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Vi)L VII. ________ ___ MAN N ING, S. C., WED)NESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16. 1891. NO. 39. DMNVLS AT "HIE WEILl. SERMON PR~ACHEJ AT ELMIRA, N. Y., BY REV. DR. TLMAGE. 'ib. sciJa.ct U. Lrttr*r .ibppriate by theFactTn it *hley Are Holding an In ter.tate Fair There-Text of the Ser InoD, GeUC4 ?, xaxx. S. ELI1mA, Sep:. 6.-The Rev. Dr. Tal mage preachd here today to the im mense ultituat who have come to at tend the New York and Pennsylvania expositi. n. wuich is being held here Sept. 1 to SLpt. t). It is a combimed expositi..n o' cattle, sheep. horses and valuable ztock of all kinds from the two states. Tne sermon was preached on the fair grounds to a great audience of farmers. horsemen, drovers and stock raisers fAom :;car and far, as well as citi zen from the adjacent cities. Secretary Stanley, of !he Young Men's Christian Assoeia ou of Elmira. piesided. Dr. Talmag. s text was Genesis xxix, S. "And they said, we cannot, uatil all the flocks be gathered, and till they roll the stone frm the well's mouth; then we water the shtep." THE 1-i:OUE TE KING OF LEASTS. There are some reasons why it is ap propriate that I should accept the invita tion to preach at this great interstate fair. and to :hese throngs of country men and citi: ens-horsemen just come from thtdr ine chargers, the king of beasts, or 1 take the crown from the lion and out it on the brow of toe horse, which is in every way nobler-and speak to these 4herherds just come from their floes-the Lord himself in one place calltd a She.herd and in anotner place called a Laiob, and all the good are sheep-aod preach to you cattlemen come up from the herds, your occupa tion honored by the fact that God him self thiLks It worthy of immortal record that he owns "the cattle on a thousand hills." It is ap.propriate that I came, because I was a farmer's boy, and never saw a city until I was nearly grown, and, hav ina been born in the country, I never gt o rer it, and would not dwell in cities a day if my work was not appointed there. -,y k ve to you now, aud when 1 get hrsugh I will give you my hand, for though I have this summer shaken bands with perhaps forty thousand peo ple in twenty-one states of the Union, all the way through to Colorado and north and south, I will not conclude my summer vacaUton till I have shaken hands with you. You old farmer out there! P1ow you make me think of my father! You elderly woman out there with cap ana spectacleq! How you make me think of my mother! And row. while the air of these fair grounds is filled with the bleating of sheep, an.] the neiabing of horses, and the lowing of :attle. Icannot find a more appropriate text than the ode I read. It is a scen" m Mesopotamia, beautifully pastoral. A well of water of great value in that region. The fields around about it v hite with three flocks of sheep lying down waiting for the watering. I hear thtir bleating coming on the briaht air, and the laughter of young men and maidens indulging in rustic repartee. I look off, -nd 1 see other flocks of sheep coming. Meanwhile, Jacob, a stranger, on the mI:erestinaz errand of looking for a wife, comes to the well. A beautiful sheperdess comes to the same well. I see~ har approachiig, followed by her lahte~r's tiock of sheep. It was a mem orable rieetime. Jacob married that shepherdess. ~The Bible account of it is, "Jacob ktssed Rachei, and lifted up his voice and wept." It has always been a mystery to me what he found t ocry about! But before that scene occurred Jacob occosts the shepherds and asks them why the y post pone the slaking of the thirst of these sheep, and why they did not immediately proceed to water them. The shepherds 5reply to :.he etfect: "We are all good ~neighbrs, and as a matter of courtesy we wait until all the sheep of the neigh borhood come up. Besides that, this stone on the well's mouth is so-uewhat heavy, and several of us take hold of it and push it aside, and then the buckets and the troughs are filled and the sheep are staistied. We cannot, until all the flocks are athered together, and till they roll the stone from the well's mouth; then we water the sheep." A THIRSTY WORtLD. Oh, this is a thirsty world! Hlot for the head, and tlistering for the feet, and parching for the tongue. The world's great want is a cool, refreshing, satisfy ing draft. We wander around and find the cistern edipty. Long and tedious drouaht has dried up the world's foun tains, but nearly nineteen centuries ago a Shephered, with crook in the shape of a cross, and feet cut to the bleeding, ex plored the desert passages of this world, and one day came across a well a~thous and feet deep, bubbling and bright, and looked the north, ar d the south, and the east, and the west, and cried out with a voice strong and musical that rang throuah the aces: "Ho, every one that thiirsteth. conme ve to the waters!" Now, agreat flock: of sheep today gather around this Gospel well. There are a great many thirsty souls. I won der why the tlocks of all nations do not gather-v, by so many stay thirsts; and while I am wondering about it, my text breaks forth in the explanation, saying: "We canmot until all these 11ocks be gathered together, and till they roll the intone fromi the well's mouth I then we water the sheep." THE GENTrLENESS OF sHtEEP. If a herd of swine come to a well they angrily j. stle each other for the prece dence; it a drove of cattle come to a well, they hook echcl other lack from the water, but whetn the ilock of sheep come, thou~gh a hundred of them shall be disappointed, they only express it by sad bleating-they come together peace fully. We want a great muluitude to come around the Gospel well. I know there are those who do not hrke a crowd --they think a crowd is vulgar, If they are oppressed for room in church it makes them 1-ositively impatient and belligerent. Not so did these oriental shepherds. They waited until all the flocks were kathered, and the more flocks that came the better they liked it. And so :we ought to be axious that all the pec ule should come. Go out into the highways and the hedges and compel them to come in. Go to the rich and tell them thiey arc indigent without the Gospel Qi Jesus. Go to the poor and tell them :he aflluence there is in Christ. Go to the blind and tell them of the touch that aires eternal illumination. Go to the lame and tell them of the joy that will zjake the lame man leap like a hart. Ga:.her all the sheen oir of all the mou::tain~. None so .torn of the dogs, imone so sick, none so worriedi, nonme so dying as to be omit ted.J WhezatbefItl eleetions e'ome& the. whole lnd is scoured for voters, and if a man is too weak or sick to walk to the poils a carriage is snt ir him; I:ut w% hen the question is whether Christ or the devil shall rule this worle, how te-w there are to come out and3 seek the sick, and the lost. and the sullering, and the hereit, and