The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-06-16
MIR. MENINGITIS PLATFORM.

the Ninth D1StFfct, Outlines His
Platform on Which He VIII Stand
For Election This FaII-A Strong
Advocate OF the Ship Subsidy and
observation-disclosures Prejudices Of
the Past and Expresses Belief That
An Awakening is at Hand.
Mr.. Samuel 5. McNinch, presI-
dent and treasurer OF the Charlotte
Prick Company, and one Of the city's
leading business men. has issued. at
,ha request of friends, the follow
Ing statement of principles and poll
rle- on which he will appear before
tho voters OF the Ninth District, to
solicit their support on the Repub-
Hcag ticket for Congress:
r., RE Editor OF The Charlotte OBJ
server.
I'm answer 20 several inquiries as
- nav views on different subjects of
,oyrrnmcntaI policy, and in particu-
lar on the ship subsidy proposition,
have to say that If sent to Congress
and serious effort TO represent all
the manufacturing and business ele-
marr-. believing that the farming in
tere-ta are so interviewer with the
man featuring interests that If help
the one the results can only be bene-
fetal TO the other.
BY way of expression, I would feel
il my duty to respond to the wishes
Of the cotton interests, going the full
limit of my endeavors to secure that
need Of protection as well as such
revision of the cotton schedules from
time 10 time as may be desired by
the different milling propositions,
hoping to be helpful to that industry
of our Southern country which
| conceive is the basis of almost all
our prosperity. Surely the farmers
know that their interests and the in
terests of the mills are interdepend-
ent, and that their joint prosperity
means the life of the merchant class,
and all the artisans and mechanics.
South Needs Protection.
With the proper extension of gov
ernmental protection to our Southern
cotton mills as against the foreign
labor, notably so at this time, the
Japanese labOrer, who works for from
nine cents to thirty cents per day;
with our shipping industry, which is
practically dead, revised by means of
ship subsidy, so that our merchant
marine would be the equal of any on
the globe, causing cheap freight rates
to all of the markets of the world,
thus giving added demand for our
cotton and cotton manufactures as
well as other products, [ can conceive
a most happy and normal condition
Of society in this Southland of ours
50 long i'll treated and so unfortun-
ately served after that great calamity
our civil war. Led by our passions
and prejudices from our best inter-
estS, we have been in opposition to
those progressive policies, which in
short time have built up the great
est nation on the globe, and have
proved a blessing to other sections
Of our common country. The policies
our Southern representatives have
nearly always been since the civil
war, in direct antagOnism to the gov
eminent in control at Washington
and consequently We have been I'M
able to demand our share of the BEN
efts Of protection, in order to
quickly build up our country as was
done by the representatives from the
other sections. The race condition Of
course caused this, but that situation
in our affairs has long since passed.
Foreign trade aided by a subsidized
merchant marine will vastly benefit
us all
Merchant Marine.
1t is necessary to foster our mer-
chant marine, Just as We stimulate
our crops with commercial fertilizer
[ can conceive that the time will
not be far distant when the intel
ligent farmer can reasonably expect
from twenty to thirty cents per
pound for his cotton, and when his
lands would be worth 500 or more
Per acre; l can conceive of that SPLEEN
did prosperity winch exists IN sec
tons of the North and West, which
when I first travelled through it some
years ago, made my heart sad to real
lie how very poor the South was as
a whole, and especially so in the
farming sections. [ can conceive that
almost every available patch Of land
from the mountains to the seashOre
would be forced to give forth, be-
cause of intelligent, ambitious, pro-
titable effort, a bountiful store of
cotton, wheat, corn, oats, live stock,
fruits and all the products of hus-
bandry, whereas, today, as most of
US know, our farming interest is
not greatly successful, and it is large
" because of ill-rewarded labor and
condition Of poverty, which is not
productive of ambitious and Well-di-