The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-04-26
WILL A TARIFF BILL PASS?

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President Taft's reciprocity
bill went through the House like
it was creased, but how it will
fare in the Senate, is another
question. The Democrats in the
House had the help of Republi-
cans for reciprocity with Can
ada, but, when the tariff bill
comes on there will be a parting
of the ways. In both parties there
are those who will not stand
for the lowering Of tariff upon
such articles as-their constituents
are interested in; the Represen-
tatives of Louisiana will not
consent to cutting down the
tariff on sugar, nor will Ala
bamians want their iron inter
ests hampered. North Carolina
will object to lumber being put
on the free list, and Texas will
have word of complaint against
free hides. Senator Tillman has
always advocated a duty on tea,
and we think he favored the iron
tariff. Then there is Senator
Bailey, he is not a rantankerous
tariff tinkerer as the majority Of
his party demands. The Florida
REPRESENTATIVES would not care
to have their citrous fruits
brought into competition with
other countries, and, as we have
before said there will be some
call for more talk when the
tariff comes up for consideration.
It is our opinion there will be no
tariff legislation at this session
to amount to anything; the Dem
ocrats will, for political pur-
poses, shove this policy up to
the Republicans for slaughter
in the belief that it will insure
Democratic success at the polls
next year, but should the Repub-
licans call the bluff, the Demo
Gratis in congress would be over
whelmed with surprise.
There is something going to
happen in the political arena be-
fore long, the wise-acres are now
sitting up nights figuring how a
new trick can be turned to keep
the government for the use of
the 'sgreat interests" as it has
been from time immemorial. It
It does not take much wisdom to
see there is but little difference
in the two great parties now; the
Republicans are about as much
Democratic as is the Democratic
party, both are after the flesh.
pots, and neither care wrap
about the people from whom it
is supposed they receive their
commission.
It will be a great day for this
country if new party composed
of patriots could get hold OF the
reins of government for a while,
but it is a faint hope; this coun-
try is so conditioned that, mat.
ters not which party gets the
Offices, the :;great interests"
must be taken care of, occasion
ally, a little SOP gets to the
masses.
The boom has started for Har-
mon of Ohio for the presidential
nomination, and already it is be-
ing claimed by those who are
pressing the distinguished gov
ernor OF the Buckeye State,
that if nominated. he can COM
mand the same support that
elected Grover Cleveland, which
means, Wall Street would come
across to help furnish the where
with-all to finance his campaign,
that he would get Republican
support just as Grover Cieve
land did, and no doubt he would
be expected to give for that sup
port assurances that the great
Interests" would not be disturbed;
all of which carries out, or rather
confirms our views as to the
relative difference between the
political parties Of the United
States. So far as the people Of
the South are concerned, the
election of a Democratic presi-
dent would only be felt in the
change of a very few Offices in
the federal bui,dingsip three or
four cities, aside from that. they
would not know the difference,
unless, there is brought on a
condition similar to when the
only Democratic president since
the war between the States oc-
cupied the executive chair, and
which condition the people of the
South prayed to be delivered
from, for they discovered that
their Democratic president was
more of a Republican than was
his predecessor, and many
argued that the masses were be-
trayed and turned over to the
monied interests where they
were bound and shackled as
never before, and from the
effects Of which they are just
now recovering.