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been repealed, as also the tax on bank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#.
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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.
