The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1910-08-18
SENATOR TILLMAN
TELLS HOW IT HURTS,
NUMBER TARIFF ENRICHES $4,000
PEOPLE AT EXPENSE
! OF 5OO, 900.

We are indebted to our esteemed
contemporary, the Orange burg
Times and Democrat, for the fol-
flowing extracts from Senator B K
Tillman's speech in the United States
Senate opposing the tariff tax on
Humber. 1t is interesting and in
| forming, and we especially COM
mend its diigent perusal to our
sSriend, "Lumberman,' who in his
guileless innocence and unsophisto-
cation had never heard of Lumber
Trust. Said Mr. Tillman:
Mr. President, before the lumber
schedule passes from the attention
{pf the Senate, want to make a
brief statement. When it was in
the Senate before, two or three
weeks ago | voted for the amend
ment proposed by the Senator from
Alabama to put lumber and all
building materials on the free list.
In the discussion | remarked that |
was in favor of free lumber.
When the Senator from North Da-
kota offered an amendment, which
| did not give us free lumber. leaving
1.-The duty on whitewood, sycamore
and Eastwood at fifty cents thouS-
and, voted against it, because it
did not give US free lumber, The
Senate adjourned Immediately after
wards, giving me no opportunity to
vote for free lumber. There has
been no opportunity to vote for free
Humber. | still think we ought to
have free lumber, and will give
my experience and my reasons for
that belief. | know, Of course, we
cannot get it.
Twelve years ago, when the Ding
Hey bill was on its passage. voted
FOR a 81 tariff on lumber, and re-
marked very much to the disgust of
fome people and the edification of
Eothers, if there was to be stealing,l
want my share" " | have found out
! cannot get my share; that the con-
ditions of the South are such that
the articles and products of the
yegion which are capable of being
protected are so few in number that
(if we were to throw around every
Thing down there a high protective
3tariff, we would not get anything
bike a proportionate benefit with the
New England and manufacturing
States of this Union.
In regard to this matter of lum-
her have watched the result of the
duty. Immediately afterwards our
timber lands, which had previously
been neglected so t'.ere were COM
paratively small lumoeringindustries
down there, began to be in demand.
Men from Wisconsin, Michigan and
other northern States where lumber
ling had practically denuded the for
ests of timber, or were about to fin
ish them up, came into the State
and bought up very large tracts of
timber at very small price. They
did this all over the South. Large
mills were established and the lum-
her industry began to pick up, show
ing investment of capital and a large
export. At the same time the price
began to rise, a little faster, appar-
Antly, than the industry itself.
Now, consider for moment that
he people of South Carolina are in
About this shape: the State being a
triangle, the upper part cutting off
like the letter "A" is largely the
white section of the State. Nearly
two-thirds of the people, although
Il is only one-third of the area, live
there. They are consumers of lum:
her and they have no yellow pine, or
Eery little. They have been import
ns that lumber from the lower half
the counties next to the sea- In