The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-03-27
BHM r1II1xAws pRopHEuY
DecTieS What Blind WON'T See
FORECAST OF Lincoln, like SiinpIies.
it's and TillnsnsIike Frank
~ ness T.. sEls

p6ftunltS for men Is the object for
which Senator, Tillmun contends i'll
his report tu the United States sell
ate on the railroad rate bill Argu-
ing iii support of that demand we
do, not behold the ranting dtRnagogue
of old armed with pitehfdrE and
clustering Il blasphemous TRADE.
This Ben Till,nnn is tile cool log;-
teian,, ttte calm contluvelsialisi's who
writes an earnest, dispassionata au,i
unanswerable brief for control BY
the American people OF the, Highways
that should be their own. Ben Till
man OF tile wool hat slips; out OF the
minds eye. i'll his place looms
statesinanlike figure,
Tho. Fate that intIusts, tfiae repre-.
sentative of a, discreditedl h mif1ority
with the leadership of ~ momsntuus
legislative battle on whose outcome
fortunes Of both majority and minor
lty OF the democracy are staEsd. re-
Veals TO us the shining worthGf this
human diamond in tile rough Chirr
wonder nf his performance IL, the rail
road Grew in senate, being resolved
To assasiuate the square deaf program
and having relinquished tile. maior-
ity's duty to the minority IN order
tho better to ply their Knives Should
have appointed IL chief moutner a
very AntouY to mike the stones cry
out in mutiny: "
Senator Tillman, once the most
rampant Of radicals, offers here il
plan, at which. the younger generation
will live to marvel FOR its moderation.
We have here the most frenzied nf
the Bryan agitators preaching the
doctrine of conservatism as the ONLY
escape from political ant sacial rev0-
luton. The breaking down of party
lines in the senate on this: tissue III
the strange manner he Describes. IS
only one OF the unprecedented fea-
tul'es OF the struggle between people
and privilege. In the new alignment
of forces We see OIL the side OF rad-
calism, passionately urging inmetia-
ate government ownership or outright
sociallsm, men heretofore known Or
their mild insistence on caution. ~
the other side, pleading for the M
lmnn, Of effective government suprr.
vision, are the 'middle-of-therro -
non-compromisers, the brandishers
of pitchforks, the "'rburn-your-
cities y horde Of two incen1iary cam
paigns- Your genuine conservatives
Of today, the leaders who stand for
reasonable redress Of existing wrongs
"a against those Drastic and convul-
slpe remedies to which the people
would repair as their alternative, are
the Tiilmans and Bryans, and even
the Tom Watson "a, Of yesterday.
There is not line In the TilImau
program to which the supporters of
the Roosevelt Republican policy can
not subscribe
Reasonable return to railroads, but
always and only on actual capital
invested, and not on oceans Of water.
Prohibition Of railroads From, erea-
tins che freight in competition with
their shipper in addition to carrying
il. -.
Confirmation Of the long-used aud
ong-challenged power Of the In
terstate Commerce Commission TO
abolish extortionate> rates.
Prison stripea for rshata c7;r,;r,s1a
70 these just provisions some
things need to be added. Nothing
can be taken away without continu-
ing the. cruel injastice which rail
roads and their creatures Standard
oil, beef trust, coal trust and hun
dred private monopolies are indict-
ing daily upon the people. {
With his single prophetic eye this
champion Of American freedom from
ecoriomte saackicc: can decry the
diss.ster that tho blind and blunder-
ing Nnaves will not see, Standing
almot solitary in that Wilderness Of |
strasegems and spoils, with Lincoln
like simplicity and TiIIman-like fear
!essnees he r,ttcrs his impressive fore.
cast, of the doom the American iudg-
ment holds over the traitors and of |
ths:r odiotis system.
The citizen who is not struek by
the import oG the Tillman message
misses the meaning Of the prologue
In - ~ II. Il