The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-08-20
TAXING COTTON TIES.
Senators Vance and Daniels Protest
! AGAINST It,


WASHINGTON, August S.--Senator
Vance mad" an amusing speech in
ridicule Of the claim that the farmer
derived any benefit from the tariff. The
manufacturer of Woolen goods, he said,
who got IS per cent. protection on his
goods said to the farmer IF you give
me Is per cent. protection on my WOOL
en- goods. against the English and
French manufacturers. | will give you
25 cents per bushel protection on your
wheat and 10 cents per bushel protec-
ton on your corn against England"
that does not grow Il bushel of corn
and does not grow cne-tltth OF the
wheat that her people eat.
One got cash and other promises.
Cash was ''the short run" and promises
were 'the long run" Whenever the
manufactured got tired of reaping the
benefit of the bargain on his side he
agreed to let the farmer get his "in-
nings." So far, the manufacture had
proved remarkably long-winded He
had not shown the slightest evidenceof
being tired. The nature OF the bargain
between the farmers and the manufac-
turer was well illustrated by the offer
OF one urchin to another: Jim, If you
give me a bite of your big red apple
will show you my sore toe. Laugh
ter
II the Senators insisted on tripling
the existing tax on cotton Ties, might
not, he asked. when some of them were
on the hustingS about protection to
American labor, some man in the audi
ence say, with great proprlety, That
is lie. You know that you are not
for protecting all American labor; for
100000 bales of cotton are oppressed
when prepared in the foreign market
by a tax three times higher than that
imposed upon many other articles"
He confessed that he hated to see new
industry rise in this country, because
it was sure to be a pauper saddled on
the Treasury.
Hoar inquired whether that feeling
applied to the industries already exist
ing.
Vance replied that it did not; he hop
ed to see, before he died, the American
manufacturers flourish. just as the
American agriculturists fourished.
"Propets and kings desired it long, bat
died without the sight" He hoped to
see the American manufacturers -four
ish by the sweat of their broWs and by
their own honest industry, instead of
by the sweat of the brows Of his people
and of their honest industry. Every
time that 4 new mine was discovered,
new industry established it was i'm
mediately fostered upon the public
treasury, and now for fear least there
might come "a king who knew not
Joseph" in other words, the Democra-
tic majority which did know the people,
it had been thought necessary to pro-
vide by the last will and testimony OF a
Republican Congress for such paupers
as might hereafter be born in lawful
wedlock to that community, or in un-
lawful wedlock either. So here was to
be an opening made for some manu-
facturer of cotton ties, to be establish
ed, and it was said to be the duty OF the
Senators not to provide for an infant
when it came, but to provide for it be-
fore it came.
"Who," he asked, was to be the re-
cipitent of the taxation on cotton ties
before that infant was born and bap
tized? There was no way. he declared
in which the proposed increase OF the
duty on cotton ties could be looked that
| was defenSible-not single, solitary
one. The most deserving, because the
most useful in a commercial point Of
view of all the agricultural products OF
the United States, was taxed to death IN
all the processes of its growth and pro-
duction. and was then taxed farewell
shot as the bale left the ginhouse lOS per
cent. on ties that flowed in, and this not
| for the benefit of American manufactu-
rers of cotton ties, for there were none;
and not for the benefit of the Treasury,
for the bill was one to reduce the reVe-
nue.: but out of pure 'cuSSedness, and
because the Republican party had got SO
used to taxing things that they could
not STOP
Turpie made a speech upon the gepes.
raj subject OF the tariff and IN opposl-
ton to the pending bill.
Daniel made speech on the question
of the pending bill in general, and OF
the proposed increase OF duty on cotton
ties in particular. He spoke of that pro-
posed increase as characteristic OF tne
relentless war which the Republican
party was making on the agricultural
Industries OF the United States. On
what principle of free trade, OF protec-
ton, or what economic theory OF any
kind, he asked, could the proposition be
sustained to increase the tax on cotton
ties, an article Of indispensable leceSSl-
ty? But the Republican party, he said.
had declared war, and war to the KniIe,
against everything thatagrlculture pro-
duced. 1t did not intend to give TO ag-
ricClture anything except little sop
here and there, to placate the Ignorant
and to disguise the false intention that
lurked under it's some time pleasing
promises. The bill proposed to triple the
duty on cotton ties, to take the duty OH
of sugar and to reduce the duty on rice,
thus attacking three of the great indus
tries of the South, while it attempted
to delude the farmers Of the West with
increased duties on barley, oats, rye ana
wheat.
1t fed oats to the ignorant voter and
cooed the coy maiden of agriculture
Coming Through the Rye" and did not
protect wheat to the value OF one mill
to all farmers of any one County IN the
United States. In other words, for the
American farmers there was in the bill
protection wherever it did not protect
and there was no protection wherever
it would.
The Pistol Was Not Loaded.
Charley Napier, aged abont 6years,
was shot and killed on Sunday afternoon
bv his brother Earnest. aged about 10
wears. The ball took effect IN the neck
severing the carotied artery, causing