The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-09-18

| steamship transportation lnes dcioss
the trackless ocean?
England and other foreign nations
pay subsidy to their great navigation
lines and the natural result is that a
large part of the trade of the United
States is now carried on in foreign bot
toms, and as the countries controlling
those vessels are our business rivals,
it is natural that they should work
against our interests.
| Our Southern cotton farmers have
Justly complained that the price OF
their staple is fixed is Liverpool, and
whose interest it is to buy our staple
as low as possible. Now, Just so long
as we must depend on English and
other foreign vessels to transport our
cotton, our farmers will remain at the
mercy of those foreign buyers.
I have never seen that ship SUBSIDY
bill. and it may have all the objection
able features that it's opponents claim
for it. But l do net believe If some
scheme could be devised to encourage
American shipbuilders, and thus rem
der this country independent OF for
eign vessels and then let congress fix
the price for Transporting cotton and
other products and goods to the diff
fereut foreign markets, that such q
law would be a Godsend to Southern
farl. rs for they would then in truth
become benefciaries of our policy OF
subsidy.
The government ought to do some
thing to protect our American 1arm'
ers. Either place high duty on i'm
ported agricultural products, or give
our farmers cheap freight rates across
the briny deep, so as to enable them tc
control their crops and be lndepen'
dent of foreign nations.
It is a very foolish policy for the
South to oppose every bill that eman'
ates from a Republican source with
out first studying and investigating the
same. We have common govern
ment and a common interest, and it is
very often the case that a law which
will benefit the North and the West
will equally benef5 the South. We
should not be controlled altogether by
passion and by prejudice, but, IN con-
sidering all great public questions
bring to bear reason and common sense.
Anyone who will read Colonel Cleve-
lands Union speech must confess that
he has advanced some very strong, II
not convincing, arguments in favor Of
the proposition that congress should
encourage and build up American ship.
ping by granting subsidies to new steam.
Ship lines. Colonel Cleveland contends
that our American goods will never be
able to invade many markets until they
are shipped on American vessels, sail.
ing under the Stars and Stripes.
/ read all the speeches delivered at
that same Union meeting, by several
distinguished gentlemen and who were
opposed to Colonel Cleveland's views,
but if one Of those orators advanced q
single argument to Offset the plain and
business-like reasoning of Colonel
Cleveland, it escaped my eyes.
Personal denunciation OF Senator
McLaurin, and wild and unsupported
charges that those papers and men who
agree with his advanced views have
been bought up by Mark Hanna and
are traitors to the Democratic party
are not replies to a rational and clean"
ly put argument. :,
/ know, so far as I am concerned,
that have never seen the color OF
Mark Hanna's or anyone else's money,
except what I have made from my farm
or through legitimate lines of business:
and neither would I accept any Office
within the gift of President Mckinley
or anyone else. And yet am earnest IN
my desire to see the Democratic party
torn loose from its populistic moorlngs,
and our next platform made so broad
and so liberal that every Democrat can
get and stand thereon. I want to see
those old defunct issues that have been
twice repudiated by the voters of this
country, relegated to the rear, and our
next national candidates 60 before the
country on newer and living issues.
want to see the gates of democracy IN
South Carolina thrown wide open and
every man and every candidate given
an opportunity to declare his views,
without being deluged with personal
abuse and billingsgate. Any cause OF
any party that cannot stand the test OF
reason and free, open and honest dis
cussion, deserves to 60 down IN defeat,
and can never long triumph.
There is no denying the fact that the
Democratic party is now on the verge
of dissolution, and we cannot afford to
meet with another defeat. To steer
our ship safely through the breakers
that now surround our party will re-
ouire the united efforts of our purest
and clearest headed statesmen.
And cannot imagine a greater ca
lamity that could befall this country
than an abandonment of the Democrat
ic party, for it is the only organization
that stands between the people and the
oppressive and tyrannical power OF
combined capital, as represented by
the Republican party. In its place
would spring into existence an anarch-
istic party, made up of every disgrunt-
ted and revolutionary element IN our
country, menacing alike civilization,
liberty and property.
This letter closes my series OF artlc-
les. I have doubtless taken an advan-
vanced position that will not meet the
endorsement of many of my friends.
But I am sincere and honest in my
views, and have advocated those same
ideas even before our last Democratic
convention. It is not my desire to
boost any man for any Office, but ad-
vocate, in my humble way, what [ be-
lieve will soonest and best promote the
happiness and prosperity of my people
and the development and up-building
of my native State and beloved South
land.
Under no circumstances would I be a
candidate for any Office within the gift
OF any man or the people. l. have re-
tired for good and all from active
journalism and expect to spend the re-
mainder of my days looking after my
farming interests and striving for what
I believe will be to the best interest OF
the humble tiller of the soil and the
laboring classes and masses.
T. L. CAN'T
Inman, S. c., Aug. 1901.
It Girdles the Globe.