The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1904-08-18

every manufactured product, which tax
haS 10 be paid W the consumer. You
pay TINS tax without knowing how much
II Is. You ought not to pay more than
is necessary 10 support the government.
W hen you put the ties and bagginx ON
yodr cotton the protective tariff you pay
As the difference between the price
which you ought to buy them for and
the. price which you are actually forced
To pay because OF tho tariff. There can
be no competition fair basis py
ether countries seeking to sell foreign
manufactured articles here SO long as
the unjust Republican tariff prevails. on
all neceSsdries of life the tarirr levied
should be as low as practicable. / ia
Nor the highest tariff on all the luxuries
of life, not TO become prohibitory, and
the lowest tariff on all necessaries which
would he Just to both capital and labor,
ard support the government. would
nJI destroy the manufacturer, for he
converts our raw material into market
able products and should have fair
profit on his investment and be able TO
pay the laborer living wages. To strike
down the manufacturer by forcing him
into unfair competition from foreign
countries would ruin the producer OF the
raw material and the laborer who con-
vertT IT into a marketable product, for
the producer would have no market for
hts raw material and the laborer be
without employment. The interests of
the manufacturer. the producer OF the
raw material and of the laborsr stand
on common ground to this extent Such
IA course would be unwise and destruct-
i've OF our general welfare, especially in
the South which raises eighty (S0) per
cent of the entire cotton OF the world
and is dependant chiefly on its manu-
faCturo and consumption for her pros
peT!ty, and must look to other nations
to help consume what she produces.
The tariff rice is SO laid that our
planters OF rice are Discriminate
against. The Republicans, seeing that
the people OF Cuba are large consumers
people of the United States, have stead
Carolina rice than is now used by the
OF rice and would take more OF the South
fastly refused to make such trade re-
latIons as would be beneficial to our rice
growers. Our people are entitled to
soIno relief on this line by legislation
Trusts.
Besides enriching the individual.
which, OF Itself. is unfortunate for the
masses, the Republican high protective
tariff has fostered corporations. com
bines and trusts until today, we have
in America some of the most gigantic
combinations OF capital known to the
world: whose capital is SO great that
they control at will and pleasure the
price of every species OF raw product
as we'll as the price OF every manu-
factured product They fI the price
of cotton and already we sec the price
for this years crop falling, and may
expect still lower prices. when 1t 10
well known that the world is now
short on cotton. With one hand they
hx the buying price OF corn. wheat.
meat and every other article raised by
the farmer and with the other they n1
the selling price. In their hands the
selves. it seems, and wa need such
legislation az will give as proper relief
and take the iron merciless soulless
hands of these soulless and oppressive
trusts and corporations + ON our necks.
These captains OF robber bands un-
der legal sanction. hold high carnival
Morgan. or a Rockefeller. has more in
lAo NO4Ic Vi IuiiIAOAs VI
people,
Expansion
The Republican party, by endorsing
the Mckinley Roosevelt administra~
tions recommits Itself to a policy OF
aggression and interference with for
eign AFFAIRS and the acquisition OF
foreign territory. While the Demo-
cratic party In its platform declares
Its devotion to every Democratic ex-
tension from Louisiana to California
and Texas to Oregon yet 1t is unal-
terably against the acquisition OF for
eign territory. The Republican party
has by an aggressive policy pushed our
national policy beyond its original de-
sign and has sent US into seas far from
home and attached numerous islands
peopled by an inferior race. These in
in course OF time will be
made citizens and the Filipino. al
though OF an inferior race, will be
used by this party . hold itself in
power Already by the mere granting
OF the franchise to the negro race. by
the passing of the fourteenth and hf-
teenth amendments, the states of