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

CafinB oGbteS, anu went lnJ) 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 bount,
OF the Government was given l6U acre
OF land, upon which he settled and be
; gan to farm.
Let us follow them on and see low
they are treated. They both becom,
American citizens, and they are bott
American laborers, so to speak. They
came to this land Of the free anC
nome OF the brave" its Government
founded upon the immortal declara
tion that "all men are born free anc
equal, and have an inalienable righ,
to life, liberty, and the pursuit of hap
piness." From the day when the farm
or 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 tariff.
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 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 Peunsy ylvania. Tho tuta, of foreis n
born citizens lOyears Of age and upward
engaged In gainful occupations there
is 2, 1919, l20. How many of these are
engaged in farming ? Two hundred
and forty-six thousand eight huudred
and seventy five. How many are en-
gagged in manufacturing Eight hun
dred and ninety thousand nine
hundred and forty.sX. That is
ali very well. 1t seems very well
to have the 246,0 farmers mulct-
ed 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, Iudiana,
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, 3,6O3; the number engaged in
agriculture was S37, ,357. The number
engaged In manufacturing industries
was 524, ,S3l. You make the S31 900
farmers pay tribute to their brethren
who are engaged in manufacturing in
dustries in their own States as we'll as
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 born
American manufacturer competcs with
his brethren in Europe with the pro-
tective tariff thrown around him, by
which he is enabl, d to rob the same
brother who came with him, and to
rob tho 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.
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia,
Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, Mssis-
sippi, Louisiana. Texas, and Arkansas
The total foreign population of those
States in gainful occupations is l72,-
500, of whom 5S,l42 are engaged in
agriculture and 36,429 are engaged Ia
manufacturing. 1t does not matter, of
course, that the South to day furnishes
larger proportion and possesses u
large proportion Of native born Ameri-
cans, descendants OF those who fought
other portion of the country But
though we are laboring under the ban
OF secession aud the effort to disrupt
the Government and have paid our
thousands Of millions for seeding, we
are still face to face with the demand
OF the daughters Of the horse leech to
give, give, give.
The cry is: Meet your competitors
Ia India and Egypt and fight it out.
and II an effort Ia made here, through
bounty on exports, to give those men
a scintilla OF the amount taken from
them by unjust tariff taxation, the re
presentatives to those cotton States
will stand here and vote against the
proposition, mo- doubt upon the ground
that 1t Is not Democratic doctrine.
When interrupted, Mr., President, |
had just given the figures showing the
INN grafton here and how unfairly the
immig ant from Europe who had gone
to the West and settled there as farmer
had been treated in comparison with
his brother who had settled la the East.
The Senator from Minnesota Mr..
NclsoDL whose State has upward Of
lOO, 900 of these foreign born citizens,
nearly all of them farmers, may explain
to them when he gets home where they
come in under these tariff schedules,
unless this bounty feature Is incorpora-
ted In the bill ; and the Senators from
those other Western States will have
an opportunity to explain why they
will vote here against this proposition
to give compensation to the American
producer on tho farm when we hear so
much about compensatory duties for the
woolen manufacturer by reason of the
tax that is given in these schedules
here 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
is 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 whom they will turn and
say, "Your party of Republicanism to.
day Ia a byword and a Kissing. We in
herited the principles of A braham Lin
coin; we fought for those principles
during the war, and one Of those prin-
| cipleS, which was dearer to us than