The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-05-03


section where the poor and the rich
4 dwell together in as harmonious rela-
! tions as in the southern States.
Under existing circumstances | dc
not blame the rich because they are
rich. I am not finding fault with
them because they have these unnatu-
raj and wrongful advantages Of the
poor. In this section, the rich, as a
class, did not make these advantages
and are not any more responsible for
their existence than the poor.
limo other country do the rich feel
/ as kindly toward the poor and have
as much genuine friendly intercourse
with them as in the southern States.
Neither do / blame the poor for be-
ing poor. As a general statement, We
can truthfully say it is not their fault.
! They cannot help it.
If one, by law, had any undue
and MUST advantage Of them; if every
man had his natural rights, if every
man had an equal chance at natural
opportunities, there would be very
few persons in want, very few would
be crushed down under the iron heel
of helpless poverty. and involuntary
poverty would almost entirely disap-
pear.
The southern people have not
thought earnestly-have not fully in
vestigated OF considered the terribly
harmful effects which the tariff works
out and fastens upon us. The rich
people did not invent it and impose it
upon US; far less did they do SO with
the intention Of thereby securing for
themselves the wrongful advantages it
gives them over the poor.
The tariff is a villianous cruel Span
ish or Moorish invention; system
of forcible robbery adopted by them
to extort money from others unjustly.
It is one Of the many inhuman meth,
DDS resorted to by them to rob inno-
cent victims without giving anything
in return.
Another method adopted by them
was extensively practiced by those
Spaniards, Cortez and
Pizarro, in their murderous career in.
South America and elsewhere.
This wicked Spanish invention-a
system or measure Of oppression aud
robbery, put in operation with wicked
intent-ought never to have been
adopted by civilized free Americans;
and we ought without delay to hurl it
from us as vile thing despised!
The tariff is the cause Of, and is re-
sponsible for all the organized monop-
olies, trusts and plundering combines
in the United States. But for the
wrong advantages which it gives, these
robber organizations could not be
formed, could not exist!
Trade should be free, absolutely,
without any conditions whatever, the
world over. This is natural; it is
right.
If am freeman and a good citi-
zen; if / am industrious; if [ go to
work and make something useful,
which do not need and am willing to
I1sell, and some personis willing to buy,
/ ought 10 e.permitted, if | SO choose,
to go anywhere or earth to sell that
article, to any person willing to buy it
for whatever price we agree upon; and
no person, no community or govern
mens has any just right to charge me
one cent for the privilege Of selling it;
: s
and whoever imposes such a burden or
fne upon me-a fine upon industry
is as much of arobber as Cortez and
PMarro, or John A. Murrell, or Jesse
James.
Andif any person wishes to go any
where in the world to buy anything,
he ought to have the same privilege
that [ am entitled to in selling.
This fully illustrates natural rights,
which no man or set Of men, anywhere,
has any right to deny, abridge, inter-
fere with or try to regulate, at any
cost to buyer or seller This principle
is right! Anything else is wrong
The collection of revenues by tar
if is a mean, sneaking, thieving, un-
manly, dishonest and cowardly method
Of obtaining money! 1t 6lches the
money from our pockets and we do
not know when or how much!
4 just, honest, open. plain, straight
forward common sense, business meth
cd should be adopted; ore that would
be as easily and fully comprehended
By the most uneducated as any COM
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