The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-09-26

this country tina + ey do in Europe
Because of that he thinks II We do
not have the tariff they would food
the country with goods sold here
cheaper than they Go n Europe.
Shaw went from the West to the
Hast, and they scared him, and he Is
a little timid. Now I have 80 much
respect for q timid man I do not like
to frighten him any more than Is
necessary, but to allay his fears / will
say to him If We do get In power ano
lave . chance to revise the tar Il We
would leave 1T least 15 per cent, 80
be need not be scared any more Of
having our country Fl >oded with chear
'oods cf other countries. I am not
afraid of reducing the tariff 80 10"
a:d not high enough to keep from
Jumping on US goods from another
country. In another part OF biz
speech be went on to argue that In
stead of selling goods abroad cheaper
than ut home We were selling at 9
higher price, and he men TONED sew
eral articles.
Let Z Republican state his propcsi'
tion whichever way he wants to, you
can answer 1. with bis own argument
think We are going to have some
discussion of tho tariff In the cam
paIgn upon which we shall soon enter
I for one will hsve no objection Il the
tariff is made part Of the mex
campaign. I have baen discu ssine
tariff now for about 26 years. 1 have
never heard . Republican make 6
speech on the tariff that could not bt
answered by a school boy.
A man said to me one day, Mr.
Bran, I am glad to see you, I have
always voted against you, but while
nave voted against you I have q sor
who is q very warm supporter ol
yours, I have sent him to college,"
said. THAT Is q mistake you have
made, no Republican should send his
son to college and expect him to re
main . Republican-if q boy goes tt
college he is apt to become q tariff re-
former"
[ have never doubted you coult
make people rich by law, I think thai
about the easiest way q man can gel
rich, Is to get your taxes, for . man tt
have the power to put other peoples
money in his pocket, and he will grow
r,c1 rapidly. You can make you
State prosperous on the same princi
oles of law that have made some o.
our manufactures prosperous.
SUBSIDIES DERIDED.
suppo3e your CITY council decided
that there ought to be more nict
houses In this to IN, although you
nave many nice houses now-suppost
your couLcil decided to collect 500. 0O(
every year and divide the sane among
ten citizens to be selected by council
on condition that each Citizen viii
use tho $4,000 in building a nict
house on a good street. Now thai
you have ten s10. 900 bouses and peo
pie coming here and riding along you
streets would say how this city ha!
e1oan, how much more beautiful 1t II
and the men who live in the sl0. .00(
houses would make afi 1svits thai
your city bad better city govsrn
msnt than any CITY in tho nattoa
Naughter) What about tho Others
who paid the ta1s.? Why, IN Sun
days, when they had time. thy coulc
walk by the houses and look at then
and enjoy what they had done IL
building up the city. (Laughter
That is the situation in this country
We collect money from tho people
and give it to a few people. and art
so glad that these few people shoa
sucn signs # prosperity. II III very
simple process.
/ learned something about 1t wher
quite small. My father lived on 4
farm at that time. I used 10 60 Gu;
we had rail fences-I was not bis
enough to help With the fences, but
was dig enough to carry ground
chunks. We would find the corner q
the corner down in the ground, anc
tho mon who were doing the worh
would take q rail- and put one rail un
der the corner of the fence and woulc
call me to bring the ground chunk.
1 got the largsst chunk I could and
laid it under the rail, and they got
under the rail and bore down on It,
tho fence corner went up and the
ground chunk went down. 1t illus
trates what we have done by law; We
try to raise our Industries by specia
legislation-we have taken the pro-
tective tariff Is the rail, and put one
end under industry, then what do we
do for q ground ohunk9 We loch
around for some good fat farmer ano
let him down rs the ground chunk
and We bear down the rail, and VI
gees Industry and down gees the
ground chunk in the ground. (Lauga'
ter
Tnat's the process. can under
stand how q man under that rail when
he could not help 1T would bear the
rail up and grit his teeth, tut I never
could under tand how Republican
farmers who had felt the pressure
several times would crawl under II
sgain and say. TRY it once more,
think 7 Gan stand IL
This tariff q lestion is only one quss.
tion, but the I.ct 10 thks III the N Jrth
there are evidences that thsse who
were once In favor Of this policy are
now opposed to it. Tnis fsct gives
great encouragement to uS. I want
to give you Z word of encouragement,