The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-06-05
TWO QUOTATIONS.
OLD, BUT FULL OF MEANING TO
DAY

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Senator McDume, in 1928, on Cor
rupting Influences OF Tarlu 8oun-
ties-Lincoin's hdviceto Laborlng
Men-Prophccios Being FULFILLED
by McKinleyism.
The assertion Of the Philadelphia
Times, that Alr. Mark A. Hanna, OF
Cleveland, who is acting as Tho mana
ger Of McKinloy's campaign for nomi-
nation 10 the Presidency, has sought
from the manufacturers OF Ponnsyl-
vania financial aid Go carry on Mr..
McKinley's campaign for the nomina-
ton, and that this paper has m its
possession letters written to that effect
by Mr.. Hanna which 10 viii publish 10
tine accusation is denied, and the re-
tort of Mr. Mckinley's friends, thot
Mr., Reed has also sought from the man
uiacturcrs like assistance, makes in-
teresting the words of Senator Mo-
Dufle in the United States Senate in
1928, rs follows:
Sir. when i consider that by q single act
like the present from i've 90 ten millions of
dollars may be transferred annually from
one part OF the community 10 another; when
4 consider the disguise of dlsintere5led
patriotism under which the basest and most
prOhigate ambition may perpstuate such an
act of injustice ana political prostitution. /
cannot hesitate for n moment 90 pronounce
this very system ofindreot bounties the most
stupendous instrument Of corruption ever
placed ia the hands OF pubic functonarles.
II brings ambition and avarice and wealth
into a combination which It Is fearful TO
contemplate, because 1t is almost impossible
10 resist. Do we not perceive al this very
moment the extraordinary and melancholy
spectacle Of less than 100000 capitalists by
means Of this unhallowed combination ex-
ercislng an absolute and despotio control
overt the opinions OF s. 900, 001 OF free citizens
and the fortunes and destinies OF 10, 600, 0002
| Sir, will not anticipate or forebOde evil, I
will not permit myself 10 believe that the
| Presidency Of the United States will ever DO
| bought and sold by this system Of bounties
and prohibitions; but must say that there
/ are certain quarters OF this Union In which
/ II candidate for the Presidency we're TO
/ come forward with tho Harrisburg tariff In
/ his hand, nothing could resist his pretentions
/ II his adversary were opposed to this unjust
! system OF oppression. Yes, sir, that bill
/ would be q talisman which could give q
| charmed existence to the candidate who
/ would pledge himself TO support It; and al
/ though he were covered with the multiply
/ ing villlanies of nature, the most immacu-
! late patriot and profound statesman In the
! Nation could hold no competition with him
/ If he should refuse to grant this new species
| Of imperialism.
AS appears from the above quota
tion, even the ardent South CAROLYN
ian, aroused by the bitterness in his
own State against the tariff of 1928, a
spirit which four years later was in
famed into almost an instruction,
could not believe that the Presidency
of the United States wculd ever be
bought and sold as result of the pro-
tective tariff system. But the time has
come when we are obliged 10 face such
a scandal. Do the farmers of this coun-
try and the workingmen Of this coun-
try believe for one moment that if
Major Mckinley is nominated and
elected as President of the United
States that he will not return to the
men who furnished him the money to
carry on a campaign for the nomina-
tion, by means of special legislation,
the fund which they have raised, and
that these nen will not be the masters
of his policy and dictate such a return
for their money as they deem ade-
quate2 Mr.. Mckinley, as President,
cannot and will not serve two masters.
II he is the servant of the capitalist
and the manufacturer he cannot be
the servant of the people. Is there
any surer way than this to place CAPT
tai above laborP
Abraham Lincoln said:
There Is one point to which call atten-
ton. It is an effort to place capital on an
equal footing with, II not above, labor in the
structure Of our Government. / bid the
laboring people beware OF surrendering
power which they already possess and which,
when surrendered, will surely be used to
close the door to advancement to such as
they. and fix new disabilities upon them un-
til all of liberty shall be lost.
But the worst feature OF such an ex.
ample is that it poisons and corrupts
the masses. If the people conceive
the idea that their rulers obtained
their positions by dabbling in unclean
things, their own corruption is sure to
follow, for they will reason that if
purity in public men does not pay,
then purity at the ballot box, IN the
jury COX and in oil the relations of
life, does not pay. And when the day
comes that this is the belief of the
people our democratic form of Gov
eminent will crumble to pieces.
Soon, very soon, trust that the peo-
pie will see the selfsllness, the avarice
and the political ambition which have
given rise to these decisions, and in
their wrath they will rise up and wipe
out the whole system of special legis-
lation. franklin PIERCE.