The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-05-11

Jne wicked. lie said that the trusts
economical the cost of production at the
cost of labor, at the cost of the con-
sumer and at the cost of legitimate EN-
ployment of capital. They obtained
control Of great fields of natural wealth,
only to prevent their development, and
absorbed mills and factories, only to
close them and throw workingmen out
of employment. He cited the cases of
the Tin Plate trust and the Steel Wire
trust as illustrating this, and said that
millions OF dollars of capital had been
struck dead at blow and thousands
OF laborers left without work and with
out wages He also cited the wholesale
discharge of drummers, which means
that the money they used to distribute
through all the channels of trade and
industry would now be retained in the
Golfers of distant syndicate in one of
the great money or industrial centers.
Imperialism.
Mr.. Carmack then took up the sub
iect of Imperialism, which he said was
at least worthy of deliberate considera-
tion. He did not believe the people
woul d have given moments thought
to a proposition looking to the conquest
of tropical islands ten thousand miles
away, except at time when the blood
was hot with the passion of war. He
quoted the resolutions of Congress ana
the declaration of Mr.. Mckinley against
criminal aggression, and said we en-
tered upon this war with solemn dec
laratlon that we could never do with
honor the very thing we were doing now.
The language and the sentiment of
liberty seemed to have perished upon
the lips of the administration Here
tofore we had always been ready to ex-
tend sympathy with people struggling
for liberty, but now we remain as dumb
witnesses to the destruction of two re-
publics in South Africa, which he said
was one of the sadest tragedies ever
written in human blood upon the pages
of human history. More than that, we
have practically entered into alliance
with the power seeking to destroy them.
He did not sympathize with this idea
of seeking fields for the investment of
American capital at the other end of the
earth. This country had only % per-
sons to the square mile, compared with
$50 in Germany, $40 in England and $40
in Belgium.
There were yet vast areas of territory
not in cultivation, fore is that had never
echoed to the woodman's s axe and noun
tains swollen with the accumulation of
mineral wealth, and millions upon mil
lions of acres of arid lands in the public
domain which could be made fertile and
fruitful by irrigation. Why should we
want to waste our good American dol
lars amid the paupers of the Orient and
the jungles of the tropics? He believed
that every dollar of available capital in
} the United States could find profitable
field for investment in the South, and
J could not understand why anybody
should want this money to be sent
across the seas to employ Asiatic labor
: to develop Asiatic resources at the ex
! pense of American industry.
Embarrassed Republicans.
He said the Republican party hat
J placed itself in very awkward position
( on this question. They had said tha
they wanted the Porto Rico tariff as {
precedent for the Philippines, becaus,
, free trade with the Philippines woulC
destroy American industries We hav,
, great industries to be developed in ou
new possessions, and now they tell us, i
, we do develop them, it will destroy ou
own. We are wasting thousands o.
) lives and squandering money at the rat,
, of one hundred million per annum TO
/ the sake of trade which will only bring
J ruin and destruction after we get it
What commentary this is upon th,
| forethought and deliberation with which
the Republican party has entered upor
this policy
| Mr.. Carmack then discussed the his
tory of our dealings with Aguinaldo ano
his associates, and declared that whil'
{ we could destroy the liberties of thes,
| people, we would do it at the price
the nations word and at the cost of thu
nations honor.
The Missionary Argument.
, He dealt briefly with what he callec
) the missionary argument" and saiC
that when we referred to the slaughte
{ and destruction going on in the Philip
} pines we were answered that that wa:
Mckinley's way of spreading the Cos
. pei. Our rifle bullets were supposed t.
sing psalms as they whistled through
, air, and our cannon balls were mission
{ aries bearing tidings of great Joy. When
3 ever Mr.. Mckinley killed Filipino h
{ assured him that it was for the good o
! his soul He wondered if the prophe
/ did net refer to Mr.. Mckinley when h
! said "They build up Zion with blood ant
Jerusalem with iniquity." He quoted
' statements from the Philippine Com
r missioners that drunkenness was un
known among the Filipinos until we be
/ gan our Christian mission there. Mr.
Mckinley has taken this as evidenc
{ that these poor people were uncigilizeC
and unfit for self-government, bu
/ promptly planted 430 American saloon
$ on the principal street. and now you cal
' see American civilization whooping an'
' cursing on every corner. And this the!
: tell us in Gods work. Mr.. Carmacl
4 said that once in awhile a man woul'
I cut his wife's throat or beat out hi
+ children's brains, and then say that Co
' told him to do it. That was the pie
/ upon which the Republican party woul'
: be tried before the American jury il
1 November, and the only question wa
! whether it should go TO the gallows o
the lunatic asylum.
t CHANCERY COURT.