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? V . l.'j*T ' VOL. VIII. MCLAURIN AND BOWDENTCI 10 IM{(M'i;iv!>IN(iS OF Till \ LLI ANOi: ItALLY IN ( ON NV A V. K The I Vojtleare Suffering 1 ?1 > ? of a Orcnt ('on>|>irat'j unions the t'n pital Ltn Somel h ing of Wit;i( Mi\ ltowdon Said. The 24th is passing; tln? Allianct lias rallied; some few of its suppor 4.,..,., i ?t? > - > 1 i,?-io uiix*.- j^iitnrrtMi togemor, listened appeared to Iteur, and silently (Us persed. About lire hundred peoph ? many ntoro than 1 oca I prophets expected?assemble! at the cottrl house to gather 'he* political am economic information lot fall I?v tin Congressman and Kditor. An Horn audience is notably silent and alien tive. The one to-day was mor? silent probably and less attentive than the usual one. On the Cuurl room full of faces that, were hefort the speaker, one could easily see tin marks the hard year has left. Lines of anxiety, of trouble, here and then even of desperation, might he seen I low evory man among them; how every neighbor of theirs, has sulYeret during the stringent times yet 11 pot us, no one save themselves can tell Yet there was no spirit of despite ation shown; no wild anarchic, glutei in the eye. As plain as could la written upon human eonntenanct Could bo seen that the time for earnest action, of determined thought was come; that while our peoph lll!iv ho alinum I U-?- ...111 ... J %*m v UMX/II") MVU^III, IIICV \> I i I III longer lie led. The rending of to-daj may be erased tomorrow; but tin reading of to day is, to-day, plain. The Speakers were Congrossmai MoLnnrin and Kditor Bowdon; Dr Stokes did not put in appearance Mr. I). (J. lioper was present bu took no apparent part in the rally The speeches were delivered in tin Court room, which could not hold tin whole crowd. Only about four hun drod people heard the speakers. Congressman McLAurin was lirs introduced He told the p ople ii Huhstance: A grave crisis I as jus been pissed through, hut you ban just begin. to pass through a gravel yet. It is a hopeful sign to see si many people out to day. The conn try depends upon the people, am the hard times force them to take at interest in their political welfare lie had come to throw light upoi the hig questions that had been am would he discussed in Congress- lit would not attempt to discuss tin silver question in all its intricasies A lively interest had been shown In the people in South Carolina in thit and other questions. The discussions in South Carolim had been more hitter tlnm tiny othei State in the Union; hut we had now aceomplshcd all we can expect The Stale can do nothing to bench us hi u nnuociui way. That inns (ioinc from national legislation. A few years ago the masses of tin people seldom knew who representee tiiein; they were not informed 01 the questions of the day. Because of reasonable prosperity they felt so cure. Hard times has its compcnsa tions. It onuses the people to seel means of relief. They have the bal lot box, and to that they turn to holj themselves; if they do not, they havi none hut themselves to blame. Tlie^ must now use that moans?they art being fleeced by the money power and will ho till they break the holt upon them. A crisis was upon us; the Presi dent called an extra session of (Jon gress to consider the situation ant relieve the people, lie pointed on! tho way: the purchasing clause oi tho Sherman act must he repealed Iu all the arguments of tho goh using people, we were told that at soon as the purchasing clause of the Sherman act was repealed an era oj prosperity would begin. It was ro pealed, ai.d immediately just tlx opposite thin# occurred. There wai an immediate decline in the price o cotton, of wheat, of corn, of every thing, and the derpeciatioi has not stopped yet. It was like hi: mule's colic; the horse doctor's modi cino cured the colic, but killed tlx mule, Repeal has cured the diseas< it aimed at, hut is neat killing tlx patient. Just after the war was a time o: great prosperity. More money wai made between '08 and 78 than dur ing the whole time since?then wai when the fortunes of the South of to day were made. The reason for thii is that the United States during tlx war was compelled to expand tlx currency. There was plenty o money with which to carry on husi ness of all kinds. In spite ot tlx devastation of the