The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-12-23
LEST We FORGET
ssnator Bacon Tells Why the
South Will Remain


TRUE TO DEMOCRACY
Ee Calls Attention to the Fact That
the Efforts Of the Republican Par
ty to Convert the South Into
Another Hayti Wss Defeated by
the Democratic Party.
Senator A. o. Bacon, Of Georgia,
In q letter to the Savannah Press,
makes striking answers to the in
y!tation Of the Republican Coolers
for the Southern people to join the
Republican party. We present be-
low some extracts from Senator Ba-
co2's letter. He says:
We have OF late been advertised
by Republicans high and Repub.i-
cans low, that it is their purpose
to seduce the South from its ale
glance to the Democratic party,
which has kept faithful watch and
ward over its dearest Interests
through forty years, and to convert
it 70 the party Of governmental
spoils for the favored few, the part
Of absolutism and OF centralization
OF power. the party Of proaigate en-
travagance and Of oppressive tax
alton. And this is to be accomplish
ed through the superior wisdom Of
these high and low Republicans in
pointing out to the people Of tn"
South how they will be blessed by
being taken into the loving arms Of
q political party which, so long as
there was a possibility o. success in
their efforts, strove desperately to
destroy everything that was worth
living for in the South. The pre-
sumptuous claim that Republican
policies and Republican rule are ne
cessary for the development of the
South is the veriest rot. Where in
all time has there ever been such
development Of the wealth and re-
: sources Of country as there has
been in the South during the last
forty years Of uninterrupted Demo
cratic rule. Who that turns the
pages that tell Of this wondrous De
mocratic rule? Who that turns
the pages that tell Of this wondroUs
wealth Of many thousands Of mil
lions of dollars, who that passes
through our fruitful land and views
our cities and town, our broad field:
with their white and golden harvests
our warehouses and barns bursting
with the garnered cotton and grain
our stores Of merchandise and myr'
lad industries, can fully realize thai
this scene of present marvolous de-
velopment and abounding wealtt
was forty years ago but q bed o!
desolate ashes.
The Republicans and the South.
:? The prime factor IL tbs creation
OF all this wealth has been the grea'
agricultural production Of the Souts
which has overdowed into the pro
motion and creation Of all other in
dus1ries-and agricultural pTo6uc
ton Of many hundreds Of million.
Of dollars each year, 'ch while 1
has entered most largely into the
preservation Of the balance Of trad:
for the whole country, has had nt
assistance from the Republican par
ty or its policies, but has depended
for It's gigantic success upon the
rule Of the Democratic party in tn:
Southern States, preserving socia
order. insuring honest and econom
ical local government, and protect
ing ali in the rights Of property
When the Democratic party in it:
rule in the Southern States fail!
in these particulars, it will be tins
enough to listen to the presump!uou'
offer Of the Republican party t.
undertake through its policies ant
guidance, the material development
Of the South.
The aIluring contention that th'
protective policy Of the Republican
party IS necessary CT the develop
ment Of the enterprises Of the South
is plausible but fallacious. At the
outset the proposition is net by tbs
fact that the largest and most In
portant part Of the productive BUS
1ness OF the South is that OF ag
iculture, in which, with q yer.
small exception, tSere can be q!
aid from the operation of g protec
tive tariff. On the contrary, unde,
that system the agriculturists Of the
South, while compelled by reasor
of the tariff to pay two prices fo1
all they consume and use other thar
food supplies, must Of necessity sci
their products OF cotton, etc., fr
unprotected markets aRd at unpro
-teeted prices Aad again, as to al
other enterprises which could be ef,
sfected by the tariff, the simple re,
ply is this: Those who advocate
the benefits to be derived from the
protective tariff base their argu-
ments upon the assumption that the
alternative is, between high pro-
tective tariff on the one hand. and
no tariff at all on the other hand
The enormous amount OF revenue
which is necessary to support this
government will always require a
higher tariff than we could wish, in
order to supply the revenue. No
one recognizes that actual free trade
is q possibility. The revenue must
be raised and the tariff cannot be
reduced below the point necessary
to raise it.
Republican Contention.
The contention IS urged by Re
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