Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-08-05

rostrum. Here is what the speaker had
to say on the subject: t.
Fellow Citizens:
! am not here to talk politics further
than what is in accord with the rela-
ton which every good citizen bears to
his fellow man. Nor am here, Gas Of
ten heralded), as the evangel Of new
dispensation, either religious or POI
litical. .,j
/ want to talk about cotton, for ]
have an extract from the New York
World, showing how Congressman
Ragsdale and Henry Of Texas, have
the new currency bill held up, trying
to amend 1t, so as to embrace every
principle contained In the warehouse
bill, which Is now on the calendar OF
the state senate. They are having a
hard fight against intrenched privilege,
but sooner or later, the volume OF
money must be made to bear Its true
relation to the products for exchange.
It has become a common thing to
sneer at men who feel called, upon to
follow a public career as politicians"
/ The word has come to mean to thous-
| ands, a low, dirty intriguer with no
ambition save the promotion Of his
personal interests. The only states
men are dead politicians. AS long as
one Is alive he is surrounded by the
| fires of hate and suspicion-a center
| for the attack Of harpies, who care
| nothing for the welfare Of the people
| they pretend to serve. So many men
have small ability coupled with vault
ing ambition: these can protect noth-
ing, and only rise by pulling others
down, and pointing out the defects OF
any plan that does not include the pro-
motion of their ambition. '.r
A gang Of wolves. when one of their
number is wounded, always stops long
enough to devour their brother, then
give tongue in pursuit Of fresh prey.
| These men are not politicians they are
human wolves, ever crouching In
terror at the feet Of power, but ready
at any moment to turn and drink the
heart blood, while licking the hand OF
| the master.
| The true politician Is called Of God,
as much as he who expounds His holy
word; he battles for his fellow man
through good and evil report; he suf-
fers the slings and arrows Of vituper-
alton; If in human weakness he falters
and mistakes the road he hears through
the dark hours the voice calling and
rises, s!rds up his loins and presses
! on: he bears with patience and for
givcnass the doubt and suspicion OF
those Tor whom he would gladly give
his life, and like the Man Of God, he
has no reward except in the next
world. well done, thou good and
faithful sevant." You older men, know
the conditions that existed twenty
years ago, and all of you know them
as they exist today. There have been
tremendous changes for the better. How
have they been brought about? BY
men who fought error in spite of pop
u!ar clamor, who pointed out the way
of progress, with no thought Of its ef-
feet on personal or political fortunes.
| You remember that greatest of all!
popular movements, the Farmers ALI
ance, with its hated and despised sub
treasury plank. Today a president and
congress is trying to devise a currency
reform based upon this very principle.
A government commission is travelling
Europe, studying the system OF agri-
cultural credits abroad, and that all
the sub treasury meant with a view OF
making the products of the farm ba-
sis of credit. Every one of the great
leaders of the Alliance went down un-
der the load of abuse, many of them
broken hearted. Yet today the speeches