war, times wen .,/va.I. u; ... - 1-: ftyjyiyi , n?cijrilil'lj/ WMH lllgl). Tho principle in political econonr that supply and demand regulate price must bo looked at on bod sides. It is not alone the supply and demand of cotton that gives it; price; the supply and donand o money has as much to do with it. There are two kinds of monoy gold and silver?paper money baso< on gold, and paper money based 01 silver. In order to make woaltl greater, you have just to depreciati c the currency. Out of money one. half ami money wealth i* doubled. , i (loltl anil silver together coulil not bn cornered; gold ul<>no, or silv-er | alone, could be. Iti that is the (secret of the whole matter. The i great capitalists of New York, 51 Kngland and elsewh- re combined to corner the currency. This could only be done by making one metal the money of ultimate redemption. In no country on the face of the . earth could such a tiling hoconsuma . J ted suddenly with' ut the bloodiest . of revol 111imiH us th.? v.?cn1? t? ... VIV t VUK i <t 1% mm to be done by degrees. Those great , capitalists got hold of Lamest ?Saye, * a shrewd and able man, who began I to lignro in the lobhys. An ambi | guity in vi certain act was discovered . ana a ^clause inserted making silver . certificates payable in gold. Only one . man has ever attempted to justify . this act. The panio oF '7d was caused . by this depreciation by half of the I currency. In 1878 they let lip a little on . silver. The Lower House began to 3 stir in the matter; the Bland Allison , act was passed. Darin# all this time the Republicans wt rc in power. In the meantime every Democratic 1 platform had repudiated the Repub, bean action and denounced the fraud . of '73. The people recognized the ! Democratic party as the party of r sound money. >i In iSBt a Democratic President 3 was elected; but the Senate was still . Republican. The Democrats, there fore, could not be held responsible . j for not righting the financial wrong 3 its platforms had so often pledged it >, to do. The President was sound on . the tariff, ami on white supremacy in i- " .-MMiui. 11is great tft?111* message , male the issues of '88 on which ho was defeated. _ I Through tho Alliance the i>oo|>le t , have been educated to know that the tariff is not the main issue. It is > most certainly wrong?sucking the 3 wealth of one sectiau, into another . but it is not the main issue. Tho money question is the one that t stands out above all othets?tho , groat issue. The men who hold the I gold hold us by the throat and wring 3 their entire wealth from us. [' I Certain newspapers iind people in ) this State docry and iibu.se those who take this position. I to did not prc\ i tend to say that his faction was al , ways right; buUin this it is right; its leaders understood the question, i | At Chicago tho tariff was the 1 main issue. The people demanded ^ that the party of John Sherman and 3 contracted currency ho laid aside. A perfect tidal wave* overwhelmed them 5 When ho was running for his pres | v ii l, iiuaiuuil) lit" Ulinosi l't*I llSlill to t discuss the tariff. We could do r i nothing with it. Tho miners of j Birmingham niul others are now begging for more tariff. Tho presj cut Administration is spending more l 1 money than the one before it. Three hundred millions more are being 3 spent than collected. The income I tax can't help us. \\ hilo it is the , only fair and just tax, ttie big money } holders are not going to give in for ns to raise revenue that way. Last March an attempt was made i | to repeal the purchasing clause of tho Sherman act. The Sherman act )! is something like the island Allison ) act?a makeshift. It recognizes siIf ver only in part. It calls for rei demption in c<?iu. Common sense , would say that silver should bo paid 1 for silver and gold for gold. Both the last Administrations have re deemed in gold alone. The reserve | fund wusencroached up nand thisinI jttreel the stability of the government, t The misconstruction of the Sherman F act hurt the government, and pro . dnced i he panic that was threatened 1 j in March if the purchasing clause of j j t he Sherman act was not repealed. 