each farmer
who Is cultivating the soil and raising
sugar bects is an independents severe gn
In this fair land Of ours. We are pay
ing 800, 900, COO annually fee sugar In
this country. Wewant to rlapufacture
it AT home, from our bcct Hrga;, raised
by American farmers. We DO no,
want the cheap peOn contract labor,
receiving 10, l3 or 20 ccots ~ day, tC
come into cOmDetitiOu with the labor
OF South Carolina and California.
think. perhaps, that is ore OF the
reasons which iriluenccd Cur good Pre-.
sident, because his whole life has been
devoted to protection to American in.
dustries and the elevation and dignity
OF Labor.
MIR. TILLMAN. have read some.
where that in the Koran there is a
description Of Mohammed's bridge
over hell by which those entering
heaven must pass, and think be de-
scrlbes 1t as being SO attenuated that
1T Is about the breadth Of u single be :
on wOman's head. That is about In.
size of the bridge my fciend, the Ser
tor from California, has given the Pres.
ioe . ~ crawl out Of the hole in which
he was pot when he sent the free trade
message here aud then backed water
and changed front on it.
MIR. PERKINS. How about the tobacco
industry OF South Carolina
MIR TILLMAN. Speaking about the
alluslon which my friend has made.
will say to him, as to the purchase bv
the sugar producers OF the cotton bar rs
IN which to put the sugar Of the few
factories in the United States, that we
sre very glad to furnish the cotton
cloth, il it comes from my State, but
the Misunderstanding industry Of South
CarOlina-the manufacture OF cotton
principally we will say in 1890
showed that there were only 100 900
spindlcs, has doubled and trch!cd since.
until they have now eighteen hundred
thousand spindles and prop0rtionatc
number OF looms. Since the lst OF
January we have organized new mills
or given charters to new enterprises
~
OUO and we are reaching out hand over
fist to Overtakc Massachusetts. We
are al already the second State in the
manufacture Of cotton. We do not
lind bit OF protection from the Ding
ley tar'N, because we export all of that
cloth to China: and we nave to com.
pete with England; and we do it, and
we whip them, and make 20 TO 10 per
cent. dlVlGcnds on our cotton factories.
THE SiI0l Gun pOLlCN IN S"UwU
CAEOL'NA.
Senator Spooncr, Of Wisconsin, eX-
pressed the opinion that South Caro-.
lima was the last place 90 earth to orig
mate any impcachmC Mt OF the Rcpub-
lican party as to the principle Of Cuual-
ity among men, and sald he bascu the
observation partly upon the testimony
Of Senator Til!man, who stated the
other day that they had made a great
effort in South Carolina to disfranchise
the "nigger;' that they had stuffed the
ballot boxes, and that they had used
the shOt.gun against them. That is
why | say that from South Carolina
there ought not to come criticism upon
the Republican party as being opposed
TO equality among men.
MIR. TlLLMAN. Mr.. President, in
J g,
and 10 Justify it. ! have not the dncu.
ments at hand to sustain all the charges
| make, but ] will, briefly and in the
best way | can, reCaDitulate the condi-
tions which brought about the neces-
sity for stuiiiing ballot boxes, for sh oot-
ing negroes, and for using violence ana
fraud in taking charge Of our State
government in South Carolina The
Senator, | suppose, did not understand
me to say that such conditions exist
there now, because | have never made
any such acknowledgement.
proclaimed the fact that in 1876,
when we had stood eight years OF car
petbag government and there was moth
ing left us Of our civilization unless We
rose in Our might and took the govern
mcnt back from the carpctbdg horde
Of thieves and scOundrels aud their
scala"ag allies, the native born rap.
scailions, who had been fOisted upon
Ms at the point OF tho bayonet-whon
government ceased to yield protection,
when there was scmi-anarchy, when
5000 armed negro militia were parad
ing up and down the roads, threaten
ing our wives and our children and our
homes, when at night burning houses
were lighting up the horizon in almost
every county, when the conditions
were so appalling that any kind OF
government, any military lespotism
was preferable to that, we made no our
minds that the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments to the Constitution were
themselves null and void; that the acts
OF Congress under them placing our
State under carpetbag rule were null
and void; that oaths required by such
laws were null and void, we resolved
that the intelligence, the wealth, and
the patriotism Of the State, belonging
only to the white people, should seize
the government from the horde OF ip-
norance and vice; that we would not
longer tolerate bribe.tak on the
bench and thieves in our high places;
that life was not worth having on the
terms and under the conditions forced
on us.
We swore by the memories OF revolu
tiOnary sires that we would redeem our
State from the grasp Of aliens and
negroes, and we did il: and have no
apologies TO make for t. If you con.
tend that no indictment o. Republicans
can come from South Carolina, | will
tell you that the Republican party was
responsible for that condition Of things;
! will tell you that Grant, who was
then President sent the army thprp tC