The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-05-29

then, We are paying subsidy, and hence it
is question of whether re will subsidlze
American or f,reign vessels It is useless
for me to discuss before this intelligent audi
ence he importance of our foreigo trade. If
Europe aud the United S ates are to be com.
petitors in the markets Of t1e world, can we
afford TO put ourselVes entirely IL their hand?
The power to fix freig ht rates gives them the
power TO fl & the price of our cotton, wheat
and manufactured products.
Suppose there sho1ld be q general Elro-
pean war, and the merchant marine O.!
England, Germany aud Norway was pressed
in r transport service. What would. be the
effect on cotton and cotton goods? l tell you
that you would see cotton haulel into the
streets of Greenvilie and MT sold a; three
oeuts. but simply hauled back home. Taere
would be no buy er5, because there would be
no ships to carry cotton or cotton goods
abroad, business of all kinds would languish,
and there would be failures on every hand
Conditions have changed-before the war We
were buyers shroad, now We are sellers. We
are asking foreigners not to exchange pro
ducts, but to come here to buy. Nothing
would suffer ia case OF q European war like
cotton They would have to come here TO
buy wheat, corn. bacon, mules and horses.
as England did in the Boer War, but they
could do without cott,n for a year 50. All
the ships would be needed for war uses
Foodstufs high and no sale for cotton, what
could hurt the South worse? What, then, is
more dependent on American ships than the
cotton crop?
Does any man Of common sense suppose in
this great contest for the trade of the Orient
that the ships Of Germany and England are
going to give us the same advantages that
they do their own merchants? AS Mr.
Thurber, of New York, recently said, "E7.ry
ship is missionary Of trade, and steam
lines work for their own countries just as
railway lines work for their terminal points.
Its as absurd for the United States to rely
upon foreign ships to distribute her goods,
as it would be for one business house to rely
upon the wagons of competing house 20
make its deliveries" There is no section 30
vitality interested in ships as the South,
Why, Charleston, Mobile and New Or!esns
should rival New York, q, far as hsrbors are
concerned We have already felt the bene-
fits of our Asiatic trade, and in it lies the
possibilities Of our future, but We must have
cheap freight, rapid transportation, and the
prestige of the American flag over our own
ships. Our Southern ports are d!scrimips.
ted against by the same great railroad lines
that are fighting the opportunity for an
obon q
a Southern commerce, not q S uthern trade.
Toat same influence has prevented the con-
struction of rhe Nicsraguan Canal, and /
predict that there will be no canal, until its
friends and the advocsre, Of a merchant ma,
rine join forces and work il harmony. TIE
two are inseparable. They will either fail
together or succeed together. Wen that
time comes, freights will move North and
South, inste ID of East and West. Our ports
vii be the gateways, and the South will de-
7elop with uneqaalled apidity. Cannot any
man of sense gee that the money power head
ed by c. P Huntington and Hill, with great
railway systems running East and West, do
not want freights DETECTED South? With this
change, the Seaboard, Coast Line aud South
ern would rival in greatness the three trans
continental lines. The producer of law
material will prosper, just in proportion to
the demand for his product. All that our
Southern people have to do now is to be wise
aui conservative. and favor the great pub
lie me lsures looking to the promotion Of the
material and industrial interests ofthe coun'
try and the honor and glory ofthe nation.
DO yo1TR OWN THINKING.
Fellow-citizens, with so many things
to talk about, it has not been possible for
me to do more than skim the surface,
but l hope l have been so fortunate as to
excite desire en- your part to investigate
for Yourself and not let some old moss
back, who does not know that the wal
has ended, do your thinking. These are
practical vital issues. AS your Senator,
I have frankly stated my position. There
are two sides to these questions. re-
spect an honest difference of opinion,
but no man can impugn my motives sue
cessfully.
NOT AN AUToMAToN.
I never could answer tie ends of an
automaton in politics or business.
yield to the dictation of no man. 1t is
characteristic Of Scotchman to think
and act for himself. l have asserted and
will always assert my personal and po-
litical individuality. have blazed out
my own path more than once in County,
State and National politics, and followed
it without regard to popular applause.
made Peace and unity" very popular
once in this State-too popular, in fact
for some of those who once denounced
the Leader Of the Movement" now
grovel in the dust at the feet of their old
time foe, humbly content with the cu' ses
that fall from his lips, for the sake of the
few crumbs that drop from the table.
REFUSES TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF
DESPAIR.
If reelected, as far as in me lies, my
voice and vote will be used in behalf OF
those measures which make for hu-
man progress and human happiness IN
the present world; measures which
will unite and knit men into a wider
recognition of the brotherhood of man.
My voice will go, not to invoke party pre-
judice and party passion, not to preach a
SOSECl VI ucSpiiIl, uOG w oSiP w NAN'-eS
bitterness, but to assist in its ellmina-
ton
The rancor of party prejudice, the fo-
ment of party spirit, the agitation for
public spoils and selfish ends, these are
the fetters that clog, the manacles that
impede our national development, and
threaten our national life.
COMMISSION TO STUDY CHINA IM'oR-
TANT 70 THE SOUTH.
When measure is before Congress
proposing the creation of non-partisan
commission of trained business men to
visit China, to investigate and report how
wider markets for American products
may be obtained among the eight hun
dred million of people who live in that
portion of the globe, a measure which
would be of more benefit to the cotton
spinners of the South than almost any
single economic measure eve- introduced
into Congress, shall l blindly follow the
lead of the modern apostles of Democra-
cy and vote against it because the meas
ure originates upon the Republican side,
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