The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-11-11

nal debt, accrued interest and the expense Of
fighting the payment of the bonds In the UNI.
ted States Courts, now toots up conSlueraoly
all. The county has been In q state OF tur.
moi ever since, immigration has been retard-
ed. and everything brought to q standStlIl.
The sessions OF the county Court nave oeen
cesses upon its members by United states
marshals, and when the latter have succeeded
in serving those processes and the Court mas
ordered Il levy OF taxes 10 lneet %as ha nv
books and burned them. The writer was cap,
tured by one Of these mobs. and IN company
with six others, kept q prisoner while the o.
and the tax books distracted: Such are some
of the results OF issuing bonds to paper rail-
roads. The whole system Of building ran,
roads or factories or anything OF Inc S,nu
wrong. If individuals or corporations want
to engage in these enterprises let the money
to build and equip them come out OF Ineit
own pockets. No man should have the right
to vote away the money OF another LOT any
such purpose.
That little bunch of free-traders who assem-:
bleu themselves together in Columbia q rev
appointed Mr.. Trenholm, of Charleston, a
delegate to the Chicago Free Trade Conven-
ton. This gentleman has been, for some
time past, pleading through the columns Oh
the Ne,os and Courier against Il reduction Of
the tariff on rice. But that Is the way WIN
these free-traders; If not inconststent. they
are nothing. The Senator from West virgin.
In wants free trade in everything but coal.
Why? Because their State is a large produc.
err Of coal. The Senators from Missouri want
free trade In everything except iron, lead anu
zinc. Why? Because their State largely PRO-
duces these articles. The Senators from Ala.
bama want free trade In everything but coal
and iron, Gnd the Senators from Louisiana III
everything but sugar. Why? Because Ala,
bama is Il large producer Of coal and iron ana
Louisiana OF sugar. The inconsistent course
of the correctness Of the protection principle,
for if 1t be right TO protect the rice OF SCUM
Carolina, 1t is right to protect the products o!
all the States. The writer, although thor.
oughly Democratic. does not favor free trade
nor any near approach to 1t. No tiller OF the
soil and no Workingman-tO when iatLer
class your correspondent belongs-should Ia,
wages for the workingInan, and this insures.a
for all the products Of the soil. Free
trade orators endeavor to MAKE 1t appear that
the wages paid to mechanics in free-trade
Engla. d are equal to what is paid the same
class in this country but the presence OF
Of English mechanics in the Unit
ed States Is q complete overthrow OF this ar
gument. There is but one consideration that
will induce a mar to leave the home Of his
nativity and all that Is near and dear to him,
and thatis 10 better his cohulti6il. The En-
gliSh mechanic comes here To better his con-
dition, and the fact that he does better 1t Is an
unauswerable argument in favor of protec-
anything of the condition of his felloW-Work.
ingmeu in England is likely 10 be found cast
his vote tor a free-trader. Protection gives
the laboring man good wages, and good wages
enab, es him to clOthe himself decently and
live respectfully.