the lame and miduce their suifrages for the Lord Jesus. Why not gather a great fiock? All America in a Iflock; all the world in a flock. This well of the Gosi'el is deep enougi to put out the buraing thirst of the tour teen hundred million of the race. Do not let the cnurch by a spirit of exclusive ness keep the world out. Let down all the bars, swing open all the gates, scat ter all the invitations, .W hosoever will, let him come." Come, white and black. Come, red men of the forest. Come, Laplander, out of the snow. Come, Patagonian, out of the heat. Come in furs. Come, panting un der palm leaves. Come one. Come all. Come now. As at this well of Mesopotamia Jocob and Rachel were betrothed. so now, at this well of salvation Christ our Shep herd will meet you coming up with your long tiocks of cares and anxieties, and he wil stretch out his hand in pledge of his atiiction, while all heaven will cry out, -Behold the bridegroom cometh, go ye out to meet him." THE WELL OF SALVATION. You notice that this well of Mesopn tamia had a stone on it, which must be removed before the sLeep could be wa tered; and I find on the well of salvation today imi ediments and obstacles, which must be removed in order that you may obtnam the refreshment and life of this Gospel. in your case the impedunent is pride of heart. You cannot bear to come to so democratic a fountain; you do not want to come with so many oth ers. It is to you like when you are dry, coming to a town pump, as compared to sitting in a parlor sipping out of a chased chalice which has just been lifted from a silver salver. Not so many pub hcans and sinners. You want to get to heaven, but it must be in a special car, with your feet on a Turkish ottoman and a band of music on board the train. You do not wat t to be in company with rustic Jacob and Rachel, aud to be drinking out of the fountain where ten thousand sheep have been drinking be fore you. You will have to remove the obstacle of pride, or never find your way to the well. You will have to come as we came, willin- to take the water of eternal life in any way and at any hand, and in any kind of pitcher, crying oat: "0 Lord Jesus, I am dyin of thirst. Give me the water of eternal life, wheth er in trough or goblet. Give me the water of life; I care not in what it comes to me." Away with all your hindran ces of pride from the well's mouth. Here is another man who is kept back from the water of life by the stone of an obdurate heart, whici lies over the mouth of the well. You have no more feeling upon this subject than if God had yet to do you the first kindness, or you had to do Gol the first wrong. Seated on his lap all these years, his everlast ing arms sheltering you, where is your ratitude? Where is your morning and evening prayer? Where ore your conse crated lives? I say to you, as Danicl said to lashazzar, "The God in whose hand thy breath Is, and all thy way, thou hast not glorified." If you treated anybody as badly as you have treated God, you would have made five hundred apologies-yea. your whole life would have been an apology. Three times a day you have been seated at God's table. Sprinz, summer, au tumn and winter he has appropriately appareled you. Your health from him, y our companion from him, your children from him, your home from him. All the bright surroundings ofyour life from him. Oh, man, what dost thou with that hard heart? Canst thou not feel one throb of gratitude toward the God who made you, and the Christ who came to redeem you, and the Holy Ghost who has all these years been importuning you? If you could sit down five minu tes under the tree of a Saviour's martyr dom, and feel his warm li.e trickling on your forehead and :heek and hands, me thinks you would get some appreciation of what you owe to a crucitied Jesus. Heart of stone, relent, telent, Tfouebed by Jesus' cross subdued; See his body, mangled, rent. Covered with a gore of blood. Sinful soul, what hast thou done'? Crucified the Eternal Son. TAKE THE STONE FRoM THlE AELL. Jatcob, with a good deal 01f tug and push, took the stone from the well's mouth, so that the flocks might be wa tered. And I would that to-day my word, blessed of God, might remove the hindrances to y our getting up to the Gos pel well. Yea, I take it for tranted that the work is done, and now, like oriental shepherds, I proceed to water the sheep. Come. all ye thirsty! You have at undefined longing iu your soul. You tried money making; that did not satisiv von. You tried ocli:e under govern ment; that did not satisfy you. You tried pictures and sculptures, but works of art did not satisfy y ou. You are as much discontented with this life as the celebrated French author who felt that he could not any longer endure the mis fortunes of the world, and who saId: "At 4 o'clock this afternoon I shall put an end tno my own existence. Mean while, I must toil on up~ to) that time for the sustenance of my family." And he wrote on his book until the clock struels 4. when he folded up his manuscript and, byv his own haud, concluded his earthly life. There arc men here who are perfectly discontented. Unhappy in the past, un happy today, to be unhappy forever, un less y ou comce to this Gospel well. This satisfies the soul with a high, deep all absorbing and ete-rnal satisfaction. 1! comes and it offers the most unfortu ate man so much of this world as is best for him, and throws al! heaven into the bargain. The wealth of Croesus and oj all of the Rothschilds is only a poor, miserable shilling compared with the eternal fortunes that Christ offers yot today. In the far east there was a kink who used once a year to get on a scales, while on the other side~ of the scales were placed gold and silver and ,zems: indeed, enough were placed there te balance the kin; then, at the close o1 the weighing, all those treasures were thrown among the populace. But Christ today steps on one side the scales, and on the other side are all the treasures o! the universe, and he says: '-All ar' yours-all beight. all depth, all length all breadth, all eternity; all are yours.' We don't appreciate the promises of thc Gosel. When an aged clergyran was dying -a man very eminent in the church-i young theological student stood by his side, and the aged man looked up and said to him: -Can't you give me some comfort in my dying hour?" "No,' said the young man; "I can't talk tc Lyou on this subject; you know.- all aib-u it. and haveknown it so long.'.' "Well,' said the dying man, "lust recite to me some prouises." The younlz man thought-a mioment, and he came to this i promise. "Tie blood of .iesus Christ Ileansetl from all sin;" and the old nu Clapped his hands and in his dying nio ment said: "That's just the prouise I have been waiting for. 