The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-09-01
wnat We Think.

WHAT We ln1Hk.
We give Mr.. whitman full sway this week
to air his long catalogue Of "G''ltering gen
| eraiities :" but life Is 100 short and our
space too limited to allow us to answer him
in detail. We, however, disciaim any In.
| tention Of personal allusion 10 him last week
/ IN speaking OF anarchists and sgsrsrianists
or any ether way speaking di,resp ectfully
Of him.
What we said was in general terms, and
had no personal application beyond cor
rectiont Of what we thought implicated our
verscity by Mr.. Whitman.
wfit@sS atAK aHsfrtso tsotiia sps. 9s yue -of Mr..
work for money, but Is it true that We have
no higher motives? Is there not patriotism
that will work againa self-interest for the
universal good p
We do not claim any more patriotism for
oursef than we find exhibited by ether
people anu iii ninety cases out of hun
Jred (parIiculaily the last few years. we
have discovered, when dollsrs-in some
shape or other-are put In the scale against
patriotism, patriotism goes where Wards
ducks went: We Of the South are now pay
ing annually our share Of the Sl35, 100000
worth Of patriotism that was, of and on,
(mos,ly Off mustered into service to fight
and starve US into subiection. However,
wo must give our friend Whitman credit for
a cor siderable amount os 3ls.s.o,estei Ps
triotism iu fighting so valantly for an office
that will bring him honor and but few dol
lara. The "old regime" legislators received
So a day, under the new regime they get So
| n day.
Again, VIC always look with suspicion when
we hear q man in South Carolina talk about
"corpora'ions against the people" 1t
sounds so much like an attempt to prejudice
| the people ngsinst incorporated industries,
and it has that effect upon the minds Of the
minds OF the nou-reading, unthinkipg
| masses.
| South Carolina has now fairly entered
| upon q new era of business life and indus
tries, in which hundreds Of thousands of
| her industries but weak men, women and
| '"""fV"' ""0 Nv >-.---- --.i ..raanrinls
livings, by exposure to the.broiling sun in
the field, will find pleasant and profitable
employment. 1t requires concentrated and
incorporated working capital. in harmony
with skilled and unskilled labor, to built
and operate cotton factories. AMI to us i,
appears like n sin for any one. just upor
the threshold Of this hopeful life to disturb
or prevent the harmony which it is absolute
ly necessary should exist between thos
, forces, by melting prejudice against either
We arc rs much opposed to the encroac h
men,s of capital-thc money power-upor
the rights Of the people as any man can be
and will watch aud oppose such cucroach
mcnts with as much zeal rs anyone but w
are not upmind.G' that capital is butt upo
labor. step by step, aud that it is not onl,
possib! but probable that in dccrying an
dcbasipg the dignity Of money and its powe
for good and insigating political ostracisn
, | against it, we may ruin the corner stone b.
! ruptirg one of its strongest and purest il
centvcs to save of i's earnings. that it ma
secure to itself the additional strength ia
Hucncc and independence which wealt
gives.
. 1t is right that every safeguard and il
{ ccutivc should te thrown around hone.
labor to encourage it to accumulate wealtl
| but We see neither justice nor sense in pul
h suing the millions thus accumulated wit
: political annthcmas and the cry of fraud,
y corruption" oppression etc, and for u
d other apparent reason than because tits il
o corporated wealth. We can I sec where Ill
1 line can be drawn between the $500 can't.
invested and that away un in the million
: In few years the $500 will become millior
o and the millions will be distributed anon
d lcgatecs or reinvcs.ed in new enterprises,
Q lavishly expended for fine horses, fine ru
\ niture, fine clothes, and employing hui
n dreds of laborers to build fine palaces, an
i'll various other ways, distributed anon
labor.
l The only objection we have to that al
IaDgemcnt is, were not OH the money side ,
the line but rs we never had the tact {
talent to accumulate anything bu: recol e,
| tions of lost opportunities, we are wei sa
is6ed to let those who have the sense an
tact to accumulate wealth enjoy it withor
, n thought Of jealousy towards them