Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-06-18

of pensions from $165,000,000 to
$235, ,O00,0 900 every year. That put to
flight even the Republican senate. CAL
linger was staggered; McCumber was
aghast. But the Republican senate
had to do something and so 1t reduced
the swag to $25,000,0 900 a year for in
crease. Now, there never was gen.
eraL pension bill enacted by the Amer
lean congress that did not cost I'M
more than the estimates.
I'm 1873 James A. Garfield, general
in the Federal army, was chairman OF
and he apologized FOR
a pension bill that carried $3O,ooo'-
600, promising that 1t was Nigh
water mark" for pensions. General
Grant himself something of real
soldier, said in a message to congress
hat $30,O00,000 was extravagant. That
was eight years after the war, when
hundreds of thousands Of soldiers now
dead were living; but AZ years after
the war Champ Clark demands pen
sion bill, calling for $235,OOO,OOo
year. The Republican senate refused
It him, and made him put up with
bill that takes from the people $780,
300, 900 every year for pensions.
Our presidents come high, but this
IS ruinous. It Is not possible that
Champ Is worth that much.
A Sad Reverie.
In a rather sad reverie one might
revert to the time in 1861, when many
Of the best blood Of the Gibraltar
district went south. Those Of them
who survived their heroic deeds In
the field returned to the old Kentucky
home in 1865. They were bankrupt
in everything except honor and vaior
and glory. They set about the struggle
for daily bread, and they were made
acquainted with hardship. Under an In
famous system Of taxation. mostly for
private graft, the south has paid for
pensions hundreds Of millions, In ex-
cess Of a billion. Germany did not
exact as much from France when
France, though beaten, was the rich
est nation of the world. The daugh-
ters Of the horseleech would have
ceased to cry. "Give, give" the barren
womb would have voted itself satiate.
Not so Champ Clark. He says 1t Is
not enough, and demands that more
taxes be gathered from the men In
the Gibraltar district, who rode and
fought with Morgan and Forrest and
marched and fought with Buckner
and Lewis, to swell the pensions OF
the men Of the Eleventh district, who
marched and burned through Georgia
with Sherman.
That Is the kettle Of fish Ollie
James provides for the Gibraltar dis
trict o, for a day Of Ed Grassland!
20, my son Absalom, my son, my son
Absalom!" o, Ollie, Ollie. restrain
yourself. Do not put the Gibraltar
district in the same basket with the
Osawatomie John Brown dis
trict!
Liquor Interests.
The liquor interests are in politics
this year, and they will live to repent
It. There is young man in congress
from North Carolina, the Hon. Edwin
Y. Webb. Months ago Mr.. Webb in
troduced a bill in the body Of which
Champ Clark is speaker, with this
title: ITO divest intoxicating liquors of
their interstate commerce character
in certain cases." When this bill
passes, IL it ever does, alcoholic liquors
can not be legally shipped from In
diana into a dry" county in Ken
lucky.
My old Kentucky farmer friend,
this bill would do more to keep whis-
ky out of the reach Of that noble
boy of yours. the apple Of your eye.
the idol of his mother and the pride
Of his sisters. than any other ex-
pedient possible to resort to.
Why is it not put on its passage?
Because Champ Clark is candidate
for president. That's why.
The whisky trust is pouring out
money like water in the hope to in
vest 1t in a president, and IL Champ
Clark carries Kentucky the whisky
trust will label the old commonwealth
as one Of it's assets, acquired by its
Doodle. That is the truth and every
body in Kentucky that has got any
sense knows it.
Now, I'm no saint when it comes to
liquors. I've drank it in the past and
t is possible that l will drink 1t in
The future 1 have this to say: If liv-
ing at my old home at Edmonton.
KY, 1 would vote dry" If living in
l would vote wet" but I
would not tolerate any set that would
aid the whisky trust to debauch the
politics of old Kentucky. And the
the liquor people get out of
politics the better for all.
About Jim Smith.
The first lie they told on Wilson
was about that ingratitude they allege
he exhibited toward one Jim Smith.
They say Smith nominated Wilson for
governor and elected him governor,
and then Wilson refused to support
Smith for United States senator. Who
Is this Jim Smith? He is worth mil
lions, and report hath it that his
money is in politics up to the elbow.
He is a magnate of the leather trust.
and you and help to swell his mil
lions whenever we buy an article in
whole or in part made of leather, for
he is highly protected by the tariff.
He is the boss of the odious Demo-
cratic machine Of Newark, Essex
county. New Jersey. In 1894 he was
a senator in congress and helped Ar
thur p. German fill to the brim the
Wilson tariff with party perfidy and
party dishonor."
There's your Smith and here's your
truth. Now listen: In 1910 the Demo-
cratic party of New Jersey had for