The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1901-10-24

- NoAollIt6 DIEIATfM
70 endorse the latest proposal OF tn,
editor OF the News and Observer
which, If adopted, will necesariI,
result In depriving the farmers O,
that section of the labor which is st
essential to the cultivation of thei,
COTTON, tobacco and other crops.
am sure that they will not agree r.
such proposition, but on the otbe,
nahd VIII be inclined TO exercise tn.
intellectual freedom which wa,
promised them by the Democrati,
party two years ago."
The South has more natural adj.
vantages than any other section OF
The country. West Viryinia has
$4,000 square miles of coal as com.
pared with Great Britain's 12.O00
Ihe South ha nearly one-half of the
standing timber the United States.
1t furnishes three fourths of the
cotton required by the one hundred
million spindies in the world. II
mas monopoly of the phosphate
rock, which Is the basis of the ferti-
iizer business both in this country
and Europe, to say nothing about
the many other advantages that are
to be found in abundance through.
out this section.
"1n spite of the efforts of South
ern Democratic representatives to
discourage the investment of capital
In the South, its cotton mills repre-
sented in 1900 money value of
sloO,OOO,OOO, against $4,000, 900
ten years earlier. The amount of
cotton consumed in three mills was
1,597.112 bales, against 546,s94
bales in 1890. The number of spin
dies in operation was $4,000
against 1,712,93O in 1890. The
railroad mileage in the South has
increased in these same ten years
from 42,S25 to $4,000 miles. The
amount Of coal mined has increased
from q, 800, 900 to 4S,192,O ,O53 tons,
ana the amount of pig iron produced
from 1858, ,459 to 2,694,67I tons.
The same ten years saw an increase
in the value of agricultural products
in the South from S66,OOO,O 900 to
81 200, 100000, and in the value of
exports from S315,O21, ,OOS to $780,
317,545. For the first time since
the American occupation in the
Philippines, the United States in
the month of May last headed the
list OF nations sending merchandise
to the Philippines. The imports in
to Manila from the United States
during the month of May were
valued at 50, 460,431 While I have
not had an opportunity to examine
the report with view of ascertain
ing the character Of exports which
We sent to that country, I am salts
fed that the majority of the items
represent Southern products. In
this connection / call attention to
the fact that the total exports from
to foreign countries in
1900 were s10,975,511. In 1901
they were S12,O13,659, an increase
of $1,03S,148. This is most en-
for our chief seaport, and
is another reason for a continuance
Of Republican policies. There can
be no doubt that the increase of
Southern progress would have been
more marked had it not been for
the revolutionary policy of the
Democratic leaders of the South.
The tactics of men like Senator Till
man and their blind followers in
South Carolina and elsewhere have
done much to retard the progress
which would otherwise have been
made throughout our Southern sec
ton. 1t was only the other day
that Mr.. Tillman, in public speech
delivered in the State of South
Carolina, threatened the cotton mill
interests Of that section in the event
that those who are engaged in that
industry should undertake to exer-
else the prerogatives Of American
citizens by expressing themselves
with respect to public questions
which vitality affect their welfare as
a class of people,"
Referring to the men in the Dem
Ocratic party who favor free speech
and honest elections and industrial
progress, and who therefore oppose
the methods of the Simmons Red
Shirt machine, but are still staying
in the party hoping to reform it, he
said:
"These men are honest in their
belief, but they are sadly mistaken
when they for one moment enter.
tain the idea that the Democratic
party is now constituted in North
Carolina will ever cease to be con-
trolled by class Of men whose chief
desire is to perpetuate themselves in
Office, regardless of the bearing that
the policies which they advocate
may have upon the general welfare
of the people of our State. As an
evidence of this fact one need only
refer to the acts of the last Legisla-
ture, some of which 1 propose to
BRIEFLY discuss later on.''
zone would hardly imagine that
any party would attempt to make
free trade an issue in the future, in
view of the wonderful object lesson
which has been afforded the country
at large since March 4, 1898, but we
are doomed to disappointment in
this respect, especially in SO far as
North Carolina Democracy is con-
cerned. My colleague, Senator
on the 7th of last Septem-
Der, in an interview published in