The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-09-19

Divers plans have been suggested for tn
return of this accumulated surplus to tn
people and the channels of trade. Some o
these devices are at variance with all rule
of good finance; some are delusive; SOM
are absurd, and some betray by their reck
less extravaganza the demoraliziDg influ
ence of great surplus of public money
upon the judgment of individuals.
While such efforts should be made as art
consistent with public duty and sanctioned
by sound judgment to avoid danger by the
useful disposition of the surplus now re
naming in the Treasury, it is evident thai
If its distribution were accomplished an
other accumulation would soon take it.
place if the constant flow of redundant in
come was not choked at its source by re
form in our present tariff laws.
We do not propose to deal with these con
ditions by merely attempting to satisfy the
people of the truth of abstract theories, no,
by alone urging their assent to political doc.
trine. We,present to them the propositions
that they are unjustly treated in the extent
of present federal taxation, that as a result
q condition of extreme danger exists, and
that it is for them to demand remedy and
that defense and safety promised in the
guarantees Of their free government.
BUSINESS AND LABOR PROTECTED.
We believe that the same means which
are adopted to relieve the Treasury of the
present surplus and prevent its recurrence
should cheaper to our people the cost OF
supplying their daily wants. Both of these
objects we seek in part to gain by reducing
the present tariff rates upon the necessaries
of life.
We fully appreciate the importance to the
country of our domestic industrial enter
prises. In the rectitication of existing
wrongs their maintenance and prosperity
should be carefully, and in friendly spirit,
considered. Even such reliance upon pres
ent revenue arrangements as have been in
vited or encouraged should be fairly and
Justly regarded. Abrupt and radical
chan ges which might endanger such enter
prises, and injuriously affect the interests
of labor dependent upon their success and
continuance, are not contemplated or In
tended. But we know the cost of domestic
manufactured products is increased and the
price to consumers enhanced by the duty
imposed upon the raw material used IN their
manufacture. We know that this increased
cost prevents the sale of our productions at
foreign markets in competition with those
countries which have the advantage of free
raw materials. We know that confined to
q home market our manufacturing opera
tions are curtailed, their demand for labor
irregular and the rate of wages paid un-
certain.
We propose, therefore, to stimulate our
domestic industrial enterprises by freeing
from duty the imported raw materials,
which by the employment of labor are used
in our home manufactures, thus extending
the markets for their sale and permitting
an increased and steady production with
the allowance of abundant profits.
STEADY EMPLOYMENT.
True to the undertaking course of the
Democratic party, We will not neglect the
interests of labor and our workingmen.
In all efforts to remedy existing evils we
will furnish no excuse for the loss Of en-
ployment or the reduction of the wage of
honest toll. On the contrary, we propose,
in any adjustment Of our revenue laws, to
concede such encouragement and advantage
to the employers of domestic labor as will
easily compensate for any difference that
may exist between the standard of wages
which should he paid to our laboring men
and the rate allowed In other countries.
We propose, too, by extending the markets
for our manufacturers to promote the steady
employment of labor, while by cheapening
the cost of the neceSsaries of life we increase
the purchasing power of the workingman's
wages and add to the comforts of his home.
And, before passing from this phase of
the question, am CT nstrained to express
the opinion that while the interests of labor
should be always sedulously regarded in
any modification of our tariff laws, an ad-
ditional and more direct and efficient pro-
lection to these interests would be afforded
by the restriction and prohibition of the
immigration or importation Of laborers
from other countries, who swarm upon our
shores, having no purpose or intent OF be-
coming our fellow-citiZens, or acquiring
any permanent interest in our country, but
who crowd every field of employment with
unintelligent labor at wages which ought
not to satisfy those who make claim to
American citizenship.
THE TRUSTS DEALT WITH.
The platform adopted by the late Ma
tional Convention of our party contains
the following declaration:
Judged by Democratic principles, the
interests of the people are betrayed when
unnecessary taxation, trusts and combines
are permitted and fostered, which, while
unduly enriching the few that combine, rob
the body of our citizens by depriving them
as purchasers of the benefits of natural
competition"
Such combinations have always been con-
demned by the Democratic party. The
declaration of its National Convention is
sincerely made, and no member Of our
party will he found eXcusing the existence
or belittling the pernicious results of these
devices to wrong the people. Under va
rious names they have been punished by
the common law for hundreds OF years,
and they have lost none of their hateful
features because they have assumed the
name of trusts instead of conspiracies
We believe that these trusts are the Datural
offspring of market artiflcially restricted;
that an Unfortunately high tariff, beside fur
nishing the temptation for their existence,
enlarges the limit within which they may
operate against the people and thus in
creases the extent Of their power for
wrong doing. With an unaterable hatred
of all such schemes, we count the check
ing of their baleful operations among the
good results promised by revenue reform.
NO CRUSADE OF FREE TRADE.
While we cannot svoid partisan misrep-
resentatton, our position upon the question
of revenue reform should be so plainly