'The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin. Oh. the warmth, the zrandeur. the niag tiliceuce of the promises! COME ALL YE TROUBLED. Come, also, to this Gospel well, all ve troubled. I do not suppose you have escaped. Compare your view of : this life at fifteen years of age with what t your view of it is at forty, or sixty, or t seventy. What a great contrast of i opinion! Were you right then, or are you right now? Two cups placed in your hands, the one a sweet cup. the other a sour cup. A cup of joy and a cup ot grief. Which has been the near est to being full, and out of which have you the more frequently partaken? What a different place the cemetery 1t trom what it used to be! Once it was to you a grand city improvement, and you went out on the pleasure excursion. and ran laughing up the mound, and you criticised in a light way the epitaph. But sivce the day when you heard the bell toll at the gate as you went mn vith the procession, it is a sad place, and there is a flood of rushing memories that suffuse the eye and overmaster the heart. Oh, you have had trouble, trouble, trou ble. God only knows how much you have had. It is a wonder you have been able to live through it. It is a wonder your nervous system has not been shattered and your brain has not reeled Trouble, trouble. If I could gather all the griefs of all sorts from this great au dience and could put them in onie scroll, neither man nor angel could endure the recitation. Well, what do you want? Would you like to have your property back again? "No," you say, as a Chris tian man: "I was becoming arrogant , and I think that is why the Lord took it away. I don't want to have my pro perty back." Well, would you have . your departed friends back again? "No," you say; "I couldn't take the responsi bihty of bringing them from a tearless realm to a realm of tears. I couldn't do it." Well, then, what do you want? A thousand voices in the audience cry out, "Comfort, give us comfort." For that reason I have rolled away the stone from the well's mouth. Come, all ye wounded of the flock, pursued of the wolves, come to the fountain where the Lord's sick and bereft ones have come. DESOLATION OF THE BEREAVED. t "Ali," says some one, "you are not f old enaugh to uederstand my sorrows. t You have not been in the world as long as I have, and you can talk to me about my misfortunes in the time ,f old age." Well, I have been a great deal among c old people, and I know how they feel about their failing health, and about I their departed friends, and about the loneliness that sometimes strikes t through their soul. After two persons have lived together for forty or fifty years and one o1 them is taken away, what desolation! I shall not for.:et the cry of tile late Rev. Dr. De Witt, of Yew York, when he stood by the open grave of his be loved wife, and, after the obsequies had i ended, he looked down into the open place and said: "Fafewell, my hon ored, faithful and beloved wife. The bond thac bound us is severed. Thou I art in glory, and I am here on earth. I We shall meet again. Farewell! Fare- I well!" To lean on a prop for fifty years, and then have it break under you! There were only two years' diff'erence 1 between the deaths of' my father andt mother. Atter my mother's deceaseu my father used to go around as though looking for something; and he would of-a ten get up from one room without anya seeming reason and go to another room; a and then he would take his cane and i start out and some oneo would say,v 'Father, where are you going?" and lie 1: would answer, "I don't know exactlyt where I am going." Always looking i for something. Though he was a ten-I der hearted man. I never saw him crya but once, and that was at the burial of f my mother. After sixty years living e together, it was hard to part.t And there are aged people today who are feeling just such a pang as that. Ia want to tell them there is perfect en- I chantment in the premises of this Gos pel; and I come to them and I offer - them my arm, or I take their arm and ( I bring them to this Gospel well. Sit down, f'ather or mother, sit down. Seee if there is anything at the well for vou. Come, David, the psalmist, have you e anything encouraging to offer them? -'Yes," says the nsalmist: "They shall a still bring forth fruit in old age, they I shall be fat and flourishing, to show thata the Lord is upright; he is my rock, andr there is no unrighteousness in me."t Come, Isaiah, have you anything to say out of your prophecies for these aged I people? "Yes,"! says Isaiah: "Downa to old age I am with thee. and to hoary I hairs will I carry thee." Well, if the Lord is going to carry you, you ought not to worry much about your aingeyesight and failing limbs. Yuetalittle worried for fear some time you will (ome to want, do you? Your children and grandchildren sometimes speak a little sharp at yoc because ot your ailments. The Lord1 will not speak sharp. Do you think you will come to wanty Who do you think the Lord is? Are his granaries empty? WVill he feed the raven and the rabbit, and the lion in the desert, and fbrget you? Why, naturalists tell us that the porpoise will not forsake its wounded and sick mate. And do you suppose the Lord of heaven and earth has not as much sympathy as the fish of the sea? But you say: "I am so near wornout, and I am of no use to God any more." I think the Lord knows whether you I are of any more use or not; if you were ( of no more use he would have taken yon before this. Do you think God has for-t gotton you because lie has taken care oft you seventy or eighty years? ie thinks more of you today than he ever did, be cause you think more of him. May th~e God ot Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and Paul the aged be your God for ever! GETHER YOURi FLOCKS. But 1 gattier all the promises today in1 a croup. and I ask the shephierds to drive heir flocks of lambs and sheep up to the sparking supply. "Behold, happy s the man whom God correcteth."c "Though he cause grief, yet will he havet compassion." "Many are the aillictions of th;e righteous, but the Lord deliverethlI him out of them all." "Weeping may endure for a night. but joy comneth in te morning." I am determined today t that no one shall go away uncomfortced. j Yonder is a tanid and shrinking soul who seems to hide away from the con solations I am uttering, as a child with a sore hand hides away from the physi cian lest lie touch the wound too roughily. and the mother has to gto and compel the little patient to come out and see the hysician. I! So 1 come to your imP' anu zhrink og soul tcoday. :.ud conn' out in the resence o1 te Divine I'lh l.m He ull not hurt you. Ile lat been heai i vounds for many N ears. and w! -,i.-t .ou gentle and omi upo tent me.he amcat. IUt pCOp le. whlei they hav 0 t'roub1Ile. !'