The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1897-06-24

y un! ess t. is bounty feature is incorpora
1t q IN the bill ; and the s ,nators from
those other Western States will have
an, an opportunity to explain why they
Will vote here against this proposition
! to give compensation to the American
producer on the farm when we hear sc
much haboutcompensatory duties for the
woolen manufacturer by reason Of the
tax that Is given in these schedules
mere to the wool producer.
Why are these men to be left out in
} the cold? Why are they ignored in
this scheme Of tariff taxation? Why
Ia no compensation given to them? Why
is there no equality, no equity, no JUS
} tice to them? Gentlemen, when you
meet your constituents and they ask
you why, hope you will have your an,
swers ready, because tell you they are
going to ask you.
You may drag this juggernaut-car
policy with its double team of protec-
tiOn and gold mOnOmetalism over the
PROSTATE forms of the farmers, you may
mash them deeper into the mire of
poverty than they are already, but a
day Is coming when they will turn and
say, "Your party Of Itepublcanism to.
day il byword and Il Kissing. We in.
herited the princpl, Of a braham Lin.
|
during the war, and one of those prin.
ciples, which was dearer to us than
any other, was the equality of men,
even the black man with the
white. We shed our blood to emuci-
pate the negroes Of the South, and YOU
have in turn placed us in u condition OF
slavery that is as hopeless as that of
the slaves who W. re held as chattels."
We have it hero boldly proclaimed
that there is an alliance between the
Eastern manufacturers and the wool
growers Of the West by means of which
! alone this tariff bill can 20 through.
balance of the country boldly march up
here through their representatives,
| join forces, and say: GIVE us wool du-
ties and take your compensation on the
woolen manufacturers" Then they ioin
in and give the sugar trust and every
other trust all it asks for. Will there
be no day OF reckoning? If there be
none, then the spirit of liberty in
America is dead and the farmers Of the
West are hopelessly enslaved already
Here is quotation from Albert Gal
| attn, in memorial to Congress in
1881, in which this very danger is
pointed out, and the danger which al
ways confronts u legislative assembly
which comes here composed Of men
who do not rise to the dignity OF Amer
| lean Senators, whOrcome hero as the
representatives of States only. Mr..
Gailatin said:
The true problem to be solved in the
| v United States Is not whether the pco-
pie can'govern themselves, of which not
the slightest doubt Can be entertained,
but whether that government can be
successfully applied to an extensive
territory embracing interests which
must occasionally be in collision with
each other whether ma jorities formed
by combinations Of sectional interests
will be SO governed by II sense Of justice
and spirit of concitiation rs not to op
press those parts OF the country whose
rights, though they may be in q minor
ity, ought nevertheless to be respected
What is the wool clip Of the United
States worth Thirty million dollars
and yet there is u combination between
the Senators representing tho States
larg ely Interested in wool l-growing, who
make that acondition upon which their
votes shall be given, with the States
| interested in manufacturing, while
both through this tariff bill, which is
higher in many respects than any we
have had, utterly ignore the rights and
! interests OF the great masses Of people
engaged In farming. Boldly you ally
yourselves together, the extreme sec.
.Onal West and the East. Dare you
Cypress the Middle States and the South
engaged in the production Of agricul-
tural exports? You are offered an op-
portunity to give them compensatory
duties by q bounty. Will you do it !?
Dare you refuse it? There is very lit
tie you will not dare, bat there is a day
Of reckoning for you Republicans, as
there has been for the Democratic par
ty when 1t was false to the people and
recognized not that there was . day Of
judgment coming.
| Democrats here proclaim that "tariif
| for revenue only" is alonc true Demo.
cratic doctrine. 1t has already been
pointed out that this word "only" was
stricken out In the last Democratic
convention. I could give the history Of
1t, but it is not necessary, except that
we saw after the passage Of the Wilson
bill, which was a protective tariff, that
simply waste Of time and would put
the party in false position.
Mr.. President, it is not worth while
for us to discuss here how the word
"only" came to be left out Of the plat
form, or why. | will say this, however,
that the reason 1t was stricken out was
because wo wished to confine tho attcn-
tion of the country and fight the battle
on the money question only. We did
not care to have the tariff brought into
it as an issue at all and after the pas
sage Of the Wilson bill, those Of us who
were perhaps more advanced than the
Senator from Missouri in our ideas on
J this question did not feel that we could
/ consistently cOntand about the word
"only" when the Wilson bill from one
end to the other had recognized the
: protective principle, and that the party
stood committed to the acknowledg-
| ment that it was right and proper Oh
expedient, if you chOose-to protect
: American industries.
The tariff was not an issue in the last
campaign, except as it was made such
In those States where we did not fight
where there was no contention by the
followers of Mr.. Bryan at all agains
onslaught Of the other side. We sur
rendered the Northeastern section o
! the country as committed wholly ant
irrevocably to the gold monomania, ant
Z ~ n m IL n nt,k, E.Sl, t..