Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-06-30


fraud, we invite the support of al
citizens who desire to see the constl
tuition maintained, with the law
pursuant thereof, which have giyel
our country a hundred years of unex
ampled prosperity, and We pledg'
the Democratic party, if it b
entrusted with the power, not onl,,
to the defeat of the force bill, bu
also to relentless opposition to tn
Republican policy of profigate expen
diture, which, in the short space o
two years, squandered an enormous
surplus, emptied an overiiowing trea
sury after piling new burdens of tax
alton on the already over-taxed labo'
OF the country.
Section 3. We reiterate the oft
repeated doctrines of the Democratic
party that the necessity of the gov
ernment is the only justification fo'
taxation, and whenever the tax i.
unnecessary it is uniustifable; thai
when custoro house taxation is Levied
on articles OF any kind produced il
this country the difference between
the cost of labor here and abroad
when such exists, fully measures any
possible benefits to labor, and the
enormous additional imposition o.
the existing tariff falls with crashing
force upon our farmers and working
men, and for the mere advantage o.
few, whom it enriches, eXacts from
labor a grossly unjust share OF the
expenses of She government; and We
demand such revision of the tariff
laws as will remove these iniquitous
inequalities, Tighten their expressions
and put them on a constitutional and
equitable basis. But in making g
reduction in taxes it IS not proposed
to injure any domestic industries
but rather to promote their healthy
/ growth. From the foundation Of
this government taxes collected al
the custom house have been the chief
source of Federal revenue. Such
they must continue to be. Moreover
many industries have come to rely
on legislation for successful cont!nu.
ance, 50 that any changes of law
must be at every step regardful OF
the labor and capital thus involved
The process of reform must be sub.
ject in the execution of this plain die.
tate Of Justice.
We denounce the Mckinley tariff
law enacted by the 51st Congress as
the eliminating of class legislation
we endorse the efforts made by the
Democrats of the present Congress.
Ito modify its most oppressive fea.
lures in the direction of free raw
materials and cheaper manufactured
goods that enter into general con-
sumption, and we promise its repeal
as one of the benefcent results that
will follow the action of the people
in entrusting power to the Demo
cratic party. Since the Mckinley
tariff went into operation there have
been ten reductions OF wages Of labor
ing men to one increase.
We deny that there has been any
increase Of prosperity to the country
since that tariff went into operation
and we point to the dulness and dis
tress, wage reduction and strikes in
the iron trade as the best possible
evidence that no such prosperity
resulted from the Mckinley Act. We
call the attention of thoughtful Amer
leans TO the fact that after thirty
years OF restrictive taxes against the
importations of foreign wealth III
exchange for our agricultural sup
plies, the homes and farms of the
country have become burdened with
a real estate mortgage debt of $780,
100000, exclusive OF other forms Of
Indebtedness: that in one of the
chief agricultural States of the Yves,
there appears a real estate mortgage
debt averaging sl65 per capita of the
total population, and that similar
conditions and tendencies are shown
to exist in oeher agriculture export.
ing States. We denounce a policy
which fosters no industry so much a,
| it does that Of the sheriff.
Section t. Reciprocity is a time
honored doctrine of the Democratic
faith, but We denounce the shan
reciprocity which juggles with the
peoples desire for enlarged foreign
markets and freer exchanges in pre-
tending to establish closer trade rela
tions of the country, whose articles
of export are almost exclusively agri.
cultural products, with other coun
tries that are also agricultural, while
erecting custom house barriers O
/ prohibitive tariff taxes against the
richest countries of the world that
stand ready to take our entire sur.
plus of products and to exchange
those for commodities, necessarie:
and comforts Of life among our peo
pie.
Section 5. We recognize in tn,
trusts and combinations which are
designed to enable capital to secure