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THE KNOXVILLE JOURNAL VOLUME I. Mr. Walsne’s Speech. Below we give part of a speech deliver ered by Hon. Tom Watson, as copied from the Gelton Enterprise: lie said, “The burdens of war had been imposed upon all classes, but they had been lifted from every class but one. The income tax upon the rich had been repeal ed, the tax upon express companies had been repealed, as also the tax on bank checks. But the tariil which is specially the bur¬ den of the Southern farmer had been con¬ stantly extended and increased, The cotton tax was levied illegally, but the wrong was never righted. The national banking laws too. were oppressive to the farmers for they shut off fron the farmers all the benefit of that life blood, of commerce —cash! Bonds and stocks and shares and shares and notes, whose value might, van ish at the stamp of cyclone at the breath of the pestilence, at the turbid turn of the flood, all those had the magic of ‘open sesame,' and all could enter the treasure vaults. But the farmer, with his land, the most durable of all property, whose value God made and God alone could remake—the farmer is shut out and his collateral scorned. He next tefered f > the enormous amount of money being daiiv poured into the na¬ tional treasury. So great was the amount that after paying every imaginable soldier a pension, after deepening every theoretical harbor, after getting up shows everywhere under the name of exposition, the govern¬ ment still had so much money wrung from the people that they found it necessary to buy bonds at $129 when the face value is only 100 These bouds are not due and bearing only four per cent interest; yet th t money with which we pay for them a premium of twenty-nine per cent is wrung from the people who have to pay for all the borrowed money they use from eight to two hundred per cent interest. This has been going on for months, and millions up in millions of dollars have thus been thrown away to bondholders, who pay no tax, simply because so much money was being wrung from the taxpaying people, the government not seeing how else to dis¬ pose of it. When did the world ever before witness such a crime against the true interest of the people? The speaker then contrasted the condition of the Southern agriculture with its past and with other industries, Prosperity and luxury upon the one hand, privation and dieoursgement on the other. Wliat then said tho speaker are the causes ? Largely and mainly the tariff. #’0 illustrate the working of the tariff sys¬ tem he said: Every thing you buy is protected, and to the producers the gov ! ernment says I’ll give you a monopoly of the home market; 1 will bind 65,000,000 i of people so that they shall be your custo¬ mers. Spauisli wool shall not compete , with you, nor shall Australia or Scotland. ; The tin of Cornwall thrust out of your way and so must iron and steel and cotton goods, nod a thousaud other articles of necessity and comfort. In other words it says Yon are my pets and I’ll guarantee you a profit. But h w is it with the farmer 7 Be ci mpetes with the universe, with the Egyptian in the valley of tho Nile, the Indian with his population of 260,000,000 ind his fields of boundless fertility—the Tzar of tbe Russians with his immeuse Asiatic domains— all these compete with tie worn bills of Georgia and cheapen the iro :uce of our hard years trial., sod the KNOXVILLE, GEORGIA., OOT. 5, 1888 government says to him I give you no fa¬ vors and care not wbat becomes of you. Go on with your farm and ‘root hog or die.’ The tariff, said the speaker, is responsi¬ ble for these Rob Roysof modern commerce —these Captain Kidds who have all the rapacity of the old time highwaymen and pirates and none of their bravery, viz : Trusts. Trusts would be possible under froo trade, with a Rtnall product like offee —but almost impossible where several na tious manufactured the product and its produce large—national jealousies would be hard to overcome and the extent of the market and of the product would put combinations practically out of the ques¬ tion. But all man must sue that under the shelter of a tariff wall affording the home manufacturers the monopoly of the home market, trusts and combinations and cor¬ ners were natural and inevitable. The speaker then gave the following apt illustration of tha difference between a corner on a free trade and a protected ar¬ ticle. Corner on August cotton—brokers by the threat of renhipment of cotton from Liverpool— which threat was actually be¬ ing carried out, forced down the price. The shorts won Id bring in cotton from a broad, because there was no duty on it. But as to jute bagging, see how differ¬ ent. The tariff says you shall not bring it from abroad, except you pay for the privilege, and thus, penned up to the home market, our patriotic home producer, for whose protection this bull pen was con¬ structed, can gouge us as the leech or the horsefly gouges, an i only quit when like them they are too full to stay on. Talk about bull pens! I respectfully call the attention of Ihe Atlanta Constitution to the bull pen made by the tariff wall, and its broad sympathy' commend the people caught in it. Well might outsiders say to the jute combine, Broker as every Monday morning they raise the price on the South¬ ern farmer, “Hit him again he’s got no friends.' What shall we do ? Grin and endure it ? I say no 1 If we tamely bear every burden put upon us these fellows will think our backs were made .for the purpose. Money is not the only tlnng at stake principle is involved. Our fathers did not think of the money alone when they dashed the tea overboard in Boston harbor and swore never to sub¬ mit to the Stamp act. I say let the motto be like it was then, 'Millions for defense and not a cent for tribute’ 1 had rather give ten dollars to a friend than ouo to a rubber. I will pay twenty ceuts for Scotch burlap and Georgia osnaburgsbefore I will give ten ceuts for jute'. You have practical substitutes in osnaburgs, burlaps, and possibly pine straw bagging. W’e have the advantage. Let us use it. They say to us you must have bagging. Our answer is, you must have cotton. They may have the frying pan, but vve have got the stuff to fry in it. Say to your mer¬ chant. We boycott jute ; get us something else, and you will see how quickly they will do it. Let the Southern farmers band together and make the agricultural influence