The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-03-06
SENATgR TNLHAE! TALKS OF COT.
TON hill STRIKE.
TINE: TO APPLY REMEDY
The Senator BIa,nes the immigration
Laws for Admitting ignorant For
eign Laborers, Who Become Re
publican Voters and Support Pro-
tectire Tariff, for the Trouble at
Lawrence, Mass.

Senator B. R. Tillman, Of South
Carolina, made the following state
ment to-day, when asked for an
opinion on the developments at Law
renee Mass: "The labor agitators
al Lawrence have used the strike and
things that have grown out Of it for
the purpose of agitation. Shipping
the children to New York and Phil
adelphia could only have had one or
two objects, to lessen the number OF
mouths to be fed at Lawrence or to
excite the sympathy Of fellow work
ers in the two cities named.
The interference by the police
with the last shipment OF children
was unfortunate in more ways than
one. 1t was wholly unwarranted by
any law I know Of and an invasion
OF rights that are guaranteed by the
Constitution. Had they stopped the
first batch of children from going to
New York city, it would have been a
blessing, FOR they arrived late in the
evening, during blizzard, when the
Thermometer was around zero, and
they must have suffered greatly.
81 think il unfortunate that both
house Of Congress have. been asked to
interfere, because it appears to be
purely a. State matter. However, I
recall that Massachusetts, has claim
ed to be the cradle Of liberty and
was leader Of the crusade which re-
suited in the great civil war. The
conditions at Lawrence seems to in
d;cate that she has substituted in
dustrial slavery for chattel slavery
and horde of foreigners in the city,
thousands Of whom who cannot
speak the English language, have
been imported to furnish labor. They
are sad commentary on out lax i'm
migration laws.
II the occurrences at Lawrence
last week shall cause Congress to en-
.orce restriction such as will keep
out these ignorant and debased peo-
pie, the American people will look
upon the strike ct Lawrence as
blessing. ard it will mark new
epoch Of the war between labor and
CAPITA. The bowling Of the protec-
tive tariff advocates for more protec-'
tioa to American. labor have brought
4 condition as striking and as epoch
making as the Dred Scot decision.
Things in this country have come to
pretty pass when the authorities Of
q State go so far as to prohibit peo-
PIE from sending their own children
away.
That is slavery pure and simple.
But when we recollect that such peo-
pie as these have been raturaliZe1
and turned into Republican voters to-
vote for protective tariff, it would
seem that the greed Of the manu-
facturer had orerreached itself. 1t
is time for sane and sensible people
20 fnd just what is the trouble and
apply the remedy. Congress can stop
Dromiscuous and unlimited immigra-
ton and should do so, but Congress
cannot legally interfere with =
States police powers. We are be-
tween the devil OF capitalistic greed
on one hand and the sea of Social
ism, with the red flag Of the Jacobins,
on the other. We are bound to have
some blood-lettins before the disease
is cured.
'It seems like poetic justice that
Massachusetts chickens, which did 80
much wrong and caused so much mis-
cry in the South, are now coming
home to roost."