(t mvwhere rallier tum to I. De ' ..uincy took pitun to get rid of hir roubles. Charles Latmb took to punch. l'heodore Iook itook to sf)etlhin, trouigcr. E. vin Forrest too' to the artical dissination. Aud men have runr Ill around the earth. hopiug in the quick ransit to get away froi their misfor- I unes. It has been a dead failure. There r s only one iell that can slake the thirst s >f an aillicted spirit. iid that is the d-op Y md inexhausIale well l the Gospel. t TIE T1OUI IT oF IIEAVEN. But somie one ia-s. iI the a;Wielnce. Nothwitltaaudnuz al you imve said r his morun,! I find no aLLieva lon for t ny troubles.'" Weil. I am 1ot through V -et. I have lett. the zuOL 3'otent !In ideration f'or the last. I am i I t othe you with the tiought ot heaven.] lowever taikative we way be, there will omwe a time when the stoutest n1lud m)'st p11t)hatic ieterrogauion will evoke from Is no ans - er. As soon as we have losed our lips for tihe final sileuce uo ower can break that taciturity. bat vhere, oh. Christian, will be your- spit ? l .n a scene of innite ;;!aness The i pring uorimuar of heaveni wavfn its >lossoms in the bri::h. a'r. Vitors t l'esh from battle sh'owir their bcars. a he rain or earthly sorrow struck .u hiough with the rainbov o eteralJ joy. n one urouD. God and angels aud the 4 edeemed-Paul and Silas. Latiner and tidlev, Isaiah and Jeremiah, Pa son ud John Milton. Gabriel and Michael 1 he arch angel. Long iue of choristers eaching across th; bills. Seas o0J.1y lashing to the white beach. Couluerors o arching from ga-e to gate. You aiong hem. Oh, what a great flock of sheep God a vill gather around the celestial well. t wo stone on the well's mouth while the hepherd water the sheep. There Ja :ob will recognize Rachel the shepher less. And stanling on one side of the ell of eternal rapture your childre.n. Ind standing on the other side of the I a VC-l of eternal iapture your Christiau ocestry, you will be bounded on all ides by a joy so keen and grandl that t 1o other world has ever been peruitted o experience it. Out of that one (eep well of heaven 1 he Shepherd will dip reunion for th e I ereaved, wealth for the poor. heahh r the sick. rest tor the wav. Aad heu all the lock of the Lord's sheep Vil lie down in the green pastuirs. and Vorld without end we will praise the ord that on this C::st autumnal Sabbnth f 1S91 we were permitted to study mong the bleating dleks and lowmI - erds of this fair ground t.he story o f acob and R-chel the shepherdles, at a he well in Mesopotamia. Oh, plunge our buckets into this great Gospel A!Liv nd let them come up dripping w:th that y vater of which it a man drink lie never \ ain shall thir.t. . t ,HE SOUTH ENTERS ON A NEW ERA.S 3usless and Farini;;g Interers on a Sau1d nais BALTIMORE, Sept. 3.-The hanu cturers' Record, of this werk, pub ishes six pages of speclal letters from I eading bankers in all parts of the South o s to the financial couditiou and pros- C -ees of general business and armingl b aterests. These re ports uuiformily show hat immediately after the Baring fail r, Southern bankera and merchants ursued a very conservative pIohCY and1 t once commenced to ':urtail all their perations and to make 1preparations fort long period of monetary stringeney,. it should come. The etfeet of thli. 1, een the reduction of indebtedness andr he placing of all business anud banking~ aterests on a very solid financial basis. t also resulted in the borrowing of lessi dvance money by cottoa planters thau >r many years. and' hecnce~ the l'rCeeent rop has less indebtedness azainst. it han the crops of th rmuer yeari. In all arts of the South thrmerS are reporitedj .s less in debt than for years, many re orts saying that their :ndlebteduess is maler than at any time sine the war -due, in part, to the enforced economy u account of the monetary stringenc~y a ince last fill, and ini part to the~ large i: rops of the last few years. d The low price of cotion in the spring r aused the planters tO pay more atten- V ion to raising their OWn 1)sod suplies, t id the South will probably be lecas de- e endant upon other sections ker corn d wheat than ever bc-tore. It issi ated that tile graia crop of the South his year will aggregate nearly 100i,000,.- t '00 bushels more thau n 18 I90, and hs, added to tle larger ) ields or fruils t nd vegetables, will keep at home at c east 75,000,000 that last year went e orth and West ihr tnood.tudl.. Tis t rill tally ebfect the low price u; cot ton- e d if cotton shouhdI advance by reaison e *f a decrease in yield there wouid he at e lear gain to S muthern farmuing itrsts.i ie yield of sueer, rice ad tohacco romise to exceedi the cromps of 1890I and! o add argely to the general su~ply o' he uth. The bankers in all sections oh the i r oth report that with husmuen on at e ohdJ basis, with le-, indebtedneuss in he part ot the farmers and mo taniec han for many years, an-! with eropls y sred. lrospects for the fai1 and wmn- u er huave never been m re favor.ible. periodl of great activ ty in oldi.1, sub-' tantial dev'elopiunn is uiversally pre .ieted. (Oet Euough of laberma. NEW YORK, Sept. U.-Geornr I. ?arks. a mulatto ueionging to Autanta. I sa., and his family. cousmstinag of his rife and seven children,. arrived he:e -day on the Soriento. Parks :san in elgent man :.[,d a carpe-nter. O() ay 22, lured by tho prommes':i lhe eciety for the IPriniation eb ('oonla ion in Liberia, he set hail wi:h his arily for that place. lHe lonedi ii j oraia, and found the counltry in aI nost primitive anud debaue:aMi coni- - ition. The. Ameri:mi negroes who a already emuigratedb there lhad as umed most tyraninicaul rule ove~r the .atives. No part of the trround is un .er tltivastion. Parks huas b~eeni a slave a the South, but he says the cu'1dution *f slavery in Liueria i, muichi worse han that in Georgia ubefore the war. Thildren offer themselves for sale. 'arks was ostracize-d by the other ex oericain negroes because he would " tot buy slaves. After spen~dolg twe y-one days thiere hr sauntd on a st'-amer ' or Hamburg, and fronm that p~aet for ere. It cost him S~bo to bring htunei d famaily out. Whena be left Gear-gi: me had $1,~250; he has n~ow $L60 which P nil pay lis way liack to Atlanta WUi 5unIS to bie b.img in E mrope. Vihen it comes it wvi l te a ueatnl :truug- t 1e, as all the great power.s will be Ull- t wral. A GREAT DEBUTE. HE ;SUB-TREAStRY DISCUSSED BY15 TWO STRONG DEBAT ORC. . the Clo of the b1scuselom : Vote showed tie Andit nce Sirougiy i 1avor ofn Watnatte mid ith~-1ieD-~ m sf tL--Or::ta. Piatrorimi. BrAEsnT RG, S. C; Sept. 9.