5 I The panic came on account of t.h? F contraction of the currency. The extra session or Congress 3 was called. Cleveland took the po3 sition that South Carolina h: <1 b>ng f ago held, that the money qestion was the paramount issue, i A few years ago, when things were t prosperous, when the Alliance start cd, lots of big feeling fellows talked 3 about the Alliance?it would cause ) hard times. So many people have worked for thoinselvos instead of the community is the reascn for the f times. They should have instead s been leading the people in the right - direction. It is a mere matter of s time under the present financial pol icy when there will be no capitalists, s The downfall of the producers will 3 bring capital with it. Wealth will 3 bo in the hands of a few and capital f for productive labor will not exist. The great trouble with our people 3 iti this country is, they have put par u i vy iiuovu everymmg else, have lis* I tened to persons and newspapers who y have built up that, party spirit. To s think for ourselves, act independent i ly, was almost political suicide. The y drawing of tho color line, tho shak3 iug of the bloody shirt, the party f caucuses have been the means of holding the people to putty. The , discussion of the Election laws in the 1 extra session wits meant only todisi tract the people and inIIHence the i elections in Virginia, a A few level headed rih! patriotic rr^| 4 Be True to ON WAY. S. { .. men -aw tome time ago where the J country was ('rifting m d organized the Alliance. A pin:font giving measures of relief wtis adopted ami it was tho idea to ftvo our party from caucuses and such. I'nless we can succeed an that line there is no | hope for the country. At tho beginning of the extra ; session of Congress, ho wa> astound ed at the condition of n'uuirs. He; tween March and Angus1, an overwhelming majority in favor of silver was changed into a small niinoti'y. Ho couldn't understand how >o many men in so short a time enuld eli;iinr.? - - - - v so completely. The Speaker of the House is more I powerful t lmo any man in it. He I frames th? committees, puts men iii sympathy with his views upon them. W hen the caucus to nominate the Democratic Speaker was called, he refused to attend. In voting for that ollicer, he would be voting for or against silver and he couldn't vote for any man ?o have so much power. The Speaker was a silver man, electled against gold men by silver men. lie went to Now York and was most ' out ragonsly snubbed by the Tariff Keform Club; but on returning to Congress be was given a most il it i tering reception. Suddenly talk I died out; the committees were formed in opposition to stiver, and men who were open advocates of silver entirely overlooked. When the vote showed that the I silver men were defeated by a majority of ISJO, ho was astounded. In the Senate the same tactics as in the House were used. there was a long j hard, bitter struggle and on tho side of the repeal men, there were threats of personal violence ami brutal ac 11 ion in trying to starve them, against1 j the silver men. 1 Cl At Chicago t lie Sherman act v 'l( 'condemned, lie was opposed to It P1 act but couldn't vote to repeal01' without it substitute. I to was !0,1 of the silver men who couldn't t ;l ' j the gold men. A*.compromise ' l);i agreed upon; it was said 111; 11 i?' "" drawn up and signed; but tho' ,ai York 1 \'nrft/ and other big da. ' 1 opposed it and it \vj s killed. A discrimination must bo if between such silver men as St??J and sue!) as Allen and llland. St 1 art was lighting for self; Allen ? Bland for the country. We w'.'lie 1 using such men as Stewart only*.?t, ! tools and will continuo to do so as long as it is to our interest. There is another side to this conspiracy . The bonded indebtedness of this Country is live hundred ami liftv mil. I 4 %f J lion dollars. The bonds are nowworth from $1.lo to $1.20 ami our I cotton, our com, our wheat -the products of our larms and mines are pledged to pay this indebtedness. The interest on these bonds is p .v; ablo in coin, in gold or silver. As soon as it became payable only in gold their value was increased by one half. These bonds are held by the National Hanks and as permanent ; investments by wealthy persons. An issue of 100 million dolhus in bonds payable in 50 years, worth 100 cents on the dollar, would sell for $1.50 and pledged for their payment I are our, cotton, corn, wheat and | other products. These bonds arc offered to the favored few on the da\ of issue. Many millions of our I bonds are in Kngland; lots of great people draw their wealth from our country. The lirring Bros., and the Rothchilds, draw their tribute from lis. They recognize no country, no race, no God, nothing sate self interjest. They have agents everywhere. They had thorn in the North before the war preaching Abolition, and in the South preaching Slavery, and all the time gathering up bonds to pile in the vants of their employer.