The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-04-04

! grown n tn2lr Reds. we aCe OGy-
ing those sscks ip which to put the
sugar that We may send it out to our
mechanic and our workiDencn. We
are gaying from $3.50 10 81 day for
labor in those factories. aud each farmer
who IS cul,ivatiDg the soil and raising
sugar beets is independent sovereign
in this fair land Of ours. We are pay
ing 500, 600, 600 annually for sugar in
this couptry. Wewan to manufacture
It at home, from our beet sugar, raised
by American farmers. We do not
want the cheap peon contract labor,
receiving 70, Is or 20 cents day, to
come into competition with the labor
OF South Carolins and California. l
think, perhaps, that is one Of the rea
sons which Influenced our good Plesl,
dent, because his whole life has been
devoted to protection TO American In
dustricS and the elevation aud dignity
of labor.
llr Tillran. have read some
where that in the Koran there is de-
scripiion Of Nohammcud 5 bridge over
hei! by which those entering heaven
must pass, and think he describes ii
as being 50 a,cenua,ed that 1t Is about
the breadth Of sing lc hair on a wo
msn's head. That is about the size OF
the bridge my friend, the Senator from
Cslirortia, has given the Prc,;den1 to
crawl out OF the holein which he was
put when ne sent the free-,raoe mes.
sage here and then backed water and
charged trout on it.
Nr Perkins How about the tobacco
Industry OF South Carolina?
M-. Ti!ioan. Speaking about the
a}lusion which my friend has made, |
will say 10 him, as to the purchase oy
the sugar producers Of the cotton bags
in which to put the sugar OF the ie"
factories in the Uoited States, that We
are very ylac 10 furnish the cotton
cloth. Il it comes from my State, but
The maoufactu iog Industry cf South
Caro!ipa-the mauu:ae ufe Of cotton
,rincipaliF-which We will say IN lS9o
showed thai there were only 400 0U0
>pinGles. has doubled anu tre5led since,
until they have now eighteen hundred
,hou<aud spiudles ard prorortionatc
number Of loows. Since the lSt q
January we have organized new mills
or given charters to new enterprises
10 build mills to the su4ount OF 81 0OO,-
000 au6 we are reaching out hsnG over
fst to over,akc Massachusetts. We
are already the second State in the
maoafac,ure Of cotton. We do not
SrG hi, Of protection from the Ding
ley tariff. because we export all CT that
cloth to China; and We have to con-
pete with Eugland; and we do 1t, aud
VIC whip them, and make 20 to ~ per
cent. ditiGcnds on our cotton factories.
Senator Spooner, cf Wisconsin, ex-
pr, ssed the opinion that Spu,h Caro-
lima was the last place on earth to org
iuale sny impeachment of the Repuo.
lican party as 10 the principle of equal
i,y auong men. and said he based the
observation partly upon the testimony
of Senator TlllDsn, who stated the
other dly that they had made Il great
efor, in South Carolina to disfrauchise
the niger" that they had stuffed the
ballot boxes, aud that they had used
the shotgun against them. That is
Why I say that from South Carolina
there ought not to come criticism upon
the Republican party as being opposed
to equality among men.
Mr.. Tilluan. Mr. President, In
rising here to explain my language,
and to Justify it, l have not the docu
uepts at hand to sustain all the charges
l make, but l will, briefly and in the
best way | can, recapitulate the coudl-
,ions which broupht about the neees,
sity for stufog ballot boxes, for shoot
Ing Negroes, and for using violence and
fraud in taking charges Of our State
government in South Carolina. The
Senator, suppose, did not understand
ue to say that such condilon exist
there Dow, because | have never made
any such acknowledgment.
proclaimed the tact that IN 1876,
when we had stood eight ears of car
pctbag governmen: aud there was moth
ing lef, US of our civilization unless We
rose 10 our might and took the govern
rlent back from tie carpetoag horde
of thieves and scoundrels and their
ScaIawag allies. the native. born rap
scallious, who had been foisted upon
Us at the poiat OF the bay onet-wheD
government as,d to yield protection,
when there was seml-anarchy: when
500 armed Negro militia were parad
ing up and down the roads. threaten
ing our wives aud our children and our
homes. whea at night burning hou-es
we're lighting up the hor;zoa in almost
every county, when the conditions
were SO spp.ling tha, ary kind Of
.verDmcnt, auv military dcSp'us'n,
was pr,f rabe to that, VIC made up our
mind that the foutecnth aud fifteenth
amendments to the Constitution were
themselves null and voii; that the acts
OF CongreSs und.r them placing our
State under c4ri"tbag rule were nuli
aud VOID; that oaths required by such
laws were null and VOID, we resolved
that the Intelligence, the wealth, aud
the patriotism Of the State, belonging
only TO the white people, should seize
the goveram-nt from the horde Of lg'
norauce aud vice; that we wou.d not
longer tolerate brioe-takerS on tn"
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