The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1897-06-22

which comes here composed Of me-
who do not rise TO the dignity Of Amer
ictn Senator's whorcome here as th,
representatives OF States only. Mr.
Gallatin said
The true problem to be solved i'm tn,
Unlted States is not whether the peO
pie Can'govern themselves, OF which no
the slightest doubt can be cnterta ned
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 jOrilies formed
by combinations Of sectional interests
will be so governed by II sense of justice
and spirit Of Cancellation Us not to Cd.
press those parts Of the country whose
rights, though they may be in nor.
lty, 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 the States
large ~ Interested in ol-growing, who
make that condition upon which their
votes shall be given, with the States
| interested in manufacturing while
Doth 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,
tioual 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 ou-
portunity to give them compensatory
duties by bounty. Will you do it :?
Dare you refuse it? There is very lit
tie you Will not dare, but there is a day
Of reckoning for you II publcans, AS
there has been for the d mocratic par
ty when 1T was false to the people and
recognized not that there was = day Of
judgment coming.
Democrats here proclaim that ''turitr
for revenue only - lone true Demo
cratic doctrine. II las already been
pointed out that this worI only was
stricken out In the last d ,mocrat c
convention. could give the history OF
it, but Il is not necessary, except that
we saw after the passage of the Wilson
bill, which was protectivG tariff, that
any contention along those lines WAS
simply waste Of time and would put
the party in Il 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, OF why. will say this, however,
that the reason it was stricken out was
tion OF the country and fight the battle
on the money question only. We did
not care to have the tariff brought into
1T 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
this question did not feel that we could
consistently contend about the word
"only when the Wilson bill from one
nd to bD ~ 1, 4 I
protective principle, and that the party
stood committed to the ack cknowledg-
ment that it was right and proper or
expedicnt, # you choose-to protect
American industries.
The taritf was not an issue in the last
campaign, except rs it was made such
in those States where we did not fight
where there was NJ contention by the
followers Of Mr.. Bryan al all against
onslaught of the other side, We sur
rendered the Northeastern section Of
the cOuntry as committed wholly and
irrevocably to the gold monoman ia, and
we made our fight in the West and
South. 1t is not the issue now, and it
can not be made the issue: and the
way we vote here will not all act the
next election one way or the other
except that those OF you who have fool
ed your constituents by procaIming
that we must "Op.n the mills instead
OF opening the mints" have got to show
prosperity in the next eighteen months
or you will stand condemned and the
thousands of wOrkmen who voted your
ticket on that pledge will vote for
somebody else. You have got to show
how you can give prosperity under the
gold standard by increasing taxes, and
without any ctfOrt-or rather with only
futile eifOrt-tO increase the prices to
the farmer on export products; and il
you give him none Of this money which
you proprose to wiring from the people
by this tariff bill, he will settle with
you the sooner and the more cifcctual-
ly.
Somebody will ask, and all OF you are
asking In your minds now, what right
have you to take money out Of the
Treasury and pay bounty to anybody;
what right have you to raise money by
taxation and pay it out in bountics .?
You Republicans can answer that when
you explain by what right you took
money out Of the Treasury and paid "a
bounty to the sugar planters Of Louisi-
ana, not on exports, but on what they
produced. But | want to ask you who
dispute the right to take money out Of
the Treasury and pay it out in bountics,
what right have you to levy taxes
uiCl tuho OuI vi VIC pOChSlS OI
the people and pay bounties to the man
ufacturer You may call it tariff,
bat it is a bounty on manufacturing,
and the farmer has to pay one-haif OF
it. What | mean is that the agricul-
tural population of this country being
about one-half Of it, therefore, in pro-
portion To consumption, they pay one
halt OF the tariff duties of this country,
and they get nothing in return. What
right, If we come to the question OF
right and wrong, have you to take
money from these poop e and pay it as
bounty to manufacturers ?
| believe that 1t has been asserted
here by almost every Democrat who
has had anything to say about the in
iquities Of this bill that it proposes q
scheme OF robbery by which the people
are to be mulcted, robbed, not SO much
to put money into tho Treasury, but in
| directly by raising the price Of all that
Is consumed in the country. I think
the Senator from Texas MIR. Mills cal
| culated yesterday that for one dollar
paid In revenue the bounty to the man
ufactui ing industries would be some
thing like twelve hundred million dol
lars. The figures were staggering.
TO take the most conservative csti-
mate, IL the hcnrfi gs to the protected
industries by means OF the tariff
amount to So 20 the manufacturers and
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