-. llero the speaker graphically told the tale of the issue of the Egyptian bonds, giving it as part of thy great conspiracy on foot to milk this conntry as it has milked Egjpt. It is only of late that Egyptian cotton has come in competition with American. This is one of the outcomes of the Egyptian conspiracy. We are to be ground down by the b ml i holders us Egypt 1ms been. The whole effort of the great capitalists is to force an issue of th<o bonds. We have the ballot box; we must use it to save ourselves. The President has the good of the people at heart, but be has been deceived by designing men. They have made him promises that they cannot and v\ill not keep. They promised that they would loose gold if the Sherman act was repealed. The railroad interests in tl i s r*mi>.. try are inflated. It costs 4)18,000 per mile to build them and they are j put down at $70,000. The divi donds these roads pay are taken from I freight and passenger receipts is a drain upon people. In order to ke; p these stocks, they hypothecate them, start other investments, inflate bonds' of these, hypothecate them and start others. No financial system, much less ours, can stand such a drain upon its productive capacity. This depression is going to burst up the watered stocks and bonds in these United States. Many other things did Mr. McUatirin say during his speech. He Votir Word, Your Work, and ^ THURSDAY > oft? m broke in upon his argument j with uu anacdoto or local and jut filial touches "to w hoop up t he lioys." Me paid his disrespects to the A7irs ami Court, / , 7'//< /State, etc.. hut hi lowed that ho tOO would Audit f. .? ! ' FS ''' his pocket book, 118 11 u*v aro doing, if he were in their place. 11? advised Irs people to light for theirs and light hard, lie praised the Ovtton Plnu( quite rapturously and advised I.i^ people to pruv with thosu who read onl\ iho Xnc/tomf ('nuriir. Din ing l:is closing ad vi si lory rem irks ho to'd farmers not to bo led astray by designing persons. Many of the men who oppose the Alliance are ' honest) but not as intelligent us the n lb farmers, his people, were. h The Alliance may be weak in 11 numbers, advocate bad measures, but i its under A ing principles would live on, for tb y wore right and Into. i KlJtTOn now dux j was introduce !, before the silence ! amid which Mr, Mc Latum took his seat, had grown too painful. The I Kditor t ilked o i co operation mostly; i hut things in general were often dis ' cussed. Concerning the faultfinders plea that the Alliance had gone into polities he. would say that this was : one of the two sides to the Alliance. i The ot Iter was co-operation in work j1 and education of each other in the principles of politic'1 and domestic ; ' economy. Talking about cooperation he] j i aid that the Alliance ought n> in--j lluenco legislation as the old (Irange] tiied to?liiro commiitccss to work i the lohbys in Congress and the State ; iA>fgv.Vk% \ 'co , " ' v o yt l II VM vlepoild <)0 tcie isni(Ms set (.low ii ii . . , lu V 'VOUli never get "MO tli.'ly ? -, |||(>/ ,/ t. 1,1 /il organization WO th tliorougll,,jV(1,b obalilv itccl oursfi i- ii i>, , 1 \ itivi s arc not, to, A f i , , ,IIKl(',s *?i \ heir ow n I l>V iho.S" diet* /Till,. citv of!' r?" will of tlio sres, oraminod fifTt ,,A m '" views,, nfli.lavit.s ,V,| ]?. |Kltj |.card ! I'MportaF demagogue, Mo- ' " " ( 111 I '''o/ demagogue; but it i "mis on tin. siilfay represent tho poo- j ? 1 dictate tot ho people Mir, Ni;\VTv ('? thnir will. No it _ |l try to domiimto the a "i.\ofox, ff tries to, bo is a demanow I)enii)ciy " t<> tlie finbJ'Mution of Alliancemon 'tis fnIti11 e'MMK upon them as their iihjs r " ii'-al duties. 