Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-08-28

appoint Consuls and other CONNER.
cial agents to reside at such places
in the Dominion of China rs should
be agreed to be open. Under this
the cities of Canton, Swatau, Annoy,
Fuhchau, Taiwan, Ningpo and
Shanghai were first opened. Our
treaty provides that as rapidly as
other ports are opened to other
nations the United States shall have
equal rights with such nations in
such ports. The treaty contains the
favored nation clause and still con-
trolls our trade in China. We oc-
cupy the Chinese ports under identi-
cally the same regulations as other
nations occupy them and we have
built up a trade with the Orient
under these regulations, which is
growing far more rapidly than that
of any other country.
In nearly all if not all of our
treaties concerning commerce we
have inserted the favored nation
clause and have agreed with all
countries that there shall be no dis
elimination in ports under the con-
troll Of the United States between
the different nations.
Article 4 of the Peace Treaty
! with Spain provides
"The United States will, for the
term of ten years from the date of
the exchange of the ratiications of
the present treaty, admit Spanish
ships and merchandise to the ports
of the Philippine Islands on the
same terms as ships and merchandise
of the United States"
This prevents us for a period of
ten years from charging any duties
for tonnage tax against any of the
leading nations. Our ports in the
Philippine Islands must be free ports,
and by establishing warehouses in
the Philippines the English and
French exporters can operate in
China and Japan upon equal terms
with the American merchants in the
Philippines, and the possession of
those islands gives us no advantage
whatever so far as the trade with the
Orient is concerned.
New England States have given
attention to certain lines of manu-
facturc, and by unhealthy protection
have enabled men to acquire large
fortunes in these lines while the
working people have constantly
grown poorer
There is no excuse for allowing the
Southern States to be misled so that
like condition may prevail. The
South has a greater diversity of ag-
riculturc, mining and forestry and
manufacturing possibilities than any
other section of the country.
BY the census of 1890 the State of
South Carolina had within it's limits
0l2 insane people. The State of
Massachusetts had G,1O3. The popu.
laton Of the State of Massachusetts
at that time was 2,238,943; that of
South Carolina was 1,151,149 Mas
sachusctts had proportion of insane
more than three times az great ac-
cording to population as had South
Carolina.
South Carolina had 1854 prison
crs in its penal institutions, while
Massachusetts had 1927, or double
the proportion of South Carolina.
South Carolina had by that census
51S paupcrs who were a public
charge, while Massachusetts had
4,725.
The reason for the difference be-
tween South Carolina and Massa-
chusctts is not hard to find. In
Massachusetts the people are hud-
died in small and frequently unsani-
tary cottages, they work for starva-
ton wages and are compelled to
work while mere children. The re-
suit is an increase Of pauperism,
crime and insanity. The capitalists
of that State have devoted their at
tention to massng large fortunes at
the expense of these conditions.
do not wish to lay straw in the
way of the establishment of manu-.
featuring institutions Of all kinds in
nc State of South Carolina. We
want them here. We ask them to
share in the prosperity with which
we have been blessed for the past
thirty years. But we do not want
the conditions which forced the dis
trcssing situation which led them to
leave Massachusetts to be inaugu-
rated here. We do not wish TO
build up the industrial centres at the
expense of agriculture, nor do we
wish to build up our agriculture at
the expense of our Industrial con-
Germs. And we do not wish to build
up either at the expense of changing
the happy condition of equality in
prosperity which we have hitherto