The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-10-07
TILLMAN TO PRINT
His EARLY VIEWS
WILL INCLUDE RETROSPECT IN
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD.
Wishes to Show How Things Have
Come Out-PraiSe For Woodrow
WilSnu.


ago he was looked upon as an ultra
radical and semi-aparchist and that
the plutocratic press has never ceased
to hold the prejudice they then had
against him, though some have be-
come more liberal and generous, Sea-
ator TilIman today secured consent
of the senate to publish in The Rec
ord and to have printed as a public
document an article he prepared at
that time giving his impressions and
beliefs about Wall street aad the
money power. y
81 am asking for its publication,
Senator Tillman said, because so
much that was mere surmise and pro-
phecy then has come true, and l feel
it. very appropriate for me to repro
duce it. l shall incorporate in it, II
the senate will permit me, statistics
and facts to make the picture pho
tograph of present conditions, to be
COMPARED with conditions which eX-
listed in 1896-something on the order
of before and after taking or Till
man on conditions in 1896 and those
conditions now brought downtto date.
My retrospect is only for Is years.
when l came to the senate 10
years ago l was looked upon as an
ultra-radical and semi-anarcnist, and
the plutocratic press have never
ceased to hold the prejudice they then
imbibed against me, though of recent
wears they have become more liberal
and some of them even generous, in
their comments about my personal
characteristics.
zone point that will strike every
body-and it is most important one
is that the income tax which the
supreme court then declared uncon-
stitutional has just been enacted into
law, the constitution having been
amended so as to make it legal for
congress to do it.
A Great Howl.
"We have had a great howl in the
senate about the inequality and in
Justice of the income tax Some East
ern, senators have lamented the wrong
done to their constituents, the we'll
groomed and we'll fed millionaires,
who will have to contribute to the ex-
penses of running TIE government be-
cause of this tax. They have spoken
about the injury done their people
my people collectively-seemingly
unconscious of the fact, which is very
patent to any one, that while the
well-to-do in New England and the
Middle West will bear most OF the
burden of the income tax, these very
men have been robbing their fellow
citizens, the working men, and keep
ing them poor. These rich men have
Systematically MIXED the poor man
COW in the East just as constantly as
thew have MIXED the farmers COW III
the West and South, but they nave
been snrewd enough to make. hin be-
lieve the contrary They have ap-
pealed to the proper classes to vote
with them to keep the democrats out
of mower. and have succeeded until
the last election.
'I do not believe that these poor
men can be bamhoozled. into voting
against our democratic president and
his policies by any such claptrap or
illogical appeals. The time is com
ing very rapidly when the poor men
everywhere will line up at the ballot
box against wrong and oppression
without regard to party, and de-
mand for laws which will secure
equality of opportunity with equality
of burden will be made in thunder
tones
Must Undo Ill.
"Rut we have just begun to undo
the deviItry which has been perpetu-
ated by the republican party in the
past 25 or 40 years. Let us continue
the good work until we enact laws
which will insure the country against
manufactured panics such as was pro-
duced in 1907.
"Tne silver craze, as it was called
in derision, has quieted down Inc
'goldbugs' promised all sorts OF bless
ings to the country If the gold stand
ard was maintained. But somehow
the high cost of living continues to
climb and the poor people are getting
more and more restless. Some OF