'I'lio All inn 06 tS'i ull-grown and polities is a part of its business. It. recognizes no party, is not interested in the suecoss of any party. It uses parties merely us tools. Tlio oapilulkit do tho same way. Mr. Howdeu never iinisbed bis speech. The audience saw a man get a < 'of/on J'/nnf and another reach for n cop/of McL'turin's silver speech, and crowded around tho sr?i?:ilfi?i> - "1~ | making no attempt to trend easy ami thinking little of the impoliteness it) ' extinguishing the distinguished gen : tlemen. At uhoilt t.v\'<? o'clock, tho courtr< om was d< scrtcd and in a few hours the town was < ntptv of visitors. ,1. O. N. | O <&?- -4^ Punishing tlx* Grand?! nr \. < Jeorgetown Times. On hearing ttie rejiort that Dispenser Gilbut t Johnson had "black listed"' several niemhers of the Grand Jury because of tho recent preset) tnient, l we wrote? him a very polite note on j Thursday, asking if such was the case, which he declined to answer,} j tho only thing vouchsafed to us bo| ing that it was a matter for himself I alone, and that it was none of our j business. Wo then applieu to Dr. M. S. Ise j man, one of the members of the Board of Control for this county, and the l)i purser's superior officer, for information on the subject. The Dr. Said that, if any person, through prejudice,'reported the Dispensary; ;is a nuisance, that he would not le' | him have any more liquor, and had [so stated to Air. Johnson, although i not in the nature of an order to that gthibieuiuD. We interviewed Mr. T. M. Merri- | iii.ti , who is the chairman, yesterday, | jand he emphatically said lie luid gtv | en no such order." to the dispenser;) that it was not the proper way to con | due! the dispensary, and that if Mr. .Johnson had been in the habit of J . celling whiskey to these gentlemen I ; heretofore, that he ought to continue j selling it to them, and not stop it at i this date, since, even if lie was not vexed at the presentment of the I (1 rand -Jury, it would certainly have that appearance now. The very members of the Grand Jury whom report says is blacklisted have been in the habit of purchasing I <pior from the dispensary Jieretofore, and had mirnhsiHed il <m ?t</? i r ' J j day iho presentment whs in title public, an 1 the public will now agree with ; I its that it looks like no attempt to punish cert tin members of the Grand I .Jury for exercising their rights as I sworn ollioers of the law. Word o mos from all quarters thai the neatest and nmst Mitisfaotory j dyo for coloring the beard a brown or black is Buckingham J >ye for ! thrt Whiskers. B/>Ai'"Uihural implements J/ ' ^SQf ? list. in 0 1'our ('ouiitry." NOVEMBER, M CARLISLE ON THE CURRENCY t nmiuctin it t ai.k ijv 111 i: sinin-yr vu v or tiii: tkio asl'ry. low i .Sound and Stable ( nrrcii C';. < lit be ITwt :i bli.. Ill <1 null I'pesorvi'd Some Popular rillllll'ios ( 'once ru i tig Itiniclulisin t'\plo< I Ctl Mr. President and (lentlcmen: The subject presented by the ?onti ? | inent just n ml is so large and insolves -<> many considerations, not >nly of public policy, l?ut of public mil prisato honor and good faith,1 that I scarcely know how to respond lo it on such an occasion as this, j svhoro brevity of statement will be more appropriate than elaborate argument. I am somewhat einbtirrasped, also, by 111" fact that I am to talk to an assemblage of gentlemen I who, by reason of their personal ex - J perienco in commercial and financial affairs, are at least in as good a position as ! am t<> understand and ap- j proeiato the value of a sound and stable corrency and to foresee the injurious effects of a departure from Borrt'Cl (inancial methods. Money ard it - representatives con- ; 3iUute the too's with whii,lithe titer- j html an > the hanker porfonn their | pot in n imerous and complicated 1 mm!) . '':<)! s necessarily occering in I he jr? ??w| li and development of our irmie <it home and abroad. It is not poss'i ic to do perfect work with iui p?rf<n instrtimenls, ami if it is attempted tin* consequences will not fall iii on ytill alone, but must bo felt sooimr or later in every part of the I land ('onlid<*uce won Id bo destroyed, trade would be interrupted, the obligations of run tracts would bo viola ted, and all the evils which have invariably .attended the use of a bus? >r llucl unt ing currency would alllict, not tie eominercial aid financial class"'.