The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-09-25
A MISTAKEN POSITION.

A MISTAKEN POSITION.
Has the action Of the new or
ganization known as the Farmers
Union had anything to do with
the position taken by Senator
Latimer on immigration: In his
recent interview, shortly after
his arrival from abroad the Sen
ator says he favors restricting
immigration to the extent that
he is "opposed to the State or
CORPORATIONS furnishing money
to pay for the Transportation OF
Immigrants into the United
States" but believes ''our best
policy is to be content with the
natural growth Of population.
He also thinks sour mills would
be better off in the long run to
let few of the spindles stand
idle and sell their goods at the
high price they are now getting
in the United States than to run
all their spindles and take a
lower price for their products.
With a proper Difference to our
distinguished representative, we
DO not think his junket abroad
has broadened him in the least,
but that in his interview he eS-
hibits himself as more OF a
caterer for votes from the easily
inhamed ignorant rabble, than a
statesman seeking to better the
conditions of our country. II
Senator Latimer hopes to main
tain white supremacy in South
Carolina, he will do well to visit
the schools Of the State, and see
for himself the advancement be-
ing made by the colored race, and
then cast partisan politics aside,
and calculate how long will it be
before our present constitutional
protection will not serve US. He
will also 90 well before trying to
cater to the whims of 81 organl-
zation which is being led by
men who will eventually work it
for political prestige, study the
operation of South Carolina's
immigration bureau, and learn
that the purpose is to bring here
a desirable class of immigrants
who will build up our citizenship,
and to keep from allowing dump
ed upon US the undesirable ele-
ment that he speaks Of. The
Senator's remarks are rather
surprlsing to US, because we
were under the impression that
he was a believer in development,
and not OF the class who would
be content to s:be content with
the natural growth of popula-
tion," when he knows, that so
far as this State is concerned the
natural growth of population"
must necessarily be a slow pro-
cess, and that by being thus con-
tented, and doing nothing for
our development we would be
heaping up the white Mans bur
den upon the shoulders of our
children, and leave to them a
legacy they would not bless US
for.
We are also opposed to have
among US the class known as the
'srif-raf'', but the efforts the
State IS making for an increase
in white population is not to
secure this class, and although
the Senator recently spent sey-
eral months in Europe, the
greater part of his time was
spent in the cities where the
riff raft" huddle, to live by their
wits to avoid honest labor, but
in the interior where lives the
honest tiller Of the soil, who
would, with the assurance of
proper treatment be glad to seek
a. new home, because the oppor-
tunity in his native land for de-
velopmeut is restricted on &C
count of over population, it is
different; there the Senator will
find peoples who know nothing
of the ways of the :'gutter-
snipes'' and s.celler-dogs'' of
Liverpool, Venice, Hamburg,
Paris, London, and the other
crowded cities recently visited
by the government junketing
party, the people born and rear
ed upon the farms are of the
stock from which our best Amer
ican citizenship sprung, and
they are worthy of our best
efforts to induce them to be Of
US.
It is the heighth of folly to
say it would be better for the
spindles in our mills to stop to
wait for high price for their
products, we might as we'll urge a
tsrest cure" for farming and
merchandising, let everything
become stagnated until every
thing is consumed before start
ing work again.
What's the matter with the
prices of manufactured products
now, are they not higher than
ever before, and is not the de-
mand growing more and more:
No the trouble is the Senator