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

Democratic proposition, | believe, t
somewhere between 100 and $50 pc
cent on many articles and an averag
OF over so per cent on all.
Then you turn around and in thi
tarlif you Ctfer him "all the protection
possible" " by giving him rs cent, ,
oushei on wheat, l5 cents u bushel OF
corn, 80 cents a bushel on barley, and 81
on through the agricultural schedule
ana while the taxgatherer come,
around yearly and while the mortgage
eats eats and gnaws day and night upon hi'
home, the one that this Government
may have given him, feeling that it /.
slipping from beneath his feet by these
unjust conditions, you expect him tt
vote the Republican ticket because
forsooth, you have given him "protec
tion in this scheme by u tariff or
these articles.
1t is an insult to his intelligence, and
| If the man who framed it-I do no,
| know who did it-has an agricultural
constituency that Is worth u flip, be
would never sec the light Of this Cham
Der any more after they got q chance
to vote upon it. You knowuit is an in
suit to proclaim that the farmer gets
any benefit from these tariff duties.
But, MIR. President. who and what
disseminated against? Let us CON
slider for a moment, If we please, two
brothers born in Germany, who, feel
ing that they could better their condi-
tlon by =migrating to America, set out
from there twenty years ago and came
to our shores. One of them stopped
somewhere eastward Of here, in New
York, or Massachusetts, or Pennsyl-
vania, or some one Of those manufac-
turing States, and went into manu-.
featuring. The other one moved west
ward, pressing on beyond the Missis-
sippi into the virgin fields of Iowa,
Kansas, or Nebraska, and by the bounty
of the Government was given 100 acres
OF land, upon which he settled and oe-
gan to farm.
Let US follow them on and sec how
they arc treated. They both become
American citizens, and they are both
American laborers, so to speak. They
came to this land Of the free and
home Of the brave," its Government
founded upon the immortal declara-
tion that "all men are born free and
equal, and have an inalienable right
to life, liberty, and the pursuit of hap
piness." From the day when The farm
er settled in Nebraska on his quarter
section he has been mulcted and
pinched and some Of his substance
taken for the benefit of the brother
who went to manufacturing under the
protective tari1.
How many of the farmers are foreign
ers? They are as clever and as
good men as we have, many of them
| mean the intelligent portion of them.
But to give you u little insight as to
the situation, | will take the nine
States OF Maine, New Hampshire, Yer
mont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island.
Connecticut, New York, New jersey
and Pennsylvania. The total of foreign.
born citiZens 10years Of age and upward
engaged in gainful occupations there
is 2,l99, l2O. How many of these are
engaged in farming? Two hundred
and forty-six thousand eight hundred
and seventy five. How many are en-
gagged in manufacturing E ght bun
dred and ninety-nine thousand nine
hundred and fortysix. That is
all very we'll. 1t seems very well
to have the 246,000 farmers mulct.
I'd and taxed on what they buy for
the benefit Of $4,000 who went into
manufacturing.
But let us go further. Take the
twelve wheat-growing States known
as the Middle West-Ohio, Indiana
Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Min
nesota, Iowa, Missouri. North Dakota,
South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas.
The total number of foreign born
citizens engaged in gainful occupations
was 2, l73, ,603; the number engaged in
agriculture was 837, 1857. The number
engaged in manufacturing industries
was 524,S3 You make the S37 900
farmers pay tribute to their brethren
who are engaged in manufacturing in
a Strin in a - Sfa}
in the Eastern States, and when they
go to sell their products Of wheat, beef,
cheese, butter, and other things, after
they have given to this country all it
can consume, they have to send the
surplus abroad, where they compete
with their brethren in Europe on
an equality, while the foreign-b born
American manufacturer compctes with
his brethren in Europe with the pro-
tective tariff thrown around him, by
which he is enabled to rob the same
brother who came with him, and to
rob the native-born American who is
fool enough to farm under these con-
ditiOns.
Now we come to the Ishmaelite
section, which has no rights, which
never has had any rights since the
war that anybody is bound to respect.
| BlFo uhO COpUOu oUdbCS, NOFUu
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia,
Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, Missis
sippi, Louisiana. Texas, and Arkansas
The total forei gn population OF those
States in gainful occupations is l72,
sos, of whom 5S.142 are engaged ir
agriculture and 3G, ,429 are engaged il
manufacturing. 1t does not matter, o
course, that the South to-day furnishes
a larger proportion and possesses
large proportion Of native born Ameri
cans, descendants Of those who Tough
the battles Of the Revolution, than an,
other portion OF the country. Blu
though we are laboring under the ba,
OF secession and the effort to disrup
the Government, and have paid ou
thousands OF millions for seeding, W.
arc still face to face with the demant
of the daughters Of the horse-leech t,
give, give, give.
The cry is: Meet your competitor
in0I India and Egypt and fight it out
and IL an effort is made here, through
a bounty on exports, to give those mel
q scintilla of the amount taken from
| them by unjust tariff taxatiOn the re