-: only, but the country at large, lint our eominercial interests are not conliu d to our own country, they extend to every quarter of the globe, and our people buy and soil in nearly [ very market of the civilized world. A very large part of our farmers, medial ics and other laboring people fiml constant and profitable employment in the production and transportation of commodities for sale ami cunsump!ion in other countries, and the prices of many of our most iinportaut products are fixed in foreign mar!:. t8. Without exception these prices are lived in the markets of countries having a gold standard or measure of value < ither by express provision of law or l>y a public, policy which keeps their silver coins equal in exchangeable value tp the gold coins at the legally established ratio. The value of our trade with the people of other countries during the last fiscal veae was ifioro than ?1,700,000,000 and mure than ?1,100,000,01)0 of this was with the people of Kuropc, while with the whole of Asia it amounted to a little over $100,000,000, and with a 11 the countries of South \metica, excluding Brazil, which has a single gold standard, it was onI, s 10,000,000. While it, would bo unfair to .attribute this unequal distribution of our trade with the out sido world to the character of fiscal legislation, I thinK it may ho safely asserted that this country could not long maintain its present position as one of the most conspicuous and ini portant members of the great community of commercial nations which now controls the trade of the world, unless we preserve a monetary system substantially at least in accord with the monetary syntonic of the other principal nations. I'h-re c.i 11 l?e no international le <^al tender without an international agreement, but there must, from the v?Ty necessity of the case, always bo :i c >nnnon basis upon which bargains are made and a common currency in which balances are settled. No ono na ion can dotermino for the others what that basis shall be or what that currency shall bo. It may establish a currency for itself and for tho use of its own peopl ' in their domestic trade, but the value of that currency will h - ultimately measured and conclusively fixed by the international standard, whatever that may he. The stamp on its coins attests their weight and fineness, but. it adds nothing i whatever to their intrinsic value and nothing whatever to their exchangeable value in the mnrkots of the i world; so that a nation's stock of international money always consists of its uncoined bullion and the bullion value of its coins. It Cannot, mar i "-'ft- j ment its stock of such money to nny extent by overvaluing either gold or1 silver in its coinage laws, nor can it diminish its Stock to any extent what j ever by undervaluing either metal. Whilo the number of its nominal dollars, or shillings, or francs, may be increased or diminished, as the case may be, tho actual value of the bullion 6r coins will not be changed in the Last, for no Act of Congress, or other legislative body, can repeal or titer the laws of trade or the laws of finance, and every attempt to do > mu.-.t result iu disaster sooner or later. The people should have the best have' irc'tr i ii j: o! r> i^j. [) money. No matter, th ivforo whatour monetary system may bo hero at lidiiio IIu ..at ..lit;, i..1.1 i ..v? ?i^ loitiuinniMi i>\ Iiur UWll laws, we imt I cither teliilquish a large part of oursharo in tin* con 1 merceof the world <?r conduct our international trade upon rucH basis as the general judemeu I of o<?nnnercial nations may establish. Wo can not possibly change this situation. I ami, consequently, tho only praotioal question is, whother it is better to establish by law an inferior kind of money for Use at homo exclusively and another kind for use abroad, or to have all or money good enough for use in every market where our people trade. I believe tho people of the 1'nited State.- are entitled to have for u>e in their domestic trade just as good money as any other people in the world have, and that they are entitled to have just as much of it as may be tiecessrrv to carry on their business regularly and prolita- 1 bly. Whether it be gold or silver, I or both, or paper based upon the coins of the two metals, the poople have a right to demand that it shall be in fnot what it purports to bo -a just and true measure of value, or the representative of a just and true measure of value. ( old i^ the only international money, and all trade balances arc settied in gold, or, which is tho same thing, o.i a gold hasis, all other forms of currency h"ing adjusted lo tluit standard. 