felt. Demand of your represent¬ atives that your views and your interest he consulted. Gather to yourselves the power of unity. Siuk all personal differ¬ ences in the common danger and the common purpose. Tbe standard of revolt is up. Let us keep it up and speed it on. Liston to no man who croakcs too late ; We must sub mit. Leans that'yaup to tho laggard or dastard. True manhood which dam and docs never yet stooped to such a motto. To you who grounded yonr muckets twen¬ ty-five years ago I make my appeal. The fight is upon you, not bloody as then, but as bitter; not with men who come to free your slaves, but who come to make slaves of you. And to your sons also call, And I would that the common spirit might thi ill every breast throughout this sunny land, till from every cotton field, every hamlet, every village, every city might come the shout of defiance to these Hob R>ys-of commerce and to the robber— tiriff, from whise foul womb they sprang. As the cloqueut speaker closed the crowd cheered themselves hoarse, and it was plainly seen that his words had gone deep into their hearts, and few indeed will be the yards of jute bugging which will Wrap the cotton of McDuffie comity farm¬ ers this year. STa-31S'.a--R«>Bt tlSJRKS Our people are delighted with a daily mail. Col. R. D. Smith of Knoxville attended justice court here last Friday. It’s no trouble for cuffee to find cotton to pick in these parts. Mrs. J. II. Jackson of Pike county' and Mrs.*J. C. Langley of Sumterville Fla- are spending the week in our ville, the guest of Mrs. M J. Moore. The mail route front Fotsvth to Kuox ville has been curtailed so as to eud herc omitting Knoxville. ; Mr. Tom Parsons, after spending a few weeks with Mr. J. L. Parsons near this place left for his home in Johnson county last week. M r . J. L. Harrison has been appointed mail messenger on the route from this office to the station. Miss Carrie Smith a edaming yottug lady of Thomaston is visiting the family of Mr J, M ’ Webb. Dr. J. N. Smith of Ilipkory Grove de¬ livered a lecture to the farmers Alliance club here last Saturday. Lener Jreiii liauerttvnnly. Newton, Ga., Sept. 26, 1888— Editor Journal: The Journal conies ^regular and is always fraught with pleasure to me. I am very glad to learn through it, that the old town is beginning to put on a new dress, and, iiko Rip Van Winkle, has wak¬ ed tip—not after twenty years, luit fifty. The steam horse is calculated to wake up any town and without the sound of tho steam horse any place will sleep, if it does not die. Crops in this section are all made. The cotton crop will bo very short, aud the larger portion is now gathend. We are all fighting the bagging trust, and we are iu to the end of tho war. I believe that bagging as a covering for cotton will end with this season. The trust can have all it can steal now, hut they can put all in their eyes that they steal from tbe farm¬ ers in tho future; or, at least, this is what I think. Bob Gatson, a negro, was lacerated by the gin of Maj. Eley on yesterday and died from the injuries The history of Crawford, covering a pe¬ riod of about forty years will be forth coining in due ‘ime A few mornings ago George Churchman, a large lumber dealer, arrived in Eastman with an order tor two thousand feet of lumber. In two days* time the lumber was sawed and shipped, notwithstanding the difficulties in semiring car#. . NUMBER 37. The JUe»t Tonic in the World. The Swift Specific Co , Atlanta, Ga„ Gentlemen.—About two years ago mv geueral health gave way entirely. I was so debilitated that I almost despaired of ever feeling well again. All that the phy¬ sicians done tor me brought no permanent relief. Friends insisted that I should give S. S. S. a fair trial, although I thought it would be throwing away money. After taking a thorough course, rny health and strength returned, and I mast say that 8. S. S. alone cured me, as I discarded all others while using it. As a tonic I can most heartily recommend it; for general debility it certainly is a specific. W. P. Bridges, J. P. Homer. La.. May 25, 1888. I know Mr. W.F. Bridges, and will say that his statement is correct. J. Siielton Ho i er, La. Druggist. Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. The Swift Specific, Co., Drawer 3 At¬ lanta, Ga. Harry Cato, a negro 80 years of age, was adjudged a lunatic Wove Judge Speer and a jury at Arm-ricus Friday. Early Friday morning Willie Phillips opened Lis father’s bakery and passed through to the rear of the house. When he returned he found Cato standing behind tbe counter. Willie asked hint what he wanted and told him to get out, He replied that he was in his own house and told Willie to move himself; that he would have in a hundred bales .of cotton in a few hours and expected to buy a hundred mules ; that he had a hundred hands picking cotton, and that he would never work.any more himself. Mo offered some one a hundred thousand dol¬ lar check if they would give him the paper to write it on. Everything runs in lnm dreds with him. A large citizens meeting at Macon, Fri¬ day night, indorsed the resolutions of the city council, passed last Tuesday night, protesting against the agricultural society postponing the state fair and requested the society to hold the fair this year. The meeting adopted resolutions appointing a committee of fifteen leading citizens to meet the society committee Monday night to impress upon them the ,wisdom praeti b’.lity and benefit of having a fair in No¬ vember, Should the society decide not to have the fair, then the committee of fifteen is empowered to devise ways and moans to have a fair, independent of the agricultural society. Squire George Lumkin of East Macon has a brag potato patch which is the envy of all the old farmers who see it and know of its yield. The patch is two acres iong by one wide. The rows are thus 70 yards long, and being 3 feet apart, there are 140 of them. Mr. Lumpkin is gathering sev¬ en and a half bushels of fine potatoes from each row, which gives a yield of 525 buidicls to the acre, or 1.050 bushels to patch. If the slips and cultivation only $50, at $1 per bushel, here is a small patcli of land that brings an income one thousand dollars a season. At Marshallville, B. T. Moore's cook, while preparing a chicken for dinner one last week, found on opening it a large pin firmly imbedded in its gizzard. chicken was (at, and seemed to have no iuconveuictice from having •wallowed the pin.