Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1898-09-15
SOUTHERN MILLS.
Tillman TaIks-New England IegisIa.
lated Against Everybody and
EVerything.

Tillman Talks-New England LegisIa.
lated Against Everybody and
Everything.
MANCHESTER, N. H., September o.
United States Senator Benjamin r. Till
man, of South Carolina, who visited this
CITY, in csnipsiiy with Suuator William
industries located hero, in roply to q
question as to what he thought of tho
industrial situation in New England,
with special roferonce to tho cotton in
dustry, said:
81 boliove tho cotton business hero in
tho North has got to go to tho wall.
We havo got all tho natural advantages
in the South, and you haven't got any.
You have legislated and legislated and
| thing N Order to protect your cotton
mills, but you can't legislate God out of
| existonco nor suspend the operations of
| natures beneficent laws.
"Why, you amt satisfied with pro-
tcctive tariff that shuts out foreign
goods from this market, but you havo
| actually had tho nerve to Introduce a
bill into Congress to protect ono part of
the country against another. This Low
oring bill, asking for q constitutional
amendment regulating tho hours of
labor, is direct blow at tho constitu-
tional rights of the States to logislate for
| themselves, and we will fight you on that
all summer and winter and forovor until
we beat you. You can't stuff legislation
of that kind down our throats. We
won't have it.
ages arc concerned, tho only thing we
havo ever lacked in my State is capital,
and wo arc now gotting- that in abund-
ance. We have doubled our spindlos in
the last four years and quadruplod thom
in the last II. Can you show mo ano-
thor section Of tho country that has done
80 well2
"It has been said, and said truly, that
We have cotton in tho back yards, and
tween. We don't have to pay tho exccs-
sive froights that you people havo to pay
in Now Hampshire. Wo have all our
raw material right on tho ground, our
help will work moro cheaply and Is more
confronted than yours, and we can turn
out just as good goods as you can at a
good deal loss money.
1--WE can mako just as fine grado of
goods in South Carolina as they can any
only four months of tho year that we
hav to have our windows closed in q
Souvhern cotton mill. In tho Northern
mills there arc only four months that
they can be kept opon. The result is
that our onarativna for eight r.on5ls in
tho year breathe tho pure air Of heaven,
while yours for an equal poriod are sub
sisting on an atmosphere that is artih-
cially heated and is close, unnatural and
enervating.
"Why shouldn't we have q superior
workman, and if superior workman
why not superior work? Our machinery,
too, is modern and up-to-dato, while
yours is obsolete. Our cotton mills are
mostly segregated in the country, while
yours are grouped in tho cities. Our
operatives own their own homes and arc
generally surrounded by little garden
patch, cultivated by some member of the
family, while yours are cOrraied in tone
mcnt houses and packed into stU!fy anu
j'l-ventilatod attics. Can there be any
comparison between laborers thus situa-
tod2 Another thing: Tho purchasing
power of your dollar is growing less,
while ours is growing greater. We have
not been treated to 80 many luxuries as
you have hero in tho North, and wo do
not feol tho deprivation of them as you
do. Our laborers arc satisfied; yours
while yours arc growing poor"
Reforming to the war, Senator Tillman
"South Carolina furnished two rogi-
ments for the war. One of them was at
Ciiiokamauga for somo timo and was
ordered to Jacksonville and was part of
tho army of Gen. Fitzhugh Lee. Tho
othor regiment mover loft it's mustoring
place in tho State. Thore has been worry
little sickness among tho South Carolina
troops, and as far as l am able to learn
there has boen no camp as free from dis
easo and death as that occupied by tho
army under Gen. Lee. This war is worth
all it has cost, because it has completely
wiped out all sectional fooling in this
country, and thero is now no East, no
West no North, no South.
'"rhis Ia my first visit to Now IIamp-
shirG, and [ am on my way to tho White
Mountains, and from thore / 90 to Mon
treal and Quebec, and thonco to Niagara
Falls. Since | havo boon in New Eng
land | have beon most layishly enter
tained and royalty received ovorywhore.
[ did not expect such an ovation any
whore.
Few women realize tho influence oxor-
ted on thoir bodily and mental woll-be-
ing hy thG special organism of their sox.
1t is hard for thom TO believe that tho
little drain which goos on from day to
day is sufficient to sap away tho very
lifo forces. Yot 1t Is 80. Tho weakness,
exhaustion, melancholy; tho periodical
prOstration and sometimes almost tor
turo has no Othor cause, two thirds of
tho time, than tho abnormal, unhealthy
condition of tho genorative organs.
enough even doctors often fail
to recognize tho truth. For this cond-
tion thore is no othor romedy in tho world
30 holpful and certain as Dr. Piorce's
FavoriUe prescription. Itrostores health
and vigor to tho feminine functions and
removed vitality to the entire body. 1t
heals Inflammation, stops discharges,
strengthens tho ligamonts and builds up
tho internal tissues which cannot bo
reached by "local troatmnnt." IT. ie CO
inestihlablo value to young womon and
to prospective mothers, ,greatoly lessoning
tho pain and perils OF childbirth If taken
during pregnancy.
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Judge Cooley, distinguished lawyor