-: enator itler and Coiigressman Watsoa have ; let, and the debate between Candina's il ,urdy, magnetic senator and th- virile i] mung Ceorgian is over. TIh sub-li -easury was the stated issue on which iiev ciashed swords, but. measi:red by ie exoress judgment of the ot ht r. each t ilew tie track." ,ome very fine thinus 1 arding that ev(r present tone of con- I -tion were said on each side. Mr. n Vtson inadei many friends, and it is P ut thc truth to say he had the (demon- t r-t* ive portion ot trie crowd wi: h him. 1 e intest.ered lis discu--sion of the r atrer with some line Ilights of (lo- 1 uenee, and with apt anecdote. On the I :i r hand. SenatOr Butler's brave s ords .nd stendy talk brought tinging r ei rs from all sides. The discussion cotiineiiced at 11 o clock in the morning and lasted until I te in the afternoon, with an hour's I ispension for dinier. Mr. Watson t pet-d the- debate, speaking for about t vo hours. General Butler oc!upied out the same time in reply, end in 0 Ao-ing Mr. Watson spoke for nearly ree hiours. mAlny prominlent Alijince- n i-n v1re present from all parts of the a ate and tromn Georgia. Tne meeting was called to ord-r and 0 resided over by Professor Nash. h ravir was offered and Professoi Nash n In read a letter from President Stokes ! f the State A)lliance regretting.. that l her engagements prevented hiti from tending. CPr ft ssor Nash thet made ) hort speech saying that people ate C pt to read only on their own sice and r ieir own papers and thus becone nar- T! >wmindd in matters whiclh d-mand tj e widest information. These meet- V ,s and discussions give us an *)ppor inity to hear both sides of the ques- n ors. "Georgia," he said." "has ;iinways V ten kind to South Carolina at d has 1 Iways responded to her call. We are U have the pl-asure to-day of ljs ening t ) one of Georgia's most eloque-t or- t rs. Thomas Watson." Mr. Watson was greeted with loud V ,iers ;s he stepped to the front of the a atfurm. The sultance of his pet-ch n given below. a 3tR. WATSON S SPEECII. n Mr. Chairman and Fellow Cit:zens: b realize the disadvantage under .vhich t ilabor. I know t hat mndiscussingz with s5 e'ator Butler all the moral advantage b on h:s side. You know and nonor a io. I am unknmown to you and you are M tikuown to tne. I am a stranger to 0 u and you are a stranger to a e. If b nator Butler were a candida.e for c nv rflice in your gift I Woule have u iouegh sense not to oppose him. It c; onu4t be a question of home ru4e for a 0oI'to settle. But that is not thf, case. 0 'hen Senat or Butler attacks the plat- " rn on which th- farmers have taken 0 1-ir inopition, he attacks not only t outh Carolina but her sister -tates V -ho believe in that platform. V We are discussing measures, not men; c t the affairs of South Carolin::, but 1 tional affairs which affect the inter- 1 ts of South Carolina and Ge.'rgia. it he contest is broader than on pe:sonal t nes. I consider it an honor to meet 1. enator Butler in debate. I hopi e;.ch I f us may rise to the dignity of tie oc- fi tsinn and treat the matter from a road and logical :-tandpoint. I The people o1 South Carolir'a are close i1 the heart of Georgia and Gieorgians. a 'ur best men are ktnown and honored b our state and yours in ottrs. Sena- t rButler is no less a historic cha rac-ter e i te other side of the Savannah River t a here. I say with the respect due o elders. I fet-l it, an honor to meet tl m in debate. [Cheers.] The old rebel 8 wind 1:4 just abrke on one side it the P ver as on tihe other. a Referring to the report of the Pros- 8 erity- uebate in the News and Ucutrier, b -sami: '-We are o discuss the measure a nil the principles which underlie it. c (-ntor Butler at Prosperity diiscussed P uce -ill and nrot the plan. Hie said there a tat he wouild not discuss the vapor, tl it w hat appeart d ott paip-r. So great di star esman as Senator Butl'-r carl take a d maintain no such position. He o onnt contine himself to details. Every ti nasure d'-pends utmun principles. No 1 leasure ever went through without p ineiuen:s. First the plan Is ergan- V -d, then the ligislators formxuilate the etails. If you know a single right t< esure that ever passed Congre-ss d itout amendment you know more n ian I di;. If the Lord's prayer we-re fI nibodiedC in a bill and introduced in di lgress soitebody would want to add a mr take somiethin~g from it. In iegis- a iion det-ails are thrownl into a legis- I ttive hmth-potchi and harnmny colmes h: Seaor But her must taike one --.f the ~V positiotns. Either the plati is rtwa t f it is wrong. If it. is right an~d he t iestlT tre'hii) wrong he shiould offe' u aaen'd it. If the plan is wriug lie ti ught ton he abtie to demonistratit. I Ie It night to be al: to pmrohve i, wroing ac- hi rdig tmo ihe Constti on~ti0im ecoI-omv. Vu )precendent and to legislativye enaat- ti teat. Wh ~en Senatmir Buitlmr haas to 1 s-uss the- pho bhe places himalf in ii V a invrd position of .sayite the 0 an i r ght but 1 won't hlrp it: ir it is ii ro - ad I ca't show it. Ie cau S Re- -ithier hiortn in thi,- dilemntut me s toses, b ut lhe wilh find it rough ri dintg 1: -i voor owtn speecmh at PrVovlt4' t m ul't discuiss thle plan;, but tmook t it till; but whenr 'ou ailvo'-ed tI ate banuks you disc-ussed the plait but I1 t te bill. * On what shall these '.mite n rks i.su~e nonry y What assturance V 'al we havie-that theym will nt becomie al ild cat schenm-s y llow sh~tll we ;.a:ke it emt lmmatnuney on re-al estate y Ymmu ei lk- abomL State tao ks tuow betmt out h. your bihi. But I won't st.-p 'iere. he uatoir has got to talk abou the pl dl. and may God give the ' vitory to L mi who is ini tihe right. Mir. W:.tmin .2 -Terr d to the reform miovement ini 1 n-ad, w hich was agitated by the ml i amuI set led by them before- ani) U !!wsfi-amed. T1uie tjplesttin of 'rishi y< oir!ie ulon't stop for a bili, b.:t at hen the: peopla pass on it a bil H 11tit h amed. Gecnerazl, if o1ur platn is t-ight o :in't you come and help us produmce a ti ll? I will make this concesion. U mut or Butle-r is honest in his op osi- cl cat, and ini that spirit I am dtin . ttu a~ i e Smuthi . e have had tar iftr ar orn tooted anddisiu,sd b'etore \I111s eve r ii t ta-n to paper. Now help 's discuss hi e sub-treasury plan, not the bt. ar ears ago we talked secession aiiu di- h; us-:ed the plan of see--ssion, but no hi..l 01 as ever m ramied. If the plain had II ittmpheiid there would h ave been -:lu :- of0 uetionis to be settleci by bills. Now thn help us debaute the plan an.t we w~ i t rmre the bili.' Coirg down to the sutb-tre:snaryw an, r. Watson spoke of tnhe tend.-ncy I: citg to ohd ideas aimi method, re- se rir.g t >the prisoners who shed 'ears o hen libe-ratt d from tl.e hastile ac.d tm d e eppsitionl to any imiprovemeent in si i postal s'istemi. "Now is it a good hi ation. What is the evil compiaue f ? 