The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-08-13

Confederacy would Lave won her
cause, for it was just and holy cause.
"War is the work of the devil" he
said.
The Last Legislature.
Referring to the last legislature, the
| former governor said it had created
many useless Offices. 1t will not be
long before some one will be coming
to your house and telling you what
you must eat for dinner, as we'll as
what you must plant in your ground
Tie other day they had a dispute in
Columbia about what was a split pea.
The tax commission has some pretty
foxy politicians in it. They started
off on the banks; next would come the
cotton mills, and then the farmers.
After the farmer is taxed to the limit
the commission will discover U1at the
railroads have such an expense that
they are not earning dividends, and
assessment must be reduced; also the
banks and the mills and the other cor
porations; Mr.. Farmers tax will stay
right at tie top where they put it.
The legislature put tax Of 25 cents
sack on fertilizer, but who pays it
the farmsr. When railroads are
taxed who pays the increased tax-the
man VINO pays freight; the consumer
pays it all in tie end. Bankers live
off the people who borrow money.
You whose wife wears calico pays for
the silk dresses and automobiles of
the bankers wife. When you borrow
S100 and the bank president takes
out So, gives you $92 and makes you
pay back the $100, he steals more than
Il: e value of chicken. Yet you thank
him. If poor hungry devil steals a
chicken, you yell, Put him on the
gang When a mill docks a boy or
girl for a whole yard of cloth on ac-
count of one little spot it's thief,
and God will not allow it to continue
to prosper. That is one of the reasons
many of tie mills are not prospering.
Lots of the mills and mill presidents
wish now they had back some of the
Thousands of dollars they have con-
tmbuted to beat Blease.''
Touching upon the State warehouse
system, he told of some of the benefits
of the system to the cotton farmer
and said that we do not want to be
fooled into supporting any federal
warehouse system. With an admins
tration in Washington tat was friend
! ly to the South, they might send US
competent white graders, but what is
to prevent them sending negroes here
to grade our cotton. They nave negoes
as mail clerks on tie trains and negro
mail carriers in our cities, so why not
negro cotton graders. They say they
will send you honest graders, but you
will remember we nearly perished un-
der the administration of Grover
Cleveland and now we are just about
as bad off under Woodrow Wilson.
Wilson is not true Democrat, and |
defy any of his friends to meet me
in joint debate before an unprejudiced
audience. 1 will prove it before any
fair-minded body of men. Your Demo
cratic congressman and senators tell
you they can't get rid of the negro
government employe because of the
civil service. If a Republican con-
gress passed the civil service act, WHY
can't Democratic congress repeal it?
His Opinion of Mr.. Wilson.
"Mr. Wilson is a big-hearted and
affectionate man." Governor Blease
sarcastically said, "and his heart
bleeds for the nation, yet just a year
ago he buried his wife over here in
Georgia-the wife of his bosom, the
mott er of his children-and he has
not been to her grave since she was
put in it. If so 1 have not heard of
it. No, ne hasn't even visited it to
drop silent tear, Or to place upon it
one little rose. And yet his friends
hold him up as tender-hea rted-in
love with Ills people. No, my friends;
a man who will not in whole year
visit his dead wife's grave has no ten
der heart-nas no love for his family,
his friends or his nation-no, not he;
but rae is a cold-blooded, self-opinioned
and egotistical big 1. Listen at this,
printed in the Atlanta Georgian, OF
Friday, August 9, 1915:
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