The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1908-04-03

in foreign markets where the South
sells her cotton. The Western
Republican has become the extreme
high protectionist and Massachu-
setts is now for free trade in the
raw material, which she manufac-
lures. The shoes We formerly bought
| in Massachusetts now come from
Missouri. The factories have gone to
the hides just as they are coming to
the cotton, and the East can no long
er compete in the home market with
the West. You cannot protect cot
ton SO long as the home market con-
sumes but one-third Of the raw ma
terial. 1t is our duty, therefore, to
combine with the free traders of New
England and TINS secure fair treat
ment for our farmers.
| Our cotton crop for the past year
Is estimated to bring into this coun-
try in foreign gold seven hundred
million of dollars, while our cotton
manufacturers bring in only thirty
two million. This condition should
not be allowed to exist. We must
manufacture at home every pound
| of cotton we raise and instead of
exporting raw cotton cloth. Our
prosperity will never be permanent
until this is done. We should stand
! by our cotton manufacturers and de-
mand for them fair treatment 1t is
an anomalous fact that England last
year built more new cotton mills In
three counties than were constructed
in the entire outside world. Cotton
machinery can be purchased in Eng
land fifty per cent. cheaper than the
mills can buy in New England and
yet we are forced by the iniquitous
tariff policy to pay the price. The
Southern cotton farmer and the
Southern cotton manufacturer should
20 hand in hand into this fight for
their interests are of the same. The
gamblers in cotton futures who at
tempt to fix the price Of uur crop be-
fore it is even planted, should be
outlawed and treated the same as
other criminals. Cotton is still king,
but he is taxed to death and enslayed
by a party intent upon making him
pay the expenses of the government
and to fatten their Unsuitable final
cial cormorants. believe, it is time
for the youhg Southernor to demand
a voice in the government of this ma
ton. The men who now control
the politics of our country were no;
in the Civil War and it is nonsenss
and cowardly for the press OF the
South to continue to print the feal
of a so called rebel control as
scare crow to Southern brains ard
ambition. The most loyal Americans
today live in the South and the fight now
being made by the president of The
United States against his own party
for honesty In business and govern
mental affairs and against predatory
wealth and the cupidity of our mil
lionaires and trust magnates finds 1t;
ablest champions in one section.
Another iquity that l shall en-
deavor to blot out, is the pension
policy of the Republican party. The
ease with which every free boote!
and camp follower now gets hi;
name upon the pension rolls Is ap
palling. We have paid to Northern
soldiers since the war ended S3,551,
O25, 5,651.17 or enough to buy the
States of Maryland, Virginia, NORTH
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, ant
Louisiana at their assessed value:
for taxation. The South pays The
major portion Of this tax and get:
nothing in return. We were not as
gressors in the Civil War, the refus
nj of the North to accept the decision
of the Supreme Court Of the Unitet
States upon constitutional question
in the bred Scott case was practl
cally notification Of that instru
ment and therefore, according t
their construction, declaration .
war. The South fought in defecs'
Of the constitution. This is now &C
eDted as true by all writer's of histor!
and has practically been sustained b.
the Supreme Court Of the Cnite'
States. The President who has sren
: most of his life writing articles an
hooks deflamatory Of Southern states
imen :.nd heroes, in his last meSsaS
i to Congress. he thus speaks OF thl
! conflict. There is grave need OF Vh"S
5 stern qualities shown alike by IN
men Of the North "lG r'@n oi u
{ South in the dark ''ys When cac
: valiantlr battled for the liE't as
2 was given each to see the liz 1t. the
| spirit should be our spirit as we strlV
| to bring nearer the day when gree
: and trickery and cunning shall! y
|trampled ;nder foot by those Wh