1 po General Butler: I don't undei l:nu this report of your speech whirr ays t hat the iational baiks do not ge o per cent. more. but 11) rer cent. les han they pay for. Is that correct enator Butler: Why, of course i arguing to show that that positiol 5 not corr-et. If I buy a norse of yoi h- horse is mir.e and the money 1 ours. I hat is payiog for a thin(, iational 1-arks siantly deposit thei onds and draw Interest on then re eiving for their bonds 90 per cent. il auney. Senator Butler said the bank og system was a war measure. I den '.he fitst bank charter was grantel a F- bruary, 1863. The first bank not ,as issued December 21, 1663, and a h- banks did not get into proper work ig order the bill reallirming the na ional banking Act was passed, bu ot until 1664. when the war was prat ir-aily ended. I his was not a wa weasure. The greenbacks took th eople through the war, and this sys em was est abiisheu to get the mone ato the banks of the plutocrats. Th ational banking system was a Rr-put can institution. Wouldn't you tiii strange that a man who opposes th ub-troasury would vote to recharte ational bznks? But Call of Florida orman of Maryland and Hlampton o: out h Carolna did so. National bank ave bad your money and have beef nrding it to you. The protits accruin ) them are estimated by financial au ao rit y at from a25,000,00 to $50,000,00 year. They have been growing riel a what they owe. Infainy of infanie would like the firc. (-f national indig ation to rise and swet them from th arth. :iator Butler wants the system at) lished. If that is done what shall w Lve in its place? The issuance o ioney is a sovtrteign right. low n il re people get it, except by loaning 'armers and frited. of labor deman< bat a svstemn of loans on land and non erisihatile products shall take the plac f the national banks. Yet our oppo ents fall to pieces if we mention sut reasury. They "cuss" in all colors o ie rainbow .ud go home and spani de bab3 over it. New idLeas nave to spring tip lik' ew scions from the roots ot decayint rees. Yet this is not an entirely nes lea. The bank of Amsterdam. th est of the present system, is the sub reasury pure ana simple. You tak aere y our gold and silver and deposi . You receive certificates of deposi hich immediately become currenc: nd circulate throughout Europe. YoL eed not take coin, but old metal o ny kind. That was the sub-treasur early three hundred years ago. Th ank of Hamburg saw the results o us policy and adopted it with th ime beneficial results. In Sweden th anks base their currency not on silve ud gold but, on land, the idea whict re have now got. Triey loan mone: n lan' to two-thirds of the valuatioi und on the tax books at four pe ent. In towns the valuation is base< n the amount for which the p:opert: n be insured. They loan the mone; t four per cent., which Senator Butle isapproved in his Prosperity speecL ,o doubt if they had knowa the Poo pinion the Senator would have o em some hundred years later the: ould have demanded, and the peapl rould have paid, the rate of seven pe i-nt. n hich lie thinks is the proper rate Iou will find, my friends, that the mat ,ho wants to borrow at a low rate o iterest is the man who intends to re urn the loan, while the man who neve itends to pay is williiig to take th yan at any rate at which it may be oi :red. They had tied it in Norway, and th :icyclopedia Brittanica, which is no a polities, is not a demagogue and no crank, says it has been of incalcula bi enefit to the people. Why not trn, 3m here ? Frederick the great adopt the plan to build up his counrtry af ?r seven years' war by establishing th ilesian Bank, which loaned money t ne farmers at four per cent. If ou overnmenit can borrow money at tw er cent. why can't the people ? Whi Sit that borrows 'out the people ? Wh3 enator, you yourself, who denounc orrowing at less than seven per cent re a party to borrowing at two pe nt. I have shown you the plan ar led to land, let us see how it work pplied to cotton and wheat. It take ree times as munch catton to paty ebt ol 8100 as it did t wenty years agt nd your debts has e not decrease d omebody then, has robb-d you of tw. :urids of your cotton. What ha~s dont Ly Contraction of the currenicy. Sup ose I had 8100.000 whbich w as all ther ras or could be in Lexington County 'he division of thai ainount accordini athe amount or yotur products woul< etermmfe the price of them. Suppost o w, Ihhouild burn half of that money 'he value or your products would b ecreas:'d jusit one-half, f or the smalle mount of money must be divided jos s the larger amount would have been 'o must pay your debts just as yet a:I to tefore but the debts have no ecreased in proportion to the decreas t he moelimt with which you have tU v hem. That is just th~e way con rietioni of the currency has robbed yoi f two-:hirds of ycur cotton. Contrac on or the cirrency in En land rnobbe< ur-liths of the farmers or thel oes and great dituress p'revaile util Lord tastlerragh inmroduce< i bills in one day pirovidinlg )r an increase mt the <:lrculatin1 ledt rn. The-n a da:. o*f prosperit;: a'sneci and the farmiers :.egan to re eem their ho.iws. O, citizens of tan outhi, mtay the time cotme whten on atsmenCI iay hecar anid see, wvhen thi: ill shall set in flow a tidr of actiot n on: people anall bt'gmi to redeent eir homes. I have shtown you the a rgtument fo we hai.1 baa. What good will it do Swil! betnellt the mn who has tot miuc Iard w.hich is deipreciatitig it lue e-' cry year. because he can sell nd use tne proceeds to imuprove tha aliuce-. It ill benteit the tenan t by :abling htuu to purchase land ata ae a ilome ol his own. No w when they Iti a that our peoS i arc exuravagant and laizy I point tt e tact that a f ew years a g,> they sai. a were not ilUng cottont en~ough ou turned to, ran the plow poisn ay-etr. andt this y ar yon raised 5000X. ij ii-. Nowv Senaaor Bum ier telh > u tht if you will only plant tes re to lhe tile that Eden i: here ac rgates are wide opeu. If there i or ~rodtuctioon of cotton, why is il tat ao nany ot our Soulth Carolhna anc eorgia girls and boys are so pocri3 Oted that they cannot go to Sunday hool? There is a butg tn the butter .1k somewhere-. Suppose a man starty with a debt, as you did after the war w is he ever goinig to pay it ? There *c nien here over w hose dimmed eyes igs the same-debt as~ when they canm it ot the war stalwart and' vigt.rouis ur peo'ple noght ho alie to keep out debt li thev didn't st'rt in debt. I have told vou how the laud lo.n ould work. Is there a slugle arg. eit in favor of the land loan which l1 not apply to cotton ? Land has a edh value. Cotton and wheat repre ut the product of labor, the true unit raine. Economnists agree that the iar is not the unit of value, bit the vet of a mian's face. Mlr. Watson re quoted f romn Adam Smith to sus in uim srntenent. The suh..treasury I plan, he said, recognizes this fact that w - labor i. the true unit of value. This Y i will give us a currency which will al- Y t ways answer the demand and we shall i have n-ither coul raction nor inlia- ti Stiol. I L Senator Butler says he don't want is i warehouses. Then he ought to give us n L the beneit of his suggestions by amend- t< s ing the bill. We can use warehouses n -. already erected and need not build a t< r single one. Select a warehouse in each p - district for the storage of your pro i ducts and have the manager selected p( - and bonded. You need not spend a ci T dollar. Now let Senator Hutler show re I that don't suit and we will try until he if is satislied. The Senator says the ti s money would go back into the Treasuiry yE - at the time when it was most needed. it - Ile allowed only six rhonths that the it t products could remain in the ware- si - house instead of twelve. Ile falls into jc the error of supposing that we would p: take our stock out the same dly w e put r - it in. They say. too, that it will give d( I speculators a chance to control i he crop. It will des:roy speculation and give c< every man an equal chance. Mr. Wat- a son closed -his speech wizh a magnifi- tv cent peroration, and his hopeful elo- T r quence carried his audience by storm. di , s t SENATORl BUTLER el I was then introduced by the chairman, re and was greeted with loud cheers. IHe st i spoke substantially as follows: tr Mr. Chairman and Fellow Citizens: e: - My friend reproached me for not dii- n 3 eussin thesub-treasury bill at Prosper- ti ity. I was invited to discuss the plan ta upn its merits. The bill being the se - only plan I had seen or heard of I ven- gi a tured to discuss it. I have been de fatted and derided because I exercised g( the right of on American citizen to dis 1R cuss any measure presented to the peo- te ple. The bill was introduced and every h I where hailed as the consumnation of all n; the wisdom of American statesmen. I1 i Yet I s-eni to have committed a crime b; - when I ventured to discuss it without a the consent of the bosses who are try- n: - ing to dominate all who do not je - agree with them. 'the charge that I a1 said tiat those who wantid to borrow of money at 2 per cent. never intended to tt pay it is false; so too is the statement T that I saia that no man ought to bor- id row for less than 7 per cent. I have b< stood by the side of too many people of tb the State, in the times when their souls p: - were tried, to say that 40,000 of them w are scoundrels, and I brand the author 01 t of it as a liar. I have lived too long to ti pander to demagogues and charlatans is for the hignest office in the gift of the tb L people of the State. c< r Mly friend rebuked me because I had gi r not amended the bill. I have those two ca bills here and will submit them to any I iEDtelligent and impartial man in the is State and let him say whether in that fr forw they were susceptible of amend- Pt ment. The bills were introduced, went T through the usuil course, were report- tI r ed on favorably, and I had an oppor- 1) L tunity to amend them if they had been tr r susceptible of it. tb i When my friend had tiislied 1 was fe disposed to jump up and say: "The po- a litical milleniumu and the political mes- 0 siah have come." He is a new man. Ii. .1e is going to Congress. le's not only Of going to smash the national banks and Of pass the sub-treasury bill [a voice: ti r "Tnat's what we want."] but he's going bt to reduce the cotton tax and lie will fnd Sa me right by his side. u When I offered my bill to repeal the ti 10 per cent. tax on State banks my f friend would not accept it. Now 1 P1 - would have the farmers go to the Leg- -( r islature and get a bank charter. On tl their deposits let them issue $2 for .1. ei -The old State banks answered our pur- al poses; they will again, because, as my ti friend probably does not know, the. na- tb tional banking Act was a copy of the In banking Act of New York State. What W harm can come from repealing that St tax? If we had banks in Columbia, y1 - Charleston, Newberry or Batesburg, is- d - sumng $2 for $1 deposited, it would Si remedy the difficulties which I know to >exist. [A voice: "lIow are we to get rthe capital?" Work for it, sir. Ilow W >did auybody ever get capital? It sE >would take out of the hands of pluto. al ,crats the power to contract the curren- s< Scy. It's his own remedy. It the farm- 11 ,ers want to go into banking with their st rcotton I want to see them in a position si - to do it. Cotton is lust as good securi- fC Sty for currency as silver. If they will ce ihave the government buy cotton as it yt Sbuys silver I will go as far as he will. irl ,But this is entirely different from his bi .plan, which is to raise money direct to lti - the people by advancing 80 per cent. ni SThe Constitution prohibits this. This U] - may seem old fogyish to those latter & Sday statesmen who look upon that in- Ot .strumwent as a dead letter. I regard it ti eas a living, vital, powerful protection s< to the peop~le, because the R~epublicans 91 have tL-e will to trample on it if they 15 lind it in the way of themselves or their a' ends. ol If the newspapers are to be believed 11 he has been doing some energetic work 2l . in Georgia against the third party. As ni tthe chairman has said, Georgia has of- EC ten aided South Carolina in her politi- 15 Scal troubles. Distinguished men have bi >given aid and moral support, but here- ti' .tofore they came to aid in maintaining w ithe honor and perpetuity of the Demo- er cratic party. Now he has come to put t in the entering wedge of its dlisruption. p: lIe h-as auvocated the establishment of ni a third party. [Mr. Watson: "'Are you fr is('cussing thea plan or the bill now ?'] to "Y ou havse attacked my record; now w yours is open to mxe." '[Mr. Watson: -p< -l"Ths wa s to be a sub-treasury discus- nm sion. If you attack my record I must ra hav e some time to reply. You may at- sa -tack mie on any point you please, but I b3 cain deflend myself."} Then I say this, so that I believe that toe doctrine asserted sa by himi will iesult in a third party. [A voice: "Where did it spring from la -ast year ?"] I hope that will be a les sou to us. There is no roomn for a third tli party' in this country, al. I believe the converting of the Alli anice into a secret order was a great a. mistake. If its princip~les had b,-en adhered to it would have prevented the oppression complained of. 'The farm ers through the Alliance kn')cked out bL theojutetrousthey were solid as ad rockandbroghtthejute trust to isII knmees. su The tariff bili passed by the last Coin- fo gress increased the price of c.ottonl ties. es lhe tariff bill passed by the last Con- th cress raised the rate on cotton ties from to 3~> to 1.02 per cent. I made the best hi speech I knew how against it but they 1l0 passed the bill. The result was just sa what I expected. Tlhe price was raised Dc from $1.25 to $1.45 or $1.54). Some have w: said they didn't feel the tariff, that it sti was not a vital issue. There is the in- di crease in cotton ties. See what that amounts to in the aggregate, every dol- .tit lar of which goes into the pockets of .an the Pennsylvania manufacturers. If au the Alliance will get together and say wi to the manufacturers --we won't use lhi your ties' there wvould be something| fo practie.at which v~ ould relieve them of jfo an enormous bumden. I presume that an will rectify that too. (A voice: "That's vo what he will.") If the Alliance wtill Ihi: stick to the principles of Its organiza-.lte tion it is supreme, but when they pro- 1e2 pose a plan which does not meet my Ct~ judgment I cannot endorse it. In~ my judgment the Alliance is the blest anid. most