The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-22
AIKEN HELPS
The South Carolina Congressman 5
Speech on the Tariff TO be
DISTRIBUTED in OHIO

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The Speech Contains Letters of Zach
McGhee on the Conditions in Eng
land, Which he Wrote The Column
bia State Some Months Ago, From
the Country.
Ohio is calling on South, Carolina
for help in her effort to do something
like Maine did last Monday. Repre-
sentative Wyatt Aiken of AbDeville
has received the following self-ex-
planatory letter:
-Kenton, Ohio, Sept. 6, 1910.
Hon Wyatt Aiken, .Abbeville, S. c.
Dear Sir: We have an excellent
opportunity to elect Thomas c.
Mahon to Congress from this district,
the Eight Ohio, now represented by
Ralph D. Cole, but we need some
assistance to do 1t in the way Of
speeches upon the tariff, and / know
of mo speech better calculated to
help us than the one delivered by you
on March %, 1910, and assure you
that you would contribute very much
toward this election if you would
send in 500 or 1000 Of these speeches
for. distribution to independent Re-
publicans.
Assuring you that anything you
do will be greatly appreciated. AIN
"Yours truly,
"W. w. Durbin."
Mr.. Durbin Is a prominent Dem
ncEat Of the Eigth Ohio district,
and is taking a leading part in the
effort to have that district send a
Democrat to congress instead of
Mr.. Cole. The fact that he desires
the, speeches for distribution among
Independent Republicans shows that
there is some dissatisfaction. among
the adherehts of that party in the
presidents own State with "the best
tariff, law ever enacted" which des-
cription Of the law, however, had to
be revised downward" as soon as
the primaries in the Middle West
were heard from. Mr.. Durbin feels
that there are numbers of Republi-
cans in the district who are ready to
indicate their dissatisfaction by vot-
ing for a Democrat to succeed the
Republican mem bers who assisted in
the making of the tariff law.
The speech Of Mr.. Aiken to. which
Mr.. Durbin refers, delivered on
March % last, contained several Of
1.-the letters written by Zach McGhee,
Washington correspondent of the
State, from England, dealing with
conditions in that country as compar-
ed with those of the United States.
In the course of that speech, Mr.
Aiken said:
act has created such unrest in the
public mind that it must undergo
material revision by the next COM
gress to be elected. The people ask
ed for bread they have been given
| stone.
For many years the Republican
party was kept in power by the bare
unsupported statement on the eve of
the elections that high protection en-.
abled employers to pay higher wages
to employees. This looked plausible
and the employee who did not stop 60
think that the same tariff advanced
. the price of all articles of consump-
ton for which he spent about 80 per
cent. Of his earnings would be easily
duped by such statements. But light
has begun to dawn upon the laboring
man. In no instance has wages ad-
vanced permanently as promised In
this unrest we find explanation for
the strikes, bread riots, meat boycotts
and all such outward expressions of
subdued bitterness. I do not hesi-
tate to say, too, that, in my humble
Judgment, the people are right. The
trend of all legislation in this body
has been to enrich trusts and corpor-
ations at the cost of the very exis-
tence of the producer.
'In the great mass of falsehood
and fabrication which has been
brought to bear on the tariff subject
in order to fool the men who are
really suffering by its operation,
there is so much that is unreliable
that it must be refreshing to come
into possession of facts which may
not be questioned.
During the year 1909 the Wash.
ington correspondent Of the Colum.
bia rs. CO. State, one Of the best
newspapers in this country, without
reference to locality, made a per-
sonal tour Of inspection through the
mill sections of England and the con-
tinent This correspondent was
Zach McGhee. I have known him
from childhood. There is no man