The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-07-02
THE TARIFF.


as in the States: but in its multi-fOrm
governmental departments it must
move. and it is supported by Il tax on
imports: and that tax should only be
TO an extent that is needed to run the
government and no further. for the
simple reason when it goes further he
consumer. tie people. have to bear 1t.
The people must eat food they must
wear clothes and when they till the
soil they must Use agri cultural lmple-
ments, and when the tariff is laid high
on these necessities of life it Oppresses
the people.
The principle ofthe protective tariff.
for the protection OF the producer and
not the consumer, started in sectional
ISM: and for the sake of building up d
centralized government with an enOr-
nous surplus in the Treasury. to be
peculated and plundercd upon by the
horde of Office holders of the party IN
| power.
The Democratic party has always
stood against that.
| The South. now that she is becOnl-
ing the great manufacturing center
and viii in the future be greater and
! SledItl llldl llllS. SIlC SllOQlAt llOl loi
get thai the greatest good to the great
est number should rule: and not the
selfish maxim of special privileges TO
the favored few.
Just at this time there is great up
! heaval at the North and West among
Republicans on the tariff. The great
exporters Of the country are being met
with the cries OF retalitory tariff in
the countries where they are trading.
| They are told that we will not trade
with YOU without tariff if you will
not trade without us without one.
Reciprocity is demanded by many
and the fight is on even in the tyranny
with which Cuba is treated. Our
political wisdom dictates raising high
of the banner Of tariff reform and
tariff revision.
TRUSTS.
We hear heap of these things in
our day and time. They are the
natural outgrowth: the legitimate of
spring: the real progeny of the Repub-
lican pet doctrine of the protective
tariff.
We never heard of such things in the
Democratic days of low tariff, but in
order to get on the inner ring OF pro-
lection, corporation buys up corpora
tion. stocks are watered, men turned
out of position, the number Of laborerS
reduced, competition throttled and a
tariff being placed on class Of goods
manipulated by the amalgamated con-
Germ, all American consumers OF the
product most bear the burden in pay
ing the price.
The cry of the people now is and
ought to be that Trust goods must be
on the free list. Let us stand firm in
that position; and there may be some
hope of bringing competition through
the foreign markets, if it be throttled
at home BY the captains Of progress"
as the promoters of these giantlc
engines Of expressions are called.
As long as the Republican party is in
power we need never expect any re-
lief on the line Of Fedral legislation,
for their life depends on the money OF
the associated Trusts to be used in
campaign funds.
The show on the part Of the Presi-
dent to attack the infamous Beef Trust
and the Railroad Trust. known as the
Northern Security Companies, IS but
bombaSt and show. The cry will come
that the Sherman Antitrust law is
not sufficient; and the Republican
party will not extend it. The hope of
the people is in the exercise Of the re-
served rights OF the States; through
their legislatures and couIts; and bet
ter than all else in the building up Of
healthy sentiment on the subject.
stand here as | have stood in my
place in the legislature opposed to
those aggregations which throttle com
petition and oppress the people,
whether it be in the Railroad world,
in the solution Of the transportation
problem, in the industrial world, in the
manufacturing of goods, or elsewhere
in the sale Of goods or the production
of raw material.
The country cannot thrive if compe-
tition is kept down. The talk Of prog
ress is a mockery, if the prosperity is
confined to the few and the many are
out Of employment. 1t is time to call
a halt on this line.
The American people will no more
allow commercial deSpotism and
tyranny and absolutism, than they
will allow governmental despotiSm and
tyranny ard absolutism. They have
often spoken against the latter in no
uncertain terms. They will speak
against the former in more emphatic
terms if the evil is not checked.
No one but the blatant demagogue
will cry against corporations as such
and against the investment Of capital
for the purposes of trade and enter
prise in corporations. Business could
scarcely be transmitted without such
Intermediates. We hail the intrduc-
ton of capital within our midst and
pledge the good will Of the State for
CORPORATIONS as we'll as people must
obey the law and when the first prin-
ciple of commercial life, competition
in trade, is threatened, then it is time
that the law in its enactment and
prosecution should be strong enough
to protect the people agains+ corporate
power in the shape of Trusts.
SHIP SUBSIDIES.
Akin to this trust question is the
Ship subsidy question. 1t naturally
grows out Of the Trust idea, as the
trusts grow out Of the high tariff idea.
1t is all protection. Protection of the
favored by taxationon the people. 1t
is all Republican. Its details can be
discussed at any time in the campaign.
Enough to say at this initial meeting
that in its principle lies its condem-
nation. The idea of spending mil
lions per year for stated term OF years
for the benefit Of favored owners of
favored lines of vessels in the name of
building up our merchant marine is too
monstrous to meet our approval. Even
the Republican managers have stopped
the iniQuity in the House OF Represena-
tives as they find that the people are
revolving against it.
IMPERIALISM.
The Republican party inyokes for
the American people in its foreign
policy the idea OF imperialistlc eXpan-
sion. y broad line OF demarkation is
Tins drawn between those in this Re-