Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-08-07

tain order. Every United States SOL
dier costs the government 81 900 year,
and an army Of 10000 men will cost
$40, ,000, 900 a year. But this Is not all.
We differ from any other people in our
war expenses In that 1t Is not until we
get through with the fighting that the
heaviest bills commence to come in.
refer to the payment Of pensions. How
many pension applications are now
pending on account Of the war with
Cuba? Altogether we sent only about
10000 men to Cuba, and at this time
the pension applications growing out
Of this war number more than 10000
And again, 1t is more than 120 years
since the Revolutionary war closed, af-
ter the battles of Kings Mountain and
Yorktown; but there are still g. few
names on the pension list on account
Of that. war. I am not complaining
about this, because this was the war
In which we won our freedom; but
cite the fact to show you how, when q
man casts his vote for war, he should
weigh we'll the consequences, for on
his ballot there IL implied this agree
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my son, my grandson and great-grand-
son to conquer these people"
Now, as have already shown you,
we have spent on this Philippine war
more money than there Is in South
Carolina, and we have mortgaged the
labor Of four generations to secure it's
payment. But II we were going to get
something out Of 1t 1t would be much
better. One Of the things we are
counting on. Of course, Is to get the
trade Of the Filipinos, in the expecta-
tion that 1t will help our commerce. If
there Is any way Of raising the price
Of cotton, Of course you are interested
In 1t, and 80 am I: but there is no
promise from these Filipinos. All these
people buy from all the people on top
of Gods earth, Is $10,0O0,000 year. II
we made per cent. out Of 1t, that
would be $500,000, and here you are
continuing to maintain an army Of 49,
600 men at cost Of $40,000.000 year.
Maybe they will get ahead at that
miliar case Of the frog jumping out
Of the well. He jumped up three feet
every day, and every night fell back
five. and at the, end Of the year 1t was
calculated that he was just about q
half mile this side Of hell.
There Is a certain kind Of expansion
that takes our vitality. Take man
afflicted with dropsy. for instance. He
may swell to twice his size; but at the
same time be deprived Of half his
strength. Or there Is such a thing as
having more Of good thing than we
can manage, like the fellow whose girl
was so large that he had to hug one
side, mark 1t with chalk 80 he could tell
where he left off, and then hug the
other side. This was undesirable. But
after all, why do we want to expand
You have heard Of people being land
poor. am just plain poor myself, not
land-poor. But take the case of the
man who has 1000 acres Of land and
ten sons, as every good citizen ought
to have If he does his duty by his coun-
try. That man Is In q position to work
acres to each Of his sons. But take
the case of the man who has 10000
acres of land and Is unable to find the
labor to work 1t as 1t should be work.
ed, he is land-poor, and does not need
any more land. Great Britain has 300
people to the square mile and Holland
500. Throughout Europe the proper
ton runs from 200 to 527 people to the
square mile; but in America we have
only q persons to the square mile. and
while there may be good reason for ex-
pansion on the part Of European coun-
tries, there Is certainly no such reason
in the United States, where we have
more land than we know how to man
age. What we need Is not more land;
but more people, and 1t is the height
of folly to talk expansion under such
circumstances.
Then there is another thing in which
We are at disadvantage. When you
go into this expansion business, you
must have an army, and while an
American soldier costs the government
81 900 q year, a German soldier costs
difference in favor of the German as
to cost is five times as much, and In
our occupation Of the Philippines, say
as compared with German occupation,
we have to make up 32,000.000 before
we are on equal terms. It is clear
that we are not in q position to COM
pete with European nations on this
question Of expansion.
Then, again, there is something else
besides this. We have succeeded here
tofore because we have kept our young
men at home in the workshop, the fac
tories and on the farm. European
countries have put their young men in
the armies, and what Is the conse-
quence? We are selling to Great Brit
ain today $100,000,000 more goods than
she Is selling us. The policy we are
pursuing today Is the policy that is
conquering the world. The question Is
whether we are going to continue to
pursue this policy or change 1t to one
that we have proved to be inferior to
ours.
Now much of this expansion, I am
afraid, comes about by association
with rich men of the north and else
where. People who are thrown into
such association think they expand in
ideas; they expand in pocket some
times, and sometimes in head-any-
how, they expand. Some Of them are
like Dick Jenkins, who lived down in
Mississippi, and who had a brother
Bill, in Maine. A man came down from
Ohio, and at the expense Of the visitor
the two took drink. That made Dick
kinder sociable, and he said to the
Ohio man: IF you ever see my Broth
er Bill, you tell him that have moth
ing but steer and an old blind nag,
and that I am getting along poorly"
"All right" said the stranger. Pres
emily they took another drink, and af-
ter a little. Dick said, IF you see my
Brother Bill, you tell him I am getting
along middling fair; but amt got no
money" "All right" said the Ohio
man. After a third drink, Dick said:
IF you see my Brother Bill, you tell
him that crops Is good, that am pros
pering as we'll as my neighbors, and
that I want him to come down to see
me-" "All right" asserted the Ohio
man. After a fourth drink, Dick said,
And you say you know my Brother
Bill. Well when you go back you hunt
him up, tell him I am running 40
plows, crops is fine. and II he wants
any money to just let me know, and he
can get all he wants" Now I don't
say that my expansion friends have
exactly got themselves in the predica-