Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-06-06
GOV. WILSON TO The S. c. EDITORS
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from one office. The American Har.
vester company is a perfectly homes
corporation, and l am very glad Il
say that il is not EOw financed from
that one office; but suppose that from
that office, constituting the whole
nerve center of the money seat OF tht
company, you find that you canno
manufacture your article unless you e
| into financial arrangements controlla
BILE by the American Harvester com
pany. What are you going to do abou
| it? There is no doubt about your in
| ventive genius. There is no doub
| about your opportunity to make le
gitimate fortune. But you can not ge
your start. You have got to commen(
yourself to the combinations of money
| in q particular part of the country ol
you are not allowed to make your be.
ginning. What / ask you is, what does
that mean, ladies and gentlemen, will
regard to the development of American
genius? What do we mean, after sucf
things. when we say that the doors Of
opportunity are wide open to every
man in America? They are not? Some
of them are shut and double bolted
and we know who has locked them ant
bolted them, but they cannot be reach.
| ed by the Sherman antitrust law
They have not formed any combina-
ton. They have not got into any tan
gible trust. They have not got any
powers of incorporation. The supreme
court of the United States can moi
touch them under existing circum-
stances.
The System of Control.
What l want to expound to you to.
night Is this, that there is q huge
system of control which we are firing
wide of when we utter our diatribes
against corporations and trusts. The
real trust in this country Is a tacit
combination of interest without any
illegal agreement of any kind, or any
thing that any lawyer can put his
hands on. 1t is the concentration OF
the money power. Part of 1t Is due tc
our banking system, and that is g
long story and would tire you, but this
circumstance will interest you, thai
almost all the surplus moneys of this
part of the country go to the city OF
New York, and in some other parts OF
the country they go to Chicago, and
If you are not known in Chicago, and
if you are not known in New York
and are not authenticated there in the
way these gentlemen or combinations
of gentlemen approve, you can not
start your enterprise. What does that
mean? A man can start along with
the competence and knowledge OF his
enterprise-if a man has got to start
in Columbia on the knowledge that
they have of him in New York, 1t may
be that he can not start at all. The
resources of this country are by the
banking system so concentrated in a
place where ii Is difficult to be known
and where you must hope to be before
you can start, that man who is not
known there perhaps can not hope to
make one.
Like the Dictionary.
So it is like the Irishman and the
dictionary-he has to go to the die
tionary to find how to spell a word
and when he doesn't know how to spell
it there is no use to go to the diction-
airy. A friend of mine asked me the
other day how to spell "gnat" and he
said. I looked under the and look
ed under the k and / could not find 1t
in the dictionary I told him to try
e. He said he had never thought of G.
In the financial world you have to
know how to spell things and to know
securities. You offer them one kind of
securities and they say, never heard
of those securities You have to offer
tracted their attention in order to ne
gotiate loan, and so you are depend
ent upon the approval of the concen-
trated body of wealth over which you
have no means of control. That is
one part of the system, and that Is the
political part of the system. Fhe real
thing that we are interested in public
life, ladies and gentlemen, is not in
this system standing alone and unaid-
ed, for If it stood alone and was un-
aided il would break down. We are
interested in that system, as 1t Is a
system by itself, a partnership with
political organization. There never
would have been some of the colossal
political organizations that now exist
if it were not that gentlemen controll-
ing those organizations had formed a
partnership and alliance with the bus
mess which is seeking thus to control
the enterprises of the country. How
does it control the enterprises of the
country? You know that legislation
has a great deal to do with the enter
prises of the country. You can get
favorable legislation and unfavorable
legislation If you control the legisla-
ture.
Earned His Money.
a
tain state, which contains parts of a
great many of the important railway
systems of the country, that at the
suggestion of the gentlemen who were
at the head of one of those railway
systems, he drew up a bill and pro-
moted it's passage through the legis-
lature in their favor AS matter OF
courtesy he accepted for his services
the sum of $50,000, and then after the
bill drawn by himself had passed the
legislature in the interest of this rail-
troad corporation he coolly demanded
of this railroad corporation to sign it.
They object to it, whereupon he
accepted $4,000 from another corpor-
alton to veto it. Do you see no con-
nection, have you heard of no connec-
tion between the politics of this coun.
try and this kind of business
Have you not heard it suggested that
a man was a fool who went to WASH
ingtOn and did not know how to make
$5O0 a year? Have you heard no
intimation of this sort? Why should
there be any money in politics for
anybody, if there are no people who
pay the money for the politics? Men
do not give money unless they get
something for it, There must he a
quid pro con. There are various ways
in which you expect to get your money
back.
The lump Problem.
Il heard this illustration from a
Kentucky gentleman. He was speak
ing of a great campaign fund and said
it was not used for direct vote buying.
He said: Down in Kentucky, where
come from, we get most of our water
from pumps, and of course you know
that the plunger of a pump will some-
times go dry and it will not bring the
water up. and the prudent housewife
draws a bucket of water before she
goes to bed and then in the morning
she pOurs the water in and that let's
the water come out.
But you will observe that the first
water which comes out is that which
she poured in, and all l mean to inti-
mate is that this water is poured in
to make the pump suck.
And these gentlemen who make the
campaign contributions know the law
of nature, by which that water is TO
come out first and they expect to see
that same water again and to pro-
mote their enterprises.
The Obligation.
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