The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-04-25
Tho Coming Struggle.

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trv v,1l ha between indiyidualism ana
socialism and the Republican party
with it's persistent efforts for censIal =.
izatfon. is to blame for the growth OF
the socialistic . opagands. The Dem
ocracy has always stood for the nee
dom of the individual and hone fun
and opposed to the paternallstle anu
Hamillonian theory that the FeoeIai
government must be all powerful. rue
Constitutional provision tnat On
rights not granted by the states totne
general government are reserVeo "
the states and the people IS elunus
mental doctrine Of the Democia.o
party, Jefferson, the apostle OF tne
Democrats, declared this and no True
Democrat has ever gainsayed it.
Mr.. Bryan, who has been accused oy
the Republicans Of Socialism, SHOWS
by his conservative views in his art'c'e
entitled s.Indi idualism VS.. Socialism
in the Century Magazine for Apfli
his own and the Democratic poslIloh'
In that article he says; "Much OF tne
strength developed by Socialism is due
the fact that Socialists advocate
Sf tain reforms which indiVidaa!s a so
advocate. Municipal ownership a
monopo'ies, for instance, is advocated
by individualists, because it is prac-
ticall, impossible to have more tnan
one water system in a city, and oy
| the latter on the general ground that
government should own all the means
Of production and distribution. Mr..
Bryan remarks that the sentiment
for municipal lighting plants IS noo
vet so strong, and the sentiment N
ia, OF of public telephones and street
car lines is still less pronounced; but
the same general principales apply 10
them and individualis1s, without ac-
|cepting the creed Of Socialism, can ad-
vocate the extension OF munlclpai
ownership to them. he further SHOWS
plainly the evils 10 the individual cibi-
zen of Socialism when he says: IL
the government operates altthe 1ac-
tories, all the farms, and all the stores
There must be superintendents as well
as workmen; there must be dlnetent
kinds Unemployment, some more pleas
ant, some less pleasant and he ASKS;
"Is it likely that any set OF men can
distribute the work or fix the compen-
sation to the satisfaction OF all, or
even to the satisfaction OF a majority
of the people?"
bow great, therefore, Is the gull 0e-
tween the Democracy and the Social
| ists. who believe in concentrating all
power in the central government
whereas the Democrats stand for the
utmost freedom of the individual citi-
len Without infringement upon the
rights Of others. The trend OF Repub-
licanism to rush to Congress for q cure
.Ifsr 20 itical evi.s; tc over look and even
aid, executive usurpations over the
representatives Of the people; to favor
trusts and corporations who in return
have furnished money to corruptly
| keep their friends in power.
The Democratic doctrine Is exactly
opposite and is expressed by equal
rights to all and special privileges to
none." Without the Democratic par
| ty, which alone offers al classes equal
rights, there would be a certain h,1r-
rying of the unthinking to the ex-
treme Of appropriating all the means
OF production and distribution by tie
natiotal government so that ultimate
civ there would be no incentive for
1 individual eff f.rt. The confscation OF
the property Of those who, by saving
| or superior ability had secured a con-
peterce would follow the appropria-
tion o, the property Of those who had
!amassed millions. The Democratic
party is the only hope of free people
against the tyranny OF centralized
power as taught by the Republican
party, and tie thought IS fast crysta-
LIKING that William Jennings Bryan Is
the 10, ical candidate of the Denaocra-
lev in 1908,