The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1904-08-18


every manufactured product, which tax
llas TO be PAID W the consumer. You
Day this TAX without knowing how much
it Is. You ought not to pay more tnan
Is necessary 10 support the government.
When you put the ties and bagging on
your cotton the protective tariff you pay
is the. difference between the price
which you ought to buy them tor ana
the price which you are actually forced
to pay because OF the terin. There can
be no competition on q fair basis oy
ether countries seeking to sell foreign
manufactured articles here so long as
the unjust Republican tariff prevails. On
all necessaries OF life The tariff levied
should be as low as practicable. ia
yor the highest tariff on all the luxuries
OF life, not to become prohibitory, anu
the lowest tariff on all necessaries which
would be just to both capital and labor,
a..t support the government. would
not destroy the manufacturer, for no
converts our raw material into market
able products and should have q Ia1r
profit on his investment and De aple 10
pay the laborer living wages. 10 strike
down the manufacturer by forcing him
into unfair competition from foreign
countries would ruin the producer OF tne
raw materia. and. the laborer who con-
.yertr it into a. marketable product, or
the producer would have no market ior
hts :. raw material and the aoorer %
yitnout employment. The. interests OF
the; manufacturer, the producer OF the
raw material and OF the laborsr stand
on common ground to this extent suen
a: course would be unwise and destruce-
I've OF our general welfare, especially IN
the South, which raises eighty (So per
cent OF the entire cotton Of the world
and is dependant chiefly on its manu-
fae,urs and consumption for her pros
per;ty, and must look to other na1ions
to shelp consume what she produces
The tariff on rice IL 80 Laid that our
p,anters OF rice are discriminate
against. The Republicans. seeing tna'
the people Of Cuba are large consumers
psople OF. the United States, have stead
ca rolina rice than Is now used py tns
OF rice and would take more OF the SouItn
lastly refused to make such trade To-
laaions as would be beneficial to our rIce
eroxers.: Our people are entiueo 10
soms relief OH 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
hines. and trusts until today, We nave
IN America some Of the most gigantic
combinations of capital known TO tns
world; whose capital Is 80 great tnat
rbev control at will and pleasure the
price Of every species OF raw proouc'
as well as the price OF every MANU-
factured product They n1 the price
of cotton and already We SEQ the price
for this years crop falling, ana mo!
expect still lower prices. when IL ID
we'll known that the world Is no"
short on cotton. With ono hand the9
fix the buying price OF corn, "nea"
meat and every other article raised oy
the farmer and with tho other they n1
the selling price. =. In their HANDS inc
people are powerless to protect tnem-
selves, It seems, and we need sucn
LEGISLATION as will give as proper relle1
and take the iron merciless, soulless
hands of. these soulless and oppressive
tr,,sts and corporations ON our necks.
These captains Of robher bands un-
der legal sanction, hold high carnival
in the national capitol. A Could or
Morgan, or a Rockefeller, has more IN
fnence than the voice Of millions OF
people.
-. 80, Expansion
~: The Republican party, by endorsing
the McKinley-Roosevelt administra-
t,ons recoumits Itself to a policy OF
AGGRESSION and interference with Tor
eien affairs and the acquisition OF
foreign territory. While the Demo-
cratic party in its platform declares
its devotion to every Democratic e1-
tension from Louisiana to California
and Texas to Oregon yet 1t Is unal-
terably against the acquisition OF 1of-
eien territory. The Republican party
has by an aggressive policy pusneo our
national policy beyond its original de-
sien and has sent us into seas far from
home and attached numerous 1slanos
peopled by an inferior race. These IN
habitants, In course Of time will be
made citizens, and the Filipino, al
though of an inferior race, Will De
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 nj
teenth amendments, the states OF
,,,e,, Nou Jers-k- Indiana,