11 is useless for the advocates of a different system to insist that this ought not t<> ho so; it is so, and wo cannot change the fact. But tho gold eagle and doiihlo oaglo are not accejited at a particular valuation in those settlements simply because tho Hnihd States of Ainorica have declared hy law that they shall bo le gal tender at their nominal value, but solely because tho bullion con tained in tlmni, if uncoined, would he wort h everywhere t he - nine amount This is a great and powerful (!o\eminent, hut there is one thing it can not do it cannot eractu money. There are sonic things, however, which the (lovernineut can do for the establishment and prcsrvation of a sound and stable currenscy. In the exercise of its constitutional authority to ''coin nionev and icgii late the value thereof/'it can suspend or limit the coinage of cither metal whenever it is ascertained that the coins of the two metals, of the same denomination, are of unequal value; or if can change their legal ratio so as to ma ho them ns nearly equal in value as possible, or it can maintain the parity of its coins hy receiving them and their paper reproonnt.ii S.*.wi i. ... * f -II ? nioviiuimrn in (my lilt' 111> OI <HI pll'>- I lie dues amI discharge all its own ??b- ; ligations in whatever kind of money its creditors may demand The principle or rule of law that the Option as to the kind of legal tender with wh oh an obligation shall bo discharged belongs to the dob tut, and not to the creditor, tuts no just application in a case where the (lovcrnmoi.t issues its notes to circulate its a currency among the people and, by making them legal tender, compels the people to receive them. The private citizens may very properly avail himself of the lawful right to discharge his private obligations, held hy voluntary creditors, in Hfcny kind of legal tender money, because he has only his own personal interest to protect and owes no public duty in the premises. But when tho Government of ttie I 'nited States has undertaken to supply the country with a currency, and has issued its obligations in the form of notes to circulate among tho people in the transaction of their private business, and has received for every dollar renr-sented bv such notes a dollar's worth of the people's services or a dollar's worth of the people's property, its honor, as well as sound public policy, demands that thoy shall be redeemed upon presentation i:? money current in till the markets of the world. No Government can honorably disparage or depreeiacu its own obligations, and especially obligations which it has forced its people to accept; nor can any Government honorably discriminate between the different kinds of money or currency which it puts in circulation. Whatever inyy be toe differences in the forms and qualities of the currency while it remains in circulation when the time for ultimate redemption comes all must. bo treated alike. The country has recently heard a great deal about hiinatalism and a double standard, etui it is possible that these subjects will continue to be discussed t<> some extent in the future, h'or iny part, I have never been able to understand what is meant by a double standard, or double measure of value, and I have never found anyone who could t II me. To my mind it seems ns absurd to contend that there should be t\yp different -andardsor measure of v.V., ........... ..lit i ' * * ' V in <13 11 nmiiu i-f l ? 1U818I UOOI) 11 l*-* ing t?vf? )an! stieks (?f different lengths o; (wo gallons of different dimensions. ll there were two standards, or measures, n??t equal in value it is evident that one of them must ho f o measure; and if they were of equal va ie it is evident that no mutter wi.uttho law mightdoolure I [rOXTINI 1:1 > ON SFCONO l'AUH.j ILIA HLL FIIt.M OF ""* 1 IMC NO. 2<T ^UHSTIONS I'OU IIAMI'TON To Hon. Wade Hampton: In a recent communication to tho State, you any among other surprising things: "Tho time h?s come when tho lino showUl bo drawn between those who stand upon tho Ocala platform and those who stand upon that of tho National Democracy. No man who upholds tho former cm properly i.a .. i? * ' V/IOIIII tu 'JVJ i? I MMIIUCl'-ll. A little further on, you refer to t ho "fallacies of tho Ocala ad her, ents." As