The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1896-05-13
Southern history. God save South
Carolina from such progression!

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Southern history. God save South
Carolina from such progression!
His arraignment of the Demo
cratic party en- the financial question
is amusing, and his charge that it is
responsible for the financial depres-
sion through which this country has
passed, is simply preposterous. That
depression was limited only by the
bounds of civilization. The people
of every civilized government felt
the effects to a greater or less de-
gree. The history of panics in this
country is evidence that it is swept
by one every few years and are gen
orally brought on by wild specnla-
tions by the gamblers Of Wall Street
aided by the Republican party. The
Democracy stands for honest money,
consisting of gold, silver, and paper,
convertible into coin on demand, and
the country has prospered under the
operations OF these doctrines and
it is only by return to these time
honored principles will peace and
prosperity smile upon our suffering
country" Then, and not till then,
will the sunlight Of prosperity again
illumine our skies, and JOY and glad
ness will drive sorrow and disappoint-
ment in exile from our homes"
There is one remarkable incident
which Eliminates the darkness and
gloom of the financial depression
which has hung like bird of evil
omen over our suffering country"
It is q fact that in those States IN
which the Democratic party is in ab-
solute control of the government that
the effects of the panic were felt less
than in those States which are under
Republican administration. Under
Democratic government the Southern
States have made such rapid strides
in every department of her indus
tries as to excite the applause as well
as the jealousies of other more un-
fortunate sections and at which the
world has looked on with wonder
and amazement. These are some of
the blessings which Democracy has
showered upon the Southern States,
and if this is mon progression" then
We want more of it..
We are inclined toward the doc
trine of protection. We are OF the
opinion that American industry and
American labor should be fostered
and protected by the Government.
A protective tariff should be enacted
that will prevent the degradation Of
labor, lowering the standard by bring
ing it in competition with the cheap
pauper labor Of Europe and Asia.
But the Republican party, with its
doctrine of hypocracy, deception and
fraud, has given US a tariff which
protects the rich manufacturer and
miner and at the sametime under the
workings Of which it made it posi-
bic for these same men to throttle
with a mailed hand the interest CT
labor; it has kept up the price of
manufactured goods in the interest
of the manufacturer, while the wages
Of labor have steadily declined; 1t
has increased the cost Of living by
permitting the formation Of trusts,
monopolies and combines under the
so call tariff laws, to the injury of
labor; under the plea Of protecting
American labor, it has enriched the
capitalist, and opened our ports for
the free, uninterrupted and un-
checked tide Of foreign pauper imi-
gratis to supplant American labor at
wages which the latter cannot live.
This is the hollow mockery, the hide
Gus phantom apd the delusive snare
that Col. Knots has put Up as his
god and has fallen down and wor-
shipped.