Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-07-12

speaker was WlIllng ITO gamble" that
none could beat the fields in Tren-
ton. He referred to the newspaper
criticism of the movement and the
politics which had been injected into
it. He touched upon the history of
the Farmers Alliance fifteen years
ago, saying that it had come out
openly TO serve notice on the world,
the flesh and the devil that it would
go into the political mill pond, into
deep water, but it went into deep
water and there were more men
drowned than there were fishermen.
He said that President Smith had
warned the association that politics
would not be tolerated, and then he
called to mind that politics was
thrown into the recent meeting at
Greenville. He wanted to know
why Smith had not called McLaurin
down, but kind friend in the audi
ence remarked that Smith was not
present at the time. And then Till
man began to apologize, declaring
that Smith was not politician, but
was just good man who loved to
hear himself talk. He urged the
farmers to make their farms self
supporting, leaving cotton as the
surplus crop.
"The idea has been advanced" he
said, "that our mills should reach out
into the world for new markets, and
that there should be protective
tariff on cotton brought here from
Egypt. England and Germany and
other countries are competing with
the United States in Chinese terri.
tory and yet our mills have captured
it, and are in possession of the mar
ket. We have heard great deal
about the boycott by Chinese guilds
against American products. That
boycott is due TO the brutal way our
i'm migration agents have treated lead
ing Chinese people. We have got
Chinese exclusion Act 30 rigid be.
cause the laboring classes demanded
it to keep out competition. These
inspectors ignore the best visitors
FROM China, the men who are the salt
of the earth over there, al! because
labor in this country hates the coolie
and is afraid of competition. l am
against the Chinese coming here for
the reason that we have all the COL
ored people we want. Let the cool
les stay out, but it is not right TO
maltreat those leading Cinnamon who
come here to study our country, con-
ditions and people without meaning
to stay. The Guilds have threatened
to drive out American goods, and if
the word is passed down the line your
name is Dennis. / am much con-
cerned about this matter, and will
lend all my aid to prevent it, but we
Democrats are few potatoes in the
hill at Washington, and we don't cut
much figure" :.
Senator Tillman did not see how
the protective tariff would help the
farms. While on that subject he
called attention to the movement to
organize decent Republican party
in South Carolina under the name of
Commercial Democracy, before Nc
Kinley's death. He mentioned his
trip to Gaffney few years ago when
he had tilt with McLaurin, adding
that he had told McLaurin then what
he thought of him.
Quoting from his letter about hav-
ing detected "the ass's ears of the
Office seeker" under the thin disguise
of the cotton movement, Senator
Tillman said he had found certain
embryonic candidates trying to hatch
political eggs. He said again that
protective tariff on raw cotton would
not help the farmers, and then men,
toned that be had voted for tariff
on lumber because he believed it
would help the people of the low
country. "In Washington" he added,
"my policy, which some of the news
papers don't like, has been to get