Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1913-08-06
sUNCLE BEN's PITCHFORK."
This Time He Jabs 1t Into a ''Brook
!, Bf lyn Democrat"

Washington, Aug. 3.-Senator
Tillman was very much aroused yes
tegaay by the receipt OF letter from
a New Yorker charking him with
making statements without founda-
tiohsin fact about the bankers Of the
metropolis The Senator answered
with old=time warmth, and then gave
the correspondence to the press. The
letters are as follows:
Brooklyn, N. Y, Aug. 1, 1913.
i@Hon. B. r. Tillman-Dear Sir:
Ifsypn would only get some informa-
tiom8as to the condition Of the
MONEY markets Of the world, which
almost any office boy in any banking
house; in Washington can give you,
yotS3%ould never make the remarks
yottaare credited as having made
against the banks of New York city
It&only hurts the Democratic party
and makes the average voter asham-
ed 4tfs see those in the Senate so lit
tie iHformed. New York city can
staNas almost all the stuff uttered in
the SSnate by those that do not seem
oiKitpw what they are talking about.
! suppose New York city is RESPONSE
Bile for crop failures, floods, etc. If
Secretary McAdoo cannot prove the
charges he has made he should be
tarred and feathered and driven out
OF washington. / fear he is indulg-
ing too freely in grape juice to do
this 5Sountry much good. / am a
DEMOCRAT and ashamed OF Henry and
others who introduce resolutions for
political effect, being the means of
makiilg trouble, but | never expect
my party to be in power again for
furn " In 4
was Qllr Republican opponents that
elected Wilson, and they, like all con-
serHaSsye Democrats, have got their
fill Very respectfully, etc.,
I'd Signed) Charles Hart,
"90S Lincoln Place"
Tillman's Reply.
Aug. 2, 1913.
sUharles Hart, Esq, 908 Lincoln
Piece Brooklyn, N. Y.-My Dear
STR have ynur !ettcr 5f august i !.
and lam really surprised that you
.sho be- SO insolent to stranger.
OF sthe Grass ignoramusM x you
81 lse 10 be y qtlS. SeSy york kars
afssisss'e isvg most egotisticai asses have
ever seen or heard Of You think
the sun. moon and eA4stars revoive
around New York and you alone are
entitled to any consideration. You
forget that the farmers OF the Uni
ted States grow the great crops which
have produced the commerce which
makes New York the imperial city it
is. You also know, or you can find
out If you do not know, that the Re-
publican party ever since the war,
has systematically robbed the people
to enrich the favored classes; and
that New York city itself, through
Wall street manipulations and favor
itism to national banks, has grown
fat and wealthy at the expense Of the
South and West.
Ready to Take Advantage.
You fiippantly say: 4 suppose
New York city is responsible for crop
failures, floods, ETC. or course, New
York is not responsible for crop fail
ures or floods; but New York city is
on the watch to take advantage Of
everything that occurs to depress the
pr ce OF farm products when It is to
her advantage to buy Them and ma
nipulates the cotton market by sell
ing hundreds of millions of bales Of
futures at prices below the cost of
production in order that her scoun-
drelly brokers shall wax fat. New
York, under the Republicans, has
been the favored seat of the money
power. Her bankers have manipu-
lated and managed the United States
treasury in Washington. Millions
and millions Of dollars OF govern
ment funds have been deposited
there without interest. And when
the panic of 1907 was manufactured
created as it were-by j. Pierpont
Morgan for purpose and the busi-
ness OF the country was paralyzed be-
cause or the lack Of money to do bus
mess with, ]. Pierpont Morgan got
forty or fifty millions Of dollars by
the treasury depositing it with his
banks, and threw 1t into New York,
ostensibly as his own, lending it to
men who were threatened with
bankruptcy.
Not a Good Democrat.
"You claim to be a Democrat. You
do not know the meaning of the
word. If you did, you would lunder-
stand that there are some men left
in Washington who do not think
money is the only good in tho world,
and who believe that the people have
some rights, and want to preserve
those rights.
THE Republican party has held
the government for the last fifty
years and made millionaires multiply
by the thousands while there were
paupers ah1 Woodworking citizens
living from hand to mouth by the
tens of millions produced by reason
of the unfair and unjust laws which
the Republicans have passed.
ANY sensible man knows this:
and you ought to have some of your
friends sue out writ Of lunacy and
you to an asylum for idiots.
You are either crazy or fool; I do
not know which.
Il suppose the next thing you will
do as a ~triot will be to vote against
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