The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-12-22
The PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
The Wage Garner a Slave The Irony OF
Fate.

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You have met to- asidcr the
condition of your opcrty and
slaves and plan for the perpetuity |
of our peculiar institutions. You
arc aware that thcroiS tremendous
unrest among the slave population
that produces our billions OF wealth,
and it behoovcs us to look with care
how they can be deceived and be
kept contcntcd, that we may pros
per oil their crcdulity and labor.
The past has been the most pros
porous year for us in the history OF
human slavery, but evidences arc
not lacking that we arc in danger.
The agitator is abroad in the land,
and in Russia we sec what may bc
our fate in the near future unless
we can make the people believe that
they arc to get some rcllei.
Some of our members have been
very coarse and clumsy in their
work, and the people have been
getting IL look behind the curtain,
and their suspicious that all Is not
right have been aroused. We must
allay these suspicious by making
some pretended reforms; the people
I must have some legislation on in
surancc. making them believe that
we arc to protect them in their
savings: the exposures OF clumslly-
given rebates and bribery in the
railroad industries also require that
we make similar laws regarding
them, or the people will demand
public ownership and that will mean
that we shall not have half the op-
portunity to fleece the fools that we
have had in the past.
You should proceed cautiously
in the work of building up Il larger
army and navy for our protection,
under the guisc of patriotism and
peace. You should see that the
public lands arc not permitted to be
logged by corporations. as we can
easily get them back from the pcO-
pie after they have entered and
improved them, as We have in the
past; you should destroy the peo-
Dies money and issue money to the
banks under the deception of hav-
ing an elastic currency to move the
! crops; you should throw sop to
the railroad men about shorter
. hours, liability bills and safety APP
plianccs; they will stand for it for
dozen years more on few himsy
promises; make some meaningless
laws about female and child labor,
something that sounds big, but
which the courts can dcstrnN at
plcasrre 'vbols nothing and goes a
long way with the. dupes who
imagine they arc rs good as us !;
make a great show of economy by
cutting off a few thousand clerks
and laborers in the departments;
you can put your hcelers back on
again and the slaves will not notice
it; they know nothing about what
is going on in the departments
thanks to our ownership of the
great press and magazines, together
with t|" t-',srupf; make "a how
about my great peace play at Ports.
mouth and also about the Monroe
doctrine, the latter which you know
Will give us control of all the west
crn hemisphere for us and on,
children to exploit; make some
naturalization laws, as the immense
immigration from Europe contains
many Socialists and they will not
be desirable slaves; they are agita.
tors; make an exclusion law for the
Mongollan, that will admit all VIC
need, as they never become citizens
and, therefore, have no votes: fix
up the criminal laws so that W can
more easily catch the obstreperous
slaves, while pretending the laws
are to catch us capitalists; make n
great howl about wanting an Ameri-
can marine for the glory of the ma
ton, and pass a subsidy bill to
enable us to build great MANY
ships that will prove a good excuse
to charge the slaves for their use
make some meaningless statute
against the adulteration of food, as
the people arc getting onto this
method OF swindling them, and it
won't hurt anything; sec that the
control over the Philippines and
other slave colonies is held securely.
as these furnish place where we
can send our faithful slaves to hold
positions and get rich at the expense
OF people who are not permitted TO
have any voice in government:
push the building of the Panama
canal, as it is furnishing splendid
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