The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-04-29

aud thu r,tir'n! Whnt mo-. I., ,,,4,
whuE Ia" D'ii"ciaiAc i,.riy pan,Itrs
10 nn special inttIesls whose profits
are made by rODbinY the people AMI
therefore it has no propaganda and no
money to establish one by which it's
IDEAS OF good government can be con-
stabtly pounded into the people. II
even 600 papers for the past ten years
exposing the fallacies Of high protec-
ton, the farmers Of the country, who
suffer most from this one sided game.
wonld today be almost unanimous i'm
their opposition to protection. We
nave no fountain of wealth filched from
the pockets OF the people from which
10 draw ana therefore the people do
not not get the truth. They get only the
band of public plunderers and 20 on
Letting well enough alone" until the
band is bursting with Doodle. When
the members arc gorged and get to
quarreliDg among themselves as thoy
are Tow doing then the people will
begin to get q glimpse of the truth.
1t remains to be seen how much longer
the people will stand'for this sort of
thing and be beguiled by this Ameri-
can Protective Tariff League. 1t got
them. to pass the Mckinley and tho
D!nS!ey bills with which to abstract
money from their pockets, it defeated
the Cuban reciprocity measure and
now 1t has scared the President of the
United States by threatening to defeat
him unless he abandoned the Iowa
idea" and stands for all they desire in
the way OF high protection. The peo-
Pie can stop it, but the probability is
the" wont until their bellies become
eli pity.
a few days ago called to the atten-
tlcn OF United States Senator who
hau taken Il deep interest in the pass
age of the go O-called Philippine tariff
PHI that died 6 natural death at the
hands OF the Senate during the short
session, the fact that the President in
MS minneapolis speech had made the
statement that the Democrats OF the
senate were primarily responsible for
the defeat OF that bill, and had spoken
the defeat OF the bill that men who be-
lleved In q reduction of the tariff had
opposed this reduction. l was told by
this senator that the President was in
error IN making any such statement.
tie said that there were only three
Demo"rats in the entire Senate who
oppos~d the passage of the bill and
tAaV I'll Cnose VINO expressed them
selves on the measure were in favor Of
its passage as the best they could get,
though they all favored absolute free
trade with those islands. He said the
truth OF matter is that the bill was de-
teated by the friends Of tho admins
tratlon. If they had pressed the bill
any time during the latter part of the
month OF last January it could have
been passed, but they were 30 intent
ON defeating statehood for the terri
tories asking to come in and which
they had promised should come in,
that they were unwilling to take any
chances on vote on the bill. They
postponed consideration until the yery
last day of the session when the oppo-
sItion of any one man is fatal to any
bill and both the friends and the
enemies of the bill knew this. The
Pill died OF neglect, if not worse, at
the hands of its pretended friends and
the. President Of the United States is
guilty OF perverting history for the
! sake or q finely turned sentence in q
speech
The postotfice investigation is still
IN progress, but since the return of the
POstmaster General paddock has been
placed on the mouths of all his subor-
dinetes. The chances nre that the
only way the people Of tho country
will ever get o look at the results of
this investigation is by congressional
demand and that demand will not be
made by aRepublican Congress. What
are you going to do about it7
Charles A. EdWarda