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

elsry manufactured product, which tax
has TO be PAID by the consumer. You
pay this tax without knowing how much
1t Is. You ought not to pay nore than
Is necessary 10 support the Government
When you put the ties and bagging ON
your cotton the protective tarir you pay
Is tbs difference between the price
which ySu ought Co buy them for and
the. pricee which you are actually forced
I'd pay because OF thu tariff. There can
be mo composition on a fair basis py
ether countries iseeklng to sell foreign
manufactured articles here SO long an
theiunjusI Republican tariff prevails. On
should -be as s.lowl as practicable. i ia
Sor the highest tarin on all the Iuxuries
OF life. not to hecome prohibitory. and
the lowest tariff on all necessaries which
would be just to both capital ard labor,
apd! support the government. would
nDr destroy the manufacturer, for he
converts our raw material into market
able products a. il should have fair
profit ON his Investment and be able to
pay the iaborer living wages. To strike
down the manufacturer by forcing him
into elunfair competition from foreign
countries would ruin the producer OF the
raw material and the laborer who con-
Serts 1t into a marketable. product, FOR
the producer would have no market for
hisofraw material and j. the laborer b
without employment. The interests Of
the manufacturer. the producer OF tue
raw material and b OF the laborer ntsnd
On common grouDd to this extent. Such
u course would be unwise and Jdestruct-
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-
fa1turel and consumption for her pros
peTity, and must look to other nations
TO help consume what she produces ssai
& The tariff on rice Is so laid ttAxs our
planters OF rice are discitu su-ftd
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 an would be beneficial to our rics
growers Our people are entitled to
some relief on this Line by legislation
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masses, the Republican high protective
tariff has fostered ocorporations. COM
Ibines and trusts until today, We have
in America some of the most gigantic
combinations OF capital known to the
world; whose capital is 80 great that
they control at will and pleasur- the
price of every species of raw product
as well as the price OF every manu-
factured product They nx the prtcs
OF cotton and already We see the price
for this years crop falling. and may
expect still lower pricea, when IL 10
we'll known that the world Is now
short on cotton. With one hand they
fix the buying price OF corn. wheat.
meat and every other article raised by
the farmer and with the other they fx
the selling Price. In their hands the
people are powerless to protect them-
solves, 1T seems, aad we need such
as will give as proper relief
and take the iron merciless, soulless
hands of these soulless and opi cessive
trusts and corporations r; ON our necks.
These captains OF -robber bands un-
derulegal sanction, hold high carnival
in the ational capitol. A Gould, or
Morgan. .er Rockefeller, has more in
fuenee than the voice OF millionE OF
people. or ~al o. -,s .}l'
ii ...- ur,s Expansion -.. 90 q! -
.'1 The Republican party, by endorsing
the McKinley-D Roosevelt administra-
tions irecommits itself to a policy of
aggression and Interference with for
eign AFFAIRS and the acquisition 20 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
-habitants 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 nf-
teenthr amendments, the states OF