Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-05-22

low tnlS p0tcntlal surplus wealth OK
hibit covers period when our China
tho Philippine Islands have taken less
than 100000 of our manufactured goods
while costing us over $500, 900 900!
These figures are an object lesson al
the end of Il decade in which tho govern
ment of the country was shared by both
political parties, and demonstrates DC.
yond doubt that the growth of bust
ness and wealth is from natural and in
dustrial causes and not from pap-spoon
politics.
In the midst Of this abundance. this
sweep Of prosperity, comes proposal to
break up the Democratic party and hand
over our political power to our political
enemies, who have not spared us in the
past and have not oven Il remote idea of
sparing us in the future.
interviewer with this deceptive plea of
papspoo politics, very general i'm
preston is sought to be created that the
owners of South Carolina cotton mills
are all in favor of joining the Rcpubli.
can party-anothcr dclusion! There
have been quite number of mill stock
holders meetings during tho past few
weeks, in none of which, as l am in
formed, was any word said on this sub.
jcct or any action taken. | am inclined
to believe that thoughtlcss utterance or
two, recently made, is the basis of these
hopes in pap-spOon political circles. 1t
would bc very surprising indeed if South
Carolina owners q: cotton mills should
voluntarily separate themselves from
their friends and neighbors To join n hos
tile political party OF course, mills
controlled from distance may insist
upon their managers and employees say.
ing "me too" but that is IL different
affair altogether.
Not only do present conditions warn
MS, but the future is fun of serious fore
bodings-to keep us from political sui
eide. Sharply defined issues are i'm full
view now and will assume larger proper
tinnS in the near future. The wealth
that has accumulated in few ambitious
hands is at work creating colossal com.
binations; already the iron and steel in
tercStS have been merged, the chief rail
roads from the Atlantic to the Pacific
are in process of consolidation, marine
transportation on both tho Atlantic and
Pacific oceans will follow, and as has
been announced, "thrco men i'm Now
York. or some other central point viii
control prices of iron and steel products
and everything else and the cost of car
riaGc over inland and ocean routes In
these vast capitalizations there is 30 to
30 per cent Of what in financial pnrlancc
is called, in its primitive state, "water."
This is all to be made into solid paving
investments by dual prcssnre-squccz.
ing out every possible employee and
squeezing into the trust treasures,
through heavy costs and tolls of carriage,
every dollar that the general public can
he made to pay. The control OF trans
continental railway transportation and
the uniiicaton of steam frcights and pas
sage Oh the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
all moved in unison by single bell in
New York, creates a suspicion that a
canal at the lsthmus will hardly be
thought then necessary The South,
which must largely depend upon the
opening of a canal there for its future
growth, is, suppose, to remain in its
past condition Of 'hcwcrs of wood and
drawers of water for this combination
of new wealth creators.
TO dGcOy or distract the whito people
of South Carolina, whose only future
safety is in union--to cndcavor to divide
or mslcad the party, whose commission
he still holds and whose honors hc has
cnjoyed--Scnator McInurin, after voting
on party questions, against his party in
Congress, is said to be entrusted with the
Federal patronage in South Carolina to
create i white Republican party in our
State. (?)
or course, there are always the ncccs-
sltous and nnscrupulous who will take
office; that's a human record and has
been so since the world bngan and is so
yet But IN view Of the serious portents
now in full view have a confident belief
that, while money can buy mines and
steel plants, railroads and ocean steam
ships, and while it is unfortunately true
that power with money is aiI'intoxicant,
neither can on will buy or deceive Il free
Sclt-rcspccting people.