the platform refered to by you is the platform of the Farmers' Alliance in this State, wo, as representatives of that largo body of sturdy citizens, who have never voted any but tho regular Democratic ticket State and National, respectfully a^k that you point out the fallacies in that platform, and show wherein and plank of that platform is incon sistent with tho principles of broad Democracy annunciated by Joffer8on and perserved unimpaired through a century of struggle in the platforms of tho Democratic party. If wo are wrong, as individuals or as au Alliance, wo desire to be set right. Truth, right, and justice to all are our objective points, and light leading in thoso directions is gladly received. Whatever tho source, whether highest or lowest, whether from a friendly or un unfriendly quarter, light and logic will always be accorded a rational analysis at least. This is tho teaching of our order, and in this spirit we address you, sincerely desiring and expecting an answer. And we may add that the great or ^iiiiii.uuiu'i ? i n j'l uumprisi tig not only tho backbone of tho State''s industrial progress, but tho groat majority of tho people?comprising the great majority of those who bared their breasts to the bullets of South Carolina's foes, and who have fur nished the groat majority of tho voters by which Democracy won the light that placed yourself in tlie Coventor's chair, and subsequently in the United States Sonato?that groat organization will expect ail answer befitting the memories of the past, as well as the exigencies of the present. Dor your convenience in answering, we will summarize tho several planks in tho Ocala platform which you have denounced as undemocratic and fallacious, and will indicate the questions we wish answered. I. The first ()uala demand is for tho abolition of national banks and the issue of the people's credit direct to the people, upon such security as the people can give and at such rate of interest as the national bankers have enjoyed for near thirty yours past. Whoro is tho fallacy in this? Is this undemocratic? What is fallacious or undemocratic in the demand for an increase of tho circulating medium to the same per capita ratio that existed wli?n the public debt was made? 2. Wo domand that legislation ho enacted that will prevent a relative few from gambling in tho people's bread and meat and clothing, whereby millions of dollars are forcibly wrested from the necessities of the people. Is there anything undemocratic in that? Where is the fallacy? Wo demand the free and unlimited coinage of silver, at the ratio of 10 to 1, in order that our debts may be payable in the same sort of 4 dollars that were current when the debts were made. Wo maintain that it is infamous to require us by legislation to pay the mortgagee on our farms in dollars that cost double | as much of out labor to get. Is . this undemocratic? Whoro is the y fallacy? |nfl 4. We demand that the public lands shall be held for actual settiers, and that holdings by alio.is or ? syndicates for speculative purposes ^ .shall be pro tubed. Is 111 i e> undemocnuie? Is this fallacious? 5. We demand a tariff for revenue only, and that the government be economically and honestly administered; that the tariff bo taken off tho necessaries of life and levied upon the iuxuiies; that the bulk of tho taxes be raised upon the incomes of the people rather than Uj on their nc- c jcessities. Is this the plank you had in mind when you said. "No man -1 who upholds (it) can claim to ho a r Democratic?" Is this "fallacy?" ' j|! 0. We demand "the most rigid, h nest and just State and national governmental conirol of the means of I public communication and transpor- ; tation," and if the people's suffrage : bo abused, then that the people con- , ( struct and operate their own rail roaus ami nnegrapn linos. is til is undemocratic? I' it fallacious? .< We demand tho election of 11 "nited States Senator by direct vote f the people of each State. la this ^ iiridemocratic? Is it fallacious? **! Your early attention will greatly oblige tho organization we roprosenty&W.^ and a tlio same time the great ma' ' jorii ?>f those who voted for Mr. Jflfrw i \"\.dand la-t \? o a me ,/ i principle tb. m j' ! s'.a'). Very respect fully yours, l I W. I) KVANS, Ties. i\ S. A i 1 J. Will. STt)Ki:s. !.co- 1\ S. ivm i