The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-08-10


agains, The bill President Garnet;
predicts that IL the bill becomes . "a
every mill in their association wiIi b
forced 10 close dowa jus; as quick Al
the German manufacturer can make
enough goods 10 ship IL here. which
he says viii be but short time. He
claims that this bill throws the MILLS
OF this country a. the marcy o. The
pauper labor Of Germany. Nov. this
bill would strike the Iaborer even
harder than the mill owner. because
there are more employees than there
are owners Of mills. Millions Of mil
handN would be thrown out OF en-
ployment. many OF whom would be
forced 10 return 20 the farms 10 raise
more cheap cotton as they did In the
days OF Cleveland.
The Charlotte Observer, the lead.
ing Democratic paper in the State
sees the breakers ahead and has
sounded note OF warning.
Tuesdays Observer. commenting
on this tariff tinkering. says:
Hard times In the mills have
not reached the farmer yet be-
cause the manufacturer, familiar
with ups and down from e. peri
ence and confident of better bust
ness later on, have kept running
to whatever extent they could.
Their employees have not been
thrown back upon the cotton
fields for living; not wholesale,
at least, though some-with
threatened legislation as an i'm
portant factor-have had TO 90.
Suppose the mills, which already
compete freely with each other,
were suddenly brought face to
face in desperate competition for
their own home market with
mills costing half as much to
build and operated by labor at
almost half the cost 1t is i'm
possible to see how the recovery
which has been confidently ex-
pected could materialize under
such circumstances. Limited pro-
duction Of cotton would be truly
difficult with the jobs of the mill
hands lost. Present consumers Of
the farmers products would be-
come his competitors as they
were in the hard times which
went before; the local markets
with which his prosperity is
bound up would experience
slump; the whole section would
go backward until, after much
wreckage and hardship and sad
ly-learned wisdom as regards
reckless tariff legislation, fresh
Roadway could be gained. :.
They have seemingly limit
less confidence in the forbear-
ance of the South while they
place Southern interests on the
political auction-table.
1T may or may not be charit-
able to believe that the ways
and means committee members,
mostly Southern men, framed
their measure without any ex-
pectatiOn of it's ever becoming
law. But whatever the motive
or motives, their conduct in pro-
posing legislation equally reck-
less and unfair at a time when
harm to an already suffering in
dustry was bound to ensue is
just cause for displeasure on
their constituents part. The cot
ton grower, as we have sought to
show, is as truly threatened with
injury as any one else
AS the Observer says, the farmer
the cotton grower, is as truly threat
ened with injury as the mill owner
and the laborer in the mills
These three elements combined, OIL
even the farmers alone, have the bal
lots to send men to Congress who
will truly represent their interests
Will they walk up to the ballot-bo,
at the next election and vote for mer
who have tried to destroy the indus
tries on which the South is depend
emit? We trust not.