The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-08-06
Brooklyn, y. Y, Aug |, l9l:

Brooklyn, n. Y, Aug /, 1913.
Hon. b. IL. Tillman.
Dear Sir: II you would only get
some information, as to the condition
of the money market of the world.
which almost any office boy in any
banking house in Washington can
give you, you would never make the
remarks you are credited as having
made against the banks of New York
city. 1t only hurts the Democratic
party and makes the average voter
ashamed to see those In the senate
so little informed. New York city can
stand almost all~ ~the stuff uttered in
the senate by those that do not seem
to know what they are talking about.
suppose New York city is respon-
sible for crop failures, floods, etc. Ii
Secretary McAdoo can not 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
country much good. i am a Democrat
and ashamed Of Henry and others who
introduce resolutions for political ef-
feet, being the means Of making
trouble. but l never expect my party
to be in power again for the next 20
years to come. 1t was our Republl-
can opponents that elected Wilson
and they, like all conservative Demo
Gratis. have got their fill.
Very respect. etc,
(Signed) Charles Hart,
S0S Lincoln Place.
August 2. 1913.
Charles Hart, Esq.
sos Lincoln Place,
Brooklyn, n. Y.
My Dear Sir: have your letter of
August 1st, and j am really surprised
that wou should be so insolent to a
stranger. 1 am not the Grass igno-
ramus you think me to be. You New
Workers are the most egotistical asses
have ever seen or hard Of. You
think the sun, moon and stars re-
volve around New York and you alone
are entitled to any consideration. You
forget that the farmers Of the
United States grow the great crops
which have produced the commerce
which makes New York the imperial
city II Is. You also know, or you can
find out II you do not know, that the
Republican party, ever since the war,
has systematically robbed the people
to enrich the favored class; and that
New York city itself. through Wall
street manipulations and favoritism
to national banks, has grown fat and
wealthy at the expense Of the South
and West.
You fippantly say: II suppose New
York city Is responsible for crop fail
ures, floods. etc" course, New
York city is not responsible for crop
failures or floods; but New York city
Is on the watch to take advantage
OF everything that occurs to depress
the price of farm products when II
Is to her advantage TO buy them; and |
manipulates the cotton market by
selling 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
peen the favored seat of the money
power. Her bankers have manipu-
iated and managed the United States
treasury I'm Washington. Millions ano |
millions OF dollars OF government
FUNDS have been deposited there with
out interest. And when the panic of |
iSo' was manufactured-create as
II Were-by ]. Pierpont Morgan for
purpose and the business of the
country was paralyzed because OF the
'"'N oi money To do business with !
j. Plerpont Morgan got forty or nftv
miiiions of dollars by the treasury
ueposlting ii with his banks and
threw 1t into New York. ostensibIy
as mis- own. lending ii to men who
were threatened with bankruptcy.
You claim To be Democrat. You
q" not know the meaning of the word
III you did. YOU would unders,ono
that there are some men left in
Washington who do not think monev
is the only good in the world, and
who believe that the people have somo
rights and want to preserve those
rights.