The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-12-26

SOW no suoh ha77ests as are spoken Of
in this statement. Hear it, all you men
and women who want everybody to have
enough to eat and wear. I have to tell
you that the corn crop Of Our country
this year is one Of the largest crops on
record-2, los ,000,00 bushelsl The
crop. though smaller than atsome times,
will on that account bring bigger prices
aud so cotton planters of the south are
prosperous. TIE wheat6elds have PRO
yidsd bread enough sui to spare. ne
potato crop, one Of the five largest crops
on record-2ll, 600, 600 bushels! TWen,
tv.two million TWO hundred thoussa1
svinc slain, and yet SO many hogs lett!
acaiy in this intersa'icnal compar-
;eon rbera is not land whose wages
and md salaries are 50 large for the great
mass Of people. In India 4 cents acay
ard fnd yourself in good wages; in Ire
land in some parts, Scents day for
wages; in Eosland, 81 day, good wag-
es, vast populations not getting as much
IS that; in other lsnds, 50 cents day
snd % cents a day. clear on down to
starvation and sqpalorl Look st the
great populations coming out Of the
factories of other lands aud accompany
them to their homes and SEQ what prl-
vauous the ha.dworking classes on the
other side Of the sea suffer. The labor
ing classes in America are ~ per cent
better of than those in any other coun
try under the sun, 20 per cent, 20 per
cent, 80 per cent. The toilers Of haad
and foot have better homes and better
furnished. "How much wages do you
sct?' is question l have asked 10 Cal
cu,ts, IN St. Petersburg, IN B.rlln, ID
Stockholm, in LONDON, in Paris, IN
Auckland, New Zealand, in Sydney, IN
Australia, in Samoa, in the SsodT
Islands, SO l am not talking an aostrsc
ton. The stonemasons and carpenters
and plumbers and mechsnics and artlS
aus Of al kinds In America have finer
residences than the nsjority of profes
jonal men in Europe. You enter the
lobarer's house on our side of the sea
and you saG upholstery and pictures
and instruments Of music. His chill
dren are educated at the best schools
His life is insured, so that in case OF
sudden demise his family shall not be
homeless. Let all American workuen
kooT that while their wages are not IS
high IS they wou!d ike to have them
America is the paradise Of indus ~.
Again, there is no land on earth
zhere the political condition is so sat
Isfactory as ours, Every two years 10
the state snd every four years in the ma,
ton We clean house. After vehem
ent expression Of the people at the bal
lot box in the au,unnsl election they
all seam satisfied, and if they are not
satisfied st any rate they smile. An
Englishnan asked me in an E0glish
rsil train this question: ''Hov do you
people stard it in America with rev,
olutlon every four years9 Would 1t
not be better, like Us, to have queen
for lifetime and everything setsled2'
But Englsnd changes government just
as certainly as ne do. At some adverse
vote in parliment out goes one party
and in comes another. Administrations
change there, but not as advantageous
ly as With US, for therethey may change
almost any day, while with US party
in power continues in power st least
four years.
1t is ssid that in our country We have
more dishonesty in the use Of public
funds than in other lands. The differ
ence is that IN our country almost every
Official has chance to steal, while 10
o,herlands few people absorb so much
that the others have no chance at ap
propriation. The reason they do not
steal is because they cannot get their
hands on it. The governments Of Eu
rope are so expensive. that after the
royal families ere paid there is not much
left to missppropriste. TIE enper
Tor Of Russia has nice little salary Of
IS 10000. The emneror of Austria
ha. yearly salary OF $1,000, 600 Vic.
tnris. the quoen, has salary Of So 200,
900. The royal pla Of 81. Jsmes pal-
aoe is worth $1U,000,oO0 There is
host of attendants, Ill Oh salaries. some
of them $4,000 year, some S. 900 a
year Comptroller Of the household,
mistress of the robes, captain of gold
stick, lieutenant Of silver stick. CLERK
Of the powder closet, pages Of the back
stairs, master Of the horse, ehieF
es1erry, equerries in ordinary equerry,
hereditary grand fslooner, vice cham
oerlsin, clerk of the kitchen, grooms
in waiting, grooms of the court cham
oers, sergeant at arms, barge master
and waterman, eight oedchamber WON
en-, eight ladies of the oedchanber aua
so on and so on. All this is only atype
Of the fabulous expense of foreign gov
ernments. Ali this is paid out of the
-west aud blood of the people. Are
TIE people satisfied? However much
the Germans like William, and Austris
likes Fraocis Joseph, and England
nkes her glorious queen, these stupen-
dous governmental expenses are built on
a groan of els stisfsction as vide as
Europe, If il wers left to the peope
.; England OF Austria or Germany or
Russia whether ,hese expensive esiab
llshments should be kept up d. you
louot what the vote would BE-? Now,
is 1t uos better that We be oversazed
ard the surplus be distributed all over
the land than to have it butt up and
piled up inside of palaces?
Continuing this international com
psrison, have TO say to you that We
have better c;imste than is to be
found in any other nation. We do not
suffer from anything like the scotch
mlsts or the Engiish fogs or the Rus
sisu ice blasts or the typhus ofsouthern
Europe or the Asistic cholera Epi-
denies in America are exceptional,
very exceptional Plenty Of wood and