The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-09-04
An Appeal to Reason by T. Larry CAN'T.
ARTICLE VI.

I cannot see how any discerning
| Southern statesman, who has the
sense of a doodle, can oppose the acGuls-
ition by this country of the Philippines:
and the pacifcation of those Islands,
for no step taken by our government,
since the Declaration of Independence
was signed, will do so much for the up
building and enrichment OF the South.
can readily understand why even
the Republican press of New York,
Boston, Chicago, and other great Eas-
tern and Northern cities should oppose
the policy and why the populists of the
| West should seek to make opposition
to what they call Imperialism one
of the principle planks in the Demo-
cratic platform, and which they have
succeeded in doing.
In fact, I believe those Western pop
ulist leaders are simply hirelings in
the pay of the different Pacific rail-
ways, and that they are using our
Southern Democrats as cat's-paw to
pull their chestnuts out of the fire.
And our delegation have heretofore
been fools enough to let them thus use
US.
When agitation over annexation OF
the Philippines has ceased, and those
islands become an integral part OF the
United States, the same as Porto Rico,
the digging of the Nicaraguan canal
will become a commercial and war
necessity; and the completion of this
great interoceanic artery of commerce
and assured enterprise.
With this new and near route be-
tween England and Europe the Asiatic
trade opens to commerce, the entire
Western bound traffic of the Old
World, instead of being as is-now the
case, carried through the Suez
canal, around the Cape Of Good Hope,
or first touching New York, Boston Or
some Eastern city and from there car
ried across our continent on one OF
those Pacific railways, will then be
transported through the Nicaraguan
canal, and touch at Charleston, Savan-
nah, Jacksonville, Mobile, New Orleans
and other Southern sea ports. This
will necessarily seriously cripple the
business of those as also the traffic OF
every line of railway, extending to the
Pacific, and build up the South.
In fact, let that Nicaraguan canal
be built, and you can't put enough
weight on Charleston, Port Royal and
every other South Atlantic and Gulf
sea port to keep them down. Every
railway leading to one of these ports
will have to be double tracked, to
transport the Southern coal, Southern
iron, and Southern produce OF all kinds
to load the thousands of vessels that
will line our harbor. The: South will
become the richest and most prosperous
country on the globe, every idle water
power will be utilized to turn machln-
cry and not only will the cotton mill
business of New England be moved
South; but thousands of other manu-
facturies now confined to the North.
This will be an inevitable result, and
it is as plainly discernible as the noon
day sun.
Today, in order that Southern pro-
ducst may reach foreign market, they
must first be transported by rail to
New York. If destined for Europe
they must then be carried across the
Atlantic Ocean, in English, German,
or French vessels. If we want to reach
the Eastern trade, they must be carrl-
ed by railway at least three thousand
miles across our continent to San Fran
cisco, and then loaded on board some
vessel, or else carried entirely around
the world.
Ever since the war the South has
been striving to secure direct steam
ship communication with Europe, but
there was no possible chance for OBJ
tanning this desirable end. Only an
occasional tramp vessel touches at one
of our ports. Ninety per cent of our
Southern foreign trade is transacted
through Northern ports and transpor-
ted in foreign vessels.
But let that Nicaraguan canal be
once built and our Southern cities will
rival New York and Boston, and seri-
ously cripple the conveyance of those
ports, and we will have unlimited and
unending direct communication with
the Old World.
And not only will our Southern sea
ports become magnificent cities, not
only will every idle water power in the
South be utilized and the earth made
to yield up it's hidden wealth and the
whole country be checkered with lines
of railway, but our Southern farmers
and cotton producers will reap their
full share of prosperity. And this fact
I can establish to the satisfaction OF
every intelligent man who will reason
for himself, and not let gang of poll
ticians and Office seekers do his think
ing for him.
The Alliance was organized for the
purpose of "plumping out the middle
man" and let our farmer deal direct
with the manufacturer. We have never
been able to accomplish this end and
never will so long as the present condi-
ticn of affairs exist. Each and every
year the price of our cotton is fixed in
New York or Liverpool, and that, too,