The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1910-08-18
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"LUMBERMAN"
A "CONSUMER AND BUYER
TAKES OUR CORRESPOND
ENT TO TASK.
Editor County Record

have no idea who your CORE
soondent of last week signing him.
self "Lumberman" is, but Of one
thing am certain: he is no Demo-
crat--whether a "Lily-white' or
Goal Black" don't know. but his
letter of three columns reads him
out of the Democratic party and
lands him within the ranks of the
enemy. A Democrat is onewho votes
the national Democratic ticket and
indorses the principles and policies
of the Democratic party as enuncl-
ated in the Democratic platform.
His gratuitous, sneering filings at
the nominee of the Democratic party
in 1908, the Hon w ] Bryan, one OF
the ablest, purest and grandest men
this country has ever produced, show
that he could not have consistently
voted the Democratic ticket, and
such expressions as "un-Democrat-
ic". "so-called", Mr. w j Bryan
gobtled it up and put it in his vest
pocket" put in there to please the
Western people,, as applied to the
Democratic platform, show that he
did rot and does not now endorse
and support the declared principles
and policies of the Democratic party.
'Shiany ON your own side," Mr.
Lumberman; your place is among
the 'Lily-whites" or Goal Blacks,
as you prefer. Come out in your
true colors and then the true-blue
Democratic voters and consumers OF
lumber of the Sixth district will
know how to meet you. Wade
Hampton of blessed memory said:
"An Independent is worse than a
Radical" and "a wolf in sleeps
clothing is always to be dreaded.
Mr. Lumberman says that Cana
dian lumber is marketed only within
a radius of from 100 to 400 miles
from the border and is of a low,
coarse, knotty grade. thus turning
over the balance of the country out
side of this little zone to the tender
mercies of the lumber kings by CIV
ing them a monopoly on all the
fifty to seventy-ive" grades which
are practically their whole output,
and they have not failed to put the
price up, up, ever since the passage
of the Dingley tariff bill. Whenever
an individual or a trust has mo-
nopoly on any article the price al
ways goes to the top notch and Mr.
Lumberman has demonstrated that
the lumber trust has such monop-
oily by reason of the tariff except in
the little narrow zone he speaks of
along the Canadian border.
The Internal tariff, the robber tar
if of both the Dingley and Payne
bills. is the sole reason why we have
to pay such outrageous prices for
lumber to-day. Before the passage
of the Dingley tariff bill | built a
hou, e the lumber in which cost me
$500. If that house were to burn
down could not replace it with the
same quality of lumber for less than
$500. Why should | be robbed by
the operation of law of my hard
earnings of at least $1,000 to build
up a business in which | have no in
terest or dividends? What is the
sense, reason or justice of robbing
the many for the benefit of a few
men who ride around in $1,000 au-
tomobiles, take yearly trips to Eu-
rope and marry their daughters to
the bankrupt scions of the nobility
of Europe?
But Mr. Lumberman gets very
Democratic and claims that all this
robbery of the consumer by the high
tariff is entirely for the purpose of
raising a revenue for the Govern
ment. He got very patriotic last
spring, packed his grip and hied away
to Washington, blossomed out as a