Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-09-20
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privileges and every advantage we
have given them has been given then
to the detriment of other people. My
contention is that there.is a vicious
principle running through the various
policies which we have been pursuing
that in our taxation we have been i'm
posing upon the struggling masses the
burdens Of government, while we have
been voting the privileges to the peo'
iple who do not pay their share of the
expenses to the government.
"Every unjust tax is an indirect
form of larceny" the speaker asserted
Gan income tax" he believed, "would
remedy another great evil.
II have no fear that any man by his
own brain or his own muscle will be
able to secure fortune so great as to
be menace to the welfare of his fel.
low men.
When God made man he placed q
limit to his existence, so that if he
was bad man he cannot do harm,
but when we made our man-made man
the corporation) we raised the limit OF
his age.
awe did not give him soul, and if
he can avoid punishment in this world
he need not worry about the hereafter.
~ want to protest against this doc
trine that the trust is a natural out.
growth of natural laws. 1t is not
true. The trust is the natural out
growth of unnatural conditions crea-
ted by man-made laws.
"Government under the four great
principles of the Declaration of lnde-
pendence is impossible under an indus
trial aristocracy. Some people have
tried to separate the laboring man who
works in the factory from the laboring
man who works on the farm. l want
to warn the laboring men in the facto-
ries that they cannot separate them
selves from those who toll on the farm
without inviting their own destruction.
I warn the laboring men in the facto-
ries that when they join with monop-
olies to crush the farmer, as soon as
the farmer is crushed the laboring
man will be crushed, and his ally will
be destroyed, and in test of endur-
ance, the farmer will stand it longer
than the laboring man. The farmer
was the first man on the scene when
civilization began, and he will be the
last one to disappear. You may drive
the farmer down, so he cannot buy
coal, but be can burn corn. But you
drive the coal miner down so he can
not buy corn and he cannot eat coal.
"But, my friends, why should we
try to see who could hold out the long
est in suffering2 Why try to see who
can endure the most hardships and yet
live? Why not try to see who can
contribute most to the greatness and
to the glory and to the prosperity of
this nation2 Why, those who can
contribute most should make this gov
ernment what the fathers intended it
for. For 100 years this nation has
been the light of the world. For 100
years the best of all nations have look
ed to this nation for hope and instruc'
tion. Let US settle these great ques.
tions that we have before us; let us
teach the world the blessing of gov
ernment that comes from the people,
and let us show them how happy and
how prosperous people can be. Il be-
lieve in the doctrine that God made
all men of the same dust and did not
make some to crawl on hands and
knees, and others to ride upon their
backs. Let us show what can be done
when we put into actual practice those
great doctrines of human equality and
of equal rights, and make this govern
ment what the fathers intended, so
that we shall lead the world step by
step on to higher ground"
Facing a sea of wildly waving arms
and storm of cheers the orator re-
sumed his seat.