effective plan the farmer ever he adopted to protect himself against op- wi prsson When om, unite the tie trn d he ill come to terms as the jute trust did. on can use rope to bind your cotton. our rathers did before the war. My friend took up the proposition at the currency (lid not affect prices. said ir, should be increased, but I take sue with him on that point. That is >t the only trouble. I understood him say that supply and demand had thing to do with prices. I should like say why, with the recent adverse re )rte, the price of cotton has gone up? he depreciation amounts to 20 or 30 ,r cent. There is no more money in rculation. Supply and demand have gulated the price. Hence I say that the farmers would plant ten acres to e mule and more provisions, in three ars they would be the richest people the country. I would join the move ent to plant only that amount if a Xicient number of the farmers would in with me. I am satisfied that sup y and demand an.d not the need of ore money is the controlling factor in termining prices. I can'L approve the bill because it en urages Federal interference with the fairs of the people. which we have for renty-five years been trying to avoid. his bill will put us, body and soul, un the domination of the Federal gov nment, and more than that it is in di et violation of Article Iof the Con itution. Not a dollar goes into the easury except by taxation, with two :ceptions. Where are you to get this oney ? You can only get it by taxa >n; I know of no other way. He says ke care of the people in spite of them Ives. I say leave them alone. The best >verned people are the least governed. My friend complains that I have sug ,sted no remedy. The Congressional cord will show that I have been con riding for a correction of the wrongs laped upon the people. He wars on ttional banks but he rejects my plan. I could promulgate a plan inspired 7 heaven they would reject it. Under State bank system we could borrow oney easier than we can today. I ob et to the national banks because they e so eompletely under the domination 'the Federal government, and because ey were adopted as a war measure. he land loan system was tried in Flor a some years ago and failed. I can >rrow money on land in every Statein .e Union now. There ought to be no ovision of the national banking law hich would prevent the loan of money land. I am no apoligist for the na >nal banking system, bat I can't abol-' h the national oanks alone. I regret at anything escaped me to offend the urtesies of the occasion to our distin iished guest. I referred to his politi .1 record in Georgia in reply to what thought a fling against myself. Here the talk about 'a third party. My lend asks me if there was not a third rty in this State last year? I say no. iere was an attempt at one which I ought ill-advised. I voted thestraight emocratic ticket and worked against e third party. Life is too short and .e world too large to quarrel about dif rences of opinion. There is a talk of third party in the West and in some the Southern States, but when the ies of battle are drawn the majority our people will be found in the ranks the Democratic and Republican par s. Only the Hessians will be found tween the lines. There.is, bautnon-; fety for us in the South our constant, idaunted and unhesitating support to ie Democratic party. My friend asks what the Democratic rty has done for us in the last twenty ars. Though in a small miaority ey have resisted the attempt of radi lism to put the chains of slavery >out our necks. In the last Congress, ough still in a minority they defeated e iniquitous force bill, in a parlia entiary struggle such as never before as seen in the history of the Anglo. ,xon race. And now, ifter all our ars of suffering, when the prospects e so bright, are the beople of the >uth to divide to give power to the epublicans again ? Whatever differances we may have e must discuss and settle among our-. ives. I have become accustomed to use. Whenever my services shall be uight for I shall not count the cost. 'when my term Is expired, the people all send somebody else In my place I all not complain. It might be better r me personally, and if I am to advo te measures which 1 do not approve Li must seek another man. I am not this controversy as Senator Butler. it as plain M. C. Butler whom you sve known all your lives. When Ilam >t permitted to speak the truth as I iderstand it let my friends lay me ide, and if it is thou~ht that some her man is better titte to represent em let them say so. but let them say honestly and boldly and not malign defame me. Durng my incumbency oflice I have never allo wed the honor d interest of the people of South Car- - ia to be assaulted without resenting the best I conld. The benks which r. Watson has mentioned are like our trional banks. The money is not loan. .by the government. Our Treasury not a bank, it only receives and dis rses taxes. Loans made to two na mial expositions are no precedents on bich to be found any system of gov niment loans. The speager here made a com rison between a system of govern ent loans and of borrowing money :)m the State Treasurer, and referred the position of some of his opponents aio dleclare that the tariff Is an unim rtant issue, showing that the cheap. sa of some articles under a higher te of taxation is the result of latK'r ving nmachine-ry and is not affected 'the tariff. He closed by referring to me of the advisers of the farmer and ying: If D~r. Stokes will give me the same ad1 and the same mules, in five years ,vill be able to buy him out. I have at mueh conlidence in my farming ility, and that much distruct in his ility, for I don't believe he ever struck ick in his life. MR1. WATSON'S REPLY. [t would be impossible in anything t a stenographic report to give aD eq uate idea of Mr. Watson's reply. met the Senator's criticisms on the b-treasury plan, explained his grounds objection to the proposition to ablish State bank-s. and referring to e position some Alliancemen are said hold on the tariff question declared uself in favor of absolute free trade. gardinlg the third party matter he d: --nl stanid by the Ocalagplatform, matter where it leads. The man to will vote for a thing and then not ck to it involves himself in a contra :tion." [lls brilliant t-loquence, apt illustra 's and forcible arguments silenced d convinced his questioners in the dience, and carried the whole cro-wd th him. They were asked to vote on Sposition anO that of Senator Butler, :and against the Ocala platform and -and against the sulbtreasury plan, d in each instance the vote was over elmingly in his favor. The brilliant ung Georgian completely captivated - - audience and awakened a new in '-est in the Ocala platform and its ding feature, the sub-treaaury bill. lumbila llegiscer. X man may go to heaven without tth, without riches without honors, thout learning, without friends; but can neve tet there without Chrst.