The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-09-14

New England Legis!ated Against
Everybody and Everything.
TO PROTECT FER MILLS.
But They Cannot Legislate God
Our of Existence Nor Suspend
the Operations Of Natures
SanaficaNt LAWS.
Sensficent Laws.


Bensficent Laws.
Senator Tillman visited Manchester
y. H., last week Ill company with SEN
ator William +. Chandler, to inspect
the great cotton industries there In
reply to question as to what he thought
OF the industrial situation in New Eng
lard, with special reference to the cot
ton industry. said:
y believe the cotton business here
in the north has got to go to the wall.
We have got all the natural advantages
in the south. and you haven got any.
You have iegislated and legislated and
legislated against everybody and every
thing in order to protect Your cotton
mills, but you can't legislate God OUT
of existence nor suspend the operations
Of natures benefcent laws.
why, You amt satisfied with Il pro-
tectiye tariff that shuts out foreign
goods from this market, but you have
actually had the nerve to introduce
bill into congress to protect one part OF
the country against another. This
Lowering bill asking for a constitutional
amendment regulating the hours Of la
Dor is direct blow at the constitution
al rights of the states to legislate for
themselves. and we will fight you on
that all summer and winter and forever
until we beat you. You can't stuff
legislation Of that kind down our
throats. We won't have it.
Now, as far as our natural advan-
tages are concerned, the only thing we
have ever lacked in my state is capital,
and we are now getting that in abund-
ance. We have doubled our spindles
in the last four years, and quadrupled
them in the last p Can you show me
another section of the country that has
done so well?
1T has been said, and said truly,
that We have cotton in the back yards,
and coal in the front yards, and a mill
in between. We don't nave to pay the
excessive freights that you people have
to pay in New Hampshire We have
all our raw material right on the ground,
our help will work more cheaply and IS
more contented than yours, and We can
turn out Just as good goods as You can
at good deal less money.
I've can make just as fine grade OF
goods in South Carolina as they can
anywhere. Why, just look at it! There
are only four months of the year that
we have to have our windows closed in
southern cotton mill. In the north
ern mills there are only four months
that they can be kept open. The result
is that our operatives for eight months
in the year breathe the pure air OF
heaven, while yours for an equal period
are subsisting on an atmosphere that Is
artifcially heated and is close. unnat-
ural and enervating.
'Why shouldn't we have superior
workman, and if a superior workman
why not superior work? Our machin-
cry. too, is modern and up-to-date,
while yours is obsolete. Our cotton
mills are mostly segregated in the coun-
try, while yours are grouped IN the
cities. Our operatives own their ow
homes and are generally surrounded by
little garden patch cultivated by some
member of the family, while yours are
corraled in tenement houses and pack
ed into stufy and ill-ventilated attics.
Can there be any comparison between
laborers thus situated? Another thing
The purchasing power of your dollar
is growing less, while ours is growing
greater. We have not been treated tc
so many luxuries as you have here II
the north, and we do not feel the deprl
vation of them as you do. Our labor
ers are satisfied; yours are dissatisfied
Ours are growing rich, while yours arc
growing poor. ,
Referring to the war Senator Tillmar
said:
South Carolina furnished two regi
ments for the war One Of them wa:
at Chickamauga for some time and wa:
ordered to Jacksonville and was part
of the army of Gen. Fitzhugh Lee. The
other regiment never left its mastering
place in the state. There has been very
little sickness among the South Caro-
lima troops and as far as | am able tc
learn there has been no camp as free
from disease and death as that occu
pied by the army under Gen. Lee.
This war is worth all it has cost, be.
cause it has completely wiped out al:
sectional feeling in this country and
there is now no east, no west, no north:
no south.
This is my first visit to New Hamp,
shire and l am on my way to the White
mountains. and from there | go Il
Montreal and Quebec, and thence tc
Niagara Falls. Since l have been in
New England I have been most lavish:
ly entertained and royalty received
everywhere. did not expect such an
ovation anywhere